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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 MUHARRAM 6, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net

Pro-government MPs want Max 31º return of longer detention Min 22º High Tide 02:29 & 17:07 Maayouf questions education minister on bedoon kids Low Tide 10:12 & 22:14 40 PAGES NO: 16327 150 FILS By B Izzak Assembly panels to approve their proposal in addition to passing it through the Assembly and its acceptance by the KUWAIT: Five MPs yesterday proposed the reinstatement of government. All the five lawmakers who made the proposal longer detention periods that existed before 2012 to enable are pro-government. investigators and prosecutors to do their job in the best way The opposition had placed cutting detention periods at to prosecute criminals. The five lawmakers, Abdullah Al- the top of its priorities and accomplished it at the start of the Maayouf, Nabeel Al-Fadhl, Khalil Abul, Abdullah Al-Tameemi 2012 Assembly, which was elected in February and was and Adel Al-Khorafi, submitted a draft law calling for abolish- scrapped by the constitutional court in June. ing a law passed by the 2012 opposition-dominated National Meanwhile, activists said that opposition activist Ayyad Al- Assembly to reduce detention periods. Harbi, who serving a two-year sentence, has begun a hunger That law cut detention at police stations from four days to strike in protest against ill-treatment by prison authorities. just 48 hours and detention by the public prosecution from Activists claimed that Harbi was tortured and assaulted by 21 days to just 10 days, which can be extended only by a some officers and his hands and legs were placed in cuffs as a judge. But the five lawmakers said that investigators were not punishment. Harbi’s lawyer Mohammad Al-Humaidi said on being able to do their job properly because of the short time Twitter that he had learned of the harassment of his client available to them and proposed the return of the longer and that he was preparing to take legal action. detention. The return of the old periods requires National Continued on Page 13

RIYADH: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on Tuesday. The meeting was held in a brotherly atmosphere reflecting the historic relations between the leadership and people of Kuwait with Saudi Arabia. — KUNA (See Page 2) $22.5bn Riyadh metro a ‘race against time’

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s sprawling and congested capital is metro’s six lines that will cover 176 km, supported by a bus in a race against time to complete its $22.5 billion metro network of 1,150 km. But with the population of Riyadh system within four years, a senior official said yesterday. projected to reach 8.2 million by 2030, up from the current Abdullah Allohaidan told AFP in an interview that the rail 5.7 million, “definitely we need a transportation system”, he and bus development - whose construction is changing said. “Ninety percent of the people here are using cars.” the face of Riyadh - is the largest such project under way in Saudi Arabia is the top oil exporter in the OPEC cartel the Middle East “and I think in the whole world”. and its economy has been one of the best performing in Construction began a year ago but has accelerated in the the Group of 20 leading nations, according to the last few weeks, with road closures, digging equipment and International Monetary Fund. Three foreign consortiums hard-hatted workers taking over the city’s business core, to are building the metro, with France’s Alstom, Canada’s the frustration of drivers facing detours and lane-closures. Bombardier and Germany’s Siemens among the major “I think the biggest challenge we are facing is the duration participants. The city’s existing public transportation sys- of the project,” said Allohaidan, assistant to the metro tem includes beaten-up minibuses carrying immigrant director. workers. The buses, which cough their way past office tow- Plans call for construction to be completed by the end ers in the business district, would look more at home in of 2018. “Usually the duration for those projects is much Africa. longer,” he said in front of colour-coded maps showing the Continued on Page 13 Scott becomes Africa’s first white president in decades Zambia’s ‘King Cobra’ Sata dies LUSAKA: Zambia’s President Michael Sata - nicknamed “King Cobra” for his sharp rhetoric - has died, officials said yesterday, making his vice-presi- dent Africa’s first white head of state in decades. Sata, 77, died Tuesday while undergoing treatment in London’s private King Edward VII hospital for an unspecified illness, the Zambian government said. Officials had long denied Sata was sick, even prosecuting journalists who questioned his long “working Michael Sata Guy Scott vacations” to Israel and elsewhere. “They were cheating,” said Mundia died in hospital.” Some Zambians responded to the Akapelwa, a young mother visiting In the hours following Sata’s news by asking why he died in an Lusaka’s Soweto market. “They knew demise it was unclear who would upscale foreign hospital and well that he was going to seek med- lead the country, or his Patriotic expressed anger over government ical attention. You can hide sickness Front party, which has been accused secrecy, including claims he was but you can’t hide death. Now the of creeping authoritarianism. going to London for a check-up. whole world knows that the man has Continued on Page 13 LOCAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince greets HH the Amir upon his arrival Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud sees HH the Amir off in the back home. — KUNA photos HH the Amir with Arab and International Relations Council board members Amir receives top state, ArabSaudi officials capital. Sheikh Sabah, King Abdullah discuss ways of boosting GCC march

KUWAIT/RIYADH: His Highness the Amir Jassem Al-Thani on the occasion of their visit Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Deputy Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Kuwait. The meetings were also attended by Crown Prince, Second Deputy Premier and received yesterday at Bayan Palace HH the Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh King’s Special Envoy Prince Muqren bin Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah. Abdulaziz and other officials. HH the Amir also Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq HH the Amir also met with the visiting attended a dinner banquet held in his honor Ali Al-Ghanim, HH Sheikh Nasser Al- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arab by Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz. Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and HH the Family Organization (AFO) Jamal Al-Bah and Upon his return, His Highness thanked the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Saif Salem Rashed Al-Shamsi. During the Saudi King for the warm reception and hospi- Hamad Al-Sabah. meeting, they presented HH the Amir with an tality during his visit. In a cable to the Saudi HH the Amir, with the presence of HH the AFO-related book. Monarch, HH the Amir said this warm recep- Crown Prince and Speaker Marzouq Al- HH Sheikh Sabah had returned home tion reflected deep-rooted relations between Ghanim, also received the visiting Speaker of Tuesday night after paying a brotherly visit to the two countries and people. HH Sheikh Shura Council of Oman Khalid bin Hilal Al Saudi Arabia, where he held summit talks with Sabah, expressing pleasure for the meeting Mawali and his accompanying delegation. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al- with the Saudi Monarch, wished King Separately, HH the Amir received Chairman Saud. The meeting was held in a brotherly Abdullah lasting good health and that the of the Arab and International Relations Council atmosphere reflecting the historic relations Saudi people enjoy sustainable prosperity. Mohammad Al-Sager and board members on between the leadership and people of Kuwait HH the Amir was accompanied by an offi- the occasion of the convention of the fourth with Saudi Arabia. HH the Amir and King cial delegation including Sheikh Sabah Khaled meeting of the council’s board of trustees in Abdullah discussed ways of boosting the Al-Sabah, the Director of the Office of HH the Kuwait. HH Sheikh Sabah also received the vis- march of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Amir Ahmad Al-Fahad, Amiri Chief of Protocols iting Iraqi Vice-President Iyad Allawi and First in all domains, as well as regional and interna- Sheikh Khaled Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah Al-Nasser Deputy Chairman of the Arab International tional issues of mutual interest. Al-Sabah, Amiri Diwan Secretary for Media and Relations Council, as well as former Qatari The meeting was attended by Crown Cultural Affairs Yousef Al-Roumi and Kuwait’s prime minister and Arab International Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sheikh Thamer Relations Council board member Hamad bin Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — KUNA HH the Amir receives a copy of the book presented by AFO Chairman Jamal Al-Bah Foreign Minister meets Erekat Chief Palestinian negotiator lays out statehood plan

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met with the visiting Palestinian chief peace negotiator Dr Saeb Erekat yesterday. The two officials discussed Kuwaiti-Palestinian rela- tions and means of promoting them. The talks also tackled the latest developments in the Palestinian territories. The meeting was attended by Director of Arab world department Ambassador Abdulhameed Ali Al-Failikawi and a number of officials from the Foreign Ministry. Erekat took part in a seminar the night before which discussed the Palestinian new strategy after the collapse of peace negotiations with KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister with Omani speaker Khalid bin Hilal Al-Mawali. — KUNA Israel and the deterioration of instability in the region. During the lecture, he urged for allowing visitors from Arab countries to Jerusalem with- Premier receives AIRC out stigmatizing them as seekers of “normalizing relations with Israel.” chairman, Omani speaker Erekat highlighted Kuwait’s ongoing support KUWAIT: Saeb Erekat speaks during the lecture. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh to the Palestinian cause which was made tions to pave the way for announcing the estab- ing the plan will mainly count on the Palestinian KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Meanwhile, HH Sheikh Jaber met the vis- stronger after Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled visited Al- lishment of two states based on the boundaries Liberation Organization (PLO) to be the only Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah iting Speaker of Shura Council of Oman Aqsa Mosque recently. that existed before the 1967 border line. legitimate representative of the Palestinian peo- received at Bayan Palace yesterday Khalid bin Hilal Al-Mawali and his accompa- A statehood resolution is overdue for ple. The next move will be holding elections for Chairman of Arab and International nying delegation. The meeting was attend- Palestinian state Palestine especially since it gained a non- Palestinian National Council. Relations Council (AIRC) Mohammad Jassim ed by Secretary-General of the National Meanwhile, Erekat laid out a new plan, which Member Observer State status in the United The seminar was part of a Palestinian cultural Al-Saqer. The meeting was attended by Assembly Allam Al-Kandari and undersecre- will be in effect next month, to establish an inde- Nations, he said, hoping that the United States activities organized by National Council for Assistant Undersecretary for Local Affairs in tary for local affairs department at the pendent Palestinian state by 2017. The plan will would not oppose to any unilateral moves Culture, Arts and Letters, in collaboration with the Diwan of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Premier’s Diwan Sheikh Khaled Mohammad help to break the stalemate of these negotia- towards statehood. The first step of implement- the Palestinian embassy. — KUNA Khalid Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. — KUNA Kuwait worries about Yemen situation: Diplomat NEW YORK/ BERLIN: Kuwait expressed ing of refugees. deep concern towards the political tur- Speaking to KUNA on sidelines of the moil in Yemen that is affecting the fellow conference which began Tuesday, Arab country’s security and economic Daihani said that Kuwait has always welfare, said a senior Kuwaiti diplomat been helping the Syrian people “whose late Tuesday. suffering represents a humanitarian Kuwaiti permanent envoy to the UN, catastrophe following the murder of Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, said in a thousands of people and displacement letter to the UNSC leadership that the of millions.” He further noted that Kuwait international community should get hosted two conferences to help the involved and support Yemen in its cur- Syrian people, and has pledged $800 rent predicament, helping the govern- million during the two meetings. He said Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) has been execut- ing $50 million worth of projects for the Syrian refugees in neighboring coun- tries: Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

Food security Meanwhile, Kuwait urged the need KUWAIT: Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah with Iranian Ambassador Ali Reza Enayati. (Right) Sheikh Nasser with South Korea’s Ambassador Shin for the international community to move Boonam. — KUNA in a coordinated and sustained manner to tackle hunger and achieve the requirements of food security. Amiri Diwan Minister receives envoys This came in a statement delivered by the Third Secretary of Kuwait’s perma- KUWAIT: Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad had cordial discussions. Also, Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah received South nent UN delegation Osama Al-Jassar at Al-Sabah received Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Reza Enayati yester- Korea’s Ambassador to Kuwait Shin Boonam and discussed ways of the Economic Committee, amid talks on day. In the meeting, both sides discussed issues of common interest and strengthening cooperation between the two countries. — KUNA agricultural development and food secu- Mansour Al-Otaibi rity. Kuwait continues to support inter- ment there to seek peaceful transition of national efforts for enabling developing Info Minister meets Azeri President power and solidifying notions of nation- and underdeveloped nations reach sus- al unity and stability. tainable and agricultural development in BAKU: Kuwait’s Minister of Information, Azerbaijan, as an Islamic state, hosted this giving today’s forum an added significance. Otaibi called for supporting the Gulf order to achieve food security, he said. Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh important forum on youth policies, and praised There has to be a platform where the youth Cooperation Council (GCC) initiatives Since it was founded, the Kuwait Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah the development it achieved in various fields. of the world can congregate to toss around concerning Yemen and also stressed the Fund for Arab Economic Development met yesterday with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. The meeting was attended by Kuwait’s ideas seminal to their lifestyles and aspirations, importance of backing up UNSC resolu- has contributed more than $18 billion The meeting was held on sidelines of the First Ambassador to Azerbaijan Saud Abdulaziz Al- said the minister, noting that numerous coun- tions connected with the matter. through 931 development projects to Global Forum on Youth Policies, held in the cap- Roumi, the third secretary Imad Al-Kandari and tries have shown apathy regarding youth over 100 countries. Some $1.9 billion of ital Baku. Sheikh Salman Sabah told KUNA that the diplomatic attache, Abdullah Al-Hubaida. issues, despite the ringing of alarm bells by the Syrian refugees these were focused on the development he conveyed greetings of His Highness the Amir Meanwhile, Azerbaijani Minister of Youth UN for many years, urging all countries to Meanwhile, Aziz Al-Daihani, perma- of the agricultural sector. Separately on Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Sports Azad Rahimov touted the impor- address problems of their youths. nent representative to the Arab League, climate change, Kuwait called on the wishing the Muslim country greater prosperity tance of holding the First Global Forum on UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has said that Kuwait’s participation in an international community to do more to and advancement. Talks between the two sides Youth Policies in Baku. expressed his delight for the convening of the international conference on plight of tackle its negative effects through “seri- tackled bilateral relations and ways of develop- He said in a statement to KUNA that the last forum in Baku, where youth-oriented issues will Syrian refugees in neighboring countries ous national strategies” based on inter- ing them in various fields. Minister Sheikh time a forum similar to the one being held now be discussed and recommendations will be reflects its keenness to alleviating suffer- national conventions. — KUNA Salman Sabah expressed his pride that in Baku was 15 years ago in the city of Lisbon, reached. — KUNA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 LOCAL Occupy Central Movement is illegal, no basis to continue: Ambassador Chinese Embassy addresses bilateral relations, Ebola and IS

By Ben Garcia in order to be elected as HK execu- judicial credibility, to promote the of the world today is terrorism and it tive. The 2-3 nominees will be chosen public awareness of the rule of law poses a serious threat to internation- KUWAIT: Occupy Central Movement, by the entire Hong Kong population and to speed up the rule of law. al security and development. The the continuing struggle and protest if they are registered voters. The international community should car- by students in the economic hub of 1,200-member nomination commit- Strong cooperation ry out extensive cooperation to joint- the world - Hong Kong - is illegal and tee is from various sectors and Hong With regards to bilateral relations ly combat terrorism in accordance has no basis to continue, said Cui Kong people are well-represented. between two countries, Cui said with the charter of the United Jianchun, Ambassador of China to The Occupy Central wants to nomi- Kuwait and China are trying their Nations and other universally recog- Kuwait. The ambassador, who spoke nate the 2-3 representatives to be best to further enhance their already nized international law and norms. with local reporters at the Chinese elected by the people. Well, that is strong cooperation in all fronts. China maintains our policy to stay Embassy yesterday, said there is a not what the basic law says,” Cui “Kuwait is being considered by China vigilant against the development of basic law that governs Hong Kong’s explained. as a very important partner in the international terrorism and crack government and it must be respect- According to Cui, the students region. Since June, we have high-lev- down on any attempt of terrorism to ed at all time. “Hong Kong is China’s and Hong Kong government are cur- el delegations and exchanges of vis- spread, instigate and sell terrorist administrative region and its affairs rently engaged in productive dia- its from officials of both countries. ideas, recruits and finance their CAIRO: President Abdelfatah Al-Sisi during his interview with KUNA Chairman fully fall within China’s domestic logue and that everyone is aware of The Xinhua News Agency visited attacks, with the use of Internet and Sheikh Mubarak Al-Duaij Al-Sabah — KUNA affairs,” Cui warned, adding no for- the consequences. The ambassador Kuwait and next year KUNA will visit modern communications technolo- eign government, institution or per- stressed the rule of law will be China. There is cooperation in educa- gies,” he added. Egypt’s national security son has the right to interfere as the observed as reiterated during the tion wherein universities will also central government of Beijing is per- Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th engage in exchange visits. We are try- Combating Ebola forming its duty well to protect its On helping combating the Ebola linked to Gulf’s: Sisi people in accordance with the law outbreak, Cui said they have already and safeguarding the rule of law and sent about 200 experts and medical Egyptian president meets KUNA chief social order of Hong Kong. workers to stricken West African Cui said after British rule ended in countries for much-needed humani- CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdelfatah Al- He pointed out that President Al-Sisi’s 1997, Hong Kong has been running tarian assistance. “We have a total of Sisi said yesterday in an interview with interview with KUNA focused on the its affairs under the watchful eye of 234 million yuan in assistance given Kuwait News Agency Board Chairman and prospects of Kuwaiti-Egyptian relations and China and it has its own constitution to West Africa in the form of preven- Director General Sheikh Mubarak Duaij Al- efforts exerted to enhance Egyptian-Gulf and basic law. “Contrasting the tion and medical treatment, includ- Ibrahim Al-Sabah that Egyptian national cooperation in different domains. demands of the students, the basic ing food and cash,” he mentioned. “Al security is closely linked to the security of It also tackled the political and economic law in Hong Kong said that the Hong these measures are well-received by the Arab Gulf region. developments in Egypt and the challenges Kong executive must be nominated the international community and President Al-Sisi has underscored the facing Egyptian economy, the government by the 1,200-member nomination lauded by West African states, the UN close link between Egyptian and Arab Gulf efforts to attract foreign investments and the committee mandated by the basic and WHO. Yesterday, Premier Li security during the interview, said Egyptian mega national projects that the government law in Hong Kong and this was not Keqiang announced at the summit of Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef in a is implementing currently, said Youssef. He invented by the Hong Kong authori- the Asia-Europe Meeting that China press briefing on the main points tackled in stated that the interview touched upon ties or the Chinese authorities. The will provide a fourth batch of assis- the interview, which will be aired in full by Egypt’s relations with the world after 30 rule of law must be respected and tance amounting to at least 100 mil- KUNA on Saturday. Youssef noted that the June, 2013, events and the ouster of former observed by everyone in Hong Kong lion yuan. We also prepared 60 ambu- President has laid it bare that any leniency president Mohammad Morsi as well as and we will not allow anyone to dis- KUWAIT: Ambassador Cui Jianchun speaks at the press conference lances, 100 motorbikes, 10,000 kits in protecting Arab Gulf region security is Egypt’s vision on terrorism fighting. The pres- tract us because it will definitely set a yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat for disease prevention and nursing as considered a leniency in maintaining ident also clarified to KUNA Egypt’s stance of bad example for other Chinese well as 150,000 sets of personal pro- Egyptian security as Egypt and the Gulf the recent developments in several Arab regions demanding secession from Central Committee of the Communist ing to arrange the visit of two highest tective equipment,” he added. China region share the same destiny and future. countries, he said. — KUNA mainland China. We want to manage Party of China which was held on Oct officials of our lands and we hope it is also preparing a donation of about the problem properly, observing the 20-23 in Beijing. “The general target is will happen next year. The Kuwaiti $6 million to UN’s Ebola Response rights of every citizen and people,” to form a system serving the socialist prime minister has already visited Multi-Partner Trust Fund to support said Cui. rule of law with Chinese characteris- China and it resulted in many accom- efforts made by the UN. Historic Dasman He said the Hong Kong people are tics and build a country under the plishments most importantly the Cui also announced hosting on angry because their daily life has socialist rule of law,” he added. “China signing of ten major agreements Nov 5-11 the APEC Economic Leaders been disrupted but dialogue will ensure the leadership of CPC in from banking, relaxing visa proce- Week including the concluding sen- Palace to be rebuilt between the government and stu- the socialist rule of law with Chinese dures for diplomats, Kuwaiti fund ior officials’ meeting on Nov 5-6 and KUWAIT: A specialized committee at the Kuwaitis, said the chairman Manea Al- dent protesters is ongoing and has characteristics,” he mentioned. projects, oil supply, the Silk Road APEC Ministerial Meeting on Nov 7-8 Municipality Council agreed to a propos- Ajmi. He stressed that the palace has been very positive in the last few The major tasks are to improve the projects and refinery among others,” and the 26th APEC Economic Leaders al to tear down Dasman Palace and have been a landmark location in the heart of days. “There is no single country in socialist system of laws with Chinese he said. Meeting on Nov 10-11. During the it rebuilt as a presentable headquarters Kuwait city and should be preserved in the world ruled by the street protest- characteristics in which the constitu- In the battle against IS, Cui men- meeting, China will also host the for the nation’s ruler, the committee that location for its historic significance, ers. We have rules to follow and we tion is taken as the core to strengthen tioned their absolute support and APEC CEO Summit, APEC Business chairman told reporters yesterday. provided it is updated and put to practi- subscribe to the one-China policy the implementation of the constitu- cooperation with the international Advisory Council and Dialogue with Dasman Palace is a historic building of cal use. Once completed, the palace and two systems and they being tion, to promote administration by community to defeat terrorism. “We Leaders and Leaders’ Spouse great emotional content to many could be under the supervision of the observed thoroughly. It is clear that law, to speed up building a law-abid- are supporting the effort being made Programs. This year’s APEC theme is Kuwaitis, having survived decades of Cabinet or the Kuwait Municipality, he the committee has been mandated ing government, to safeguard the by the international community to “Shaping the Future through Asia- events experienced by generations of pointed out. — KUNA by the law to select 2 to 3 candidates judicial justice system, to improve defeat terrorism. The common enemy Pacific Partnership”. Embassy hosts US University Fair in Kuwait

KUWAIT: On Saturday, November 1, 2014, the US Embassy University, University of Oklahoma and American in Kuwait will sponsor an educational fair at the Marina Consortium of Universities: West Chester University of Hotel, Salmiya from 6:00-9:00 pm. The fair provides a Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina Greensboro, and chance for Kuwaiti students to meet with representatives Valparaiso University. from more than 15 accredited US colleges and universities, EducationUSA advisers and U.S. Embassy consular offi- who will help Kuwaiti students explore higher education cers will be present at the fair to address students’ ques- opportunities in the United States. US Ambassador to tions related to studying in the U.S. and the student visa Kuwait Douglas Silliman will open the fair. process. U.S. Embassy youth alumni will also be present to The following schools will be represented at the fair: St share their experiences in Embassy-sponsored youth pro- Cloud State University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Saint grams in Kuwait. Louis University, University of Alabama, Rutgers- The State For more information on the fair, visit the link University of New Jersey, Columbia University, Northern http://www.facebook.com/useembassyq8. More informa- Arizona University, University of Missouri, Middle tion about studying in the U.S. is available on the following Tennessee State University, Case Western Reserve link: University. Bentley University, State University of New York- http://www.educationusa.state.gov/. University at Buffalo, Willamette University. West Virginia Visit us online at kuwait.usembassy.gov Kuwait, Oman mull further cooperation

KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim received yesterday the visiting Speaker of Shura Council of Oman Khalid bin Hilal Al-Mawali and his accompanying delegation. Ghanim and Mawali held talks on the ways of strengthening cooperation between the two countries as well as coordinating efforts in the international forums. In a statement by General Secretariat of National Assembly, Mawali referred to the visit’s positive outcomes, commend- ing his meeting earlier in the day with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In a related development, Ghanim held a lunch banquet in honor of Mawali and the delegation accompanying him. The Omani speaker has left Kuwait, end- KUWAIT: Marzouq Al-Ghanim receives his Omani counterpart Khalid Al ing up a three-day official visit to the Mawali yesterday. — KUNA country. — KUNA CAN launches colon, rectum cancer awareness campaign KUWAIT: Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN) launched a He added that 30 percent of cancer cases could have campaign Tuesday to raise awareness about healthy life- been prevented if patients were adopting healthy style aimed at preventing colon and rectum cancer. habits. Saleh said number of colon and rectum cases in The two-month campaign aims at raising awareness Kuwait has increased five-folds in the past 33 years. among the public about the healthy life-style through Thabet Al-Muhanna, Governor of the Capital holding workshops and lectures in NGOs, authorities, Governorate, said all health systems called for healthy schools, companies and banks with the ultimate objec- life-style. He said media should play greater role to edu- tive of reducing cancer types including colon and rec- cate people about the benefits of healthy diet coupled tum, said Dr Khaled Al-Saleh, CAN campaign deputy with exercises. chief. The campaign, he said in a statement at the The CAN campaign has been launched in Yarmouk launch, seeks healthy life-style based on healthy diet Area, which was chosen by the World Health and physical exercises. Organization (WHO) as a model healthy area. — KUNA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 LOCAL KFSD seeks to ensure firemen’s safety Thermo-man to the rescue!

By Nawara Fattahova Deputy General Director for HR Development and Crime Fighting Department Brigadier Khalid Al-Mikrad said that Crime Report KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) held a KFSD is focusing on human resources and provides highest Report presentation at their workshop complex in Rai yesterday of protection for them during their work. “We provide fire- Thermo-man, showing flames engulfing a figure wearing fighters with the best equipments and vehicles to ensure firefighting gear that included 122 sensitive parts to meas- their safety. Today we present Thermo-man that tests the Building janitor quality of firefighting gear to ensure their high standard and compatibility with safety and security measures,” he mugged noted. “The Thermo-man creates the same drastic condi- tions that the firefighters face during their work. This test KUWAIT: Three suspects armed with axes attacked a build- should show the resistance efficiency ratio of the firefight- ing janitor in Maidan Hawally and took KD 320, mobile ing gear to ensure avoiding any weakness or shortfalls in phones and keys that belong to a Jordanian and stole her these uniforms in order to provide top protection accord- car. The janitor told police he was attacked in his room and ing to international standards,” added Mikrad. threatened to be killed if he did not give what he had. “The Thermo-man is a very expensive machine, so KFSD Detectives are investigating. hasn’t purchased it. It is available in Dubai, and we will require from companies that are supplying us with fire- fighting gear to test their products with this machine first. Beggar caught We have always bought the best quality suits to ensure the safety of our firefighters,” he added. Jahra police arrested a Yemeni beggar who harassed worshippers at a Jahra mosque, claiming he was a Gulf Raising awareness national facing financial difficulties. The problems facing the firefighters are mainly not caused by the quality of their suits -it’s the incorrect way of Drug possession wearing them. Sometimes when the weather is hot, they don’t wear helmets or gloves, or they open a part of the Ahmadi patrols sent three citizens to the narcotics authori- jacket, which is dangerous. “We also aim to make all fire- ties after being caught with 11 heroin envelopes and para- fighters aware to stick to instructions properly while wear- phernalia. One of the arrested is wanted to serve a four- ing their outfits,” explained Mikrad. year jail sentence on a felony. PR and Media Director Colonel Khalil Al-Amir stressed The drugs found with the fugitive the importance of searching for the latest equipment in the prevention field. “Prevention is the main pillar in avoid- Angry, armed driver The Thermo-man suit before the test. ing accidents. The KFSD is dealing with the best companies Visa violators A citizen lost his temper when another honked behind to provide the latest equipment for the firefighters. him, so he got out of his car with a shotgun and fired ure second and third degree burns in a 1,000 degrees Cooperation with Sadan Company is an example, as they at the motorist, injuring his hand in the process before Celsius fire for 8 seconds. New vehicles and equipments provided Thermo-man,” he stated. arrested escaping. Detectives are working to arrest the suspect. were also displayed at the event. General Manager of Sadan Naser Burisly said that the Sheikh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, State company is keen to provide the latest technology in the Minister for Cabinet Affairs, assured the KFSD is ready for firefighting field. “There are only three Thermo-mans By Hanan Al-Saadoun Ruptured eardrum the rainy season by readying new and modern equipment around the world, and it’s one of the best machines to eval- that is able to deal with floods and disasters. “They have all uate tests of the ratio of burn injuries caused by fire. This KUWAIT: Detectives carried out a campaign in Fahaheel A citizen was charged with attacking and severely injuring components to deal with accidents, and they already have strengthens the ability of evaluating the dangers of certain industrial area that resulted in the arrest of 64 visa violators an Asian whose eardrum ruptured because of a car accident. tested it during many previous accidents. The government work and helps in preserving the highest safety and pro- who were sent to concerned authorities for further action. is always supporting the brave firefighters,” he pointed out. tection levels,” he noted. Property damage A citizen accused a woman he knows of deliberately Fugitive nabbed at checkpoint damaging his car because of previous disputes. He Security men arrested a wanted man at a checkpoint in said the woman trailed until she got the opportunity Mahboula. The arrest was made when the man left his car in the parking lot of a Jahra co-op branch, and dam- and started running, so policemen chased and caught aged his car. Police are investigating. him. Hashish, shabu and 15 Captagon tablets were found on him. He was also found wanted on rape charges.

Twitter insult A former MP accused three persons of insulting him on Foul play Twitter. The former MP told Surra police about what hap- Hawally prosecutor decided to consider the death of an pened and detectives are investigating. —Al-Rai Indian woman by hanging as a suspected felony until receiving the medical report from the criminal evidence. Her husband has been detained. Separately, the body of a Public Prosecution Pakistani was found with his hands and legs tied and an apparent injury to the head. Detectives are working to delegation held identify the murderer. KUWAIT: Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah watches the Thermo-man testing display. talks in Oman —Photos by Joseph Shagra MUSCAT: A Kuwait Public Prosecution delegation met yes- Beggar in Abaya caught terday with Head of Administrative Court Justice Majed Jahra police arrested an Indian expat for begging Abdullah Al-Alawi. During the meeting, Al-Alawi welcomed while dressed in an Abaya and pretending to be an the Kuwaiti delegation and made a presentation to the dele- Arab in Saad Al-Abdullah. She had collected KD 10 in gation members about the court’s jurisdiction and mecha- two hours. Jahra security director Maj Gen Ibrahim Al- nism of work. The Kuwait delegation held a separate meet- Tarra ordered her deportation. ing with Deputy Head of the Supreme Court who briefed them about the jurisdiction of various Omani courts. The two meetings have also tackled means to bolster bilateral Police station fire judicial cooperation between Kuwait and Oman. —KUNA Security sources said the heavily-guarded Sulaibiya police station caught fire for unknown reasons. Fire engines were Home tents allowed called to deal with the blaze. KUWAIT: MP Madhi Al-Hajri said Kuwait Municipality agreed to allow erecting tents in front of homes during Alcohol busted camping season only. Al-Hajri said that Communications Minister, State Minister for Municipality Affairs Essa Al- An Ahmadi security campaign resulted in the confisca- Kandary told him that he agrees to have tents in front of tion of 36 locally-made liquor bottles. Five traffic cita- homes during camping period. —Al-Rai Sheikh Mohammed and KFSD officials in a group photo. tions were issued. Interior, UK delegation hold talks ‘Interior keeps pace with modern technology’ KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior is keeping KUWAIT: A security meeting took place high ranking British delegation. The Dousary, Director General of Criminal pace with modern technology to facilitate yesterday at the Interior Ministry with a meeting was chaired by Dr Fahad Al- Evidence Maj Gen, Maj Gen Asaad services for citizens and residents, Deputy Abdulrahman, Director General of Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Legal Affairs Department, and several Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah officers from the special security sector said yesterday. - Aircraft Protection Department. The Continuous modernization is basic for meeting discussed cooperation in all upgrading efficiency of security work, Sheikh security fields. Mohammad Al-Khaled said in a press state- In other news, Maj Gen Dr Eid Abu ment following his inauguration of the sec- Saleeb, Assistant Undersecretary for ond phase of the smart apparatuses system Back-up Services Affairs, inspected sev- project. The Minister highlighted the great eral Interior Ministry buildings under progress realized at the Ministry’s General construction in Ahmadi governorate. Department of Information System, which Meanwhile, a committee preparing matches world achievements on the security for the meeting of interior ministries’ and information levels. undersecretaries in Gulf Cooperation He also said that the information technolo- Council (GCC) countries, to be held on gy and communications sector shoulders next month in Kuwait, held a meeting huge burden of developing and supporting KUWAIT: Interior Ministry officials during the meeting with the UK yesterday to discuss preparations to the security strategy to combat crime with its KUWAIT: Sheikh Mohammad checks ministry applications on delegation. receive the GCC officials. social and economic dimensions. —KUNA a tablet at the inauguration yesterday. —KUNA Bohra center commemorates Imam Al-Hussein

KUWAIT: Wajeehuddin speaks at the event. —Photos by Joseph Shagra KUWAIT: The Borhani Islamic Bohra center in listened to a speech by the Bohra Sultan’s Islam and fully respect Kuwaiti laws. In addi- Kuwait held an event recently to commemo- grandson, Abdu Tayyeb Qossai Wajeehuddin. tion, Wajeehuddin reviewed his grandfa- rate the martyrdom of the grandson of In his speech, Wajeehuddin reviewed the ther’s contributions and traits and wished Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Imam Al- legacy of the great Prophet (PBUH) and the the new Sultan and His Highness the Amir Hussein. The event was attended by mem- sacrifices of his grandson. He also urged all of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah bers of the Bohra community in Kuwait who, Bohra community members to cling to all the best. A general view of people in attendance. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 LOCAL Kuwait 86th in easy business assessment WB annual report ranks 189 states

KUWAIT: Kuwait ranks 86th among 189 states, and the 8th at came as a result expansion of electronic applications and install- in December 2013, with the members comprising the ministries the Arab level, with respect of easy business, according to the ment of electronic means for making transactions, thus shorten- of commerce, industry, justice, power and water and the munici- World Bank’s “ease of doing business index.” ing duration of some procedures by diverse proportions.” pality. Its formation was in response to drop of Kuwait’s rating to This classification came in the WB’s annual report in 2015, 101 from among 185 states, in the WB’s 2013 report, and to 104 said Sheikh Dr Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Director- Updated legislations among 189 countries in the 2014 report. General of the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority He also indicated that Kuwait has succeeded in elevating lev- Sheikh Meshaal added that the permanent committee (KDIPA), in an interview with KUNA, adding that Kuwait recorded el of its rating also due to upgrading and amending relevant leg- focused its efforts, this year, on dealing with practical measures 63.11 points near the highest performance level index. This is islations by the concerned government authorities that are concerning companies’ founding, construction permits’ transac- slightly higher than the rating of the 2014, registered at 63.05. members in the permanent committee for improving the busi- tions, securing power and property registration, noting that it Also by comparison, Singapore recorded approximately 8.27 ness environment. had to get involved in these intensive tasks due to the limited points, retaining the top status at the level of easy businesses. Elaborating, the KDIPA chairman noted that Kuwait’s status, in duration of time since the commission’s start of its works early The World Bank makes the assessment in this respect on the the 2015 report, was negatively affected with hiking the mini- April till end of May, 2014, the date set by the WB group for basis of ranking the targeted countries between the level zero mum capital and fees on commercial permits. “These two mat- delivering required documents, needed for the assessment. and 100. Sheikh Meshaal stated in his remarks to KUNA that ters will be tackled in an appropriate manner and according to He indicated that the commission would deal with some “start of the improvement in Kuwait’s (business) status, as men- the best practices,” he affirmed. problems at this level and prepared for the next assessment due Sheikh Dr Meshaal Al-Sabah tioned in the report between early June 2013 and end of May, The KDIPA was established, according to a Cabinet resolution for 2016. — KUNA ‘Wisdom Global Islamic Mission’ to be held at Grand Mosque KKIC hosts conference to spread message of Islam

By Sajeev K Peter On the second day, the Islamic Students Conference - Prof Haris Bin Saleem, Prof Sabir Nawas, Kunji Muhammed to the whole humanity irrespective of caste, color, creed and ISCON2014 for teenage students of Indian schools in Kuwait Parapur and P N Abdullatheef Madani. religious barriers. It also focuses on peace and tranquility KUWAIT: Kuwait Kerala Islahi Center (KKIC) is organizing a will be held that will mainly focus on students’ moral, intellec- ‘Wisdom Global Mission’ is a five-phase project including among the whole community in India and the rest of the major conference titled ‘Wisdom Global Islamic Mission’ on tual and social development. This is the third students’ confer- advance education, relief for the poor people and their devel- world,” he said. Friday and Saturday (Oct 31 and Nov 1) at the Grand Mosque. ence successfully organized by KKIC in coordination with opment, dissemination of true Islamic message from its real In addition to KKIC president PN Abdullatheef Madani, Kuwait’s Minister of Oil Ali Al-Omair, Kerala’s Minister for KISM. It is a day-long workshop for teenage students of Indian sources, interaction with other religious scholars etc, added General Secretary TP Abdul Azeez and chief coordinator of Agriculture K P Mohan, Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain, Former schools focusing on their mental, moral, social and education- Madani. Wisdom Global Islamic Mission Sabir Nawas also addressed Kerala minister M P Veerendra Kumar, Kerala Pradesh al development. He informed that the first level of wisdom root was inaugu- the conference. Others who attended the conference included Congress Committee General Secretary P Sidheeq, Awqaf The scholars who participate in the sessions are Mujahid rated in Calicut, Kerala by Saudi Prince Sheikh Faisal bin Abdul Sakeer Koyilandi, AM Abdussamad, Sunash Shukoor, TP Assistant Undersecretary Sheikh Dawood Al-Asoosi, Islamic Balussery, Faizulla Madani (Karnataka), Arshad Khan (Dubai), Azeez. “Wisdom intends to propagate this invaluable message Anvar and Aslam Kapad. Heritage Committee Chairman Sheikh Tareq Al-Eissa and Indian Continental Committee Chairman Sheikh Falah Al- Mutairi will deliver lectures and presentations on a wide range of topics. In addition to the top array of dignitaries, scholars from India, the UAE and Kuwait will also attend the conference in various sessions. “‘Wisdom Global Islamic Mission’ is a new endeavor for spreading the message of Islam to maximum people world- wide, integrating and mobilizing the academic, intellectual and the cultural resources,” said KKIC president P N Abdullatheef Madani during a press conference. “The confer- ence is also expected to mobilize the scientific and technolog- ical expertise of Muslims to facilitate the creation of a thriving, dynamic, proactive and inclusive community,” he added. The senior officials at the press conference. Calls for enhancing youth national belonging

KUWAIT: Chairperson of the Kuwait crime, drugs and the like, Sheikha Fariha Society for the Ideal Family Sheikha Fariha said in a press statement yesterday. Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah urged state She underlined the necessity of caring and social institutions concerned with the for the young since early age, providing young generation to play due role to them with a safe environment, and later enhance the sense of national belonging. on, with the proper jobs to participate in Overlooking pushing the youth to be building the nation. armed with science and encouraging Sheikha Fariha also called for protect- them to get involved in the labor market, ing young people against insidious opens the door wide for them to violence, thoughts through awareness campaigns and conferences in which they take part. Caring for the expectations of the young people and addressing their problems and the obstacles facing them is neces- sary so as not to fall prey to bodies work- ing against Kuwait interests. The Chairperson of the Ideal Family called on the state institutions and the private sector to adopt and support expectations of the Kuwaiti youth, open- ing the door for them to express their concerns and hopes, as well as removing all obstacles that might face their future. She also appealed to parents to avert family violence, regarded as a major rea- son for the spread of violence and extrem- ism among youth. Fathers have also to monitor their children’s use of the internet to safeguard them against ideas and behaviors that are strange to the Kuwaiti Sheikha Fariha Al-Sabah integrated society. — KUNA KAMCO organizes breast cancer awareness lecture

KUWAIT: KAMCO organized a breast can- Terkait emphasized on early detection cer awareness lecture for its employees checkups and ways to prevent breast can- during the month of October, in line with cer through healthy diet and exercise. the international recognition of this health Sana Al-Hadlaq, Senior Vice President of issue in this time period. The lecture was the Marketing and Client Relationship titled ‘How can I protect myself from breast Department at KAMCO said, “We are cancer?’ pleased to witness high attendance to this KAMCO welcomed Dr Faisal Al-Terkait, initiative, and an active interaction MBBS, MRCP, CCT, a medical oncology con- between the attendees and the lecturer. As sultant at the Kuwait Cancer Control part of KAMCO’s corporate social responsi- Center, to conduct the lecture that covered bility program, we will continue to support important topics in the field of breast can- and focus on health, education and the cer that women need to be aware of to environment in order to mark a positive save their own life or someone else’s. Dr impact in our society.”

Dr Faisal Al-Terkait is awarded after the lecture. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest Trading In my view accusations Where will you go? E-security and education quality

By Abdullatif Al-Duaij

ecretary General of Hashd, former MP Musallam Al- Barrak, has strange ideas and despite this attracts Sinterest and support from many. The latest of Abu By Labeed Abdal Humoud’s ideas is social isolation that he and his follow- ers are trying to impose against the regime and its sup- porters. Kuwait’s people are lazy, and that is why they invented diwaniyas and late-night events. The diwaniyas with their current formation and purposes are not a Kuwaiti tradition as many believe - rather it is a modern [email protected] tradition that came along by the wealth and unemploy- ment made available by oil. The diwaniyas were originally for the nokhathas he Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) coun- (skippers). They meet in them with sailors and hosted tries plan to discuss the latest technologies and strangers or those from faraway places, while senior Tissues pertaining with e-security, such as cloud merchants used it on certain occasions and Eids only, Al-Anba computing and large data storage protection, as well as not like now - open 24 hours because of unemployment. the need to establish international cooperation against Kuwaitis used to work from six to six, from sunrise to cyber attacks. This is an important step in an electronic sunset, and that is why no one other than skippers had world. The discussions will tackle the urgent need to pre- the opportunity to go to diwaniyas, because night was cisely deal with the latest technologies on e-security, time for sleeping for those who worked hard during the especially that this field affects economic development day. Unemployment and availability of oil did not invent and national security. the diwaniya gathering only, but also created greetings Both the public and private sectors need to under- and well-wishing during happy events, visiting the sick, stand the importance of e-security and the challenges brought by the shortage of protection measures. Governments and parliaments are required to activate Unemployment and partnership between the public and private sectors to kuwait digest put data safety as a priority in order to tackle these chal- availability of oil did not lenges. In Kuwait, we need a strong electronic infrastruc- invent the diwaniya gather- Up, up and away KAC! Both the public and private ing only, but also created By Dr Hassan Abdullah Jouhar sectors need to understand the greetings and well-wishing recently had the honor of accompanying the social sciences col- I do hope that Roumi, with her genuine Kuwaiti personality and during happy events lege dean, colleague Dr Hanan Al-Hajri, and a group of political patriotism, would fight these ‘high waves’ the way her martyred importance of e-security and the Iscience students to visit KAC’s board director Rasha Al-Roumi to husband fought the occupation troops, recording one of Kuwait’s thank her and KAC crew for contributing in supporting the scientif- rare heroism stories. We do agree that KAC needs a modern fleet challenges brought by the short- dinner buffets and finally visiting the cemetery and con- ic section students’ trip to the UN headquarters in New York. that befits the history of this establishment and echo the state’s age of protection measures. dolences. With her humbleness and spontaneity, Roumi did not hide her potentials. The sums spent on its losses and temporary solutions of Barrak, along with some youth, are calling for boy- concern of attempts to delay the process of developing GCC’s old- its problems are not less than those needed for the revolutionary cotting these contemporary phenomena that was est airline and the endless problems, bad reputation and consider- reforms led by Roumi, who should know for sure that the entire founded by unemployment and encouraged by the ture based on a strong protection system against hack- able losses the carrier has been suffering. She said that things had Kuwaiti people would surely and strongly support and back her to availability of wealth that comes without effort or work ers’ attacks. Another topic I would like to address is the that requires rest and saving energy. This is the first time gone as bad like losing passengers’ trust and falling back behind to regain KAC’s status, especially if she adopts transparency and direct European Union’s announcement of reinforcing the use Barrak has acted progressively in a way that agrees with the tail of GCC aviation service providers’ list as well as the number transactions without using brokers or middlemen, focusing on get- of new technologies in higher education at member today’s societies. Boycotting diwaniyas and condolence and condition of planes its fleet includes to cover flights world- ting more benefits for the Kuwaiti side in future plane leasing or states, and focusing more on digital learning. This con- gatherings that occupy the time of most state officials is wide. purchase deals and getting rid of merchants readily awaiting to firms people’s need of high scientific levels in order to a progressive call that serves the hard-working society. Roumi’s feeling that such hindrances were deliberately put in devour it. guarantee quality production. Yet, can the secretary general of Hashd, or even others, her way merely because she is a woman who should not be the Developing the Kuwait Airways fleet will not be the magic The step that Europe takes to face the challenges of increased numbers of students, especially with increas- confront these phenomena and convince Kuwaitis to ‘savior’ of this floundering project where many men had failed wand taking it to its previous golden age which closely depends ing migration, drives countries to enhance the quality of get rid of them?! might be true. However, I do not find this the only success obstacle on success in reforming the civil aviation sector, building a new air- education, and subsequently efficiency as well. Focusing I doubt this very much. These phenomena are the in working for the government in Kuwait. The real problem at KAC port that befits Kuwait and launching more destinations opening production of the wealth and unemployment society, on realistic and scientific steps by using the best that and many governmental sectors stems from conflict of interests up to the whole world. These are state requirements that are far new technologies have to offer in education is a step and it is not easy to get rid of or boycott them, besides amongst corruption icons in the absence of hope to impose a beyond the capabilities of Mrs Roumi and her administrative and not having an alternative. Frankly, if Musallam Al-Barrak that reflects a long-term vision. Europe remains a protec- political-wise ‘red-eye policy’. Reform and fighting corruption has technical staffs. Taking into consideration that Roumi or any other and his group boycott diwaniyas and other events, where tor of the initiative in defending human rights, educa- will they go and how will they spend their time, while become a personal effort and individual risk facing endless hin- official should be held accountable in case of failing to do their tion, inventions and human achievements. Other coun- being lazier than people, because the Kuwait society is drances, troubles and slander that end up victimizing ‘reformists’ jobs, let us leave her be fly up high in the skies of development and tries are required to keep up, as laziness can never be Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida intertwined. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas themselves and forcing them to quit public service. reform! — taken as a road towards victory.

in my view Cameras to monitor Gaza reconstruction

By Abdullah Erakat

he Palestinian government says that closed cir- the donor conference in Cairo. Israel, the Palestinian cuit cameras will monitor the thousands of tons Authority and the United Nations agreed to facilitate Tof cement that will be needed to rebuild homes the movement of necessary building materials into in the Gaza Strip that were destroyed or damaged dur- Gaza. ing the summer’s fighting between Israel and Hamas The materials are only allowed through the check- in Gaza. A Palestinian security source said that the point that the Palestinians call Karem Abu Salem cross- cameras have been installed and the purpose is to ing and the Israelis call Karem Shalom Crossing. It was ensure that Hamas will not be able to rebuild the net- sent to designated warehouses where it is being held work of tunnels that were built under Gaza including until the reconstruction begins. some that were meant to be used to attack Israel. Israel “The merchants of those stores will screen family destroyed about 30 tunnels during the fighting with members, taking their name and why they want the Hamas, which left more than 2100 Palestinians and 70 supplies and if they pass they can get it,” the Israelis dead. Palestinian security source said. “This is to make sure it Israel allowed 600 tons of cement to enter Gaza last does not go to Hamas or Islamic Jihad to make tun- week during the visit of UN Secretary General Ban Ki- nels.” Moon. The international community recently donate $5.4 billion for Gaza reconstruction. Speaking to the Donors money Security Council this week Ban said donors should pay A timetable has not been set but Palestinian their pledges quickly so that reconstruction can begin observers have said that rebuilding Gaza depends on before the winter’s rains begin in earnest. the donors transferring the money immediately to the “Nothing could have prepared me for what I wit- PA. It also depends on Israel and its willingness to facil- nessed in Gaza. I saw mile after mile of wholesale itate the movement of the cement and keep the cross- destruction,” Ban said. ings open. The UN says that more than 100,000 residents of “Will donor pledges be forthcoming? Will the cease- Gaza remain homeless with over 50,000 still living in fire in Gaza hold up? Will further steps be taken to UN-run school buildings. Many Gazans still do not strengthen the (Palestinian) government of national have clean drinking water, and electricity is often on consensus in Gaza? Will other aspects of the blockade for just six hours each day. progressively be loosened “The clock is ticking. $414 thereby improving the econ- million is immediately need- “Nothing could have omy (and purchasing power) ed for humanitarian relief, in Gaza?” asked Rawley. $1.2 billion for early recovery prepared me for what I Officials from the needs and $2.4 billion for Palestinian Authority say reconstruction efforts,” Ban witnessed in Gaza. I saw Israel must not stop materials said. going into Gaza. UN official James Rawley mile after mile of wholesale “Israel must commit to has confirmed the set up of calm. Gaza is a part of cameras “to help ensure the destruction,” Ban said. Palestine and the crossings security of vendor facilities must be opened,” Palestinian and the safeguarding of their Prime Minister Rami own supplies,” but says “party affiliation is not part of Hamdallah recently told Ramallah reporters in a joint the mechanism, which is based on humanitarian and news conference alongside UN Secretary General Ban reconstruction needs.” He said that someone whose Ki-moon. home was destroyed will be required to present his Gaza based political and security analyst Hani Al Palestinian ID to an approved vendor in Gaza when Basoos says the rebuilding process is going slowly and collecting his/her materials, but did not specify what more supplies are needed. “Each day, Gaza needs 3000 ‘approved’ meant. tons of cement to keep the process of rebuilding Gaza stable,” he said. ‘Terrible’ situation The UN says that beyond the immediate effects of Gaza based journalist Mohammed Faiad says the the war, Gaza has a long-standing deficit in energy, winter rain has already begun, and people do not want housing and water. to spend winter without a roof over their heads. “Many “The devastation in Gaza is truly immense and people are without homes. There are no homes to rent. under the best of circumstances will take a number of And it takes more than one month to build a home. I years to rebuild,” Rawley said. don’t know what these people are going to do,” he Meanwhile, the Palestinian security source in Gaza said. says the trilateral mechanism will not be able to stop Rawley describes the current situation as “terrible”. Hamas or other similar groups from buying material on “There are tens of thousands of people in Gaza who the black market, something the UN is aware of. need to get to access to construction materials ASAP,” “This mechanism only monitors the materials enter- Rawley said. The first shipments of materials have ing as part of the formal market. This concern does, crossed into Gaza but we still need a number of weeks however, underpin the need for governance to be fully to fully set up the mechanism.” restored in Gaza, including the rule of law.” Last week, a trilateral mechanism was announced at —The Media Line THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

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Page 8 Page 9 100 buried alive in Lanka mudslide Part of mountainside collapses onto tea estate

KOSLANDA, Sri Lanka: Around 100 people were deployed in the area to carry out the search for vic- buried alive in a tea-growing region of Sri Lanka yes- tims. terday as mudslides triggered by monsoon rains Kumara said 16 bodies have so far been recovered washed away their homes on a plantation, disaster from the disaster around 200 km east of the capital officials said. One witness spoke of hearing a noise like Colombo. “We have reports of 140 houses getting thunder as part of a mountainside collapsed onto the washed away in the mudslides,” Kumara added. Part of estate, burying some of the workers’ homes in nine a mountain appeared to have collapsed onto the clus- metres of mud and debris. “What I gathered is that ter of homes belonging to the tea plantation workers about 100 people have been buried alive,” Disaster and their families below, leaving no trace of them, an Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told AFP AFP photographer at the scene said. after visiting the site in the eastern Koslanda region. “There is no chance they could have survived,” said the Homes Washed Away minister, as other officials said 16 people were con- Shopkeeper Kandasamy Prabhakaran, 34, said he firmed dead. heard a noise like thunder and then saw houses being Hundreds of soldiers, who initially used their hands washed away by tonnes of mud. “Right before my eyes to dig for survivors, had switched to operating excava- I could see houses crumbling and getting washed tors by evening but hopes had faded of finding any- downhill,” Prabhakaran said. “It all happened very one else still alive. “Anyone buried under the mud has quickly.” President Mahinda Rajapakse ordered troops a very slim chance of surviving,” Disaster Management to deploy heavy equipment to speed up the rescue Center spokesman Sarath Kumara told AFP. The annual efforts, his office said. Military sources said they monsoon brings vital rains for irrigation and electricity expected more heavy machinery to reach the site, but generation but also causes frequent loss of life and damage to roads as well as heavy rain and mist were damage to property. slowing them down. The minister said the search and rescue mission led Sections of several national highways have also by troops had now turned into a recovery operation, been washed away by the rains and a train was stuck which they hope to resume at first light today. He said after a mountain slope crashed onto a railway line. The using heavy machinery also had to be done carefully landslide began at about 7.45 am (0215 GMT) and last- because the surrounding hills were unstable. “Initially ed about 10 minutes, Perera said, adding “some hous- we estimated the missing number at 300, but most of es have been buried in 30 feet of mud.” Authorities them were at school or work,” the minister said. “We have begun checking on the number of people who have already started relief operations to provide them were in their homes when tragedy struck. Kumara said with shelter and food. Even the office where records the mudslide struck after schools opened and tea were kept had been damaged,” the minister said. plantation workers were supposed to be at work, but The region’s top military official, Major General bad weather may have prompted some to stay home. Mano Perera, said 302 people, including 75 school- The area is prone to mudslides and residents had children, whose homes were destroyed in the mud- been repeatedly warned to move to safer areas as slide were being looked after at two schools in the monsoon rains lashed the region, the Disaster same area. The mudslide hit at a time when most peo- Management Center said. Thirteen people were killed ple were at work and children were already in school, in mudslides in and around Colombo in June. Cyclonic leaving the elderly and the very young at home. The winds that accompanied the monsoon in June last KOSLANDA, Sri Lanka: Residents walk through the site of a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains in this village in central Sri military officer said about 500 troops had been year killed 54 people, mostly fishermen. — AFP Lanka yesterday. — AFP Peshmerga, FSA poised to join fight against IS

SANLIURFA, Turkey: Crowds of flag-waving Kurds greeted Turkish armoured vehicles, they boarded buses and headed Iraqi peshmerga fighters travelling through Turkey yesterday toward the border to wait for the overland convoy. to join opposition rebels reinforcing the Syrian town of Separately, dozens of opposition rebel fighters with the Kobane against an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group. Free Syrian Army (FSA) crossed from Turkey to Kobane, offi- Flashing victory signs, the fighters armed with machineguns, cials said, to help Kurdish militia who have faced an onslaught heavy artillery and rocket launchers received a euphoric wel- by IS jihadists for weeks. The town has become a symbol of come from Turkish Kurds who lined the road shouting “Long the battle against IS, an extremist Sunni Muslim group that live peshmerga!” Another group of several dozen peshmerga has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq, committing atrocities flew into the Turkish city of Sanliurfa from Iraq. Escorted by and declaring an Islamic “caliphate”. In Iraq, IS militants execut- ed more than 40 members of a tribe that recently fought against them in the troubled province of Anbar, a local leader and other sources said yesterday. Images posted online of the purported after- math showed more than 30 men in civilian clothes lying in the middle of a blood- stained street as young men and children look on. The vic- tims are barefoot and many are blindfolded, their hands bound behind their backs. The authenticity of the images could not be inde- pendently verified. Iraqi secu- rity forces, Shiite militias and some Sunni tribesmen are fighting to push IS back, but have made only limited local progress so far. Under heavy pressure from the United States, Turkey announced last week it would allow fighters from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish province to travel through its territory to join the fight for Kobane in Syria. Iraqi Kurdish officials said up to 200 fight- ers would be sent. The town’s Kurdish defenders have been helped by weapon drops and intensified US-led air strikes against jihadists but until now they have received little in the way of reinforcement. Turkey has been wary of giving support to the Kurdish militias in Kobane because of their links to insurgents in southeast Turkey, pushing for Syrian rebel reinforce- ments instead. A local Turkish official told AFP that a group of 150 FSA fighters had entered Kobane from Turkey overnight, although a senior Syrian Kurdish official, Newaf Khalil, gave a lower figure of 50. Khalil said they were equipped with light arms and machineguns. “The peshmerga will arrive soon,” he said. — AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 Denied land access, Palestinians miss olive harvest

AL-JANIYA: Abbas Yusef points wistfully towards his ments built on occupied territory are illegal under up half of all cultivated Palestinian farmland, threaten ration barrier - in some parts an eight-metre-high con- olive trees, which are bearing their annual fruit. Yet international law. a crucial source of livelihood. Olive farming and olive crete wall - whose construction began in 2002. Some again, the 70-year-old Palestinian farmer will be Figures compiled by the Yesha Settlers Council oil production bring in around a quarter of Palestinian 85 percent of the barrier’s route runs inside the West unable to make the autumn harvest. Yusef’s olive show there are some 380,000 Israelis living in the West agricultural revenue, according to the UN’s top Bank, rather than along the internationally recognised groves lie on land either side of an Israeli settlement in Bank - a number which has more than tripled in the humanitarian official for the occupied territories, Green Line, cutting off Palestinians from 30 percent of the northern occupied West Bank. For years, he has two decades since the Oslo peace accords were signed James Rawley. The harvest is increasingly threatened their land, according to a UN spokeswoman. been denied access by the army, and the settlers have in 1993. The attacks against olive groves, which make by both settlement building and by Israel’s vast sepa- For Ahmed Diwan, a farmer who lives in Biddu vil- ploughed it, uprooting many of his trees. For the 1,400 lage east of Ramallah, the problem is not limited to residents of Al-Janiya - Yusef’s village - attacks by set- olives. He says he has also missed the grape harvest, tlers who have uprooted trees and burnt Palestinian the almonds, the apples and vine leaves - “a symbol of farmland have become a daily occurrence, he says. Palestinian cuisine” - due to a lack of access to his “Each time I try to get to my olive groves, an Israeli land. Diwan holds out little hope for this year’s olive soldier tells me I can’t go, because it’s been designated harvest as he packs his farming equipment into his a ‘closed military zone’,” Yusef says. “My father planted car. “We’re only allowed access to our olive groves two those trees, seed by seed, and I toiled over the land,” days this year. We can’t maintain the trees or harvest he sighs, pointing to one section of his land, now in that time!” farmed by settlers. This year, for the first time since 2000, Yusef was allowed access to his land, but only for End of an Era? two days - not nearly enough time to gather all the Israel has granted access to farmers for a total of 37 olives during the harvest that begins in early October. days so far this year, the UN says. Even those who do When he got there, he found 400 of his trees had been have limited access to their farmland are subjected to uprooted. UN figures show that since the start of the violent attacks by settlers, who are often armed. So far year, around 7,500 trees have been damaged or this year, 88 attacks have been recorded and 142 farm- uprooted across the West Bank. ers injured, according to the UN. The elderly Yusef was one of the victims. “About 50 settlers turned up. We ‘Now it’s My Land’ were four farmers, people of around my age. We were Arik Ascherman, president of Israeli rights group no match for them,” he recalls. “In the end it was the Rabbis for Human Rights, says Yusef’s experience is Israeli soldiers who got us out to protect us from the common and in danger of becoming the norm in the settlers.” West Bank. “They start by preventing Palestinians from The violence is making “entire villages” which had accessing their land, then they cultivate it themselves, been self-sufficient for decades dependent on interna- and then they say ‘Now it’s my land’,” he explains. Since tional aid, the UN says. A disillusioned younger genera- Israel took over the West Bank in 1967, 135 Jewish set- tion is turning away from the age-old family tradition. tlements have been built there as well as around 100 AL-JANIYA: Seventy-year old Palestinian farmer Abbas Yusef explains to United Nations officials and “Farming is finished. The young people don’t want to unauthorised “wildcat” outposts, which are considered foreign supporters of Palestinian rights on Tuesday the restricted access to his olive groves on land work on the land. They’re scared of being killed by set- illegal under Israeli law, UN figures show. All settle- either side of an Israeli settlement. — AFP tlers,” Yusef says. — AFP Erdogan unveils Turkey’s new presidential palace Hopes fade for 18 trapped coalminers

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yes- terday unveiled a new presidential palace on the out- skirts of Ankara, denounced by ecologists as an envi- ronmental blight and by the opposition as evidence of his autocratic tendencies. Erdogan hosted his first offi- cial event at the new palace, a ceremony congratulat- ing dignitaries on the annual republic day marking the foundation of modern Turkey in 1923 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The complex, located in the Bestepe (Five Hills) area, has become known as the Ak Saray - the White Palace. An immense project - built at a reported cost of MOGADISHU: (From left) UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, Somalia’s President Hassan $350 million - has an area of 200,000 sq m, 1,000 rooms Sheikh Mohamud and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim give a joint press conference and architecture that is supposed to marry modernism and the traditions of the mediaeval Seljuk dynasty. yesterday. — AFP Erdogan cancelled an evening reception that was to be held yesterday evening at the palace because of a min- Ban calls for urgent aid ing disaster in the southern Karaman province that has left 18 miners trapped. “It would not be appropriate to hold this reception at such a time,” Erdogan told to avert Somalia famine reporters in televised comments inside the palace, before heading to the scene of the disaster. According MOGADISHU: UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned strike in September, but they still remain a to Turkish media reports, invitations for the reception yesterday that Somalia risks returning to potent threat. Security remains a concern in had been sent out to 2,500 couples. famine without urgent aid, as he visited the Somalia, with the government due to hold a The palace will become the new home of the war-torn country three years since more than referendum on a new constitution next year Turkish presidency, marking an historic break with the 250,000 people died of hunger. Ban, along with ahead of general elections in 2016. This year, Cankaya presidential palace in downtown Ankara. The World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim, met Somali the Shebab have launched attacks in the heart Cankaya has been the seat of the Turkish president President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud inside the of Mogadishu, including brazen commando ever since the modern republic’s founder Mustafa fortified airport zone in Mogadishu, guarded raids on the presidential palace and parlia- Kemal Ataturk became president and for many has ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan poses inside the new Ak Saray presidential by troops from the 22,000-strong UN-backed ment. Ban, who said the Shebab’s power “is been a symbol of Turkey’s modern history as a progres- palace on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. — AFP African Union force. But Ban, who was dressed declining but it is not gone”, did not travel into sive secular state. From Ataturk to Erdogan, it has been Davutoglu and his staff will move into the Cankaya. is bad for our (trapped) workers. Time is working in a suit and not the bullet-proof jacket he the city itself, but remained inside the airport’s the home of 12 Turkish presidents. The move to the The name of the palace, Ak Saray, is also a play on the against us. With every passing minute, our hopes are wore on his last visit during the famine in 2011, concrete blast walls, manned by AU machine new palace is a vivid symbol of what Erdogan touts as name of the ruling Justice and Development Party reduced,” he said in comments broadcast by Turkish said Somalia had still made “remarkable gunners. his drive towards a “new Turkey”. But for the opposi- (AKP) which is known to its followers as the AK Party. television. He said an estimated 10-12 tonnes of water progress” since he had last been there. tion, the new palace marks another betrayal by The post of president has been a largely ceremonial had filled the shaft at the privately-owned mine in the “Over three million Somalis are in need of Political Tensions Erdogan of Turkey’s secular heritage bequeathed by role in recent years. But Erdogan has vowed to wield village of Pamuklu. In a poignant development, humanitarian assistance and unfortunately that The United Nations says over one million Ataturk who based the republic on a strict separation real power, something he has clearly done in his first Turkish media reported that the wife of one of the number is growing,” Ban told reporters. “I urge Somalis are in conditions close to famine, while of religion and state. weeks in office. The new complex is also controversial trapped miners, named as Huseyin Gultekin, had given donors to step up contributions to avert anoth- over one million have fled their homes due to among environmental activists because hundreds of birth to his baby son on Tuesday. Erdogan insisted er famine in Somalia.” The United Nations says fighting or hunger inside the country, and ‘We Could Have Gone to Mars’ trees were cut down to make way for it, even though it there was still a chance of finding the miners alive. “Our it has just over a third of the cash it needs, hav- another million are living as refugees in the The opposition accuses Erdogan, who became was one of the best preserved green spaces in the city. expectations and our hopes have not been lost. Our ing received $318 million of the $933 million it region. Some 218,000 children under five are president in August after over a decade as prime min- Furthermore, the palace has been built on land where friends and ministers are continuing to work and make has appealed for. “Slowly but surely, Somalia is acutely malnourished, a rise of seven percent ister, of imposing a gradual Islamisation and riding Ataturk created a forest farm that was then donated to efforts there,” he said in comments broadcast by state waking from a long nightmare,” Ban said, but since the beginning of the year, the UN Office roughshod over Turkey’s democracy. For them, the state. Erdogan in March defied a court order halt- television. The 18 miners were believed to be trapped adding he was “very concerned” about the for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Erdogan has rubbed more salt into the wound by ing the construction. According to Turkish media, the in a flooded shaft more than 300 m underground. humanitarian crisis and the shortfall in funding. (OCHA) has warned. Despite Shebab fighters opening the palace on republic day, the dearest of all design of one of the offices is based on the White Rescue workers have been seeking to reduce the water Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab insurgents have pulling out of several towns, OCHA said in its Turkish holidays for secularists. Umut Oran, a deputy House’s oval office. levels by pumping out the water with a gigantic pipe. in recent months lost swathes of territory and latest report that AU and Somali “military gains for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) But the levels had continued to rise until finally start- towns to the AU force and Somali government are yet to translate into predictable humanitari- ridiculed the extravagance of the palace, saying that Last-Ditch Efforts ing to fall in the night. Yildiz confirmed late Tuesday troops, and their leader was killed in a US air an access”. —AFP with the same funds Turkey could have sent three Meanwhile, hopes were fading of finding alive the there had been no contact with any of the trapped satellites to Mars. “What could have been done with 18 coalminers trapped when their shaft was engulfed miners. A special water pump truck known as an that money?” he asked according to the Dogan news by water, as rescue workers made last-ditch efforts to Ahtapot (Octopus) that had been despatched to the Islamists win plaudits as agency, claiming the presidency’s budget was three find survivors. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said divers scene by the Istanbul authorities tipped over on its times that of the British royal family. The Bestepe com- had entered the flooded mine but visibility was poor way there, leaving three of its crew injured. The reason plex had initially been envisaged for the Turkish prime and they were unable to go more than a few metres for the road accident was unclear and another similar Tunisia awaits results minister but in the end Prime Minister Ahmet deep for their own safety. “Every moment that goes by truck was later sent to the scene. —AFP TUNIS: Islamist party Ennahda, dominant in Analyst Slaheddine Jourchi said the evolution Tunisian politics since the 2011 revolution, has can be traced back to the Egyptian army’s won praise for its grace in conceding defeat in ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Egypt working on Gaza buffer landmark parliamentary elections, as the July 2013 and the bloody repression that fol- country awaited preliminary results yesterday. lowed. “What happened in Egypt shook them Just hours after polling stations closed Sunday, up” and led to an easing of strains with Nidaa CAIRO: Egypt began setting up a buffer zone along its is a stronghold of terrorists or just an operational base.” and money by Palestinian Hamas militant group. The Ennahda acknowledged that it had been beat- Tounes, which includes representatives of the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip yesterday to pre- Egypt suspects Palestinian militants of aiding jihadist army says it has destroyed more than 1,600 such tun- en into second place by secular rival Nidaa ousted Ben Ali regime whom Ennahda had ini- vent militant infiltration and arms smuggling following attacks that have increased since the army ousted nels since Morsi’s ouster. “Families whose houses Tounes. Ennahda, which steered the North tially wanted to ban from running for election, a wave of deadly attacks. The move, which will see Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year. The mili- have openings to these tunnels will not be compen- African nation through the aftermath of the he said. about 800 homes demolished, comes in the wake of a tary has also stepped up the destruction of tunnels sated,” governor Harhur told private television chan- revolution, congratulated Nidaa Tounes for Analyst Kharrat said this showed Ennahda’s suicide bombing in the Sinai Peninsula Friday that with Gaza that it says are used to smuggle arms, food nel CBC Extra. —AFP becoming the largest party in the first parlia- “extraordinary pragmatism and capacity to killed at least 30 soldiers. A senior official in northern ment to be elected since then. adapt” to political developments. With neither Sinai said the creation of the buffer with the Palestinian The movement called on its supporters to of the two top parties expected to win an out- territory was “vital for national security and stability”. celebrate “democracy,” and hundreds of them right majority, political horse-trading has The authorities want to establish a 500-m wide rallied outside its Tunis headquarters despite begun ahead of the announcement of results. buffer along about 10 km of the border with Gaza, the defeat. “We consider Tunisia has tri- according to officials. Witnesses in the border town of umphed and that Ennahda has triumphed by Grand Coalition Rafah reported seeing dozens of families leaving, along leading the country to this stage,” said Election organisers have until today to with trucks loaded with furniture. And bulldozers were Abdelhamid Jelassi, national coordinator for announce the final outcome. Projections sug- reported to have begun destroying several long-aban- the movement whose slogan was “consensus” gest that Nidaa Tounes will win around 80 of doned houses along the frontier. The authorities previ- throughout the campaign. the 217 seats in parliament, against around 70 ously said the families affected would be compensated, Independent analyst Selim Kharrat, said for Ennahda. Under Tunisia’s electoral system, but not all residents are convinced. this has made Ennahda look like “a very sleek, a party that gains the largest number of votes “We are for national and border security, but not at very democratic party, which congratulates its but falls short of an outright majority is given a the cost of our homes and interests,” said Wissam Al- opponent, which hands over power,” also mandate to form a coalition government. Agha, a doctor in Rafah, whose house and land fall in referring to January, when Ennahda gave way Tunisian newspapers yesterday predicted a the area demarcated for the zone. North Sinai Governor to a government of technocrats to defuse a grand coalition. “The best scenario would be a Abdel Fattah Harhur said emergency assistance will be political crisis. Ennahda, which won Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes-Ennahda coalition guaranteeing provided to everyone, with families receiving 900 first free elections three years ago after the a stable government for the next five years,” Egyptian pounds ($125) to cover rent for three months. toppling of longtime president Zine El Abidine said the French-language daily La Presse. He added, in remarks to reporters, that they will also Ben Ali, had previously been accused of work- Foreign observers have praised Tunisia’s “free” receive monetary compensation for their properties. ing to Islamize society away from its traditional election, in a vote that has raised hopes of a An analyst said the buffer marks a shift in Egypt’s secularism. peaceful transition in the birthplace of the strategy to confront militant attacks. “It is an operation Tunisia’s economy has also been in the dol- Arab Spring. However, poverty and unemploy- to isolate terrorists in an area empty of people, in turn drums during its tenure, and two prominent ment, which were key factors that sparked the facilitating targeting of terrorists and also reducing figures were assassinated last year by suspect- anti-Ben Ali revolt, remain unresolved. The civilian casualties,” said Eman Ragad, an expert on ed jihadists, triggering the political crisis that election was fought on the axis of the econo- regional security at Ahram Centre for Political and RAFAH: Smoke rises after the Egyptian army demolished houses on the Egyptian side of this Ennahda resolved by handing over power. my and security. — AFP Strategic Studies. “But we are not sure whether this area border town with Gaza yesterday. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Netanyahu lashes out at harsh US criticism Jerusalem mayor’s Aqsa visit sparks anger

JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister said yester- United States to an unprecedented nadir,” he In a statement, the Al-Aqsa Foundation con- day that recent verbal attacks against him from told Israel’s Channel 2 online. demned what it described as the “storming” of the United States were merely because he was the compound by Barkat. “This does not give any “defending Israel” and vowed to carry on with his Barkat ‘Storms’ Aqsa legitimacy to considering Al-Aqsa part of the policies despite the vitriolic rhetoric. Benjamin Meanwhile, Jerusalem’s Israeli mayor visited jurisdiction of the Jerusalem (Israeli) municipali- Netanyahu’s remarks to parliament followed a the Al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday, anger- ty, and does not erase the eternal Islamic charac- report in The Atlantic this week in which uniden- ing Islamic authorities, but police said the day ter of the mosque,” said the foundation, an off- tified US officials lambasted the Israeli premier passed in “relative calm” after weeks of tension shoot of a radical branch of Israel’s Islamic for his settlement policies and for undermining at the flashpoint shrine. The diplomatic front Movement religious advocacy group. Tensions ROCKFORD, Michigan: In this Aug 6, 2013 file photo, the 12 Schwandt broth- American peace efforts. The officials derided was heating up, however, with the UN Security often erupt at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, ers pose for a photo in their home. Clockwise from bottom left are Tyler, 21, Netanyahu as cowardly and recalcitrant, among Council to hold an emergency meeting yester- which is both the third-holiest location in Islam holding Tucker, 2 days, Vinny, 10, Drew, 16, Zach, 17, Charlie, 3, Calvin, 8, other insults. day to discuss Israel’s plans to build more and the most sacred place in Judaism. A Brandon, 14, Luke, 19 months, Gabe, 6, Wesley, 5 and Tommy, 11. —AP The report reverberated throughout Israel Jewish settlements in Arab east Jerusalem. provocative visit by then-opposition leader Ariel with some coming to prime minister’s defense Mayor Nir Barkat toured the Al-Aqsa compound Sharon to the compound in 2000 sparked the while others pointing to them as an indication of Boy or girl? Family with just how bad relations between the two close allies have gotten under Netanyahu’s watch. Netanyahu responded that those who attack 12 sons awaits baby 13 him do so only because he defends Israel, and stressed that he was “not prepared to make con- ROCKFORD, Michigan: A western Michigan cou- The couple welcomed their twelfth son, Tucker, cessions that will endanger our state”. “Our ple with 12 sons is expecting baby No. 13, and even to the world on Aug 4, 2013. Their oldest son is supreme interests, with security and the unity of though they’re sticking to their tradition of not now 22 years old. “The stuff that goes on in this Jerusalem first and foremost, are not among the finding out in advance whether they’re having a house is all-boy - roughhousing and wrestling,” Jay top concerns of those anonymous elements that boy or girl, they said they’d be shocked if their Schwandt said. “If there was a little girl in there, I are attacking us and me personally,” he said. streak is broken. Jay and Kateri Schwandt’s baby is assume it would be different.” Kateri Schwandt, There have been growing concerns of a new due May 9, The Grand Rapids Press reported. Even after being the sole female in the family for more crisis in Israeli-US relations after US officials said though they expect it will be another boy, the cou- than two decades, said she would lean toward hav- the Obama administration last week refused ple said they would welcome either into the family. ing one more boy. “A little girl would be neat to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon’s requests “If we were to have a girl, I think we would go into have in the house, but a little boy kind of takes the to meet several top national security aides. The shock,” Kateri Schwandt said. “It would probably be pressure off,” she said. “We know what we are rejection followed negative comments Yaalon disbelief.” doing. Why change things up?” made about Secretary of State John Kerry. The If he had a choice, Jay Schwandt said he would The Schwandts, who live Rockford, which is Obama administration has long has a tense rela- love to have a girl, but they’re just “hoping for a north of Grand Rapids, consider themselves devout tionship with Netanyahu for his close relation- healthy baby”. Still, he would like to see the effect of Roman Catholics and don’t believe in using birth ship with the Republican Party and for what is adding a girl to the mix in a household with 12 control. Kateri Schwandt comes from a family of 14 often perceived as a lecturing tone toward the boys. “I’ve experienced all the boy stuff,” he said. “As kids. She said she is feeling well. “I love being preg- president. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has been sus- long as we are having all these children, it would be nant,” she said. “I’ve spent half of my life being preg- picious of US efforts to reach a diplomatic agree- really neat to experience the other side.” nant. It’s very neat and very special.” —AP ment over Iran’s nuclear program that fails to remove the threat of it acquiring a bomb. JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces secure an excavator after Israel ordered the demo- Even within Netanyahu’s coalition there are those, like Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who have lition of Palestinian sheds in the annexed Arab east Jerusalem neighbourhood of US boosts security at vocally expressed worry over the crisis with the Silwan yesterday. —AFP United States and said it must be resolved government buildings before it endangers Israeli interests. Among the with a police escort, after weeks of intermittent outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, a greatest concerns are that the US may withhold clashes triggered by reports Israel is considering five-year uprising that left hundreds dead. WASHINGTON: The United States said Tuesday it Qaeda and Islamic State. its vast military aid to Israel and stop protecting allowing Jews to pray at the sprawling site in In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops shot will boost security at government buildings follow- Earlier last week, two attacks in Canada killed it from diplomatic attacks at the United Nations. the Old City. and wounded four Palestinians in a clash in the ing threats from Islamist groups. The “precise two soldiers. In one, a soldier was fatally shot Economics Minister Naftali Bennett called on the Barkat “visited the Temple Mount together northern village of Yabad, the Israeli army and actions” and “precise locations” were not specified while standing watch at the War Memorial in US to “distance itself from the rude remarks and with the chief of police responsible for the area Palestinian medical officials said. An army in the statement by Secretary of Homeland Ottawa. His attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, then reject them outright,” adding that such abuse to assess the current situation and gain a deeper spokeswoman said a patrol entered the village Security Jeh Johnson, who said they would vary, stormed into parliament and exchanged fire with not only targeted the prime minister but all understanding of the issues and challenges at to stop stone-throwing at Israeli vehicles and shift and “be continually reevaluated”. “The reasons police before being shot dead, himself. Israelis. the site,” a statement said, using the Jewish term came under attack from Palestinians hurling for this action are self-evident,” Johnson said, citing In the other, 25-year-old Martin Couture- However, opposition leader Isaac Herzog for the compound. The Islamic Waqf, the body rocks and flares. They used live fire after their “continued public calls by terrorist organizations Rouleau, who had been on a watch list of sus- placed the blame on Netanyahu, accusing him which oversees the site, decried the visit. It was attackers failed to respond to warnings and non- for attacks on the homeland and elsewhere” as well pected extremists, used his car as a weapon to of playing “political games” with the American “merely for publicity and its political nature is lethal means, she said. Palestinian medical offi- as the two attacks last week in Canada and else- run over two soldiers in a parking lot, killing one administration. “Netanyahu acts like a political characteristic of” Barkat, Azzam Al-Khatib, head cials said none of the four were in life-threaten- where. Johnson called it “a precautionary step, to of them before being shot dead by police. Both pyromaniac and has brought relations with the of the Waqf, told AFP. ing condition. —Agencies safeguard US government personnel and facilities, assailants were converts to Islam with alleged and the visitors to those facilities” in the capital extremists views, police have said. Mexico cops and other major cities, as well as other locations The two attacks in Canada came as it around the country. The Federal Protective Service deployed fighter jets to join US-led air strikes on scour dump oversees security at more than 9,500 federal facili- the Islamic State group in Iraq. Canada is a mem- for students ties, Johnson said, which see some 1.4 million visi- ber of the alliance Washington has forged of tors and occupants daily. Western and Arab nations to combat IS, which MEXICO CITY: Mexican On Thursday, in an attack branded a “terrorist seized large parts of Syria and Iraq in recent authorities scoured a mas- act” by police, a self-radicalized Muslim convert months, declaring an Islamic “caliphate” and com- sive garbage dump charged officers with a hatchet in a busy shop- mitting widespread atrocities. The group has Tuesday, searching for the ping area of New York City, striking two before he called for foreign fighters to join them and pro- remains of 43 students who was shot dead by the two other officers, who moted attacks by disaffected Muslims on Western have been missing for more were uninjured. The attacker, Zale Thompson, 32, targets. “Given world events, prudence dictates a than a month. Investigating appeared to have acted alone and was not affili- heightened vigilance in the protection of US gov- prosecutors suspect the ated to a particular group, but police said he had ernment installations and our personnel,” open-air dump, surrounded looked at websites about groups such as Al- Johnson said. —AFP by mountains in the Guerrero state town of Cocula, could be where cor- rupt local police delivered the captured students to hitmen linked to the local Guerreros Unidos drug ring. “That is why experts are looking for remains careful- ly here. Bones already have been found, but experts have to look at whether they are human or from other animals,” a federal government source close to the investigation told AFP. The searchers, about 15 of them, were clad in white suits with air filters on their mouths, and were working with sniffer dogs. They painstakingly designated a search area with small orange markers, but there was no definite sign of any human bodies. Getting there was not easy. They climbed rocky trails dotted with small homes, goats and donkeys, to reach the dump for the town of about 15,000 people. Scores of bodies have been found in unmarked graves in the search for the missing stu- dents, laying bare the extent of the rampant killings in the region, which law enforcement officials blame on ongoing drug violence. It was not clear whether the bodies in a grave in the town of Cocula were those of the missing students, who vanished on September 26 in the nearby town of Iguala, after their buses were attacked by police. The mayor of Iguala, some 130 km southwest of Mexico City, and his wife, who are suspected of ordering the students’ abduction, are currently on the run. Around 40 munici- pal officers also have been arrested in connection to the disappearances. —AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

25 years on, Germany’s east-west divide still palpable

PRENZLAU, Germany: “There’s no such thing previous employer, an east German-based planning of communism. Over the course of jobless rate in east Germany had stood at 18.4 ditions and higher salaries, allowing them to as a good wage here, not at an east German transport firm that paid him a monthly wage of those 25 years, the west has pumped “between percent, twice the rate in the west. Household hold on to a more skilled workforce. company.” Twenty-five years since the fall of the 1,580 euros (around $2,000) after tax for a 60- 1.5 and 2.0 trillion euros” into unification, esti- income in the west is around one-third higher Prenzlau has no jobs for bankers or IT devel- Berlin Wall, those words bite in the frosty air of hour week, Thomas has just got a job with a mates Thomas Lenk, professor of public finance than in the east, and personal wealth is almost opers. The positions on offer at the labor office Prenzlau, a town in eastern Germany that Danish company.“I’ll take home twice as much at Leipzig University. All wage earners in double. And the east’s gross national product tend to be in agriculture, health care or tourism. encapsulates the ongoing, albeit narrowing, for the same work. I’d also earn a lot more if I Germany pay a so-called “solidarity tax”, a 5.5 (GNP) is only two-thirds that of the west. But it is not like that everywhere in the east. east-west divide. worked for a company based in western percent surcharge introduced in 1991 to help Berlin, dubbed “poor but sexy” by its outgo- The man who utters them is Thomas Germany,” he says. The lure of higher pay is rebuild the dilapidated and bankrupt east. The ‘Sick man of Europe’ heals ing mayor, may still be dragging its feet, but Mielsch, who has just come out of the town’s hard to resist-”around a third” of his friends tax has been extended several times and is cur- Yet Germany need not hang its head. Once other regions such as Saxony are much more labour agency. The lorry driver grew up in work in the west, only coming home to their rently due to run until 2019. Thanks to the levy, dubbed the “sick man of Europe”, the country innovative. In fact, there is now a north-south Prenzlau, a 90-minute drive from Berlin. The families at the weekend. the pot-holed roads of Prenzlau and elsewhere has become the region’s economic engine. divide in Germany, with southern states such as capital of Uckermark, a rural region in the in the former GDR are now safely resurfaced “The process still isn’t over yet, that’s clear,” Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg the most northeastern state of Brandenburg, Prenzlau East-west divide persists and the crumbling buildings refurbished. but “there’s light at the end of the tunnel,” said economically dynamic. That divide is increas- has the highest unemployment in the country A quarter of a century after then chancellor But the gap between east and west still Michael Burda, economist at Berlin’s Humboldt ingly noticeable in eastern Germany, said econ- — 14.7 percent in September, more than dou- Helmut Kohl promised “flourishing landscapes” exists. According to the latest official data, University. The causes of the disparity and the omist Burda. Some experts also say that the ble the nationwide rate of 6.5 percent. in the five states that made up the former unemployment in the five former eastern states weaknesses of the former GDR’s economy are inequality between east and west is less signifi- “I’d move at the drop of a hat, but my wife German Democratic Republic (GDR), the market stood at 9.7 percent in September, compared well-documented. Transnational companies cant than the disparity between cities and rural won’t,” laughs the 46-year-old. Laid off by his economy has long supplanted the five-year with 6.0 percent in the west. Ten years ago, the stayed in the west with its better working con- areas across Germany. —AFP Cameron rejects Scottish proposal on EU referendum Scottish Nationalists fret over possible UK exit from EU

LONDON/EDINBURGH: Prime Minister approved by a majority in Scotland, Wales Cameron has adopted an increasingly which seeks to protect Scotland, with just David Cameron rejected yesterday a pro- and Northern Ireland as well as in England, critical stance on the EU as he tries to fend five million of the UK’s 64 million people, posal by the Scottish National Party (SNP) home to 85 percent of the UK population. off an electoral challenge from the United from being forced to leave the EU against that the United Kingdom should only quit “We are one United Kingdom. There will Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), its own wishes. “This proposal transforms PARIS: French President Francois Hollande (left) the European Union after a future referen- be one in/out referendum (for the EU) and which wants to quit the bloc. He says he the terms of the UK debate on Europe - accompanies French Prime Minister Manuel Valls dum if a majority in each of its four con- that will be decided on a majority of those wants Britain to stay in a reformed EU. which so far has been all about the leaving the Elysee presidential palace in Paris yes- stituent parts vote to do so. Cameron has who vote. That is how the rules should Scots, who last month rejected inde- Westminster parties dancing to UKIP’s promised a referendum in 2017 on the work,” Cameron told the UK parliament in pendence in a historic referendum, are tune,” she will say in Edinburgh, according terday after the weekly cabinet meeting. —AFP UK’s continued EU membership if his response to Sturgeon’s proposal. more likely to back EU membership than to advance extracts from her speech. Conservative Party, which has grown Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the English, polls show. The SNP has said Bling-bling revelations increasingly Eurosceptical, wins a 2015 have varying degrees of autonomy but the the UK’s exit from the 28-nation bloc could “Family of nations” hit powerful French national election. British government in London controls for- put Scottish independence back on the “It puts into practice what Westminster Incoming SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon eign policy and is not legally required to agenda. leaders told us was the case during the union chief said earlier on Wednesday the United consult the regional administrations over In a speech on Wednesday evening, (Scottish) referendum campaign - that the Kingdom’s EU exit should only go ahead if issues such as EU membership. Sturgeon is due to flesh out her proposal, UK is a family of nations, with each mem- PARIS: One of France’s most powerful unions spent 130,000 euros ber of the family enjoying equal status,” ($165,000) to renovate a flat for its boss-who did however agree to do Sturgeon will say. A study carried out by without a home cinema and wine cellar, a newspaper revealed yester- Durham University and the University of day. Thierry Lepaon was last year elected secretary general of the CGT East Anglia last week showed that union, one of France’s largest and a constant thorn in the side of compa- England, where Cameron’s Conservatives nies and the government. draw the bulk of their support, would vote But the former boilermaker lived in Calvados in the north of France to leave the EU, while Scotland would vote which meant he needed an apartment in or near the French capital. The to remain. union-which confirmed the renovations took place without disclosing Cameron made several emotional the cost-found a flat next to the leafy Bois de Vincennes just outside appeals for Scotland to remain in the Paris, the satirical investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported. As it United Kingdom during the referendum needed renovating, the CGT forked out 130,000 euros ($165,000) for the campaign. But he angered Scots when he 120 square-metre flat, although the bill would have been much higher if suggested that new powers for the Lepaon had kept plans for a home cinema and wine cellar, it said. —AFP Scottish parliament, promised ahead of the vote, should be tied to the idea that laws which only affect England should News only be voted on by English lawmakers. in brief His political focus since the Scottish ref- erendum has been on tackling the UKIP threat. He has already lost one lawmaker, Jonathan to collect who defected to UKIP and won a subse- nomination form quent by-election earlier in October. A ABUJA: Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan will today second defection to UKIP by a collect a nomination form to be the ruling party candidate Conservative lawmaker has triggered in presidential elections set for February next year, the another by-election on Nov 20. presidency said yesterday, the first official confirmation of The SNP, which is broadly pro-EU, says a his widely expected plan to seek another term. “President referendum on Britain’s EU membership Jonathan thanks all Nigerians, members of the PDP, friends, will create much more investment uncer- associates who in sincere appreciation of the achievements tainty than the Scottish independence of the administration in the last four years have been urg- vote did. ing him to seek a second term in office,” the statement by Paul Cairney of Stirling University said a presidential spokesman Reuben Abati added. referendum in which Britain as a whole voted to leave the EU while Scots voted to stay in would trigger a new UK constitu- Italian sex abuse priest tional crisis and demands for a new hangs himself in sacristy Scottish independence referendum. “I don’t think anyone would want something ROME: An Italian priest who admitted to sexually so important to be triggered in such a cri- abusing a young teenage girl hanged himself in the LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (right) meets with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani (second sis-like way, so this (proposal by Sturgeon) sacristy-the cleric’s changing room in his church-the seems like a pragmatic way to ward off diocese of Santa Croce in northern Italy said yesterday. left) and his brother Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (L) at Buckingham Palace in London yesterday. —AFP that possibility,” Cairney said. —Reuters The priest, 48, who belonged to the Slovenian commu- nity in Trieste, had been accused of committing “grave acts” years earlier with a then 13-year-old girl. He con- In blow to Cameron, lawmakers Several killed in suspected fessed to his bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi that the reports were true and asked for two days to prepare a slam UK’s immigration ‘mess’ letter asking for the forgiveness of God, the Church Boko Haram attack: Official and the victim. But when Crepaldi arrived Tuesday LONDON: Britain’s border and immigration ing the country, with the economy coming afternoon to officially strip him of his priestly duties system is a “mess”, lawmakers said yesterday second on 49 percent. KANO, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram Modu Musa said. “They burnt the whole and inform him an enquiry would be launched into his in a report which will increase pressure on The political debate in Britain around gunmen killed several people in a village in market, the police station, government actions, he found the priest hanging in the sacristy. Prime Minister David Cameron’s govern- immigration has become increasingly heat- Nigeria’s far northeast, a local administrator lodge, dozens of vehicles and most houses ment to take a tougher line on migrants ed as Cameron and other party leaders have said yesterday, in the latest attack since a in the town in indiscriminate rocket and ahead of next year’s national election. hardened their stances on the issue in supposed ceasefire was announced. bomb attacks.” Bosnia jails former Serb soldiers for wartime killings Opinion polls show immigration is a major response to the rise in popularity of UKIP. Heavily armed fighters in all-terrain vehi- Police officers in Kukawa initially inter- cles stormed the town of Kukawa, some cepted the insurgents on the outskirts of concern for voters and it has fueled the rise SARAJEVO: A Bosnian court said yesterday it had sentenced 180 kilometers (112 miles) from the Borno the town and engaged them in a fight but two former ethnic Serb soldiers to 20 years in jail each for of the UK Independence Party, which may Losing control state capital, Maiduguri, and opened fire on were forced to retreat because of the gun- scupper Cameron’s chances of staying in Nick Boles, a government minister and executing 48 Muslim civilians during the 1990s war here. police and a local market. men’s superior firepower. “Predrag Milisavljevic and Milos Pantelic were found guilty power after the May election by splitting the member of Cameron’s Conservatives, said Kukawa, near Lake Chad, has been Hundreds of residents fled to Maiduguri, right-wing vote. UKIP backs stronger immi- Britons felt parliament had lost control over of taking part in the expulsion of Muslim population from repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, forc- joining tens of thousands of others who Visegrad and execution of (Muslim) male civilians between gration curbs and Britain’s exit from the immigration and might never regain control ing Nigeria’s state-run oil company to aban- have abandoned their homes and liveli- April and June 1992,” a judge said in a statement. Judge European Union. due to EU rules on free movement within don prospecting and drilling. The latest hoods as a result of sustained attacks in Vesna Jesenkovic found the two men guilty notably of tak- In a damning report, parliament’s Public the 28-nation bloc. “The difficulty that has attack happened on Monday and was slow Borno and two neighboring states. ing part in the execution of 48 Muslim males of military age Accounts Committee said the government arisen is this sense that we don’t have that to emerge because telecommunications in Nigeria’s government earlier this month who were separated from a convoy of refugees leaving could not track people through the system control and, bluntly, they’re right. It’s true,” he Borno have been largely destroyed by five announced that they had secured a cease- Visegrad, in eastern Bosnia. The crime took place on 15 June or check whether those refused the right to said in an interview with Total Politics maga- years of violence. fire deal with Boko Haram and agreement 1992. “Those people were taken above the Paklenik ravine “They (the gunmen) killed several peo- to release 219 schoolgirls abducted from stay in Britain had actually left the country. zine. where they were shot dead by several members of Bosnian ple, especially around the market, where their Borno school in mid-April. The government has also failed to tackle a Defence Secretary Michael Fallon spoke Serb police and military, including Milisavljevic and Pantelic,” traders had gone for commercial activities,” But violence-and further kidnappings- she said. Ferid Spahic, who managed to flee the execution long-standing backlog of tens of thousands on Sunday of some British towns being the Kukawa local government chairman have continued unabated. —AFP of asylum applications and the number of “swamped” by migrants. On Monday he site, was a witness during the trial. Between April and June new cases awaiting a decision is increasing, apologized for his use of emotive language 1992, Serb forces have killed in Visegrad and in the sur- rounding area more than 1,500 civilians, according to the it said. but said the thrust of his remarks about national missing people institute. “The pressure is on and the Home Office immigration was correct. The mayor of the (interior ministry) must take urgent steps to northern French port town of Calais, from sort out this immigration mess,” said opposi- where migrants often attempt to cross the tion Labor party lawmaker Margaret Hodge, English Channel to Britain, urged London on Marriage proposed for men caught with prostitutes chair of the committee. Tuesday to overhaul its generous welfare At the end of the 2013-14 financial year system and lax identity controls, saying they SAINT PETERSBURG: A fine, prison... or a shotgun there were more than 175,000 people made it a magnet for illegal immigrants. wedding: one Russian lawmaker has come up with a whose applications to stay in Britain had The new report said outsourcing group novel proposal to punish men caught paying for sex. been rejected, the report said. Capita had been hired in 2012 to check the Olga Galkina, a local legislator in Russia’s second city “It is deeply worrying that the Home records of more than 250,000 people who Saint Petersburg, has put forward a bill to curb prosti- tution that would see punters given the option to tie Office is not tracking those people ... to should have been removed from Britain and the knot if they get busted. “If it is adopted, clients of ensure that they are removed from the UK,” by the end of last year it was unable to trace prostitutes will have the choice between paying a fine said Hodge. “The department should, as a more than 50,000 of them. of 100,000 rubles ($2,300, 1,800 euros) or serving 15 matter of urgency, take more steps to identi- The committee, made up of lawmakers days in prison,” Galkina said. “They can though avoid fy people who remain in the UK illegally and from Labor, the Conservatives and their going to jail if they agree to marry the prostitute.” But speed up their removal.” junior coalition partner the Liberal local media said the “populist” bill has little chance of A YouGov poll published on Wednesday Democrats, said it was “disturbing” that the getting passed. Currently there is no punishment for a showed 57 percent of voters considered government did not know where these SEVATOPOL: A girl walks past a huge flowerbed during the Chrysanthemum man caught paying for sex in Russia. immigration the most important issue fac- people were. —Reuters ball flower festival in central Sevastopol yesterday. —AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 Top Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court yesterday sentenced to death the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes, a long-awaited verdict that triggered violent protests by his supporters. The war crimes tribunal found Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. Head judge Enayetur Rahim sentenced Nizami to “hang by the neck until his death” for orchestrating the killing of doctors, intellectuals and others during the con- flict as head of a ruthless militia. “It’s a historic verdict,” chief prosecutor Haider Ali told reporters outside the packed and heavily guarded court in Dhaka. Ali said Nizami, Jamaat’s leader since 2000 and a minister in a for- mer Jamaat-allied government, led the notorious Al- Badr militia “which took part in many heinous crimes”. Security was tightened across Bangladesh before the rul- ing after similar judgements against several of Nizami’s senior lieutenants plunged the country into one of its worst crises last year. Jamaat supporters took to the streets in cities and towns to protest against the latest sentence, clashing with police and border guards, but it was quiet in the capital. Around 1,000 Jamaat activists hurled small bombs at officers who fired rubber bullets and tear gas in response in the northwestern town of Shibganj, police inspector Abdus Sabur Khan said, adding that about a dozen people were injured. Police also fired rubber bul- NEW DELHI: India’s Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, center, addresses the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi yesterday. — AP lets and tear gas in the northeastern city of Sylhet to dis- perse demonstrators, while smaller clashes and protests were reported in more than a dozen other towns and India govt submits 600 names cities. Jamaat, more than a dozen of whose leaders are being tried for war crimes, called a three-day nationwide strike starting Thursday, saying it was “stunned” by the verdict. with foreign accounts to SC Junior home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said “all sorts of security measures” had been taken across Bangladesh including the deployment of extra police, amid fears the sentence could unleash a new round of India to probe Indians with huge foreign assets bloodletting. Tens of thousands of Jamaat supporters fought with police and more than 500 people died in the earlier unrest and in subsequent political violence ahead NEW DELHI: India’s government handed over the names of disclosed in 2011 by an employee of the bank and passed to The government told the court that it was committed to of disputed polls in January. more than 600 Indians with foreign bank accounts to the India but not acted on by the previous government. They are disclosing the names of people holding money abroad ille- Supreme Court yesterday after public outrage over rampant likely a tiny fraction of Indians with foreign bank accounts. gally. In an affidavit, the government said that since every tax evasion. The Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s equivalent of account held by an Indian in a foreign country may not be The court, which ordered the government to release the the FBI, said in 2012 that $500 billion was held by Indians in illegal, it would investigate the accounts before disclosing the list, has given the names to an investigative team that the tax havens overseas. Funds are stashed in tax havens such as names of account holders. government set up in June to find the illegal funds that tax Liechtenstein, British Virgin Islands, Switzerland, Mauritius, India’s anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal said the dodgers have parked overseas. The court set a deadline of Jersey and the Isle of Man. special investigative team should carry out its probe in a rig- March 31 next year for the team to complete its probe and India has a flourishing “black money” economy that func- orous and timely manner and that government action against begin legal action against tax evaders. tions parallel to the legal economy. Undeclared income is tax evaders must be uniform. “Our information is that the gov- Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he wants to prosecute used to fund election campaigns and buy land or real estate ernment is acting in a selective manner by letting off some tax dodgers and bring money stashed in tax havens back into in order to avoid paying property taxes. On Monday, the gov- offenders, conducting raids on some, and asking others to the country but little progress has been made since his land- ernment disclosed the names of seven people who it said had pay taxes and penalties,” Kejriwal, the head of the Common slide election victory earlier this year. Attorney General Mukul illegal accounts abroad. That led to widespread outrage, Man Party, or Aam Aadmi, told reporters. “This shouldn’t hap- Rohatgi said 627 people are named on the list. They all had prompting the court to step in and order the government to pen. Government should take strictest action against all tax accounts with a Geneva branch of HSBC, information that was reveal all the names that it had. offenders.” — AP Singapore’s top court upholds anti-gay law

DHAKA: Activists and former freedom fighters who SINGAPORE: Singapore’s highest court yes- statement, Tan’s lawyer M Ravi said the judg- fought against Pakistan in the 1971 war demonstrate terday dismissed a constitutional challenge ment was a “huge step backwards for following the sentencing against Jamaat-e-Islami party against an archaic law criminalizing sex human rights in Singapore”. leader Motiur Rahman Nizami outside the International between men, striking a fresh blow to the Ravi added that it was “disturbing” that Crimes Tribunal court in Dhaka yesterday.—AFP city-state’s growing gay-rights “the Supreme Court has now thrown this movement.The Court of Appeal upheld rul- issue back to Parliament, when other ings by lower courts that it was up to Commonwealth countries have struck Death hit list Parliament to repeal the provision in the down this legislation as discriminatory and Nizami at the time of the war was leader of the Islami penal code, known as Section 377A. “Whilst (an) absurd relic of the colonial past”. Chhatra Sangha, what was then the student wing of we understand the deeply held personal Section 377A, first introduced in 1938 by Jamaat. Prosecutors say he turned it into the Al-Badr pro- feelings of the appellants, there is nothing British colonial administrators, carries a max- that this court can do to assist them,” judges imum penalty of two years in jail for homo- Pakistani militia which killed professors, writers, doctors Andrew Phang, Belinda Ang and Woo Bih Li sexual acts. and journalists. said in a written verdict. “Their remedy lies, if The law states: “Any male person who, in The aim was to make the fledgling nation an “intellec- at all, in the legislative sphere,” the judges public or private, commits, or abets the tual cripple”, prosecutor Mohammad Ali said before the said. commission of, or procures or attempts to verdict. “When it was clear Pakistan was losing the war, as The ruling addressed two separate chal- procure the commission by any male person the chief commander of Al-Badr he ordered a ‘hit list’ lenges to the law. One was by Tan Eng Hong, of, any act of gross indecency with another based on which top intellectuals were abducted and who was arrested after being caught with a male person, shall be punished with impris- YANGON: Thandar (center) arrives at 88 Generation students office prior to a press killed,” he said. male partner in a public toilet cubicle in onment for a term which may extend to 2 conference about her late husband Aung Naing, in Yangon yesterday. — AFP Nizami is already on death row after being sentenced 2010, while the other was filed by a gay cou- years.” Although Section 377A is not actively to hang in January for trafficking weapons and trying to ple. The judges said they only considered enforced, the government has said it should ship them to a rebel group in northeast India. Nizami’s “legal arguments” and not “extra-legal con- stay on the books because most Wife raises concerns over defence lawyer vowed to appeal the sentence in the siderations and matters of social policy Singaporeans are conservative and do not Supreme Court, saying his client was being pursued as which were outside the remit of the court”. accept homosexuality. Myanmar reporter’s death part of a government witch-hunt against its opponents. According to the judges, examples of A scientific survey conducted by “It’s an unacceptable judgement. The court ruled extra-legal arguments put forward by the researchers at the Nanyang Technological YANGON: The wife of a reporter shot by through what Par Gyi went through,” she beyond its jurisdiction. There was no evidence that any- appellants’ lawyers included that Section University in 2010 and published last year Myanmar soldiers while in army custody said. one saw him killing,” lawyer Tajul Islam said. Law minister 377A represented “the tyranny of the major- found Singaporeans’ views towards homo- denounced yesterday the military’s ver- She added that she was working to Syed Anisul Haque said “the government is satisfied” with ity” and that the sexual conduct of their sexuality gradually becoming more positive sion of the killing, as the United States have her husband’s body exhumed to the sentence, and he would push to have Nizami’s likely clients caused no harm to others. compared to attitudes in 2005. The study voiced “serious concern” over the inci- check his injuries and get a better under- appeal hearing heard quickly. Since it was established by found religion a major factor determining dent. At an emotional press conference in standing of the circumstances of his Huge step backward? attitudes towards homosexuals, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government in 2010, the Yangon, Thandar angrily dismissed an death, but was awaiting permission from However judges said such arguments Muslims and Christians being the most neg- army statement on the shooting, which local police. International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced around a were not for the courts to consider In a ative. —AFP dozen opposition leaders for war crimes. —AFP said that her husband was a member of a Aung Naing had previous long-stand- rebel group in the volatile eastern border ing connections to the democracy move- region where he was arrested in early ment, including acting as a security guard October. for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi “My husband was never a member of during mass protests in 1988 against the an armed group. His friends and every- then-junta government, which were bru- one who knows him knows that he was a tally crushed by the military. very gentle person. He was never in a Last week the US-based Committee to fight,” she told reporters of her husband Protect Journalists said Aung Naing was Aung Naing, who was also known as Par thought to have worked for several local Gyi. Aung Naing was gunned down as he news titles. But the interim Myanmar tried to flee detention in the town of Press Council was unable to confirm his Kyaikmaraw in the southeastern state of status as a reporter. Reporters were regu- Mon on October 4, according to a state- larly detained under the former junta, ment last week from the military. which passed long jail sentences on jour- The US embassy in Yangon said it had nalists while choking off information with raised “serious concern” with the some of the world’s most draconian cen- Myanmar government over the killing. Its sorship rules. statement came just days before Reforms implemented by the current President Barack Obama is due to visit regime, including freeing most political the once-cloistered nation as it hosts a prisoners and lifting pre-publication major regional conference in November. press scrutiny, have been praised by the “We call on the government to conduct a international community as the country credible and transparent investigation opens up. into the circumstances surrounding his But the jailing of several journalists death, and to hold the perpetrators this year has raised fears that Myanmar accountable,” a US official said. could be backsliding on media freedoms. Thandar, who goes by only one name, Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent rights campaigner said her husband was a freelance journal- with the Generation 88 movement, urged ist covering unrest in the border region, the military to respond to concerns about PUSHKAR: A camel herder is seen at the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, yesterday. Pushkar, located on where fighting between troops and the death swiftly and transparently. “We the banks of Pushkar Lake, is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists who come to the town for the annual rebels has flared in recent weeks. believe there will be no reconciliation if cattle fair and camel races. —AP “I do not want any other citizen to go they hide the truth,” he said. — AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 Japan, North Korea in 2nd day of abduction talks

PYONGYANG: North Korean and Japanese officials held ministry official heading the Japanese delegation, said been abducted. In what was seen as a significant break- investigation, but was told instead that officials should their second and final day of talks yesterday to assess after the first day of talks in Pyongyang on Tuesday. “We through after years of stalemate, North Korea agreed in come to Pyongyang to meet the special investigation progress in an investigation of the fates of Japanese citi- also emphasized ... that the abduction issue is the most May to launch a new probe into the abductions. In committee if it wanted specifics. zens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and ‘80s. important task for Japan.” After years of denial, North exchange, Japan agreed to ease some unilateral sanc- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised The abduction issue has long been a major obstacle in Korea acknowledged in an unprecedented 2002 sum- tions on North Korea, though it continues to enforce not to relent until all of the abductees are returned to the frosty ties between the two nations, which have no mit between former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il sanctions backed by the United Nations over North Japan or accounted for. That could prove to be a very formal diplomatic relations. While the two sides have and then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Korea’s nuclear and long-range missile programs. complicated and sensitive matter since estimates of the met in third countries, it’s the first time in a decade that that its agents had kidnapped 13 Japanese, mainly to Progress in North Korea’s re-investigation has been number of abductees range from the 17 that the they are having official talks in North Korea. train spies in Japanese language and culture. It allowed slower than Tokyo had hoped. In September, Ihara and Japanese government officially acknowledges to more “We strongly requested that the investigation be five of them to return to Japan that year, but said the his North Korean counterpart, Song Il Ho, held a meet- than 800 that Japanese police list as cases of missing conducted promptly, and that they inform us of the others had died. Japan thinks at least some of them may ing in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang. Japan persons in which abductions by North Korea cannot be results as soon as possible,” Junichi Ihara, the foreign still be alive, and believes hundreds more may also have was hoping then to receive a preliminary report on the ruled out. — AP Critics slam Malaysia’s tiered fuel subsidy plan KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has followed up month. Critics of Prime Minister Najib on two fuel subsidy cuts in the past year Razak’s economic stewardship say it is a with a proposal for a tiered subsidy system tactic to ensure that the majority of society that skeptics say will be hard to execute continues to be subsidized, especially poor and looks more like an attempt to placate but politically important states such as voters griping about living costs. In recent Sabah. “The whole idea of subsidies is you years, Malaysia has shielded its citizens target the lower income, and the sad thing from the full brunt of surging crude oil is subsidies are also a reward program,” said prices with fuel subsidies of around 24 bil- James Chin, a professor of political science lion ringgit ($7.34 billion) annually. That has at the Malaysian campus of Australia’s exacerbated the government’s budget Monash University. Under the proposed deficit, one of the region’s biggest as a pro- tiered mechanism, individuals earning less portion of gross domestic product. than 5,000 ringgit a month will be eligible To shore up its finances, Malaysia cut for a full subsidy. Those earning between the subsidies in September 2013 and then 5,000 and 10,000 ringgit would get a partial again this month. That raised the price of subsidy and those earning more than that petrol and diesel, stirring public debate on would get nothing. inflation and living costs. The subject is But the median monthly salary for growing ever more tender as Malaysia Malaysia’s 9.3 million workers stood at heads towards implementing a 6 percent 1,500 ringgit last year, according to a gov- goods and services tax in April next year. ernment report published in August. That Economists say a window has opened up suggests at least half of the population will BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping (centre right) and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda (centre left), chairman of the Boao for Southeast Asia to consider dismantling continue to get fuel subsidies. “The high Forum for Asia, gather for a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. — AFP subsidies as global crude prices sink to thresholds and low median income sug- multi-year lows. But instead of biting the gest that this scheme will not materially bullet and pledging more market-oriented reduce the fuel subsidy bill,” said Chua Hak fuel prices, Malaysia earlier this week pro- Bin, a Singapore-based economist at Bank China punishes lawmaker posed tweaking its subsidy system. of America Corp. Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni “There is also considerable scope for Hanadzlah said on Monday that the gov- cheating, such as asking friends or family to ernment is considering implementing a fill up petrol, and difficulties in enforce- for criticizing HK leader three-tier fuel subsidy mechanism next ment.” A direct fuel price hike would be year under which some of the population more effective, with some of the fiscal sav- will be fully subsidized and some not at all, ings then re-packaged as handouts to the depending on how much people earn a poor, Chua said. —Reuters Action suggests Beijing won’t tolerate dissent

HONG KONG: A senior Hong Kong lawmaker withdrew his party’s support for a government- UN investigator cautious was expelled from a prestigious Chinese govern- backed national security bill amid large street ment body yesterday, in a sign that Beijing will protests, leading to the legislation’s collapse and not tolerate dissent from loyalists over pro- the eventual resignation of Hong Kong’s then- on N Korea engagement democracy protests in the semi-autonomous leader Tung Chee-hwa. city. James Tien had his “qualifications revoked” UNITED NATIONS: A UN human rights inves- which we mean real improvements on the as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Unpopular tigator said Tuesday that he was surprised and ground,” the spokesperson said. “It is with this Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the state-run He backed Leung’s opponent Henry Tang in gratified that North Korean officials raised the objective in mind that the EU and its co-spon- China News Service said. The prominent busi- the 2012 race to be the city’s chief executive. possibility of allowing him to visit their coun- sors will look at any proposals made by the nessman and politician had criticized Hong Leung increasingly unpopular Leung’s popularity try, but the prospect of such a trip remains DPRK.” A Japanese official said the govern- Kong’s embattled leader Leung Chun-ying for has taken a nosedive since the protests began deeply uncertain because of demands the ment in Tokyo has been made aware of the failing to put an end to more than a month of last month. A poll this week by the Chinese North Koreans made in exchange. message conveyed by Daruman “but I cannot pro-democracy protests-an unusual move for a University of Hong Kong showed he now has a Marzuki Darusman said North Korea is predict whether the resolution will be modi- pro-Beijing lawmaker. 38.6 voter approval rating on a 0 to 100 approval insisting that a proposed UN resolution drop a fied or not.” The official said “our policy is for The CPPCC voted to pass the “decision on scale-his lowest since taking office in July 2012, recommendation that the North be consid- now unchanged” and Japan would continue revoking Tian Beijun’s membership in the 12th when he scored 53.9. ered for referral to the International Criminal seeking support from UN members for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative A hate figure among protesters, who are call- Court over its human rights record. The special resolution. The officials both spoke on condi- Conference”, the government body said, using ing for him to resign, Leung stirred fresh anger investigator said he conveyed this message to tion of anonymity because they were not Tien’s name in Mandarin and without providing last week when he said that open elections were the European Union and Japan, which drafted authorized to speak on private discussions by further details. In a brief statement Tien said he not feasible because they would result in the the resolution, but that he would not be name. Darusman, who has been special rap- accepted the CPPCC ruling and would resign as city’s poor dominating politics. The demonstra- involved in any further discussions between porteur since 2010, said it is “out of question” leader of Hong Kong’s pro-business Liberal Party. tions were sparked by China’s decision that all the parties. for the resolution to drop calls for officials to “I just remembered I am a lawmaker in Hong candidates running for the top Hong Kong post Darusman met with four North Korean offi- be held accountable for human rights atroci- Kong, neglecting my role as a CPPCC member. in 2017 must be vetted by a loyalist committee, a cials on Monday, the first such encounter since ties but he spoke of the possibility of “refor- Maybe that was inappropriate,” Tien said of his decision which the protesters say will result in the office of special rapporteur for human mulating” the language. When asked whether comments about Leung. But he insisted later he the election of a pro-Beijing stooge. rights in North Korea was created 10 years ago. that could mean dropping direct mention of would not withdraw his comments. “I see no rea- China has refused to budge in the face of the He said he was surprised when the officials the ICC he said, “It depends on how you for- son for me to retract my statement or change my rallies and has publicly thrown its full support mentioned the possibility of a visit, which mulate that.” position... I speak from the bottom of my heart behind the Hong Kong administration. Tien’s would be a breakthrough in international HONG KONG: Hong Kong lawmaker James anyway,” Tien told a press conference. Tien speaks to the media during a press con- brother said the central government had little efforts to have a firsthand look at the way the Defensive Demonstrators have staged street rallies and tolerance for dissent at such a crucial time. deeply impoverished but nuclear-armed coun- The North has been on the defensive since ference in Hong Kong yesterday. A senior road blockades for more than a month, calling Hong Kong lawmaker was expelled from a “President Xi (Jinping) himself has openly try treats its citizens. He said the North Koreans the UN commission of inquiry released a for free leadership elections for the former British announced and had asked for all the support. also floated the possibility of a visit by the UN harshly critical report accusing the regime of prestigious Chinese government body, in a colony in 2017. The demonstrations present the sign that Beijing will not tolerate dissent The timing is crucial,” said Michael Tien, adding high commissioner for human rights. “It’s quite running political prison camps with up to most concerted challenge to Beijing’s authority that Beijing leaders expect the city’s establish- a big jump for North Korea,” Darusman said at 120,000 people and sponsoring abductions of from loyalists over pro-democracy protests in since the bloody 1989 Tiananmen protests. Tien’s the semi-autonomous city. — AFP ment politicians to support Leung “wholeheart- a news conference. “It’s a very pragmatic step South Koreans, Japanese and others. younger brother Michael, another Hong Kong edly”. “If there is any change at this moment they are taking.” That report recommended that the North’s lawmaker, said before the announcement that “Residents are ignoring court injunctions (to dis- (within the city leadership), the Occupy move- But Darusman said the North Koreans situation be referred to the ICC, something his brother was being punished for perceived perse) and pan-democrats are being uncoopera- ment is going to turn into a severe, ugly crisis... made clear they want mention of the ICC Daruman backed in the annual report he pre- disloyalty to Leung. “The decision is definitely tive. How is he going to govern?” Tien said on they need CY Leung to stay here and resolve the dropped from the resolution “so that they sented Monday to the General Assembly’s based on my brother’s comments about CY Friday, according to the South China Morning crisis,” he said, referring to the protests known as would be in a position to issue an invitation.” commission on human rights. Even if the (Leung Chun-ying),” Michael Tien said. Post. Despite hailing from Hong Kong’s pro- Occupy Central. The CPPCC is a discussion body The nonbinding resolution, which could be Security Council were to take up the matter, James Tien said last week that Leung should Beijing camp, the 67-year-old politician is no that is part of the Communist party-controlled introduced to the UN General Assembly next China would likely veto any resolution that consider resigning for failing to halt the protests. stranger to ruffling political feathers. In 2003 he governmental structure. — AFP month, would urge the Security Council to included a referral of its North Korean ally to consider referring North Korea’s situation to the ICC. But the North Koreans have engaged the ICC, as well as press for targeted sanctions. in an unusually public diplomatic blitz to stop It doesn’t name names but a UN commission the idea from even reaching a vote. China says Afghanistan will of inquiry warned leader Kim Jong Un in a let- Choe Myong Nam, a North Korean foreign ter earlier this year that he may be held ministry official in charge of human rights accountable for orchestrating widespread issues, told The Associated Press on Monday help Beijing fight militants crimes against civilians. that no date has been fixed for a visit from Darusman said the North Koreans were Darusman, but his country is looking for a BEIJING: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has been about $250 million and its security support which hundreds of people have been killed in the upset about the mention of Kim because “it “new and objective report” on North Korea’s pledged to help China fight Islamist militants, a has been mostly limited to counter-narcotics train- past two years. Experts, however, dispute the influ- touches on the sanctity” of the leader. An EU human rights situation. “Previous reports he senior Chinese official said on Tuesday, after Ghani ing. Xi has repeatedly urged Central Asian coun- ence of foreign militant groups in China, and argue spokesperson did not discount the possibility has prepared have been based on rumors and met President Xi Jinping in Beijing on his first visit tries to step up the fight against religious militancy, that economic marginalization of Muslim Uighurs, of addressing the North’s concerns. “The fabrications, as well as distortions,” he said. abroad since his September inauguration. China, which the Chinese government says helped incite a who call Xinjiang home, is one of the main causes objective of this text is to bring change to the Phones rang unanswered Tuesday at North which is connected to Afghanistan by the narrow, spate of attacks in Xinjiang and across China in of violence there. —Reuters human rights situation in the country, by Korea’s UN Mission. — AP almost impassable Wakhan Corridor, says militants seeking to set up a separate state called East Turkistan in its western Xinjiang region are holed up along the ungoverned Afghan-Pakistani border. Leaders in Beijing, who have been bracing for more responsibility in Afghanistan as the bulk of US-led troops pull out, worry that ethnic Uighur separatists from Xinjiang will take advantage if the country again descends into chaos. “In the area of security, President Ghani expressed the readiness and staunch support from the Afghan side in China’s fight against East Turkistan Islamic Movement terrorist forces,” Kong Xuanyou, director general of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian Affairs Department, told journalists after Ghani and Xi met. The two sides said in a joint statement China would give 2 billion yuan ($327 million) to Afghanistan through to 2017, with 500 million yuan of that in 2014 and 1.5 billion yuan over the next three years. China also will help train 3,000 Afghan professionals over the next five years. PYONGYANG: Junichi Ihara (left), director general of the Asia and Oceania Affairs China says it does not seek to replace the Bureau of Japan’s Foreign Ministry, speaks during a press conference at Yanggakdo departed Western troops in Afghanistan but has KARO: Indonesia President Joko Widodo, popularly known as “Jokowi” (center) and his wife Iriana Hotel in Pyongyang yesterday. The second and final day of talks was underway yes- promised to play a “huge” commercial role in help- are greeted by villagers during his visit at a temporary shelter for people who are affected by the terday between North Korean and Japanese officials assessing progress into an ing rebuild the country. Up to now, China’s com- eruption of Mount Sinabung, in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, yesterday. Mount Sinabung, investigation of the fates of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s mitment to Afghan reconstruction since the fall of among about 130 active volcanoes in the country, has sporadically erupted since 2010 after being and ‘80s. — AP the hardline Islamist Taleban regime in 2001 has dormant for 400 years, forcing thousands of people to remain in evacuation centers. —AP NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

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Scott becomes Africa’s first white... $22.5bn Riyadh metro a ‘race against time’ Continued from Page 1 Sata had not been seen in public since returning from the UN General Assembly last month, where he failed to make a Continued from Page 1 sections” and areas for single men. In the Riyadh Metro Sata had named Defence Minister Edgar Lungu as acting scheduled speech. Even before Sata’s death, analysts had said offices, a two-metre train model shows that the railway president before he left for Britain, despite doubts about the a power struggle for Zambia’s top job was already well under Large American-model cars rule the city’s multi-lane carriages will be split in a similar way, with the addition of a constitutionality of that move. But it later emerged that vice- way within the Patriotic Front. They now face a divisive pri- roads where thousands of people die every year. Some first-class compartment. In the world’s only country where President Guy Scott, 70, will take the reins until elections are mary battle, before a possible general election challenge Riyadh residents think the metro will appeal more to women are not allowed to drive, the transport system will held within 90 days. from former president Rupiah Banda, who is facing graft Riyadh’s foreign workers, while Saudis would be reluctant provide them mobility, but Allohaidan said planners hope Scott - whose parents came from Scotland - becomes the charges, has hinted at a possible return to active politics. “I riders. Allohaidan says he can understand that perception, the metro will also attract the large under-20 population. first white president of an African nation since FW de Klerk am legally eligible to stand,” he told AFP early this month, cit- because the system will be something new to the king- Civic authorities are looking at how to encourage the ruled apartheid South Africa more than 20 years ago. But he ing calls from his supporters to return to the political fray. dom. But he believes people, “especially Saudis”, will use it. use of public transportation, while research is also being is not eligible to stand in upcoming elections, thanks to a British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Sata The network will have a capacity of about three million done about possible restrictions on the use of cars. About constitutional rule barring presidential candidates whose “played a commanding role in the public life of his country passengers per day, and will even offer home pickups to 40 percent of the metro will be underground and half will parents were born outside Zambia, a former British colony. In over three decades”. African leaders also paid rich tributes. transfer commuters living far from the nearest bus stop. use viaducts in what is the biggest infrastructure project in an address to the nation Scott vowed to uphold the constitu- Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta hailed him as an “outstand- In ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia men and women are Riyadh’s history. “This is a world-class metro,” Allohaidan tion and announced a period of mourning. “We will miss our ing son of Africa”. “He was gifted with unique, admirable abili- strictly segregated. Restaurants are divided into “family said. “We are rebuilding the city.” — AFP beloved president and comrade,” he said. ties and strong values,” Kenyatta said in a statement. South Scott is a lively character who has caused diplomatic con- Africa’s ruling ANC said: “Zambia has lost not only a president troversy in the past, describing South Africans as “backward” who prioritised the poor, but also led the Zambian govern- in an interview with Britain’s Guardian newspaper last year. “I ment at a time when the continent is working to reclaim its like a lot of South Africans but they really think they’re the place in the global governance and economy.” bees’ knees and actually they’ve been the cause of so much Scott stands out as the only white politician in a govern- trouble in this part of the world,” he said. “He is a black man in ment of a country whose population of whites is less than a white man’s skin,” said Nathan Phiri, a bus driver. “The very one percent. He described his elevation to the country’s top fact we accepted him as vice-president shows that we con- job as a “bit of a shock to the system”. sider him as one of us.” The colourful interim president is known for his undiplo- Sata was elected in 2011 to preside over his landlocked, matic candour, once branding South Africans as “backward” southern African nation of 15 million people. It was a tri- and the Indian city of Jaipur “a terrible dump.” “I hate South umphant post for a man who rose from sweeping London Africans. I dislike South Africa for the same reason that Latin railway stations, through to being a policeman and trade Americans dislike the United States, I think. It’s just too big unionist. Once in power, though, he proved to be an authori- and too unsubtle,” he told London’s Guardian newspaper last tarian populist who inveighed against political foes, the year. In an interview with the same newspaper he said that media and sometimes even allies, earning him his snaky Sata once asked him “what would you be if you weren’t sobriquet. His admirers saw him more as a no-nonsense man white?” “I said, ‘The president?’ That shut him up,” Scott of action. recalled. — Agencies Pro-government MPs want return of... Continued from Page 1 from the central bedoon agency. Maayouf asked about the ministry’s mechanism of dealing with the issue and if In another development, MP Maayouf asked the new a committee has been formed to study the problem. Education Minister Bader Al-Essa about the problem of Separately, the new foreign relations committee yes- stateless children who are barred from attending school terday elected MP Hamad Al-Harashani as head of the and whose relatives have been organizing a sit in out- panel and MP Madhi Al-Hajeri as its rapporteur. The legal side the education ministry. According to activists, and legislative committee also elected MP Mubarak Al- around 600 bedoon children were barred from school Harees as its chairman and MP Abdulhameed Dashti as RIYADH: Abdullah Allohaidan, assistant of the director of the Riyadh Metro, points to a metro project map at because their fathers do not carry the required ID issued rapporteur. the company’s operation building in the Saudi capital yesterday. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 ANALYSIS

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talians and Americans score worst when it comes to correctly assessing basic facts of modern life, Isuch as what proportion of the population are immigrants or Muslims and what percentage of teenage girls get pregnant. Swedes and Germans do best, although even they consistently get things wrong, according to a survey of 14 industrialised countries released yesterday. The analysis by market research organisation Ipsos MORI shows how far per- ceptions stray from reality across a range of issues as For women commuters, Latam worst, NYC best people struggle to get a precise handle on aspects of society that are seen as risks or worries. By Crina Boros port. Polling could not be conducted in five of the largest been harassed, not that I can remember,” said New York city Levels of immigration - a hot-button topic in many capitals - Cairo, Dhaka, Kinshasa, Tehran and Baghdad - due worker Sarah Williams, 34. developed countries - are overestimated everywhere atin American cities have the most dangerous trans- to conflict or YouGov and its polling partners being unable Women in Moscow ranked the Russian capital as worst but the United States veers further from reality than port systems for women with about six in every 10 to guarantee the necessary online sample of women. when it came to confidence in authorities investigating most, with an average guess that 32 percent of the Lwomen physically harassed, while New York City is But 10 experts in Cairo, the world’s fifth largest capital, harassment. Seoul in South Korea ranked 12th in the overall population are immigrants when the reality is 13 per- safest, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey questioned by the Thomson Reuters Foundation gave rat- survey but fared worst when women were asked how confi- cent. Italy fares even worse, with an average guess of of some of the world’s largest cities. The poll of 15 of the ings for their transport system which would have put the dent they were that other passengers would assist a woman 30 percent against a real figure of only seven percent. world’s largest capitals and New York, the most populous US Egyptian capital among the five worst cities in the survey. in trouble. Ji-hye Lee, a 23-year-old reporter with the Korea Italians are also spectacularly bad at estimating the city, found Bogota in Colombia ranked as having the most After the Latin American cities and Delhi, the fifth worst in Times newspaper, was not surprised by the poll findings and number of old people in the country, believing that 48 unsafe public transport, with women scared to travel after the list was Jakarta, followed by Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, said Korean men and women alike would blame the woman percent are over 65 years old. In reality, the over-65s dark, followed by Mexico City, Lima, then Delhi. Bangkok, Moscow, Manila, Paris and Seoul. The six questions being harassed. “Women feel like they should avoid trouble, and they feel they’re responsible if there is trouble,” said Lee, make up a fifth of the population - a relatively high fig- The survey of more than 6,550 women and gender focused on overall perception about safety on public trans- experts ranked Moscow as the worst European capital, com- port, whether it was safe after dark, how at risk women were adding the subway at night is often full of drunks. “A lot of ure but no higher than in Germany and considerably ing ninth in the list, with women lacking confidence that of verbal or physical abuse, and confidence in the authorities my friends would say why were you taking public trans- lower than in Japan. authorities would investigate reports of abuse. Paris came dealing with reports of abuse or public help. portation at night anyway?” Teenage pregnancy is another issue where people 11th due to little confidence that other passengers would Bogota, a city of 9.6 million people by United Nations fig- New York came top for safety, having transformed its sub- everywhere get the sums badly wrong, reflecting the help a woman in trouble. New York was rated the best of the ures that has no city train system but a network of red buses, way and bus system in the past 25 years. Metropolitan difficulty of assessing occurrences that are relatively 16 cities by women and experts asked their views on came out worst when it came to overall safety and travelling Transit Authority figures released this year showed subway rare. Americans think 24 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 women’s safety on trains and buses in their cities, followed after dark. “Buses aren’t safe. You can get your bag or cell usage at 1.7 billion in the past year, the highest in 60 years. give birth each year, when the real figure is just 3 per- by Tokyo, the world’s largest capital with 38 million people, phone stolen and be harassed. When the bus is so packed The city was hailed for its growing network of CCTV security cent, and even the sensible Swedes are badly out, then Beijing and London. it’s easy for men to rub up against you and grope you,” said cameras on streets and transit lines, interactive Help Point believing the annual teenage pregnancy rate is 8 per- The survey, conducted online by pollster YouGov and Paula Reyes, a supermarket cashier in Bogota. “There’s a total communications kiosks, and obvious police presence. “I love cent compared to the actual 0.7 percent. “People are with the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s own investigation lack of respect for women here.” New York City transportation. It might be the safest place in just not very good at maths and they find it particular- with specialists in each city, was released on Wednesday as Bogota, the world’s 16th largest capital, was ranked as New York. There are cameras everywhere. I always felt safe, ly hard to make estimates about very large numbers or studies repeatedly show a link between safe transport and the most unsafe city for women to travel alone at night, fol- even late at night,” said Francesca, a filmmaker and student very small numbers,” said Bobby Duffy, global director women’s economic empowerment and ability to work and lowed by Delhi, the second largest capital with 25 million at Hunter College, who declined to give her last name. of the Ipsos Social Research Institute. “It seems people study. Mary Crass, head of policy at the International people. The gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old female Tokyo was rated second for safety, which experts attrib- remember vivid anecdotes about things, regardless of Transport Forum, an OECD think-tank, said it was worrying student on a bus late at night in Delhi in December 2012 uted to a raft of measures taken in the city in recent years to whether they are describing something very rare.” that women were scared to use public transport in some horrified the city and prompted calls for action to improve combat groping of women in often overcrowded buses and major cities and the poll highlighted the need for more safety for women. trains. Tokyo was one of the first major capitals to introduce Health experts have bemoaned similar perception action. women-only trains in 2000, colour-coding these areas in problems in the current Ebola outbreak, where public “When there is not frequent, reliable, accessible trans- Violence in Mexico pink with well-displayed signs and transit police to enforce alarm over a handful of cases in the United States is at port, this can affect women and anyone’s ability to access Mexico City, the third largest capital with 21 million peo- rules. Women-only sections on public transport are now also odds with the real risks. This topic was not covered in opportunity and notably employment in urban areas, which ple, fared worst when women were asked if they were at risk found in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Delhi, Cairo and Manila the survey, which was conducted in August among can make a big difference for women in particular,” she told of verbal or physical abuse on public transport. More than among others, while other cities, including London, are more than 11,000 people across the 14 countries. the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “(Women) tend to be six out of 10 women in Mexico City, 64 percent, polled online mulling this option, introducing CCTV on platforms and more reliant on public transport ... particularly in low by YouGov said they had been groped or experienced some improving lighting. Religious Divides income or middle-income countries, in emerging type of physical harassment on public transport. “Violence The index on public transport for women was based on Estimating religious groupings in society is another economies.” against women and girls is one of the country’s structural YouGov responses from almost 6,300 women from the 16 area where perception is seriously out of kilter with problems with elevated levels of impunity,” UN Women’s cities and a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of at least reality. Like other controversial topics, it is a subject Travelling at Night Mexico representative Ana Guezmes Garcia said. nine experts in each city including women’s rights activists, where media coverage is likely to play a role in exag- The survey, conducted as a rising number of cities ramp By contrast only three out of 10 women surveyed in New gender studies academics, urban planning architects and gerating misconceptions. People hugely overestimate up efforts to tackle sexual harassment on public transport, York said they had suffered any kind of verbal or physical lawyers. The responses were compiled into an index by the the proportion of Muslims living in their country, with asked women as well as gender and city planning experts harassment while using the city’s extensive subway system Thomson Reuters StarMine Quantitative Research Team, the French putting the figure at 31 percent, when the from 15 of the United Nations list of 20 largest capitals six and buses. “I’ve been living in New York for six years. I ride experts at creating analytics and quantitative models from real figure is 8 percent. The British guess at 21 percent questions about their perception of safety on public trans- the subway and take the bus occasionally .. and I’ve never large amounts of data. —Reuters (real figure 5 percent) and Americans estimate 15 per- cent (real figure 1 percent). Even in countries such as Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Japan, where fewer Qaeda still offers olive branch to IS than one percent of the population is Muslim, people put the figure at four to seven percent. By Deb Riechmann and Bassem Mroue tion over who would be the first to launch a new attack against er enemy” - the United States - and should not be fighting By contrast, majority-Christian countries tend to the West. Jihadi groups across the world recently have rushed against each other. underestimate how many people count themselves as l-Qaeda is using US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a to proclaim a new allegiance to IS, either out of fear or because An activist in the central Syrian province of Hama who is in Christian. The ramifications of widespread ignorance reason to extend olive branches to the renegade Islamic they want to be with the winning team. But Joseclyn notes that contact with rebels in Aleppo and Idlib in northern Syria said about basic measures of what is happening in society AState group, saying the two should stop feuding and they are all “B-listers”, not mainline Al-Qaeda affiliates. “The hundreds of militants have defected from Nusra Front as well as are unclear but they could potentially influence join forces to attack Western targets - a reunification that intelli- Islamic State is the strongest jihadist group in Iraq and Syria, but an ultraconservative group that had fought for months along- behaviour and undermine rational political debate. If, gence analysts say would allow Al-Qaeda to capitalize on the the evidence thus far says that Al-Qaeda is much stronger side Nusra Front against the Islamic State. The activist, Bassil as the survey found, people routinely underestimate younger group’s ruthless advance across the region. Analysts everywhere else,” he said. Darwish, also said infighting stopped after the US said in the proportion of the population that votes in elec- are closely watching Al-Qaeda’s repeated overtures, and while a The British-based Syrian Observatory for August that it would launch airstrikes. Asked if the plans for tions, there may be a persistent downward drift in vot- full reconciliation is not expected soon - if ever - there is evi- Human Rights, which has a network airstrikes by the US-led coalition led to this undeclared er turnout. dence the two groups have curtailed their infighting and are of activists around Syria, also said truce, he said, “Yes, this is the main reason.” Similarly, if people are not accurately assessing the cooperating on the Syrian battlefield, according to activists on that Islamic State and Nusra Rita Katz, the director and co-founder of the impact of policies in areas such as immigration, then the ground, US officials and experts who monitor jihadi mes- Front, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in SITE Intelligence Group, which analyzes inter- action by governments may not influence the political sages. Syria, have stopped fight- national terrorists’ messages, said she sees no debate as expected. Much of the disconnect may be Al-Qaeda is saying, “Let’s just have a truce in Syria,” said Tom ing in parts of the coun- evidence that the infighting has stopped down to “emotional innumeracy” when answering, Joscelyn, who tracks terror groups for the Long War Journal. try since the airstrikes and cited fighting between the groups according to Duffy, who believes people may be send- “That is what’s underway now. ... What we have seen is that began there Sept 23. about 10 days ago in Aleppo. “I cannot local commanders are entering into local truces. There are defi- Rami Abdurrahman, believe that at this stage IS or Nusra are ing a message about what is worrying them as much nitely areas where the two groups are not fighting.” The Islamic director of the saying they are not fighting,” she said. as trying to reply to the questions correctly. “Cause State group has seized about a third of Iraq and Syrian territory Observatory, said that Meantime, Al-Qaeda is worried about and effect can run both ways, with our concern lead- and is terrorizing civilians to impose a strict interpretation of in the Qalamoun the Islamic State group’s success in recruit- ing to our misperceptions as much as our mispercep- Islamic law. Their advances led to airstrikes by the United States region bordering ing young jihadis - so much so that a pro- tions creating our concern,” he said. —Reuters and a coalition of Western and Persian Gulf nations in both Iraq Lebanon, the two Al-Qaeda cleric from Saudi Arabia went and Syria. IS was kicked out of Al-Qaeda in May after disobeying groups have been coop- online last week to chastise militant com- its leader, Ayman Al-Zawahiri. So far, IS has not publicly erating for some time - manders, including ones affiliated with Al- responded to Al-Qaeda’s calls to reunite - the most recent on even before the strikes. Qaeda, for not doing more to stem the tide All articles appearing on these Oct 17 from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen- Moreover, of recruits heading to IS. Abdullah pages are the personal opinion of based offshoot that denounced the airstrikes and called on rival Abdurrahman says, hun- Muhammad Al-Muhaysini denounced IS for militant groups to stop their infighting and together train their dreds of fighters have killing Muslims and for declaring a the writers. Kuwait Times takes no sights on the West. Reconciling with Al-Qaeda senior leadership defected from Nusra caliphate, or Islamic empire, “without responsibility for views expressed would let IS benefit from Al-Qaeda’s broad, international net- Front and joined the consultation” among all Muslims. He therein. Kuwait Times invites read- work but would also leave it restrained in carrying out its own Islamic State group. said he planned to visit all the top jiha- attacks. For its side, Al-Qaeda would get a boost from the “Tens of fighters left di leaders in Syria to again try to unify ers to voice their opinions. Please Islamic State group’s newfound popularity, which has provided Nusra over the past the groups. send submissions via email to: opin- an influx of new recruits and money. The Treasury Department days,” he said, citing Experts and intelligence officials [email protected] or via snail said last week that IS has earned about $1 million a day from increased sympathy for say that’s unlikely. Sen Angus King, a selling oil on the black market. the group because of Maine independent who sits on the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. One school of thought is that if the two groups continue to the airstrikes. “They Senate Intelligence and Armed The editor reserves the right to edit spend time and resources fighting each other, it diminishes the believe that they are Services committees, said it was “likely” any submission as necessary. terror threat to the West. Experts tracking terrorist networks say, being attacked by what the two groups cooperate, at least tacti- however, that continued infighting also could incite a competi- they call the infidel crusad- cally. But, he added, “they certainly don’t THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 SPORTS

Theft complaint Ingesson dies of cancer Raonic in ODESHOG: Former Elfsborg manager was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in withdrawn and Sweden midfielder Klas Ingesson, 2009. Following treatment he was able toilet hiccup who played a major role in the team’s to take over Elfsborg’s under-21 side in PARIS: Milos Raonic was a relieved man after spending over BUENOS AIRES: Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona on Tuesday third-place finish at the 1994 World Cup, October 2010, eventually being appoint- eight minutes searching for a suitable toilet before battling withdrew a theft complaint against his ex-girlfriend, after a video surfaced has died of cancer at the age of 46, the ed manager of the senior team in that allegedly showed him hitting her, news reports said. club announced yesterday. September 2013. back to beat American Jack Sock in the Paris Masters second “I spoke to Diego and he withdrew the complaint,” the former girlfriend, “IF Elfsborg has a very sad announce- But Ingesson’s managerial career was round yesterday. Rocio Oliva, told Argentine television. Maradona in March had accused Oliva ment to make. Klas Ingesson has passed interrupted by the return of the cancer Sock had levelled the match by winning the second set in Dubai of stealing jewelry and other valuable items. Oliva, 22, had a turbu- away this morning,” the club said in a and he spent a period coaching from the before Raonic’s long comfort break, which prompt- lent relationship with 53-year-old Maradona, who lives in statement posted on its website dugout in a wheelchair before announc- ed the Bercy crowd to boo the Canadian when Dubai and works as a sports promoter. Argentine televi- (www.elfsborg.se). ing his decision to step down from the he returned to court. sion channels have released a short video supposedly “Our thoughts are foremost with his role at the end of the current season. “Whoever the escort who took me was, shot by Oliva in a room in Maradona’s home. In the blur- wife and children, who were with him to “If I’m going to be involved, I have to took me into a bathroom that had no seats ry footage, Oliva can be heard saying “Stop, stop” as if she the end at home in Odeshog.” As a player play a full part,” Ingesson said while on the toilet,” the seventh-seeded Raonic, is trying to stop an attack. Maradona has said he had Ingesson represented a string of clubs announcing his decision. “This year I who won 6-3 5-7 7-6(4) explained. knocked the phone from her hands but denies hit- including IFK Gothenburg in Sweden, have been there on and off and others “So I didn’t want to squat, so I kept say- ting Oliva, a female footballer. Sheffield Wednesday in England and the have had to bear the burden. That won’t ing, ‘let’s go to another one’, and we ended Oliva said she was not responsible for the Italian trio of Bolgona, Bari and Lecce. work in the long run.” up going to the locker room.” Raonic still has video being released and instead blamed an Capped 57 times for Sweden and a Known affectionately in Sweden as a chance of qualifying for next month’s ATP unnamed “nephew” of Maradona. The couple driving force in the side that beat ‘the Lumberjack from Odeshog’, had been a staple of Argentina’s tabloid and World Tour finals in London, for which four Bulgaria 4-0 to claim third place at the Ingesson is survived by his wife Veronica spots are up for grabs in Paris. —Reuters celebrity press. — AFP World Cup in United States, Ingesson and two sons. — Reuters Penguins keep Devils at bay

PITTSBURGH: Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby scored two of four second-period goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins netted seven straight in an 8-3 rout of the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night. Trailing 3-1, the Penguins rallied behind Malkin. He extended his point streak to eight games with a pow- er-play goal, his fourth of the year. Crosby scored his sixth and seventh goals, Patric Hornqvist netted his fifth and Pascal Dupuis scored in his third straight game, also on the power play. Steve Downie, Blake Comeau and Craig Adams also had goals for Pittsburgh, which defeated New Jersey for the ninth time in 11 home games. Pittsburgh’s top-ranked power play scored three times, the fifth time in eight games it produced multi- ple goals. Dainius Zubrus scored his second of the sea- son nine seconds into the game, but the Devils were unable to win for the fifth time in six road games.

SENATORS 5, BLUE JACKETS 2 FRANCE: (From left) Germany’s Marcel Kittel, France’s Blel Kadri, France’s Tony Clarke MacArthur had two goals and an assist as Gallopin, Norway’s Alexander Kristoff, Tour de France 2014’s winner Italy’s Vincenzo the Senators beat Columbus in the Blue Jackets’ first Nibali, France’s Thibaut Pinot, France’s Jean-Christophe Peraud and Australia’s Cadel game since star goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was Evans pose during the presentation of the official route of the 2015 Tour de France sidelined by a broken finger. cycling race. — AFP Erik Karlsson added a goal and assist for Ottawa, which scored three times in the third period while Evans plays down hopes of stopping a two-game slide. Zach Smith and Alex Chiasson also scored, Kyle Turris had two assists and Robin Lehner had 36 saves. David Savard and Cam winning send-off in Australia Atkinson scored for injury-riddled Columbus, which MELBOURNE: Cadel Evans’ final race as a pro- favor. “It doesn’t seem to make sense but with has lost three in a row. Center Artem Anisimov went fessional cyclist bears his name, runs through the longevity of the event in mind... that’s the down after taking a shoulder in the second period his home-town and has his finger-prints on way we’ve come to make the course. that sent his helmet into the air and left him face the design, but the former Tour de France “One thing when the race is in your name down on the ice. winner is not giving himself much hope of all the competitors are watching you more FLYERS 3, KINGS 2 than any other because they all know I will winning it. Brayden Schenn scored 2:36 into overtime, helping The 37-year-old Australian, who want to win and that doesn’t play very well in the Flyers end the Kings’ six-game win streak. Schenn announced his retirement plan in September, a cycling competition for your chances to beat Jonathan Quick on a breakaway. He was credited has instead set himself a tougher task of con- win.” Evans will also compete in Australia’s with the goal after a brief replay review, sending the trolling his emotions when he crosses the fin- national road cycling championship in Flyers to their third straight win. ish line at the Feb. 1 ‘Cadel Evans Great Ocean January before competing in the Tour Down Former Flyers captain Mike Richards scored the Road Race’. “I’m just hoping that it doesn’t Under in an extended farewell for home fans. tying goal in the third period. Tyler Toffoli also scored bring about tears,” the Team BMC rider told a An amiable but intense competitor, the for the Kings. Michael Raffl and Chris VandeVelde packed media conference in Melbourne on 2009 world champion spoke of his retirement scored in regulation for the Flyers. The Flyers outshot Tuesday. “It’s going to be hard to pin on a with a tinge of regret but felt comfortable he the Kings 41-39 in regulation. number for the last time and race for the last had made the right call after being disap- time and come into the last kilometre for the pointed with his eighth-placed finish at the WILD 4, BRUINS 3 last time. “It could be difficult, that’s for sure, Giro d’Italia. Marco Scandella scored with 5:53 remaining as the but at the same time I really have given “(I’m feeling) a little bit relieved, a little bit Wild rallied for three goals in the third period to beat everything I have for the sport.” Evans sad but probably most of all looking forward the Bruins 4-3. One night after allowing five goals in became his country’s first Tour de France win- to starting a new chapter in my life,” Evans the third period and blowing a 3-0 lead in New York ner in 2011, a feat rated by Australians among said. “A couple more Grand Tour wins would against the Rangers, the Wild were at the opposite the achievements of the most hallowed have gone down well, a couple more Classics end of a surprising comeback in Boston. national sporting icons like Don Bradman in wins would have gone down well but my The Wild trailed 3-1 entering the third, then came out firing on Boston goalie Tuukka Rask in the third. COLUMBUS: Zack Smith No. 15 of the Ottawa Senators is congratulated by his teammates after cricket and tennis great Rod Laver. main thing was to go into the sport, give Zach Parise scored for Minnesota with 15:39 remain- scoring a goal during the second period. — AFP Well before Evans decided to pull the pin everything I can and see how far I could go ing and Justin Fontaine tied it just 2:13 later. The Wild past Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen. shooters to put the pressure on Colorado in the on his career, government officials in his with things. “There (at the Tour of Italy) when continued peppering Rask with shots and Scandella home state of Victoria had planned a race in the result didn’t come with everything in Tarasenko also had an assist on Jori Lehtera’s sec- shootout. Niemi stopped Tanguay and then made a beat him with high slapshot from the point for the go- ond-period goal. Dallas’ goals were by Jamie Oleksiak, glove save on Matt Duchene to end the game. San his honour which would take in his home- place, I also could accept for myself that ahead goal. town of Barwon Heads while boosting maybe I’m not capable of winning a Grand Seguin and Trevor Daley. It was Oleksiak’s first career Jose had a 41-17 shots advantage heading into the tourism for the coastal region, an hour’s drive Tour any more and therefore that makes it goal. Daley’s was his fourth this season on the power third period. MAPLE LEAFS 4, SABRES 0 play. St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott made 25 saves. from Melbourne. pretty easy. The Maple Leafs set a franchise record for fewest Lehtonen had 23. CANADIENS 2, FLAMES 1 The result is a 174-kilometre (108 miles) “If I can’t win it, I don’t necessarily want to shots allowed in a game, and scored three times in the PA Parenteau scored the deciding shootout goal to course which travels through hilly country- be in it.” Living in Switzerland for most of the third period of a victory over the Sabres. Jonathan DUCKS 1, BLACKHAWKS 0 lead Montreal over Calgary. Tom Gilbert scored in the side and coastal roads on a looping circuit year with his family, Evans also ruled out serv- Bernier made just 10 saves in his eighth career NHL John Gibson made 37 saves and Devante Smith- second period for the Canadiens, who had lost their from the port city of Geelong. ing Australia-or any outfit-as a full-time shutout. The Leafs’ previous record for shots against Pelly scored on a short-handed breakaway, leading previous seven games in Calgary. Montreal also With the race dovetailing onto the UCI Pro coach, but said he could see himself acting as was 13, which happened three previous times, most the surging Ducks to a victory over the Blackhawks. bounced back from a 3-0 loss at Edmonton on circuit’s Tour Down Under, Evans said a num- a mentor for the country’s up-and-coming recently in a 9-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Smith-Pelly grabbed a loose puck when Chicago Monday night. Mark Giordano scored the lone goal for ber of professional teams had already signed riders on a consultancy basis. 2006. The shot total also was the lowest in franchise defenseman Brent Seabrook fell while retrieving a the Flames. Carey Price made 37 saves and three more up, and he expected stiff competition on a “That’s something we’re looking into at history for the Sabres. Phil Kessel, James van Riemsdyk pass at the Anaheim blue line, and he beat rookie in the shootout for Montreal. Calgary goalie Jonas course unsuited to him. “Easier said that this point, but most of all, I don’t think there’s and Jake Gardiner scored in an impressive third-peri- goaltender Scott Darling between the legs on a back- Hiller, who finished with 18 stops, had won his last done,” he said of his prospects of victory. “I that many riders who would want to be od flurry for Toronto. hand after skating the length of the ice. Smith-Pelly’s three games. designed a course, but I didn’t design it in my coached by me,” he quipped. — Reuters third goal came with 8:28 left in regulation, and with 2 JETS 4, ISLANDERS 3 seconds remaining on Chicago’s power play. Gibson CANUCKS 4, HURRICANES 1 Andrew Ladd scored his second goal of the night got his first shutout of the season as Anaheim won for Ryan Miller made 29 saves in his 300th career vic- 3:31 into the third period as the Jets rallied to beat the the eighth time in nine games. tory as Vancouver beat winless Carolina. Brad Garcia and Reed to Islanders in a back-and-forth encounter. Ladd put a Richardson scored twice to help the Canucks (6-3-0) rebound of Bryan Little’s shot into the open right side SHARKS 3, AVALANCHE 2 win for the third time in four games. The Hurricanes to put the Jets back in front. After trailing early, the Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski scored in the (0-6-2) are the only NHL team without a victory this face off in Malaysia Jets scored three times in the second period - two dur- shootout to help San Jose beat Colorado. Antti Niemi season. Carolina is winless in seven games at ing a long power play after Nikolay Kulemin was eject- stopped 31 shots and both Avalanche players in the Vancouver since October 1999. Linden Vey and Jannik KUALA LUMPUR: A resurgent Sergio just “sit back and enjoy” that windfall but ed for boarding Mark Stuart - but couldn’t hold a two- shootout. Logan Couture and Brett Burns scored in Hansen also scored for the Canucks. Henrik Sedin and Garcia goes toe-to-toe with US Ryder Cup is aiming for his first Major win this year goal lead. regulation for the Sharks. Radim Vrbata extended their point streaks to five sensation Patrick Reed at the CIMB Classic and to defend the FedExCup title. John Tavares and Mikhail Grabovski got the Semyon Varlamov made a season-high 49 saves, games. Richardson scored his second goal into an beginning today, as reigning FedExCup “I’m always thinking about the next Islanders even at 3 in the second, and Brock Nelson and Alex Tanguay and Gabriel Landeskog scored in empty net in the final minute. Jiri Tlusty scored for the champion Billy Horschel looks to lift his level,” he said. Co-sanctioned by the PGA staked New York to a 1-0 lead in the first. Jaroslav regulation for the Avalanche, who have one win in Hurricanes on an assist from captain Eric Staal, who game to an even higher level in the Tour and Asian Tour, the CIMB Classic Halak stopped 26 shots. Defensemen Paul Postma and four home games this season. returned after missing five games with an upper-body Malaysian event. offers the winner $1.26 million and 500 Jacob Trouba also scored, and Little had three assists Marleau and Pavelski came through as the first two injury. — AP Garcia, who will be paired with Reed, is FedExCup points. for the Jets, who began a four-game trip. Ondrej enjoying some of his best form in years at Last year’s winner, Ryan Moore of the Pavelec made 18 saves. 34. The Spaniard has won once in 2014, United States, is back to defend, as com- NHL results/standings finished second to world number one patriot Jason Dufner continues his come- LIGHTNING 7, COYOTES 3 Nikita Kucherov had his first career NHL hat trick Rory McIlroy in the Open Championship back. Dufner, the 2013 PGA Champion, and Tyler Johnson had four assists as the Lightning Minnesota 4, Boston 3; Winnipeg 4, NY Islanders 3; Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT); Pittsburgh in July, and played solidly in Europe’s took nearly three months off due to a beat the Coyotes. Kucherov got his third goal from 8, New Jersey 3; Ottawa 5, Columbus 2; Toronto 4, Buffalo 0; Tampa Bay 7, Arizona 3; Anaheim 1, recent Ryder Cup victory as he returned neck injury but showed little rust in a slot off a pass from Johnson at 8:23 of the third that Chicago 0; St. Louis 4, Dallas 3 (OT); San Jose 3, Colorado 2 (SO); Montreal 2, Calgary 1 (SO); to the world top 10. steady showing during his return last made it 5-2. Brian Boyle had two goals, and Valtteri Along with England’s Lee Westwood, week at the ISPS Handa Perth Filppula and Matt Carle also scored for the Lightning. Western Conference Eastern Conference Garcia and the 24-year-old Reed comprise International. Other contenders include Johnson extended his point streak to seven games. Pacific Division Atlantic Division the premier trio for the first two rounds South African Major winners Charl Arizona got goals from Shane Doan, Martin Erat and WL OTLGFGAPTS Montreal 8 2 0 27 26 16 when they tee off together at the Kuala Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, and BJ Crombeen. Shortly after Radko Gudas had a shot Tampa Bay 6 3 1 34 26 13 Anaheim 8 2 0 31 19 16 Lumpur Golf and Country Club (KLGCC). Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, the top- hit the post, Kucherov re-directed the defenseman’s Ottawa 5 2 1 22 17 11 “It’s going to be fun to be able to play ranked Asian player in the world at 21st. next try from the blue line past Mike Smith to put Los Angeles 6 1 2 24 15 14 Detroit 4 2 2 18 17 10 with both of them,” said Garcia, the high- All competitors will need to be wary of Tampa Bay up 1-0 7:46 into the game. After Filppula San Jose 6 4 1 35 30 13 Boston 5 6 0 29 28 10 est-ranked player in the field at world the steamy local conditions, said scored with 7:42 left in the first, Kucherov gave Tampa Vancouver 6 3 0 31 27 12 Toronto 4 4 1 25 25 9 Florida 2 2 3 10 16 7 number four. “Obviously I’m quite friendly Westwood, who won the 2014 Malaysian Bay a 3-0 lead on a backhand rebound at 3:20 of the Calgary 5 4 2 27 24 12 with Lee, so it should be good fun to be Open at KLGCC. second. Buffalo 2 8 0 11 33 4 Edmonton 4 4 1 26 32 9 able to play with both, and hopefully we’ll “To play on the KLGCC you have to be Metropolitan Division be playing well.” Reed was a revelation in able to manage your body well and stay BLUES 4, STARS 3 Arizona 3 4 1 21 32 7 NY Islanders 6 3 0 35 31 12 the Ryder Cup where, along with fellow hydrated all the time because of the heat,” Vladimir Tarasenko scored 1:28 into overtime to Central Division Pittsburgh 5 2 1 33 22 11 Washington 4 2 2 25 19 10 young playing partner Jordan Spieth, he he said. The tournament offered a spon- complete a hat trick as the Blues defeated the Stars. Nashville 5 1 2 19 16 12 Three times Dallas took one-goal leads in regulation Philadelphia 4 3 2 29 32 10 was a rare bright spot for the United sor’s exemption to 16-year-old Guan Chicago 5 3 1 22 15 11 play, and three times the Blues tied the score. The first NY Rangers 5 4 0 27 30 10 States in another humbling loss to Tianlang of China, who caused a sensation Dallas 4 2 3 32 33 11 New Jersey 4 3 2 28 33 10 Europe. Horschel, 27, has also emerged as by qualifying for an invitation to the 2013 two tying goals came within 37 seconds of Stars scores. Minnesota 5 3 0 27 14 10 Columbus 4 5 0 25 30 8 one of golf’s hottest young talents, clinch- Masters. Then only 14, Guan was the Carolina 0 6 2 15 33 2 St. Louis had a 4-on-3 power play after Dallas’ Tyler St. Louis 4 3 1 20 18 9 ing the season-long FedExCup crown and youngest player ever to compete at Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one its whopping $14 million payday in Augusta National, and made the cut, but Seguin went off for high sticking 14 seconds into Winnipeg 4 5 0 19 24 8 overtime. Tarasenko took a pass from Alex Pietrangelo point in the standings and are not included in September. The American said he won’t has yet to match that performance. — AFP at the top of the right faceoff circle and fired the puck Colorado 2 4 4 22 32 8 the loss column (L). THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 SPORTS Pakistan warned to brace for Australia backlash

DUBAI: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has ourselves then results will come.” warned his team to beware a backlash from a wounded Australia in the second MORE INTENT and final Test in Abu Dhabi starting The 42-year-old coach can only have today. been buoyed by the performances of his Pakistan thrashed the Australians by rookie slow bowling duo of debutant 221 runs in Dubai on Sunday, with their legspinner Yasir Shah and left-armer spinners rattling through the visitors’ Zulfiqar Babar. batsmen on a slow pitch. The pair took 14 out of 20 wickets on The defeat cost the tourists their offer, including nine in the fourth innings chance of regaining the top test ranking as Australia were skittled for 216 when from South Africa, while giving a raw chasing 438. Pakistan outfit a timely dose of belief Australia coach Darren Lehmann after recent struggles. bemoaned his team’s inability to pick the Waqar, however, said he expected the deliveries that didn’t turn. Australian Abu Dhabi clash to be a true test of the media suggested number three batsman hosts’ mettle. “We have won the first test Alex Doolan’s spot might be vulnerable to but it’s a long way to go, the second test Phillip Hughes after his struggles in will be tough,” the former test paceman Dubai, but captain Michael Clarke said told reporters on Tuesday. the only change they would consider “We all know that Australia are very would be to bring a third paceman, positive about their cricket and they feel depending on the pitch. hurt, they will bounce back, I am sure, That would give a chance to either and we have to be prepared for that.” left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc or work- Pakistan can seal their first series win horse Ben Hilfenhaus to join Peter Siddle over Australia in 20 years, and also lift and Mitchell Johnson in the pace attack, their ranking from sixth to a respectable and mean no repeat for the two special- third. “To come into (the) top three is a ist spinners in Nathan Lyon and Steven DUBAI: Pakistani bowler Yasir Shah (top left) delivers the ball during day five of the First Test against Australia at Dubai International Stadium in big thing,” said Waqar, a member of the O’Keefe. Where Pakistan’s spinners plun- this file photo. — AP 1994 side that beat Australia at home. dered Australia, both Lyon and O’Keefe, “But besides coming into the top who made his test debut in Dubai, were three, consistency is more important for feasted upon by the hosts’ batsmen, and Royals rout Giants to me because we have always been unpre- neither would feel very secure about dictable, sometimes up and then down, holding their place. Clarke said Australia so we need to give consistent perform- would be go for broke for a win, even if it ances. “It’s necessary that if we give a meant risking another demoralising loss. good performance then we must have a “Drawing the second test against Force Game Seven follow through so that people have con- Pakistan is not an option for us,” Clarke wrote in a column published in News Ltd fidence in us as a side. “We have proved KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City Royals got an In contrast, San Francisco bats went quiet Alex Gordon with the game’s first run. media yesterday. “We’ll look to bat with in the first test that we have got the tal- inspired outing from pitcher Yordano Ventura with inspired Royals rookie Yordano Ventura Nori Aoki singled to left driving in a second more intent this time around.” — Reuters ent and the potential. “So if we apply and woke from their hitting slumber to rout pitching seven shutout innings. The 23-year- run and leaving the bases loaded to bring the San Francisco Giants 10-0 and send the old Dominican fireballer sported hand-written Peavy’s night to a quick end. The right-hander World Series to a decisive Game Seven on tributes on his cap, glove and shoes to honor surrendered five runs on six hits. Negro League museum Tuesday. compatriot Oscar Taveras, the St. Louis The pitching change did nothing to slow After a 162-game regular season and three Cardinals outfielder who was killed in a car down the rampaging Royals, Cain welcoming tells of segregation tale rounds of postseason, the Major League accident on Sunday. reliever Yusmeiro Petit with a bases-loaded Baseball championship will come down to The grieving Ventura was brilliant, allowing bloop to center field that scored two more KANSAS CITY: The San Francisco Giants white teams did not sign African- one game with the Giants chasing a third title just three hits in a game in which the Royals runs. Eric Hosmer added to the assault with a and the Kansas City Royals-who are bat- American talent. in five years and the Royals looking to end a faced possible elimination. “I want to thank high-hopping bouncer over the shortstop’s tling for this year’s World Series title-have Frustrated by the unofficial ban, black 29-year drought. the Lord for giving me this opportunity, and head that went for a two-run double before rosters featuring whites, blacks, Latinos players moved to form their own The Royals entered the contest trailing the this game was dedicated to Oscar Taveras, my Billy Butler capped off the big inning with a and Asians. leagues. The games attracted huge best-of-seven-series 3-2 and had not scored a good friend,” the 23-year-old Ventura, who booming RBI double to whip the capacity But multi-cultural squads were not crowds in their heyday. run in 15 innings. But Kansas City batters carried a Dominican flag into the interview crowd into a frenzy. always the norm. Just down the highway rediscovered their groove in the second room, said through a translator. “When you get an inning like that going in from where the Major League Baseball ‘WORLD-CLASS PLAYERS’ inning of Game Six, exploding for seven runs “It’s a little emotional for us.” Royals manag- front of your home crowd it’s pretty cool to be champion will be crowned this week, the Andrew “Rube” Foster pulled together on eight hits to chase Giants starter Jake er Ned Yost said it was a special effort. “You a part of,” Gordon said. “The dugout was rock- Negro Leagues Baseball Museum tells a the first all-black circuit during the Peavy after just 1-1/3 innings and set the got a 23-year-old kid in the biggest game this ing and the fans were, too.” different story-one of segregation and Roaring 20s in Kansas City, a major hub stage for a comprehensive rout. “Guys stadium has seen in 29 years and our backs The Royals, however, were not yet done. struggle. of the Negro Leagues into the early stepped up in a big way tonight. We felt we against the wall and he goes out there in Cain added an RBI double in the bottom of 1960s. League teams withstood the just had to get it done, find any way possible complete command of his emotions ... and the third, Alcides Escobar fired another run- Great Depression of the 1930s thanks to to get on base and drive in runs,” said Royals throws seven shutout innings,” Yost told scoring double in the fifth and Moustakas regional tours, at times playing in towns outfielder Lorenzo Cain, who contributed a reporters. cracked a solo home run in the seventh. in the American south and Midwest pair of hits and three RBIs to the Kansas cause. “You can’t get in a bigger stage then he Moustakas said the team got a definite where some people would not sell food Before the end of the third inning every was on tonight and to perform the way that boost from the home crowd. “Twenty-nine to blacks or refuel their buses. Players member of the Royals starting line up had at he did tonight was just special.” Moustakas years for these people has been a long time,” even had to pitch tents because they least one hit with Mike Moustakas leading the sparked the second inning burst with a dou- the third baseman said. “We’re excited to give were refused lodging. hit parade with a double and a home run. ble down the right field line that cashed in this city something to cheer about.” — Reuters Teams flourished again in the 1940s, when soldiers of all races fought side-by- side in World War II and helped drive cross-cultural understanding that would bring integration in US sports and, later, racial integration in US society. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum- located near jazz clubs where players relaxed after games-opened in 1997. Former star Buck O’Neil helped create the heritage display before his death in 2006 at age 94. “All the players I played against were world-class players,” O’Neil says in a museum video. “The level was as good as anyone was playing.”

FIRST HOMER AT JINGU Negro League played at night using portable lights from 1930 — five years before the technology was first used by Major League teams. ATLANTA: In this April 8, 1999 file photo, And before US Major League All-Star baseball great Hank Aaron waves to the teams toured Japan in the 1930s, the crowd during a ceremony that unveiled Philadelphia Royal Giants traveled to the the Hank Aaron Award on the 25th country in 1927. Negro League catcher anniversary of his historic 755th home Biz Mackey even hit the first home run at run before the start of the Atlanta Tokyo’s then-new Jingu Stadium, accord- Braves and Philadelphia Phillies game at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP ing to a museum display. For every Major League legend such While some black players-like Jackie as Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig of the New Robinson, who broke the color barrier in York Yankees, there was a Negro League 1947 with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers- star like Josh Gibson or James “Cool rose to the sport’s highest heights, oth- Papa” Bell of the Homestead Grays who ers never made it to the big leagues. The never had the chance to compete segregation policy began as early as the against them. In all, more than 2,600 1880s, when Cap Anson, an influential players competed in the Negro Leagues. white star of the time, refused to play an Some followed Robinson into the Major KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City Royals celebrate after defeating the San Francisco Giants by a score of 10-0 to win Game Six of the 2014 World 1883 exhibition for Chicago against a Leagues, such as Leroy “Satchel” Paige, Series at Kauffman Stadium. — AFP Toledo squad featuring black catcher Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, a former Moses Fleetwood Walker. Indianapolis Clowns standout who From there, a “gentlemen’s agree- would break Ruth’s all-time home run ment” emerged, under which elite all- record with his 715th in 1974. — AFP Meyer urges Springboks to Kellock to captain Barbarians nail down World Cup spots

LONDON: Former Scotland skipper “It’s something so many fantastic CAPE TOWN: Heyneke Meyer has urged his look at every single player,” he told reporters in lot of in-form players and their defence is great. Alastair Kellock will captain the players have done before and when players to use South Africa’s Northern Johannesburg yesterday. “There are a lot of guys They’ve got a good kicking game in those condi- Barbarians against Australia at (Barbarians coach) John Kirwan asked Hemisphere tour to book themselves a ticket to who are really unlucky not to be here, at least 10 tions. “England are a tough team to play. In the Twickenham on Saturday, it was me to be the skipper, that has just next year’s World Cup in England. more could have been chosen.” Meyer will need last four games, we’ve won three by a few points announced yesterday. added to the privilege.” Meyer selected a bloated 36-man squad earli- the full depth of his squad for the Wales game in and drawn one. They will always be tough.” Kellock, 33, was omitted from the Former Australia wing Nick er this week for matches against Ireland, Cardiff on Nov. 29 when the Springboks will be Although Meyer says four wins is the obvious Scotland squad for the November Cummins has been selected to line up England, Italy and Wales on consecutive week- unable to use any of their overseas-based play- target, he is “realistic” about his side’s chances. internationals, but will now lead out against his former team-mates, while ends starting Nov. 8. ers as the match falls outside of the international “We’ve lost to lesser teams in the past, so Italy the famous invitational team against New Zealand’s Colin Slade will start at South Africa then have only a shortened window. The Bok coach believes their schedule will be tough, and Wales will be a tough chal- Michael Cheika’s Australia. fly-half. After facing the Wallabies on Rugby Championship in July and August to pre- will be a worthy test in conditions obviously sim- lenge with a new-look side. I’m confident, but “You grow up watching these Saturday, the Barbarians will conclude pare for September and October’s World Cup so ilar to those they will face at the World Cup. realistic as well. It will be tough to win all four. matches and to be invited to be part of their two-match series with a game with opportunities to impress dwindling, now is “This is probably the toughest tour we have “It’s our goal, but we’re going to have to be it is a big honour,” said Glasgow lock against Leicester Tigers on Tuesday. the moment for those on the fringes of selec- faced to the Northern Hemisphere. I truly better than in the Rugby Championship if we are Kellock, in a press release issued by the Barbarians team to play Australia at tion. “Before next year’s World Cup there are only believe Ireland is an unbelievable team, they going to win all four.” Barbarians’ media officer. Twickenham.—AFP four test matches, as there are no incoming were unlucky not to beat the All Blacks last year,” The squad is schedule to depart for Dublin, tours. This is the last opportunity we have to Meyer said. “They’ve got a great coaching staff, a via London, on Saturday. — Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 SPORTS

Thailand media giants Photo of the day eye Bolton takeover

BANGKOK: A Thai consortium are in talks over a at 150 million pounds. However, the club is will- 40 million pounds ($64.5 million) takeover of ing to address this situation. English second tier strugglers Bolton Wanderers “They’re quite ready in almost every aspect. after being approached by the cash-strapped That will help us benefit in many ways especially club, local media reported yesterday. when it comes to Thai players playing in Bolton, however, denied they had been in England.” sale discussions with anyone from Thailand. BEC- Tero, an entertainment conglomerate that runs GARTSIDE DENIAL television and radio stations in south east Asia Bolton chairman Phil Gartside confirmed the as well as concerts and sports events, and local club had talked to different parties about a sale sports media giant Siam Sport Syndicate have but said no discussions had taken place with joined hands for the bid, said the Nation news- anyone from Thailand. “We have spoken to sev- paper. eral parties who have expressed interest in Bolton finished sixth in the Premier League investing in the club but these quotes from in 2005 and qualified for European competition Thailand come as a complete surprise to me,” he but have fallen on hard times of late and now told the Bolton News. find themselves in 22nd place in the 24-team “Other than what has appeared this morning second flight with huge debts. it is business as usual here.” Marcar, who BEC director Bryan Marcar said the club, declined an interview request from Reuters, said based in north west England and owned by he and Siam Sport executives Pongsak Pholanan Eddie Davies through the holding company and Wiluck Lohtong would travel to England to Burnden Leisure, remained an attractive look into the books and discuss the deal further prospect. “I must admit I have a close relation- with Bolton officials, the report added. ship with the club’s president. The club has plen- The consortium could become the third Thai ty of property and, most importantly, they have owners of an English soccer club, after Premier their own stadium, hotel and football academy,” League side Leicester City and second tier he was quoted as saying by the daily. Reading. The firm, which Marcar owns jointly “In terms of their financial status they made with Broadcaster BEC World Pcl, also owns for- profits between 2004 and 2006 but suffered mer Thai Premier League champions BEC Tero losses since then, with their debt now standing Sasana. —Reuters Al-Hilal offered bumper payday for Asian title Kyle Jameson competes in the Qualification Round for Red Bull Rampage in Virgin, Utah, USA. — www.redbull.com

SYDNEY: A Saudi prince has offered Al- Fourteen Wanderers fans have travelled Hilal players and team officials a bonus of from Australia for the match. $26,000 each if they can beat Australian According to the prince’s website Murray on brink of club Western Sydney Wanderers and win (www.alwaleed.com.sa), the Al-Hilal play- the Asian Champions League this week- ers received bonuses of 20,000 Riyals for end. The 13-times Saudi and twice Asian reaching the ACL quarter-finals and champions lost the first leg 1-0 in Sydney another of 40,000 Riyals for winning the last weekend but will be in for a bumper first leg of their ACL semi-final against Al World Tour Finals payday if they can overturn the deficit at Ain 3-0. He flew them to the Emirati city the King Fahd Stadium on Saturday. for the second leg in his private jet and PARIS: Andy Murray turned in a clinical perform- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al gifts the already wealthy club 2.5 million ance yesterday as he joined Stan Wawrinka, Saud, who is worth $21.5 billion according Riyals per season. David Ferrer and Milos Raonic in the next round to Forbes, made the offer of 100,000 Riyals In 2007, Al-Hilal signed a sponsorship of the Paris Masters. (about $26,650) a man in a tweet just deal with Saudi Arabian mobile operator The two-time Grand Slam winner, who was before last Saturday’s first leg kicked off. Mobily worth 200 million Riyals ($53.31 absent last year afer undergoing back surgery, The Saudi royal also said he would be pay- million) over five years. Wanderers, by con- overcame the challenge of French world number ing for free entry for all fans of the club for trast, must work within a salary cap of 28 Julien Benneteau and advanced to the last Saturday’s second leg in Riyadh, where a A$2.55 million ($2.26 million) this season 16, 6-3, 6-4. crowd in excess of 65,000 is expected. under A-League rules. — Reuters The 27-year-old Scot will now meet either Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov or Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay for a place in the quarter-finals. If Murray, who won his third tournament of the season at Valencia on Sunday, wins his next match he will guarantee qualification for the World Tour Finals in London for the seventh straight year. Murray dictated play with pinpoint accuracy and although Benneteau put up some second set resistence the result was never in doubt. Also yesterday, world number four Stan Wawrinka snapped a three-game losing streak as he qualified for the third round with a 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) victory over Dominic Thiem. The Swiss 29-year-old came through a tight match in 1hr 36min against the Austrian to book a meeting with big-serving South African Kevin Anderson. “I’m trying to find my confidence, I have some victories but I know that my level of FRANCE: Britain’s Andy Murray returns the ball to France’s Julien Benneteau during the second- game is there. What I still miss is winning match- round match of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 indoor tennis tournament. — AFP es,” said Wawrinka, who won his first Grand Slam Earlier on the third day of the penultimate Jeremy Chardy. at the Australian Open in January and admitted tournament of the season, Canada’s Milos Federer comes to the French capital less than he was somewhat surprised by his recent rise Raonic kept alive his chances of qualifying for 500 points behind Novak Djokovic in the race for into the top five. “I’m so happy, I didn’t think I the World Tour Finals with a tough three-set win the season-ending world number one spot. would be able to be ranked so high, but I had over American qualifier Jack Sock. There are a maximum 1,000 points on offer at ups and downs. In the summer I didn’t play very The number seven seed needs to win the Bercy for the champion while the World Tour well and I had bad moments, although I did well tournament in Paris to guarantee his place in the Finals offer 1,500 points. Federer can also close in the US Open. “I wouldn’t change anything and elite eight-man field to take part in the season ground or overtake the Serb, who won his sec- MOSCOW: The official logo for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is presented on the facade of the I know I have a good level of game. I know finale, which begins in London on November 9. ond round match over Philipp Kohlschreiber on Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. FIFA President Sepp Blatter has revealed the logo for the things can change quickly; I can lose first round He scraped through against world number 44 Tuesday, when he plays the Davis Cup final for 2018 World Cup in Russia - with the help of a crew of cosmonauts. The logo depicts the and I can also go very far in a tournament, so the Sock, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7/4) in just over two hours. Switzerland against France, starting on World Cup trophy in red and blue, colors from the Russian flag, with gold trim. — AP important thing is really to concentrate on Awaiting Raonic in the third round will be November 21 in Lille. Japanese sixth seed Kei improving my level.” Former champion and Roberto Bautista-Agut, who knocked out Nishikori will take on Spanish veteran Tommy fourth seed David Ferrer also advanced as he Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-2. Later on Robredo later in the day while Frenchmen Jo- Rummenigge calls for subdued the talents of rising Belgian star David centre court, world number two Roger Federer Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils are in action Goffin 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to set up an all-Spanish third makes his much-anticipated debut in his second against Austrian Jurgen Melzer and American April World Cup in 2022 round tie against Fernando Verdasco. round match against another Frenchman, John Isner respectively. — AFP

LONDON: Leading European clubs want FIFA to told the R-Sport news agency in comments hold the Qatar World Cup in April 2022, Bayern translated into Russian. “We trust the country, its Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge government,” added Blatter who was in the FIFA gives Nigeria last said in a British newspaper interview published Russian capital to attend the official launch of yesterday. A task force set up by world governing the 2018 logo. “FIFA unconditionally supports body FIFA will meet in Zurich next week to inves- the staging of the World Cup by Russia,” he stat- tigate the feasibility of moving the tournament ed. Diplomatic sources said last month that from its traditional mid-year slot, amid fears European nations were discussing a possible chance to avoid ban about soaring summer temperatures in Qatar. boycott of the World Cup because of the conflict FIFA and its European counterpart UEFA want in eastern Ukraine. ABUJA: FIFA has given Nigeria one last chance occupy the offices of the NFF.” said. The African women’s final only went ahead the tournament to be staged during the Some politicians in Britain, Germany and the to avoid a “lengthy” ban that would prevent the “We also have been informed that security after Confederation of African Football President Northern Hemisphere winter, but Rummenigge, United States have called on FIFA to withdraw who chairs the European Club Association (ECA), the World Cup from Russia. “When we receive let- reigning champion from defending its title at forces prevented the (new) NFF President from Issa Hayatou, who is also a FIFA vice president, thinks it should take place in the spring. ters from North America (asking for the World next year’s African Cup of Nations. travelling to Namibia where he was supposed to pleaded with his FIFA colleagues to give Nigeria “At the moment, there are two proposals on Cup to withdrawn), we tell them that this is foot- FIFA wants a court order nullifying recent represent the NFF at the final match of the one more chance, according to the NFF. the table: the FIFA proposal in November and the ball,” Blatter said. Nigeria Football Federation elections to be African Women’s Championship,” FIFA said. According to the federation, Hayatou also met UEFA proposal in January,” Rummenigge told The “Russia is the world’s biggest country. You rescinded by midday Friday Nigerian time, Nigeria is also the African women’s champion with Nigeria sports minister Tammy Danagogo Times. “Our proposal is a bit different. We will know, Russia is in the eye of the international regarding it as government interference in foot- after winning the title last weekend, but was at the African women’s championship in publish that in the next few days. “We have made media. Football can not only unite Russia but ball, which isn’t allowed under the world body’s nearly prevented from playing in that game Namibia and told the minister that “FIFA and CAF some research ... and the outcome of this show the whole world that it is stronger than any rules. FIFA said in a statement to The Associated because of the federation problems, the NFF have had it up to their neck with Nigeria.” — AP research is that the best option would be to start protest movement.” He compared the situation Press that Nigeria has until the deadline to prove the World Cup at the end of April, finishing in with Russia’s hosting of the Winter Olympics in the court order has been withdrawn and the May. “It’s still hot, but it would be something like the Black Sea resort of Sochi this year, when elected NFF leadership is able to work “without 35 degrees (Celsius) maximum. If you then play Western leaders stayed away. “There was the any hindrance.” If Nigeria doesn’t comply, FIFA in the evening, let’s say 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm, same situation ahead of Sochi, but neither dur- said it will be banned from international football then 9:30 pm (in Qatar) is 7:30 pm in central ing nor after the Games, has there been a single at least until FIFA’s Congress in Zurich on May Europe, 6:30 pm in the UK. word against these Games.” 28-29 next year. “From all points of view, that’s no problem. That would mean Nigeria is thrown out of the We will bring this option to the table to discuss WORLD CUP LOGO ongoing African Cup qualifying campaign ahead at the FIFA task force on November 3.” Meanwhile, the 2018 World Cup logo was of the start of the finals in January. None of Speaking earlier this month, Rummenigge simultaneously presented to the public on a live Nigeria’s national or club teams would be able to warned that European clubs will not foot the bill Russian TV late chat show and also as a part of a if the 2022 World Cup is moved to a different light show projection on the facade of Russia’s play in international tournaments under a FIFA time of year. “If now there is a strong wish (to historic Bolshoi Theatre. suspension. Nigeria’s football federation has move the 2022 World Cup) from various stake- The logo, which was unveiled by the Russian been in turmoil for months and it has been holders like FIFA, UEFA, FIFPro and so on, we are cosmonaut Maxim Surayev in a live broadcast- warned repeatedly. ready to discuss, but under one condition: that ing from the international space station 400 kilo- The country - which made the last 16 of the there is no damage for club football,” he told the metres above World Cup in Brazil - was already suspended Leaders Sport Business Summit in London. Earth, represented the ball surrounded by the from internationals for nine days in July after “Because if we have a change from summer to elements of the traditional Russian decor in the previous NFF President Aminu Maigari was November or to January, then they will be affect- shape of the World Cup trophy. The TV show was detained by security forces on his return from ing our business, our calendar. And the bill at the also attended by FIFA secretary general Jerome the World Cup and ousted from office. A new end can’t be paid by the clubs. We are not ready Valcke, Russia’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko and leadership was then installed in government- to pay such a bill.” Italy’s former football great Fabio Cannavaro. backed elections that were not recognized by Meanwhile, world football boss Sepp Blatter “Today is the World Cup’s kick-off as we intro- FIFA. Maigari was reinstated and oversaw proper on Tuesday opposed any boycott of the 2018 duce the event’s official logo,” Blatter said at the elections on Sept. 30, when Amaju Pinnick was World Cup in Russia and backed the huge prepa- ceremony. “I’m confident that the World Cup voted in as new NFF president. rations undertaken by President Vladimir Putin’s here will be a success.” “Of course I already saw But FIFA said the Nigerian government is BRAZIL: In this Monday, June 30, 2014 file photo, Nigeria’s Emmanuel Emenike (center) looks government for the mega event. “A boycott will the logo and I liked it very much. This is the sym- interfering again after “persons claiming to have up as his team form a huddle before the start of the second half during the World Cup round of never give any positive effect,” the FIFA president bol of the country, its heart and soul.” —AFP been legitimately elected previously went to 16 soccer match. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 SPORTS ‘Fat’ Inter chief Thohir faces fresh provocation

MILAN: Inter Milan president Erick The blog appeared to take on an Thohir was subjected to a fresh attack overtly offensive tone when she referred after an Italian columnist with the to Thohir as a ‘cicciobello a mandorla’ - Huffington Post labelled him a “a fat little which loosely translates as a ‘slant-eyed Indonesian”, reports said yesterday. baby doll’. Thohir, who owns DC United in Major ‘Ciccio’, in Italian, means chubby or League Soccer, took over the Serie A plump. A ‘cicciobello’ is an Italian make of giants last year after acquiring a 70 per- doll while ‘occhi a mandorla’ (almond- cent share from former president shaped eyes) is a widely-used term to Massimo Moratti. describe someone of Asian appearance, Moratti recently gave up his post as although it can have racist undertones. honorary president, prompting an out- She added: “The slant-eyed baby doll pouring of tributes for his contribution can do what he wants, he (Moratti) is no during 18 memorable years at the club. longer there.” Italian society in general Simultaneously, Thohir, the first Asian to has often been accused of being inher- effectively own an Italian club, has faced ently racist. scrutiny after a little less than a year at In 2008 comments by then president the helm. The president of Serie A high- of Italy Silvio Berlusconi hit the headlines flyers Sampdoria, Massimo Ferrero, was worldwide when he called the president forced to issue an apology to Thohir last of the United States, Barack Obama, week after hitting out: “It’s not right that “young, handsome and tanned.” Moratti was treated like this. I am very Several black footballers who played sad for him. I told him: kick out that in Italy’s top flight, including Mario Filipino....” Balotelli and Kevin Prince Boateng, have Evelina Christillin, the former presi- been subjected to overtly racist insults in dent of the organising committee for the recent seasons. Film producer Ferrero, 2006 Torino Olympics, appeared to pro- who took over Genoa-based club voke Thohir in a column for the Sampdoria at the end of last season, Huffington Post earlier this week which made his gaffe Sunday in an interview questioned the Indonesian’s true finan- with Rai Sport after being asked about cial power. Moratti’s recent decision to resign as “What is there left at Inter without honorary president. Moratti?” Christillin wrote in her blog, Sampdoria later released a statement LONDON: Swansea City’s Welsh defender Neil Taylor (center) vies for the ball with Liverpool’s Italian striker Fabio Borini (left) in the League Cup reproduced in several media reports which cited Ferrero as saying: “I would fourth round football match. —AFP throughout Italy including Wednesday’s like to sincerely underline I did not mean La Gazzetta dello Sport. any disrespect to Thohir, the directors of “A fat little Indonesian who, at the end Inter or the people of the Philippines, of the day, has taken over from Moratti who I have always had a great relation- Premier League giants and has the majority of the shares but no ship with. “I was trying to praise Moratti one knows if he has the financial clout or and all he has contributed to Inter and not.” Italian football for 20 years.” — AFP squeeze into q-finals League Cup

MANCHESTER: Mario Balotelli sparked a dra- matic fightback by Liverpool and Chelsea need- ed a late own goal to edge past plucky fourth- tier opposition as the two Premier League giants squeezed into the League Cup quarterfinals. Late goals settled four of the five last-16 matches on Tuesday — and two were scored at Anfield as Liverpool came from behind to beat Swansea 2-1. Balotelli, criticized in recent weeks for a string of below-par displays, inspired the comeback by coming off the bench to score an 86th-minute equalizer before Dejan Lovren headed in the winner in the fifth minute of stoppage time. “Finally!” Balotelli said on Twitter after scoring his first goal in six weeks and only his second for Liverpool since joining from AC Milan in August. A patched-up Chelsea lineup looked like being taken to extra time by Shrewsbury, a team 71 places below it in English football’s pyramid, only for Jermaine Grandison to head into his own net after 81 minutes to seal a 2-1 win for the Premier League leaders. Didier Drogba had given Chelsea the lead in the 48th, with the 36-year-old striker scoring for the third straight game and just two days after netting at Manchester United in the Premier League. “It was a difficult pitch and difficult weather,” said Drogba, one of four Chelsea starters who also began the 1-1 draw against United. “They were a fantastic team and oppo- SHREWSBURY: Shrewsbury’s Scottish midfielder Jack Grimmer (right) vies with Chelsea’s nent — they showed why they deserve to be Brazilian defender Filipe Luis during the English League Cup round four football match. —AFP here tonight.” West Bromwich Albion’s decision shown a red card in the second minute of injury Shrewsbury equalized in the 77th minute to field a virtual reserve team against second-tier time for a foul on Philippe Coutinho, who pro- through Andy Mangan but was on level terms Bournemouth backfired in a 2-1 loss for the vided the cross from a free kick that Lovren for just four minutes, as substitute Willian’s teas- upset of the round. headed in at the back post for a last-gasp win- ing cross was diverted in by Grandison. Derby and Sheffield United, who play in the ner. Chelsea remained unbeaten in all competi- “I was ready for extra time,” Chelsea manager second and third tiers respectively, also tions this season — and reached the last eight of Jose Mourinho said. There was late drama, too, advanced on Tuesday. Manchester City and the League Cup for the fourth straight season — at Bournemouth, which reached the quarterfi- Tottenham are among those looking to reach but only after surviving a scare against the low- nals for the first time thanks to Callum Wilson’s the last eight yesterday. Balotelli started on the est-ranked team left in the competition. 86th-minute strike. West Brom had equalized bench against Swansea but was thrown on by Drogba has starred in the absence of injured just a minute earlier from an own goal. By scor- Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers in the 79th fellow strikers Loic Remy and Diego Costa, scor- ing five times in 20 minutes, Derby came from 2- minute after Marvin Emnes volleyed the visitors ing against Maribor in the Champions League 0 down to beat Fulham 5-2 away in a match into the lead. Within seven minutes, Balotelli last week, at Old Trafford on Sunday and again between two League Championship teams. guided home a cross from Fabio Borini to equal- against Shrewsbury when he swept home a left- Sheffield United beat fellow third-tier side MK ize. Swansea defender Federico Fernandez was footed finish from Mohamed Salah’s pass. Dons 2-1. —AP Mourinho: Drogba is proving why he is the Special One

LONDON: Some Chelsea fans thought man- Maribor in the Champions League last week ager Jose Mourinho had taken leave of his and also struck with a trademark header in senses when he decided to bring the age- the 1-1 draw at Manchester United in the ing Didier Drogba back to the club in the Premier League on Sunday. HAMBURG: St.Pauli’s Marc Rzatkowski (left) and Dortmund’s midfielder Kevin close season. Grosskreutz vie for the ball during the German Cup. — AFP There was a feeling that the 36-year-old SENIOR SERVICE Ivorian was well past his best and that Premier League leaders Chelsea rested returning to Stamford Bridge might tarnish several first-choice players at fourth tier Dortmund cruise the legacy he left after a dazzling first spell Shrewsbury and Mourinho said it was the with the Londoners. senior professionals who carried his team Drogba has, however, well and truly through to the quarter-finals. silenced the doubters in the last week, scor- “The message I want is the message in German Cup ing three goals in three games and proving Didier, Filipe Luis, Oscar and Gary Cahill a more than capable understudy for the gave-doing something they shouldn’t be BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund bounced back matter of confidence for us but we can get injured Diego Costa and Loic Remy. allowed to do but they did, which is play after slumping to their fourth straight it back.” “His character is bigger than his body,” two football matches in 48 hours,” said the Bundesliga defeat against Hanover 96 at Dortmund, last season’s Bundesliga and Mourinho told reporters after the centre manager. “They were fantastic. I had people the weekend, cruising past second tier St German Cup runners-up, have suffered six forward grabbed the opening goal in like Petr Cech and John Obi Mikel, people Pauli 3-0 on Tuesday to reach the German defeats in nine games to slide to fourth Tuesday’s 2-1 League Cup fourth-round vic- with lots of years at the club, who would Cup third round. from bottom in the table. tory at Shrewsbury Town. prefer to start the game at Old Trafford. Ciro Immobile, under-fire for his lack of Werder Bremen coach Viktor Skripnik “What he did today maybe was because They didn’t and they came here today and goals this season, tapped the visitors in made a winning start as his new club eased of his character and not because of his gave a fantastic example. front after 33 minutes before Marco Reus past third tier Chemnitz 2-0. Ukrainian body. Let’s see the reaction after this but “After that there are the young boys and rifled in the second goal after a cut-back by Skripnik replaced the sacked Robin Dutt on this is what makes players special. they have to follow the spirit and the pro- the Italian a minute before the break. Apart Saturday, with the former champions “If I was a kid player and I played with fessionalism of the others,” added from two early chances for the hosts, the anchored in last place in the league. this guy on my side, what more could I wish Mourinho. second half was a subdued affair with Fin Bartels put them ahead in the first for? For the kids it must be a privilege and The Portuguese seemed to indicate he Dortmund focused on holding on to their half and Franco Di Santo drilled in the sec- they have to learn by example-the example was less than satisfied with the perform- lead rather than adding to their goal tally. ond goal after a fine through ball from the older guys gave today.” ance of his younger players at Shrewsbury. They made it 3-0 when a bad clearance Clemens Fritz after the interval. Drogba left Chelsea two and a half years “I expect people that have not been playing by keeper Philipp Tschauner fell straight to Hanover were handed a surprise 2-0 ago after helping them win the Champions a lot to raise their level and create prob- Shinji Kagawa and the Japanese made no defeat at relegation-threatened second League for the first time. He joined the lems,” said Mourinho. “I love problems of mistake as he gave his side a boost of self division club Aalen and Hertha Berlin Blues from Olympique Marseille in 2004 and choice but it’s easy to choose my team for belief ahead of Saturday’s league game fared even worse, crashing out to third scored 157 goals in 342 appearances in his Saturday.” Next up for Chelsea, who have a with Bayern Munich. tier Arminia Bielefeld 4-2 on penalties first spell, hoovering up three Premier four-point lead at the top of the Premier “It was important to advance after the after a goalless 120 minutes. Holders League titles, four FA Cups and two League League, is a home derby against second few weeks we have had,” Dortmund captain Bayern are in action late yesterday against Cups. Drogba was on target from the penal- from bottom Queens Park Rangers at the Mats Hummels told ARD television. “It is a Hamburg SV. — Reuters ty spot in the 6-0 romp against Slovenians weekend. — Reuters Chelsea’s Ivorian striker Didier Drogba —AFP Murray on Premier League brink of World giants squeeze Tour Finals into q-finals

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SANSpurs ANTONIO: Spurs Tony Parker (center) of France,edge is pressured by Dallas Mavericks JameerMavs Nelson (left) and Dallas Mavericks Montain Ellis (11) during theNBA second half of an NBA basketball opener game. — AP

LOS ANGELES: The San Antonio Spurs picked up past the Mavericks in an epic seven-game series in Parker scored the go ahead three-pointer with Hammond. She became the second female in NBA shooting. Bryant and Howard exchanged words in right where they left off, collecting their champi- the Western Conference semi-finals. under a minute left. Ginobili also had six assists off history to work on an NBA coaching staff. the fourth quarter which resulted in double tech- onship rings before beginning their title defence Tuesday’s three-game set to start the 2014-15 the bench and Tim Duncan totalled 14 points and San Antonio has now won 10 straight regular- nical fouls. The former Laker teammates bumped Tuesday with a 101-100 victory over the Dallas regular season also saw Anthony Davis fall one 13 rebounds for San Antonio. season games over the Mavericks, including eight near the Rockets’ basket and then Howard deliv- Mavericks. block shy of a triple-double as the New Orleans Monta Ellis led Dallas with 26 points on 11-of- straight at home. ered an elbow to Bryant’s jaw. The players The Spurs, despite their superb record in ring Pelicans pulled away from the Orlando Magic for a 21 shooting and Dirk Nowitzki added 18 points exchanged words with Bryant telling Howard he ceremony games, needed every minute of the 101-84 home win. with six rebounds in the loss. San Antonio returned RANDLE BREAKS LEG was “soft”. contest to hold off their Texas-state rivals, who In the late game, Houston spoiled the return of almost everyone from last year’s team but they James Harden scored a game-high 32 points in “He elbowed me in the face and I am going to gave them their most difficult challenge of last Kobe Bryant, who only played in a handful of had to play the season-opener without NBA finals just three quarters for the Rockets in the win. let him know I don’t like that,” Bryant said. Carlos year’s playoffs. “We moved the ball much better in games last season, as the Rockets embarrassed the MVP Kawhi Leonard, who is sidelined by a right Terrence Jones finished with a 16-point, 13- Boozer finished with 17 points with seven the second half,” said Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, Los Angeles Lakers 108-90 at Staples Center arena. eye infection. Tiago Splitter also sat with a calf rebound double-double for Houston who have rebounds and former Rocket Jeremy Lin added who came off the bench to score 20 points in one San Antonio received their championship rings in injury and Australian Patty Mills will miss the first won four straight against the Lakers. seven points in their Lakers’ debuts. Lin shot just of three opening-night NBA contests. a pre-game ceremony which also included raising few months after shoulder surgery. Dwight Howard had 13 points with 11 one-of-five and had a team-high four turnovers. “The defence was great. Tony had a couple of their fifth championship banner in franchise histo- “Overall, we did a pretty good job playing with- rebounds for the Rockets. Howard also missed The Lakers played their first regular-season game big baskets and it was a very close game. Anything ry. The Spurs are now 5-0 in games where they out Kawhi, Tiago and Patty. Three guys who are nine free throws on 16 attempts and committed under new coach Byron Scott but lost rookie for- could have happened.” The Spurs rolled to their received their championship rings. very important to our team,” said Parker. “It was a five fouls. Bryant, who played just six games last ward Julius Randle, who suffered a broken right fifth NBA title in June by dismantling the LeBron “The ring ceremony got me emotional,” said big win for us.” The game also marked the coach- season because of Achilles and knee injuries, led leg midway through the fourth quarter in his NBA James-led Miami Heat. But first they had to get Ginobili. “This is a great start. I can’t complain.” ing debut of San Antonio assistant coach Becky the struggling Lakers with 19 points on six-of-17 debut. — AFP Basketball more Wheelchair basketball gives new hope to disabled Afghan women

than just a game KABUL: They have lost limbs to landmines and seized power in 1996 but were ousted in 2001 by been disabled by mortar shrapnel, but a US-led coalition. Afghanistan’s wheelchair women basketball play- The Taliban have waged a guerrilla war ever for Saudi women ers refuse to call themselves victims. since against Afghan and foreign troops. The Clashing wheelchairs, hooting supporters and country is one of the world’s most heavily mined JEDDAH: As the NBA season kicked off strict rules when it comes to their balls swishing through hoops brought a drab nations, with dozens of people still killed or in America, a group of Saudi women attire, so they cannot be seen by men grey court in downtown Kabul alive yesterday, in maimed every month. It is also one of just three and girls will be pursuing their own while jogging in sweat pants, much the final of the country’s third annual competi- countries where polio is still a problem, due to hoop dreams. Women’s basketball is less wearing fitted or revealing shorts. tion organised by the International Committee of the disruption of health services and Taliban gaining in popularity in a kingdom rife Most women in Saudi Arabia cover the Red Cross (ICRC). opposition to vaccination. with public restrictions on female their hair and face with a veil known as At the end of the forty minutes of play, the Nineteen-year-old Kamila Rahimi, who movement and activity. With the help the niqab and all women are required scoreline read Mazar-i-Sharif 26, Kabul 9 — but helped her side to victory with five goals, has of some US-trained coaches, female to wear a loose black dress known as for many of the athletes who took part it was also been unable to walk since she was a toddler due enthusiasts are using basketball to the abaya in public. SAUDI ARABIA: In this May 12, 2014, photo, Saudi and expatriate girls a personal triumph over years of adversity. to the disease. When she’s on the court, it doesn’t push for greater rights for women on Nevertheless, Saudi women’s bas- practice basketball at a private sports club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. — AP Mariam Samimi, a member of the winning matter. “I feel very happy to be playing basketball and off the courts in Saudi Arabia. “We ketball is on the rise, and women from coaches stopped for daily prayers. of logistical obstacles due to the king- side, was just six when she stepped on undeto- because I like the company of my teammates. are an activist team,” said Lina the ultraconservative kingdom are Almaeena says basketball is dom’s strict gender-segregation rules. nated ordnance in her native northern province When I laugh, they laugh with me, when I cry, Almaeena, who started the first even playing in other Arab countries. becoming popular among Saudi girls Women’s teams are not part of the of Balkh, blowing off her toes. they cry with me,” she said. women’s basketball team here 11 years Hadeer Sadagah, 20, started playing because it offers the camaraderie of a kingdom’s federation that oversees It was 1996 and the height of Afghanistan’s In the final Kabul took an early lead but were ago. That led to the creation of Jeddah eight years ago with Almaeena at team sport. Basketball is also seen as sports, and women often struggle to civil war, when prosthetics and good medical comfortably beaten in the end by a more pol- United in 2006, the first sports club in Jiddah United. She now plays at the more societally acceptable since girls find facilities to train and are not treatment were in short supply. Now a trained ished Mazar side, as several players were forced Saudi Arabia to include women. “We collegiate level for the University of can practice in loose, conservative allowed to attend matches in stadiums. social worker as well as a competitive athlete, the to give up on their hijabs while whizzing around took it upon ourselves to really pro- Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. clothes, and the sport can be played In Jeddah, the older female players 23-year-old said she wanted others to know that the court. The best players from the two-day mote the sport at a time when it was a “I wouldn’t be the person I am indoors and outdoors. practice and play in a female-only gym. a disability does not mean having to give up on tournament, which included the western city of big time taboo ... when there was a today without the sport and the team,” From its humble beginning at They only play tournaments in front of your dreams. Herat, will go on to play for the national team, self-imposed censorship on women’s she said. “It made me be more active in Jeddah United, the sport has grown other women, and even their male “Don’t be disheartened, always have courage, said Alberto Cairo, head of the ICRC orthopaedic sports.” society, school and in studies. It made into a network of teams in different coaches do not attend games. and do not say I can’t do it. Be confident all the programme in Afghanistan. Twenty-three-year- For the players, basketball is not me more social. It made me confident.” cities. No formal league exists but It wasn’t until 2012 that Saudi time, don’t feel that you are disabled and (that) I old Aziza Ahmadi, who was paralysed in her left merely a sport but an act of defiance in At a recent afternoon basketball women’s teams play in privately organ- Arabia sent its first female athletes to should be at home,” she said. foot when shrapnel from a mortar attack on her a country where female access to exer- practice in Jeddah, girls as young as ized tournaments against a handful of the Olympics - exactly two of them. Afghanistan has been at war since 1979 when Kabul home hit her 18 years ago, said she hoped cise is outright shunned by ultracon- four years jumped, took shots and ran other private schools, universities and And two years later for the 2014 the Soviet Union invaded to prop up the commu- to make the grade. “My dream is to go to play in servatives; physical education is still on open-air basketball courts behind club teams across the kingdom. Asian Games, the kingdom reverted nist government. After the Soviets withdrew in European countries like Italy, Germany and not on the curriculum for girls in Saudi gated concrete walls. Boys played in Despite the growth, women’s bas- to its tradition of sending an all-male 1989, a civil war began. The hardline Taliban France,” she said with a smile. — AFP public schools. Women are bound by nearby courts. The children and their ketball in Saudi Arabia still faces a host delegation. —AP

Palestinian telecom firm unbowed by Gaza war

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LONDON: OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri (center) speaks during the Oil and Money conference in London, yesterday. — AFP Don’t panic over price plunge: OPEC chief Badri sees little output change in 2015 LONDON: OPEC’s oil production is unlikely to change the market.” reviewing the situation,” he said. “The most important thing weeks ago. much in 2015 and there is no need to panic at the crude Brent crude has dropped more than a quarter from is we should not panic,” he said. “Unfortunately, everybody Badri said last month that he expected OPEC to lower its price drop, OPEC’s secretary general said yesterday, adding above $115 per barrel in June as abundant supplies of is panicking. We really need to sit, and think and see how oil output target when it meets in Vienna, which would be to indications the exporter group is in no hurry to cut out- high-quality oil such as US shale have overwhelmed this will develop.” its first formal output cut since the 2008 financial crisis. put. Abdullah al-Badri also said output of higher-cost oil demand in many markets, filling stocks worldwide. But He dismissed suggestions that OPEC countries, in set- OPEC has a production target of 30 million barrels per day supplies such as shale would be curbed if oil remained at lower prices pose a threat to supply outside OPEC. While ting lower official selling prices for their crude oil, have (bpd) and Badri suggested last month that this should be around $85 a barrel, while the Organization of the OPEC’s oil production costs are low, as much as half of embarked on a price war to preserve market share. cut to around 29.5 million bpd. Since then, OPEC members Petroleum Exporting Countries enjoys lower costs and will shale output would be under threat if prices remain at cur- Iran and Kuwait have said a cut in output at the meeting see higher demand for its crude in the longer term. rent levels, Badri said. Price floor was unlikely. Top producer Saudi Arabia has yet to com- Oil’s drop below the $100-mark, the level many OPEC “If prices stay at $85, we will see a lot of investment, a Badri declined to specify a level at which oil prices ment publicly. members had endorsed, has raised the question of lot of oil, going out of the market,” he told the conference. might find a floor, saying OPEC did not have a price target Badri reiterated that supplies from rival producers, such whether OPEC will cut supply when it meets in November. “About 65 percent of the producers, they have high costs. but would instead leave that to the market. “OPEC’s aver- as shale oil, were not a threat to OPEC long-term and said Badri said OPEC’s output was unlikely to change much next Not OPEC.” Badri did not predict the outcome of OPEC’s age price will still be $100 at the end of this year so we are OPEC had to be ready to pump far more in future. year, adding to signs a decision to cut in November is meeting on Nov 27, saying the decision was up to the fine for 2014,” he said. “The fundamentals do not reflect this “In the longer term, OPEC must be ready to produce. unlikely. group’s oil ministers, and appealed for calm over the low price.” Around 2018-2020, US tight oil will slow down,” he said. “By “I don’t think 2015 will be far away from 2014 in terms decline in prices. “OPEC does not have a price target. We must let the 2040, OPEC must be ready to produce 40 million bpd of oil, of production,” Badri told reporters in London at the annu- “We do not see much change in the fundamentals. market settle down.” Brent was trading around $87.30 by and 50 million bpd of liquids, that’s crude and natural gas al Oil & Money conference. “There is nothing wrong with Demand is still growing, supply is also growing. OPEC is 1430 GMT after reaching a four-year low of $82.60 two liquids.” — Reuters

Dubai and Saudi Fed to keep watch on inflation

bourses pull back WASHINGTON: After six years of pump-priming a weak economy, the Federal Reserve is expected to take a big step back toward “normal” monetary policy yesterday by ending its asset-purchase operations. But with the global econo- MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS my frail and low inflation a danger, the Fed is hardly about to tighten the flood Emaar Properties Q3 profit of cheap dollars that has propped up growth after the Great Recession. DUBAI: Most stock markets in the Middle East rose yesterday on the The Fed has made clear it will not sell off the $3.5 trillion worth of Treasury rises despite revenue drop back of generally positive third-quarter earnings, but bourses in bonds and mortgage securities it has accumulated since 2008 in quantitative Dubai and Saudi Arabia, which had outperformed the region earlier easing (QE) programs, even though a key goal-bringing down unemploy- DUBAI: Dubai’s Emaar Properties , the Speculative buying and new proj- in the week, pulled back on profit-taking. Abu Dhabi’s index rose 1.1 ment-has been reached. builder of the world’s tallest tower, ect announcements have pushed up percent, largely on the back of First Gulf Bank, which jumped 3.1 per- Moreover, the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee will stick to reported a 21 percent rise in third- home prices, making them unafford- cent. The lender beat analysts’ estimates this week with a 20 percent its plan to hold its benchmark federal funds interest rate at the zero level well quarter net profit yesterday. The rise able to many and thus slowing sales, increase in third-quarter net profit. into next year. came despite a fall in revenue stem- raising fears of another property mar- Shares in National Bank of Abu Dhabi edged up 0.7 percent after it The FOMC has signaled for months its plan to close out the third version of ming from a second successive quar- ket bubble. reported a 32 percent rise in third-quarter net profit, slightly ahead of the asset purchase operations, QE3, at the end of its two-day meeting this terly drop in home sales as the emi- Price rises had been among the estimates. The lender made 1.37 billion dirhams ($373 million) in the week, with the announcement expected around 2:00 pm (1800 GMT). While rate’s property market showed further steepest in the world in 2013 and the quarter, while analysts polled by Reuters had forecast 1.30 billion some analysts think the decision could be held off until December, that would signs that recent rampant price first half of this year, although data dirhams. likely serve a more symbolic purpose. growth was abating. published at the end of the third quar- Qatar’s benchmark added 0.9 percent in a broad rally. Property Last December the Fed was pumping $85 billion a month into the econo- The developer, in which the gov- ter showed growth was slowing, lead- developer Ezdan Holding, which this week posted a 41 percent jump my via asset purchases to hold down long-term interest rates, to promote ernment has a 31.2 percent stake, did ing to the International Monetary in nine-month profit, dominated trading and edged up 0.5 percent. lending and investment. not provide an explanation for the Fund to this week moderate warnings Egypt’s bourse also continued to rally and jumped 2.4 percent as That has been steadily tapered to just $15 billion in October, and econo- from earlier in the year. most blue chips gained. However, shares in Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals mists say that after six years the impact of QE is less and less-except for help- profit rise. It made a net profit of 701 fell 2.3 percent after it reported a 26 percent drop in nine-month net ing pump up prices of stocks and other financial assets. The Fed’s principal aim million dirhams ($191 million) for the Emaar’s chairman Mohamed profit. for the policy was to help bring down the unemployment rate, which peaked three months to Sept. 30, it said in a Alabbar last week welcomed talk of a Dubai’s index closed 0.1 percent down after going up as much as at 10.0 percent in October 2009 and fell steadily to 5.9 percent last month. statement. That compared with a prof- slowdown in the emirate’s property 1.4 percent during the session. Lender Emirates NBD, whose shares With jobs growth now running at a firm clip, the Fed’s focus has turned to it of 581 million dirhams in the year- market and vowed to keep supplying often move sharply because of limited liquidity, was the main drag, inflation, which remains well below its 2.0 percent target. “The decline in the earlier period. The earnings missed an new homes to help hold prices at “a falling 2.0 percent. Developer Union Properties, which rose earlier in inflation expectations will undoubtedly take the center stage of FOMC discus- estimate by brokerage SICO Bahrain, reasonable level”. the session, closed 0.6 percent down while Emaar Properties and sions,” said BBVA in a client note. which had forecast Emaar’s quarterly The developer, which built Burj Deyaar gave up all gains and were flat. “It’s just profit-taking,” said “The focus of the committee’s discussion is expected to progress beyond profit would be 762.4 million dirhams. Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest Sanyalak Manibhandu, manager of research at NBAD Securities in the timing to end QE3. Whether the FOMC ends its $15 billion large-scale The profit increase came despite tower, announced a series of new proj- Abu Dhabi. “There was a bit of a relief rally earlier in the week and I monthly asset purchases in October or December would likely be considered revenue in the quarter dropping to ects this year including a new 6 million think people are just booking profits now.” a minor concern.” 1.98 billion dirhams from 2.35 billion square metre waterfront project at Dubai had outperformed the region, gaining 8.3 percent between Crucial then is what the FOMC signals for the path of the fed funds rate. dirhams a year ago. Homes sales The Lagoons with Dubai Holding on Oct. 19, when markets began to recover, and Tuesday’s close. Saudi The committee has repeatedly stated that the first hike from the 0-0.25 per- slowed for a second quarter this year Monday. Emaar’s third-quarter operat- Arabia’s bourse which was the second-best performer in the same cent level, where the rate has stood since the end of 2008, will come only “a with Emaar selling units worth 1.5 bil- ing profit was 758 million dirhams, but period, rising 6.5 percent; it also pulled back yesterday and closed 0.8 considerable time” after it ends QE. lion dirhams in the period, down from its net profit was lower due to the percent down. Now that the asset purchases are ending, how it adapts that signal will be 2.7 billion dirhams in the correspon- company taking an impairment of 57 One of the major drags was Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) , which closely watched. The current expectation is for an initial rate rise in mid-2015. ding period in 2013, according to million dirhams relating to mortgage this week posted a 4.5 percent decrease in third-quarter profit on But, as Fed Chair Janet Yellen repeatedly emphasizes, that depends on what Reuters calculations. affiliate Amlak. — Reuters Sunday, missing analysts’ estimates. — Reuters the data says about the strength of economic growth. — AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 Palestinian telecom firm News in brief

Kuwaiti oil barrel drops unbowed by Gaza war 19 cents, reaches $81.04 KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil barrel dropped 19 cents on Tuesday, reaching $81.04 compared to $81.23 per barrel on Monday, said Kuwait Petroleum Conflict caused Paltel $30 million of losses Corporation (KPC) yesterday. International oil markets were affected by continuous negative reports on the US DUBAI: Palestinian telecoms operator Paltel expects gains both telecom and non-telecom stocks to bolster its profit Paltel has rebuilt 24 Gaza mobile base stations. “The economy, the largest country in energy consumption, from its financial investments this year to offset the $30 mil- this year. “I still think we will be able to maintain last year’s Israeli army let us send some equipment in to fix the cellular showing a drop in the demand on consumers’ durable lion of losses caused by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in the (profit) figure or maybe have some minor growth, regardless network, but for the fixed network it’s difficult unless there’s goods during last September. Meanwhile, the interna- summer, its chief executive told Reuters. An estimated of the Gaza War,” he said. Paltel, or Palestine a big plan for rebuilding Gaza,” said Aker. Paltel’s fixed-line tional markets are awaiting the reports of the US Energy 20,000 Gazan homes were badly damaged or destroyed in Telecommunications Co, had 158.8 million Jordanian dinars network is especially important to the company due to Information Administration (EIA) on the rate of reserves the 50-day war that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, ($224.29 million) of investments at the end of 2013, about Israel’s longstanding refusal to grant the firm -and rival in the USA, set to be released later today. Experts are mostly civilians. two-thirds of which were abroad. These include 25.3 percent Wataniya Mobile, part of Qatar’s Ooredoo — spectrum to expecting an increase in the reserves’ rates, leading to a The conflict also destroyed dozens of mobile telecoms of Jordan’s V-Tel, which has stakes in 10 telecom firms world- launch 3G and 4G services that would allow for mobile drop in oil prices. Crude oil contracts for December base stations as well as much of the enclave’s fixed-line net- wide and posted a 49 percent rise in revenue last year to Internet in the Palestinian territories. delivery were traded at $81.76pb in New York Mercatile work which most Gazans rely upon to access the web. 93.7 million dinars. Paltel’s 2013 net profit was 91.83 million Consequently, about 58 percent of Palestinian house- Exchange (NYMEX), while Brent crude oil was traded at “Our network in many areas was materially destroyed, Jordanian dinars, up from 82.13 million dinars a year earlier. holds have Paltel ADSL - or copper phone line - Internet $86.33pb for December delivery as well. especially the landline network in the eastern part of Gaza,” connections. The Palestinian operators use 2.5G networks, said Ammar Aker, CEO of Paltel, whose $30 million of losses Damage which provides only for texts, calls and very basic Internet UAE’s Amanat Holdings equate to nearly a quarter of the company’s 2013 net profit. Paltel’s 2.63 million mobile subscribers at the end of functions. says IPO fully covered “Infrastructure was being bombarded, employees were at 2013 gave it a 78 percent market share in the Palestinian “Israeli operators cover all of the West Bank through the risk, electricity was cut off and we had to supply many net- territories of Gaza and the West Bank. It derived about 30 (Israeli) settlements and they started gaining market share DUBAI: United Arab Emirates-based Amanat Holdings, a work locations with diesel.” percent of its revenue from Gaza before the conflict. Aker because they can provide 3G and 4G services,” said Aker. healthcare and education start-up, said its 1.375 billion Aker said mobile telecoms traffic was now back to nor- said Israel’s offensive had caused Paltel more than $30 mil- Paltel houses its core infrastructure abroad, including dirham ($374 million) initial public offer of shares had been mal levels but that it would be much more difficult to repair lion of losses. This included $10 million of network dam- in Jordan and Britain since 2005, due to import restric- fully covered within a week since subscriptions opened. the fixed-line network in the impoverished enclave, which is age, $15 million in lost revenue - present and future - plus tions imposed by Israel. “Making a local phone call is actu- Amanat is the latest of several UAE companies to go public home to about 1.8 million Palestinians. about $7 million in free credit to subscribers and humani- ally as if you’re making an international call - it’s not easy,” this year, taking advantage of a strengthening economy The CEO said he expected Paltel’s equities investments in tarian aid. said Aker. —Reuters and improving investor sentiment after a five-year absence of major IPOS in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. On Oct 20 it began offering for sale 55 percent of the company at 1 dirham a share to retail and institutional investors. The offer period is Etisalat Q3 due to end on Nov 4. “Investors have chosen to participate early, demonstrating their confidence in Amanat’s ability to profit rises less capitalize on the investment opportunities which exist in the region’s education and healthcare sectors,” Amanat than expected chairman Faisal Bin Juma Belhoul said in a statement yes- terday. Amanat intends to use 70 percent of the funds from DUBAI: Abu Dhabi-listed Etisalat reported a 22 percent rise the IPO to invest in healthcare and education, expecting to in third-quarter net profit yesterday, missing analyst esti- buy stakes in three to six companies over the next 12-24 mates despite rising domestic income, lower taxes and the months, Belhoul said previously. The company’s IPO fol- firm’s takeover of Maroc Telecom bolstering its bottom line. lows the $1.58 billion flotation this month of Emaar Malls The United Arab Emirates’ former telecom monopoly, Group, which drew orders worth more than $47 billion. which operates in 19 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, made a net profit of 2.22 billion dirhams ($598.97 million) in the three months to Sept. 30, it said. Etihad, Alitalia offer This compares with a profit of 1.83 billion dirhams in the concessions for EU nod year-earlier period. Analysts polled by Reuters on average BRUSSELS: Etihad Airways and struggling Italian carrier forecast Etisalat, the Gulf’s No.2 telecom operator by mar- Alitalia have offered concessions in a bid to win European ket value, would make a quarterly profit of 2.65 billion Union antitrust approval for the Abu Dhabi airline’s plan dirhams. Quarterly revenue was 13.2 billion dirhams, up to acquire 49 percent of Alitalia. The European from 9.59 billion dirhams a year earlier. Domestic third- Commission said on its website that it would decide by quarter revenue rose 10 percent to 6.8 billion dirhams, Nov. 17 whether to clear the deal. It did not provide while 48 percent of group revenue came from its interna- details of the concessions, in line with its usual policy. The tional units, up from 35 percent in the year-ago period. airlines have offered to give up some airport slots on the This follows Etisalat’s purchase of a 53 percent stake in Rome-Belgrade route to facilitate rivals, a person familiar Maroc Telecom for 4.14 billion euros in May. Former PARIS: French pharmaceuticals group Sanofi chief executive officer Christopher Viehbacher delivering with the matter said yesterday. The carriers are likely to monopoly Maroc Telecom also has operations in Gabon, a speech during a shareholders meeting in Paris. —AFP secure EU approval with minor concessions, a source Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Mali. Etisalat’s international with knowledge of the matter told Reuters in September. operations will account for at least 50 percent of group rev- In previous airline deals, the EU authority has demanded enue in the future, Etisalat chief executive Ahmad Julfar that airlines give up airport slots, facilitate rivals’ access to said in a statement. Sanofi sacks CEO over connecting traffic or open up their frequent flyer pro- “Africa remains an important strategic region for our grams to ease competition concerns. State-owned Etihad business,” he said. Third-quarter revenue from its African has minority stakes in Air Berlin , Air Seychelles, Virgin cluster was 3.7 billion dirhams, up more than 400 percent management row Australia, Aer Lingus , Air Serbia and Jet Airways, and is in from a year ago following its consolidation of Maroc the process of buying stakes in Alitalia and Swiss-based Telecom. Etisalat paid an effective royalty-or tax rate-of 44 Etihad Regional. Alitalia’s 1.76-billion-euro ($2.24 billion) percent on its third-quarter net profit, down from 50 per- PARIS: French drugmaker Sanofi, one of the Weinberg as a temporary replacement. United States to run the group. Media rescue plan also involves existing shareholders including cent a year ago due to changes in the way the government country’s largest companies, fired its chief Weinberg told reporters the decision to sack reports suggested the board was also con- state-owned Poste Italiane. calculates this fee. —Reuters executive yesterday after a row over his Viehbacher was taken “unanimously” due to cerned that the group’s core activities were management style, sending the pharmaceu- the chief executive’s “management style”, shifting away from France towards the tical giant’s shares sharply lower. Sanofi denying however that it was a personal United States. Battersea gets $754m Qatar’s Tasweeq to stock dropped more than five percent on issue. Weinberg said this “was not the reason” Islamic financing the opening bell of the Paris stock market He cited as an example of poor manage- for his ousting and also denied Viehbacher’s DUBAI: London’s Battersea Power Station redevelopment project slash condensate after losing more than 10 percent the day ment-board relations the case of a project nationality had anything to do with the deci- has secured a sharia-compliant syndicated loan of 467 million before over disappointing earnings. last year to sell old Sanofi drugs that the sion, saying it was “completely non-sensical” pounds ($754 million), a step towards developing Britain as an exports in 2016 The 54-year-old Christopher Viehbacher, board found out about only through the to suggest there was a problem with a for- Islamic finance centre. The loan, one of the largest Islamic transac- who holds dual Canadian and German media. eigner running a top French company. tions ever conducted in the British market, is part of a 1.35 billion SINGAPORE: Qatar’s state oil marketer Tasweeq expects to nationality, had been chief executive since The slide in stock pushed Sanofi’s market “Nationality was not a factor,” insisted pound financing package for the second and third phases of the cut deodorized field condensate (DFC) exports in 2016 by December 2008 but had recently become capitalization below that of Total, which also Weinberg. In his six years at the helm of the project, Malaysia’s Maybank Islamic Bank said yesterday. Maybank 30 percent from current levels as domestic consumption embroiled in a boardroom row. lost its chief executive earlier this month pharmaceutical giant, Viehbacher embarked Islamic provided 200 million pounds of the Islamic loan while the ncreases after a new splitter comes online, a senior compa- He piloted the group through a period when Christophe de Margerie died in a on a severe cost-cutting drive and in rest was split between Malaysia’s CIMB Bank and Standard Chartered ny official said. when it lost its exclusive rights to several plane crash in Moscow. September 2012 launched a plan to slash Bank. Details of the loan were not revealed. The deal could encour- Qatari condensate exports have already been facing important drugs and refocused the business The chairman of BNP Paribas stepped 900 jobs by the end of next year, putting age other corporations in Britain to seek sharia-compliant financing, competition from US light oil shipments but its new on activities with strong potential, and down last month and the heads of energy him on a collision course with unions. said Muzaffar Hisham, Islamic banking chief executive at Maybank 146,000 barrels-per-day splitter, set to start up in late 2016, notably the acquisition of US biotechnology giants EDF and Areva have all recently left, And Weinberg said Viehbacher’s depar- Islamic. “We hope this opens the floodgates...This shows how the should help the Gulf state soak up some of its DFC supplies group Genzyme. A matter-of-fact company marking a major shake-up of the French cor- ture did not herald a “change in strategy” for advancement of cross-border transactions is very important.” at home. Tasweeq will cut DFC exports to 350,000 barrels statement hinted at boardroom battles. The porate landscape. the group, recalling that the firm’s direction Owners of the firm behind the 10 billion pound redevelopment of per day (bpd) from the current levels of 500,000 bpd when firm needs a manager committed to “focus- had been set before Viehbacher even the site on the south bank of the Thames include Malaysian institu- the splitter is ready, Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, marketing director ing on execution with a close and confident Nationality ‘not a factor’ arrived at Sanofi. The new CEO also said tions Employees Provident Fund, SP Setia and Sime Darby. Seeking of condensate at Tasweeq, said at an industry conference cooperation with the board,” Sanofi said. Viehbacher had come under fire for there was “no particular concern” about the to attract more Islamic financial business, Britain issued in June its yesterday. —Reuters The firm appointed chairman Serge choosing to base himself in Boston in the group’s finances. —AFP first sovereign sukuk (Islamic bond), worth 200 million pounds. EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.765 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 Nepalese Rupees 3.955 Singapore Dollar 0.224048 0.230048 South African Rand 0.020434 0.028934 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.225 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.795 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001901 0.002481 Japanese Yen 2.686 Australian Dollar 232.68 229.68 Indian Rupees 4.748 Thai Bhat 9.930 Taiwan 0.009415 0.009595 Canadian Dollar 262.37 263.37 Turkish Lira 129.925 Thai Baht 0.008628 0.009178 Pakistani Rupees 2.815 Swiss Franc 309.88 307.88 Srilankan Rupees 2.216 Euro 371.39 372.39 Nepali Rupees 2.965 Arab US Dollar 290.25 293.25 Bahraini Dinar 0.762905 0.770905 Singapore Dollar 228.210 Sterling Pound 469.73 472.73 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 37.392 Egyptian Pound 0.038882 0.041982 Japanese Yen 2.73 2.75 Bangladesh Taka 3.742 Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Bangladesh Taka 3.743 4.013 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.484 Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 Indian Rupee 4.731 5.031 Belgian Franc 0.007549 0.008549 Thai Baht 8.968 Jordanian Dinar 0.405009 0.412509 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.216 2.651 British Pound 0.459969 0.468969 Irani Riyal transfer 1167.970 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Nepali Rupee 2.960 3.495 Czech Korune 0.005286 0.017286 Irani Riyal cash 141.525 Lebanese Pound 0.000141 0.000241 Pakistani Rupee 2.815 2.790 Danish Krone 0.045384 0.050384 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023634 0.047634 UAE Dirhams 78.87 79.34 Euro 0.362706 0.370796 GCC COUNTRIES Nigerian Naira 0.001171 0.001806 Bahraini Dinar 770.38 772.45 Norwegian Krone 0.040024 0.045224 Saudi Riyal 77.419 Omani Riyal 0.747351 0.753031 Egyptian Pound 40.48 41.08 Romanian Leu 0.083039 0.083039 Qatari Riyal 79.772 Qatar Riyal 0.078959 0.080072 Jordanian Dinar 411.94 417.59 Slovakia 0.008433 0.018433 Omani Riyal 754.060 Saudi Riyal 0.076710 0.077410 Omani Riyal 752.74 760.04 Swedish Krona 0.036038 0.041038 Bahraini Dinar 770.900 Syrian Pound 0.001718 0.001938 Qatari Riyal 79.93 80.48 Swiss Franc 0.298707 0.308907 UAE Dirham 79.054 Tunisian Dinar 0.157556 0.165556 Saudi Riyal 77.32 77.72 Turkish Lira 0.127545 0.134545 Turkish Lira 0.127545 0.134545 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 0.077988 0.079137 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.053 Australasia Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001309 0.001389 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.481 Australian Dollar 0.247091 0.258591 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.354 New Zealand Dollar 0.221747 0.231247 Tunisian Dinar 162.450 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 409.560 US Dollar 290.100 Canadian Dollar 0.252888 0.261388 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.947 Canadian Dollar 260.860 US Dollars 0.285950 0.290650 Syrian Lira 2.068 Sterling Pound 467.065 US Dollars Mint 0.286450 0.290650 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.805 Euro 368.770 US Dollar 289.500 Swiss Frank 304.875 Asia Euro 369.150 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 771.365 Bangladesh Taka 0.003334 0.003934 Pound Sterlng 469.000 US Dollar Transfer 290.050 UAE Dirhams 78.880 Chinese Yuan 0.045818 0.049318 Canadian Dollar 259.700 Euro 369.810 Qatari Riyals 80.480 Indian Rupee 4.730 Sterling Pound 468.510 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035301 0.038051 Saudi Riyals 77.435 Indian Rupee 0.004489 0.004890 Egyptian Pound 40.463 Canadian dollar 259.550 Jordanian Dinar 409.330 Turkish lira 129.980 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.211 Egyptian Pound 40.477 Japanese Yen 0.002601 0.002781 Bangladesh Taka 3.737 Swiss Franc 306.610 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.216 Australian Dollar 256.980 Kenyan Shilling 0.003237 0.003237 Philippines Peso 6.468 Indian Rupees 4.738 US Dollar Buying 288.850 Korean Won 0.000265 0.000280 Pakistan Rupee 2.813 Pakistani Rupees 2.817 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085306 0.091306 Bahraini Dinar 770.750 Bangladesh Taka 3.743 GOLD Nepalese Rupee 0.002964 0.003134 UAE Dirham 78.850 Philippines Pesso 6.470 Tola 1 141.530 Pakistan Rupee 0.002794 0.003074 Saudi Riyal 77.300 Cyprus pound 711.815 Tola 2 278.310 Philippine Peso 0.006354 0.006634 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 689.800 Japanese Yen 3.675 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 BUSINESS Global consumer confidence improves, India most bullish Nielsen survey: Italy most pessimistic market

LONDON: Consumer confidence in the United upbeat globally, with their score rising 4 points Philippines with a 5-point decline and 4-point States jumped in the third quarter and to 108 as optimism about job prospects contin- decreases for Italy and Ukraine. The Nielsen improved globally, although people were more ued to surge. Americans were also slightly more survey was conducted online and covered optimistic about job prospects than their per- upbeat about the outlook for their personal more than 30,000 consumers across 60 mar- sonal finances, a survey showed yesterday. finances than they were in the second quarter, kets. — Reuters India remained the most bullish consumer mar- unlike Europeans, who were more pessimistic, Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence ket, while Italy became the most pessimistic, reflecting persistently low wage growth. Index in the third quarter, 2014 according to the survey by global information (change from Q2 survey in brackets): and insights company Nielsen. US consumers confident The survey showed that concerns about the “US consumers are now feeling far more Top 10 index Bottom 10 index economy and job prospects had eased globally confident than in previous years of the recov- readings readings from the second quarter, but in North America ery due to consistently good job market trends, India 126 (-2) Finland 64 (-3) and Europe that had been replaced by rising reflected in steady payroll growth and falling Indonesia 125 (+2) France 59 (-1) worries about war and terrorism. European unemployment over the course of 2014,” said Philippines 115 (-5) Slovenia 58 (+9) countries generally were the most pessimistic, Louise Keely, a senior vice president at Nielsen. Thailand 113 (+8) Ukraine 57 (-4) reflecting the conflict in Ukraine, faltering “They are also benefiting from lower gaso- TOKYO: A cyclist passes before a share prices board in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s UAE 112 (+3) Hungary/Greece 56 (0,+1) growth and the risk of deflation in the euro line prices and a gradually improving housing share prices rose 224.00 points to close at 15,553.91 points, following strong China 111 (0) Portugal 53 (+5) zone. Britain and Germany, however, saw con- market. In the coming months, as we start to United States 108 (+4) S. Korea 52 (-1) gains on Wall Street and as the weaker yen lifted exporter shares. —AFP sumer confidence improve. see more people re-entering the workforce and Hong Kong 107 (+4) Serbia 51 (0) The Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence meaningful wage growth, this is likely to trans- Saudi Arabia 105 (+3) Croatia 49 (-1) Index rose 1 point in the third quarter to 98, late into broad-based gains in consumer Denmark 104 (-2) Italy 47 (-4) Japan factory output according to the survey, conducted between spending.” Australia saw the biggest increase in Aug 13 and Sept 5. The index has been steadily confidence from the previous quarter, by 12 Global consumer confidence average98 (+1) posts surprise jump rising since the first quarter of 2012 and the lat- points, followed by Slovenia with a 9-point Germany 97 (+1) est reading headed closer to the 100 mark that increase and Thailand with 8 points. UK 93 (+3) signals optimism among consumers. Chile posted the sharpest drop in confi- Japan 77 (+4) TOKYO: Japan’s September factory produc- fluctuates indecisively,” it said in a monthly US consumers were the seventh most dence, by 7 points, followed by the Australia 97 (+12) tion posted its biggest rise in eight months, report, a more upbeat assessment than its official data showed yesterday, but the August report, when the ministry said pro- news failed to dispel doubts about the duction “has weakened”. strength of the wider economy following a A survey of manufacturers released with recent string of weak figures. Industrial pro- the data showed that they expected facto- duction rose 2.7 percent on-month, revers- ry production to edge down 0.1 percent ing a drop of 1.9 percent in August, the on-month in October and then pick up 1.0 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry percent in November. said. “The surge in manufacturing output in That reading beat the median market September suggests that the sector has forecast of a 2.2 percent rise and is the finally turned the corner, but a strong highest rise since a 3.9 percent expansion recovery is not on the cards,” Marcel in January. However, the quarterly data Thieliant, Japan economist at Capital were less rosy with output from Japan’s fac- Economics, said in a note. tories shrinking 1.9 percent in July- Despite the lackluster production, how- September from the previous quarter, as ever, Japan is likely to manage to post small makers of cars and home appliances tried growth in the third quarter as activity in to bring down their inventories after an other parts of the economy such as the April sales tax rise hit consumer spending. retail sector “seems to have picked up”, he The quarterly output drop followed a said. “Overall, we still expect GDP to 3.8 percent fall in April-June, when the increase by around 0.5 percent quarter-on- world’s number three economy suffered its quarter in Q3,” following a drop of 1.8 per- biggest contraction since the 2011 quake- cent in the second quarter, he said. tsunami disaster. Third-quarter GDP data due out on Industrial output had grown at its November 17 will be closely watched for clues fastest rate in more than two years in as to how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s econo- January as it caught up with stronger my growth blitz, known as “Abenomics”, is demand, before losing steam in the follow- faring. ing months. The data will be a key factor in whether Retail sales also got a boost ahead of the Abe decides to raise the sales tax again to April 1 sales tax rise-Japan’s first in 17 years- 10 percent next year-seen as crucial to as shoppers made a last-minute dash to Japan paying down a massive national buy staples and big-ticket items such as debt. The GDP data could also influence cars and refrigerators before prices went the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy, which up. The industry ministry remained cau- has been aimed at stoking inflation, but tious despite the monthly upturn in manu- which has had an adverse impact on pri- facturing activity. “Industrial production vate consumption. —AFP

RICHMOND: Sam Abed talks with a customer at the Mediterranean Bakery and Deli in Richmond, Virginia. —AP Heathrow Airport Ukraine, Russia try ups 2014 passenger again to forge gas deal traffic outlook BRUSSELS: Ukraine and Russia begin new gas plies before it is willing to turn the taps back LONDON: Heathrow Airport, the world’s third busiest airport, crisis talks yesterday, but wrangling over on. Kiev says it is working to raise more mon- slightly raised its outlook for 2014 passengers numbers and Ukraine’s upfront cash payments threatens to ey from all possible sources of financing, said it wasn’t seeing any impact on travel from the Ebola crisis push a deal out of reach, even as tempera- including the European Union. The executive in west Africa. Airline and travel stocks have suffered falls in tures have fallen below zero in Kiev. Russian European Commission is considering recent months over fears that the Ebola crisis will lead to a drop state utility Gazprom halted supplies to Kiev Ukraine’s request last week for a further loan off in air travel, as happened with the SARS outbreak in 2003. in June because of Ukraine’s unpaid gas bill, of 2 billion euros. Heathrow, which is owned by Spain’s Ferrovial and other which Moscow says is around $4.5 billion. But Kiev also says money alone may not be partners including Qatar Holding and China Investment Corp, For months, the cut-off has had little enough. “I have an impression that the Russian said on Wednesday that it expects 73.4 million passengers in impact. But pressure is mounting for a deal as side doesn’t want to agree,” Ukrainian Finance 2014, 0.8 percent higher than its previous forecast, and 1.5 per- peak winter demand looms and European Minister Oleksander Shlapak told reporters in cent higher than last year. Asked if the airport was seeing any Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, Kiev on Tuesday. Analysts also said it could be impact from the Ebola outbreak which has killed nearly 5,000 who has been mediating the talks, prepares to very hard to come up with enough assurances people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, Heathrow chief leave office at the end of the week. to satisfy Russia. Ukraine at the same time is PARIS: Total’s flags seen at half mast in front of French oil major Total head- executive John Holland-Kaye said in a telephone interview: The two sides came close in September, pushing for written guarantees that any agree- quarters at La Defense business district, outside Paris. French energy firm “No, not at all.” but then differences gaped wide last week ment on price will be lasting. Total, reeling under the death of its chief in a plane crash, said yesterday that Earlier this month, Britain started screening some passen- over Kiev’s ability to pay. Oettinger told its net profits had fallen in the third quarter due to a slump in the production gers arriving at Heathrow based on their recent travel history. German television yesterday there was a 50 For all sides, there is much at stake Heathrow no longer has any direct flights to the affected areas of hydrocarbons. —AFP percent chance of a breakthrough in the talks, Russia provides around one third of the after British Airways suspended connections to Liberia and which begin in the afternoon in Brussels. If he European Union’s gas, roughly half of which is Sierra Leone in August. The increase in forecast annual passen- cannot broker a solution, it will be down to his shipped via Ukraine. Ukraine in turn relies on Total focuses on costs, oil ger numbers was driven by bigger aircraft flying more full and successor, who takes office on Nov. 1. Russia for around 50 percent of its own gas new flights to cities like Manila, Mexico City and Bogot·. The air- Weekend elections returned a pro-Western and despite storage has a winter shortfall of output to stop profit slip port, Britain’s biggest, is seeking to build a new runway as its parliament in Kiev, potentially stoking ten- around 3 billion to 4 billion cubic metres current two are operating at 98 percent capacity but airport sions with Moscow, although Russia’s EU (bcm), depending on the weather. For Russia, PARIS: French energy firm Total, recovering from plunge of oil prices in recent months, but acknowl- expansion in crowded south-east England is the subject of a envoy, Vladimir Chizhov, said the mood could the gas sector contributes approximately a the death of its chief in a plane crash, reported a edged that this could yet undermine results in the long-running political tussle. be more relaxed now the vote has taken fifth of the national budget. profit fall in the third quarter yesterday because of fourth quarter. Total recommended an increase in Holland-Kaye also said he was confident that expansion at place. “During the last rounds of talks, let’s not Economic sanctions on Russia, which EU declining oil and gas production. Net profit fell by the dividend with a payment for the third quarter Heathrow was increasingly being seen as a politically-deliver- conceal it, the pre-election situation had its officials at a closed-door meeting on Tuesday 6.0 percent between July and September to $3.4 rising to 0.61 euros per share from 0.59 euros in the able option, despite a general election looming in May 2015. At influence on Ukrainian side,” Chizhov told decided to leave unchanged for now, are sap- billion (2.67 billion euros), compared to the same second quarter. the last election in 2010, the incoming coalition government Russian agency RIA Novosti. The only unre- ping an already weak economy. But Moscow quarter last year. The price of Total shares rose by 1.29 percent to dropped plans for expansion at Heathrow. solved problem, he said, was where to get the could well be willing to endure much more The group warned that it was yet to feel the 46.08 in morning trading yesterday. So far this year “There’s building support up and down the country from money from for winter supplies. hardship for political ends. “Economic factors negative effects of falling oil prices but stood by they were showing a gain of 3.44 percent. The organizations large and small and from local people, and MPs, are generally not given precedence when cost-cutting and increased output targets. group said that its upstream activities had held up for expansion at Heathrow,” the chief executive said. A govern- Not just about the money national security concerns are at stake,” Turnover also declined by 2.0 percent to $60.36 bil- well despite weak oil prices. The refining and chem- ment-appointed commission is due to make a recommenda- Ukraine’s Naftogaz has set aside $3.1 bil- Pasquale De Micco, a national expert from the lion, a statement said. Profit excluding changes in ical downstream divisions had also done well, tion on where to expand London’s airports next year, from a lion in a special escrow account to pay off a European Parliament’s policy department, inventories fell by 2 percent to $3.56 billion. Chevardiere said. short-list comprised of two options at Heathrow and one at chunk of its debt to Gazprom, but Russia is said in a research paper on Europe’s gas sup- Hydrocarbon production fell 8.0 percent during Total, in common with many oil companies, has Gatwick, an airport to the south of London. —Reuters also demanding prepayment for winter sup- ply options. —Reuters the third quarter, partly due to the loss of conces- suffered from weak refining conditions in Europe in sions in the United Arab Emirates. recent years. Tax summit aims to say goodbye to banking secrecy Results improve Sanctions crimp Russian financing “The results are better than the last quarter,” European refining margins nearly tripled in the BERLIN: The finance ministers of around 50 countries The finance ministers are scheduled to sign on secrecy has gathered momentum in recent years, par- said finance director Patrick de La Chevardiere. quarter to $29.9 per ton from $10.4 during the meet in Berlin yesterday to sign a deal they hope will Wednesday a Multilateral Competent Authority ticularly following the enactment in the United States Total’s chief executive Christophe de Margerie died same period of last year and $10.9 in the second put an end to banking secrecy and aid the worldwide Agreement, which will designate which institution in of its 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FAT- last week when his private jet crashed in Russia. He quarter of this year. But production of hydrocar- fight against tax fraud and evasion. each country is responsible for transferring tax data to CA. FATCA obliges foreign banks to report to the US was largely credited with the group’s international bons fell again, to 2.12 million barrels of oil equiva- “Banking secrecy, in its old form, is obsolete,” other member states. The OECD estimates that “vast Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on the offshore holdings expansion and had focused on raising production, lent per day, a decline of 8.0 percent. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said amounts of money are kept offshore and go untaxed. of US clients in excess of 50,000 euros. in particular through operations in Russia. Total held that it was reversing this trend. in an interview in the mass-circulation daily Bild Offshore tax evasion is a serious problem for jurisdic- The move prompted five European countries- Total is the fifth-biggest quoted oil and gas Chevardiere also noted than on a quarterly basis, as yesterday. tions all over the world.” Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain-to call for group in the world by market value, and is one of opposed to a 12-month basis, production had risen Banking secrecy is “no longer appropriate at a time Economist Gabriel Zucman, a specialist in fiscal a generalized automatic exchange of information the biggest companies on the French CAC 40 stock by 3.0 percent, boosted by advanced production when people can transfer their money all over the fraud, has calculated that around 5.8 trillion euros ($7.4 in 2011. index. On Tuesday, British oil major BP reported a from the CLOV field off Nigeria. Production should world at the press of a button via the Internet,” said trillion) is stashed away in tax havens, depriving And following months of talks, amid fierce resist- 63.0-percent fall in net profit for the quarter to be close to 2.2 million barrels per day at the end of Schaeuble, who is hosting the two-day meeting of the authorities all over the world of around 130 billion ance in countries such as Luxembourg and Austria, $1.29 billion. It blamed that on the fall of the price this year, he said, standing by a target of 2.3 million Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of euros in revenue each year. In the past, tax havens and where banks continue to uphold banking secrecy, the of oil and the value of the ruble. barrels per day in 2015. Information for Tax Purposes in the German capital. countries such as Switzerland have used banking EU finally came up with an accord two weeks ago. Yesterday, Norwegian energy group Statoil said The new chief executive, Patrick Pouyanne, The forum, set up under the auspices of the Paris- secrecy laws to refuse to disclose information on off- Under that deal, the 28 member states pledged to it had switched into a quarterly loss equivalent to would apply the new strategy of strict cost controls based Organization for Economic Cooperation and shore bank accounts held by foreigners to the corre- implement an automatic data exchange from 2017, 558 million euros because of asset depreciations throughout the group to achieve total savings of Development (OECD) and the European Union, brings sponding national tax authorities. with the exception of Austria, which for technical rea- but also the fall in the oil price. $2.0 billion per year in 2017, and to reduce invest- together representatives of more than 120 countries. But an international movement to end banking sons will not sign up until 2018. —AFP Total has not been badly set back so far by the ment to $25.0 billion in that year. —AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 Shares rise as investors bank on Fed

LONDON: World stocks rose yesterday, lifted by strong corporate gained 1.1 percent and Japan’s Nikkei share average climbed 1.5 US earnings porate news, shares in French pharma group Sanofi slumped 5 earnings and investor optimism that the US Federal Reserve percent. “Markets are banking on the prospect that the Federal Upbeat US earnings so far have also eased worries that corpo- percent after the company’s board said it had decided to oust won’t raise interest rates for some time, even as it is expected to Reserve will do everything in its power to anchor interest rate rate profits might be squeezed by sluggish global growth. With chief executive Chris Viehbacher. officially wind down its bond-buying stimulus program. expectations at, or below, current levels,” said Michael Hewson, 245 companies in the S&P 500 having reported earnings so far for In currency trading, the dollar was down 0.2 percent against Europe’s main indices followed the overnight lead from Wall chief strategist at CMC Markets in London. the third quarter, 73.5 percent have beat analyst expectations, the Japanese yen at 107.90 yen and the euro was little changed Street and Asia, although the third-quarter earnings reports out “Any attempt to alter the (policy statement’s) language in any- according to Thomson Reuters. Over the past four quarters, 67 at $1.2730, close to Tuesday’s one-week high of $1.2765. of Europe weren’t quite as solid as those from the United States. thing other than a dovish fashion could well see markets take percent of companies have beat estimates. The yield on benchmark 10-year US Treasury bonds was down The dollar was under light selling pressure and major govern- fright,” he said. The Fed is widely expected to announce it will end The picture in Europe isn’t quite so rosy. About a third of com- a basis point at 2.275 percent, as was the German Bund yield at ment bond yields were marginally lower, as currency and fixed its two-year-old stimulus program known as quantitative easing panies listed on the STOXX Europe 600 benchmark index have 0.87 percent. Italian government borrowing costs fell more income markets anticipated a soothing message from the Fed three, as the US economy continues to gather momentum. The reported results so far this earnings season, with 67 percent of steeply, prompting a similar move across peripheral euro-zone when it ends its two-day policy meeting later in the day. Fed started buying bonds as far back as late 2008. Still, Fed offi- them meeting or beating profit forecasts, and 59 percent meet- bond markets, after the European Commission gave a tentative Germany’s DAX was up almost 1 percent in early trade, Britain’s cials have also stressed they are in no hurry to take policy tight- ing or beating revenue forecasts, according to Thomson Reuters thumbs-up to Rome’s 2015 budget. Italy, like France, has been FTSE was up half a percent, and France’s CAC 40 up a third of one ening a step further by raising rates from near zero levels due to Starmine data. Yesterday, Germany’s largest lender Deutsche campaigning for Brussels to afford it greater fiscal flexibility in percent. subdued inflation and the poor quality of a recovery in labor Bank announced a third-quarter net loss, and French oil major order to nurture fragile economic growth, although their original MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan markets. Total said net adjusted profit fell 2 percent. In other European cor- budget proposals had to be tweaked.—Reuters Oil rises above $86 ahead of Fed view

LONDON: Brent crude oil extended gains above $86 a barrel yesterday as traders anticipated the end of quantitative easing in the United Stated would squeeze the dollar. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to end its two-year-old bond-buying stimulus program, and to keep interest rates low, in a statement due at 1800 GMT yesterday. “We’re likely to see a slightly weaker dollar today, if the Fed is as dovish as expected, and that will support oil prices in the short term,” said Michael Hewson, chief analyst at CMC Markets in London. A weaker greenback makes it easier for global consumers to buy dol- lar-denominated commodities such as oil, boosting demand. Brent crude for December was up 30 cents at $86.33 a barrel by 0930 GMT, after settling up 20 cents on Tuesday. Front-month US crude was up 45 cents at $81.87 a barrel. Prices also gained support from buoyant stock markets in Europe and Asia, after US stocks ended more than 1 percent higher on Tuesday. US consumer confidence rose in October to its highest level since October 2007 as views on the job market improved, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday. “The US consumer confidence data points to a potential increase in demand for oil,” said Hewson. US stocks of gasoline and distillate fell by 3.7 million barrels and 3 million barrels respectively, three times more than analysts’ expectations, data by industry group American Petroleum Institute (API) showed on Tuesday. US crude inventories rose 3.2 million barrels last week, slightly below analysts’ expectation of a 3.4 million barrel increase. Crude inventories have risen for the past three weeks, typical in the approach to winter, when demand increases. US oil refining capacity is forecast to increase this week due to a reduction in planned outages as the maintenance season draws to a close, data from research company IIR showed yesterday. Investors awaited data on oil stocks from the US government’s Energy Information Administration at 1030 EDT (1430 GMT). Several major banks have cut their price forecasts for Brent and US crude next year in the past two weeks, but weeks of losses have brought the prices into the range of these revised forecasts. — Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 BUSINESS

IMF calls for sweeping reforms in GCC

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KUWAIT: In its latest regional eco- economy upgraded from a has suggested that most oil on a lower base and scale. GCC men and women to seek pri- Oil price decline a nomic outlook on MENA Region, growth rate of 5.9 percent esti- exporters also need to adapt their In the GCC, the business envi- vate sector jobs, reducing distor- major risk factor IMF has indicated that despite set- mated in May-14 to 6.5 percent in economic model for more sus- ronment is favorable by interna- tions that lead to excessive Oil prices needs to be watched backs, an uneven global econom- October for 2014, the highest tained, inclusive, and diversified tional standards, infrastructure reliance on foreign labor, gradually out for as higher-than-expected oil ic recovery continues. According Growth among its peers in the growth. The country’s financial fis- gaps are small, and the efficiency reducing energy subsidies and supply from other regions (for exam- to the IMF, the growth forecast for GCC Region. The IMF estimates cal model has been dependent on of high capital spending is compa- reorienting incentives toward trad- ple, the United States) or lower global the world economy has been Kuwait’s growth rate to be 1.4 per- the growth of government spend- rable with that in other countries. able sectors. It will also help in oil demand, owing to weaker global revised downward to 3.3 percent cent a sharp decline from the May ing supported by increases in oil However, IMF suggests some more tackling another challenge that economic growth, could also further this year, 0.4 percentage point estimate of 2.6 percent. prices. Transitioning to a more measure to build on the progress the GCC region faces which is to ease oil markets. As per IMF, oil prices, lower than in the April 2014 World diversified, private sector-driven which includes improving educa- create jobs for the young popula- as well as regional security conditions, Economic Outlook largely due to MENA region model requires significant reform. tion quality, restraining growth in tion which will be joining the are also important sources of risk for weaker-than-expected global According to IMF, Economic In the GCC countries, the business public wage bills and incentivizing workforce in the near future. activity in the non-oil economy. activity in the 1H-2014. developments in the MENA coun- environment is generally favorable Economic developments in tries continue to reflect the diversi- and infrastructure gaps are small. the MENA Region continue to ty of conditions prevailing across So the reform priorities should reflect the diversity of conditions the region. Most high-income oil center on improving the quality of prevailing across the region. Most exporters, primarily in the GCC, education and its relevance for pri- high-income oil exporters, prima- continue to record steady growth vate sector needs; reducing distor- rily in the GCC, continue to record and solid economic and financial tions that lead to reliance on for- steady growth and solid economic fundamentals, albeit with medium- eign labor, thereby increasing pri- and financial fundamentals, albeit term challenges that need to be vate sector job opportunities for with medium-term challenges addressed. In contrast, other coun- nationals; and encouraging effi- that need to be addressed. In the tries — Iraq, Libya, and Syria — are cient production of tradable non-GCC countries, improving the mired in conflicts. And yet other goods and services rather than political and business environ- countries, mostly oil importers, are activity in non-tradable sectors ment, addressing infrastructure making continued but uneven with low productivity growth. bottlenecks, and enhancing progress in advancing their eco- We believe that the inflation sit- access to finance are important nomic agendas, often in tandem uation in the GCC economies will prerequisites for raising invest- with political transitions and amidst continue to be benign as reflected ment, productivity, and sustained difficult social conditions. In most from the IMF data and projection. growth. of these countries, without exten- However, any further decline in oil GDP growth in the GCC region sive economic and structural prices will have an effect on their is expected to improve in 2014 to reforms, economic prospects for fiscal balance and current account reach 4.4 percent after seeing the medium term remain insuffi- balance. Although the current oil healthy growth of 4.1 percent in cient to reduce high unemploy- prices (above $80 per barrel) are 2013 as per IMF estimated figures. ment and improve living standards. above the breakeven prices of Growth remains steady in most of Economic activity in the MENA oil- most countries, however the high the GCC countries on the strength importing countries has remained expenditures especially the cur- of public spending on infrastruc- lackluster this year at about 3 per- rent expenditure can be a cause of ture and private sector credit cent, but growth is expected to concern in future if the oil prices expansion in many countries. pick up to 4 percent in 2015 (broad- remain depressed or if the oil Despite the regional issues, in ly unchanged from the May 2014 exporters take production cuts. addition to the huge drop in oil Update). What GCC requires is more diversi- prices, IMF upgraded its GDP fication of their economies which growth forecast for Saudi Arabia, GCC economies need reforms they are looking at seriously the region’s largest economy to In the GCC economies, the through various projects and reach 4.6 percent in 2014 com- need is to strengthen their fiscal using oil surplus to spur the non- pared to the previous estimates of positions by using the current oil sector which is being seen in 4.1 percent for the same year in period of economic strength to the strong growth in the non-oil May 2014. The outlook of Qatar save more of their oil windfall. IMF sector in these economies albeit ECB says banking sector continuing to heal, slowly Demand for bank loans pick up

FRANKFURT: Europe’s battered financial sector is show- may discourage banks from easing them further,” she survey data “support the picture of a gradual stabiliza- ing further signs of healing as conditions for bank loans warned. The ECB survey confirmed this interpretation. tion of credit activity.” ease and demand for loans picks up, a key ECB survey “Banks’ risk perceptions concerning firms’ business Nevertheless, “we remain skeptical and see the struc- showed yesterday. outlook and macroeconomic uncertainty had a slight tural economic weakness in France and Italy as a braking Just a few days after the European Central Bank gave net tightening impact on credit standards for loans to effect on credit and economic growth.” most euro-zone banks a clean bill of health, its quarterly enterprises... this was consistent with the recent cooling- Tom Rogers of EY euro-zone Forecast said the survey LONDON: BP Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley addresses delegates during bank lending survey showed that banks are easing credit off in economic recovery including in core euro area “offers some encouragement that the freeze in bank the Oil and Money conference in central London yesterday. —AFP standards for customers across all loan categories. In countries,” the survey found. So “if the euro-zone econo- lending will continue to thaw, albeit very gradually and addition, demand for loans is also increasing, the ECB my fails to pick up towards the end of the yea r, then unevenly across economies.” wrote. there is a clear risk that banks may not loosen standards The rebound in loan demand “suggests that the ECB’s Gold steadies as investors “According to the October bank lending survey (BLS), as much as they currently anticipate,” said Hinds at efforts to push more liquidity into banks in the coming credit standards for all loan categories eased in the third Capital Economics. months should help fuel a recovery in investment expect cautious Fed stance quarter of 2014,” the report said. Looking ahead, banks Bayern LB economist Johannes Mayr said the lending spending from 2015 and beyond,” he said. —AFP expect credit standards to continue to ease in the fourth LONDON: Gold steadied near $1,230 an gist Jonathan Butler said. “As long as the eco- quarter, and loan demand also to continue to pick up, ounce yesterday as investors awaited guid- nomic picture still looks fairly unclear, the Fed the ECB continued. UK lenders cut back ance from the US Federal Reserve, widely will adopt a reasonably cautious stance.” The The survey’s findings should provide some encour- expecting it to reaffirm willingness to wait for dollar was unchanged against a basket of lead- agement to the ECB, since the chronic weakness of cred- an extended period before raising interest ing currencies, having slipped in the previous it activity in the euro area has been blamed for the on new mortgages rates. The Fed, which wraps up a two-day poli- session after weak economic data, which gives absence of any noticeable recovery in the 18 countries cy meeting later yesterday, is widely expected the US central bank reason to hold off from that share the single currency. The ECB complains that to end its two-year-old bond-buying stimulus, tightening its monetary policy. Demand for its ultra-easy monetary policy has not been feeding LONDON: British lenders approved the fewest in a series of policymakers to say a rise in interest known as quantitative easing, as the US econ- US-made capital goods fell the most in eight through into the real economy, because banks are not mortgages in more than a year last month, rates was less pressing than before, due to weak omy gathers momentum. months in September, while the housing sec- passing the money on in loans, particularly to the small adding to signs that previously rapid growth in inflation, low pay growth and signs of a slow- Fed officials have also stressed, however, tor also remained largely soft. and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are the region’s Britain’s housing market and the broader econo- down overseas. that they are in no hurry to take tightening a economic backbone. my is slowing. Earlier yesterday the Confederation of British step further by raising rates from near zero lev- China threat In an attempt to address this, the bank has cut its The Bank of England said yesterday that mort- Industry said that private-sector growth had fall- els, citing subdued inflation and the poor qual- Weakness in demand from China, the interest rates to new all-time lows and also unveiled a gage approvals for house purchase fell to 61,267 en to its lowest since March, as the pace of ity of a recovery in labor markets. Gold has world’s biggest consumer of gold, remains a series of programs to pump liquidity into the economy. in September from 64,054 in August-a bigger expansion returned to more normal rates after a benefited from the low interest rates and key threat to any price upside. “To me the most For example, it is making cheap funding available to drop than economists had expected and the low- period of catching up over the past year. Britain increased liquidity that have dominated cen- important thing is that Chinese buyers have banks via its TLTRO or targeted long-term refinancing est total since July 2013. Earlier this year BoE economy still looks set to be the fastest-expand- tral bank policy in the years after the 2008 been absent for most of this year, and that has- operation program in the hope the banks will lend the Governor Mark Carney said a potential build-up ing major advanced economy this year, with financial crisis. n’t supported the price of gold,” said Victor cash on to businesses. Separately, in a bid to restore con- in household debt due to rising house prices growth of more than 3 percent, but for next year Keeping US interest rates lower for a longer Thianpiriya, an analyst at Australia and New fidence in the banking sector, the ECB conducted a year- pose the biggest domestic threat to Britain’s eco- the CBI said quarterly growth rates of 0.6-0.7 per- period bodes well for a non-interest bearing Zealand Banking Group. long audit-the most in-depth and stringent so far-of 130 nomic recovery. But now the housing market cent looked more likely. asset such as gold. Spot gold was unchanged In 2013, China imported a record euro-zone banks. seems to be slowing faster than the BoE had at $1,228.00 an ounce by 1045 GMT after edg- 1,158.162 tons of gold from Hong Kong, the The results were published on Sunday and showed been banking on. Its forecast in August that Cooling the market ing higher on Tuesday. The metal reached a main conduit for gold into the mainland, that four out of five banks passed the test. mortgage approvals would average 75,000 a The BoE and other regulators have taken a six-week high of $1,245 last week. spurred by a 28 percent drop in global prices. month in the last three months of 2014 looks series of steps this year to cool Britain’s housing US gold futures were down $2.50 an ounce But demand has since waned with gold Lending conditions still tight implausible, economists say. market, which until recently was showing annual at $1,227.00. “This should be the end of QE, but prices largely steady this year. “Tactically, we The lending survey pre-dates those audit results, but “As well as the downside risk from euro area price growth of more than 10 percent, and twice if some wording is used by the Fed that the still view gold rallies as short-lived and favor analysts were cautiously positive about the results of the weakness, these data confirm housing activity is that in London. Since April, lenders have been economic recovery doesn’t justify removal of approaching gold from the short side. latest bank lending survey, even if hurdles remain. The another area where the BoE’s August forecasts required to make more detailed checks on bor- its monetary stimulus and they have ... to leave Support is still resilient around $1,180. We data “provided further evidence of a slow improvement are now starting to look too optimistic,” said Sam rowers’ ability to pay back loans, and later the BoE the door open to reinstating some measures expect physical demand to increase in in euro-zone credit conditions,” said Capital Economics Hill, an economist at RBC. On Tuesday night, BoE limited how many mortgages banks can issue at in the future, then that could be interpreted as strength on approach of this level,” Standard economist Jessica Hinds. Nevertheless, “lending stan- deputy governor Jon Cunliffe became the latest high multiples of a borrower’s income. —Reuters fairly positive for gold,” Mitsubishi Corp strate- Bank said in a note. —Reuters dards are still tight and the faltering economic recovery THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 BUSINESS The new Mercedes-AMG C 63 sets benchmarks

KUWAIT: Pure fascination and breathtak- AMG C 63 sets new benchmarks and will terms of noise and vibration comfort. the high variability of the AMG SPEEDSHIFT careful choice of select, first-class materials, ing dynamics - the new Mercedes-AMG C further strengthen our brand promise MCT 7-speed sport transmission. The avail- their sumptuous tactile qualities and their 63 sets benchmarks. The high-tech drive, ‘Driving Performance’. AMG customers can Variable dynamics - the AMG SPEED- able choices are “Controlled Efficiency”, precision craftsmanship deliver a sense of the signature AMG handling and the high look forward to an exceptionally dynamic SHIFT MCT 7-speed sport transmission “Sport” and “Sport +” and “Race”. The driver quality that is seldom seen even in higher level of individuality in equipment choices driving experience.” A large part of the direct and sporty chooses from the various drive programs vehicle classes. Like the exterior, the more guarantee an utterly unique driving experi- character of the new Mercedes-AMG C 63 is with the aid of the AMG DYNAMIC SELECT powerful C 63 S is distinguished from the C ence. The top model in the C-Class line-up New V8 biturbo closely related to the attributable to the transmission. The AMG switch. The “temporary M” function, activat- 63 on the inside by a number of design is driven by a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine engine in the Mercedes-AMG GT SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sport transmis- ed by using the paddles, delivers a further details. closely related to the power unit that pro- The C 63 is at the forefront of the com- sion offers a compelling mix of tailor-made increase in dynamics. The dashboard is finished in black ARTI- vides breathtaking propulsion in the petitive field. The new high-performance CO man-made leather, with the premium Mercedes-AMG GT. The power spectrum vehicles are the only ones in the segment look-and-feel further enhanced by stitching ranges from 350 kW (476 hp) in the C 63 to to be equipped with an eight-cylinder in crystal grey, the wing-like trim element in 375 kW (510 hp) in the C 63 S. The extensive biturbo engine. The result is sporty power aluminium and the AMG-exclusive, IWC- range of standard equipment includes the delivery and a highly emotional engine design analogue clock (depending on AMG RIDE CONTROL sports suspension sound - a signature of the AMG brand. The equipment choice). Next to the touchpad is with electronically controlled shock the AMG DYNAMIC SELECT switch as well absorbers and the AMG DYNAMIC SELECT as a number of AMG-specific controls, such drive programmes. as the button for the 3-stage RIDE CON- As a sports saloon and high-perfor- TROL sport suspension, the 3-stage ESP(r) mance estate car the new Mercedes-AMG and the optional button for the perform- C 63 offers compelling engine data with ance exhaust system with flap control. exceptionally low consumption figures, outstanding longitudinal and lateral Highest safety levels dynamics and a high level of everyday The C-Class features many of the new usability. and extensively enhanced assistance sys- The V8 top model in the C-Class is avail- tems that celebrated their world premieres able in a choice of four variants - the saloon just a few months ago in the S and E-Class. and the estate are both offered as the Standard equipment on-board the C 63 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S and C 63, with the C C 63 S accelerates from zero to 100 km/h in includes enhanced drowsiness warning 63 S set up for even more dynamic han- 4.0 seconds and the C 63 in 4.1 seconds system ATTENTION ASSIST and COLLISION dling and performance. (Estate: 4.1 and 4.2 seconds respectively), PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS, which helps to “We are also marking the beginning of a with the top speed electronically limited at dynamics and exceptional variability. The The AMG DYNAMIC SELECT drive pro- avoid rear-end collisions. The assistance new era with the new nomenclature. The 250 km/h. MCT transmission was extensively redevel- grams influence the characteristics of the C systems increase both comfort and safety. successor to the Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG, Impressive efficiency improvement is oped for application in the C 63 and is now 63. The C 63 S exclusively features the Mercedes-Benz calls this “Intelligent which has been incredibly successful rooted in the new drive package. The even faster in its reaction times. “Race” program, which enables a maximum Drive”. The predecessor to the new C-Class worldwide, will now be called the M177 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine, the Be it automatic or triggered at the steer- level of individualisation, the “Individual” already demonstrated impressive results in Mercedes-AMG C 63,” says Tobias Moers, newest member of the BlueDIRECT ing wheel paddle by the driver, a manual drive program also allows extensive self- terms of passive safety. The new model CEO of Mercedes-AMG. “At 40,000 units, the engine family. The innovative eight-cylin- up or down-shift is noticeably faster. The configuration. exceeds these and sets new benchmarks. 204 C 63 AMG was the bestselling AMG der is notable for its outstanding power transmission is now significantly more The Mercedes-AMG C63 and C63 S will model. We will now add to this success with delivery, targeted lightweight design, high spontaneous in the “Sport +” and manual Stunning interior design be available in February 2015. Pricing starts the new Mercedes-AMG C 63. Be it in drive, efficiency and environmental compatibili- modes in particular. Every detail in the interior of the C 63 from US$88,000 for the C63 and US$97,000 handling or equipment, the Mercedes- ty. It also fulfils the highest standards in One look at the drive programs shows contributes to a stunning overall effect. The for the C63 S.

CNBC interviews Gulf Bank’s Air Arabia marks CEO, César Gonz·lez-Bueno

KUWAIT: In his interview with CNBC, César He said: “We have been the very first in Gonz·lez-Bueno, the Chief Executive launching the famous Al-Danah Account, Officer of Gulf Bank, commented that and we have made remarkable progress 11th anniversary since he joined Gulf Bank last March, he this year in Retail Banking, where we have has formed a very positive impression on seen 25 percent growth. the Bank’s financial position which, he First flight to 100th global destination Tbilisi confirmed, has completely recovered from the repercussions of 2008 crisis. SHARJAH: Air Arabia, the first and passenger volume and profitability. In ed opportunities for more people to tivity across our award-winning route Gonz·lez-Bueno said that the efforts by largest low-cost carrier (LCC) in the eleven years, the airline has expanded travel by introducing a new pricing seg- network,” added Ali. Gulf Bank to achieve a successful recovery Middle East and North Africa, yesterday operations from five destinations with ment to popular or untapped destina- Air Arabia, the first publicly listed air- since 2008 makes him look to the future marked its eleventh year of successful just a pair aircraft, to 100 destinations tions. Our first flight to Tibilisi, the social line in the Arab world and the largest with both confidence and determination. operations with its first flight to Tiblisi, spread across the Middle East and North and economic centre of Georgia epito- airline by market value, today carrying He added that the ratio of Non- Georgia. Tibilsi, the capital and largest Africa, Europe and Indian Subcontinent, mises this philosophy.” “We have wit- millions of passengers across100 desti- Performing Loans (NPLs) have decreased city of Georgia is Air Arabia’s 100th glob- served by a fleet of 40 aircraft today. nessed unprecedented growth in the nations from four operational hubs in this year from 6.3 percent to 5.1 percent al destination. Marking the occasion, Adel Ali, the air- past ten years, and as we continue our the UAE, Morocco and Egypt. The inau- while the total NPL coverage reached 238 Since it was established in 2003, Air line’s Group Chief Executive Officer, stat- journey in to the second decade, we aim gural flight was received by officials from percent. The excess General Provisions Arabia has recorded impressive and sus- ed, “Air Arabia has been a vanguard in to fulfil our mission of providing value the Georgian Government, Civil Aviation have increased from KD158 million to tained growth in terms of destinations, the UAE aviation sector -we have creat- for money services and greater connec- and press. KD201 million, a growth of 27.2 percent Air Arabia will fly twice weekly to Tbilisi during 2014. from its primary Sharjah International The Bank’s loans have grown by 13 per- Airport hub on Tuesdays and Fridays at cent and the capital adequacy is at 16.6 percent against the regulatory ratio of 12 In terms of corporate banking and proj- percent. ects, I believe Gulf Bank is ready to accom- Commenting on these results, modate future growth, which I hope will Gonz·lez-Bueno said: “This is an excellent take place soon enhanced by the State’s achievement. I have never seen such a developmental projects. We are fully high coverage ratio, even in International ready and prepared to participate in the Standards. This ensures that the Bank can financing of these projects.” face any unforeseen situation in the future Gonz·lez-Bueno ended by saying: “I feel with confidence.” most fortunate to have joined the Gulf Gonz·lez-Bueno indicated that Gulf Bank team and I have great confidence for Bank’s share of the Kuwaiti market is close the future. Settling in Kuwait has been to 15 percent, and is growing steadily very easy and the Kuwaiti people are one Adel Ali, the airline’s through Gulf Bank’s consistent efforts to of the most hospitable and warm people I Group Chief Executive Officer pioneer product innovation and services. have come across in the world.”

13:00, arriving at Tbilisi International Airport at 16:30 that afternoon. Return flights will Moayyad Ibrahim Al-Awadhi depart Tbilisi on the same days at 17:10 and arrive in Sharjah at 20:20. wins KD 125,000 in NBK’s Alghanim Industries brings exciting new Al Jawhara draw for October KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait 2014 Lenovo smartphones to Kuwait (NBK) announces the winner for October’s KD 125,000 Al-Jawhara monthly prize, Moayyad Ibrahim Al- KUWAIT: Alghanim Industries is proud to announce the fied UI; it features multiple shooting modes, beautification able to provide consumers with our flagship smartphones”. Awadhi. The draw was held under the launch of the innovative lineup of 2014 Lenovo smartphones features, gesture and voice control and anti-distortion com- X-cite has the largest network of retail electronic stores supervision of the Ministry of Trade in Kuwait, including the flagship Vibe X2 and other exciting ponents. Additionally, thanks to its fast 4G speed, users can in Kuwait and the Middle East. It offers a convenient, and Industry. The winner’s name was mobile models. The new range of Lenovo products will be easily upload and share their favorite photos and videos dynamic and modern shopping experience that aims to announced live on Marina FM. available starting November, and can be purchased at any X- online as well as enjoy browsing pages, watching videos, add joyous, entertaining moments to shoppers’ time spent NBK re-launched Al-Jawhara cite store by Alghanim Electronics and online gaming with others, reading web content in the store. With its engaging and easy-to-use product account offering customers more at xcite.com. Lenovo smartphones are and chatting with friends, all displayed via display that encourages customers to get hands-on with chances to win bigger prizes; KD 5,000 designed to fit every style, budget and per- Vibe X2’s breathtaking and vibrant full HD the product of their choice, X-cite’s shopping experience is weekly, KD 125,000 monthly and a sonality, whether they are top-end users, styl- screen. As for customers juggling between further enhanced with its Easy Credit program, a highly grand prize of KD 250,000 quarterly ish trendsetters, multimedia enthusiasts or work and personal life, the dual SIM card will skilled and multi-lingual team of sales professionals and draw. conscious spenders. help organize and maintain their daily sched- the latest and newest electronic devices and gadgets in Al-Jawhara account offers numerous Headlining the brand new lineup of the ule, chaos-free. the market. X-cite by Alghanim Electronics has branches in benefits to NBK customers. Not only is sleek Lenovo smartphones is the Vibe X2, The Vibe X2 is only but a small part of 17 locations situated in strategic areas across Kuwait as it an interest-free account with regular which, despite its lightweight and slim size, Lenovo’s commercial strategy to expand in well as an online store, www.x-cite.com, a website that deposit and withdrawal privileges, but packs a wealth of exciting features and the GCC market, targeting high-end con- parallels X-cite’s unmatched in-store experience as it pro- also entitles account holders to enter design elementsthat make it a must-own for sumers and conscious spenders alike. “With vides customers with valuable offers on quality brands. any smartphone fans and collectors out the continued expansion of 4G networks in Customers can also enjoy many of X-cite’s convenient serv- the weekly, monthly and quarterly Al- there. Multilayered color design and smartly the region, and a strong push towards ices including Easy Credit, shopping at any of X-cite’s Jawhara draws. Each KD 50 in an Al- crafted to fit any person’s lifestyle, the Vibe X2 smart cities and connectivity, there is a nat- select stores that are open 24-hours, extended warranty Jawhara account entitles the customer comes packing a MediaTek’s 4G LTE ural consumer need for smartphones at all programs in addition to their new damage warranty pro- to one chance in any of the draws. True8Core processor, enabling it to display a levels,” said Shashank Sharma, Director of gram, free delivery and installation services and X-cite’s All prizes are automatically credited chances of winning. Al-Jawhara host of multimedia experiences without sacrificing battery the Mobile Business Group at Lenovo Middle East and bilingual online store, www.x-cite.com, that enables cus- to the winners’ accounts the day after accounts are available to both Kuwaitis life or performance. Photography fans and selfie takers will Africa. He adds, “Lenovo fans have been asking us to bring tomers to buy any electronic device or gadget they want the draw. The more money held in your and expats and can be opened at any particularly appreciate Vibe X2’s advanced camera and simpli- our products to the market, and we’re happy to finally be at any time and any place. Al-Jawhara account, the greater your one of NBK’s branches around Kuwait. Zain begins offering iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, cally thin and seamless design that is comfortable to hold and easy to overview of your health and fitness data, and iCloud Drive, which allows yesterday announced it will start offering the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 use. users to store files and access them from anywhere. Plus smartphones today across its branches in Kuwait. The devices rep- Both models offer marked many improvements to previous iPhone On the occasion of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’s availability in the resent the biggest advancement in iPhone history and will bring Zain versions, and include the Apple-designed A8 chip with second genera- market, Omar Al-Omar, Zain Kuwait’s Chief Executive Officer, comment- customers, who love and enjoy Apple devices, an unparalleled telecom- tion 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance and ed, “A great number of our customers are devoted iPhone users who are munications experience over a nationwide 4G LTE network. power efficiency; advanced iSight and FaceTime HD cameras; and ultra- keen to enjoy what the latest technology has to offer, and Zain’s strate- One of Zain’s main priorities is to place customers at the forefront of fast wireless technologies. gic relationship with Apple allows us to provide such iconic devices to enjoyable experiences and provide them with appealing products and The new iPhones also include iOS 8, the most significant release them in a timely fashion, soon after they are released globally.” service offerings, reinforcing the company’s position as a leader in the since the Apple App Store launched. The iOS 8features a simpler, faster Al-Omar continued, “Our commitment to our customers is unyield- Kuwaiti telecommunications market. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and more intuitive user experience with new Messages and Photos ing as we strive to meet their needs and expectations with the latest feature stunning 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch Retina HD displays, and are both details, predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType keyboard and Family devices available in the world, supported by the biggest network in packed with cutting-edge technologies encased in an all-new dramati- Sharing. The iOS 8 also includes the new Health app, giving you a clear Kuwait.” technology THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 LG profit surges on smartphone sales

SEOUL: South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. losses. The improvement in LG’s smart- said yesterday its third-quarter profit phone business comes as its hometown jumped 87 percent over a year earlier as rival Samsung Electronics Co. is suffer- smartphone sales set a record high. ing a rapid decline in profit from its LG Electronics said its July-September mobile division. Samsung Electronics, net income reached 202.6 billion won which is scheduled to report third-quar- ($193 million) on sales of 14.9 trillion ter earnings today, will post around 2 won. Operating income more than dou- trillion won in profit from its mobile bled from a year earlier to 461.3 billion communications business, less than one won. third of its profit a year earlier, accord- LG said the improved earnings ing to analysts. stemmed from the recovery of its hand- South Korean handset makers are fac- set business. Its 167 billion won profit ing a setback in the domestic market exceeded that from televisions, LG’s oth- after the government this month put a er mainstay business. ceiling on handset subsidies. The move is The company’s smartphone ship- meant to offer buyers more certainty ments increased 40 percent from a year about prices but has dented sales. LG earlier to a record 16.8 million units, as its said demand for new smartphones in flagship G3 smartphone and mid-tier L South Korea will stay subdued. series smartphone drove sales. The com- LG’s Home Entertainment division, pany said it will continue its “two track” which sells televisions, recorded 131 bil- strategy, trying to lure consumers in lion won in operating income. The com- advanced countries with the high-end G pany said shipments of ultra-HD televi- CALIFORNIA: This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 file photo shows Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. — AP series and expand L series models for sions, which pack four-times more pixels consumers in emerging markets. than standard HD TVs, increased in coun- LG’s mobile communications busi- tries except in China and South America. Former Google exec’s app ness remained profitable for a second Shares of LG Electronics rose 4 percent in straight quarter after three quarters of Seoul after earnings release. — AP aims to tackle chronic illness

SAN FRANCISCO: Having difficulty managing the company only accepted and trained 1 per- in the coming months. chronic disease? Now there’s an app for that. cent of people who applied to be a coach, who Vida is also developing a database of clinical Vida, a new startup founded by Google Inc’s for- are paid on an hourly basis. trials and disease prevention programs for users. mer commerce chief, aims to help patients get Doctors and other caregivers can request Those include Dr. Mark Hyman’s The Blood Sugar healthy, reduce stress levels and lose weight access to the app to monitor progress over time. Soluton, a treatment program for diabetics and through online “health coaches.” Tilenius has made previous forays into health- those at risk of contracting the disease. Many mobile health apps focus on fitness. care. She co-founded an online pharmacy start- The startup is now partnering with major U.S. Vida, started by Stephanie Tilenius, a former up called PlanetRx in the 1990s but did not hospitals, like the MD Anderson Cancer Center Google and eBay executive, claims to help tackle return to the health sector until recently. The and Duke University Hospital, which are using chronic diseases, which account for more than “timing is right,” she said. the app to deliver remote care to chronically ill three-quarters of US health-care spending, Apple Inc, Google Inc and other Silicon Valley patients. She said the company is testing its according to the Centers for Disease Control and tech giants are currently exploring opportunities product with employers, but declined to provide Prevention. in the relatively untapped field of healthcare. details as those pilots are ongoing. “A lot of dif- “People don’t know how to manage these Capital funding for digital health systems in ferent vendors have been trying to solve this conditions,” Tilenius said in an interview with the first half of 2014 reached $2.3 billion, more problem, but Vida can drive behavior change,” Reuters. Tilenius said she started the company than the total for all of the previous year, accord- said Jennifer Fonstad of Aspect Ventures, an ear- after witnessing her father struggling with his ing to a study by Rock Health, which provides ly investor in the startup. Fonstad said employ- health, while existing coaching tools were too startups in the sector with funding and support. ers are “highly motivated” to adopt tools that expensive, she added. Vida, which is available on Apple’s iOS 8 oper- can help workers stay healthy and productive. For $15 a week, patients can ask questions, ating system, is integrated with the iPhone mak- Vida recently raised $5 million in startup funding and receive medication reminders and health er’s HealthKit service, so it can pull in patient- from venture firms including Khosla Ventures, advice from Vida’s team of coaches including generated data from a variety of wearables and Aspect Ventures and Signia Venture Partners, as SEOUL: A man uses his mobile phone near a banner advertising LG Electronics’ G3 nurses, medical assistants, nutritionists and doc- mobile medical devices, such as glucometers. An well as individuals like Yahoo co-founder Jerry smartphone in front of a mobile phone shop in Seoul. — AP tors. To ensure high-quality care, Tilenius said app for Google Android phones will be released Yang. — Reuters

EMC redefines Hybrid YouTube explores Cloud for the Enterprise paid, ad-free DUBAI: EMC Corporation EMC Professional Services (NYSE:EMC) announced immediate • Access to a full service catalog of video service availability of its EMC Enterprise automated data services Hybrid Cloud Solution that inte- • Integration with public cloud SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube, the popular online grates hardware, software and serv- services built on VMware vCloud video service owned by Google Inc, is planning to ices from EMC and VMware to unite Air, Microsoft Azure, AWS and oth- offer a paid, ad-free version, the head of the site the strengths of private and public er EMC-powered cloud service cloud. providers said. The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud • EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud The move would represent a significant change Solution enables IT-as-a-service Solution can be built on VCE for the world’s No. 1 online video website, whose (ITaaS) in as little as 28 days. Vblock Systems and VSPEX for free videos, often accompanied by short commer- Organizations no longer will have to accelerated deployment cials, attract more than 1 billion users a month. make tradeoffs between the speed • EMC’s gold standard level of “There are going to be cases where people are and agility of public cloud services Customer Service to provide going to say ‘I don’t want to see the ads or I want and the control and security of pri- world-class support to have a different kind of experience’,” Susan vate cloud infrastructure. EMC has invested thousands of Wojcicki, a Google senior vice president who As IT organizations race to keep engineering hours to build an heads the YouTube business, said at the pace with the demands of the mod- Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution Code/Mobile technology conference in Half Moon ern and rapidly changing business, that accelerates the customer’s time Bay, California late on Monday. Wojcicki, who they need to leverage both private to value. Key engineering aspects became the head of YouTube in February after cloud because it is trusted, con- include: several years overseeing Google’s multibillion-dol- trolled and reliable, and public cloud In 2015, EMC plans to offer the lar advertising business, said a paid video service because it’s simple, low cost and EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud flexible. Solution built with either Microsoft was “near-term” but provided few details, includ- The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud or OpenStack technology. EMC’s ing how much a subscription would cost. Solution enables customers to solution for the Microsoft Cloud In May 2013, YouTube launched a pilot program deploy a hybrid cloud that incorpo- Platform will be designed to enable that allowed individual content creators to charge rates the best of both public and pri- customers to easily integrate their consumers a subscription fee to access a particular vate clouds. on-premises EMC storage solutions “channel” of videos. Wojcicki on Monday described The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and Windows Server Hyper-V infra- a broader subscription service in which consumers Solution is designed to be simple, structure with Microsoft Azure, in would pay to access an ad-free version of automated and on-demand and fea- order to flexibly deploy and manage YouTube’s vast collection of videos. tures a number of valuable benefits applications and workloads across “We’re early in that process. But if you look at BUDAPEST: Demonstrators light up their mobile phones as they march through Elizabeth Bridge across River Danube, during a protest against an internet tax planned to be intro- including: hybrid environments. EMC also media over time, most of them have both ads and duced by the Hungarian government. — AP • Solution designed to be imple- unveiled new Professional Services subscription,” he said. — Reuters mented in 28 days or less with to remove cloud complexity. Thousands in Hungary Startup tries to ‘Poynt’ march against Internet tax

BUDAPEST: Tens of thousands of protesters groups or even Fidesz lawmakers, gave sev- stores in new direction marched Tuesday against a plan by the eral explanations for the measure - it was Hungarian government to tax Internet use meant to complement a tax on telephone SAN FRANCISCO: A Silicon Valley startup is hoping an upcoming transi- will also be accommodate customers still carrying around cards with from 2015. calls, as people were increasingly using the tion to smarter credit and debit cards will persuade millions of US mer- magnetic stripes. The rally, the second in three days object- Internet to make calls; it would take a bite chants to buy savvier payment terminals for their stores, too. The terminal features a 7-inch screen that resembles a tablet comput- ing to the scheme, was also a sign of growing out of the telecommunications companies’ That’s the point of Poynt, a versatile terminal built to take advantage er on one side for merchants to ring up sales and a wallet-sized, 4-inch discontent among mostly younger citizens allegedly large profits; and the new revenues of rules requiring stores to be equipped to handle payment cards with screen on the other side for customers to navigate. Poynt’s Android soft- against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s policies would help improve Internet access in rural computer chips by October 2015 to avoid financial liability for fraudulent ware is also set up to get regular updates and install apps for customer centralizing power and increasing the role of areas. transactions. The chip-based cards are considered to be more secure loyalty programs, accounting and customer management. Poynt is being than the ones with magnetic stripes that have been the US standard for backed by investments from Matrix Partners, Google’s venture capital the state to the detriment of private enter- Ryan Heath, spokesman for EU Digital decades. arm and Webb Investment Network, a fund created by former eBay exec- prise. Commissioner Neelie Kroes, said the plan US merchants are expected to spend $6.75 billion replacing their pay- utive and current Visa Inc. board member Maynard Webb. The amount of Speakers outside the Economy Ministry was “bad in principle” and could hinder eco- ment terminals to comply with the chip-based requirements, based on their Poynt investment isn’t being disclosed. — AP called on Orban to withdraw the plan to nomic growth. estimates by financial consulting firm Javelin Strategy & Research. Many force Internet service providers to pay 700 “Hungary is below the EU average in virtu- of the replacement terminals are already being made by long-time forints ($2.89, 2.27 euros) per individual sub- ally every single digital indicator and the dig- industry leaders such as VeriFone Systems Inc. and First Data Corp. The shift is also expected to spur more innovation from opportunistic scriber and 5,000 forints per business sub- ital part of the economy is probably the main newcomers such as Poynt, the Palo Alto, California, startup behind the scriber every month. There are concerns that thing keeping Europe out of recession right new terminal with the same name. Although Poynt’s terminal won’t be the tax will not be absorbed by the service now,” Heath told reporters in Brussels. “So available until early next year, Wednesday marked the first day that mer- providers, as the government claims. taxing that ... is a particularly bad idea.” chants could pre-order the $299 machine. “The ideal amount of the Internet tax is The EU Commission also fears Hungary’s “We are going to be a category changer, not just another payment- not 700 or 5,000 forints but exactly zero,” plan would be copied by others. “If Hungary terminal company,” pledged Poynt CEO Osama Bedier, who played a pio- Internet entrepreneur Zsolt Varady told the becomes a precedent in this instance, it can neering role in digital payments at eBay Inc.’s PayPal. He defected from PayPal over eBay’s protests to join Google Inc., where he helped create crowd, which was estimated by local media become a problem in a lot of other member the Google Wallet payment service in 2011. Wallet still hasn’t proven to at between 35,000 and 40,000 people and states and can be a problem for Europe’s be as revolutionary as Google envisioned. chanted a slew of anti-government slogans. wider economic growth,” Heath said. Poynt is concentrating its initial marketing efforts on neighborhood Initially, the tax was set to be 150 forints Protesters vowed to continue the rallies, merchants with annual sales ranging from $50,000 to $1 million. To per gigabyte of Internet traffic, but Fidesz which were also held in several other SAN FRANCISCO: This product image provided by Poynt shows broaden the terminal’s appeal, Poynt payment-processing extends said it would set a cap on the levy. The gov- Hungarian cities and at some Hungarian beyond chip-based cards. the new Poynt ‘smart’ payment terminal. Poynt is hoping an Poynt can also process sales through the wireless chip technology upcoming transition to smarter credit and debit cards will per- ernment, which announced the proposal last embassies in EU countries, until the govern- powering systems such as Apple Pay and Google Wallet on smartphones, suade millions of US merchants to buy savvier payment terminals week before any consultations with industry ment withdraws the tax plan. — AP as well as payments made through Bluetooth signals or a QR reader. It for their stores, too. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Ebola puts Ghana’s bush meat traders out of work

ACCRA: Yaa Kyerewaa cuts a lonely figure flying around. No one wants to buy our prod- from eating cooked bush meat, according to primates, and small antelopes called duikers, At her stall the parts of the great cane rat - beside a pile of animal parts: the jaws of a ucts now. It is sad.” the US Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Agriculture Organization warns. smoked and salted for preservation - fetch as giant rodent, the hooves of wild pigs, snails. Many restaurants in Ghana’s capital no Prevention. Hunting animals that are sick or behaving much as $30. That’s out of reach for many in This bush meat was once considered a delica- longer serve bush meat, of which a large strangely, or collecting dead animals for sale, Ghana, where many live on less than $2 a day. cy and fetched premium prices. But Ebola has rodent known as a “grasscutter” was the most Periodic outbreaks is risky, the UN agency says. Despite the dan- Rebecca Ackwonu, a Ghana Health Service frightened away customers and Kyerewaa popular offering. Hunters trap them in the Ebola first appeared in 1976 in Congo and gers, bush meat is a source of protein for Commission official, said it’s hard to enforce hasn’t sold anything in days. Accra’s busy wild or rear them at home for their meat, has caused periodic outbreaks there and in many West Africans, and for some it is a spe- any kind of bush meat ban in a country where Agbogbloshie market used to have several which is said to taste like chicken. other African countries. This is West Africa’s cial treat. The soup of a roasted fruit bat, for many people grew up on it. bush meat vendors but now she is the only Health experts believe the initial cases in first outbreak - and the most deadly ever - and example, is highly sought after. “We have advised our people to suspend one. The 53-year-old says her earnings from many Ebola outbreaks start from people eat- the World Health Organization warns it could Kyerewaa said she once had clients from eating bush meat in the meantime because of bush meat keep her four children in school ing or handling Ebola-infected animals. Then get worse before the situation improves. More all walks of life. That has changed with Ebola the risks,” she said.Some have heeded the call. and she laments the sudden loss of business they spread it to other people through con- than 4,500 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra sweeping through West Africa and health offi- Theodor Semi, who operates a popular down- as public health officials warn that bush meat tact with bodily fluids. Fruit bats, as well as Leone and Liberia, have died. cials stepping up campaigns to educate the town restaurant called Semi’s Place, said he may be contaminated with the dreaded Ebola primates such as chimpanzees, are frequently While stemming human-to-human trans- public about how to avoid catching it. “I am won’t serve bush meat until all of West Africa virus. cited as potential reservoirs of the Ebola virus mission is the main focus for governments the only surviving bush meat seller in this is declared free of Ebola. “Bush meat is healthy. I usually eat it as a - animals many Africans hunt for their meat. and international health agencies, African market,” said Kyerewaa, who said she has “It has affected business, of course,” he special food on Sundays,” she said. “We have Human infections in Africa have been communities that hunt wild animals for their been a bush meat trader for years. “I can’t stop said. “It has become slow because most been consuming for years only for it to be linked to hunting, butchering and processing meat “risk future spill over from species that coming because I have to look for ways to Ghanaians like bush meat, especially made unpopular by these needless rumors meat from infected animals, although none can carry the virus,” including fruit bats, some support myself and my family.” grasscutter.” —AP Supply rocket headed to space station explodes Residents warned not to touch any debris

ATLANTIC: The owners of a com- tion currently have enough sup- more than $200 million, not count- seconds when what was left of the mercial supply ship that exploded plies to last until spring. ing repair costs. The explosion hit rocket came crashing down, moments after liftoff promised to The accident could draw scruti- Orbital Science’s stock, which fell Culbertson said. He said he find the cause of the failed delivery ny to the space agency’s growing more than 15 percent in after- believes the range -safety staff sent mission to the International Space reliance on private US companies hours trading. a destruct signal before it hit the Station and warned residents to in the post-shuttle era. NASA is By coincidence, the Russian ground, but was not certain at this not touch any debris they might paying billions of dollars to Space Agency was proceeding point. stumble across from the craft, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences and with its own supply run This was the second launch which was carrying hazardous the California-based SpaceX com- Wednesday, planned well before attempt for the mission. Monday materials. pany to make station deliveries, the US mishap. John Logdson, for- evening’s try was thwarted by a Crews planned to hit the and it’s counting on SpaceX and mer space policy director at stray sailboat in the rocket’s danger ground at daybreak yesterday to Boeing to start flying US astronauts George Washington University, zone. The restrictions are in case of search for pieces of Orbital to the orbiting lab as early as 2017. said the explosion was unlikely to just such an accident that occurred Tuesday.

Back on track NEW YORK: Charles Cooper of the African Advisory Council of The Bronx, Culbertson said the top priority speaks as Amadou Drame, 11, second from left, with his father, Ousmane will be repairing the launch pad “as Drame, and brother Pape Drame, 13, right, listen to him respond to ques- quickly and safely as possible.” “We tions during a news interview Tuesday, in New York. —AP will not fly until we understand the root cause,” he said, adding that it was too early to guess how long it Connecticut family sues might take to make the rocket repairs and fix the launch pad. It will take a few weeks, alone, to over school’s Ebola fears assess the damage and extent of potential repairs. HARTFORD: The father of a Connecticut There have been no diagnosed cases of Culbertson also stressed that it third-grader filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday Ebola in Nigeria since Aug. 31, according to was too soon to know whether the saying his daughter has been unfairly barred the lawsuit. The lawsuit is seeking damages Russian-built engines, modified for from school amid fears she may have been under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Antares and extensively tested, exposed to the Ebola virus while in Africa. asserting that Ikeoluwa is being discriminat- were to blame. “We will understand Ikeoluwa Opayemi and her family, who ed against because of a “perceived impair- what happened - hopefully soon - live in Milford, visited Nigeria for a family ment.” and we’ll get things back on track,” wedding from Oct. 2-13, according to the “Based on the best available objective Culbertson assured his devastated lawsuit filed in US District Court in New and medical evidence, Ikeoluwa Opayemi team. “We’ve all seen this happen in Haven. When the girl tried to return to the did not have Ebola, had not experienced any our business before, and we’ve all Meadowside Elementary School, she was symptoms associated with Ebola, and, seen the teams recover from this, told by Dr. Dennis McBride, the school dis- according to an examination by her pediatri- and we will do the same.” trict’s health director, that she would have to cian, her health is fine and there is no reason The Wallops facility is small com- stay home until Nov. 3 “due to concern from why she should not be permitted to go to pared to NASA’s major centers like certain parents and teachers that she could school,” attorney Gary Phelan wrote in the those in Florida, Texas and transmit Ebola to other children,” according lawsuit. California, but vaulted into the pub- to the lawsuit. The virus has a three-week Ikeoluwa’s father, Stephen Opayemi, vol- lic spotlight in September 2013 incubation period. unteered to have the family screened for WALLOPS ISLAND: People who came to watch the launch walk away after an unmanned rocket with a NASA moonshot and the first Messages seeking comment were left Ebola, or have the school nurse monitor her owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded (background) yesterday just seconds after lift- Cygnus launch to the space station. Tuesday for McBride and School temperature. He said he was instead told by off from Wallops Island, Virginia, on what was to be a resupply mission to the International Michelle Murphy, an innkeeper Superintendent Elizabeth Feser. Andrew Feser during a meeting with school officials Space Station. —AFP at the Garden and Sea Inn, New Doba, a spokesman for Gov. Dannel P. that if Ikeoluwa tried to go to Meadowside Church, Virginia, where launches Malloy, said the decision did not come from Elementary on Oct. 20, she would order her Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket and It was the fourth Cygnus bound for be a major setback to NASA’s com- are visible across a bay about 16 the state’s health commissioner, who has to be removed from the school by the Cygnus cargo module, which blew the orbiting lab; the first flew just mercial space plans. But he noted it miles away, saw the explosion. been given the power to quarantine anyone police. “Dr. McBride stated that although the up Tuesday night just moments over a year ago. SpaceX is sched- could derail Orbital Sciences for a “It was scary. Everything rattled,” she feels may pose an Ebola risk. risk of infection with Ikeoluwa might be after lifting off from NASA’s launch uled to launch another Dragon while given the company has just she said. “There were two explo- “This was a decision by the town’s public minor, the primary reason for his decision complex at Wallops Island, Virginia, supply ship from Cape Canaveral, one launch pad and the accident sions. The first one we were ready health official,” he said. “The state did not that she be quarantined at home for 21 days said Bill Wrobel, director of the Florida, in December. occurred right above it. for. The second one we weren’t. It play a role in making this determination, was due to the rumors, panic and climate at facility. At a news conference Tuesday shook the inn, like an earthquake. It and this family is not under any quarantine Meadowside Elementary School,” according The cargo ship was carrying Near-flawless night, Culbertson and others said was extremely intense.” orders.” The family did not travel to any of to the lawsuit. 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of Until Tuesday, all of the supply everyone at the launch site had Among the instruments that the three West African nations associated Stephen Opayemi is seeking an order experiments and equipment for missions by Orbital Sciences and been accounted for and the dam- were lost from the cargo module: a with the current Ebola outbreak - Guinea, allowing his daughter to return to school NASA, as well as prepackaged SpaceX had been near-flawless. age appeared to be limited to the meteor tracker and 32 mini Sierra Leone or Liberia. and unspecified monetary damages. —AP meals and freeze-dried Maryland President Barack Obama has long facilities. research satellites, along with crabcakes for a Baltimore-born championed this commercial space He noted that the cargo module numerous experiments compiled astronaut who’s been in orbit for effort. He was in Wisconsin for a was carrying hazardous materials by schoolchildren. The two five months. All of the lost materi- campaign rally and was kept and warned residents to avoid any Americans, three Russians and one North Dakota court bans als will be replaced and flown to informed. contact with debris. “Certainly German on the orbiting space sta- the 260-mile (418-kilometer)-high Orbital Sciences’ executive vice don’t go souvenir hunting along tion were watching a live video space station, NASA space station president Frank Culbertson said the beach,” he said. Things began feed from Mission Control and saw use of drug in abortions program manager Mike Suffredini the company carried insurance on to go wrong 10 to 12 seconds into the whole thing unfold, Suffredini BISMARCK: The North Dakota whether the case would be elevated said. He said astronauts at the sta- the mission, which he valued at the flight and it was all over in 20 said. —AP Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a to federal court. North Dakota state law that limits the use of drugs Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem Nurse: I’m prepared to fight Maine quarantine to perform abortions, a move abor- applauded Tuesday’s ruling. tion-rights supporters say will end Stenehjem said the state would wait the use of medications to perform the to see what action, if any, the clinic FORT KENT: A nurse who was confined against York Gov. Andrew Cuomo were sharply criti- when I am not a risk to the American public,” procedure. and its attorneys would take. her will at a New Jersey hospital after returning cized for ordering mandatory quarantines. she said. The state’s high court, in a 103- Medication abortions at the Red from West Africa where she treated Ebola “I am not going to sit around and be bullied On Tuesday, Department of Health and page ruling, reversed a ruling by a River Women’s Clinic involve the use of patients said yesterday that she’s prepared to by politicians and forced to stay in my home Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew district judge last year that found a combination of two drugs, mifepris- go to court if the state of Maine tries to quaran- said her department and the attorney general’s the 2011 law violates the state con- tone and misoprostol. tine her. office were prepared to take legal steps to stitution. The Federal Food and Drug Kaci Hickox spoke to NBC’s “Today” show and legally enforce the state’s voluntary quarantine ABC’s “Good Morning America” from Fort Kent, if someone declines to cooperate. “Beginning tomorrow morning, Administration has approved the mar- where her boyfriend is a senior nursing student. “We do not want to have to legally enforce there will not be any medication keting of mifepristone - commonly She said she has so far abided by the state’s vol- in-home quarantine,” she said. “We’re confident abortions in North Dakota,” said David known as RU-486- as a drug for end- untary quarantine. She had no contact with that selfless health workers who were brave Brown, an attorney for the Center for ing pregnancies. It is used in combina- anyone Tuesday and will have no human con- enough to care for Ebola patients in a foreign Reproductive Rights, which is helping tion with misoprostol, a treatment for tact again, she said. country will be willing to take reasonable steps North Dakotaa’s sole abortion clinic in stomach ulcers that is not labeled as “I don’t plan on sticking to the guidelines,” to protect residents of their own country.” Fargo with its legal challenges. an abortion-inducing drug. Hickox said on “Today.” “I remain appalled by One of Hickox’s lawyers, Norman Siegel, said At least four justices on the five- The North Dakota law maintains these home quarantine policies that have been the quarantine can’t be voluntary if she’s being member state Supreme Court must that the use of any drug to cause an forced upon me even though I am in perfectly coerced by the state. He said she returned agree to find a North Dakota law abortion must meet “the protocol good health.” Tuesday evening to Fort Kent and has a state unconstitutional. Two - Chief Justice tested and authorized” by the FDA Her lawyer told The Associated Press yester- trooper stationed outside her home. Gerald VandeWalle and Justice Dale and outlined on the drug’s label, day that Hickox isn’t willing to cooperate fur- Maine Gov. Paul LePage canceled his cam- Sandstrom - found the law was within meaning misoprostol can’t be used. ther unless the state lifts “all or most of the paign events Wednesday to deal with the situa- the bounds of the state constitution. Red River Clinic director Tammi restrictions.” tion, his office said. Siegel said he remains VandeWalle also said the law was Kromenaker has told The Associated Hickox, who volunteered in Africa with hopeful the state will ease its restrictions. If not, constitutional under the US Press that about 20 percent of the Doctors Without Borders, was the first person NEW JERSEY: This undated image provid- then the state would have to go to court, and forced into New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine Siegel would challenge the state’s action, he Constitution. 1,300 abortions it performs annually ed by University of Texas at Arlington “The effect of the separate opin- are done with drugs and not surgi- for people arriving at Newark Liberty shows Kaci Hickox. In a telephone inter- said. “Our position is very simple. There’s no justi- ions in this case is that (the law) is not cally. International Airport from three West African view with CNN, Hickox, the nurse quar- countries. fication for the state of Maine to quarantine her. declared unconstitutional by a suffi- Attorneys for the clinic have said antined at a New Jersey hospital because Hickox, who spent the weekend in a quaran- She has no symptoms and therefore she’s not cient majority,” the ruling said. that abortion drugs used by the clinic tine tent, said she never had Ebola symptoms she had contact with Ebola patients in contagious. And she’s not at a risk to the public Brown said he was still mulling are widely accepted by the medical and tested negative in a preliminary evaluation, West Africa, said the process of keeping or the health and welfare of people in the state the opinion and did not know community. —AP and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New her isolated is “inhumane.” —AP of Maine,” he said. —AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Giant tortoises rally from near extinction on Galapagos island

WASHINGTON: Conservationists said yesterday they west of Ecuador, the Galapagos archipelago is home “They collected them live, stacked them in their comes in sharp contrast to the closely related tortoise have brought giant tortoises found on the Galapagos to an array of unusual creatures that helped inspire holds, and had fresh meat on their long voyages. found on the Galapagos island of Pinta. In 2012, a island of Espanola back from the brink of extinction, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selec- Tortoises can live up to a year without food or water, male dubbed Lonesome George died in captivity as gaining a foothold strong enough to allow humans tion following his 1835 visit. so a natural source of fresh meat,” she said. conservationists tried in vain to find a way to breed to leave the reptiles alone. EspaÒola giant Galapagos tortoises, their scientif- Gibbs said the tortoises had been given up as him. He was the last of his subspecies. Numbering just 15 some five decades ago, the ic name is Chelonoidis hoodensis, measure 3 feet (1 extinct by the time the islands were protected as a Even though the human threat was eliminated by tortoises, which can live as long as two centuries, meter) long with a saddle-backed shell. national park in 1959. In the 1960s, only 14 tortoises protecting the Espanola tortoise, the reptile still now number about 1,000 and can sustain them- They live up to 150 or 200 years, eating grasses were found on Espanola, 12 females and two males. faced a formidable foe in goats that inhabited the selves, according to a study published in the scientif- and leaves during the wet season and cactus during They were all taken into captivity and a third male island for 90 years before being removed in the ic journal PLOS ONE. the dry season on an arid, low, rocky island measur- was found in the San Diego Zoo. From those 15 tor- 1970s. “We saved a species from the brink of extinction ing only 23 square miles (60 square km). Gibbs said toises, the population was rebuilt through a breeding Introduced to the island by humans, the goats and now can step back out of the process. The tor- the population numbered perhaps 5,000 to 10,000 program in captivity before they were reintroduced mowed down just about everything in their path, toises can care for themselves,” said James Gibbs, a tortoises before the arrival of people. to the island. including most of the cactuses the tortoises thrive vertebrate conservation biology professor at the “The tortoises were hunted by buccaneers, “Nobody knew how to breed tortoises in captivity on. State University of New York (SUNY) College of whalers and other sea goers throughout the 18th and the best zoos around the world had failed. The Unlike the grassy place it once was, the island now Environmental Science and Forestry who led the and 19th centuries,” added Linda Cayot, a herpetolo- Galapagos National Park figured it out and actually is covered with woody vegetation unsuited for tor- study. gist who is science advisor to the Galapagos became exceedingly effective at it,” Gibbs said. toises. Gibbs said it could take hundreds of years for Located in the Pacific about 600 miles (1,000 km) Conservancy group. The success story of the Espanola subspecies cactuses to reach previous levels. —Reuters Experts sound alarm as diabetes fuels cases of TB China, India have most cases of both diseases

LONDON: Cases of tuberculosis are set accelerate A joint report from Harries’ and Kapur’s groups ble diseases, like TB. worldwide unless action is taken to curb diabetes, presented at an international lung conference in Fighting the threat will need a clear strategy a chronic condition that weakens the immune sys- Barcelona sets out the case for international of screening both diabetes patients for TB and tem and triples the risk a person will develop the action against the looming co-epidemic. TB patients for diabetes, as well as providing lung disease, health experts warned yesterday. The report challenges the conventional treatments for both diseases, the report says. Tuberculosis (TB), which killed an estimated 1.5 approach of tackling independently infectious Such “bi-directional” screening is at present million people last year according to the World diseases, like TB, and chronic non-communica- patchy. —Reuters Health Organization (WHO), is caused by bacteria that lie dormant in many people. However, diabetics TB become sick from latent TB infection far more often than other people Can you drink too much because their immune systems are compromised- a fact that could unleash an epidemic of co-infec- milk? Study raises questions tion as diabetes rates soar along with growing obesity. PARIS: Drink lots of milk to strengthen your sumers. There was no difference in fracture rates. It is not the first time that the world has been bones and boost your health, doctors say. But a “The higher risk of mortality was evident with confronted with such co-infection. The HIV/AIDS study in The BMJ medical journal yesterday said all types of milk: full-fat, half-fat and skimmed pandemic, which destroyed the immune systems Swedes with a high intake of cow’s milk died milk,” Michaelsson added-and started from a dai- of millions, lead to a quadrupling of TB rates in younger-and women suffered more fractures. ly intake of about two glasses of milk. many countries in Africa. The findings may warrant questions about At a lower consumption of half a glass to one Now doctors fear a re-run of that scenario as recommendations for milk consumption, glass per day, “there was a tendency of slightly diabetes takes hold around the world, including in although further research is needed, its authors reduced hip fracture risk” compared to zero MIAMI: Dr Don Harris holds a 15-pound male African spurred tortoise named many poorer countries. said, as the association may be purely coinciden- intake, but the same was not true for mortality Lola who had swallowed a turtle pendant, being cared for at the Avian & The big worry is that six of the top 10 countries tal. A Swedish team used data taken from 61,000 risk. The team found that fermented milk prod- Exotic Animal Medical Center in Miami. Lola’s owner told Harris she didn’t rec- projected to have the greatest numbers of diabet- women aged 39-74 and monitored for about 20 ucts like cheese or yoghurt were associated with ognize the pendant, but Harris said tortoises graze like cattle. They eat grass, ics by 2035 — China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, years, and more than 45,000 men aged 45-79 fol- lower mortality and fracture rates, particularly in plants and other vegetation, sometimes consuming rocks and other objects Pakistan, and Russia-are classified as high TB bur- lowed for 11 years. The volunteers gave details women. One reason, the authors speculated, is as well. —AP Photos den countries by the WHO. about diet and lifestyle, body weight, smoking that milk, but not cheese, is high in D-galactose, Anthony Harries of the International Union habits, exercise frequency, education level and a type of sugar that in animal studies was shown Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease told marital status. By the end of this long study peri- to hasten ageing and shorten lifespan. X-ray shows sick tortoise Reuters he was most concerned about India and od, 25,500 of the group had died and 22,000 had China, since India has the world’s highest TB rate, suffered a fracture. Caution swallowed turtle pendant followed by China, while for diabetes China has Higher milk intake was not accompanied by a The researchers said it was impossible to the most cases, followed by India. lower risk of fractures but “may be associated draw any conclusions or make recommenda- MIAMI: The source of a sick tortoise’s dis- “We want to raise an alarm that we don’t watch with a higher rate of death”, the study said. tions on milk consumption until further work is history repeat itself with TB-diabetes,” he said. comfort became clear after a south Among the women, 180 per 1,000 in the carried out. Diabetes affected 382 million people in 2013 and The results may not apply to people of other Florida veterinarian took an X-ray: The group which drank three glasses of milk or more will increase to a projected 592 million by 2035, a day died during a 10-year period, compared to ethnic origins with different levels of lactose tol- animal had swallowed a turtle pendant. according to the International Diabetes the group average, independent of milk con- erance, they said. Milk also has different nutrient Dr. Don Harris said the 15-pound male Federation. sumption, of 126 per 1,000. levels that depend on factors like food fortifica- African spurred tortoise named Lola had- Among those who drank a glass or less per tion and cow diet. And the results could be n’t pooped for a month and began acting Obesity day, the rate was 110 per 1,000, co-author Karl skewed by a phenomenon called “reverse causa- Most of the cases will be of Type 2 diabetes, the Michaelsson of Uppsala University told AFP. The tion” osteoporosis sufferers at high risk of a bone sick over the weekend. Lola’s owner kind that is linked to obesity and is driven by the brought him to the Avian & Exotic Animal figures for hip fracture was 42 out of 1,000 break increase their milk intake, which then gets adoption of Western diets and more sedentary women who drank a lot of milk, 35 per 1,000 on blamed when they suffer a fracture. Medical Center in Miami, which Harris co- lifestyles. average, and 31 per 1,000 of women who drank In a comment, Mary Schooling of the City owns. “If we don’t act now to head this off, we’re the least milk. University of New York School of Public Health After an X-ray, Harris spotted the small, going to experience a co-epidemic of TB-diabetes “Women who consumed three glasses or said “the role of milk in mortality needs to be turtle-shaped object inside his patient. that will impact millions and sap public health sys- more per day had a 90 percent higher risk of established definitively now” as consumption tems of precious resources. The key is to prevent Lola’s owner told Harris she didn’t recog- death, 60 percent higher risk of hip fracture and would rise with economic development. this from happening,” Anil Kapur of the World nize the pendant, but Harris said tortoises 15 percent higher risk of any fracture compared Other experts noted shortcomings in the Diabetes Foundation said. to those who drank less than a glass,” said study, including that milk consumption was self- graze like cattle. They eat grass, plants MIAMI: Photo provided by Dr Don Harris While diabetes is not as great a co-infection Michaelsson. reported, often a flaw in dietary research. and other vegetation, sometimes con- of the Avian & Exotic Animal Medical threat as HIV, the virus that causes AIDS raises For men, the difference in death rate was less Nor did the authors define the type of physi- the risk of TB by thirty fold, there are about 10 suming rocks and other objects as well. Center in Miami shows an X-ray of a 15- pronounced: 207 per 1,000 among the three- cal activity the men and women did-whether it Harris is keeping Lola at his clinic, trying times as many cases of diabetes in the world as glasses-a-day group over 10 years, 189 per 1,000 was weight-bearing and therefore bone- pound male African spurred tortoise people living with HIV, so the overall impact is to get the pendant to pass. If that fails, on average, and 182 per 1,000 among low con- strengthening, or not. —AFP named Lola who had swallowed a turtle similar. surgery may follow. —AP pendant. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

TSC holds Employee Open Day

he Sultan Center (TSC) held an Employee Open Day for to the company. This event enables all employees to come and service which has made us today a leading organization”. its staff as part of its ongoing social activity program for together and enjoy a day out away from the office to socialize Adding: “We, at TSC, take pride in our working environment Tassociates; TSC Together. The event held at relax and reinforce friendships. The open day was filled with which is marked with the high teamwork spirit, trust, integrity, Entertainment City, was attended by company employees, contests, games and a raffle draw in which fabulous prizes commitment, innovation and collaboration. All of these fac- families, friends and TSC management; where all experienced could be won from electronics and sports gear to household tors have made us the institution everyone is aiming to join. an unforgettable day of entertainment and relaxation. This appliances. Staff were delighted to join in the celebration. We are delighted that our associated and families were able to TSC’s initiative stems from its commitment to motivate its According to Antoinette Sullivan, Human Resource Director, attend this event and share a day out while enjoying a variety workforce by acknowledging their hard work and dedication “We would like to thank all the associates for their support of activities”.

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Costa Coffee offers camel milk to guests for new Miral flagship opening

osta Coffee celebrated the opening of its new color palette, materials focused dÈcor, and a healthy alternative to traditional cow’s milk. This new flagship store under Alghanim spectacular sea view. The store is a large depar- event marks the camel milk concepts first ever CIndustries on Tuesday the 28th of October ture from the previous aesthetics of Costa Coffee tasting preview in Kuwait. For a trial period Costa at the new Miral Mall Complex in Mangaf. Senior outlets and is indicative of managements’ inten- Coffee Miral Mall will be offering camel milk as executives from Alghanim Industries and Sheikh tion to revamp and grow the business in Kuwait. option for drinks through the end of October. Talal Al Ali Al Sabah the mall owner were in atten- To mark the occasion Costa Coffee offered Costa Coffee currently operates in 36 loca- dance amongst other VIP clientele and loyal cus- guests a chance to try something a little different tions across Kuwait, including recent openings at tomers. in store; a taste of camel milk in their Costa the Sahara Resort Golf Club, Kuwait International The large 200M2 store is designed in Costa Coffee favorites. The Costa Camel Milk Coolers Airport, and kiosk rollouts within The Sultan Coffee’s new Metropolitan style showcasing a were launched in the UAE market last year as a Centers in Kuwait.

Multitalented and multicultural: The many skills of employees working at Movenpick Hotels & Resorts

or Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, nur- Equally enticing and worthy of an exhibi- turing the special skills and talents of tion, are the edible art sculptures that Ajith Fits employees is a crucial part of Perera creates at Movenpick Resort & human resource management. Not only Residences Aqaba, in Jordan. The award- does this result in fulfilled employees that winning Sri Lankan kitchen artist carves are passionate, it also creates a happier flowers from vegetables and fruits, makes workplace. From singing and dancing, to ice statues and transforms chocolate into carving and cooking, the habit of nurtur- shapes that amaze guests at the resort. ing employee talents in the company’s Zemri Dauti likes to talk, but not only in his Middle East properties, has resulted in a native Macedonian mother tongue. The few interesting stories. At Movenpick chief concierge of Movenpick Tower & Suites Resort & Spa Tala Bay in Jordan, there’s Doha in Qatar can read, write and speak in some musical entertainment while guests 11 languages, the others being English, are being served, courtesy of the ‘Singing Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, Albanian, Waiters’. Filipinos Alfredo Matias, Irenio Norwegian, Croatian, Slovenian and Dela Cruz, Jocelyn Catubig and Dindo Swedish. He started learning these lan- Olayvar are entertaining guests twice- guages in 1997 when he wanted to become weekly at Najel and Casalingo restaurants, an official government translator. by performing Bop and Bossa Nova songs, A vision to make sure that guests at the often inviting guests to join in the fun. pools of Movenpick Resort & Spa Tala Bay Elsewhere at Movenpick Beach Resort Al could be served as quickly as possible, Khobar in Saudi Arabia, Rem Bahadur and resulted in the ‘roller-skating waiters’ - who Suraj Manandar from Nepal, sing in four happen to have a lot of fun while working. languages to the sound of piano and gui- Kenyans Eric Nganga, Peter Mwirigi and tar. ‘The Singing Duo’ is a hit at many of the Steve Oduor have turned their passion into resort’s special events. a workable profession, ensuring speedy Orange trees flourish in the gardens of service and some interesting photo oppor- Movenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea in Jordan, tunities for guests along the way. A success- which is where Executive Chef Jihad Omar ful global brand that has been present in the likes to go for a stroll. After picking some of Middle East for over 20 years, Movenpick the ripest, sweetest oranges, he then pre- Hotels & Resorts is committed to delivering pares a home-made orange marmalade a personalised, relaxed and enjoyable guest which is served to guests for breakfast. experience. TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

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(C 4792) 1889988 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:15 28-10-2014 112 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:25 IZG 4161 Mashhad 11:10 RBG 554 Alexandria 11:55 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:15 KAC 501 Beirut 12:00 MSC 405 Sohag 11:25 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 Kuwait JZR 165 Dubai 11:30 IZG 4162 Mashhad 12:10 JZR 561 Sohag 11:45 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:20 KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO TBZ 5483 Mashhad 11:50 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:25 MEA 404 Beirut 11:55 TBZ 5484 Mashhad 12:50 WEDNESDAY (30/10/2014 TO 05/11/2014) SYR 341 Damascus 12:00 MEA 405 Beirut 12:55 UAE 871 Dubai 12:50 SYR 342 Damascus 13:00 JZR 241 Amman 12:55 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 QTR 8646 Doha 12:55 JZR 176 Dubai 13:45 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 SHARQIA-1 JOHN WICK (DIG) 8:00 PM KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:30 PM BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 10:00 PM NCR 604 OAI 14:00 QTR 8647 Doha 14:25 JOHN WICK (DIG) 3:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:05 AM QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 KAC 617 Doha 15:00 JOHN WICK (DIG) 5:30 PM AGY 680 Alexandria 14:15 KAC 673 Dubai 15:00 JOHN WICK (DIG) 7:30 PM MARINA-3 THY 766 Istanbul 14:20 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 JOHN WICK (DIG) 9:30 PM JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:45 PM KNE 472 Jeddah 14:25 FDB 058 Dubai 15:10 JOHN WICK (DIG) 11:30 PM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 2:45 PM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 AGY 685 Sohag 15:15 FURY (DIG) 4:45 PM FDB 057 Dubai 14:30 THY 767 Istanbul 15:20 SHARQIA-2 WOLVES (DIG) 7:15 PM MPH 951 Amsterdam 14:35 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:20 FURY (DIG) 1:45 PM FURY (DIG) 9:15 PM KAC 538 Sohag 14:50 JZR 188 Dubai 15:40 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 4:15 PM FURY (DIG) 11:45 PM KNE 470 Jeddah 14:55 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:45 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 6:15 PM OMA 645 Muscat 15:00 KNE 471 Jeddah 15:50 FURY (DIG) 8:15 PM AVENUES-1 GFA 221 Bahrain 15:00 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 10:45 PM BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 12:30 PM KAC 788 Jeddah 15:10 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 FURY (DIG) 12:45 AM BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 2:45 PM JZR 175 Dubai 15:20 OMA 646 Muscat 16:00 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 4:45 PM UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 MPH 951 Dubai/SIN 16:05 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:45 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:10 SHARQIA-3 Seats-225 KNIGHT OF THE DEAD (DIG) 7:00 PM KNE 460 Riyadh 16:00 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:25 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 9:00 PM FDB 051 Dubai 16:00 KNE 481 Taif 16:50 WOLVES (DIG) 4:00 PM BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 12:45 AM JZR 535 Cairo 16:10 NCR 604 Dubai 17:00 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:00 PM JZR 779 Jeddah 16:10 KAC 741 Dammam 17:00 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:15 PM AVENUES-2 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:15 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 WOLVES (DIG) 12:15 AM WOLVES (DIG) 2:15 PM KAC 562 Amman 16:20 NIA 252 Alexandria 17:15 WOLVES (DIG) 4:15 PM ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:55 FDB 052 Dubai 17:25 MUHALAB-1 WOLVES (DIG) 6:15 PM RJA 640 Amman 16:55 UAE 858 Dubai 17:45 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 1:15 PM WOLVES (DIG) 8:15 PM UAL 982 IAD 17:05 JZR 538 Cairo 17:45 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 3:45 PM WOLVES (DIG) 10:15 PM SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:50 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:15 PM WOLVES (DIG) 12:15 AM GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 RJA 641 Amman 17:55 FURY (DIG) 9:15 PM FDB 075 Dubai 17:45 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:45 PM AVENUES-3 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:55 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:20 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 12:45 PM UAE 875 Dubai 18:00 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 MUHALAB-2 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 4:00 PM JZR 177 Dubai 18:20 FDB 076 Dubai 18:25 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 12:45 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:15 PM KAC 118 New York 18:30 JZR 156 Dubai 18:30 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 3:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 10:30 PM FDB 063 Dubai 18:40 JZR 184 Dubai 18:40 ABY 121 Sharjah 18:40 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 5:00 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM JZR 238 Amman 18:50 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:00 PM KAC 786 Jeddah 18:45 JZR 134 Bahrain 19:10 KAC 104 London 18:45 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 10:15 PM 360º- 1 ABY 121 Sharjah 19:20 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 12:15 AM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 2:00 PM QTR 1080 Doha 18:50 UAE 876 Dubai 19:40 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 5:15 PM KAC 618 Doha 19:15 QTR 1081 Doha 19:50 MUHALAB-3 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 8:30 PM KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 FDB 064 Dubai 19:55 JOHN WICK (DIG) 1:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 11:45 PM AXB 393 Kozhikode 19:15 AXB 393 Kozhikode 20:15 KAC 542 Cairo 19:25 GFA 218 Bahrain 20:15 FURY (DIG) 3:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:30 JOHN WICK (DIG) 6:00 PM GFA 217 Bahrain 19:30 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 JOHN WICK (DIG) 8:00 PM 360º- 2 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 19:45 JOHN WICK (DIG) 10:00 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:30 PM KAC 502 Beirut 19:50 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:05 JOHN WICK (DIG) 12:30 AM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 4:30 PM KAC 742 Dammam 20:00 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 7:30 PM KAC 614 Bahrain 20:00 MSR 619 Alexandria 21:05 FANAR-2 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM MSR 618 Alexandria 20:05 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:05 JAI 572 Mumbai 20:05 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:10 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (DIG) 12:45 PM JZR 189 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CROSSWORD 709 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You feel a love of order and law-an appreciation for responsibilities and This is a rewarding day. Others may seek you out for your advice regard- duty. Problems are valued for the lessons, rather than obstacles. Your ing very personal issues at this time. You have a prolific mood-altering career direction will get encouragement and life’s troubles should find uncomplicated way of interacting with others and today you may find depressed conversations easy solutions. This just may be the time to take risks and dare to be unconventional. You to manipulate into a most positive outlook. You might consider writing a series on will prosper through new insights. You could find that you are appreciated for your how one might survive or excel in the workplace. You are more talented than you give ability to act and get things done. Your speech can be most persuasive. The energies yourself credit for and you can help many people with an upbeat, matter-of-fact type at this time are working in your favor and you are open to the learning process. Now is of thinking. You will find opportunities to cut through the red tape and get at what is the time to move toward your goals. You take care to recycle and set examples for beneath and behind the most difficult situations with just the simplest of questions. others. You respect the earth and help others to do the same, ensuring a positive Recognition comes from higher-ups. A loved one does for you, what you do for oth- future for your children. ers-encouraging.

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

The way you deal with necessities and obligations-health and work in It is easy to see what you value and care about as you go through particular-is in a state of transformation. Your job situation may change radically. your day. You appreciate your co-workers and are respectful to the Improvements are in the works. Environmental contaminants connected with your public. Today you may have to exert a little special attention on a customer that is work can be a problem. You will be pleased with your new accomplishments, during always right and can be rather rude. You know just what to do to appease the beast which insights and a breakthrough in organization are in order. Things are happening, . . . So to speak. This is a good day for picking out furniture and if you are selling it, and your career or path depends upon your own objective, which is strong at this you will do extremely well. At break time you enjoy conversing with co-workers time. You are able to use good common sense to feel the trends and make the right that have the same interest in books, hobby or other pastime enjoyment. People moves. You can progress by taking action. There is a revolution-new ideas and ways to want to do nice things for you; let them. Keep that savings account intact until at do and use things become clear. You are in touch and in harmony with others. You least the middle of December. Hugs and gifts are enjoyed all day long. Surprises have good support. happen! Happy birthday!

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) There are possibilities that you will run into a snag with a person or This is an easy, calm day that you should find running in a smooth man- become blocked in a situation this morning. Quietly and respectfully ner. Ideas and interaction with authority figures or older people may be stating your opinion may not be the answer in this situation. The problem could be a in the forecast sometime during the day. Working with, rather than against the flow, physical illness of another person and letting this difficulty slide may be the wiser should be easy to do. Others may find you especially witty and perhaps, a bit eccen- tric. You may have insights regarding your living situation or in life circumstances gen- ACROSS 80. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement. choice. In-depth discussions and probing conversations find you at your mental best this afternoon. You may get the feeling that this has turned out to be a very fortunate erally. You will have the opportunity to speak up for your team, group or department 1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer. 81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs day. You are feeling successful and able to cope with whatever comes across your and your co-workers value you for these unique qualities. You can expect pleasant sur- 4. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color. northeast into the Rhine. path. You may find yourself very talkative tonight. You may even find that a board prises today, along with some extra support. The path of success is available for what- ever direction you want to take. Co-workers want to talk after work but make sure 12. The part of the nervous system of verte- game or some trivia game brings back old and fond memories. Sentimentalism is present this evening. there is no gossip. brates that controls involuntary actions of DOWN the smooth muscles and heart and glands. 1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central 15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that America. was responsible for research into atomic 2. A large mass of ice floating at sea. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) energy and its peacetime uses in the United 3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue. You have the mind of a lawyer as you quickly size up a problem and come States. 4. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Although you could overdo and find yourself feeling cross, you can pat yourself on the back for learning how to rise above the negative. Business up with a solution. Using your mind to negotiate obstacles and handle 16. Rule against. Corylus. levels out later today and yet, another rush on business products may be planned. dilemmas is a great talent and you enjoy the challenges. Today some missing person or 17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac 5. United States composer noted for his innova- Perhaps there are decorations to be sold, wedding dresses on special or cars at a low cost . special item is lost and found due to your special talents. You may be considering a living in accounting, politics, police or psychology. A part-time job that would help you in your insects. tive use of polytonality (1874-1954). . . Your expertise is fine-tuned and you could sell ice to an eskimo. Enjoy this busy time but plan your meals wisely and have snacks that are full of protein. You are encouraged in your hopes of completing a formal education would not take as long as you think. At this time, 18. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves 6. A colorless odorless gaseous element that career advancement as well as your personal progress-you encourage others. You will ben- people can get an education over the internet. Perhaps you would need communication that resemble the leaves of cabbages. give a red glow in a vacuum tube. efit from analytical insights, getting to the heart of things, penetrating. This evening find with a professor or a trip to the university but you will find the educational opportunities 20. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by 7. Agency of the United States government time to relax-perhaps a bicycle ride or a massage. Laughter is contagious-laugh a little. are more flexible and affordable than in the past. A budget would be good. voltage differences on electrodes along the charged with mediating disputes between path. management and labor. 21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in 8. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) Turkey). is not an aria. There is a push to complete your work. Travel opportunities are available Important financial decisions require more information than you realize. 22. A city in northern India. 9. The act of hitting a baseball lightly without It’s important to gather all the facts necessary to give you a realistic idea 23. A shoe carved from a single block of wood. swinging the bat. all month. This is a great time, when anything is possible. One of the key elements during this time involves your sense of direction. You may want to seriously of whatever subject is at hand. You have a large imagination when it comes to 25. State in northeastern India. 10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part review your career path. Higher education or philosophical and perhaps religious con- finances-choosing possessions and the material world. A growing sense of idealism 27. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by of an organism. tacts could have a part in making good things happen. Partnerships, personal relation- affects your productivity and material concerns. You may work to establish some cooperative, communal goals. Social relationships are a special focus. Travel and ani- Earth's orbital motion. 11. A summary that repeats the substance of a ships or the social scene in general is very important during this time and can have a very decided influence on your career. You may find that a more impersonal attitude is mated discussions play a part in this and could be less than satisfying in some 30. Conforming to an ultimate standard of per- longer discussion. the key. Use the recycling facilities in your hometown; pay attention to waste and respects. There is a chance to understand those around you and to have a special time fection or excellence. 12. By bad luck. excess. These small steps will improve the quality of life for yourself and others. with someone you love. General good feeling and a sense of support and harmony make this a happy time. 33. Traveling by foot. 13. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeast- 36. A narrow way or road. ern India and western Burma. 40. A mild comatose state. 14. A fraudulent business scheme. 42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali 19. New Zealand conifer. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) earth group. 24. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic lan- Your career or life path, the way you make your living or get through Do not take chances or risks just now. Be satisfied with the ordinary and 43. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. guages. life, is quite unique. There are opportunities now, to reach beyond your current situa- the usual. Someone may try to tell you an untruth today but your mind 44. A member of the Siouan people living in the 26. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and tion and to expand your horizons. Your approach to any problem is always original cuts right through all the window dressing and gets right down to the quick. Before Yazoo river valley in Mississippi. beef usually dried. and you could invent things or discover new places or develop new ways of doing anyone knows it, you have the heart of a matter out front for everyone to see. You 45. French composer noted for his experimen- 28. Considerate and solicitous care. things. Communications, computers and the whole electronic revolution are perfect would make a great investigator-either in scientific research or undercover work-it career choices for you. Close personal relationships are likely to undergo some test- makes no difference. Your ability to get to the point is all but phenomenal. You may talism and rejection of romanticism (1866- 29. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. ing. Now is good for cementing your ties to others. Make sure these relationships are have some hectic emotional energy just now. It is easy to see what you value and care 1925). 31. Mar or spoil the appearance of. rock-solid, because if they are not, they are apt to crack under stress. Fairness with and about these days. Your sense of appreciation is sharpened and in high focus. If you are 47. One related on the father's side. 32. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or responsibility to the other people in your life is emphasized today. shopping today, it is better to compare prices than to purchase an item that you may not like later. 50. The supreme commander of a fleet. movie role. 52. A large group of islands in the south Pacific 34. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass. including Melanesia and Micronesia and 35. A religious belief of African origin involving Word Search Yesterday’s Solution Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and witchcraft and sorcery. the Malay Archipelago). 37. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger. 53. (informal) Informed about the latest trends. 38. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and 54. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of Hindi. protons to produce proton density images. 39. A genus of Scolopacidae. 55. A Mid-Atlantic state. 41. Become bony. 56. The airforce of Great Britain. 46. The striking of one body against another. 57. A white metallic element that burns with a 48. Having low density. brilliant light. 49. Complacently or inanely foolish. 59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle 51. (euphemistic) "he is deceased". where driver sits. 58. A genus of tropical American plants have 61. A state in midwestern United States. sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy com- 63. A small flat triangular bone in front of the pound fruits composed of the fruits of sev- knee that protects the knee joint. eral flowers (such as pineapples). 66. Soreness and warmth caused by friction. 60. The dialect of Malay used as the national 69. A detested person. language of the Republic of Indonesia or of 72. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a Malaysia. somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. 62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann. 75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 64. Related on the mother's side. Arabia or North Africa. 65. Type genus of the Percidae. 76. An officer who acts as military assistant to a 67. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are more senior officer. strong rising air currents. 77. One of several resident of a dwelling (espe- 68. Something causes misery or death. cially someone confined to a prison or hos- 70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was pital). formed by an explosion. 78. Someone who works (or provides workers) 71. A French abbot. during a strike. 73. A case for containing a set of articles. 79. Showing or causing joy and pleasure. 74. A benevolent aspect of Devi. Yesterday’s Solution

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he 33-year-old socialite recently paid $13,000 for miniature Pomeranian pup Prince but Tsince she introduced the adorable mutt to Katie Holmes ready Paris Hilton’s her other canine friends they have not been happy with the preferential treatment he has been get- new dog has made ting as top dog. Exclusively speaking to the MailOnline, she revealed: “They are jealous because I am taking Prince everywhere these days. Peter for new challenges her six other Pan is especially upset because I used to take him everywhere. He was the top dog. So there are some sad feelings there. Prince is just the new one, so he pooches jealous is getting the most attention.” Although she is total- ly besotted with Prince, Paris insists she is still giv- ing the rest of her pet pack - which includes Chihuahua Tinkerbell, her most famous dog - lots of love and attention. The DJ said: “I give them all attention, I am good to all of them, so they really don’t feel that bad. I think Peter Pan might want some more trips out, so I will work that in.” Paris even claims her love for her dogs is what stops her from re-locating from Los Angeles to London for an extended stay in the UK capital. She admitted: “I love London, it’s my favourite city. I have so many friends there and I really like the atmosphere. But I would never move to England because I love my dogs so much. I just couldn’t leave them. At heart I am a California girl.”

he 35-year-old star wants to be tries to instil some good manners into the known as an actress rather than the little one. Katie added to PEOPLE magazine: Tperson who tied the knot with the “[Suri] means everything to me. I’m learn- Hollywood actor - who she divorced in July ing every day, and I have been since the 2012 after six years of marriage - and minute I became a mom. “My patience has Kris Jenner admits she is “ready for new challenges” in grown, but between 4 and 6 pm ... I mean, her life. She said: “I don’t want that wow. Between tickle fights and glitter art, I moment in my life to define me, to be who try to throw in some manners along the wants to find love on I am. “I don’t want that to be what I’m way.” In August, Katie was reported to have known as. I was an actor before, an actor swapped New York for California when she during and an actor now. “I don’t have any splashed out $3.8 million on a Los Angeles a new reality show fear now, I don’t have a lot of rules for mansion in a bid to boost her Hollywood myself, and I don’t take myself that serious- acting career. The move was also thought ly.” The former couple have eight-year-old to be beneficial for Suri because the pair’s daughter Suri together and while the new abode is situated in an affluent cul-de- raven-haired beauty loves to have playful sac populated by many children the same tickle fights with the youngster, she also age as the youngster. Britney Spears to give away VIP tickets to the fan who wears best Halloween costume he ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ matriarch - he 32-year-old pop star wants to make her ‘Piece of you celebrating Halloween with Britney at ‘Piece Of Me’? who has been romantically linked with ‘Bachelor’ Me’ show on the spooky holiday a memorable one Come to the show dressed in your best Britney costume Tcontestant Ben Flajnik and Justin Bieber’s tour man- Tand has promised an unforgettable experience to to win 2 upgraded VIP seats! “Tweet a picture of yourself ager Corey Gamble since splitting from husband Bruce the person who impresses the most with their outfit. She in costume at The Axis Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort Jenner last year - reportedly wants to step apart from her wrote on Twitter: “What’s a Halloween party w/o a cos- using #Britneyween to enter. If you’re selected, you and a famous family and has been pitching a new programme tume contest? Saved 2 VIP seats @ #PieceOfMe on Fri for guest will enjoy the show from a VIP table in the front to TV bosses. A source told National Enquirer magazine: whoever comes best dressed!” The ‘Gimme More’ singer row! “Must already have ‘Piece Of Me’ tickets to enter, and “She’s already pitching the matchmaking idea. “She hopes also included a link to her official website pictures must be taken inside The Axis Theater with the to steal the limelight from her famous daughters with the BritneySpears.com with full details of how to enter the hashtag #Britneyween. Only Britney Spears costumes will launch of her own reality show.” Kris, 58, who recently filed competition at the residency gig, which takes place at the be considered for contest entry. “ At the moment, Britney for divorce from Bruce, 65, reportedly sees her single sta- Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. The post read: “Are is due to continue her residency until February 2015. tus as the perfect new way to “make money”. The source continued: “Kris has always been able to separate her per- sonal feelings from business, if it presented the possibility to promote the family and make money. “Her divorce is a perfect opportunity to do both.” Though she is interested Benedict Cumberbatch says in finding love on screen, away from the spotlight, Kris is said to have been getting to know Corey slowly. The rumoured new couple were spotted leaving a sushi Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have sex restaurant in Malibu, California on Monday night and the duo also watched Kris’ son-in-law, Kanye West, perform at he 38-year-old actor was catapulted do his work. Cold showers, looking at a lot the Life is Beautiful music festival in Las Vegas last Friday to global fame playing a modern of dead bodies ... that’ll do it for you.” (24.10.14) before celebrating her daughter Kim Tversion of the fictional detective in Benedict - who was shot by photogra- Kardashian West’s 34th birthday at Tao Las Vegas. the BBC series and his portrayal has left pher Mark Horn for ELLE UK - is currently fans speculating as to whether the sleuth in a relationship with Sophie Hunter but is “asexual”. Speaking in the new issue of he admits the dating game has become more complicated since he became famous. Speaking about dating as a celebrity, he said: “It’s a really double- edged sword. You know, you discover why people find you attractive - in a rela- tionship or a tryst - and if it’s just to have a go on you or try you out, then I can smell that a mile off.” With his career at a high with roles in films such as ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, ‘The Imitation Game’ and ‘12 Years a Slave’ as well as Sherlock, Benedict has started to turn his attention to having a family. He said: “I can imag- ine I’ll look back at this point in my life and think: ‘Wow that was really extraordi- nary.’ But at the same time I hope I’m looking back and going, ‘Oh, that was the moment I got on with life and realised things beyond myself.’ Without using words like ‘marriage’. ‘children’ and ‘family’ - although I have just used those words - ELLE UK, Benedict insists his alter ego has put it this way, I hope I’ve got other peo- to avoid erotic acts because relationships ple to look back with me at that point. I would get in the way of his investigations. hope I’m surrounded by family.” The full Pontificating on whether Sherlock would interview with Benedict Cumberbatch be good in bed, he said: “He’s asexual for a appears in the December issue of ELLE purpose. Not because he doesn’t have a UK, which is on sale on October 30 as a sex drive, but because it’s suppressed to print and digital edition. Renee Zellweger puts home on the market for $4.45 million he ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ star, who Sobieski and husband Adam Kimmel in Sandra Bullock has offloaded a number of other 2011 for $7.4 million, and her Bel Air Tproperties in her portfolio in mansion to Debra Messing for $7 mil- gave medical attention Amanda Bynes’ recent years, has listed her four-bed- lion in 2003. room Egypt Lane farmhouse in East Hampton, New York after lovingly reno- to a collapsed extra parents have obtained vating it to keep its important historical features intact. The blonde beauty pur- he 50-year-old star was quick to help out when one of another conservatorship chased the house, which was built in the extras in her new movie ‘Our Brand is Crisis’ slumped 1900, in April 2003 for $2.15 million. Tto the ground on Sunday, so the brunette made sure she he troubled ‘Easy’ A actress’ affairs will for driving under the influence (DUI) last The property, which sits on 0.91 of an was comfortable by fanning her and giving her water until the again be looked after by her mother and month. News of the conservatorship come acre, boasts a two-car garage with loft emergency services arrived. According to gossip website Tfather Lynn and Rick Bynes after they after doctors treating the ‘She’s the Man’ star, area, flagstone-style slate walkways and TMZ, the fallen woman was thought to have suffered heat went to court and told the judge their daugh- who was committed to a psychiatric treat- shaded terraces, mature gardens and a stroke and was taken in an ambulance to a nearby hospital in ter has been spending “alarming amounts” of ment facility in Pasadena, California 17 days newly-installed heated swimming pool, New Orleans, where the motion picture is being filmed. Billy money on gifts of jewellery for strangers. The ago, secretly convinced a judge on Monday to according to Variety.com. Renee also Bob Thornton was also spotted watching on as Sandra got to worried couple detailed how Amanda has extend her involuntary hold for another 30 put her Connecticut farmhouse on the work on the extra. Following the incident, eyewitnesses been blowing her savings, explaining her net days because the 28-year-old actress is still market in July for the second time in reported seeing a lack of action on the movie set on Monday worth is currently $5,747,703.36, of which $2.8 “very ill” and unable to take care of herself. three years. The large four-bedroom but the cast and crew were back shooting the film on Tuesday. million is in property. They also said her only Amanda spent five months in a treatment colonial home first went up for sale in Sandra is thought to be portraying a retired political consult- income is from rental property, and she made facility in July 2013 when she was placed 2011, but failed to sell and Renee re- ant in the comedy/drama movie, which is about the American $144,768 last year. In their legal documents, under involuntary psychiatric hold. She was listed it for $1.6 million over the sum- political campaign strategies used in the 2002 Bolivian presi- which have been obtained by TMZ, Amanda’s released in December and appeared to be mer. The 45-year-old actress sold a dential election. The actress’ helpful antics on the set of the parents say she is a “substantial risk” to herself getting her life back on track until a conserva- series of apartments on New York’s movie is not her only recent brush with medicine after she and others, explaining her recent erratic torship giving her mother control of her affairs Upper East Side to fellow actress Lelee portrayed medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone in 2013 film behaviour, including shoplifting and an arrest came to an end last month. ‘Gravity’, which won seven Academy Awards earlier this year. lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 GOSSIP Russell Brand wishes he was bisexual

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he 39-year-old comedian - who was one wanted to engage in a sex act with her busy schedule for her married to Katy Perry for 14 months him. The ‘Rock of Ages’ actor added: “I Tuntil December 2011 - has confirmed trawled around Soho ... going [to] various split from Calvin Harris he is single at the moment but is keen to gay bars, gay gyms trying to pick people up experiment more with his sexuality and be with a film crew.” However, earlier this year less of a “tedious” heterosexual. Speaking Russell caused controversy with gay rights to Absolute Radio’s Geoff Lloyd, he said: campaigners when he branded a collection “I’m single. Well, you’ve got to go into rela- of Cambridge University students “Harry tionships with the right attitude. All rela- Potter poofs” during a talk at the education he ‘Black Widow’ hitmaker says the tance relationships. It’s an incredible achieve- start a tour, and he was also all over the place.” tionships, I’m always positive about them. establishment. While trying to get the 800- Scottish DJ, who she split from in June ment. I couldn’t do it.” The blonde beauty and Meanwhile, the ‘R.I.P’ hitmaker, who is now “I wish I was bisexual. That’s one of the strong crowd to be quiet, he said: “Shut up Tafter more than a year of dating, was “the her 30-year-old ex-boyfriend became embroiled rumoured to be dating fashion designer Tommy things about me where I’ve got a very tra- you Harry Potter poofs.” But his remark did right guy at the wrong time,” and admits she in a bitter public feud shortly after their split Hilfiger’s rapper son Ricky Hil, 24, regularly tells ditional moral code. I’m tedious with my not go down well with president of the uni- “couldn’t do” another long-distance relation- when he reportedly banned her from singing herself she is “f**king sexy” in front of the mirror heterosexuality.” Russell’s comments come versity’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans- ship. The 23-year-old star told the December his song, ‘I Will Never Let You Down,’ at the 2014 to boost her confidence. She said: “You have to after he previously revealed he once had a gender (LGBT) group CUSU LGBT+, who issue of Cosmopolitan magazine: “There’s only Teen Choice Awards, but she doesn’t regret come to terms with loving your body. Stand sexual encounter with a man in a pub toi- said the star had been “plain offensive”. so much you can do when you don’t see each their romance. She said: “It was the right guy at naked in front of the mirror and say, ‘I’m sexy.’ let. Speaking in a podcast interview, which Charlie Bell said: “It’s unacceptable. The other. I really admire people who have long-dis- the wrong time.” She added: “I was about to That’s where it starts.” was unearthed last year, he said: “I thought, word gay, or similar, is used as a jokey insult ‘I think of myself as heterosexual but per- in schools and workplaces across the coun- haps that’s ‘cause of the environment that I try, and has been shown time and again to grew up in where homosexuality may have intimidate and upset gay people. been difficult for me to express.” He also “Someone in a prominent media position explained in the podcast that he had like Brand should be standing up to kick Katie Price sells her home to rid picked the guy up in London’s Soho by this kind of bullying, which is what it is, out walking around the area and asking if any- of Britain, not further justify its use.” herself of painful memories he former glamour model - who forgave Kieran Hayler after discovering his affairs Twith her friends Jane Pountney and Chrissy Thomas earlier this year - has moved out of the Sussex home she shared with the part-time strip- per as she couldn’t stop thinking about him hav- ing sex with her pals in the property. She told OK! magazine: “I left my stress at the old house with all the memories of Jane Pountney and Kieran in there, so I was glad to leave. I hate the old house, there are so many bad memories of Kieran cheating. “I wanted to get out of the house because I hate walking in the kitchen and knowing they’d been in there together. I was finding things like that hard.” The 36-year-old star - who has two-month-old Bunny, and 14-month- old Jett, with Kieran, as well as 12-year-old Harvey, Junior, nine, and Princess Tiaamii, seven, from previous relationships - is now looking for- ward to having a “fresh start” after buying an 11- bedroom mansion which boasts its own swim- ming pool, stables and tennis court. Katie added that she “absolutely loves” her new family home and is looking forward to settling down there with Kieran and the kids following the cheating “hiccup”. She said: “I absolutely love it. It’s so homely and amazing. I know we’ve got loads of work to do on it, but it’s great. It’s like a fresh start and a new beginning for us. “It’s just a new start. But like I’ve always said, Kieran and I have always got on with each other. I will never really under- stand why he cheated, but we’re are the same as we were. Our relationship has always been good apart from that hiccup.” Kylie Jenner ‘bored’ of rumours Taylor Swift is ‘always’ he 17-year-old reality TV star, who bored.” Kylie, who is reportedly dating rap- first sparked speculation she’d had per Tyga, 24, previously admitted she was Tinjections to boost the size of her “insulted” by allegations she’s had cosmetic pout in April after showing off noticeably surgery. She tweeted: “These plastic sur- close to tears fuller lips on Instagram, thinks there are gery rumours hurt my feelings to be honest more important things to talk about and is and are kinda insulting. Just in case anyone eager to move on. The ‘Keeping Up with forgot.. I’m 16.” The brunette beauty’s older the Kardashians’ star hit back at her critics half-sister Kim Kardashian West, 34, has also on Twitter on Monday night, writing: “How been the subject of nose and lip job long are we gonna talk about this lip thing rumours in the past, but previously said: “I lmao. Let’s get a our lives together guys guess it’s a compliment to my makeup and talk about some important s**t. Just artist that he does such a good job con- talk about something new at least. I’m touring my nose that it appears smaller.” Melissa McCarthy robbed at gunpoint three o’clock in the afternoon, on Wilshere Avenue and 3rd, which is like sunny and bright and people are out walking.” The 44-year-old comedienne admits she didn’t quite understand what was happening when she first saw the burglar, and confessed she couldn’t stop crying when she realised he’d stolen all of her cosmetics. Speaking on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, she added: “I walked in and there was a guy behind the register and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s weird. I wonder ... has he lost his ticket?’ And then I see a gun and I was like, ‘Oh my God! “And I he ‘Bridesmaids’ actress was work- couldn’t ... Everything that you should ing at a dry cleaners on a quiet say or do did not happen and he had my Tstreet in Santa Monica when she backpack which was like my life. That’s first moved to Hollywood to pursue a my keys, my make-up. “I was like, ‘I can’t movie career and she’s revealed how an replace mascara’, I didn’t have any money armed robber threatened her and stole and I just kept crying going, ‘You have my he 24-year-old singer - who was just 17 when creator Lena Dunham, who she has quickly we’ve been best friends ever since.” Taylor has pre- her bag. Speaking about the transition of bag that has my make-up in it, you have she released her first album - admits some- become “best friends” with after initially thinking viously dated the likes of Harry Styles and Jake moving to the film capital of the world, my bag’. And he was like, ‘Shut up, shut Ttimes it can be hard to deal with the pres- the actress was mocking her. She explained in an Gyllenhaal and admitted she is happy to be single she said: “I worked at Starbucks, I worked the blank up’.” However, Melissa claims sures of finding success so young. She said: “I’m interview with talk show host David Letterman: “I and not “shopping” for a new boyfriend because at the Y in Santa Monica and I worked at the perpetrator was caught and found always, like, one half step away from crying, at any Googled her and I saw her quoting my lyrics and I she hasn’t been with any “lousy” men in some time. a dry cleaners on like 3rd and Wilshere, guilty. She added: “I went to court point.” The ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker finds the best thought, she has to be doing that ironically, she She said: “I haven’t had any lousy boyfriends in the where I was actually held up. “Yeah, at enough times and finally put him in jail.” way to deal with her success is to spend time with has to be making fun of me...I have this big loser last year and a half. “I’m just not looking around for her friends. And one new pal she has made is ‘Girls’ complex from school. “Then we met in person...and them, at them, I’m not shopping.” lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

In this Nov 1, 2013 photo, a resident peeps in to morning street-market from a second-floor window of a little apartment In this Nov. 1, 2013 photo, U Tin Win, center, and his wife watch the morning street market from their tiny apartment of building at 41st street, Yangon, Myanmar. — AP photos the 41st Street apartments building, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s building whispers of a past of solid middle-class ‘It’s the dawn of democracy’

he little apartment building was graceful once. Just a few years ago, those protests would have been met front of the apartment. For decades it was little more than have to leave.” A few years ago that began to change. The Maybe even beautiful. There is an elegance in the with arrests or even gunfire. a swath of potholes and pitted cement. 2010 elections marked a watershed in Myanmar. Tarched windows now covered with grime. It’s there Yes, Aung acknowledges, the army could end the But just before the 2010 elections, the military-backed Sanctions fell away and tourists poured in. in the ornamental pillars, coated with paint so faded that protests anytime it wants. It still wields immense power. USDP party came through the neighborhood, announc- The city, where for decades nothing seemed to it’s hard to say if the building is yellow or white. It’s there in “They just don’t want the bad publicity overseas,” he says. ing they would fix it. The repair may have improved his change, began stumbling into the global economy. the wide windows kept open through the endless hot As he talks, an elderly employee who sweeps the neighborhood, but he sees it as a betrayal. Yangon now has a Ford dealership and a 10-story-tall months, bringing in the breeze from the nearby Yangon press-shop floor sits transfixed in front of a television. “They did it for the votes,” he growls, and spits out a Coke billboard. It has jetlagged American executives River. The building whispers of a past. Of solid middle- She’s watching “Psycho” on cable TV, the sound turned up final word. He makes it sound like a curse: “Elections.” spilling from the airport, dreaming of a vast untapped class lives. Of a cosmopolitan, colonial city that was once a loud. Janet Leigh is screaming. market. It has sketchy businessmen who build sprawling great Asian crossroad, the capital of a country once called Yes, he acknowledges again, some people are still too mansions and high walls. Burma. But that was a long time ago. frightened to talk politics. Not him, though. The young Best bakery But on 41st Street, the newcomers’ dreams are far These days, in the late afternoons when the breeze men who go clubbing with him offer Myanmar-style pro- The oldest residents of 41st Street can remember back more modest. A job. A salary. Maybe some savings. starts to pick up, two old friends carry out plastic chairs to tection. “I don’t worry,” he says. “I’m friends with the sons of to World War II, and hearing their parents whisper about Ma Yi Win found work at the laundry of a nearby hotel sit in front of a building now battered by time and mon- generals.” But one after another, his neighbors in the the Japanese soldiers who then occupied the city. They catering to businessmen with limited expense accounts. soons and history. They talk about the neighborhood and building turn conversations away from anything political remember the return of the British near the war’s end, and The hours are long, but she earns about $100 a month, an their children. They worry about money. U Tin Win has or ask that their names not be used. Many still talk about the celebrations at independence in 1948. enormous salary back in the plains. spent 67 years in the building on 41st Street, moving in politics in whispers, and only with their closest friends. What they don’t remember are many Burmese. The city both thrills her and frightens her. It has every- when he was 6 years old. His friend Round Namar isn’t “The generals, they still control everything,” said one Rangoon was then barely one-quarter ethnic Burmese. thing: wealth and poverty, gangsters and holy men. It has sure how long it’s been. Sixty-five years? Seventy? “All I resident, an older man. “There is democracy the world The city’s top hotel was run by Armenians; the best bakery those Indians who make her nervous. know,” Namar says, shrugging, “is my mother told me I was over today. But Burma?” He paused, and shrugged. was German. The city had Jews from Baghdad and teak “When I was young, back in the village, I didn’t know born here.” All those years, the two have lived next door to “Maybe someday.” traders from Azerbaijan. The British were at the top of the about anything,” she says. Pride fills her words: “Now I one another, in narrow ground-floor apartments each a So much in Myanmar’s history has been about fear. social pyramid, but the city’s largest populations were know about so much.” Such talk is common among the little bigger than a shipping container. During the five decades of junta rule, tens of thou- Chinese and Indian. The British, long accustomed to building’s newcomers, most of them recent arrivals from From here, they watched the birth of an independent sands of people were imprisoned for political crimes. Indians from their largest colony, brought thousands to the poorest parts of Myanmar. They don’t hope for much, Burma, the first coup d’etat and the rise of the military jun- Torture was commonplace. Activists disappeared into take low- and mid-level jobs in Burma’s bureaucracy, and but they still see the city as a way to get ahead. tas. They watched as generals turned Burma into a pover- prisons, reappearing years later as twitching shadows. to work in British companies. Chinese immigrants domi- The older families, though, are often lost in happier ty-battered international pariah, and as 2010 semi-demo- Foreign journalists were effectively barred. Protests were nated the business world. memories. They barely see the new buildings and the new cratic elections nudged a few generals aside. In the past crushed. For three generations, children were taught not The Burmese were shunted aside, their anger quietly cars. Their dreams are of somewhere else. If not for them- couple years they have seen construction cranes blossom to speak about anything sensitive. Informants, they were festering. In those days, 41st Street was the heart of selves, then for their children. across this city, long known as Rangoon, a place which told, were everywhere. Rangoon’s Indian Quarter, where middle-class immigrant “Our smart young people want to go abroad. To had seemed frozen into a crumbling echo of British colo- But the junta was also increasingly desperate for inter- businessmen and civil servants lived in apartment build- nial life. They have also watched the building’s residents national respect and an end to crippling trade sanctions. ings that often echoed the Edwardian extravagance of the change around them. Today, there’s the strutting young Quiet discussions about democratic changes led to the British colonials. Inside, though, families often followed print-shop manager and the sweatshop workers who look release of the Nobel-winning pro-democracy activist traditions that stretched back centuries. Aung San Suu Kyi, and then to the carefully orchestrated “We lived in the old ways,” says Fawrile. She’s about 68, 2010 elections, when former General Thein Sein was elect- and sits in a chair with her legs pulled beneath her. She ed president. Four years later, the country’s political cul- has only one name. Her father was a wealthy trader in tim- ture can appear upended. ber and spices, a modern man with a business empire, Those protests are now regular occurrences, and a wel- extensive real estate holdings and armies of servants. But ter of independent newspapers have opened. Opposition as a Muslim woman, she was rarely allowed to leave the parties are growing. While some political prisoners still sit house. “I didn’t even know what was going on out there,” in Myanmar’s jails, hundreds have been freed. The junta’s she says. The rise of the junta upended that world. former spymaster, once a deeply feared man known as Bitterness against the Indians and Chinese was often the Prince of Darkness, now runs a small Yangon art encouraged by military governments looking for scape- gallery and cafe where cappuccino sells for $2.50 a cup. goats for the country’s slide into poverty. Starting in the But despite all that, the military-backed party remains 1960s, thousands of Indians were expelled from the coun- in control and the army has the constitutional right to dis- try or, like Fawrile’s father, had their businesses national- solve Parliament. A mysterious circle of current and retired ized. Anti-Chinese riots shook the city starting in 1967. generals is widely thought to weigh in on all important Today, Fawrile lives with her nephew, a taxi driver, in government decisions. While press freedoms are theoreti- the family’s last apartment, a top-floor place where the cally protected, journalists are regularly harassed by the breeze blows through a thin curtain and a grand-nephew authorities and sometimes arrested. Reporters also sleeps on a mat on a lazy morning, wearing pajamas that In this Nov. 1, 2013 photo, Yi Win applies thanaka, a distinc- acknowledge avoiding certain topics, including the say “Dog-Ass Tired.” tive cosmetic face-paste widely used by Burmese women for wealth of the generals and the often-raucous behavior of The building, like Fawrile’s family, is far from what it a smoother skin, as she prepares to leave for work at the liv- their sons and grandsons. The confusion is evident on 41st once was. With each decade, gentility gave way a little ing room of their tiny apartment in a little apartment build- Street. Most often, it is evident in what is left unsaid. Even more. The sprawling apartments were divided, and often ing on 41st Street in Yangon, Myanmar. In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, workers maneuver in the tiny between friends. “We come out here to talk about every- divided again. Poor Chinese moved to the neighborhood, space of Sein Win Press, an apartment that turned in to a day things,” says Namar, her voice rising nervously, as she then poor Burmese. The 137 steps leading to the top floor Singapore, or Malaysia,” says U Cho Win, a gray-haired resi- printing press in the little apartment building on 41st Street, and Win sit in front of the building late one afternoon. “We became worn, grass sprouted from the rooftop. With dent on the second floor. “They know what life is like here.” Yangon, Myanmar. don’t talk about politics.” every monsoon, more leaks opened in the roof. He talks in careful sentences and keeps his eyeglasses on a Her extended family, 11 people crowded into an apart- These days, there’s a tangled mix of ethnicities inside. chain around his neck. His laugh is bitter. His parents were as young as 11. There’s the housewife, the barely ment carved into closet-sized rooms, is among the build- At times, the building it has witnessed profound toler- government servants, middle-class people who expected employed physicist and the hotel laundress who came ing’s poorest. They depend on what she and two daugh- ance, like when Namar’s family hid U Tin Win’s during him to move up in the world. Once, long ago, he hoped from the countryside, riding a bus for 12 hours in search of ters earn selling snacks on the street, and a son-in-law’s waves of anti-Chinese violence. his physics degree would earn him a place in academia, or something more than grinding farm work. Some are close work as a mechanic. They have almost nothing, but she But the building, like Myanmar itself, is no happy melt- maybe work as a scientist. friends. Many barely recognize one another. will not risk losing any of it with some stray political com- ing pot. The country’s divisions are byzantine, producing But he graduated from college in the 1970s, when This is the story of one apartment building, two stair- ment. When Namar isn’t around to get nervous, though, everything from jingoistic political parties to ethnic Burma’s economy barely functioned at all. He spent wells, 12 tiny apartments and the 60 or so people who live Win sometimes wades into questionable territory. armies. Now, years of ethnic distrust are being magnified almost a decade unemployed before becoming a tutor for in them. In many ways, it is little different from hundreds He’s a cheerful dandy, a former neighborhood playboy in Yangon by the city’s growth, as poor villagers flood in high-school students. Today, he and his wife survive on his of other buildings scattered across Yangon. But listen who dons a clean shirt and carefully oils his combover from the countryside in search of work. earnings as a freelance tour guide, and her $100 monthly closely enough in these apartments, and you can hear the before his afternoon gossip sessions. He married late in salary as a middle-school teacher. story of a country caught at a historical precipice, waver- life, and he flirts with passing women as his much Refugees Their son is 21, a seaman’s apprentice on a cargo ship. ing between a decades-long era of brutal military rule and younger wife rolls her eyes. Talking politics one afternoon, On 41st Street, that distrust echoes. Last they heard he was in Panama. Life, they say, is better the promise of some vague new golden age. he points to the narrow but well-paved road that runs in Ma Yi Win came to Yangon three years ago, moving out there. They don’t want him to come back. On 41st Street, it is a moment so complicated that into a tiny top-floor apartment with her husband and two So much has changed in Myanmar. So much has not. even the most basic questions are confounding. roommates. All are ethnic Burmese, refugees from rural Every few months, change also comes to 41st Street. villages. “We don’t know the neighbors,” says Win, a small Aung Phyo Win, the print-shop manager, left his job after friendly woman worn by exhaustion. “And the whole a series of family arguments. The gold workshop moved Neighborhoods street is full of Indians, so I don’t want to be friends with away. Ma Yi Win and her roommates, the rural emigres, are The handsome young man leans over a small desk on them.” gone. They didn’t tell their neighbors where they went. the building’s ground floor, absently surfing the Web as But when the hot weather comes, Win and Namar can printing presses clatter around him. • Number of ATMs in Myanmar in 2010: 0 still be found out front, often sitting there deep into the Aung Phyo Win has a life that many young Burmese • Number of ATMS in Myanmar in early 2014: 450. night, talking to one another or to people passing by. would envy. He goes to dance clubs at expensive Yangon Sometimes, they just sit silently. hotels and spends much of his time at work playing on In Ma Yi Win’s apartment, the linoleum floor is worn There are only a couple streetlights on 41st Street, and the computer. He races cars with his friends in the city’s away. Buckets catch leaks from the ceiling. On one wall, those rarely work. So at night, the only light outside is streets. He is 28 and dreams of promoting hip-hop shows. earlier renters have written a message in English: “I wish what spills from the apartments. But the two friends don’t His family, by the building’s standards, is well off. Some you were here with me, just this moment.” Taped to anoth- mind the darkness. The street is quieter then. More like own cars. They come to 41st Street only to work, living in er wall is a glossy poster showing a mansion with an the old days. And now when they do go inside, there is nicer neighborhoods. impossibly green lawn. electricity most of the time. They can change for bed with- He believes fiercely in the new Myanmar. Her husband, a thin man given to long silences, lights a out lighting a lantern. They can watch TV long into the His country is democratic, he’ll tell you. Look at the cigarette. They dreamed for years of escaping the drudg- night. Just a few years ago, they couldn’t depend on that. elections of 2010 and the new political parties. Look at the ery of home, where a year of work brought just a few hun- It’s hard to see that as an accomplishment, they say, but it protests. Small protests are now regular occurrences in dred dollars at harvest time. is something. It’s one tiny change in a new Myanmar, a front of Yangon’s city hall, with a couple dozen people rail- “Where I come from, in my village, there’s only farm- country shuffling awkwardly away from its own uneasy ing against illegal land seizures or high electricity rates. ing,” she says. “If you want to do anything else, then you history, one building at a time. — AP

In this Oct 31, 2013 photo, a woman, in the background, one of Round Namar’s daughters, cooks a meal as Namar’s daughter-in- law rocks a hammock with her daughter in the living room of their tiny apartment in a little apartment building on 41st Street in Yangon, Myanmar. lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

Actors from left, Steven Mackintosh, Celyn Jones, Elijah Wood, Shirley Henderson, Maimie McCoy and Kevin Eldon pose for photographs at Japanese actor Shota Sometani walks on the red carpet during the opening ceremony of the 27th Tokyo the UK premiere of the film Set Fire to the Stars at the Ham Yard Hotel in central London, Tuesday. International Film Festival in Tokyo. The 22-year-old, who has acted since age 7, has earned a reputation for serious acting in dozens of ambitious Japanese movies. And his gentle air is not superficial technique, but the drive to be a true actor. — AP photos

‘Tazza: The Film Reviews Hidden Card’ Seragnoli’s stylish but over-calculated debut outh Korean gambling drama “Tazza: The Hidden Card” is long on flashy visuals and short on story- ‘Last Summer’ Stelling discipline. Centered on a talented young hustler working his way into the big-time, this follow-up he Japanese mother of a 6-year-old British brat is allowed developed). Auds assume the two are the owners of this super- this separation of inside-outside is an intriguing concept and to 2006’s popular “Tazza: The High Rollers” hit the jack- four days with him on her ex’s family yacht before losing luxury craft, but no: He’s the captain and she’s the chief steward, certainly could have been used to powerful effect, but the less- pot during its local release in early September with visiting rights forever in Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli’s styl- uncomfortably awaiting the arrival of their boss’ former daugh- than-forthcoming script, coupled with the artificially height- more than 4 million admissions, but has registered less T ish but over-calculated debut, “Last Summer.” Enigmatically ter-in-law, Naomi (Kikuchi). ened level of tension, hinders identification in all but a few impressive averages in limited North American and withholding vital info-why was she considered an unfit moth- Everyone is tense when Naomi arrives: It’s been at least scenes. Playing with silence isn’t the problem; it’s more the Hong Kong release since Sept. 26. Aside from keeping er? — makes identification difficult, which begins as a deliber- three years since she was onboard, and the crew, presumably general lack of character development whenever there’s a con- track of an overstuffed plot, the biggest challenge for ate ploy but backfires partly due to the airlessness of it all, not told to treat her with suspicion, are all new to her. Then her son, versation. In addition, a running subtheme involving pieces of offshore audiences will be understanding hwatu, the to mention the boy’s entitled obnoxiousness and the crew’s Ken (Ken Brady), boards, coddled by steward/babysitter fabric Naomi carefully guards seems to be fraught with mean- Korean card game around which the life of every char- one-note hostility. Co-scripted with Italo comic artist Igort, in Rebecca (Lucy Griffiths) and ignoring his mother. A tense power ing, yet when the purpose is revealed, its pseudo-poeticism falls acter revolves. While there are some clever scams and collaboration with the international bestselling Japanese novel- struggle ensues, in which the crew ensure that Naomi and Ken flat. Far better a closeup of her dry-brushing her teeth with stings as sideline attractions, many viewers are likely to ist Banana Yoshimoto, the pic will spark interest thanks to the are never alone together, and Naomi tries desperately to con- Ken’s toothbrush, as the one way of getting close to her child. be scratching their heads during major setpieces. latter’s contribution, though beyond fests, “Last Summer” will nect with her son, knowing that after their four days together Kikuchi is allowed a degree of naturalness in her perform- “Tazza” rolls into Japanese cinemas on Jan. 23. Pic has a struggle to produce heat. she’ll lose visitation rights. ance that is denied the others, whose every look and glare is curious dual personality. In many respects it resembles The intriguing internationality of it all should generate press: The architecture of the yacht-coldly sleek, flashily rich-allows overloaded with significance; Eva doesn’t simply turn, she jerks a slick “Ocean’s Eleven”-style yarn about clever crooks Star Rinko Kikuchi (“Babel”) mixes with a cast of Dutch, Danish Guerra Seragnoli to play with the isolating spaces of the boat, her head and body with military precision. As the only sympa- planning an elaborate heist; running parallel to this is a and British actors mostly speaking English, guided by an Italo whose interiors invariably see Naomi separated from the others, thetic character, despite an implication that puts her on a par much more brutal gambling-related drama in the mold director partly educated in the States. Guerra Seragnoli wants reflective of her pariah status. She, like the viewer, rather too with Medea, Naomi/Kikuchi provides the sole source of oxygen of “Casino.” Abrasive cutting between the escapist-like to play off this clash of cultures, very much positioning Kikuchi’s conveniently overhears conversations among the crew that in this stiflingly artificial vacuum. elements and the scenes of heavy-duty violence make it character as the untrustworthy outsider who turns into the make clear her former in-laws’ distrust, communicated to the Visually, “Last Summer” begins almost like a perfume ad, play like a videogame. Without any recap of events in main object of identification, but that, too, is essentially a cliche, staff, yet the script never explains why she lost custody. At one all bright sun and gloss, and while the lensing brings some- “Tazza: The High Rollers,” this second film based on and the script brings little else to the table. moment she tells Ken she made bad decisions in her life, but of thing more substantial than mere surface shine, its hermeti- graphic novels written by Kim Se-yeong and illustrated At least the start upends expectations, offering the promise what kind? Everyone behaves as if she tried to murder the kid, cism has a deadening effect. Shooting took place along the by Huh Young-man plunges headlong into the story of of a more intriguing work than is ultimately delivered. Eva though that’s a highly improbable conclusion. Gradually, shores of Puglia, in a particularly uninteresting bit of coast- young cardsharp Han Dae-gil (Choi Seung-hyun, aka (Laura Sofia Bach) climbs out of a crystalline sea onto a sleek Naomi starts to win Ken over once she escapes the confines of line that at least has the advantage of not distracting from rap artist TOP from K-pop outfit Big Bang). First seen as a yacht, sits down next to Alex (Yorick van Wageningen, “The Girl the yacht. First on deck and then on the tender, the formerly the narrative. — Reuters boy with gambling smarts way beyond his years, Dae- with the Dragon Tattoo”), and, via body language and glances, supercilious child relaxes in his mother’s company, even reply- gil eventually leaves his small-town home and sweet- engages in a power struggle of sorts that wordlessly reveals ing to her in Japanese (slightly problematic, as it remains heart, Mina (Shin Sae-kyeong), for an illegal gambling heaps about their relationship (unfortunately never further unclear how long they’ve been apart). As a theoretical exercise, den in Seoul run by Chief Seo (Oh Jung-se). With best buddy Jjari (Lee Dong-hwi) by his side, it’s not long before Dae-gil becomes a star at Seo’s house and temporarily forgets about Mina when sexy card player Ms. Woo (Honey Lee) starts making amorous moves he can’t resist. It turns out Ms. Woo has been marked all along by Seo as the target for a big hit, with Dae-gil entrusted to ensure she loses heavily. So begins a frantic series of double- and triple-crosses, as Seo’s crew sells Dae-gil out, leaving him owing a small for- tune to ruthless gang boss Jang Dong-shik (Gwak Do- won). Complicating matters further is the reappearance of Mina, who’s been sold into prostitution by Jang as part of debt settlement arrangements. In the film’s most satisfying segments, Dae-gil becomes the protege of Go Gwang-ryeol (Yoo Hai-jin), a family friend and gambling guru (also the sole character with a connec- tion to the first film) who sets the younger man straight and helps him raise the money to free Mina. Following some nice scenes in which Dae-gil reconnects with his true love, the pic ramps up again with the trio setting up a complicated plan to bring down Jang. While there are some terrific visuals and few snazzy scenes in which Dae-gil and company enlist theater actors to help ensnare Jang, “Tazza: The Hidden Card” spends too much time on tangential story details that don’t contribute much to the plot. As one hwatu scene melds into another, it becomes clear, to the possible concern of audiences wanting to root wholeheartedly for Dae-gil, Mina and Go, that winning and losing are determined less by card-playing skill and more by who is the most clever and cunning cheat. In a life-and- death grand finale that brings legendary gambler Agwi (Kim Yoon-suk) into play, bizarre conditions are imposed to prevent all possible cheating opportuni- ties. Even still, underhanded tactics prevail, and many viewers will feel reluctant to join in the victory celebra- tions as a result.—Reuters In this image released by Open Road Films, Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Rene Russo appear in a scene from the film, “Nightcrawler.” — AP Sarah Ruhl on her new play and book of essays

nspiration for a play can come from anywhere. mother of a toddler who is believed to be the audience.” Now that Ruhl has a play and a book coming For Sarah Ruhl’s latest, it came from some- reincarnation of a high Buddhist teacher. His par- Ruhl is also celebrating the publication of out at the same time, she’s taken the semester Iwhere close. So close it was in her house all ents must decide whether he should begin spiri- “100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write,” a collec- off from teaching at Yale. But she’s sure teaching along: It was the baby sitter. tual training far away or stay home. tion of small compositions - some no longer than is in her future, as well as more plays and more Ruhl, the twice-Pulitzer Prize-nominated play- Among the questions Ruhl is exploring: a word, most just 1 1/2 pages - filled with her poetry writing. “I think I go a little batty when I wright, works from her Brooklyn home and spent What’s the difference between love and attach- thoughts on playwriting and motherhood. don’t work,” she says. “Certainly not working isn’t many days caring for her three children with help ment? How is your child yours? How is it not She reveals that the sound of crickets chirp- good for me. from her Tibetan Buddhist nanny, Yangzom. yours? How does it belong to the world? She ing makes her sad, that ceilings onstage make Maybe I should address that. Even when the “She’s really one of the most patient, kind people thinks the issues cross cultural barriers. her suspicious and that plays need not be tidy. kids were really little, I had to be writing some- I’ve ever met. So watching her example, I “I’m hoping that’s the part that’s more univer- One essay - the entire thing - is simply, “I admire thing.” thought, ‘Hmm. Maybe there’s something to this sal and doesn’t seem in any way exotic, even minimalism.” Mark Kennedy is at whole Tibetan Buddhist practice.’” though some of the religious aspects will seem Ruhl, who has an older daughter and toddler http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits Cue the long hours of research, reading and exotic to a nonreligious audience,” she says. twins, pecked away at the essays over five years Online: http://www.lct.org discussion. What finally emerged is the play “The Andre Bishop, the artistic director of Lincoln in the tiny moments between child care Oldest Boy,” another quirky, poetic and ambitious Center Theater, commissioned the play. It’s their demands and housekeeping chores. She says she entry in the playwright’s resume. third collaboration after “The Clean House” and did it for pure mental survival. This image released by the John D. and Like much of Ruhl’s work, it mixes comedy “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.” “I was hoping to convince myself that I was Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and drama, the sacred and mundane, and a jolt “Her plays are both serious and often rather still a thinking person when I had no sleep and shows Pulitzer Prize-nominated play- of magic. “The Oldest Boy,” which opens next fantastical in their landscape, in their design, and many children. It really was a way to keep writ- wright Sarah Ruhl. Ruhl’s latest play, month at Lincoln Center, marks the first time very witty and funny,” says Bishop. “I think in all ing,” she says. “In a funny way the essays were a “The Oldest Boy,” opens next month at she’s used puppets in her work and delved into her plays, she conjures up a special world, but it’s place holder for a play I couldn’t write because I Lincoln Center and marks the first time Buddhism. Celia Keenan-Bolger stars as the a world that is made open and accessible to an was too insane.” she’s used puppets in her work. — AP Myanmar’s building whispers of a past of solid middle-class

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A woman walks next to a sculpture by artist Harrie Fasher titled ‘Which way forward?’ overlooking Sydney’s coastline. 16 countries prepared their works for the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition by the coastal path between Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach and Tamarama Beach, that runs till November 9. — AFP

Marvel announces new wave of superhero movies

arvel Studios has announced its new phase of recently played James Brown in the music biopic “Get On superhero movies, including new films featuring Up.” MBlack Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, and Boseman appeared onstage alongside “Captain America: the Inhumans during a fan event in Hollywood on Tuesday Civil War” stars Evans and Downey inside Disney’s El Capitan that easily rivaled many of its Comic-Con presentations in Theater. San Diego. Marvel later introduced concept art for Black Panther’s The superhero powerhouse also revealed that the third design for the films, including a standalone movie dated for “Avengers” will be broken up into two films, called Nov. 3, 2017. The hour-long presentation, for which fans “Avengers: Infinity War,” set for May 4, 2018 and wrap up on started lining up at 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning, was packed May 3, 2019. with updates on Marvel’s upcoming release slate, whose That double-pic strategy has paid off for other film fran- dates were previously announced, but hadn’t yet had a film chises, including “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” and is being to fill their slots. embraced by the final installments of “The Hunger Games.” “Captain Marvel” will be Marvel’s first film to star a female Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed plans character. In this case, the character is Carol Danvers, a mem- reported first by Variety that the third “Captain America” ber of the United States Air Force who has gone by a variety would launch the Civil War storyline from the comicbooks of names in the comicbooks, including Ms. Marvel. She gains and pit Chris Evans’ Captain America against Robert Downey superpowers after her genes are fused with that of the alien Jr.’s Iron Man. race, the Kree. “This film has been in the works almost as long as ‘Doctor Strange’ or ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ before it came out, and one of the key things was figuring out what we wanted to do with it,” Feige said. “Her adventures are very earthbound, but her powers are based in the cosmic realm.” With “Inhumans,” about a 7,000-year old group of humans that were experimented on and given powers by the Kree, Marvel has a new set of heroes to introduce. The film will be Marvel’s 20th. “November 3, 2018 will introduce dozens of characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” Feige said. “We really do believe the Inhumans can be a franchise or a series of fran- chises unto themselves. They have dozens of powers and an amazing social structure. We wanted to continue to refine what that universe is about.” The third “Thor” installment will be called “Thor: Ragnarok,” with the subtitle meaning “the end of all things,” according to Feige, who added that the film, that stars Chris Hemsworth, “is a very important movie for us in Phase 3. We Actors Robert Downey Jr (L) and Chris Evans onstage during Marvel Studios fan event at The El Capitan Theatre in Los plan on taking Thor to another level. It picks up where we Angeles, California. — AFP photos leave Thor in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ and impacts every- thing that comes after.” “We really do want the fans to be on the front lines of as Guardians of the Galaxy 2 — May 5, 2017 The two films that will make up the third “Avengers” will much of the information as possible,” he said to a packed Thor: Ragnarok-July 28, 2017 deal a battle against supervillain Thanos that’s been estab- theater. “We called you and you came.” As for the casting of Black Panther-Nov. 3, 2017 lished through Marvel’s movies so far. The character had a Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, or the hiring of The Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 — May 4, 2018 larger role in this summer’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” directors Joe and Captain Marvel - July 6, 2018 “We’ve always had a plan since Nick Fury broke into Tony Anthony Russo for the third “Avengers” films, Feige wouldn’t Inhumans-Nov. 2, 2018 Stark’s house and told him he’s part of a bigger universe,” comment. “Anything that wasn’t revealed today is either not The Avengers: Infinity War Part II-May 3, 2019. — Reuters Feige said. “‘Avengers: Infinity War Part 1’ is the beginning of true at all or still rumor until it’s worked out,” he said. “When Actor Chris Evans onstage during Marvel Studios fan the culmination of everything that has come before.” we have information to reveal, we reveal it. Sometimes it’s event. If Marvel’s presentation looked like one of its Comic-Con on a random Tuesday at 11 am” presentations, that wasn’t accidental.”We wanted to do this Marvel Release Dates Through 2019: However, Marvel had some more news up its sleeve with at Comic-Con this year,” Feige said, but had to change its The Avengers: Age of Ultron-May 1, 2015 the casting of Chadwick Boseman (“42”) as T’Challa, other- plans after it still needed to work out the Civil War plot, find Ant-Man-July 17, 2015 wise known as superhero Black Panther, with the character its Black Panther and see if “Guardians of the Galaxy” would Captain America: Civil War-May 6, 2016 playing a large role in “Captain America: Civil War.” Boseman find an audience. Doctor Strange-Nov. 4, 2016