SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 RAJAB 1, 1434 AH No: 15805 Global network of hackers steals $45m15 from ATMs Survivor pulled from rubble in Bangladesh Max 40º 150 Fils Woman rescued after 17 days • Death toll tops 1,000 Min 24º SAVAR, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex yesterday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble. Hours after officials had announced that the death toll had surged past the 1,000 mark, recovery teams who had long given up any hope of finding more survivors were stunned to hear the voice of a woman calling out for help. They then managed to pull her from the ruins in an operation broadcast live on television and watched over by growing crowds at the scene who were asked by clerics to pray for her. After she was brought to the surface she was whisked away to a waiting ambulance, but managed a weak smile to the people gathered at the ruined Rana Plaza complex on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka. Rescuers said she appeared to have lost a lot of weight but there were no other apparent signs of injury. Army Captain Ibrahimul Islam told AFP that the woman was called Reshma. “She has been taken to the Savar Combined Military Hospital and admitted in the intensive care unit. She is fine,” he said. Bangladesh’s fire service chief Ahmed Ali told AFP that Reshma was found in a gap between a beam and column near a Muslim prayer room in the basement of the nine-storey complex, which caved in on April 24, and appeared to have had access to water. The army officer who brought Reshma out of the rubble said that she had been found standing amid the ruins. “We first saw a pipe moving. We removed some gravel and concrete. We found her standing,” Major Moazzem, who uses only one name, told Somoy TV. “We gave her food and assured her that she would be rescued. SAVAR, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building yes- Continued on Page 8 terday, 17 days after the nine-storey building collapsed. — AFP Kuwait launches sports clubs for women KUWAIT: Muneera Al-Shatti has loved play- about the league in her home country while ing basketball since she was a child but it playing in neighboring Bahrain. “But I am wasn’t until Thursday that she had chance glad it finally took place. We’ve been trying to show off her skills at a public arena in to do this for a long time and they have Kuwait. As part of a new initiative launching promised that more sports will be included sports leagues for women, Shatti and her in future leagues.” teammates from Salwa Al-Sabah club Helped by government support, downed Qadsiya club 63-13 in a game that increased education and erosion of tradi- attracted several hundred men and female tional values, football leagues for girls in the fans. The initiative to launch basketball, Gulf have started up in Qatar and United table tennis and athletic leagues for the first Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia - which long time in Kuwait illustrates how the landscape barred girls from playing any sports - for women athletes is improving across the recently announced it would allow sports in Gulf where hard-liners have long opposed private schools as long as they abide by the women playing sports. rules of sharia, or Islamic law. Saudi Arabia’s Several of the players, in deference to decision is part of a wider package of the conservative Muslim culture that is reforms targeting women with the aim of common across the Gulf, wore leggings and ending discriminatory practices that have covered their heads with hijab. Others, how- contributed to a host of health problems, ever, wore shorts and T-shirts. “A competi- including obesity and diabetes. The private tion like this should have happened a long schools’ announcement also follows a deci- KUWAIT: Qadsiya Club’s women basketball team listen to their coach during the time ago,” said Shatti, who has played in sion last year in the kingdom to allow two Women’s Games at Salwa Al Sabah Sports Center in Qurain on Thursday. — AP tournaments overseas and only heard Continued on Page 8 LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 Mubarakiya bad odors to be removed soon KUWAIT: In a bid to solve the problem of the bad odor experienced in and around the Al-Mubarakiya market, particularly since it is a historic market and making any structural changes there is difficult, Kuwait Municipality said that a contract had been signed with the KAM Biotechnology Ltd. of Canada to study what was causing these odors and then provide odor control services without affecting the historic and cultural IlatiLte of the market and its vicinity. A municipality statement stressed that a high-tech non-chemical organic product that is accredited and approved by international and Canadian research cen- ters as well as world environmental organization, would be used to treat the odors. Speaking at a press conference held in this regard, the regional manager of the National Cleaning Company, Muhsen Bosheri, stressed that he was per- sonally concerned with the bad odors at the Mubrakiya market, which holds much significance for Ministers congratulate HH Crown all the citizens and people who ever lived for any length of time in Kuwait. On his part, KAM Biotechnology founder and CEO, Prince on recovery from surgery Professor Mongi Ferchichi said that the water used in cleaning the market was contaminated with organic KUWAIT: A number of Kuwaiti ministers visited His Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- material and hydrogen disulfide, which was the main Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah, Minister of Communications and Minister of State cause of the bad odors. “This gas and other elements Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday to congratulate him on recovery for Housing Affairs Salem Mutheeb Al-Utheina and Minister will be turned into non-harmful organic elements and from a successful surgery. of Commerce and Industry Anas Khaled Al-Saleh-congratu- the water will be cleaned,” he stressed, noting that HH the Crown Prince underwent a successful minor lated HH the Crown Prince on the success of the surgery organic waste would also be turned into hydrogen, back surgery in Germany on May 4. HH Sheikh Nawaf and wished him everlasting health and well-being. which is an environment-friendly gas. — Al-Jarida received the well-wishing ministers at his residency in the The meeting was attended by HH Crown Prince German city of Munich with the attendance of National Diwan Chief Sheikh Mubarak Faisal Saud Al-Sabah, Guard Deputy Commander Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al- Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Jaber Al-Sabah. The visiting ministers - namely Minister of Kuwait Ambassador to Germany Musaad Rashid Al- State of Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Haroun. — KUNA JP Morgan made $108m profit from contract cancellation Government advisor co-owns DOW-Chemicals KUWAIT: Now, when things are done ty that the whole thing had been care- money”, explained the sources won- and the Dow Chemical contract was fully netted and prepared beforehand dering why the finance minister and terminated and the$2.5 billion fine to avoid having a strange neutral advi- the government had not demanded paid, it seems that a new scandal still sor and risk rejecting the deal. payment of the loan before paying the KUWAIT: The Bait Al-Othman Museum is a historical involves the Dow contract, said Moreover, the sources explained full fine value. “Why, then did PIC’s monument that reflects Kuwait’s long and rich history, informed sources noting that even that according to the J.P. Morgan’s chairman of board and managing said Governor of the Capital City Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber Al- after the final verdict obliged Kuwait share in the Dow, it would get $45.7 director, Maha Mulla Hussein spend Ahmad Al-Sabah here yesterday. Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber to pay the penal clause, Kuwait’s million of the fine value in addition to millions on lawyers if she knew from told the press after visiting Bait Al-Othman with Lord Petrochemical Industries Company the $17 million it had collected for the the beginning that the fine be ulti- Mayor of Sheffield, Councilor John Campbell that the (PIC) sought advice from its current consultancy and the profits its shares mately paid! Museum is a great step in preserving the traditions of consultant; the J.P. Morgan Bank for made in a month as per market value, Meanwhile, in a related statement, Kuwait. —KUNA which it charged Kuwait with $17 mil- which all adds up the total gains the the 11/11 bloc said that the Dow issue lion. The sources added that the bank bank made to $108.8 million. was the biggest economical crime in also recommended immediate pay- Furthermore, the sources highlight- Kuwait’s history and that what makes TEC’s new summer timing ment of the penal clause value. ed that during the initial negotiations, things worse was that it took place “Things are logical enough, so far”, PIC had suggested setting the con- right under the noses of lawmakers KUWAIT: Yacoub Al-Duaij Acting Director of Operations and said the sources remaking that the tract’s penal clause value at only one from the Public Action Bloc (PAB) and Activities at TEC said that recreation city is open for visitors cur- illogical thing about the whole deal is billion dollars (5 percent of the con- the Islamic Constitutional Movement rently at the summer timing, which is from 5 pm - 1 after mid- that Kuwait’s financial advisor turned tract value) while the Dow asked to (ICM) who had always bragged of night all week days without stoppage, and Monday of evening out to be a major partner in the Dow make it $4.7 billion.