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Emir receives Omani minister Gulf workers Woqod to set up 15 sent $100bn home last year KUWAIT CITY,: Foreigners portable fuel stations working in the Gulf sent more than $100bn in remittances to their home countries last year, Bid to address shortage of facilities in Doha, suburbs an economic report showed yesterday. DOHA: Woqod (Qatar Fuel), Woqod has already requested hours are a problem, and this is The figure was twice as high as local distributor of petroleum the Ministry of Municipality and particularly true of areas in and remittances in 2010, an indica- products, will soon be setting Urban Planning to allot it plots of outside of Doha that are always tion of strong growth, the head up 15 portable petrol stations land temporarily so it can install crowded with vehicles, the daily of economic research at Kuwait at different locations in and the make-shift filling stations said quoting the source. Financial Centre (Markaz), around Doha to help vehicles and hopes to get the allotment “That’s the reason why we have Raghu Mandagoathur, said in the access fuel easily. soon. come up with this temporary yet report. Woqod has already bought the “Woqod is actively coordinat- effective solution,” the source The remittances are esti- necessary paraphernalia, includ- ing with the civic ministry for said. mated at 6.2 percent of the ing the fuel tanks, to set up the plot allotment,” Al Sharq quoted Earlier this year, when a petrol combined GDP of the six GCC portable fuel stations. They will a Woqod source as saying. station in Al Shamal had closed states of $1.6 trillion, the report be installed as temporary filling The portable fuel stations that down, Woqod sent a mobile pet- said, citing IMF and World Bank stations in highly crowded places. normally have a capacity of 4,000 rol station there and it came in figures. The locations have been identi- to 10,000 gallons of fuel storage handy for automobile users in the In comparison, foreigners in fied and they are in some of the are safe, both environmentally area. the United States and Britain most crowded places in Doha and and from the viewpoint of users’ Woqod also sent mobile fuel sent home just 0.7 percent and in the sprawling suburbs. safety and security. stations to the Sealine area dur- 0.8 percent of GDP, respectively, The portable stations will con- They are easy-to-install as it ing weekends due to crowding. it said. tinue to operate as long as perma- takes barely a few hours to fix The company has been building Saudi Arabia topped the list nent petrol stations are not built them and make them operational. modern petrol stations in differ- with its estimated $10m expats by Woqod in different places to If the need be, they can also be ent parts of the country to help sending home $44bn, followed by help ease their shortages. shifted to another location. Also, ease the present shortages. UAE with $29bn. The shortages, as is known, are only small space is needed to At least eight of the many new Remittances from Kuwait and being caused as the population of install a makeshift fuel station petrol stations that are slated to Qatar were $12bn and $9.5bn, both, the people and vehicles, has so one can be easily deployed in be operational this very year are respectively, while smaller trans- been rising and many existing pet- a crowded area. already complete and ready for Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received Omani Minister fers were made out of Oman and rol stations have been demolished Serpentine queues at petrol commissioning. Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah at Al Bahr Bahrain, the report said. for renovation and expansion. stations especially during peak THE PENINSULA Palace yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations and ways of enhanc- AFP ing them. Qatar acquires Qatar GDP to rise to 7.3pc; budget deficit seen next year

$1.19bn HK DOHA: Qatar’s real GDP inflation, is expected to remain of the index, which has been the balance are estimated at $86.4 per and increased volatility of oil growth in 2015 is projected to strong in 2015 and is set to carry principal driver of consumer price barrel for 2016 and $88.0 for 2017. prices, which widens the margins Electric stake rise to 7.3 percent, driven by a through to 2016 and 2017, before it inflation in the past two years. “This estimate assumes that of uncertainty round the central strong non-hydrocarbon sec- moderates. The outlook foresees However, a modest pickup in the growth of current government forecasts. Over the projection HONG KONG: Qatar tor and the boost to upstream that the country’s overall fiscal inflation is expected in 2016 and spending continues to move on horizon, the non-hydrocarbon Investment Authority has hydrocarbon product from balance will register its first defi- 2017, if dollar appreciation loses to a lower trajectory than in the sector will continue to account for bought an aggregate stake of Barzan gas project. Service cit in 15 years, in 2016. momentum. recent past; there are effective most of the economy’s expansion”, 19.9 percent in HK Electric sector will be the largest con- Consumer price inflation is Qatar’s fiscal surplus is cost reductions in the hydrocar- H E Dr Saleh Mohamed Salem Al Investments Ltd from billion- tributor to growth, followed by expected to moderate in 2015 expected to narrow considerably bon sector; and additional non-oil Nabit, Ministry of Development aire Li Ka-shing’s firms for construction, according to a before edging up in 2016 and 2017. in 2015 to 1.4 percent of nominal and gas revenues accrue to budget. Planning and Statistics, said. HK$9.25bn ($1.19bn), as the glo- report released by the Ministry Annual inflation is expected to GDP, down from 12.3 percent in However, deficit still appears, as The main downside risk to the bal investor seeks investment of Development Planning and average two percent in 2015, down 2014. In 2016, it is foreseen that a consequence of an anticipated outlook is the possibility that oil opportunities in Asia. Statistics (MDPS) yesterday. from 3.3 percent in 2014. Partially, the overall fiscal balance will reg- squeeze on hydrocarbon-linked prices will not track higher in Power Assets Holdings Ltd said The “Qatar Economic Outlook the subdued inflation outlook ister its first deficit in 15 years, revenue”, the document noted. 2016 and 2017, as the forecast it sold a stake worth HK$7.68bn 2015-2017” noted the country’s is due to a lower weight of the an estimated 4.9 percent of GDP. “The assessment has been made assume, he added. ($990.79m) in HK Electric to real GDP or GDP adjusted by housing and utilities component Breakeven oil prices for the fiscal at a time of sharp adjustments THE PENINSULA Qatar Investment Authority, as the Hong Kong power utility eyes new acquisitions in the global energy industry. Attack on Egyptian lawyer Power Assets said its holding in HK Electric fell to 33.37 percent after it sold a 16.53 percent stake, $675,000 prizes for remaining as the controlling shareholder of the power supplier. Together with a stake of 3.37 poems on Prophet percent bought from Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd, Qatar’s sovereign wealth DOHA: Katara is set to launch Explaining the terms and fund holds a stake of 19.9 percent the ‘Katara Prize for Prophet’s conditions of the Prize, Khalid in HK Electric, Power Assets said Poets’, one of the biggest prizes Abdulrahim Al Sayyed, General in a separate statement. of its kind, under the slogan Supervisor of the Prize said Power Assets said the latest “Best poems in praise of the the topic of the poem should sale was consistent with its intent Prophet.’ be about ‘Praising the Prophet of maintaining its stake in HK The Prize will be launched on Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Electric at between 30 percent Monday evening at the Katara Him)’ written in Arabic language and 49.9 percent. “We expect this Opera Theatre in the pres- and follows the classical style of new partnership to be of potential ence of a number of officials, Arab poetry. significant benefit to our group,” public figures and interested Participation is open to poets said chairman Canning Fok, add- individuals. from different parts of the world ing the net proceeds from the deal Katara General Manager Dr between ages 20 to 50, who should would further strengthen Power Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti said submit the poem together with Assets’ liquidity position. Relatives of victims killed in a riot following a football match in Port Said in February 2012, clash with defence the Prize is a first-of-its-kind reli- his CV and publications. REUTERS lawyer (left) outside the courthouse in Cairo yesterday. A court yesterday confirmed the death sentences of gious and cultural activity organ- The poem should not be less 11 men for their part in the football-related violence. See also page 6 ised at the Arab region level. than 30 rhymes and not exceed The aim of the Prize is to 60 rhymes and must not have select the poet who composes been published or won any prize the best poem praising Prophet before. Muhammad (PBUH) using his It should have been written talent and language command, by the participant himself who Two face trial for killing man in visa row he said. must bear full oral and legal Furthermore, the Prize’s aim is responsibility DOHA: A criminal court is two work visas and was neither They followed the sound of the The investigators checked the to maintain high level of Arabic Entries should be submitted via hearing a case involving a man returning the money nor giving ring and when they reached near calls received on the phone and language style and encourage the website of the Prize not later who lost his life because he them the visas. it they were shocked to see a dead tried to call back those people but people to recite poems and give than December 31. allegedly took money from two The body of the deceased was body lying there in a pool of blood. in vain as there was no response. attention to poetry as a vital part The jury of the Prize which is acquaintances promising them accidentally discovered by a patrol The patrol team called in The police eventually zeroed in of Arab heritage and tradition. composed of academics and spe- work visas. team of sleuths from the Criminal ambulance and the police. The on the duo who was suspected of The Prize carries a total sum cialists in Arabic language will The duo, who has been accused Investigation Department (CID) mobile phone found near the dead having killed the man, who was of $675,000 which will be divided assess the poems and choose the of killing the man, told investi- of the Ministry of Interior. body was scanned and text mes- an Asian. Ths suspects are also into the first prize of $300,000, 10 best poets which will then be gators that they murdered him The team while it was patrol- sages therein revealed that its Asian. second prize $200,000, third prize given to a higher committee to because he had taken QR45,000 ling a deserted area outside of owner had taken cash from some Continued on page 5 $100,000, fourth prize $50,000 and choose the five winners. from them to provide them Doha heard a mobile phone ring. people for illegal visa trade. THE PENISULA fifth prize $25,000. 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Premier meets GCC officials FM meets Yemeni counterpart

Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah yesterday met his Yemeni counterpart Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met the undersecretaries of GCC Dr Riyadh Yaseen Abdullah and discussed issues of joint interest, focusing on developments in Ministries of Information who are holding a preparatory meeting for the 23rd meeting of the information ministers. Yemen. Dr Al Attiyah hosted a luncheon banquet in honour of Dr Abdullah and his delegation. Greeting cables sent to Jordan Sport security, safety forum begins DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of con- gratulations to King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the anni- versary of his accession to the throne. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a congratulatory cable to King Abdullah II. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a sim- ilar cable to King Abdullah II. Over QR900m property deals Col. Muhammad Majid Al Sulaiti, DOHA: The total value in real Executive Director, Security e s t at e s a le de a l s l a s t w e ek r e a c he d over QR900m. The weekly bulletin Administration, Supreme adopted in big sports events and from seven countries, with expe- being attended by experts and of policies and evaluation of dan- of the Land Registry Department Committee for Delivery and Legacy, world cups. rience in securing global sports specialists who have contributed gers that may occur during major of the Ministry of Justice shows addresses participants. The two-day meeting is organ- events. to the organisation of important sporting events, and to present the deals included plots, shopping ised by the Security Committee of Col. Muhammad Majid Al sporting events in the world, basic elements of local plans and centres, homes and residential DOHA: A Sports Safety and World Cup 2022, in collaboration Sulaiti, Executive Director, will have a significant role in the ability to respond to risks. complexes and towers in Doha, Security Experts Group meet- with Interpol Project Stadia. Security Administration, facilitating Qatar to host a safe It also aims to assess basic ele- Umm Salal, Al Khor, Al Dhakira, ing started at InterContinental Representatives from security Supreme Committee for Delivery tournament. ments of the national security Al Rayyan, Al Zain, Al Wakra and Hotel in Doha yesterday to agencies in Qatar are attending and Legacy, told the meeting that Ali Al Ali, Acting Director, plan for sports events and take Al Shamal. QNA review security measures the meeting along with experts Qatar’s hosting of FIFA World Project Stadia, Interpol, said into account special security and Cup 2022 and other global sport- Interpol has facilitated security safety management system as ing events highlights the state’s measures in all parts of the world essential elements that can be excellent aspect in various fields, through information exchange used when Qatar plans to host particularly in the security field, between 190 member countries major sporting events. where Qatar has made its pres- and exercised its role in assisting She said all these things will ence among the most secure police to meet the growing chal- enable us to build visions and countries. lenges of crime in the new cen- ideas and contribute to necessary He said our goal of hosting tury through the establishment of policies to host the World Cup the World Cup is to reduce the a safe and effective communica- in Qatar. She said 189 countries gap between East and West and tion system. constitute the Interpol family and promote cultural rapproche- He said over the past 10 years, will learn a lot from these prac- ment between the peoples and Interpol has learnt how major tices and there will be plenty of the world, building a sustainable sporting events, particularly those knowledge in the future. legacy in social, economic and attracting athletes and spectators Falah Abdullah Al Dousari, humanitarian fields and contrib- from around the world, can pose Officer at Interpol, said this is the uting to advancing development tremendous security challenges to first meeting of experts in safety in Qatar and the region. host countries. and security for major sporting He said from such a project Janet Williams, Security Affairs events, under the Stadia Project. Qatar aspires to learn from coun- Adviser, Security Committee, Experts are divided into three tries’ experiences and use them Supreme Committee of Delivery groups. The first on sports legis- in World Cup 2022 to make it and Legacy, said the meeting’s lation, second on cyber security, the best of all tournaments held key objectives include developing and third for security of which the before. a comprehensive understanding of first meeting is being held. He said the annual meeting, best practices in the development THE PENINSULA Qatar interested in N-technology for food, health and environment: Envoy VIENNA: Qatar has confirmed and Permanent Representative environmental protection and its interest in using nuclear to international organisations in harnessing nuclear power to gen- technology in the fields of food, Vienna, delivered the statements. erate power. agriculture, human health and On the technical cooperation Al Mansouri called on the gen- the environment in addition to report 2014, he said Qatar’s del- eral secretariat to continue to other peaceful purposes. egation supported the statement strengthen and develop its joint The state also approved a pro- by the Egyptian ambassador on working methods with member gramme to set up national insti- behalf of the Arab Group and the states through consultation to tutions concerned with peaceful statement by the Chilean ambas- assist them in the required imple- applications of atomic energy and sador on behalf of the Group of 77 mentation and explore new pros- initiated a technical cooperation and China. pects for cooperation. programme with International He praised a report of the He expressed Qatar’s apprecia- Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Director-General on implementa- tion for IAEA’s efforts towards modernise its laboratories, partic- tion of the technical cooperation building capacities and said the ipate in training programmes and programme 2014 and informa- report highlighted the agency’s to get advice from IAEA experts. tion provided and it reflected the support to the ‘Upgrading the This came in two statements by importance of the programme in Central Food Laboratory’ project Qatar during a meeting of IAEA supporting developing countries No. QAT/5/004. Al Mansouri said Board of Governors in Vienna. in the use of nuclear technology Qatar will continue to pay its con- Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, in agricultural and healthcare, tribution to the technical coop- Qatar’s Ambassador to Austria management of water resources, eration programme. QNA Filipinos to mark Independence Day DOHA: Filipinos in Qatar will mark the 117th This will be followed by a motorcade from the anniversary of the declaration of Philippine embassy to Sheraton Doha Hotel where the day-long Independence with a grand celebration on Friday. celebration will take place. Cultural presentations, The day’s events will start with the hoisting singing and photography competitions, chess and of the national flag at the Philippine embassy by dart tournaments, trade fair, food exhibition and car Ambassador Wilfredo C Santos who is celebrating show are among the programmes. There will also the day in Qatar for the first time. be a medical mission and POLO-OWWA services at Heads of Filipino organisations and community the venue. A gala dinner featuring performances by members are expected to attend the ceremony which Kaloob Philippine Music and Dance Ministry and a will end with ‘Almusal ng bayan’ or community fashion show on creations by Doha-based Filipino breakfast — a tradition every year. designers will cap the events. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Qatar among top 10 for fixed line Internet speeds

DOHA: The Akamai ‘State Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al of the Internet’ Report has Thani, CEO, Ooredoo Qatar, named Qatar one of the fast- said: “We are striving to make est-rising countries for fixed Qatar the best-connected coun- line Internet speeds in the try in the world, and the report world, following Ooredoo’s shows the qualitative impact Internet speed boost last year. Ooredoo is having on Internet The report ranked Qatar No. speeds and adoption across the 8 in the global top 10, offering country. average peak connection speeds “Customers in Qatar know of 62.8 Mbps, a 72 percent year- that Ooredoo offers the big- on-year increase. gest, fastest network, and the It attributes the incredible report demonstrates the strides rise to Ooredoo’s free speed we have taken in terms of aver- upgrade last October, which age peak connection speeds and saw customers on 1 Mbps plans adoption rates on a global scale”. boosted to 10 Mbps and those Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al Thani, Since its launch in 2011, on 10 Mbps plans upgraded to CEO, Ooredoo Qatar. Ooredoo’s fibre network has 25 Mbps. provided advantages for cus- Qatar ranked among top 10 tomers, including incredible nations for global average peak a 282 percent rise of high-speed upload and download speeds, connection speeds for the first adoption rates in the last quarter access to a fully-digital crystal time, displacing Luxembourg. The of 2014. In addition to boosting clear voice network and Next GEM and QRC officials with company staff at the event. report says Ooredoo’s ongoing speeds for all 1Mbps and 10Mbps Generation Mozaic TV with fibre upgrades contributed signif- home fibre plans, Ooredoo dou- high-definition programming icantly to a sharp rise in broad- bled upload speeds for fibre cus- and advanced features. band connectivity in Qatar, with tomers during the period. THE PENINSULA GEM staff raise QR40,000 Qatar nominated for presidency of global for QRC projects in Nepal association of anti-graft authorities DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent it to carry out work on the ground and staff, urging all individuals, (QRC) has received QR40,000 in Nepal. corporations and institutions in DOHA: The International confidence of 146 member states He said African countries have donation from Gulf Earth “We have also supported our Qatar to extend more help as Association of Anti-Corruption in Qatar as an active player in abundant oil, gas, phosphate and Moving (GEM) to support the workforce by sending home those part of QRC’s emergency appeal Authorities (IAACA) has nomi- anti-corruption issues. other resources but corrup- charity’s relief efforts for Nepal needed to be there and helping to raise QR12m to offer urgent nated Qatar for the presiden- He said Emir H H Sheikh tion is the biggest obstacle to earthquake victims. the families of our employees assistance to the affected popula- tial position with the decision Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is development. Staff of GEM, a multinational directly affected by the tragedy.” tion in healthcare, shelter, water due to be made during the gen- a genuine supporter of anti-cor- On Qatar’s stance on the nomi- company that serves large-scale Saad bin Shaheen Al Kaabi, and sanitation, and restore family eral assembly meeting in the ruption issues at domestic and nation, Dr Al Marri said Qatar is earthmoving, reclamation, shore Director, Resource Mobilisation links. Russian city of St Petersburg international levels. always ready to cooperate and will protection and soil improve- Department, QRC, said, “I was Donations to support the this October. Dr Al Marri said the centre, put its capacity under the service ment projects in Qatar, raised happy to be among the workers Nepalese people are received via IAACA’s executive commit- announced last week in Senegal of the UN and world countries to the money. The fund was given to receive the donation, which the hotline: 16002, QRC head- tee made the decision during its during a ministerial conference fight corruption. to the company’s management, reflects their compassion towards quarters in Old Slata, QRC meeting yesterday at Rule of Law on strengthening the rule of law If elected to lead IAACA, he which chose QRC. the victims. agents at malls, bank transfer to and Anti-corruption Centre in and fight against corruption in added, the organisation will move Ian Shaw, Business “This matches QRC’s humani- QRC account at Qatar Islamic Doha under the chairmanship of Africa, will be launched in Dakar its headquarters from Beijing to Development Manager, GEM, tarian mission and principles, Bank — IBAN QA11QISB0018 Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, Public and serve the continent. Doha. Around 20 members were said: “With over 100 employ- which always inspire us to help 40120150 100012907, online (www. Prosecutor and Member of the The Dakar centre will coop- present in the meeting of the ees from Nepal, we felt directly the vulnerable and serve dis- qrcs.org.qa), or SMS (92766 to executive committee. erate with the Doha centre by executive committee to which impacted by the earthquake. tressed and underprivileged com- donate QR100 or 92770 to donate On the sidelines, he told report- exchanging expertise, funding and Qatar was elected member in “We are pleased to support munities everywhere.” QR500). ers the nomination stresses the technical cooperation, he said. 2008. QNA QRC with this donation to enable Al Kaabi thanked the company THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME WCMC-Q graduate doctors present research at neurology forum in US

French Ambassador Eric Chevallier with other officials at the event. Embassy, HEC Paris hold

FROM LEFT: Dr Mujahed Laswi, Dr Mais Alkawaz and Dr Ayman Al Jurdi at the conference. climate change forum DOHA: Three graduate doc- He said, “This is one of the can lead to loss of vision if not tors from Weill Cornell Medical largest and most important treated. DOHA: HEC Paris in Qatar session of the Conference of the reality now,” said Chevallier. College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) events for neurology, attended The project was supervised organised a joint conference Parties to the UN Framework “France, as the host of COP21, have presented research at a by many top neurologists. This by Dr Marc Dinkin, Director, with the French embassy Convention on Climate Change, has a special responsibility in key international neurology was an incredible opportunity Neuro-Ophthalmology, New as part of events leading known as ‘Paris 2015’. raising awareness about this glo- conference. for the students. Presenting York–Presbyterian Hospital, to the UN Climate Change Up to 40,000 delegates repre- bal issue. Dr Mais Alkawaz, Dr Ayman their projects in Washington Weill Cornell Medical Centre, Conference (COP21) in Paris at senting 194 countries, observers, “We are working in coopera- Al Jurdi and Dr Mujahed Laswi DC marked the culmination of and Dr Fatima Al Mannei, the year-end. and civil society members will tion with our Qatari partners presented posters at the 2015 a year of hard work carrying Specialist Ophthalmologist, Under the theme ‘Towards aim towards a new international to act on the subject locally and annual meeting of American out clinical research at Hamad HMC. Dr Al Jurdi and Dr Laswi the COP21: Facing challenges of agreement on climate change, internationally,” he added. Academy of Neurology in Medical Corporation (HMC), worked on a project that mapped the climate change’, the confer- applicable to all countries, which “As the global community has Washington DC. which delivered interesting and the incidence of epilepsy in Qatar ence was held on Sunday at HEC will keep global warming below deemed it necessary to immedi- The physicians were students worthwhile results.” The meeting and made discoveries about the Paris premises in Tornado Tower two degrees Celsius. ately address serious and press- when they presented research was held at Walter E Washington most likely causes among differ- and attended by over 100 partici- France has two major respon- ing environmental issues and at the forum, which took place Convention Centre and attracted ent nationalities. pants, including officials from the sibilities for COP21: As the host, concerns, HEC Paris believes shortly before their graduation over 2,500 abstracts from neu- The project studied charts of Ministry of Environment. it will provide participants with that it is its duty and responsi- ceremony. It is unusual for medi- rology researchers from across several hundred HMC patients Speakers were French the best possible working envi- bility to assist in the facilitation cal students to have the opportu- the globe. and found that those of South Ambassador Eric Chevallier and ronment and, as conference of intellectual and scholarly dis- nity to present research at such Dr Alkawaz presented a poster East Asian origin were more Dr Philippe Freyssinet, Director, presidency, it will facilitate dis- cussions that will positively and an event while they are in college, on her project about idiopathic likely to have developed epilepsy Energy & Environment, Qatar cussions between countries and significantly contribute to COP21 but Dr Naim Haddad, Associate intracranial hypertension in due to infectious diseases affect- National Research Fund. ensure negotiations are transpar- objectives,” Prof. Kerbache said. Professor, Clinical Neurology, Qatar, a rare, serious disease ing the brain, while among the The conference was moderated ent and inclusive. COP21 will be held from WCMC-Q, was confident their characterised by increased Qatari population stroke was by Professor Laoucine Kerbache, “Climate change is not a theo- November 30 to December 11 at projects were of sufficient quality pressure around the brain that more commonly the cause. Dean & CEO, HEC Paris in Qatar. retical risk, we need to mitigate Paris-Le Bourget in France. to merit participation. causes headaches and nausea and THE PENINSULA COP21 refers to the 21st global warming and adapt to the THE PENINSULA QU students, Vodafone focus on digital education

DOHA: Vodafone has joined the jury panel of Qatar University (QU) and College of Business & Economics’ System Analysis and Design Course Group Project Assignment to evalu- ate the work of students busy over the past six weeks planning, analys- ing and designing a digital system to enhance knowledge sharing across the college, based on the concept of an academic social media platform. The system will assist students to get answers and information from tutors or lecturers and other students Part of Al Waab Street and faculty members. It will enhance students’ learning experience in the college and increase the effectiveness to close for 12 hours and efficiency of pedagogical interac- QU and Vodafone Qatar officials with students. DOHA: Part of Al Waab Street from Al Sadd tion between lecturers and students. to Villaggio will be closed for traffic for 12 hours The jury panel comprises Dr from tomorrow late evening. Karim Al Yafi, Assistant Professor of was the feasibility and viability of the of assignments that help students get of the project. The students should The closure will be in force from 11pm on Management Information Systems at concept, its convenience to users and closer to what the industry needs, also explain decision about the devel- Thursday until 11am on Friday. The other direc- the college, and Simone Eliantonio, adaptability in the future for other by understanding that digital tools opment methodology and justification tion of the road remains open to traffic. Head, Strategic Projects and organisations who may deem it rel- are effective at improving, if not for choosing it as well as discussing The closure is to enable the second phase of Innovation, Vodafone Qatar. evant to boost their communications revolutionising, any aspect of human potential risks and how they intend maintenance works on the traffic signal at the The judges evaluated students’ processes. endeavours.” to mitigate them. The students were intersection of Al Bustan Street with Al Waab learning outcomes and gave feedback Dr Al Yafi said: “The students dem- Students were asked to define a clear also asked to conduct a comprehensive Street, Public Works Authority (Ashghal) said on each project. In addition to the onstrated learning outcomes on a real and detailed plan to properly manage object-oriented analysis of the system yesterday. depth of the analysis and the inno- project with high potential to be imple- the project. The plan should include a which included identification and docu- Meanwhile, the slip road leading to Sharq Street vation behind the concept, the most mented and delivered works of profes- comprehensive feasibility study and a mentation of usage cases, domain mod- off Ras Abu Abboud Street will be temporarily important key performance indicator sional standards.” WBS and PERT chart(s) to help them els, system components and sequence closed in the vicinity of Al Khulaifat Park from for the success of the winning team Eliantonio said: “This is the kind best manage and monitor the execution diagrams. THE PENINSULA tomorrow. The closure will be for four months, while the other direction of the road to Ras Abu Abboud Street remains open to traffic. A small sec- tion of Sharq Street will also be closed. However, this will not affect traffic, said Ashghal. The clo- sure is to facilitate micro-tunnelling works for the N B K h o s t s s t u d e n t s sewerage network. Motorists will be able to access Sharq Street by exiting Ras Abu Abboud Street into Corniche Street and turning right. for ‘Job Shadow Day’ Vehicles exiting Sharq Village and Spa can join traffic by exiting left and into Sharq Street or right DOHA: Nasser Bin Khaled Holding construction, real estate, luxury and into Ras Abu Abboud Street. THE PENINSULA (NBK) hosted local students from fashion, healthcare, energy and indus- Qatar University, Carnegie Mellon try, and travel and tourism. University in Qatar, Georgetown The students also interacted with University in Qatar and London professionals who shared insights into Academy as part of the ‘Job Shadow Qatar’s dynamic business environment Day’ organised by Injaz Qatar. and engaged them in discussions to The students spent the day at NBK develop innovative personal strategies sites, gaining first-hand experience for continued success. from employees from key departments, Sheikh Nawaf bin Nasser, Chairman who provided mentoring and shared and CEO, NBK Holding, said, “The knowledge to expand the students’ initiative is a learning experience understanding of skills required for for shaping the leaders of tomorrow, rewarding corporate careers. merging classroom learning with real- NBK helped the students gain an world knowledge that helps young overview on some key sectors that minds gain exposure to career fields contribute to Qatar’s growth and of interest.” NBK staff at the event. development, including automotive, THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Roaming charges to Special schools for girls to fall in GCC countries DOHA: Telecom users in Information Technology meet- teach banking from this year the GCC (Gulf Cooperation ing in Doha. Council) region will see their Minister of Information and roaming bills falling in com- Communications Technology DOHA: The Supreme Education (banking)” said Al Khater. for children with disabilities in interests, said the official. ing years as governments have H E Dr Hessa Sultan Al Jaber Council (SEC) will open special The decision apparently is to Dahl Al Hammam in the next She, however, added that this agreed to gradually reduce the chaired the meeting. schools for girls in the next aca- prepare more Qatari women to academic year. does not mean Independent charges. It discussed ways to demic year to teach banking, a take up jobs in the banking and A special team has been trained schools will lose independence. The move will make calls, text strengthen the role of the tel- senior official has disclosed. financial sector. to run the schools and study the They are authorised to take deci- messages and data usage cheaper ecom and postal sector in the Schools will be set up in col- The official said the SEC has type of disabilities that can be sions related to their daily func- in the six-nation bloc. GCC. laboration with Qatar National also decided to introduce more handled by the schools. tioning. New teachers will join Cuts to charges for calls and Participants also reviewed the Bank (QNB), Fauzia Al Khater, subjects in secondary schools She said recruitment of all Independent schools in the next text messages will be introduced role of social networking web- Director, Education Institute, that can meet the labour market Independent schools will now be academic year. on April 1, 2016 and will take sites in social development and SEC, told an Arabic daily. requirements. controlled directly by the SEC. The SEC has accepted requests place over three years, while agreed to set up a committee to Girls will be able to join these “We have been receiving com- School directors or operators from schools to increase their data charges will be slashed from study the impact of social net- schools and study banking as they plaints that secondary school do not have the right to dismiss administrative staff. The plan to the same date but over five years. working websites on youngsters. reach grade 10. Classes begin in graduates are not qualified for any teacher. This can be done only increase the ratio of non-teaching The plan is to make roaming The meeting also discussed September, she added. the Qatari job market,” said Al with SEC approval and the coun- staff is one employee for every 70 charges equal to prevailing local preparations by the GCC team “We conducted feasibility stud- Khater. cil will not grant approval until students from the existing of 1 to call rates or data charges. in charge of participation in ies and found that it is neces- The SEC will also open pre- alternative arrangements are 100 students. The decision was announced World Radiocommunication sary to fill the gap in this sector schools (special kindergartens) made. This is to protect students’ THE PENINSULA following a GCC Ministerial Conference 2015 in Geneva in Committee for Post, November. Telecommunications and THE PENINSULA GCC foreign ministers to Runaway maid caught by sponsor while meet in Saudi tomorrow celebrating National Day at hotel RIYADH: The GCC foreign ministers will hold tomorrow the 135th session of their council in Riyadh. Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid DOHA: A criminal court is National Day celebrations of her maid sitting and enjoying with a had not paid her salary for two bin Mohamed Al Attiyah will chair the session, as he is President hearing a case of a runaway country to be organised by her friend. months. of the current session, with GCC Secretary-General Dr Abdul Latif maid caught by her sponsor country’s embassy. He went straight to their table, The sponsor admitted but said bin Rashid Al Zayani. while she was taking part in her Having been reminded of that held the maid’s hand and began that while escaping from his Dr Al Zayani said the agenda includes topics and projects related country’s National Day celebra- the sponsor found out when and screaming saying that she was his house she had stolen his wife’s to GCC joint action, including follow up on implementation of resolu- tions in a star hotel. where the celebrations were to be maid and that she had run away earrings, a pair of sandals, an tions of the Supreme Council and the Ministerial Council, strategic The maid, from an African held so he could go there and take from his house after staling valu- expensive gown and other items. dialogues between GCC states and other groups, latest regional and country, has been accused by her a chance and possibly catch her ables belonging to his wife. The man said he didn’t want international developments related to regional security and stability employer of having stolen several red-handed. The employer, an Arab expa- her back because she was beating and the situation in Yemen. QNA of his wife’s valuable belongings And he landed at the venue of triate, called in police and the his only child but wanted the sto- and escaped. the celebrations at the right time. woman was taken in custody. len items back. The maid, he said, After she ran away, the The party was on and people were The matter was sent to court had worked with him for about Panel approves applications employer recalled that she was tapping feet on African drumbeat and the maid claimed she had 10 months. for admission to Bar once talking about attending when the employer sighted the run away because the employer THE PENINSULA DOHA: Qatar’s committee on admissions to Bar approved applica- tions for registration of several lawyers yesterday. It also reviewed the outcome of investigations into complaints against many lawyers and decided to take action. The panel gave licences for Ramadan: Five legal practice to several law graduates who had applied for it. The meeting was headed by Minister of Justice H E Dr Hassan Lahdan working hours Saqr Al Mohannadi, reports QNA. THE PENINSULA for govt sector DOHA: Deputy Prime Impact of social networking sites Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet on GCC youngsters reviewed Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al DOHA: Undersecretaries from of the networking sites on the Mahmoud has issued information ministries of GCC economic development of mem- a circular on working countries who met here yes- ber-states, reports QNA. hours for the ministries, terday discussed the impact of They also discussed some web- government depart- local social networking sites on sites making adverse impact on Officials pose for a group photo at the event. ments, public bodies youngsters in the region and youngsters and children. and institutions during recommended that member- A team has been set up to fol- Ramadan. states should come up with a low up on the issues especially as The circular says on unified initiative to protect peo- the number of Internet users in the occasion of Ramadan ple’s privacy. the region has been increasing. Third GCC Media Forum begins for 1436 Hijri, it has been They also discussed the impact THE PENINSULA decided that official work- DOHA: The third GCC Hasani, Bahrain’s Minister It also aims to dis- The 23rd meeting ing hours of civil servants media forum began here of State for Information cuss regional and of GCC ministers of will be five a day from Victim’s mobile led to duo’s arrest yesterday. Affairs Isa bin Abdulrahman international chal- information begins 9am to 2pm. Continued from page 1 The victim tried to run for Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Hammadi and GCC media lenges. today. QNA QNA One of the suspects was about his life but they caught him and bin Hamad Al Thani, CEO, specialists and academics. to fly home and had acquired exit hit him again and when he died, Qatar Media Corporation Addressing the open- permit. dumped his body in a deserted (QMC), attended the open- ing ceremony of the forum, The duo confessed to the area. The duo said they threw the ing of the forum along Youssef Ibrahim Al Malki, crime during interrogation and hammer in the sea. with Kuwaiti Minister of Head, Media Development, said they killed the victim in cold They, however, forgot to take Information and Minister QMC, said holding the blood and in a pre-intended way. away the victim’s mobile phone of State for Youth Affairs forum on an annual basis on They told investigators that which led to their arrest, reports Salman Sabah Al Salim Al the sidelines of the minis- they took him to an under-con- Al Sharq. The case is being heard Sabah, Omani Minister of terial meeting aims to dis- struction building and hit him on by the criminal court. Information Abdulmunim cuss issues that affect GCC the head with a hammer. THE PENINSULA bin Mansour bin Said Al citizens.

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DOHA: Oryx GTL held its annual Town Hall meeting to provide an open forum for employees to discuss with senior management matters related to the company and seek clarifications on subjects and developments. It was also an opportunity to discuss any challenges fac- ing them and suggest ways to improve. Abdul Rahman M Al Suwaidi, CEO and senior management attended the event at Sheraton Hotel. “The event aims to address issues that concern you, our staff, whom we consider the cor- nerstone of our success. These discussions are essential for us to be able to achieve our strate- gies and maintain the company as one of the leaders in the GTL The meeting in progress. industry,” said Al Suwaidi. Staff presented suggestions answered inquiries and assured continued success depends on addressed at the core to ensure and inquiries on a vast range of that they would review certain its people’s skills and dedi- a successful, safe, reliable and topics. issues raised to present suitable cation. The company places environment-friendly produc- Al Suwaidi, along with chiefs, solutions. great importance in the input tion facility. managers and heads of sections Oryx GTL believes that its from all staff to see issues are THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iran issues warning over Libya parliament Yemen strikes rejects unity UNITED NATIONS: Iran has told the UN Security Council that Saudi-led air strikes have twice hit close to its embassy govt proposal in Yemen and warned of “seri- ous consequences” if more such bombings occur. Iran’s ambassador to the IS group claims capture of Sirte United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo said in a letter released BENGHAZI: A United Nations head to Germany before return- yesterday that the embassy in proposal to form a unity gov- ing for consultations and then Sanaa suffered severe damage ernment for Libya, which has travelling to Morocco for more during air strikes on May 25 rival administrations fighting talks. and that this followed a similar for territory and oil resources, The UN proposal calls for a attack on April 20. was rejected by one of the sides, year-long government of national “I would like to warn that a a senior lawmaker said, after accord, where a council of minis- repetition of similar air strikes months of negotiations. ters headed by a prime minister close to my country’s diplomatic The elected parliament, based with two deputies will have execu- representation in the future in eastern Libya, rejected the tive authority. can have serious consequences, proposal and withdrew from the Jouroushi said lawmakers including for the safety and talks aimed at ending the crip- objected to including the Tripoli security of Iranian diplomats in pling power struggle. parliament in the U.N. proposal. A guard walks past the collapsed roof of the house of General Ali Al Dhafif, a Yemeni army brigade commander, Sana’a,” Khoshroo wrote in the Libya’s official government “The proposal does not reflect the after it was hit by Saudi-led air strikes near Sana’a, yesterday. Four people, including two brothers of Al Dhafif, letter to the 15-member council. has been based in the east since legitimacy of the elected parlia- were killed in the strikes. The Saudi-led coalition a rival faction seized Tripoli ment,” he said. launched air strikes on Yemen in August, setting up a rival The House of Representatives on March 26 to push back an administration. will be the only legislative body, offensive by Iranian-backed Shiite The decision was a blow to the deal states. The accord also Probe urged into attack on Huthi rebels who had seized efforts by UN Special Envoy calls for a 120-member State Sanaa and were advancing on the Bernardino Leon, who presented Council consultative body, con- southern city of Aden. the draft proposal on Monday sisting of members of the Tripoli President Abdrabuh Mansur after hosting months of talks parliament. Spanish tourists in Yemen Hadi was forced to flee into exile between the rival sides. Both sides in the conflict are in Saudi Arabia during the Huthi Four years after a NATO- under pressure from hardliners DOHA/ADEN: Spain’s top the claims to Al Jazeera for a Maso lost his wife in the bomb- advance on Aden. backed uprising that ousted who favour a military solution. prosecutor has asked police documentary called Al Qaeda ing. Judge Fernando Andreu In his letter, the Iranian Muammar Gaddafi, the conflict Jouroushi is the son of the east- to investigate claims by an Informant, which focuses on his of the Audiencia Nacional, or ambassador requested that the has battered Libya’s oil industry ern government’s air force com- Al Qaeda informant that he allegations that Ali Abdullah National Court, led the investi- Security Council urgently address and allowed Islamic State mili- mander, whose force has been forewarned Yemeni officials Saleh, the former Yemeni pres- gation in 2007. the Saudi-led air campaign, now tants to exploit the security vac- battling Islamists in Benghazi. of a 2007 car bomb attack at ident, supported, and even A team of investigators went in its 11th week. uum and expand. Meanwhile, the Islamic State Yemen’s Balqis Temple that directed, AQAP while he was to Yemen at the time. But after The party of Yemen’s former The eastern parliament has group claimed to have seized killed 10 people, including eight Yemen’s leader. giving an initial response to a president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a banned its delegates from trav- full control of the Libyan city of Spanish tourists. During his work as an inform- request for information, Yemeni key ally of Shia Houthi rebels, elling to Germany for a meeting Sirte from the Fajr Libya militia, A Spanish police investigation ant, Mujahid said he provided authorities failed to reply to yesterday welcomed UN-brokered with European and North African including a power plant, accord- into the claims made by Hani information about both a 2008 Spanish investigators and so the peace talks due to open in leaders to discuss Leon’s proposal, ing to a US monitor. Muhammad Mujahid, a former Al attack on the US embassy in case in Madrid was closed, pend- Switzerland at the weekend. lawmaker Tareq al-Jouroushi told SITE Intelligence Group said Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Sanaa, which killed 18 people, ing new information. The General People’s Congress Reuters. the jihadist group had published (AQAP) operative, could lead to and the attack on Balqis Temple Earlier, the day the inter- said it had not yet received a for- “A majority of deputies voted photographs of “IS fighters Spain reopening a judicial inves- in Marib that killed the Spanish view was aired, Brig Ammar mal invitation from the United to reject the proposal,” he said engaged in clashes, sitting atop tigation into the attack. tourists and two Yemenis in July Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, the Nations but the UN envoy met by telephone from Tobruk, an heavy guns, exploring the power Javier Zaragoza, the prosecu- 2007. In both cases, he says his nephew of Ali Abdullah Saleh, with party representatives in the eastern city where the House plant and town, as well as bodies tor, made his request following information was ignored. was dismissed by presidential rebel-held capital in late May as of Representatives is based. of dead Fajr Libya fighters”. an exclusive interview aired by On Thursday, the Spanish decree from his role as a military part of his efforts to convene the The house’s spokesman Farraj The claim comes nearly two Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit newspaper El Pais reported that attache in Ethiopia. Geneva talks. Hashem could not immediately weeks after IS overran the air- on Thursday in which Mujahid Esteve Maso, a survivor of the Mujahid had said in the inter- Saleh himself is under UN be reached for comment. port in Sirte — the home town claimed that he had made two Balqis Temple, had called on view that the brigadier had sanctions for his support for the Leon submitted his fourth pro- of slain dictator Gaddafi — in the phone calls to warn Yemeni offi- Spanish judges and prosecutors handed him funds for the 2008 rebels and did not take part in posal for a unity government on group’s first such military gain in cials before the attack. to reopen their investigation into US embassy attack. the meetings, party sources said. Monday and delegates from both Libya. The former informant made the bombing. THE PENINSULA AFP factions had been expected to AFP/REUTERS Egypt sentences Saudi summons Iran envoy after poisoning case DUBAI: Saudi Arabia sum- state news agency Irna reported take the necessary investiga- Shia minority, which has tense moned Iran’s ambassador yes- yesterday. Another Iranian news tions required and to discover relations with the Sunni politi- terday after four Saudis died agency quoted an official as say- the circumstances surrounding cal and religious establishment, 11 to death over from poisoning in the north- ing the poisoning appeared to be the event, and allow them to fol- some members of which accuse east Iranian city of Mashhad, accidental, blaming poor cleaning low up on the medical conditions them of being more loyal to Iran foreign ministry spokesman standards at the hotel. of the patients, and to provide than to the kingdom. Osama Naqli said in a state- Four children died, while necessary protection for them.” The two countries are locked soccer violence ment published on the state another 28 were hospitalised Mashhad is home to the in a power struggle that has news agency. after the incident. Iranian shrine of Imam Reza, a revered played out across the region and CAIRO: A court sentenced 11 said that the Mufti approved the A group of 33 pilgrims from authorities said they arrested five Shia imam, and attracts mil- taken on a sectarian dimension. men to death yesterday for their 11 defendants’ death sentences. Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority members of hotel staff. lions of pilgrims each year from Each accuses the other of creat- part in Egypt’s worst violence at Yasser Sayed Ahmed, a lawyer was exposed to poison on Sunday Saudi Arabia’s foreign min- around the Muslim world. ing instability in the region. a soccer stadium, in which more for the family of one of the victims while staying at a Mashhad hotel, istry called on Iran to “swiftly Saudi Arabia has a sizeable REUTERS than 70 fans were killed in 2012. hailed the ruling as “extremely Many of the dead were crushed fair and satisfactory”. when panicked fans tried to Soccer matches are often a escape from the Port Said sta- flashpoint for violence in Egypt. dium after a post-match pitch The teams in the Port Said Official visit UN keeps Iran invasion by supporters of the local incident—al-Masry and Cairo’s side Al Masry. Others fell or were al-Ahli—are longtime rivals. sanctions thrown from terraces, witnesses Witnesses said the rioting broke said at the time. More than 1,000 out after Cairo fans unfurled monitors were injured. banners insulting the local team, The court, whose session was which had won the match 3-1. UNITED NATIONS: The televised live, sentenced one of Since then Egypt has curbed UN Security Council yesterday the men to death in absentia. the number of people allowed to voted to keep intact a panel of Ten men got 15 years in jail, 14 attend matches and supporters experts monitoring sanctions were sentenced to 10 years, and 15 have often tried to storm stadi- on Iran as negotiations on a men received a five-year sentence. ums they are banned from enter- nuclear deal head into the final The charges included murder and ing. In February, at least 22 people stretch. The 15-member council attempted murder. were killed outside an stadium unanimously adopted a resolu- Twenty-one people were found when security forces barred fans tion renewing the mandate of innocent. The verdicts can be from entering. the panel until July 2016. appealed. Among those who Separately, a military court Diplomats said no action would received a five-year sentence was sentenced 36 Muslim Brotherhood be taken to change sanctions the former Port Said police chief. supporters to 25 years in jail in monitoring at the United Nations The judge had referred the absentia, 21 others received sen- until a final deal on curbing Iran’s death sentence in April to Grand tences of between seven and 15 nuclear program was reached. Mufti Shawqi Allam, the coun- years over charges of storming a The permanent Security try’s most senior religious author- police station in Assyut and kill- Council members — Britain, ity, in a step required by law for ing army and police forces, secu- China, France, Russia and the convictions in capital cases. rity sources said. Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid (right) with French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Tunis yesterday. United States — plus Germany Judge Mohammed Al Saeed REUTERS Le Drian is on two day official visit to Tunisia. are hoping to finalise, by the end of this month, a landmark agree- ment reached in April that would address decades of suspicions about Iran’s nuclear activities. Tunisia court annuls confiscation of ousted president’s assets A final deal would pave the way for action by the Security Council TUNIS: A Tunisian court has and of his wife Leila Trabelsi, the family, the minister said. “It’s a last year. In the months following Tunisia said it had confiscated $13 to scrap six resolutions adopted annulled a 2011 decree to confis- minister of state property and shocking decision and we hope the Ben Ali’s flight to Saudi Arabia billion worth of assets, including on Iran’s nuclear program since cate the assets of ousted presi- land affairs, Hatem Eleuchi, told court will take the right decision after the January 2011 revolution from the ousted president’s party 2006, four of which imposed sanc- dent Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Mosaique FM radio. when it comes to the appeal,” he which ended his rule, the cash- which has since been dissolved. tions targeting the government, and his circle, the government He denounced the ruling by an said. strapped country seized hundreds Tunis has also taken legal Iranian nationals and Iranian announced yesterday, vowing to administrative court in Tunis as The court ruled the decree was of businesses, properties, luxury measures to seize funds abroad entities. The eight-member panel appeal the ruling. “dangerous”. invalid because it was not for- cars and jewellery of the Ben Ali held by Ben Ali, who has been was set up in 2006 and presents “The decision was issued on It was not the job of the judici- mally endorsed, neither by the family and his circle. convicted on several corruption reports to a Security Council Monday to annul the decree” con- ary to take such an initiative on a National Constituent Assembly Some assets were sold off at the charges that he and his entourage sanctions committee on whether fiscating the assets of 114 mem- state decree without it being chal- elected in October 2011 nor the end of 2012. have denied. Iran is abiding by the resolutions. bers and aides of Ben Ali’s family lenged by the ousted president’s parliament elected at the end of In September of that year, AFP AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 West partly to blame for IS: Azhar imam Egyptian cleric says West has an interest in the fragmentation of Islamic world US raid on IS FLORENCE, ITALY: The West has West is not serious about taking on Daesh.” pope or Al Azhar, it depends on the political produced wealth an interest in the “fragmentation” of In support of this theory, Tayeb cited regimes which plan military, economic and the Islamic world and is partly to blame three parachute drops of arms which ended financial policy. It is the powers that have for the rise of Islamic State (IS), one of up in the arms of IS fighters. military bases and fleets in Arab waters.” of intelligence the world’s top Muslim clerics said in an “They said it was a mistake,” he said, Asked about death sentences issued to WASHINGTON: A US interview yesterday. while sidestepping a question about the role members of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, commando raid in Syria last Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar in of some Arab states, notably in the Gulf, in Tayeb declined to offer any criticism of the month that killed a senior Florence, Ahmed Al Tayeb (pictured), the the development and financing of IS. military-backed government. figure from the Islamic State grand imam of Al Azhar in Cairo, strongly “If the world order, otherwise said “I see that Egypt has overcome the prob- group produced a wealth of criticised Western powers and particularly America and the world, had wanted Arab lem. It is a stable country with a funda- information about the jihad- the United States. Describing himself as cooperation in dismantling IS and its sis- mental law under which a president was ists’ finances and leadership, “an ordinary citizen” as the Sunni Muslim ters and daughters, they could have done elected, and that was a democratic choice, the New York Times reported seat of learning has no political role, the it in a single day. completely democratic. yesterday, citing US officials. imam said: “The emergence of Daesh (an “The world order wants chaos, it seems it “Egypt is convalescing but we are are Material seized in the May Arabic term for IS) in such a spontaneous has the intention of fragmenting our region seeing an influx of investors who are 16 raid against Abu Sayyaf, manner leads us to ask what are the deep and IS is a very effective instrument. The returning,” he said. believed to be the group’s top causes. IS performs a function for the great powers Asked about the Syrian and Iraqi financier, already helped US “And the man in the Arab street thinks who do not want to see this region develop Christians forced to flee their homes at forces track down and bomb that the West has something to do with it. alongside Israel. the hands of IS, the imam replied: “IS has another IS leader in eastern The arms Daesh has are American, they The imam said he would be happy to meet killed more Muslims than Christians. Syria on May 31, unnamed are not made in the Arab world. the pope but played down the importance “If you look at the percentages of victims, officials told the Times. “IS developed so quickly and that of such an encounter. “If everything was you will see that IS is an enemy of the Arab US government officials required enormous amounts of capital. in the hands of the pope or other religious and Muslim world, and is perhaps work- believe an influential lieuten- Where did these enormous sums of money leaders the thing could be resolved very ing in secret coordination to fragment the ant, Abu Hamid, was killed come from. The man in the street says the quickly. But the question is not about the Arab world.” AFP in that air strike, the Times reported, but the IS group has not yet confirmed his death. An estimated four to seven terabytes of data was extracted Syria rebels overrun from laptops, cell phones and other items recovered in the operation, the newspaper said. key army base The information included insights into how the group’s leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, BEIRUT: An alliance of Syrian forces. It was a nightmare, seeks to avoid being monitored rebel forces seized a key army because they used it to shell all by US-led coalition forces. base in the south of the country the areas to the east of the prov- When the IS chief meets yesterday in a new setback for ince,” Al Rayes said. regional leaders at his head- the regime’s embattled troops. “The base is also an important quarters in Raqqa, each mili- The Southern Front alliance infantry base, from which the tant has to hand over their took full control of the 52nd regime attacked towns and vil- mobile phone to a driver to Brigade base in Daraa province lages in the south,” said Diaa Al avoid revealing their location after 24 hours of fierce clashes, Hariri, spokesman for Faylaq Al to Western spy services, the a spokesman for the group said. Awwal, one of the rebel groups paper wrote. “The 52nd Brigade base in the Southern Front coalition. “I’ll just say from that raid was fully liberated from the The Syrian Observatory for we’re learning quite a bit that regime army,” Major Essam Human Rights monitoring group we did not know before,” a sen- al-Rayes said, adding that at confirmed that opposition groups ior State Department official least 2,000 rebel forces had had taken the 52nd Brigade base told reporters in a teleconfer- participated in the “short and after clashes and intense shelling ence last week. quick” assault. that left 14 rebel fighters and 20 US intelligence agencies The base lies near a major government forces dead. declined to comment on the highway running from Damascus Observatory chief Rami Abdel report. to Syria’s southern border with Rahman said regime troops with- At least one informer “deep Jordan and is also near the bor- drew to the nearby village of Al inside” the IS group played a der with neighbouring Sweida Dara. pivotal role in tracking Abu province, which is largely Rebel groups control a majority Sayyaf before the raid, a mili- regime-controlled. of Daraa province and its capital, tary official told the Times. Syrian rescue workers and citizens evacuate people from a building following a reported barrel bomb attack “This base was one of the main Abdel Rahman said. AFP by government forces on the rebel held neighbourhood of Al Fardous in the northern city of Aleppo, yesterday. lines of defence for the regime AFP

CIA chief in secret Israel Palestinian Speaker freed talks on Iran after a year behind bars JERUSALEM: CIA chief John Brennan made a “secret” visit TEL AVIV: Israel released rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, responsible for the life of prison- to Israel last week to discuss an yesterday the speaker of the the Islamist movement’s strong- ers in administrative detention,” emerging nuclear deal between Palestinian parliament, after hold, which ultimately led to a it said in a statement, referring Iran and world powers, Israel’s almost a year in prison follow- 50-day war in and around the to a procedure under which Israel Haaretz newspaper reported ing an army crackdown over coastal enclave, the third in six can hold Palestinian prisoners yesterday. the kidnapping of three Israeli years. indefinitely for renewable six- It came as a June 30 deadline teenagers. According the Ramallah-based month periods. looms for a deal that would row Aziz Dweik, speaker of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, 12 of Adnan was “in danger of dying,” back Iran’s nuclear programme in Palestinian Legislative Council, the 130 MPs in the PLC are being it added. return for relief from sanctions, was arrested on June 16, 2014 held by Israel, including Dweik. The prisoner was hospitalised which Israel has long opposed, as Israel staged a massive man- The council has not met since several days ago, and he is con- causing friction with the White hunt for three teenagers who 2007 following a major rift between tinuing his protest against the House. were snatched from a road in the Fatah movement of Palestinian conditions of his imprisonment, Brennan met his counterpart the southern West Bank by president Mahmud Abbas and according to the Palestinian Mossad chief Tamir Pardo and Palestinian militants linked to its Hamas rival, which saw the Prisoners Club. other intelligence officials, as Hamas. Islamist movement forcibly expel- Two other prisoners are well as Prime Minister Benjamin During the search, which lasted ling Fatah loyalists from Gaza. also staging a hunger strike — Netanyahu, Haaretz reported, cit- until June 30 when their bodies Meanwhile, The Palestinian Mohammed Rashdan, who is ing “senior Israeli officials.” were found, Israel arrested hun- government warned that it held protesting against being deprived They discussed the emerging dreds of Palestinians, most of Israel responsible for hunger- of family visits, and Ayman Al Iran deal and Tehran’s “subver- them members of Hamas. striking prisoner Khadar Adnan Sharbati, an east Jerusalem resi- Aziz Dweik (left), Speaker of Palestinian Legislative Council, hugs a relative sive” activities around the Middle The crackdown — the biggest “in danger of dying” after 36 dent placed in solitary confine- outside the compound of the Israeli Ofer Military Prison, near the West Bank East. The prime minister’s office in a decade -- triggered a surge of days of protest. “Israel is entirely ment. AFP town of Betunia, yesterday. and the defence ministry declined to comment on the report. Netanyahu’s staunch opposition to any agreement with Iran has helped bring his relations with Four killed in US President Barack Obama to Turkey cabinet resigns after polls blow an all-time low. clashes between ANKARA: President Recep the cabinet that was presented vote, followed by the Republican denounced Erdogan as a dictator Tayyip Erdogan, reeling from by Mr Prime Minister Ahmet People’s Party (CHP) on 25 per- but its leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu rival Kurds Turkey pulls envoy shock election results, yester- Davutoglu,” Erdogan’s office said cent, the Nationalist Movement has left open the door to a coa- day accepted the resignation of in a brief statement. Party (MHP) on 16.5 percent lition, saying it would be “disre- DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: the cabinet but asked the prime “Mr President, who thanked and the pro-Kurdish People’s spectful” to voters to leave the Four people were killed yes- from Brazil over minister and his team to stay the cabinet for its services so far, Democratic Party (HDP) in country without a government. terday, including the leader of on until a new government is asked the cabinet to remain in fourth place with 13 percent. “As perplexing as it may seem, an Islamist charity, in clashes Armenian issue formed. charge until a new government The AKP will have 258 seats I would bet on the grand coalition between rival Kurdish groups in ISTANBUL: Turkey said it The ruling Justice and is formed,” it added. in the 550-seat parliament, the for Turkey,” said Sinan Ulgen, vis- Diyarbakir, adding to tensions has recalled its ambassador to Development Party’s (AKP) fail- A government source said that CHP 132, and the MHP and HDP iting scholar at Carnegie Europe, in Turkey’s largest Kurdish- Brazil for consultations after ure in Sunday’s polls to keep its the expected move was purely 80 apiece. The result was a huge in a report. populated city days after legis- the country’s senate passed leg- parliamentary majority for the procedural and Erdogan would blow for the AKP which has been The HDP, whose charismatic lative elections. islation recognising the massa- first time since it came to power host Davutoglu again at a later largely unchallenged in its politi- leader Selahattin Demirtas was Aytac Baran, the leader of cres of Armenians by Ottoman in 2002 has left the country facing date to discuss starting coalition cal dominance of Turkey over the the star of the campaign, has the Ihya-Der charity group, forces during World War I as either a coalition government or talks with other parties. last 13 years. clearly ruled out taking part in was shot dead by unknown genocide. snap elections. There are however no straight- The MHP, which shares the any coalition. gunmen outside his home in The Brazilian Senate adopted Erdogan hosted Prime Minister forward coalition options, making AKP’s conservative and religious “We are clear on this situation. Diyarbakir, prompting a gun- the resolution on June 2, joining Ahmet Davutoglu for an hour snap elections a real possibility. outlook would be the most natural We will not have a coalition with fight that left three others more than 20 other states in offi- of closed-door talks inside Erdogan can call snap elections partner, but is opposed to many the AKP,” said Demirtas, adding dead and four injured, includ- cially recognising the mass kill- the vast new presidential pal- within 45 days if efforts to form a aspects of the peace process with that the AKP and CHP should try ing three journalists, hospital ings of Armenians from 1915 as ace in Ankara. “Mr President coalition are unsuccessful. Kurdish rebels. and form a coalition as the two sources said. genocide. AFP accepted today the resignation of The AKP won 41 percent of the The CHP has bitterly biggest parties. AFP AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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EADERS who are catapulted to power through elections a few times in succession, and that too on huge margins, often delude themselves into Lthinking that people will elect them forever. But voters know best, and know when to bring these leaders Putin’s image as James down (when they cross the red line) or give them a rap on their knuckles. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo an had such an unsavoury moment this week when his Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered a huge setback in Bond villain is overblown elections, denying it a majority for the first time in twelve years. A new pro-Kurdish opposition party, the Peoples’ BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY accuses Putin of destroying the post- difficult for goods and people to move Democratic Party, or HDP, crossed the 10 percent threshold World War II order in Europe. across the contact line. It has been necessary to get into parliament. The results came as a ESPITE spending hundreds Duda’s anti-Putin rhetoric needed in no hurry to make the legislative surprise to both Turks and the world. Erdogan too was of millions of dollars on for- to be tougher than the incumbent changes required by the Minsk deal shocked. eign-language propaganda, Bronislaw Komorowski’s to win. In to give more autonomy to the eastern Erdogan has been in the news for some years. He is Dall that President Vladimir the same way, Bush’s rhetoric must regions. Putin has achieved outside Russia is be a few degrees hotter than that of Instead of steamrolling the still- stubbornly ambitions and has been the target of Western the status of a Bond movie villain. He President Barack Obama. That isn’t weak, underequipped and under- media which accused him of stifling democracy and freedom may enjoy it, especially since there’s easy. On Monday, Obama used his pub- trained Ukrainian military, Putin has of expression and clinging to power indefinitely. The no 007 in sight to tackle him, but his lic appearance at the end of the Group been giving it time to recover from president had long-term plans if his party got the majority variety of pop stardom is growing into of 7 summit in Germany to hammer previous defeats. Last month, the pro- it wanted, like changing the constitution to strengthen his a problem for his country: He is seen the Russian president. “Does he con- Kremlin site Gazeta.ru announced hold on power. Some of his decisions have been controversial, as a bigger threat to the West than his tinue to wreck his country’s econ- that “Project Novorossiya” -- the idea actions warrant. omy and continue Russia’s isolation that the two rebel “people’s repub- like the crackdown on media and the decision to build a A fresh survey of European and US in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire lics” in eastern Ukraine would unite $600m presidential palace. It seems the voters haven’t been politicians and policy wonks by the to re-create the glories of the Soviet to form a pro-Russian unrecognized happy with his decisions. He has been offered an opportunity website Politico revealed that Putin is empire?” he asked. state -- had been shelved, and that to learn the right lessons from seen as by far the biggest threat fac- A preoccupation with Putin at this the Russia-based unofficial support the election setback. If he does, ing Europe and its relationship with level is far more serious than the Bond structures for the project had been chances are that voters will the US. villain listicles that have been made disbanded. Brexit? Grexit? about Putin for years. If policy mak- In recent days, the rebels tried to Turkish put their trust in him again. A Economic prob- ers and pundits see Putin as a major, grab the village of Maryinka from the logical response to this defeat lems? A million even dominant threat, countering that Ukrainian forces, but were pushed election results would be for Erdogan to drop migrants wait- threat will become a policy priority. back and apparently denied the kind of his power grab and look for ways Putin will make ing in Libya So far, rearmament in response to Russian support that allowed them to show the to compromise with opponents. to cross the Russian aggression in Ukraine has claw back a lot of lost territory a year trouble for the Mediterranean been largely limited to Russia’s neigh- ago and then win the crucial railroad The AKP could form a coalition vibrancy of EU, Nato and into Europe, bors in Eastern Europe. Still, North junction of Debaltsevo in February. government focused on reviving or the extrem- Atlantic Treaty Organization officials None of this looks as though Putin the country’s the economy, which has lost steam the US, but he ist parties that are playing up the Russian threat, is “re-creating the glories of the Soviet in the past year after a decade would have which has breathed new life into a empire.” There is no question he pines democracy. of strong growth. He also needs is careful not to these migrants declining organization. Doing business for those glory days, but, were he a to adopt a conciliatory approach drown rather with Russia is politically unpopular, bona fide Bond villain, he’d try a lot unduly endanger than resettled? so the damage to Western trade with harder to obliterate Ukraine’s pro- towards his opponents at home Are these threats Putin’s country is likely to go beyond Western government. As it is, he and tone down his aggressive the grip that he really less deadly the Ukraine-related sanctions that will seems intent on a negotiated solu- posture. and his billionaire than one rather probably get extended later this month. tion, even though he is trying to At the same time, it’s too early for Erdogan’s enemies to short Russian The perception of the threat Putin drive a hard bargain. This behavior start celebrating his downfall. The AKP still won a plurality friends have on man? poses, and the rhetoric of response to is not consistent with plans to invade of 41 percent, much more than the next largest party, the “Putin has it have outgrown the the threat itself. Estonia or Poland and not compatible Russia. achieved a pop- Taken much further, that response with presenting the biggest threat to Republican People’s Party, or CHP, which got roughly a culture-fueled could even feed Putin’s paranoia European order. quarter of the votes. The AKP may well be able to form a notoriety rarely about the threat the West poses to his Putin is a rogue dictator and coalition government or govern as a minority party. Erdogan bestowed upon world leaders,” McKay regime and Russia more broadly, that respects nobody’s rights but his might alternatively call new elections. Coppins wrote in a BuzzFeed article on it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. own. That doesn’t, however, mean There is no doubt that the election results show the Jeb Bush’s upcoming European tour. Since the Minsk cease-fire in that he is intent on destroying the The yet-undeclared Republican presi- eastern Ukraine came into effect in world with nuclear weapons unless it vibrancy of Turkish democracy. Democracy in Turkey has dential candidate is expected to attack February, Russia has not used its bends to his will, or on launching a followed a very complicated trajectory since the rise of the Putin at each stop, including Poland, regular troops to gain more territory, Hitleresque blitzkrieg in Europe. He AKP in 2002. First, AKP seemed like the harbinger of a where the newly elected President although the feisty Ukrainian govern- will make trouble for the EU, Nato more democratic Turkey with greater protection for civil Andrzej Duda campaigned on taking a ment has provided potential excuses and the US, but he is careful not to liberties. Erdogan was a powerful and unquestionable leader tougher stand against Putin’s aggres- for action. The government in Kiev has unduly endanger the grip that he and but as years passed, opposition to his style and policies too sion. Bush will also speak in Estonia, imposed a de-facto economic blockade his billionaire friends have on Russia. where President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on the rebel-held regions, making it BLOOMBERG increased. The other side Quote of Healthy oceans the day

EALTHY oceans make for The country, blessed with rich marine of human actions on the health of political clans. a healthy planet – this is biodiversity, has lost much of its coral oceans. While human activities have The government, working with the theme of this year’s forests. Dynamite fishing and other taken their toll on ocean health, human the private sector, can boost sup- celebration of World destructive forms of fishing persist. In intervention is also the key to saving port for coastal watch programs. The world order wants H chaos, it seems it has the Oceans Day. Oceans produce oxygen, several areas, there are too many fish the seas. Coastal communities can be made regulate the climate, and provide pens, with operators introducing alien With 7,107 islands, the Philippines aware of the importance of avoiding intention of fragmenting food and medicine. But overfishing, species that are threatening the natural has one of the world’s most extensive destructive fishing methods. The sea our region and IS is a pollution, destructive fishing methods, marine ecosystem. Certain aquacul- coastlines, and bears a heavy respon- needs breathing space to replenish its destruction of corals and acidification ture practices are also unsustainable. sibility in protecting the oceans. The resources, and communities that make very effective instrument. have long threatened oceans. Climate The United Nations decided to country has limited resources to patrol their living from the sea must under- The IS performs a change has compounded the threats, observe World Oceans Day every June its territorial waters, but there are many stand the importance of sustainable function for the great with marine life at risk from global 8 to mobilize global activities geared other ways to protect the seas. These fishing. Saving the oceans works best warming. toward sustainable ocean manage- include improving pollution control and when it involves those who depend on powers who do not want Keeping the oceans healthy has ment. The special day is meant to regulating the proliferation of fish pens, the waters for their livelihood. to see this region develop Ahmed Al Tayeb been a struggle for the Philippines. raise public awareness of the impact many of which are owned by local The Philippine Star alongside Israel. Grand Imam of Al Azhar WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 The sectarian war in Iraq is a reality

the Sunni inhabitants just as ISIS The truism is does. More seriously, the foggy policy of the American adminis- that Iranian- tration in Iraq that is not ready for a decisive action against ISIS is more likely to support a major backed militias role of Shia militias in the upcom- ing battle to retake Ramadi based are utilising on the lack of fighting forces. “The continuing shift toward Iran leaves the United States religious slogans struggling to assert influence in the Iraqi military it spent $25bn to antagonise to build”, The Washington Post said on May 30. Nevertheless, the US is not confident of the the Sunni readiness of the Iraqi army. The American newspaper quoted Brig inhabitants just Gen Sabah Al Azawi, Commander of the Iraqi army’s 16th division, as ISIS does. as saying, “the PMU are now a national institution”. The Iraqi statement conveys clear message BY AIMAN QADDOUMI of the coming role of PMU con- sidered as legal forces along with merican officials have the Iraqi national army. been warning of a sec- It seems negotiations between tarian war in Iraq in Washington and Baghdad are Acase pro-Iran mili- running on for a while on the tias keep taking over ground in participation of PMU in Ramadi’s Anbar province. They ignore liberation campaign and beyond. that the war they are avoiding Still, the weakness of Iraqi forces has already erupted between the and the absence of the alterna- self-proclaimed Islamic State tives do not give Washington a (ISIS) and the Shia militias. The moral excuse to ignore engaging argument is whether the war is oriented paramilitary units built between Baghdad’s government on radical thoughts, which do not and a terrorist group or a proxy Iraqi forces deploy in the town of Baiji, north of Tikrit, during fighting against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group to try to retake the strategic town for differ significantly from its coun- one excluding the Iraqi army and a second time, yesterday. terpart, Daaesh, the Arabic acro- involving Iranian-linked mili- nym of ISIS. tias against a Sunni-majority manpower is indeed Sunni and exonerate the other party, par- becoming more critical if Iran with the US administration and On the contrary, enrolling province. the counter offensive is spear- ticularly Kitaeb Hezbollah, key keeps fostering its influence in culminated in more support Shia militias into Iraqi army for The Telegraph warned on May headed by Shia forces close to militia in the so-called popular Iraq. “The fall of Ramadi has among Sunni incubator to ISIS. combat operations against frag- 26 of ‘bloody sectarian conflict as Iran. These facts shone a harsh mobilisation units (PMU) desig- damaged Iraqis’ confidence in the Atrocities committed by PMU ile areas suffering repression Shia militias fight back against spotlight on the mutual atrocities nated as a terrorist organisation US”, Kenneth Pollack, a Middle in the seized areas in Western and marginalisation may cause a IS in Ramadi’. Until recently, perpetrated by both parties under by the United States. East expert at the Brookings province of Anbar are not merely backlash and open the door for the war has been taking place religious pretexts. Moreover, the PMU are tak- Institution, noted in his article. variances. The truism is that prolonged civil conflict or even in the heartland province of However, that fact that ISIS ing the upper hand after the US The fear of Shia militias’ revenge Iranian-backed militias are utilis- expand the ongoing sectarian war Anbar where the majority of IS is a terrorist group does not and Iraqi army. The situation is is aligning with disillusionment ing religious slogans to antagonise in Iraq to the whole region. Local issues deserve attention Monopoly in transport In several Gulf states, there have been cases of must be abolished workers’ strikes, which paralysed the economy “Karwa” leases those cars to expa- triates who are working as drivers under its sponsorship. and led to financial and legal damage to Monopoly in any economy is a situ- ation where the market is available contractors and businessmen due to the illegal to only one company that provides a specific service to all consumers. In other words, this is the only company practice of increasing working hours without pay. that is controlling the entire market. In this case, the company can Cup in 2022, floated rumours the summer are at their mini- workers in Qatar is more than a impose its prices at will because there that Qatar would lose the right mum when labourers are not million. If we compare the mor- are no rival companies. to host this global sporting allowed to work in exposed tality rate of Qatari nationals The monopoly of the transport event after Blatter’s resignation. areas after 11 in the morning. and foreign workers, the per- company led to poor service, charg- BY PROF MOHAMMED S It is very unfortunate that There were never recorded centage of deaths among citi- ing of unreasonable prices, and tak- AL MUSFIR some of our Arab brothers cases in Qatar showing dis- zens is higher. BY DR MOHAMMED BIN ALI ing advantage of its exclusivity in the have diligently worked and contentment among labour, According to Foreign AL KUBAISI market. rab and interna- are still working to damage whether collective or individual, Minister H E Dr Khalid bin It is important that other compa- tional news agencies the reputation and prestige for any reason. This is evidence Mohammed Al Attiyah, when n its regular meeting on April nies are given the chance to enter reported the resigna- of Qatar among the interna- that workers are satisfied with the time is right, we hope that 12, 2013, the Council of Ministers the transportation market without Ation of Joseph Blatter, tional community, sometimes their living and working condi- our country’s political leader- Iapproved the draft law submitted Karwa’s domination, so as to create the president of Fifa, after accu- by addressing the living and tions in this good country. ship will reveal to the entire by Mowasalat Transport Company, fair competition, and provide better sations and threats to dismantle working conditions of expa- In several Gulf states there Arab world that some Arab which has imposed a bill on the state, services and reasonable prices, which the organisation and establish a triate labourers, as if foreign have been cases of workers’ countries have been busy amending some provisions of Decree will encourage a lot of people to use new federation because of alle- employment in the rest of strikes, which paralysed the inciting hatred against Qatar Law No 37 of 2004 by granting the this service by driving their cars for gations that some leaders of the the world, especially the Gulf economy and led to financial in order to spoil its chances of transport company (QSC govern- personal use rather than driving to global soccer body were involved States, enjoys the best benefits and legal damage to contrac- organising the World Cup in ment-owned) franchise manage- work, which will lead to less conges- in corruption and had accepted and work environment. tors and businessmen due to 2022, which it well deserves. ment and taxi operation known as tion on the streets and could end the illegal funds to favour certain The Qatari natural environ- the illegal practice of increas- On May 27, I read in a Qatari “Karwa”. parking crisis. countries or continents. ment — high temperatures in ing working hours without pay newspaper, “the Arabs,” that The amendment said: “The state Monopoly abolition has become a A group of people who hate the summer — is the same across or breaching contracts. Some Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al may grant the company an annual necessity and must be replaced by an Qatar and are jealous of it the Gulf region. Employment in reports say that the mortality Thani responded to citizens’ financial support from the State organisational unit at the Ministry because of its sporting achieve- Qatar has a better reputation rate among foreign workers in request of renaming streets Treasury to cover the difference of Communications (with great res- ments and the ability of its than any other country in the Qatar is high. Any reasonable and neighbourhoods in cities. I between the actual cost incurred ervation) to supervise the transport leaders to grab the right to region. and fair-minded person knows thank him for his initiative and by the company to serve the public sector, with the assurance that com- deservedly organise the World Moreover, working hours in that the population of foreign ask his permission to note a few transport and what the public pays panies that will enter this activity, issues. for this service.” directly or through brokers from the What I wanted to say is, we Of course, as soon as the bill community, show the path of specific must not use local dialects while arrived at the Shura Council it lines it is willing to cover by not- renaming neighbourhoods and was approved! This raises two ing attractions such as ministries, streets, since we have adopted questions, is “Karwa” qualified to hospitals and shopping malls, and the Arabic language even in the have this monopoly? Is “Karwa” sketches of transport stations. menus of restaurants. actually suffering from losses to The vehicles must be air-condi- I remember that Aljasra ask for financial support from tioned, and to include passenger com- neighbourhood now carries a the state? fort and safety, trip information and different name. Are we going To answer the first question, Internet service. The size of stops to rename neighbourhoods monopolising in any country is sub- that will be allocated to the main and squares carrying histori- ject to three combined conditions. station and branches of the “stop- cal names or names of promi- These are: the service must cover and-ride” system, the types of shops nent figures such as Freij bin the entire market or more, the serv- at the main station and how to lease Mahmoud and Freij Ghanim, by ice provided must be of the same or them, the size of alternative energy replacing the word “Freij” with better quality in similar states, and that can be used at the main station “Hay,” meaning neighbourhood the price required to provide the and branches. since they became large over service must be the same or less In conclusion, the abolition of the time and the old name is no than the price of a similar service monopoly in the transport sector will longer applicable? in other states. provide promising opportunities for Since we began replanning I will analyse the availability of young entrepreneurs, through the Doha and other cities, we must these conditions, but I will leave it direct exercise of transport or other pay close attention to prop- up to the reader to compare the real supporting activities, including, but erly labelling neighbourhoods, situation in front of him. not limited to, retail and service streets and squares. The answer to the second question, shops in wait stations, quick main- Finally, I wish to mention that “Karwa” has adopted some new inno- tenance service centres, and spare my idea of renaming streets, vative ways to get rid of expenses and parts sales to be distributed to areas neighbourhoods and squares in reaping high profits by renting cars where there are no shops or services. cities all over Qatar has received from Qatari dealerships that must The demise of the monopoly or at lot of attention from the rele- ensure the operability of the leased least the suffering imposed by the A file picture of labourers attending a free medical camp conducted by the Medical Commission in Abu Hamour. vant committee. car or otherwise replace it. Then, existing service must end. WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE

Russia aims for UK lawmakers launch of next manned flight support EU to ISS in July

MOSCOW: Russia’s space agency said yesterday the referendum bid next manned mission to the International Space Station would blast off between July 23 and 25, after it delayed the Parliament debate highlights risks launch due to a rocket failure. Roscomos space agency issued LONDON: Lawmakers yes- government stitch-up and were a schedule for the launch from terday backed Prime Minister looking closely at the rules. Baikonur in Kazakhstan carry- David Cameron’s plan for a ref- “Any attempt now to rig this ing astronauts from Russia, Japan erendum on Britain’s EU mem- vote now will simply amplify the and the United States giving the bership, but a heated debate distrust the voters already have,” range of dates. highlighted passions that could Eurosceptic Conservative law- The space agency said that the split his Conservative Party maker Bill Cash, who led a rebel- exact day would be decided later, and re-open Scotland’s bid for lion against Major over the EU’s adding that the uncertainty was independence. Maastricht treaty in the early due to the fact that the ISS on Cameron, seeking to put an 1990s, said. Monday had to alter its orbit to end to a decades-old rift within Policy on Europe not only avoid space garbage. his party over Britain’s place in threatens the unity of Cameron’s The launch was originally Europe, has promised to negotiate Conservatives, but of the United set for May 26 but was delayed a new settlement with Brussels Kingdom itself. The EU is more because an unmanned Progress and hold a referendum by the end popular in Scotland, Wales and supply ship heading for the ISS of 2017. Northern Ireland than it is in suffered a failure shortly after Voters will be asked: “Should England, which accounts for 85 launch on April 28 and fell back the United Kingdom remain a percent of the UK population. to Earth. member of the European Union?”, Scottish nationalists say they Roscosmos said the accident a choice of wording which allows could demand a re-run of last T he Emergency services tackling a major blaze at a fuel storage depot, near the village of Vasylkiv outside of happened because the third the “in” campaign to brand itself year’s failed independence vote Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. stage Soyuz 2.1-A rocket carry- as “Yes”. if England votes to leave the EU ing the ship into orbit separated Lawmakers overwhelmingly but Scotland votes to stay. They in the wrong way due to a design voted to pass the EU Referendum called for the rules of the referen- Three firemen among five killed in flaw. Bill, which sets out the rules for the dum to be changed so that each of Russia said it would modernise plebiscite, at Tuesday’s second read- the United Kingdom’s constituent the Progress space ship design to ing in parliament, with 544 votes in nations must back a withdrawal prevent the problem happening favour to 53 against. It has the sup- for it to go ahead. massive Ukraine fuel depot blaze again when it is used with this port of the opposition Labour Party, “It would be outrageous, dis- specific type of rocket. but in the debate, the government graceful, undemocratic and unac- VASYLKIV, UKRAINE: A Entire oil tanks were con- emergency services said. The next Progress supply ship was assailed from all sides. ceptable to drag Scotland out of massive fire at a Ukrainian fuel sumed in the flames, which Rescuers had evacuated peo- is set to go up to the ISS on July Cameron, who did not attend the European Union against the depot killed five people yes- emergency services had feared ple from within a two-kilometre 3, using a different modification Tuesday’s debate, says he wants wishes and will of the Scottish peo- terday, officials said, including would spread to another fuel radius of the fire, Turchynov said. of the workhorse Soyuz carrier Britain to remain in a reformed ple,” Alex Salmond, former Scottish three firemen who went miss- depot nearby. Weapons and Interior Ministry official rocket. EU and is confident he can get nationalist leader, told parliament. ing after the flames triggered a equipment were removed from Zoryan Shkiryak said police The manned missions are changes which would allow him to Yesterday’s second reading powerful explosion. a neighbouring military base to were investigating three possible powered by similar Soyuz rock- recommend that to Britons. But provided lawmakers their first The fire burned overnight and a place of safety. causes of the fire — violations of ets, although the rockets ferrying he has ruled nothing out if he does chance to debate the referendum by morning had spread to at least “The crisis will be resolved fuel storage regulations, technical astronauts have never failed. not secure reforms such as tighter bill and propose amendments 16 tanks, most of them storing entirely within the next 12 hours,” malfunctions or arson”. Russia said the following restrictions on EU migrants’ which can be added before a third, petrol. That sent a pall of black Interior Minister Arsen Avakov The owners of the depot, manned mission would leave on access to welfare payments. final reading. smoke over the area around the said in televised comments. BRSM-Nafta, said in a statement the originally planned date of The issue of Europe is notori- Lawmakers rejected an amend- depot near Vasylkiv, 30km from The bodies of three firemen, they believed the fire was the September 1. ous for wreaking havoc within ment by the Scottish nationalists Kiev. The depot’s owners said unaccounted for after the explo- result of an arson attack aimed British singer Sarah Brightman Cameron’s Conservatives, having which sought to block the bill. they suspected arson. sion ripped through the area as at damaging its business. pulled out of her plan to fly as a contributed to the downfall of his They and other pro-Europeans had “Firemen have the situation ... they battled the fire, had been Of the 16 fuel tanks affected, space tourist on the flight for a predecessors Margaret Thatcher called for the right to vote to be under total control,” top security found, Avakov said. Two other eight had a capacity of 900 cubic fee of $52 million. and John Major. extended to 16- and 17-year-olds. official Oleksander Turchynov people died and several others metres, while the rest were The head of the cosmonaut Conservative sceptics have so Cameron opposes extending said in a statement. were injured, the emergency serv- smaller in volume, the emergency training centre, Yury Lonchakov, far been careful to say they sup- the franchise to teenagers, who There was no longer any threat of ices said. ministry said. The overall capac- said Monday a replacement would port Cameron’s negotiations with are less likely than older voters to the blaze spreading and emergency Sixty-two fire-fighting units ity of the depot is 25,000 cubic be announced in the next couple Brussels. But several made clear support his Conservatives. services were putting out remaining and three trains delivering water metres. of weeks. yesterday they fear a pro-EU REUTERS fires in the depot, he said. and supplies have been mobilised, REUTERS AFP

German woman, 102, gets doctorate Migrant crossings to Europe top 100,000 in 2015: UN 77 years after GENEVA: More than 100,000 continent’s shores. Since January, of them sub-Saharan Africans, neighbouring Greece has wors- sinking in April, marking the migrants made the perilous 103,000 refugees and migrants pulled to safety from packed fish- ened dramatically. biggest maritime disaster in the Nazis blocked her crossing over the Mediterranean have risked their lives often on ing boats and rubber dinghies off A full 48,000 migrants and refu- Mediterranean since World War to Europe this year, the United flimsy boats to reach Europe, the Libya, and taken to Italy, bringing gees have landed on Greek shores II, and prompting European gov- Nations said yesterday, report- UN refugee agency said. the year’s total of new arrivals in so far this year, compared to ernments to significantly increase HAMBURG: A 102 year-old ing a huge spike in arrivals that UNHCR “is stepping up its the country to 54,000. 34,000 arrivals during all of 2014, Mediterranean search and rescue woman received her doctorate will add to Europe’s migration presence in Greece and in south- Pregnant women and children according to the International operations. from a German university yes- worries. ern Italy in response to the were among those picked up in the Organisation for Migration There has been a significant terday — nearly 80 years after The immigration crisis is a dramatic increase in numbers weekend’s major international res- (IOM). Another 920 have arrived surge in especially Syrian, Afghan the Nazis prevented her sit- burning issue for EU govern- of refugees and migrants who cue operation, coordinated by the in Spain this year and 91 in Malta. and Iraqi migrants trying to reach ting the final exam to officially ments with member states trying we have been seeing arriving,” Italian Coast Guard, Edwards said. Mass drownings in the Greece’s Aegean islands from the obtain it. to put in place ways of tackling spokesman Adrian Edwards told While the numbers arriving Mediterranean have claimed Turkish coast recently, mirror- Paediatric expert Ingeborg human trafficking, while arguing journalists in Geneva. in Italy mark about a 10-per- nearly 1,800 lives so far this year, ing the swell in perilous crossings Syllm-Rapoport was presented over how to share the burden of A frantic weekend of rescues cent increase on the same according to IOM. from north Africa to Italy. with her PhD title by Hamburg’s the tide of people arriving on the saw nearly 6,000 people, most period last year, the situation in Some 800 died in a single AFP UKE University Medical Centre despite having completed her the- sis on diphtheria by 1938. She had studied medicine in the Tribute to Winston Churchill northern port city and worked at its Israelite Hospital from 1937 to Mother sues France over 1938 when she wrote her doctoral dissertation, the UKE said. By then Hitler’s regime had imposed racially motivated legal jihadi Bryan’s departure restrictions which barred her from being allowed to sit her oral PARIS: The mother of a young Maktouf said. “What she’s trying exam and obtain her title because Frenchman who converted to to do is raise the awareness of the of her Jewish descent. Islam and went to join jihad- public authorities,” said Maktouf. Her mother, Maria Syllm, a ist fighters in Syria is suing “What has happened to Bryan’s pianist, was Jewish. the state for failing to stop mother could happen to any “It was about the principle, not him leaving the airport of his mother. Her reward will be that about me,” Syllm-Rapoport said Riviera home town of Nice. other mothers are spared the suf- in an interview published online Bryan Dancona, from a Catholic fering she has to endure.” with Germany’s Tagesspiegel daily family, left Nice two days after The French government last month. celebrating Christmas with rela- adopted a plan in April 2014 The Berlin resident said the tives at the end of 2013, and is aimed at preventing potential university had shown “great now in Syria, from where he occa- jihadist sympathisers before they patience” for which she was sionally telephones his mother leave by setting up an online grateful. To prepare for the Nadine, said her lawyer Samia service for families who suspect belated exam, friends googled Maktouf, who argued the case at relatives are about to go and join developments in diphtheria over a civil court in Paris yesterday. these radical groups. the last eight decades for her, Nadine Dancona is seek- Reception centres were created she added. ing ¤110,000 ($124,000) on the for parents of potential jihadists. A Her professor in 1938 had grounds border police at Nice year later, nearly 1,900 cases had issued a certificate stating he airport should have stopped a been registered, of which a quarter would have passed her thesis at minor — Bryan was 16 at the time were for minors and more than the time if it had been legally pos- — for questioning when he turned 40 percent for young girls, Prime sible to do so, she said. up with no personal belongings Minister Manuel Valls has said. Syllm-Rapoport finally suc- other than his identity papers for Efforts to detect would-be jihad- cessfully sat her oral test in May, a flight to Turkey, a staging post ists early have been stepped up after the Hamburg university said in a Britain’s Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, with Sir Nicholas Soames MP (second left) and the Duke of for people traveling into war-torn January attacks in which Islamist statement, adding she was proba- Marlborough, Jamie Spencer-Churchill and his wife Edla Griffiths and their son Lord Caspar Spencer-Churchill Syria. militants killed 17 people in France, bly the oldest person in the world and daughter Lady Araminta Spencer-Churchill next to a newly unveiled bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the If she wins her case, the money mostly at the Charlie Hebdo journal to receive a doctorate. grounds of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, yesterday. will be donated to a group involved and also at a Jewish shop. AFP in combating terrorism, lawyer REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Killers on the White House press room evacuated

WASHINGTON: The White House briefing room and por- tions of two US Senate office run four days buildings were briefly evacu- ated within hours of each other yesterday after separate bomb threats, but authorities said it was not immediately clear if the after jail break incidents were linked. In a rare interruption of the White House daily press briefing, reporters were hustled out of the One fugitive’s second jail break room for about 30 minutes after a bomb threat was phoned into NEW YORK: Two dangerous assault. Sweat was serving a life local police. American fugitives eluded cap- sentence without parole for mur- After the Secret Service and ture yesterday for a fourth day dering a sheriff’s deputy in New bomb-sniffing dogs searched the after escaping from a maximum York state in 2002 when he was premises, reporters were given security jail, one of whom mur- 22 years old. the all-clear to return, and the dered and dismembered his eld- He and two accomplices were briefing by White House spokes- erly boss, while the other killed sharing out a cache of sto- man Josh Earnest resumed after a sheriff’s deputy. len weapons, when the deputy about 30 minutes. Richard Matt, 49, and David approached them. Sweat and an The threat phoned to metro- Sweat, 35, are the targets of an accomplice shot him multiple politan police was aimed at the international manhunt after times and reportedly drove over briefing room, the Secret Service using power tools to cut through him with a car. said, and that room and the walls at the Clinton Correctional As a teenager, Sweat was also press areas were the only ones Facility in the small town of charged with attempted second- evacuated. Dannemora in New York state. degree burglary and burglary in President Barack Obama was Officials say the men are vio- two separate incidents. in the White House at the time of lent and vicious, raising fears that Matt has multiple tattoos — the incident but was not moved, the longer they remain on the run including a Marine Corps insignia Earnest said. the higher the risk to members of on his right shoulder and one on “It was my understanding that Members of the news media walk to the the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) during the evacuation the public, either at home or pos- his back with the words “Mexico no one else was affected,” he said. of the Brady briefing room of the White House due to a bomb threat, in Washington, DC, yesterday. sibly across the border in Mexico Forever.” The Oval Office and West Wing or Canada. The pair, who were reported to are only steps from the briefing Pennsylvania Avenue, were roped Senate buildings and found noth- and found nothing problematic. Matt, six feet tall with multi- enjoy special privileges in jail for room. Earnest said he was unsure off and closed to tourists briefly, a ing hazardous. “It is an ongoing investigation ple tattoos, is serving a 25-year good behaviour, escaped before where Obama was in the White Reuters witness said. US Capitol police cleared a right now,” Secret Service spokes- to life sentence for the 1997 kid- dawn Saturday in a conspiracy House at the time of the threat. Hours earlier yesterday, room in the Dirksen building and man Brian Leary said when asked napping and dismembering of his likened to Hollywood movies such The immediate blocks around authorities investigated reports the courtyard of the Russell build- if there was a connection between former boss, 76-year-old William as “The Shawshank Redemption” the White House, includ- of suspicious packages and a tel- ing, which house US senators and the two incidents. Rickerson, in a horrifying 27-hour and “Escape from Alcatraz.” ing Lafayette Square across ephoned bomb threat at two US their staff near the US Capitol, REUTERS ordeal. They cut through the walls of Matt reportedly hit his victim, their cells with power tools, then bound him with duct tape and crawled to freedom through an threw him into the trunk of a underground pipe system, coming car. He then beat and assaulted up through a manhole and leav- the elderly man multiple times ing behind a taunting note say- before twisting his neck, and flee- ing “Have a Nice Day” next to a Kerry in hospital ten days after accident ing to Mexico. There he killed an toothy grin. American and was sentenced to Two local residents claim they WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State in Switzerland with his Iranian counterpart and is making progress,” and had spoken by 20 years, before being extradited confronted the felons shortly at John Kerry is doing some work by phone Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tehran’s nuclear phone with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro back to New York state in 2007. around 12.30am Saturday. from his hospital bed in Boston, 10 days programme. Vieira about climate change and spoken with Before killing Rickerson, he had One had a buzz cut and wore a after breaking his leg in a cycling acci- “He remains in the hospital and is doing advisors about Russia and Iran. served time for rape and stabbing white T-shirt with a black guitar dent in the French Alps, officials said physical therapy and is in consultation with Rathke did not specify when Kerry could a nurse, in separate cases. case slung over his shoulder, one yesterday. his doctors,” State Department spokesman be expected back at work in Washington but Although no one had previ- of the witnesses told ABC News. The State Department has remained rela- Jeffrey Rathke said yesterday. said the State Department was hopeful he ously escaped from the maximum “I go look at him and I ask him tively tight-lipped about Kerry’s progress When pressed on the lack of public appear- would be able to go to Europe at the end of security portion of the prison at ‘what the hell are you doing in my after America’s top diplomat underwent sur- ances or photographs of Kerry recuperating, the month for final negotiations of the his- Dannemora, it is Matt’s second yard, get the hell out of here.’ And gery on his broken right femur in Boston, Rathke said: “He underwent surgery — major toric Iran talks. jail break. he was like, ‘sorry, I didn’t know Massachusetts, on June 2. bone broken... That, of course, takes some time “With respect to the... June 30th end of the In 1986, he spent four days on where I was. I’m on the wrong Officials have released no photos of Kerry, for recovery. And we’ve described that from Iran nuclear talks, we remain committed to the run from Erie County Jail, street,’” the witness said. 71, since he crashed his bicycle on May 31. the very start.” that. We believe it’s achievable,” the spokes- where he was serving time for AFP The avid cyclist was in the region for talks He added that Kerry was “in good spirits man said. AFP

Fire after shooting Former House Speaker pleads NY detective guilty not guilty in of brutal assault

Chicago court NEW YORK: A New York was brutally assaulted after a police detective and another gang of motorcyclists chased him CHICAGO: Former US House man were found guilty yester- down following a brief confronta- of Representatives Speaker day over a road rage chase that tion with one of the bikers. Dennis Hastert pleaded not ended with a banker beaten in To get away, Lien ran over and guilty yesterday to federal front of his wife and toddler in injured one of the motorcyclists. charges of trying to hide large broad daylight. His wife, Rosalyn Ng, and two- cash transactions and lying to Judge Maxwell Wiley found year-old daughter were in the the FBI about it. detective Wojciech Braszczok, 34, car at the time. Ng said her hus- Law enforcement officials have guilty of second-degree assault, band acted because they faced “a said Hastert was using the money criminal mischief, coercion and life-threatening situation” from to try to cover up sexual abuse riot over the September 29, 2013 “a mob of reckless and violent of a male decades ago when the incident in Manhattan that motorcyclists.” Republican former congressman shocked New Yorkers. “Within a matter of minutes worked as a high school wrestling New York police promptly sus- this group of bikers began a fero- coach and teacher, according to pended the detective pending cious and unrelenting assault on media reports. termination. the victim, alarmingly close to Hastert’s attorneys entered Braszczok, who was off-duty at his wife and young daughter,” the plea on his behalf in a brief the time, was acquitted on two said Manhattan district attorney arraignment hearing before Judge more serious assault charges, Cyrus Vance. Thomas Durkin in the federal local media reported. When the bikers caught up courthouse in Chicago. Robert Sims, 36, was con- with Lien’s SUV, one of them Durkin set a $4,500 appearance Neighbour Vadim Yaritsa checks his roof for damages as firefighters look for hot spots beside the burned victed of attempted gang assault, bashed the driver’s window with bond for Hastert and ordered him house (bottom) of suspect Norman Raddatz, where a police officer was shot and killed, in Edmonton, Canada, attempted assault in the first his helmet until the glass shat- to surrender his passport and yesterday. Constable Daniel Woodall was killed and another officer Sergeant Jason Harley injured after an degree, assault in the second tered, allowing other defendants remove firearms from his property exchange of fire with Raddatz. The officers were attempting to arrest Raddatz when the shootings happened. degree, coercion, criminal pos- to strike Lien through the broken as conditions of pre-trial release. Raddatz’s house caught fire after the shooting and burned to the ground. session of a weapon and riot. window. Hastert, 73, stood hunched over The two men will be sentenced He was dragged out of the vehi- and spoke in barely a whisper on August 5 and 6. Braszczok cle and thrown to the ground, when he told Durkin he under- faces a maximum sentence of where prosecutors said he was stood the conditions of release. seven years, and Sims between kicked and beaten to the point of He was wearing a suit and tie and five and 15 years. unconsciousness. stood between his two lawyers, Canada leader set to revive party Nine other bikers involved in Braszczok knocked out the rear John Gallo and Thomas Green. the episode have already been window of the SUV, showering Since he was indicted on May 28, OTTAWA: Gilles Duceppe, a softer approach of Duceppe could Duceppe can return the Bloc to convicted of second-degree assault Lien’s wife and daughter with Hastert has not made any public popular veteran crusader for boost the separatist cause in gen- its glory days of the 1990s, when for their roles in the attack. broken glass. He then kicked the statements about the charges or Quebec’s independence from eral in Quebec, as well as cut into it was the second largest party in Banker Alexian Lien, 33, the rear door and window area of the the allegations that the payments Canada, is set to return to the the support of the federal New the House of Commons. Duceppe driver of a luxury Range Rover, vehicle, prosecutors said. AFP amounted to hush money. fight and will lead the separa- Democratic Party (NDP) in the led the party to a humiliating Dozens of television cameras tist party he long headed in the French-speaking province. defeat in the 2011 federal election, and reporters jostled Hastert and federal election this October, The NDP, the main federal losing even his own House seat as his team of lawyers as he entered Canadian media reported opposition party, is mounting the the left-leaning NDP surged in 189 extrajudicial killings in Venezuela and left the building. Neither yesterday. most serious challenge to the gov- Quebec. But he is a much more Hastert nor his attorneys stopped La Presse newspaper said ernment of Conservative Prime recognisable and popular fig- CARACAS: At least 189 peo- during demonstrations against to answer questions. Mario Beaulieu, the current Minister Stephen Harper ahead ure among Quebec citizens than ple died in extrajudicial execu- the government of President According to the indictment, leader of the now much-reduced of October’s election. Most of the Beaulieu. He is at ease with the tions last year in Venezuela at Nicolas Maduro, according to Hastert was trying to evade party, the Bloc Quebecois, will vol- NDP’s seats are in Quebec. media, and is a formidable debater the hands of security forces, PROVEA. Of the 189 summary detection of $3.5m in payments he untarily turn over the leadership La Presse said internal Bloc in both French and English. He a human rights group said executions, most came during had promised to make to someone to Duceppe, with an announce- polling shows support for the led the Bloc from 1997 to 2011, yesterday. police or military raids aimed at from his hometown of Yorkville, ment today. party would be three times as high garnering between 38 and 54 seats Another 31 died from tor- arresting a large number of peo- Illinois, to conceal past miscon- Beaulieu’s hard line on inde- under Duceppe as under Beaulieu, in all elections until the Bloc was ture or excessive force by police ple, said PROVEA researcher duct against the person. pendence has turned off a lot of who does not have a House seat. reduced to four in 2011. or the military, including five Inti Rodriguez. AFP REUTERS former Bloc supporters, and the There is no certainty that REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

18 hurt as car Nepal parties crashes into Australian cafe agree on new SYDNEY: Eighteen people were injured yesterday when a car ploughed into a cafe in a remote Australian town, hit- ting a gas cylinder and spark- national charter ing an explosion, with a witness describing “absolute mayhem”. The car veered into the Serves Country to be divided into 8 provinces You Right Cafe in Ravenshoe, a small town some 1,710km (1,060 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s rival divide Nepal into eight provinces miles) north of Queensland state’s political parties have struck a paves the way for a new federal capital Brisbane, around midday historic agreement to end years structure. (0200 GMT), a police spokesman of deadlock on a new constitu- However, it leaves the crucial said. tion that will divide the country issue of the provincial borders “As a result of that crash, a into eight provinces, spurred by unresolved — an omission which gas bottle has ignited and sub- a devastating earthquake. critics said would create future sequently the building caught The deal reached late on problems. alight,” he said. Monday comes weeks after an The Maoists had been pushing A Queensland Ambulance earthquake that killed thousands for new provinces to be created Service spokeswoman said 18 and piled pressure on politicians along lines that could favour his- people were being treated for to end a stalemate that has para- torically marginalised communi- injuries, with three of them criti- lysed the country. ties, but other parties said this cally hurt. They were being flown Nepal’s lawmakers began work would be divisive and a threat to to nearby hospitals. Eight others on a new national constitution national unity. had minor to moderate injuries in 2008 following a decade-long “This is an incomplete deal, it’s and were being taken by road to Maoist insurgency that left an an agreement which postpones three hospitals in the region, with estimated 16,000 people dead and the crucial question entirely,” said Nepalese lawmakers meet at the national parliament in Kathmandu yesterday. Rival political parties have struck a the remaining patients suffering brought down the monarchy. Prashant Jha, a Nepali journalist historic agreement to end years of deadlock on a new constitution that will divide the country into eight provinces. superficial wounds. But the political parties were and author. unable to reach agreement and “Political parties have abdi- The agreement includes a com- devastated life or my destroyed into disarray and crippling the the resulting uncertainty left cated their responsibility by not mitment to hold the country’s village,” Gautam said as she shel- economy. 15-year-old girl Nepal — one of the world’s poorest hammering out a deal on internal first local elections since 1997. tered under a tent. Newspaper editor Guna Raj countries — in a state of political borders. Many say the absence of village Lawmakers said a draft of the Luitel said the April 25 earth- acquitted of killing limbo. “The constitution that emerges representatives has hampered the final constitution, which must be quake appeared to have added Information Minister Minendra will be a deeply divisive and con- distribution of aid following the approved by a two-thirds parlia- impetus to the process. husband in Nigeria Rijal said the April 25 disaster, tested document from day one,” quake. But victims of the disaster mentary majority, would be ready “Everyone was fed up with the which killed more than 8,700 he said. were unimpressed by the political in July. parties, people thought the con- GEZAWA, NIGERIA: A people and destroyed nearly half Under the deal, Nepal will breakthrough. Work on the charter — stitution will never come because Nigerian court yesterday for- a million houses, had motivated continue with its current system “I’d rather have rehabilita- intended to conclude a peace they couldn’t agree on anything,” mally struck out a case against rival parties to work together. of national governance which tion and relief than new prov- process begun in 2006 when the said Luitel, editor-in-chief of the a 15-year-old girl accused of “There is a will to get this done,” includes an executive prime min- inces,” said Eakindra Gautam, a Maoists entered politics — began Nagarik daily. killing her 35-year-old husband said Rijal, calling the agreement a ister and ceremonial president. 57-year-old villager who fled to after a 2008 election won by the “After the first quake, things with rat poison. “major breakthrough”. A new federal commission will Kathmandu after her home was former rebels. changed. Parties seem to have But Wasila Tasi’u, who was 14 The opposition Maoist party be tasked with drawing up inter- destroyed. But political infighting con- realised that they need to work at the time of the alleged murder, had pressed for greater devolution nal borders and submit a proposal “The number of provinces founded efforts to hammer out together to rebuild the country.” was forced to spend another night of powers, and the agreement to for approval in parliament. makes no difference to my a deal, throwing parliament AFP in custody because of delays in fil- ing paperwork for her release. The teenager was charged with culpable homicide and faced a possible death sentence if con- victed of deliberately lacing a meal she cooked for her husband Seoul reports 7th MERS death, vows to end crisis Umar Sani with rat poison. Sani and four others died SEOUL: South Korea yester- dwindling attendance at baseball infected by a MERS patient at a Health Organization (WHO) said. Xiu Xin, a Chinese tourist within hours in April last year. day reported its seventh death games and other public events. hospital in Seoul. data, has a fatality rate of around in Seoul, said he had decided to Activists, who celebrated as from Middle East Respiratory “Public concerns are rising over All the infections so far have 35 percent. go ahead with his trip despite the she was acquitted, had used the Syndrome (MERS) as the gov- the negative impact of the MERS been restricted to hospitals, and “People may be concerned, but I health scare. case to highlight the issue of child ernment — concerned about the outbreak on our economy and the ministry stressed that all hope that they will not overreact “I’d heard about the virus and marriage, which is common in economic impact — said it hoped society,” Acting Prime Minister seven who died had pre-existing and cooperate to ensure that eco- was a little worried. But after I northern Nigeria. to end the crisis this week. Choi Kyung-Hwan said during a health problems. nomic activities will not be weak- got here, it wasn’t so scary,” Xiu Eight new infections brought meeting with top health officials. The virus is considered a dead- ened,” President Park Geun-Hye said. “I’m just wearing this to feel the total number of cases to 95 in “So we have decided to... launch lier but less infectious cousin told a cabinet meeting. better,” he added, pointing to his China wants stable the largest outbreak outside Saudi an active, all-out response with of Severe Acute Respiratory The outbreak has hit the tour- surgical mask. Arabia, following the diagnosis of the goal of ending the MERS cri- Syndrome (SARS), which killed ist industry, with more than Hong Kong issued a “red” alert military ties with the first patient back on May 20. sis within this week,” said Choi, hundreds of people when it 45,000 scheduled visitors — on Tuesday, advising against non- The virus has caused wide- who is also the finance minister. appeared in Asia in 2003. mostly Chinese — cancelling trips essential travel to South Korea Sri Lanka spread public anxiety and led to a The latest fatality was a There is no vaccine or cure for to South Korea in the first week for health reasons. plunge in cinema ticket sales and 68-year-old woman who was MERS which, according to World of June, the Korea Tourism Board AFP BEIJING: China’s defence minister told the head of the Sri Lankan navy yesterday he wanted to ensure a “continuous and stable” development of mili- tary ties, after Sri Lanka ruled Malaysia arrests out future Chinese submarine Bangladesh urged to end child marriage visits to the country. tourist stripper Defence Minister Chang DHAKA: Bangladesh must group urged Bangladesh’s govern- in London on the issue to stop 100 interviews mostly with mar- Wanquan told Jayantha Perera KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian step up efforts to halt an “epi- ment to abandon a proposal to girls as young as 10 marrying. ried girls, said girls were being that China was willing to continue authorities yesterday arrested demic” of child marriage lower the legal age for marriage Bangladesh has the world’s denied an education and their and deepen cooperation with a foreign national for allegedly throughout the country where for girls from 18 to 16, a move it highest rate of marriage of girls health placed in danger, with Sri Lanka, including efforts to stripping naked to pose for nearly one third of girls wed said would only fuel the crisis. under the age of 15, at 29 percent, many forced to have children train personnel, China’s Defence pictures on the country’s high- before they turn 15, a rights “It will send the message to the despite it being illegal. Officials before their bodies were ready. Ministry said in a statement. est peak, Mount Kinabalu, an group said. parents that child marriage is are often bribed to fake birth cer- Rashida said in the report that “China is willing to work hard act some Malaysians have said Although Bangladesh has cut okay. The government should act tificates to allow the marriages to she was terrified of her husband with Sri Lanka ... to ensure the angered the spirits of the moun- poverty levels in recent years, before another generation of girls happen, the report said. after getting married at the age continuous and stable develop- tain and caused an earthquake. numbers of child marriages is lost,” Heather Barr, author of Last September, Hasina’s gov- of 10 or 11. ment of relations between the Police in the eastern state of remain huge, partly because of a HRW report, told reporters in ernment unveiled a plan to lower “He forcibly entered me and two militaries and make positive Sabah arrested a foreign woman regular natural disasters that Dhaka. Barr also called on Prime the marriage age to reflect the I would cry so much that eve- efforts to further deepen ties,” the involved in the incident, state force already struggling families Minister Sheikh Hasina to “follow reality of Bangladesh society, rything would get wet from my ministry paraphrased Chang as news agency Bernama reported. into greater desperation, Human through” on commitments she sparking an outcry from rights tears. It was so difficult, so pain- saying. The nationality of the woman was Rights Watch said. The campaign made at a global summit last year groups. The report, based on some ful,” she said. AFP AGENCIES not disclosed. Acting police chief Keong Ho Eng said the woman was held at the airport in the town of Tawau Demolition of settlements last afternoon, as she was about Philippines, Japan to to leave for Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. A group of tourists stripped to take pictures at the peak of hold fresh naval drills Mount Kinabalu on May 30, infu- riating many who regarded the MANILA: The Philippines and Japanese destroyers and one of act as disrespectful. The pictures Japan will hold fresh joint naval the Philippines’ newest warships were widely circulated on Internet drills this month, the Filipino held historic manoeuvres less websites and social media. military said yesterday, as the than 300 kilometres (168 miles) It was not clear if the foreign- World War II foes swiftly ramp from the Philippine-claimed ers would be charged with any up security ties while China Scarborough Shoal, which is now offence. Malaysian police and develops islands in disputed under Chinese control. immigration officials did not waters. “This navy-to-navy engage- immediately respond to requests The June 22-26 joint manoeu- ment envisions to share new for comment. vres with the Japanese Maritime tactics, techniques and proce- News reports said those Self-Defence Force would be only dures as well as best practices involved in the incident had been the second ever, after an unprec- to further maritime operations,” barred from leaving Sabah, to edented one-day exercise in the Arevalo said, referring to the allow police to investigate. This flashpoint South China Sea last planned drills. These will involve week, some reports said two month, Philippine navy spokes- “maritime domain awareness”, Canadians in the group were man Colonel Edgard Arevalo said. search and rescue, and disas- stopped from leaving the country. He would not say where the ter response, he said. Philippine Yesterday, the Canadian High new exercises would be held or President Benigno Aquino and Commission in Kuala Lumpur which ships would take part. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo said it was aware of the media But Japanese media, quot- Abe announced in Tokyo last reports. A spokesman said it was ing unnmamed official sources, week that the two governments in touch with Sabah authorities An elderly resident sits in front of her razed house during the demolition of settlements in order to give way to a suggested the second manoeu- would start negotiations for the and consular assistance was being road widening project in Manila yesterday. vres will also take place on the transfer of defence technology provided. REUTERS South China Sea. On May 12, two and equipment. AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

12 rebels killed Convict escapes noose yet again in airstrikes on Afghan border Supreme Court stays death verdict just hours before execution, to hear fresh appeal ISLAMABAD: At least 12 militants were killed yesterday ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani two witnesses who implicated him country. goodbye to his brothers. He has is not eligible for execution under when military jets bombed mili- man, whose lawyers say was a have since recanted, saying they Reprieve estimates 150 people to go through this over and over Pakistani law. tant hideouts in restive Khyber child when charged with mur- were tortured. have been executed in Pakistan again,” the spokesman said. They also claim he was tor- tribal agency. der, and only confessed after In a letter from jail, Bahadur since mid-December, when Prime Hussain’s lawyers say he was tured into confessing. According to the Pakistani mil- being tortured, was handed a repeated his assertion that he was Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a 14 in 2004 when he was burnt His brother Manzoor Hussain itary’s public relations wing, the reprieve yesterday just hours innocent and was 15 years old in moratorium on the death penalty. with cigarettes and had finger- said relatives gathered in air strikes were carried out in an before he was due to be exe- 1992. His lawyers have provided His decision came a day after nails removed until he confessed Muzaffarabad, the main town area of Khyber tribal region close cuted, the fourth time his death documents which they say dis- Taliban militants attacked a to killing a child. Authorities of Pakistani Kashmir where the to the Pakistan-Afghanistan bor- penalty has been stayed. prove prosecutors’ assertions he school killing more than 130 say that he was 23 when he was family hails from, to keep a vigil der. Khyber is one of Pakistan’s The Justice Project Pakistan was 21. pupils and 19 adults. sentenced. during the night of the expected seven semi-autonomous regions (JPP), a human rights law firm “I have served this dreadful For Hussain, the last few Relatives of Hussain said hanging. governed by tribal laws. Taliban representing Shafqat Hussain, life sentence already, and yet months have been agonising. Yesterday they “felt a wave of “When we were informed at militant are known to have said the Supreme Court in the they want me to suffer another Today’s stay was the fourth in six life” when his execution was 3:00 am that he has survived, we strongholds in the tribal areas capital Islamabad had agreed to punishment on today – death by months, and came a few hours halted to examine claims he was felt a wave of life inside us,” he along Pakistan’s border with hear its appeal against an ear- hanging,” he wrote of more than before he was due to be hanged a juvenile when the crime was told AFP. Afghanistan. lier court decision that rejected 22 years behind bars. in the city of Karachi. committed. “We were not expecting this, Yesterday’s airstrikes come as an inquiry into the case. The The JPP filed separate appeals A JPP spokesman said that on The reprieve came just hours we had even found a place for his the latest in the military’s offen- Supreme Court had adjourned to President Mamnoon Hussain this occasion, Hussain would have before he was due to face the gal- grave in a local cemetery here in sive to clear the tribal areas of the hearing until yesterday. urging clemency for both men. been changed into white clothes lows around dawn at a prison in Muzaffarabad.” Taliban militants. The Pakistani Another convict, Aftab They are among more than and moved to a different part of the city. Hussain’s elderly mother army started Operation Zarb- Bahadur, was sentenced to death 8,000 people on death row in the prison in preparation for his Hussain’s lawyers and fam- Makhni Begum said she had faith e-Azb in June last year and has for murder in 1992, but human Pakistan, according to Reprieve, execution. ily claim he was under 18 at the that God would spare her son. since claimed significant success rights group Reprieve said the the largest number of any “Each time he has to say time of the killing, and therefore AFP in the offensive. AGENCIES

US envoy visits Multan 31 militants NAB anti-corruption killed in drive against officials Afghanistan KABUL: Three soldiers and ISLAMABAD: With the the NAB Sindh chief. 31 militants have been killed change of the top command, Senior spokesman of NAB, in newest military operations the NAB Sindh chapter has Islamabad, when contacted said across the country, ministries launched a much-awaited offen- that with the appointment of Lt of defense and interior said sive against corruption and mis- Col (retd) Sirajul Naeem, things yesterday. use of authority with the arrests had improved a lot in NAB Sindh. A statement issued by the of key officials having already The NAB Karachi sources also Afghan Ministry of Defense started taking place whereas 22 say that the cases of controversial states that the three soldiers references involving plunder of land allotment in the province are have been killed in enemy fire billions of rupees have already too many besides the massive mis- and landmine explosion in past been prepared and filed. use of development funds. 24 hours. Two senior bureaucrats have It is said that the Bureau is In the meantime, a statement been arrested a few days back presently looking into several issued by the Ministry of Interior while a couple of others were to cases where the development states that military killed 31 mil- be arrested yesterday by the NAB funds were released against the itants in separate actions in 10 but the concerned officials got a development work completed only provinces in past 24 hours. stay from a court of law to pre- on paper where no work was done The security forces also empt their arrest by the Bureau. on the ground. defused 18 different types of There are a number of key offi- Not only that among the Sindh Improvised Explosive Devices cials and certain politicians who rulers, there are some who are (IEDs), planted by insurgents. are in the focus of the NAB Sindh allegedly involved in land grabbing IEDs are considered the sec- for having been involved in cor- but also a few aides of the federal ond biggest cause behind the ruption and misuse of authority. government have also their share raising number of civilian casu- Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (right) talks with US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Headed by Lt Col (retd) Sirajul in the alleged loot and plunder of alties in Afghan war. Olson (centre) and US Consul General in Lahore, Zachary Harkenrider (left) in Multan yesterday. Naeem, who was appointed as the the wealth of the people of Sindh. AGENCIES NAB Sindh chief in December It is said that one such case 2014, the bureau’s Karachi chap- recently taken up by the Supreme ter like its Islamabad headquar- Court, the involved land is worth ters and other chapters is also over Rs500 billion. Pakistan health regulatory bill to be drafted soon faced with the challenge of cleans- The apex court had sought a ing the augean stables of its own report from the NAB on 530 acres ISLAMABAD: In an attempt NHSRC has taken inspira- bill is to ease out complicated pricing mechanism for drugs administration infected with the and 341 acres mangrove-covered to put relevant restrictions on tion from Punjab Health Care and often confusing flow of com- being provided by public hospitals moles of corrupt and Qabza mafia. land in Karachi which allegedly public- private hospitals, clin- Commission and is in process of mand due to presence of various and private pharmaceutical com- The of late arrests of two senior involve some big names including ics and doctors in Islamabad, drafting bill on similar lines. regulatory bodies in Islamabad panies will also be part of the bill. bureaucrats provincial secretary an aide of the prime minister. the Ministry of National Speaking in detail about sali- like Capital Administrative Islamabad Capital Territory excise and taxation and Sindh The NAB’s offensive against the Health Services Regulation ent features of the bill, he said Development Division, Capital Administration (ICT) District director anti-corruption by NAB corrupt mafia of Sindh coincides and Coordination (NHSRC) is it would regulate key problem Development Authority and Health Officer Dr Muhammad Karachi has sent a wave of fear with the military establishment’s drafting a health regulatory bill. areas like ensuring adequate Interior Ministry. Azhar Khan said it is high time a around the members of bureauc- keenness to cleanse Karachi in The ministry’s director pro- services in public hospitals and It further aims to register all regulatory body should be made. racy, who had been grossly mis- particular of all the mafias. grammes Dr Malik Muhammad defining standard operating pro- private clinics and practitioners “Currently 70 per cent of used by the corruption and Qabza A few weeks back, the Karachi Safi said that the bill aims to spe- cedures for public and private and introduce a proper screen- health budget is spent on pay- mafia for their vested interests. corps commander issued some cifically regulate private practi- practitioners. ing mechanism for blood banks ing salaries leaving a negligible Previously, the NAB Sindh was clear warnings to the Sindh gov- tioners and quacks because there The bill would also define rules in order to ensure safe transfu- amount for other provisions,” led by a favourite of the PPP lead- ernment but the PPP leadership are no such regulatory provisions and conditions for penalising sion to patients. Similarly a death Azhar said. ership - Wajid Durrani, a retired took it as an interference in polit- in Islamabad. doctors or staff if found violat- occurrence mechanism will be According to Deputy police officer, who was arrested in ical affairs. No less than the PPP “In absence of a regulatory ing the rules. “The regulatory bill devised to keep a proper record Commissioner Mushtaq Ahmed, the Murtaza murder case but was co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari body, there have been unchecked will encourage hospitals and clin- of how and why a patient died. the administration has been fac- later acquitted. had suggested to the corps com- cases of lady health workers ics to implement ISO 001 rules The bill will also make it man- ing legal complications while He was considered a blue-eyed mander, Karachi, in a Geo inter- handling complicated deliveries which are international health datory for the regulatory body to conducting raids on doctors and of the last PPP government and view that generals and politicians privately when as per rules they and safety standards for work conduct regular health audits of illegal practitioners owing to lack was thus given the key position should focus “on their respective are only allowed to handle normal places,” Safi explained. public and private hospitals. In of a proper law. and upon retirement was made jobs”. INTERNEWS cases,” he said. Another key agenda of the addition, quality regulation and INTERNEWS

Escaping heat in Sindh Govt negligence puts Punjab pensioners in ‘double jeopardy’

LAHORE: The budget proposal It had been a budgetary prac- proposal and grant at least 20pc for only 7.5 per cent increase in tice that the retired employees increase in the pensions. the pension is another blow to were granted (pension) raises Meanwhile, retired employ- the retired government employ- with higher rates than the serving ees had been thronging the ees in Pakistani province of ones as the pensions had always Accountant-General Punjab Punjab, a large number of whom been paltry as compared to the office since May 2 with the com- are already facing stoppage of salaries. plaint that managers of the NBP the meager pension amount by Furthermore, the retired branches concerned had been National Bank, in violation of a employees had always been cat- refusing them pension. Supreme Court direction. egorised as old and new pension- “The pensioners are com- “The increase is tantamount ers; the former getting increase plaining that the NBP managers to adding insult to injury to the between 15 and 20 per cent and informed them that disbursement widows and orphans left by the the latter ranging from 10pc to of pension was being refused on deceased government employ- 15pc. the written directions of (the ees and the pensioners,” Punjab “Though the 7.5pc increase for bank’s) head office. Small Industries Corporation the serving employees is also too The matter was taken up by the Pensioners’ Welfare Association small, but due to their higher pays AG with `high offices’ of the NBP president Khwaja Hameed Asghar and inclusion of ad hoc allowances in Lahore and Karachi but the said yesterday. of 2011 and 2012 the increases branch managers were not follow- “With Ramazan and Eidul Fitr in their pays would automati- ing the instructions in letter and approaching, stoppage of pension cally swell to a reasonable level, spirit. the NBP is required to pay Young Pakistanis cool off in a canal in Hyderabad, Sindh province, yesterday. According to reports, more than in violation of Supreme Court whereas the equal rate of increase the pension to all the pensioners two dozen people are estimated to have died in a heatwave in Pakistan, mostly in the Sindh province, a week directions is tantamount to finan- (in pension and pay) would mean whose pension has been author- cial genocide of those who gave a very small raise for the pension- ised to be paid at National Bank of after hot weather was estimated to have left nearly 2500 dead in neighbouring India. Heatwaves kill thousands their best years, their sweat and ers,” said Khwaja, demanding that Pakistan by treasury office. of people across South Asia every summer. blood to the government,” he said. the government should review the INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Police gun down 12 Maoists BA doubles baggage Forces put on high alert; further attacks by rebels expected allowance to students BENGALURU: British Airways (BA) has doubled the baggage NEW DELHI: Twelve Maoist allowance for students travelling from India to study in Britain, rebels have been killed in a gun- Europe, the US or Canada, Britain’s flag carrier airline said battle with police in a forest in yesterday. an eastern Indian state known “Indian students flying into the West for studies on our airline can as a rebel stronghold, officers take an extra luggage weighing up to 23kg in addition to one baggage said yesterday. for Britain and Europe or two like pieces for the US and Canada,” BA They said firing erupted when said in a statement here. police tried to intercept a group The special offer will be valid for Indian students till March 31, 2016. of suspected guerrillas whom The airline has also tied up with leading brands such as Jabong and they thought were heading to a Macty’s and for free mobile talk time with Matrix to benefit students village in Jharkhand to extort during their travel. money. “As we understand students’ needs while travelling abroad for higher “They started firing when we studies, we extend our support through such offers with convenient tried to stop them,” said Hemant schedules and easy connections in Britain and other cities,” BA regional Toppo, deputy inspector general commercial manager Moran Birger said in the statement. of police in Palamu district where BA’s code share with American Airlines gives its young customers the incident occurred. to choose an extensive worldwide network. “We retaliated and 12 Naxals “In addition, our codeshare with American Airlines gives young cus- were killed in the exchange that tomers the ability to choose an extensive worldwide network,” Birger lasted for almost an hour,” he told said on the occasion. AFP, using a local term for the The airline’s home Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport ensures seamless Maoist rebels. travel for students to make flight connection via London. Toppo said police have recov- The offer to students holding valid visas for Britain, Europe, the ered the rebels’ bodies along with US and Canada will be available from Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, guns and ammunition from the Hyderabad and Mumbai airports over the next 10 months. forest, which is 193 kilometres The extra baggage is valid one way, on the outbound half of the (120 miles) northwest of the state journey. capital Ranchi. IANS “Some rebels also managed to escape into the nearby for- Police stand by the bodies of 12 Maoists killed in clashes with policemen in Palamu, Jharkhand yesterday. est areas and our teams are now looking for them,” he said. resource-rich areas in the states the revolt through tough secu- criticised for so-called “encoun- India’s long-running Maoist of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, rity offensives are doomed to fail, ter killings”, in which they shoot insurgency began in the 1960s, Jharkhand and Maharashtra. saying the real solution is better suspected criminals to sidestep ‘No pace in economy’ inspired by Chinese revolution- Police said yesterday’s attack governance and development of court procedures and then claim ary leader Mao Zedong, and has was their biggest clash with the the impoverished region. the victim fired first. cost thousands of lives. rebels in the state in more than Human rights lawyer Vrinda In April police in the southern NEW DELHI: Former finance is growing at 6-7 percent, the con- The rebels, described by former a year, after Maoists ambushed a Grover called for an investiga- state of Andhra Pradesh launched minister P Chidambaram said cern is it will not create jobs and prime minister Manmohan Singh police vehicle there in April 2014 tion into the attack, saying India’s an investigation into officers who yesterday the present pace of make no dent in poverty.” as India’s most serious internal and killed six officers. police had a history of killing sus- gunned down 20 sandalwood the Indian economy will neither He also accused the Bharatiya security threat, say they are “Our forces across the state pected rebels in “cold blood”. smugglers. create any jobs nor it will help Janata Party-led National fighting authorities for land, jobs have been put on high alert “It is important to investigate Officers claimed they were the country in coming out of Democratic Alliance government and other rights for poor tribal over the possibility of a retali- (such cases) in a transparent acting in self-defence after they poverty. of not supporting Congress-ruled groups. atory attack by the rebels,” A. manner to ensure that there is came under attack. But families Addressing the Congress’ chief states. “They are not providing They are believed to be present Natarajan, police inspector gen- confidence in the actions of the of the victims launched protests, ministers during a meet here, the enough funds to state govern- in at least 20 Indian states but eral of Palamu, told AFP. state,” Grover told AFP in Delhi. saying they were innocent. Congress leader said: “Although ments to continue the ongoing are most active in forested, Critics believe attempts to end Indian police have long been AFP impression to world is that India programmes.” IANS

Morning work-outs in Mumbai AP cabinet to discuss Two Nagas killed in accidental tapping of Naidu’s phone explosion HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act ITANAGAR: Two suspected Pradesh cabinet was engrossed relating to the role of the gover- cadres of Naga militant out- in a lengthy meeting here yes- nor in maintaining law and order fit NSCN-K were killed when terday afternoon to discuss in common capital Hyderabad. an explosive device blew up alleged phone-tapping of Chief The resolution will be sent to accidentally at a remote place Minister N Chandrababu Naidu the central government, with a along the Myanmar border in by the Telangana government. demand for a probe into phone- Arunachal Pradesh yesterday, The cabinet meeting, chaired tapping and necessary steps for police said. by Naidu, was continuing even implementing the act. A third person was injured after three hours. Official sources After the cabinet meeting, in the blast which took place at said the meeting continued after Naidu is expected to leave for Wakka, just seven kilometers the lunch break. New Delhi, acompanied by a few from the border in the newly- The cabinet is discussing the senior cabinet colleagues. He is created Longding district. situation in the wake of release likely to meet central ministers to “A group of militants were of an audio tape of Naidu’ alleged complain against the Telangana carrying some improvised explo- telephonic conversation with government. sive devices (IEDs) to be planted Telangana’s nominated legislator The cash-for-vote scam came against the security forces. One Elvis Stephenson in the cash-for- to light on May 31 when Anti- of the IEDs exploded accidentally, vote scam. Corruption Bureau (ACB) of killing two cadres instantly,” a The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Telangana arrested TDP’s deputy police official said. government has termed the audio leader in the Telangana assembly The bodies of the two, a live tape as “fake”, and accused the A. Revanth Reddy while offering IED and a remote control were Telangana Rashtra Samithi `50 lakh to Stephenson to make found at the spot. IANS (TRS) government of indulging him vote for the TDP-BJP can- in phone-tapping of Naidu and didate in Telangana legislative People exercise early morning along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai yesterday. other leaders. council elections. The cabinet is likely to pass a The ACB also arrested Revanth resolution, condemning phone- Reddy’s two aides in a trap laid on tapping and also calling for imple- a complaint by Stephenson. mentation of Section 8 of Andhra IANS Modi to launch labour law overhaul NEW DELHI: Prime Minister push ahead with the measures. As part of the proposed revamp, has been a drag on manufactur- Narendra Modi is preparing to “Without these reforms, the a factory employing fewer than ing, which accounts for only 16 launch India’s biggest overhaul economy would stagnate, and 300 workers would be allowed percent of India’s $2trillion econ- of labour laws since independ- frustrated investors would look to lay off workers without gov- omy, compared with 32 percent Coast Guard Dornier ence in a bid to create millions elsewhere,” he said. ernment permission. Currently, of China’s. of manufacturing jobs, at the “You cannot make political factories employing 100 workers Some 84 percent of India’s risk of stirring up a political opposition an excuse for not tak- or more need approval for lay- manufacturers employed fewer reported missing backlash that could block other ing tough decisions.” offs. But they will have to pay than 50 workers in 2009, com- critical reforms. Since taking office in May last three times the current sever- pared with 25 percent in China, CHENNAI: An Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft with Three officials at the federal year, Modi has taken a series of ance package, the labour ministry according to a study published by three crew members aboard has gone missing near Karaikal in labour ministry told Reuters that incremental steps to make labour officials said. consultancy firm McKinsey & Co. Puducherry, officials said here yesterday. the ministry was drafting a bill laws less onerous for businesses, Companies have long been last year. Search and rescue operations are on to locate the aircraft, deployed for the upcoming parliamentary but fear of a union-led political demanding an increase in the Economists cite current labour for surveillance along the Tamil Nadu coast and Palk Bay. It took off session that proposes to loosen backlash made him leave the ceiling as governments rarely rules as the biggest constraint on from Chennai airport around 6pm on last Monday for a surveillance strict hire-and-fire rules and responsibility for unshackling the grant such permissions for layoffs, Modi’s “Make in India” ambi- sortie but did not return. make it tougher for workers to labour market with Indian states. making it difficult to respond to tion to spur a manufacturing An official statement said the last contact with the aircraft was form unions. He let his party’s govern- business downturns and encour- boom creating jobs for 200 mil- made at 9pm on last Monday. The changes, if approved by ments in Rajasthan and Madhya aging them to stay small. lion Indians reaching working age The last known location of the aircraft, as per Trichy radar, was off parliament, will be the biggest Pradesh take the lead in this area. “It will facilitate ease of doing over the next two decades. Karaikal in Puducherry, where it was tracked till 9.23pm, 95 nautical economic reform since India Encouraged by a successful business while ensuring safety, Just 8 percent of manufactur- miles south of Chennai. opened its economy in 1991, but and peaceful implementation health and social security of every ing workers in India are in formal Speaking to the media, Coast Guard Inspector General S P Sharma it is likely to meet stiff opposition of the measures in those states, worker,” a senior labour ministry employment, the rest are short- said that assigning any reason for the aircraft’s disappearance would in parliament and from labour the federal labour ministry now official involved in the delibera- term contractors who enjoy mini- be “premature”. He said an inquiry will be ordered. activists. intends to replicate them at the tions said. mal social security benefits. The crew included Deputy Commandant Vidyasagar piloting the The Indian leader enjoys a national level, one of the ministry The official said the bill was It will take deft political man- aircraft, his co-pilot and Deputy Commandant M K Soni and naviga- majority in the lower house of officials said. expected to be finalised in the agement to ensure a speedy tor/observer Subash Suresh. parliament, but not the upper, Manish Sabharwal, one of next three or four weeks, and passage for the bill. Opposition “The aircraft was the latest induction in the Coast Guard inventory hobbling his ability to pass politi- the brains behind Rajasthan’s would then be sent to cabinet for parties have blocked Modi’s land in 2014 and was being flown by highly experienced crew,” an official cally contentious measures. labour reforms and co-founder approval. bill in parliament, calling it “anti- statement said. That handicap has stymied his of recruitment firm Teamlease, The planned changes would farmer”. The labour reforms, Defence Ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar said in a tweet that efforts to make it easier for busi- said the federal administration also make it tougher for employ- which are being opposed by labour the search area for the missing aircraft was spread over 110km from nesses to buy farmland and con- would have been better off with- ees to form unions or go on strike, unions, could also end up being the coast, and up to Rameswaram. vert Asia’s third-largest economy out attempting these changes. but would make all employees eli- labelled as “pro-corporates”. An extensive search is being carried out by five ships of the Coast into a common market. “Let states carry out these gible for minimum wage. An official in Modi’s office Guard and four of the Indian Navy. Two long-range maritime surveil- Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief changes and save your political The World Bank says India has didn’t rule out holding off the bill lance aircraft P8Is were also involved in the search operation. economist at IHS Global Insight, energy for other policy reforms,” one of the most rigid labour mar- due to short-term political con- IANS said Modi had little option but to he said. kets in the world. That in turn siderations. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Delhi law minister Tomar Inferno near Yamuna arrested; AAP cries foul Police to file charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy

NEW DELHI: In a dramatic in the morning and took him away transfer of senior officials. This escalation of the row between as if he was a fugitive. dispute too is also now facing judi- the central and AAP govern- “The police told Tomar they cial scrutiny. ments, Delhi Law Minister had come to see some documents... AAP leader Sanjay Singh said Jitender Singh Tomar was They asked him to accompany police arrested Tomar without arrested here yesterday over them to his house. On the way giving any notice. his alleged fake law degree. they told his driver to get off and “If the case relates to a fake The AAP cried foul and linked took charge of his vehicle and told degree, will ministers Smriti Irani it with its anti-corruption him he was being detained. and Ram Shanker Katheria (of campaign. “They told Tomar that he could BJP) will also be taken to police Delhi Police, which does not ask someone to bring the docu- station without any prior notice?” report to the AAP government ments to the police station... Singh asked. but to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung “What is going on?” asked Tomar told CNN-IBN that he and the union home ministry, told Sisodia. “Was he (Tomar) run- didn’t know why he was arrested. IANS that Tomar was arrested ning away? Did he explode bombs “Around 30-40 policemen asked on charges of cheating, criminal in Delhi? There is an allegation me to accompany me to the police conspiracy and forgery. (against him). The matter is in station without any prior notice.” The Aam Aadmi Party, which the court. What was the need to He said this was done to tar- took power in Delhi in February, arrest him?” nish the AAP’s image. accused police of roughing up Sisodia added: “There is some- Delhi Police said Tomar would Tomar. Delhi assembly Speaker thing wrong... This arrest is ille- be produced in a court later Ram Niwas Goel said he wasn’t gal. There is an Emergency-like yesterday. informed about the arrest. situation. This is supposed to Two cases are pending against Buffalos escape a fire that spreads on a patch of land by the Yamuna river on a hot summer day in New Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish be a democracy... Maybe it is an Tomar in the Delhi High Court, yesterday. Sisodia accused Lt. Governor Jung attempt to teach the AAP a les- alleging he enrolled himself as an of unleashing an “Emergency-like son (for what we are doing).” advocate on the basis of a fake law situation” and said vested inter- AAP supporters, including degree and seeking cancellation ests were ganging up against the Tomar’s family members, gath- of his election. Tomar says his AAP government because of its ered in large numbers at the degree is genuine. Sonia accuses PM of falsehoods anti-corruption campaign. The Vasant Vihar police station in The Congress took potshots at AAP, he vowed, won’t be cowed south Delhi where Tomar was Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, NEW DELHI: Congress presi- communal polarisation. This has and warnings to the judiciary. down. being questioned. demanding his resignation as the dent Sonia Gandhi yester- damaged our secular fabric.” “The prime minister has bro- A visibly livid Sisodia said yesterday’s arrest peaked a Tomar episode had punctured his day accused Prime Minister Gandhi said the “substance and ken with tradition and taken although the issue of Tomar’s simmering row between the cen- claims of ushering in clean poli- Narendra Modi of “boastful style” of the Bharatiya Janata domestic politics to audiences alleged fake degree was in tral and AAP governments over tics. It also sought Tomar’s resig- claims, exaggerations, U-turns Party-led government was a cause abroad. the court, about 40 policemen the powers of the Delhi gov- nation from the assembly. and downright falsehoods” and of great concern. “Boastful claims, exaggerations swooped on Tomar’s office early ernment over the posting and IANS alleged his BJP-led government “They raise many disturbing and downright falsehoods charac- was attempting to dismantle questions... There are systematic terise most of his statements. His the welfare state and centralise attempts being made to disman- election promises are now being power. tle the edifice of the welfare state dismissed, in the words of one of In a speech at a meeting of built up over the decades by suc- his own key colleagues, as ‘chu- Case against Congress chief ministers here, cessive Congress governments,” navi jumlas’ (poll idioms).” Rajnath’s 3000cr gift Gandhi accused the central gov- she said. Noting that Modi had made ernment of “giving huge tax cut She said that in the guise of giv- U-turn from his earlier positions UP minister for LUCKNOW: Local MP and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh bonanzas to the corporate sector” ing more untied funds to states, on a number of issues, she said: announced yesterday a `3,000 crore gift for the state capital in the while drastically cutting public the central government has ended “On some, like the GST and UID, scribe’s death form of a 100-km ring road. expenditures for social sector pro- up imposing additional burdens he seems to have discovered their On a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency, the former grammes relating to education, on all of them. virtues. But on other turnabouts, LUCKNOW: A case was reg- UP chief minister said that the union government had approved con- health, sanitation and rural roads. “Eleven sttes, especially of like on the 2013 land acquisition istered against Uttar Pradesh struction of the ring road which would go a long way in decongesting She said “a dangerous duplici- whom seven are represented here law and on the National Food Minister Ram Murti Verma and the traffic here. tous game” was being played out today, have been dealt a griev- Security Act, he has to be strongly five others, including a police He said that his cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari had informed him and an atmosphere of fear has ous blow by the abolition of the opposed.” official, following protests by of the approval vide a letter. been whipped up. Planning Commission and of the Gandhi said one of the lessons family members of social media Speaking at an event here, he further informed that the National “On the one hand, the prime grouping called ‘special category the Congress had learnt from journalist Jagendra Singh, who Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had already begun work on pre- minister wants to project himself states’,” she said. the Lok Sabha election was the died of burns late Monday. paring a detailed project report (DPR) of the ambitious project. as the great champion of good Gandhi claimed there was need to vastly improve commu- The Superintendent of Police Appreciating the state government led by Akhilesh Yadav for being governance and constitutional unprecedented centralisation of nications and marketing skills, (SP), Shahjahanpur city, will con- pro-development, Singh said he was hopeful that once the DPR was values while on the other he power, “deliberate by-passing of adding a party can have great duct the investigations into the through, the follow up in land acquisition and construction work will allows many of his colleagues to parliamentary procedures and accomplishments but people need journalist’s death. be a smooth process. IANS make vile statements and foment practices, threats to civil society to know about them. IANS The journalist, Jagendra Singh, sustained 60 percent burn injuries when the police went to arrest him on June 1. Jagendra Singh was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Lucknow where he died late Monday night. Political compulsions force Lalu to accept Nitish His family members allege that he was being hounded by state PATNA: Political compulsions, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United But it wasn’t all cosy though. had accepted that Nitish Kumar anti-BJP votes will result in his Minister Ram Murti Verma’s not secular values, forced RJD (JD-U). With assembly elections would head the Janata Parivar’s party’s defeat again like in the men, including police Inspector chief Lalu Prasad to accept This was proved more or less approaching, Lalu Prasad -- charge in Bihar. Lok Sabha polls,” JD-U leader A.K. Rai. JD-U leader Nitish Kumar as correct when the RJD and JD-U who has been chief minister and The elections are most likely in Nihora Prasad told IANS. During a visit to the hospital, the chief ministerial candidate together bagged six of the 10 seats so has been his wife Rabri September-October. “Lalu was forced to accept senior police officer Amitabh in the coming Bihar elections, in assembly by-elections after the Devi -- wanted to fight the For both Lalu Prasad and Nitish as captain after the Thakur was told by Jagendra realizing that this alone could Lok Sabha battle, leaving the BJP polls with the JD-U but wasn’t Nitish Kumar, defeating the BJP Congress and NCP announced Singh that he was first attacked check the BJP in the politically with just four seats. keen on accepting Nitish is their priority -- for political their support for Nitish. by the minister’s henchmen on crucial state. That further cemented the ties Kumar as the chief ministerial survival. Nitish Kumar has ruled The RJD and JD-U, fighting April 28. Lalu Prasad, those close to him between Nitish Kumar and Lalu candidate. Bihar for about a decade from separately, garnered nearly 20 On June 1, he said, the attack say, realized after the 2014 Lok Prasad, who for years had been That is when Samajwadi November 2005 with a short and 16 percent votes respectively was abetted by the police Sabha election that it was division at each’s other throats after once Party leader Mulayam Singh break. in the Lok Sabha election. The inspector. of anti-BJP votes that routed his being together in the erstwhile Yadav intervened. On Monday, “Lalu understands more Congress got another eight per- When his family yesterday Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal. he announced that Lalu Prasad than anyone else that a split in cent. IANS refused to cremate the jour- nalist till a case was registered against the minister and the issue was taken up on the social Who’s afraid of noodles? media, the officials lodged a case against Verma and five other peo- Bihar CM launches ple, including the accused police inspector. IANS high-tech initiative PATNA: Chief Minister Nitish ideas/suggestions from the public. Kumar yesterday launched a Nitish Kumar said he wished to high-tech ‘Badh Chala Bihar’ inform the people of Bihar about Bandipur reserve (Bihar moving forward) ini- his government’s development tiative to directly reach out to work in the nearly 10 years of his to get mobile the masses and seek their ideas party’s rule in the state. and suggestions for the state’s “My government has delivered vet services development. development with justice,” he said. The initiative was launched a The chief minister said that BENGALURU: The Karnataka day after the Janata Parivar pro- when he came to power in chapter of Wildlife Trust of jected him as chief ministerial November 2005, Bihar was a India yesterday rolled out a candidate ahead of the crucial power-starved state. mobile veterinary service unit Bihar assembly elections sched- “A severe power crisis pre- for the Bandipur tiger reserve uled later this year. It is the vailed in Bihar then as people in in the state. brainchild of Prashant Kishore, villages and towns lived in the The reserve is located in an erstwhile key strategist of dark without electricity. But this Chamarajanagar district. Narendra Modi during the last has now changed. Power situa- “The mobile unit will facili- Lok Sabha polls. tion has improved in the last few tate rescue of wild animals in the “Our target is to reach out to years,” Nitish Kumar said, while reserve and enable the trust to 40,000 villages across Bihar in the admitting that ‘power to all’ still respond to emergencies in the next six to seven weeks for a feed- remainged a big challenge. landscape,” Bandipur forests back on the state’s development “Earlier, girls did not attend conservator and director H.C. and involve them by seeking their school due to poverty. We Kantharaju said on the occasion. ideas for its development in the launched ‘free bicycle scheme’ Mobile service provider Aircel A street vendor prepares noodles for customers on the side of a road in Kolkata yesterday. The Food Safety next 10 years,” Nitish Kumar said for girls and they began to ride to is partnering with the state forest at the inaugural function. schools in groups, which changed and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has banned Nestle from making and selling its popular Maggi noodles department in operating the unit, The chief minister said that a the mindset of Bihar people,” the after tests by some states found lead levels above statutory limits, and has ordered the testing of other brands touted to be the first of its kind in ‘Vision Document 2025’ for Bihar chief minister said. the country. IANS of noodles as well as packet pasta amid growing concerns over food safety. would be prepared on the basis of IANS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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We are blind to our Handover event own bias: Study

LONDON: Almost evryone has a “bias blind spot,” meaning that people are less likely to detect bias in themselves than others, however, how blind they are to their actual degree of bias may vary, new research says. Believing that you are less biased than your peers has detri- mental consequences on judgments and behaviours, the findings show. “Our research found that the extent to which one is blind to her own bias has important consequences for the quality of decision- making,” said study lead author Irene Scopelliti, a lecturer in marketing at City University London. “People more prone to think they are less biased than others are less accurate at evaluating their abilities relative to the abili- ties of others, they listen less to others’ advice, and are less likely to learn from training that would help them make less biased judgments,” Scopelliti said. For the study, the researchers ran five experiments — the first two focused on testing whether bias blind spot differences is associated with traits such as IQ, general decision-making ability and self-esteem. The final three studies examined consequences of individual differences in the bias blind spot, specifically its relation to how people make social comparisons, the weight people placed on advice from others and their receptivity to de-biasing training. The most telling finding was that everyone is affected by blind spot bias — only one adult out of 661 said that he/she is more biased than the average person. “When physicians receive gifts from pharmaceutical com- panies, they may claim that the gifts do not affect their deci- sions about what medicine to prescribe because they have no memory of the gifts biasing their prescriptions,” said one of the study authors Erin McCormick from Carnegie Mellon University in the US. “However, if you ask them whether a gift might unconsciously bias the decisions of other physicians, most will agree that other physicians are unconsciously biased by the gifts, while continuing to believe that their own decisions are not. This disparity is the bias blind spot, and occurs for everyone, for many different types of judgments and decisions,” McCormick added. The study was published in the journal Management Science. IANS Games mascots Jeyran (gazelle) and Nar (pomegranate) attend a handover ceremony of the Inaugural European Games Flame in Baku, Azerbaijan, yesterday. The 2015 European Games will be celebrated in Azerbaijan from June 12 to 28. Nothing gets between Swedes and their ‘fika’ STOCKHOLM: For Swedes, it’s all For Swedes, the art of the Swedish widespread drink in the 1800s. But it is “Efficiency at work can benefit from the Swedish Institute which promotes about “fika”, the de rigueur daily cof- “fika” in no way compares to a few min- not known when the tradition of having these kinds of get-togethers.” the country abroad. fee break with a sweet nibble that is a utes at the office watercooler, or meet- a daily fika began. At the Stockholm offices of the And “fika” is starting to grow in popu- social institution. ing up with a friend for an espresso in The use of the slang word “fika” first Swedish handball federation, employees larity outside Sweden. Sweden’s almost 10 million inhabit- a French cafe. In Sweden, people stop appeared in 1913, and is believed to be meet up in the kitchen twice a day for “Sweden is very trendy right now, and ants account for one percent of the what they’re doing to have a “fika” at an inversion of the two syllables in the 15 minutes, at 9:30 am and 2:30 pm, to since ‘fika’ is a Swedish tradition that world’s coffee consumption, making it least once a day, sometimes twice. Swedish word for coffee, “kaffe”. have coffee and a pastry. “It gives us a makes it even more cool,” said Brones, the second-biggest consumer behind “Life without fika is unthinkable,” The word also has many derivatives: a chance to talk about what we’re doing. co-author of the new book dedicated to Finland. according to the book “Fika: The Art “fik” is a cafe where you have your fika; Ideas take shape and that way we can “fika”. Coffee is drunk with breakfast and of the Swedish Coffee Break” written “fikarum” is the room at a workplace avoid a lot of meetings,” says the head of Evidence can be found in the numer- after meals, but it is the mid-morning by Swedes Anna Brones and Johanna where staff meet for coffee; “fikasugen” the federation Christer Thelin. ous eponymous cafes offering Swedish and mid-afternoon coffee breaks — Kindvall and published in the US in means to crave a fika, “fikapaus” is to “By law you’re entitled to a five- “fika” that have popped up around “fika” — that are almost sacrosanct, April. take a break from whatever you’re doing minute break per hour worked. For the the world in recent years, including factored into everyone’s daily schedules “Fika is also the art of taking one’s to have a “fika”. fika we compile these five minutes into London, New York, Toronto, Australia whether they’re at work, home, run- time,” Brones tells AFP, explaining that “Fika” is also a natural part of the day one 15-minute break, we satisfy our caf- and Singapore. ning errands in town or taking a hike it’s more than just coffee and a slice of in the workplace — and stopping work feine craving, and we talk about every- “There is a growing interest in in the outdoors. cake: it’s about making a commitment to sit down for a mug of java and a chat thing: a lot about work, but also current Swedish food which is linked to Swedish “Fika”, pronounced fee-ka, is both to slow down and take a break from the with colleagues is not considered goofing affairs and a bit of personal stuff too,” authenticity and nature,” Guimaraes a noun and verb, and designates a rest of the day’s plans and routines. off from one’s duties. adds employee Lasse Tjernberg. says. moment, usually planned in advance, “In the United States for example, you “Studies show that people who take The practice never ceases to amaze In addition, “sweets have a special alone or with friends or coworkers, to get your coffee to go. In Sweden, you sit a break from their work do not do less. foreigners. standing in Sweden. It’s one of the few savour a cup of coffee or tea or even juice down, you enjoy the moment, and that’s It’s actually the opposite,” says Viveka “It throws people off who come here countries in the world that has special and eat something sweet, usually a cin- what people want to do more and more.” Adelsward, a professor emeritus in from other cultures. It arouses their days dedicated to a specific cake or a namon bun, pastry, cake or even a light Swedes have been drinking coffee communications at Sweden’s Linkoping curiosity and they don’t know what to pastry, from Waffle Day to Cinnamon sandwich. since 1685, and it became a common and University. make of it,” says Sergio Guimaraes of Bun Day.” AFP

Bike-boat sailing Facebook shelves Hunt on for escaped satellite plans NEW YORK: Facebook and lion in South Africa Google have both lost enthusiasm for satellite internet, according to media reports. Facebook is drop- JOHANNESBURG: Game farMERS to be on the lookout. ping its plans for a geo-stationary trackers in South Africa “Members of the public who satellite over concerns that it will are searching for a lion that may see the lion or any signs of not recover costs. escaped from a wildlife park, it are requested not to confront Google, which hired satel- officials said Tuesday, warning it,” the statement added. lite entrepreneur Greg Wyler to members of the public not to Last week, a 29-year-old female prepare a satellite constellation approach the animal. US tourist was mauled to death in 2014, backed out of that plan A helicopter has been used in by a lion in a Johannesburg game earlier this year, reported Quartz. the hunt for the three-year lion park after she wound down the However, Wyler and other satel- that is thought to have slipped windows of car she was travelling lite entrepreneurs feel that con- through a hole in the fence at in and was attacked. stellations made up of many small Karoo National Park in the south The lion from the Karoo satellites could offer faster service, of the country on Friday night. National Park is believed to have since they are closer to earth than “Aerial and foot patrols over been forced out by older males. the typical communication satel- the weekend have not yet yielded “It is suspected he escaped lites, which fly at high altitudes to the desired results,” South through a hole under the fence maximise coverage. IANS African National Parks said in a line after damage caused by heavy statement. rains,” the parks department said. “Although the trackers picked “The lion then... entered pri- up the lion’s spoor on a number vate property through a storm of occasions, the terrain is moun- water drain. tainous, with many river valleys, “Tracker teams, including thus making tracking difficult.” tracking dogs and their handlers, The carcass of a gembok ante- have been sent... to assist in the Brazilian architect and designer Argus Caruso Saturnino sails his bike-boat at Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio lope was put out to tempt the lion search. The aerial and foot patrols de Janeiro yesterday. but without success, and park are still ongoing.” managers asked neighbouring AFP Wednesday 10 June 2015 23 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6457 Price: QR2

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BY SATISH KANADY may have fallen for the first time in 10 years. DOHA: Qatar is tightening the A breakdown data of economic screw on government expendi- performances of non-hydrocar- ture, if figures disclosed by bon sector shows that the lone the Ministry of Development service subsector where growth Planning and statistics (MDPS) slowed in 2014 was government, yesterday are any indication. household and social services. According to the country’s Most value added in the gov- Economic Outlook for 2015-2017 ernment sector is accounted for released by the Ministry yes- by wages and salaries, and gov- terday, the preliminary budget ernment steps to rein in expendi- estimates as of March 2015 show ture growth in 2014 kept growth an 18.1 percent decline against in the wage bill in check. actual spending in Financial Preliminary data for financial Year 2013-14; 19.7 percent capital year 2014/15 indicate a reduc- and 17.4 percent current. “These tion in the wages and salaries lower numbers may to some category for the first time in a extent reflect tighter scrutiny decade. over spending, but with revenue, According to the Ministry upward revisions are expected”, document, Qatar’s economic the document noted. expansion in 2014 was mainly The numbers suggest that the spearheaded by the non-hydro- current expenditure estimates for carbon sector, growing at 11.3 per- the first 12 months of FY2014/15 cent with all subsectors posting are less than FY2013/14 outcomes solid growth. As in 2013, service across all expenditure categories. activity was the major driver of insurance, real estate and busi- Airways’ continued expansion The largest gaps are for wages the country’s growth in this sec- ness services subsector acceler- and by the opening of the new and salaries, health and general tor, contributing 4.4 percentage ated, expanding by 12.4 percent Hamad International Airport 2.2 percentage points to overall Petrochemical output grew by administration. points. year on year in 2014. Much early in the year. growth. Large projects include 8.4 percent, half the rate of a Preliminary data suggests that Trade, restaurants and hotels additional credit was offered The only service subsector Qatar Rail and real estate devel- year earlier. Growth in fertiliz- recorded outlays for wages and was the fastest-growing compo- in response to demand from where growth slowed in 2014 opments for Lusail City and ers, too, slowed appreciably from salaries are 2.7 percent lower nent, at 14.1 percent, propelled contractors working on large was government, household Musheireb. 2013, with output inching up by than previous fiscal year actual. by the rise in population and infrastructure project, which and social services. Buoyed Compared with services and just 0.8 percent. Growth in other Delays in recording outlays on strong growth in tourism, accord- also drove high growth in the by Qatar’s huge investments in construction, Manufacturing manufacturing industries held wages and salaries have been ing to “Qatar Economic Outlook insurance market. Transport infrastructure and real estate, grew at a tepid 4.1 percent, steady at 5.6 percent, close to negligible in the past, suggesting 2015-2017”. and communications increased construction output grew at a contributing just 0.4 percent- 2013’s rate. that spending on this category Growth in the finance, by 10.4 percent, driven by Qatar rapid 18.0 percent, contributing age points to aggregate growth. THE PENINSULA Qatari Diar hails achievements Qatar is Mideast’s DOHA: Under the auspices of Khaled Al Sayed said the meet- H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi, Minister ing presented an opportunity for leading Internet of Finance and Chairman of Qatari Qatari Diar employees to interact Diar Real Estate Investment with top management and discuss Company, Qatari Diar held its upcoming projects. annual town hall staff meeting “Qatari Diar’s management economy: Report on Monday led by the Group CEO believes in the importance of Khalid Al Sayed. celebrating its accomplishments DOHA: Qatar is the Middle address their sources of e-friction; The meeting brought together with its employees because those East’s leading Internet economy after all, doing so could have a Qatari Diar’s top management achievements wouldn’t have said a new report by The Boston strong impact on national com- and employees to celebrate the materialized if it weren’t for our Consulting Group (BCG), a glo- petitiveness as well as on social company’s achievements on the staff,” Al Sayed said. bal management consulting and economic development.” domestic and international level During the ceremony, Qatari firm. The report also found that, He added, “Based on our study, amid the completion of the first Diar recognised 39 employees globally, the difference between the broad causes of e-friction phase of an ambitious five-year who were presented with the countries with large digital include wealth, population density, business plan launched in 2014. Group CEO Award for outstand- economies and those with low the urban-rural population mix, During the meeting, Qatari H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi with other officials at annual town hall staff meeting. ing performance. Qatari Diar economic activity amounts to literacy, and English-language Diar’s top management highlighted also awarded four infrastruc- about 2.5 percent of GDP – a skills. And, while some of these the challenges and opportunities members the opportunity to success. “I am pleased to join you ture projects at Lusail Plaza and material figure for any nation. can be influenced by policy initia- lying ahead and discussed future inquire into Qatari Diar’s future to highlight our accomplishment Business Centre districts, worth The new study, titled “Which tives, others require more creative objectives in line with the five-year projects and internal training both locally and abroad. I am also QR6.34bn and delivered the first Wheels to Grease? Reducing approaches.” business plan that was launched programmes. proud of Qatari Diar’s employees phase of the Qetaifan Islands. Friction in the Internet Economy”, “The Internet has created an in an internal campaign with the In his keynote speech, H E who thanks to their commitment In the first quarter of 2015, the serves as a follow-up to BCG’s unprecedented environment for slogan of “Let’s Make the Next 5 Ali Sherif Al Emadi highlighted and dedication have contributed company obtained licenses for previous report The Connected businesses to grow and flour- Years Count” continued this year Qatari Diar’s achievements and to our success beyond expecta- the development of 69 buildings World: Greasing the Wheels of ish, thanks to its permission- under the title “Let’s Work 4 it!” praised employees for their tions and I am confident that our within Lusail City. the Internet Economy. The BCG less innovation, which makes it The meeting offered staff contribution to the company’s company will continue to excel.” THE PENINSULA e-Friction Index – introduced possible for everyone to explore in last year’s study – then used the untapped opportunities of those indicators to rank 65 econo- today’s digital economy,” said mies according to four types of Baher Esmat, Vice President e-friction: infrastructure-related Stakeholder Engagement, Middle frictions; industry and individual East of the Internet Corporation Yousuf Al Jaida is QFC Authority’s new CEO frictions and information frictions. for Assigned Names and Numbers The new research expands on that (ICANN), which commissioned and outlines how economies can the 2014 report and the update. DOHA: The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) non-financial sector firms licensed and 30 per- move up the e-friction ladder. “Countries in the Middle East Authority has announced the appoint- cent of firms are now Qatari entities. The 2015 BCG e-Friction Index have the potential to grow their ment of Yousuf Al-Jaida as Chief Executive “Over the last year we have grown consid- highlights that Qatar is a leader digital economy, and this report Officer, effective from July 1, 2015 as the erably and in response to the needs of the in the MENA region with a truly by BCG demonstrates how the organisation continues to progress its mis- national economy have broadened our plat- advanced and productive Internet UAE and Qatar are tapping into sion of developing Qatar’s private sector. form to welcome local and international non- economy. On a global level, Qatar this potential and leading the way Announcing the appointment, Ali Shareef financial service firms. I am honoured and is ranked 23rd in the Index for growth.” Al Emadi, Minister of Finance and Chairman delighted to accept the position of CEO. We — ahead of a number of strong BCG’s research emphasizes the of the QFC Authority, said: “Yousuf Al-Jaida will continue to work to facilitate the success emerging economies. fact that wealth is a cause, not has been instrumental in the last year in driv- of our firms and contribute to the development “In Qatar, consumers and busi- a determinant of e-friction. For ing forward the QFC’s broadened strategy. I of Qatar’s private sector.” nesses face few restrictions or countries with any given level of firmly believe he will continue this momentum The QFC Authority also announced that constraints on digital activity – GDP, e-friction can vary signifi- and ensure the QFC continues to contribute Sheikh Salman Al Thani has been appointed what we refer to as ‘e-friction,” cantly. For example, Qatar has to Qatar’s economic diversification.” Yousuf Al Jaida (left) and Sheikh Salman Al Thani as Chief Strategic and Business Development said Joerg Hildebrandt, Partner the highest per capita GDP in the Al-Jaida joined the QFC Authority in 2010 Officer, effective immediately. Ali Shareef and Managing Director at BCG world ($146,000) according to the and previously served as its Deputy CEO and increasing success in attracting both local Al Emadi thanked outgoing CEO Shashank Middle East. “The nations that International Monetary Fund, yet Chief Strategic and Business Development and international firms who wish to expand Srivastava for his valuable contribution and are still lagging behind, however, it ranks 23rd on the BCG e-Fric- Officer. He assumes his new role at an excit- their operations within Qatar. QFC has seen years of service to the QFC. both in the GCC and in the rest tion Index. ing time for the organisation, as it enjoys a 25 percent YTD increase in the number of THE PENINSULA of the world, need to imminently THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Total successfully completes full field shutdown PwC forum DOHA: Total has successfully ensure their full integrity. kick-off meetings were held to production and the large number that we have developed with QP, carried out its full field shut- The shutdown also involved tie- ensure efficient contractor person- of personnel involved, we were our contractors and service pro- focuses on down last month. To mark the in and upgrade activities such as nel and equipment management. able to finish the shutdown with- viders has played an important completion of the shutdown of the Produced Water Treatment A detailed preparation process out any incidents throughout the role in the success of this mission. Total’s production facilities in and Crude Oil Desalting (PWT/ ensued, during which work areas entire period of the works and We were able to achieve our tar- threat of offshore Halul, a celebration COD) project and the High for hazards identification were as per the targeted time frame get on time and on budget, and was held, which was attended Integrity Protection System evaluated and mitigation meas- and budget. This is indicative of we succesfully reinstated the pro- by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and (HIPS) project, which integrates ures were determined for different the high level of expertise of our duction facilities to ensure its full cybercrime Total employees. several requests for modification operational options. Various safety employees and contractors on the operational integrity.” With over 350 personnel related to downgraded situations awareness briefings were also car- field, the excellent and continuous Total has had a continuous DOHA: The ‘PwC Fraud involved in the operation, the in Halul. ried out as well as guidance for support from QP, and the thor- presence in Qatar for close to Forum’ held in Doha this week shutdown lasted 14 days and With safety as the highest shutdown specific hazards. ough preparation and significant 80 years, and is the only inter- brought together fraud experts was carried out in Al Khalij field priority, all efforts were made “The success of this shutdown efforts put in.” national oil company active in all and executives from across (Block 6) located 130km off the to effectively safeguard person- is a significant milestone for Pierre Leschi, Vice President branches of Qatar’s oil and gas the Qatar business community coast of Doha. It was an oppor- nel, plant, equipment and the Al Khalij Joint Venture,” said Operations, and Vice President sector. This includes exploration to discuss cybercrime and its tunity to stop all production environment in accordance with Guillaume Chalmin, Managing Al Khalij Asset, also thanked and production, refining and pet- threat to local and international operations for purposes involv- Total’s strict HSE standards and Director of Total E&P Qatar and the team for their commitment rochemicals, and the marketing of economic development. In addi- ing maintenance, inspection and procedures.. Group Representative. “Despite towards a succesful shutdown lubricants. tion to outlining the threat of modification of equipment to Prior to the shutdown, various challenges involving halting saying: “The strong relationship THE PENINSULA cybercrime, the latest solutions to addressing this topical issue were also outlined. Addressing the event |James Tebbs, Leader of PwC Qatar’s Forensic Services Team, said: “The ‘Cyber Threat’ is in no way diminishing, as a matter of HSBC to cut 50,000 jobs fact it’s continuously growing. Sophisticated and targeted cyber- attacks on businesses area real Job cuts to come from sale of Brazil, Turkey businesses danger. It is no longer a case of focusing on protecting the perim- HONG KONG/LONDON: another prolonged period of divi- more automation and con- eter IT infrastructure only, most HSBC pledged a new era of dend growth for the firm,” he said. solidating IT and back office attacks these days can easily higher dividends yesterday, lay- The bank’s dividend had grown operations, and the bank said bypass the perimeter defences ing out plans to slash nearly for 17 years from 1991 to 2008. it would close 12 percent of and can create havoc in a com- one in five jobs and shrink its European rivals includ- branches in its seven biggest pany’s internal infrastructure.” investment bank by a third to ing Barclays, RBS, UBS and markets. It has 5,800 branches According to PwC’s latest combat sluggish growth across Deutsche Bank have axed thou- globally. Middle East Economic Crime its sprawling empire. sands of jobs, but many are fac- Gulliver said about 7,000-8,000 Survey, Cybercrime was the sec- Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver ing fresh calls for more radical job cuts would be in Britain, or ond most commonly reported has made it his mission to boost cuts in investment banking given one in six UK staff. The UK retail cause of fraud, accounting for 37 profits since taking the helm of tough operating conditions. banking business would also be percent of reported cases. Europe’s largest bank by assets Some investors and analysts rebranded. Mohamad Al Bustami from in 2011 but his efforts have so far reckon HSBC should consider The bank also set out 11 crite- PwC’s Cyber Detection & Response been foiled by high compliance breaking up, on the grounds that ria for helping it decide whether practice in the Middle East said: costs, fines and low interest rates. extra compliance and regulatory to move its headquarters from “Businesses can take a pro-active, In the bank’s second big over- costs outweigh the benefits of London to Asia, likely Hong rather than reactive approach to haul since the financial crisis, it scale. But Gulliver defended the Kong, including factors such as incidents and breaches and look to will speed up a cull of unprofit- bank’s global footprint and uni- economic growth, tax systems and create more defences, leveraging able units and countries by cut- versal strategy. long-term stability. Cyber threat intelligence capa- ting almost 50,000 jobs — half of “The answer isn’t the network HSBC said it would complete bilities. Today’s forum was a key them from selling businesses in should be broken up, the issue the review of the possible move opportunity to discuss the threats Brazil and Turkey. is there are four or five coun- by the end of the year. The sale of and the solutions.” The bank also planned to tries that are a major problem,” businesses in Brazil and Turkey, The PwC Fraud Forum is a plat- increase its business in Asia, par- Gulliver said. He cited Brazil, where HSBC is the sixth and 12th form through which attendees can ticularly in China. HSBC will cut Turkey, Mexico, the United biggest bank respectively, will cut share knowledge and participate its assets by a quarter, or $290bn States and Britain as countries $110bn of risk-weighted assets. in research to help prevent, detect on a risk adjusted basis (RWA), where weak performance or HSBC could fetch more than $4 and investigate fraud and economic by 2017, and slice $140bn from high conduct costs and fines had billion for the pair. Gulliver said crime in all its forms. Participants its investment bank, which will destroyed value. the sales showed there were “no receive technical updates on fraud subsequently make up less than He estimated the bank achieved sacred cows”. Overall, HSBC will prevention and detection issues a third of HSBC’s balance sheet $34bn of revenue benefits from its push through annual cost savings as well as having the opportunity from 40 percent now. size and diversity, including $22bn of up to $5bn by 2017. It will cost to meet periodically with other Gulliver also pledged higher of client revenue stemming from up to $4.5bn in the next three Businessmen walk past ATM cashpoints outside a HSBC bank branch in PwC Fraud Forum members to payouts for investors. “I believe its international network. years to achieve the savings. London yesterday. exchange knowledge, ideas and that we are in the foothills of Jobs will be cut by introducing REUTERS experiences. THE PENINSULA European stock markets slide

LONDON: Europe’s main stock European Union as it struggles a fall in Chinese consumer price markets retreated yesterday as to secure a deal to release $8.1bn inflation to 1.2 percent in May investors tracked the latest news of remaining bailout funds with a from 1.5 percent in April, the flow on stalled Greek debt talks, huge debt repayments to the IMF latest signal of weakness in the while HSBC bank slid on revela- due at the end of the month. The world’s second biggest economy. tions of a radical overhaul. euro slipped to $1.1284 from $1.1293 Shanghai closed down 0.36 per- Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index late on Monday in New York. cent and Hong Kong lost 1.20 dropped 0.58 percent to close at Meanwhile, Turkey’s markets percent in value. Tokyo tumbled 11,001.29 points and the CAC 40 were calmer yesterday follow- 1.76 percent and Sydney dropped in Paris reversed 0.15 percent to ing a tumultuous first day of 0.49 percent. 4,850.22 points. London’s bench- trading after President Recep US stocks were mixed on wor- mark FTSE 100 slid 0.53 percent Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and ries about a potential Greek to end the day at 6,753.8 points. Development Party (AKP) lost its default and poor Chinese growth. Shares in bank giant HSBC parliamentary majority in week- The Dow Jones Industrial slumped 0.94 percent to close at end elections, ushering in a new Average rose 0.10 percent to 613.70 pence in London, as inves- period of uncertainty. Turkey’s 17,783.80 points in mid-day trade tors also digested drastic job cuts main stock index added 0.44 per- in New York. The broad-based aimed at saving up to $5bn in cent, rebounding slightly after S&P 500 added 0.16 percent to annual costs by late 2017. losing 5 percent on Monday. 2,082.60, while the tech-rich Athens, meanwhile, submit- Asian equity markets fell, with Nasdaq Composite Index slid 0.19 ted new reform proposals to the Shanghai and Hong Kong hit by percent to 5,012.28. AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Airline body Qatar bourse proposes perfect-size index gains carry-on bag MIAMI BEACH: The perfect- sized bag was proposed yes- terday by the world’s largest airline association, as it aims 40.42 points to resolve how to squeeze eve- ryone’s carry-on luggage onto a crowded plane. Most Gulf markets rise The rolling suitcase would be small enough to allow every DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) surged by its daily 15 percent passenger on a flight of 120 peo- index gained 40.42 points or 0.34 limit for the fifth straight session, ple or more to fit one bag in percent when the bourse closed extending to 99 percent its gains the overhead space near their yesterday at 11,943.50 points since trading in the issue resumed seat, said Tom Windmuller, the compared to 11,903.08 points on a week ago after a six-year sus- International Air Transport Monday. The market capitali- pension. This means Amlak has Association (IATA) senior vice sation increased to QR636.8bn now caught up with Dubai’s index, president for airport, passenger, compared with QR634.2bn on which doubled while the stock cargo and security. Monday. was suspended. Windmuller said when he com- The trading value increased After Amlak hit the limit, buy- pared it to his own bags, he found to QR203.27m compared with ers switched to other stocks such it was smaller than his personal QR161.71m on Monday. Indices as builder Arabtec which surged carry-on but bigger than his wife’s. of all sectors ended in the green. 13.5 percent, even though the The precise size is 55 centimetres The consumer goods and services company has made no announce- (21 inches) tall, 35 centimetres sector index gained the most, up ments. Most other stocks also Officials with the award. (13.5 inches) wide and 20 centi- 1.42 percent to 7,374.24 points. rose. Abu Dhabi’s bourse edged up metres (7.5 inches) deep. Many Investors traded shares of 42 0.4 percent in another broad rally. airlines have different size require- of the 43 QE-listed companies Egypt’s market inched down 0.1 ments for carry-ons, which can yesterday. Of these, shares of 24 percent amid a mixed perform- Commercial Bank wins award lead to confusion, said Windmuller. firms gained, 12 declined and six ance by local stocks. Orascom “This is a nuisance for every- remained unchanged. Telecom Media And Technology DOHA: Commercial Bank has help develop the private sector that allow SMEs to focus on their one,” he told reporters, adding Industries Qatar, whose petro- was one of the biggest losers, announced that it has won the for the benefit of both the com- core business.” that the sizing bins many airlines chemicals business is set to ben- dropping 2.1 percent after the prestigious “Best Commercial panies concerned and for our Dean Proctor, Commercial place near the gates are “ridic- efit from firmer oil prices, was the firm said it was delaying the pub- (SME) Bank of the Year, Qatar” beloved nation. As Qatar’s first Bank EGM, Chief Consumer & ulous.” So the IATA consulted main support for the index, rising lication of first-quarter results award from The International private bank established 40 years Private Banking, said: “It’s vital with Boeing and Airbus to come 0.7 percent. because it was still in negotiations Banker, a highly respected pub- ago on the principles of ambition, that SMEs across the country up with the optimum size. Then Meanwhile, most Gulf stock on the repatriation of profit from lication based in the UK. entrepreneurship and innovation, know that Commercial Bank is they began talking with baggage markets rose after oil prices its North Korean business. Commercial Bank was nomi- Commercial Bank has developed there to support them. Business manufacturers to urge them to rebounded, but Saudi Arabia fell nated for the award by the publi- a deep understanding of the SME ownership and management is start making bags that fit the ahead of a key announcement HIGHLIGHTS cation’s subscribers and judged to market in Qatar and their specific a demanding and often complex parameters. from index compiler MSCI. SAUDI ARABIA: The index fell be the best bank in Qatar for small business needs.” task having to cover multiple Windmuller said he expected the Brent crude gained more than 2 0.4 percent to 9,491 points. to medium-sized enterprises. Al Raisi continued: “Commercial areas such as financial manage- bags to be widely available by the percent and traded above $64 per DUBAI: The index jumped 2.4 Commercial Bank CEO Abdulla Bank is the SMEs bank of choice ment, procurement, manufac- end of the year. Those that fit the barrel as higher seasonal demand percent to 4,114 points. Saleh Al Raisi said: “The Qatar in Qatar and we are delighted to turing/ production, logistics and IATA size specifications would be in developed economies and ABU DHABI: The index edged National Vision 2030 identifies receive this award that recog- personnel management. marked with a tag, or a label, that expectations of falling US shale up 0.4 percent to 4,584 points. SMEs as a key constituent for nises the range of market-leading “We want to be the bank of says “IATA Cabin OK.” However, production reduced the impact EGYPT: The index lost 0.1 per- sustainable economic develop- products and services we provide choice for SMEs and to assist the this label will only be available on of a large global supply overhang. cent to 8,661 points. ment and SMEs are globally SMEs through our specialised business community with their new bags, and not for travelers that But Saudi Arabia’s main index fell KUWAIT: The index climbed recognised as essential driv- department: Enterprise Banking. business plans. We are proud to may already have an ideally sized 0.4 percent to 9,491 points as most 0.3 percent to 6,291 points. ers for economic diversification, Enterprise Banking’s dedicated win this award that reflects and bag in their collection. local stocks declined. OMAN: The index added 0.2 job creation and new sources of team acts as a platform for SMEs confirms the hard work and com- Airlines are not required to Other Gulf markets pared early percent to 6,475 points. innovation. Commercial Bank is to grow and succeed by offering not mitment of the Enterprise Banking sign up for the programme, but losses and ended higher. Dubai’s BAHRAIN: The index rose 0.2 therefore actively committed to only financing, but also education team to make Commercial Bank Windmuller said the response index was the top gainer, jump- percent to 1,368 points. empowering entrepreneurs and and training, advisory services, and the SMEs bank of choice in Qatar.” from airline executives has been ing 2.4 percent. Amlak Finance QNA/REUTERS supporting the needs of SMEs to cloud-based technology solutions THE PENINSULA favourable so far. AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Greece nears bailout deal Iraq slashes oil New reform plan submitted to creditors; PM warns of eurozone collapse output targets BRUSSELS: The EU’s top offi- cial for the euro said yesterday that Greece and its creditors LONDON: Iraq yesterday a half years. To achieve a target could be just days from reaching again reduced its ambitious oil of 9m b/d would need more than a bailout deal as Prime Minister output growth targets, saying $100bn of investment over the Alexis Tsipras warned that fail- it would raise production by next four to five years.” ure could sink the eurozone. almost 60 percent by 2020 at LukoIl operates the West Cash-strapped Greece submit- best in an indication Opecc’s Qurna Two field in Iraq, which ted new proposals yesterday to second-largest producer was currently produces around end a standoff with the EU and bringing its aspirations in line 402,000 b/d. Baghdad has asked IMF, which have demanded tough with lower oil prices. oil majors such as Lukoil, BP, reforms in exchange for giving Baghdad has previously prom- Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil Athens the final ¤7.2bn ($8.1bn) ised to more than triple output to and Eni to revise development of its bailout funds. become the world’s top producer plans by considering postponing The international rescue pack- with 12m barrels per day (b/d) of new projects and delaying already age expires at the end of the production capacity after signing committed investments. month, and Athens desperately contracts with global oil majors at That could lead to slower pro- needs the cash to avoid a default the turn of the decade. duction growth, oil executives say. and a possible messy exit from It has since managed to boost Oil prices have almost halved from Europe’s 19-country single cur- its production and exports to $115 a barrel a year ago on ample rency area. record high levels, overtak- global supplies. Alamri said prices “I would say that reaching the ing Iran as Opec’s traditionally were not expected to return to agreement within coming days second-largest producer behind similar levels any time soon. is possible,” Valdis Dombrovskis, Saudi Arabia. “It seems that the price will the EU vice president for the euro But Iraq has also repeatedly maintain its current trend between told reporters. But he urged the revised the target due to delayed $50 to $70 a barrel for at least the Greeks to show “less tactical investments, red tape, infra- next two years unless there is a manoeuvering and more work on structure bottlenecks and a fight drastic cut in oil production, par- substance” to seal a deal. against Islamist militants. ticularly shale oil, or due to a sud- European sources said Greece Yesterday, Falah Alamri, head den disruption in the oil supply due was still refusing budget targets Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at his party headquarters in Athens yesterday. of Iraq’s State Oil Marketing to geopolitical events,” said Alamri. that the European Union and the Organisation (Somo), told an Iraq’s overall future produc- IMF see as sacrosanct. “absurd proposal”. of Greece’s creditors. economy back on track,” Dutch industry conference in London tion will depend on how oil majors Radical leftist leader Tsipras Juncker told fellow European He urged his party during a finance minister Dijsselbloem said the country was now aspiring to develop fields in the south and has requested a meeting with commissioners that a new Tsipras closed door meeting on Tuesday in a weekly radio address. produce 5.5-6m b/d by 2020, up how quickly Iraq’s semi-autono- German Chancellor Angela meeting would be a “waste to “back the efforts of the govern- Last week Greece bundled up a from the current 3.8m b/d and mous Kurdish region ramps up Merkel and French President of time” and that it would be ment”, saying that they were at the ¤300m payment to the US-based down from the previously target output in the north. Francois Hollande on the side- “better to meet with the Latin most “crucial and substantial point IMF until the end of June, when a of 8.4-9m b/d. Baghdad and Arbil have repeat- lines of an EU-Latin American Americans”, an EU source said. in the negotiations”, according to total of ¤1.6bn will be due, making The lower production target edly clashed since signing a new summit today to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile in Athens, Tsipras the semi-official Ana news agency. it the first country since Zambia follows a slump in crude oil prices oil supply deal in December with But a huge gulf remains issued a dire warning that the fate Any agreement will still require in the 1980s to choose that option. that has slashed government rev- the Kurdish regional government between creditors and the Greek of the eurozone, the central plank the approval of the eurozone’s Sources said the new Greek enues and forced Baghdad to rene- saying Baghdad is not paying up, government, which came to power of a European project formed in finance ministers, the Eurogroup, offer also included a bid by Athens gotiate contracts with oil majors. and the federal government say- in January on the back of prom- the ashes of World War II, was at who have grown impatient with the to delay huge repayments due to Oil executives from foreign compa- ing the Kurds are not pumping ises to end five years of painful stake if the negotiations fail. unwillingness of leftist-led Athens the ECB this summer by trans- nies working in Iraq and attending the agreed volumes. austerity measures resulting from “I think that is evident. It would to deliver on reforms for cash. ferring that debt to the ESM, the the conference welcomed the move. Just days before the confer- bailout programmes. be the beginning of the end for the Eurogroup head Jeroen crisis-fighting liquidity fund con- “I was pleasantly surprised... ence, the deal had appeared to European Commission chief eurozone,” Tsipras told the Italian Dijsselbloem warned Greece trolled by European governments. We believe it is a more realistic unravel as Arbil stopped trans- Jean-Claude Juncker is unlikely newspaper Corriere della Sera. against any undue optimism with Greece and its creditors were target,” said Gati Al Jebouri , ferring oil to SOMO’s tanks in the to be present at today’s meeting, Yet Tsipras is also facing huge so much still left to be negotiated. debating a possible extension of senior vice president from Lukoil Turkish port of Ceyhan. But flows after his own head-to-head with pressure at home from the hard- “It underestimates the com- its current eurozone bailout pro- Overseas. “In any case, to main- resumed several days later and Tsipras last week in Brussels dis- line wing of his own Syriza party, plexity of what is being required gramme until March 2016, when tain the current level of produc- the two sides have blamed techni- astrously ended with the Greek which has vowed to resist any from them, to bring the (Greek) the IMF portion of its bailout tion a minimum of $10bn needs to cal difficulties for the delays. premier dismissing Juncker’s attempt to bow to the demands budget back in line and get the expires, sources said. AFP be invested over the next four and REUTERS

US job openings Qatargas commits to national development surge to record

DOHA: Qatargas recently held its 14th Annual CEO Forum high in April for National Graduates and WASHINGTON: US job open- Trainees. The CEO Forum is ings surged to a record high in an annual event during which April and small business confi- nationals who are part of dence increased in May, signs Qatargas’ training and devel- that the economy was regaining opment programme meet with momentum after stumbling at the Chief Executive Officer the start of the year. and participate in discussions The second-quarter economic regarding their individual outlook also got a boost from development and the company’s other data on Tuesday showing a Qatarisation programme. solid rise in wholesale inventories Held under the theme in April, as stabilising oil prices “Commitment to National helped lift sales by the most in Development”, the event, facili- more than a year. tated by the company’s Learning The Labour Department said and Development Department, job openings increased to 5.4 mil- was split into two sessions, one lion in April, the highest since the for graduates and the other for series began in December 2000, trainees. from 5.1 million in March. Qatargas’ Chief Executive The economy contracted in the Officer, Khalid bin Khalifa Al Participants posing for a group picture at Qatargas’ 14th Annual CEO Forum for National Graduates and Trainees. first quarter and growth got off to Thani hosted both events and a slow start in the second quar- engaged with the young nation- CEO also took the opportunity to Review and Approval Processes performance indicator, was the Al Harami, Human Resources ter, in part because of the linger- als. Addressing the nationals, the wish the young nationals all the were redesigned to ensure standardisation of the IDP for all Manager and Nasser Yahia Al ing effects of a strong dollar and CEO urged them to take owner- best in their career journeys. improved process efficiency. Also, target positions for graduates. Naimi shared their success stories spending cuts in the energy sec- ship of their own development A major achievement, in an an “Intuitive User Interface” was The forum also had motivational with the participants. tor. But a surge in job growth and and career path. He encouraged effort to support national gradu- introduced to optimise flexibility speeches by Qatari nationals who At the end of the forum, the automobile sales as well as gains them to develop their skills and ates throughout their Individual and user experience for building have excelled in their careers and CEO presented awards to the best in May factory activity suggest take advantage of the opportu- Development Programme (IDP), the IDP and its Progress Reviews. progressed to key positions in the graduates and trainees for their the economy is strengthening. nities provided to them in order was the enhancement of the IDP Another initiative rolled out company after completing their outstanding performance in 2014. In a separate report, to progress in their careers. The Workflow System. The Workflow this year as a corporate key development programmes. Reem THE PENINSULA the National Federation of Independent Business said its Small Business Optimism Index rose 1.4 points to 98.3 in May, the highest reading since December. In another report, the QDB organises workshop for SMEs Commerce Department said wholesale inventories increased 0.4 percent after rising 0.2 per- DOHA: QDB concluded its work- the bank’s commitment in sup- special reputation in a competi- cent in March. Inventories are shop titled “Uniform Customs porting and assisting the devel- tive trade atmosphere, and QDB a key component of gross domes- Procedures for Documentary opment of Qatari companies by has been always at the forefront tic product changes. The com- Credits Workshop” (UCPDC), providing export credit guar- position when it comes to sup- ponent of wholesale inventories to identify best practices in antees and financial solutions porting SMEs and the private that goes into the calculation of management of international designed to mitigate risk for sector in general,” he added. GDP — wholesale stocks exclud- commercial and enhance the exporters. QDB’s export arm, Tasdeer, ing autos — rose 0.2 percent, sug- businesses productivity. “This workshop embodies our was created to develop and pro- gesting inventories will probably The workshop was presented commitment to identify and mote Qatari businesses, provid- be a modest boost to growth in by Vincent O’Brien, Chair, ICC strengthen the knowledge of the ing export credit guarantees and the second quarter. Banking Commission, Market requirements of export documen- financial solutions designed to Sales at wholesalers surged 1.6 Intelligence Group (MIG) and tary credits according to inter- mitigate risk for exporters. percent in April, the largest rise saw in attendance professionals national standards and practices. The bank also provides consult- since March of last year. Sales from the finance community as We aim at providing Qatari com- ing services in to help entrepre- had been weak since last August, well as those interested in the panies with financial solutions, neurs develop their businesses. in part due to the negative impact export sector and the wider busi- credit insurance and advisory This includes feasibility studies, of lower oil prices on the value of ness community. services, which will contribute market research and other serv- petroleum goods sales. That had The event, which was held at to boosting their export capabili- ices that help SMEs in Qatar led to an accumulation of inven- the W Hotel Doha, saw the par- ties,” said Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al build the right skills and grow tory, leaving wholesalers with little ticipation of 150 SMEs. Khalifa, CEO of QDB. their businesses. appetite to buy more merchandise. Vincent O’Brien conducting the workshop. The workshop underscores “Qatari Exports have earned a THE PENINSULA REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Finance has caught on to Greece will never fully behavioural economics BY NOAH SMITH

lot of ink has been spilled (some of it by yours truly) repay its bailout loans about behavioral economics on the occasion of of Richard Thaler’s new book, “Misbehaving.” The debates echo oth- A ers that have been reverberating through the halls of BY ANDREW FARLOW the result of the design faults of Germany, the UK, the eurozone, over 50% youth unemployment academia since the 1980s. In general, behavioral economics has the euro. and others, got their own banks do to the growth and tax-raising failed to penetrate the field of macroeconomics. University of t is surely clear to all sides After joining the single cur- indirectly bailed out through a prospects of an economy). It has Michigan macroeconomist Christopher House -- typically a staunch by now – if rarely admitted rency, Greece was flooded with loan-based “bailout” of Greece, generated even higher ratios of defender of the status quo in the field -- wrote last year that behav- – that Greece will never super-cheap credit. Germany’s dumping the problems onto the sovereign debt to GDP. ioral econ was a “fad” and has been largely a failure. fully repay its bailout loans. balance of payments surpluses ECB and the IMF, as a gigantic At first, the German people But while macro has resisted behaviorism, finance has accepted The current approach ballooned from about €50bn IOU for the people of Greece. welcomed the artificial upside the new ideas without even breaking stride. Behavioral finance Irequires Greece to run a large when the euro was launched, A temporary increase in gov- of the euro, and passed the sys- chugs along mostly undisturbed. and protracted budget surplus to about €200bn in 2007, and ernment deficits in a depression temic risk consequences on to Part of the reason is a difference in definitions. To most econo- to satisfy its creditors’ demands. these were recycled by enthu- is entirely natural. For Greece, countries such as Greece. Now, mists, behavioral economics means using findings from psychology This will force it to drain itself siastic banks as huge capital locked within the euro, such an as the prospects for Greece to modify models of individual behavior. But behavioral finance has of demand for a generation or flows to the periphery of Europe. increase heightened the risk of worsen and the euro becomes come to have a much more expansive meaning, basically encom- more to transfer to other coun- Germany built up a huge stock of default, which pushed Greek more depressed, Germany’s passing anything that doesn’t conform to the Efficient Markets tries huge amounts of what the claims against countries such as borrowing costs higher, which exports receive a boost, and Hypothesis (which says that you can only earn market-beating Greek people produce. Greece, on which it was bound to made the ratio of its government Germans become even less returns by taking on extra risk). History and economic prin- lose one day. The only unknowns debt to GDP rise even further. sympathetic.. That’s a lot more general. Showing that standard finance theory ciples teach us that trying to were the timing and how messy Preventing such destructive The stark reality is that fails is a lot easier than showing that psychology is the reason it enforce such reparations-style things would get. feedback-loops needed a mecha- Greece’s creditors must choose fails. For example, take Robert Shiller’s famous finding that stock logic on a heavily damaged econ- When all those capital flows nism for fiscal transfers within between two unpalatable sce- prices fluctuate more than fundamentals would seem to warrant. omy will only serve to destroy it went into reverse, Greece, the eurozone towards member narios. One is that Greece will That finding -- which won the Yale economist a Nobel prize -- is and harm the intended recipi- because of the euro, could no states facing big negative shocks leave the euro and default on its regularly referred to as a triumph of behavioral finance. ents too. It is time to end the longer print its own money, nor or taking on the financial bur- euro-denominated debt, its cred- But Shiller didn’t discover why prices bounce around too much. pretence, and for Greek sover- devalue its currency to boost dens of their banks. itors will not get repaid anyway, There could be a bunch of reasons. Many of those reasons are eign debt write-downs to become its exports, nor cut its interest Instead, Greece has been and costly speculative pressures related to psychology, but Shiller didn’t have to come up with a the central carrot for motivat- rates, nor launch its own policy made to devalue internally. will mount on Portugal, Spain specific psychological theory or experiment before his finding was ing growth-enhancing reforms of quantitative easing, nor gen- However, starving the coun- and Italy, while Greece itself will labeled “behavioral.” Basically, anything that pokes holes in the in Greece. erate higher inflation to reduce try of domestic demand, and become more unstable politically standard theories offered by Eugene Fama, usually credited as the For sure, Greece was at fault the real value of its debt. introducing massive economic and economically. The alterna- father of EMH, gets the behavioral moniker. Thaler’s finding that in joining the euro with the ratio Many other countries shifted uncertainty, has only served to tive is that Greece will stay, and stock prices overreact and reverse themselves is also called “behav- of its sovereign debt to its GDP the burdens of their failed banks depress both public and private its creditors will have to allow ioral,” even though it isn’t yet known whether the reversal is the at over 100%, but its punishment on to their governments’ balance sector investment there. It has some further write-down on result of human psychology or some quirk of the financial system. is way beyond anything justified sheets. In Greece, this would devastated huge swaths of pro- Greek debt. The latter scenario That’s not to say that specific psychological theories haven’t by this. Indeed, perhaps half the have increased the dangers ductive human capital (think of is surely the less painful. seen success in the finance field. For example, take this 2013 paper debt burden of Greece today is of a sovereign default, and so what 25% unemployment and THE GUARDIAN by Kelly Shue and Stefano Giglio of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Entitled “No News is News: Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?,” the paper uses the psychological idea of inattention to predict anomalous price movements in companies that are the target of takeover bids. This idea is pretty cool, so let me explain how it works. When a company declares its intent to buy another company, there is a period of time before the deal is either finalized or dropped. If the deal is finalized, the target company’s stock price will rise; if it’s dropped, the price will fall. So knowing whether the deal will be finalized or dropped would be very useful for investors. But here’s the thing -- the probability that the merger will be successful doesn’t just remain unchanged after the announcement. Deals tend to fall through either very quickly or after a very long period of time. This is the same with job interview callbacks – you tend to either get turned down very quickly, or simply forgotten. So the price of takeover targets should rise for a while after the deal is announced, then fall. No news, in this case, really is news. Shue and Giglio, however, know that humans tend to be inat- tentive. When nothing seems to be happening, people tend to pay attention to other events where there is more visible action. So Shue and Giglio hypothesized that investors would ignore the pas- sage of time when pricing merger targets. The price ought to rise and fall as time passes following the merger announcement, but Shue and Giglio predicted that it would be almost changed. They were right. Prices of merger targets move much less with the passage of time than they ought to. This represents a buying opportunity for astute investors. Shue and Giglio calculate the potential returns to an investor who takes advantage of this mis- pricing, and find them to be fairly substantial. This is a victory for behavioral finance. It isn’t a world- shatter- ing, smashing victory -- it’ a small, solid, interesting victory. And in finance, that’s enough. Macroeconomists are usually seeking a grand theory of everything, but finance researchers are just inter- ested in finding things that work. If a technique from physics helps price options, use it. If a machine learning an algorithm allows you to predict prices better, use it. If an insight from psychology helps you make a few extra bucks, by all means, use it! Where economics is philosophical, finance is pragmatic. And behaviorism is just another tool in the toolbox. The list of behavioral finance successes is long. No introductory finance course would be complete without them. In addition to identifying anomalies in prices, behavioral finance has found that individual investors -- i.e., you and I -- suffer from a large number of biases, and that their wealth suffers as a result. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Investors do not leap at Mexican energy projects

BY JESSICA TOONKEL and billion have been announced, jump dramatically, he said. months. Pension funds may not and local opponents can block by Spanish companies Enagas CHRISTINE MURRAY according to Pitchbook, a Seattle- Mexico’s state-owned oil behe- be far behind. Canada’s second- projects. and Elecnor is two years behind based research firm. Though moth Pemex expects total invest- largest pension fund Caisse de In March, Macquarie Group’s schedule due to trouble getting lmost a year after the money tap could eventually ment of $76.4 billion in exploration depot et placement du Québec is Mexico Infrastructure Fund rights of way from the owners of Mexico opened its open, given the promise afforded and production as a result of creating a fund to jointly invest up said in a filing that there was the 2,000 small plots of land the energy market to pri- by Mexican natural gas, oil and the reform, a spokesperson said. to $3 billion in energy a “substantial uncertainty” pipeline will pass through. It has Avate investors, North renewable energy projects, some “The process of implementation is infrastructure with local pen- over whether it would recoup been hard to even find the owners American firms are rushing south of the reluctance to ink deals advancing satisfactorily and with sion funds, according to a stock its investment of more than 1.1 of those plots, some just 1 square to decide which pipeline or may be laid to the peculiar risks it the investment will material- exchange filing. billion meter in size, but since getting power plant to invest in. of doing infrastructure- related ize, as well as the job creation,” The firm also is opening an pesos ($71.31 million) due to the permissions, construction has Enthusiasm is so high that some business in Mexico. a spokesperson for the Energy office in Mexico, spokesman opposition groups blocking access run on time, an Enagas spokes- executives from big asset man- Government bureaucracy, Ministry said. Maxime Chagnon said. Both to its Marena Renovables wind woman said. Recently passed laws agers, pension funds and private crime, challenging property rules the California State Teachers’ farm in Oaxaca. should make it easier to handle equity firms complain of over- and local opposition have delayed EARLY ENTHUSIASM Retirement System, the second Companies are required to get such disputes but they have not booked hotels in certain parts of some projects and raised their The energy reform ended the largest U.S. public pension plan, right-of-way permissions from yet been tested, said Marisol Mexico City and business-class costs, investors told Reuters. decades-long production monop- and the Canada Pension Plan every landowner whose property Gonzalez de Cosio, a director at airplane cabins crowded with “There is a lot of interest but I oly enjoyed by Pemex and the Investment Board, the country’s might be touched by a new pipe- Standard & Poor’s. pitchbook-reading competitors. agree there have not been that wholesale electricity monopoly largest pension fund, are looking line. In some parts of Mexico, this Security and corruption issues So far, the potential investors many actual deals announced,” held by utility CFE. “We think it’s to invest in Mexico as a result of can involve hundreds of farmers, also give investors pause. Texas- are mainly looking, not buying, said Alfredo Alvarez, a partner a great opportunity for investors.” the reform, officials told Reuters. each owning small plots of land. based energy firm Key Energy with actual investments in exi- for Ernst & Young, which advises said Larry Fink, chief executive “I normally don’t sleep until we Services Inc. took a $2.2 million can energy projects coming in investors on Mexico energy infra- officer of BlackRock, in an April PERMITS BEFORE have 95 percent of the charge in the first-quarter for more slowly than some expected. structure deals in Mexico City. interview with Reuters. “We are a PIPELINES rights,” said Javier Chavarria, assets destroyed after an arson The Mexican Energy Ministry “They are coming.” Mexican gov- big believer in Mexico, in the wake For the right deal, the payoff senior vice president for pri- attack on a facility in Tabasco has predicted $62.5 billion in ernment and regulatory agencies of the reforms.” can be sweet. A project like a vate infrastructure Americas at state. A spokesman for Key both public and private invest- are still writing the rules and staff- In addition to BlackRock, pri- natural gas pipeline can pay out Partners Group, speaking in May Energy Services referred to the ments over three years from the ing to handle the reform, Alvarez vate equity firms KKR and First 9 percent to 12 percent in income in New York. “It only takes one company’s public statements. new rogram, which was signed said. Once the tender offers begin Reserve and Swiss-based pri- for decades. But getting those landowner” to stall a Problems likes these have caused into law last August. for oil exploration projects, hich vate equity firm Partners Group projects built can be a challenge. project. investors including CalSTRs to Since then, only five private typically require more than $1 have announced investments in Environmental permits can The $250 million, 172-kilom- move cautiously. equity deals worth a total of $2 billion, the total value of deals will Mexican energy projects in recent take months instead of weeks, eter Morelos pipeline being built REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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CLEVELAND: LeBron James is ready to carry the injury-hit Cleveland Cavaliers to a title, having shown his gritty team- mates and the Golden State Warriors that the NBA Finals are far from over. His masterpiece game for the ages of 39 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists powered the Cavaliers to a 95-93 over-time road victory on Sunday, levelling the best-of seven series at 1-1 entering game three in Cleveland. “It’s what needs to be done to help our team win,” James said. “But if that’s what the case has to be to help us win, then I don’t have a choice.” Asked if he could handle the load, James said, “Well, of course. I’m built for it. It’s a maximum of five games left in the NBA season. So I’m ready for whatever.” The Cavaliers lost forward Kevin Love with a separated shoulder in the first round of the playoffs and star guard Kyrie Irving in game one of the finals with a fractured left kneecap, leaving unheralded role players to compete with defensive hus- tle, rebounding and near-super- human efforts from James. And they are opposing this Cleveland Cavaliers’ centre Timofey Mozgov of Russia (right) goes to the basket as Golden State Warriors’ season’s winning and best scor- centre Festus Ezeli of Nigeria defends in the first half of game two of the NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena ing NBA team, a deep Warriors in Oakland, California, USA, in this June 7, 2015 file photo. RIGHT: LeBron James of the Cleveland lineup led by reigning NBA Most Cavaliers confers with the referee before Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors during the game. Valuable Player Steph Curry, a 3-point sharpshooter. “I’m not a high-volume shooter. force. So the guys are taking that looking for us to play sexy, cute shooting 32 percent from the take advantage of it,” Smith said. his first try, but might need more I’ve never been in my career,” very personal.” It’s Australian basketball, then that’s not us field, it’s just a testament of how “In spite of it all, without Kevin astonishing efforts to succeed. James said. Matthew Dellavedova filling in for right now. Everything is tough. gritty we can be,” James said. and Kyrie, we can still get it “You never put limits on a guy “But things have changed on Irving and shutting down Curry We’re going to come in with an “It has to be that for the rest of done.” like that,” Thompson said. our team where the shots that defensively. aggressive mindset defensively the series, no matter how many While James evoked memories “He has been exceeding expec- Kevin and Kyrie would have has It’s 17 points and 11 rebounds and offensively.” games it takes.” of Michael Jordan in his heyday, tations since he was 16. When you now been placed on myself and from Russian big man Timofey Cleveland shot only 32.6 per- The win bolstered the Cavs’ even Jordan never faced such a say he can’t do more, he always the rest of the guys as well. Mozgov, 14 rebounds from Tristan cent in game two but won by out- confidence they can win the title rival without key helpers. proves you wrong.” “All we can do is go out and Thompson and timely shotmaking rebounding the Warriors 55-45, without two of the stars who James returned to his home- He’s out to foil the naysayers play hard. We’re undermanned. by JR Smith and James Jones – forcing 18 turnovers and taking helped them reach the finals. town Cavs from Miami last July again. I don’t know any other team in often aided by spectacular passes control of the game’s tempo, often Cleveland can do so with three after four consecutive finals trips, “One thing we can’t allow is this league that would be able to from James. allowing the shot clock to expire wins at home, where the team has determined to bring Cleveland it’s what everyone is saying about us do that, to be without two All- “It’s the grit squad that we while working for just the right won 26 of its past 28 starts. first US sports champion since affect what we do, because that’s Stars on their team and compete have,” James said. shot. “We have the home-court the 1964 NFL Browns. just smoke and mirrors,” James the way we compete and be a “It’s not cute at all. If you’re “For us to win a Finals game advantage now and we have to James is only three wins shy on said. AFP Lightning rally past Hawks to Blue Jays down Marlins; Reds overcome Phillies grab Stanley Cup finals lead NEW YORK: Right-hander Royals 3, Twins 1 Marco Estrada pitched seven Kansas City got just enough innings, designated hitter Josh early offense and six shutout CHICAGO: Cedric Paquette Donaldson had a homer and innings from starter Jason Vargas scored the go-ahead goal and three runs batted in and the in a 3-1 win over Minnesota at Ben Bishop made an impressive Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Target Field. return to the net as Tampa Bay Miami Marlins 11-3 Monday for The victory pulled the Royals rallied to beat Chicago 3-2 in their sixth straight win. into a tie for first place with the game three of the Stanley Cup The Blue Jays (29-30) scored Twins in the American League finals. six runs in the first inning against Central race, 3 1/2 games clear Forward Paquette redirected left-hander Brad Hand (1-2), of the third-place Detroit Tigers. a feed from defenceman Victor Tampa Bay who lasted just two-thirds of an Dodgers 9, Diamondbacks 3 Hedman past Chicago Blackhawks Lightning’s inning. Shortstop Jimmy Rollins and goaltender Corey Crawford for players Estrada (3-3) allowed seven right fielder Andre Ethier both the winner with 3:11 remaining in celebrate after hits, no walks and three runs hit three-run homers as the Los the third period as the Lightning a third period while striking out six to win his Angeles Dodgers crushed the seized a 2-1 lead in the best-of- goal against second straight start. Arizona Diamondbacks 9-3. seven series. the Chicago Designated hitter Giancarlo Dodgers’ Mike Bolsinger, who “This was a huge win for us,” Blackhawks Stanton homered for the Marlins the club acquired for cash from Hedman, of Sweden, said. during Game (24-34). the Diamondbacks during the off- “It swung the momentum back Three of the 2015 Reds 6, Phillies 4 season, struck out eight, walked to us and gave us home-ice advan- Ivan De Jesus Jr. hit his first two and allowed 2 runs on three NHL Stanley tage back.” major league home run, a two- hits in 7 innings. AGENCIES Cup final at the Bishop had an impressive per- run shot in the sixth, lifting formance as he finished with 36 United Center Cincinnati to a 6-4 victory over Baseball Results saves on Monday night. Bishop on Monday in Philadelphia in the opener of Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 0 was questionable for the contest Chicago, Illinois. a three-game series at Great after exiting Saturday’s game two American Ball Park. Toronto 11 Miami 3 late in the third with an undis- With the score tied 3-3, De San Diego 5 Atlanta 3 closed problem. Jesus, who was promoted from Cincinnati 6 Philadelphia 4 Backup goaltender Andrei Triple-A Louisville on Wednesday, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 1 Vasilevskiy had to enter and fin- launched a 1-1 pitch from Phillies Chicago White Sox 3 Houston 1 ish the game, which the Lightning left-hander Cole Hamels into the Colorado 11 St Louis 3 won 4-3. left-field seats to put Cincinnati LA Dodgers 9 Arizona 3 Tampa Bay Lightning coach ahead to stay. Jon Cooper again declined to reveal the problem that caused the whole season, not just in the was too slow in getting back to his for a loose puck in the crease and American Bishop to leave game play-offs.” own zone which allowed Canadian swatted it past Crawford to even two and said he might be will- Brandon Saad and Brad Paquette to get open for the pass the score. ing to discuss it once the series Richards scored for the from Hedman. Asked if the Palat goal was is over. Blackhawks, who have lost two Goaltender Crawford finished the turning point in the game Blue Jays’ “We will have to wait for when- games in a row for the first time with 29 saves and found himself Crawford replied, “You could say ever this series ends for that. in the 2015 play-offs. out of position and unable to slide that.” pitcher Sorry, sorry,” Cooper said. Hedman did most of the work across the crease to get a piece of Chicago outshot Tampa 38-32 Marco American Ryan Callahan and on the winner as he carried the Paquette’s puck. on the night and controlled the Estrada Czech Ondrej Palat also scored for puck into the Blackhawks’ zone Two goals, one by each team, play for much of the game but delivers a the Lightning, who are now 8-3 on then drew both Chicago defense- just 13 seconds apart in the some sloppy play in their own end pitch against the road in the National Hockey men, Brent Seabrook and Kyle third set the tone in favor of the hurt them. the Miami League postseason. Cumiskey, to him before finding Lightning. The two teams are so evenly Marlins “It is a tough building to win in Paquette open in the slot. Saad scored with just over four matched that Chicago is learn- at Rogers but we weathered the storm and For the second game in a row, minutes gone in the third period ing a few mistakes are ending up Centre on Bishop was huge,” said Tampa Bay a mistake by Chicago forward to put Chicago ahead 2-1 but the deciding each game. Monday. captain Steven Stamkos. Patrick Sharp was partly to blame Blackhawks lacked the killer “Once we tighten up on certain “We have a lot of confidence for the game-winning goal. instinct to put the game away. things in our own end then we can in each other and it is amazing In game two, a bad penalty by The Lightning answered 13 get more offense,” said Chicago to see how guys have stepped up Sharp led to a Tampa power play seconds later at 4:27 when Palat defenceman Duncan Keith while at different times throughout go-ahead goal and on Monday he out battled the Chicago defense giving his views. AFP WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Woods looks to bounce back from career-worst 85

LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods want to be right, but he is right.” August and he needs to improve plans to stop being so stubborn Fourteen-time major winner to 125 or better in order to play in and start listening to his caddie Woods completed four rounds the FedEx play-off events. Tiger more as he tries to recover from at Muirfield Village in dead last “I am finally healthy enough to Woods tees the worst round of his career place at 14-over 302. do it,” Woods said. “My back is off at the over the weekend. He also endured the shame good enough. I am fully commit- first hole Woods has now had back-to- of playing as a single and hav- ted to playing more golf all this during the back poor weekends but his game ing to remove his own flagsticks summer. hit another low on Saturday when while his caddie was busy raking “Now I just need to get my final round he carded a 13-over-par 85 at the bunkers that had swallowed up ranking up high enough so I can of the Memorial Tournament. Woods’s errant approach shots. get into some of these events and Memorial “Joey (LaCava) keeps telling me His best finish this year was continue playing.” Tournament this past week, he kept reminding 17th at The Masters. He has teed Woods started working with at Muirfield me, ‘Man, take it easy on your- it up just five times in the 2015 swing coach Chris Como seven Village self, you haven’t played much season, including a withdrawal months ago and has been try- Golf Club golf,’” Woods told ESPN.com via from the Farmers Insurance Open ing to implement several swing in Dublin, satellite as part of the Quicken in February with back problems. changes to his game. He says it United Loans tournament media day on On Monday, Woods officially will take more time but insists he States in Monday. fell to 181st in the world rankings is headed in the right direction. this June “You never played last year and he is 196th place in FedEx “You just don’t go from one to 7, 2015 file and you haven’t played much this Cup play-off points. 10,” he said. “We are taking it 1, photo. year. Tournament golf takes time. His low world ranking means 2, 3, 4, all the way to 10. “I hate to say it when he’s right, he is not eligible for the WGC- “I got a lot of work ahead of me. because as a player you always Bridgestone Invitational in I’m looking forward to it.” AFP

Indian boxing Team BMC claims time-trial icon to star as cartoon third stage at Dauphine race superhero MUMBAI: India’s five-time world boxing champion and Olympic bronze medallist Mary Nibali’s Astana falls short, BMC’s Dennis becomes new race leader Kom is to star in animated form as the country’s first cartoon girl superhero, the series’ pro- MONTAGNY, France: duction company said yesterday. American world champions The boxer has signed a deal BMC won yesterday’s team with ScreenYug Creations, based time-trial third stage of the in the western Indian state of Criterium du Dauphine, edging Maharashtra, that will see a fic- the riders from rivals Astana in tional childhood version of the the 24.5km ride from Roanne to national hero in “Mary Kom Jr”. Montagny. “She’s between eight and ten Australian BMC rider Rohan years old, and gets powers when Dennis becomes the new race she wears her boxing gloves,” leader and takes the yellow jersey said Ashish Kulkarni, CEO of following a stage similar to that ScreenYug Creations. scheduled for day nine of the Tour “She does lots of good things de France in July. like fighting villains,” Kulkarni “The situation is different in added, saying the television series regards to 2013 when it was an will be aired sometime in 2016. individual time-trial and I finished It is the second time recently second behind Tony Martin,” said that Kom’s life has inspired a Dennis. screen outing after the release “This time, we won. I came to last year of the Indian biopic the Dauphine to help the team “Mary Kom” starring Bollywood but in terms of the overall stand- actress Priyanka Chopra. ings, well I’ve progressed in the Australian BMC rider Rohan Dennis Kom, 32, is one of India’s most mountains and I feel stronger celebrates after he won the team time successful sports stars and won than two years ago. trial and the yellow jersey during the third gold at last year’s Asian Games “Tejay (Van Garderen) is bet- stage of the Dauphine Criterium yesterday, in Incheon, South Korea. ter than me on the climbs but I between Roanne and Montagny. RIGHT: She said the animated series want to help keep the yellow jer- BMC team leader Tejay Van Garderen (right) would focus on educating children sey within the team,” added the about useful self-defence moves, rides with his team-mates during team rider following the stage. according to the Press Trust of time-trial third stage. Defending Tour de France India news agency. champion Vincenzo Nibali and “I want girls to be confident, his Astana team finished just four the 25-year-old Dennis leads paid off,” said Van Garderen. strong,” Kom said in quotes car- seconds back while the Movistar American team-mate Van “The next stage should finish in Criterium du Dauphine Results ried by PTI. team led by Spaniard Alejandro Garderen, with both riders having a sprint and after there are the Stage “Parents are usually not keen Valverde were at 5sec. the same time, while Ukrainian mountains. It’s a big challenge but 1. BMC 29min 58sec, 2. Astana at 04sec, 3. Movistar 05, 4. Etixx 18, 5. Orica 23, 6. Sky 35, 7. on fighting games... but with all British team Sky and their Andriy Grivko is third and Nibali I feel ready,” he added. Cannondale 43, 8. Lampre 47, 9. IAM 50, 10. Lotto NL 54, 11. Bora 54, 12. Lotto 59, 13. AG2R La the crime going around, their eyes leader Chris Froome could only fourth, both in a group of five Wednesday’s fourth stage will Mondiale 1:00, 14. Katusha 1:05, 15. MTN-Qhubeka 1:07 are now open and this will help,” manage sixth place at 35sec on a cyclists at 4sec. see the peloton encounter their Overall she added. rolling route that included a slight “It was the first test of the longest day in the saddle as they 1. Rohan Dennis (AUS/BMC) 8hr 00min 37sec, 2. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) same time, 3. Kulkarni told PTI “Mary Kom climb to the finish. Dauphine and we gave every- ride 228km from Anneyron to Andriy Grivko (UKR/AST) at 04sec, 4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 04, 5. Lieuwe Westra (NED/AST) 04, Jr” would be “India’s first girl In the overall standings, thing at the finish and this effort Sisteron. AFP 6. Rein Taaramae (EST/AST) 04, 7. Michele Scarponi (ITA/AST) 04, 8. Gorka Izagirre (ESP/MOV) 05, superhero animated series”. AFP

Schooling wins 6th gold at SEA Games Almaty and Beijing unveil

SINGAPORE: Joseph premier medals. Quah swam the 2022 Winter Games bids Schooling, showing no signs of anchor leg in Tuesday’s relay after weariness despite his gruel- he had earlier stormed to victory LAUSANNE: Kazakh city city, region and country.” The ling schedule, collected another in the 400m individual medley. Almaty and Chinese capital host city for the 2022 Olympic two gold medals at the 28th Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Anh Beijing yesterday officially pre- Winter Games, which can antici- Southeast Asian Games yester- Vien, the outstanding female sented their candidatures to pate IOC funding of $880m, will day, taking his golden stockpile swimmer at the Games, won host the 2022 Winter Olympics be elected at the 128th IOC to six and with the possibility of another two golds, in the 200m to the International Olympic Session between July 30-August three more to come. freestyle and the 200m butterfly Committee. 3 in Kuala Lumpur following a The 19-year-old easily won event. Both cities presented their final presentation by the cities the 100 metres butterfly, his The 17-year-old, based in “candidate city briefings” for to the full IOC membership on favourite event, then led off the Florida, also has a silver and a 45 minutes apiece before taking July 31. Singaporean 4x100m freestyle bronze and two more races left. questions from the floor from The Almaty bid were first up relay to an easy win. In track and field, the IOC members. on Tuesday, led by Kazakh Prime The Texas-based Schooling has Philippines completed a first- “It was really impressive to see Minister Karim Massimov and won gold in each of the six events ever double in the 100m with how both cities had embraced artistic skating bronze medallist he has contested at Singapore’s two sprinters with American the reforms of Olympic Agenda Denis Ten. new Aquatic Centre over the last connections. 2020 just six months after the The Beijing bid then took cen- three days, and is an overwhelm- Texas-based Eric Shauwn recommendations were unani- tre stage, led by Chinese vice- ing favourite to win his three Cray blitzed the field to win mously approved by the IOC,” prime minister Liu Yandong remaining races. the men’s race in 10.25 seconds said IOC President Thomas and double Olympic short-track He has broken the SEA Games before 17-year-old Californian- Joseph Schooling of Singapore celebrates on the podium after winning Bach. “You could see a clear focus champion Yang Yang. The 2018 record in all of the races he has born Kayla Anise Richardson the gold medal in the men’s 100m butterfly final at the 28th South East in both bids on sustainability and Winter Olympics will be hosted contested so far, as well as getting edged the women’s in 11.76 after Asian (SEA) Games 2015 in Singapore, yesterday. affordability,” he added. by the South Korean resort of under the ‘A’ qualifying time for a photo-finish. Bach said: “Both presented Pyeongchang. next year’s Rio Olympics in four Both Richardson and Cray very well balanced budgets, and Meanwhile, the IOC approved different event. have Filipino mothers, American quickly sought out a flag from the in the men’s hammer while both clearly demonstrated what new events in snowboarding, Schooling’s 18-year-old team accents and a burning desire to crowd upon victory and talked Indonesia’s pocket-sized dis- they wanted to achieve, following Alpine skiing, speedskating and mate Quah Zheng Wen has take more SEA Games gold med- of his pride at representing the tance runner Triyaningsih won Olympic Agenda 2020, by build- curling for the 2018 Winter already won eight medals in the als back to the Philippines. country of his birth. the women’s 5,000m, her ninth ing their proposals into the long- Olympics in Pyeongchang, South pool, including five gold, and has Cray, 26, tapped the banner Another Filipino-American, career SEA Games gold medal. term development plans of their Korea. AFP the chance to bag another four on his vest before the race and Caleb Stuart, celebrated gold REUTERS WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Bangladesh’s Rahim Lewis says ‘wrong choices’ led to jail LONDON: Former England all-rounder Chris Lewis (pic- says India Test ‘50-50’ tured) has said he wants to help prevent young cricketers making the “wrong choices” that caused him to be jailed for Indian captain indicates tourists may field five bowlers cocaine smuggling as he was released from prison yesterday. FATULLAH, Bangladesh: The 47-year-old Lewis, who Bangladesh will look to show- won 32 Test caps, was convicted case their growing strength in 2009. and confidence when they clash But he served less than half of with India in a one-off Test in his 13-year sentence. Fatullah from today, captain Lewis, in an interview Mushfiqur Rahim said. with England’s Professional happy to work with the PCA The Tigers are still looking for Cricketers’ Association, said to help prevent cricketers from their first win against India, hav- money worries in 2008 had making wrong choices simi- ing lost six and drawn one of their led him into trying to smuggle lar to the ones that led to his seven Tests so far, but Rahim said £140,000 ($214,294) worth of dis- imprisonment. he expected his team to give the solved cocaine into Britain. “The PCA have been extremely tourists a close fight. “I became afraid of what the supportive right from the begin- “India are [a] good side, but future held, and at that point the ning of this situation let’s say,” I still think it is a 50-50 game,” thinking went awry,” said Lewis. said Lewis. They have been Rahim told reporters on Tuesday “I made choices. They were extremely helpful and certainly, ahead of the match at the Khan the wrong choices and I say going ahead, I would like to Shaheb Osman Ali stadium on the sorry for them,” added Lewis, a become a part of that whether outskirts of Dhaka. lively seamer who took 93 Test it’s giving advice or whether it’s “They have got quality spin- wickets at 37.52 and averaged 23 just tugging on the grey matter ners. If our batsman can handle with the bat — figures that failed to find out what happened at this them, I think this will be an excit- to reflect his undoubted natural particular time. ing Test.” talent. “If any of that can help any Rahim’s men take on India “I’ve had six years in jail and young player going ahead I am after trouncing Pakistan 3-0 in until recently I would still look in. I am in 100 per cent.” one-day cricket at home in April- around and think ‘wow you’re PCA assistant chief executive May before losing the two-Test in jail’. That was not part of the Jason Ratcliffe said: “Whilst we series 1-0. plan. I never saw that coming.” can’t ever condone the trouble Bangladesh, who were quarter- Born in Guyana, Lewis Chris got himself into, it’s our finalists at the recent World Cup, moved to Britain as a 10-year- duty to help our members wher- have lost 71 of their 90 Tests since old and went on to make 189 ever we can. attaining full status in 2000, win- first-class career appearances “Chris has always been a ning just seven. for Leicestershire, Surrey and popular man and has paid the In their previous Test series Bangladeshi captain Mushfiqur Rahim speaks during a news conference at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium Nottinghamshire. penalty for his crime,” he added. against Bangladesh in 2010, India in Narayanganj yesterday. Lewis played his final first- Ratcliffe said modern-day won the first match by 113 runs class match in 2000. He players in England were sup- in Chittagong and the second Rahim, who is recovering from me tomorrow when I go out to three one-day internationals to attempted a return with Surrey’s ported by personal development and final game in Dhaka by 10 a finger injury, said he will wait toss. It is something I will prob- be played in Dhaka on June 18, 21 Twenty20 side in 2008, but was programmes of the kind unavail- wickets. till the toss before deciding if he ably cherish when I finish my and 24. AFP hindered by a hip injury. able to Lewis. But Rahim insists Bangladesh play as a specialist batsman alone career.” Lewis and former basketball “Chris and many others who had come a long way since then. and leave wicket-keeping duties Kohli indicated India may field player Chad Kirnon were sen- played significant international “We may have lost both Tests to uncapped Litton Das. five bowlers on what is expected Teams tenced in May 2009 after being cricket during their careers, five years ago, but there were Meanwhile, India’s Virat Kohli, to be a hard pitch full of runs at Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (capt), found guilty of carrying a liquid didn’t have this type of sup- some strong individual perform- who took over as Test captain least on the first three days. Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, form of cocaine into Gatwick port network while playing, and ances by us,” he said. when Mahendra Singh Dhoni “I certainly believe in giving Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Airport on a flight from St Lucia. whilst this isn’t an excuse for his “We have improved, both indi- retired from the longer format the team a chance to pick up 20 Nasir Hossain, Shuvagata Hom, Abul Hasan, “On a physical level jail has actions, would surely have helped vidually and as a team. We are during the Australian series in wickets,” he said. “I am a big fan Jubair Hossain, Taijul Islam, Rubel Hossain, not been hard. It’s a hard men- alleviate the ‘fear’ he describes confident that we can give a tough December, said he was excited to of playing five bowlers in a 6-5 Mohammad Shahid. tal exercise to stop yourself from when it all came to an end,” fight. take over the role full time. combination.” thinking negatively,” said Lewis. Ratcliffe explained. India: Virat Kohli (capt), Murali Vijay, Shikhar “But we have to be more con- “It is pretty special,” said Kohli. Kohli insisted five bowlers “For 24 hours a day you’re a “We’re glad that Chris will Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, sistent. We play well for two days, “I never thought that at 26 I will would not weaken the batting. prisoner. It’s nice to be back — give his first hand experiences Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran but let ourselves down over the be captain of India’s Test side. My “You only need two to three bats- and I don’t mean being outside to complement the PDWP and Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, next three days. We must now only dream as a child was to play men to click to get a score of 500,” — I mean back being me.” ensure players are best prepared Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun play session by session and ensure Test cricket for India. he said. Lewis added he would be for cricket and life beyond.” A FP Aaron, Ishant Sharma. we win maximum sessions.” “It will be a special moment for The Test will be followed by New Indian Test skipper Kohli in focus against Bangladesh

FATULLAH: Skipper Virat players. Most notably pacer Bangladesh, with veteran all- limited-overs performance, their Kohli will aim to begin his full- Mitchell Johnson was one of the rounder Shakib-al-Hasan and ability in the longer version of the time leadership tenure with a highlights of the series that also pacer Rubel Hossain, will look to game is yet to get an approving win when India face neighbours saw the Delhi dasher comple- exploit the vulnerability. But they nod from the cricketing world. Bangladesh in a one-off Test menting his verbal volleys with will still have an imposing task at To add to the lopsidedness of match starting here today. an avalanche of runs. He cracked hand against a strong Indian bat- the contest, India have won six of With the sudden retirement of four centuries in the series to ting line-up, having failed to dis- the seven Test matches between Mahendra Singh Dhoni from the become India’s highest run-getter, miss Pakistan twice in both Test the two countries so far, with a Test arena, focus will be on Kohli’s earning praise for his authorita- matches, losing the series 0-1. rain helping Bangladesh to a draw leadership, who has already tive batting and aggressive stew- The home team will still have in Chittagong in 2007. grabbed eyeballs for his in-your- ardship. But accolades for Kohli their tails up particularly after India’s playing combination will face, no holds-barred attitude on were not universal as his style was impressive performances in the be closely under watch as veteran the field. too hot-headed for some experts. World Cup, marking it with their spinner Harbhajan Singh has Glimpses of his combustible India lost the series 0-2 but maiden quarter-final perform- been recalled after a lengthy lay- approach to leadership role was Kohli was not the only bright spot ance, before bowing to India. off. His inclusion raises the pros- evident during his captaincy in in batting with opener Murali The loss, attributed to dubious pect of a two pacer-two spinner two of the four Tests (first and Vijay and middle-order Ajinkya umpiring decisions by Bangladesh, attack combo with Ravichandran fourth) India played against Rahane distinguishing themselves triggered a cold-war between the Ashwin partnering Harbhajan in Australia Down Under. It was in with commendable performances. two boards, eventually leading to the slow bowling department, stark contrast to Dhoni’s calm But one jarring note for the International Cricket Council’s with the opponents having several and composed way of leading the young side was the middle-order (ICC) Bangladeshi president left-hand batsmen. team and evoked unavoidable batsmen’s failure to negotiate Mustafa Kamal resigning after The match also gives Bengal comparisions between the two spin bowling. Australian spin- complaining extensively of the wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha a distinct methods of captaincy. ner Nathan Lyon emerged as misdemeanour of governing body chance to cement his place in the Indian captain Virat Kohli speaks during a news conference at the Khan Kohli’s eye-for-an-eye mental- the highest wicket-taker of the chairman N.Srinivasan of India. team, having lived in the shadow Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Narayanganj yesterday. ity saw him run into repeated series, troubling the Indian bats- While Bangladesh have sig- of Dhoni throughout his career. confrontations with Australian men with his guile and variety. nificantly improved in their IANS Buttler and Root lead England Pakistani squad lands in Sri Lanka Pakistan’s captain Misbah- fireworks against New Zealand ul-Haq (left) and team-mate Junaid Khan BIRMINGHAM: Jos Buttler of their dismal World Cup group set to start their reply, needing to arrive at a hotel and Joe Root thrashed brilliant stage exit earlier this year firmly surpass their previous best ODI in Colombo centuries as England smashed behind them. total of 402 to have a chance of yesterday. their highest one-day interna- The omens had not looked good victory. tional score in amassing 408 for for England as opener Jason Roy Meanwhile New Zealand’s Pakistan will nine against World Cup run- fell to the first ball of the day. fielding was below its usual high play three Tests, ners-up New Zealand in the first But Root, firstly with Alex standard with Brendon McCullum five One-Day ODI at Edgbaston yesterday. Hales (20) and then Eoin Morgan dropping Rashid in the deep when Internationals Buttler hit 129, his hundred (50) set about a recovery, taking the leg-spinner had made 46. and two T20s coming off 66 balls — the second the attack to New Zealand. Grant Elliott took two wick- in Sri Lanka fastest ever for England and five Root’s hundred came off 71 ets in two balls in the last over, between June balls more than the 61 he took to balls before he fell for 104, one of Rashid falling for his ODI best 17 and August blast a ton against Sri Lanka last four wickets for Trent Boult. score made off just 50 balls, 1. The first Test year. Buttler and Rashid then took including seven fours and two between the England’s previous best over, their partnership surpassing sixes. two sides starts ODI total was 391-4 against the previous best seventh-wicket But Liam Plunkett avoided at the Galle Bangladesh in Nottingham in ODI stand of 130 by Zimbabwe’s the hat-trick in style by driving International 2005. Andy Flower and Heath Streak Elliott six to bring up the 400. Cricket Stadium Buttler also shared in a world against England in 2001. In the second innings, New in Galle on June record seventh wicket ODI stand New Zealand, who thrashed Zealand were in deep trouble 17. of 177 with Adil Rashid (69) as a England the last time the teams after 29 over, having reached the new-look England put memories met in an ODI in February, were score of 190/7. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Deschamps Italy coach concerned Conte calls up but calm over Bonaventura FC Barcelona’s French problems for Croatia President Josep Maria Bartomeu PARIS: France coach Didier MILAN: Italy coach Antonio speaks during a Deschamps (pictured) admits Conte has called up AC Milan press conference his side was outplayed in attacking midfielder Giacomo next to La Liga, Sunday’s 4-3 friendly loss to Bonaventura as the 2012 final- UEFA Champions Belgium in Paris but said there ists look to take another step League and King’s was no reason to push the panic towards qualification for the Cup trophies in button. 2016 European Championships Barcelona, Spain, The Euro 2016 hosts have against Croatia on Friday. yesterday. Bartomeu now lost two of their last three Bonaventura had originally announced that matches after Brazil triumphed been left on the sidelines for Luis Enrique has 3-1, also at the Stade de France, Friday’s clash in Split but joins extended his con- in March. the squad two days after striker tract as coach until “I’m the one who makes the Simone Zaza and defender 2017. decisions and I cannot ignore the Andrea Barzagli were sent home result,” said the former Monaco, due to lack of fitness. Marseille and Juventus coach Zaza had already complained yesterday. of a sore back prior to travel- “When things go well, the play- ling to Italy’s training camp at ers get the credit but when things Coverciano, and Barzagli, who go bad, the coach takes the brunt only returned to training last of the responsibility. week after suffering an injury “I watched and rewatched the knock, has not fully recovered match, we made mistakes and from playing a full 90 min- Belgium played at a very high utes in the Champions League level and were very efficient. final against Barcelona last Marc Wilmot’s number two Saturday. ranked side in the world are in Barzagli had already been the middle of replaced by Sassuolo defender Enrique agrees Barca Euro qualify- Francesco Acerbi while ing and face a Bonaventura’s versatility up crucial fixture front gives Conte options against against Wales a side which held the Italians to in Cardiff on a 1-1 draw at the San Siro last Friday. November. Deschamps “We’re working hard so we can contract extension hinted that produce a solid performance,” said Belgium’s Conte. increased “They (Croatia) are a very Coach signs new deal to the end of 2016-17 season intensity strong side and showed that ahead of the against us at the San Siro but Wales match we’re fully focused on sealing our BARCELONA: Barcelona played a place in the championships.” coach Luis Enrique has ended factor. Italy, second in Group H two uncertainty over his future by “It might points behind Croatia, face Niko agreeing a one-year contract Barcelona’s not be a great Kovac’s side at the Poljud stadium extension with the Spanish and coach Luis time for us because we have been looking for their fourth win in five European champions until the playing opponents who are pre- qualifying matches. Enrique deliv- end of the 2016-17 season. paring for tournament matches, A win for Croatia would see ers a speech as Barca president Josep Maria like Belgium who play Friday in them pull five points ahead of Bartomeu announced the agree- he takes part Wales. Italy and leave Conte’s men in ment at a news conference yes- in the celebra- “When you play the best coun- danger of being overtaken by terday assessing a season in which tions held for tries who have strong attacking Norway, who are only two points the Catalan giants won a treble of their victory options like Brazil, in March, or adrift ahead of their home game Champions League and domes- over Juventus, Belgium, we have come to real- against Azerbaijan. tic league and Cup titles in Luis one day after ise that we still have progress to Conte, who led Juventus to Enrique’s first term in charge. the UEFA make. three consecutive league titles The former Barca and Spain Champions “Seven goals conceded in two before quitting to take charge of midfielder, who was upset with League final, matches is a lot, much too many. Italy, admitted he is considering the sacking of sporting director at the Camp We did not perform defensively other options to his trademark Andoni Zubizarreta in January, Nou Stadium in and I am not only talking about 3-5-2 formation. had refused to say whether he Barcelona on the back line.” “I have to find the best system would stay on when quizzed about Sunday. “However, I’m not worried. It to suit the players I have. The his future after Saturday’s 3-1 win doesn’t please me and it doesn’t 3-5-2 is a good formation but we over Juventus in the Champions please the players. We didn’t need to have alternatives for the League final. perform and the Belgian team future,” he added. Barca became the first team to were very good. Looking at the Conte on Monday praised the win the treble in the same season match, they were superior to us achievements of his successor at on two occasions, repeating their for hiring Luis Enrique, paid the yesterday that their Brazil right The former Lyon and Marseille and potentially they are stronger Juventus, Massimiliano Allegri -- feat from 2009. price for a FIFA ban on signings back Dani Alves had agreed a forward will now return to France than us. That was evident.” who led Juve to the Champions “After a year like the one we for two windows over a breach of two-year contract extension with after five years in England on a “Paul Pogba wasn’t playing and League final, and a 3-1 defeat to have had, with difficulties but rules on the transfer of foreign an option for a further year. deal the duration of which was to have him in midfield changes a Barcelona. with a great end result, we are Under-18 players. Former Newcastle winger not revealed. lot of things,” added Deschamps But he launched a plea to more than excited hoping to Bartomeu will be hoping some Hatem Ben Arfa sealed his long- “It’s a bet for us as it is for in reference to the Juventus ageing midfield maestro Andrea secure more titles,” Luis Enrique of Barca’s success this term rubs awaited move to Nice yesterday, him,” club president Jean-Pierre player who was involved in his Pirlo, who some reports have said on Barca’s website (www. off, although he looks likely to the Ligue 1 club announced. Riviere said. side’s 3-1 Champions League final linked with a move to a team fcbarcelona.es) after signing his face a challenge from former The 28-year-old had been set to “He’s a much-maligned lad but defeat on Saturday at the hands in the Major Soccer League new deal. president Joan Laporta, who was join Nice during the winter break full of character and respectful of of Barcelona in Berlin. (MLS). Bartomeu, flanked by the three in charge when Barca won their but was caught up in an admin- his commitments. Looking ahead to the tourna- “I’m really happy Andrea still trophies, also formally stepped maiden treble in 2008-09. istrative mix-up before FIFA “We don’t expect him as a mes- ment in 2016, Deschamps said his wants to continue,” said Conte. down to allow him to stand in the Laporta, a lawyer and politician and the French football govern- siah. He hasn’t played for a long team must improve if they are to “He hasn’t told me anything, forthcoming presidential election, who fiercely supports Catalan ing body stepped in to block the time.” add to continental titles won in but knowing him I’m sure he is which he called in January with independence, has strongly hinted transfer. Hailed as one of France’s big- 1984 and 2000, the latter when still as passionate and enthusias- the club in the midst of an insti- he will stand but has yet to for- Ben Arfa had played a game gest prospects when he came out Deschamps captained Roger tic for the national side. tutional crisis. mally declare his candidacy. with Newcastle’s reserves during through the ranks of his boyhood Lemerre’s team. “I don’t believe he is thinking Barca were due to hold the Bartomeu stepped up to the top the summer of 2014 before being club Lyon, Ben Arfa has been “Today, there are teams that about international retirement, election in 2016 but Bartomeu job from vice president in January loaned out to Premier League called up for France 13 times and are superior to us but we still or of leaving Italy.” decided to bring it forward by a 2014 after Laporta’s successor rivals Hull City, meaning he was scored twice. have a year. Even if we had a good Italy, who lost the Euro 2012 year following the dismissal of Sandro Rosell resigned amid alle- prevented from joining Nice due He won four Ligue 1 titles with World Cup (quarter-finalists), final to Spain, will follow Friday’s Zubizarreta. gations of tax fraud in the deal to to a rule that a player can only Lyon and one with Marseille there is still a lot of work to do qualifier with a friendly against The former Barca and Spain sign Brazil forward Neymar. play for two clubs in a single before signing with Newcastle in and a lot of progress to make,” Portugal in Geneva today. goalkeeper, who was responsible Barca announced earlier season. 2010. AGENCIES added the Frenchman. AFP REUTERS USA boss Klinsmann careful not to cheer Germany

BERLIN: USA coach Jurgen when the USA were beaten 1-0 by has evolved here.” Klinsmann says Mesut Ozil as the attacking Klinsmann says he is relishing the Germans in the group stages his goal is to reach the semi-finals midfielder. taking on his old team Germany on their way to winning the 2014 of the 2018 World Cup in Russia Meanwhile, Klinsmann said in today’s friendly -- and admits World Cup in Brazil as his US and he has brought his side to he expects there to be more rev- he needs to make sure not to team reached the last 16. Europe to gain experience ahead elations in the on-going US-led cheer the wrong team. Having been Klinsmann’s of the Gold Cup they will co-host investigation into football’s gov- “I will sing the German anthem assistant coach, Loew took charge with Canada. erning body FIFA. as well as our own,” said the of Germany in 2006. “American football has evolved “If there is one thing I know 50-year-old ex-Mannschaft star This will be the third time the tremendously over the past two for sure, when the American ahead of the friendly in Cologne in two sides have met since with or three years,” says Loew, whose authorities have evidence, then a rare joint press conference with honours even after the USA world champions play minnows they see things through and Germany coach Joachim Loew. enjoyed a shock 4-3 win over Gibraltar in a Euro 2016 qualifier more things will come out,” said “It’s clear I’m still a fan and the Germans in a Washington in Faro, Portugal on Saturday. Klinsmann. I will certainly take care not friendly in 2013. “I am impressed by the speed “The whole world is wishing to cheer the wrong team,” he “It’s a special experience to and intensity of this team.” that FIFA will be cleaned up and quipped. come here and play the world With his first-choice centre- those who comply will do things “I’m very proud to be the champions,” said Klinsmann, who backs Mats Hummels and Jerome differently in the long term.” American coach, but I am also now lives in California. Boateng unavailable, Loew is Last month, FIFA was rocked German through and through.” “Football isn’t yet as big in the expected to name an inexperi- by the latest scandal following the Having coached Germany US as the main American sports, enced back four with midfield arrest of seven high-ranking offi- to third place at the 2006, but we’re getting there. star Bastian Schweinsteiger as cials in Zurich as part of a US-led Klinsmann has coached the Stars “We want to use this as a yard- Germany’s captain. corruption inquiry. Germany’s headcoach Joachim Loew (left) and US headcoach Juergen and Stripes since 2011 and his stick and like Jogi Loew, we also Loew has already sent sev- On the eve of the FIFA con- Klinsmann smile during a press conference of the German national foot- team enjoyed a shock 4-3 win over don’t have our best players here. eral of his stars on holiday and gress in Zurich, those arrested ball team in Cologne, western Germany, yesterday. Germany’s squad the Netherlands in Amsterdam in “Germany is the world leader Moenchengladbach winger were charged with alleged racket- prepares for the upcoming friendly game against USA in Cologne today. Friday’s friendly. and the reality is that the other Patrick Herrmann is set to win eering, conspiracy and corruption. He coached the losing side countries look and admire what his first cap alongside Arsenal’s AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Bilic returns Japan and USA on track to West Ham as manager

LONDON: West Ham United have appointed former player Slaven Bilic (pictured) as their at Women’s World Cup new manager on a three-year contract, the Premier League club announced yesterday. Nigeria score late to draw with Sweden, Cameroon overpower Ecuador The 46-year-old former Croatia head coach, who spent 18 months at Upton Park in the mid-1990s, VA NCOU V ER: Holders Japan succeeds Sam Allardyce, who left and former winners the United Women’s World the club in May after his contract States got their Women’s was not renewed. World Cup campaigns off to Cup Results “I’m really glad to be back with strong starts yesterday, while WINNIPEG, Canada: West Ham United,” Bilic told the Cameroon and Nigeria warned Results from the wom- club’s website. Africa would field challengers. en’s World Cup in Canada “It’s in the Premier League, Japan grabbed three points yesterday: which is among the best in the in Group C against newcomers Group C world. It’s a big challenge and Switzerland thanks to captain Cameroon 6 (Ngono Mani 34, Enganamouit 36, you are competing with the best, Aya Miyama’s 29th-minute pen- 73, 90+4-pen; Manie 44-pen, Aboudi Onguene and what better club to do it with alty, while in Group D the United 79-pen) Ecuador 0; Japan 1 (Miyama 29-pen) than West Ham.” States were given a rough ride Switzerland 0 Bilic was one of several man- before dispatching Australia 3-1. agers reportedly considered by Group D But the performances of two of West Ham, along with Marcelo Africa’s teams -- Cameroon and Sweden 3 (Oparanozie 21-og, Fischer 31, Bielsa, Rafael Benitez, Jurgen Nigeria -- gave the continent hope Sembrant 60) Nigeria 3 (Okobi 50, Oshoala 53, Klopp, Carlo Ancelotti, Michael a day after the humiliating 10-0 Ordega 87); United States 3 (Rapinoe 12, 78, Laudrup and Press 61) Australia 1 (De Vanna 27) defeat of Ivory Coast to Germany. Unai Emery. Continental champions Nigeria marked her 100th cap for the He will have fought back from two goals down Matildas with an equalizer after little time to to hold Sweden 3-3 in Group D, 27 minutes. settle into the while Cameroon thrashed fellow Solid goalkeeping by Hope Solo role as West newcomers Ecuador 6-0 in Group kept the US in strong shape. Ham are C. As it is, Jill Ellis’s side are top due to enter “We’re galvanized and ready of Group D with three points, the Europa to make Africa proud,” warned followed by Nigeria and Sweden, League on Cameroon coach Enow Ngachu. with Australia at the bottom. July 2, hav- Midfielder Megan Rapinoe In the next game on June ing qualified helped get the 1991 and 1999 win- 12 in Winnipeg Stadium, the for the tour- ners on the winning path on front United States plays Sweden with nament via of thousands of US fans who trav- Australia up against Nigeria. the Fair Play elled the short distance over the Given the goal sprees in the standings. border to Winnipeg. day’s three other games, it was a Appointing The Americans came up against low-key opener by Asian champi- Shinobu Ohno (11) of Japan tries to get past Rachel Rinast of Switzerland during the FIFA Women’s World a successor a tenacious Australian side before ons Japan in Vancouver. Cup Canada 2015 Group C match at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, yesterday. to Allardyce Rapinoe’s double strike on 12 and The winning penalty, awarded has been seen as a key decision 78 minutes and a Christen Press after Frankfurt midfielder Kozue for West Ham, with the club goal on 61 sealed victory. Ando was fouled inside the box 150th for Miyama, who also scored manner,” said Sasaki of the long- who are tied with them on top of scheduled to leave Upton Park “A couple of bits of class in the by Swiss goalie Gaelle Thalmann, her 37th international goal. time player who had been ham- Group C but ahead on goal differ- and move into London’s Olympic end from Rapinoe changed the was the only goal of the night at “I’m very happy that Sawa pered by injuries. Young Swiss ence, as Ecuador and Switzerland Stadium in 2016-17. game,” said Australia coach Alen BC Place Stadium. could celebrate her 200th game forward Ramona Bachmann was clash for their first points. West Ham made a strong start Stajcic. But it was enough to seal all with a win,” said Miyama. left to rue a string of missed In today’s action across Canada, to the current campaign under “I thought we put in a good three points for the “Nadeshiko” Coach Norio Sasaki however chances which could have given superstar forward Marta takes Allardyce, who spent four years performance but it’s not enough. -- Japan’s nickname and a pink substituted Sawa in the second her country a first win. center stage as Brazil opens at the club, only to finish 12th in We need to regroup and improve flower symbolizing grace and half with young teammate Yuri “She’s the saddest girl in against South Korea in Montreal, the Premier League table. for the next game. It’s still a long beauty. Kawamura. the world tonight,” said coach while England search for a first “My first priority when choos- way to go.” The tie marked the 200th cap “She (Sawa) wasn’t injured, but Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. win against France since 1974 in ing a club is to look at its ambi- Co-captain Lisa de Vanna for veteran Homare Sawa and the I’m using her in a more protected Japan next play Cameroon, Moncton. AFP tions,” Bilic said. “When I spoke to the chairmen (David Gold and David Sullivan) and (vice-chairman) Karren Vlaar fit again for Brady, they made clear that it is not only the fantastic new sta- dium we are moving into, but they showed their determination and Dutch qualifier ambition to make what is a big club even bigger. AMSTERDAM: Fit-again semifinals of last year’s World Cup “I saw their determination defender Ron Vlaar will be avail- in Brazil, are third in Group A, with and passion that they want to able for Netherlands’ key Euro seven points from five matches. The do that. That was the number 2016 qualifier against Latvia in Czech Republic lead with 13 points, one reason. I could feel that they Riga on Friday, team officials one more than Iceland. The top really wanted me so it was an easy said yesterday. two finishers in each group qual- choice. Vlaar trained with the Dutch ify for France next year. The best “I would say to the West Ham team on Monday and showed third place finisher from the nine fans that I will give my best and no signs of any discomfort from groups also qualifies while the other together we will achieve great a knee injury that kept him out third place finishers play off for the things.” of Friday’s friendly loss to the remaining four slots at the finals. A rugged centre-back dur- United States in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Former Empoli ing his playing days, Bilic was a His progress has been keenly handler Maurizio Sarri will offi- member of the Croatia team that followed in the wake of the 4-3 cially become Napoli’s coach after finished third at the 1998 World loss to the Americans which agreeing terms with the Serie Cup and also played for home- exposed deficiencies in the Dutch A club’s president Aurelio De town club Hajduk Split, German defence. Vlaar is expected to start Laurentiis to replace Spaniard side Karlsuhe and Everton. in centre defence alongside Stefan Rafael Benitez, reports said yes- As a manager, he enjoyed nota- de Vrij, who also did not play in terday. Negotiations between ble success with Croatia between last week’s friendly. Sarri and De Laurentiis were 2006 and 2012, leading his country “I have had a complete session held and the 56-year-old coach is to the quarter-finals at the 2008 and it went well. I feel fine,” Vlaar expected to “sign his contract”, European Championship after told reporters. according to Sky Sport. Sarri has they had eliminated England in “We want to put a line behind reportedly agreed to a one-year qualifying. the loss to the Americans and deal with another year’s option But subsequent spells with Dutch national team players (from left) Quincy Promes, Robin van Persie and Jordy Clasie attend a training turn our focus fully to the match if targets are met, and will earn Lokomotiv Moscow and Besiktas session in Katwijk ahead of an Euro 2016 qualifier match against Latvia yesterday. against Latvia, where he have to 1.5m euros a season, five times his yielded mixed results. win.” The Dutch, who reached the salary at Empoli. AGENCIES Another ‘massive night’ for Wales as Euros beckon CARDIFF: “It’s a massive and Wales’s promising start has mattered took hold when Hughes was manager the last have been ruled out until next infallible, as Wales, world-ranked night for Welsh football” is a given the fans real hope that their Scotland effectively ended their time they failed to finish the job season along with youngsters 22nd, proved with a 0-0 draw in saying that strikes fear into the team could reach a major finals realistic hopes of qualifying for when Euro 2004 in Portugal was Jonny Williams of Crystal Palace, Brussels last year. hearts of the country’s battle for the first time since the 1958 the 1978 and 1986 World Cups. within reach. Giggs was then at Wigan Athletic’s Emyr Huws and Wales have grown in confi- weary fans dreaming of glory World Cup in Sweden. The heartache continued as his peak in a team, featuring Fulham’s George Williams. dence and stature since then and because every one of those But while all of Wales is opti- they closed in on qualifying for Craig Bellamy, John Hartson But the squad remains strong the absence of Belgium captain nights over the last 57 years has mistic that the national side can the 1994 World Cup in the United and Simon Davies, who were and most of manager Chris Vincent Kompany coupled with ended in failure. take one of the 24 slots in the States when a win over Romania among the top scorers in the Coleman’s players have Premier the fact that Marc Wilmot’s side They typically come around expanded tournament, no-one would have booked a place. qualifiers. League pedigree, including the conceded three second half goals once, at most twice, every dec- is taking anything for granted Blessed with talented players Wales won their first four world’s most expensive player to France, will give the likes of ade, and the first since 2003 is because of so many past heroic including Mark Hughes, Ian Rush games, including a 2-1 win over Gareth Bale. Bale and Aaron Ramsey cause to fast approaching with Wales set failures that have left Wales and a precocious teenager called Italy in Cardiff, before their form The dangerous Bale, despite believe they can cause the visiting to face Belgium in a Euro 2016 always so near and yet so far. Ryan Giggs, Wales seemed des- deserted them. They failed to win his troubles at Real Madrid, has defence real problems. top-of-the-table Group B quali- There have been many excuses tined to return to the World Cup any of their remaining four group been in imperious form for Wales If Coleman’s side do that then fying clash at the Cardiff City for their almost inevitable failure for the first time in 36 years. matches, before exiting meekly to and will earn his 50th cap against “a massive night for Welsh foot- Stadium on Friday. to reach another finals -- poor However, missing striker Russia 1-0 in a two-legged playoff. their strongest group rivals. ball” would at last be a trium- Both sides are level on 11 managerial decisions, bad luck, Hughes through suspension, an For Welsh fans, Friday at Belgium, who are second in phant occasion. points from five games, with perceived refereeing incompe- uncharacteristic error by goal- last seems a different prospect FIFA’s world rankings and beat Unlike other nights, this is not Belgium leading the group on goal tence plus injuries and suspen- keeper Neville Southall and a although, as ever, the squad is France 4-3 in a friendly in Paris a do-or-die match for Wales, with difference. sions to key players at the most heartbreaking penalty miss by affected by withdrawals. at the weekend, are rightly four matches to play, but the feel- The pair currently occupy the inopportune moments. Paul Bodin saw Gheorghe Hagi’s Regular starting defenders Ben among the favourites to lift the ing is that if they win on Friday automatic qualification places for The notion that Wales have Romania win 2-1 and advance at Davies of Tottenham Hotspur and title next year. they can go on to take a place in next year’s tournament in France bottled it on the nights that Wales’ expense. West Ham United’s James Collins However, they are not France. REUTERS Wednesday 10 June 2015 23 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6457 Sport Price: QR2

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Spanish midfielder Xavi Hernandez outside Hamad International Airport in Doha on Monday night. RIGHT: Xavi at the airport with his wife Nuria Cunillera. The Spanish superstar landed in Doha around 11pm on Monday ahead of his official presentation with Al Sadd on Thursday. Hordes of fans turned up to welcome the former FC Barcelona skipper. He and his wife were greeted at the airport by Al Sadd Sports Club General Secretary Jassim Al Rumaihi and other club officials. Xavi is joining Al Sadd on a three-year deal in a joint player-coach role, the football club announced in a press conference last month. The 35-year-old will also work at Aspire Academy and serve as an ambassador for the 2022 World Cup.

Messi now eyes Copa America crown Heavyweights Argentina have not won a national title since 1993 Juve snap up Khedira from LA SERENA, Chile: Lionel this season — behind eternal rival Martino believes that this will be Messi has won everything possi- Cristiano Ronaldo on 48 — and his country’s year because Messi Real Madrid ble with Barcelona but has been has the most goals in La Liga his- has been in precocious form for left staring at an empty shelf tory with 286 and also a record 77 Barcelona after two seasons MILAN: Real Madrid’s German gathering dust for his Argentina in the Champions League. marked by injury absences. international midfielder Sami honours. But the rate falls for Argentina, “He is doing things I have never Khedira (pictured) signed for And 20,000 Argentine fans will with 45 goals in 97 appearances. seen him do before. I can see that defeated Champions League cross the Andes hoping that the Messi says he is always being he is taking pleasure being with finalists Juventus yesterday, the jinx is ended at the Copa America asked why Argentina, who start his counterparts in attack,” added Italian club announced. starting in Chile tomorrow. this tournament again as one of Martino who coached Messi at The 28-year-old joins the Barcelona’s 3-1 victory over the favourites, never win. Barcelona for the 2013-14 season. Italian champions for free on a Juventus on Saturday provided He wept uncontrollably after As Martino can choose between four-year contract which expires Messi’s fourth Champions League losing the 2010 World Cup quar- Messi, Carlos Tevez, Sergio on June 30, 2019. crown in 10 years. He also has ter final 4-0 to Germany when Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain up The Stuttgart-born Khedira seven Spanish titles and two Argentine legend Diego Maradona front there is no reason the goals had been at Real Madrid since the World Club Cups and has been was the coach. should not flow. summer of 2010, and has achieved world player of the year four “It’s great to play with the Messi and Tevez only arrived in success in La Liga, the Copa del times. national team, to wear the shirt Chile on Monday to join up with Rey (twice), the Spanish Super But Argentina’s defeat to and to be captain,” Messi said their team-mates in La Serena Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, the Germany in the World Cup last recently. “But getting a title after their clash in opposing sides Champions League and the Club year extended a national title would be the ultimate for me.” in the Champions League final. World Cup. drought lasting back to the 1993 In 2007, Messi was part of the Barcelona’s Javier Mascherano A statement by Juventus said: Copa America. Argentine team that lost the Copa and Juventus midfielder Roberto “Juventus Football Club has today “Our aim is to win this year,” America final 3-0 to Brazil. In Pereyra were also late arriving completed the said Messi, who has neverthe- 2011, they lost to Uruguay in the because of the final. signing of Sami less tasted Olympic gold with quarter-finals on penalties when No matter the result in Chile, Khedira. his country at the 2008 Beijing playing in his home province of Messi will be welcomed back to “The 28-year- Games. Santa Fe. Barcelona with open arms. old, who will But while he was declared Messi was jeered by Argentine But a statue of Messi put officially join player of the World Cup, the fans for the first time in his up during the World Cup last from Real Little Genius’s speed and jink- career, according to his father year was vandalised during the Madrid on a ing runs never seem the same on Jorge. tournament. free transfer on the international stage as they Argentina start this tourna- And the Little Genius will have 1 July 2015, has do when he pulls on a Barcelona ment against Paraguay in La to use his magic to lift the Copa agreed terms on shirt. Serena on Saturday and also play America in Santiago on July 4 to a four-year con- Messi scored 43 goals in 38 Uruguay and Jamaica in Group B. become a real Argentine hero. Argentina’s Lionel Messi arrives at the airport in La Serena yesterday. tract which expires on 30 June Spanish championship matches Argentina coach Gerardo AFP 2019.” His arrival has also given Juve, who won their first league and Cup double in 20 years last Brazil determined to banish ghosts of World Cup season, cover in the event that Chilean international Arturo RIO DE JANEIRO: A resur- its early exit. striker Neymar is one of the keys final goal for Barcelona in their in Chile. Shakhtar Donetsk mid- Vidal is lured away from the club. gent Brazil are determined to But fast-forward nearly a to the revival. 3-1 Champions League final defeat fielder Fred, Monaco defender Vidal, who is currently on bury the memory of last year’s year, and Brazil are heading One of Dunga’s first acts of Juventus on Saturday. Fabinho and Lazio’s attacking duty at the Copa America, has traumatic World Cup campaign into the Copa America in Chile last year was to hand the cap- Neymar’s late strike in Berlin midfielder Felipe Anderson all been linked with a move to Real as they prepare to regain their with renewed confidence after a tain’s armband to the Barcelona was the final act of a superb sea- featured in the win over Mexico Madrid. crown as the kings of South sequence of nine straight wins forward, and the 23-year- son for the Spanish treble winners on Sunday, which also saw The statement added: “Khedira, American football at the Copa since the World Cup debacle old has thrived on the added which saw him notch 39 goals. Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho who is normally deployed in front America. under the guidance of former responsibility. Dunga believes Neymar’s score his first international goal of the defence as a ball-winning Brazil’s challenge at the World captain Dunga. “It is not a surprise, but the goalscoring performance in the for Brazil. midfielder, is able to cover a lot Cup on home soil was obliter- Dunga, who succeeded Luiz statistics are there to show that Champions League final augurs “We are on the right track, of ground while also possessing ated in a 7-1 semi-final mauling Felipe Scolari, has overseen a when Neymar puts on the cap- well for Brazil’s Copa America though we haven’t got anywhere excellent passing and shooting by eventual champions Germany, steady return to winning ways tain’s armband, he takes a step campaign. as yet. We must improve day by ability, and great vision of the a result that was compared to since his reappointment. forward,” Dunga said in March. “This is good for Brazilian foot- day individually and collectively,” game. the hosts’ infamous defeat to Brazil’s run of victories has “He is a player who likes chal- ball as a whole, having a player Dunga said. “Bianconeri boss Massimiliano Uruguay in the climax of the 1950 included friendly wins over lenges. The more responsibility scoring in the final and winning Brazil open their Group C cam- Allegri is set to add a player of tournament. Colombia, Chile, Argentina and he has, the more he will develop. the Champions League,” Dunga paign against Peru in Temuco on class, quality and international An emphatic 3-0 defeat to the France, with Mexico becoming He is making history in European said. Sunday before a showdown with experience to his ranks, ready to Netherlands in the third place the latest victims in a 2-0 win in football.” While the core of the Brazil Colombia on June 17 in Santiago, enrich one of the strongest mid- play-off only added to the mood Sao Paulo on Sunday. Neymar missed Sunday’s squad is the same as the team a rematch of their stormy World fields in world football.” of disarray surrounding Brazil as Dunga, who coached Brazil to friendly with Mexico but will torn asunder by Germany, Dunga Cup quarter-final last year which Barcelona defeated Juventus the world’s most successful foot- their last Copa America win in reunite with the squad bristling has successfully blooded several saw Neymar suffer a fractured 3-1 in the Champions League final balling nation came to terms with 2007, believes the form of star with confidence after scoring the new players who could play a part vertebra. AFP last Saturday in Berlin. AFP