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Mega projects set to push up property prices DOHA: Land and property prices are expected to rise considerably in the near future as mega development projects are launched and a rising number of interna- tional companies make a beeline to enter the booming Qatari market, real estate sector sources say. After land and property prices went up almost 50 percent last year, a lull is being witnessed in sale transactions for the past four weeks, data issued by the real estate registration department of the justice min- istry show. “This is a lull before a storm,” a market source said, hinting the market would look up in the near future. Sales of land and property totalled QR2.1bn in the past four weeks as against QR3.1bn recorded in the same period in 2012, showing a 41 percent drop. “Land and property prices are very high. That might be affecting demand for the time being. But soon the situation is expected to reverse,” said a source. Market sources say the demand for land and property is likely to shoot up as soon as some mega projects are launched. Since bank rates remain low, the sources expect a heavy flow of liquidity from the banking industry to the real estate market. Prince Muqrin named second deputy PM of Saudi Arabia RIYADH: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has named former intelli- gence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz as second deputy prime minister, a role historically seen as making the incum- bent second in line to become king. The role means Muqrin will be in charge REINING IN of the day-to-day running of government if both King Abdullah, who is also prime minister, and Crown Prince Salman, who is first deputy prime minister, are both unwell or travelling abroad. One killed as police clash PRIVATE SCHOOLS with Egypt protesters CAIRO: At least one protester was shot dead and dozens wounded yester- day when riot police clashed with dem- onstrators demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, THE ISSUE witnesses said. Youths threw petrol bombs and shot fire- works at the outer wall of Mursi’s Cairo 2010 that a law was being drafted by a special Some are also known for fining erring stu- presidential compound as night fell. Police

Talk of having a new law in place Abraham Augusthy committee. dents, which many parents swear is an excuse responded by firing water cannon and tear for private schools that have It is time an extensive law for private schools to mobilise funds. gas, leading to skirmishes in the surround-

mushroomed all over the country is brought into force since the existing legis- The government recently barred private Design: ing streets. with increasing student intake, has lation was passed 33 years ago, in 1980, say schools from forcing students to buy school See also page 8 education sector sources. uniforms from them. been going on for more than two The minister of education and higher educa- Local Arabic daily Al Sharq conducted an The Shard, western Europe’s years now, and it is expected that tion had issued a ministerial decision (Number online survey in March 2011 covering a sample tallest tower, opens it might eventually see the light of 8) in 2009 empowering the SEC to apply its of 1,500 people — apparently all parents — and rules and regulations to private schools until the majority (64 percent) of them said they were LONDON: The Shard, western Europe’s day sooner rather than later. a new law regulating these schools was passed. dissatisfied with private schools, citing ‘exorbi- highest skyscraper and the pinnacle of the So the law of 1980 continues to be in force, tant fee and lack of quality education’ as major transformation of London’s long-neglected he State Cabinet, at its weekly meet- but the minister gave the SEC the authority reasons. “They are like government schools south bank of the River Thames, opened ing last Wednesday, discussed a to make ‘adjustments’ in the legislation and except that they are very expensive,” Al Sharq its doors to the public yesterday. communication from the Minister apply its terms and conditions of licensing and had quoted some respondents as saying about The Shard — 95 percent financed by Tof Education and Higher Education other rules regarding educational standards, the mushrooming private schools. Qatar — houses a premium hotel, sev- who is also ex-officio secretary general of the curriculum, buildings and qualifications of the A new law is indeed needed to regulate pri- eral restaurants, 12 floors of apartments, Supreme Education Council (SEC) regarding teaching staff. vate schools as many of its provisions have lost 600,000 square feet of office space as well the above draft law. The new law is likely to focus on every aspect relevance due to the changes that have taken as the viewing deck. Mayor Boris Johnson PAGEThe private schools’ 6 office at the SEC, the of private schools that, barring the community place in the country over the past 33 years, cut the ribbon for the first public visitors education sector regulator formed a decade ago schools run by the embassies of the countries with the population having considerably mul- atop the 310-metre futuristic tower looming to introduce grassroots-level educational reform concerned, many parents claim are notorious tiplied ever since. over London bridge. in the country, had announced in October for charging high fees. Continued on page 4 See also page 24 THE PENINSULA & AGENCIES

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High fees, lack of quality worrying parents

programme allows Qatari students to pursue is shortage of good private schools, which has School principal at the American School of Schools, parents looking studies in 32 private schools with state support. resulted in long waiting lists for admissions,” Doha. Each Qatari student will get up to QR28,000 said Al Shaikh. Asna Nafees, principal of DPS- Modern Indian annually to pay his or her school fees. She expressed the hope that the new law School, expressed the hope that the SEC would forward to reforms in The objective of the scheme is to provide more would address the issue of high fees charged by give schools “proper guidance” in all matters. options to Qatari students in quality education, some private schools. “There is a communication gap on some the education sector. and it has given a major boost to private schools. “It is true that some private schools are charg- issues. Today, we got a message from the SEC In a move to acquaint expatriate students ing very high fees, and this should be monitored. asking us to provide details about all our teach- with Qatari history and culture, the SEC has They may be providing quality education, but ers, including their Qatar ID, email address and BY MOHAMMED IQBAL made it mandatory for private schools to teach that is no justification for raising fees exorbi- educational qualifications. When we sought a Qatar’s history, starting from the current aca- tantly. The new law should address such issues,” clarification, we were asked to send a repre- demic year. These schools are also required to said Al Shaikh. sentative to the SEC office. It would be helpful n line with the rapid and fundamental teach Arabic and Islamic history if they have School buildings are another issue that needs if things are explained properly from the very changes taking place in the education Qatari students on their rolls or Arab/Muslim immediate attention, she said. beginning,” she said. sector in Qatar, the Supreme Education students wishing to study these two subjects. “Many private schools are functioning in She appreciated the SEC’s decision on ICouncil (SEC) is working on a new law to There are also regulations to ensure that all buildings that are not suitable to run a school. teaching of Qatar’s history, Arabic and Islamic regulate the growing number of private schools private schools respect the moral and religious They don’t have adequate play areas and outdoor studies in private schools, but said there was in the country. values and traditions upheld by the country. facilities for children. Some of them are func- confusion among schools on this issue in the A senior official who headed the Council’s The SEC has not disclosed the details of tioning in villas. This is not good, especially for beginning because the decision was not properly Private Schools Office until recently, said the the law in the making. In a lecture organised young children,” said Al Shaikh. explained to the schools. new law will bring in key amendments to the by the Consumer Protection Department at There is also a need to improve communica- Dr G Manulal, principal of Bhavan’s existing law (No. 7), issued in 1980. the Ministry of Business and Trade last year, tion between parents and school administra- Public School, said the SEC, despite its strict A new law has become necessary apparently Fawziya Al Khater, former head of the SEC’s tions. Parents have negligible or no role in the monitoring, had given private schools flexibility because the existing one was issued more than Private Schools Office, hinted that the law will management of many schools, noted Al Shaikh. regarding curricula and academic systems. 30 years ago. Over this period, the education incorporate most of the new regulations formu- Saud Al Hanzab, chairman of the Central “We are following the Indian CBSE curriculum, sector in Qatar has witnessed vast changes, both lated by the SEC for private schools. Municipal Council (CMC), the public repre- and the SEC is not intervening in that. We have in the public and private sectors. Of late, the SEC has become assertive in sentative body, expressed similar views while been asked to teach three additional subjects and Educational reforms were launched a decade supervision and monitoring of private schools. calling for stricter monitoring of private schools. we are happy to do that. It is true that there is ago with the establishment of the SEC as a regu- Strict rules and conditions are in place for issu- “There is wide variation among private continuous monitoring, but we think it is good latory body, replacing the erstwhile Ministry of ing licences to new schools, and existing schools schools in fee structure. Is this just because of for the schools,” he said. Education. have been given deadlines to improve their per- the difference in language or curriculum? The Asked about the school buildings, he The SEC was given the authority vide a formance to meet the SEC’s standards. new law should lay down standards to regulate said most private schools had done ministerial decision (minister of education and Accreditation by the SEC has been made these schools. International schools should be away with Portakabins in line with higher education) in 2009 to regulate the private mandatory for private schools, and teachers regulated on the basis of Qatari rules, not the a strict instruction by the SEC in schools until the new law was passed. in private and Independent schools are now system in the countries of their origin,” said Al this regard. All government schools have already been required to obtain a professional licence from Hanzab. THE PENINSULA transformed into Independent schools, which the regulatory body. Even the job contracts of He said many private school buildings did not represent an innovative concept in public educa- private school teachers may have to be endorsed meet safety and security standards. tion in the Middle East. by the SEC once the new law comes into force, “Some school buildings do not have even The number of private schools has grown the SEC official hinted. emergency exists and fire alarms. Incidents like manifold, reaching more than 185, with nearly Despite such measures, many citizens feel the Villaggio fire could occur in schools if we 100,000 students on their rolls. These include 71 more needs to be done to discipline erring pri- don’t take necessary precautions,” he warned. international schools and 24 community schools vate schools, and they expect the proposed law The CMC chief said the civic body used to which cater to the various expatriate communi- to address this challenge. discuss various issues concerning education. ties in the country. “The new law should organise all aspects of Recently, the CMC’s services committee dis- Reflecting the diversity in the expatriate pop- private schools -- educational standards, cur- cussed the issue of school uniforms and asked ulation in Qatar, private schools follow differ- riculum, class size, teachers, fees, among other the authorities to end the nexus between some ent curricula and academic systems. Although things,” Dr Nawal Al Shaikh, a prominent schools and commercial outlets for the sale of no comprehensive law has been issued to regu- academic and former SEC official told The school uniforms. Accordingly, the Ministry of late these schools, the SEC has, from time to Peninsula. Business and Trade had issued a directive end- time, modified existing rules and formulated “It is not enough to have a nice law, it should ing monopolistic practices in this regard, he said. new regulations to improve their standards and be properly implemented. Proper follow-up is Officials of several private schools said they performance. also necessary, and all private schools should were not aware of the proposed law but were The new law is expected to bring all these be assessed every two years to ensure that they obliged to follow all rules and regulations regulations under a proper legal framework and comply with the law,” she added. imposed by the authorities. fill gaps in the existing law. Private sector education in Qatar has seen “Our primary focus is on helping the Qatari So far, the private schools have mostly major improvements in the past few years in government achieve its educational aspirations attracted expatriate students, but an increas- terms of the quality and diversity of schools, and promote partnership between the gov- ing number of Qatari children study there now. which now offer more choices to Qataris and ernment and private schools. We are always Their intake of Qatari students is expected expatriates. in conversation and there is no breakdown to increase with the launch of the educa- “But still, their number has not grown in in communication (with the educational tion voucher programme by the SEC. This proportion to the growth in population. There authorities),” said Steven Leever, Middle

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Scattered rains, Salwa Road underpass windy weather likely today

DOHA: Several parts of the country received scattered rains yesterday, accompa- nied by strong winds. The weather is expected to remain cloudy and windy today as well. “There were reports of scattered rains in the north of Qatar, especially in the off- shore areas,” an official from the Meteorology Department said. The weather bureau in its forecast said that the winds would be strong and seas would be high offshore today. The weather is also likely to remain hazy and misty in the morning, becoming cloudy by midday and cold by night, the forecast says. The weather will be mostly cold in Al Khor where the maximum day temperatures forecast is 21 degree Celsius. Minimum temperatures have been forecast for the entire country at between 13 and 16 degrees Celsius. The northeasterly to south- easterly winds would blow at speeds ranging from four to 14 knots an hour inshore and between 14 and 25 knots an Vehicles plying on the newly-built underpass on Salwa Road after its partial opening, yesterday. Two out of four lanes in each direction were opened for traffic. The underpass allows hour offshore. vehicles travelling between Industrial Area and Aziziya interchanges to bypass Ain Khalid signal. The entire Salwa Road will be fully operational in the third quarter this year. THE PENINSULA ABDUL BASIT Two high-profile sales at Qatar Motor Show Most luxurious Lykan Hypersport 2013 fetches QR13m and Brabus Widestar 800 sold for undisclosed sum

DOHA: Two cars premiering at the Qatar Motor Show 2013 have found new owners. W Motors, designer of the Arab world’s first hyper car, and Brabus, a high-performance aftermarket tuning company, confirmed that their latest models had been sold during the event, which expects to double the number of visitors this year. Dubai-based W Motors’ Lykan Hypersport 2013, the first hyper- car designed in the Middle East, attracted its first buyer on the first public day of the show. With a flat 6, twin-turbo, 750 horsepower engine delivering 1000 NM of torque, the vehicle goes from 0 to 100km per hour in 2.8 seconds to reach the break- neck maximum speed of 390km per hour. Diamond-encrusted LED front lights and other details make this vehicle, one of the most luxuri- W Motors’ Lykan Hypersport 2013, the first hypercar designed in the Middle East, attracted its first buyer on the first public day of the show at the Doha Exhibition Center. RIGHT: The ous cars ever designed. Priced Brabus Widestar 800, based on the 2013 Mercedes-Benz G65 AMG, was purchased for an undisclosed sum on the second day of the expo. at nearly QR13m, its new owner also walked away with a Special Edition Cyrus Klepcy Watch, Show to unveil its latest model, 100km per hour in just over four Both high-profile purchases and exclusive cars, as they turn 2013 Qatar Motor Show, hosted worth almost QR730,000. the Brabus Widestar 800, based seconds. This super-powered are testament to the fact that the to the expo to debut and showcase by the Qatar Tourism Authority Brabus, a high-performance on the 2013 Mercedes-Benz G65 Mercedes was purchased for an Qatar Motor Show has become their latest state-of-the-art mod- with q.media Events and GL aftermarket tuning company, AMG. Featuring a V 12 6.0-litre undisclosed sum on the second day the platform of choice for manu- els, with the increased likelihood Events, will run until today. also chose the 2013 Qatar Motor turbocharged engine, it can hit of the show. facturers worldwide of high-end that they will find a buyer. The THE PENINSULA

WCMC researchers to study Prime Minister arrives in Munich MUNICH: The Prime Minister and Foreign features of 300 types of dates Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani arrived yesterday in the German BY ISABEL OVALLE city of Munich to participate in the forty-ninth One of the biggest findings of the session of the Munich International Security Genomics Laboratory was to discover Conference. QNA DOHA: Qatar-based researchers the difference between a female and a are studying the features of dates male palm, something you can’t usu- to improve the information farmers ally tell for the first five or six years have when cultivating palms. of the tree’s life. Scientists from Weill Cornell The female tree is the one that pro- Medical College (WCMC) in Qatar duces dates. are working on this project. Before distinguishing between male The team has collected 65 varieties and female, the farmer had to plant and has the goal to gather 300. a seed in the ground, fertilise it, and Once the dates are at the lab, the wait six years until it grew to find out team will look into their features such whether or not it would give dates. as length, width, weight and colour. “We did this big study to find the The next task will be to find area of the DNA that controls the the gene responsible for the dates’ gender, so other labs around the world characteristics. can test seeds and, within a week, “We look at the DNA of each know if the plant will give dates or date and discover that whenever not,” added Malek. we see a date that is dark brown, “Ultimately, we’re trying to improve there’s something in the DNA that’s the information that farmers have, for always there as well,” explained instance, if they want big dates, we Joel Malek, Assistant Professor of know what gene controls this feature,” Genetic Medicine and Director of he concluded. the Genomics Laboratory at WCMC In its statement of intent regarding Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have collected 65 varieties in Qatar. the Date Palm Research Programme, of dates for research. The purpose of this work is to learn WCMC said that dates are the most how date palms resist salt water — important agricultural crop in irriga- offer protection to under crops and export product of Qatar, amounting because it does a better job than oth- ble desert lands. are a good source of human nutrition. up to 16,500 metric tonnes in 2003. ers species — and draught. They help combat desertification, Dates are the first agricultural THE PENINSULA FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home National handball team Wise starts Cologne products off online debate to provide tips to fans DOHA: World Innovation shelves at many shops Summit for Education (Wise) has commenced a new online discussion to find methods to during Sport Day fill the existing gap between Some low-income workers use them as intoxicants education and requirements of the job market. BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Qatar’s most success- imitate their icons’ smashes, forehands Distribution Company are the government,” said, a shop- Wise has called experts ful national team, men’s handball and backhands at four mini-tennis allowed to sell alcohol, the lat- keeper in Msheireb area. to share their thoughts and squad, will be in the spotlight at the courts that will soon be placed at the DOHA: Wary of their bad ter requiring a licence which He said that he had heard ideas on education and the Sport Zone, in the second edition of Sport Zone. side effects, many supermar- demands a minimum salary not of reports of workers getting workforce by taking part in the prestigious initiative National Shooting, the sport which made kets in Doha have stopped met by these workers. into serious health problems debates and discussions onT- Sport Day on February 12. Qataris proud after Nasser Al selling cologne products Although there are other due to habitually drinking it. witter, Facebook, LinkedIn The members of the squad, who Attiyah’s bronze medal at the London popular among low-income brands such as Luna, Blue Recently the Ministry of and Wise Community. recently represented the country at 2012 Olympic Games, is attracting workers who use them as Moon and New Moon, Luma Environment announced that The latest Wise web fea- the World Championships in Spain, more and more fans. intoxicant due to their high is preferred by these workers by April 1 this year, it would ture ‘Bridging the Skills Gap’ will reveal to youngsters the secrets In association with the National alcohol content, The Peninsula because it is cheap at QR13. impose new regulations for reflects the findings of the of the sport in a two one-hour ses- Shooting & Archery Federation, all has learnt. It does not have strong fra- the import and sale of alcohol- 2012 Wise Book and includes sions between 9am and 10am and those interested to check their shoot- A random inquiry by grant and instead has a subtle based perfumes like cologne several papers, interviews and 7pm and 8pm. ing accuracy will have a try-out at a this reporter in supermar- smell, so workers take it by to prevent their misuse and videos on equipping people for Young followers of handball will special tent. kets located along the Old mixing it with coke. potential health hazards. the workforce. have the chance to practise in mini- Laser guns will be installed and Airport, Msheireb and Al “Some workers come to “Some supermarkets are Almost 75 million young handball courts and add to excitement. will dare ambitious shooters to hit Asmakh areas — known to us to buy it but I always tell still selling the cologne, though people around the world Organisers are planning to intro- targets. have high concentration of them that we have stopped secretly,” said a shopkeeper in are unemployed according duce a knock-out tournament pro- The venue will stay open from 9am low-income workers — found selling for a long time Old Airport area. to the International Labour vided more than eight teams register. to 9pm, with national team experts’ that one out of 10 supermar- because of news of cases lead- He said that the cologne Organisation. At the same Two of the mega-sites, West Bay performances between 11am and kets surveyed sold Luma, a ing to severe health prob- was never displayed on shelves time employers say they Sport Zone and Corniche, are shap- noon and 6pm and 7pm. popular cologne workers use lems, including damage to at shops for fear of getting have job vacancies that they ing up to welcome citizens who will Power sport weightlifting will not as substitute for alcoholic internal organs such as the checked by Baladiya. cannot fill. So Wise tries to join all-day celebrations across the be missing from the programme at the beverage. kidneys,” said a shopkeeper He said that the cologne examine what change needs country. All activities will last until Sport Zone. “We are not selling that in Al Asmakh. was in demand especially to take place in the education February 16. Although most people believe that (Luma) anymore because some Independent studies have during weekends, but like sector to bridge this skills Apart from athletics, basketball success in weightlifting is connected expatriates from Asian coun- shown that there are poten- others, he wouldn’t sell it just gap and ensure education is 3X3, table tennis and gymnastics to extreme strength, national team tries are drinking them,” said tially harmful chemicals in for profit. equipped to train people for programmes announced recently, four coaches and athletes will demon- a storekeeper of a supermarket many popular fragrances “Workers have turned to the workforce. more popular sports activities have strate people between 11am and in Old Airport Area. which can cause irritabil- drinking this cologne because Wise also explore innova- been finalised. noon and 7pm and 8pm that other For many years, low-income ity, vagueness, muscle pain, they can’t afford alcohol as a tive projects from around the A few weeks after the Doha ATP capacities such as agility, speed and single workers here have asthma, bloating, joint aches, licence is required to buy it,” globe that are transforming Men’s tournament and in parallel with perfect technique equally contribute bought colognes to consume fatigue, sore throat, eye irrita- he added. the way we learn and look at the WTA Women’s Tournament at the to building a notable weightlifting as a replacement for alcohol as tion and gastrointestinal prob- There had been reports of how their approaches are suc- Khalifa International Tennis & Squash athlete. Qatar, like other Muslim coun- lems, among others. people with liquor licence prof- cessfully preparing young and Complex, kids will have the chance to THE PENINSULA tries, does not sanction sale of “It was our decision to stop iting by selling alcohol at exor- old for the world of work. alcohol in retail shops. selling the cologne and not bitant prices. THE PENINSULA Only big hotels and Qatar because of some warning from THE PENINSULA Qatari tourists lead in spending

DOHA: The Arab Congress for Tourism is preparing to host its annual congress this year in Qatar as the country’s citizens spend more on travel and tourism, reported an Arabic daily. CMU-Q teams win competition in Oman Qatari tourists spend an average of $4,100 per day, are followed by Saudi tourists who spend $3360, according to the Arab Congress for Tourism’s DOHA: Two groups of compu- website. ter science programmers from GCC citizens spend 260 percent more than any tourist in the world Carnegie Mellon University only on travelling, while they spend 430 percent above the average of what in Qatar (CMU-Q) beat 24 tourists from other regions of the world spend. teams to win the 2013 Oman THE PENINSULA Collegiate Programming Contest recently held at the Sultan Qaboos University. Held under the patronage of Sayyid Faisal bin Turki bin Mahmoud Al Said, CEO of Oman Brand Management Private schools Unit, teams representing 18 colleges from Oman and the Continued from Page 1 referred to as the voucher system. GCC participated in the five- One example of how the law has Private schools were monitored hour competition. become redundant is that it doesn’t by a separate directorate within The teams of three were given allow private schools to have co- the education ministry before the a set of nine problems to try to education beyond nursery and kin- SEC came into being to prioritize solve in JAVA, C or C++ using a dergarten (KG) levels except with educational reform, and the direc- single computer. special permission from the educa- torate was known for its lenience. They were ranked according tion minister. “The SEC is very strict (com- to the most problems solved. Sources swear the rule wasn’t pared to the now-disbanded private The teams which solved the followed particularly by interna- education directorate) and carries same number of problems were tional schools with western cur- out close monitoring of private ranked based on the time they riculum even before the SEC came schools,” another source told this took. At the end of the compe- into being and given the authority newspaper. tition, the top five teams each to regulate private schools. Many parents, though, doubt the solved four problems. A local social networking site SEC’s role as a regulator, especially Team Brainiacs and speculated last September that of private schools, and say it is Kufta from Carnegie Mellon Computer science programmers from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), who were crowned in there were as many as 26 schools in unable to rein in the school man- University in Qatar finished the Oman Collegiate Programming Contest at the Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. the country that had co-education. agements “that are notorious for first and second, respectively, “These schools have co-education increasing fees at their whims and with the former solving the Talal Al Haddad, Ahmad Al Both CMU-Q teams solved amount of time. Since the prob- from KG to high school,” a com- fancy”. first problem in less than eight Salama and Manoj Reddy. “We each of the four problems in lems are often modelled after ment posted on the site said. Some of them believe a new minutes. hope to do great in the Gulf less than an hour. Collegiate real-world issues, such competi- An education sector source told law could rein in the manage- Team Brainiacs comprised Programming Competition in programming contests pit tions serve as a testing ground this newspaper yesterday, confirm- ments while many say they are not senior students Fahim Dalvi, Abu Dhabi in March as well,” teams of students against each for young computer scientists to ing that SEC rules and regulations optimistic. Anas Halbawi and Baljit Singh, said Reddy, who was elated after other as they work to solve the put their knowledge into action. were in force with regard to pri- Sources in community schools while Team Kufta included the results were announced. most problems in the shortest THE PENINSULA vate schools, that the entire law that are run by the embassies of (Number 7 of 1980) was ignored. the countries concerned, say they “So it is a wise step to have a new are not permitted by the SEC to one in its place that would incorpo- review their fee slabs upwards and rate today’s realities and give the raise them for more than five per- SEC more supervisory authority,” cent a year. Ministry monitoring import Eritrea blocks Al Jazeera said the source. “Overhead costs are going up Another instance of how the due to the general inflation. A DOHA: The Eritrean government has blocked Al existing legislation has lost its rel- major contributor to rising costs of construction materials Jazeera channel in the country, Al Sharq reported evance is that it says that formal is revised wages for our staff. We yesterday. The ban comes in the wake of reports requests to open a private school need to increase staff salaries liter- DOHA: The Ministry a certificate from an It urged companies and that were aired by the Doha-based news network can only be made in the months of ally now and then,” said a source of Environment has authorised laboratory builders to check the about dissident soldiers that seized the Eritrean April and May, not before or after. from a community school. “But we intensified monitor- in the source countries. quality of ghabroo and information ministry in January. Private school owners must be can’t raise our fees more than five ing on suppliers of This is to ensure that limestone they use in In solidarity with the soldiers, Eritreans staged Arabs or they must have a Qatari percent a year.” limestone and ghab- the substances fulfill construction projects. protests in front of their embassies in Cairo, Rome, sponsor, according to the law. The source said private schools roo (black granite), the Qatar Construction Industry sources said London as well as the headquarters of the African It is not allowed by the law for are “privileged” and monitoring by two major substances Specifications (QCS- that many developers Union in Addis Ababa. private schools to admit Qatari stu- the SEC seems to be lax as far as used in concrete mix- 2010), the Ministry are now encouraging the “This (ban) is a reaction to coverage of protests dents and no financial support is their decisions regarding fee raises tures to ensure that said. The Ministry has use of ghabroo, instead against the Eritrean government that were carried to be given to a school that doesn’t are concerned. A community school they meet the Qatari warned against mixing of limestone in con- out in different parts of the world,” according to the either have Arabic curriculum said it is fighting with the SEC building standards and ghabroo and limestone struction projects since Arabic daily. or teach the history and geogra- regarding its decision that stu- specifications. Both the with some harmful sub- it is stronger and more The Eritrean information ministry blocked all Al phy of Qatar. Currently, Qatari dents must be allowed larger space materials are used in stances that can affect durable. “ Limestone Jazeera channels and issued a decree that prevents students are enrolled in as many per capita in the classroom. “This construction of roads the quality of the con- was once widely used anyone in the country from giving access to the news as 32 private schools, many with is restricting our student intake. and buildings in Qatar. crete and lead to cracks in construction of channel to the public. international curriculum, as is evi- We must accommodate more stu- Use of low quality or in roads and buildings in roads and buildings in “The ruling was sent to all government institu- denced from the fact that the state dents,” the source said. adulterated material in due course. Qatar mainly because tions as well as public places such as hotels, res- ‘voucher system’ applies to them. The SEC could not be immedi- concrete could affect the The Ministry said it is locally available. taurants and cafes in different towns and villages,” The government subsidizes ately contacted for comment on the strength and durability that it had intensified Major developers are the report said. the school fees of these students draft law or on the criticisms lev- of the buildings and the inspections on trucks now insisting on the Earlier yesterday, The Prime Minister and Foreign with a financial assistance of up eled by parents about most private roads, the Ministry said carrying the two sub- use of ghabroo, mostly Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor to QR28,000 per student annu- schools being “commercial centers’ in a statement. stances and is conduct- imported from neigh- Al Thani sent a written message to the Eritrean ally. The sums are paid to the con- rather than centers of learning”. All importers of ing laboratory tests on bourng countries,” said President Isaias Afewerki pertaining to the bilateral cerned schools directly and this is THE PENINSULA ghabroo and lime- samples collected from a senior engineer. relations of both countries, QNA reported. stone must produce the market randomly. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FEBRUARY 2, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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Qatar Motor Show is the premier motoring event in the Middle East, showcasing the latest automobiles and performance trends. The third edition of the show unveiled the Arab world’s first high-performance luxury sports car, Lykan Hypersport, from W Motors. Other luxury brands revealed new models such as the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S, Mini Cooper Paceman and Audi R8. FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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HERE is something deeply worrying about the current spate of protests in Egypt. They look Egyptian democrats are the less like a continuation of the revolution that Terupted two years ago and less like expressions of a genuine demand for more freedom and democracy. The army’s unwitting allies mass demonstrations and violence sweeping the country are causing worry because those running amok on the streets are BY NOAH FELDMAN disgruntled and impatient youth who want to bring change disband the constitutional assembly, he president shouldn’t have to share power by use of force. According to some reports, they are gangs of briefly declared himself above the law. just because several hundred thousand hooligans and remnants of the former regime’s security forces HATE to agree with an Egyptian He renounced that position once the protesters don’t like him. Constitutional and police. Egyptians are well aware that if these destabilising general about anything, but constitution had been hastily finalized democracy is built through respect for forces are not reined in, what awaits them is anarchy and Abdelfatah Al-Seesi, who’s also and democratically approved. But before democratic procedures, not by conceding chaos. The warnings are coming from all sides – inside and IEgypt’s defense minister, had a things could settle into normalcy, the to the demands of the mob. point when he warned his countrymen soccer-verdict riots began. Worse, well-meaning protesters are outside. The defence minister warned that at stake is not on Facebook that continued violent pro- There’s every reason to believe that opening to the door to military inter- the future of a government and party but the country itself. test in the streets might lead to collapse. most protesters are sincerely motivated vention — the ultimate form of coun- Western and Arab governments too have started worrying. Ordinary Egyptians have plenty of and truly fear Mursi might become an terrevolution. No better excuse for a Egypt is too important an Arab country to let it plunge into reasons to be frustrated with the gov- Islamist dictator and subvert the most countercoup could be imagined than chaos. In the wider sense, at stake is the future of the region ernment of President Mohammed important democratic revolution of the the democratic government’s failure to Mursi, which has by turns overclaimed Arab Spring. As if to substantiate these control the streets. and that of Arab Spring. A failure of the revolution in Tahrir its authority and underdelivered in fears, Mursi’s response to the grow- A well- known weakness of liberal Square will be deeply disappointing for people in other Arab establishing order. Still, it’s one thing to ing protests has been to assume emer- democracy is the difficulty in standing countries which are still ruled by dictators, who have been engage in mass protest when your target gency powers — a ploy that so far hasn’t up to persistent, mass challenges with- looking at Egypt as a model they can emulate. is a dictatorship — then you are a demo- worked. out violating rights. Al-Seesi’s warning The current fighting is between the Brotherhood-led cratic revolutionary. It’s quite another Yet sincere democrats are making a can be read as a signal that the mili- government and the opposition to use mass protests to try and bring potentially disastrous tactical error in tary would once more consider step- down a democrat- pushing protests to the point of weak- ping in as the “savior” of democracy that comprises of secularists ically elected gov- ening the legitimacy of democratic gov- and the nation. Last time, it proved dif- The and minorities. Such is the ernment that ernment itself. Peaceful protest should ficult to wrest power from them once antipathy between the two that you don’t like. always be legitimate in a democracy. But they took it. This time they would be government a reconciliation is not easy, and When protesters Then you’re run- these protests haven’t been wholly peace- much smarter, and instead of trying ning the risk ful. There have been attacks on hotels, to manipulate electoral outcomes, they positions are hardening each day, try to bring and the making it extremely hard for both of becoming an and the protesters near the Suez Canal probably wouldn’t allow elections to down an elected unwitting agent of threaten the traffic through it. happen at all. opposition sides to compromise. counterrevolution. More disturbing is the sense that the Mursi’s Brotherhood didn’t start the But despite the depth of their government that The protests protesters’ goal is to create disorder that revolution, and one can sympathize with in Egypt are divisions and enmity, it’s time to they dislike and that have raged would force Mursi to resign, a repeat of the protesters’ desire to take it away accept the bitter truth that their distrust, they for days now the Tahrir Square protests that forced from them. The original Tahrir rebels common interest lies in putting in three cities the dictator Hosni Mubarak from office. were in a certain sense more democratic pushing the are challenging along the Suez Whatever one thinks of Mursi, he was than the Brotherhood, and prepared to an end to the current chaos. Both Canal and spilled elected in a relatively free and fair elec- risk everything for their cause. But the country into the government and the opposition democracy itself — over into Tahrir tion. The Brotherhood’s political party meaning of democracy is that you don’t are responsible for precipitating whether they admit Square in Cairo also won a plurality of seats in the legis- always get what you want. Elections are an abyss. the stalemate. The government of it or not. aren’t especially lative election. Taken together with the an imperfect translation of the popular Mohammed Mursi overused his well-focused. In popular ratification of the constitution, will, but they are all we have. power and under-delivered on promises. A more conciliatory Port Said, at least, there have been three national votes with If Egypt’s democrats want to avoid they were touched roughly the same results. That amounts becoming another Pakistan, in which and tolerant approach would have helped and prevented the off by death sentences announced for soc- to as clear a message of democratic legit- democracy is never more than a few crisis from worsening. At the same time, the opposition is cer fans convicted of causing the deaths imacy for Mursi and his party as anyone shots from military dictatorship, they failing to acknowledge the fact that President Mursi has won of other soccer fans. In essence, the pro- ever gets in our complicated world. have just one path available to them: two rounds of democratic elections last year, and therefore tests seem to be focused on dissatisfac- When protesters try to bring down an take a deep breath, go home, and let the has more legitimacy and public support than the previous tion with the Mursi government and his elected government that they dislike and democratically elected government try to regime. It’s undemocratic to overthrow such a government supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood. distrust, they are challenging democracy do its job. Mursi and his government may Mursi hasn’t accomplished much since itself — whether they admit it or not. do well or badly. But as long as they are through violence and demonstrations, especially since the taking office last June. To be fair, he One opposition leader, the Nobel Peace up for re-election in a few years, they will latter has agreed to look into some of the contentious issues. hasn’t been given much chance to govern. Prize laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, have laid the groundwork for democratic The government and the opposition are neither helping When he took the oath, the military was tried to mitigate this interpretation by transition. themselves nor the country by letting reactionary forces still trying to deny the presidency any calling on Mursi to form a national sal- Patriots of Tahrir, ask yourselves: rule the streets. They need to bury their differences, at least real power. Mursi outwitted the army, vation government rather than resign. You may not like Mursi. But would but then, faced with the threat that the That was reasonable. But strictly you really rather have the army? temporarily, to restore order and resuscitate the moribund Egyptian Constitutional Court would speaking, the democratically elected WP-BLOOMBERG economy. There are signs that both sides have begun to see reason. But we need results. The other side Quote of Cyber raiders the day

HEN china was in the process of who have been a pet peeve for the Obama administra- House server and American companies by Chinese transitioning to a superpower, it assured tion in the recent past, is the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). hackers show that the country has relentlessly kept the world of its ‘peaceful rise’. But as the Earlier, the New York Times had reported that Chinese checks on its superpower rival. In a world where it’s The attacks target WEast Asian giant now inches closer to hackers have been penetrating their servers persist- not military conflict, but rather economic and political being the pedestal of economic supremacy, it doesn’t ently over the last four months. According to the NYT, information, that gives a nation the competitive edge, the well-being quite fit the picture of a placid nation. In fact, with these attacks coincided with the publication’s report on China is determined to lead through hook or crook. its uncompromising stance over territorial disputes the massive wealth that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s The US has said that it will take more assertive and peace in our in the South China Sea and East China Sea, China relatives had amassed over the years. And now, even action to thwart Chinese cyber attacks in the future. country. We will has become increasingly assertive in foreign affairs. the WSJ has confirmed that that the cyber targeting If the communist state continues to aggressively And to ward off blows to its economic and political was not to gain any commercial advantage or embez- engage in cyber warfare, then it can definitely result in stand tall and we position and prevent any leaks of information on zle customer information, but was intended to keep a diplomatic row between the two superpowers. But its leadership, the country has been aggressively tabs on the publication’s China coverage. considering how China has dealt with recent territo- will stand together... launching campaigns of cyber espionage. While China has strongly denied any involvement in rial disputes, it’s quite probable that it will not yield its we will get over The latest victim of world-class Chinese hackers, the online transgressions, recent attacks on the White far-reaching cyber surveillance. KHALEEJ TIMES Recep Tayyip Erdogan these. Turkish Prime Minister FEBRUARY 2, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY The maritime Balkans of 21st century

friends and old enemies.” It is also clear In security terms, that the Chinese today possess consider- able economic leverage over Vietnam, to the region is more the extent that one senior Vietnamese official candidly remarked recently that China could simply wreck the Vietnamese brittle than at any economy if it so chose. It would be wrong, however, given ancient resentments, that time since the fall of economic dependency would automati- cally constrain Vietnamese diplomatic or even military action in relation to the Saigon in 1975. South China Sea. The China-Vietnam relationship has BY KEVIN RUDD soured since Chinese ships severed the seismic cables of Vietnamese explora- hese are no ordinary times tory vessels in May 2011 and again in in East Asia. With tensions December 2012. According to Reuters, rising from conflicting ter- Vietnam subsequently stated that as ritorial claims in the East of January 2013 it would deploy civil- China and South China ian vessels supported by marine police Tseas, the region increasingly resembles to stop foreign vessels from violating its a 21st-century maritime redux of the waters, while India, Vietnam’s partner Balkans a century ago — a tinderbox on in some of the explorations, indicated it water. Nationalist sentiment is surging would consider sending naval vessels to across the region, reducing the domestic the South China Sea to protect its inter- political space for less confrontational ests. Meanwhile, China’s Hainan prov- approaches. Relations between China and ince announced that starting in 2013, Japan have now fallen to their lowest ebb provincial maritime surveillance vessels since diplomatic normalisation in 1972, would begin intercepting, searching, and significantly reducing bilateral trade and repelling foreign vessels violating Chinese investment volumes and causing regional territorial seas, including the disputed governments to monitor developments territory. These various statements A soldier stands guard during the Asean summit last November. with growing alarm. Relations between concerning new and radically conflicting China and Vietnam, and between China procedures for the interception of for- and the Philippines, have also deterio- total East Asian trade. On the other hand, While the “static” in Japanese military sides will obviously need to maintain their eign vessels set the stage for significant rated significantly, while key regional the forces of primitive, almost atavistic circles regarding China-related contin- public political positions for domestic rea- confrontation in the year ahead. Vietnam institutions such as the Association of nationalisms are at the same time threat- gency planning has become increasingly sons, while both will need gradually and and China appear to have set themselves Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have ening to pull the region apart. As a result, audible, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who reciprocally to de-escalate the deployment on a collision course, and those who moni- become increasingly polarised. In security the idea of armed conflict, which seems took office in mid-December, has sought of maritime and air assets. This would tor this relationship closely fear a repeat terms, the region is more brittle than at contrary to every element of rational to moderate his public language on China, need to be done according to a schedule of those earlier armed conflicts. any time since the fall of Saigon in 1975. self-interest for any nation-state enjoy- apparently to send a diplomatic mes- negotiated by an intermediary or though To prevent further escalation, Beijing In Beijing, current problems with ing the benefits of such unprecedented sage that he wishes to restore stability their own back channels. If such back- and Hanoi need now to step back from Tokyo, Hanoi, and Manila are top of mind. regional economic dynamism, has now to the relationship. This was reinforced channel negotiations are not already the edge. They should agree to prioritise They dominate both the official media become a terrifying, almost normal part by a conciliatory letter sent from Abe under way (and there is some evidence development of, and agreement on, the and the social media, and the latter have of the regional conversation, driven by to Xi Jinping, China’s new leader, on they may be), then it’s in the interests of long-awaited code of conduct between become particularly vitriolic. They also recent territorial disputes, but animated January 25 during a visit to Beijing by both sides to get the ball rolling. Japan Asean and China on the South China dominate discussions between Chinese by deep-rooted cultural and historical the leader of New Komeito, the ruling should not install any equipment or sta- Sea, including the joint development officials and foreign visitors. The relation- resentments. Contemporary East Asia is Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition part- tion any personnel on the islands, as has of energy projects. Both governments ship with Japan in particular is front and a tale of these two very different worlds. ner. This has been publicly and privately been discussed from time to time in Tokyo, should identify a single project in an area centre in virtually every official conversa- The most worrying fault lines run welcomed in Beijing, as reflected in Xi’s as this would inevitably result in further where both sides claim sovereignty and tion as Chinese interlocutors probe what between China and Japan, and between public remarks the following day. Beijing’s retaliatory action from Beijing, with every begin the practical negotiation of a joint they identify as a profound change in both China and Vietnam. In September 2012, position is that while it wants Japan to prospect of generating a further crisis. If development regime. If this is too dif- the tenor of Japanese domestic politics the Japanese government purchased formally recognise the existence of a ter- these steps could be taken and the situa- ficult, then both sides could consider the and the centrality of China within the from a private owner three islands in ritorial dispute in order to fortify China’s tion then stabilised, perhaps longer-term development of a joint fisheries project in Japanese debate. Beijing does not desire the Senkakus, a small chain of islands political and legal position on the future consideration could be given to inviting an a single defined area, as this would fur- armed conflict with Japan over territorial claimed by both countries (the Chinese of the islands, it also wishes to see the appropriate international environmental ther sidestep sensitive sovereignty issues disputes, but nonetheless makes clear that call the islands the Diaoyu). This caused Senkaku-Diaoyu dispute managed in a agency to exercise environmental man- more acutely connected with resource it has its own red lines that cannot be China to conclude that Japan, which had manner that does not threaten regional agement responsibilities on and around extraction regimes. In other words, crossed for its own domestic reasons, and exercised de facto administrative control security, which would undermine the sta- the islands, where, by informal agreement, rather than wait for the conclusion of a that it is prepared for any contingency. over the islands for most of the last cen- bility necessary to complete its core task national vessels would not go. complex diplomatic negotiation over the Like the Balkans a century ago, riven tury, was now moving toward a more de of economic reform and growth. By contrast, territorial claims in the final text of the code of conduct, start by overlapping alliances, loyalties, and jure exercise of sovereignty. In response, There may therefore be some softening South China Sea are even more com- to build trust by cooperating on a real hatreds, the strategic environment in Beijing launched a series of what it called in the China-Japan relationship for the plex. According to US agencies, Chinese project. If this approach succeeds with East Asia is complex. At least six states “combination punches”: economic retali- immediate period ahead. But diplomatic officials have claimed that the sea con- China and Vietnam, similar joint devel- or political entities are engaged in territo- ation, the dispatch of Chinese maritime and strategic realities appear to remain tains proven oil reserves as high as 213 opment projects could be developed with rial disputes with China, three of which patrol vessels to the disputed areas, joint largely unchanged. The intensity of Abe billion barrels (10 times US reserves, the other claimant states. are close strategic partners of the US. And combat drills among the branches of its and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio though American scientists are more None of this might work. Nationalism there are multiple agencies involved from military, and widespread, occasionally Kishida’s unprecedented mid-January sceptical) and 25 trillion cubic meters might prevail. Policymakers could sim- individual states: In China, for example, violent public protests against Japanese diplomatic offensive involving visits to of gas reserves. The South China Sea ply allow events to run their course, like the International Crisis Group has cal- diplomatic and commercial targets across seven East Asian states demonstrates also accounts for some 10 percent of the they did a century ago. In his recent book, culated that eight different agencies are China. As a result, Japanese exports to that the temperature between Beijing world’s annual fisheries catch. The region The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to engaged in the South China Sea alone. China contracted rapidly in the fourth and Tokyo remains high — just as the is already the scene of deeply disputed War in 1914, historian Christopher Clark Furthermore, these territorial claims — quarter of 2012, and because Japan had late January statement from Tokyo on exploratory activities for deep-sea energy recounts how the petty nationalisms of and the minerals, energy, and marine already become China’s largest trading the establishment of a special Japanese resources. Fisheries are also already the the Balkans combusted with the great- resources at stake — are vast. And while partner, sliding exports alone are likely Coast Guard force of 12 enhanced vessels subject of multiple physical confronta- power politics and failed statesmanship of the US remains mostly neutral, the inter- to be a significant contributive factor in and 600 servicemen specifically dedicated tions between vessels. Furthermore, the time to produce the industrial-scale section between the narrower interests what is projected to be a large contraction to the Senkaku theatre underlines the unlike the Senkaku-Diaoyu, many islands carnage of the First World War. This of claimant states and the broader stra- in overall Japanese economic growth in nature of the challenges lying ahead. The in the South China Sea are already occu- was a time when economic globalisation tegic competition between the US and the same period. problem is that neither side can afford pied, garrisoned, and home to naval bases. was even deeper than it is today, and China is significant and not automatically In mid-December, Japan claimed that domestically to be seen as retreating from Six states plus Taiwan have disputed when the governments of Europe, right containable. Chinese aircraft intruded over Japanese current positions. China believes that territorial claims in the area, though up until 1914, had concluded that a pan- Complicating matters, East Asia airspace above the disputed islands for the Japan has altered the status quo; Japan the largest overlap by far is between European war was irrational and, there- increasingly finds itself being pulled in first time since 1958. After a subsequent believes it has no need to budge because China and Vietnam. The two states have fore, impossible. I believe a pan-Asian war radically different directions. On the one incident, Japan dispatched eight F-15 there is no sovereignty issue in the first already skirmished over their conflict- is extremely unlikely. Nonetheless, for hand, the forces of globalization are bring- fighter planes to the islands. While both place. All of this means that both sides ing claims, in 1974 and 1988; they also those of us who live in this region, fac- ing its peoples, economies, and countries sides have avoided deploying naval assets, remain captive to events on the high seas fought a major border war in 1979. One ing escalating confrontations in the East closer together than at any other time in there is a growing concern of creeping and in the air — events that could quickly senior Vietnamese neatly described the China and South China seas, Europe is history, as reflected in intraregional trade, militarisation as military capabilities are spiral out of control. Sino-Vietnamese relationship in May a cautionary tale very much worthy of which is now approaching 60 percent of transferred to coast guard-type vessels. To prevent this from happening, both 2011 by saying, “The two countries are old reflection. WP-BLOOMBERG How we can end the bloodshed in Syria

collapsing, Islamist groups are have been more impressive if Meanwhile to everyone’s sur- “non-lethal equipment”, but this Israel’s attack on Syria shows how gaining ground, more and more the Swiss had not denied visas prise, on Wednesday the Gulf is sophistry. By supporting one Syrians are dying, and there is no for almost 60 people. Rajaa Al states — not normally big aid- side in an armed uprising and volatile this conflict is. A political breakthrough in sight. “We can- Nasser, a Syrian lawyer from the givers — came up with most of aiding militarisation through field not let a revolution that started National Co-ordination Body for the cash to fund a UN appeal for radios and satellite equipment, as a peaceful and democratic pro- Democratic Change, says a Swiss $1.5bn to help homeless Syrians in Britain has blood on its hands. solution is now urgent. test degenerate into a conflict of official told him the reason was the country and in refugee camps Giving generously to feed and militias,” said Laurent Fabius, the political. Haytham Manna, the abroad. Britain added $50m. house homeless civilians will BY JONATHAN STEELE Moaz Al Khatib, who leads the French Foreign Minister, even leader of the NCB’s foreign wing, Important though this is, British help, but Syrians would be better Syrian National Coalition —the as he talked of more aid on the believes France asked the Swiss ministers have been as silent as served by intelligent politics than he motives behind group of exiles who support armed battlefield. to block insiders who might punc- their friends in the Gulf on the charity — an embargo on arms to Israel’s attack on Syria intervention against the Syrian Several civic groups that reject ture the myth that the West’s cli- real cause of the humanitarian either side, and serious efforts to on Wednesday are still government and are backed by the armed struggle were equally ents represent all Syrian opinion. disaster. To listen to them one persuade rebels and government Tas obscure as the nature Western and Gulf Arab states — pessimistic at a meeting in Geneva. The Swiss foreign ministry was would think the Syrian govern- that military victory is a delusion. of the target. But two things seem now advocates talks with Basher Theirs is the voice of Syria’s secu- not available for comment. ment bears all the blame. The Syrian National Coalition clear. It was related to Israel’s Al Assad’s people. This is not the lar intelligentsia, who oppose for- Assad’s non-violent opponents In 2011, Syrian forces fired live depends on foreign support. Now long war with Hezbollah in view of French, British and US eign military intervention and agonise most over whether to ammunition at unarmed demon- is the time for the West to tell its Lebanon rather than any desire leaders or most of Khatib’s Syrian favour a ceasefire and a negoti- accept his recently renewed offer strators, and their use of artillery friends to work with Brahimi on a to intervene in the fighting in colleagues, who talk vaguely of a ated solution on the lines that of a “national dialogue”. Several and aerial bombing has frequently ceasefire, and for Russia and Iran Syria. Yet the attack was also a political outcome but only mean Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab have spent years in prison and been disproportionate, as Russian to make the same case to Assad. reminder that Syria’s turmoil is Assad’s unilateral surrender. League mediator, is trying to bro- distrust the government. But ministers have also said. But the Two ceasefire attempts made lit- having dangerously unpredictable Their unrealistic line was on ker. Because they do not support as casualties go on rising, those crisis has deepened because of the tle headway last year because the consequences across the region. display again on Monday, when the Western line, they tend to be oppositionists who favour negotia- weapons and logistical help given rebels and their sponsors did not Finding a viable political solu- France hosted the so-called ignored by foreign politicians. tions won out in Geneva, calling by Arab and Western govern- take them seriously. A far more tion is therefore all the more Friends of Syria. Its analysis was Many live in Syria. Indeed, for talks on a new constitution ments. William Hague may pro- sustained effort is needed now. urgent. So it was good to hear that gloomy. State institutions are their contingent in Geneva would and a transitional government. claim that Britain only supplies THE GUARDIAN FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Bahraini court Suicide bomber hits US embassy in Turkey jails policeman ‘Left-wing terrorist organisation’ blamed as one Turkish guard killed, several wounded for protester’s

ANKARA: A suicide bomber Turkey which in the past have death: Report suspected to be a militant from been blamed on Kurdish mili- an outlawed leftwing group blew tants, leftist extremists or Al ABU DHABI: A court in himself up at the US embassy Qaeda linked groups. Bahrain sentenced a police- in Ankara yesterday, killing Friday’s bombing came on the man to seven years in prison a Turkish security guard and last day of Hillary Clinton’s ten- for the fatal shooting of a Shia wounding several other people, ure as US secretary of state and protester during the political officials said. a week after Nato declared that a unrest in the kingdom in 2011, The bombing at a security battery of US-made Patriot mis- the state news agency BNA roadblock near the entrance to siles went operational on Turkey’s reported yeserday. the highly-fortified embassy in an border with war-torn Syria. Ali Abdulhadi Al Mushaima upmarket area of the capital was “The attacks target the well- was the first person to die in the the latest in a series of attacks on being and peace in our coun- violence that erupted in staunch American missions in the Muslim try,” Prime Minister Recep US ally Bahrain last February world. Tayyip Erdogan said in televised when thousands of Bahrainis, US Vice-President Joe Biden, remarks. “We will stand tall and mostly from its Shia majority, on a visit to Germany, said the we will stand together... we will took to the street demanding attack had been “characterised get over these.” democratic change in the Sunni- by our embassy as a terrorist The force of the blast damaged led monarchy. attack”. nearby buildings in the Cankaya “In dealing with one of the Turkey’s Interior Minister neighbourhood of the capital instances of rioting in the (Daih) Muammer Guler told report- where many other state insti- area, the accused fired from a ers that the bomber blew him- tutions and embassies are also birdshot gun, injuring the victim self up at a staff entrance to the located. with wounds that claimed his life,” compound. In Ankara, police cordoned off Nawaf Hamza, head of the Public “We lost one of the three the area around the embassies, Prosecution’s Special Investigation guards at the entrance, while the while a police helicopter hovered Unit, was quoted as saying. two others survived with injuries,” in the air and armed US Marines The death of Mushaima and he said, adding that a female jour- patrolled the embassy roof. another protester, Fadhel Salman nalist was also seriously wounded. Television footage showed the Matrook, prompted Bahrain’s He said the bomber was wounded journalist with a blood- King H M Hamad bin Isa Al believed to be a member of an ille- stained face being carried into an Turkish police forensic experts inspect the area outside the entrance of the US embassy in Ankara after an Khalifa to give a televised speech gal “left wing terrorist organisa- ambulance on a stretcher. explosion, yesterday. in which he said a committee tion”, without elaborating. US Ambassador Francis would investigate the killings. The attack came two weeks Ricciardone vowed to work with In September, the US ambas- a close US ally and Nato member, 2003, four suicide car-bomb attacks An independent commission after a major nationwide crack- Turkey to fight terror, confirming sador to Libya and three other has become a fierce critic of the on two Istanbul synagogues, the said 35 people died during the down on the Revolutionary the death of the Turkish security people were killed when dozens regime of President Bashar Al British consulate and British bank unrest and two months of martial People’s Liberation Front guard and saying: “The compound of heavily-armed Al Qaeda-linked Assad since the uprising erupted HSBC killed 63 people, including law that followed, but the oppo- (DHKP-C), a Marxist group is secure.” militants overran the US consu- in March 2011 and called for the Britain’s consul general. They were sition puts that number at more blamed for several acts of ter- “We will continue to fight ter- late in the eastern city of Benghazi deployment of the Patriot missiles claimed by an Al Qaeda cell. than 80. ror in Turkey since the late rorism together. From today’s nd a nearby CIA-run annex. after several cross-border attacks. Yesterday’s attack also comes The government, which brought 1970s, including suicide attacks, event it is clear we both suffer French Foreign Minister Western missions in Turkey as the Turkish government is in troops from Saudi Arabia and but Guler did not confirm it was from this terrible terror prob- Laurent Fabius condemned the have been targeted in the past. negotiating with leaders of the other Gulf states to help quell the responsible. lem,” he told reporters. “We are Turkish bombing while German In July 2008, three gunmen and outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ unrest, rejects the figures and has There was no immediate claim determined... only more to col- Chancellor Angela Merkel offered three Turkish policemen were Party to resolve the three-decade accused opposition groups of being of responsibility for what is the laborate together until we defeat her sympathies to the victims. killed in an attack outside the US Kurdish conflict. linked to Shia power Iran. latest of many bloody attacks in this problem.” Predominantly Muslim Turkey, consulate in Istanbul. In November AFP REUTERS

Six killed as Lebanon army Protesters throw petrol bombs at Mursi’s palace CAIRO/PORT SAID: of a building in the compound throwing youths. However there across the country. “There is no Mursi imposed a curfew and Opponents of Egypt’s President appeared to catch fire. were no reports of serious blood- God but God and Mohammed emergency rule in Port Said clashes with Mohammed Mursi hurled pet- The head of the Republican shed by nightfall. Mursi is the enemy of God,” they and two other canal cities on rol bombs at his palace yester- Guard, which protects the pal- Protests marking the second chanted. Brandishing portraits of Sunday, a move that only seems gunmen day as protesters returned to ace, condemned the attack and anniversary of the uprising that those killed in recent days, they to have added to the sense of local the streets of Egypt demanding what he described as attempts toppled Mubarak have killed shouted: “We will die like they did, grievance. BEIRUT: Four Lebanese sol- his overthrow after the deadli- to climb the compound walls and nearly 60 people since January 25, to get justice!” Mohamed Ahmed, 26, protest- diers and two gunmen were est violence of his seven months storm one of its gates. In a state- prompting the head of the army For the Port Said marchers, ing at the presidential palace, killed in clashes in the country’s in power. ment to the state news agency, he to warn this week that the state yesterday was also the first anni- said: “I am here because I want Bekaa Valley yesterday after Youths threw about two dozen urged the protesters to keep their was on the verge of collapse. versary of a soccer stadium riot my rights, the ones the revolution militants attacked a Lebanese petrol bombs and launched fire- demonstration peaceful. Men dressed in mourning black that killed 70 people last year. called for and which were never army unit, security sources works at the outer wall of the Earlier there were scuffles in marched through the Suez Canal Death sentences handed down achieved.” said. presidential compound in Cairo as the central Tahrir Square, focal city of Port Said, scene of the last Saturday against 21 Port Said Protesters also marched in Fighting was continuing in night fell and thousands of peace- point of the revolution that over- worst bloodshed of the past nine men over the riots helped fuel the other cities. In Alexandria they the area, near the northeastern ful demonstrators had dispersed. threw authoritarian president days, chanting and shaking their past week’s violence there, which blocked major roads and staged a town of Arsal, the sources said, Police fired water cannon and Hosni Mubarak two years ago. fists in one of the protests that saw dozens shot dead in clashes sit-in on the railway. close to the border with Syria tear gas at the crowd. The roof Police fired tear gas at stone brought thousands to the streets with police. REUTERS where rebels are fighting to oust President Bashar Al Assad. The Lebanese army released a statement confirming the deaths of two soldiers, including an officer, and had cordoned off the Israel media warns of area. Some residents said the clash broke out after the army entered the area to arrest a suspected conflict with Syria member of the hardline anti- Assad Islamist group Jabhat Al JERUSALEM: Israeli media could be considered weakness by Nusra, who is believed to travel yesterday warned that an Hezbollah, so we should expect frequently between Lebanon and alleged air strike on a con- some form of response, even if not Syria. voy carrying arms from Syria immediately and not necessarily But one resident, who asked to Lebanon’s Hezbollah could a broad rocket and missile attack to remain anonymous due to the set off a chain reaction, and on Israel,” defence commentator sensitivity of the issue, said he reported troops on high alert in Amos Harel wrote in the left- knew the wanted man and said the country’s north. leaning Haaretz daily. he said was not a fighter, but a Maariv daily reported that “The Hezbollah convoy, which father of seven and a washing the Israeli military moved a according to foreign reports was machine repair man who also third battery of its vaunted Iron attacked from the air while trav- helped Syrian rebels in a peace- Dome missile defence system elling from Syria to the Bekaa ful way. “He is also an activist who to the northern Galilee region Valley in Lebanon, laden with helps the Syrian revolution,” he on Thursday, joining two oth- explosives, will not be the last,” said. ers deployed from the south on Nahum Barnea wrote in Yediot Syrian rebels have hidden and Monday, one to the Haifa area Aharonot. regrouped in towns and villages and the other near the border “It would seem, from a pessi- on the mountainous Lebanese side with Lebanon. mistic view, that we are on the of the poorly demarcated border “The Iron Dome system has way to a military confrontation during the revolt, which started been deployed in the north,” on at least one of the two north- with peaceful protests but turned an army spokesman said, with- ern fronts,” he added, referring violence after a crackdown. out commenting on numbers or to Israel’s borders with Syria and Syria’s army has lobbed mor- A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his rifle during clashes in the Haresta neighbourhood of Damascus, yesterday. location. Lebanon. tars over the border and even The spokesman insisted that The top-selling paper’s front crossed into its smaller neighbour the siting of the batteries was page said that the army’s north- to fight rebels. Syrian troops have Russia, UN downplay Syria talks “routine.” ern command had declared a also shot civilian refugees fleeing There was still no official state of high alert, but the mili- violence. Israeli comment on Syrian claims tary spokesman’s office refused to The civil war in Syria has MOSCOW: Moscow and the Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Vice Biden, Alkhatib and Lavrov. that Israeli warplanes bombed a confirm or deny this. divided Lebanon, with some United Nations played down President Joe Biden and UN envoy Russian Deputy Foreign military site near Damascus on The Syrian army said an Israeli Sunni Muslim groups calling for reports that Syria’s opposition Lakhdar Brahimi at a security Minister Gennady Gatilov said Wednesday or on separate reports strike early on Wednesday targeted supporting the majority-Sunni leader would hold a joint meet- conference in the German city. Lavrov was not scheduled to take that its aircraft struck a weapons a “scientific research centre” near uprising against Assad’s minority ing with the UN Syria envoy But a UN official and a sen- part in expanded talks. convoy along the Syria-Lebanon Damascus, with local residents rule. Other factions say Lebanon and officials from the US and ior Russian diplomat said there “Media reports of a meeting in border. telling it was a non-conventional should stay out of the crisis. Russia at a security conference no plans for them all to meet Munich in the format of Lavrov- Newspapers, however, seemed weapons research centre. Rebel fighters have clashes in Munich today. together. “The UN special envoy Biden-Brahimi and Syrian oppo- to have little doubt on what Israel had frequently warned in the past with the Lebanese Syrian opposition sources said is not involved in any trilateral sition representative Alkhatib do had happened or the likely that if Syria’s stockpile of chemi- army, which has historical ties to yesterday that Syrian National meetings,” a UN official said in not correspond with reality,” he consequences. cal weapons fell into the Hezbollah Damascus. Coalition President Moaz Alkhatib Munich, adding that Brahimi said. “Complete restraint over the hands, this would be a casus belli. REUTERS would meet Russian Foreign planned separate meetings with REUTERS long term to Israel’s actions AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Blast at Mexico oil firm headquarters kills 32 Experts investigate tragedy; more than 121 injured

MEXICO CITY: Rescuers dug Pemex and attract more outside A marine said yesterday morn- through mounds of rubble for investments to the state monop- ing that rescue dogs had not survivors yesterday after 32 oly, which has suffered deadly detected any people in the rub- people were killed in a mysteri- industrial accidents as recently ble. “We were waiting all night to ous explosion at the headquar- as last year. assist in a major emergency that ters of Mexico’s state-owned oil Officials said the blast will not did not materialise because, for- giant Pemex. interrupt production at Pemex, the tunately, it appears that almost Hundreds of firefighters, police world’s fourth-largest crude pro- everybody was taken out,” a mili- and soldiers aided by dogs have ducer with an output around 2.5 tary nurse said. toiled since the blast ripped million barrels per day. Survivors Floodlights shined on the rub- through an annex of the 54-floor described an earthquake-like rum- ble and two cranes were brought tower on Thursday, injuring 121 ble that shook the floor and shat- to help rescuers in hard hats and people and leaving concrete, com- tered windows. The blast heavily surgical masks look for survivors. puters and office furniture strewn damaged the ground floor and mez- The search focused on the base- on the ground. zanine of the annex, and witnesses ment. One was found almost six Pemex Director General Emilio said a roof connecting the annex to hours after the blast, which took Lozoya Austin said 20 women and the tower collapsed. place around 2140 GMT. 12 men died in the incident, while Mexican Red Cross national coor- Interior Minister Miguel Angel 52 more people remain hospital- dinator Isaac Oxenhaut said rescu- Osorio Chong said the goal of the ised. The Mexican Congress held ers will scour the site “centimetre by probe was to “produce precise, a minute of silence. centimetre until we are absolutely trustworthy and convincing data As experts investigated the sure that no one is in there”. The to find out the origin and cause tragedy, Lozoya Austin refused to area is “dangerous to work in,” he of the disaster.” The explosion answer questions about whether said, adding that the search could sent shocked employees pouring an attack was to blame, saying be completed by the end of the day. out of the complex beneath a pil- “we won’t speculate, we won’t get Thousands of people work in lar of black smoke, some carry- ahead of ourselves.” the Pemex complex, but officials ing wounded people out on office A civil protection spokesman said the area hit by the blast has chairs in a city accustomed and said that witnesses had reported four levels and housed 200 to 250 equipped to handle earthquakes. a gas build-up in an electricity employees. At least six ambu- “We had two minutes to leave supply room, but it was unclear lances were at the scene in case the building. I was headed to the whether it was the source of the any people were found, while pharmacy when the windows disaster. The blast erupted amid police partially reopened traffic broke. It was a deafening noise,” Police and rescue workers stand outside a damaged part of the headquarters of state-owned oil giant Pemex in a debate over plans by President on the heavily-traveled avenue in Astrid Garcia Trevino, who Mexico City, yesterday. RIGHT: Relatives of Pemex workers outside the premises. Enrique Pena Nieto to modernise front of the complex. worked in the annex, said. AFP

Obama’s Energy Secretary to step down

Aussie DJs won’t WASHINGTON: US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has served Hollande to visit Mali today under President Barack Obama since 2009, is stepping down, the face royal hoax White House said yesterday. Obama praised Chu for helping him TIMBUKTU: President president Dioncounde Traore, who Al Qaeda linked radicals. “move America towards real energy independence,” in a statement Francois Hollande prepared to will visit Timbuktu together, will Rights groups have reported call charges announcing Chu’s departure. “As a Nobel Prize winning scientist, visit Mali as French-led troops then travel to the capital, Bamako, summary executions by both the Steve brought to the Energy Department a unique understand- worked yesterday to secure the for a working lunch, Traore’s office Malian army and the Islamists. LONDON: British prosecu- ing of both the urgent challenge presented by climate change and last Islamist stronghold in the said on Twitter. The trip comes as Human Rights Watch said tors said yesterday that two the tremendous opportunity that clean energy represents for our north after a lightning offensive troops are gathered at the gates of Islamists were implicated in the Australian DJs will not face economy,” Obama noted. Chu is the latest of Obama’s cabinet to against the extremists. the rebels’ last stronghold, Kidal, execution of at least seven Malian charges over a hoax call to the announce his departure, following in the footsteps of Secretary of Hollande, whose surprise deci- poised to secure the sandy north- soldiers, slitting their throats or hospital treating Prince William’s State Hillary Clinton, Defence Decretary Leon Panetta, Treasury sion to intervene in Mali three eastern outpost after capturing its shooting them in the mouth. It also pregnant wife Catherine, after Secretary Timothy Geithner, Labour Secretary Hilda Solis, and weeks ago has won broad sup- airport Wednesday before being said at least 13 suspected Islamist which a nurse was found hanged. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. port at home, will visit the former delayed by a sandstorm. supporters in the central garri- The Crown Prosecution Service French colony today with Defence The French-led campaign has son town of Sevare were shot and said there was no evidence to sup- Russian rocket falls into sea Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and claimed a rapid succession of vic- dumped into wells, a report cor- port a charge of manslaughter Development Minister Pascal tories in key Islamist strongholds roborated by other rights groups. over the death of nurse Jacintha MOSCOW: A rocket carrying a communications satellite suf- Canin, his office said. taken over after a March coup in These abuses took place as the Saldanha, and that they would fered engine trouble and plunged into the Pacific Ocean shortly Hollande will travel first to Bamako paved the way for the Islamists seized Konna, north not be able to extradite the pair after launch yesterday, Russian news agencies reported. The the fabled city of Timbuktu, rebels to seize an area as large of Sevare, in a push into gov- for data protection offences. unsuccessful launch of the Intelsat-27 satellite was one of several where according to the Malian as Texas. But the joy of citizens ernment-held territory which It said that while misguided setbacks for Russia’s space programme in recent years, including presidency he will meet with throwing off the yoke of brutal sparked France’s surprise inter- and with tragic consequences failed satellite launches and an unsuccessful mission to study the troops and visit the 700-year-old Islamist rule, under which they vention on January 11 amid fears “the telephone call was intended Mars moon Phobos. The Zenit-3SL rocket carrying the satel- mud mosque of Djingareyber, a were denied music and television the entire country could become as a harmless prank”. Radio hosts lite suffered engine failure shortly after liftoff. Intelsat-27 was to Unesco World Heritage site, and and threatened with whippings, a haven for terrorists. In Konna, Mel Greig and Michael Christian provide services for media, government and other customers in the Ahmed Baba library, where amputations and execution, has another five people were “disap- posed as Queen Elizabeth II, the Americas and Europe. Islamists burned priceless ancient been accompanied by a grim peared”, their relatives and neigh- William’s father Prince Charles, manuscripts before fleeing. backlash against light-skinned bours told Human Rights Watch. and one of the queen’s corgi dogs Tough ex-New York mayor Ed Koch dies Hollande and interim Malian citizens seen as supporters of the AFP when they called the private King Edward VII’s Hospital in London NEW YORK: Ed Koch, the tough, fast-talking mayor of New York in early December. in the turbulent 1980s, died yesterday, aged 88. Koch had been fac- Indian-born Saldanha inadvert- ing heart and other health problems. The current mayor, Michael Merkel, Biden hold talks ently put them through to Kate’s Bloomberg, praised Koch as a “tireless, fearless and guileless civic UK detective jailed room where another employee leader” for his role in rescuing New York from the brink of finan- revealed details of Kate’s recov- cial collapse. He ordered flags to be lowered to half-mast. Koch’s over Murdoch ery from severe morning sickness, greatest success was in tough financial management during his which were then broadcast by three terms between 1978 and 1989. More than anything Koch is tabloid leak offer their Sydney-based radio station. remembered for his rough and colourful New Yorker style. “How’m An inquest heard that I doin’?” was his trademark greeting to voters. LONDON: A senior British Saldanha, a mother of two, was counter-terrorism police officer found hanged in staff accommo- Child hostage drama enters fourth day was jailed yesterday after becom- dation at the hospital several days ing the first person to be con- later and there were no suspicious WASHINGTON: A hostage drama involving a five-year-old boy victed following a massive police circumstances over her death. dragged into its fourth day yesterday, with the abductor holding investigation into alleged phone- She also had marks on her wrist. the child in an underground bunker in the southern US state of hacking centred on Rupert Malcolm McHaffie, Deputy Alabama. The motive of the abduction in the town of Midland Murdoch’s British newspapers. Head of Special Crime at the City remained unclear, said Kevin Cook, spokesman for the Detective Chief Inspector Crown Prosecution Service, said Alabama State Troopers. The hostage-taker has been identified April Casburn, 53, was jailed for police had handed them a file on in US media reports as Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired 15 months for misconduct in a the case and asked advice about trucker. Authorities say he stopped a school bus on Tuesday and public office after she was found whether a prosecution should demanded that several children be turned over to him. When the guilty last month of offering to be brought. “Having carefully driver defended the kids, the assailant shot and killed him, and sell details about the phone-hack- reviewed the evidence currently took away one boy. ing inquiry to Murdoch’s News of available we have concluded that the World tabloid. “It was ... a German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) with US Vice President Joe there is no evidence to support a Hitmen found guilty of killing boy corrupt attempt to make money Biden at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. They charge of manslaughter,” he said LONDON: out of sensitive and potentially held talks, which focused on efforts to tackle high deficits and the in a statement. Two British hitmen who stabbed to death an innocent very damaging information,” said AFP schoolboy by mistake in what the prosecution described as an act of prospects of recovery in the global economy. Justice Adrian Fulford. “staggering incompetence” were found guilty of murder yesterday. Casburn called the News of the Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were both heroin addicts World on September 11, 2010, who were paid £1,000 ($1,600) each to murder a middle-aged family when police were at the early man who owed money to a shady businessman in the Welsh capital stages of examining claims jour- Cardiff. But the pair — high on drugs and wearing balaclavas — nalists from the paper had ille- WSJ says also hit by Chinese hackers went to the wrong house and murdered Aamir Siddiqi by mistake. gally accessed the voicemails of The 17-year-old was brutally hacked down on the doorstep of his mobile phones in a bid to find WASHINGTON: The Wall suggested that Chinese spying on infiltrated computer systems and home, and when his desperate parents tried to save him, they were stories. Prosecutors said she had Street Journal (WSJ) has become US media has become a “wide- stolen staff passwords over the also attacked. The jury at Swansea Crown Court yesterday con- phoned asking for money in an the second major US media organ- spread phenomenon.” past four months. The effort was victed them unanimously of all charges. attempt to undermine the inves- isation to accuse Chinese hackers “Evidence shows that infiltra- particularly focused on the emails tigation because of her perception of targeting its computers in an tion efforts target the monitor- of Shanghai bureau chief David Bolshoi drops major ballet premiere that she had been wronged and apparent effort to spy on journal- ing of the Journal’s coverage of Barboza, the newspaper said. sidelined by police colleagues. ists covering China. China, and are not an attempt to The Times said hackers stole MOSCOW: Russia’s Bolshoi ballet yesterday postponed one of its She denied asking for pay- The announcement came a day gain commercial advantage or to corporate passwords and targeted most eagerly anticipated premieres of the year, a new version of ment, and said her intention was after The New York Times said misappropriate customer infor- the computers of 53 employees, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, after the acid attack on its to raise the alarm over what she hackers, possibly connected to mation,” said a statement from including former Beijing bureau artistic director Sergei Filin. The Bolshoi had invited the British viewed as a waste of counter- China’s military, had infiltrated Journal parent Dow Jones, a unit chief Jim Yardley, who is now the choreographer Wayne McGregor to choreograph an entirely new terrorism resources on hacking, its computers in response to its of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Times’s South Asia bureau chief ballet to Stravinsky’s iconic score which this year marks 100 when they should have been con- expose of the vast wealth amassed The Journal gave no timeline based in India. The newspaper years since its premiere by the Ballet Russes in Paris. The ballet centrating on preventing attacks by a top leader’s family. for the attacks but said a network said Bloomberg News was also was due to have premiered in late March in a festival of dance in the run-up to the anniversary The Journal reported that overhaul to bolster security had targeted by Chinese hackers, after celebrating the 100th anniversary of the The Rite of Spring, the of the September 11, 2001, attacks the attacks were “for the appar- been completed on Thursday. publishing a report in June on the kind of innovative programming championed by Filin. on the United States. ent purpose of monitoring the On Wednesday, the Times wealth accumulated by relatives AGENCIES REUTERS newspaper’s China coverage” and reported that hackers had of Xi Jinping. AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia / Philippines

Police vigilance Death row man First witness spared by Saudi after payment testifies in of blood money MANILA: A Filipino sen- tenced to death by beheading in Saudi Arabia for killing a man he said tried to sexually abuse Arroyo trial him is to walk free after blood money was paid to the victim’s family, officials said yesterday. Civic polls not rigged: Ex-official Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza is expected to be released after more MANILA: The Commission on midterm elections. After the than 12 years in prison following Elections (Comelec) yesterday hearing, Santos told reporters the Saudi government’s decision presented its first witness in the that the testimony of the witness to pay SR2.3m ($615,000) to the trial of former president and has not proven any tampering of victim’s family, Vice-President now Pampanga Representative election results as alleged in the Jejomar Binay said. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, co- information. “I am glad to announce that accused, former Maguindanao “As far as the defence is con- our compatriot has been spared governor Andal Ampatuan Sr cerned, the testimony is nothing, from the death penalty,” Binay and former poll official Lintang it’s zero” he said. said in a statement. The remain- Bedol, on charges of electoral Santos clarified there is noth- ing $245,000 of the compensation sabotage. ing irregular in the separation of sought by the victim’s family was Susan Cabanban, former results of the local and national raised by Lanuza’s relatives, he municipal election officer of SK election. “The 2007 was a syn- Policemen from the Special Weapons And Tactics of the Pasay district secure a local bank during routine added. Pendaton town in Maguindanao, chronised election for both the security measures in Pasay City, south of Manila, yesterday. Police visibility is increased after a spate of The Saudi embassy in Manila said there was no tampering of local and national candidates,” burglaries in shopping malls and money remittance centres in Mega Manila in a month. confirmed the deal, saying in a election returns at the municipal he said. The court ordered the statement that Riyadh “has paid level but the results in national continuation of testimony of the balance of the blood money”. voting of the May 2007 elections Cabanban on February 7. Under the Saudi legal system, went missing. The party-list Sanlakas, mean- acceptance of blood money leads Under direct examination, while, urged the court to convict ‘Phosphorus used in Myanmar raid’ to the signing of a waiver by the Cabanban told the court that Arroyo in the electoral sabotage victim’s family signifying forgive- someone from the provincial case. “The best way to clean elec- ness, Binay’s office said. capitol told her that the results tions is to convict and punish YANGON: An independent The pre-dawn raid on protest proclaimed tolerance of freedom Lanuza, a 39-year-old of the national elections would election saboteurs. Failing to do investigation into a crack- camps at the Chinese-backed of expression. draughtsman, went to work in be canvassed at the capitol of the so would encourage unscrupu- down on a copper mine protest mine in Monywa in northern Opponents are calling for work Saudi Arabia in 1995. He was sen- province. “I did not recognise the lous politicians to keep on cheat- in Myanmar that left dozens Myanmar in November was the at the mine — a joint venture tenced to death after he admit- voice but out of fear I complied,” ing,” Sanlakas spokesman James injured has found that phospho- toughest clampdown on demon- between Chinese firm Wanbao ted stabbing his victim to death she said in Tagalog. Miraflor said. rus was used by security forces, strators since a reformist govern- and military-owned Myanmar in 2000. In the trial presided over by Sanlakas also called on the according to a group of lawyers. ment came to power in early 2011. Economic Holdings — to be sus- However, Binay said another Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay prosecution to take its case A canister found at the crack- Activists said about 100 people pended to allow environmental Filipino death-row prisoner, Regional Trial Court Branch 112, against Arroyo seriously to down site was sent to a labora- were injured in the crackdown. and social impact studies. Joselito Zapanta, is expected to be Cabanban said the separate sub- send a strong message against tory overseas for tests, said Thein Some suffered severe burns. On Tuesday more than 1,000 beheaded soon unless more than mission of the local and national electoral corruption. The group Than Oo, a member of the net- The government has since apol- people, including local villagers, $800,000 in blood money is paid to results was irregular since they also expressed support for the work of lawyers that conducted ogised to senior Buddhist clerics marched to Wanbao’s offices in the family of his Sudanese land- should be canvassed together. Comelec in its fight for electoral the probe. over injuries sustained by monks Monywa in a protest to call for lord, who he murdered in 2009. Defence counsel Benjamin justice. “The result said it contained who were at the forefront of the answers two months after the The construction worker won Santos objected to the testimony “It is not enough that we keep 25 percent phosphorus,” he said, protest. crackdown. a four-month stay of execution in of the witness that there were the institution of elections clean. speaking on Thursday. “It can President Thein Sein’s office About 400 police were deployed mid-November to give him more irregularities in the process. We have to create a public lesson cause serious injuries. It’s for mili- initially said that tear gas and but the rally ended peacefully, time to raise the amount but is Santos urged the court to strike out of those who besmirched it in tary use not for civilian forces.” smoke bombs were used against according to activist Ye Yint still believed to be a long way short out the testimony from the court the past,” Miraflor said. It was not possible to ver- the protesters, but denied allega- Kyaw. of raising the required funds. records. Sanlakas also urged the public ify the claim and there was no tions by local media that a form “We just want to raise atten- Labour rights monitor Gary Mupas, however, sustained the not to vote into office members of immediately comment from the of chemical weapon was deployed. tion before the investigation com- Martinez, who runs Migrante testimony of Cabanban and ruled the Arroyo family. On the other authorities. Chinese-backed projects to mission releases its report. We International, a migrant work- that it would remain on record. hand, Arroyo sought the suspen- The group of lawyers said it had tap Myanmar’s abundant nat- will wait and see whether the ers’ rights group, said about Cabanban was the first of more sion of trial of the $357,000 civil sent the findings to opposition ural resources have sparked commission works in the inter- 125 Filipinos were on death row than 50 witnesses lined up against suit filed against her by some mem- leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is resentment among local resi- ests of the people or not,” Ye Yint abroad — most of them in China Arroyo and her co-accused in bers of the so-called “Morong 43.” heading a separate parliamentary dents, who have been testing Kyaw said. on drug convictions. the alleged cheating in the 2007 THE PHILIPPINE STAR probe into the issue. the new reformist government’s AFP AFP

Hong Kong Japan premier vows new statement on Second World War in bid to stop TOKYO: Hawkish Prime others, have repeatedly called for Tomiichi Murayama was seen as suffering to many countries, par- Japan has been judged harshly by run on baby Minister Shinzo Abe said yes- Tokyo to face up to its bellicose a key step in what many Asian ticularly in Asia. The Abe cabinet history. terday he intends to release a past and make proper amends for nations say was Japan finally shares that recognition with past They say Tokyo should stop new statement on Japan’s atti- its 20th century warring. starting to come to terms with cabinets.” kowtowing to demands for self- formula milk tude to the Second World War, Yesterday, Abe revealed only its brutal history. In a possible hint the statement abasement and that Beijing and just a day after unveiling plans that he will revisit the issue at The statement said Japan may come in 2015, he said: “The Seoul ought to move past wartime HONG KONG: Hong Kong to revamp the US-imposed pac- some point in the future, and “through its colonial rule and so-called Murayama statement events. introduced measures yester- ifist constitution. gave no insight into any new aggression, caused tremendous was issued to commemorate 50 Observers say holding out the day to tackle a shortage of baby The nationalist premier, who declaration. damage and suffering to the peo- years after the war, and 60 years chance of a historical reassess- milk formula as food-safety- swept to power on promises of “I would like to announce a ple of many countries, particularly after the war the (Junichiro) ment without offering anything conscious mainland Chinese a more robust diplomacy that future-orientated statement that to those of Asian nations”, adding Koizumi administration issued a concrete could be a gambit by Abe people flock to the city to stock will stand up to China, has long will suit the 21st century,” Abe the premier felt “deep remorse” statement.” to keep his base onside. up on supplies ahead of a Lunar been known to favour the toning told lawmakers. “On the timing and offered a “heartfelt apology”. Abe was propelled to the lead- At the same time, it avoids New Year holiday. down of a 1995 apology for war- and the content I’d like to think Abe said yesterday he was in ership of his Liberal Democratic alienating the public at large, who The Hong Kong government time aggression directed at Asian thoroughly hereafter.” agreement with previous sen- Party after playing to the party’s are widely turned off by aggres- cut the luggage allowance on neighbours. The landmark 1995 pronounce- timents, adding: “Japan in the right wing and a small, but vocif- sive rhetoric and revisionism. trains that connect the city to Beijing and Seoul, amongst ment by then-prime minister past caused great damage and erous section of society who feel AFP the mainland to 23kg from 32kg and limited the number of cans of milk powder a person can take back into the mainland to two per Sri Lanka gears up for Independence Day visit. It said it would also set up a Dhaka scraps World Bank hot line from last evening allow- ing Hong Kong mothers to place orders for seven brands of infant formula and ensure that orders loan for graft-hit bridge placed by this weekend are deliv- ered by the new year holiday, DHAKA: Bangladesh’s govern- “The World Bank has taken which starts on February 10 and ment has withdrawn its request note of the government’s decision runs for a week in China, when for World Bank financing for a of not seeking renewed World most shops are closed. high-profile bridge project that Bank financing for the Padma A series of scandals involving has been dogged by allegations Bridge,” a statement from the food produced in China, including of corruption, the bank said bank said yesterday. milk, has sapped the confidence of yesterday. The government had informed many mainland consumers, who The Washington-based lender the World Bank of the decision on have flocked to Hong Kong to shop, cancelled a $1.2bn loan to Thursday, but said it would con- angering residents of the wealthy Bangladesh in June due to claims tinue with an investigation into city who say the problem has led of graft involving senior public the alleged corruption, the state- to shortages and pushed up prices. officials related to the financ- ment said. “The scandals here definitely ing of the $3bn Padma bridge Finance Minister AMA Muhith have had an effect,” said Kevin project. told online newspaper bdnews24. Der Arslanian, a business analyst The cancellation embarrassed com that the government would at China Market Research Group Bangladesh’s Prime Minister now move to build the bridge with in Shanghai. “People don’t trust Sheikh Hasina who made con- its own resources if necessary. necessarily that the product they struction of the 6.2km bridge, “At the same time, we have buy is real or the quality is good.” which would be the country’s requested the other donors to stay High import taxes in China biggest, one of her key election with us. I am confident they will have also created a thriving grey pledges in 2008. continue to support us for this market for traders who buy prod- The government asked the project,” he said. ucts tax-free in Hong Kong and World Bank to reconsider its Other donors include the take them on crowded trains move to cancel funding, but the Japan International Cooperation across the border on trolleys, in lender maintained that a “com- Agency, the Islamic Development suitcases or stuffed in their jack- Sri Lankan women stitch national flags at a workshop ahead of their country’s 65th Independence Day cel- plete and fair criminal investiga- Bank and the Asian Development ets, to resell for a profit. ebrations, in Colombo, yesterday. The day will be marked on Monday. tion” was required to release the Bank. REUTERS loan. AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 Pakistan / Afghanistan www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Suicide bomber kills 25 at Pakistan mosques Explosives packed into a motorcycle were detonated in a lane containing Shia and Sunni mosques

PESHAWAR: A suicide targeted Shias but Sunnis also flashpoint for violence against explosion,” he said by telephone people who were coming out of which it called the deadliest year bomber targeted a Shia mosque fell victim since their mosque Shias, who make up about 20 from the District Headquarters the mosque,” he added. on record for Shias, with over 400 in northwest Pakistan yes- and some shops were very close percent of Pakistan’s population Hospital (DHQ) in nearby Kohat. There was no immediate claim deaths in targeted attacks. terday, killing 25 people and to the site,” district police chief of 180 million. “I saw red and bloodied pieces of responsibility for the attack. Activists accuse the govern- wounding more than 50 as wor- Mian Muhammad Saeed said. Hangu is close to Parachinar, of human flesh everywhere. It was On January 10, a twin suicide ment of failing to protect Shias shippers poured out of weekly “We have found the head of which has a significant Shia popu- a scene I’d never seen in my life. attack killed 92 Shias from the and say the perpetrators operated prayers, officials said. the bomber, who came there on lation against whom Sunni mili- I was half conscious when people Hazara ethnic community in the with impunity because the judici- Two of the dead were policemen. a motorbike,” he said, adding six tant groups have launched attacks shifted me to a local hospital from southwestern city of Quetta — the ary failed to prosecute them. The bomber detonated explo- of the wounded were in a critical for years. where my family took me to the worst single attack on Shias in “Pakistan’s human rights crisis sives packed into a motorcycle in condition. It is close to the semi-auton- DHQ,” he added. Pakistan. worsened in 2012 with religious a narrow lane containing Masjid Officials, however, said the omous tribal belt on the Afghan Police constable Raaz Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Pakistan’s minorities bearing the brunt Faizullah, frequented by Shias anti-Taliban Sunni Supreme border where Taliban and Al Muhammad, who took part in most extreme Sunni terror group, of killings and repression,” Ali and Masjid Purdil by Sunnis in Council often holds its meetings Qaeda-linked militants have rescue efforts, said the blast dam- claimed responsibility for that Dayan Hasan, Pakistan direc- the town of Hangu, the latest in the Sunni mosque, which made carved out strongholds. aged two shops selling cosmetics attack. It is linked to Al Qaeda tor at HRW, said in the group’s bloody sectarian attack in a coun- it a possible target. Muzammil Hussain, a 28-year- and three trading in vegetables. and the Pakistani Taliban, Sunni annual report. try where violence is on the rise. Police said the bomb exploded old Shia wounded in the head and “I could see pieces of human fundamentalists fighting an “The government needs to show Pools of blood and pieces of as Shias were leaving prayers hand, said that he heard the blast flesh and big blood stains on the insurgency against the govern- some backbone and act urgently human flesh littered the street and Sunnis were going into their as he left the mosque. boundary walls of the mosques ment since 2007. to protect vulnerable communi- after the attack, which also mosque for the weekly sermon. “As soon as I reached the and nearby shops,” he said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) ties such as the Hazara, or risk destroyed at least five shops, wit- Hangu, in the Khyber mosque exit, a huge blast rocked “The entire street in the says it documented a sharp esca- appearing indifferent or even nesses said. Pakhtunkhwa Province in the the area. Many people fell on crowded Pat Bazaar area was lit- lation in persecution of religious complicit in the mass killing of “It was a suicide attack which northwest, has long been a me under the impact of the tered with sandals and caps of the minorities in Pakistan in 2012, its citizens,” he added. AGENCIES

Protest against cleric’s killing ‘Rights situation will BRIEFLY deteriorate after Nato’

KABUL: Afghanistan’s rights situation remains poor and will likely deteriorate with the departure of Nato-led forces next year, Court-martial Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual global report yesterday. date set for Bales Increasing global fatigue over the 11-year war has led to reduced LOS ANGELES: US pressure on the government to limit the role of warlords, corrupt Sergeant Robert Bales politicians and other rights abusers, the report said. accused of killing 16 Afghan “The future of rights protections are in grave doubt,” HRW Asia villagers last year will face a Director Brad Adams said. “Corruption, little rule of law, poor govern- court-martial in September. ance and abusive policies and practices deprive the most vulnerable He could face the death pen- citizens of their rights.” alty if found guilty, said a Nato’s International Security Assistance Force is gradually with- spokesman for the Joint Base drawing its troops ahead of the end-2014 deadline for the end of the Lewis-McChord, in Seattle, Nato-led war. In January, a UN paper said that despite global attention, in the state of Washington. torture and mistreatment of Afghans held by police and spy agencies He gave a “tentative” start was continuing. The HRW report expressed concern for the plight date of September 3. Bales, of women, and said a 2009 law to prevent violence against women 39, allegedly left his base remained “largely unenforced” and 2012 had seen a worrying rise in in the Panjwayi district of Activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat march during a protest rally in Islamabad yesterday, against the killing attacks on them. REUTERS southern Kandahar prov- of a seminary cleric in Karachi. Abdul Majeed Deenpuri was shot dead on Thursday. ince on the night of March 11, 2012, killed the people and set several bodies on fire. The court martial is expected to Clinton vows to take place at the base. continue work Nobel for Malala, ex-Eastern bloc activists? Cellphones clamp OSLO: Malala Yousafzai, education on the peace and con- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s for women the shot Pakistani schoolgirl- flict agenda,” said the head of the Interior Minister Rehman turned-icon of Taliban resist- Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Malik ordered shut mobile in Afghanistan ance, and ex-Eastern bloc Kristian Berg Harpviken. phone services in Karachi WASHINGTON: Former sec- activists are among those Others nominated are rights during Friday prayers. He retary of state Hillary Clinton known to be nominated for this activists whose names have been said there was a terror threat, warned that the US remained year’s Nobel Peace Prize, as the mentioned in previous years, DawnNews said yesterday. very concerned about the future deadline expired yesterday. including Belarussian human of women in Afghanistan as US The award will be announced rights activist Ales Belyatski Measles cases troops prepared to leave the in October, but speculation was — behind bars — and Russia’s country. underway as the deadline ended. Lyudmila Alexeyeva. LAHORE: At least 226 new She pledged to keep the Malala, 15, was shot by a Belarus, which former US cases of measles have been “issue front and centre” reveal- Taliban gunman at point blank President George W Bush’s reported in Punjab province, ing for the first time that she range as she travelled on a bus to administration qualified as the including 32 in Lahore, offi- would stay on as co-chair for the school on October 9, targeted for “the last dictatorship in Europe”, cials said. The death toll has US-Afghan Women’s Council promoting girls’ education. is governed by authoritarian A Pakistani female activist of the Islamic Minhaj-ul-Quran Party holds reached 14. based at Georgetown University She has since become an inter- President Alexander Lukashenko, a photograph of Malala Yousafzai during a protest against the Taliban’s after she stepped down yesterday national symbol of opposition to who has cracked down further on attempt to kill her, in Islamabad. Four kidnapped as America’s top diplomat. the Taliban’s drive to deny women opponents, rights groups charge. “The well-being of women and education, and against religious In neighbouring Russia, ISLAMABAD: Four work- girls in Afghanistan continues to extremism in a country where authorities “unleashed the worst governments, university profes- and Alexeyeva’s names have been ers of a local NGO were be an enduring concern for the women’s rights are often flouted. political crackdown in Russia’s sors and members of interna- put forward by two Norwegian kidnapped by armed men in US,” Clinton told a small group of “A prize to Malala would not post-Soviet history,” according tional organisations, and they are lawmakers. Karachi’s suburb of Maripur, journalists hours before she was only be timely and fitting with to Human Rights Watch. allowed to reveal the names. The Norwegian Nobel Geo TV said yesterday, last due to leave the administration a line of awards to champions Thousands of people are eligible French, Canadian and Committee said that a nomina- night. Two women were also yesterday. of human rights and democracy, to nominate candidates, includ- Norwegian MPs have separately tion should not be interpreted as abducted but later freed. “There is still a set of beliefs but also would set children and ing former laureates, MPs, and nominated Malala. Beliatsky’s a recognition on its behalf. AFP AGENCIES that do not permit women to be viewed as full human beings and there is still a lot of violence — Donations for refugee some of it family-, village-related, some of it Taliban-originated — that put girls and women at risk,” Plastic bags to be banned Clinton said. So it would be important as US troops withdraw from in Islamabad starting April Afghanistan by the end of 2014 to ensure Washington maintains its support for “those forces within ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan packaging demanded in the inter- Afghan society who accept that Environment Protection Agency national market,” said Minister for women have to be given their (Pak-Epa) yesterday announced Climate Change Rana Mohammad rights and roles”, she said. regulations, prohibiting manu- Farooq Saeed Khan. While women have made many facturing, import, sales and use He said that the technology gains in Afghanistan since US of non-biodegradable plastic to manufacture biodegradable troops ousted the Taliban in 2001, bags and other plastic products properties in plastic was simple. “it’s also true that in many parts in the Islamabad capital terri- A small quantity of olefin-based of society and particularly in rural tory from April 1. additive (1 to 3 percent) is mixed areas very little has changed,” she Approved by the Ministry of with raw materials to develop bio- said. Climate Change and after obtain- degradable properties. “We need to keep supporting ing consent from the Law and Bags made with this technol- the courageous women who will Justice Division, the Prohibition ogy are left in the open air or be standing up and speaking out of Non-biodegradable Plastic water absorb oxygen gradually, about that,” she said. Products (Manufacture, Sale and weakening internal bond of plas- “So I’m very conscious of how Usage) Regulations 2013 were tic material and thereby allow- important it is we keep this in announced at a press conference ing biological degradation to take mind as we make these decisions here. place, he said. about our own presence and our “This landmark step taken Asif Shuja, the Director own position, about what must be by our ministry will help con- General of Pak-Epa, said that done to give every Afghan, man Young Women For Change volunteers carry donated items for distribution to internally displaced Afghans at trol spread of waste plastic bags plastic bags were introduced in and woman, boy and girl, a chance the Nassaji Camp, east of Kabul, yesterday. With the Taliban-led insurgency plaguing the poverty-stricken (choking drains and polluting the US in 1977. By 1982, they to let their own lives and futures country, the internally displaced population has reached half a million, according to the UN. landscape) and enable exporters to popularity and came to Pakistan. improve.” AFP comply with environment-friendly INTERNEWS FEBRUARY 2, 2013 FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com India Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Nexus between Cabinet approves Dikshit, power companies, Revolts hit Mideast tourism ordinance on alleges Kejriwal Slump impacts Egypt badly; Dubai seen as safe haven US jobless rate rises to NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi DUBAI: The revolts that began Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Tunisia at the end of 2010 7.9pc amid slow growth yesterday accused Delhi Chief and spread across the Middle anti-rape law Minister Sheila Dikshit of con- East and North Africa had a WASHINGTON: Unemployment niving with power distribution devastating impact on tourism, in the United States ticked up in The White House said the latest companies and not allowing but not everyone in the region January while jobs growth slowed, thedata worst showed recession further since healing the Great from Parliament to pass bill in weeks lowering of tariff. lost out. While recovery from but the labour market had a bet- Depression, but “more work needs Citing an April 2010 draft the turmoil has been at best ter year in 2012 than previously to be done”. NEW DELHI: The federal will be effective. The speed with order by former Delhi Electricity tentative, at worst non-existent, estimated, the government said “Today’s report is a reminder cabinet yesterday approved an which UPA acted in the matter Regulatory Commission places where the Arab Spring yesterday. of the importance of the need ordinance for enhanced punish- validated our assurance,” he said. Chairman Brijender Singh, has not reached have been unex- The US jobless rate rose to 7.9 per- for Congress to act to avoid self- ment in cases of crimes against Sources said that the ordi- Kejriwal said his assessment pected beneficiaries. cent in January from 7.8 percent in inflicted wounds to the economy,” women, including sexual assault, nance will be replaced by a law in found that power distribution The smattering of tourists at December, the Labour Department Alan Krueger, head of President acid attacks, voyeurism and the budget session of parliament companies would make a profit the pyramids outside Cairo is reported. The rate was around Barack Obama’s Council of trafficking, as suggested by the expected to start in the second of Rs3,577 crore and henceforth almost outnumbered these days the level where it had been since Economic Advisers, said. Justice J S Verma Committee. half of February. The criminal law tariff should be reduced by 23 by souvenir sellers as a continu- September. The economy added Bitterly divided political leaders Minister of State for Home amendment bill is currently being percent. ing political crisis overshadows 157,000 jobs, with job growth slowing have until March to reach a deal to RPN Singh said the government examined by the standing com- The order, copies of which were Egypt’s new democracy. from December’s sharply upwardly avoid automatic across-the-board had recommended to President mittee of home ministry. circulated among the media, read: Further east, meanwhile, the revised reading of 196,000. federal spending cuts. Pranab Mukherjee that an ordi- The sources said the ordi- “The reduction in tariff is likely to lobbies of the grandiose Atlantis After a sweeping annual revision Employment in January rose nance be issued. nance deals with crimes against be sustained in the future years as resort on Dubai’s artificially cre- An aerial view of Atlantis Hotel and The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. of earlier data, the department also notably in retail trade, construction He said the government had women and the term of punish- well, since the energy availability ated Palm archipelago are packed said monthly job growth averaged and health care, while jobs in trans- made a commitment to enact a ment for those accused of grave from new power plants is going to with visitors. Worries over possi- of them headed for Dubai . The percent below the figure for 2010. 22 percent below pre-revolution- 181,000 in 2012, well above the prior portation and warehousing slipped. stringent law on crimes against crime against women would be Vendors selling drinks stand beside vehicles near the India Gate war memorial on a smoggy day in New Delhi increase substantially.” ble militant attacks or a regional emirate reported more than five Abu Dhabi saw its visitor num- ary levels. estimate of 153,000 jobs. There was little change in manu- women and had kept its word. enhanced. yesterday. It also said that reduction in conflict involving Iran deter some, million visitors in the first half bers top two million for the first Increasingly, visitors fly into The revisions revealed the labour facturing employment, which has Law Minister Ashwani Kumar Prime Minister Manmohan tariff was appropriate not only particularly Americans, but many of 2012, the latest figures show. time in 2011 and hopes they will Sharm El Sheikh directly or market was far stronger than been essentially flat since July 2012. said the ordinance will have origi- Singh had on Wednesday assured for financial year 2010-11 but was others say they feel secure in As conflict broke out in Libya have increased by another 10 often on entirely self-contained thought despite worries that the The January readings were less nal provisions of the criminal law Justice Verma, a former chief jus- Heavy fog hits flights, trains in Delhi most likely to continue. Dubai in a way they would not and Syria in 2011, fledgling tour- percent in 2012. Saudi Arabia package holidays. Museums and looming year-end fiscal cliff had positive than expected; the average amendment bill and recommen- tice of India, that the government Kejriwal, however, said Dikshit elsewhere in the region. ism industries there were all reported a big increase in visi- other attractions in central Cairo dampened activity. estimate was that the jobless rate dations of Justice Verma panel. would be prompt in pursuing the came to rescue of the companies “It’s wonderful and it feels very but wiped out. Tourist visits to tor numbers in 2012, mainly reli- are left all but deserted and even “Those revisions highlight even fell to 7.7 percent and a net 180,000 “The UPA government has recommendations of the commit- NEW DELHI: After heavy fog. Similarly, 12 flights were said: “There was dense fog and I when they “went running” to the safe,” said John Macleanan, 69, a Bahrain have almost dried up, gious tourists and pilgrims. Last those who visit the pyramids or more how remarkably resilient the positions were added. responded to sensitivities of tee he headed. fog yesterday morning that cancelled and 77 were delayed, could hardly see anything, it was Delhi government in 2010. retired engineer from Australia’s pushing Gulf Air to the brink of year, Saudi officials said they Valley of the Kings near Luxor US labour market has been over The number of unemployed, people by acting with utmost The Verma Committee, set up disrupted air and rail traffic a Delhi International Airport difficult to drive and I was just “Brijender Singh was supposed Sunshine Coast visiting Dubai for bankruptcy. expected some 18 million peo- do so on fleeting coach trips. the last two quarters,” said Harm based on a separate household sur- expedition,” he said, adding the by the government on December severely, the skies remained Limited statement said. following the car moving ahead.” to issue the order on May 5, 2010. the first time. “I could live here, In Tunisia, a marketing cam- ple to pass through the country, Giza postcard seller Nasser Bandholz of UniCredit, citing a vey from the one producing the job provisions of the ordinance were 23 to review laws to provide speed- clear and sunny through the The traffic on road moved at According to the India Delhi government wrote a letter although I don’t know that I could paign targeting European holiday- many on pilgrimage to Makkah. Roby, 39, says he has been forced slump in capital investment and the creation numbers, rose by a little aimed at enhancing sense of secu- ier justice and enhanced punish- day. The Met office has forecast a snail’s pace too with motor- Meteorological Department to him on May 4 and stopped him afford the accommodation.” makers in particular resulted in a Egypt, meanwhile, has been to cut back from three to two economy’s unexpected 0.1 percent more than 100,000, to 12.33 million. rity and protection of “our moth- ment in cases of aggravated sexual similar conditions today as well. ists having a tough time steering (IMD), this morning too will wit- from issuing his order,” Kejriwal Even as visitors abandoned 30 percent rise in the number of perhaps the hardest hit. Tourism meals a day. “It is good that we contraction in the fourth quarter. The employment-population ratio ers and sisters” and other citizens. assault, submitted its report to According to a railway official, through the dense fog. ness fog followed by a sunny and said. The copy of the Delhi gov- much of the Middle East in 2011, visitors in 2012 compared to the Minister Hisham Zaazou said got rid of the old government,” The private sector added jobs for and the civilian labour force partici- “It is one of the more progres- the government January 23. around 10 trains were cancelled Sandeep Dutta, who drives a warm afternoon. ernment letter was also shown. dealing a severe blow to coun- previous year, with almost six mil- the number of visitors rose 17 he said. “But life has become the 35th straight month, at 166,000 pation were essentially unchanged. sive legislations. Hopefully, it IANS and 17 delayed because of thick school van from Noida to Delhi, IANS IANS tries like Egypt, 10 percent more lion arriving. But that remains 10 percent in 2012 — but remains very difficult.” REUTERS jobs. Government jobs fell by 9,000. AFP

Samsung chief Barclays boss gives up 2012 bonus wins $4bn family LONDON: Barclays bank Chief debate on this matter, I wish to make industry issues including the misselling Executive Antony Jenkins announced clear that I concluded early this week of credit insurance products — or pay- court case yesterday that he would forego his that I do not wish to be considered for a ment protection insurance — and inter- 2012 bonus after a “very difficult year” bonus award for 2012, and I have com- est rate hedging products. SEOUL: Samsung Electronics at the lender, which has been plagued municated that decision to the board. Last year’s Libor scandal sparked Chairman Lee Kun-Hee won a by the Libor rate-rigging scandal. “The year just past was clearly a very the resignations of three Barclays sen- court ruling yesterday against The announcement followed media difficult one for Barclays and its stake- ior board members, including ex-chief demands from his siblings to reports that the crisis-hit lender was holders, with multiple issues of our own executive Bob Diamond. Diamond was hand over billions of dollars preparing to pay Jenkins a bonus worth making besetting the bank. I think it replaced by Jenkins, who was formerly in shares in various Samsung at least £1m ($1.6m) for last year. only right that I bear an appropriate head of retail and business banking at Group companies. Jenkins has a potential maximum bonus degree of accountability for those mat- the lender. The court allowed Lee to retain entitlement of £2.75m or 250 percent of ters, and I have concluded that it would Earlier this month, the new boss all his shareholdings in the giant his £1.1m annual salary. be wrong for me to receive a bonus for ordered all Barclays employees to sign conglomerate that members of his “I am aware of considerable specula- 2012 given those circumstances.” up to a new ethical code of conduct or family had accused him of hiding tion about, and public interest in, the Barclays slumped into crisis last June quit, as he seeks to draw a line under the from them following the death of question of whether I will be awarded a when it was fined £290m ($470m) by damaging Libor affair. The Libor system his father and Samsung founder bonus in respect of my performance in British and US regulators for attempted was found to be open to abuse, with some Lee Byung-Chul. 2012,” Jenkins said in a brief company manipulation of Libor and Euribor traders lying about borrowing costs to If the court had found against statement. interbank rates between 2005 and 2009. boost trading positions or make their Lee, 71, it would have forced a “To avoid further unnecessary public The group is also wrestling with other bank seem more secure. AFP restructuring of the complex web of shareholdings across the group’s entities and weakened his hold on it. The main claimants Manufacturing activity in China expands were Lee’s brother Lee Maeng- Hee, his sister Lee Suk-Hee and Major carmakers the children of another brother. They said that after their father’s extend US sales death in 1987, Lee had taken over shares and assets worth around gains in January $4bn in Samsung Electronics and Samsung Life Insurance that had CHICAGO: US vehicle sales been held under the names of other looked set to extend a lengthy people. Lee is South Korea’s richest streak of gains in January as man, with a net worth estimated by General Motors, Ford, Chrysler Forbes magazine at around $10.8bn. and Toyota posted double digit In his initial suit, Lee Maeng- growth yesterday. Hee had demanded Lee hand Toyota led the pack as its sales over around 710bn won ($647m) jumped 27 percent to 157,725 in shares. But the assets at stake vehicles. “The sales pace we saw increased to 4.1 trillion won as in the fourth quarter of last year other relatives got involved. The rolled into January, exceeding our Seoul Central District Court expectations for the industry,” accepted Lee Kun-Hee’s claims said Bill Fay, General Manager that most of the shares under of Toyota Motor Sales USA. dispute were not those left by his “Toyota started the year off father. It also ruled that the stat- strong,” added Fay, who esti- ute of limitations on claiming the mated the Japanese carmaker’s inheritance had expired. US sales would be more than Lee Maeng-Hee’s lawyer said a double the industry average. decision would be made later on Ford followed with a 22 per- whether to appeal. Lee Byung- cent gain to 166,501 vehicles, its Chul, who founded what is now best January since 2006. “Ford the world’s largest technology is off to a strong start this year, firm by revenue, had three sons with Fusion and Escape delivering and five daughters. Lee Kun-Hee January sales records and F-Series became chairman in 1987 and seeing a particularly strong recep- the conglomerate has flourished tion this early in the year,” sales A girl walks past a model of a watch at a museum in Beijing, yesterday. Manufacturing under his stewardship, becoming chief Ken Czubay said. activity in China expanded in January, two surveys showed, but they differed on whether the world’s top chipmaker and Chrysler posted its 34th the recovery was slowing or accelerating. mobile phone maker. AFP consecutive month of gains as US sales rose 16 percent to 101,149 vehicles, the compa- ny’s best January since 2008. “It’s been a good week for the Chrysler Group,” sales chief British camera retailer Jessops sold after collapse Reid Bigland said. Meanwhile, GM’s US sales LONDON: Britain’s failed camera closed its 187 stores and laid off 1,370 Jessops was among several British rose 16 percent from a year ago retailer Jessops has been purchased stores last month. It had collapsed into high street retailers to enter administra- to 194,699 vehicles. “The year is by a group that includes entrepreneur administration — in which a troubled tion in January, with DVD rental firm off to a very good start for General Peter Jones, who stars on business- company calls upon independent expert Blockbuster and music chain HMV also Motors,” sales chief Kurt McNeil themed television show Dragon’s Den, financial help in an attempt to stay oper- falling victim to tough economic conditions said. “There’s a sense of optimism administrators said yesterday. ational — a day earlier. and competition from online. The group among our dealers that only comes Administrator PriceWaterhouse- British media reported that Jones, also faced a challenge from the growing when you pair a growing economy Coopers said in a statement that it had chief executive of Phones International popularity of camera phones, which ate with great new products.” sold “the brand and certain other assets” Group, would seek to revive the brand into demand for digital cameras. AFP after Jessops, which dates from 1935, as an online retailer. AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Key European equities rise Euro surges; gold prices edge up

LONDON: Most European to 8,229.7 points after CaixaBank, stock markets posted strong Spain’s biggest bank by assets gains yesterday on reassuring under management, said 2012 US jobs data, but Madrid was net profit plunged 7.82 percent to hit by news of falling profits at ¤230m on provisions for possible the country’s crisis-hit banks. real-estate losses. US non-farm payrolls figures In London, telecoms firm BT showed that the US economy was the biggest gainer, putting on added 157,000 jobs last month. 6.52 percent to reach 264.8 pence London’s FTSE 100 index of after announcing a rise in under- A Jet Airways aeroplane takes off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, yesterday top companies gained 1.12 per- lying profits. Barclays share price cent to close at 6,347.24 points as fell 0.33 percent to 300 pence. a slight expansion in manufactur- In Frankfurt, shares in Daimler ing in January and positive quar- rose 1.34 percent to ¤43.45 after Jet Airways flies into quarterly profit terly results for telecoms firm BT German carmaker unveiled plans to cheered investors. Frankfurt’s boost its position in the fast-grow- MUMBAI: India’s biggest private air- yesterday ahead of a year in which output fell by just 2.2 percent to 4.406bn euros, DAX added 0.74 percent to 7,833.39 ing Chinese market by acquiring a line Jet Airways, which is in final talks for should double thanks to the acquisition of BBVA said. BBVA emphasised that its net points and in Paris the CAC 12-percent stake in the country’s a stake sale to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad BP’s local joint venture. The stellar 2012 banking income had increased by 15 per- climbed 1.10 percent to 3,773.53 fifth-biggest car group. Shares in Airways, yesterday swung into a quarterly results from the company, Russia’s big- cent to 15.122bn euros while its operating points, with data showing improve- Credit Agricole rose 3.37 percent net profit from a net loss a year ago. Jet gest producer of crude, capped a busy 12 income rose 13.3 percent to 11.66bn, with ment in the eurozone manufactur- to ¤7.52 despite the French bank reported a net profit of Rs850m ($16.03m) months in which it also struck a joint ven- more than half of it (56 percent) generated ing sector helping sentiment. acknowledging that it will book a in the third quarter ended December, from ture with the gas exploration firm Itera that in emerging markets. Meanwhile the euro surged massive fourth-quarter charge. a net loss of Rs1.01bn a year earlier, aided by is aimed at conquering untapped Arctic to $1.3711, its highest level since US stocks also powered higher, rising fares and lowering costs. The results reserves. Chief Executive Igor Sechin — a Bharti Airtel net dives November 2011. It later fell back with the Dow Jones Industrial beat expectations, with analysts forecasting confidante of President Vladimir Putin who to $1.3694, still up sharply from Average up 1.02 percent to a profit of Rs275m for the quarter. structured the $55bn TNK-BP deal — said NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, India’s top $1.3579 late on Thursday in New 14,002.29 points in midday trading, “All our efforts on revenues, costs and net- Rosneft was fast becoming the world’s larg- mobile company, reported that its net York. Gold prices edged up to breaking through 14,000 for the works has resulted in turning around opera- est energy firm. He particularly pointed to quarterly profit plunged by an unexpected $1,669 an ounce from $1,664.75 first time since 2007. The broad- tions,” Jet Chief Executive Nikos Kardassis the progress Rosneft had made in moving 72 percent, hit by punishing price com- on the London Bullion Market. based S&P 500 added 0.93 percent said, commenting on the first profit since the beyond its traditional Siberian production petition and a surge in interest charges. “The PMI data for the eurozone to 1,512.05 points, while the tech- April-June quarter of 2012. Sales grew 6.6 per- base by striking offshore deals with firms The profit drop to Rs2.84bn in the three also provided positive support, heavy Nasdaq Composite gained cent to Rs42.06bn. Jet said it cut several of its such as the US super-giant ExxonMobil and months to December marked the telecom pointing to a direction of return 0.81 percent to 3,167.63 points. loss-making flights and redeployed aircraft to Norway’s Statoil. giant’s 12th straight quarterly fall and far of growth,” said Anita Paluch, Asian markets were mixed, profitable routes. Sechin said that the TNK-BP deal would undershot analysts’ forecasts of an Rs8bn trader at Gekko Markets. Data with Tokyo boosted by further Etihad is likely to pick up a stake in Jet, see the company’s oil production nearly profit. “Market conditions have been chal- company Markit said its monthly weakness in the yen, while offi- which would be the first in India’s aviation double to 4.3 million barrels per day from lenging in recent quarters due to pricing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) cial data indicated Chinese man- sector, after the government in September 2.5 million barrels per day in 2012. The pressures and rising input costs,” Bharti’s was 47.9 for January, indicating a ufacturing activity grew further said it allowed overseas airlines to take up company’s fourth-quarter profit shrank by billionaire Founder and Chairman Sunil slowing in the decline of manufac- in January but had moderated. to a 49 percent stake in domestic operators. 68.5 percent because of the one-off differ- Bharti Mittal said. These have “put enor- turing in the single currency area. Shanghai stocks jumped 1.41 Jet, owned by Indian tycoon Naresh Goyal — ence with a third quarter in which Rosneft mous pressure on the sector and conse- Britain’s figure was 50.8, showing percent, Tokyo rose 0.47 percent, a former travel agent — is among the car- booked its Itera reserves and other gains. quently margins” he added. Bharti, which expansion for a second month. and Sydney climbed 0.87 percent, riers that have gained passengers from the Rosneft’s 7.2-percent rise in profit came in a has 262 million clients globally and is the Madrid’s IBEX shares index but Seoul eased 0.21 percent and grounded Kingfisher Airlines. year in which Russia recorded a post-Soviet world’s fourth-largest mobile operator by meanwhile slumped 1.59 percent Hong Kong was flat. AFP oil production record and outpaced previous customers, posted a profit of Rs10.1bn in ExxonMobil profits rise leader Saudi Arabia. Putin’s energy strategy the same quarter last year. But revenues has focused on consolidating Russian growth in the third quarter grew by 9.5 percent QATARI MARKET NEW YORK: US oil giant ExxonMobil around two dominant champions: Rosneft to Rs202.39bn from the same year-ear- Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P yesterday reported higher fourth-quarter and its state-held natural gas counterpart lier period — in line with market expec- Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 105.00 0.87 % Aa2 AA profits on better results in its refining and Gazprom. tations — led by strong growth in mobile Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.63 1.65 % Aa2 AA chemical divisions, which offset a drop in Internet services, a company statement Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 125.50 2.13 % Aa2 AA oil and gas production. The US’s largest BBVA net drops 44.2pc said. Bharti, one-third held by Singapore’s Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.88 2.30 % Aa2 AA oil company said net income for the fourth SingTel, withdrew some discounts on voice Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.50 2.67 % Aa2 AA MADRID: quarter came in at a $9.95bn, up 6 percent Spanish bank BBVA said yes- calls last month to boost its performance. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 176.00 3.75 % Aa2 AA from the year-earlier period of $9.4bn. The terday that its 2012 net profit had plunged Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 135.00 4.22 % Aa2 AA results overcame a five percent decline in by 44.2 percent to 1.676bn euros ($2.283bn) BT earnings rise Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 125.00 4.24 % Aa2 AA ExxonMobil’s oil-equivalent production owing to provisions taken against poten- Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.13 1.38 % Aa2 AA compared with the year-earlier period. tial losses on real-estate loans. Madrid has LONDON: British telecoms company BT ExxonMobil said overall profits in the explo- ordered Spanish banks to clean up their yesterday posted better-than-expected third- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 115.50 2.70 % Aa2 AA ration and production division, normally balance sheets following the collapse of quarter results, aided by strong demand for Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.38 1.94 % A1 A- the cash cow of oil majors, fell 12 percent to a property bubble in 2008 which have left its Internet services. Underlying profit, or Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.13 2.34 % A1 A- $7.8bn compared with a year earlier. Profits them saddled with bad loans and foreclosed earnings before interest, tax, depreciation QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.63 2.07 % NR NR from its refining and marketing division properties. The total amount of new pro- and amortisation (EBITDA), rose 2 percent QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.88 % Aa3 A+ came in at $1.8bn, more than four times the visions expected to be taken by Spanish to £1.55bn ($2.46bn) in the three months to QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.13 2.30 % Aa3 A+ previous year’s level. Chemical sector earn- banks in 2012 to cover potential losses has December, BT said in a statement. That com- Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.75 2.54 % A2 A- ings of $958bn were up 76.4 percent. Like been estimated at more than 80bn euros. pared with £1.52bn in the same period of the Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.13 1.93 % A2 A other major oil companies, The company’s BBVA, the third-biggest Spanish bank by group’s previous financial year. Revenues slid Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.75 2.60 % A2 A 2012 capital spending came in at $39.8bn, up assets under management, alone had to set six percent to £4.510bn, but this was above Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 111.25 3.15 % A2 A 8.2 percent from the 2011 level. aside 4.64 billion euros in 2012 to meet the consensus forecasts of £4.485bn. Pretax profit Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.25 3.87 % A2 A government’s new regulations. If real estate meanwhile grew seven percent to £675m while Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.75 1.36 % Aa3 A provisions in Spain and the badwill gener- net profits eased 1.0 percent to £484m. “We Stellar year for Rosneft Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.88 3.24 % Aa3 A ated by the incorporation of small savings have made progress in a number of areas and Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 112.25 3.46 % Aa3 A MOSCOW: Russia’s state oil giant Rosneft bank Unnim which BBVA bought in March delivered solid financial results. These are in reported a record annual profit of $11.4bn 2012 are excluded, BBVA said its net profit line with our expectations for the year, which SOVEREIGNS remain unchanged,” said Chief Executive Ian Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Livingston in the results statement. Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 105.88 0.48 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.75 1.96 % Aa2 AA Sharp, Panasonic in loss Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.38 2.66 % NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 106.88 3.16 % NR NR TOKYO: Embattled Japanese electron- Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 126.00 3.81 % NR NR ics giants Panasonic and Sharp yesterday Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 117.75 4.12 % NR NR racked up more than $11bn in combined losses over the nine months to December, Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.25 1.29 % Aa2 AA and warned there was more bleeding to Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 115.75 3.27 % NR BBB come. The battered sector has suffered Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.88 3.75 % NR BBB from problems including a high yen, slow- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 97.50 6.18 % B2 /*- B- ing demand in key export markets, fierce Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 104.13 3.87 % NR BBB- competition notably in the television mar- ket, and strategic mistakes that left compa- *Periodic Distribution Amount nies’ finances in ruins. Panasonic and Sony IMPORTANT NOTE: have been hammered by credit downgrades Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which and record losses, while century-old rival is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services Sharp warned last year that its survival Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data was at stake. It put up its Osaka headquar- and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into ters as collateral for life-saving bank loans. account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does The maker of Aquos-brand electronics said fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity or may its losses doubled in the nine months to trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator December to $4.6bn, while Panasonic said it of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your financial lost about $6.77bn over the same period, and advisor prior to making any investment decisions. was on track to lose a whopping $8.3bn in the fiscal year to March. But Sharp insisted its massive corporate overhaul, including thousands of job cuts, would now keep it from going under. A motorist fills up at an ExxonMobil petrol station in Burke, Virginia. 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Phoenix Open scores SCOTTSDALE, Arizona: Leading first-round scores yesterday in the US PGA Tour $6.2m Phoenix Open (USA unless noted, par-71. Sterne still on top in Dubai Round halted by darkness with 33 players to finish): 60 Phil Mickelson The South African leads by one shot; three share second place 64 Ryan Palmer, Brandt Snedeker, Padraig Harrington (IRL), Ted Potter, Jeff Maggert DUBAI: South Africa’s Richard successive 69 to be tied 26th 65 Matt Every, Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL), Sterne managed to maintain alongside Westwood at 138. Bill Haas, Y.E. Yang (KOR), Brian Gay, his one-shot advantage on top The 31-year-old Sterne, cur- Justin Leonard, Hank Kuehne, Martin of the leaderboard with a birdie rently ranked 165th in the world, Flores, Nick Watney on his final hole in the sec- has five European Tour wins ond round of the Dubai Desert against his name, but the last one 66 Kevin Chappell, Ken Duke, Brendon Classic yesterday. came way back in the beginning of de Jonge (ZIM), Jeff Overton, Robert Sterne, who was one shy of 2009 after which he struggled for Garrigus, Angel Cabrera (ARG), Ryan the 19-year-old course record almost two seasons with a back Moore at the Majlis course of Emirates injury. Golf Club on Thursday with a 62, Fully fit now, Sterne is looking Dubai Second round added a two-under par 70 round for his sixth European Tour win in decidedly tougher playing con- come tomorrow, but is aware he scores ditions to move to 12-under par has a lot of work to do over the 132 total at the halfway stage of next two days. DUBAI: Leading second-round scores in the the tournament. “It was a pretty consistent Dubai Desert Classic European PGA Tour That kept him one ahead of round. The course was a lot tournament yesterday at the par-72 Majlis England’s Tommy Fleetwood (68), tougher today with the wind and course of Emirates Golf Club: Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen (66) the greens definitely firmed out 132 Richard Sterne (RSA) 62-70 and Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher a bit. I think it’s going to be quite 133 Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN) 67-66, (70), while Germany’s Maximilian tricky coming to the weekend. Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) 65-68, Kieffer (68), Dane Andreas “There’s a lot of guys bunched Stephen Gallacher (SCO) 63-70 Harto (67) and Scotland’s Chris up and you’re going to have to 134 Chris Doak (SCO) 65-69, Maximilian Doak (69) were tied for fifth at play pretty well on the weekend to Kieffer (GER) 66-68, Andreas Harto 10-under par 134. be there on Sunday (tomorrow),” (DEN) 67-67 Spain’s world No.14 Sergio said Sterne. Garcia almost pulled out of the Olesen, who continues his 135 Romain Wattel (FRA) 68-67, Jeev tournament after a few holes with remarkable rise up the world Richard Sterne of South Africa plays a shot at the fourth green during the second round of the Dubai Desert Classic Milkha Singh (IND) 68-67, Sergio a shoulder injury, but recovered rankings - he is No.43 within at the Emirates Golf Club, yesterday. Garcia (ESP) 68-67 well with on-course treatment just two years of playing on the 136 Andy Sullivan (ENG) 69-67, Jbe and shot a five-under par 67 to European Tour - said he would Kruger (RSA) 70-66, Peter Lawrie be tied eighth at 135 alongside be happy if the conditions remain (IRL) 66-70, Felipe Aguilar (CHI) 68- Frenchman Romain Wattel and tough and windy over the next 68, Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 68-68, India’s Jeev Milkha Singh (both two days. Mickelson misses 59, takes Chris Wood (ENG) 68-68, Marcus 67). “It’s nice... I like to keep the Fraser (AUS) 67-69, Paul Casey (ENG) World No.8 Lee Westwood, ball low. It’s good for me when it’s 66-70, Gareth Maybin (NIR) 69-67 the highest ranked player in the windy. It was actually windy the tournament, could not replicate whole day from the morning and four-shot lead in Arizona the success of his horse Rerouted, I hope it remains like this,” said who won his race on Thursday the 23-year-old, whose 66 was the SCOTTSDALE: Phil Bo Van Pelt had a 59 in the pro- despite finding a fairway bunker Garcia laments night at Meydan Racing Carnival. joint best round of the day. Mickelson came tantalizingly am here on Wednesday, which and moved to 10-under with a The Englishman made a dou- “I played more solidly definitely. close to golf’s magic number of doesn’t go into the record books birdie at the fourth. low scoring as ble bogey on his 17th hole and I rolled the putts really nicely the 59 yesterday, a near-miss at his as an official tournament round. He managed just one more finished at one-under par 71 for first two days, and that’s why I’m last hole leaving him with a 60 Mickelson’s 11-under 60 gave birdie, however, making a seven- shoulder pain a six-under par total. 11-under. It was more solid today and a four-shot lead in the US him a four-stroke lead over five footer at the par-three seventh. Defending champion Rafael and I struck the irons a lot better PGA Tour Phoenix Open. players when darkness halted play Mickelson matched his best Cabrera-Bello added a second today.” AFP Mickelson’s 25-foot birdie in the first round with 33 players career round. flares up attempt at his final hole of the day still on the course. None of those He posted the same score in the TPC Scottsdale’s par-four ninth who were to return to complete second round of the Phoenix Open DUBAI: Most golfers would do curled around the rim of the cup the round this morning were en route to his second title here anything for birdies and eagles but didn’t drop. threatening the lead. yesterday. on their scorecards but Ryder “You don’t have chances to Ireland’s Padraig Harrington Among those chasing him, Cup hero Sergio Garcia could shoot 59 often,” he said. “To have and Americans Brandt Snedeker, Harrington is playing the Phoenix have done without them as it that putt on line -- I’m kind of Ryan Palmer, Ted Potter and Jeff Open for the first time. forced him to keep playing with mortified that it didn’t go in.” Maggert were tied on 64. “It’s a nice score, obviously, a sore shoulder in the Dubai Only five golfers have carded South Korea’s YE Yang and seven-under par,” the three-time Desert Classic yesterday. 59s on the US PGA Tour, most Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts were major champion said. “It’s a lit- Garcia carded a five-under- recently Australian Stuart among nine players on six-under tle bit behind Phil, but still a nice par 67 to sit two shots behind Appleby in the 2010 Greenbrier 65. score in itself. I pretty much got Thorbjorn Olesen (11-under) mid- Classic. But the day belonged to the most out of the round for way through the second round. Paul Goydos also accomplished Mickelson, who was coming off the first 15 holes, then had three “On the 14th green I told my the feat in 2010 at the John Deere a tie for 51st at Torrey Pines chances the last three holes and caddie if it does not get any better Classic. Al Geiberger (1977), Chip last week and was equal 37th in didn’t hole the putts.” after 18 (his ninth hole) we will Beck (1991) and David Duval his first start of the season at The tournament was without probably walk,” Garcia said. (1999) have also posted 59s on La Quinta, California, earlier in Fijian veteran Vijay Singh who “Then unfortunately we started the US tour. January. withdrew complaining of a bad making birdies and eagle and I Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa carded Teeing off on 10, Mickelseon. back shortly before the first round thought ‘What do we do now?’ Phil Mickelson is consoled by his caddie Jim Mackay after missing his birdie the lowest round on a major pro- He strung together four more -- and a day after he admitted “I got the physio out and he putt on the ninth hole that would have given him a round of 59 during the fessional tour with a 12-under 58 from the par-three 16th through using a deer antler spray that worked on it. It feels a little bit first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in to win the 2010 Crowns on the the par-four first. contains a substance banned by better, but needs to get better,” Scottsdale, Arizona, yesterday. Japan Tour. He birdied the par-five third the PGA Tour. AFP he said yesterday. REUTERS

NBA: Thunder NHL: Predators maul new-look Ravens, 49ers set for showdown top Kings in Grizzlies NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: anti-gay remarks from their cor- shoot-out Super Bowl 47 will be the first to nerback Chris Culliver and Lewis feature sibling coaches but come having to defend himself against OKLAHOMA: A day after con- tomorrow the spotlight will be a report that linked him to a deer LOS ANGELES: The strug- troversially trading away top- shining on Baltimore’s rock- antler spray that contains a sub- gling Nashville Predators scorer Rudy Gay, the Memphis solid defence or San Francisco’s stance banned by the NFL. snapped a three-game los- Grizzlies were humbled 106-89 explosive offence. Former Super Bowl Most ing streak when they upset at Oklahoma City yesterday as The National Football League’s Valuable Player Lewis will be the Stanley Cup champion Los the Thunder stayed firmly in championship spectacular is a looking for a big impact in his Angeles Kings with a nerve- the hunt to be best in the west. classic matchup of the Ray Lewis- final game, hoping to ride off into jangling 2-1 shootout victory In a battle of NBA title con- led Ravens defence and the San the sunset with a second Super yesterday. tenders from the Western Francisco air and running attack Bowl ring. Despite being outshot 22-11 in Conference, the second-best keyed by versatile second-year Then there’s the Harbaugh regulation, the Predators kept Thunder improved to 35-11 quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Bowl, with San Francisco’s Jim coming up with crucial blocks to with the rout, while questions “The guys want the game to going up against his older brother stay alive before left wing Sergei about whether the fourth-placed come so quickly,” said veteran John. Kostitsyn scored the decisive goal Grizzlies can contend without Gay linebacker Lewis. “We just have to John, who is 15 months older, in the eighth round of a tense will remain as they fell to 29-16. taper back all of our energies, all and Jim have 34 combined sea- shootout. Gay was shipped to Toronto as of our emotions ... and just enjoy sons in the NFL, including Jim’s Nashville improved to 2-2-3 part of a multi-player and team the ride at the same time.” 15-year career as a quarterback. while the Kings, bidding for a trade on Wednesday to save It is the first time two brothers Asked how hard it will be to third straight win in front of Memphis money and avoid the -- John Harbaugh of the Ravens Beyonce performs the National Anthem at the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII face his brother, John said: “It is a sellout crowd of 18,118 at the payment of luxury taxes but it and Jim Harbaugh of the 49ers -- Halftime Show press conference at the Ernest N Morial Convention probably a little tougher emotion- Staples Center, slipped to 2-2-2. could dampen the team’s playoff have coached against each other Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, yesterday. ally. I don’t think about it when “I think that we would have hopes. in an NFL title game. you’re coaching against somebody been mentally scarred if we Their cause as further under- The first Super Bowl in New else. wouldn’t have won that one,” mined as they were also with- Orleans since Hurricane Katrina aiming to add a second title to the berth with a loss to the New York “There’s a little bit of a rela- Nashville head coach Barry Trotz out trade acquisitions Tayshaun in 2005 the 10th in the Big Easy one they captured in 2001. Giants in the conference cham- tionship element that’s more said. REUTERS Prince, Austin Daye and Ed Davis, overall will also mark Lewis’ last “It is crazy man,” said 49ers pionship game. But they are now strong. I will have a better answer who are yet to arrive and pass hurrah after a 17-year career. linebacker Patrick Willis. “I’ve and won’t want to slip up after for you after the game.” physicals. The Ravens look like this year’s never been a super-emotional guy winning all five Super Bowls they The Ravens won the most NHL Results Kevin Durant led the Thunder team of destiny, but San Francisco when it comes to making a play or have contested in 1982, 1985, 1989, recent matchup between the two Buffalo 7 Boston 4 with 27 points while Russell have history on their side with a winning a game. But right now we 1990 and 1995. teams 16-6 in November of 2011. Toronto 3 Washington 2 Westbrook contributed 21 despite perfect 5-0 Super Bowl record. are here at the Super Bowl. The Ravens won their only pre- That was the first coaching clash NY Islanders 5 New Jersey 4 spending time in the locker-room Lewis, who will retire after “I really don’t think it is going vious Super Bowl, by routing the between the Harbaughs. after a disagreement with team- tomorrow’s game, will lead the way to hit me until the night before. Giants 34-7. This year with the winners col- Pittsburgh 3 NY Rangers 0 mate Thabo Sefolosha. REUTERS for his Ravens at the Superdome I think that is when my nerves Both the 49ers and the Ravens lecting $88,000 dollars in prize St Louis 4 Columbus 1 stadium, just blocks from New start moving and it is hard to have had to weather adversity this money per player while the los- Florida 6 Winnipeg 3 NBA Results Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street. sleep. I’m like ‘OK, it’s coming.’” season. ers earn $42,000 each. Colorado 6 Calgary 3 The 49ers are returning to the Willis’ NFC champion 49ers The difficulties didn’t let up this Television commercials for the Oklahoma City 106 Memphis 89 Super Bowl for the first time in weren’t ready for prime time last week either with the 49ers hav- Super Bowl cost a record $4m for Nashville 2 Los Angeles 1 Golden State 100 Dallas 97 18 years to face a Ravens team year, missing out on a Super Bowl ing to quell controversy caused by a 30-second spot. 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PSG, Inter Milan, Boca Juniors and Fluminense reach semis Real suffer most racist abuse, says Callejon

MADRID: Real Madrid play- ers have suffered more racist abuse than those from other clubs, midfielder Jose Callejon said yesterday after Barcelona’s Brazilian fullback Daniel Alves complained of monkey chants in Wednesday’s King’s Cup semi- final at the Bernabeu. Alves said on Thursday Spain was a “lost war” when it came to tackling racism and called for stiffer punishments for clubs whose fans abused opposition players. A Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) player celebrates a goal in their quarter-final Al Kass International U-18 Cup match against Aspire International at Aspire Academy yesterday. PSG won 2-0. “The only club that has suf- CENTRE: Brazil’s Fluminense players celebrate their 4-3 victory on penalties against Spain’s Real Madrid. RIGHT: A player of Argentina’s Boca Juniors celebrates a goal during his side’s fered a lot of insults through- match against Aspire Qatar. Boca won 3-0. PSG, Fluminense and Boca Juniors will join Italy’s Inter Milan in the semi-finals, after the Italian club defeated Liverpool 1-0. out its history is Real Madrid,” Callejon told a news conference previewing today’s La Liga match at Granada when asked about the Alves remarks. “We always go to play in very Manchester United aim to difficult stadiums and there have been players, and right now there are players, who are being insulted for this issue (racism),” he added. “It’s an issue you can’t control which also happens in Spain and open 10-point lead at top in other countries. I think it’s a bit unfortunate.” A reporter at the Bernabeu on The Red Devils visit Fulham; City host Liverpool tomorrow Wednesday confirmed monkey chants had been directed several times at Alves by a significant LONDON: Manchester United overcome a floundering Aston section of the Real fans. will hope to profit from title Villa team that sank into the rel- The referee did not mention Atletico Madrid’s Brazilian rivals Manchester City’s inac- egation zone last weekend. them in his match report. forward Diego da Silva Costa tivity by opening up a 10-point Leighton Baines scored both There have been several high- celebrates his second goal after lead at the top of the Premier Everton’s goals against West profile incidents of racist abuse in scoring during the Spanish Copa League with a win at Fulham Brom and manager Moyes says European soccer in recent weeks del Rey semi-final against Sevilla today. the England left-back will have a despite efforts by the governing FC at the Vicente Calderon Alex Ferguson’s side were made key role to play in their push for body UEFA to stamp it out. Stadium in Madrid on January to toil at home to Southampton a top-four finish. AC Milan midfielder Kevin- 31, 2013. on Wednesday before eventually “I think Bainesy has been play- Prince Boateng led his team off emerging with a 2-1 victory that ing really well and over the last the pitch during a friendly at lifted them seven points above couple of games, I’ve been think- Italian lower division side Pro their nearest challengers. ing he needs another challenge,” Patria last month in protest at Three reds, With City not in action until a said Moyes. chanting by the home fans and home game with Liverpool tomor- “He has to rise to it a little bit the game was abandoned. penalties in row, United can strike another more and I think he has done “We saw the racist insults psychological blow if they prevail that. He has picked himself up directed at Boateng in Italy and Atletico’s win at Craven Cottage. again. it’s a worrying issue,” Callejon Despite his side’s struggle to “He has a lot of things going for said. MADRID: Atletico Madrid beat Southampton, United cap- him and he is turning out to be as “It is not pleasing that these extended their record run of tain Nemanja Vidic says the only good a left-back as there is.” insults are made and let’s see if home wins to 19 when they thing that matters is putting Arsenal go into their home they will stop once and for all.” squeezed past Sevilla 2-1 on points on the board. game with Stoke City three points Real, whose title defence has Thursday in a King’s Cup semi- “Winning games is important below Everton in sixth place, after faltered leaving them 15 points final first leg which featured at this stage of the season,” he coming back from two goals down behind leaders Barca, can close three red cards and three suc- told in-house television channel to draw 2-2 at home to Liverpool. to within a point of second-placed cessful penalties. MUTV. “We have to focus on playing Atletico Madrid with a win at All the second half spot-kicks “But we have to forget what has football and what we want to do Granada (2100 GMT). were awarded for handball at the gone and focus on the next games. to the opposition,” said Arsenal Barca play at Valencia (1800) Vicente Calderon stadium, the Nothing is finished yet. There is manager Arsene Wenger. and Atletico host Real Betis first two resulting in dismissals a long way to go, but we’re in a “I believe the quality is there tomorrow (2000). REUTERS for Sevilla defender Emir Spahic good position.” and we have to trust it and forget and Atletico’s Diego Godin. United and Fulham met as what happened in the past.” Diego Costa, leading the line recently as last weekend, with Third-place Chelsea also Isco receives in the absence of the injured Vidic and his colleagues winning recorded a 2-2 draw on Radamel Falcao, put Atletico in 4-1 in a one-sided FA Cup fourth- Wednesday, although the con- Spain call-up front after Spahic was given a round encounter at Old Trafford. text was quite different, as they Manchester United’s English forward Wayne Rooney (right) leaves the second yellow card for falling on Fulham secured only their sec- conceded two late goals in a frus- pitch talking to Manchester United’s French defender Patrice Evra after for Uruguay the ball and striking it with his ond win in eight games by over- trating stalemate at relegation- the English Premier League match against Southampton at Old Trafford arm in the 48th minute. coming West Ham United 3-1 on threatened Reading. in Manchester, north-west England on January 30, 2013. Godin was shown a straight Wednesday, moving them eight Ahead of today’s trip to clash in Doha red seven minutes later when points clear of the relegation zone. Newcastle United, interim man- Alvaro Negredo’s goal-bound With Chelsea, Tottenham, ager Rafael Benitez has urged his With 14 games of the campaign four points from safety and man- MADRID: Spain coach Vicente effort brushed his arm. Negredo Arsenal and Liverpool all drop- players to cut out the avoidable remaining, Reading sit one place ager Harry Redknapp managed Del Bosque yesterday named a then equalised from the spot, the ping points in mid-week, Everton errors that have prevented them above the drop zone thanks to a to bolster their ranks by signing 21-man squad for the friendly first goal Atletico have conceded capitalised by winning 2-1 at from keeping pace with the top superior goal difference to Wigan Christopher Samba, Jermaine against Uruguay on February at home in more than 1,000 min- home to West Bromwich Albion two. Athletic and Villa. Jenas and Andros Townsend on 6, with Malaga starlet Isco utes of play. to close to within a point of the “We all take responsibility,” said Queens Park Rangers, who Thursday. and Chelsea full-back Cesar Costa converted his sec- Champions League places. the Spaniard. host Norwich City today, remain “It’s great to be linking up with Azpilicueta included for the ond penalty in the 71st minute As Spurs do not play until “We don’t blame anyone -- it’s bottom of the table despite a Harry again. Him being here was first time. after Sevilla full back Fernando tomorrow, when they visit West for us to analyse why we didn’t creditable 0-0 draw at home to key to me making the move,” said However, the reigning Navarro tumbled to the ground Brom, David Moyes’ side will kill the game off, and to work to Manchester City in mid-week. Jenas, who joined on loan from European and world champi- and handled. move into the top four if they stop the mistakes.” However, they are now just Spurs. AFP ons will take on the 2011 Copa Navarro was also sent off five America winners in Doha, Qatar minutes from time for bringing without another Chelsea player, down Costa when he was through as striker Fernando Torres was on goal. World will watch Beckham at PSG: Wenger left out. “The job of taking the two pen- Isco, who recently signed a alties fell to me and it’s great I LONDON: Arsenal manager Beckham certainly is a good part contract extension with La Liga’s scored them but the important Arsene Wenger believes David in that.” Malaga, is one of the most excit- thing was to win the game,” Costa Beckham’s arrival at Paris Meanwhile, aris woke up yes- ing prospects in the Spanish game said in an interview with Spanish Saint-Germain is a huge coup terday to a wave of Beckham just now. television broadcaster Telecinco. for Ligue 1 that will raise the madness. Squad: Goalkeepers: Victor “We were very superior and profile of French football all Media and public reaction Valdes (Barcelona), Jose Manuel we had a lot of chances to score over the world. was torn between enthusiasm Reina (Liverpool/ENG) more,” added the Brazilian. The former England captain, for Beckham and scepticism at Defenders: Sergio Ramos, Barcelona and 2011 winners 37, had been training with Arsenal a major marketing ploy by the Alvaro Arbeloa (both Real Real Madrid drew their first leg in a bid to maintain fitness before headline-grabbing club. Madrid), Gerard Pique, Carles 1-1 at the Bernabeu. his sensational switch to big- Sports daily L’Equipe called the Puyol, Jordi Alba (all Barcelona), The game between Atletico and spending PSG was announced on move a “A Major Showbiz Coup”, Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea/ Sevilla was a repeat of the 2010 Thursday. while Le Parisien said PSG had ENG), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal/ final, which was won 2-0 by the “Beckham is a world brand and bought a “Royal Prize”. Analysts ENG) Andalusians. the eyes will be on him, and on were quick to point out the mer- Midfielders: Andres Iniesta, “It was a shame about the sec- PSG, therefore also on the French chandising value of the shirts Cesc Fabregas, Sergio Busquets, ond sending off because we had league while he is there,” said alone will pull in 17m euros. Xavi Hernandez (all Barcelona), to accept the result and hang on Wenger. “Qatar can get whatever they Santi Cazorla (Arsenal/ENG), for the second leg,” Sevilla coach “I don’t know if he had offers want. In Beckham they’ve got Francisco Alarcon Isco (Malaga), Unai Emery said. A jersey bearing the name of PSG’s latest recruit British football player from all around the world, but someone everyone in the world is Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid) “We knew that Atletico are David Beckham, are displayed at the Paris Saint-Germain store on the PSG is not a bad choice because talking about. The fact he’s only Forwards: David Villa, Pedro having a great season and we Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris yesterday. Beckham signed a five- they are a very ambitious club, coming for five months shows Rodriguez (both Barcelona), would have to be very focused to month deal with the French Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain who have a lot of potential. he really is just the icing on the David Silva (Manchester City/ get a good result,” he added. until the end of June. “They look to extend their cake,” said Benoit Fournier, 45, a ENG), Alvaro Negredo (Sevilla), REUTERS reputation at the moment, and writer and PSG fan. AGENCIES Juan Mata (Chelsea/ENG). AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY Starc, Maxwell shine as Australia crush West Indies The visitors all out for 70; Australia win by nine wickets in first ODI

PERTH: Paceman Mitchell of 54 but captain Darren Sammy Serbia’s Viktor Troicki celebrates Starc helped consign West combined with paceman Jason after winning 1-6, 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4, Indies to their third lowest Holder for a 26-run partnership 6-4 during his Davis Cup first round total in one-day internationals to avert the humiliation. match against Belgium’s David as Australia’s top order needed As it was, they slumped to Goffin in Charleroi, yesterday. less than 10 overs to race to their lowest one-day total against a nine-wicket victory at the Australia. “We didn’t react prop- WACA ye s t erd ay. erly to the swing and the seam,” Man-of-the-Match Starc cap- admitted Sammy. Errani reaches tured five wickets for 20 and burly McKay triggered the West quick Clint McKay returned fig- Indies collapse in the fifth over semi-finals at ures of 3-10 as the tourists were when he removed Chris Gayle for skittled for 70, having won the 11, the dangerous opener nicking Paris Open toss and elected to bat first on a to the slips where Finch dived baking hot day. to his right to complete a sharp Australia’s response was short catch. PARIS: Italian top seed Sara and brutal with opener Glenn Kieran Powell was out for 11 Errani avenged her defeat to Maxwell blasting an unbeaten 51 three balls later when Starc had Carla Suarez Navarro at last and Usman Khawaja finishing on the other opener edge one straight month’s Australian Open, as eight not out after pushing the to captain Michael Clarke at first she edged past the Spaniard winning single to wrap up victory slip. to reach the semi-finals of the in the opener of the five-match Number three batsman Paris Open yesterday. series. Ramnaresh Sarwan was out for World number seven Errani “I was given a job to do and i a duck three balls later, bowled was a first-round casuality in just went out and did it,” Maxwell by Starc through the gate with a Melbourne following a straight said in a television interview after vicious inswinger that smashed sets loss to Suarez Navarro, but his swashbuckling knock of nine into middle stump. the Italian demonstrated her fours and two sixes. Starc had Dwayne Bravo out typical craft and determination “Was glad to get the boys across for another duck, the batsman to earn gruelling a 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 the line.” nudging a quicker delivery off his win in just over three hours. Aaron Finch was the only pads straight to Phillip Hughes Both players struggled to hold Australian wicket to fall, caught in close. serve in the first set in the French behind for 10 off the bowling of Kieron Pollard then played onto capital, but it was Errani who Jason Holder. his stumps to secure Starc his Australia’s fast bowler Mitchell Starc (left) celebrates taking the wicket of West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard made the decisive breakthrough Starc took full advantage of fourth wicket with a third duck, during the One-Day International cricket match at the WACA ground, yesterday. at 5-5 before proceeding to serve some devilish bounce and move- as the West Indies flailed at 19-5. it out to take the lead. ment to rout the tourists’ top Debutant James Faulkner Navarro refused to cede any order with four wickets in eight enjoyed his first international ground in the second set though balls and wrapped up the innings wicket by coaxing Devon Thomas and she eventually prevailed as in less than 24 overs with his fifth. to nick straight to Clarke in the Axed New Zealand captain Errani crumbled on serve, send- “It’s nice when things come slips for three, and took a second ing the contest into a decider. together and you get on a bit of a when Darren Bravo was caught The Spaniard then had a roll,” Starc said. behind by the same player for 11. chance to claim the scalp of the “It’s nice when it swings, I tried McKay ended Sammy’s innings Taylor back for England series tournament’s top seed at 5-4 in to keep it nice and smooth. There on 16, the captain scooping a sim- the third, but a battling Errani was enough in the deck, we knew ple catch in close to George Bailey, fended off a match point and went if we put the ball in the right before Sunil Narine was caught WELLINGTON: Sacked New “There are a couple of changes Ian Butler, Grant Elliott, Andrew on to level the score at 5-5. place, we’d get something out of behind by wicketkeeper Matt Zealand captain Ross Taylor that have been forced through Ellis, James Franklin, Martin Suarez Navarro was then left it,” he added. Wade for a duck. returned to the Black Caps’ fold injury but essentially we want to Guptill, Roneel Hira, Mitchell to rue her missed opportunity as Reduced to 39-7 at the drinks The teams play the second yesterday when he was named be seen to provide continuity from McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Errani broke before closing it out break, the tourists flirted with match at the same venue tomor- in the one-day and Twenty20 one series to the next,” he said. Colin Munro, Hamish Rutherford, on serve to seal victory and set up their all-time lowest one-day total row. REUTERS squads to face the touring Allrounder Andrew Ellis Ross Taylor. a last-four match-up with Kiki England side this month. returns after an injury lay-off, Meanwhile, Former one-day Bertens of the Netherlands. Taylor, New Zealand’s best while Grant Elliott was called in international opener Michael Di Earlier, Bertens beat the 18th- Scoreboard batsman, sat out the Black Caps to replace Corey Anderson, who Venuto was yesterday appointed ranked Lucie Safarova 6-1, 7-5 to WEST INDIES 5-19, 6-28, 7-39, 8-65, 9-68, 10-70. recent trip to South Africa after was sidelined with a fractured Australia’s new batting coach reach her semi-final of her career C Gayle c Finch b McKay ...... 4 Bowling: McKay 7-3-10-3 (2w); Starc 6.5-2- being dropped as captain in thumb. ahead of their tour to India, at a premier event in Paris yes- K Powell c Clarke b Starc ...... 11 20-5; Faulkner 5-1-14-2 (2w); Johnson 5-0- favour of Brendon McCullum in New Zealand will play three replacing Stuart Law. terday. AFP R Sarwan b Starc ...... 0 15-0 (2w). early December. ODIs and three T20s against The 39-year-old will quit as D M Bravo c Clarke b Faulkner ...... 11 AUSTRALIA Coach Mike Hesson, a key fig- England, with the first T20 on assistant coach for the Tasmanian ure in Taylor’s axing, said he was February 9. Tigers and Hobart Hurricanes Nadal braced D J Bravo c Hughes b Starc ...... 0 G Maxwell (not out) ...... 51 ODI squad: K Pollard b Starc ...... 0 A Finch c Thomas b Holder ...... 10 pleased to welcome the 28-year- Brendon to take up his new role, Cricket D Thomas c Clarke b Faulkner ...... 3 U Khawaja (not out) ...... 8 old back to the national side. McCullum (captain), Trent Australia said. for difficult D Sammy c Bailey b McKay ...... 16 Extras (W2) ...... 2 “Ross is a world-class batsman Boult, Grant Elliott, Andrew Ellis, Australian coach Mickey J Holder b Starc...... 7 Total (for 1 wkt in 9.2 overs) ...... 71 who is a key part of the Black James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Arthur said: “We wanted a bat- challenge in S Narine c Wade b McKay ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-39. Caps side,” he said. Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan ting coach who was working K Roach (not out) ...... 1 Bowling: Roach 2-0-29-0; Holder 4.2-0-18- The squads contained only one McCullum, Kyle Mills, Colin within Australian cricket and who Chile event Extras (W8, LB3, W6) ...... 17 1 (1w); Narine 3-0-24-0 (1w). new cap, Otago batsman Hamish Munro, Ross Taylor, BJ Watling, had also represented Australia as Total (all out in 23.5 overs) ...... 70 Result: Rutherford in the T20 line-up, Kane Williamson. a player and Michael certainly Australia won by nine wickets Twenty20 squad: SANTIAGO: Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-18, 3-19, 4-19, Man-of-the-Match: M Starc (AUS) with chief selector Kim Littlejohn Brendon brings those two aspects to the Rafael Nadal saying he was looking for stability. McCullum (captain), Trent Boult, table,” he said. AGENCIES admits that he could find things tough on his return to com- petitive tennis next week after Afridi urges seven months on the sidelines. The Spaniard arrived in Late wickets put Pakistan on top Santiago yesterday amid great world to end expectation and was received JOHANNESBURG: Pakistan Scoreboard by Chilean president Sebastian claimed six wickets in the final Pinera at his residence, La session to bowl South Africa out South Africa (I innings ): 5-199, 6-232, 7-239, 8-240, 9-242. Pakistan Moneda Palace. for 253 on the opening day of G Smith c S Ahmed b Umar Gul...... 24 Bowling: Umar Gul 19-2-56-2, Junaid Khan Nadal, an 11-time Grand Slam the first Test at the Wanderers A Petersen c Mohd Hafeez b J Khan ...... 20 18-8-33-2, Rahat Ali 14-0-56-0 (1nb, 1w), isolation winner, is preparing to take part yesterday. H Amla c Azhar Ali b Y Khan ...... 37 Saeed Ajmal 23-4-68-0, Younis Khan 4-0-16-1, in the ATP event in Vina del Mar, KARACHI: The visitors then had a test- J Kallis c Asad Shafiq b Umar Gul ...... 50 Mohammad Hafeez 7.2-1-16-4. All-rounder 120 kilometres to the west, next ing two-over spell before the end A de Villiers c S Ahmed b Md Hafeez ...... 31 Pakistan (I innings): Shahid Afridi has made an week. of play and closed on six without F du Plessis b Junaid Khan ...... 41 Mohammad Hafeez (batting) ...... 6 emotional appeal to the crick- He will team up with Juan loss with Mohammad Hafeez and D Elgar c S Ahmed b Mohd Hafeez ...... 27 Nasir Jamshed (batting) ...... 0 eting world to end Pakistan’s Monaco in the doubles on debutant Nasir Jamshed at the R Peterson b Mohd Hafeez ...... 0 Total (for no loss) ...... 6 four-year isolation over ter- Tuesday, before his singles return crease. V Philander (run out-Asad Shafiq)...... 1 Bowling: Philander 1-0-6-0; Steyn 1-1-0-0. ror attacks. on Wednesday. It was meant to be a double cel- D Steyn (not out) ...... 12 To bat: Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, No international cricket has Nadal is a wildcard entry into ebration for Graeme Smith on his Pakistan’s Junaid Khan celebrates M Morkel b Mohd Hafeez ...... 0 Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Umar Gul, Saeed been played in Pakistan, which the singles event, and sought to 32nd birthday and his 100th Test suffers near daily Taliban and play down talk of a winning come- after taking the wicket of South Extras (B-4, LB-4, NB-1, W-1) ...... 10 Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Rahat Ali as captain but Pakistan picked Al Qaeda-linked violence, back after such a long time on the Africa’s Alviro Petersen on the first Total (all out) ...... 253 Match situation: Pakistan trail by 247 runs up wickets at regular intervals Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-46, 3-125, 4-135, with ten wickets remaining in the first innings. since gunmen attacked the Sri sidelines. and were the happier of the two day of the first Test, yesterday. Lankan team bus in March “Undoubtedly the clay surface teams when stumps were drawn 2009. is a little less aggressive on my yesterday. for 20 at third slip by Hafeez off Villiers survived appeals for New Zealand, launched a counter- Former captain Afridi said knee,” he said, explaining why he Having won the toss and chosen Junaid and four balls later Smith catches behind that Pakistan attack that included a massive Pakistan has been sidelined and chose to return in the first clay- to bat on a wicket that provided edged paceman Umar Gul to reviewed after they were given six off Ajmal. Junaid was then had “suffered because of being court tournament of the calendar plenty of early encouragement to wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed on not-out by New Zealand umpire brought back into the attack and the frontline state in the war” year. the bowlers, the home team will 24. Billy Bowden. in his first over he removed Du against Islamist militants. “My aim is to compete coura- be disappointed that all of their A quickfire 79-run stand for De Villiers (31) was just getting Plessis for 41. “We are desperately trying geously and hopefully the knee top six batsmen got starts without the third wicket by Jacques Kallis into his stride when he finally did A well pitched-up delivery to revive international cricket will stand up to it. going on to make big scores. and Hashim Amla steadied the edge behind to Sarfraz off Hafeez kept a little low and although the in our country and need co- “There is always the possibility They were pegged back first ship before the heavyweight duo in the off-spinner’s first over. South African got plenty of bat on operation but it’s not coming,” that I will lose in the first round by the excellent seam bowling were removed by two excellent With much of the juice having it with his forward defensive, the he said. after so many months without of Junaid Khan and later on by catches. been drained from the pitch by ball went back on to the stumps For four years, Pakistan has competing.” off-spinner Hafeez who picked up Kallis reached his 58th test the hot sun, Pakistan turned to and dislodged a bail to make the been forced to play its home World number five Nadal won four for 16. half-century before he was bril- spin from either end and were score 232 for six. series at neutral venues in the last of his 11 Grand Slam titles After a cautious start South liantly snapped up by Asad Shafiq getting enough turn and bounce Robin Peterson was the next England and the UAE deny- to date at last year’s French Open Africa edged their way to 46 in the deep on 50 while Amla was to slow down the run-rate. batsman to go for a duck when ing millions of local fans the but has not played a competitive before a double strike pegged taken in the gully by Azhar Ali off That was until Dean Elgar, his he left a ball from Hafeez that chance of watching cricket. match since losing to Czech out- them back. Younus Khan for 37. confidence high after a maiden turned and nudged the top of off AFP sider Lukas Rosol in the second Alviro Petersen was caught Faf du Plessis and AB de Test century last month against stump. REUTERS round at Wimbledon. AFP FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Cyclists compete in the final stage of the Ladies Tour of Qatar in Doha yesterday. The route of the final and fourth stage covered 86.5 kilometres from the Sealine Beach Resort to the Doha Corniche. Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands won her third successive stage yesterday to complete a hat-trick of titles in Qatar. Wild won the titles in 2009 and 2010.

Top-10 results from 4th stage 1 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Argos-Shimano In-form Wild completes 2 Lucinda Brand (Ned) Rabobank-Liv Giant 3 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Cipollini-Giordana 4 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle-Honda 5 Simona Frapporti (Ita) Be Pink 6 Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Ita) Italian Qatar hat-trick with ease National Team 7 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Specialized- lululemon Ladies Tour of Qatar: The Dutch rider posts third title win in five years 8 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Hitec Products 9 Barbara Guarischi (Ita) Italian National Team BY RIZWAN REHMAT 10 Pascale Jeuland (Fra) French National Team DOHA: Two-time champion Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands Final standings yesterday produced yet another 1 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Argos-Shimano near-perfect finish, winning the 2 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Hitec Products @ fourth and final stage of the 14s Ladies Tour of Qatar to pocket her third title in the last five 3 Ellen van Dijk (Ned) Specialized- years. lululemon @ 29s Wild won her third successive 4 Gracie Elvin (Aus) Orica-AIS stage - her sixth overall in Qatar 5 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Specialized- - to retain the golden jersey and lululemon @ 39s picked up the top prize in front of 6 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica-AIS @ a huge crowd at Doha Corniche. Compatriot Lucinda Brand 42s (Rabobank Liv/Giant) fin- 7 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Orica-AIS @ 44s ished second and Italy’s Marta 8 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Specialized- Tagliaferro (MCipollini Giordana) lululemon @ 2’05” was third fastest after Wild 9 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Cipollini-Giordana picked up speed at the final rush @ 2’07” to the finish line. Italy’s Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle 10 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Wiggle-Honda @ Honda) finished fourth while 2’15” compatriot Simona Frapporti (BePink) was fifth. Thanks to time bonuses during Cyclist LeMond the 86.5-km stage, Wild extended her overall lead to 14 seconds on injured in car Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products accident in US UCK), who won the first stage on Tuesday. WASHINGTON: American The 22-year-old Australian cyclist Greg LeMond, winner of rider was fourth fastest during three Tours de France, suffered stage two but a puncture late in Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands celebrates after winning the fourth and final stage of the Ladies Tour of Qatar in Doha yesterday. With her third successive stage a back injury and was hospital- the third stage hurt her chances win yesterday, Wild picked up her third Ladies Tour of Qatar title. RIGHT: Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Thani (centre), President of the Qatar Cycling Federation (QCF). ised after a car accident near his of winning the title in Qatar. and Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrehman Al Thani, Secretary General, Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) are seen with Wild during the prize distribution ceremony. home in Minnesota, Velonation Elen Van Dijk (Specialized- PICTURES: SALIM MATRAMKOT reported yesterday. lululemon), the 2011 champion, The 51-year-old former world was third overall at 29 seconds. champion has no memory of Ever the team player, Wild was “It’s incredible. The Tour of ceremony. “They are such a “That’s how it was possible to “I tried to do something dif- the accident, which occurred on quick to praise her co-riders in Qatar is one of my favourite strong bunch of players,” the affa- win.” ferent in the sprints but it didn’t Tuesday while he was driving to Argos-Shimano after less wind races,” a beaming Wild said. ble Dutch rider added. The Dutch rider said she did work (laughs). The plan was to get the dentist in icy weather, accord- allowed aggressive attacks dur- “I am proud of my team,” Wild “I am glad that we made it,” she not expect to win ‘given the a bit of build up in the sprint but ing to the news site. ing the 86.5-km stage. said before the prize distribution said with her trademark smile in strong field in Qatar’. we couldn’t do it,” the Australian His wife Kathy said he will place. “There were 90 riders and any- said. probably have to wear a cor- Team “I think there were tougher one can win. “Generally it was a nice week set for three months but should members of riders this year,” Wild said “But we had a very strong for the team,” she said. recover fully. He was expected to Orica-AIS when asked to compare her past bunch of riders,” Wild said. “Hopefully I will be able to be discharged from the hospital victories. “You always know your form is come back healthy and stronger,” by week’s end and “other than are seen “It was a very hard race. I guess good but what you don’t know is Hosking added. the pain in his back, he is in good celebrating the best team won,” she said. “I how your other competitors are The prizes were handed over by shape,” she said. on the stage am happy. We had a nice competi- feeling. The level of this race is Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Thani, “We don’t really know what with retired tion here.” very high,” she said. President of the Qatar Cycling happened, but there were about cycling star Wild said winning the penul- “And you never know how you Federation (QCF). 400 accidents here this weekend. Eddy Merckx timate stage set her up for her would race after an off-season Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrehman The roads have been terrible due (right) third title win in Qatar. spent in winter,” Wild told a Al Thani, Secretary General, to the icy conditions,” his wife was in Doha “Yes, yesterday’s (Thursday’s) scrum of reporters. Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) quoted as saying. yesterday. stage was crucial. We got the Hosking - who held on to the was also presented during the LeMond was the first American Orica- golden jersey. The three-second golden jersey for the first two presentations. to win the Tour de France, in AIS won lead that I had was always going stages - rued the puncture late The men’s Tour of Qatar 1986. The victim of a serious the team to be an advantage,” the 2009 and in stage three. begins tomorrow with top British hunting accident in 1987, he man- classification 2010 champion said. “It is nice to be on the podium rider Mark Cavendish (Omega aged to make a comeback and win at the Ladies “That advantage helps if you but obviously it is disappointing Pharma-Quick Step) just one of cycling’s greatest race in 1989 Tour of Qatar are behind. Yes, we (the team) not to win after getting a punc- the many sprinters expected to and 1990. He also won the World yesterday. grabbed that initiative and we did ture (on Thursday),” Hosking fight for stage victories. Cycling Championships in 1983 well today also,” Wild said. said. THE PENINSULA and 1989. REUTERS FEBRUARY 2, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

Rugby: All Blacks winger Jane tears knee ligament

WELLINGTON: All Blacks winger Cory Jane will need sur- gery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and it is uncertain whether he will play Super Rugby this season, his Wellington Hurricanes fran- chise said yesterday. The 29-year-old Jane hurt his knee at training on Thursday and had scans yesterday, the Hurricanes said. They would not have any idea on how much time he would need off the field until This undated and unlocated handout image released by the Ferrari press office yesterday in Italy shows the new Ferrari Formula One F138 unveiled on the same day. he had seen a surgeon. A picture of Jane being helped off the field at Paraparaumu, about 45 kilometres north of New Zealand’s capital city was circu- lated on the micro-blogging web- site Twitter on Thursday. Jane, a prolific Twitter user, Alonso predicts tough recirculated the picture but said he “just needed a rest”. The Hurricanes confirmed late yester- day that he had torn the ligament, and Jane then also used Twitter to confirm he had “got some bad news”. times for drivers in 2013 The winger had only returned to training this week. “It is devastating for Cory to Ferrari will be the team to beat, says the former world champion have suffered this serious injury when he was looking so strong for this season following such MILAN: Fernando Alonso said represents the current year and a successful 2012,” Hurricanes yesterday the battle for Formula the car’s V8 engine, which will be coach Mark Hammett said in a One supremacy could be a lot used for the last time this sea- statement. tighter this year ahead of his bid son -- was unveiled at Ferrari’s “We know that CJ is focussed to improve on two runner-up Maranello headquarters in north- This handout and dedicated to his rehabilita- places behind Sebastian Vettel ern Italy yesterday. picture released tion. So he will be committed to with a maiden title for Ferrari. Ferrari described it as “an evo- by Ferrari photo working hard in his recovery to Last season’s world champion- lution of last year’s race-winning service shows come back better and stronger. ship was remarkable for the fact car, although every single part has (from left) driver “This is not the news we wanted there were seven race-winners in been revised in order to maximise Felipe Massa, to hear at the start of the season the first seven races before Alonso performance while maintaining Ferrari president and we acknowledge the loss of a went toe-to-toe with Red Bull ace the characteristics which were Luca Cordero di quality player. However, we have Vettel in a decisive, thrilling finale the basis of the F2012’s superb Montezemolo, a strong squad and CJ’s misfor- at Interlagos. reliability”. driver Fernando tune means its an opportunity for Vettel, the sport’s youngest- “The rear of the car is much Alonso, during another player to step up.” ever three-time world champion narrower and more tapered than The Hurricanes play the the presentation (2010, 2011, 2012), finished sixth before,” said Ferrari, although Canterbury Crusaders in Timaru of the new at the legendary Brazilian circuit, “significant modifications will be today in their first pre-season where Alonso was second, to beat made to the car’s aero package” Ferrari F138 game, with their first Super his Spanish rival to the title by before the Australian Grand Prix in Fiorano, Rugby clash against the Auckland only three points. on March 17. Maranello, Italy, Blues in Wellington on February Alonso, speaking at the launch One major change Ferrari has yesterday. 23. of Ferrari’s new F138 car for the made, one year ahead of schedule, upcoming season, indicated that is in the electronics domain with their anticipated duel in 2013 the early introduction of the sin- Dusautoir back could leave rivals trailing in their gle control unit that will be used wake from the season-opening in 2014. for France Australian GP in March. Alonso is set to get his first “I think the likelihood of see- taste of the F138 at a pre-season against Italy ing seven different race winners testing session in Barcelona from in the first seven races, like last February 19. It means Brazilian F1 giants Ferrari turn MARCOUSSIS, FRANCE: year, will be impossible,” he said. Felipe Massa will be at the wheel Former skipper Thierry “There will be a maximum of for the first pre-season test at Dusautoir has been recalled to two or three teams” battling for Jerez in Spain next week. the France team that will open the title, he added, “and one of Massa, who finished seventh the beast into a beauty their Six Nations campaign those will definitely be Ferrari.” overall last season, believes the against Italy in Rome today. Alonso, a two-time world car is equipped sufficiently to The 31-year-old flanker, who champion with Renault in 2005 allow Ferrari to aim for both the MILAN: Glamour team Ferrari the chase with the Spaniard fight- Champions Red Bull, Ferrari captained France in the 2011 and 2006, joined Ferrari for the drivers’ and constructors’ titles. took the wraps off their new ing for the title all the way to the and McLaren were the top three World Cup final against New 2010 season and finished runner- “I hope it will bring the two F138 Formula One car yesterday wire in Brazil. teams last year, with McLaren Zealand, last played for the up to Vettel. titles to Ferrari. It’s the only thing and set their sights on a winning The double world champion, winning the final race in Brazil. national side in last year’s Six He finished a disappointing we want,” he said. start to the season after turning denied a third crown by Red Bull’s The Ferrari’s 138 designation Nations tournament. fourth in 2011 but in 2012 won Ferrari chairman Luca di last year’s beast into a beauty. Sebastian Vettel, told reporters derives from the year and the V8 He was then rested for the tour three times and secured a total Montezemolo said last year he The broken, stepped nose that the Italian team could not engine, which will be replaced in of Argentina and was ruled out of of 13 podium places before being wants to see three-times cham- that drew shocked gasps when afford to make the same mistake. Formula One by a turbocharged the November Test matches with pipped by Vettel at the finish. pion Vettel race for the Italian unveiled last season - with some “There will be three teams who V6 in 2014 after eight seasons of an inured knee. Afterwards, he said: “Next year, team in the future. saying it was the ugliest Ferrari win all the races and we have to use. In that time, coach Philippe we will try and improve the car, But on Friday Di Montezemolo yet - was smoothed over with a be one of those,” said Alonso, who Domenicali said the team, Saint-Andre handed the cap- trying to start further up the grid, ruled out the possibility of see- more aesthetically-pleasing flow- will miss the Jerez test to give who are now using the Toyota taincy over to Stade Francais lock thus avoiding accidents. Let’s hope ing Alonso and Vettel in the same ing front. himself more time to prepare wind tunnel in Cologne while the Pascal Pape and he impressed in we also have a bit more luck.” team. “Absolutely not,” replied Di Looking fast and racing fast physically and mentally for the Maranello one is redesigned, had the job in the wins over Australia, The F138 -- whose name Montezemolo. REUTERS do not always go together, and battle to come. changed procedures to ensure Argentina and Samoa. even ugly cars are loved when Last year saw seven winners they made the best start possible. Other changes see Racing they become winners, but the in the first seven races, with six “Unfortunately in recent years Metro’s Benjamin Fall come in on signs were at least more promis- different teams triumphant over we have at the beginning of the the wing for the injured Vincent ing ahead of the first test of the the season, but Alonso said that winter unfortunately not been Clerc, while Yoann Huget gets season in Jerez next week. would not happen again. able to be right on top of what the nod at full-back ahead of the “It is more beautiful,” “I think it was a one-off as a we are doing,” said the Italian. injured Brice Dulin. agreed team principal Stefano result of the regulation changes,” “We have already forgotten Saint-Andre said the tough- Domenicali after the wraps came he said. “Now, with things a bit those things which left us with est choice had been in the back off at the Maranello factory. more stabilised, we saw at the end regret last year and we have row where Yannick Nyanga, who Ferrari were painfully off the of the (2012) season the top teams started improving on the positive impressed on his return to the pace at the start of 2012 but emerge and so I think it will be aspects of 2012, such as reliability team in November, was left out their reliability and the prowess highly unlikely we will have seven and strategy during the races.” of the final 23-man squad to make of Fernando Alonso kept them in races and seven winners.” REUTERS way for the return of Dusautoir alongside his Toulouse teammate Fulgence Ouedraogo. “We did have a debate over Di Resta flies solo at Force India launch what was our best options in the back row. Fulgence was impres- SILVERSTONE: Force India gave their “The shareholders will make their deci- partnering Sutil and then Nico Hulkenberg, a stepped nose last season into a smooth sive in the line-outs in November new Formula One car its track debut sion in due course. We know who is on the will do most of the Jerez testing with and flowing front end. and we wanted to see where he yesterday with only one driver, Britain’s short list. We are trying to put together the Britain’s James Rossiter having some time Lotus, the first of the teams to show off was with his (injured) ankle,” he Paul Di Resta, confirmed for the season programmes that are going to really take in the car to provide a benchmark for the their new car on Monday, eschewed such said. and mystery surrounding the identity of the team through a longer period than just simulator work he will be doing. cosmetic surgery on the grounds that it was “We wanted to see how Thierry his eventual team-mate. one year,” he added. The choice of second driver ultimately only added weight but Force India technical did in the three days of squad Germany’s Adrian Sutil, a former “We need to be very careful where we is likely to favour whoever can bring most director Andrew Green said it was there training and we saw that he had Force India driver, and Ferrari-backed are going and the shareholders will take sponsorship, or other forms of backing, for performance as well as aesthetics. worked hard during the time he Frenchman Jules Bianchi, last year’s as long as necessary. I suspect that we will with them. “Our’s is purely performance driven and was off injured. He is back to his reserve, have both been linked to the probably announce the two remaining driv- In the absence of news, the car was the really the performance is not on the top best as a tackler and a sweeper- vacant seat but the team were in no rush ers (race and reserve)...before Barcelona”. star - with the black cover coming off the of the chassis, it’s what you can do under- up who battles all the time. to make a decision. The first of three pre-season tests is VJM06 on a cold and damp morning before neath,” said Green. “And by pushing the “Against Italy who have a pow- “Paul’s here,” grinned deputy team prin- in Jerez next week with the second in the Mercedes-powered car was wheeled out chassis to its limits it allows us to get the erful set of forwards, we will need cipal Bob Fernley, representing the absent Barcelona from February 19. The season of the garage to be fired up for the first laps aerodynamic performance. Putting the to be able to hold onto the ball, to aviation and liquor baron Vijay Mallya who starts in Australia on March 17. by any team this year. panel on top cleans up the flow over the defend our lines and we will need co-owns and runs the team, when asked Di Resta, who will have his third dif- It immediately stood out for its ‘nose top of the chassis. It’s a small thing but to his experience and aggression in what the situation was with the drivers. ferent team mate in three seasons after job’ - a ‘modesty panel’ turning what was us it’s important.” REUTERS the rucks.” AGENCIES FEBRUARY 2, 2013 ON SATURDAY 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Morning Break

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While the design has been controversial, the tower — 95 percent financed by Qatar — has also attracted criticism because of the sense Buzkashi Boys banks on that its 8,000 future inhabitants are unaffected by the global economic crisis. The £30 ($47, ¤35) ticket price for the Internet drive for Oscar trip viewing platform does nothing to dispel this image, but the people behind the Shard are unapologetic. LOS ANGELES: “The wonderful thing about London is, in The teen- many ways, it never stops,” William Matthews, age stars of an a project architect in Piano’s team, said. Oscar-nominated “In some ways, British trade, the idea of short film from commerce, and business, is really in our bones.” Afghanistan hope Peter John, leader of the local Southwark to walk the red council, said: “It has really been a story of carpet at the regeneration and renaissance.” Academy Awards The area on the south side of London Bridge in February thanks was relatively prosperous in Roman times, but to donations that for centuries afterwards it was viewed as a are pouring in to seedy district beyond the city walls where the pay for their travel. law held thin. A representative The demise of London’s shipping trade from for the Buzkashi the 1960s to the 1980s accentuated the area’s Boys film said that poverty and the average household income an online cam- among Southwark’s 290,000 inhabitants today paign is two-thirds remains one of the lowest in Britain. of its way to the Nonetheless, in the last 25 to 30 years, $10,000 needed for the change in the area has been staggering, 14-year-olds Fawad according to council leader Peter John. Mohammadi and Wharf-side warehouses with names evok- Jawanmard Paiz to ing the British empire and the goods sailing travel from Kabul to into London from around the world, such as Los Angeles in time East India Wharf or Tea Trade Wharf, have A construction team carries out checks on the exterior of the 68th floor of The Shard in central London. for Hollywood’s big- been transformed into swanky New York-style gest night on Feb. loft flats. 24. Millions of square metres of office space unremarkable Borough Market has been gallery in the world. “But the Shard takes it Buzkashi Boys have been constructed in cathedrals of glass transformed into a foodies’ heaven, while to new levels,” said John. “It really symbolises is about two chil- across the river from the Tower of London, the Tate Modern, constructed within a vast where the opportunities are for jobs, and lei- dren growing up in including Norman Foster’s City Hall and former power station on the river in 2000, sure, and new housing.” Kabul who dream of Terence Conran’s Design Museum. The once is now the most popular contemporary art He said the influx of a population with becoming Buzkashi riders, horsemen who compete in the dangerous plenty of purchasing power will boost the Afghan national sport similar to polo, in which riders try to carry a whole area, saying: “I think the positives out- headless goat across a goal-line. weigh the negatives.” So far, some 120 people have donated money to the travel fund Many locals are not so enthusiastic. from countries that include the United States, Germany, Afghanistan, Reverend Charlie Moore, rector of St Mary Canada and Australia. Extra cash raised will go to a college fund for Magdalene Church in nearby Bermondsey, said Mohammadi . “a lot of people have been forced to leave” as The teens hope to arrive a few days before the annual Academy the redevelopment, including several gastrop- Awards in which the film Buzkashi Boys by US director Sam French is ubs and posh shops, have sent rents sky-high. nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. And the further south you go, the louder “I’m sure we’ll get there one way or another,” the film’s publicist the objections. Leonard Morpurgo said. The Heygate Estate, comprising huge con- “They need that money to get them over here,” he said, adding crete blocks of social housing, once housed that the film did not have the budget for the teens to travel to 3,000 people but now stands empty and await- the Oscars. ing demolition as part of a major regeneration Mohammadi, an amateur actor with piercing green eyes, gained programme in the Elephant and Castle area. international attention following the film’s release last year for his A campaigner for the Heygate residents, personal story as a fatherless youth who grew up selling maps of Kabul teacher Jerry Flynn, complains that the plans to tourists in its Chicken Street market. include far less social housing than before. One of the boys is a street kid like Mohammadi, the other the son of “It will mean the people who cannot afford a blacksmith forced to spend long hours in his father’s dark workshop to live here, working-class families and low sharpening ax heads. income families, will no longer be able to live Buzkashi Boys, which runs for just 28 minutes, is the first film to be here. It was a traumatic process,” he said. produced by the Afghan Film Project, a non-profit group that aims to “We would like a regeneration that spread train filmmakers in Afghanistan. The first visitors to the top of The Shard enjoy the view over a wet and rainy London city. the benefits a little more widely.” AFP REUTERS