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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SHAWWAL 6, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Trafficked Jailhouse death Jordan battles Sterling scores domestic helper of US black to rescue quick debut beaten for woman stirs tourism, its goal as Man taking 3day off suspicions9 key40 earner City20 win Zour refinery budget upped Min 32º Max 46º as most bids top estimates High Tide 02:38 & 14:08 Dashti still under fire for meeting Mughniah’s parents Low Tide 08:56 & 21:00 40 PAGES NO: 16586 150 FILS HRW says Kuwait By B Izzak KUWAIT: Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair said yesterday that the Supreme Petroleum Council, the country’s highest oil decision- DNA tests violate making body, has approved a request to raise the budget for the new Al-Zour refinery. Omair told reporters the SPC approved right to privacy additional funds of KD 871 million on top of the initial estimates of KD 4 billion, so the total cost is now estimated at KD 4.871 bil- KUWAIT: A new Kuwaiti law imposing mandatory lion. The new funding was approved after the bids for most of the DNA tests on citizens and foreigners violates the tenders of the five packages forming the refinery came in higher than initial estimates. right to personal privacy and should be amended, Kuwait National Petroleum Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Parliament Company (KNPC) had requested the endorsed the law in early July, less than a week after new funding, which was approved an Islamic State jihadist blew himself up in a Shiite by Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) mosque in Kuwait killing 26 people and wounding about two weeks ago. The awarding more than 200 others. of the tenders is now expected to go The new counter-terrorism law has made Kuwait ahead as scheduled for next month. the only country to demand nationwide compulsory KNPC in February last year awarded DNA testing, HRW said. “Many measures could contracts to upgrade two of the potentially be useful three refineries in the clean fuel proj- in protecting against ect at a cost of around KD 4 billion. terrorist attacks, but When the two projects are complet- ed by 2018-19, Kuwait’s total refining Ali Al-Omair potential usefulness capacity will increase to around 1.4 is not enough to jus- million barrels per day from the current 930,000 barrels per day. tify a massive Omair said that the two projects besides a heavy oil project and infringement on building new gathering centers are estimated to cost around $60 human rights,” said billion over the next five years. The projects are part of Kuwait’s Sarah Leah Whitson, strategy to raise its production capacity to 4 million barrels per day Middle East director FRANKFURT: Hamad Al-Marzouq, Board Chairman of Kuwait Finance House, and Kemal Uzan, Kuveyt by 2020, which has become doubtful after the halt of production at the New York- Turk General Manager, are seen during the opening ceremony of the branch yesterday. — KUNA at the neutral zone with Saudi Arabia in which Kuwait lost an out- based HRW. put of 250,000 barrels a day. The legislation Continued on Page 13 calls on the interior ministry to establish a database Eurozone’s first Islamic on all Kuwait’s 1.3 million citizens and 2.9 million foreign residents. Under the law, people who refuse to give samples for the test face one year in jail and bank starts operations a fine of up to $33,000. Those who provide fake samples can be jailed for seven years. DNA gathering systems like the one Kuwait Kuveyt Turk opens Frankfurt branch intends to apply have been outlawed by the European Court of Human Rights, several US FRANKFURT: Kuwait Turkey Bank (Kuveyt Turk) opened a for the German side, which seeks to boost Germany’s domestic courts and others on the grounds of pri- branch in the German city of Frankfurt yesterday to be financial position, but for millions of clients wishing to vacy rights, HRW said. “To serve the interests of the first Islamic financial institution in the eurozone. use banking services offered by the bank in three Kuwaiti national security and comply with Kuwait’s Hamad Al-Marzouq, Board Chairman of Kuwait Finance German cities,” Marzouq said in a statement to KUNA. obligations under international human rights law, House (KFH), which owns the largest share in Kuveyt Kuveyt Turk seeks to encourage “five million Muslims the bill should be amended and narrowed exten- Turk, said he was proud to see the first Islamic bank oper- in Germany to use our services”, he said. The bank, he sively,” it said. Kuwait has charged 29 men and ational in the eurozone. added, also sought non-Muslim clients who might be women in connection with the mosque bombing “We are proud to have this license. Exercising banking attracted by the “moral commitment” of Islamic banking. and their trial is scheduled to start on Aug 4. — AFP in line with the Islamic sharia is very important not only Continued on Page 13 Family decimated in camel-car crash

Saudis mull own nuke RIYADH: Four members of a Saudi family were killed yesterday when their car hit a stray camel in the desert kingdom, the Red Crescent said. The accident took options after Iran deal place in the southwestern region of Jazan, Red Crescent spokesman Bishi Al-Sarkhi said in a state- RIYADH: One likely Saudi Arabian nuclear deal will free Tehran from inter- ment carried by SPA state news agency. A father, response to the deal its biggest enemy national pressure and sanctions, giving it mother and their two daughters died on the spot, Iran has struck with world powers is to more room to back allies in proxy wars. while their three sons suffered serious injuries, it said. accelerate its own nuclear power plans, So far its response has been lukewarm A picture published by SPA showed a dead camel lying creating an atomic infrastructure it could, public praise for the deal coupled with in a pool of blood in the middle of a road blocked by one day, seek to weaponize. But while it private condemnation, a reaction that police vehicles. Legal experts have called for penaliz- has recently made moves to advance its follows a more muscular approach to ing owners of camels that cause road accidents, Arab nuclear program, experts say it is uncer- Iran evident in its war against allies of News reported in March. — AFP tain whether it could realistically build an Tehran in Yemen and more help for atomic bomb in secret or withstand the Syrian rebels. However, some Saudis political pressure it would face if such close to the ruling family have also plans were revealed. warned that if Iran still manages to “I think Saudi Arabia would seriously weaponize its nuclear program, then the try to get the bomb if Iran did. It’s just kingdom will have to follow suit despite like India and Pakistan. The Pakistanis the cost of becoming a pariah state and said for years they didn’t want one, but rupturing ties with the US. when India got it, so did they,” said Jamal Analysts who follow Saudi Arabia are Khashoggi, head of a Saudi news chan- divided as to whether it really does con- BEIRUT: Cars and motorcycles pass by a large pile of garbage on a street in the nel owned by a prince. The conservative stitute a proliferation risk, given its newly Lebanese capital yesterday. — AP kingdom is engaged in a contest for assertive stance towards the US and the power with the Islamic republic stretch- life-and-death import it places on the Trash piles in Beirut ing across the region and fears the Continued on Page 13 JAZAN, Saudi Arabia: Handout pictures show a Sacre bleu! Scrabble champ severely damaged car after it hit a stray camel in the raise fears of crisis desert in this southwestern region, resulting in the death of four members of a Saudi family on the BEIRUT: Garbage piled up yesterday on company kept collecting trash until can’t speak word of French spot. — AFP the streets of cosmopolitan Beirut amid a Sunday night, when their facility in Beirut BRUSSELS: Think you need to speak the growing dispute over tiny Lebanon’s could not take any more garbage. Nassar language to win a top Scrabble match? largest trash dump, picketed by residents said Sukleen is waiting for authorities to Think again. Nigel Richards, a 48-year- Becoming a as it should have closed permanently offer them guidance on what to do. old New Zealander who was crowned days earlier. The main company in charge Lebanon’s notoriously gridlocked gov- the champion of francophone Scrabble of picking up the trash, Sukleen, had its ernment has yet to take any action on on Monday, doesn’t speak a word of dad? Expect workers sweeping Beirut’s streets, though the issue ahead of the next Cabinet French. Bushy-bearded, bespectacled not picking up any of the garbage. meeting on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Richards is already a celebrity in the Typically, the refuse would have gone to trash pile grows as workers spray them English version of Scrabble, winning its weight gain the Naameh landfill, just south of Beirut, with white powder to knock back the world championship in 2007 and again which has been functioning since 1997. smell and spread of pests. Environment in 2011. But this is the first time in history But Naameh was scheduled to close Minister Mohammed Machnouk said that a player who cannot speak the lan- NEW YORK: Many men gain a new sense of responsibil- July 17. Since then, residents of Naameh after a meeting of parliament’s environ- guage of Moliere has won the francoph- ity and purpose when they become fathers. A new US and nearby villages have blocked roads ment committee that there is no strate- one world championship, which was study suggests they also gain up to 2.3 kg. Dr Craig to prevent trucks from reaching it to gic solution for the crisis, though there contested by 74 players in Belgium Garfield of Northwestern University, the lead author of unload trash out of fears it could be are 670 dumps around the country that Monday. “AMAZING!” the French the study published yesterday by the American Journal reopened. That’s left Beirut’s residents can be used. “Trash has to be collected Scrabble Federation tweeted - in English. of Men’s Health, said he could only speculate about dodging the growing piles of litter, now from the streets and this can only hap- “Nigel, I love you,” it added. what’s behind the extra pounds. “For men who become fathers, their whole life changes,” Garfield said. baking in the summer sun. Sukleen pen with everyone’s cooperation,” Nigel Richards Continued on Page 13 spokeswoman Pascale Nassar said the Machnouk said. — AP Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 LOCAL

Amir condemns terrorist in my view attack in Turkish town Amir’s warning By Labeed Abdal KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh human tragedies leading to hunger Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah strong- and displacement of many of these ly condemned a terrorist bomb attack in is Highness the Amir Sheikh countries’ subjects within their coun- the Turkish town of Suruc, which killed at Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah’s tries and abroad was a clear reference least 30 people and injured many others. Hwarning of the growing rate and call to look into the mirror and In a cable of condolences to Turkish and severity of terrorism and his view things as they really are, especial- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan late demands to the international commu- ly in some Arab countries that have Monday, His Highness the Amir reaffirmed nity to join hands in fighting it and been allowing the spread of terrorist Kuwait’s firm rejection to “this criminal act,” drying up its resources was very deci- ideas and exporting them. which contravened with heavenly faiths sive. Murdering 26 innocent people in a and human values. In his speech on the last ten days of suicide bombing was an irresponsible His Highness the Amir said Kuwait sup- Ramadan, the Amir urged the entire act that was accompanied by chants of ported all measures adopted by Turkey to international community to dedicate “Allah Akbar” that ought to be shouted confront these terrorist acts, which aimed all efforts to fight terrorism and dry up against the faces of enemies of Islam at undermining security and stability of its resources so that all peoples and and peace, and not against innocent the country. He also supported the interna- nations could live safely. “The world worshippers gathered to perform tional community’s fight against terrorism. also has to stop the spread of dreadful Friday prayers while they were pros- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh sectarian and doctrinal tensions trating during the holy month of Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a because it threatens all nations and Ramadan. Such moves to tear Sunnis cable of condolences to President Erdogan undermines their solidarity,” he said in and Shiites apart in many Arab and over the terrorist attack in Suruc. His very wise words that actually diagnose Gulf countries are unsuccessful Highness Sheikh Nawaf extended condo- the problem and call for dealing with attempts to reproduce the same divi- lences to the families of the victims, and the real reasons behind allowing ter- sions. With their blood, those martyrs wished speedy recovery for the injured. His rorists to mislead the youth by reli- created another national epic empha- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber gious and doctrinal slogans. sizing that there is no place for terror- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent a similar HH the Amir’s clear reference to the ism, religious or doctrinal intolerance cable. Ministry source said. The source affirmed forms for terrorist acts. The source wars, conflicts and lack of security so in Kuwait. This is how we have lived for Kuwait had condemned the recent ter- that Kuwait stands by Turkey and sup- expressed its deepest sorrows to the fall- many Arab countries have been suffer- centuries and how we will live for fur- rorist attack that targeted a cultural cen- ports all its efforts in fighting terrorism. It en victims of the attack and speedy recov- ing from in the form of heartbreaking ther ones. tre in the Turkish city of Suruc, a Foreign also reiterated Kuwait’s stance against all ery to the injured. — KUNA Blackouts within normal range: Minister Jassar

By Meshaal Al-Enezi of Public Works, pointed out that a scien- tific system used worldwide to measure KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water power cuts showed that the rate of black- Ahmad Al-Jassar stressed that blackouts outs was normal in Kuwait, because it reported recently in Kuwait were only one does not exceed 30 minutes, while it is 50 percent of the total power grid, and that minutes in other GCC states and 55-80 such rates were ‘normal’ despite the record minutes in some advanced European temperatures. Speaking at his office yester- countries such as Sweden, Britain and day, Minister Jassar explained that black- France. outs happen in power grids worldwide and Jassar also denied any connection that in view of the extreme heat last between power production and consump- Thursday, it was normal for a blackout to tion since Kuwait produces 15,500 happen. He also attributed the recent megawatts while total consumption was blackouts to the random construction only 12,500 megawatts. He added that expansions, extreme temperatures, dam- new power projects would add an addi- age to land cables during some construc- tional 6,000 megawatts to the grid by tion operations and theft of some cables 2020 and 2021. and power units. “Some blackouts happen due to technical malfunctions but that is the least of our worries because they are so Qurain blackout limited,” he noted. In the meantime, some parts of Al- Qurain Markets’ area suffered from a tem- 30 minutes porary blackout yesterday. No reasons were Minister Jassar, who is also the Minister yet given about the incident.

KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled receives Eid Al-Fitr greetings. — KUNA Minister congratulates Saudi Arabia on security achievements

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior On the other hand, he stressed that concert- the Kingdom everlasting security and stability. Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- ed efforts should be exerted in order to address Meanwhile, Sheikh Mohammad lauded secu- Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday congratulated perils and challenges threatening “the security, rity forces for their tremendous efforts in Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy Premier and stability and sovereignty of our countries and upholding security and preserving peace during Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef people”, pointing to the common firm belief, the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid Al Fitr bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on distinguished goal and destiny of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He holidays. While receiving well-wishers on the achievements made by Saudi security forces. In also boasted that the schemes and plans of such occasion of Eid Al Fitr, Sheikh Mohammed Al- a cable to the Saudi Crown Prince, Sheikh a “straying group” were aborted in a highly effi- Khaled expressed his gratitude to all members of Mohammad Al-Khaled hailed the Saudi securi- cient and decisive manner that led to the appre- the security personnel for their role in safeguard- ty agencies for having recently nabbed terror- hension of those outlaws. Sheikh Mohammad ing the nation and providing maximum security KUWAIT: Minister Ahmad Al-Jassar receives greetings on the first day of work after ist cells that tried to undermine the Kingdom’s Al-Khaled wished the Saudi Crown Prince, for citizens and expatriates alike, the Interior the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh security and stability. Deputy Premier and Interior Minister well and Ministry said in a statement. — KUNA ICRC commends Kuwait’s humanitarian contributions

GENEVA: Senior officials at the delegation from the Second Kuwait International Committee of the Red Cross International Forum for Humanitarian (ICRC) have lauded Kuwait’s rapid Workers. response to humanitarian calls, through According to Savioz, there are ICRC’s generous contributions. Kuwait is global- 13,000 employees carrying out humani- ly known for its support to humanitarian tarian missions in more than 80 coun- situations, ICRC Deputy Director of tries, with a budget that exceeds one bil- Operations Regis Savioz told KUNA yes- lion Swiss francs. Major missions are now terday, saying he welcomes exchange of in Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq expertise with Kuwaiti charity and relief and Yemen. organizations, as both share common Meanwhile, ICRC’s head of operations goals for assisting people worldwide. for the Middle East Robert Mardini wel- Savioz pointed to millions of people comed the Kuwaiti delegation, and high- who have fallen victims to catastrophes, lighted the country’s humanitarianism crises and conflicts around the globe. worldwide. He referred to the hard condi- They are in dire need for help, he said, tions in the region that prompt further noting that challenges of humanitarian humanitarian cooperation to help the work are ‘colossal.’ He welcomed a visiting afflicted people. —KUNA Visa type determines Kuwaitis’ stay in UK

KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled receives greetings from well-wishers yesterday. — KUNA LONDON: The type of visa acquired by nationals are urged to respect the laws Kuwaitis will determine their stay in the and follow rules regarding accommoda- UK and therefore, the Kuwaiti embassy tions and lodgings to avoid prosecution or urges nationals to get the correct docu- being subjected to acts of fraud. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled ments so that their visit would not be hin- Regarding Kuwaitis seeking treatment dered, the embassy said in a statement in the UK, the diplomat urged Kuwaiti yesterday. nationals accompanying patients to take Some Kuwaiti nationals have been extra precaution while withdrawing receives Eid well-wishers acquiring tourism visas to visit the UK treatment money from banks due several while seeking treatment, Consul at the incidents of theft. In case of a health Kuwaiti embassy in London Meshal Al- emergency, Kuwaitis are urged to call the KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Eid Al-Fitr. During the meeting, Sheikh Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Mudaf said. The Kuwaiti diplomat urged number of the embassy’s health center Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Sabah Al-Khaled wished them well and Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the nationals to abide by the rules while get- during and after office hours or visit gov- Al-Sabah yesterday received senior officials Kuwait more security, stability, progress and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- ting the visa to avoid being deported from ernment-run hospitals in the UK, said of the Foreign Ministry on the occasion of prosperity under the wise leadership of His Jaber Al-Sabah. —KUNA the UK. While visiting the UK, Kuwaiti Mudaf. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 LOCAL Crime Trafficked domestic helper Report beaten for taking day off

By Ben Garcia Nightmare begins the plane. But her holiday turned into a night- Fatima claims that she was also missing KUWAIT: A Ugandan housemaid working mare when she returned to her employer’s KD 100 and a cellphone that she had in her in Kuwait was allegedly beaten and assault- house. “At around 7:00 pm, I had barely bag at her sponsor’s house. She appealed ed by her employers after taking a half day crossed the gate when my employers to the police officer for help. off for the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. She spoke grabbed my clothes and started beating “The policeman told my employer to with Kuwait Times to relate her ordeal and me on my face. Other family members return everything to me and suggested plead for help from authorities. came out and they punched and assaulted that I go home with them. But I refused to Fatima, a mother of two, arrived in me physically, three of them (referring to go back to their house alone because I was Kuwait from Uganda nearly two years ago. the two sons and daughter of her spon- afraid they would kill me. So the policeman Though promised a high paying sales clerk sor). They smashed my head into the floor, told me to call friends or anyone I knew in position, she ended up with a maid’s they stepped on my body with their Kuwait so I could stay with them for a recruitment agency and was contracted shoes; spat on my face and kicked my while. That was when I contacted the out to serve as a maid in a private home. body everywhere,” Fatima claimed. Ugandans in Kuwait Association, and they Deadly gas leak in “I was hired from Uganda and was opti- Fatima showed this reporter several rescued me,” she said. mistic at first to work and change our lives. bruises on her face and body along with a Shuwaikh contained I was told by my recruiter that I will be medical report from the ambulance. Fatima No embassy, still some help working in the supermarket as a saleslady said she was strangled too, showing the Since there is no embassy of Uganda in By Hanan Al-Saadoun with KD 250 salary monthly. But when I scar on her neck. “I do not know whether Kuwait, the association is the next best came, I was sold to a Kuwaiti family and they wanted to kill me or something so I alternative for Ugandan nationals in trou- KUWAIT: Firemen controlled an ammonia gas leak in an forced to work as housemaid. I did not just cried and begged them to stop. I also ble here. The ‘Ugandans in Kuwait industrial Shuwaikh company. Ammonia gas is used for complain anymore since it is too late and shouted at that time hoping that our Association’ headed by Nsubuga Ali Bashir cooling in large refrigerators. The leak was discovered in also because in my mind I wanted to get neighbors could hear my cries,” she said. tries to help other Uganda nationals here. back the KD 340 I spent just to get the job Fatima’s nightmare was far from over. “We do not have embassy here, so prob- the basement of a fruits company. Industrial Shuwaikh and The scars seen on Fatima’s neck. Mubarak Al-Kabeer hazardous material centers responded here,” she said. Picked up by a police patrol outside the lems such as this usually come to our atten- Cairo before reaching Kampala). to the scene and those present in the area were asked to After 19 months work without a day off, house, she was taken to the police station tion through our association. I am very move 100 to 200 meters away from the site, while fans Fatima asked for a break during the Eid hol- in Shuhada. Bleeding profusely, the police active in rescuing our compatriots with Attempted deportation were used to reduce the high concentration of the gas. iday. Her sponsor is currently abroad on called an ambulance and the paramedics Kamugegeya Fahadie, my Vice Chairman But in the airport, Fatima refused to Company technicians were later allowed in to ensure the holiday so she asked the sponsor’s children took her to Mubarak Hospital. But the hos- and with my secretary Nandaula Prudence. leave Kuwait because the bag which her valve was closed, and the company aeration system was (who also live in the same house) if she pital staff refused to treat her as she did We have about 600 domestic helpers in employers brought and said to contain her put on. No injuries were reported. could go out for a few hours. The employ- not have the KD 2 for the required stamp. Kuwait and we want them to be protected ers agreed. “I said I do not have any money in my personal belongings was empty. by the Kuwaiti government,” he said. “We But on the first day of the Eid holiday, pocket so the police brought me back to “They said that all my things were in the do not have lawyers to defend our rights; Knives confiscated the employers left in the morning saying the police station. There I was jailed for bag but I told them I want to inspect the so I hope by bringing this incident to the A campaign carried out by General Security at the that they would be back at the agreed one and a half days. bag. They would not allow me, saying that attention of the media we will be able to Entertainment City resulted in the confiscation of upon time so she could go out. “They The police called my employer and it was already checked. So I refused and get the proper support and hope we’ll get sharp objects. A security source said the youths who agreed I could go out on the first day of Eid pressured them to take me out from the said I would not leave without my stuff. to hold the employer liable. We want had the knives were not allowed entry to the city, in the morning. But they left at that time, police station because there was no case They tried to call another police officer to lawyers or any NGOs to help us in this case because their motives behind carrying the objects and they told me to wait,” the 28-year-old or reason for me to stay in police custody,” scare me off, but the policeman who and we are going to recommend to our were unknown. told Kuwait Times. “I waited until 4:00 pm Fatima explained. “They came that day responded was friendly. I explained to him government to temporary suspend the but still no one came home. So I decided to and took me instead to the airport; they and he said to check the bag. But when I deployment of Ugandan workers to go out without them. Anyway they knew bought me a ticket to Uganda,” she said. opened the bag, it was empty.” When she Kuwait till we are completely protected,” Two dead in separate cases that I was taking a day off,” she explained. (The flight would take her to Dubai, then saw the empty bag, she refused to board he mentioned. An Egyptian man died before reaching the hospital, and the cause of death was discovered to be a result of drown- ing. In another incident, an Asian man was killed in a labor- ers’ residence in Mina Abdallah. A security source said pre- 150 fake companies to liminary examination indicates foul play was involved. be prosecuted: Minister Explosives Bomb squads took action over an explosive device in By Meshaal Al-Enezi two-month grace period starting June 1 until for refusing to be searched by security person- Nuwaiseeb, which surfaced due to erosion. Officers August 1 to legalize their statuses,” she said. nel after claiming to be the wife of a senior secured the area shortly after arriving to the scene in KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor police officer, and that she belonged to a well Hind Al-Subaih said that a new batch of 150 Court rules off family. response to an emergency call. companies that do not exist on the ground have The Misdemeanor Court yesterday annulled recently been discovered, adding that labor a previous ruling sentencing former parliamen- Hospital ruling overturned forces registered under them had ‘leaked’ into tary elections candidate Mohammed Owayyed The Court of Appeals yesterday annulled a Two-car fire the local labor market. Subaih added that the Al-Mutairi to a year of imprisonment over the First Instance Court ruling mandating a private Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh firemen dealt with a fire in two cars, Manpower Public Authority is in the process of slander of former MP Jam’an Al-Harbash on hospital to compensate a female citizen with KD reported recently in the area. A driver of one of the cars taking legal action against those companies in Twitter, and only fined him KD 70. 45,000 for alleged medical errors during plastic had a minor arm injury and was treated on site. addition to 60 others previously detected, said surgery, which included a nose job. The citizen Subaih, who is also the Minister of State for Official’s wife detained had sued the hospital because the post-surgery Planning and Development. “Labor registered A female citizen was recently referred to the results did not match the features she had Neglected cars removed under those companies had been granted a security office at a famous shopping mall in Rai ‘ordered.’ Minister Hind Al-Subaih Kuwait Municipality Public Relations department said the Public Cleanliness and Road Occupancy depart- ment in Hawally removed 82 neglected cars. It also Interior Ministry warns of roaming vendors issued 67 licenses and collected KD 10,488 in fees for restaurants and cafes and games shops during the month of June. KUWAIT: Two Interior Ministry officials have tect them and for the interest of citizens and valid visas, while others sell banned or arrested will have his visa canceled and will identified roaming vendors as one of the expatriates, said Director General of the expired material, they said, further warning be deported, while their sponsors will be most negative phenomena that Kuwait suf- Residency Affairs Detectives Department that the vendors do not have any health cer- blacklisted. Brig Hashash said meanwhile fers from. Brigadier Saud Al-Khader and Director tificates, which exposes citizens and expats that the majority of roaming vendors are 128,116 used airport The presence of those vendors in most of General of Relations and Security to health hazards. Brig Khader said that children and the elderly, and the security Kuwait’s main streets and roundabouts, Information Brig Adel Al-Hashash. inspection campaigns were intensified in measures also aim to protect them as they during Eid holiday working without license, permission or any Such vendors harm the country’s security various areas of Kuwait to confront this phe- are exposed to danger at traffic lights and legal act should be confronted strictly to pro- in various ways, as some of them do not have nomenon, adding that any roaming vendor roundabouts. KUWAIT: The number of citizens who departed and arrived during the period from July 17 to July 20 reached 135,816, while the number of Gulf national was 78,132 IS-affiliated citizen including 31,353 departures and 46,779 arrivals through Salmy, Abdaly and Nuwaiseeb outlets, according to Interior Ministry statistics. The number of citizen who sentenced to 10 years arrived through the three outlets for the same period is 30,530, while the number of those who deported was By A Saleh evident in the legislative achievements it 51,252, the same statistics have shown. has made so far. “We are also proud of fully Meanwhile, the number of departures and arrivals at KUWAIT: The Appeals Court yesterday observing the Constitution discussing any Kuwait International Airport for the same period was overruled a criminal court verdict sen- grilling motion,” he said. 128,116 including 10,423 arrivals and 43,611 who depart- tencing a citizen to 15 years in prison with Commenting on the conscription bill, ed Kuwait, Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for labor for joining Islamic State (IS), and Maayouf said that it was up to the defense Outlets Security Major General Anwar Al-Yaseen said. He sentenced him to 10 years only. The citi- ministry’s readiness to put it into practice added that cooperation was successful between the zen faced accusations of committing hos- within one year as of publication in the Outlets Directorate General and Kuwait International tile actions against two foreign states by official gazette. Airport Security, Civil Aviation and Customs to ease entry KUWAIT: Major General Fuad Al-Athari, Director of the Interior Ministry’s General joining the terrorist organization, IS, with- and exit of passengers as they departed and arrived dur- Department of Land Border Security, awarded seven intelligence officers for their out prior permission from the Kuwaiti Financial violations ing the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. hard work and dedication. Deputy Director Brigadier General Faisal Al-Eisa and oth- government. MP Nabil Al-Fadhl recently filed a parlia- er department officials attended the ceremony. mentary inquiry to Minister of Social 225,000 housing units Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih concern- Kuwait Municipality’s Assistant Director ing alleged accusations of financial viola- MOE starts curriculums development plans for Urban Planning Ahmad Al-Manfouhi tions by the director of the Public said that the municipality handed over Authority for the Disabled. MP Fadhl land to build around 224,718 housing explained that many documents had been KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education started review- already started in grade one’s curriculums with the to start studying how to integrate those values in units to the Public Authority for Housing circulating over Twitter in this regard. ing and developing its curriculums as part of a aim of enhancing creativity and developing learn- curriculums. Welfare (PAHW), including land for 25,000 four-year plan that is carried out in cooperation ers’ skills, he added. Amending curriculums, especially those of units at Southern Sabah Al-Ahmed City. New students with the World Bank, a senior ministry official Athari meanwhile hailed the ministry’s coopera- Islamic studies and Arabic language, has in recent Manfouhi added that the deadline to finish The acting dean of admission and regis- announced. tion with the Public Anti-Corruption Authority in years been an issue of hot debate between sup- building the housing units was to be tration at the Public Authority for Applied All curriculums will be developed in a way to terms of implanting the principles and values of ports of the idea who believe that textbooks may determined by the PAHW. Education and Training Hassan Al-Mutairi boost Islamic values that call for solidarity and uni- fighting corruption among younger generations. contain ideologies that encourage intolerance, and said that names of new students accepted ty amongst fellow citizens, Undersecretary Dr He added that as per a memo of understanding others who fear that any changes could negatively Grilling motions in PAAET colleges would be announced Haitham Al-Athari said in a statement to Kuwait signed between the ministry and the authority, impact the process of teaching Islamic values to MP Abdullah Al-Maayouf stressed that soon. Mutairi expected accepting 10,500 News Agency (KUNA) yesterday. Development has two special teams, one from each side, are soon set children. Education Minister Dr Bader Al-Essa Kuwait was going through the best phase students according to each college admis- became on fire last month after suggesting that of political reform in its history, which was sion rules and regulations. the curriculums need to be readdressed in order to introduce more values of tolerance in the after- math of the June 26 terrorist attack, drawing ire Family rescued after from lawmakers in the parliament. 35 hours at sea New year Meanwhile, Minister Dr Essa expressed readi- KUWAIT: Coastguards rescued a Kuwaiti were stranded when their boat ran out of ness of the ministry to receive new academic year family which got stranded for over 35 hours fuel and they could not determine their and the introduction of the tablet system in the in international waters, the Interior Ministry location, the caller explained. Naval patrols secondary school curricula. Essa said in a statement announced yesterday. The 9-hour opera- and Coastguards began their operations to reporters after receiving well-wishers following tion was carried out in cooperation and afterwards, and later determined that the Eid Al-Fitr that the work is also under way to coordination with Kuwait Navy, the US Fifth family’s boat was outside Kuwait’s territori- appoint directors general in the educational areas, Fleet Command in the Arabian Gulf and the al waters. Search continued until the boat especially as a number of them have been asked to Police Air Wing, Assistant Undersecretary was found at 4:30 pm Sunday, 35 hours retire. Asked about the ministry’s readiness over for Borders Security Major General Sheikh after losing contact. The family members maintenance of schools’ air conditioning, the min- Mohammad Al-Yousuf Al-Sabah said. were found in a ‘critical condition’ and were ister said that this file is handled by the Assistant The rescue mission started in response treated with first aid onsite, Maj Gen Al- Undersecretary for Installations Dr Khaled Al- to an emergency call from a person report- Sabah said. The senior official urged citi- Rushaid, who was following it up on a weekly basis. ing that relatives have lost their way while zens and residents to report any emer- He added that the ministry has allocated the they were heading to Kubbar Island during gency cases to the ministry’s emergency KUWAIT: Minister of Education Dr Bader Al-Essa (center) and senior ministry officials are pic- necessary budget for these projects while waiting the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. Members of the fam- hotline 112, or the Coastguards General tured during a reception held on the first day of work after the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. — Photo by for the approval of the Ministry of Finance on the ily, two men, one woman and two girls, Department’s hotline 1880888. Fouad Al-Shaikh budgets of the demolition of dilapidated schools. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Special Report 80% of private households participated in labor survey Labor Force Survey 2014: Main Findings - Part II

KUWAIT: The Central Statistical Bureau’s Labor merators and supervisors in how to administer the Finally, main labor force indicators were produced holds. The variables in the collective household data Market Information System released its most recent questionnaire in both CAPI and paper forms. Labor and compared to external sources such as 2008 labor set were renamed to match those in the private report, the Labor Force Survey 2014: Main Findings force concepts were discussed and each question force survey , 2011 population census, and 2013 households and the two data sets were combined (October - December, 2014), just before the Eid Al- was reviewed to ensure that all enumerators under- income and expenditure survey. into a single data set. Fitr holiday, which provides details, analysis and oth- stood how to collect the data and what each ques- The data from the collective households were Variables were created, “derived variables”, to assist er statistical information concerning Kuwait’s labor tion provided. Enumerator manuals that were pro- key entered and then an independent team in the analyses of the data by CSB. The derived vari- market. Part two explains the methodology used in vided for use during the training were also used dur- reviewed all the data entered by comparing with ables are combinations of the information as collect- preparing the report. ing the actual data collection so that enumerators the original questionnaires. This procedure correct- ed in the questionnaire that can be used to deter- could resolve any problems encountered in the field. ed for possible data entry errors. Additional checks mine the labor force indicators needed for the analy- The training was done separately for the private were run to verify information including birthdate, ses. These variables included such items age group Methodology households and the collective households. The train- age, education level, date of arrival in Kuwait, the variables; dummies for working, not working and The Sample ing for the private households included training in questions regarding whether or not the respondent searching for jobs; dummies for working age or not The sample design for the Kuwait Labor Force Survey how to administer the questionnaires as well as how was working, and to ensure that all sections were (15 years of age and older); and others. (KLFS) includes both private households and collective to use the CAPI application on the tablets. completed as required. Because collective house- households. The 2011 census was used as the sample holds consist of only non-Kuwaitis, all have to Response Rates frame. The sample was designed with additional house- Field Work respond positively to the questions regarding The response rate reached about 80 percent for holds to take into account potential non-response. Mobile field teams were used to collect the data whether or not the respondent was working. When private households and 74 percent for collective errors were found, the original questionnaires were households. Table 01. Distribution of Households in the KLFS 2014 Sample reviewed and corrections were made. In two cases, the birth date was recorded incorrectly in the ques- Sampling Errors tionnaire so the information from the Civil ID was Sampling errors were calculated for the main indi- used to make the corrections. cators. Calculations included standard errors, relative The data set of collective household information errors, 95 percent confidence intervals, and design was originally stored separately from the data set of effects. Standard errors for the main indicators private household information. The variable names ranged between 0.003 and 0.015 (See tables of sam- were different from those used for the private house- pling errors below).

Table 02: Interview Result for Private Households

Due to lack of information about the population of from the different sampled areas in each governorate collective households in terms of economic activity, for the private households. Each team included one occupation and nationality, all members of sampled supervisor and three or four enumerators. The field collective households have been included in the sam- teams visited each private household up to three ple. The number of collective households members times to collect data from all members of the house- amounted, in some cases, hundreds or even thou- hold. sands. Data have been collection from 10,161 mem- Two mobile teams were used to collect the data for bers of collective households with an average of the collective households. These households were vis- about 73 persons per collective household. It is ited as many times as needed to collect information planned that data from the current survey will be from all of the residents because collective house- Table 03: Interview Result for Collective Households used to enhance the sample design within the collec- holds could contain hundreds of individuals. Data col- tive households in the future. lection took three months from October 12th 2014 through January 6th 2015. Questionnaires The questionnaire was developed to collect infor- Data Quality mation from both private and collective households, As an aid to ensuring good quality data, extensive and the same questionnaire was used for all house- monitoring of the field work was conducted. holds. The questionnaire is different from the one Monitoring and evaluation guidelines and formats for used in 2008, and includes revisions to provide infor- fieldwork were developed as well. There were three mation needed to calculate the standard labor force levels of monitoring and supervision. The first level indicators using standard international definitions. was performed by the Supervisors who provided two The questionnaire was pilot tested multiple times. types of supervision. Supervisors were responsible for After each pilot test, an evaluation of the results was making sure that all households were visited and performed and modifications were made. accompanied enumerators during the interviews to Modifications included re-writing questions that were ensure that the questionnaires were administered misunderstood by the respondents, changing the correctly. The second type of supervision was a order of questions, adding new questions and incor- review of the information collected in the question- porating concepts that were needed for the Kuwait naires. Whether the data were collected using CAPI or Table 04 : Sampling Errors for the Estimate of Labor Force Participation Rate by Nationality and Sex Occupational Projection System and the Labor paper and pencil, the Supervisors reviewed each Market Information System. question to make sure that the data collected was After the paper questionnaire was completed, it within the guidelines. The third level of monitoring was converted to the Computer Assisted Personal and supervision was from CSB headquarters. After Interviewing (CAPI) format for collecting information questionnaires were reviewed by the Supervisors, in the private households. This required the creation they were sent to headquarters where the staff of variables that were needed for the automatic verifi- reviewed them again. Questionnaires that did not cations that can be done with CAPI. meet the guidelines were returned to the supervisors who returned them to the enumerators who returned Use of Computer Assisted to the households to fix the problems. In addition, Personal Interviewing (CAPI) CSB headquarters staff and the World Bank team The questionnaire was converted into a CAPI appli- went to the field to observe interviews and to provide cation for administration in private households. The suggestions for improvements in the data collection Table 05: Sampling Errors for the Estimate of Unemployment Rate by Nationality survey used a computerized system of data collection process. where field staff directly captured information using Coding for the occupation and industry was done tablets during the interview. The tablets were loaded by coders specifically trained in coding this informa- with a data entry application with in-built range and tion. Two teams of coders were used one for both pri- consistency checks, and validation routines to ensure vate and one for collective households. good quality data. Supervisors ran checks on the data The data from the private households were while still in the field and sent the data electronically checked for outliers and out of range values. A list of to the Central Statistics Bureau (CSB) Headquarters for Kuwaiti employees with monthly salaries found to be additional verification. Every team was facilitated with less than 400 Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) were prepared with Internet connectivity while in the field. phone numbers and CSB staff called them and dou- ble checked their salaries and corrections were made Data Collection in Collective Households accordingly. In some cases, these apparently low The information from collective households was salaries were found to be correct; in one case, for collected using paper questionnaires. In each of the example, the man was retired and then worked in a collective households that were included in the sam- supermarket “Jamiya” with 390 KD monthly salary. ple, all individuals residing in the household were Frequency distributions and cross-tabulations were interviewed. This information will be used in design- used to check for out-of-range values, inconsistencies ing future surveys to determine if it is possible to and missing data and corrections were made accord- interview only a sample of respondents in the larger ingly. Missing data in main demographic variables, collective households. like sex and age, were imputed using data available on other relevant variables (eg. Date of birth, civil Training of Field Staff number, and names), missing data in industry were Fifteen days of training were provided to the enu- imputed, when possible, using data on occupation. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

WHO warns Special Report against lead poisoning

KUWAIT: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned against the devastating health consequences of lead poisoning which accounts for 0.6 percent of global dis- eases and contributes to about 600,000 new cases of children with mental disabilities every year, Director of Media office at the Ministry of Health said yesterday. Lead poisoning causes the death of 143, 000 persons each year; lead paint is considered a major contributor, according WHO’s report which was published last week, Dr Ghalia Al-Mutairi said in a statement. Even though countries have banned lead paint decades ago, yet it is still widely used for decorative purposes, and it continues to be in use until it is finally stripped and replaced. According to the report, Dr Mutairi said that at high levels of exposure, lead dam- ages the brain and central nervous system which causes coma, convulsions and even death. Children who survive poisoning are often left with mental impairment and behavioral disorders. She added that WHO is rallying international efforts to help in raising awareness against this poisonous substance in all media platforms, online or offline, and in many dif- ferent languages. — KUNA Economic facilities’ Kuwait pushes ahead with statistics crucial for development infrastructure build out KUWAIT: Comprehensive statistics of economic facilities will help unifying private sector data, KUWAIT: Construction is set to surge in Kuwait over the com- At the same time, rising demand for public housing is The rising cost of construction materials within the GCC ing years. Plans to deliver hundreds of thousands of govern- expected to drive long-term residential construction growth, also poses a significant problem. The region is facing an acute merging it in the relevant state bodies, chairman ment-funded residential units by 2020 will also keep the sec- with the Public Authority for Housing and Welfare announcing shortage of primary building materials, such as limestone, of the National Fund for Supporting and tor on a growth path, despite challenges presented by plans to build 174,000 housing units by 2020. Private contrac- gabbro, cement and steel, as a result of huge anticipated Developing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises reduced oil revenues and the rising cost of raw materials. tors will be able to bid on a raft of developments, including demand through to 2022. Alpen Capital reported that the Mohammad Al-Zuhair said. The country’s infrastructure sector is forecast to grow by the Mutlah Residential Project, Al Subiyah Residential City and GCC’s construction cost index rose 57.5 percent to 156.4 in the Following a meeting between the fund and the 15-20 percent this year, according to investment bank Alpen Sabah Al Ahmad township, that together should help to decade to 2013, while raw materials prices are projected to Kuwait Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), Zuhair Capital, with projects aimed at greater GCC integration and reduce the waiting list for public housing, which currently increase by 4-5 percent over the short to medium term, exac- added that partnership between both is a part of economic diversification also serving as key growth drivers. ranges from 15 to 20 years. erbated by supply bottlenecks. The region’s broader economic strategy is expected to bol- The Kuwaiti government also plans to employ a public-pri- Kuwait saw the second-largest increase in the region, with the goals of the five-year national development ster this trend. The GCC plans to boost investment in the con- vate partnership model to deliver public housing, including its cost index up 70 percent over the same period, to 170. The plan (2015-2020) on unifying commercial classifi- struction sector by showcasing the region as a tourist and 11,000 units under the Sabah Al Ahmad project, which will impact is already being felt, with reports that an additional KD cations of economic activities. He urged similar investment destination, helping to increase the industry’s val- house up to 100,000 people upon completion. 800 million ($2.6 billion) was needed for the Al Zour refinery partnerships between the CSB and the Public ue from $91.5 billion to $126.2 billion in the three years to upgrade, already budgeted at $4 billion, due to rising con- Authority for Civil Information and the Ministry of 2016, according to Alpen Capital’s June “GCC Construction Building blocks struction costs. Commerce and Industry, as well as other relevant Industry” report. Although the industry is poised for significant growth in With some big-ticket projects facing delays, including a bodies to secure success for the national project the long run, contractors will nonetheless be faced with the national railway which will connect to the 2177-km GCC rail Infrastructure and housing in the driver’s seat rising cost of materials, while falling oil prices could curtail network and a planned second terminal at Kuwait for statistics of economic facilities. Kuwait’s construction industry is forging ahead with several state spending. Consolidated revenues at state-owned International Airport, falling energy revenues and rising input Meanwhile, assistant undersecretary for statisti- large infrastructure projects, with planned developments worth Kuwait Petroleum Corporation are expected to fall by 36 costs could dampen prospects for timely delivery. While these cal work at the CSB Mona Al-Daas said that the an estimated $123.6 billion, according to MEED, outpacing percent year-on-year in FY 2015/16, according to state- are perhaps the most significant medium-term challenges for partnership issue emerged almost four months Qatar ($113.8 billion), Oman ($29.6 billion) and Bahrain ($25 bil- ments made in June by Adnan Abdulsamad, chairman of the industry, the pace of development is likely to preserve the before and was welcomed by the fund out of a lion). In an analysis of the 100 largest construction contracts in the National Assembly’s Budget and Final Account sector’s long-term growth trajectory. belief in the importance of having an integrated the GCC in 2014, Kuwait came in third after the UAE and Saudi Committee. — Oxford Business Group 2015 database for economic facilities in the country. Arabia, based on the combined value of projects in the pipeline. Progress has been promising to date. In June, Cairo-based She added that the partnership project was stud- Arab Contractors said the $855.7 million Al Jahra road project ied by World Bank (WB) experts for establishing a - a 142-km highway connecting the industrial area of comprehensive and unified economic database Shuwaikh to Kuwait City - was on track to be completed in and commercial registration in Kuwait. The part- 2016. The project is one of a number of planned infrastructure nership is financially supported by the National upgrades, along with the $2.6 billion Sheikh Jaber Causeway, Fund for Supporting and Developing Small and which will link Kuwait to Silk City, and the $7 billion Kuwait Medium Sized Enterprises. — KUNA City Metro, scheduled for completion in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

KNPC moving forward with Al-Zour refinery project

KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) is aware of such commitment, which complements the moving forward with Al-Zour refinery project according to Company’s strategic role assigned by the mother company, plans, CEO Mohammad Al-Mutairi said Monday. His remarks Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), and the State. to reporters came during a visit to Mina Abdullah, Mina Al- Meanwhile, Deputy CEO Asousi said that KNPC would not Ahmadi and Shuiaba refineries along with Deputy CEO for spare an effort in supporting and developing national human Support Services Khaled Al-Asousi. As for KNPC’s clean fuel resources, terming it “our most valuable asset. “We are a gov- project, Mutairi noted that the venture is now at 27 percent ernment-run company that works transparently and bids to progress rate and work is underway to complete linkage achieve the State’s objectives.” between project units and the refineries of Mina Al-Ahmadi Al-Zour project is intended to build a grass root refinery and Mina Abdullah. He also underlined the level of readiness with a total capacity of 615,000 barrels per day. Should it be and commitment embraced by refinery workers, who work operated, the $14 billion refinery will be one of the largest oil around the clock and under all circumstances. refining plant worldwide, and will fulfill the long-term strategy Mutairi pointed out that KNPC’s upper management is of KPC, spanning all the way to 2030. — KUNA Fishing nets lifted west of Failaka

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team and Kuwait Fire Service Directorate’s (KFSD) marine rescue center lifted two tons of disposed fishing nets west of Failaka Island yes- terday. The nets posed a threat to marine environment in the area, Head of the cleaning operation Dahri Al- Huwail said, adding that nets, left by fishermen, would also be hazardous to sea goers if their boats got tan- gled. Huwail urged fishermen to better take care of their nets and fishing tools to protect themselves and the environment. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 LOCAL

Al-Anbaa Al-Qabas Region of Donations Lessons not 400 million learned politicians By Ahmad Al-Sarraf efore thinking about laws against terrorism, By Thaar Al-Rasheedi there should be laws to confront racism and Bdiscrimination that is being practiced against ur nation suffers from severe political ‘illiteracy.’ sects and groups in jobs, employment, authorities, Criticizing a politician, a lawmaker or an active promotions, distribution of power, representation, Oparty does not mean you understand politics. rights and duties.” - Shafiq Al-Ghabra. There is no It would rather be like someone questioning the com- doubt that the Kuwaiti is distinguished from many petence of a hospital’s doctors, which, by no means, others and has creative clearance that is not avail- mean that this person knows as much as Hippocrates able in many societies, with respect to all. If Kuwait did about medicine. had continued with its renaissance march that began In Kuwait and Arab countries, in general, when at the end of the 1960s, it would have been more dis- people talk about politics, they criticize and attack. tinguished today. Some of them even commit the mistake of making What gave Kuwait this distinction, without much political analysis and judge this or that minister or law- exaggeration, is the freedom space that its people maker. They would accuse a government of treason have enjoyed all along its history, particularly at the Al-Jarida and negatively criticize a certain political bloc, mainly start of parliamentary life. Also, there was and still is driven by blind fanaticism that flourishes with igno- variation in culture, sects and religions. Lastly, what rance of the simplest political principles. Therefore, historically distinguished the Kuwaiti was the ability most common Arab men’s superficial opinions accuse to make a living without depending on state rev- politicians of treason and question their intentions, enues. their financial integrity or morals. The latest of such During the experience of the heinous Saddam trend is accusing entire regimes or countries, includ- invasion that lasted seven suffocating months, the ing governments, people and rulers, of treason. It is Al-Anbaa people’s strength and rejection of the occupation that simple. A nation can be ripped off religion and was clear, and what was surprising was their readi- Arabism. ness to sacrifice a lot and fierce resistance of the To explain how deep a wound we have in the Arab Trading in death occupier, which is something not expected from political body, let me mention this experience. Years those who have got used to a luxurious life. Also, the rejection of every single Kuwaiti to cooperate with ago, I visited a friend and a discussion started about By Saad Al-Mo’tesh the Kuwaiti parliament’s performance. Another visitor occupation forces was a historic and rare phenome- started analyzing the parliament saying that it does non, and the issue called for more pride when know- here is hardly anyone who is not benevolent by the situation. ing that the occupation army, and maybe for the first not represent the nation and he started accusing indi- nature. Yet, what most people may reject is being Some of them call pretending to represent some chari- vidual MPs with certain things until I stopped him. time in history, was larger in number than the num- Texploited for being benevolent and charitable. So ties and religious committees. However, in doing so, they ber of Kuwaitis who remained under occupation! “Can you name the political blocs in parliament and to many people have been taking make people hate them because Kuwait came out of the occupation experience which each lawmaker belongs?” I asked. “Of course advantage of other people’s mis- people wishing to donate for not, how would I know? What does this have to do stronger and better as far as the population struc- fortunes by embarrassing them Some people have been con- charity and to serve Islam already ture, national cohesiveness and brotherly solidarity with what I just said?” he said. on some occasions knowing that know many other ways to do so, “Can someone who does not know the difference stantly reading the obituary were concerned, but some wrong government poli- everyone is after the reward for such as following the Prophet’s cies and rejection to hold any wrongdoer to account between defense, midfield and forward players ana- doing such virtues. (PBUH) advice to give to ‘the near- lyze a soccer match?” I asked. And he said, “No.” pages on local newspapers to eradicated all those positives that were lost under a Some people have been con- est and dearest,’ to family and pile of mistakes, the most dangerous of which was “Well, that is exactly what you have been doing. stantly reading the obituary call the deceased’s family, next of kin without being black- You know nothing about political blocs and alliances handing the country to the extreme religious faction pages on local newspapers to not to condole, but to urge mailed on funerals. that took us to destruction, or just about! within the parliament and yet you analyze the parlia- call the deceased’s family, not to Well, this criticism cannot be ment and lawmakers’ performance,” I told him. the bereaved to donate Then the catastrophe of the criminal act at Al- condole, but to urge the directed to a certain official but Sadiq Mosque took place that shook the conscious of Unfortunately, this is the bitter truth about real life bereaved to donate something something people must pay attention to in the Arab world. This is what we witness daily on every noble Kuwaiti, so the Kuwaiti uniqueness sur- to print Quran copies or reli- such people who, by racing with faced again. But it now seems that we did not learn Facebook and Twitter and that is why we have over gious books and have it dedicated to the deceased’s soul, other charities to get donations, are actually scaring peo- 400 million politicians in the Arab world! from the lesson of Al-Sadiq Mosque, after failing to without paying the least attention to these people’s loss ple off charity because they have been trading in death. learn a thing from the bitter invasion experience. Yes, — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated by Kuwait Times or psychological condition. They only take advantage of Kuwait lost in both criminal events dear lives, but came out stronger in both cases, and as we wasted the lessons of the invasion, so we have to at least learn from the lessons of the Al-Sadiq Mosque’s Ahli United Bank wins elimination crime so that the souls of the martyrs do not go in vain, we restore Kuwait to where it was in the ‘60s and ‘70s of the last century, turn tragedy into victory round of global management challenge and restore the smile on the face of the Kuwaiti. This cannot be done with the policies of appeasement KUWAIT: The Ahli United Bank team was announced the and attempting to satisfy everyone. The magnitude champion of the elimination round in the Global of the tragedy requires new mentality, new thinking and a new government. Management Challenge (GMC) National Competition 2015, — Translated by Kuwait Times organized by ADNAR Group, and secured its spot at the Semi-Finals. Qualified teams will fiercely challenge for the “GMC National Team” title which will be honorably privi- leged by representing the State of Kuwait and raising its flag in Macau - China International Finals next April of 2016. Ahli United Bank’s team consists of: Abdullah Al- Crime Lanqawy, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ramy Zakaria and Mustafa Report Khokhawala. The Global Management Challenge is recognized as the largest program, worldwide, in strategic management. It Brother fights focuses on challenging managerial skills and knowledge of with harasser the participating teams who engage in running simulated companies and follow-up the results and precautions of KUWAIT: A citizen did not like what he saw and started their decisions based on virtual data. a fight with a man after seeing him harass his sister This advanced program in its concept and tools is one inside a mall. The fight needed police interference to of the most high-end approaches in the fields of training stop it. The harasser was charged with urging indecent and professional development and includes about 500,000 acts and a fight, while the citizen was charged with participants from more than 40 countries. instigating a fight. Investigations are underway. Naqeeb Hamid Amin, Assistant General Manager Human Resources at Ahli United Bank, highlighted that the Bank has always been, and will continue to be, keen on engaging in such outstanding programs and embracing Death threat and availing promising opportunities for its employees, driven by its commitment to quality and merit. Moataz Al-Rafie, the Senior DCEO - Banking Group at A citizen threatened to kill a friend of his over the Ahli United Bank also expressed his deep appreciation for phone. As a result, the citizen went to Fahad Al- the team’s accomplishment and the Bank’s full support all Moataz Al-Rafie the Senior DCEO - Banking Group at Ahli United Bank with team members Abdullah Al-Lanqawy, Ahmad police station and filed a complaint. the way to the International Finals. Ahmed Ibrahim, Ramy Zakaria and Mustafa Khokhawala. Investigations are underway. INJAZ-Kuwait launches summer Bloody man found An Ethiopian expat who had injuries to the head and body was taken to Jahra intensive care unit after being campaign for partner companies found in a blood pool on Subiya road. Meanwhile, police detained the person who called police, who is Habchi, Chalhoub had highest number of students also Ethiopian, for questioning.

Drug arrest

Capital police arrested a citizen in Salhiya for being under the influence of drugs, and discovered that the citizen is wanted on a KD 540 debt case.

‘VIP’ insulted

A ‘very important person’ told Sharq police that he was insulted by a female media personality on Instagram and gave them a copy of her insult. The lady is being summoned for questioning.

Robber and ‘friend of thieves’ arrested

Police in Abu Halifa arrested a bedoon (stateless) KUWAIT: As part of INJAZ-Kuwait’s 10th anniver- Master Class (EMC). and the participation of the companies involved, Innovation Manager, Zeina Ramadan, said man who confessed to using sharp objects to rob sary celebrations, INJAZ-Kuwait launched one of The EMC program aims to educate partici- she said “INJAZ’s core values have always “Supporting Injaz and taking part in The citizens and expatriates, adding that the bedoon its campaigns, namely, “Engaging 10 Partner pating students on self-employment, problem revolved around the concept of youth empow- Entrepreneurship Master Class are both in line sells what he robs to the ‘friend of thieves’ who Companies to Empower Kuwait’s Future Leaders” solving, teamwork, leadership, risk manage- erment and developing this core value through with our mission to contribute to Youth student summer campaign where partner com- ment, running businesses while offering them the power of partnership. The success of our Education in Kuwait. Habchi and Chalhoub, part owns a mobile phone shop in Mangaf. A security panies employees’ children were given the the chance to meet successful entrepreneurs. summer campaign, with the participation of of The Chalhoub Group, is keen on developing source said the bedoon confessed to mugging 20 opportunity to take part in INJAZ-Kuwait’s pro- The EMC program held a 6 hour workshop for many companies as partners and the number of this aspect as part of our Social Responsibility people with the use of force. Detectives went to gram, Entrepreneurship Master Class (EMC) almost 100 middle school students highlighting students who joined reaffirm INJAZ’s stance in Program but also as a main driver of local the “friend” and found a large number of phones Habchi and Chalhoub, part of the Chalhoub entrepreneurial business practices as well as investing in Kuwait’s future by educating the economies. Partnering with a professional and reported stolen. The ‘friend’ confessed that he Group retail company, was announced the win- communication strategies within business envi- country’s youth in entrepreneurial and business qualified NGO like INJAZ is definitely the best deals with several thieves. Investigations are ner for signing up the most number of students ronments. INJAZ-Kuwait’s CEO, Rana Al-Nibari culture.” way to assure our sustainability and responsible underway. - Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa to participate in INJAZ’s Entrepreneurship praised the number of students who registered Habchi and Chalhoub’s Strategy and engagement goals.”

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SURUC: Two victims hold hands after an explosion in the town of Suruc in Sanliurfa. — AFP Turkey identifies suspect in suicide attack ‘This is an attack that targeted Turkey’

SURUC: Turkey said yesterday it had identified Ahmet Davutoglu said in the regional centre Turkish man who had become involved with IS President Bashar Al-Assad. But Davutoglu said children of Kobane. Just before the attack, a suspect over a devastating suicide bombing of Sanliurfa after visiting the wounded in hos- two months ago. Davutoglu declined to give the government had “never had any direct or they had been photographed seated at tables on the border with Syria blamed on Islamic pital. He added there was a “high probability” any further details on the identity. The IS indirect connection with any terrorist organi- having breakfast. The identities of 30 of the State jihadists, as the government rushed to the attack was caused by a suicide bomber group, which has claimed swathes of territory zation”. Ankara has in the last weeks appeared victims have now been confirmed by the bolster security on the porous frontier. Thirty- with connections to IS jihadists. “We expect in Syria and Iraq right up to the Turkish border, to take a harder line against the IS group, authorities. Hundreds of pro-Kurdish activists two people were killed and more than 100 this investigation to be concluded as soon as has so far not claimed the Suruc bombing. But rounding up dozens of suspected members in took to the streets of Turkish cities on Monday wounded on Monday when a bomb ripped possible,” he said. Davutoglu said the death Davutoglu said Turkey was taking steps to Istanbul and other cities. night to protest against the attacks and gov- through a crowd of young socialist activists in toll had risen to 32 and that 29 injured victims improve border security, which has long been ernment policy on Syria, with police in a mainly Kurdish region preparing to take aid were still in hospital. “What is necessary will be criticized by its Western partners. ‘Spillover into Turkey’ Istanbul using water cannon to disperse the over the border into Syria. done against whomever responsible for (the He said the cabinet would discuss today an Nihat Ali Ozcan, security expert at Ankara- rally. The attack in Suruc was one of the dead- attack),” Davutoglu said. “This is an attack that “action plan” on border security and the gov- based TEPAV think-tank, said the Suruc attack The leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ liest in Turkey in recent years and the first time targeted Turkey.” ernment will then take the “necessary meas- showed the confrontation between IS and Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas the government has directly accused the IS ures”. “Conflicts abroad should not be allowed Kurdish groups within Syria was “spilling over called on people to join an international rally group of carrying out an act of terror on ‘Reinforce border security’ to spread to Turkey,” he said. Turkey has long to Turkish soil”. “The attack could trigger ideo- against “IS barbarism” in Istanbul at the week- Turkish soil. In harrowing scenes yesterday, The Hurriyet daily said Turkey’s intelligence been accused by its Western partners of not logical, ethnic and political fault lines in end. The governor of the region of Sanliurfa loved ones of the dead clutched the coffins of agency had previously warned the govern- doing enough to halt the rise of IS and even Turkey,” he told AFP. The activists from the where Suruc is located announced that public the victims in a farewell ceremony in the near- ment that seven IS members-three of them colluding with the group, allegations it vehe- Federation of Socialist Youth Associations rallies had been banned as a security precau- by city of Gaziantep ahead of their burial in women-had crossed into the country in recent mently denies. (SGDF) had arrived in Suruc to take part in a tion although the ruling was later reversed. towns across Turkey. weeks with the aim of carrying out attacks. So far, Turkey has not played a full role in rebuilding mission for Kobane, which Kurdish Dozens of people were killed in October in “One suspect has been identified. All the Previous reports had suggested the the US-led coalition against IS and been wary forces had retaken from IS earlier this year. nationwide protests across Turkey against the (suspect’s) links internationally and domesti- bomber was a woman but the DIHA news of backing the jihadists’ Kurdish opponents, Pictures posted on social media showed government’s perceived lack of support for cally are being investigated,” Prime Minister agency said the person was a 20-year-old saying the priority is the ousting of Syrian the toys they had planned to take over for the Kurds battling IS jihadists.—AFP First UN aid ships in 4 months dock in Aden

ADEN: Two UN aid ships docked in Yemen’s dev- to the rebel-controlled Hodeida port in western the conflict. The coalition has never acknowl- astated port city of Aden yesterday bringing Yemen, but the insurgents did not allow an aid edged putting boots on the ground in Yemen, desperately needed relief supplies after four convoy to travel to Aden. The United Nations but loyalists have been reinforced in Aden by months of fierce fighting between rebels and had warned then that the impoverished country forces trained by the coalition. loyalist fighters. The humanitarian aid arrived as was just “one step away from famine.” More than On Friday, exiled Prime Minister Khaled forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo 21.1 million people-over 80 percent of Yemen’s Bahah declared the city to be liberated, Mansour Hadi pressed on with operations to population-need aid, with 13 million facing food although rebels pockets have fought on in some tighten their control over the southern city. shortages. districts. Rebel bombardment on Sunday killed “This is the first boat carrying the UN flag to The United Nations says the conflict has killed 57 civilians in the Dar Saad neighborhood of dock in Aden since the war began” in late March, more than 3,640 people, around half of them northern Aden, according to local health chief provincial Governor Nayef Al-Bakri told reporters civilians, since late March. Over the past week, Al-Khader Laswar. at the port before a second vessel also docked. forces loyal to Hadi have recaptured most of The rebels have overrun much of the Sunni- Transport Minister Badr Basalmeh said the two Aden from Huthi Shiite rebels and their allies. majority country, aided by their allies among consignments sent by the United Arab Emirates The loyalist advances were backed by warplanes forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah (UAE) amounted to 7,000 tons of food and phar- from a Saudi-led Arab coalition that mounted a Saleh. In rebel-controlled Sanaa, a car bombing maceutical aid. bombing campaign against the rebels late near a Shiite mosque Monday claimed by the The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), March. Transport Minister Badr Basalmeh told Islamic State group killed four people, the Shiite which chartered the ships, had tried repeatedly journalists Monday that a UAE technical team rebels said. in past weeks to deliver aid to the port city but had arrived to repair the control tower and pas- The Sunni extremists of IS have carried out a failed because of security concerns. Vessels sent senger terminal at Aden international airport, string of deadly attacks against Shiite targets in by the UAE managed to reach Aden in May but heavily damaged in clashes before rebel forces Yemen since March. The Houthis, who overran not under the UN flag. A humanitarian ceasefire were driven out Sanaa last September, also lost 11 fighters in declared by the United Nations earlier this other attacks in the capital Monday night, month failed to take hold. The WFP had Bomb near Shiite mosque medics and witnesses said. Six were killed in a described the truce as the “final hope” to deliver Yesterday, the UAE said without elaborating shooting at a checkpoint near the central bank desperately needed aid. than an officer in its armed forces was killed in and five more in a car bombing against a police ADEN: Fighters loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, stand next to a The WFP had delivered aid ahead of the truce coalition operations, the third Emirati killed in station. — AFP destroyed rocket-launcher belonging to Houthi rebels, following clashes. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 Jailhouse death of black woman stirs suspicions

CHICAGO: The jailhouse death of a black about those who are sworn to protect and woman imprisoned after allegedly get- serve,” columnist Yesha Callahan wrote on ting combative during a traffic stop in The Root. While Bland had struggled with rural Texas has raised suspicions amid depression in the past, her family insists heightened racial tensions in the United that suicide was simply not in her charac- States. Prosecutors said Monday they plan ter. to release a security camera video that They have reportedly requested an shows nobody entered or left the cell of independent autopsy because they did Sandra Bland, 28, before her body was not believe the local coroner’s conclusion discovered in what authorities said was that her death was a suicide. “Based on an apparent suicide. the Sandy I know, that’s unfathomable to But, with tensions inflamed in the me,” her sister Sharon said at a press con- wake of a series of high-profile cases of ference. Bland was on her way to start a black men being killed by police in dis- new job at her alma mater, Prairie View puted circumstances, many people A&M University near Houston, when she wouldn’t trust any official account of the was pulled over on July 10 at 4:30 pm. incident. “It is right to resist simple expla- She was found dead in her cell at 9:00 nations for extraordinary events,” New am on July 13, the Waller County Sheriff’s York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote. Office said. Bland was arrested for “assault “Indeed, because state violence echoes on a public servant” after becoming “argu- through the African-American experience mentative and uncooperative” during the in this country, it is even understandable traffic stop, according to the Texas if black people might occasionally experi- Department of Public Safety. ence a sort of ‘Phantom Lynching Syndrome.’” FBI to review evidence A video of Bland’s arrest-that shows A preliminary investigation by the her pinned to the ground after being department found the arresting officer pulled over for failing to signal a lane violated the department’s “courtesy poli- change-helped fuel suspicions that some- cy” and procedures regarding traffic WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House. —AP thing nefarious may have happened. stops. The Federal Bureau of Investigation “Thank you for recording,” she says as is monitoring the investigation. “Once the she’s led handcuffed into a cruiser. “For a local process takes its course, the FBI will Obama to face vets, Jon Stewart amid traffic signal-slammed me into the review all of the evidence to determine if ground and everything.” any federal criminal laws may have been concerns over Iran, health and guns violated,” it said in a statement. #IfIDieInPoliceCustody Bland was an activist in the Black Lives The video was widely circulated on Matter movement, which grew out of Multiple ordeals keep nation on edge social media last week and the hashtag protests sparked by the police shooting of #IfIDieInPoliceCustody began trending on Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama speaks have to close some hospitals if Congress does in the past, lenders have exploited loopholes in Twitter as African Americans expressed cases such as that of Freddie Gray, who to a veterans’ convention, then tapes an appear- not address a $2.5 billion shortfall. the regulations and targeted military members their concerns. “#IfIDieInPoliceCustody sustained a fatal spinal injury in a ance with Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” as with exorbitant interest rates. The revised ver- know I did everything my mom taught Baltimore police van. A video Bland post- concerns run high about Iran, veterans’ care and Thorough investigation sion will cover larger or longer-term payday me about how to stay alive if arrested, but ed on her Facebook page about racism in a shooting rampage against US Marines. The military community has also been on loans, plus title loans, installment loans and it wasn’t enough,” wrote Malkia Cryil. America was seen as telling by those who Obama will travel to Pittsburgh to speak to edge over the killing of four Marines and a sailor credit cards, subjecting them to an interest rate A woman identified as Keya D wrote: mistrust the police. “We can’t help be the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ national conven- last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Obama cap of 36 percent and other protections. “#IfIDieinPoliceCustody make sure my pissed off when we see a situation where tion, the day after the UN Security Council unan- has pledged a prompt and thorough investiga- That expansion had faced criticism that it lim- baby girl continues to love her beautiful it’s clear the black lives don’t matter,” imously endorsed the nuclear deal with Iran. tion into an attack that authorities have blamed its troops’ access to financing options, but the black skin.” The success of the hashtag is a Bland said. “You can stand there, surren- After Pennsylvania, Obama will hop a quick on a 24-year-old Kuwait-born man. On Monday, White House said military families will still have “sad statement about how people feel der to the cops and still be killed.” —AFP flight to New York to tape one of Stewart’s final South Carolina Gov Nikki Haley said she author- plenty of options. The White House said it made episodes after 16 years hosting the Comedy ized a review of security at National Guard instal- improvements to the proposal following public Central show. lations and recruitment centers, and US military comments, but wouldn’t name any when asked. On his first stop, Obama was to highlight a officials have said security at recruitment centers “The way I see it, when I drive the strip out- federal rule he’s finalizing on predatory lending should be reviewed. side a military installation and count 20 fast- and the military to make the case to the VFW At “The Daily Show,” where Stewart’s tenure cash lenders in less than 4 miles, that’s not a that he’s working to make things better for ends Aug 6, Obama will likely face questions convenience, that’s a problem,” said Holly America’s military families. Obama started off about the nuclear deal he and world powers Petraeus, the assistant director of the Consumer the week Monday signing a bill to allow all veter- struck with Iran, to the dismay of Israel’s govern- Financial Protection Bureau. Obama’s visit ans to receive official IDs from Veterans Affairs ment, Republicans in Congress and even many comes five years to the day after he signed the even if they don’t meet certain criteria for VA Democrats. The White House is mounting a mas- Dodd-Frank Act, the financial regulation over- services. sive outreach campaign to try to win over skep- haul that created the CFPB. Republicans have Obama also planned to speak about serious tics and avert a congressional attempt to scuttle continued to work to repeal major portions of persisting problems at the Department of the deal, dispatching top officials daily to televi- the law, but Jeff Zients, the director of Obama’s Veterans Affairs, the White House said. The sion shows and Capitol Hill. National Economic Council, said Obama intends agency has been under intense scrutiny for The predatory lending rule, which the Obama to veto any bills that undermine that law. After more than a year over waitlists and other short- administration publicly proposed last year, taping “The Daily Show,” Obama planned to comings in the VA health system. Last week, the expands the categories of payday and short- raise money for Senate Democrats at a private VA said it can’t count how many veterans died term loans subject to added protections under home in New York City before returning to while waiting to sign up for health care, and may the Military Lending Act. The White House said Washington. —AP Chattanooga stirs US Muslims’ concern about radicalization HEMPSTEAD: Brandi Holmes, of Houston, carries a sign as she protests in front of the Waller County Sheriff’s Office and county jail on Monday. — AP SACRAMENTO: Addressing his congregation on elsewhere, even though that can invite contro- political engagement, such as lobbying, drafting the Eid Al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of versy. “Simple condemnations are not going to legislation and what it’s like to serve as an elect- Ramadan, Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez get to the hearts and minds of these people,” ed official. Disavowed by GOP, Trump implored worshipers to combat Muslim extrem- Qadhi said. It is important to acknowledge that “It’s giving people an outlet,” Elkarra said, “giv- ism in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that young people are attracted to groups like ISIS ing them a voice and the tools to make a differ- still has crowds cheering killed five servicemen in Tennessee. The suspect, because they are seen as standing up for ence.” Sacramento Muslims have also set up a a young Muslim who grew up in the oppressed Muslims, he said. The cleric recog- hotline for people to call if they become anxious CONCORD: The Republican establishment Gargiulo, one of Trump’s county chairmen in Chattanooga area, also died in the gunfight on nizes that his listeners may feel angry about or stressed, said Irfan Haq, president of the may hope this is the beginning of the end New Hampshire. “The more Mr. Trump is Thursday, the last day of Islam’s holy month of Israeli-Palestinian relations or other flashpoint Council of Sacramento Islamic Organizations. A for Donald Trump’s circus-like run for the being beaten on by people, obviously the fasting. It was the latest reminder to American issues. He said he uses history and theology to key problem, several imams said, is that people presidency. But as the fallout intensifies better his polling numbers are.” While Muslims of the need to find ways to keep combat extremism. It’s a stance that has earned who become radicalized tend to stop coming to after the billionaire businessman mocked McCain may seem to some like an unusual teenagers and young adults from being drawn to Qadhi death threats from ISIS as well as some their mosques, preferring instead the company Sen. John McCain’s war hero status, Trump’s target, the Arizona senator is deeply unpop- ideologies promoted by such groups as Islamic far-right Americans, with both sides saying he is of militant recruiters and radical clerics. In supporters are more excited than ever ular among many conservatives. Trump State, the militants also known as ISIS who con- too sympathetic to the other. Arizona, for example, leaders at the Islamic about his chances. supporters say McCain started the spat by trol part of Syria. “When they talk about Syria, Community Center of Phoenix knew Elton “I love to see them jump all over him calling several thousand Trump supporters when they talk about Tennessee ... what will they Practical politics Simpson, one of two men killed by police while ‘cause they’re just giving him a clear road. I who attended a recent anti-illegal immigra- say about the American Muslim community?” In Sacramento, Muslim leaders educate attempting an attack at an anti-Islam event near love it!” said Trump supporter Frank tion rally in Phoenix “crazies.” Trump late Azeez asked the 2,000 congregants at the rented young people about broader social issues, Dallas in May. Simpson had argued with the Candelieri, 89, from Merrimack, NH, of the Monday softened his tone, albeit slightly, in hall in Sacramento, California, on Friday. including poverty, access to healthcare and mosque’s imam over teachings he perceived as backlash his candidate faced in recent days. an interview with Fox News: “Certainly if He went on to rail against extremists, whom racism, said Basim Elkarra, executive director of too liberal. Then he disappeared. “It doesn’t Candelieri, a World War II vet who said he there was a misunderstanding, I would he said usurp the spirit of Allah for their own the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on match with the ideology and they stop coming,” won a Purple Heart fighting in the Battle of totally take that back,” he said before calling purposes. The FBI is investigating the American-Islamic Relations. Through a leader- said Usama Shami, chairman of the Islamic the Bulge, said he wasn’t offended by on McCain to apologize to the Arizona vot- Chattanooga shooting as an act of terrorism, ship program run in cooperation with the state Community Center of Phoenix. “And then you Trump’s comments. ers he insulted. though law enforcement officials said it was pre- legislature, high school students learn about don’t know what they are doing.” —Reuters On Saturday, the reality television star Republican state Rep Steve Stepanek, mature to speculate on the gunman’s motive. dismissed McCain’s reputation as a war hero one of the first New Hampshire Republicans Hours before the attack, the suspect, because he was captured in Vietnam, saying to endorse Trump, said he continues to be a Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, had texted his he liked “people who weren’t captured.” strong supporter and echoed Trump’s asser- close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nomi- tion that McCain has not done enough to included the line: “Whosoever shows enmity to a nee, spent more than five years as a prison- help veterans or fix the Department of friend of Mine, then I have declared war against er of war, enduring torture and refusing Veterans Affairs. “He’s a very influential per- him.” release ahead of fellow captives. The remark son in the Senate and this should have sparked an avalanche of criticism that fol- been a top priority of his,” Stepanek said. Vulnerable young minds lowed Trump throughout the weekend and Mainstream Muslim leaders around the world into Monday as veterans groups and many ‘Tough for America’ are concerned about the radicalization of young Republican officials defended McCain. In Iowa, Chris McAninch, 56 of Grimes, people, vulnerable to fiery rhetoric that fre- “Anybody who suggests that John and said the McCain comments have not quently distorts the religion’s true teaching. In his fellow POWs are somehow lacking and changed his view of Trump as one of his top Britain, a well-known cleric developed a 900- can’t be called ‘American hero,’ you choices. “I think he was fully in the right,” page anti-extremism religious curriculum to be shouldn’t be our commander-in-chief,” McAninch said. “I want somebody who is taught in Muslim schools. About 700 Britons are South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a straight shooting and tough for America.” estimated to have traveled to Syria and Iraq, Republican presidential contender himself, Much of Trump’s appeal is based on his many to join ISIS. said in New York Monday. The response brand as a political outsider and say-any- In the United States, imams and other leaders from different Republican corners high- thing style, and backers acknowledge that regularly visit high schools and colleges, but lights discord within the GOP as the party what drives his appeal is sometimes going finding the right message and approach has grapples with a massive primary field. to get him into trouble. proved to be a delicate tightrope walk between The Des Moines Register, the largest religion and politics. In Chicago, anti-extremist Brash campaign newspaper in early-voting Iowa, published activist Ahmed Rehab lectures at schools and Republican leaders and other 2016 can- an editorial Monday night calling on Trump mosques, rebutting radical ideas point by point didates have been frustrated by Trump’s to drop out of the race. “Trump has proven with Islamic theology. He said militant groups at brash campaign, which has often overshad- himself not only unfit to hold office, but best misread the Koran and at worst distort it owed their own in recent weeks. But many unfit to stand on the same stage as his when they say that Islam condones their violent Trump backers in early-voting states argue Republican opponents,” the Register said. In behavior. “When we’re able to root our argu- the exchange is being overblown by the South Carolina, Teresa Brown of Murrells ments that are counter-extremist in the authen- media and his opponents, who fear his sud- Inlet said Trump “could have worded it bet- tic message of Islam, I think it’s more effective,” den rise in early polls. Even many non- ter” when addressing McCain’s criticism. But Rehab said. Trump supporters doubted the latest con- the 24-year-old graphic designer described Yasir Qadhi, a professor at Rhodes College in troversy would hurt his appeal among a Trump as an inspirational figure who draws Memphis, Tennessee, and the Al Maghrib slice of the electorate that is deeply frustrat- conservatives and disaffected voters eager Institute educational organization, also empha- ed with the Washington establishment and for a candidate “who tells it like it is,” rather sizes religious teachings to show that Islam con- finds his unvarnished persona refreshing. than conventional politicians “who are demns terrorism. But he goes step further, CHATTANOOGA: Sophia Ensley and Barbie Branum embrace in front of a makeshift memorial “I think it’s going to improve his viability always too worried about offending peo- engaging his students in discussions of political at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center for the victims of to be honest with you,” argued Lou ple.”—AP issues facing Muslims in the United States and the July 16 shootings. —AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 Gay rights ‘non issue’, says Kenya president ahead of Obama visit

NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was outlawed under British colonial legisla- yesterday dismissed gay rights as a “non- tion. In conservative Christian and Muslim issue” ahead of US President Barack countries in Africa, homophobia is a vote- Obama’s visit later this week. Kenyatta also winner. said Deputy President William Ruto, who is One Kenyan man, Kidala Vincent, had still on trial at the International Criminal promised to lead a march of “5,000 totally Court in The Hague accused of crimes naked men and women” to protest Obama’s against humanity, would also meet the US support for gay rights, so that he can “see leader. and understand the difference between a “That is a non-issue to the people of this man and woman”. Gay rights activists country, and it is definitely not on our agen- warned of rising intolerance in Kenya, da at all,” Kenyatta said in response to a including attacks on homosexuals and question about gay rights. “We as a country, alleged cases of lesbians being raped to as a continent, are faced with much more “cure” them. serious issues which we would want to Kenyatta said economic development engage the US and all our partners with.” and security were his priorities, with Obama Obama’s planned Kenya visit was itself long to address a Global Entrepreneurship delayed by Kenyatta’s indictment by the Summit in Nairobi this weekend. “Poverty, ICC. Those charges, linked to post-election improved health for our people, better edu- ethnic violence in 2007-08, were suspended cation, better roads, better security, these last year-in part, prosecutors say, because are our key focuses,” Kenyatta said, calling the Kenyan government thwarted the on citizens to give Obama a “hearty wel- investigation by intimidating or paying off come” when he arrives. “The fight against witnesses. terror will be central, we have been working Kenyatta said Obama would meet all in very close cooperation with American members of the government. “Without a agencies,” he added. doubt, he is coming to meet the govern- Kenya has been hit by a string of attacks ment that is in place, that includes all of us,” by Somali-led Shebab insurgents. Kenyan BUJUMBURA: A woman votes in Bujumbura on the day of Presidential elections in Burundi. — AFP Kenyatta told reporters, standing alongside troops crossed into Somalia in 2011 to fight Ruto. “We shall all be meeting.” Ruto has the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, and later spoken out against homosexuality, telling joined the African Union force, AMISOM, Violence as Burundi votes with worshippers in church early this month it which is supporting Somalia’s international- was “against the plan” of God. “We have ly-backed government. heard that in the US they have allowed gay The Shebab have since stepped up their president seeking re-election relations and other dirty things,” Ruto said, operations in Kenya, dealing a blow to plans according to the Daily Nation newspaper. for the troops to serve as a buffer and pro- tect the long, porous border. Obama’s visit Voting amid gunfire and grenade blasts ‘Fight against terror’ will be his fourth to Africa since becoming Homophobia is on the rise across much US president, but his first to Kenya, his BUJUMBURA: Burundians voted yesterday amid having a chance against the incumbent. In one many travelling in the dark on foot and without of Africa and homosexuality remains illegal father’s birthplace, since taking office in gunfire and grenade blasts, with President Pierre polling station, the Saint-Etienne school in the cen- belongings.” in many countries, including Kenya where it 2009. He will travel on to Ethiopia. — AFP Nkurunziza widely expected to win a third term tre of the capital, voters were seen scrubbing off despite international condemnation and thousands indelible ink from their fingers to avoid reprisals ‘Sliding into an abyss’ of people fleeing feared violence. At least two peo- from opposition supporters boycotting the ballot. “I In mid-May, rebel generals attempted to over- ple-a policeman and a civilian-were killed in a string do not want to return home with ink on the finger,” throw Nkurunziza in a coup. After that failed they of explosions and gunfire overnight, police and wit- said one voter. Nkurunziza himself turned up on a launched a rebellion in the north of the country. nesses said. bicycle to vote in his home village of Buye-where Last-ditch crisis talks mediated by Uganda broke Blasts and shootings were also heard as polls turnout was high with long lines of voters. down on Sunday. “They have refused to save opened shortly after dawn in the capital Bujumbura, Burundi from sliding into an abyss,” said opposition the epicenter of three months of anti-government ‘Not credible’ leader Jean Minani, who like almost all others, has protests. Willy Nyamitwe, Nkurunziza’s chief commu- “Despite a facade of pluralism, this is an election boycotted yesterday’s poll. Key opposition leader nications advisor, condemned the attacks as “terror- with only one candidate, where Burundians already Agathon Rwasa has not formally withdrawn, but ist acts” aimed at “intimidating voters”. Opposition know the outcome,” said Thierry Vircoulon from the said the election cannot be free or fair and did not and civil society groups have denounced International Crisis Group, a think-tank that has campaign. Poor and landlocked, Burundi is situated Nkurunziza’s candidacy as unconstitutional and a warned the situation has all the ingredients to kick- in the heart of central Africa’s troubled Great Lakes violation of a peace deal that ended a dozen years of start renewed civil war. Former colonial ruler and key region. Analysts say renewed conflict in the country civil war and ethnic massacres in 2006. donor Belgium said it “deeply regrets” the holding of could reignite ethnic Hutu-Tutsi violence and bring Around 3.8 million Burundians are eligible to the polls and repeated warnings it would “review its another humanitarian disaster on the region. vote between 6 am (0400 GMT) and 4 pm (1300 cooperation” with Bujumbura. The conflict also risks drawing in neighboring GMT). As voting got under way, centers visited by “These elections do not meet the minimal states-much like in the war-torn east of Democratic AFP reporters in Bujumbura appeared quiet with requirements of inclusiveness and transparency,” Republic of Congo. The last civil war in Burundi left few queues. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said in a statement. at least 300,000 dead. Nkurunziza’s CNDD-FDD party NAIROBI: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, (right) accompanied by Deputy urged calm, calling on all sides to “refrain from any “They are not credible and are certainly not likely to scored a widely-expected landslide win in parlia- President William Ruto speaks to the media about the upcoming visit of President acts of violence that could compromise the stability solve the deep crisis in Burundi.” mentary polls on May 29 that were boycotted by the Barack Obama, amongst other issues, at State House. — AP of Burundi and the region”. Critics fear a win by the Anti-Nkurunziza protests have been violently opposition. UN electoral observers-some of the few incumbent will be a hollow victory, leaving him rul- repressed, leaving at least 100 people dead since international monitors in yesterday’s poll-said the Photo of black officer helping ing over a deeply divided nation. late April. Independent media has been shut down last round of voting took place in a “climate of wide- With the election denounced by the opposition and many opponents have fled-joining an exodus of spread fear and intimidation”. The results of parlia- man at KKK rally becomes viral as a sham, the 51-year-old president-a former rebel, over 150,000 ordinary Burundians who fear their mentary polls took a week to be announced. The born-again Christian and football fanatic-is facing no country may again be engulfed by widespread vio- presidential election is likely to be seen in the same serious competition. Although eight candidates are lence. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Monday light, diplomats said, meaning Nkurunziza-whose COLUMBIA: The black director of South the Confederate battle flag from on the ballot paper, most have already withdrawn around 1,000 people were fleeing each day into nation is heavily aid-dependent-will probably also Carolina’s public safety agency said Monday Statehouse grounds a week earlier. State from the race and those remaining are not seen as Tanzania, crossing the border “through the forest... face international isolation. — AFP he was surprised a photo showing him officials gave the group permission to rally helping a white man wearing a racist T-shirt on the opposite side of the building from went viral. But now that it has, he is hoping where the flag flew on a 30-foot (nine- it will be a catalyst for people to work meter) pole for the past 15 years. The flag Ukrainian film director toward overcoming hatred and violence. was flown by troops supporting the seces- Leroy Smith said in a statement that the sionist, pro-slavery southern states during photo, taken at a Ku Klux Klan rally, cap- the 1861-65 American Civil War. goes on trial in Russia tured “who we are in South Carolina” and A Florida group affiliated with the New represents what law enforcement is all Black Panther Party was given permission about: helping people “regardless of the to hold a rally on the side where a monu- ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia: A Ukrainian film direc- person’s skin color, nationality or beliefs.” “I ment to Confederate soldiers still stands. tor went on trial on terror charges in southern consider myself like every other officer who The rallies overlapped, and tensions esca- Russia yesterday, after Moscow held him for more was out there braving the heat on Saturday lated. The Department of Public Safety esti- than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups to preserve and protect,” he said. mated the crowd, including both groups and prominent film directors across the globe. The photo, taken by Gov Nikki Haley’s and spectators, at roughly 2,000 people at Oleg Sentsov flicked a victory sign at several dozen spokesman, shows Smith leading the its peak. Five people were arrested for supporters and reporters as he filed into the defen- unidentified man, who is suffering from the assault and battery, disorderly conduct or dant cage in a military courtroom in the city of heat, to shade at the top of the Statehouse breach of peace. Rostov-on-Don. steps, to be treated by local emergency Officers from six other state and local The pro-Kiev film maker-along with a second workers. The man has a swastika on his T- law enforcement agencies, in addition to defendant Alexander Kolchenko-is accused of plot- shirt. The photo shows just the hand of the Department of Public Safety, were ting and carrying out “terrorist attacks” on the black Columbia Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins, present for the dueling rallies. Haley Crimea peninsula after the region was seized from who also was assisting the man. called for the flag’s removal, and the Ukraine by Russia last March. “I don’t consider this “I hope this photo will be a catalyst for Legislature voted to send it to a museum court a court at all, so you can consider whatever people to work to overcome some of the after nine parishioners of a historic black you want,” Sentsov said in court. Both men deny hatred and violence we have seen in our church in Charleston were slain, including the charges against them in a case that has country in recent weeks,” Smith said. The its pastor, Sen Clementa Pinckney. A 21- sparked international condemnation from rights North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights year-old old white man seen in photos groups and concern from award-winning interna- of the KKK, a white supremacist group, with the Confederate flag is charged with tional directors. Sentsov, 39 — a resident of Crimea scheduled a rally to protest the removal of the slayings. — AP who faces up to 20 years if found guilty-was arrest- ed in the region’s main city Simferopol in May by Russia’s FSB security service for allegedly organiz- ing a group of saboteurs that plotted attacks and targeted pro-Moscow organizations. ROSTOV-ON-DON: Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov stands inside a defendants’ cage dur- ing a hearing at a military court in the city. — AFP Fair hearing almost hopeless “The court will question a number of witnesses and victims,” court spokeswoman Alyona Katkalo Catalan separatists ready told journalists. A lawyer for the director said he had little hope that his client would get a fair hear- ing and that the best outcome would be for for unilateral independence Sentsov to be sent back to Ukraine in a prisoner swap. “I think the result will be negative. No one BARCELONA: Catalan separatists said Monday Museo de Historia de Catalunya. will acquit anyone, no one will change any they were ready to declare unilateral independ- The aim would be for a negotiating process to charges,” lawyer Dmitry Dinze told AFP. “We hope ence if Madrid attempted to block a separation be concluded in 18 months, with institutions that when all the procedures are done, Sentsov will process they hope to launch if successful in such as a taxation office set up. The process be exchanged for some other people in Ukraine September’s regional elections. Spain’s conserva- would also pave the way for a binding independ- who are important to Russia.” tive national government fiercely opposes inde- ence referendum in 2016. Spain’s Justice Two of Sentsov’s alleged co-conspirators have pendence for the rich northeastern region of Minister Rafael Catala told conservative daily already been found guilty of participating in the Catalonia, which wants to follow Scotland’s ABC he would not rule out the suspension of group and sentenced to seven years in prison. example by voting on its political future. regional autonomy if a separation process were Ukraine and Russia have been locked in a bitter An alliance of pro-separatist parties want the to get underway, adding that Spain’s constitu- feud since Moscow’s seizure of Crimea, with Kiev regional vote to serve as a de facto referendum tion made provision for such a move. and the West accusing the Kremlin of fuelling a by running on a joint ticket, campaigning on “There will be no independence for subsequent separatist conflict in the east of the the single issue of independence. “If in this Catalonia,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said country. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko process, the Spanish state, through its political Thursday. Catalonia, which is home to about 7.5 called for Sentsov’s immediate release in a phone or legal decisions, blocks the autonomous gov- million people, has seen a rise in separatist senti- call last week with German Chancellor Angela ernment of Catalonia or the Catalan parliament, ment at a time when its debts have forced local Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and we will move forward with a declaration of spending cuts and prompted renewed debate Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Sentsov presented independence,” said Raul Romeva, a former MEP over how it is funded within Spain’s regional his first feature film, “Gamer”, about a computer- and key figure in the coalition, which brings structure. Proud of their distinct language and game obsessed teenager, at the Rotterdam Film together the centre-right CDC party and left- culture, many Catalans say they get a raw deal Festival in 2012. Top film directors including Spain’s wing ERC. “(We are) going for broke. We are bet- from the way their taxes are redistributed to the ting everything on this, no turning back,” he rest of Spain. The region accounts for a fifth of SOUTH CAROLINA: In this July 18, 2015 photo provided by Rob Godfrey, police offi- Pedro Almodovar and Britain’s Ken Loach have pre- viously expressed concern for Sentsov in an open said at the presentation of the “Junts pel si” Spain’s output and has an economy roughly the cer Leroy Smith, (left) helps a man wearing National Socialist Movement attire up the (Together for yes) list of candidates at the size of Portugal’s. —AFP stairs during a rally in Columbia. — AP letter to Putin. —AFP

INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 Top China Communist’s fall a political move, say analysts

BEIJING: The Chinese Communist include former security chief Zhou ing Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao,” he said. professor of Chinese politics at the “close relatives indulged in their desires Party’s expulsion of a former top aide to Yongkang, who was jailed for life earlier Hong Kong and Taiwan-based media University of Sydney, pointing out that and became involved in criminal behav- ex-president Hu Jintao for corruption is a this year, and Xu Caihou, once China’s sec- have speculated that Ling-along with the Ferrari crash in Beijing came at a sen- ior and they paid a high price”. In June political move reinforcing Xi Jinping’s ond most senior military officer, who died Zhou, Xu, and former party rising star Bo sitive time during the power transition 2014 the party announced an investiga- power, analysts said yesterday. Following of cancer earlier this year while under Xilai, who was jailed in 2013 after a mur- between Hu and Xi. tion into his brother Ling Zhengce for an internal Party investigation Ling investigation. Joseph Cheng, professor of der and graft investigation-had formed a “Ling was simply unable to rein in “serious discipline violations”. Ling was a Jihua, once one of Hu’s most senior political science at City University of political faction opposed to Xi. The people around him cashing in on his vice-president of the Chinese People’s advisers, was expelled and handed over Hong Kong, said Ling’s targeting suggest- alleged cabal has been dubbed the “New political links - the most obvious being Political Consultative Conference, a to prosecutors who formally arrested ed President Xi was confident of taking Gang of Four”, a reference to the infa- his son who was evidently out of con- Communist-controlled debating cham- him, authorities said Monday. on high-profile cadres associated with his mous quartet including Mao Zedong’s trol,” he said. “Ling harmed the Party, in ber, in the family’s home province of The development came three years predecessors. widow who were put on trial in 1980. this story, just like Zhou did, and the Shanxi. after his son was killed in a Ferrari crash “The Communist Party of China (CPC) Party has taken its revenge.” He Xinhua on Monday also implicated that also injured two female passengers, Behind the scenes has moved a major step forward in its described the expulsion as “the final dis- Ling’s wife, while reports last year said one of them naked, a scandal that trig- Retired leaders in China are seen as anti-graft campaign,” state news agency patching of someone who flew too close that his brother-in-law had been held. gered his downfall. Ling, 58, will almost continuing to wield influence behind the Xinhua declared in a triumphant com- to the sun after rising from a very mod- The People’s Daily, the official certainly face trial, with a guilty sentence scenes, including regarding their allies, mentary. “Like water and fire, the CPC est background”. “It just goes to prove Communist Party mouthpiece said Ling’s and jail term effectively guaranteed to and Zhou has links to former Chinese doesn’t tolerate corruption.” The com- that there is no more dangerous or case should serve as a lesson to other follow. Since coming to power Xi has president Jiang Zemin. “By prosecuting mentary indicated that Ling had treacherous place in the world to try to officials. “Strict political discipline and overseen a high-profile crackdown on figures formerly associated with first engaged in internal plotting, saying that exist in than the upper reaches of rules will resolutely overcome organisa- graft that has deposed several senior Jiang Zemin, and then Hu Jintao, certainly his case “served as a warning that it’s Chinese politics,” he told AFP. State-run tional and discipline problems, (so) we officials, but in the absence of systemic means that Xi Jinping wants to demon- absolutely forbidden to organize fac- media made no mention of Ling’s links can protect the party’s structure,” it said. reforms critics say the drive is open to strate his determination to get rid of all tions within the Party”. to Hu, and only passing reference to alle- Party disciplinary officials opened an being used for political faction-fighting. resistance to his policy programme irre- gations against his family. investigation into Ling for “suspected The campaign also risks re-enforcing spective of their affiliations and associa- ‘Too close to the sun’ In an editorial the Global Times, serious disciplinary violations”-normally perceptions of widespread corruption in tions,” Cheng told AFP. “It certainly gener- Ling had become an embarrassment which is affiliated with the Communist a euphemism for corruption-in the ruling organization. Previous scalps ates pressure on previous leaders includ- to the ruling party, said Kerry Brown, mouthpiece People’s Daily, said Ling’s December. — AFP

Mumbai bomb plotter facing death row loses final appeal

NEW DELHI: India’s top court yesterday from the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks was rejected a final appeal by Yakub Memon, a hanged in 2012. “Crimes such as these key plotter of bomb attacks that killed deserve maximum punishment,” hundreds in Mumbai in 1993, paving the Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for way for his execution. Media reports said Human Rights Watch, told AFP. “But we Yakub Memon would hang on July 30 — believe that the maximum punishment more than two decades after the deadliest should not be the death penalty because it attacks ever to hit India-after the Supreme is inherently inhumane,” she said. Court rejected his final plea. The Bombay Stock Exchange, the offices Mastermind on the run of Air India and a luxury hotel were among Amnesty India said it was disappointed the targets of the March 1993 blasts, which by the Supreme Court’s decision in the killed 257 people in India’s commercial case. “The judgments regrettably puts capital. The attacks were believed to have India in opposition to the global trend been staged by Mumbai’s Muslim-domi- towards moving away from the death nated underworld in retaliation for anti- penalty,” the rights group said. “There Muslim violence that had killed more than exists no reliable evidence that the threat 1,000 people. Memon was the only one of of execution is more of a deterrent to 11 people convicted for the 1993 attacks crime than a prison sentence,” it said on to have his death sentence upheld on Twitter. appeal. The sentences on the others were Memon, an accountant by profession, commuted to life imprisonment. denied any involvement in the blasts dur- Executions are only carried out for “the ing a staggered trial and appeal process. rarest of rare” cases in India. But President He and two of his brothers, Essa and Yusuf Pranab Mukherjee has rejected a number Memon, were convicted in 2006 under of mercy pleas in recent years, ending an Indian anti-terrorism laws of conspiracy unofficial eight-year moratorium. A and abetting the attacks. Another brother Kashmiri separatist convicted of involve- Tiger Memon was alleged to have master- ment in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian minded the attacks along with Mumbai parliament was executed in New Delhi in gang boss Dawood Ibrahim. Both have 2013, while the lone surviving gunman been on the run since 1993.—AFP

SOUTH AFRICA: Australian surfer Mick Fanning surfs on July 19, 2015 before being attacked by a shark during the J-Bay Open final in Jeffreys Modi asks for support Bay. —AFP as parliament reopens Surfer vows return to waves NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister members protesting at Foreign Minister Narendra Modi appealed yesterday for Sushma Swaraj’s role in helping corruption- opposition support in pushing through key hit former cricket boss Lalit Modi to obtain after ‘miracle’ shark escape reforms, as parliament began a new session a passport. Congress has also urged Prime set to be dominated by corruption allega- Minister Modi to sack Shivraj Singh tions against members of his party. Chouhan, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Dramatic scenes beamed live around the world Modi’s right-wing government, which state, where thousands of people are swept to power last year on a pledge to alleged to have bribed officials and politi- SYDNEY: Australian surf champion Mick was now dealing with “an emotional mental sort going on, I couldn’t get there quick enough,” he revive the economy, aims to push through cians in return for jobs or places in training Fanning vowed yesterday to return to the waves of trauma” that would probably take weeks, if said in Sydney, adding that Fanning confronting a series of reforms during the 21-day ses- institutes. after a “miracle” escape from a shark attack, as not months, to get over. But he vowed to get the shark spurred him on. “It could be the thing sion including introducing a new national The lower house shut down for the day he paid tribute to courageous mate Julian back on his board again. that gave me the courage to just head for him. sales tax. “We all have to work together to soon after reopening to allow lawmakers to Wilson for rushing to help. The 34-year-old “Surfing has given myself and my family so You know, to see that he just turned on some- take important decisions for the develop- mark the recent death of a member. The three-time world champion fought off a large much. It’s gotten me through the hardest times thing that was so much bigger than him.” ment of the nation,” Modi told reporters BJP does not have a majority in the upper shark during the final heat of a world tour event in my life,” he said. “So to turn my back on surf- And while both men were clearly shaken, outside parliament in New Delhi. “I am house, and analysts say opposition parties at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa on Sunday, with ing, it just wouldn’t feel right.” He is even pre- they found time for some humor during a hopeful that the parliament will live up to will try to prevent progress in the current the dramatic scenes beamed live around the pared to get back in the waves at Jeffreys Bay. packed press conference with Fanning replying: the country’s expectations to act as a medi- session, which comes ahead of elections in world. “For sure,” he said, when asked if he would com- “Thanks for not eating me” when asked if he had um for constructive debate.” the eastern state of Bihar later this year. He survived unscathed, with rival and close pete there again next year. Social media went a message for the shark. The World Surf League, Modi is keen to pass a long-pending “This will be a very stormy session since friend Wilson, also from Australia, furiously pad- into frenzy over the dramatic close call, with a which organized the J-Bay Open, commended national goods and services tax, which the objective is no more to conduct parlia- dling towards him to help despite the danger YouTube clip of the attack being viewed almost the rescue teams who quickly came to Fanning’s aims to replace a myriad of overlapping mentary business, but to put the govern- posed by the shark, which experts suggested 13.5 million views. Even Hollywood star Russell aid and said the situation could have been state duties that often deter investment, as ment in the dock,” said political analyst KG was either a bull or a great white. “I guess some- Crowe commented on Twitter. “My heart was much worse. well as a controversial bill that makes it eas- Suresh. Parliament’s last session was the one was looking out for me. To walk away from racing just watching,” Crowe posted. “Certainly it will give us an opportunity to sit ier for businesses to buy land. But the most productive in recent years, with 23 a shark attack with not a scratch on you, it’s a Fanning used social media to pay tribute to down and reevaluate more the safety side of opposition Congress party has indicated it bills passed, including long-awaited legisla- miracle really,” Fanning said after arriving back Wilson, who paddled towards him in actions what we do,” Commissioner Kieren Perrow told will use the current monsoon session to tion to open the insurance market to for- in Sydney with Wilson, where they were met by that have earned an Australian state govern- Australian Associated Press. Perrow said authori- demand the resignation of a number of eign companies. Voters turned against the a large media scrum. “You just count your lucky ment nomination for a bravery award. “This man ties would look to employ new and improving scandal-hit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Congress Party in general elections last stars and if there is someone up there looking came to my aid like a warrior!!,” Fanning said of technologies to deter sharks, while pointing out leaders. year after it was embroiled in a string of after us-thanks.” Wilson in an Instagram post before arriving that the South African stop was not the only The opening of the upper house was corruption scandals during its decade in back in Australia. location with a reputation for sharks. “Being immediately disrupted by opposition power. — AFP Terrifying ordeal able to have a solution that not just works here Speculation has been rife that Fanning may ‘Warrior’ mate (in South Africa) but everywhere would be pret- call it quits after indicating, in the moments Despite the attention, Wilson played down ty incredible,” he said. “We’ll spend some time after his terrifying ordeal, that he might not his heroics, calling Fanning “a great role model”. doing that and then review what it means for compete again. Fanning admitted yesterday he “As soon as I realized the danger and what was the future.” —AP Japan slams China’s ‘coercive’ maritime demands TOKYO: Japan yesterday slammed Beijing’s bid it could spiral into a limited armed conflict. The document repeated Tokyo’s concerns over to reclaim land in the South China Sea as a “coer- Separately, Japan has complained that China China’s growing assertiveness and widening naval cive attempt” to force sweeping maritime claims, may have started offshore drilling for gas in the reach in the Pacific and over what it calls the in a defense paper that comes as Tokyo is disputed waters. “opaqueness” of Beijing’s sky-rocketing military expanding the role of its own military. Tokyo said “Japan has repeatedly lodged protests against budget. But it also noted that China has worked China was acting “unilaterally and without com- China’s unilateral development and demanded to set up an emergency hotline with Tokyo to pre- promise”, as it also highlighted concern about the termination of such works,” the report said. vent unintended conflicts at sea.—AFP North Korea’s nuclear program and Russian moves in violence-wracked Ukraine. The white paper accused Beijing of “raising concerns among the international community” as it ramped up criticism from last year’s report, an annual summary of Japan’s official view on defense matters. “China, particularly over maritime issues, con- tinues to act in an assertive manner, including coercive attempts at changing the status quo, and is poised to fulfill its unilateral demands without compromise,” said the report entitled “Defense of Japan 2015”. China is locked in dis- putes with several countries over its claims to almost the entire South China Sea and is current- ly pursuing a rapid program of artificial island construction in the region. It is also embroiled in a separate row with Japan over the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islands- which it calls the Diaoyus-in the East China Sea, NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi talks with Parliamentary Affairs as Chinese ships and aircraft regularly test Minister, Venkaiah Naidu (left) as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarians Rajiv Japanese forces in the area. While the Sino- GOTEMBA: This file picture taken on August 19, 2014 shows Japan Ground Self Defense Forces’ Pratap Rudy (second left), Jitendra Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (second right) Japanese spat has cooled considerably over the type 92 anti-landmine missile firing while 74 tanks stand by during an exercise at the Higashi- look on as he arrives for the monsoon session at Parliament. — AFP last 12 months or so, observers had warned that Fuji training ground. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Pakistani youngsters react while taking a ride at a park in Rawalpindi yesterday. — AP Becoming a dad? Expect weight gain Sacre bleu! Scrabble champ can’t speak...

Continued from Page 1 There was a difference. After becoming a first-time dad, Continued from Page 1 The federation told AFP that unlike some other players, a typical 6-foot-tall man who lives with his child will Richards has a great eye for planning his moves and They may sleep less, exercise less, and experience gain an average of about 2 kg, the study suggested. Federation spokesman Antoine Rousseau said Richards doesn’t need to shuffle around letters when forming a more stress - all of which can lead to weight gain, he A same-sized man who does not live with his child had just nine weeks to prepare for the competition. He did word. The New Zealander, a resident of Malaysia, will par- said. It doesn’t help that the food selection at home can expect to gain nearly 1.6 kg. But a 6-foot man who so by memorizing all of the possible words in the official ticipate in more Scrabble competitions in Belgium this may gradually change to include more things like “mak- does not have children typically loses about 700 gm Scrabble dictionary, from two to 10 letters. In a three-hour week, but with the added challenge of playing a format ing chocolate chip cookies with the kids”, said Garfield. over the same time period, researchers found. The study final match, Richards won against Gabonese player where all players start with the same letters. After his win For their work, the researchers looked at results from found men who lived with their children were a little Schelick Ilagou Rekawe with a word played on two ‘triple- on Monday, Richards received a warm round of applause... another study, which tracked the health of adolescents heavier to begin with, on average, and ended up heavier word score’ boxes - the most coveted in the game. but then needed a translator to thank the audience. — AFP over two decades. The researchers focused on teen boys than the absent fathers and the men who didn’t have and young men, comparing weight changes in the kids. Nearly three-quarters of US men are overweight or 3,400 who became dads and the 6,800 who didn’t. obese, according to government statistics. — AP Eurozone’s first Islamic bank starts... Continued from Page 1 he told KUNA. Uzan explained that Kuveyt Turk did not car- Zour refinery budget upped as most bids... ry out speculative operations. Kuveyt Turk is active in the Marzouq, in a bid to lure clients, said the bank was not German market since 2004 but was only capable of practic- Continued from Page 1 Kuwaiti people was very clear - that all sections stood united investing in the manufacturing of arms, cigarettes, alcohol ing partial banking operations. It was allowed to carry out against terrorism and Dashti’s provocations will not undermine or sectors that do not comply with Islamic sharia. full banking services in Germany last year. Kuveyt Turk is co- The minister said that Kuwait’s production is not likely to be this unity. affected by the expected increase in Iranian production following While in Lebanon, Dashti visited the Mughniah house and Kemal Uzan, Kuveyt Turk general manager, thanked KFH owned by KFH, Kuwait’s Public Authority for Social Security, the nuclear deal because global demand is expected to pick up to posted pictures on his Twitter account of him kissing the head of for facilitating the opening of the branch in Frankfurt. the Islamic Development Bank and the Turkish Awqaf account for the current surplus of 1.2 million barrels per day and Mughniah’s father as a sign of respect for him. The images caused “Working in such a competitive market is a big challenge,” authority. — KUNA as the demand is also forecast to increase further by the end of an outrage in Kuwait, with condemnations coming from every next year. corner including the National Assembly speaker, a large number Saudis mull own nuke options after Iran Meanwhile, Shiite MP Abdulhameed Dashti continued to of MPs and politicians and activists. The latest condemnation come under fire yesterday several days after making a controver- came yesterday from several Shiite writers and academics who sial visit to the parents of Emad Mughniah, the assassinated com- said Dashti’s moves had a negative impact on national unity. Continued from Page 1 nuclear program. mander of Lebanese Hezbollah militia who allegedly hijacked a Dashti has explained that his visit was to pay tributes to At present, the United States is so closely entwined Kuwaiti passenger plane three decades ago. MP Majed Mousa Mughniah because of his fight against Israel and claimed that his struggle with Iran, or whether it is bluffing. They are with Saudi Arabia’s political and security infrastructure described Dashti’s action as provocative, especially it came after involvement in the hijacking of the plane is not established. He also split on whether international pressure via mean- that it would be hard to envisage Riyadh embarking on the Kuwaiti people showed strong unity following the Shiite also said that some of those who attacked him were in fact sup- ingful sanctions could be imposed on a country whose a nuclear weapons project without Washington finding mosque bombing. The lawmaker said that the message of the porters of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. economy depends almost entirely on trade, but whose out. Going behind Washington’s back to build a nuclear ability to maintain massive oil exports is critical for bomb would cause massive ruptures in a strategic secu- global energy markets. What senior Saudis have consis- rity relationship that will remain vital to Saudi Arabia tently said about the Iranian nuclear deal is that they despite its efforts to create alternative alliances with will demand exactly the same terms. That would allow other military powers. The pair’s relationship has weak- them a nuclear fuel cycle that could produce material ened in recent years, but while they disagree on what for a bomb, but would also impose a tough inspections role Washington should take in the Middle East, the US regime. remains Saudi Arabia’s chief security guarantor, so it retains considerable leverage over Riyadh. 16 Saudi Reactors The kingdom’s atomic power plans, like those of Iran, Saudi Bombast or a Saudi Bomb? are based on the economic principle that it is better to Saudi Arabia’s unique place in world energy - it is not use crude oil for revenue-generating exports to main- only the largest exporter but maintains a large cushion tain social benefits than fritter it away on soaring elec- of excess output capacity giving it unparalleled lever- tricity consumption. Its nuclear body, the King Abdullah age over oil prices at a cost that no other producer City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), rec- appears willing to match - makes sanctions on its crude ommended in 2012 that Saudi Arabia install 17 exports impossible. But while oil sales accounted for 33 gigawatts of nuclear power but it has not yet laid out percent of economic activity and 87 percent of revenue plans to do so. Riyadh has signed nuclear energy coop- in the kingdom last year, its non-oil sector is heavily eration agreements with several countries able to build reliant on imports, including food and consumer goods, reactors, but recent deals with France, Russia and South which are theoretically vulnerable to sanctions. Korea go beyond these by including feasibility studies Riyadh has for decades avoided using its ability to for atomic power plants and fuel cycle work. Daunting upset the world economy for political gain, but that technical obstacles would still hinder any Saudi attempt could change if it felt threatened enough. It may bet to build a bomb, something that would most likely be that fears of a repeat of the 1973 oil embargo would achieved via a uranium enrichment process for which stop any real international pressure over its nuclear technological transfer between countries is closely reg- plans. “I’m sure Saudi Arabia is ready to withstand pres- ulated. sure. It would have moral standing. If the Iranians and “It’s very technically challenging to obtain the fissile Israelis have it, we would have to have it to,” said material needed for a weapon and with the enhanced Khashoggi, adding that he believed Riyadh’s oil exports safeguard measures of the model additional protocol, would immunize it from pressure. Testing that theory, the risk of detection is great,” said Karl Dewey, the however, would represent a huge gamble for Riyadh. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear analyst at Whether the risks involved outweigh those they believe An Indian boy carries his sister and wades through a waterlogged street on his way to school as it rains in IHS Janes. The additional protocol is part of a stronger would be incurred by allowing Iran a nuclear advantage Mumbai. Heavy rainfall threw normal life out of gear in the city yesterday, leading to waterlogging in low- regime of inspections and safeguards that Iran has is something the kingdom’s ruling Al Saud are doubt- lying areas, disrupting local train services and causing traffic havoc. — AP adopted and would likely be a condition of any Saudi less considering. — Reuters MANSOORI

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Issues Turkey attack spillover of IS war on Kurds

By Maya Gebeily

deadly suicide bombing in southern Turkey appears to be part of the Islamic State group’s Awar against the Kurds, and shows the coun- try’s growing vulnerability to the conflict in neigh- bouring Syria, analysts say. The attack on Monday on a gathering of pro-Kurdish activists in Suruc along the Turkish-Syrian border, which killed at least 32 people, bore the hallmarks of the Sunni extremist organisation. “Thus far, even without an IS claim of responsibility, the group seems the most likely per- petrator,” said Charles Lister, an analyst at the Brookings Doha Centre. “The attack method, the Resistance to US-Cuba thaw proves tepid specific target and the political implications of the attack all point towards an IS motive, for now.” By David Adams But the hardline pushback never material- key Cuban-American Republicans, including time to see if it encourages Cuba to move faster Turkey was quick to blame IS for the bombing of ized. “It’s over and done in Miami. It died with a major Bush backers, have signaled their strong toward a free-market economy while showing the cultural centre - the first time it has directly on Magill, a prominent Cuban-American whimper,” said Pedro Freyre, a Cuban-born support for the new policy. greater respect for human rights. They note the accused the group of carrying out an act of terror on who works as spokesman for the Miami Miami lawyer with Akerman, a national law firm change has been well received by ordinary Turkish soil. The young victims were preparing for an zoo, was pleasantly surprised when he that represents several US and foreign clients Reality Cubans on the island, including some leading aid mission to the devastated Syrian town of R returned from a quiet trip to Havana earlier this seeking to do business in Cuba. A former hard- “Cuban-Americans everywhere, but espe- anti-Castro dissidents. “The old guard still Kobane, which became a symbol of resistance year. For the most part, his friends and acquain- liner himself, Freyre said US President Barack cially the diaspora in South Florida, have been wants heads on the block and Marines on the against the jihadists, who were driven out by Kurdish tances, many of them second- and third-gener- Obama’s new policy was now widely accepted awakening to the reality that Cuba’s isolation beach, but they don’t seem to have realized forces in January. Since then, the Kurdish People’s ation Cuban Americans, responded warmly by South Florida’s 1.5 million Cuban exiles. was and is not a sustainable strategy,” Mike that the world had changed,” said Eddy Arriola, Protection Units (YPG) have gradually seized territo- when they found out about his visit, said To be sure, Cuban-American political lead- Fernandez, a healthcare millionaire and Bush 43, the Cuban-American chairman of a Miami- ry from IS in northern Syria with support from US-led Magill, 55, who toured the island in April with ers such as Republican presidential hopeful supporter, wrote in an opinion column for the based community bank who served on air strikes. Their advances have prompted a coun- US zoo and aquarium directors. “I’ve been sur- Senator Marco Rubio - as well as another Miami Herald this month. “It’s time to accept Obama’s campaign finance committee in 2008 teroffensive, with IS attacking Kobane as well as the prised at the lack of negative responses and Miami-based candidate, Jeb Bush - have change. Let us not heed those relatively few and 2012. “The PACs are raising peanuts com- cities of Hasakeh and Qamishli in the past month overwhelmed by the amount of positive ones,” accused Obama of appeasing Cuba’s commu- voices who would go on continuing to trap our pared to the business interests that are lining alone. he said. nist rulers. But such talk appears to be swim- minds in hatred.” up,” he added, pointing to Cuban business Not too long ago, Magill’s trip would have ming against the tide. Opponents to restoring Hardliners who famously have raised sub- plans announced by Airbnb, JetBlue Airways ‘Uptick in Violence’ angered many in the city’s large exile commu- diplomatic ties have failed to mobilize large stantial sums to successfully lobby Congress to Corp and Miami-based cruise company Aaron Stein, a non-resident fellow at Washington- nity, who have long condemned visits as street protests. And while many disapprove of maintain a five decades-old economic embar- Carnival Corp. based think tank the Atlantic Council, described undermining a policy of isolating Cuba’s com- the policy, there is widespread resignation go against Cuba are being matched by new Meanwhile, more Cuban exiles are making Monday’s attack as a “spillover of the Kurdish-IS munist government. For decades Cuban- shaped by shifting demographics. groups lobbying for Obama’s policy. “It seems the trek back home, some out of nostalgia for fight” in Syria. Rather than targeting Turkey, Stein American leaders have used their powerful The diehard anti-Castro generation is age- that Obama enjoys helping enemies and fight- forgotten homes and dead relatives, others to said the Suruc bombing appeared to be “more of an political influence to keep US sanctions in place ing, giving way to younger, US-born Cuban ing friends,” said Remedios Diaz-Oliver, a ship- explore future economic opportunities, even attack on Kurdish sympathisers of Kobane”. He as long as Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Americans who take a more pragmatic ping company owner who left Cuba as a young scouting out future retirement homes. Magill, likened the blast to an attack on a rally organised by ruled the island nation. With that in mind, a approach. The same is true for recent exiles, student in 1961 and is a co-founder of the pro- the zoo spokesman, came back from his visit Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party in Diyarbakir, which wave of Cuban-American outrage might have many of whom have relatives in Cuba and wel- embargo US-Cuba Democracy PAC. “It’s all a convinced the policy change was smart. “I was killed four people in June. “We have seen an uptick been expected after the announcement of a come the likely economic benefits of closer US nonsense,” she added saying Obama gave Cuba uncertain before I left as there were certain in violence against Kurds in Turkey,” he told AFP. historic thaw in relations six months ago, culmi- ties. A poll last week found that 40 percent of too much for nothing in return. “All Obama is members of my family that were strongly Analysts noted that the attack also follows a nating on Monday on the restoration of diplo- Cuban-American would vote for a candidate doing is consolidating a dictatorship.” against any travel to Cuba so I wanted to see recent campaign in which Turkish security forces matic relations between Washington and favoring normalization of relations while only Supporters of the new policy argue it is a for myself,” he said. “I’ve never been prouder of have arrested dozens of IS militants and sympathis- Havana after a 54-year hiatus. 26 percent would be less inclined to. Several long-term strategy that deserves to be given my Cuban roots.” — Reuters ers in raids across the country. It follows years of criticism of Ankara for allegedly turning a blind eye to the growing power of IS, which has used crossings along Turkey’s long border with Syria as a route to bring in foreign fighters and weapons. Obama’s unlikely Iran deal MVP: Moniz “There have been a number of arrests of IS sym- pathisers, and in general it seems like there has been By Josh Lederman terpart of Salehi. It turned out the two had one who would fight fiercely for what he to Vienna less than 24 hours after he left. “He was a real but late crackdown on IS in Turkey,” said Max something in common: they’d overlapped at thought was in our interests.” very moved by it. He’s proud of his Portuguese Abrahms, a terrorism expert and professor at s negotiators were grasping for a land- MIT, where Moniz taught for decades and Salehi heritage,” said Kevin Knobloch, Moniz’s chief of Northeastern University. “The fact that there would mark nuclear deal, they hit a roadblock studied nuclear engineering. Bon Vivant staff. Moniz, 70, was born in Fall River, then be presumably an IS attack against Turkey isn’t Aover Iran’s once-secret enrichment site at The two had never met at MIT, but immedi- In Vienna, where negotiators spent much of Massachusetts, and received his doctorate at at all surprising.” Fordo, a fortified bunker buried deep in a moun- ately clicked after meeting on the shores of Lake June and July holed up in a hotel, Moniz devel- Stanford University before joining MIT’s physics tainside - potentially impervious to US or Israeli Geneva, in Switzerland, officials said. A few days oped a reputation as something of a bon vivant, faculty in 1973. He served in the Clinton admin- Risk of More Attacks airstrikes. The United States wanted the facility later, Moniz and Salehi opted to dine together at with a quick wit, a chatty demeanor and an istration as undersecretary of energy and a top Turkey’s main aim in the Syria conflict has been shuttered, but Iran’s supreme leader insisted no a hotel, trading stories about mutual colleagues exacting palate when it came to his martinis. He White House aide. Robert Laughlin, who studied the ousting of President Bashar Al-Assad and con- nuclear facilities would close. Then, an American from MIT. That broke the ice for others on the US was also the only negotiator to be knighted dur- at MIT while Moniz was on faculty in the 1970s tainment of pro-Kurdish groups. Despite its tense nuclear physicist with an untamable mane of and Iranian teams to get acquainted away from ing the talks. Moniz, whose grandparents emi- and now teaches physics at Stanford, said he’s relations with Syria’s Kurds, the Turkish government wiry gray hair came up with a compromise: the tense negotiating table. “He’s not one who’s grated from Portugal, took a brief jaunt from not surprised Moniz ended up a player in high- described the Suruc bombing as an attack against Allow the Iranians to tell their hard-liners they very attached to protocol, and he very quickly Vienna to Lisbon to receive the Grand Cross of stakes diplomacy. “He was the only person at the nation. Ankara accuses Syria’s Kurdish forces of were keeping Fordo, but convert it to a research was joking with the Iranians. The Iranians the Order of Prince Henry, one of Portugal’s MIT at the time who was really serious about ties to Turkey’s Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which facility whose centrifuges would churn out responded extremely well to that,” said Robert highest distinctions. The talks were nearing an nuclear energy,” said Laughlin, a Nobel laureate. fought a 31-year insurgency and is listed as a “terror- harmless medical isotopes instead of enriched Malley, the senior director at the White House’s end, meaning Moniz would potentially miss the “It’s really a political hot-potato, so you’ve got to ist group” by the government. It has been alarmed uranium. National Security Council and part of the US announcement of the deal and ensuing celebra- like that stuff. You have to be OK working with by the growing power of Syria’s Kurdish fighters, and Ernest Moniz, the eccentric MIT professor- negotiating team. “Over time, the Iranians tion. Although Moniz said he didn’t mind skip- government constantly - even though it’s mad- unimpressed by their successes against IS. turned-US-Energy-secretary, by all accounts learned that behind that appearance was some- ping it, his colleagues insisted, and he returned dening.”— AFP Analysts said the attack could strengthen Turkey’s played a pivotal role in reaching the historic resolve to take on IS inside its war-torn neighbour, nuclear accord. Now with his diplomatic legacy where a US-led coalition has been carrying out air on the line, President Barack Obama is turning to raids against the jihadists since September. “It will Moniz to help sell the deal to a highly skeptical only encourage Turkey to get more involved in the Congress. Moniz blitzed morning political talk fight against IS... including the greater possibility of shows on Sunday, making Obama’s case along- ground forces” in Syria, Abrahms said. “This is really side Secretary of State John Kerry. This week, the only way in which I can see Turkey coming into he’ll appear before the Senate Foreign Relations line in terms of being a real supporter of this anti-IS Committee, where doubts about the nuclear coalition, if Turkey itself becomes subject to attack.” pact run high. In between, aides say, the secre- Lister said there was a danger of more attacks on tary is squeezing in one-on-one briefings with Turkish soil. “In some respects, it’s surprising we lawmakers ahead of a likely congressional haven’t seen more of this kind of spillover already,” attempt to scuttle the deal. While juggling his he said. “But the real concern now is that this attack “day job” running the Energy Department, he’s could spell the start of more frequent bombings and also lobbying foreign energy ministers who are other such incidents immediately across the Syrian similarly suspicious of the deal. “Secretary Moniz border.”— AFP is an everyman scientist,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who has received multiple Iran briefin- gs from Moniz. “He can translate those nuclear details in a way that even senators can under- stand.” Yet not everyone is content watching nuclear All articles appearing on these science watered down into talking points. David pages are the personal opinion of Albright, a former weapons inspector who runs the writers. Kuwait Times takes no the Institute for Science and International responsibility for views expressed Security, said Moniz and his colleagues have been downplaying the deal’s vulnerabilities, therein. Kuwait Times invites read- such as that its enrichment restrictions sunset ers to voice their opinions. Please after 10 years, at which point Iran could race for send submissions via email to: opin- a bomb. “Moniz is speaking at a fairly high level of generality,” Albright said. “But the devil’s in the [email protected] or via snail details.” Moniz’s role at the center of the deal mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. began in February after Tehran informed The editor reserves the right to edit Washington that Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s atomic In this July 10, 2015 file photo, Energy Ernest Moniz (left) is applauded by Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva after any submission as necessary. energy chief, would be joining the next round of being decorated at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. Cavaco Silva awarded Moniz, a grandchild of Portuguese immi- talks. Obama quickly settled on Moniz as a coun- grants, the Great Cross of the Order of Prince Henry. —AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SPORTS

Suarez eyes flying start Burger to lead Boks United hints of Ramos MADRID: Luis Suarez struggled to get into his stride with new club CAPE TOWN: Schalk Burger will become South Africa’s third captain in as many MADRID: Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has hinted the club may Barcelona after his ban for biting an opponent expired in October and the tests when he leads the team in the Rugby Championship clash against New be pursuing Real Madrid’s Spain defender Sergio Ramos and could also sign a Uruguay striker is determined to avoid the same fate when the new sea- Zealand at Ellis Park on Saturday. “surprise” striker. son starts next month. The experienced loose-forward has been named interim skipper after injuries There has been media speculation in recent weeks that the 29-year-old Suarez joined the Catalan club from Liverpool last July but was unable to Jean de Villiers and Victor Matfield mean they will not face the world champi- Ramos, who has two years left on his Real contract, could join United as part of to play the first three months of the campaign after he was sanctioned for on All Blacks. a swap deal, with his Spain team mate and goalkeeper David De sinking his teeth into Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder at the It is a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the 2007 World Cup winner, who Gea, 24, going the other way. World Cup. was so ill from bacterial meningitis after having a cyst close to his spinal cord United have also been linked with a bid for Barcelona’s After a slow start following his Barca debut in the La removed two years ago that his family were advised to say their goodbyes. Spain forward Pedro and Bayern Munich’s Germany forward Liga ‘Clasico’ against Real Madrid, he started to come into “Schalk has been a magnificent servant of Springbok rugby and he fully Thomas Mueller as Van Gaal looks to revitalise the squad top form around the turn of the year and was a key per- deserves this responsibility,” Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said in a state- after a disappointing 2014-15 campaign. Pedro, 27, no former alongside strike partners Lionel Messi and Neymar ment from SARU yesterday. longer commands a regular spot in Barca’s starting lineup as Barca romped to a treble of Champions League and “The resilience he’s shown in coming back from serious injury and illness is following the arrival of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, while the Spanish league and Cup titles. “For the first few matches I the kind of qualities I look for in players as well as teams I coach. 25-year-old Mueller is said to be unhappy with Bayern coach was lacking rhythm,” Suarez told reporters after a “In my eyes, the captaincy is very important and something I never take light- Pep Guardiola’s working methods. training session on Barca’s pre-season tour of the ly or want to cheapen. Schalk’s character and the fact that he has been a role “I cannot talk about these rumors,” Van Gaal said when United States. “That’s what pre-seasons are for, model for so many through the years made this an easy decision.” Burger will be asked about Ramos at a news conference on the club’s to work and try to contribute from the start,” the 55th player to captain South Africa in tests. The full team for the All Blacks North American tour. “I have said in a lot of press added the 28-year-old. “This year, starting at clash will be announced today. conferences that it’s a process,” added the the same pace as my team mates, it will be South Africa suffered a last-gasp defeat at the hands of Australia in their Dutchman. “Maybe Mr Ramos is in the different.” —Reuters Rugby Championship opener on Saturday, losing 24-20. — Reuters process... you never know.”— Reuters Nationals pound Mets, Angels win

WASHINGTON: Clint Robinson’s two-run double to deep two-run double in a four-run second. He homered in the center was the biggest blow as the Nationals jumped on fifth with Jung Ho Kang aboard. AJ Burnett (8-3) won Mets starter Matt Harvey for five runs in the first three despite giving up a season-high five earned runs and 11 innings Monday night, and NL East-leading Washington hits - including two homers - in his initial start since his first beat second-place New York 7-2. career trip to the All-Star Game. Mark Melancon worked A day after leaving 25 men on base and going 1 for 26 the ninth for his 30th save, including a franchise-record 28 with runners in scoring position in an 18-inning victory at straight. St. Louis, the Mets’ troubled offense left 10 men on and Mike Moustakas and Kendrys Morales homered for the went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position. Indeed, it Royals. Yordano Ventura (4-7) was pulled in the fifth after was Harvey (8-7) who drove in both of New York’s runs giving up six runs and 11 hits and a walk. with a bases-loaded single in the fourth off Gio Gonzalez (7-4). Harvey went seven innings, and was charged with ROCKIES 8, RANGERS 7 five runs - four earned - and five hits. Ben Paulsen hit a tiebreaking single with one out in the Gonzalez allowed two runs and six hits in six innings. bottom of the ninth, and the Colorado Rockies recovered Ian Desmond tacked on a two-run homer off Mets reliever from blowing a seven-run lead to beat the Texas Rangers. Alex Torres in the eighth. Troy Tulowitzki homered and Nolan Arenado had two RBIs for Colorado, which has won a season-best five in a ANGELS 7, RED SOX 3 row at home. Albert Pujols hit three homers while the Angels swept a Prince Fielder had two hits and three RBIs and Adrian doubleheader from the Boston Red Sox, connecting twice Beltre had three hits for the Rangers, who have lost 10 of and seizing the major league lead from Mike Trout during 12. Beltre’s second double of the night tied it at 7 in the Los Angeles’ victory in the nightcap. Trout also homered ninth against closer John Axford (2-2), but the Rockies ral- and rookie Andrew Heaney pitched seven strong innings lied in the bottom of the inning against Tanner Scheppers in the second game of the Angels’ first home doublehead- (3-1). er since 2003. Pujols, Kole Calhoun and David Freese homered during an 11-1 win in the first game. Pujols DIAMONDBACKS 3, MARLINS 1 homered in both games of a doubleheader for the first Rubby De La Rosa went seven innings for his first win in time in his career. He caught and passed Mike Schmidt for five starts, David Peralta singled in two runs and the 15th place in baseball history, hitting his 549th career Arizona Diamondbacks snapped a six-game losing streak homer in the seventh. by sending the Marlins to their fourth loss in a row. De La Heaney (4-0) won his fourth straight decision in his first Rosa (7-5) allowed a run on five hits, overcame a season- month with the Angels, yielding five hits without a walk. high five walks and got his second RBI of the season by hit- Knuckleballer Steven Wright (3-3) took the loss. ting into a bases-loaded fielder’s choice. Peralta’s two-out, All-Star Hector Santiago (7-4) matched his career high bases-loaded single off David Phelps (4-6) in the third pro- vided the only runs needed by the Diamondbacks. Derek with 10 strikeouts in the opener. Eduardo Rodriguez (5-3) ANAHEIM: Boston Red Sox’s Mike Napoli (left) is tagged out by Los Angeles Angels second baseman Johnny took the loss. Giavotella in the fifth inning. — AP Dietrich homered for the Marlins. REDS 5, CUBS 4 PADRES 4, GIANTS 2 Todd Frazier connected for the first time since he won Lowe (0-1) hadn’t allowed an earned run in his last 12 third start since coming back from Tommy John surgery. Matt Kemp hit a two-run homer to help the San Diego the All-Star Home Run Derby, and Jay Bruce hit a key two- outings, dating to June 14, but Jose Iglesias doubled with Padres beat the World Series champion San Francisco run shot in the sixth inning, powering the Cincinnati Reds one out, took third on a grounder and scored on Kinsler’s BRAVES 7, DODGERS 5 Giants and extend their winning streak to a season-high past the Chicago Cubs. homer. Nick Markakis hit his first homer of 2015 and scored the five games. The Reds hit three homers in all, including Marlon Byrd’s Al Alburquerque (1-0) picked up his first decision in 60 go-ahead run on Juan Uribe’s fifth-inning single, leading Kemp’s 409-foot drive off 40-year-old Tim Hudson (5-8) solo shot, and beat the Cubs at Great American Ball Park outings, pitching a scoreless eighth inning. Joakim Soria the Atlanta Braves past former teammate Brandon Beachy into the sandy play area beyond the right-center fence in for the first time this season. Bruce’s drive off Justin Grimm got three outs for his 21st save. and the Los Angeles Dodgers. the third inning was his fourth homer in seven games and (1-3) put Cincinnati up 5-4 with two outs in the sixth. Ryan Markakis hit a two-run homer to center field off Beachy 10th overall. Mattheus (1-1) pitched a hitless inning in relief of Michael PHILLIES 5, RAYS 3 in the first inning. It was his first homer since Sept. 25, Ian Kennedy (5-9) pitched six strong innings to snap a Lorenzen. Aroldis Chapman pitched the ninth - a day after Cesar Hernandez doubled, tripled and drove in two 2014, for the Orioles at the Yankees. Braves rookie Matt four-start losing streak and end the Giants’ six-game win- he threw a career-high 44 pitches - and retired the side on runs, and David Buchanan earned his first win in almost a Wisler (4-1) allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings. ning streak. Craig Kimbrel threw a perfect ninth on four 13 pitches for his 19th save. year, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Tampa Bay Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run shot and Howie Kendrick pitches for his 26th save. Rays. doubled in two runs for the Dodgers in the fifth. Beachy, Gregor Blanco homered for the Giants. Hudson (5-8) TIGERS 5, MARINERS 4 Maikel Franco had a pair of hits with an RBI and Jeff making his second start for the Dodgers following his sec- came off the disabled list to make the start. He allowed Ian Kinsler homered twice, including a go-ahead two- Francoeur contributed two hits for the Phillies, who have ond Tommy John surgery, allowed four runs and five hits in three runs and five hits in four-plus innings. — AP run shot in the eighth inning, and the Detroit Tigers beat won four straight after setting the franchise record with 62 four innings. Adam Liberatore (2-2) took the loss in relief. the Seattle Mariners. losses before the All-Star break. Buchanan (1-5) snapped Kinsler, who came in with three homer this season, hit his winless skid at 15 starts by allowing three runs and six PIRATES 10, ROYALS 7 MLB results/standings one off Seattle starter J.A. Happ in the first, and then drove hits in 6 1/3 innings. Travis Ishikawa had three extra-base hits and drove in a fastball from Mark Lowe over the Tigers’ bullpen with two Logan Forsythe doubled and had two RBIs for the Rays, four runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates outslugged the Kansas LA Angels 11, Boston 1; Washington 7, NY Mets 2; out in the eighth. It was his first multi-homer game since who have lost 10 of their last 12 road games. Matt Moore City Royals. Ishikawa, who was 1 for 13 with one RBI in nine Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 3; Detroit 5, Seattle 4; Atlanta 7, Sept. 7, 2011. (1-1) gave up four runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings in his games since the Pirates claimed him on waivers July 5, hit a LA Dodgers 5; Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 4; Pittsburgh 10, Kansas City 7; Colorado 8, Texas 7; Arizona 3, Miami 1; LA Angels 7, Boston 3; San Diego 4, San Francisco 2.

American League Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Yankees 50 41 .549 - Baltimore 46 45 .505 4 Toronto 47 47 .500 4.5 Tampa Bay 47 48 .495 5 Boston 42 51 .452 9 Central Division Kansas City 55 36 .604 - Minnesota 50 42 .543 5.5 Detroit 46 46 .500 9.5 Cleveland 44 47 .484 11 Chicago White Sox 42 48 .467 12.5 Western Division LA Angels 52 40 .565 - Houston 51 43 .543 2 Texas 43 49 .467 9 Oakland 43 51 .457 10 Seattle 42 51 .452 10.5

National League Eastern Division Washington 50 41 .549 - NY Mets 48 45 .516 3 Atlanta 44 49 .473 7 Miami 38 55 .409 13 Philadelphia 33 62 .347 19 Central Division St. Louis 58 34 .630 - Pittsburgh 54 38 .587 4 Chicago Cubs 49 42 .538 8.5 Cincinnati 41 49 .456 16 Milwaukee 41 52 .441 17.5 Western Division LA Dodgers 53 41 .564 - San Francisco 49 44 .527 3.5 San Diego 44 49 .473 8.5 Arizona 43 48 .473 8.5 WASHINGTON: Nationals’ Danny Espinosa (8) scores on a single by Yunel Escobar as New York Mets catcher Anthony Recker (20) goes for the throw during the first inning of a Colorado 40 51 .440 11.5 baseball game. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SPORTS Zach wins British Open

ST ANDREWS: American Zach Johnson claimed the sec- ond major triumph of his career after winning a four-hole playoff at the end of a captivating, cliffhanger of a final round in the British Open on Monday. In an Open that never seemed to want to end, the 39-year-old surged through the field with a closing 66 before overcoming South African Louis Oosthuizen (69) and Australian Marc Leishman (66) in extra holes. “I feel blessed to be the champion and honoured to be part of the history of this game,” said Johnson after a round played in a damp and heavy atmosphere but, more importantly for the players, in light winds. “It has been a week of patience, courage and trust. I can’t play any better than I did. I just stayed in it, waited for the opportunities and made a few putts.” Johnson, who won the US Masters in 2007, took a vice-like grip on the playoff by ramming in birdie putts of 12 and 18 feet at the first two holes and could afford the luxury of taking a bogey at the 17th before a par four at the last sealed victory. Oosthuizen, the winner of the Open when it was last played at St Andrews in 2010, was level par for the extra holes while Leishman effectively played himself out of it when he three-putted the first. He ended two over. Johnson wiped tears from his eyes before hugging his wife as he walked off the 18th green to pick up the covet- ed Claret Jug and a first prize of 1.15 million pounds ($1.79 million). One of the first to congratulate Johnson was fellow American Jordan Spieth who failed to make the playoff by one stroke after a day of fluctuating fortunes. Spieth, 21, bidding to become the first player since Bernard Tomic compatriot Ben Hogan in 1953 to land the opening three majors of the year, finished with a three-under 69 for 274, Davis Cup olive 14 under. Johnson, Leishman and Oosthuizen ended the regulation 72 holes on 15 under. ST. ANDREWS: United States’ Zach Johnson kisses the trophy as he poses for photog- branch for Tomic DUNNE SLUMPS raphers after winning a playoff after the final round at the British Open Golf Irish amateur Paul Dunne, who went into the final Championship. —AP round of golf’s oldest major in a tie for the lead, slumped MELBOURNE: Australian tennis officials 28-time winners seek to lift the trophy to a closing 78 and ended in a share of 30th position on want to clear the air with Bernard Tomic for the first time since 2003. 282. and reinstate the country’s estranged TA’s high performance chief Pat Rafter Amateurs in name only Earlier, Johnson came sprinting out of the blocks with number one into the Davis Cup team for announced last month that funding a swashbuckling run of seven birdies in the opening 12 the semi-final against Britain. would be cut to Tomic and his sister holes. He dropped strokes at the 13th and 17th, com- as college kids pass test The controversial world number 29 Sara, who plays mostly second-tier pletely mis-hitting his second shot at the notorious ‘Road was booted off the team before the events on the ITF circuit, in part because ST ANDREWS: If Oliver Schniederjans had said the American college scene is so strong, Hole’ after his feet slipped in the wet rough. quarter-final win over Kazakhstan on of their father John Tomic’s uncoopera- been offered a nine-under par finish at a most of the top players on it would hold their Sunday for publicly criticising Tennis tive attitude. Johnson bounced straight back by gently caressing a weather-ravaged British Open he would have own or even challenge for majors. Australia (TA) officials in an extraordi- Bernard Tomic responded by accus- 35-foot birdie putt into the cup on the 72nd green, let- signed instantly thinking the silver medal for American Jordan Spieth, who came close nary tirade at Wimbledon. Tomic was ing TA of neglecting he and his sister’s ting out a roar of delight as the ball disappeared into the best amateur was in the bag. Yet the to making it three successive major wins arrested in Miami last week after holding development during his Wimbledon hole before squatting down and producing a theatrical American played second fiddle to compatriot before fading late on, even suggested an a noisy party at a penthouse suite in his rant. Relations plumbed a new depth fist pump. Jordan Niebrugge who finished two shots amateur would win a major, soon. hotel and the 22-year-old later said he last week when TA said Tomic was play- Leishman then missed a 20-foot birdie putt at the better off for a tied sixth place finish-earning “You have to learn how to handle so was still “in a fight” with TA and had no ing a “Hall of Shame” event in a media 18th that would have given him outright victory but had an exemption into next year’s tournament. much, stay organised, and then you go intention of making peace. However, TA release, rather than the Hall of Fame the consolation of knowing his last two rounds of 64 and Both finished in the top 12 while Ireland’s around and you travel and you play some president Steve Healy said the govern- championships in Newport. 66 tied the record Open low for the closing 36 holes. Paul Dunne began the fourth round co-leader very difficult courses set up very difficult,” and threatening to become the first amateur Georgia Tech graduate Schniederjans told ing body hoped to contact him soon to The governing body quickly apolo- Oosthuizen appeared to be out of contention until he grittily holed a 15-foot par-saving effort at the 17th and to win golf’s oldest major since Bobby Jones reporters. “They put the pins tough. You play hammer out their issues. gised for what it said was a “clerical 85 years ago. in tough conditions. You play tough courses “We want to offer Bernard the oppor- error” but the Tomic family threatened to chipped to four feet at the 18th before rolling in his birdie putt to join Johnson and Leishman in the playoff. Dunne’s challenge faded on the home- against the other best amateurs in the world, tunity to raise the issues he has raised, sue. Tomic is in Bogota, Colombia ward nine but the 144th British Open will be and you also have to handle your school Spieth’s chances were effectively wrecked when he so we can address those with him,” Healy preparing to defend his Claro Open title. remembered as much for the fearless ama- obligations. “You’ve got to learn how to told local media in Canberra on Tuesday. Healy also said TA would invite appli- took four putts from 100 feet to double-bogey the eighth teurs as much as Zach Johnson’s playoff victo- manage your life, and when you’re done “We think (Tomic’s) criticisms are cants for the captaincy of the Davis Cup and he eventually had to settle for a share of fourth place ry. Schniederjans, who joins the professional with school, it feels like this is easy, I can unjustified-he needs to hear that. He team after previously anointing Lleyton with Australian Jason Day (70). ranks on Tuesday, carded a final round 67 to manage everything else in life, I don’t have needs to get some detail, and we want Hewitt for the role. The retiring Hewitt “I made a mental mistake,” said Spieth. “If you make a roar up the leaderboard while deep into the to do schoolwork.” The 22-year-old was giv- to bring him back into the fold. was to take over after playing his last double-bogey it’s a very difficult climb back. “I hit my first final day Dunne, Niebrugge, England’s Ashley en exemptions to the US Open and the “I think the important thing to under- tournament at the Australian Open in putt off the green and there’s absolutely no reason to do Chesters were still going toe-to-toe with the British Open this year, providing he stayed stand is he’s had fantastic support from January. Wally Masur has been the that.” paid ranks. amateur. Asked whether he was tempted to Tennis Australia and we want him to team’s interim coach since Rafter quit American Jordan Niebrugge went round in 70 to fin- France’s Romaine Langasque also finished turn pro before and try to qualify and start understand and appreciate that and earlier this year to take the high per- ish as the leading amateur, in a tie for sixth spot on 277 below par. What might look like an anomaly earning, he was unequivocal. “No, I really then welcome him back into Davis Cup.” formance role. with British pair Justin Rose and Danny Willett and could become quite common according to wanted these experiences in two majors, Australia rallied to win their quarter- “We want to give everyone a chance Spain’s Sergio Garcia. Schniederjans-whose plain blue jumper will and I’m absolutely thrilled that I decided to final 3-2 on Sunday, setting up a last four to not only apply, but tell us their vision It was only the second time the championship had fin- soon be decorated with the names of spon- do that,” he said. “I think it’s developed my encounter away to Britain at a yet-to-be for Davis Cup,” Healy said. “But Lleyton’s a ished on a Monday after heavy rain and strong winds sors. game. I think it’s developed me. Now I feel The world’s top-ranked amateur in 2014 like I’m ready to be out here.” —Reuters confirmed venue on Sept. 18-20 as the pretty fantastic candidate.”—Reuters caused havoc earlier in the tournament. —Reuters

Kuwait defeat Iran in Davis Cup match

By Abdellatif Shara

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s National Tennis team returned victori- ous from Tehran after defeating Iran 3-1 in a Davis Cup tie. The first singles match was won by Kuwait’s Mohammad Al-Ghareeb against Iran’s Hussaini with the score of 3-1. The second singles match was won by Iran’s Shaheen against Kuwait’s Abdallah Maqdas 3-1. In the doubles Mohammad Al-Ghareeb and Abdallah Maqdas defeated Iran’s Shaheen and Shagholeeh 3-1. Meanwhile, the third singles match Abdallah Maqdas redeemed himself by defeating Shagholeeh in a marathon match with the score of 3-1. The fifth match was not played, as Kuwait succeeded in maintaining its presence in the second group of Asia and Oceania. Kuwait Tennis Association President Sheikh Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Abdallah Al-Sabah congratulated the players on their achievement and thanked them for their efforts under very difficult circumstances. He said this team must be cared for as KTA is having great hopes in the future. Sheikh Ahmad thanked the Public Authority for Youth and Sports for its full support of all KTA domestic and foreign activities, as well as Kuwait Olympic Committee. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SPORTS Mustafizur strikes for Bangladesh in SA Test

CHITTAGONG: Paceman Mustafizur Rahman enjoyed a dream Test debut yesterday, mowing through South Africa’s middle order as minnows Bangladesh made a strong start in the first Test against the top-ranked Proteas. Mustafizur took 4-37, including three wickets in four balls, while leg spinner Jubair Hossain claimed 3-53 to help Bangladesh dismiss the vis- itors for just 248 in their first innings in Chittagong. Openers Tamim Iqbal (one) and Imrul Kayes (five) took the hosts to 7 without loss at stumps on the opening day. Temba Bavuma staged a lone fight to top-score with 54, his maiden Test fifty, before becoming the last man out as Jubair took an easy catch off Mustafizur at deep mid- wicket. AUSTRALIA: In this file picture taken on January 4, 2014, England’s batsman Jonny Despite their recent success in one-day inter- Bairstow (right) plays a shot as George Bailey of Australia tries to avoid being hit. —AFP nationals, Bangladesh have a dismal Test record and face a daunting opponent in South Africa, the top-ranked team in Test cricket. England bring in But Mustafizur, who earned his Test cap after impressive performances in his first six ODIs, produced a magical spell in his 14th over to dis- Bairstow for Ashes miss Hashim Amla (13), JP Duminy and Quinton De Kock in the last session of the day. LONDON: Jonny Bairstow has replaced Australia in Sydney in 2014 when an He induced an edge from Amla to claim the Yorkshire team-mate Gary Ballance in a 13- England defeat meant they suffered a 5-0 South African captain for his first-ever Test wick- man England squad announced yesterday Ashes whitewash. Opener Adam Lyth, et, caught behind by Litton Das. for the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston start- another Yorkshire batsman, and the experi- The next ball hit Duminy on his front foot but ing on July 29. enced Ian Bell, were also under scrutiny fol- the umpire initially declared him not out, before England suffered a 405-run thrashing by lowing a run of low scores. Bangladesh successfully reviewed the decision. Australia in the second Test at Lord’s on Lyth, who made his Test debut in the De Kock managed to deny the hat-trick but Sunday as the tourists levelled the five- preceding 1-1 drawn series with New was late on a defensive push for the next ball match series 1-1. Zealand, has been out for three single-fig- which uprooted his off-stump, leaving South At Lord’s, England humiliating second- ure scores in four Ashes innings. Africa reeling on 173-6. innings collapse to 103 all out saw them Meanwhile Bell has only passed 30 once “I don’t have any regrets for missing out on lose their first three wickets for 52 or fewer in his last 12 Test innings. But they have the hat-trick,” Mustafizur told reporters. “I was runs for the eighth time in seven Tests. been retained, with Whitaker announcing not bowling that well in the first session. But I At least one change to the top order that Bell would be promoted to number tried to bowl a few dot balls. I knew if we create was all but inevitable in such circumstances three on his Warwickshire home ground, pressure from both the ends we will get success,” and number three Ballance, out for 23 and with Root also going up a place to four and he said. 14 at Lord’s, has been omitted. Bairstow batting at number five. Bairstow’s Openers Dean Elgar and Stiaan van Zyl earlier The left-hander did make a valuable 61 previous stints in international cricket have put on 58 to give the visitors a solid start after in the first innings of the first Ashes Test in seen questions raised over his ability to Amla won the toss and chose to bat at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Cardiff, helping Joe Root, another Yorkshire play short-pitched bowling-something he CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh cricketer Mustafizur Rahman appeals successfully for leg before Off-spinner Mahmudullah took the wicket of colleague, add 163 after England had is sure to face from the likes of Australia’s wicket decision against South Africa cricketer Jean-Paul Duminy during the first day of the van Zyl, who edged a catch to wicketkeeper Das slumped to 43 for three in a match their Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Josh first Test match. —AFP side won by 169 runs to go 1-0 up. Hazlewood. down the leg side, handing Bangladesh their However, that was the only occasion in But Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie, a first success of the day. his last 10 Test innings that the 25-year-old former Australia fast bowler, said Bairstow Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam then broke the SCOREBOARD Ballance, who made a promising start to his was now a much-improved batsman. 78-run second wicket stand between Elgar and England career, has reached 30. “It is important that those people who Faf du Plessis when he removed Elgar for 47. CHITTAGONG: Scoreboard at close of play on the first day of the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa at Bairstow, by contrast, has scored five don’t watch much county cricket don’t pipe Shakib Al Hasan struck in the next over, trap- the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong yesterday: hundreds in the County Championship for up with opinions based on his past experi- ping du Plessis plumb in front for 48 to bring South Africa 1st innings: Plessis), 4-173 (Amla), 5-173 (Duminy), 6-173 (de Kock), reigning champions Yorkshire including ence in Test cricket because we’re talking Bangladesh firmly back into the game. The visi- D. Elgar c Das b Taijul 47 7-208 (Philander), 8-237 ( Harmer), 9-239 (Steyn), 10-248 139 in their ongoing match against about a different beast right now,” Gillespie tors managed to add only 61 runs off 29 overs in S. van Zyl c Das b Mahmudullah 34 (Bavuma) Worcestershire. wrote in his Guardian column. the post-lunch session after resuming on 104-1. F. du Plessis lbw b Shakib 48 Bowling: Shahid 17-9-34-0, Mustafizur 17.4-6-37-4, He also made a match and series-win- Bairstow’s selection instead of Ballance In the final session Mustafizur turned the tide H. Amla c Das b Mustafizur 13 Shakib 14-2-45-1, Mahmudullah 3-0-9-1, Taijul 18-3-57- ning 83 not out for England when called up was the only change to a squad where leg- with his decisive over before leg-spinner Jubair T. Bavuma c Jubair b Mustafizur 54 1, Jubair 14-1-53-3 (nb1) J. Duminy lbw b Mustafizur 0 Bangladesh first innings: in place of the injured Jos Buttler for the spinner Adil Rashid and paceman Steven Hossain claimed three wickets to finish with 3- 53. Q. de Kock b Mustafizur 0 Tamim Iqbal not out 1 final one-day international against New Finn remain the back-up bowlers. V. Philander c Shakib b Jubair 24 Imrul Kayes not out 5 Zealand at Chester-le-Street last month. Whitaker hopes England, in their first South Africa’s Bavuma blamed lack of part- S. Harmer c Mominul b Jubair 9 Extras (nb1) 1 “Jonny has worked extremely hard at his series under new Australian coach Trevor nerships for their poor total. “The wicket was D Steyn c Tamim b Jubair 2 Total (for no wicket; two overs) 7 game, and his record for Yorkshire speaks Bayliss, will be able to regroup. “The break slow and we could not create any big partner- M. Morkel not out 3 To bat: Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, for itself. He fully deserves this opportuni- before the third Test will give the squad ships,” he said. “Also we lost wickets at crucial Extras (b8 lb5, nb 1) 14 Mushfiqur Rahim, Litton Das, Jubair Hossain, ty,” said national selector James Whitaker in time to reflect on the series so far and a moments, which cost us.” The second and final Total (all out; 83.3 overs) 248 Mohammad Shahid, Taijul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman an England and Wales Cricket Board state- chance to focus on playing the positive, Test will start in Dhaka on July 30.—AFP Fall of wickets: 1-58 (van Zyl), 2-136 (Elgar), 3-136 (du Bowling: Steyn 1-0-6-0, Philander 1-0-1-0 (nb1). ment. “Gary was naturally disappointed to confident cricket we saw in Cardiff.” miss out on this occasion however we feel that he will benefit from some time in England third Test squad county cricket to rediscover his form. Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Adam Lyth Top order troubles mount for England “He has already had plenty of success at (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Joe international level and as selectors we are Root (Yorkshire), Jonny Bairstow LONDON: England know they have a problem captain and opening batsman Alastair Cook. England before and been found wanting. confident Gary will play a significant role (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Nottinghamshire), when it comes to top-order collapses but “You don’t face that kind of pace in county Meanwhile Trevor Bayliss said he had no plans for England in the future.” Jos Buttler (Somerset, wkt), Moeen Ali whether they can solve it in time for the third cricket, at all really... you get the odd one, but to read the riot act to his top-order specialists Bairstow, the son of late former England (Worcestershire), Stuart Broad before the third Test, which starts on July 29. wicket-keeper David Bairstow, has a chance (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham), Ashes Test at Edgbaston is another matter you don’t get three of them. “So it is different, to improve on a modest Test average of James Anderson (Lancashire), Adil Rashid entirely. but the best players adapt.” “As long as the players are giving their utmost, 26.95 in 14 matches, the last against (Yorkshire), Steven Finn (Middlesex). —AFP Australia levelled the five-match series with Experienced batsman Ian Bell averages I’m not going to get angry. They play under a crushing 405-run win in the second Test at under 11 in six Tests, while opener Adam Lyth enough pressure, and I’m certainly not going Lord’s on Sunday. In the process a potent pace and number three Gary Ballance have both to add to that.” attack led by left-arm fast bowler Mitchell looked vulnerable against Australia’s quicks. One option that England, barring a colossal Kolkata’s Eden Gardens Johnson again exposed England’s frailties One suggested solution has been for Joe U-turn by Strauss, will not consider is ending against the new ball. Root to change places with Ballance by going Kevin Pietersen’s international exile. At Lord’s they were 29 for three and then 42 up to number three, with the left-hander Pietersen has been on the outside looking to host World T20 final for three in a humiliating collapse to 103 all dropping down to five. in since being axed after England’s 5-0 Ashes out, with England having lost their first three As for Lyth, the fact he is the sixth batsman thrashing in Australia in 2013/14. In May, MUMBAI: Eden Gardens in Kolkata will “With this announcement, we have wickets for 52 or fewer runs eight times in sev- tried as an opener alongside Cook since now Strauss said Pietersen would remain frozen out host the final of the World Twenty20 next begun our preparations in right earnest. year, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said We want this World Twenty20 to be a mem- en Tests. England director Andrew Strauss retired three because of the “massive trust issues” that exist- yesterday. orable experience for our participants and The days when up and coming English years ago, tells its own story. ed between the star batsman and the England The BCCI named eight venues for the fans. players were exposed to some of the world’s There is no obvious candidate to replace and Wales Cricket Board. “Deep in thought biennial event, which has been staged “I am confident that all the venues nom- leading fast bowlers in county cricket have Lyth, although there are ‘hunch’ choices in right now...ridiculous that I’m lying on a beach across three cities in each of its previous inated will deliver a world class event.” India long gone, undone by an expanded interna- Nottinghamshire’s Alex Hales and Kent’s when I should be in UK prepping for the 3rd five editions. Bengaluru, Chennai, co-hosted the 50-over World Cup in 2011 tional programme which cuts across the Daniel Bell-Drummond, who made a century Test! So silly really! Sad!,” Pietersen wrote on Dharamshala, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and went domestic calendar. against Australia in a tour match last month. Twitter on Monday. New Delhi will be the other venues for the on to win the tournament. As a result they have little in the way of pri- Yorkshire’s Jonny Bairstow pushed his claims “Batting as well as ever & the team have March 11-April 3 event, the board said in a BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya will or practical experience when it comes to fac- for a top-order spot with a fifth County huge issues with top order! What a waste, just statement. head a managing committee for the 16- ing a fast-bowling trio comparable to that of Championship hundred of the season on lying on a beach! I wish I could help! “BCCI is extremely proud to host this team tournament featuring 10 test playing Australia’s Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Josh Sunday while James Taylor has made 291 for “So, so, so, so silly!”, added the South Africa- prestigious event. All the venues identified nations and six associate teams. Sri Lanka Hazlewood. Nottinghamshire in their ongoing match born batsman, who has scored 8,181 runs in have hosted many prestigious matches,” won the last edition of the tournament in “The best players in county cricket are the against Sussex. 104 Tests and been a member of four Ashes- board secretary Anurag Thakur said. Bangladesh in 2014.—Reuters ones who score the most runs,” said England But both batsmen have been tried by winning squads.—AFP

KUWAIT: Qais Al-Mazidi and Khalid Al-Taher won the 19th Bahman Squash Tournament by defeating Ayman Al-Farra and Osama Al-Rahmani 2-1 in a very enthusiastic and heated match at Al-Arabi Sports Club courts. The players thanked tournament sponsor Mohammad Bahman and tournament director Yousuf Asad for their support. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SPORTS Chinese team in America’s Cup talks

LONDON: A Chinese team is one of Chinese to come in if they are not going Interest in sailing in China is growing, industry and a lot of interest from some Ainslie’s Land Rover-backed British team three talking to America’s Cup organis- to be competitive. I think it would do with China’s Dongfeng Race Team chal- of the owners to get more active in among the favourites. “Could they win? ers about joining the five challengers so more harm than good,” said Coutts, CEO lenging strongly in the recent Volvo international sailing.” Absolutely. They could definitely win it,” far entered for the 2017 edition, five of 2013 winners Oracle Team USA. Ocean Race and CCTV television set to Previous Chinese teams have had no said the New Zealander. “Having said times winner Russell Coutts said yester- “You’d be better off bringing them in broadcast all stages of the 35th success. “We’ve had Chinese teams in that, all six teams that are in the game day. in the next cycle in my view, making America’s Cup, starting with this week- the past and they’ve frankly been a bit now are very, very competitive. Of those “This new entity that is looking to sure that they have a really competitive end’s World Series event in Portsmouth, of an embarrassment for the people six, five of them I believe could go on come in would be (from) mainland team and are going to make a good England. involved. We can’t afford to have that,” and ultimately win if they make the right China, which would be fantastic,” the show of it.” “I went to mainland China for the first said Coutts. decisions. New Zealander, chief executive of the Of the three potential entries, Coutts time a few years ago and at that stage I Any new entrant would join teams “And even the sixth team are no America’s Cup Events Authority, told was hopeful that one of them would would have said ‘Look, there’s just no from New Zealand, France, Britain, dummies. They could turn it around. I Reuters. “get across the line” but that was likely to way sailing here can develop fast Sweden and Japan hoping to challenge think it’s very open this time. “You look Speaking at a media event organised be the limit. enough’,” said Coutts. holders Oracle Team USA in Bermuda in at a new team like Softbank Team Japan by British watchmakers and official tim- “I frankly don’t think there’s much “I then went back there and was just 2017. Australian and Italian teams have and some of the decisions that they’ve ing partners Bremont and with the ‘Auld more room at the moment...for this cycle staggered at what had happened in the withdrawn. made in terms of getting personnel and Mug’ on display next to him, Coutts but ultimately it would be great to have two years since. “There is a transforma- Coutts said the 35th edition prom- putting together a new team-I would added that it was important they were 12 teams out there battling away,” he tion going on over there and quite a lot ised to be the most competitive yet with rate them as definitely having a chance competitive. “I don’t really want the added. of development within the marine four times Olympic gold medallist Ben of winning.” —Reuters

Motorhome — a battle between modernisers and traditionalists

GAP: There’s nothing new in sport about Tour de France, Bardiani-CSF at the Giro modernisers and traditionalists locking horns, d’Italia or Caja Rural at the Vuelta a Espana, particularly when it comes to new technolo- their budget is about one tenth of the gy. In a sport like football it can relate to biggest teams’. goalline technology, in Formula One it might “The charm of our sport is that they still be about an aerodynamic innovation and in have a chance to win a stage or something. paralympic athletics it could concern the Everyone has the right to dream. “If we keep length of prosthetic limbs. increasing the gap between the rich and the But rarely in any sport has such debate poor, we’ll lose one recipe for our success.” So raged over accommodation.Yet that is the far the traditionalists are winning this battle case in cycling and it was all sparked by and Brailsford is barking up the wrong tree. Australian Richie Porte turning up to May’s Even International Cycling Union (UCI) presi- Giro d’Italia in his own personal caravan. dent Brian Cookson is against the idea. Authorities quickly put a stop to that and He says it would discourage towns from Porte’s Sky team found themselves in the eye applying to host a Tour stage and would be of a storm. unpopular with fans. “We have to look at the Such was the passionate backlash against overall situation here, this would not be good the use of motorhomes-where a rider sleeps for cycling, for the economy of the sport and in his own personal caravan rather than at a it’s not good for the image of the sport either hotel like the rest of his team or rivals-that it’s because suddenly you’ve got these tempo- become almost an in-house joke in cycling rary villages set somewhere where you don’t circles. But Sky manager Dave Brailsford says include the public,” he said. it’s about improving performance as he “When they (Sky) first started the team believes a rider can sleep better on his own that first year (2010), when the riders were away from a hotel’s distractions. warming up outside the team bus, they “The heart of what I and, not only Team would put big screens up so the public could- Sky but for the last 15 years the British n’t see the riders warming up. Olympic programme, have always put riders “That was a real disincentive to the fans. first and looked after their performance and The fans hated it because they couldn’t see seen what areas we can improve their per- the riders. It gave a very bad image of the formances,” said Brailsford. team to the public.” So far the traditionalists “And you could argue that part of the have got there own way on this subject and Tour’s won in bed. We know from a sport sci- motorhomes are not likely to make an appear- ence point of view that sleep’s very important ance at the Tour any time soon. But Brailsford is and I like to think about opportunities and not giving up just yet. “The innovation I’m ways of looking at the riders in a better way.” interested in is the innovation that will last,” he However, French team FDJ’s manager Marc said. “We all want them (riders) to race hard Madiot says motorhomes would give some and be spectacular in the mountains, we want teams an unfair advantage. them to perform better and better and if we “It’s a question of equity. Not all the teams want them to do that then we’ve got to keep are rich enough to buy more and more vehi- pace with what we can do to make sure that cles,” said Madiot in his blog on they recover better to be in the best possible Cyclingnews.com. shape to perform to their optimal level-it’s as “Bretagne-Seche Environnement at the simple as that really.” —AFP Quintana: Alps stages ONTARIO: Gold medalist in the men’s taekwondo under-68kg category, Mexico’s Saul Gutierrez (center left) poses with silver medalist Maxime will be spectacular Potvin of Canada (left) and bronze medalists Luis Colon III (center right) and Miguel Angel Trejos, at the Pan Am Games. —AP

EMBRUN: Nairo Quintana believes fans can of Tours left in me.” expect a spectacle in the Alps once the Quintana’s Movistar teammate Valverde Tour de France resumes following yester- is fourth overall and can play a role in dis- Zeng sizzles in Canada day’s rest day. tracting Froome to help his team leader. From today there will be four stages in He believes Quintana has what it takes the Alps with 18 categorised climbs to scale to come out on top. “He’s a very young rider TORONTO: US rhythmic gymnast as the likes of Quintana, Tejay Van with potential and he’s already done good Laura Zeng increased her gold Garderen, Alejandro Valverde and Alberto things in cycling,” said the 35-year-old vet- medal haul to five, women’s Contador try to hunt down race leader eran. “He’ll continue to do so and I think he baseball made a landmark debut Chris Froome. “The mountains are coming can turn the Tour on its head.” and for sure what comes next will be spec- Meanwhile, two-time former winner and hosts Canada had their least tacular,” said 25-year-old Colombian Alberto Contador insisted on Tuesday’s rest productive day at the Pan Quintana. day that the Tour de France is not over. American Games on Monday. “They’re beautiful stages that are com- Chris Froome, the 2013 champion, has The 15-year-old Zeng, her ing and we hope to gain back the time dominated so far and has a 3min 10sec focus fixed firmly on the 2016 Rio we’ve lost. “I don’t know if we’ll overtake lead over second-placed Nairo Quintana. Olympics, won the clubs and rib- Froome, but we’ll try. “Even though it Contador, the 2007 and 2009 winner, is bon events to move top of the would be satisfying to be on the podium in back in fifth at 4min 23sec, but he insists he honours list for any athlete at the Paris, the main aim we’re working for is the hasn’t given up hopes of a Tour hat-trick. Games following wins in the all- yellow jersey.” “My legs are turning better than they around and other two individual Quintana has often come on strong in were in the first Pyrenean stage, I feel good apparatus finals. the final week of a Grand Tour and speak- now,” said the 32-year-old Spaniard, who “That’s such a huge dream of ing at his Movistar team’s hotel in Embrun, was wearing a T-shirt saying ‘Forza Ivan’ in mine, I hope that next year I can near Gap, on Tuesday he said he has support of his Tinkoff-Saxo teammate Ivan make it there, but for right now it trained specifically for that eventuality. Basso. The Italian left the Tour during the is one step at a time,” Zeng said “I always prepare to be regular across previous rest day a week ago to have sur- about competing in next year’s the three weeks,” he said. “I’m calm, I know I gery for testicular cancer, which he later Olympics. have a good team and they’re going to revealed had been successful. Her golden haul is the most help me to overcome all the problems that “We’ll see what happens, I’ll react impressive performance of the could arise in the race.” Quintana won the depending on several factors, such as the two-week multi-sport event for Giro d’Italia last year and was second in the weather and my rivals,” said Contador. “It’s a Tour two years ago, but he said a repeat of tough race, it’s complicated. But I can countries from across North, that result wouldn’t be a disaster. assure you I’m very motivated for this last South and Latin America as well “It wouldn’t be a failure to come second. week. The Tour’s not over.” as the Caribbean. I’ve come back to the Tour-last year people Having already won all three Grand Zeng’s efforts helped the said I didn’t come because I was afraid-but Tours, Contador said he’s only interested in United States pad their lead atop I’ve shown that’s not the case.” the overall victory, and not a podium finish. the medal table to 65 golds and He added: “The other rivals are behind “My aim at this Tour is only the yellow jer- 169 overall. Canada are next on me expect for one but we’re working hard sey. I came here to win-I wouldn’t be happy 55 golds and 148 overall with six to overhaul him. And if not, I still have a lot with a podium place.” —AFP competition days left. The United States picked up six golds on Monday after wins in men’s and women’s fencing, women’s taekwondo and rhyth- mic gymnastics group clubs/hoops were all added to Zeng’s double triumph. Elsewhere, the focus shifted from gold to diamonds as women’s TORONTO: Brazil’s Angelica Malinverno (left) and Fernanda Rodrigues try to block a shot from the United baseball marked its debut at a States during women’s volleyball competition in the Pan Am Games. Brazil won the match, 3-2. —AP major multi-sports gathering of any kind when the US beat ball, the biggest multi-sport In Monday’s final medal event, Aug. 9-16 FIBA Americas Venezuela 10-6 in a preliminary event we have ever been in and Canada erased a 10-point deficit Olympic qualifying tournament. round contest before Canada hopefully it’s going in a positive to earn an 81-73 win over the Cuba earned the bronze medal thumped Cuba 13-1. direction,” U.S. pitcher Sarah United States in the women’s after beating Brazil earlier in the Puerto Rico are the other team Hudek said. basketball title decider on the day. In table tennis, Canada, in the competition, in which the Hosts Canada, who made a back of a 33-point performance Puerto Rico and Brazil reached Americans are considered storming start to the Pan Am from Kia Nurse. For the Canadian the semi-finals of both the men’s favourites after back-to-back sec- Games but surrendered medals team, who finished fifth at last and women’s competitions. ond place finishes at the biennial table supremacy on Saturday, year’s world championship, it Paraguay and the United States Women’s Baseball World Cup in were forced to wait all day before marked their fifth win in as many filled out the other spots in the FRANCE: Colombia’s Nairo Quintana, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, 2012 and 2014. “This is the securing their sole gold medal nights and will give them plenty men’s and women’s events tries to break away from Britain’s Chris Froome in this file photo. —AP biggest step for women’s base- success. of momentum heading into the respectively.—Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 SPORTS Thai refugee eyeing Premier League with Sheffield

LONDON: In the prison-like surround- to dream again. “I would love to play in missed out on promotion back to the camp, including Kler and five family same time as having to learn a new lan- ings of a Thai refugee camp on the the Premier League one day but at pres- second tier. He watched Thailand beat members, were resettled in Sheffield as guage and adapt to an unfamiliar cul- Myanmar border, 10-year-old Kler Heh ent my goal is to impress (manager) Myanmar in the final of the Southeast part of the United Nations Gateway ture. It has been an incredible achieve- would play soccer in bare feet with fami- Nigel Adkins and (under 21 coach) Chris Asian Games tournament in June, but Protection Programme. ment to be awarded with a professional ly and friends dreaming of a new life Morgan, and repay Sheffield United for said his international chances with either Unable to speak the language, Kler contract at the club.” elsewhere. Anywhere. The long list of the faith that they have shown to me,” he are complicated by his ethnicity and lack took to the sanctuary of soccer once Kler, now holding a British passport, possible locations never included the told Reuters. of passport for each country. again, playing for school teams and in went back to Thailand in 2012 to visit northern English city of Sheffield but the “I want to grow as a player and I Sunday leagues. Friends told him of the family and friends at the Umpiem Mai once-mighty industrial town that has believe that I will be able to do that INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT Football Unites Racism Divides group, Refugee Camp, which is home to almost struggled since the decline of its steel under Chris Morgan’s guidance. “But I am Born in the refugee camp, he and his which helped Kyle Walker on his way to 13,000 people. mills in the 1980s has became a wel- an ambitious player and I would love to family of ethnic Karens, a minority group becoming an England international, and He said he is was happy to carry the come home, largely because of soccer. and one day be the captain of either who have faced oppression in Myanmar, he went along and impressed. Two weight of expectation for all back home After four years living in England, Myanmar or Thailand at an international had already failed with their attempts to nerve-filled trials at Sheffield United, in a region obsessed with the Premier Kler’s perseverance and hard work level and as I grow play at the highest move to Australia and seemed destined where Walker also started, came and League and desperate to see one of their showed English third tier side Sheffield level possible the Premier League and never to escape the depressing camp went before Kler was finally taken on by own play in the lucrative league for the United the skills learnt on the enclosed Champions League.” environment. the club’s academy at the third attempt first time. “I know that I am representing Thai streets were worthy of a chance Kler is a skilful winger who will play in “You can’t really get out, nobody has and has impressed coaches. myself, my family, friends and everyone with their academy. Now 18 and pos- United’s under-21 side this year and a passport to go into Thailand and go “Trying to progress through the acad- in Myanmar and Thailand,” Kler said. “I sessing a first professional contract with push for first team opportunities with out like a normal human would,” Kler emy ranks is a tough challenge on its want to be a positive role model and a the four-times FA Cup winners and 1898 the Blades, who made the semi-finals of explained. own,” United academy manager Nick Cox symbol of hope that there is life outside English champions, Kler allows himself the League Cup last season but narrowly But in 2006, a small group from the told Reuters. “Kler has done this at the the refugee camps.” —Reuters Pele leaves hospital

SAO PAULO: Brazilian football legend Pele, Known as “O Rei” (“The King”), Pele has 74, left hospital in Sao Paolo on Monday been admitted to the same hospital several after successfully undergoing spinal sur- times going back to 2012. In May, the glob- gery, doctors said. al sporting icon was hospitalised for four Pele “was discharged today. The patient days and had surgery for an enlarged left the hospital at 4:00 pm,” the Albert prostate. Einstein hospital in Brazil’s financial capital Last November, he underwent surgery said in a statement. for kidney stones and then came down An undated photograph provided by with an infection that required treatment in the hospital showed the former star for- a hospital intensive care unit for several ward of all-conquering Brazilian sides smil- days. ing, with his arm around his companion His one remaining kidney-the other was Marcia Aoki, and wearing street clothes. removed following a rib injury during his The hospital earlier said that Pele had playing days-stopped working and had to undergone surgery for nerve root decom- be treated with dialysis. pression in his back on July 14 and that he He also had surgery on his femur in was recovering satisfactorily. The operation November 2012. Pele was named Athlete was “preprogrammed.” Pele was suffering of the Century by the International Olympic from compression of two vertebrae which Committee in 1999. had made him lose the strength in his legs, The athlete, whose real name is Edson especially in his right leg, according to Arantes do Nascimento, is widely regarded Brazilian media reports. as one of the greatest footballers to have The only player to have been in three played. World Cup-winning teams, Pele was report- Born on October 23, 1940, Pele won his edly due to undergo an operation on the first World Cup in Sweden in 1958 and was problem last year but other health prob- also part of the Brazil sides that triumphed lems forced him to put off the surgery. in 1962 and 1970.—AFP Van Gaal salutes Rooney’s leadership

SAN JOSE: Manchester United manager striker have been my two best goalscoring Clint Dempsey in action in this file photo. Louis van Gaal has saluted the leadership seasons. of Wayne Rooney as he prepares to reward “It is where the manager and myself see the Red Devils captain by playing him in his my best position. “Hopefully I can get a preferred role of centre-forward. good run of games and repay the manager US confident ahead of Rooney was handed the captain’s arm- and score goals for the team, but it is obvi- band by van Gaal last August during his ously on me to do that. first season in charge at Old Trafford, and “I have no doubts that I can score 20 the England striker’s performance in the goals or more again and I am ready to take Jamaica Gold Cup clash role made a lasting impression on the on that mantle and be the one who gets Dutchman. “I could not have expected the goals for this team. “If I play up there more,” van Gaal told reporters here Monday again this season, then I can get the goals. ATLANTA: Defending champions the United want him to score.” The Americans hope to retain not easy. All their players play at a high level,” as United prepared for the second game of It is where I like and it is where I will play.” States, sparked by six goals in four matches from the trophy and secure a berth in the 2017 Schaefer said. “Now it’s Berti Vogts and their US tour against San Jose Earthquakes. Rooney has set himself a target of scor- Clint Dempsey, enter today’s Gold Cup semi- Confederations Cup, a World Cup warmup event Klinsmann against me. This is difficult. We are “I think he’s a great captain. Better than I ing more than 20 goals for United this sea- finals confident but cautious against a defen- in Russia. definitely the underdog.” Panama edged Mexico had expected. He is fully accepted by the son after finding the net just 14 times last sively determined Jamaica. “The confidence grows in the team as the 2-1 in the 2013 Gold Cup semis but lost 1-0 to players and that’s also very important year in all competitions, his lowest return The Americans, trying to match Mexico’s tournament goes on,” Dempsey said. “Hopefully the US because I can choose the captain-but the since joining United from Everton in 2004. record with a sixth title, face the “Reggae Boyz” our best ball is yet to come.” The US squad is 13-1 in the final. The Canaleros reached the last players decide.” The 29-year-old believes his goalscoring in the opener at the Georgia Dome followed by with eight drawn in the all-time rivalry with four after dispatching Trinidad and Tobago in Rooney spent a frustrating season at record for England suggests he will provide a 2013 semi-final rematch between Mexico and Jamaica, the lone loss coming 2-1 at Kingston in the ninth round of penalty kicks, goalkeeper United last year being deployed in various United with a potent threat following the Panama in the biennial North American regional 2012 during World Cup qualifying. Jaime Penedo making the winning save. positions, from midfield, out wide or as a departures of Robin van Persie and football showdown. But these “Reggae Boyz” were toughened by “Penedo is very fast,” Panama coach Hernan withdrawn striker. Radamel Falcao. “I think we’re in a very good spot going to playing in last month’s Copa America and have Dario Gomez said. “Jaime has a very high, Now however van Gaal plans to give “I have played different roles over the Atlanta,” US coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. “We three consecutive 1-0 Cup wins.”We can’t get too impressive level. “He’s very good in the goal and Rooney an opportunity to nail down his years for United, but you only have to look approach everything in its proper way and we’re high. There’s still a lot of work ahead of us,” US his level of confidence is even more now.” favored starting position as an out-and-out when I play for England as a striker, I score very well prepared. We won’t make it easy for defender Omar Gonzalez said. “We have to stay Mexico, also toughened by a Copa America centre-forward. “I’ve listened to you and goals,” Rooney said. anybody.” Dempsey produced his first US hat focused, stay hungry and be ready for whatever appearance, has been beset by injuries, losing that’s why,” van Gaal joked to journalists on “I hope to score 20 or more goals again trick in a 6-0 quarter-final romp over Cuba to is thrown at us.” The Jamaicans have already Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez before the Gold Monday when asked to explain his deci- this season. If I am playing as a striker, I will seize the Gold Cup scoring lead, but the 32-year- matched their best Gold Cup showing after Cup began. Now striker Giovani dos Santos is sion. “I think you have more knowledge be disappointed if I cannot that do that. old former Fulham standout expects a tougher semi-final runs in 1993 and 1998, but the questionable for El Tri with an adductor injury. than I, so now Rooney is there.” “The last time I really played the full sea- test from the Caribbean champions. “Reggae Boyz” want more as well. “We will have to keep working on him, see Rooney, who led the line in a 4-2-3-1 for- son as a striker was 2011-12. All the other “The semi-final is going to be difficult. We “We have a win streak. We don’t want to go how he feels,” said Mexico coach Miguel Herrera. mation for 45 minutes against Club seasons, I have been up front, then in mid- can’t look past them,” Dempsey said. “We’ve just down. We want more,” Jamaica coach Winfried “If he’s 100 percent, then there’s no doubt he will America in Seattle on Friday, is relishing the field or out wide, so hopefully I will stay up got to make sure that we’re sharp and doing Schaefer said. “I’m proud of my team.” go in.” chance to stake a claim to the striker’s role. front.” After United play San Jose on everything we can to win.” Herrera’s job could be in jeopardy if Mexico “My best position, and I have always said Tuesday they face a further game against Klinsmann has stressed taking advantage of GERMAN COACHES CLASH cannot win a third Gold Cup in four tries. The it, is as a striker, getting into the box,” Barcelona on Saturday before wrapping up opportunity to Dempsey, whose 47 career goals Schaefer was a Borussia Moenchengladbach Mexicans are 3-3 with seven drawn in a span Rooney told British media. “And the two their tour against Paris Saint Germain in are 10 shy of Landon Donovan’s all-time record. teammate of US team advisor Berti Vogts on the starting with a 2-0 friendly loss at the United seasons I have really done that as a lone Chicago. —AFP “He’s hungry for goals and he has two more first of five Bundesliga champion teams for the States in April. meals,” Klinsmann said. “Now we make sure he club. Schaefer left and was finishing his “We have three days to prepare well, analyze really enjoys the next two games. Those are the Bundesliga career as US coach Klinsmann began well the opponent, break it down and have the big ones. These are the ones where you really his. “This is a team a little more Jurgen’s style. It’s ideal tactic to get the result,” Herrera said.—-AFP Blatter faces months of troubles before departure

ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter has seven The U.S Department of Justice investigation into in the U.S Senate paying attention, the pressure months left at the top of world soccer’s governing corruption, kickbacks and racketeering in soccer shows no sign of easing. A Senate commerce sub- body but his hope of putting the organisation’s could lead to more charges, especially if some of committee hearing last Wednesday questioned troubles behind him before he goes looks forlorn. those indicted agree to cooperate with authorities. what U.S. soccer chiefs knew about purported cor- Blatter, elected to the top position in 1998, will Blatter has not been charged with any wrong- ruption in FIFA. stand down on Feb. 26, the date FIFA selected for doing. But former FIFA vice-president and CONCA- Former US soccer official Chuck Blazer, who was an “elective congress” to choose his replacement. CAF president Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands, a FIFA executive committee member for 17 years, FIFA’s answer on Monday to the corruption widely praised by Blatter and seen as his protege, has pleaded guilty to a series of offences related to scandal that has engulfed it since the arrests of pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York on bribery and is cooperating with authorities. Blatter senior officials in May on U.S. fraud and money Saturday to charges of racketeering conspiracy, surely wants to go out on a high in February, with a laundering charges, was to announce the creation wire fraud and money laundering. He was released FIFA congress hailing his reforms. Instead, he might of another “task force” made up of people from on $10 million bail. find himself rather wearily handing over a lot of within the body. In addition to the criminal case, the U.S. problems to his successor.—Reuters The 79-year-old Blatter clearly hopes they will Securities and Exchange Commission regulator was come up with a package of reforms that will pla- examining the behaviour of several companies cate his critics and those of the organisation. with links to FIFA and other soccer organizations to “My responsibility and mission is to make sure see if there were possible violations of bribery laws. when at the end of February I come to the end of Closer to FIFA’s Zurich headquarters, Swiss pros- my career, I can say in FIFA we have started again ecutors were looking into possible corruption the reform and have rebuilt the reputation of FIFA,” around the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Blatter told a news conference. Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar. But even if his task force, made up of represen- Earlier in July, the Swiss attorney general’s office tatives of the regional confederations but with a said they have 81 reports of suspicious financial “neutral chairman” makes progress, it is hard to see activity linked to those decisions by FIFA. how Blatter’s final months in charge will be any- And with sponsors such as Coca Cola demand- Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney looks to pass the ball in this file photo. thing other than fraught. ing change from FIFA and politicians such as those FIFA president Sepp Blatter Zach wins Mustafizur British Open strikes for Bangladesh in SA Test

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AUSTRALIA: Juan Manuel Iturbe of AS Roma (left) fights for the ball with David Silva of Manchester City (right) during the International Champions Cup football match. —AFP Sterling scores for City on debut

MELBOURNE: Record signing Raheem Sterling ance in the sky blue was the major talking point, worth an initial £44 million that could rise to £49 changes, introducing Samir Nasri, Aleksandar we are mentally strong,” said Roma manager Rudi took just over two minutes to score his debut goal the 2014 English Premier League champions million ($76 million). Kolarov and Yaya Toure into the game. Garcia. “The pitch was not good enough for such a as Manchester City downed AS Roma on penalties showed plenty of attacking promise for the season The Italians equalised just five minutes after Nigerian teenager Iheanacho put Manchester game at this level and of course it’s winter (in in the International Champions Cup in Melbourne ahead. Sterling’s strike in spectacular fashion. Bosnian mid- City ahead again on 51 minutes when he zeroed in Australia) but it was more than difficult and in some yesterday. England goalkeeper Joe Hart made two “It’s important to score, particularly early in the fielder Miralem Pjanic let fly with a 20-metre thun- on an awful back pass by former England interna- way explains Cole’s mistake with the wrong pass. late saves as Manchester City won 5-4 in the penal- game, and he only played 45 minutes after having derbolt into the top right corner. tional Ashley Cole to coolly beat De Sanctis from “But overall, Cole played a good match and the ty shootout after the game finished 2-2 at the end just a few days working with the team,” manager Sterling had a big shout for a penalty turned close range. players should not be judged by one single play. Of of regulation time at the Melbourne Cricket Manuel Pellegrini said of Sterling’s performance. down when he was brought down by Alessandro But Serbian Adem Ljajic threw the Italians a life- course, I would have preferred if he did not make Ground. “I’m happy with the way he played. He demonstrat- Florenzi midway through the opening half, but line when he beat Joe Hart with his free-kick over that mistake and probably goalkeeper Morgan Sterling, the most expensive English footballer ed why he’s here, not only his value as a player, he’s Australian referee Jared Gillett waved play on. the wall in the 87th minute to send the match into could have done better in that situation.” in history, took just two minutes and 17 seconds to a very young player so I think he will improve a lot Roma had three quickfire scoring chances min- penalties. Manchester City will attempt to go on and win open his account for the big-spending English club. in the future, playing with Yaya Toure, David Silva utes before the break, with Vincent Kompany lung- Hart proved Man City’s hero, with saves off the three-way ICC tournament when they take on He showed his explosive pace to swoop on a and the others. ing to deny Francesco Totti, Eliaquim Mangala Seydou Doumbia and Seydou Keita to get the ten-time European champions Real Madrid in the defence-splitting pass from Kelechi Iheanacho to “I’m very happy with him and I’m very happy clearing another and unmarked Daniele De Rossi English club home. “We made an individual mistake final match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on leave Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis flailing that we’ve bought him.” The 20-year-old Jamaican- putting a header over the bar. in the second half and we had to make up for it, but Friday. Roma beat Real Madrid 7-6 on penalties and slot the ball into the empty net. born Londoner completed his move to Manchester Pellegrini took Sterling off at halftime along what I appreciated the most was that we were able after the opening ICC game finished scoreless at While Sterling’s much-anticipated first appear- City from Liverpool last week in a five-year deal with the influential David Silva among nine to come back from behind twice, which means that the MCG on Saturday.—AFP Gotze answers sushi FIFA tries again to gaffe with China goal clean itself up SHANGHAI: A cool finish by Mario Gotze-who made headlines days earlier over a culinary gaffe-ten minutes from time propelled Bayern FIFA will set up a new task force to propose tion all afternoon if you want,” he said. Munich to a 1-0 exhibition match victory over Inter Milan in ZURICH: reforms aimed at cleaning itself up, a move critics FIFA has been under pressure to carry out reforms Shanghai yesterday. said was an inadequate response to the worst crisis in following a series of scandals over the past few years. The scorer of Germany’s World Cup final winning goal just over a the 111-year history of soccer’s governing body. The Several executive committee members, elected by year ago in Brazil latched onto a defence-splitting pass to calmly suggested reforms would include integrity checks for continental confederations, have either been banned round Inter keeper Samir Handanovic and slot the ball into the emp- the all-powerful 25-member executive committee, for unethical behavior or resigned while under inves- ty net. Gotze had hit the headlines in China this week for telling local term limits for top officials and public disclosure of tigation. media he “loved Chinese food, especially sushi”. The dish is in fact a their earnings, FIFA said. Soccer’s governing body was thrown into further Japanese delicacy. Similar reforms were proposed by an earlier inde- turmoil in May when 14 sports marketing executives However the German striker showed where his real expertise lay pendent governance committee set up in 2011 but and soccer officials, including several from FIFA, were by providing a match winning goal which delighted the vast majori- were quietly shelved three years later. indicted in the United States on bribery, money laun- ty of the lively 37,431-strong crowd at Shanghai Stadium. Critics pointed out that the 11-member task force dering and wire fraud charges. The goal was undoubtedly the highlight of a somewhat dull would be drawn from the continental confederations Blatter was re-elected two days afterwards, but game played on a very muggy summer evening. Both teams started whose members have been blamed for much of four days later said in a shock announcement that he brightly but the tempo of the match soon slowed as the European FIFA’s recent troubles. would lay down his mandate and not stand again. He heavyweights struggled to find their rhythm. “Instead of agreeing to a serious independent will remain in office until a new president is chosen at Inter Milan were first to register a shot on goal when Mateo reform commission, FIFA today announced yet an extraordinary Congress on Feb. 26. Kovacic unleashed a fierce shot which flew over the goal in the sec- another task force made up of 10 confederation FIFA said the new task force would include two ond minute. members and one independent chair who has not representatives each from UEFA, CONCACAF, the Bayern however soon took control of the match and would domi- yet been named,” said anti-corruption watchdog African confederation CAF and the Asian confedera- nate it until the final whistle, with Douglas Costa in particular causing Transparency International in a statement. tion (AFC) and one each from the CONMEBOL and the Italian giants all sorts of problems with his mazy dribbling down “This will not be sufficient to win back trust in the Oceania confederation (OFC). the right flank. FIFA.” “(FIFA) has promised reform many times before It will be chaired “by a neutral chairman who The Brazilian supplied a flurry of dangerous crosses into the Inter and failed dismally. They have failed fans and sup- should be appointed in consultation with the confed- box but Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski was unable to capitalise porters today,” added Transparency’s director of com- erations’ presidents,” added FIFA. on the service provided, coming closest in the 21st minute with a munications Neil Martinson, describing FIFA as a “rot- “Blatter proposes same players will reform FIFA in ten democracy.” FIFA said the task force’s job would seven weeks .... - not believable,” said International low drive from Costa’s cross which flew just wide. be to present “concrete and comprehensive reform Trade Union Confederation general secretary Sharan Bayern captain Philipp Lahm came closest to opening the scoring proposals” to the next executive committee meeting Burrow on Twitter. in the 32nd minute when his placed shot from within the box was in late September. However, UEFA president Michel Platini, a mem- cleared off the Inter goal line by Jeison Murillo. This in turn would make recommendations to a ber of the FIFA executive committee and one of In the second half the game lost what little momentum it had FIFA Congress in February which has the power to Blatter’s sternest critics, cautiously welcomed the with both sides making multiple substitutions-Inter brought on four alter its statutes. “My responsibility and mission is to move. “I feel (it) is an important step towards improv- players simultaneously at one point midway through the second make sure that when I come to the end of my career ing overall processes and transparency within the half. Neither goalkeeper was tested for the remainder of the game at the end of February, we can say that we have start- organisation,” he said in a statement. until Gotze’s late winner sealed the win for the reigning German ed to rebuild the reputation of FIFA,” said outgoing “We must now make sure that the reforms out- league champions. Bayern triumphed 4-1 over Valencia on Saturday president Sepp Blatter. lined today will be undertaken in a swift and effective in Beijing in the first game of their Chinese tour and play their third Beijing: Bayern’s goalkeeper Tom Starke (left) punches the ball away from However, he declined to immediately declare his manner. As I have said various times in the recent and final game against Chinese Champions Guangzhou Evergrande Valencia’s Shkrodan Mustafi (center) and Lucas Orban (right) during the second earnings after twice being challenged to do so dur- past, we need to reform FIFA and we need to do it tomorrow.—AFP half of their friendly soccer match. —AFP ing a media conference. “You can ask me that ques- now.” —Reuters Manage, meddle or magnify? China corporate debt threat Page 22

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RIBEIRA GRANDE: A teenager jumps into the water as other watch at the fishing port of Rabo de Peixe, a village of the municipality of Ribeira Grande, in Sao Miguel island, Portuguese archipelago of Azores. — AFP Tough times for Portugal’s old fishing families Too many boats and fewer fish

RABO DE PEIXE: Too many boats and fewer fish. euros ($435) a month like most others in the you can earn 100 euros a week you’re doing fishing families made it difficult to attract fisher- 10,000 residents have one of the country’s high- Making ends meet has never been harder for the town on the north coast of Sao Miguel, the alright.” The head of the fishermen’s union, Luis folk to new trades such as fish farming or mar- est birth rates-though Portugal as a whole has fishermen of Sao Miguel in the Azores, yet from biggest of the nine islands in the Azores. “It’s get- Carlos Brum, agreed that conditions have wors- itime tourism, he added. Europe’s lowest. father to son they continue to fish. ting worse and worse, there are too many boats ened over time. “Twenty years ago you could While many children and teenagers help their “This is how I was brought up, it’s a miserable at sea but we just can’t stop fishing. We’ll go on make a better livelihood.” School dropouts parents, crowds of youngsters just hang out by life, but I love it,” said 47-year-old Jose Vieira, shirt- till the last fish bites,” said Vieira. So there was no Overfishing, which is threatening future fish “The community is very rooted, with the sons the port and on the tiny streets where the fishing less and a cigarette hanging out his mouth as he question in his mind about the future of his four stocks, was mainly responsible, he said. But so too of fishermen refusing to envisage any other work. families live in a motley collection of small bright- folded away his nets, helped by son Paulo Miguel, children, including shy Paulo Miguel, who was was the slump that began five years ago in the That wouldn’t be a worry if it weren’t that the ly painted homes. Matriarch of a family of nine who’d just turned 12. Owner of a small boat, he “offering a helping hand after school”. “With fish- building sector in Portugal, which used to pro- community faces serious problems-kids dropping children and 15 grand-children, 57-year-old Maria and his seven crew-all of them family-were ing at least you avoid dying of hunger,” Vieira said. vide an alternative source of revenue for poorly out of school early, teenage pregnancies and Ferreira says with fatalism: “I’m the grand-daugh- unloading 700 kilos (1,500 pounds) of squirming qualified workers such as fishermen. “Fishing in alcoholism.” “Children here grow up very free and ter, daughter, wife, mother and grand-mother of snapper, red lionfish and eels at the Portuguese 100 euros a week the Azores remains essentially artisanal,” said dream of confronting danger at sea like their fishermen.” “In my day we didn’t get all these wel- archipelago’s biggest fishing port, in the north of Now aged 16, and both a son and a brother of Fausto Abreu, who is in charge of maritime affairs fathers did. It’s hard to explain they should stay at fare payments, but at the time my husband the Atlantic ocean. fishermen, Ruben Oliveira too began working in the regional government. “It hasn’t been mod- school as long as possible,” he added. Slammed earned enough money to feed us. Today the fish It was an average day’s haul, yet the crusty when he was only 11. Sitting on a crate perusing ernized to make it economically sustainable.” And by the media for being Portugal’s most welfare- are rare and prices have fallen. If we had a choice fisherman and his crew take home a meagre 400 his hooks and baits, “it’s a tough life,” he said. “If besides, the proud traditions of Rabo de Peixe’s dependent community, Rabo de Peixe’s almost I’d be the first to change lives.” — AFP Commercial Bank of Kuwait Return of Iranian oil may net profit increases by 26% Tijari reports net profit of KD 16.7 million cause more OPEC tensions LONDON: The return of oil from Iran following by the Iran nuclear deal and the strong dollar, pute with the Gulf producers, then it could be the KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait the landmark nuclear energy deal with world raising jitters among some OPEC members who end for OPEC,” he warned. Danske Bank analyst announced net profit of KD16.7 million up by powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC next meet on December 4. London Brent oil slid Jens Naervig Pedersen said such countries had 26% for the six months period of 2015 com- but may reinforce the cartel’s output strategy, to about $56 per barrel and New York’s West Texas been “really hit” by low oil prices. But he added: pared with KD13.2 million of last year. The analysts say. Tehran and major powers-Britain, Intermediate dropped to around $52 a barrel. “Their collective power is probably not great operating profit before provision was KD53.0 China, France, Germany, Russia and the United enough to turn the mind of Saudi Arabia and the million compared to KD49.5 million for the States-clinched a historic agreement in Vienna on Divisions in cartel core members of OPEC in the Middle East.” same period during last year, a growth of Tuesday aimed at ensuring Iran does not obtain a Poorer OPEC members Angola, Algeria and 7.0%.The bank witnessed a growth in dividend nuclear bomb, and which paves the way for the Venezuela-whose budgets are heavily reliant on Global demand key income by 151% and the fee income by 7%. removal of sanctions and the gradual return of oil revenues-may again argue for less output to In June, OPEC’s collective output ceiling was Commenting on the bank’s financial results, Iranian oil to the global market next year. support prices, analysts say. Richer Gulf produc- left at 30 million bpd-where it has stood for three Yaqoub Al-Ebrahim, the official spokesman The accord puts strict limits on Iran’s nuclear ers, led by OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, remain and a half years-despite an oil price collapse said Commercial Bank’s total assets at the end activities for at least a decade. In return, sanctions eager for the cartel to preserve valuable market between June 2014 and January that slashed pre- of June 2015 reached KD4.3 billion (June 2014: that have slashed the oil exports of OPEC’s fifth- share and force out high-cost US shale producers cious revenues. KD 4.0 billion). The customer deposit has wit- largest producer will be lifted and billions of dol- with lower oil price levels. “Clearly there is a The organization appeared to shrug off calls nessed significant growth of 11 % during 1H. lars in frozen assets unblocked. The Islamic repub- divide between the countries on this new policy from some members, including Iran, for a “reason- The banks’ capital adequacy ratio at the end of lic’s exports could reach a potential 2.4 million of seeking new market share,” Ann-Louise Hittle able” oil price of between $75 and $80 per barrel. June 2015 at 18.26% is higher than the mini- Yaqoub Al Ebrahim barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, from 1.6 million at consultancy Wood Mackenzie said. Oil is forecast to languish at an average of just mum 12% required by the Central Bank of gy bore its fruit and will continue yielding ben- bpd in 2014, according to data from economist “So it could be a contentious (OPEC) meeting above $62 per barrel next year, according to Kuwait, and leverage ratio at 10.4% is more Charles Robertson at investment bank and there could be pressure for an emergency French bank Natixis. Hittle cautioned that low than 3 times higher than the minimum efits in future also. The loans portfolio diversi- fied by reducing concentration in higher risk Renaissance Capital. meeting before December.” Faced with stubborn- price levels could slow down US shale energy requirement of 3% . The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ly low prices, Algeria’s energy minister Salah production and make room for returning supplies The bank continues to maintain the lowest sectors and dependency on hot money reduced by securing long term deposits. He Countries-whose 12 members including Iran Khabri indicated to state news agency APS last from Iran-provided that global energy demand non-performing loans (NPL) ratio at 0.88% as pump one third of global oil-is mindful that week that an emergency OPEC meet could be does not falter. “When we look at fundamentals at 30th June 2015 which is one of the lowest in pointed that the significant improvement in the bank’s financial indicators is due to its pru- Iranian oil could worsen a global supply glut and needed. “The real problem starts when OPEC (of supply and demand) in the next year, with banking sector in Kuwait. Al-Ebrahim further depress oil prices further. OPEC decided at its last members begin to fight for quotas amid oversup- prices at this level we do expect to see a much commented that the bank’s strategic objec- dent policy to use the operating profits to build the provisions and aggressive policy of meeting in Vienna in June to maintain output lev- ply and market share disputes,” said Jassem al- slower growth in US oil supply,” she said. “So there tives to diversify its income sources and miti- els, extending its Saudi-backed strategy to pre- Saadun, head of Kuwait’s Al-Shall Economic might actually be some room for Iranian produc- gation of risks, particularly those related to write off adopted to clean the loan portfolio and reduce the NPL ratio lower than the indus- serve market share and fend off competition from Consultants. “If Iran, Venezuela, Algeria and Libya- tion to start up, as long as oil demand growth geographical and sector concentration are booming US shale. Oil prices sank last week, hit all of which need to pump more-enter into a dis- holds up and continues.”— AFP being pursued in letters and spirit. This strate- try average. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 BUSINESS

BEIJING: A woman carrying an umbrella walks past a billboard display showing a scene of Central Business District as capital city skylines are shrouded with pollutant haze in Beijing yesterday.— AP Manage, meddle or magnify? China corporate debt threat Loan quality, pricing compromised by ‘open credit taps’

HONG KONG: Beijing may have averted a crisis in notoriously inefficient state-owned enterprises nisms to play a bigger role in credit pricing, but in its stock markets with heavy-handed intervention, (SOEs) as part of the government’s fiscal stimulus. practice have baulked at the consequences, effec- but the world’s biggest corporate debt pile - $16.1 “They are lending more to fund infrastructure proj- tively bailing out companies in trouble, as it did last trillion and rising - is a much greater threat to its ects, and some may be done by SOEs where lever- year when state-backed Shanghai Chaori Solar slowing economy and will not be so easily man- age is increasing as a result,” said Tao Wang, UBS Energy Science and Technology Co Ltd defaulted on aged. Corporate China’s debts, at 160 percent of head of China research. “Prices are declining and a bond coupon payment. GDP, are twice that of the United States, having revenue is slowing, and in this environment you Rapid debt growth, opacity of risk and pricing sharply deteriorated in the past five years, a cannot force too quick a deleverage - that would and very high debt to GDP are a hazardous combi- Thomson Reuters study of over 1,400 companies lead to a hard landing,” said Wang. nation, Standard & Poor’s says. It took an unprece- shows. And the debt mountain is set to climb 77 dented series of measures to arrest the plunge in percent to $28.8 trillion over the next five years, Getting credit China’s stock markets, which are worth just over $8 credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s estimates. S&P expects China’s companies to account for 40 trillion and are a minority pursuit for the relatively Beijing’s policy interventions affecting corporate percent of the world’s new corporate lending in the wealthy. Tackling corporate debt might make that credit have so far been mostly designed to address period through 2019. But quantity is not the only seem like child’s play. “Managing the debt market is a different goal - supporting economic growth, problem. Getting credit to the most efficient com- probably more dangerous than the stock market which is set to fall to a 25-year low this year. panies, where it has the most impact on the econo- because the scale of the debt market is bigger, and It has cut interest rates four times since my, would be easier if inefficient companies were without any high-profile default, the moral hazard November, reduced the level of reserves banks allowed to fail, so markets can price debt effectively. is a significant issue,” said David Cui, BofA Merrill must hold and removed limits on how much of Policymakers have said they want market mecha- Lynch analyst. — Reuters their deposits they can lend. Though it wants more of that credit going to smaller companies and inno- vative areas of the economy, such measures are blunt instruments. “When the credit taps are Philippines hikes its defense opened, risks rise that the money is going to ‘prob- lematic’ companies or entities,” said Louis Kuijs, RBS budget 25% amid tensions chief economist for Greater China. China’s banks made 1.28 trillion yuan ($206 billion) in new loans MANILA: The Philippines is planning a 25 per- this year. One of the region’s most poorly in June, well up on May’s 900.8 billion yuan. cent hike in its defense budget next year, mainly equipped, the Philippine military relies on half- The effect of policy easing has been to reduce to bolster its claims in the disputed South China century old ships and aircraft keeping watch over short-term interest costs, so lending for stock spec- Sea, officials said yesterday. The proposed 2016 the South China Sea, where tensions have flared ulation has boomed, but there is little evidence national budget, which President Benigno recently. The Philippines is catching up on mili- loans are being used for profitable investment in Aquino is to present to parliament for approval tary modernization after spending was held back the real economy, where long-term borrowing costs on Monday, would reserve a record 25 billion to just five billion pesos in 2013 as the govern- remain high, and banks are reluctant to take risks. pesos ($552 million) for defense spending. Funds ment shifted resources to recovery from Super Manufacturers’ debts are increasingly dwarfing would be used to acquire navy frigates and Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the country that their profits. The Thomson Reuters study found that patrol aircraft, budget and defense officials said. year leaving 7,350 people dead or missing. in 2010, materials companies’ debts were 2.8 times “We need to protect what is clearly within our The Philippine military’s mission to protect their core profit. At end-2014 they were 5.3 times. territorial jurisdiction,” Budget Secretary the country’s territory is complicated by long- For energy companies, indebtedness has risen from Florencio Abad said, when asked if the increase running communist and Muslim insurgencies was due to the Philippines’ maritime row with that forces it to devote troops and equipment for 1.1 to 4.4 times core profit. For industrials, from 2.5 China. internal security. While China has gone on an to 4.2. “Certainly, we need to at least be able to island-building frenzy to reinforce its claims on effectively monitor the developments in the area, South China Sea reefs and waters, the Philippines Low returns particularly those in disputed zones,” he added. has set repairs on a crumbling World War II ship Gao Hong, investor relationship principal at rail- Under the three-trillion-peso budget bill, defense that serves as its lonely outpost there. The BRP way equipment maker Jinxi Axle Co, which has seen spending would be up from a 20-billion-peso Sierra Madre, emblematic of the Philippine mili- its debt-to-core profit multiple triple to 10.25 military budget last year and five times bigger tary, was deliberately grounded on Second between 2010 and 2014, said the company strug- than in 2013, the officials said. The proposed Thomas Shoal in 1995 in a desperate move to gled to find profitable capital projects to invest in, 2016 defense budget is part of a five-year, 75-bil- check China’s advance in the Spratly islands. so put money into short-term bank products that lion-peso military modernization program The South China Sea chain is also disputed in guaranteed returns. “The risk for these (capital) pro- approved by Aquino in 2013, Abad said. The whole or in part by Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and grams is so high and the rate of return so low that amount would still be dwarfed by China, which Vietnam. “This budget will allow us more latitude we have to make the best decision for our investors claims most of the South China Sea including in acquiring new assets for the Armed Forces of (by) purchasing bank products. Last year, we made areas close to the shores of its Asian neighbors. the Philippines,” defense department spokesman profits thanks to the sale of CNR shares,” said Gao. Beijing budgeted $142.9 billion for its military Arsenio Andolong said. —AFP Much of the new lending is going to China’s EXCHANGE RATES

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis more common liabilities as the authors say Greece’s debt crisis has exposed growing Tsipras said it was a bad deal that would is required. rifts in the euro-zone which, unless make life worse for Greece but he had addressed soon, could lead to the break- swallowed it because the alternative was Permanent bailout fund up of European monetary union, the EU’s worse. German Finance Minister Wolfgang The debt crisis that began in 2010 led most ambitious project. The most worry- Schaeuble said Athens would have done to the creation of some new institutions to ing sign for European leaders is that public better to leave the euro-zone - “temporari- strengthen the currency area - a perma- opinion and domestic politics are pulling ly” - to get a debt write-off. Chancellor nent bailout fund, stricter enforcement of them increasingly in opposing directions - Angela Merkel, Europe’s dominant leader, fiscal rules, a single banking supervisor not just between Greece and Germany, the made clear the main virtue of the deal was and a joint mechanism for winding down biggest debtor and the biggest creditor, to avoid something worse. failed banks. But German-led opposition but almost everywhere. “The alternative to this agreement to mutualising debt, French-led resistance Germans, Finns, Dutch, Balts and would not be a ‘time-out’ from the euro ... to yielding more control over national Slovaks no longer want taxpayers’ money but rather predictable chaos,” she said. A budgets and the electoral rise of to go to bail out Greeks, while the French, senior EU official involved in brokering the Eurosceptic populist parties prevented the Italians and Greeks feel the euro-zone is all compromise, who spoke on condition of euro area going further. In Brussels, there about austerity and punishment and lacks anonymity, said there was now a “20, is much talk of how the latest Greek crisis solidarity and economic stimulus. With maybe 30 percent chance of success”. should prompt a leap forward in integra- central and east European states growing “When I look at the next two to three tion to strengthen the euro-zone, but it’s more assertive and the Dutch and Finns years, the next three months, I see only not clear what progress is possible. facing mounting domestic constraints, a black clouds,” the official said. “All we suc- Among the quick wins suggested by compromise between euro-zone leaders ceeded in doing was to avoid a chaotic the “five presidents’ report” is a common Germany and France, increasingly hard to Grexit.” Problems are likely to resurface in ATHENS: A man passes graffiti in Athens. Banks reopened Monday for the first deposit insurance scheme for euro-zone find over Greece, is no longer sufficient to late August or September when it comes time in three weeks. But for most Greeks, already buffeted by six years of reces- banks that are under ECB supervision and settle the problems. There are so many to concluding the detailed negotiations on sion, Monday was all about rising prices as tax hikes demanded by creditors a fiscal backstop for a bank resolution stakeholders with divergent views that cri- a three-year bailout program. By then took effect. — AP fund being raised from the finance sector. sis management is becoming ever more Greece’s economy may have gone further side the currency area. Even if the third and resolve it, since financial markets have Whether such ideas will fly in Berlin difficult. A far-reaching reform of the 19- off the rails and Greeks may be heading for Greek bailout in five years does not trip up shown little sign of the contagion to other remains to be seen. In the longer term, nation currency area’s flawed structure early elections. at that stage, the chances of it being fully weak sovereigns’ bonds that threatened to after 2017, the report envisages setting seems a remote prospect. implemented and delivering an economic tear it apart in 2012. Greece has been such up a euro area treasury accountable at ‘Haircut’ recovery look slim. The Greek crisis has a distraction that leaders barely noted an the European level. French President ‘Temporarily’ The International Monetary Fund is due also widened divisions between euro and important report authored by European Francois Hollande suggested this month After weeks of late-night emergency to make another analysis of Greek debt non-euro members, with Britain and the Commission President Jean-Claude creating a parliament for the euro-zone meetings of leaders and finance ministers, before a deal is concluded which may well Czech Republic insisting on guarantees for Juncker with the heads of four other EU to give decisions greater democratic culminating in a tense all-night summit, show that only a “haircut”, or outright their taxpayers’ money in exchange for institutions on how to make the monetary legitimacy. Such ambitious visions stand the euro-zone produced a fragile deal to write-down of loans, can make it sustain- using an EU-wide bailout fund for bridge union work better. That is arguably the at odds with frantic nocturnal crisis man- keep Greece afloat by making it a virtual able. Schaeuble, who says a “haircut” is ille- finance. biggest challenge facing the EU, yet there agement and the increasingly divisive protectorate under intrusive supervision. gal in the euro-zone, will be waiting with If the Greek crisis were the euro-zone’s is little sign of willingness to contemplate nationalist tone of much of the debate in Few, if any, of the main protagonists think his Plan B for debt relief with Greece out- only worry, it might be easier to isolate pooling more fiscal sovereignty or sharing the euro area.— Reuters ‘BRICS’ bank NDB launched in Shanghai, to work with AIIB NDB to help emerging economies develop faster SHANGHAI: Officials from the world’s largest in Beijing, the NDB had decided to set up a “hot- infrastructure) are huge,” said Karin Finkelston, a emerging nations launched the New line” with the AIIB to discuss issues, and to forge vice president at the World Bank, adding that Development Bank (NDB) yesterday, the second closer ties between “new institutions coming the World Bank had been helping the AIIB and of two new policy banks heavily backed by together with a completely different approach.” NDB on issues such as human resources. The Beijing that are being pitched as alternatives to The bank is considering raising funds by issuing Japan-led Asian Development Bank, in a state- existing institutions such as the World Bank. Also a “substantial” amount of bonds in member mar- ment quoting its president Takehiko Nakao, said known as the BRICS bank, it follows soon after kets to help mitigate costs arising from it hoped to explore opportunities to co-finance the establishment of the China-led Asian exchange rate fluctuations, he said. Chinese projects with the NDB. Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB). Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the NDB’s sup- The NDB will have an initial capital of $50 bil- The new bank will fund infrastructure and port of infrastructure projects will help “ease lion to be equally funded by the five members development projects in BRICS countries - Brazil, long-running bottlenecks faced by emerging who will have equal voting rights. The capital Russia, India, China and South Africa. The cere- and developing countries, and help them speed will be expanded to $100 billion within the next mony yesterday concludes a lengthy wait since up, adjust and upgrade economic development.” couple of years. The members will also establish the NDB was first proposed in 2012. The ceremony, held in Shanghai where the a reserve currency pool worth over another $100 Disagreements over the bank’s funding, man- NDB’s headquarters are located, was relatively billion. China has pledged to contribute $41 bil- agement and headquarters had slowed its low-key in comparison to a June signing of the lion, Brazil, India and Russia will each contribute launch. “Our objective is not to challenge the articles of agreement for the AIIB in Beijing, $18 billion, while South Africa will contribute $5 existing system as it is but to improve and com- which was attended by delegates from 57 coun- billion. Kamath, a former executive with India’s plement the system in our own way,” NDB tries and President Xi Jinping. “From our stand- largest private bank ICICI Bank, told Reuters ear- ATHENS: A woman reads a paper in front of a shop selling old stereo systems in President Kundapur Vaman Kamath said. point we are really looking forward to cooperat- lier this month that the NDB plans to issue its Athens. — AP He added that after a meeting with the AIIB ing with the new institutions...the needs (for first loans in April next year. — Reuters Euro-zone’s ‘have-nots’ ask: Why Greece’s VAT rise should Greece get more than us? hurts as bailout NITRA: Bozena Vargova, a retired physio- embassy in Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava, therapist from Slovakia, cannot understand had no immediate comment. terms start to bite why her country should bail out Greeks After a sharp slump in the Greek econo- ATHENS: To tourists wandering the narrow streets of central who often earn twice as much as Slovaks my in recent years, Slovakia has now edged Athens, 20 cents on the price of souvlaki - a Greek favorite of and run up debts. “I don’t feel like we ahead of Greece in economic output per grilled meat on a skewer - may not seem much. But for wait- should give anything to Greece,” said capita. Slovak output now stands at 76 per- er Stavros Giokas, Monday’s jump in value-added tax is a big Vargova, who lives on a pension of 370 cent of the EU average, while Greece is at worry. The VAT rise, demanded by Greece’s lenders in return euros a month, while the average Greek 72 percent, according to 2014 data by for a rescue deal, forced the restaurant where Giokas works pension is 833 euros. In the bitter wran- Eurostat, the EU’s statistics service. But fig- to push up the price of souvlaki - wrapped in flatbread with gling over whether the euro zone should ures on household incomes still put Slovaks salad and drizzled in tzatziki garlic yogurt - to 2.40 euros bail out Greece, some people sympathetic behind. Minimum wages are 380 euros in ($2.60) from 2.20. to Athens framed the debate as a stand-off Slovakia and 684 euros in Greece. Slovakia’s While a bargain for well-to-do northern European visi- between Europe’s rich and poor: wealthy average pension is 408 euros. Even adjust- tors, for Greeks worn down by years of austerity, the price Germany humiliating poverty-stricken ed for the lower cost of living in Slovakia, increase is one more reason not to eat out. “People are Greece. But in the case of Slovakia - and average Greek wages are still 25 percent counting every cent, not just for souvlakis,” Giokas said as he other ex-Communist countries now in the higher than in Slovakia, according to the waited for customers, surrounded by empty tables decked euro zone - the dividing line is not about Organization for Economic Cooperation in yellow and green tablecloths. Some big, foreign-owned wealth levels but about attitudes to indebt- and Development. firms will absorb the rise in VAT on processed food and pub- edness and sacrifice. lic transport from 13 to 23 percent without passing it on to That perceived gulf in values could be Reform sweep customers. Other businesses may simply try to dodge pay- Protesting farmers, furious over low milk and meat prices, block the A29 highway the biggest threat to the already shaky uni- With a monthly pension of 437 euros, ing the tax on some of their sales, a widespread practice close to the Jules Verne toll gate near Amiens, northern France yesterday. — AFP ty of the euro zone, and it is starkly 67-year old widow Maria Halmesova is bet- that has contributed to Greece’s economic problems. exposed in Nitra, a city off 85,000 people in ter off than most pensioners her age living But for many of those that do pay, there may be no other Hollande promises ‘emergency’ south-western Slovakia. Sixty-year-old alone in Slovakia, yet she still struggles to option than to pass on the rise to clients. “We can’t absorb Vargova, and her husband, who works as a get by. She spends two hours a day clean- the cost. Everything is getting more expensive: tomatoes, plan to help livestock farmers masseur, have sold their four-room apart- ing offices and homes to stretch her onions, tzatziki,” Giokas said. The tax hike will affect not only ment in Nitra and moved to a cheaper income. “I spend 200 euros on rent and the cost of restaurant meals, processed food in shops and PARIS: French President Francois Hollande A government-commissioned report house in a nearby village to eke out their energy, food is very expensive, I’m lucky I even salt, but also taxi fares and private school fees. VAT yesterday promised measures to help live- looking into pricing problems in the meat limited funds. Vargova, who retired after don’t need expensive drugs. Still, without jumped less than a week after the rise was approved in par- stock and dairy farmers, who have been industry is now due yesterday rather than working for 40 years, believes it is time additional jobs my pension wouldn’t be liament as the leftist government of Prime Minister Alexis protesting for weeks over what they say is a today as originally planned. Le Foll rejected Greeks felt some of the hardship Slovaks enough to pay all the bills,” Halmesova told Tsipras tries to show other euro zone countries he is serious squeeze on their profits by retailers and suggestions that France’s livestock sector went through when their country trans- Reuters. If life is tough for many of about reforms required to start talks on an 86 billion euro food processors. Since the weekend trac- needed to consolidate to create larger formed itself from a Communist economy. Slovakia’s 5.4 million people, it is in part bailout deal that Greece needs to stay afloat. tors have blocked roads in Normandy, industrial-sized plants to compete better “They lived beyond their means, now they because of market reforms in the early But across the country, workers, pensioners and econo- including the route to Mont Saint-Michel, a with products from other countries. “I do have to tighten their belts,” she said of the 2000s that made it easier to fire employees mists alike worried about the impact of the increase on a famous tourist site. Farmers yesterday also not believe in that model,” he said. Greek people. and made the tax system more effective - population suffering from unemployment of over 25 per- blocked a popular grotto in Montignac in Improving the livelihoods of France’s often similar to some of the measures Athens cent and on an economy that was already forecast to con- southwest France. The spreading protest very vocal livestock farmers is a major poli- Harsh realities now faces under the terms of its bailout. tract this year. “When everything costs me 10 percent more, prompted Agriculture Minister Stephane le cy of Hollande’s government. France cham- Slovak leaders have frequently shared Slovakia was dubbed the black hole of cen- isn’t my pension’s buying power much weaker? It’s like a Foll to agree to meet farmers in Caen, pioned the industry as a priority in a reform their impatience with Athens during tral Europe under Prime Minister Vladimir pension cut,” 65-year-old Nikos Koulopoulos said. Normandy, later. Farmers had been insist- of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy for Greece’s debt crisis, which culminated last Meciar in the 1990s. Economists say Greeks have little choice but to pay up as ing on a visit from Le Foll, rather than a the 2014-2020 period, steering some EU week with a decision to give the country a Slovaks instead voted in a new govern- the VAT rise largely affects goods they cannot live without. meeting in Paris he had proposed, as a con- subsidies away from larger crop-based new bailout package worth up to 86 billion ment which undertook sweeping market- “It’s definitely a recessionary measure,” said Nick Magginas dition for any lifting of their blockades. farms. euros ($93.40 billion). Prime Minister friendly reforms, including major privatiza- at National Bank. “But there are good chances it will bring in They accuse food companies and super- Separately, European Union Economics Robert Fico said it would be “immoral” to tions, tax changes, a labor market revamp, the expected revenues because a big part of the adjust- markets of not respecting a deal signed last Commissioner Pierre Moscovici dismissed a write off any Greek debt and he would call a pension overhaul and increased trans- ment applies to basic goods where demand is not elastic.” for Greece’s exit from the euro zone if parency. The World Bank called the country month in which they agreed to raise prices call by France’s far-right National Front for paid to farmers. “Tomorrow’s cabinet will talks between Europe and the United Athens fails to meet agreed conditions. the “World’s Top Reformer” in 2004. The Black economy boost? take decisions. Beyond the issue of distribu- States on a free trade zone to be suspend- “Greeks must pay a tax for how they new policies brought in investors, boosted Several major international retailers which operate in tion and prices, I have asked that there ed. Moscovici acknowledged on BFM TV behaved in the past,” Fico said yesterday. exports and growth, and kept debt down Greece, including Germany’s Lidl supermarket chain, put should be an emergency plan for French that the current pricing structure “was not “We have gone through our own tough to well below the euro-zone average. out advertisements on their websites saying they would not livestock and dairy producers,” Hollande told balanced”. “There are margins (to make path in Slovakia. If we could do it, as a Having lived through those tumultuous pass on the VAT rise to clients. But others said they could reporters in Paris. He gave no details other changes), these must be discovered via country with substantially weaker econo- changes, Halmesova has little sympathy for simply not do otherwise. “I believe the VAT increase will than to say there would be “structural meas- negotiation,” he said. French livestock farm- my (at the time), another country must do Greek people protesting over the terms of eventually be rolled over to the final customer, we are ures”. French farmers face a number of chal- ers staged a national “night of distress” ear- it as well.” One Twitter post by Slovak the euro zone’s bailout. “When Slovakia already working on marginal profits,” Sklavenitis supermar- lenges, from Russia’s embargo on EU food lier this month when tyres were set on fire, Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, suggesting went through painful reforms people ket spokeswoman Melina Varoutsikou said. The chain, one imports to slowing Chinese demand and roads blocked and manure dumped out- Greece’s government brought the harsh sucked it up, there were no mass protests, of the biggest in Greece, was in the process of changing the cheap competition from other EU countries, side supermarkets, mainly in western bailout terms on itself, led to a complaint no strikes,” she said. “It’s not solidarity for prices, she said, adding that as a result of any increase in denting profit margins that are also being France, home to a large part of the live- by the Greek ambassador, according to a such a small country to contribute to prices there could be a slight drop in demand.—Reuters Slovak government source. The Greek Greece.”— Reuters squeezed by supermarkets’ pricing power. stock industry.—Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 BUSINESS Gold teeters near 5-year low after ‘bear raid’ Massive volumes sold through Shanghai, New York in minutes LONDON: Gold was on the brink of five-year lows yester- per ounce at 1020 GMT yesterday, but Monday’s move has market rallies but structurally the market has been broken with the dollar strengthening before what is expected to day, with more losses expected in the coming months fol- left the market vulnerable to further slippage - possibly and over the six-month period you’ll get the bear trend be the first increase in U.S. interest rates in nearly a lowing Monday’s “bear raid” when sellers dumped an esti- paving the way toward $1,000 per ounce. continuing,” he said. After sliding on Monday by the most decade. Gold’s slide has helped wipe out half the gains mated 33 tons in just two minutes. The sudden bout of Many investors analyze charts of previous market in a day since September 2013, bullion is trading just from the last decade’s historic bull run, taking prices back selling in Shanghai and New York occurred during illiquid moves to decide their strategy, with prices hitting resist- above the critical $1,100 an ounce support level, another to a key chart level and threatening a break towards trading hours, with a wave of orders placed during a one- ance at certain levels as they rise, or finding support as breach of which could lead to a further selloff, traders and $1,000 an ounce. But the price is unlikely to fall sharply minute period shortly after the Shanghai Gold Exchange they fall to others. In this case, traders and analysts are analysts say. A looming increase in US interest rates has again yesterday as it did when it fell 13 percent over two opened on Monday. speculating that at least one major fund took advantage driven gold’s recent descent along with sluggish demand consecutive trading days in April 2013, wrote Phillip Within a further minute, the deals had been complet- of the thin market to push the gold price through a sup- in top consumers China and India. China disclosed on Futures analyst Howie Lee. “Those two infamous days in ed, sending the most-active US gold futures contract port level on the charts, possibly because they had Friday a 57 percent increase in its gold reserves from 2009, gold’s history was marked by a constant decline in prices down $48 to as low as $1,080.00 per ounce, its weakest already sold gold short. Chinese entities were seen as the far less than the market had estimated. throughout both sessions, while yesterday’s tumble was since February 2010. Gold worth $1.3 billion changed most likely sellers on Monday. marked by a one-minute drop followed by a substantial hands on the Chinese and US markers, and the lack of liq- Ashok Shah, investment director at London & Capital Case for gold fades recovery,” said Lee. “A repeat of history does not look to be uidity on a day when Japanese markets were closed for a investment fund, said upwards blips were possible but Investors have found less and less reason to hold gold on the cards but we still expect heavy downward pressure holiday hastened the slide. Spot gold stood at $1,106.05 doubted they would last. “You are going to get some bear as a safe haven following the international financial crisis, on gold in the future. — Reuters

TOKYO: A man looks at an electronic stock board displaying global stock indexes, including Japan’s Nikkei 225 index (top center) in Tokyo yesterday. Most Asian stock markets were modestly higher yesterday after positive US earnings reports boosted sentiment. — AP Asian shares rise Dollar index edges up to fresh highs

TOKYO: Asian shares gained yesterday, tak- straight record close. The S&P 500 ended ing heart from Nasdaq’s fresh high, while less than 3 points from its record close on gold prices took back some lost ground May 21. “The decline in gold prices is con- after plunging more than 4 percent to five- sistent with the drop in the VIX and the rise year lows in the previous session. Financial in equities that took the Nasdaq to a record spreadbetters predicted Britain’s FTSE 100 high,” Kathy Lien, managing director at BK to open about 12 points higher, or up 0.2 Asset Management said in a note to clients. percent; Germany’s DAX to gain 18 points, “It signals to FX traders that there is a or 0.2 percent; and France’s CAC 40 to open sense of calm in the markets,” she said. Part flat. “European equities are set to drift high- of that calm is due to a more stable situa- er tracking overnight gains in the US and tion in Greece, where banks reopened as Asia,” Jonathan Sudaria, a dealer at Capital Athens began the process of paying off bil- Spreads, said in a note. “Despite the posi- lions of euros owed to international credi- tive start this morning, there’s not a lot of tors after it agreed to a new reform plan in conviction in the move higher. Maybe it’s exchange for another bailout to keep it in because we’ve had such a rapid rally since the euro-zone. Investors also have less the start of July that the bulls need a incentive to hold gold, as the dollar breather, or that equities valuations are strengthens ahead of an expected increase starting to look a little toppy,” he added. in US interest rates later this year, the first in MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific nearly a decade. Underpinning the green- shares outside Japan was last up about 0.4 back, St Louis Fed President James Bullard percent, after wavering between positive told Fox Business Network that there was a and negative territory for much of early better than 50 percent chance that the US trading. China stocks extended gains as central bank will raise interest rates in government rescue measures appear to September. have restored some stability to trading. Japan’s Nikkei share index ended up 0.9 Dollar jumps percent as markets reopened after a public The dollar jumped to its highest since holiday on Monday, reaching a nearly four- April 23 against a basket of major curren- week highs on growing expectations for cies, and was last up about 0.1 percent on strong first-quarter earnings. “Although the day at 98.111. The euro edged down companies won’t likely change their full- slightly on the day to $1.0815 , after dip- year forecasts this time,” investors are keen ping to its lowest since mid-April to see business plans are on track, said overnight. The dollar added about 0.1 Masayuki Kubota, chief strategist at percent against the yen to buy 124.43 Rakuten Securities. “Most of them expect to after earlier touching a six-week peak of confirm that companies’ earnings are 124.48 yen. In other commodities trad- resilient.” ing, crude oil futures continued to slip, Spot gold added about 0.5 percent on pressured by the strengthening dollar the day to $1,102.40 an ounce, after what and concerns about a supply glut. US traders described as a mini flash crash in August crude, set to expire later, was the previous session. The rout caused con- down about 0.4 percent at $49.95 a bar- cern on Wall Street and kept US share gains rel, back under the $50 threshold after it in check, though all three major indexes tumbled below it for the first time since posted modest rises and the Nasdaq April on Monday. Brent slipped 0.2 per- Composite still managed to mark its third cent to $56.52. — Reuters Oil price steadies as dollar eases; oversupply in focus

LONDON: Oil prices steadied yesterday, last 12 months, making this its weakest helped by the dollar’s first daily fall in a period since 2008. US August crude, set week, but remained set for their biggest to expire on Tuesday, fell 5 cents to monthly drop since March in the face of $50.10 a barrel. The front-month con- a global supply glut. Expectations of tract dropped below $50 on Monday for more Iranian supply following a nuclear the first time since April and is down deal and concerns that economic wor- some $9 a barrel for the month. Last ries in China and Europe will weigh on week, the International Energy Agency demand have put pressure on oil this said it expected global oil demand month, stripping 11 percent off the growth to slow next year to 1.2 million price of crude so far in July. barrels per day (bpd) from 1.4 million Brent crude edged off session lows, bpd this year - far less than needed to lifted by comments from US Secretary balance stubbornly growing supply, of State John Kerry, who said Iranian including the potential influx of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s vow at crude. the weekend to defy American policies Barclays’ team of energy analysts in the region was “very disturbing”. “The said they believed the impact of addi- Kerry comments are worrying,” said tional supply from Iran, which has Tamas Varga, analyst at London broker- some 40 million barrels of oil in float- age PVM Oil Associates. “They suggest ing storage alone, might not be as implementing the Iran nuclear deal may severe as some have feared. Investor not be as straightforward as it originally expectations for the first US rate rise in seemed, and maybe therefore Iranian almost a decade this year have pushed oil exports could reach the market more the dollar up 5 percent over the last slowly than expected.” Varga said he four weeks, pressuring oil. The dollar expected the next move for crude to be was down 0.1 percent on Tuesday, hav- downwards and saw the next target at ing fallen for the first time in a week $55.60 for Brent. against a basket of currencies, but held Brent September crude futures were just shy of three-month highs. A rising 4 cents lower at $56.61 a barrel by 1056 dollar makes it more profitable for GMT, after settling down 45 cents on non-US investors to sell dollar-denomi- Monday. Brent has fallen in 10 of the nated assets. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 US sets capital surcharges for largest 8 banks

WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve set Monday report in November as having a particularly high and tough new capital surcharges for the country’s eight risky exposure to the physical commodity market. largest banks in a new post-economic crisis effort to The threat of risky activity by the largest banks to reel in “too-big-to-fail” institutions. But of the eight, the financial system became clear in the 2008 financial only one is currently below the new capital threshold: crisis, when the government was forced to prop up JPMorgan Chase, which needs to come up with an some of the largest institutions to protect them from additional $12.5 billion in capital by January 2019, large losses and extreme funding vulnerabilities. Since when the new rules will be fully phased in. the crisis, global banking regulators have made exten- Besides JPMorgan, the institutions identified as sive efforts to identify “systemically important financial global systemically important banks and subject to institutions,” also called “too-big-to-fail” because their the new rule are Bank of America, Wells Fargo, failure had the potential to weaken the entire financial Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York system. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said during the meeting Mellon, Citigroup and State Street. The rule is designed to finalize the new rules Monday that the main aim of “to reduce the risks posed by a GSIB to US financial sta- the capital surcharge “is to require the firms them- bility,” the Fed said. The extra capital required would selves to bear the costs that their failure would impose help “to ensure that the GSIB has sufficient capital to on others.” continue its operations during times of stress and to “This final rule will confront these firms with a protect the financial system from the spillover risks of choice: They must either hold substantially more capi- its failure.” tal, reducing the likelihood that they will fail, or else Essentially, the new rule requires banks to increase they must shrink their systemic footprint, reducing the their levels of equity to account for higher-risk activi- harm that their failure would do to our financial sys- ties, or to cut back those activities. Since the rule was tem.” But banks continued to grumble that the sur- first proposed last year, all eight banks have taken charge was an unfair burden on their business. The action to meet the new standards, trimming in-house Financial Services Roundtable, an industry lobby, trading divisions, cutting exposure to certain high-risk argued the US rules would leave the banks at a com- financial markets, boosting long-term funding levels, petitive disadvantage to foreign competitors enjoying and adding to their capital cushions. In December the lower capital requirements. “Regulators should reason- Fed had made clear that seven already met the new ably address risk, but this rule will kep billions of dol- NEW YORK: Pedestrians pass a Chase Bank office tower in New York’s financial center. Federal regulators requirements. Alone in falling short, JPMorgan was lars out of the economy, (and) reduce lending to small are directing the eight biggest US banks to hold capital at levels above industry requirements, to cushion said at the time to need around $22 billion in new cap- businesses and families,” said FSR president Tim against unexpected losses and reduce the chances of future taxpayer bailouts. JPMorgan Chase is the ital. The bank had been singled out in a congressional Pawlenty. — AFP only one that doesn’t already meet the requirements. — AP Toshiba president, executives quit over $1.2 billion scandal Shares jump after accounting probe details revealed

TOKYO: The president of Toshiba and seven oth- er high-level executives and directors resigned yesterday over a $1.2 billion accounting scandal blamed on management’s overzealous pursuit of profit that has battered one of Japan’s best- known firms. Hisao Tanaka and vice chairman Norio Sasaki-also a former president-stepped down after an independent report found senior management complicit in a years-long scheme TOKYO: Shoppers look at air conditioners displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo. to pad profits. In a stinging indictment, the Toshiba Corp CEO Hisao Tanaka stepped down yesterday to take responsibility for doc- report by a company-hired panel said managers tored books that inflated profits at the Japanese technology manufacturer by 151.8 bil- were involved in “systematically” inflating profits lion yen ($1.2 billion). — AP over several years, in one of the most damaging accounting scandals to hit Japan in recent years. “It has been revealed that there has been Oman Air expands Omani inappropriate accounting going on for a long time, and we deeply apologize for causing this pilot recruitment program serious trouble for shareholders and other stake- holders,” said a company statement. “Because of KUWAIT: Following a huge response to its cur- lege or university must also have achieved a this Hisao Tanaka, our company president, and rent recruitment drive, Oman Air is expanding minimum of IELTS (Academic) 5.5 band and 3 Norio Sasaki, our company’s vice chairman... will opportunities for Omani nationals to become GPA in the Science Stream. resign today.” Tanaka, 64, and Sasaki, 66, both pilots with the airline. The national carrier of Ab Initio Pilot candidates should be Omani joined Toshiba in the early Seventies. Sasaki TOKYO: Toshiba Corp CEO Hisao Tanaka (second from left) bows with chairman Tadashi Muromachi the Sultanate of Oman is now accepting appli- citizens aged under 36 years old. Their aca- served as Toshiba president between June 2009 cations from graduates with no prior flight demic qualifications must include a minimum (left) and executive director Keizo Maeda during a press conference to announce his resignation at and June 2013, covering most of the period dur- the company’s headquarters in Tokyo yesterday. — AP training, as well as those who already have average grade of 60% in Secondary school ing which the company inflated the profits. diploma with a minimum of 60% in English, experience. Once accepted, Omani citizens Chairman Masashi Muromachi will take over as with no prior flying experience or qualification mathematics and physics. Furthermore, they objective to inflate profits,” the panel said. player, Toshiba has more than 200,000 employ- president in the interim, the company said. will be enrolled in the Cadet Pilot training pro- should have achieved a minimum of Level 4 “Employees were pressured into inappropriate ees globally and also operates in power trans- gram, the study cost of which will be covered ICAO English language proficiency, and have The embarrassing findings come less than two accounting by postponing loss reports or mov- mission and medical equipment. Among the 100% by Oman Air. at least 200 hours flight time, including 100 months after the country adopted a long-awaited ing certain costs into later years.” Best known for divisions affected by the inflated profits are the They will undergo their initial flight training hours solo. In addition, Ab Initio Pilot candi- corporate governance code that backers hoped its televisions and electronics, including the infrastructure, audio-visual and semiconductor in an Approved Training Organization selected dates should note that Oman Air will only would usher in a new era of transparency for world’s first laptop personal computer and DVD businesses, the panel said.— AFP by the airline, followed by a type rated course accept EASA CPL/IR with EASA Frozen ATPL for shareholders in Japanese firms. They will also deal on successful completion of their initial flight candidates who start their flight training on or another blow to corporate Japan’s image after a training. Successful applicants who have fund- after 01 SEP 2015. huge scandal at camera and medical equipment ed their own flight training prior to approach- maker Olympus. In 2013, a trio of former execu- Brisk business for drug baron ing Oman Air are known as Ab Initio Pilots: High standards tives at the firm were handed suspended jail for Licensed Pilots with no previous airline experi- In addition to demonstrating the necessary their roles in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud. That ence and/or Type Rating. They will be enrolled educational requirements, applicants for both story grabbed international headlines as its first T-shirts after daring jailbreak as second officers on a Type Rating course in categories of pilot will be required to pass a foreign executive exposed the cover up that led one of the Airlines narrow body aircraft after, predetermined assessment process set out by to his colleagues’ downfall. MEXICO CITY: Ballads glorifying Joaquin “El Chapo” and other designs featuring the late Amado Carrillo depending on company requirements. an Approved Training Organization. The aim of The Toshiba panel, headed by a former Tokyo Guzman’s daring jailbreak were composed shortly Fuentes, alias “The Lord of the Skies.” For those who Captain Moosa Al Shidhani, Acting Chief the process is to assess pilots in each category prosecutor, painted the picture of a corporate after his escape. Now T-shirts and hats featuring the want a drug lord on their heads, Kartel Kollection Officer Flight Operations at Oman Air, com- and ensure that they meet Oman Air’s high culture where underlings could not challenge Mexican drug kingpin’s face are flying off the sells a hat with the face of Rafael Caro Quintero, mented: “Oman Air is delighted to be expand- standards. It confirms that every pilot entering powerful bosses who were intent on boosting shelves. The fashion line features a wanted poster who is wanted by the United States for the murder ing its pilot recruitment program and giving Oman Air’s training program possesses the profits at almost any cost. “Inappropriate with the multimillion dollar bounty, an image of of a US undercover agent in 1985. requisite knowledge, skills and capabilities to more Omani men and women the opportunity accounting was systematically carried out as a Guzman escaping prison with a bag of cash, and his to develop a career in civil aviation. This step achieve a successful outcome in the proposed result of management decisions... betraying the face with the words “Boss” in the same red and blue An antihero builds on our continuing recruitment program, training. It also establishes whether an appli- design as US President Barack Obama’s famous The Guzman fashion is part of the so-called trust of many stakeholders,” according to a sum- which has resulted in a huge number of appli- cant possesses the personality and attitudes campaign poster. “narco-cultura” that has spread across both sides of cations being received by Oman Air. It also necessary to successfully operate as a flying mary of the report released by the firm late For prices ranging between $5 and $32, the T- the US and Mexican borders. Drug cartels have reaffirms our commitment, as our country’s crewmember. Monday. “Toshiba had a corporate culture in shirts of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel chief are inspired low-budget films sold as DVDs in local proud national carrier, to actively supporting In addition, the process assists in minimiz- which management decisions could not be chal- available for sale in the streets of Mexico or on the markets and “narco-corridos,” drug ballads to the the Government in its work to increase ing the risk of training failures, both during ini- lenged,” it added. Internet, with US websites among those seizing on polka-like beats. Guzman has added another chap- employment and career opportunities for the tial training and the pilot’s subsequent career the fugitive’s notoriety. Some feature a younger ter to his legendary if violent life following his sec- people of the Sultanate. with Oman Air. Furthermore, it helps to protect ‘Damage credibility’ Guzman with a clean-shaven face, others with his ond escape in 14 years. In 2001, he fled another “As Oman Air continues its ambitious pro- and enhance the safety and efficiency of Despite the storm engulfing the company, famous, thick mustache, or the man whose nick- maximum-security prison by hiding inside a laun- gram of fleet and network expansion, we look Oman Air’s Flight Operations, by ensuring that Toshiba shares jumped yesterday as the report name means “Shorty” carrying a weapon. Some dry cart. forward to welcoming many more Omani the quality of pilots joining the company ended months of uncertainty about the extent stores have already run out of stock, days after His captured in February 2014 was a major vic- Cadet Pilots and Ab Initio Pilots to the compa- meets the applicable standards set by the air of the accounting problems, and who was to Guzman made his June 11 escape from a maxi- tory in President Enrique Pena Nieto’s drug war. His ny. Together, we will help to ensure that every transport industry. Recognizing that human blame. The Tokyo-listed shares soared 6.13 per- mum-security prison via a tunnel dug under his cell escape is a major embarrassment for the govern- customer enjoys Oman Air’s award-winning factors play a critical role in the safe operation cent to 399.90 yen by the close. Analysts said the in central Mexico. The online store Kartel Kollection, ment but a boon to those profiting from the products and services aboard one of the most of modern, highly-automated aircraft, a key share price jump was the result of investors buy- based in Los Angeles, posted the words “sold out” Chapomania. Support for Guzman is strong in his comfortable, reliable and youngest fleets in element of the pilot selection process is a psy- ing back into the battered stock, which had lost for a T-shirt with an old picture of Guzman. native northwestern state of Sinaloa, where many the skies.” Applicants for Cadet Pilot positions chometric assessment. This establishes that more than 20 percent since May. “The numbers “We have always had a lot of sales, but of course see him as a sort of Robin Hood-like figure. should be Omani nationals aged between 17 the personality and attitudes of each applicant are out and investors have no further reasons to we’ve had to increase production” in the past week,” “Curiously, the main reactions on social media fol- and 26 years old, as of 31st December. Those are appropriate for a safe operation. sell for the moment, so we are seeing some Gabriella Zarazoga, one of the company’s man- lowing his shameful escape were neither fear nor Recruitment in advance of the start of individ- who apply following school must have repurchasing momentum,” Mitsushige Akino, agers said. Clients of Kartel Kollection, whose brand outrage against El Chapo,” said journalist Diego achieved a minimum average grade of 80% in ual training programs will be announced in the executive officer at Ichiyoshi Asset Management, has two AK-47s in the shape of the letter K, include Enrique Osorno, author of “The Sinaloa Cartel.” “It Secondary school diploma with a minimum of local media, as will documentary requirements people from Mexico, the United States and the gives the impression that his criminal charisma will told Bloomberg News. The scandal risked further 80% in English, mathematics and physics. and entry criteria. Prospective candidates will Middle East, she said. The store’s collection includes continue to rise,” Osorno said. “Mexico has a pluto- Those who apply after graduation from col- be invited to apply at that time. fallout, including lawsuits, but was unlikely to a “Big Leagues” T-shirt with the face of Guzman’s crat antihero whose popularity competes with that bring one of Japan Inc.’s giants to its knees, said Sinaloa cartel partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, of those in the governing class.”— AFP SMBC Nikko analyst Yutaka Ban. “While the profit downgrade isn’t a small amount of money, it should not significantly harm the company’s credit strength,” Ban said. The findings drew a rebuke from Japan’s finance minister Taro Aso who called the affair “woefully regrettable”. “This could damage the credibility of the Japanese market,” he warned. In May, Toshiba warned over the ballooning accounting “irregularities” and yanked its earn- ings forecast-a 120 billion yen ($960 million) net profit on sales of 6.7 trillion yen-for the past fis- cal year. Toshiba’s accounting scandal began when securities regulators uncovered problems as they probed the company’s balance sheet earlier this year. The findings mean Toshiba will have to restate its profits by 151.8 billion yen for the period between April 2008 and March 2014. It is unclear whether it will affect the fiscal year ending March 2015. MEXICO CITY: A vendor shows a t-shirt with the face of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera for “In some cases top management and division sale in the popular and dangerous Tepito neighborhood in Mexico City. — AFP Chief Officer of Flight Operations with cadet pilots in France leaders appeared to have shared a common WEDNESDAY, JUL BUSINESS

Al Tijari names Al Najma Mega Draw, Al Najma Account, Souq.com winners

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Oil firms trying to sell ageing North Sea oil- are weighing up new strategies. which has been selling assets in the North Sea since onsidering shouldering hundreds of mil- 1996, said it is considering all options. “Our preference ars in future dismantling costs to help find Decommissioning liability is to sell assets with the decommissioning liability, ustry sources say. One of the world’s oldest “A lot of companies under stress are now starting to however the agreements reached with buyers are deal mportant offshore oil and gas production consider if retaining some or all of the decommission- specific,” a spokesman said. Total was not immediately UK North Sea faces dwindling output and ing liability might be an option for selling,” Young said. available for comment. number of redundant platforms that “Our conversations with a number of North Sea opera- commissioning in a scale and complexity tors suggest that others are now considering selling De-risking before. The near halving of oil prices over assets while retaining decommissioning liabilities.” BP The concept of shouldering the decommissioning ear to below $60 a barrel has forced the and Total are among several field operators consider- costs was used at least once when BP sold to DNO in slash spending, increase efficiencies and ing such a strategy, according to the sources. “On the 2003 the Thistle field, today operated by Enquest. The down assets that are least profitable or big old fields, which is what the majors are selling, oil price drop also offers opportunity for buyers, par- ot fit their portfolios. decommissioning is a major issue. They have been try- ticularly private equity funds such as Caryle Group, pite a large rise in the number of assets up ing to sell some of those fields for quite some time. It’s and Riverstone to invest in the North Sea. Removing he North Sea in recent months, only a few unattractive to take on those decommissioning liabili- the decommissioning costs would make late-life (From left) Venkat Menon - Burgan Bank Chief Retail Banking officer, Swap been completed. “There remains a very ties,” Tony Durrant, Chief executive of Premier Oil said. assets more attractive and remove a lot of risk buyers Burgan Bank Head of Cash management and Fahad Al Reshaid- Burgan Ban tween buyers and sellers and that hasn’t “The others, including BP, are coming around to the might associate with them. “The number of potential Marketing Communications Unit owing the way some expected,” said view that the only way they can reduce their assets in buyers for such assets will be far higher than is the r Young, director of the Strategy Group at the UK is by retaining those liabilities.” case in a traditional sale,” a KPMG report said. At the ommissioning, which involves plugging Decommissioning costs can reach hundreds of millions same time, seller will receive a higher price for the Burgan Bank wins 4 awards fro cement on the seabed and removing of dollars for the larger North Sea assets. Total decom- asset which would boost balance sheets in the short- Asian Banking & Finance Magaz atforms and pipelines, has proved to be a missioning costs in the UK continental shelf over the term. But the risks for sellers are significant as they bling block for deals. As companies come next 30 years are expected to reach around 50 billion will have to earmark large sums of money for the KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday presents itself as a platform that h an extended period of low oil prices, the pounds ($78 billion), according to a strategic industry future decommissioning. Legal pitfalls may also arise, that it has won four awards from The Asian number of key services specializ sell assets is growing. As a result, boards review by sir Ian Wood for the British government. BP, KPMG said.— Reuters Banking & Finance Magazine, one of the effective and end to end solutions world’s most distinguished publications that mize cash flow for corporates. reports on an extensive range of financial Moreover, the ‘Best Credit Card news across different practices. The awards the Year in Kuwait’ award a reflec Warba Bank’s first half net presented to the bank were ‘Best Domestic success of the Burgan Bank Qatar A Retail Bank of the Year’ for the third consecu- branded MasterCard, the fastest air tive year, ‘Best Credit Card Initiative of the Year in Kuwait where the bank continu rofit rises to record 633% in Kuwait’, ‘Best Advertising Campaign of the vides the best in class banking an Year in Kuwait’ and ‘Kuwait Domestic Cash experiences and benefits to card Management Bank of the Year’ for the second Kuwait. The Burgan Bank Qatar A otal assets increase by 30% to reach KD 645 million consecutive year. The bank’s success was branded MasterCard offers unrival recently announced at the Asian Banking and for every Kuwaiti Dinar spent, depen Warba Bank reported a net It has sophisticated network of ATM Finance 2015 Awards ceremony held at the the card variant and spend loc wth of 633% to reach machines and has developed electronic Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, where judges Qmiles can be redeemed for a se for the first half of 2015 com- banking services through the internet from global institutions identified Asian banks services such as complimenta KD43,000 for the first six and smart devices - paying more atten- that rise above the rest with their ground- upgrades and excess baggage a 2014. Total income grew by tion to the role of the call centers and the breaking strategies and unparalleled services Qatar Airways, award flights on part ach KD 11.17 million. The development of its performance to which enhance the overall banking and and across the oneworld alliance. ating performance was sup- ensure the best standards of services for finance sector. Raed Al Haqhaq, Burgan Bank’s Furthermore, the ‘Best Ad all business units within the customers in addition to investing in Chief Banking Officer said: “We are honored to Campaign of the Year in Kuwait’ bank’s balance sheet was fur- human resources through attracting be acknowledged by the Asian Banking & been granted to Burgan Bank for it thened by strong operating special national calibers and training Finance Magazine and to receive these four in executing the premier banking ich has increased by 23% to them and increasing their ability through prestigious awards. The awards are a reflection where the communications spell illion at the end of the first specialized advanced training program of our commitment to attain customers’ trust exclusive convenience of Premier ba 5 compared to KD 6.145 mil- that is in line with the highest interna- through excellence and to building an innova- tomers’ benefits, making them stan the same period in 2014. tional standard.” tive and customer centric bank. the crowd. Burgan Bank continues ne 30, 2015, Warba Bank’s Warba Bank has an ambitious On behalf of Burgan Bank, I would like to its strategic plan and adopt best pra increased 30% to reach KD Emad Al Thaqeb, Jassar Al-Jassar (Vice Chairman & expansion growth strategy and extend my appreciation to the panel of judges are in line with its overall growth o n as a result of the bank’s Chairman Warba Bank Chief Executive Officer) achieves growth through the applica- at Asian Banking & Finance Magazine, and I different fronts. The latest awards geographical expansion strat- tion of best practices in the banking would also like to express my sincere gratitude extensive list of recognitions tha corporate financing products such as petition locally and regionally.” to our staff who constantly exert maximum continues to receive, which hig and regional markets, com- Qard Hasan, Murabaha Express, and Jassar Al Jassar, Vice Chairman & Chief sector. We will continue to roll out inno- investments in low-risk and vative propositions in the conventional effort to repeatedly achieve such accolades.” growth story and progress of its loc Mosawama. Executive Officer, Warba Bank said: “We The ‘Kuwait Domestic Cash management Bank and international operations. M y assets. The bank’s financing Warba Bank has been committed to will continue to grow through our invest- space and also Islamic finance, with a s also showed an impressive strong focus supported by its strong of the Year’ award underlines the bank’s prod- Burgan Bank has one of the large the requirements of maintaining good ments and successful banking policy uct diversity and the exceptional cash man- branch networks with more than 23 50% to reach KD 457 million safe investments and credit portfolios which projects positively on perform- investment banking arm. The bank will o the first half of 2014. This continue to seek for new promising agement services offered to corporate clients. across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Alg and the net financing revenue has ance indicators among the outstanding Burgan Bank’s Cash Management offering Tunisia, Lebanon and Palestine. bank’s default finances ratio increased to KD 5.5 million compared to 50% increase in its financing portfolio opportunities while maintaining the 24%, which is considered KD 4 million for the same period in 2014, reaching KD 457 million compared to KD asset quality in the scope of sound gov- lowest in the local banking representing a growth of 38%. In the sec- 304 million for the same period in 2014 ernance and risk management practices bank’s coverage ratio reached ond quarter of this year, Warba Bank was with a decrease in the default finances to ensure the bank’s solvency and capi- Burgan Bank announc end of the first half of 2015. mandated by Garuda Indonesia, which has reached 0.24%. Warba Bank tal adequacy in accordance with Basel III nting on the results, Emad A Indonesia’s flag carrier, as Joint Lead aims at increasing its financing portfolio regulations and the guidelines by Chairman, Warba Bank said: Manager and Joint Book Runner for its market share through working continu- Central Bank of Kuwait. Yawmi account winner ased to deliver another set of inaugural international Sukuk issue val- ously towards developing and innovat- Al-Jassar said: “We will continue, God ncial results. The impressive ued at USD 500 million. Warba Bank also ing financing products that are Shariah willing, the implementation of the road KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday entitle customers to one chance of w profits and operational rev- contributed in leasing aircrafts for Kuwait complaint and fulfill the requirement of map laid out in the new strategy and the names of the lucky winners of its Yawmi the account balance is KD 500 and a te a tough competitive envi- Airways, in addition to acquiring an auto customers while easing their financial take advantage of positive growth account draw, each taking home a prize of KD account holder will be qualified for rther validate Warba Bank’s finance portfolio from Al Mulla burdens. In addition to the bank making opportunities in the region despite the 5,000. The lucky winners for the daily draws quarterly and daily draws. nce sheet supported by asset International Finance Company KSCC customers feel special with the high priv- falter in some markets as a result of the took home a cash-prize of KD 5,000 each, and Burgan Bank encourages everyon tal and liquidity” “The bank’s through a deal reaching KD 20 million ileges credit cards which provide cus- prevailing security situation, relying on they are: Hasan Ali Al-Wanh; Jamal Mousa Abu a Yawmi account and/or increase the plans combined with intro- which is a part of Warba’s strategy in tomer a lot of benefits and advanced key fundamental pillars to provide out- Oun; Sahar Sayed Mohammad Ghoraishi; to maximize their chances to becomi nnovative banking proposi- plans of expansion in the local and services.” standing banking service to customers, Mohammad Saleh Alsharhan and Afar ner. The more customers deposit, th ed strong foundation for the regional market. Jassar added: “Warba Bank has suc- and to build a high-performance insti- Ghuthaith Alkhalaf. the chances they receive of winning. cial performance for the first Al Thaqeb added “Warba bank is very ceeded in diversifying the sources of tution, advancing the core business To further add to the anticipation of Yawmi information on opening a Yawmi ac ear.” keen on its solid financial platform and income and growing its operational rev- growth to continue playing a leading account customers, Burgan Bank now offers a about the new quarterly draw, custo er deposits have increased the quality of its assets and it works to enue through focusing on the various role and effective in pushing the devel- Quarterly Draw with more chances to win high- urged to visit their nearest Burgan Ban ng KD 547 million in the first seizing investment opportunities that sectors of the bank including invest- opment and evolution wheel in the er rewards, entitling one lucky customer to win and receive all the details, or simpl ares to the same period in are suitable with low investment risks ment, treasury, corporate finance and Kuwaiti economy and market of Islamic KD 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi bank’s Call Center at 1804080 where D 402 million. In the past few and can achieve strong returns which planning, risk and group operations and banking specifically that records high Account now offers Daily and quarterly Draws, service representatives will be deli bank has introduced a series will support the future growth of the group banking and information technol- demands in emerging markets, and we the Quarterly Draw requires customers to assist with any questions on the Yawm e banking products and serv- bank whilst enhancing its competitive ogy while paying attention to customers will work to enhance the share of Warba maintain a minimum amount of KD 500 in their or any of the bank’s products and ing the Investment Saving ability and increase its share in the and satisfying their needs through the Bank in the years ahead and securing its account for 2 months prior to draw date. Customers can also log on to Burga ary Transfer Account in addi- Islamic banking market which is witness- widespread network of branches across status to be at the forefront Islamic Additionally, every KD 10 in the account, will www.burgan.com for further informat iduals and Shariah compliant ing a rapid popularity and strong com- all provinces. banks operating in the region.” BK offers customers secure online shopping via PayPal

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High-tech aerospace exhibit starts world tour at Smithsonian

WASHINGTON: With space shuttles now explore new innovations and ideas. It uses SPACE ELEVATOR tends to break down, said Roger Launius, the haul are also looking at how to use new housed in history museums, innovators in immersive videos, simulations, virtual reali- One exhibit capsule will simulate the idea museum’s associate director of collections technology to give visitors a better look at aerospace are thinking of newer, better ty, touch-tables and a 180-degree theater of a space elevator with video screens sur- and curatorial affairs. space history. The museum is considering a ways humans could reach space. One idea: experience to create a hands-on, immersive rounding visitors to give them the feel of ris- “In the future as we’re re-envisioning the future simulation that could recreate what it What about a space elevator? This real idea experience. Curators said it is more interac- ing above Earth. Researchers are developing museum, we’re putting more and more of was like to land on the moon during the is one simulation that’s part of a new high- tive technology than the Smithsonian has such an idea to see if it’s possible to create a these kinds of things in, but this is sort of tak- Apollo era. tech interactive exhibition about the future ever had in an aerospace exhibit. “Above real capsule that could crawl up a cord from ing us to a level we haven’t had,” Launius said. John Tracy, the chief technology officer of flight opening Aug. 1 at the Smithsonian’s and Beyond” will debut at one of the the ground to the level of orbiting the Earth. “One of the things we want to do is kind of for Boeing, which is funding the “Above and National Air and Space Museum. The exhibit nation’s most popular museums. The The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum test the technologies.” Beyond the gee-whiz Beyond” exhibit and part of the museum’s also will serve as an important test case for National Air and Space Museum draws near- is planning to overhaul all of its exhibit gal- technology, the exhibit is rooted in the overhaul, said the company wants to work new technologies to overhaul the popular ly 7 million visitors each year on the leries in the coming years, and the temporary themes of how to fly higher, farther, faster with the museum to inspire the next genera- museum with more interactives. National Mall. The exhibit runs until early exhibit will help the museum test what works. and smarter to challenge visitors with the real tion of innovators. Designers at Evergreen Exhibitions in January and then begins a worldwide tour Some current galleries date back to the problems of how to make space flight more “The aerospace workforce in general has San Antonio, Texas, have been developing through 2020. Stops will include museums museum’s opening in 1976. The museum has efficient and less expensive, Launius said. a large demographic of baby boomers,” he the new exhibition “Above and Beyond: The in Dubai; St. Louis; Charleston, South mostly shied away from integrating much said. “As they begin to retire, we need to Ultimate Interactive Flight Exhibition” with Carolina; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; London, technology into its exhibits because the gal- APOLLO ERA make sure there’s a generation prepared to Boeing, NASA and the Smithsonian to Tokyo and Chicago. leries receive heavy traffic, and technology Curators planning the museum’s over- take over.”—AP Apple iPhone still popular as phone industry slows down

SAN FRANCISCO: Smartphone sales may be slowing for some tech compa- nies, but not for Apple. Analysts expect another powerhouse performance from the California tech giant when it reports quarterly financial results late yesterday. Apple’s signature iPhones remain popu- lar, even as other smartphone makers are seeing demand slow down. Wall Street analysts estimate Apple will report a hefty $10.3 billion in profit after selling $49 billion worth of iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and other prod- ucts during the April-June quarter. That’s an increase of more than 30 percent in both revenue and profit from the same period a year earlier. Apple has said it won’t release sales figures for the new Apple Watch, though some analysts believe demand has fall- en since Apple introduced the wearable gadget three months ago. But it almost doesn’t matter: As in other recent quar- ters, Apple will reap its biggest rewards from its smartphones, especially the new, big-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models introduced last fall. Here’s why:

BIGGER SCREENS People use smartphones for social PALO ALTO: In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook (right) takes a photo with an CAPE CANAVERAL: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft networking, playing games, looking at Apple employee during the launch and sale of the new iPhone 6 at an Apple store. Analysts breaks apart in this file photo shortly after liftoff at the Cape Canaveral Air pictures - far more than they use them expect the California tech giant’s quarterly financial report late yesterday, will show another Force Station. The rocket was carrying supplies to the International Space to make calls. And for those activities, powerhouse performance.. —AP Station.—AP many users prefer a bigger screen. Several analysts say their studies con- numbers, Canaccord Genuity analyst tions. HTC has also lowered its revenue STRONG DEMAND firm Apple CEO Tim Cook’s claim that Michael Walkley estimates that during forecast for the quarter, as it blamed Most experts say iPhone sales will get Failed strut caused many recent iPhone buyers are people the first three months of 2015, Apple weak sales in China and lower demand another bump when Apple releases new who switched from Android phones. reaped 92 percent of the $16.6 billion in for high-end Android phones. models this fall. Analysts say a majority of Some consumers were drawn to operating profit generated from smart- Microsoft, meanwhile, is cutting iPhone owners are still using older mod- Android devices in recent years because phones by companies around the world. 7,600 jobs and writing down the value els, such as the iPhone 4 or 5. As a result, SpaceX rocket blast: they had bigger screens, but Apple’s Samsung sold more phones than of its Nokia phone division by $7.6 bil- they say, those users are likely to buy new decision to increase the iPhone’s screen Apple during that period, but many of lion, essentially acknowledging that its iPhones when their two-year wireless con- size is persuading Android owners to them were lower-priced models, giving effort to build a business selling tracts expire. The picture isn’t quite as rosy CEO Elon Musk defect, said Ryan Reith, who tracks Samsung only about 15 percent of the Windows smartphones had failed. for some other Apple products. Sales of smartphone sales for the research firm industry’s operating profits, according to Microsoft also reports earnings late yes- the once-vaunted iPad tablet computer IDC. Walkley. He estimates other companies terday. have been declining for several quarters. MIAMI: The explosion last month of feet (60 centimeters) long and an inch Apple likely sold about 47 million operated their smartphone business at a Although each company has its own And while the company says demand for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was caused thick, and were furnished to SpaceX iPhones during the most recent quarter, loss or broke even. issues, experts say smartphone sales are the Apple Watch is strong, analysts have by a failed support piece, or strut, that by an outside supplier. or 34 percent more than a year earlier, slowing in many developed countries produced estimates that range from bull- allowed a helium bottle to burst free “We are not going to use these par- according to analysts polled by FactSet. APPLE’S RIVALS because most people already own one. ish to lackluster. Though Apple has often inside the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank, ticular struts in the future,” Musk said, Apple sold about 18.2 percent of all IDC is forecasting an 11 percent increase trumpeted sales results for new products, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. adding that the company plans to HUGELY PROFITABLE the smartphones worldwide in the first in global smartphone sales this year, but Cook has said he doesn’t want to reveal “One of those struts broke free dur- begin individually testing each strut At an average selling price of more quarter of 2015, while Samsung had that’s down from 28 percent in 2014. Apple Watch figures for competitive rea- ing flight,” Musk told reporters on a ahead of future launches. than $600, before carrier subsidies, 24.5 percent of the market, according to Phone makers using Google’s sons. Instead, Apple will lump revenue conference call to discuss the June 28 Musk said SpaceX would return to Apple’s phones are more expensive than IDC. But Samsung has said it expects a Android operating system will see even from the watch into its “Other Products” blast on what was supposed to be a flight with the Falcon 9 “no sooner many competing Android models, but drop in profit for the April-June quarter, slower growth of about 8.5 percent. But category, which includes the iPod media apparently because sales of its new IDC predicts iPhone sales will grow by 23 player, Apple TV streaming device and routine cargo mission to the than September.” He also said the they also provide more profit. While Apple doesn’t break out the Galaxy S6 models fell short of expecta- percent this year. Beats headphones. — AP International Space Station. “So the problem is not expected to delay the helium bottle would have shot to the company’s goal of sending astronauts top of the tank at high speed.” to space aboard its Dragon spaceship Musk noted that the findings are within the next two years. the preliminary results of a week long Musk, the billionaire cofounder of investigation by the California-based PayPal who also heads Tesla Motors, company. said that SpaceX had had a seven-year The accident caused NASA to lose record of safety in flight until the acci- $110 million in equipment bound for dent happened. the astronauts living in orbit, a US He admitted that SpaceX may have space agency spokesman told become “a little bit complacent,” and Congress earlier this month. that the blast offered an “important “Several hundred struts fly on every lesson” for the future. Falcon 9 vehicle, with a cumulative The explosion happened just over flight history of several thousand,” two minutes after the rocket blasted SpaceX said in a statement. off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The “The strut that we believe failed rocket failure was the third in a series was designed and material certified to of cargo disasters in the past eight handle 10,000 lbs (4,500 kilograms) of months. force, but failed at 2,000 lbs, a five- In October, US company Orbital’s fold difference. Detailed close-out Antares rocket exploded after launch photos of stage construction show no from Virginia, and in April, Russia lost visible flaws or damage of any kind.” contact with its Progress cargo ship The struts in question are each two shortly after liftoff.—AFP

Gun-firing ‘drone’ built

by US teen under probe MICHIGAN: A pedestrian crosses in front of a vehicle as part of a demonstration at Mcity. The 32-acre simulated city, complete with building facades, a roundabout, brick and gravel roads and other familiar features of urban driving, will be used to test driverless and connected vehicles.—AP NEW YORK: The Federal Aviation police could be reached for immedi- Administration said yesterday it was ate comment. investigating an online video that “The FAA will investigate the oper- Test city for autonomous cars shows an alleged home-made “drone” ation of an unmanned aircraft system firing a handgun in the Connecticut in a Connecticut park to determine if ANN ARBOR: Automakers and researchers say a new says other test sites in Sweden and Japan have some worth hundreds of kilometers of real-world driving, he countryside. any Federal Aviation Regulations simulated city at the University of Michigan could help of the same features, but the Michigan site is one of said, since it can take hours of real driving to come The 14-second video called “Flying were violated,” it said in a statement. speed the development of driverless and connected the most advanced autonomous vehicle testing upon a scenario that’s difficult for the car to handle. Gun” shows a homemade multi-rotor “The FAA will also work with its cars. grounds in the world. Automakers, high-tech compa- “In terms of the weird stuff, we can pack it all in in hovering off the ground, buzzing furi- law enforcement partners to deter- The 32-acre site on the university’s campus official- nies and university researchers will test car-to-car a very dense way,” he said. Hideki Hada, the general ously and firing a semiautomatic mine if there were any violations of ly opened Monday. The $10 million testing ground will communication systems, which could one day predict manager of integrated systems at Toyota Motor handgun four times at an unseen tar- criminal statutes.” But Haughwout’s be run by the Mobility Transformation Center, a part- accidents and stop cars before a mishap. They’ll also Corp.’s engineering campus in Ann Arbor, says Toyota get. father denied his son had built a nership between the university, state and federal gov- be testing semi-autonomous and driverless vehicles at also has a test city in Japan, but this is a neutral site It was posted on YouTube on July drone, which are pre-programmed, ernments and auto and technology companies. the site. Ryan Eustice, an associate professor of engi- that will allow it to make sure its cars can communi- 10 and has been watched around and said the device was manually The site has many familiar features of urban driv- neering at the University of Michigan, has been test- cate with cars from other automakers. He said Toyota 430,000 times. It was reportedly controlled. “You know what? Stop ing, including intersections, a railroad crossing, two ing driverless cars at the site with Ford Motor Co. since and other companies had input into what would be filmed by 18-year-old Austin using the wrong word. It’s not a roundabouts, brick and gravel roads and parking November, when the roads were paved but other fea- included at the site. One of his requests: Dirty, mud- Haughwout from Clinton, drone. It’s a quadcopter,” Newsweek spaces. Moveable building facades and fake pedestri- tures weren’t yet installed. splashed road signs, so that automakers can make Connecticut. quoted him as saying. “The media is ans can be altered for different kinds of tests. There’s a Eustice says the site allows researchers to be “maxi- sure their cameras can still read them. Sweatman said US media reports say Haughwout using... inappropriate terminology simulated highway entrance ramp. Two features - a mally evil” toward the car, putting it into all sorts of sit- the site will also leave a lot of snow on the ground in is studying for a degree in mechani- to try and create fear in the pub- metal bridge and a tunnel - will be a special challenge uations that can be quickly and easily repeated, like a the winter, so that automakers can make sure that the cal engineering. Neither he nor local lic.”—AFP for wireless signals and radar sensors. Peter Sweatman, model of a pedestrian obscured by a bus that walks cameras and radar used in driverless systems will still the director of the Mobility Transformation Center, out into traffic. Every kilometer of testing at the site is work in the snow. —AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Korea tourism fighting to recover from MERS SEOUL: The recent outbreak of the deadly MERS period in 2014. But then May 20 saw the first Hong Kong were down 76 percent and 75 per- announced a number of measures to re-boot virus in South Korea has left the country’s tourist diagnosis of a case of Middle East Respiratory cent respectively. “Because of the MERS out- tourism, including waiving visa fees for group industry in intensive care, with visitor numbers Syndrome (MERS), kicking off an outbreak that break, foreign tourists, including those from travelers from China and Southeast Asia. plunging more than 40 percent in June, accord- claimed 36 lives and triggered widespread panic China, shunned visiting this country last month”, The mayor of Seoul, Park Won-Soon, will trav- ing to data released yesterday. As the country at home and mass tour cancellations abroad. a KTO spokesman said, adding that the 2015 tar- el to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou early scrabbles to come up with promotional cam- With 186 confirmed cases, it was the largest get of 16.2 million tourists was in serious jeop- next month to talk to major travel agencies and paigns to lure the tourists back, officials are MERS outbreak outside Saudi Arabia. The num- ardy. persuade Chinese tourists that visiting South warning that the cost in lost revenue could be ber of tourists in June plunged 41 percent from Unless the arrival figures are turned around, Korea poses no residual health risk. The coun- close to $10 billion. a year earlier to 750,925, the Korea Tourism revenue losses could amount to as much as 108 try’s enormously popular K-pop industry has The year had started off well for the tourist Organization (KTO) said. The number of main- billion won ($9.3 billion). With no new MERS also been recruited, with stars signing up for a sector with the number of overseas arrivals in the land Chinese-the biggest spending visitors-was infections reported in more than two weeks, the series of promotional concerts and performanc- first five months up 10.7 percent from the same down 45 percent, while arrivals from Taiwan and state-run KTO and other officials have es both at home and abroad. — AP

Circus bears offered shelter from suffering in Romania

ZARNESTI, Romania: Circus bear Mura wound said Hancock. “They enjoy everything they up in the world’s biggest brown bear sanctuary need here.” The land was donated by the city of in the heart of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains Zarnesti, and has ample forest and ponds for after refusing to perform any longer, following the bears, who are fed once a day by staff. They five years of unbearable abuse. Caged, beaten can never re-enter the wild because they’ve and starved by their owners, 80 bears rescued lost many of their instincts and “would never be from captivity have been taken in to be healed able to survive alone in the forest, fight for a of trauma at the “Libearty” sanctuary, but the female, or for food,” Ciotlos said. process can be slow. So far, two million Euros ($2.2 million) have Mura for instance instinctively begins to been invested in the sanctuary, which wel- dance at mealtimes. “She’s still afraid she won’t comed more than 20,000 tourists in 2014 — be fed if she doesn’t dance,” Libearty guide about 60 percent of them foreigners. Brown Paula Ciotlos told AFP. After doing tricks for the bears are common in Romania, which has a Globus circus in Bucharest for five years, Mura population of around 6,000. In mountainous one day obstinately refused to keep perform- areas, female bears and their cubs often wan- ing and was finally handed over to the sanctu- der into villages to scavenge for food in trash ary by her owner. Set up in 2005, the 69- bins. hectare (170 acre) complex was itself the result of a storm of outrage caused by the plight of a A ‘nursery’ for orphan cubs self-mutilating bear named Maia, who hurt her- In another path breaking project, cubs sep- self in protest against the cruel conditions she arated from their mothers due to accident or was kept in, and who eventually died of her human action are being lodged in a “nursery” in wounds. “The establishment of this sanctuary the Hasmas Mountains, about 200 kilometers was inspired by Maia,” said Cristina Lapis, presi- north of Zarnesti. “A cub is very fragile and vul- dent of the “Millions of Friends” animal rights nerable until the age of two or three,” said the support group. project’s founder and animal lover Leonardo The first two bears at the sanctuary were Bereczky. He said they were protected but also Lidia and Cristi, who for seven years shared a encouraged to fend for themselves, especially small pen-measuring a mere five square meters to forage for food. “It is very important that the STOCKTON: In this May 18, 2015 file photo, Gino Celli, who relies on senior water rights to water his crops, checks the moisture of land just (yards) — by a restaurant whose clients cubs grow up far from human beings” before planted with corn seed he farms. — AP amused themselves by giving the animals beer. resuming a life in the wild, he said, adding that Their paws still bear traces of cuts from the so far about 100 cubs had been successfully glass bottles. All of the bears in the sanctuary released. Bereczky said the main threats for the have a “sad but educational” story, said Ciotlos. bears was the growing infiltration of man into California proposes historic their habitat, and deforestation. ‘Ideal environment for bears’ Ciotlos said some people also wanted to By opening its doors to tourists, though for turn them into pets. She said that between no more than three hours every day, the sanc- 1990 and 2000 a lot of restaurants in the $1.5m fine for taking water tuary hopes people will gain a new perspective Carpathian region displayed caged bears to on animals in captivity. British tourist John attract tourists, but those establishments are Fine reflects severity of four-year drought Hancock is one of the converted. He said he “no becoming rarer because Romania has passed longer wants” to see animals at the zoo after more restrictive laws in hopes of curbing SACRAMENTO: California regulators on Monday District general manager Rick Gilmore said he did Not retaliating seeing some of the effects of captivity first abuse. “Now there are no more than a dozen proposed a first-of-its-kind, $1.5 million fine for a not know a penalty was coming and wasn’t aware of The water board issued a cease-and-desist order hand. bears waiting to be rescued in Romania,” group of Central Valley farmers accused of illegally the details. The water that the state believes was tak- last week against the West Side Irrigation District to “This is the ideal environment for the bears,” Ciotlos said.— AFP taking water during the drought. It would be the en might have been supplemental supplies pur- immediately stop taking water. That district also had first such fine against an individual or district with chased by the district, he said. Andrew Tauriainen, a filed a lawsuit challenging the board’s cuts, but the claims to water that are more than a century-old, prosecutor for the water board, said there was no state says it’s not retaliating against the agency. known as senior water rights holders. Entities with indication the district had been taking such supple- Courts have not settled the question of whether those rights have long enjoyed immunity from cut- mental water from other sources before the alleged the board has authority to demand cuts from farmers, backs. diversions began. cities and individuals with California’s oldest claims to The fine reflects the rising severity of California’s The board has sent out more than 9,000 notices water. Until policy changes take effect next year, sen- four-year drought that has prompted the state to across the parched Central Valley warning of short ior rights holders must only report water use every demand cutbacks from even those who have been water supplies. Unexpected rainfall in Southern three years and aren’t required to meter consump- historically sheltered from mandatory conservation. California over the weekend hasn’t affected enforce- tion. They have strong incentives to fight any state- The State Water Resources Control Board said state ment. State inspectors have conducted about 1,200 ordered curtailments because they will likely see simi- data showed the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District in investigations in the past year but only took action on lar cuts in future dry years if they yield in this drought, the eastern San Francisco Bay Area diverted water two. Officials say Byron-Bethany was targeted said Jeffrey Michael, an economist at the University of from a pumping plant even after it was warned in because it was publicly defying the board and divert- the Pacific in Stockton. June that there wasn’t enough legally available. ing water. Meanwhile, some users keep drawing water State officials anticipate cracking down on more despite warnings by the state board. The San Running too dry districts and individuals this summer. “Our resources Francisco Public Utilities Commission intends to con- The district serves 160 farming families in three are somewhat limited here, and we are taking our tinue diverting water for city-operated Camp Mather counties in the agriculture-rich Central Valley and a cases as we can get them and as we can develop near Yosemite National Park unless it receives a cease- residential community of 12,000 people. It has sued them,” Tauriainen said. Byron-Bethany has 20 days to and-desist order, spokesman Tyrone Jue said. Board the state over the board’s June warning to immedi- request a hearing before the water board to contest officials said they could not confirm if San Francisco ately stop taking water because the watershed was the fine, although it’s unclear how long it could take was under investigation over the matter. This story running too dry to meet demand. The district esti- to resolve the case. The maximum penalty the five- has been corrected to show that Byron-Bethany ROMANIA: Bears are pictured at ‘Liberty’ bear rehabilitation center in Zarnesti city. —AFP mates its farmers will see a $65 million loss in crops member board could assess is $5 million, depending Irrigation District is in the eastern San Francisco Bay that include cherries, walnuts and grapes. on how the water was used. Area, not Tracy. — AP 83-year-old Belgian strives to Success seen in HIV prevention drugs realize Congo wildlife dream VANCOUVER: Despite evidence that taking well tolerated.” powerful anti-HIV drugs can help protect A Brazilian study of 509 men from 2014 to KOLWEZI: “I was already saying I’d go live the nation’s former masters, in the capital Early in 1963, the rebel province’s ized in 1967. Within days, the French uninfected partners from contracting the 2015 showed PrEP was well-received by in the Congo when I was nine or 10,” says Kinshasa and elsewhere. leader Moise Tshombe conceded defeat. Foreign Legion counter-attacked and virus that causes AIDS, the therapy is far from recipients, “though more education is need- Willem Boulanger, who after satisfying Boulanger was briefly evacuated to “The government soldiers came as con- claimed the mining town back from the becoming routinely prescribed, scientists said ed,” said Beatriz Grinsztejn, Instituto Pesq that dream is embarking at age 83 on Northern Rhodesia (today’s Zambia) but querors,” setting up roadblocks and fleec- rebels. Boulanger was evacuated to Monday. The practice, known as pre-expo- Clinica Evandro Chagas. She said the results, another-founding a game reserve near was barely back in Katanga when provin- ing locals, Boulanger recalls. Determined Belgium but quickly returned-this time sure prophylaxis, or PrEP, means that a which have yet to be finalized for publication, Kolwezi. Tall and tough, with a white cial leaders seceded from the newly born even then to relax at weekends, he without his wife, who wanted nothing healthy person who engages in sex with an will help Brazil decide whether to adopt PrEP moustache but only the slightest stoop, nation. Their State of Katanga was sup- founded a water-sports centre near more to do with the Congo. HIV-positive partner takes anti-retroviral as a standard public health measure. the crew-cut settler is full of tales of the ported by some Belgian politicians and Kolwezi that helped boost the local econ- drugs daily as a preventive measure to ward dramatic events that have taken place in foreign firms keen to keep a hold over omy when wealthy Congolese poured in ‘Blessed land’ off HIV. Risky lifestyles the Democratic Republic of Congo since the UMHK. Brussels never officially recog- to water-ski. By way of thanks, Boulanger “Congo has been a blessed land for Experts say the regime is effective, and Adverse reactions in one study included he made his home in southeast Katanga nized an independent Katanga, but pro- was made a “mwami”, acquiring the sta- me,” says Boulanger, who in time had a carries minimal side effects. “Pre-exposure just three reports of nausea, a headache, and province 56 years ago. Barely installed in vided assistance and sent troops. The tus of honorary tribal chief. In May 1978, daughter with a Congolese wife and con- prophylaxis (PrEP) is a game changer” in pre- weight loss, among 200 young men studied his adoptive homeland, Boulanger was United Nations urged Belgium to with- Katangese Tiger rebels opposed to siders himself “one of the last old venting the spread of HIV, said US researcher in 12 American cities, said Sybil Hosek of swept up in the unrest that followed draw and sent its own peacekeepers to Mobutu crossed from Angola to seize dinosaurs” to have stayed. Parked in front Chris Beyrer, co-chair of the International Stroger Hospital, Cook County, Illinois. Hosek independence. He fought alongside help the Congolese army. A former para- Kolwezi at the cost of several hundred of his home is his old Land Rover, which AIDS Society (IAS) science conference in this noted the men most likely to adhere to the Katangese forces trying to secede from troop officer, young Boulanger was civilian lives. “They wanted to take my sports a logo for the Manika wildlife western Canadian city. “The data is over- treatment regime were those with the most the Congo in the 1960s, and in the 1990s tasked by the UMHK with “providing Peugeot 504, but I had disabled it,” reserve, a pet project for Boulanger’s lat- whelming... it works when it’s taken.” risky lifestyles. witnessed the ethnic troubles that shat- security” by blowing up bridges and Boulanger says. “They took the ter years. With a lease on 16,000 hectares A study in Botswana of 229 heterosexual tered Katanga, in the last years of Mobutu fighting with Katanga’s army against the Gecamines car,” he adds, using the name (39,500 acres) of savanna, the white Sexual behavior people in high-risk lifestyles “observed no HIV Sese Seko’s long reign. UN troops. given to the UMHK once it was national- “mwami” plans to bring back a score of At the conference, scientists released transmission in the study,” said Faith In Bermuda shorts and walking boots, mammals that once roamed the region, results on PrEP in several small studies of peo- Henderson of the US Centers for Disease Boulanger spices his tales with humor, including leopards, warthogs, giraffes, ple at a high risk of contracting HIV, mostly Control and Prevention. Some 87 percent of recalling how as a boy in the Belgian city zebras, gnus and cheetahs. A visitors’ cen- due to sexual behavior, in Brazil, the United the women on Botswana adhered to the of Mons he was captivated as Roman tre was completed in 2010 not far from States, and Botswana. The research showed drug regime, she said, noting that is a high Catholic missionaries recounted their Kolwezi airport, but much work remains. that when PrEP is used correctly, it reduces rate compared to other measures aimed at adventures in Africa’s exotic heart. His Boulanger is fencing off a 4,000-hectare HIV infection and is well-tolerated. But several reducing HIV risk for women. African exploits began in 1959 when he part of the reserve with Guy Mukongi, a scientists said use of PrEP is far from becom- “Women and girls (constitute) half of all took a job with the Mining Union of young businessman who should succeed ing standard policy, and so remains an indi- people with HIV worldwide, and PrEP is much Upper Katanga (UMHK), a Belgian com- him one day. vidual decision for people considered at high needed,” Henderson told reporters. However, pany exploiting the fabulous wealth of “We need 100,000 dollars” (91,700 risk. The therapy is also relatively new. The US cost is an issue, and the pills can be too the copper belt. By September, he and his Euros) to finish the enclosure so the ani- Food and Drug Administration in 2012 expensive for some. Another key barrier is wife were setting up house in Kolwezi. He mals can be brought in,” says Boulanger. A approved use of the drug tenofovir (Truvada) making sure people take their pills daily, learned Swahili fast. “You must take an small lodge to accommodate tourists had for adults at high-risk, in combination with which can be challenge to maintain over interest (in local people), how to live with been built beside an artificial pond, but safe sex practices. time. “PrEP is not just for personal benefit,” them, understand their customs, respect this guesthouse was recently razed in a A San Francisco study of 557 men having said Peruvian scientist Carlos Caceres, a guest their beliefs,” he says. suspected arson attack. Undaunted, sex with men, and transgender people, editor for Journal of the International AIDS Boulanger plans to start over with fire- showed most followed the drug regime, Society. “We have to look at PrEP as a public ‘I was in heaven!’ proof materials. “We can do anything here,” while the two participants who did contract health consideration. Avoiding one infection He spent his weekends in the bush, he says, imagining a terrace on stilts in the HIV had very low levels of PrEP drugs in their in somebody who might infect someone else sitting by the fire “chatting about every- middle of the little lake where visitors system, reported Albert Liu of the San might avoid several (further) infections.” thing under the sun” with friendly tribal might relax with a drink after a day in the Francisco Department of Public Health. “Our Caceres added, “our (global) HIV response will elders. “I was in heaven!” But when the bush. Fired with enthusiasm, Boulanger results support strongly the scale-up of PrEP,” not be sustainable if the number of infections Congo won independence from Belgium KOLWEZI: Willem Boulanger, a Belgian living in Democratic Republic of even envisages offering guests hot-air bal- he told reporters. “The drugs appear to be is not significantly reduced.” — AFP on June 30, 1960, riots erupted against Congo, feeds a gazelle in his small zoo in the backyard of his house. — AFP loon trips over the reserve. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Coal plant proposed for Thai coast sparks outcry

BANGKOK: Plans to build an 800-megawatt coal state power authority has said it envisions building power plant near some of Thailand’s most popular nine coal power plants in the south over the next beaches have sparked protests and a hunger strike two decades. It had planned to begin the bidding by activists who say officials aren’t considering its process on this one in advance of the environmen- impact on the pristine environment that makes the tal review to save time, a government official said. area an international tourist destination. “I want to emphasize that this is totally legal and More than 100 members of the Save Andaman we will not sign any contract with the constructor from Coal Network this week staged a march and who wins the bid process until we pass” the envi- sit-in outside the prime minister’s office in the ronmental assessment, Anuchart Palakawong Na nation’s capital against plans to build the plant near Autthaya, head of environmental management for southern Thailand’s Andaman coast about 650 kilo- the project, told The Nation newspaper Monday. meters south of Bangkok. The tranquil Krabi Krabi remains Thailand’s second-largest area of sea province and its islands are famed for picturesque grass beds, which provide a feeding ground for the limestone cliffs and white sand beaches, one of near extinct dugongs, a manatee-like marine mam- which was the centerpiece of the Leonardo mal. It is also one of Thailand’s major tourist draws. DiCaprio film “The Beach.” Tourism to the provinces along the Andaman coast “If this power plant happens, southern Thailand generated more than 376 billion baht ($11 billion) will lose a lot,” said Krabi resident Akradej Chakjinda, in 2015, according to the Tourism Authority of who has fasted since July 10 in protest. Protesters Thailand. say the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Krabi and some of the islands off its coast are or EGAT, is pushing ahead with a bidding process known as Thailand’s most beautiful beaches, includ- for the plant and a seaport that would receive over- ing Koh Phi Phi, which rose to international promi- seas shipments of coal before an environmental nence after being featured in DiCaprio’s film. impact assessment has been completed. Plans to The Save Andaman from Coal Network, a loose launch the bidding process were delayed until next collaboration of environmental, agricultural, tourist month, which EGAT says is unrelated to the ongoing and other groups from southern provinces, began protests. demonstrations July 10 but say their demands which include a 3-year waiting period to see if the Critical energy infrastructure province can produce 100 percent renewable ener- The coal plant is part of a critical energy infra- gy - have been ignored. “I’ve seen the beauty of the structure that will provide Thailand with energy BANGKOK: In this Monday July 20, 2015 photo, a protester holds a placard outside the Prime Andaman Sea,” said Daodin Patavatto, a Buddhist security as natural gas reserves in the Gulf of Minister’s office in Bangkok during a demonstration opposing a proposed coal power plant in south- monk joining the protests. “The Andaman is not for Thailand dry up within 10 years, EGAT says. The ern Thailand. — AP one small group of people. It’s for everyone.” — AP

UAE’s NMC World mayors at Vatican seek Health to invest in Saudi, Qatar widespread climate solution

ABU DHABI: NMC Health, the London- ‘Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality’ listed and United Arab Emirates-based healthcare provider, plans to invest in VATICAN CITY: Dozens of mayors from around awareness about human trafficking. The Vatican Saudi Arabia and Qatar part of the $325 the world demanded yesterday that their nation- conference is aimed at showing how both are million which it has available for acquisi- al leaders take bold steps at the Paris climate related: The exploitation of the Earth and its most tions, a senior company official said yes- talks later this year, saying that may be the last vulnerable people, with global warming often terday. chance to keep the warming of the Earth at levels responsible for creating “environmental refugees” The company secured an $825 million safe for humanity. forced to flee homes because of drought or other loan from banks in February to pay debt Some 60 mayors selected because they sup- climate-induced natural disasters. and fund acquisitions; so far, $350 million port Pope Francis’ environmental message gath- “Addressing both these phenomenon, climate has been used to refinance debt and $150 ered yesterday at the Vatican for a two-day con- change and modern slavery, is a herculean task million for acquisitions. While it is looking ference to keep the pressure on world leaders for us as city administrators,” said Tony at acquisition targets in the UAE and the ahead of the Paris negotiations in December. Chammany, the mayor of Kochi, India. developed world, its first cross-border Francis last month released an environmental The final declaration calls for financial incen- expansions in the Gulf will be in Saudi encyclical that denounced what he calls a fossil tives to transition from using fossil fuels to using Arabia and Qatar. fuel-based world economy that exploits the poor low-carbon and renewable energies and to shift “We are awaiting approvals for invest- and destroys the Earth. public financing away from the military to ments in the healthcare sectors of Saudi The mayors are expected to sign a declaration “urgent investments” in sustainable develop- and Qatar that could happen soon,” later yesterday that states that “human-induced ment, with wealthy countries helping poorer Prasanth Manghat, deputy chief execu- climate change is a scientific reality and its effec- ones. tive, told Reuters. “We have two years to tive control is a moral imperative for humanity,” And it says political leaders have a “special use the remaining facility of $325 million according to the final declaration seen by The responsibility” at the Paris talks to approve a and a lot of assets are available,” he added, Associated Press. In his remarks to the meeting, “bold climate agreement that confines global without giving details. NMC will enter any New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced warming to a limit safe for humanity, while pro- Gulf market if it sees unfilled demand and new greenhouse gas emissions targets for the tecting the poor and the vulnerable from ongo- potential for growth, while it will continue Big Apple and urged other cities to follow suit. ing climate change that gravely endangers their to buy small assets in the UAE, Manghat lives.” Drawing rousing applause in one of the said. It is also looking to increase its capa- World attention opening speeches, California Gov Jerry Brown bilities in the UAE through acquisitions in “The Paris summit is just months away,” De denounced global warming deniers who he said the developed world, where it can obtain Blasio said. “We need to see it as the finish line of are “bamboozling” the public and politicians with knowledge and technology. a sprint, and take every local action we can in the false information to persuade them that the VATICAN CITY: Victim of forced labor Anna Laura Perez Jaimes shows a white paper as she “We are looking at some international coming months to maximize the chance that our world isn’t getting warmer. delivers her speech in the Synod Hall to attend a conference on Modern Slavery and players,” Manghat said, without elaborat- national governments will act boldly.” De Blasio is Climate Change at the Vatican. — AP ing. NMC has made four acquisitions since a founding member of an alliance of cities Climate deniers February, using part of its bank loan as around the world that have committed to reduc- Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian, urged the of the world’s leaders in using renewable energy are key to reducing global warming since urban well as its own cash. It bought 86.4 per- ing their emissions by 80 percent by 2050 or mayors to not be complacent in opposing cli- sources, with 75 percent of the city’s public trans- areas account for nearly three-quarters of human cent of Spanish fertility centre Clinica sooner. He said New York was taking an interim mate deniers. California has enacted the tough- port network runs on renewable energy. emissions. In addition to the climate declaration, Eugin for an enterprise value of 143 mil- step, committing to reducing its emissions by 40 est greenhouse gas emissions standards in North Wanngaard’s goal is to make the Swedish capital mayors will be asked to sign a statement against lion Euros ($155 million), and all of UAE- percent by 2030. America. “We have a very powerful opposition fossil fuel-free by 2040. human trafficking that was first penned by reli- based ProVita International Medical The climax of yesterday’s inaugural session that, at least in my country, spends billions on “Climate negotiators must dare to push gious leaders at the Vatican last year. The confer- Centre for $160.6 million. In April, it was an afternoon audience with Pope Francis, trying to keep from office people such as your- boundaries and exclude fossil fuels as an option ence opened with two tearful testimonies by bought two healthcare service providers who has become a hero to the environmental selves and elect troglodytes and other deniers of and reward solutions that are long-term sustain- Mexican women who were trafficked for prostitu- in the UAE, Americare Group and Dr. movement and has used his moral authority and the obvious science,” he said. able and renewable,” she said. tion and forced labor. “We are human beings,” Sunny Healthcare Group, for a total of enormous popularity to focus world attention on Stockholm Mayor Karin Wanngaard said the Other mayors attending hail from Boston; said Ana Laura Perez Jaimes, who told of the 600 $100 million. — Reuters climate change and its effects on the poor. Paris talks must take fossil fuels off the table and Boulder, Colorado; Oslo, Norway; San Francisco scars across her body she suffered when forced Francis’ other main priority has been to raise focus on other energy sources. Stockholm is one and Vancouver. Experts have long said that cities to work as a slave. —AP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

LOYAC’s ‘Service is My Joy’ program

ithin its ‘Service is W My Joy’ program, LOYAC recently organized a project to help students unleash their cre- ativity in tourism, elec- tronic waste recycling and health. Commenting on the program, LOYAC’s vol- untary programs’ manager Yosra Al-Essa said that the electronic waste recycling program focused on recy- cling electric devices by donating used ones to over 50 needy families while the touristic commit- tee focuses on highlight- ing touristic landmarks in Kuwait and the health committee focused on children sound nutrition. OSN to enthrall young fans at Kuwait’s Avenues Mall

SN, the region’s leading pay-TV Onetwork, is bringing all the excite- ment associated with some of the world’s most-loved cartoon characters with the live appearance of SpongeBob Square Pants at Avenues Mall, Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 23, 2015. Assuring an action-packed day, youngsters will have the opportunity to meet and greet with SpongeBob, take a picture with their favorite characters and participate in an assortment of SpongeBob and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles entertainment activi- ties in a specially created fun zone in the mall. Steve Copestake, SVP Marketing at OSN, said: “The event in Kuwait highlights OSN’s commitment not only to deliver premium family entertainment but also to engage our young fans with real-world experiences that add to their curiosity and social skills. Being able to engage with customers at live events helps them truly experience the OSN difference. This is the first of many family events we’re bringing to Kuwait this year.” Nickelodeon HD, which is available only on OSN in the region, features back- to-back episodes of SpongeBob Square Pants and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) starting from 3.20pm KWT. New episodes of TMNT begin from July 17. In addition, the popular American super- hero, Henry Danger, premieres from August 16. Plus, little ones can live stream all the action in Arabic on OSN Play and watch their favourite Nickelodeon shows anytime, anywhere. For more information on all upcoming OSN events and the event at Avenues Mall in Kuwait, please visit www.osn.com/meetus

Koyilandykoottam Kuwait Chapter holds Iftar party

oyilandykoottam KKuwait chapter held their Iftar Party last week of Ramadan at the Empire Auditorium Abbasiya to mark the Holy Month. Kuwait Chapter Advisory Board Member Rajagopal Edavalath inau- gurated the iftar get-together in a meeting chaired by Illyas Bahassan (President - Kuwait Chapter). Abdul Naser Muttil delivered a speech on the significance of Ramadan, while Advisory Board members Raoof Mashoor, K Aboobacker, Gafoor Moodadi and Shahid Siddiq Hassan, Chairman - Kuwait chapter felici- tated the occasion. Gen Secretary Shahul Beypore welcomed the gathering as Treasurer Shahoor Ali proposed the vote of Thanks. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

McDonald’s introduces Banana Sundae

cDonald’s Kuwait is offering an exciting Maddition to its desserts menu, with its Minions-inspired Banana Sundae. The new innovation brings together McDonald’s classic vanilla ice cream, topped with yummy banana sauce, and finished off with crunchy chocolate cereal bits. The Banana Sundae is available in all McDonald’s Kuwait stores starting from the now till the 14th of August. “We are delighted to offer this refreshing new treat to our customers, adding to our wide offering of summer perfect desserts. The Banana Sundae brings a fun experience with a new flavor and crunch for our customers to enjoy inspired by one of the biggest movies of the summer,” said Sherif Coutry, Marketing Director at McDonald’s Kuwait. For more information and to play the exciting Banana Sundae game, visit www.mcdonaldsara- bia.com. You can also visit McDonald’s ‘Your Right to Know’ platform on the website to ask any ques- tions you might have about the brand or the food Hussa Al Humaidhi Dalya Mousa it serves in the GCC, and get factual responses. Nuqat, Art Jameel launch annual Art Jameel Photography Award

uqat, a non-profit organization for creative edu- conceptual, cultural, economic, personal or even techni- reassures our will as Nuqat, to constantly collaborate Ncation based in Kuwait, is pleased to collaborate cal perspectives. Photographers from different fields are with like-minded entities to compliment our mission of with Art Jameel, an initiative of Abdul Latif encouraged to enter. In 2013 the competition was constantly evolving Arabian talent, Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) on launching the opened to residents of all nationalities living in Saudi Dalya Mousa, Art Jameel Program Manager, said: 6th annual Art Jameel Photography Award (AJPA). The Arabia and this year is accepting submissions from “This year we are expanding the competition to include award seeks to discover talented photographers and across the GCC countries. artistic talent from the entire Gulf region, which marks a help them develop their skills and exhibit exceptional As part of the award, entrants will be invited to work- really exciting expansion of the Art Jameel Photography photography. For the first time, this year’s competition shops led by experienced and internationally known Award and recognizes the abundance of talent we have is open to nationals and residents across the GCC, hav- photographers and experts held in Saudi Arabia, Oman, in our region. The competition offers the opportunity ing previously been open to only those residents in the UAE and Kuwait between August and November for these talents to receive training from some of the Saudi Arabia. 2015. The winners will be announced at an Awards best in the field and to have their work exhibited profes- The theme of the Art Jameel Photography competi- Ceremony in December 2015. Hussa Al Humaidhi, a sionally.” Applications opened on 1st July and will close tion this year is ‘Transitions’, reflecting today’s changing founding member of Nuqat said: “As Art Jameel part- on 31st October 2015. Submissions can be made via the society. Male and female entrants of 18 years and above ners with Nuqat on this competition, we will be hosting competition website - www.ajpa.artjameel.org. The are required to produce a single photograph, or series a workshop and an exhibition during our upcoming competition is open to women and men of 18 years and of photographs that capture transitions from social, Nuqat conference in November 2015. This partnership above. Costa Coffee’s #30Ramadandeeds campaign

s Ramadan comes to an end so perform to make the month a better Adoes Costa Coffee’s place for all. This campaign is part of the #30Ramadandeeds campaign. British coffee brands continuing efforts This year, instead of sending out gifts to to engage the community in acts of individuals, Costa Coffee focused on the kindess. Since its acquisition by spirit of Ramadan and gave out a deck of Alghanim Industries, Costa Coffee has good deed cards to each of their cus- focused as much on engagement as it tomers. The deeds - ranging from giving has on opening new stores and making blood to pouring tea at futoor, were their special Mocha Italia blend more meant to inspire people to focus on the accessible to customers. little moments of good that they could WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

03:25 Doc Martin 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 04:20 Breathless 16:00 Emmerdale 05:15 Tom Daley Goes Global 16:30 Coronation Street 06:10 The Hungry Sailors 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:05 Coronation Street 19:00 Criminal Minds 00:10 Doctors 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 07:30 Doc Martin 20:00 Franklin & Bash 00:40 Eastenders Teenage Witch 08:25 Breathless 21:00 The Flash 01:10 Call The Midwife 01:40 Wolfblood 09:20 Peter Andreʼs 60 Minute 22:00 Backstrom 02:05 The Room At The Top 02:30 Violetta Makeover 23:00 Defiance 03:00 The Room At The Top 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 10:15 Brendanʼs Magical Mystery 03:50 Friday Night Dinner Teenage Witch Tour 04:15 The Weakest Link 04:10 Wolfblood 10:40 The Chase 05:00 The Green Balloon Club 05:00 Violetta 11:35 The Hungry Sailors 05:25 Mr Bloomʼs Nursery 05:50 Mouk 12:30 Tom Daley Goes Global 05:45 Show Me Show Me 06:00 Lolirock 13:25 Emmerdale 01:00 Good Morning America 06:05 Nina And The Neurons: In 06:25 Hank Zipzer 13:50 Brendanʼs Magical Mystery 03:00 Castle The Lab 06:50 Girl Meets World Tour 05:00 Good Morning America 06:20 The Green Balloon Club 07:15 H2O: Just Add Water 14:15 Coronation Street 07:00 Emmerdale 06:45 Mr Bloomʼs Nursery 07:40 Jessie 14:40 The Chase 07:30 Coronation Street 07:05 The Weakest Link 08:05 Wizards Of Waverly Place 15:35 Peter Andreʼs 60 Minute 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:50 Lorna Doone 08:55 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Makeover 09:00 Prison Break 08:45 Doctors Teenage Witch 16:30 Safe House 10:00 Emmerdale 09:15 Eastenders 09:45 Austin & Ally 17:25 Hiding 10:30 Coronation Street 09:45 Call The Midwife 10:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 18:20 Tom Daley Goes Global 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:40 A Farmerʼs Life For Me 11:25 Jessie 19:10 Coronation Street 12:00 24 11:30 The Weakest Link 12:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 19:35 Peter Andreʼs 60 Minute 13:00 Greyʼs Anatomy 12:15 Friday Night Dinner Teenage Witch Makeover 14:00 Live Good Morning America 12:40 The Vicar Of Dibley 12:40 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 20:30 Safe House 16:00 Prison Break 13:10 Call The Midwife Teenage Witch 21:25 Hiding 17:00 24 14:05 A Farmerʼs Life For Me 13:05 Good Luck Charlie 22:20 Coronation Street 18:00 Greyʼs Anatomy 14:55 Friday Night Dinner 13:30 Good Luck Charlie 22:50 Emmerdale 19:00 Prison Break 15:20 The Vicar Of Dibley 13:55 Dog With A Blog 23:15 Tom Daley Goes Global 20:00 24 15:50 Doctors 14:25 H2O: Just Add Water 21:00 Greyʼs Anatomy 16:20 Eastenders 14:55 Lolirock 23:00 The Voice 16:50 The Weakest Link 15:25 Austin & Ally 17:35 The Vicar Of Dibley 16:00 Jessie 18:05 Call The Midwife 16:30 Jessie 19:00 Doctors 17:00 Cinderella III: A Twist In Time 00:00 Blowdown 19:30 Eastenders 18:15 Dog With A Blog 01:00 80s: The Decade That Made 20:00 Starlings 18:40 Liv And Maddie Us 00:00 The Sanctuary 20:45 Starlings 19:30 Lolirock 02:00 Mega Factories 02:00 The Ring Two 21:30 Uncle 19:55 Hank Zipzer 03:00 Inside 04:00 Rage 22:00 Spooks 20:20 Binny And The Ghost 04:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 06:00 Kill Em All 22:55 Live At The Apollo 20:45 H2O: Just Add Water 05:00 Dead End Express 08:00 Reign Of Fire 23:40 The Weakest Link 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 06:00 Breakout 09:45 Pacific Rim 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 07:00 Ancient Secrets: Witch 12:00 Kill Em All 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Hunterʼs Bible 14:00 The Sanctuary Teenage Witch 08:00 Blowdown 16:00 Reign Of Fire 23:10 Wolfblood 09:00 80s: The Decade That Made 18:00 500 mph Storm 23:35 Wolfblood Us 19:45 Pacific Rim 22:00 Red Sky 00:25 Rachel Khooʼs Kitchen 10:00 Mega Factories Notebook: London 11:00 Wild Florida 00:50 Masterchef: The 12:00 Wild Hawaii Professionals 13:00 Predator CSI 01:45 Antiques Roadshow 14:00 Going Deep With David 03:25 Extreme Makeover: Home 00:00 Escape Club Rees Edition Specials 00:55 Extreme Close-Up 15:00 My Dog Ate What? 00:00 The Ring Two-PG15 04:45 MasterChef 01:25 Keeping Up With The 16:00 Cesar To The Rescue 02:00 Rage-PG15 05:40 Extreme Makeover: Home Kardashians 17:00 The Known Universe 04:00 Kill Em All-PG15 Edition Specials 02:20 Giuliana & Bill 18:00 Naked Science 06:00 Reign Of Fire-PG15 07:00 Antiques Roadshow 03:15 Christina Milian Turned Up 19:00 My Dog Ate What? 07:45 Pacific Rim-PG15 07:50 Masterchef: The 04:10 The E! True Hollywood Story 20:00 Cesar To The Rescue 10:00 Kill Em All-PG15 Professionals 05:05 THS 12:00 The Sanctuary-PG15 08:45 Extreme Makeover: Home 14:00 Reign Of Fire-PG15 Edition Specials 06:00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 16:00 500 mph Storm-PG15 10:05 Antiques Roadshow 17:45 Pacific Rim-PG15 10:55 Rachel Khooʼs Kitchen 07:50 Style Star 08:20 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 20:00 Red Sky-PG15 Notebook: London 22:00 Mercenaries-PG15 11:25 Bargain Hunt 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 12:10 Masterchef: The 10:15 Giuliana & Bill Stewart Professionals 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 01:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 12:35 Come Dine With Me 11:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills Wilmore 13:00 Rachel Khooʼs Kitchen 12:05 New Money 01:30 Modern Family Notebook: London 12:35 New Money 02:00 Modern Family 13:25 Extreme Makeover: Home 13:05 Fashion Bloggers 02:30 Parks And Recreation 00:00 The Life Aquatic With Steve Edition Specials 13:35 Fashion Bloggers 03:00 Cristela Zissou 14:45 Masterchef: The 14:05 Extreme Close-Up 03:30 Cougar Town 02:00 Imogene Professionals 14:30 Style Star 04:00 Hot In Cleveland 04:00 Mafia! 15:40 Antiques Roadshow 15:00 Kourtney And Khloe Take 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Raising Helen 16:30 Masterchef: The The Hamptons Jimmy Fallon 08:00 Vamps Professionals 16:00 Kourtney And Khloe Take 05:30 My Name Is Earl 10:00 The Life Aquatic With Steve 17:00 Come Dine With Me The Hamptons 06:00 My Boys Zissou 17:25 Antiques Roadshow 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 06:30 Community 12:00 Imogene 18:15 DIY SOS: The Big Build 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 14:00 For Better Or For Worse 19:10 Masterchef: The 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 18:00 E! News 08:00 Hot In Cleveland 16:00 Vamps Professionals 08:30 My Name Is Earl 20:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 19:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 18:00 The Last Shot DARK SKIES ON OSN MOVIES HD Edition Specials 20:00 Christina Milian Turned Up 09:00 Cristela 20:00 High Fidelity 21:20 Tareq Taylorʼs Nordic 20:30 Christina Milian Turned Up 09:30 Wilfred 22:00 She Wants Me 11:00 At Middleton-PG15 10:00 Fantastic Four: Rise Of The 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress Cookery 21:00 Keeping Up With The 10:00 The Mindy Project 13:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film- Silver Surfer-PG 03:40 Brides Of Beverly Hills 21:50 MasterChef Kardashians 10:30 Community PG15 12:00 Run For Your Wife-PG15 04:30 Cake Boss 22:40 Extreme Makeover: Home 22:00 E! News 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 14:45 The Butler-PG15 14:00 Hellboy: Blood & Iron-PG 05:00 Little People, Big World Edition Specials 23:00 House Of DVF Jimmy Fallon 17:00 The Last Days On Mars- 16:00 No Clue-PG15 05:30 Extreme Couponing 12:00 My Boys PG15 18:00 Lockout-PG15 06:00 Say Yes To The Dress 12:30 Hot In Cleveland 01:00 Atlas Shrugged Part 2: The 19:00 The Monuments Men-PG15 20:00 Breakout-PG15 06:25 Cake Boss 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 13:00 My Name Is Earl Strike-PG15 21:00 Jersey Boys-PG15 22:00 Buried-PG15 07:15 Say Yes To The Dress 03:20 Calimero 13:30 Community 03:00 What Maisie Knew-PG15 23:15 Malavita-PG15 08:05 Oprah Prime 03:35 Zou 14:00 Cougar Town 05:00 Heavenʼs Door-PG 08:55 Oprah Presents: Master Class 03:45 Loopdidoo 14:30 Wilfred 07:00 Ashes-PG15 04:00 Art Attack 00:20 Fast Nʼ Loud 09:45 Cake Boss 15:00 The Mindy Project 09:00 The Good Witchʼs Wedding- 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 01:10 Walking The Nile 00:00 Chopped 10:10 Little People, Big World 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon PG15 04:35 Calimero 02:00 Dual Survival 01:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 02:00 NRL Full Time 10:35 Extreme Couponing Stewart 11:00 Heavenʼs Door-PG 04:50 Zou 02:50 Asphalt Cowboys 02:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 02:30 The Rugby Championship 11:00 Toddlers & Tiaras 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 13:00 Yellow Rock-PG15 05:00 Loopdidoo 03:40 The Liquidator 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 01:00 Happy Feet Highlights 11:50 Something Borrowed, Wilmore 15:00 A Promise-PG15 05:15 Art Attack 04:05 Storage Wars Canada 05:00 Chopped 02:45 True Story Of Pussʼn Boots 07:00 Golfing World Something New 16:30 My Boys 17:00 The Good Witchʼs Wedding- 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 04:30 Game Of Pawns 06:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 04:15 The Adventures Of Rocky 08:00 Gillette World Sport 12:15 Something Borrowed, 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers PG15 05:50 Calimero 05:00 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 07:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin And Bullwinkle 17:00 World Match Racing Tour Something New 18:00 Cristela 19:00 The Trials Of Cate McCall- 06:00 Zou 05:30 How Do They Do It? 08:00 Chopped 06:00 Sir Billi Highlights 12:40 Cake Boss 18:30 Cougar Town PG15 06:15 Loopdidoo 06:00 Edge Of Alaska 09:00 The Big Eat... 07:45 Hammer Boy 19:00 Inside The PGA Tour 13:30 Bride By Design 19:00 2 Broke Girls 21:00 Upside Down-PG15 06:25 Limon And Oli 06:50 Bike Battles 10:00 The Kitchen 09:45 Luke And Lucy: The Texas 19:30 European Tour Weekly 14:20 Curvy Brides 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 23:00 The Mule-18 06:35 Art Attack 07:40 Fast Nʼ Loud 11:00 The Pioneer Woman Rangers 20:00 Trans World Sport 15:10 Cake Boss Jimmy Fallon 07:00 Calimero 08:30 The Liquidator 12:00 Chopped 11:30 The Olsen Gang In Deep 21:00 Live Darts World Match Play 15:35 Little People, Big World 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 07:10 Zou 08:55 Storage Wars Canada 13:00 Guyʼs Big Bite Trouble 16:00 Toddlers & Tiaras Stewart 07:25 Minnie’s Bow Toons 09:20 Game Of Pawns 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 True Story Of Pussʼn Boots 16:50 Say Yes To The Dress 21:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 07:30 Jake And The Never Land 09:45 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 15:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 14:30 Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs & A 18:05 Extreme Couponing Wilmore Pirates 10:10 How Do They Do It? 16:00 Chopped Baby 18:30 Brides Of Beverly Hills 22:00 Modern Family 02:00 Carrington 00:00 The Rugby Championship 07:55 Sofia The First 10:35 Walking The Nile 17:00 The Kitchen 16:00 Vampire Dog 19:20 Oprah Prime 23:00 Parks And Recreation 04:30 The Magic Of Belle Isle Highlights 08:20 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 11:25 Dual Survival 18:00 Grandmaʼs Secret Cookbook 18:00 Luke And Lucy: The Texas 20:10 Cake Boss 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:45 Not Fade Away 03:00 Live WWE Tough Enough 08:45 Loopdidoo 12:15 Asphalt Cowboys Special Rangers 20:35 Cake Boss 09:00 The Portrait Of A Lady 07:00 World Match Racing Tour 08:55 Limon And Oli 13:05 The Liquidator 19:00 Chopped 20:00 A Turtleʼs Tale 2: Sammyʼs 21:00 Obsessive Compulsive 11:30 Salinger Highlights 09:10 Doc McStuffins 13:30 Storage Wars Canada 20:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin Escape From Paradise Cleaners 14:00 Up Close And Personal 08:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 09:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 13:55 Game Of Pawns 21:00 Chopped South Africa 22:00 Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs & A 21:50 My Crazy Obsession 16:30 1911 09:00 Golfing World 10:00 Sofia The First 14:20 Siberian Cut 22:00 Kitchen Casino Baby 22:15 My Crazy Obsession 18:30 Grand Piano 19:00 WWE Vintage 10:25 Nina Needs To Go 15:10 Bike Battles 23:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:00 Red Band Society 23:30 Vampire Dog 22:40 Extreme Cheapskates 20:30 Cloud Atlas 21:00 PGA Tour Highlights 10:30 Jake And The Neverland 16:00 Fast Nʼ Loud 01:00 The Flash 23:30 Northern Soul Pirates 16:50 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 02:00 The Americans 10:55 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 17:15 How Do They Do It? 03:00 Defiance The Whirlpool 17:40 Gold Rush 04:00 State Of Affairs 11:20 Doc McStuffins 18:30 Unchained Reaction 05:00 Criminal Minds 11:45 Henry Hugglemonster 19:20 The Carbonaro Effect 00:10 The Chase 06:00 Red Band Society 00:00 Ong Bak 3-PG15 00:00 ICC WT20 Qualifier H/L : Play 03:20 Total Drama World Tour 12:00 Henry Hugglemonster 19:45 Magic Of Science 01:05 The Hungry Sailors 09:00 Criminal Minds 01:00 Dark Skies-PG15 02:00 Run For Your Wife-PG15 off 2 04:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 12:15 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 20:10 Storage Wars Canada 02:00 Emmerdale 10:00 State Of Affairs 03:00 Playing For Keeps-PG15 04:00 Killer Reality-PG15 01:00 Live Caribbean Premier Spinjitzu 12:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 20:35 Game Of Pawns 02:25 Brendanʼs Magical Mystery 11:00 The Flash 05:00 Last Passenger-PG15 06:00 Marvelʼs Hulk vs. Thor & League : Guyana v Trinidad & Tobago 04:50 Teen Titans Go! 13:00 Sofia The First 21:00 Mythbusters Tour 12:00 Emmerdale 07:00 Belle-PG15 Wolverine-PG 07:00 Live BAN v SA, 1st Test, Day 2 05:10 Grojband 13:25 Loopdidoo 21:50 The Carbonaro Effect 02:55 Coronation Street 12:30 Coronation Street 09:00 The Last Days On Mars- 08:00 No Clue-PG15 15:00Caribbean Premier League H/L: 06:00 Regular Show Guyana v Trinidad & Tobago 06:40 Uncle Grandpa 13:40 Limon And Oli 16:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 28 07:00 Adventure Time 13:50 Cars Toons 07:25 Steven Universe 13:55 Jake And The Never Land 07:45 The Amazing World Of Pirates Gumball 14:20 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 08:10 Ben 10 The Whirlpool 08:55 Ninjago Master Of 14:45 Messages From Miles 00:00 Storage Wars Spinjitzu New 14:50 Doc McStuffins 01:00 Storage Wars Texas 09:15 Regular Show 15:15 Sofia The First 02:00 Barryʼd Treasure 09:40 The Amazing World Of 15:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 02:30 Barryʼd Treasure Gumball 16:05 Nina Needs To Go 03:00 Storage Wars 10:00 Uncle Grandpa 16:10 Lilo & Stitch 04:00 Duck Dynasty 10:12 Uncle Grandpa 16:35 Adventures Of The Gummi 05:00 American Pickers 10:25 Total Drama World Tour Bears 06:00 American Restoration 11:10 Adventure Time 17:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 06:30 American Restoration 11:30 Johnny Test Rangers 07:00 Mountain Men 12:15 Teen Titans Go! 17:25 Ducktales 08:00 Ax Men 12:27 Teen Titans Go! 17:50 Jake And The Never Land 09:00 Shark Wranglers 12:40 Regular Show Pirates 10:00 Ice Road Truckers 13:25 Clarence 18:00 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 11:00 Counting Cars 13:45 Uncle Grandpa The Whirlpool 11:30 Counting Cars 14:10 Grojband 18:25 Messages From Miles 12:00 American Restoration 14:30 Total Drama: All Stars 18:30 Sofia The First 13:00 Storage Wars 14:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 18:55 Nina Needs To Go 13:30 Storage Wars 15:40 Ninjago Master Of 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 14:00 Pawn Stars Spinjitzu New Pirates 14:30 Pawn Stars 16:00 Matt Hatter New 19:30 Loopdidoo 15:00 Shipping Wars 16:25 Steven Universe 19:45 Doc McStuffins 15:30 Shipping Wars 16:45 Teen Titans Go! 20:00 Adventures Of The Gummi 16:00 Storage Wars Texas 17:10 The Amazing World Of Bears 16:30 Storage Wars Texas Gumball 20:30 Sofia The First 17:00 Barryʼd Treasure 17:30 Regular Show 20:55 Cars Toons 17:30 Barryʼd Treasure 18:15 Adventure Time 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 18:00 American Pickers 18:40 Johnny Test Rangers 19:00 Storage Wars 19:25 Clarence 21:25 Ducktales 19:30 Storage Wars 19:45 Uncle Grandpa 21:50 Lilo & Stitch 20:00 Ax Men 20:10 Teen Titans Go! 22:15 Zou 21:00 Pawn Stars 20:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 22:30 Art Attack 21:30 Pawn Stars 21:40 Adventure Time 22:55 Limon And Oli 22:00 Alone 22:02 Adventure Time 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 23:00 Mountain Men 22:13 Adventure Time 23:20 Calimero 22:25 Johnny Test 23:35 Zou 23:10 Regular Show 23:50 Loopdidoo 23:55 Total Drama World Tour 00:05 Art Attack 00:20 Total Drama World Tour 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 00:40 Grojband 00:45 Calimero 00:20 My Strange Addiction 01:05 Grojband 01:00 Zou 00:45 New Body, New Style 01:25 Teen Titans Go! 01:15 Loopdidoo 01:35 Extreme Cheapskates 01:50 Regular Show 01:30 Art Attack PACIFIC RIM ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 02:00 90 Days To Wed 02:35 Johnny Test 01:55 Henry Hugglemonster Classifieds

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Directorate General of Civil Aviation Home Page (www.kuwait-airport.com.kw)

Arrival Flights on Wednesday 22/7/2015 Departure Flights on Wednesday 22/7/2015 Airlines Flt Route Time Airlines Flt Route Time QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 AIC 988 Hyderabad/Chennai 00:05 THY 772 Istanbul 00:15 BBC 044 Dhaka 00:10 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 JZR 562 Sohag 00:20 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 UAL 981 IAD 00:25 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:25 JAD 301 Amman 00:45 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 FDB 072 Dubai 00:45 JAI 574 Mumbai 01:30 JAD 302 Amman 01:30 CLX 784 Luxembourg 01:30 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 THY 773 Istanbul 02:05 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:40 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:50 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 CLX 784 GYD 02:55 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:50 JAI 525 Abu Dhabi/Chennai 02:55 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KKK 6507 Istanbul 02:15 KKK 6508 Istanbul 03:10 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 KKK 719 Bursa 03:30 MSC 404 Sohag 03:30 KKK 718 Istanbul 02:25 OMA 644 Muscat 03:35 MSC 403 Sohag 02:30 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 OMA 643 Muscat 02:35 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 QTR 1076 Doha 03:05 FDB 068 Dubai 04:00 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:05 CEB 7694 Manila 03:10 QTR 1077 Doha 04:05 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 SYR 342 Damascus 04:25 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 CEB 7695 Manila 04:40 SYR 341 Latakia/KAC 03:25 PGT 861 Istanbul 04:45 KAC 1544 Cairo 03:35 THY 765 Istanbul 04:55 THY 1464 Istanbul 03:55 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 PGT 860 Istanbul 04:05 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:15 THY 1465 Istanbul 05:55 THY 770 Istanbul 04:40 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 THY 5582 Bursa 05:05 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 JZR 240 Amman 06:55 BAW 157 London 06:35 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 KAC 288 Dhaka 06:55 BAW 156 London 08:30 JZR 503 Luxor 07:20 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 KAC 539 Sharm el-Sheikh 08:50 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:45 KAC 117 New York 08:55 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 KAC 204 Lahore 07:50 KAC 1801 Cairo 09:00 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:55 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 352 Kochi 07:55 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 KAC 619 Doha 09:30 KAC 154 Istanbul 08:10 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 KAC 342 Chennai 08:15 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:40 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 KAC 362 Colombo 08:30 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:00 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:10 GBB 4762 Sarajevo 10:05 NIA 261 Alexandria 09:10 NIA 262 Luxor 10:10 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:15 KAC 511 Mashhad 10:20 IRA 665 Shiraz 09:25 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:25 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 I, Kalimuddin S/o KAC 350 Kochi 09:40 CHANGE OF NAME QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 Fakhruddin Dadukawala GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 holder of Indian Passport KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 11:15 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 Mohammad Rafi (old No. Z1851119 issued at MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 AXB 889 Mangalore/Bahrain 11:15 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 name) holder of Indian Kuwait on 09/05/2010 and JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 Passport No: M6713974, MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 741 Dammam 11:50 having Indian residence at JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 R/o No: 2: Mamandur, Via vajihi Mohalla VPO Partapur AGY 680 Alexandria 11:40 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 Renigunta (Mandalam), IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:45 KAC 103 London 12:10 Teh. Garhi Distt Banswara JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 Chittoor Dist. A.P. (Andhra Rajasthan India, change my IAW 157 Al Najaf 12:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 Pradesh) changed my name IZG 4167 Mashhad 12:30 name to Kalimuddin AXB 890 Mangalore 12:15 to Sayed Mohammad Rafi. JZR 241 Amman 12:30 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 Fakhruddin Dadukawala. SAW 701 Damascus 12:35 AGY 685 Sohag 12:40 (C 5011) (C 5010) IRC 6511 ABD 12:40 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 22-7-2015 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 IAW 158 Al Najaf 13:00 15-7-2015 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 12:45 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 IRM 1189 Mashhad 13:10 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 IZG 4168 Mashhad 13:30 Kuwait CLX 792 Luxembourg 13:15 SAW 702 Damascus 13:35 IRC 526 Mashhad 13:50 IRC 6512 ABD 13:40 KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 13:55 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:40 FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 ETD 920 Dubai 14:45 KNCC PROGRAMME SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 CLX 792 Hanoi 14:45 MSR 3002 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:45 IRC 527 Mashhad 14:50 TILL WEDNESDAY (22/07/2015) KAC 540 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:50 KAC 545 Alexandria 15:00 KAC 742 Dammam 14:50 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 SHARQIA-1 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:55 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 HATCHED 11:45 AM RJD 135 Abu Dhabi 15:00 KAC 673 Dubai 15:20 HATCHED 1:45 PM KNE 462 Madinah 15:05 SVA 503 Jeddah 15:45 HATCHED 3:30 PM OMA 645 Muscat 15:05 MSR 3003 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:45 POUND OF FLESH 5:15 PM KAC 1802 Cairo 15:35 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 DARK PLACES 7:30 PM ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:55 POUND OF FLESH 9:45 PM UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 KNE 473 Jeddah 16:00 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 KNE 463 Madinah 16:00 DARK PLACES 12:05 AM ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:00 KAC 791 Madinah 16:00 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 OMA 646 Muscat 16:05 SHARQIA-2 KAC 512 Mashhad 16:10 RJD 136 Abu Dhabi 16:10 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 11:15 AM FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 1:30 PM KNE 460 Riyadh 16:15 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:50 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 3:45 PM QTR 1072 Doha 16:20 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 6:00 PM NIA 263 Luxor 16:30 KNE 481 Riyadh 17:00 IRM 1180 Mashhad 16:35 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 8:15 PM JZR 787 Riyadh 16:45 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 10:30 PM KAC 562 Amman 17:00 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 12:45 AM SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 NIA 264 Alexandria 17:30 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 SHARQIA-3 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:50 TERMINATOR GENISYS 12:30 PM JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 THE GALLOWS 3:00 PM SYR 343 Damascus 17:55 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 HABIB AL ARAD - 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You’re willing to work extra hard today in order to solidify your recent progress. Although you have been sitting on the fence for a few days, you’re ready to make a Nevertheless, it’s nearly impossible to completely override your natural tendency big decision today. Libras are known for vacillating at times because they’re natu- to rush into action. However, your impatience could jeopardize all that you have rally adept at tempering extreme ideas and finding common ground. However, gained. Maintain a methodical pace and execute the proper follow-through to you see the handwriting on the wall and are eager to choose one direction now. reach your goals. You don’t have to gamble with your future now if you plan your It’s more important to be swift in judgment than to be perfect. Thankfully, you will course of action without expecting to change everything all at once. It may be a still have the chance to adjust your trajectory as your perspective continues to bitter pill to swallow at first, but sometimes slow and steady wins the race. evolve. Seize the cosmic moment and embrace your future.

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

You may be recycling the same thoughts around in your mind over Your schedule is stretched to the limit today, yet your relentless drive might pre- and over again, trying to reach a different conclusion. But you probably won’t vent you from scaling back your activities. You don’t mind constructive criticism reveal your inner process because you believe others won’t understand your cur- from a friend or partner, but it may seem as if encouragement is hard to find now. rent plight. Talking about your concerns is not the quickest route to happiness; you It’s helpful to set firm boundaries if you are encountering resistance from others. must take direct action now. Fortunately, you will be happily surprised with the Don’t let anyone rain on your parade if you believe it’s your turn to bask in the sun- support you receive if you simply settle down and channel your angst into your shine. Ultimately, it’s up to you to prove everyone wrong; your actions will speak work. Putting in extra effort brings positive results faster than you expect. louder than their words. Procrastination is no longer a luxury you can afford.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Although you may still be harboring fantasies about new ways to make money, it’s time to turn your schemes into reality today. There are many paths in front of you at this time; but ultimately, it’s up Innovative ideas sound good at first, but now you must execute a sound business to you to choose one and stick with it. Unfortunately, you might be carrying some unnecessary emotional baggage and pushing through your own resistance is your ACROSS plan to be successful. Thankfully, you can exert more control over your future once 3. A large mass of ice floating at sea. you realize the importance of practicing self-discipline. Rather than letting your only viable option now. Luckily, someone may give you a chance to demonstrate a 1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is 4. American novelist noted for children's imagination run wild, concentrate on achieving one worthwhile goal. You can new and improved version of you. However, you must take the initiative by sur- the top of an extinct volcano. books (1832-1888). accomplish more than you think once you wholeheartedly commit to focus your rounding yourself with open-minded people who can help you process your feel- 5. Not neatly combed. 5. In or of the month preceding the present ings. Your future shines brightly if you are willing to do the work. 12. What you can repeat immediately after one. mental superpowers in one direction. Willpower is the magic ingredient necessary perceiving it. 6. A water wheel with buckets attached to for your success. 15. German industrialist who was the first in the rim. Germany to use an assembly line in manu- 7. A festival featuring African-American cul- Capricorn (December 22-January 19) facturing automobiles (1871-1948). ture. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 16. The condition of being low. 8. A town in north central Oklahoma. Although everyone assumes you’re open to feedback when it comes 17. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia 9. An asset of special worth or utility. to your future, your convictions are stronger than anyone realizes now. and Australia cultivated for its large edible 10. A note appended to a letter after the sig- You can’t afford to drift off into space today if you have already made prior commit- You are singularly focused on your long-term plans, even if others are telling you to root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch. nature. pay attention to the current dynamics. However, you may think that your friends 18. Made from residue of grapes or apples 11. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimu- ments. Even if you’re having a tough time remaining focused, you can deliver on are just making matters worse by distracting you with their opinions today. after pressing. lates the function of the thyroid gland. your current promises when you truly believe your goals are worth pursuing. Avoid 19. A distinguishing feature of one's personal 12. Small usually single-celled reproductive the temptation to daydream; it’s more productive to keep yourself grounded in Fortunately, you have the necessary tools to stay on the straight and narrow path nature. body produced especially by certain bacteria reality so you don’t have to pay the cost later on. Fulfilling your previous obliga- and it’s up to you to use them. Keep your eyes on the distant horizon and relent- 20. Norse chieftan who became the first duke and algae and fungi and nonflowering tions now paves the way to your future success. lessly inch your way to success. of Normandy (860-931). plants. 22. An ancient city in southeastern Greece. 13. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay 24. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of lan- or rubber or linoleum) used to cover sur- Aquarius (January 20- February 18) guages. faces. Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. The chief solid component of mammalian 14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake You may feel as if you didn’t make any progress on the job yesterday, urine. Chad. Achieving your objectives requires unwavering determination, but but thankfully, you get to make up for lost time today. There’s less resistance now as 27. A yellow quartz. 21. European freshwater fish resembling the it’s best to downsize your fantasies if you want them to come true. There’s no point you push toward your goals, motivating you to raise your level of productivity. But 28. Leave or strike out, as of vowels. roach. in exhausting yourself by aspiring toward unrealistic goals, but that doesn’t mean don’t spread your resources too thin; you will be more effective if you concentrate 29. Of or relating to the African people who 23. A republic in northeastern Africa on the you should surrender your dreams; in fact, just the opposite. Instead, search for a on one single goal at a time. Instead of struggling to finish all your work, prioritize speak one of the Bantoid languages or to Red Sea. your tasks before rolling up your sleeves and getting down to business. their culture. 25. Large swift fly the female of which sucks middle path that allows you to honor your lofty aspirations while taking a prag- matic approach to your success. Balance may be elusive today, but dogged persist- Approaching the day in a logical manner maximizes your efforts more than you 32. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in blood of various animals. might think. English-speaking countries. 30. A river that rises in northern Colombia ence moves you steadily in the right direction. Fortunately, compromise is possible 36. A constellation in the southern hemi- and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco without giving up what matters most. sphere near Telescopium and Norma. in central Venezuela. 37. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on 31. To protect clothing. Pisces (February 19-March 20) the Persian Gulf. 33. An independent agency of the United Virgo (August 23-September 22) 40. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. States government responsible for collecting 42. French mathematician and astronomer and coordinating intelligence and counterin- You have plenty of responsibilities on your plate now and may be Your concerns about your future plans could grow more serious today, prompting feeling nervous if you are behind in delivering on your promises. Thankfully, your who formulated the nebular hypothesis con- telligence activities abroad in the national you to make an overdue decision. But every little problem seems to be tied to larg- cerning the origins of the solar system and interest. anxiety will begin to fade once you start crossing things off your to-do list. The er issues and there’s no way to avoid the bigger picture. Bring your shovel and be who developed the theory of probability 34. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical same chores that seemed overwhelming yesterday are a piece of cake now. (1749-1827). continent including all the landmass of the Eliminate extraneous activities and concentrate your efforts where they will have prepared to dig your way to the bottom, if necessary. There’s no reason to rush the 44. The month following July and preceding earth prior to the Triassic period when it split the greatest impact. If you set your mind to something and then apply yourself process; it’s your own psychological pressure that creates this false sense of September. into Laurasia and Gondwanaland. with unwavering commitment, you can accomplish nearly anything you want. urgency. Slowing down allows you to explore the various alternatives and choose 46. An inflammatory complication of leprosy 35. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide Intention plus hard work equals magic. the best route to your long-term success. that results in painful skin lesions on the as if in a current of air. arms and legs and face. 38. Fiddler crabs. 47. A famous waterfall in Venezuela. 39. The hair growing on the lower part of a Word Search Yesterday Solution 49. God of wealth and love. man's face. 51. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 41. Steal goods. 52. Reconnaissance (by shortening). 43. Having leadership guidance. 55. Report or maintain. 45. Not trimmed. 56. (British) Your grandmother. 48. A state in New England. 58. Small family of brown algae. 50. A large estate in Spanish-speaking coun- 63. Of or relating to or characteristic of tries. Thailand of its people. 53. A radioactive transuranic element. 64. (meteorology) Of an air current or wind. 54. (of sounds) Repeating by reflection. 68. A state in northwestern United States on 57. Angular distance above the horizon the Pacific. (especially of a celestial object). 72. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on 59. A river in north central Switzerland that a skewer usually with vegetables. runs northeast into the Rhine. 73. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation. 60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 76. Plant with an elongated head of broad from aba cloth. stalked leaves resembling celery. 61. A region of Malaysia in northeastern 77. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder. Borneo. 78. Relating to or caused by wind. 62. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam. 80. A notable achievement. 65. A less than average tide occurring at the 81. Any of various primates with short tails or first and third quarters of the moon. no tail at all. 66. Make amends for. 82. A bag used for carrying money and small 67. Extremely robust. personal items or accessories (especially by 69. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or women). Scotland or the Isle of Man. 83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising 70. An organization of countries formed in solely the razorbill. 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. DOWN 71. A quantity of no importance. 1. Leafless East Indian vine. 74. Top part of an apron. 2. South American armadillo with three 75. The cry made by sheep. bands of bony plates. 79. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. Yesterday’s Solution

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Pac-Man trying to eat one of the “ghost” MINI Coopers in Columbia Pictures’ “Pixels.” Michelle Monaghan, from left, as Violet, Adam Sandler as Sam Brenner, Josh Gad as Ludlow, and Q*bert, in Columbia Pictures’ “Pixels.” 8-Bit Icons: A look at the video games of ‘Pixels’

(asterisk) bert is ready for his close-up. After bringing ‘Pac-Man’ as much as the game was forcing itself onto the create a fun, loveable character that kids would respond to ‘Donkey Kong’ Harry Potter and Mrs Doubtfire to life on the big streets of Manhattan,” said Columbus. “Because the visual- and add a different element - that not all the aliens are here to The movie’s climatic final battle takes place inside the Qscreen, Chris Columbus’ latest film sees the director effects toolbox is so giant these days, there’s this temptation kill us.” alien’s mothership, where filmmakers recreated the original inserting classic video game characters into the real world. to do everything CGI, but I wanted a tangible, hand-made 1981 barrel-jumping game. Columbus called Donkey Kong “Pixels” follows a trio of 1980s arcade champions who are quality to the film. We didn’t resort to CGI for everything.” ‘Dojo quest’ “the holy grail” of game characters and said talking Nintendo recruited by the government to stop an alien force that’s tak- The filmmakers licensed characters from real-world video into allowing them to feature the angry ape required more ing the form of Donkey Kong and other interactive critters. “I was excited about bringing these characters to life in a way we haven’t seen,” said Columbus. “I’ve done visual effects before, but they’ve all been reality based. In this particular sit- uation, we were creating 30-foot-tall voxelized, lived-from- within creatures that had to be menacing enough to destroy a city, yet also have a mischievous charm about them.” “Pixels,” out Friday, is inspired by the 2010 short film of the same name that depicted old-school games wrecking blocky carnage on New York City. Columbus included imagery from about 20 titles, such as “Burger Time” and “Tetris.” During a recent interview on the Sony backlot, the “Home Alone” direc- tor discusses bringing the games to life in his movie.

‘Centipede’ For their first mission against the misunderstood extrater- restrials, the “Pixels” protagonists played by Adam Sandler and Josh Gad encounter the slithering baddies who star in the 1981 shoot ‘em-up “Centipede.” In the movie, behemoth rendi- tions of the game’s bugs descend from the sky onto human forces positioned on a soccer field in London. “I wanted ‘Centipede’ to be a surrealistic three-dimensional moment,” said Columbus. “It’s the first time we really insert these charac- Photo shows Serena Williams, left, as herself, on a date with Peter Dinklage Michelle Monaghan, from left, as Violet, Adam Sandler as Brenner, Josh Gad as Ludlow, and Peter ters. For me, I pushed it into ‘Yellow Submarine’ territory as Eddie, in Columbia Pictures’ ‘Pixels.’ Dinklage as Eddie, arriving outside the command center in Columbia Pictures’ “Pixels.” where, in the middle of that scene, it just totally turns psyche- delic. You shouldn’t do any mind-altering drugs before you ‘Q (asterisk) bert’ games for the movie, but they opted to craft a fictional title convincing than any of the other games depicted in “Pixels.” watch that particular sequence of the film.” In the movie, the cube-hopping creature Q (asterisk) bert starring a ninja-fighting heroine named Lady Lisa (played by “The ‘Donkey Kong’ sequence is one that we could have done serves as an intergalactic trophy who eventually becomes a Ashley Benson), who serves as an unconventional love interest 90 percent CGI, but we literally built the game from scratch,” ‘Pac-Man’ sidekick to the human heroes. Despite his history of speaking for Gad’s character. To promote “Pixels,” Sony released a side- said Columbus. “We built the platforms. When you walked into An oversized tyrannical take on Pac-Man goes on a chomp- only in cartoon bubbles filled with punctuation marks, “The scrolling mobile game resembling “Dojo Quest.” that soundstage, it was mind blowing to see actors 100 feet in ing spree through the streets of New York as the movie’s Goonies” and “Gremlins” screenwriter opted to give the aliens’ “Lady Lisa was in the first draft of the script, and I thought the air on harnesses running around from barrels that we later heroes tail the pellet-eating character in Mini Coopers. version of Q(asterisk)bert a voice and beef up his role in it would be fun to create just one game that didn’t exist back added. It was an amazing experience.”— AP Columbus filmed the chase sequence over three-and-a-half “Pixels.” “In the first draft of the script, Q(asterisk)bert was in the ‘80s,” said Columbus. “It never occurred to me not to do weeks by having the actors followed by a yellow golf cart, there, but we didn’t utilize him as much,” said Columbus. it. I felt like we could get away with it. A character like Lara which was later replaced with a computer-generated Pac- “When we first started playing around with the designs, I felt Croft could’ve worked, but I loved the fact that Josh Gad’s Man. “The key was that we weren’t immersing people into like it was my Gizmo moment from ‘Gremlins.’ I could actually character has been pining for this woman all his life.”

This photo provided by courtesy of Sony Pictures shows, Inky, Blinky, Clyde and Pinky in Columbia Pictures’ “Pixels.” Matthew Lintz, left, as Matt, and Adam Sandler as Sam Brenner with Q*bert, in Columbia Pictures’ “Pixels.”

Backstreet Boys, ‘NSync Depp’s ‘Black Mass’ and new works SAG gives lifetime team up for ‘zombie Western from Kaufman, Sokurov is expected achievement ith less than ten days to go before and Peter Sarsgaard, making for a hefty futuristic horror movie’ the Venice Film festival reveals its dose of star power which will help keep award to Wlineup, several high-profile US stu- global media outlets fed and pacified. ackstreet’s back and they’re sharing the the Nineties and 2000s.” Fellow Backstreet dio/specialty titles appear to be secured, Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash” is a thriller screen with ‘90s boy band rival Joey boys Howie Dorough and AJ McLean are also including Scott Cooper-directed Johnny about a celebrity couple, a famous rock star Carol Burnett BFatone of ‘NSync for an upcoming involved in the project, which is reportedly Depp gangster drama “Black Mass,” from and a filmmaker (Matthias Schoenaerts and “zombie Western futuristic horror movie,” Nick about a motley crew that sets out to fight a Warner Bros, and Luca Guadagnino’s Ralph Swinton), vacationing and recovering on he Screen Actors Guild is recognizing Carol Burnett Carter recently told Rolling Stone. Backstreet zombie plague. A few weeks ago, Dorough Fiennes and Tilda Swinton-starrer “A Bigger the strange sun-drenched Italian island of for her six decades in entertainment. The actors’ Boy Carter will write and star in the film, and McLead joined Carter at San Diego Splash, which Fox Searchlight is releasing Pantelleria, whose lives are disrupted by the Tunion announced Monday that Burnett will receive which is being produced by The Asylum, the Comic-Con to promote the film. In the inter- stateside. Also likely to be Lido-bound are unexpected visit of an old friend and his its 52nd Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual SAG studio behind the “Sharknado” franchise view, Carter shared his plans for the film so Charlie Kaufman’s stop motion animation daughter (Fiennes and Dakota Johnson). Awards in January. Union President Ken Howard said the which confirmed the project’s development. far. “My character is still being worked out “Anomalisa” and new works from interna- Pic is fully financed by France’s 82-year-old entertainer is “a creative dynamo and a The film is apparently under the working title right now,” he said, “But I’m a good guy that’s tional heavyweight auteurs Alexander StudioCanal, which in February sold US comedic genius.” “Dead 7.” going to help save the day.” Fatone, mean- Sokurov, Amos Gitai, and Marco Bellocchio, rights to Fox. Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” marks Burnett got her start on stage, where TV talent bookers “I’m the only ‘NSync-er as of now, but you while, says he will play “the drunk.” — Reuters as well as younger directors like the groundbreaking US director’s first foray spotted her. She joined the cast of “The Garry Moore Show” never know,” Fatone told the magazine, Argentinian Pablo Trapero’s hot crimer “The into animation. The movie, co-directed with in 1959. She launched “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1967, adding that Carter plans to “bring some other Clan,” which Fox will release in Latin Duke Johnson, initiated on Kickstarter with which ran for 11 years and won 25 Emmy Awards. Burnett people in that genre that have never really America. the bulk of financing then coming from is working on a book about the success of her show set to done a lot of film but that were in music in Word on what pics will surface at Venice Snoot Entertainment and SBI. The synopsis be published next year. Her recent TV credits include is more muted than usual this year, with for the film is a man struggling with his appearances on “Glee” and “Hot in Cleveland.” — AP artistic director Alberto Barbera believed to inability to connect with other people. It is be making down to the wire decisions and Kaufman’s first feature since “Synecdoche, several potential contenders, including New York,” in 2008. Russian master Sokurov Sean Penn-directed Liberia-set romance will likely be bowing his hotly awaited “The Last Face,” thought instead not to be “Louvre Under German Occupation,” billed ready.As previously announced, Baltasar as exploring “the question of relations Kormakur’s mountain climbing thriller between art and war,” shot in the real “Everest” from Universal, starring Jake Louvre, and produced by Pierre Olivier Gyllenhaal, will open Venice September 2, Bardet and former Locarno fest topper out-of-competition, a nice coup for Barbera, Olivier Pere, current chief of ARTE France segueing from “Birdman” as opener last Cinema. “Louvre” is being distributed inter- year, and sci-fi thriller “Gravity” in 2013. nationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique, which handled Sokurov’s previ- Unexpected visit ous film, the single-take “Faust.” —Reuters “Black Mass” (pictured) is a biopic of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, played by Depp, who became an FBI informant and used this status to eliminate criminal competition during the 1970s, ‘80s, Actress and comedian Carol Burnett arrives at the and early ‘90s. Pic also stars Benedict Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ An Evening with Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Joel Edgerton Carol Burnett at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in Los Angeles. — AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Music & Movies Miley Cyrus to host MTV Video Music Awards

iley Cyrus is twerking back to the MTV Video Music last year’s show and invited a young homeless man named Awards as the show’s host. The 25-year-old singer- Jesse Helt on stage to accept the trophy on her behalf. The Mactress revealed on her social media accounts 2015 MTV Video Music Awards will air live on MTV from the Monday that she’s helming the Aug. 30 ceremony. Cyrus Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. — AP announced the gig by posting a photo of herself in an alien costume with sandwich boards that read “MTV won’t let me perform” and “so I’m hosting this year’s VMAs.” A scantily clad Cyrus shocked audiences with a rump-shak- Miley Cyrus appears onstage for a Mike Will ing performance alongside Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Made It performance at the Fader Fort Video Music Awards. Cyrus won the video of the year trophy at Presented by Converse during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. — AP

In this promotional photo provided by Slovenian conceptual band ‘Laibach’, the band’s members are depicted. A poster is announcing the band’s show in North Korea. A poster is announcing the band’s show in North Korea. North Korea gig fits well with iconic Slovenian band’s image or a band inspired by art in totalitarian For the next few years, Laibach moved abroad. has found inspiration for its art in North Korea’s “big regimes, a gig in North Korea is a dream come The group’s visual style included wearing military stadium events, with their human pixels for Ftrue. Slovenia’s iconic Laibach - whose music is uniforms on stage and toying with Socialist-era instance.”“All Korea is practicing superb pop art. described as a mixture of industrial rock and imagery while playing almost martial-style songs, Superb,” he insisted. “From the point of view of art Kraftwerk-style electronics, but which is also known sung in a husky, deep voice. Despite being criticized history, they should actually protect the whole for its controversial use of authoritarian imagery - as too dark, the band has always insisted that it is in country, they should put it in a museum of pop art.” has recently announced it will play two concerts in fact exploring the relation between ideology, poli- Pyongyang next month. tics and art. One of its main slogans states that “art Performed for expats The tour will coincide with the ceremonies mark- and totalitarianism do not exclude each other.” Laibach concerts on Aug. 19-20 are planned for ing the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s an audience of 1,000 each time. Several pop singers liberation from Japanese colonization, and will Political support and bands from South Korea have performed in the include Laibach’s own music as well as popular Over the years, Laibach has gained an important north in the past, while British singer David Thomas Korean songs, spokesman Ivan Novak told the place on Slovenia’s art scene - the band’s retrospec- Broughton has said he performed once for expats in Associated Press. “Originally, we invited ourselves tive currently is part of an exhibition of the Neue North Korea. Laibach’s performance, however, will and then they invited us,” Novak said. Formed in Slowenishe Kunst (New Slovenian Art) movement at mark the first encounter with a visually charged 1980, when Slovenia was still part of Communist- the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana. Novak said the band from the West. “We will adjust and adapt our run Yugoslavia, Laibach immediately stirred contro- band has always wanted to visit North Korea and program to the Korean situation and audience,” versy with its name - German for Slovenia’s capital remembers clearly the visit in 1977 to the country Novak said. “We will perform a gentle version of city Ljubljana - and because it used a black cross as by then Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito. Laibach.” — AP one of its symbols. Novak rejected the possibility that the trip will This alone was enough for an official ban by the amount to political support for the North Korean Photo taken in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regime born out of anti-fascist struggle during communist regime - viewed as an isolationist dicta- leader of Slovenian conceptual band World War II, which formally came into force in 1983 torship in the West. ‘Laibach’ Ivan Novak talks to The after Laibach locked the door of a concert hall and “We never support the regime anywhere where Associated Press during an interview, played the sound of a dog barking extremely loudly we perform ... but we do support the people who in front of the band’s posters at an for almost half an hour. live there,” Novak said. He explained that the band exhibition. — AP photos

Review Cosby footage cut from documentary on black stuntmen ootage of Bill Cosby has been cut from the upcoming documentary “Painted Down” Fabout black stuntmen. According to produc- er Nonie Robinson, the decision was made in the wake of recent revelations in unsealed court depo- sitions that Cosby had drugged women with Quaaludes in order to have sex with them. “It’s the right thing to do in light of the recent court depo- sition being made public,” she said. This photo provided by The Weinstein Company shows, Jake Gyllenhaal, center right, as Billy Hope, Antoine Fuqua, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal, pose for a portrait in promotion of See More:Bill Cosby Scandal: Fans Feel and Forest Whitaker, center left, as Titus ‘Tick’ Wills, in the film, ‘Southpaw.’ their new film ‘Southpaw’. — AP photos Sadness, Not Sympathy In his interview for the documentary, Cosby said he became aware of the lack of black stuntmen when a white stuntman applied make-up in order to double for Cosby on A pugilist parable of transformation in ‘Southpaw’ the TV series “I Spy.” “I looked at him and the lady is putting black - not a deep brown-she’s putting f you’ve ever wondered what might have happened to Job if sight of the actor we once knew as Donnie Darko covered in mus- Fountain of redemption black around this guy, eyes and everything,” Cosby had a strong left hook, “Southpaw” may be the film for you. The cles and tattoos, Gyllenhaal’s performance is most dynamic in his Once rock bottom is sufficiently reached for maximum eventu- said in the interview for the documentary. Cosby Irapid descent of light heavyweight champ Billy Hope (Jake tender, mumbled moments with his wife, Maureen (Rachel al payoff, Hope begins righting himself in that fountain of objected and a black stuntman was subsequently Gyllenhaal) in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama is of biblical propor- McAdams) or daughter Leila (Oona Laurence). Outside of the ring, redemption: the rundown boxing gym. Who cannot be healed by hired to double for him. — Reuters tions. Not weeks after Hope - rich, happy, successful - has defend- his Billy Hope sounds like a guy who’s been knocked around. its sweaty waters? He turns to an unglamorous trainer named Tick ed his belt and unblemished record, a fatal altercation strips him Fuqua plunges immediately into Hope’s title defense against a Willis (the reliably excellent Forest Whitaker), who spouts all the of his family, his mansion and his career. This being a boxing film, brash rival Miguel Escobar (Miguel Gomez). The director (“Training wisdom of boxing and life that a corner man should. He teaches redemption is as much a certainty as a training montage. But Day,” “The Equalizer”) prefers a visceral directness (he has made a Billy precision and self-defense, turning him into a fighter in con- Fuqua, an avid boxer himself, has pushed the pugilist parable comeback movie about a boxer named Hope, after all) and he’s trol of his emotions. even further. “Southpaw” is downright Old Testament. favored a far more straightforward, accurate view inside the ring If the footwork of “Southpaw,” written by Kurt Sutter (“Sons of As a tale of transformation, “Southpaw” functions two ways. than, say, the impressionistic poetry of Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.” Anarchy”), is never light as a feather, its heart is seldom in doubt. There’s the story of Billy Hope striving to build his life back. And Instead, Fuqua and cinematographer Mauro Fiore have shot their The solid acting, led by Gyllenhaal and Whitaker, liven up the then there’s the tale of the actor who plays him. The latter packs fight scenes like broadcast television, copying its camera angles clichÈs, and Fuqua’s deep affection for the sport gives the movie a the bigger punch. Our first real view of Gyllenhaal is of him and piping in the commentary of announcers Jim Lampley and brisk, entertaining earnestness. In bloody close-ups and bruising streaming toward the camera, emerging from a hazy blur a Roy Jones Jr For better or worse, the fight scenes of “Southpaw” sounds, Fuqua captures the blinding brutality inside the ring. But snarling, bloody spit of rage, rampaging across the ring. The shot, almost feel more like a pay-per-view stream than a movie. his faith is never in question: This is a parable that believes in a way, is fitting. Gyllenhaal, as one of the most exciting leading Realism, though, is soon swapped for melodrama thicker than strongest in boxing, itself. “Southpaw,” a Weinstein Co. release, is men in Hollywood, is coming into focus, even as he’s eluding the a heavy bag. As Hope and his wife exit a gala fundraiser, Escobar rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “lan- frame. His maturation as an intense, all-in shape-shifter has taunts him. Unable to resist, Hope reacts and a melee ensues that guage throughout and some violence.” Running time: 119 min- become especially clear of late in films like “Nightcrawler” and leaves Maureen dead from a stray bullet. It’s a wrenching, chaotic utes. Two and a half stars out of four. — AP “Prisoners.” “Southpaw” is him romping in his new weight class. scene (McAdams is on a good, grittier run of late) that’s followed Bill Cosby pauses during a news conference about by more tragedy. As Hope spirals, his daughter is taken away from the upcoming exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Mumbled moments him and the money suddenly dries up. His promoter-manager Museum of African Art in Washington. —AP Much has already been made of Gyllenhaal’s bulking up for (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) is little help as Hope wallows, adding the “Southpaw,” and it’s indeed impressive. But beyond the startling inevitable suffix of his second act: “less.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Travel

Hikers explore a trail at Arctic Valley, nestled in the Chugach An idle vintage ski lift at Arctic Valley, nestled in the Hikers explore a trail at Arctic Valley, nestled in the Chugach State Park in the greater municipality of Anchorage. State Park in the greater municipality of Anchorage. Chugach State Park. Serenity Now: Find tranquility in this verdant Alaska valley

o reach one of the most serene spots around Alaska’s War era and a little skiing history thrown in. locations in Alaska and the lower 48. At Arctic Valley, the Nike largest city, you have to rough it first. But it’s worth driv- Site Summit was activated between 1959 and 1979, and is the Ting the bumpy gravel road for 6 seemingly endless miles Complete state only site to survive in a nearly complete state, according to to enjoy the splendor that is Arctic Valley, nestled in the A level of fitness is required for most of the hikes you can Friends of Nike Site Summit, a citizen preservation group that Chugach State Park at the edge of military property in the take around this wide open valley, unless you try the super occasionally conducts group tours. greater municipality of Anchorage. You can thank that Arctic easy Muktuk Marston Trail that’s no more than half a mile But be forewarned: You can’t just hike up to the long deac- Valley Road, particularly the kidney-jarring parts, for almost long. But visitors can still get an eyeful of green, rolling terrain tivated radars. That would be trespassing onto military prop- guaranteeing much smaller crowds than you would find at even if they just hang around the day lodge across from the erty, as the posted signs will tell you. say, Flattop, a popular hiking spot in town that’s easier to parking lot. A short hike up, red vintage ski lifts sit idle. They The Cold War relics are just part of the scenery encoun- reach. still operate every winter through the Anchorage Ski Club. tered along my favorite Arctic Valley hike - a one and a quar- Best of all, you’re in for some stunning views that feel far And if you time your visit just right, you could arrive just as fat, ter-mile trek to an aerial view of the Anchorage suburb of removed from civilization right here in Anchorage’s backyard, juicy blueberries are ripening. Eagle River. At the start of each summer, I’ve forgotten that it’s a place dotted with wildflowers, a creek weaving through Keep going, and high up in the distance are the refur- a bit of a workout to reach the spot. But after that first stint, shrub thickets and one of the few local places to see alpine bished clamshell radar towers that were once part of the I’m good to go. tundra. On top of that, there are some vestiges of the Cold national Nike Hercules missile site system established at 145 Big crowds My dog Scout is especially fond of this hike because it’s the only time she gets to charge around unleashed without me worrying about her tendency to run off. No matter where she is here, I can see her. So far, she’s ignored the ground squirrels that burrow close to the trail. I’ve never been to this beautiful spot when there are any big crowds, and sometimes I even get that viewpoint to myself. But even when there’s company there, tranquility reigns here. No matter what else is going on in town or in the world even, you can sit still for hours and contemplate the scenery or life in general. The silence up here is broken only by the whispering breeze, the occasional hum of a plane or the panting of a happy, tired dog. That’s the best kind of serenity. — AP

Refurbished clamshell radar towers that were once part of the national Nike Hercules mis- sile site system established in the US during the Cold War at Arctic Valley.—AP Photos Hikers explore a trail at Arctic Valley, nestled in the Chugach State Park in the greater municipality of Anchorage. Adults stay cool this Ireland shrugs off French summer with GAP riddle over Yeats remains trove of documents from a French chateau has cast sary events are taking place this year, local enthusiasts have ap’s summer collection is perfect longer, highlighting fabrics such as doubt on the remains of beloved Irish poet W.B. Yeats been unperturbed by the latest reports. “My reaction was not for sand, sky, and ocean offering linen, denim, and light-weight poplin Abut fans have shrugged off the controversy and said one of complete surprise,” said Michael Carty, organizer of an Gan array of white tones for throughout the collection. Gap’s sum- there is no doubt as to his spiritual home. The Nobel laureate annual Yeats festival named “Tread Softly” which begins later women. Essential cotton tops and light- mer short moments include stylish died in southern France in 1939 but because of legal issues this month. weight slip dresses showcase feminine culottes, Bermuda, and track shorts for and the outbreak of World War II it wasn’t until 1948 before a “The reality is that county Sligo is the spiritual home of WB knot and cut-out details. Nautical and women and girls, with surf, track, and coffin said to carry his remains was repatriated to Ireland. Yeats. It always has been and always will be,” he said. Stella work-wear references can be found in hiker shorts for men and boys. For over six decades, the site of the poet’s grave in a pictur- shorts and shirts with accents of Explode into summer with Gap P-R-I- esque country churchyard in Drumcliffe in northwest Ireland embroidery, burn-out, and texture. N-T-S for women and men. Exploring has been a literary landmark in Ireland, attracting thousands Must-have fabrications include slub ray- new tropical and exotic motifs, Gap has of tourists every year. Yeats had strong family connections to on, eyelet, and linen across dresses, novelty short sleeve shirts and shorts in the area and a simple grey headstone over his grave contains skirts, tops, and shorts. Don’t forget to a variety of new color ways. Dress up or some of the Nobel-winning poet’s verses as an epitaph: “Cast a complete the look with your favorite down in your favorite Gap prints this cold eye/ On life, on death/ Horseman, pass by.” accessories in crisp white or a fun pop summer! Senator Susan O’Keefe, who chairs the Yeats 2015 celebra- of color! tions for the 150th anniversary of his birth, said the newly Gap kicks off summer with new vol- uncovered documents confirm a long-held uncertainty about umes and Simplistic shapes, silhouettes “the provenance of the bones.” But, like many Yeats enthusi- in shorts, mixing fashion moments with asts in Ireland, she said she was against further examination of the brand’s casual American style. Tops the remains. “I personally would leave it,” she said, adding: “In a are creeping up as shorts are becoming sense that’s where his soul is.”

‘Impossible’ to return remains Yeats died at the age of 73 in a hotel in what is now Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in southern France, an idyllic town on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. According to an offi- cial document in the correspondence, which was first pub- lished in the Irish Times this month, Yeats was initially buried in a mass grave for unexplained reasons. The remains were then exhumed after World War II in 1946 and mixed with other bones in an ossuary. A French foreign ministry official who was tasked with investigating the location of Yeats’ remains wrote in his 1948 From left Reverend Arfon Williams, Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Britain’s report that “it is impossible to return the full and authentic Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, former Irish president Mary McAleese, Martin McAleese, remains of Mr Yeats.” The documents were held by Jacques and Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan standing at the final resting place of Irish Camille Paris, a famous French diplomat who went on to poet WB Yeats at St Columba’s Church in Drumcliffe, Ireland. — AFP become the first secretary general of the Council of Europe. They were found in a trunk in the family chateau by his son Mew, a former head of the Yeats Society, said the reports were Daniel Paris who presented them to the Irish embassy in Paris “casting something of a shadow” over anniversary celebra- last month and they have since been authenticated by the tions. “Drumcliffe is where he wanted to be commemorated French foreign ministry. and that’s where he is commemorated. Nothing changes. “Historians should compare the documents to what was “The spirit of Yeats is what matters and that’s just as vibrant already known. It is not for the embassy to comment on their as it ever was.” Illustrator Annie West, who lives close to contents,” an embassy spokeswoman said. Drumcliffe graveyard and once worked as a warden of the They have reignited a decades-long controversy about the church, said the mystery made Yeats more interesting. “It kind poet’s final resting place, which Yeats’ children Anne and of makes the whole thing very spicy and international and Michael dismissed in a 1988 letter. “There is indeed nothing to mysterious,” said West, who last year published a book taking discuss since we are satisfied beyond doubt that our father’s a wry look at Yeats’ unrequited love for Irish patriot Maud body is indeed buried in Drumcliffe Cemetery,” they wrote. Gonne. “I used to have an enormous amount of fun with tours because I’d sneak up behind the visitors at the grave and say: ‘Not really in there’ ‘You know he’s not really in there.’”-AFP Yeats, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, is a national icon in Ireland, particularly in County Sligo where Drumcliffe is located and which played a pivotal role in much of his work. In the county, where many of the anniver- lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015

Travel

Hiking the Great Walks on New Zealand’s rugged South Island

Photo shows the early morning light hitting the hills of the Kepler Track in Te Anau. Photo shows a hiker walking behind Sutherland Falls, New Zealand’s largest waterfall, in Milford Sound, New Zealand.

everal items are essential for exploring the magical lenging climb but offers spectacular views. Farther north, the Southern Alps mountains that run across New Zealand’s The Pancake Rocks rock scramble for a night’s stay at the Mueller Hut is a must-do SSouth Island: insect repellent, rain gear and ear plugs. The in Greymouth, for its close-up view of Mount Cook, New Zealand’s largest peak repellent is to ward off sandflies, those annoying black bugs that New Zealand. at 12,218 feet (3,724 meters). are the itchy scourge of hikers in Fiordland National Park. The park, which is bigger than Yosemite and Yellowstone national Beautiful beaches parks combined, is one of the wettest places on earth. It gets an On Stewart Island, a small island that’s a ferry ride or short average 7,200 millimeters (280 inches) of rainfall a year, com- plane trip south of the South Island, you’ll find another Great pared to Seattle, Washington’s 38.6 inches (980 millimeters). Walk, the Rakiura Track. Rakiura’s 32-kilometer (20-mile) loop has And while there’s plenty of peace and quiet to enjoy while huts as well as campsites. Stewart Island is popular with wildlife hiking the region, you may want ear plugs to block the sound of watchers hoping to glimpse kiwis, the national symbol of New snoring from exhausted hikers in the huts that offer lodging Zealand. The flightless birds are famous for having among the along the Great Walks. The Great Walks are routes featured by largest eggs in relation to body size of any other bird species. the country’s Department of Conservation for their “diverse and But they’re nocturnal and can be hard to see in the wild. A num- spectacular scenery.” Five of the nine Great Walks are on the ber of guided kiwi-spotting tours are offered on the island. South Island. And keep in mind when planning a trip to New Zealand that it’s in the Southern Hemisphere, with winter weather June- Around the world August, spring weather September-November and summer The Great Walks are highly regulated by the DOC, which December-February. At some point, you’ll want to ditch the ran- maintains the trails, checks for hiking passes and staffs the huts cid hiking boots and exchange them for some sandals to walk with nightly educational talks. The huts on the most popular the beautiful beaches in the Abel Tasman National Park - home Great Walks are large, clean cabins with bunkrooms. They’re a to another Great Walk, the Abel Tasman Coast Track - on the great way to be social with like-minded tourists and hear lan- northern tip of the South Island. guages from around the world. I had fun teaching my bunk- Finally, pick up a bottle of wine from the South Island’s mates how to play an old-fashioned card-and-board game, crib- Marlborough region or grab a local craft beer brewed with bage. One of the Fiordland Great Walks, the Milford Track, is a Nelson Sauvin hops and prepare yourself for a trip to the North world-famous four-day route. Hiking it requires planning as nice change from ramen noodles and other backpacker fare. The want to pack a headlamp, both to navigate the huts at night, Island, where a different type of magic awaits: the “Hobbiton” much as a year in advance if you’re planning on visiting during crystal-clear waters along the Milford Track make it relatively and for taking nighttime walks to look for glowworms, which are movie set. — AP peak Great Walks season, Oct 27-April 27. For other South Island easy to spot the freshwater longfin eel, featured on an episode what they sound like. Other popular Great Walks include adventures, though, it’s good to have some flexibility in your of Animal Planet’s “River Monsters.” Elsewhere, watch out for Routeburn and Kepler, but there are many quieter, less-adver- schedule as you’ll pick up tips on things to do from other hikers backpack-eating alpine parrots called keas. tised routes nearby to explore with fewer tourists, such as Dusty, and from the knowledgeable staff in DOC offices throughout Hollyford, Rees-Dart, Greenstone and Caples. If time is limited, the country. Look for glowworms many multi-day hikes can be broken up into day hikes or one- One excursion that’s popular with hikers is an overnight They are ever-present in high-altitude regions and they’re nighters. The hike to Mount Luxmore on the Kepler Track, just cruise from Milford Sound. The boat’s all-you-can-eat buffet is a not afraid to peck at human gear in search of food. You’ll also outside of the quaint lakeside town of Te Anau, is a steep, chal-

The unique landscape along the Routeburn Tracki n Glenorchy, New Zealand. Mt Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain, at sunset in Twizel, New Zealand.— AP photos The iconic Mitre Peak in the Fiordland National Park in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Bohemian Glam!

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Tourists take a photo as they visit the ancient Roman amphitheatre.

A general view shows the ancient Roman amphitheatre in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

A general view shows in the foreground the ruins Jabal Al-Qala’a (The Castle Mountain). Jordan battling to rescue its key earner tourism

atural wonders it has in abundance, but natural actual product and boosting services such as medical resources are lacking. And now one of Jordan’s tourism. According to Fawzi Hamouri, who heads the Nmain money-earners-tourism-is being killed off country’s association of private clinics, “Jordan has by regional conflicts. A haven of peace surrounded by become the prime medical destination in the Middle war, Jordan is turning to contingency measures to try East and North Africa”, with 250,000 foreign patients to revive its tourism industry which is suffering treated in 2014. Some Jordanians in the industry because of the raging violence in its neighbors Iraq believe the authorities are not doing enough, howev- and Syria. Tourism in 2014 contributed 14 percent of er. the kingdom’s gross domestic product, to the tune of $4.4 billion (4.0 billion euros), the second highest earn- Reservations about security er after remittances from expatriates. But the flow of Travel agent Salama Khattar deplores what he tourism revenue is becoming a trickle. called the absence of a “clear and ambitious program “For three days I haven’t had a tourist come in here,” of work” to relaunch tourism. “We have made no prof- said 30-year-old Mohammed of his souvenir shop in its since 2011. We are paying the overheads out of our Tourists visiting the ruins Jabal Al-Qala’a (The Castle Mountain) in the central Amman. “Things are slowing down, and each own pockets,” he said. In the past four years, Khattar’s Jordanian capital, Amman. — AFP photos year seems to be worse than the last.” The Hashemite agency which brings tourist groups from Belgium, kingdom has no shortage of acclaimed wonders, both France, Norway and Sweden has seen its business cut natural and man-made. Its rose-pink rock-hewn city of in half. Amman emphasizes safety to try to reassure Petra is one of the seven wonders of the world, and foreign visitors, but Jordanian involvement in the air the Roman ruins at Jerash in the north of the country campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and near the border with Syria are among the region’s Iraq does not mean it is sheltered from extremism. most impressive. “It shouldn’t be us who pays the price,” the The desert at Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea have tourism minister said, since Jordan “is not part of the always figured high on the list of the country’s natural problem in the region”. Julien, a young French tourist attractions. Until recent years, such sites attracted hun- visiting the towering Roman theatre dominating the Part of the ancient Roman amphitheatre in the Jordanian dreds of thousands of Western tourists on the trail of centre of Amman, said he had no regrets about com- capital. the first great civilizations. But now they are devoid of ing. “A great stay, and no sense of feeling insecure visitors, frightened off by regional unrest in the wake despite a few initial reservations linked to the current of the 2011 Arab Spring that swept across the Middle trouble,” he said. Western governments regularly East and North Africa. warn their citizens that Jordan is not immune from the violence that afflicts the region. “The threat of ter- Hotels shut up shop rorism remains high in Jordan,” says the US State In those four years, the number of people who visit Department’s current travel advisory. The last attack Petra every year has nearly halved-from just under a in the country was in 2005, when suicide bombers million in 2010 to around 600,000 last year. Ten hotels blew themselves up in three of the capital’s hotels, there have had to shut their doors. And revenue from killing 60 people. — AFP tourism was down 15 percent during the first four months of 2015 on last year, falling to $1.5 billion. Tourists take a selfie as they visit the ancient Roman amphitheatre. Tourism Minister Nayef Al-Fayez attributed the fall to “the absence among visitors of visibility on the situa- tion in Jordan”. The head of the country’s tourism office, Abderrazak Arabyat, has now come up with an emergency plan aimed at raising Jordan’s international profile and “getting out of this situation”. “There’s no magic wand we can wave to fix things in a few weeks,” Fayez told AFP. “But we have put in place an ambitious plan target- ing in particular the countries of the Gulf” such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. New mar- kets including Turkey and the Far East will also be approached, among them China, Japan and South Korea, with the hope of seeing positive results “from A tourist visiting part of the ancient Roman amphitheatre. next year”. There is also a rethink on diversifying the

A general view shows tourists visiting the ruins Jabal Al-Qala’a (The Castle Mountain). A general view shows tourist visiting part of the ancient Roman amphitheatre.