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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 THULHIJA 27, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cabinet okays NCB to become Moscow hotel Manning new army chief Islamic bank goes ‘halal’ makes history of staff, amends after pressure in bid to woo on sensational sports law2 from23 scholars Muslim40 visitors Sunday20 MoH denies Ebola cases as Max 30º Min 20º MP queries health minister High Tide 10:10 & 22:50 Lawmaker slams govt silence on oil turmoil Low Tide 04:20 & 16:44 40 PAGES NO: 16319 150 FILS By B Izzak and Agencies

Mutair chief KUWAIT: The Health Ministry yesterday refuted reports on social media that Ebola cases were discovered in stabbed by Kuwait as “baseless”. A police station had demanded the Health Ministry to examine some Asian and Ethiopian son in mosque women held there and they were found to have upper respiratory tract infection but not Ebola or MERS coron- By Hanan Al-Saadoun avirus, acting director of public health at the ministry Musab Al-Saleh told KUNA. They had been held in cus- KUWAIT: Well-informed security sources said that tody for more than a month, while the incubation period former MP and head of the Mutair tribe Faisal of the Ebola virus is 21 days, Saleh added. Bandar Watban Al- He explained that none of the examined women Duweesh was yesterday belonged to African countries hit with Ebola outbreaks, rushed to Farwaniya noting that they did not complain of high temperature Hospital for urgent sur- or any other worrying symptoms. They were given the gery after he was stabbed usual medications and are improving, Saleh said. No thrice by his son. The case of Ebola has been recorded in Kuwait, he said, refer- sources added that the ring to the strict precautions and measures taken almost incident took place inside two months earlier in cooperation with the Interior the Al-Duweesh Mosque Ministry by declining visas to people from countries hit in Sabah Al-Nasser after by the virus. Maghreb prayers, and that Earlier, MP Kamel Al-Awadhi sent a series of questions the son’s motives were to the Health Ministry about its measures to combat the still unknown. Later, deadly Ebola virus which has killed thousands of people. Minister of Amiri Diwan Awadhi asked about the specific measures the ministry Faisal Al-Duweesh Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al- has taken to prevent the disease from reaching Kuwait, Ahmad Al-Sabah and his and what are the measures in case the virus is detected. deputy Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah visited Duweesh The lawmaker asked if citizens of infected countries are at the hospital and conveyed the best wishes of HH present in Kuwait and what are the measures that the ministry has taken or plans to take towards testing them the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Cars drive on a street as a sandstorm engulfs Kuwait yesterday. The three major ports of the country - for a speedy recovery. to prevent the transfer of the disease to the country. Shuwaikh, Shuaiba and Doha - stopped functioning due to strong winds.— Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 3) Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014

KUWAIT: HH the Amir with Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah with Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah. HH the Crown Prince with Dr Ibhrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah — KUNA photos Amir, Crown Prince receive Foreign Minister

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- HH the Crown Prince also received Dr Ibhrahim the Premier the Diwan’s report about revision of Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace Al-Duaij Al-Sabah and Chief of National Security the State final accounts and budget covering the yesterday the First Deputy Prime Minister and Apparatus Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al- 2013-2014 fiscal year. Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Sabah. In other news, Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Al-Khaled received a written message from his Also yesterday, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received, Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukry, dealing Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday, Audit Bureau Chairman with bilateral relations between the two brother- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah at Seif Palace. Abdulaziz Al-Adsani. The chairman handed HH ly countries and issues of joint concern. — KUNA HH the Prime Minister receives the Audit Bureau’s report from Abdulaziz Al-Adsani. New army chief of staff, sports law amendments okayed Cabinet holds weekly meeting

KUWAIT: The Cabinet, in its weekly meeting The new bill was referred to HH the Amir Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah from Yemeni Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah held at Seif Palace yesterday, approved the Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to approve President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, French Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah informed the appointment of a new chief of staff for the and send it to the National Assembly for delib- President Francois Hollande and Central cabinet about the outcome of his visit to Iraq Kuwaiti army and the amendment of sports erations and approval. The Cabinet also African Republic’s Interim President Catherine ahead of an Arab League delegation Sunday bodies law. reviewed the follow-up reports of the General Samba-Panza. The letters have focused on and the talks he held with Iraqi President Fuad Upon a recommendation from the Deputy Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Planning bilateral relations and means to boost them. Al-Masum and other senior officials. Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh and Development on fiscal year 2012/2013 and The Cabinet was apprised of a letter sent Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also informed the Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, the Cabinet the first half of fiscal year 2013/2014. to HH the Amir from Turkish President and cabinet about the deliberations and outcome endorsed the appointment of Lieutenant In this regard, Minister of Social Affairs and Chairman of the Organization of Islamic of the fourth Gulf Cooperation Council-UK General Mohammad Khaled Al-Kheder as a new Law and Minister of State for Planning and Cooperation (OIC)’s Standing Committee for strategic dialogue meeting which was held in chief of staff of the Kuwaiti Army, said Minister Development Affairs Hend Al-Sabeeh made a Economic and Commercial Cooperation Kuwait last week. The cabinet discussed the of Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Justice presentation about the main points in the (COMCEC) Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The letter latest regional and international political Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah fol- reports, especially the evaluation of the pace included an invitation to HH the Amir to developments. — KUNA lowing the cabinet meeting, headed by His of work at the mega development projects attend the 30th session of COMCEC, to be Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber and the challenges facing the development hosted by Istanbul next month. CORRECTION Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. plans and role of each government body to The Cabinet was also briefed about a letter Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah pointed out overcome such challenges. addressed to HH the Amir by UN Secretary In yesterday’s issue of Kuwait Times, the that the Cabinet also discussed and approved a General Ban Ki-moon. In his letter, the UN captions and photos on Page 2 were draft law amending sports bodies law No 42 of Bilateral relations chief invited HH Amir to attend the 3rd World wrongly placed. Kuwait Times deeply 1978 to address the loopholes emerged in the KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister chairs the Cabinet’s Earlier, the Cabinet was briefed on letters Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015 regrets the error. meeting yesterday. — KUNA application of the current law in the past years. addressed to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- in Japan. For his part, First Deputy Prime TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 LOCAL

In Brief Sharia college KAC Employees Schools transformation By A Saleh KUWAIT: The Parliament’s Deputy Speaker KUWAIT: MP Majed Moussa condemned a Mubarak Al-Khrainej urged Communication Ministry of Education’s decision to turn two KUWAIT: MP Nabil Al-Fadl reminded of a memo presented by Minister Essa Al-Kandari to work on putting kindergartens of Jahra educational zone in former education minister Rasheed Al-Hamad proposing fol- Kuwait Airways employees’ demands into prac- lowing other GCC states’ steps in combining the Sharia and tice as soon as possible, pointing out that they Saad Al-Abdullah into primary schools two law colleges. “The Cabinet ignored that proposal under pres- were all legitimate ones that had been already months after the school year has already sure from Islamists,” he underlined. The lawmaker also approved by the Fatwa and Legislation started. He added that many area residents inquired about how much Sharia College graduates were Department on Sept 20, 2012 that approved were upset with this sudden decision and needed in local job market and the total number of these increasing KASCO employees’ basic salaries by 25 rejected it. graduates so far. percent. Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Winds reaching over 60 kilometers per hour in velocity caused a sandstorm yesterday that dropped visibility to less than 500 meters in some areas. The bad weather conditions halted sea naviga- tion to and from the country’s three major ports: Al-Shuwaikh, Al-Shuaiba and Al-Doha, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported quoting Captain Marzoug Al-Qahtani, Director of Sea Operations at Al- Shuwaikh Port. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Joseph Shagra KOTC receives oil tanker

KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) announced yes- terday the official delivery of the 4th and last Medium Range Tanker of its Phase III Fleet New Building Project taking place in South Korea. “Mutriba” is the last of four medium range product tankers being constructed at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) in Ulsan, South Korea. The ceremony took place at KOTCs headquarters situated in Shuwaikh Administrative Area, hosted by KOTC’s CEO Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. The delivery documents were Initiative launched to signed by KOTC’s CEO and Tae Young Si, General Manager and help students overseas HMD representative to the Middle East, in the presence of Ambassador KUWAIT: The Ministry of State for Youth information and skills, and educating them on of the Republic of Korea to the state Affairs seeks to enhance abilities of the organizing priorities and the potential difficul- of Kuwait, Boonam Shin, and Kuwaiti students posed to study abroad, the ties they could meet overseas. One of the ClassNK Classification Society repre- ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for devel- chief aim of the project is to educate the stu- sentatives Koichi Murata and KUWAIT: The two sides sign the documents. —KUNA opment Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi said yester- dents on the dangers of drug taking and Sayyed Farrukh Gilani. day. The Ministry has offered all forms of sup- addiction, Shatti added. The project compris- Classed to Nippon Kaiji Kyokai the current month, the final vessel full compliance with the interna- these vessels are designed with port to projects that seek to realize youth es a plan to arm students with education, (Class NK), “Mutriba” is approxi- of the Phase III KOTC Fleet New tional and industrial environmental highest security measures, expectations, Al-Mutairi told a press confer- knowledge and positive behavior through mately 186 meters in length, 32 m Building Program “Al Kout” will be requirements for the carriage of equipped with the latest piracy ence at the launch ceremony of the “Best training courses and workshops that qualify in breadth, and 18.5 in depth, hav- delivered by DSME bringing the hydrocarbons by sea with the deterrent solutions such as Long Ambassador” initiative, in cooperation with them to live as expatriates, he noted. ing a deadweight of approximately fleet to 30 modern vessels. adoption of greatest possible spec- Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD), the National Anti Drugs Media Project The “Best Ambassador” is a voluntary proj- 47,000 tons and a cruising speed of These tankers are designed and trum for the control of discharge high pressure water jets, razor wire (Ghiras). The cooperation between the ect concerned with the Kuwaiti students who 15.2 knots. constructed to meet maritime reg- and treatment of ballast water, fencing, CCTV with night vision Ministry and Ghiras offers evidence of collab- are to study abroad, launched by Ghiras and KOTCs fleet with the entry of ulatory and industry latest trends emission of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) capabilities, secure accommoda- oration among the state institutions to care sponsored by the Ministry of State for Youth “Mutriba” shall comprise of 29 dif- as well as forthcoming require- and volatile organic Compounds tion arrangement at all access for youth in all fields, Mutairi said. Affairs, the Ministry of Higher Education, ferent types of oil/gas tankers with ments that have not yet come into more. points and the application of the For his part, Ghiras Executive Director Kuwait Airlines, the National Bank of Kuwait various capacities. By the 31st of force. The vessels are constructed in Addressing piracy matters, Citadel concept. —KUNA Ahmad Al-Shatti said the “Best Ambassador” and the Kuwait Aviation Fuelling Company project aims at qualifying Kuwaiti youth who (KAFCO), Director of Ghiras Student Project, Dr will study abroad, providing them with basic Ammar Al-Hussaini said. —KUNA Transparency Society takes part Kuwaiti-Iranian cultural in international conference

relations strong: Official BERLIN: A delegation from the Kuwaiti tion of the Organization’s general require- leaders and seizures of their illicitly gained Transparency Society took part in the annual ments, standards and strategy,” he added. riches, national elections won and lost on KUWAIT: Cultural Advisor at Iran’s Embassy in between the two countries is thriving current- conference for Transparency International He carried on saying that the conference’s tackling corruption, and companies held Kuwait Dr Abbas Khamayar described ly, Khamayar said, adding that Iran has recent- that concluded Sunday. agenda included, among other issues, revi- accountable for their behavior both at home Kuwaiti-Iranian cultural relations as strong and ly hosted a large number of Kuwaiti cultural This year’s edition saw Transparency sion of anti-corruption policies followed by and abroad. special. Khamayar’s remarks came in a press and art activities including formative art International celebrating Kuwait’s great role in every branch under the Organization in The Organization has recently elected Jose conference yesterday on the occasion of the gallery. Moreover, many media, academia and planned visit of Iranian Minister of Culture and cultural delegations have recently visited Iran sustaining its reputation overseas in terms of order to realize the best model in this Ugaz from Peru as new chairman, and is cur- Islamic Guidance Ali Janati, which starts today. and vice versa, he said. supporting transparency values, both domes- regard. rently leading a campaign; ‘Unmask the Janati is visiting Kuwait upon an invitation Iran is planning to hold a plethora of cul- tically and regionally, said society chairman Dr Transparency International was estab- Corrupt’, which focuses on secret companies, from the National Council for Culture, Arts and tural activities in Kuwait in the coming Salah Al-Ghazali in statements to KUNA. lished in 1993 and is now present in more and how the corrupt are able to move vast Letters to contribute to a seminar on the late months including a whole week for Iranian “This participation comes after renewing than 100 countries. The movement works sums of stolen money through them and Iranian poet Shams-ud-Din Muhammad cinema movies, he said. Khamayar noted that Kuwait’s membership in the international relentlessly to stir the world’s collective con- enjoy luxury lifestyles at the expense of the Hafez-e Shirazi (1326-1390). such activities play a key role in boosting peo- organization for three more years, which science and bring about change through the public, calling on the public to take action and The cultural and artistic cooperation ple-to-people relations. —KUNA was preceded by a thorough and inclusive creation of international anti-corruption lend their voices to be heard at the G20 lead- revision of the Kuwaiti branch’s implementa- conventions, the prosecution of corrupt ers’ summit next November. —KUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 LOCAL Minister vows intensive crackdown on bad food traders

KUWAIT: Minister of Communication and applied against non-Kuwaiti traders who are Crime Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Essa Al- involved in trade of spoiled food. Crime Report Kandari said that firm actions would be taken He called on Kuwaiti Municipality’s affiliated Report against greedy traders trading in inedible food. market control bodies to intensify efforts to In his speech at the meeting of Kuwaiti crackdown on companies and individuals trading Family held with Municipality’s higher committee for planning and in inedible, expired, or spoiled foodstuff and to Policemen report coordination, the Minister stressed that the report all cases to the persecution take required fake passports Minister Essa administrative deportation rules would be legal actions. —KUNA assault Al-Kandari KUWAIT: An Afghan family of four was referred to crimi- By Hanan Al-Saadoun nal detectives for carrying forged British passports at Kuwait airport heading to Germany. A security source KUWAIT: Three policemen accused three Syrians, including a said that while an employee was checking the family’s (a juvenile, of assaulting them with batons at Umm Al-Haiman man, his wife and two children) passports who arrived in police station, said security sources. According to the police- men, they were dispatched to arrest one of the suspects on Kuwait in transit from Dubai to Germany, he discovered robbery charges, and after locating his hideout, they headed the passports were forged. The source said the family to the house, where the suspect along with two others was sent to airport detectives, who found out that they assaulted the policemen. A case was filed and further investi- bought the passports and airline tickets for $80,000 from gations are in progress. Separately, a policeman accused a a person in Dubai. The source said the family was bedoon of insulting him and resisting his attempt to arrest released by airport detectives to allow them to correct him with others for reckless driving in Ardiya. their status, but three days later they came back and attempted to travel again, so they were arrested and charged with forgery. Ingrate son A 60-year-old Kuwaiti mother recently filed a com- plaint against her son, accusing him of insulting her Bad food suspects released on bail because she blamed him for drinking. A case was filed and the son is being summoned. The jail detention extension judge released three Syrians charged in the spoilt meat case on KD 1,000 bail each. He renewed the detention of two others for ten KUWAIT: Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah during a meeting with the US officials. —KUNA Break in and theft days as a precaution and sent them to the central prison. The case began with a complaint by the Defence A female citizen reported that someone had broken her Ministry that accused them of selling spoilt food. vehicle window and stolen her ID, driving license, mobile Minister discusses military phone, KD 100 in her purse and her university ID when she went jogging. A similar report was made in Rumaithiya by Cheating employee an Egyptian woman who also found her car window with US, Danish officials smashed and some items stolen when she returned from An Asian expat ended his stay in Kuwait by stealing from his jogging. sponsor, as he took KD 200 from a car then left the country. KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General John Hesterman and a US senate delegation A security source said that a citizen went to Sabahiya police Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah discussed yesterday which was headed by Darrell Issa. In both meetings 163,686 work permits station and told them that his Sri Lankan driver stole money common issues, especially those of military nature with common military matters were tackled, Kuwaiti army’s from him, and later discovered after the driver had left the officials from the United States of America and Moral Guidance Department said in a statement. issued in 2013: country. Detectives are working on the case. Denmark. In another meeting, Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah also dis- In two separate meetings, Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah cussed defense and military issues with Danish Defense Manpower Authority met with US Air Forces Central Command Lieutenant Minister Nicolai Wammen. —KUNA KUWAIT: Well-informed sources at the Manpower Public Heartbroken and broke Authority said that the total number of work permits The dreams of an Egyptian woman of getting married issued in 2013 were 163,686, an increase of 25,253 com- turned into a nightmare when a compatriot deceived pared to 2012. The sources added that most of those work her that he will marry her and took her life savings. A Speaker invites authorities permits (80,385) had been issued by the government proj- security source said the woman told Salmiya police ects department while the Capital department came sec- that a man conned her by promising to marry her and ond by issuing 32,761 work permits. The sources added took KD 3,300 to buy a flat in their country. The source to coordinate priorities that 6,012 work permits were issued by the Hawally work said the woman did not have any proof, but gave permits department, 8,324 were issued in Farwaniya, police pictures of them together, and said they spoke By A Saleh The sources added that a new ‘priorities committee’ 18,536 in Ahmadi, 16,729 in Jahra and 939 were issued in daily for hours. The source said detectives arrested the would be added that would follow up other commit- Mubarak Al-Kabeer. expat man, who denied that he took her money, but KUWAIT: Well-informed parlia- tees’ work and report to the parliament. Further, the sources noted that 323,390 expats joined admitted that she is a friend. Police are investigating. mentary sources said that the private sector and that this number was 141,474 less National Assembly Speaker Shemmari’s priorities than the numbers registered in 2012. “3,835 people trans- ferred visas from the private sector, 9,168 transferred visit Marzouq Al-Ghanem invited The parliamentary military and interior committee visas to work for the private sector, 9,781 transferred to Wafra intruder identified both the legislative and execu- rapporteur MP Sultan Al-Shemmari said that naturaliz- dependant visas and 700 transferred from government to tive authorities to a usual meet- ing 4,000 bedoons and extending military personnel’s Ahmadi Criminal Detectives identified the suspect who private sector visas,” explained the sources. broke into the joint operations building of Gulf Oil ing held before commencing the retirement age to 65 instead of 55 would be on top of Moreover, the sources said that the total number of Company in Wafra and attempted to steal the ATM parliamentary term to discuss his priorities in the next parliamentary term. labor complaints it received in 2013 was 13,200 and that machine there, but could not. The arrest was made after a priorities, the NA secretary and 2,925 of them had been settled amicably, while 2,928 were fierce hot pursuit that included shooting and vehicle colli- supervisor positions and parlia- Azmi hails NA ‘achievements’ referred to court, 4,328 were written off and 2,992 were still sions. The suspect is a Saudi wanted to serve a 10-year-jail mentary committees. The MP Said Al-Azmi said that the current parliament pending investigation. —Al-Jarida sentence for thefts and drugs. He is 33, and the vehicle he Marzouq Al-Ghanem sources said that the meeting is was one of ‘achievements’ that had been working for used was stolen from the joint operations building. predicted to be held on Saturday. public interest and the best of Kuwait and its citizens. He added that instead of ignoring problems, the cur- Hotels union sponsors Muharram tents rent parliament opted to face various problems and Drug addicts row MP Saleh Ashour urged the municipality minister resolve them. “More achievements are still to be HORECA Kuwait not to aggressively regulate conditions to be set for achieved in the coming parliamentary term,” he under- The relationship between two drug users ended with licensing Muharram tents that he stressed have been lined. KUWAIT: The Kuwait Hotels Union announced yesterday par- the last session between the two nearly three weeks annually pitched in Kuwait for ages. “These tents are ticipating in the 2015 HORECA Kuwait as a golden sponsor. ago, when one of them poured hot water on the face not different from those held for condolences or those No service fee increases: Jallal The decision to sponsor the event comes in recognition for its role as a key contributor to the development of Kuwait’s hos- of the other for unknown reasons, which prompted held for iftar during the holy month of Ramadan,” he MP Talal Al-Jallal decisively rejected any proposed pitality sector, CEO Ghazi Al-Nufaisi said in a statement. He the victim to complain at a Hawally police station, so underlined, demanding justice and equality, and increases in electricity, water or gas prices and stressed also reiterated the union’s commitment the suspect was arrested. The two were using drugs reminded that husseiniya owners have always been that along with his colleagues, they would never pass when a dispute erupted for unknown reasons, making to take part in events “that gather spe- very cooperative with official bodies. any decisions that would overburden ‘simple citizens’. cialists in the hospitality field under the one of them pour boiling water on the face of the oth- “The government cannot solely make such a decision er, who had to be admitted to hospital. same roof.” NA forms priorities team with referring to the parliament to have a related law The 2015 HORECA Kuwait exhibition The National Assembly yesterday formed a special passed,” he underlined, expressing amazement at the takes place between the 19th and 21st of team to coordinate on selecting parliamentary com- repeated ‘leaks’ about the government’s intentions in Drunk man caught January 2015 at the Jumeirah Messilah mittee members before the parliamentary term starts, this regard. “Instead of diversifying its income sources Beach Hotel. The event is organized by Hawally police arrested a drunk 46-year-old Indian when said parliamentary sources, noting that the team by overburdening citizens, the government should Leaders Group for Consulting and he entered a restaurant near Shaab Park at night and dis- includes MPs Yousef Al-Zalzalah, Mohammed Al- attract more foreign and local investments and create Development in cooperation with turbed the patrons. —Al-Rai, Al-Watan Huwailah, Nabil Al-Fadl, Talal Al-Jallal and Ahmed Lari. competitiveness in Kuwait,” he underscored. Ghazi Al-Nufaisi Hospitality Services of Lebanon.

KUWAIT: Ambassador of Mongolia Sodnom Enkhbat hosted a reception recently on the occasion of his country’s National Day. Government officials, diplomats and other dignitaries attended the event at Crowne Plaza hotel. —Photos by Joseph Shagra TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 LOCAL NoufEXPO organizes 2nd E-Government Forum Discussion tackles role, future of government datacenters KUWAIT: Dr Thalaya Al-Fozan, Head Forum shall be organized by nies and researchers to join of the Scientific Committee man- NoufEXPO during the period from EGOVE2. We are pleased to witness dated with carrying out the techni- 9-11 November 2014.” the participation of technology cal and scientific proceedings of Commenting on the Forum’s vendors like Microsoft, IBM, CISCO, the “2nd E-Government Forum: objectives for this year, Dr Thalaya Ernst & Young, Aruba Network, and Future Trends of Government Al-Fozan said “We are witnessing General Dynamics Fidelis Datacenters “expressed his pleasure the proliferation of many technolo- Cybersecurity Solutions. Other for the level of quality participa- gies that datacenters have to con- Kuwaiti companies that have tions in the Forum. He commented sider, adopt, or plan for. Converged regional and worldwide presence by saying “The Scientific technologies, software defined dat- shall be attending like Agility and Sheikh Faisal Al-Hamoud with members of the Indian embassy. Committee’s efforts paid off since acenters and networks, cloud com- KNET.” Dr Al-Fozan reiterated that the Forum tackles a hot topic; the puting, big data, and analytics are CAIT is organizing these technolo- Indian ambassador meets future of government datacenters.” among them. Government data- gy venues with the objective of Al-Fozan confirmed that the centers should be ready to plan for, helping government datacenters Committee is finalizing the selec- adapt to, or endorse these tech- plan for the future and empower Farwaniya Governor tion of research papers that have nologies as they emerge or become their resources to better achieve been submitted by many global dominant. However, I believe, the their e-government programs Dr Thalaya Al-Fozan KUWAIT: Ambassador Sunil Jain accompa- friendly ties between India and Kuwait. He world-class companies. He added biggest challenge will remain to be objectives. Dr Al-Fozan concluded nied by a few prominent members of the stated that the Indians in Kuwait make the “The 2nd EGOV Forum shall be held the development of human his statement by inviting technolo- Information Technology and the Indian community residing in Farwaniya largest expatriate community and deserves under the patronage of His resources and expertise as well as gy companies to book their seats in Head of the Supreme Organizing region called on Sheikh Faisal Al-Hamoud, respect and appreciation. He added that he Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh the evolution of operational busi- the Forum as few sessions still wait Committee, for his continued sup- Governor of Farwaniya Governorate on is personally aware of the problems of the Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- ness processes and governance to be filled up. He thanked all par- port and follow up. Finally, he Wednesday, October 15, 2014 to apprise Indian community residing in his Sabah who is keen to support gov- frameworks in these datacenters ticipating sponsors, companies, thanked NoufEXPO who are dili- about difficulties being faced by members Governorate and that he will work towards ernment datacenters for their that will be the subject matter of and organizations for their cooper- gently carrying out the Forum’s of the Indian community residing in the resolving those issues. He affirmed that the efforts in developing the e-govern- the Forum too.” ation. Al-Fozan also expressed his logistics and stated that the region. safety, security and the welfare of the citi- ment programs in Kuwait in collab- Dr Al-Fozan added “These gratitude towards Mr. Abdullateef Scientific Committee may be During the meeting, the Governor zens/residents in the Governorate are his oration with the Central Agency for important datacenter topics Suraie Al-Suraie, the Director reached on +965 22469921 or by warmly recalled the historically close and top priority. Information Technology (CAIT). The attracted many world-class compa- General of the Central Agency for email at [email protected]. Consul discusses cooperation with Hong Kong Islamic centers

KUALA LUMPUR/BERLIN: Kuwait’s Consul and perform their religious rituals. The cere- General in Hong Kong and Macau Khaled Al- mony was attended by several Kuwaiti diplo- Mutairi chaired a meeting with presidents of mats and the mosque’s Sheikh Sameer Al- the Islamic organizations in Hong Kong to pro- Rajab as well as a host of center’s officials. mote ties with Muslim communities there. All officials discussed the center’s activities The Kuwaiti consulate always strives to in the city and plans of restoration which is boost cooperation with the Muslim communi- planned to be finished by the end of 2015. ty in Hong Kong; a community that is estimat- Rajab thanked Sate of Kuwait, saying ed to embrace 250,000 Muslims, Mutairi told Kuwait has been in lead of donation to Islamic KUNA yesterday. centers and takes upon itself the issues of Chiefs of Islamic organizations, meanwhile, Muslims in the Diaspora. He added that this expressed appreciation for Kuwait’s financial fund will help “us complete the mosque’s and moral support that could be seen in many restoration to be adequate to the growing activities and projects. They also thanked the number of Muslims in Hamburg,” noting the Gulf state for renovating two Islamic centers plot of land was bought in 2012. and establishing an Islamic studies center at a The center, he noted, got all necessary university in Hong Kong. licenses from local authorities to start the restoration. He went on to say that the 1,700- Mosque restoration square-meter mosque, will includes two sepa- Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Ambassador to rate rooms for lectures and a female prayer Germany Monther Bader Al-Essa said that room. Many activities will be conducted in the Kuwaiti first financial contribution was deliv- mosque, including lectures, workshops as well ered to Al-Nour Islamic center to restore a as a social center for adults, teenagers and mosque. During a ceremony marking the women, he added. Inside the mosque, Arabic delivery of the contribution Sunday, and German lessons will be taught and there Ambassador Essa expressed his hope that the will be sessions of Quran recitation and gath- center’s officials could finish the mosque’s erings during Eids and the holy month of KUALA LUMPUR: Khaled Al-Mutairi chaired a meeting with presidents of the Islamic organizations in Hong Kong. —KUNA restoration to help Muslims in Hamburg pray Ramadan, he concluded. — KUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 LOCAL

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By Thaar Al-Rasheedi

n view of the extreme fogginess overwhelm- ing our political practices where visibility is Imuch less than one meter in most cases, it is By Labeed Abdal hard to predict what might happen tomorrow. It has even become impossible to predict what might happen three and a half minutes from now because political events are sudden mone- tarily ones that, most of the time, happen with- [email protected] out any introductions. An issue can be raised in less than an hour and find its way to political he happiness index was launched recently in statements for a day or two before it subsides Dubai as a unique initiative to detect people’s when another political ‘storm’ blows for reasons Tlevel of contentment from government servic- that are unknown in most cases! es. This is a positive step that gives the impression Al-Watan We used to describe governmental decisions that the government there is keen on competition on the international level. The process will be carried as mere reactionary ones and that was our polit- out through devices distributed at all state depart- ical reality for years. However, today we find that ments and connected with a central network that the government is not easily carried away with sends daily reports to decision makers so that they can work on improving the services presented to the public. There is no doubt in my mind that the reports will An issue can be raised in determine the public’s level of happiness and con- less than an hour and find kuwait digest tentment with state departments on a periodic basis. its way to political state- Welfare state crisis We must remember always ments for a day or two that improving services will before it subsides By Abdellatif Al-Duaij contribute in achieving true ow with the increasing fear from the drop in ment leads to that the problem is in us - in our per- oil prices, the time seems to be good to rein- formance and ability that was taken because of the happiness and contentment suddenly emerging issues. It is as if it stopped Ntroduce what we presented before while welfare system. This does not mean that we do not for people being a ‘reactionary’ one and started taking “people were asleep” about the necessity to convene want to hear what is required is to fight the alleged some self-motivated actions, which all writers a national conference to confront the welfare state corruption, or as some people dream of recovering From there, steps can be taken to make adjustments and political activists have been demanding for crisis in Kuwaiti society. The problem is not in the the KD 60 billion lost as alleged due to money laun- and improve the level of administrative perform- long. budget deficit, rather the problem is not even in the dering and arms sales. We do not want some people ance. This kind of effort is required to be adopted in The question here is - do these actions meet drop in prices, because if our society was healthy, we to manufacture claims of squandering or limit it to a all societies in order to open people’s eyes that are public aspirations? The answer is that we still would not be disturbed by the drop in oil prices, and certain group of citizens, or blame one or two per- kept covered by those who either are against change demand more and better decisions to be made we would be very tired from the possibility of a sons as the case is. or refuse to accept the ugly truth. by the government, the most important of which depleted budget. We are all unable to produce. Even those who wish Serious and persistent efforts are needed to is the housing issue, the top of its priorities as Lively societies face many crises and even catas- to do something among us cannot, as work means achieve change and reach modernity, because the declared by the housing minister about the gov- trophes, but because they are living societies, they and production facilities are shut in front of them. The world around us is changing fast, and so are people’s ernment’s intention to annually hand over 12,000 replace what they lose, and the healthy rebuild what society has become conditioned to bury competen- expectations. We have to take into account that catastrophes destroy. Our problem is that we lack, cies, dash dreams and break down any determination focusing on improvement of administrative perform- housing units. I mean the government must car- with regret, the determination and ability to live by to give. What is required, once again, is to create ance will affect all families, including the younger ry on with its work and not only issue verbal exerting efforts and hard work like the rest of the cre- income alternatives or parallel to oil. It is not required generations who are acquainted with all aspects of statements. It must precisely focus on the hous- ation, or in a clearer way, like we were living before to rationalize or save a dinar here and a fils there. It is modern technology. ing problem even if this means postponing other adopting the current method of production and cur- not required to collect taxes from this group or that, We must remember always that improving servic- priorities because by solving this problem, the rent distribution of income, that is the welfare state because no one produces here to start with. What is es will contribute in achieving true happiness and government will have made a historic achieve- and economy. required is to motivate people and transform Kuwait contentment for people. It is illogical to still see long ment that many previous ones failed to achieve! If we agree that the budget deficit or the drop in into a productive society of something else other than queues and bureaucracy delaying transitions in Kuwait. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa oil prices are not the real problems, then this agree- oil. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas

kuwait digest ‘We’re going to the UN’

By Abdullah Erakat

PLO official says US Secretary of State John Kerry’s to take unilateral action. efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and “There is growing frustration with the peace process in Athe Palestinians will not stop the Palestinians from its current form,” EU Representative John Gatt-Rutter said. seeking recognition for Palestine from the United Nations “The EU has warned on many occasions of actions that Security Council. He warned that if, as expected the US undermine the viability of the two-state solution such as vetoes the resolution, “they will have to bear the conse- the continuing expansion of settlements, the growing vio- quences of no peace and no security.” lence in the West Bank by Israeli settlers, house demoli- PLO Executive Committee Member Wasel Abu Yousef tions, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, says Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said and actions that undermine the status quo of the holy that Kerry had talked to him about his plan to restart talks sites, including in Jerusalem.” on the sidelines of a Norwegian-sponsored donor confer- Political analyst and Birzeit University professor George ence in Egypt to rebuild the Gaza Strip after seven weeks Jaqaman says the Americans are doing everything to of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. avoid a veto because it will make them look bad. He says The PLO has said it is open to meaningful initiatives another reason Kerry could be announcing a new peace based on international law that aim to put a time frame plan now is “to try to forestall the possibility of having the on ending Israel’s control of the West Bank. The Palestinian side first go to the Security Council and then Palestinians have already circulated a draft resolution that after that, maybe apply to membership in the various calls for Israel to “end the occupation”, meaning a with- councils, committees, and bodies at the UN.” drawal from the entire West Bank, Gaza Strip and east The Palestinians have said that if the US uses its veto, Jerusalem by November, 2016. Israeli Prime Minister they will go to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Israel will where they could push for Israeli officials to be charged never withdraw to the pre-1967 lines. with war crimes. But Jaqaman said that Abbas would only Secretary Kerry has reportedly asked the Palestinians do that if the current political stalemate continued. to postpone turning to the UN for one year while he tries “The Palestinian side has not shown the needed politi- to rekindle negotiations that would lead to an agreement. cal will in the past to go through with what they declare,” Palestinians say they refuse to hold off any longer. Jaqaman said. “They have used the question of going to “This move (Kerry’s plan) is trying to prevent the the United Nations to some degree at least as a tactical Palestinians from going (to the UN) but it will not. We are move, rather than a strategic aim,” he said. going,” Abu Yousef said. The US has said it opposes what it considers to be uni- Arab backing lateral action taken by the Palestinians, including turning The Abbas plan, which sets a three year time limit for to the UN. But a former Palestinian official says by present- Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, has received the ing his plan to the UN, Abbas is doing the US and Europe full backing of the Arab States. a favor. Abu Yousef confirmed that Arab states had informed “The US should not consider the Palestinian initiative the PA Chairman that they were asked by Kerry to pres- as poking the US in the eye,” former Palestinian spokesper- sure Abbas not to turn to the UN, but he would not men- son Nour Odeh said. “Why would anyone oppose putting tion specific countries. a deadline on the occupation if they all agree it must end? Palestinians view the United Kingdom’s recent 274 - 12 Why would the US oppose an initiative that clearly says symbolic vote to recognize Palestine as a welcome sign of once the deadline is endorsed, negotiations based on change.. these agreed parameters will begin and end within a “The landslide vote in the UK is an obvious indication define timeline leading to implementation and end of of the UK’s refusal of Israel’s policies of maintaining the conflict?” status quo of colonizing Palestine and destroying the chance of the two state solution,” PLO Communications Recognizing Palestine Advisor Ashraf B. Khatib said. Abbas has not said when he will go to the 15-member At the UN Security Council, “countries will have the Security Council. At least nine countries have to be in choice to be either on the wrong or on the right side of favor for a resolution to even be discussed and any of the history,” he said. five permanent members - the US, Britain, France, Russia, The US Congress has already threatened to cut funding and China - can veto a resolution. Palestinian official Taysir should the PA pursue a vote in the US, and Israel is also Khaled says seven countries — Russia, China, Jordan, expected to retaliate. Both courses of action will backfire, Chad, Chile, Nigeria and Argentina - favor a UN vote on warns analyst George Jaqaman. recognizing Palestine, leaving two more votes needed. In “This will be the beginning of a conflict that will esca- 2012 the General Assembly recognized Palestine as a non- late, and this is what the Americans have in mind to stop member observer state similar to the Vatican. this kind of escalation with some sort of a political process The US has already said it would veto any Security to fill the present political vacuum,” Jaqaman said. Council resolution, but it would prefer to avoid the nega- Meanwhile, former Palestinian spokesperson Nour tive reaction that will spark in the Arab world. Odeh says the US and Europe have not come up with a “By vetoing us, they are standing by an occupation solution that works and know that trying old and failed which they have said must end and they will have to bear formulas will not work. “(By going to the UN Security the consequence of no peace and no security in this con- Council) the Palestinians are offering them a graceful way flict,” Abu Yousef said angrily. to save face and credibility. Either they go for a way to The European Union has sharply criticized some of solve this problem once and for all or they should come Israel’s actions, while at the same time urging the PA not out and admit failure,” she said. —The Media Line TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 Japanese PM Abe suffers setback as Controlling the message: Modi chooses state media two ministers quit Page 11 Page 12

SANAA: Yemeni protesters take part in a demonstration outside the Saudi embassy in Sanaa against the death sentence on Shiite cleric and anti-government protest leader Nimr Al-Nimr (portrait) in Sanaa after he was convicted by Saudi authorities of sedition. Amnesty International slammed the verdict as “appalling,” dismissing Nimr’s trial as “deeply flawed,” and calling for the sentence to be immediately quashed. — AFP Saudi Arabia steps up beheadings

RIYADH: Immediately after his sword falls, the Saudi Arabian Under the Saudi Sharia legal system it can actually be executioner steps backwards to avoid soiling his clothes harder to avert execution for crimes without a specific vic- with the blood of the condemned man, whose headless tim, like drug smuggling, than for murder. Of the 59 people body can be seen slumping over backwards in the shaky executed by Oct 16, 22 had been convicted for smuggling online film. After perfunctorily checking the white folds of drugs, according to figures compiled by Human Rights his robe for flecks of red, the executioner wipes his blade Watch from Saudi media reports. One Saudi man, with a tissue, which he drops onto the corpse and walks Mohammed Bakr Al-Alaawi, was put to death for sorcery so away. far this year, the third such case since 2011. Although such A sudden surge in public executions in Saudi Arabia in cases are even rarer, judges can also demand execution for the last two months has coincided with a US-led bombing adulterers or Muslims who abandon their faith. campaign against Islamic State. This has led to inevitable In Saudi Islamic law, charges of violent crimes like mur- comparisons in Western media between Islamic State’s der are usually brought under the system of “qisas”: retalia- beheadings and those practiced in Saudi Arabia. Defenders tion on the principle of an eye for an eye. While a murderer of the Saudi death penalty say beheadings, usually with a would normally be sentenced to death, the victim’s family is single sword stroke, are at least as humane as lethal injec- permitted to accept “diyya”, or blood money, instead of exe- tions in the United States. They deplore any comparison cution. The lives of women are worth half those of men, and between the kingdom’s execution of convicted criminals non-Muslims a fraction of the value of Muslims. and Islamic State’s extra-judicial killing of innocent hostages. Convicts from less wealthy backgrounds, or without trib- But rights activists say they are more concerned by the al connections who might intercede with the family or tribe justice system behind the death penalty in the kingdom of the victim, are more likely to die because it is harder for than by its particular method of execution. And critics of the them to arrange a blood money payment. For other crimes, Al Saud ruling family say the latest wave of executions may the punishment is usually up to the judge, employing his have a political message, with Riyadh determined to own interpretation of ancient Muslim texts. When there is demonstrate its toughness at a moment of regional turmoil. no victim, there is no victim’s family to offer mercy at a Saudi Arabia beheaded 26 people in August, more than in price. Saudi Arabia has no civil penal code that sets out sen- the first seven months of the year combined. The total for tencing rules, and no system of judicial precedent that the year now stands at 59, compared to 69 for all of last year, would make the outcome of cases predictable based on according to Human Rights Watch. past practice. “It’s possible the executions were used as intimidation Bassim Alim, who defended 17 men who were sen- and flexing of muscles. It’s a very volatile time and execu- tenced to up to 30 years jail in 2011 for sedition and other tions do serve a purpose when they’re done en masse,” said crimes in a high profile political case, said judges saw no Madawi al-Rasheed, visiting professor at the Middle East need for many protections seen as fundamental in the west, Centre of the London School of Economics. “There’s uncer- like ensuring defendants had legal representation. “The tainty around Saudi Arabia from the north and from the judge actually told one of the accused to my face: ‘Why do south and inside they are taking aggressive action alongside you need a lawyer? You don’t need a lawyer’,” he said. Alim the US against Islamic State, and all that is creating some said capital convictions were often based on no evidence kind of upheaval, which the death penalty tries to keep a lid other than a confession, with judges under no obligation to on.” A spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s Justice Ministry was not consider mitigating circumstances, psychological factors or immediately available to explain the upsurge in executions the possibility that a confession was coerced. in August, or to answer other questions about the kingdom’s use of the death penalty. Reform stalled King Abdullah announced plans for legal reform in 2007, Particularly egregious but judges, drawn from the traditionally conservative cler- Whatever the reason for the timing, the wave of execu- gy, have so far succeeded is putting off meaningful change. tions at the same time as jihadis in Iraq and Syria were In 2009 Abdullah replaced the long-serving, conservative beheading captives has brought new scrutiny to the prac- justice minister with a younger scholar, Mohammed al-Issa. tices of a country whose values are so different from those His attempts to introduce more modern training for judges of its Western allies. While Saudi Arabia has joined US-led air and a system of precedent to make sentencing more pre- strikes against Islamic State in Syria and has deployed its dictable have so far been blocked by strenuous opposition senior clergy to denounce militant ideology, its public from conservatives. beheading of convicts, particularly for non-violent or vic- Even Saudis who want reform generally do not oppose timless crimes like adultery, apostasy and witchcraft, is the use of the death penalty by public beheading. Khalid anathema to Western allies. “Any execution is appalling, but Al-Dakheel, a political sociology professor in Riyadh, said executions for crimes such as drug smuggling or sorcery the turbulence in the region meant people wanted the jus- that result in no loss of life are particularly egregious,” said tice system to be tough. “You don’t want to have a dictator- Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director ship similar to that of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria or (former for Human Rights Watch. Iraqi leader) Saddam Hussein. But at the same time you Some diplomats have said the increase may be only a don’t want to have a government which is weak, especially quirk of timing, as the appointment of more judges has in such a region and at such a time,” he said. In the most allowed courts to clear a backlog of appeal cases, and as the extreme version of the Saudi death penalty, known by the rise began after the end of Ramadan, when fewer execu- Arabic word for “crucifixion” and reserved for crimes that tions traditionally occur. But the interpretation of it as a outrage Saudi society, the corpse is publicly hanged in a show of strength appeared to be reinforced last week by harness from a metal gibbet as a warning to others. the sentencing to death of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr, a member An online film dated April 2012 on the LiveLeaks website of the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s Shiite minority who had shows a man being executed and then “crucified” in this backed protests in 2011. manner, reportedly for robbing a house and killing its occu- Two other men, one of whom was younger than 18 at pants. A group of five men suffered this fate in May last year the time of the protests, have also been sentenced for their in the southern province of Jizan for a series of robberies. part in the demonstrations and were convicted of having The reformist Jeddah lawyer, Alim, said he supported capi- thrown petrol bombs. “If you look at the definition of what tal punishment in Saudi Arabia but that the legal system Nimr was sentenced for, instigating sedition, it shows they needed to be strengthened to ensure verdicts were just. want to make sure they stop any form of activism,” said Mai “I’m not someone who shies away from it. It’s part of Sharia. Yamani, a Saudi-born political analyst in London. More than But it has to be handled with extreme sensitivity and care. a dozen people convicted of terrorism or Sunni Islamist mil- At the moment it can be done on the basis of no other evi- itancy have also been sentenced to death this year. dence if the accused confesses,” he said. — Reuters p8_Layout 1 10/20/14 10:03 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Australia abandons controversial niqab segregation plan

SYDNEY: A controversial plan to make security concerns was abandoned yes- President Stephen Parry to seat people security reason attached to it.” Australians. The country was one of the women wearing the burqa or niqab sit terday after an outcry. The backdown wearing face coverings in areas normally first nations to join the United States’ in separate glassed public enclosures at followed a decision on October 2 by reserved for noisy school children while Temporarily remove face coverings aerial campaign against the militant Australia’s Parliament House due to Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate visiting parliament. It followed heated The Department of Parliamentary group, which controls large parts of debate about potential security risks Services said in a statement that the Iraq and Syria and is increasingly seen since the rise of the Islamic State organi- rules had been changed and all visitors as a global threat. On Sunday, Canberra zation. The ruling was condemned by must now “temporarily remove any said it had reached a deal with human rights and race discrimination coverings” that prevent the recognition Baghdad for the deployment of about groups, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott of facial features. “This will enable secu- 200 special forces to assist Iraqi troops asked that it be reconsidered. rity staff to identify anyone who may in their fight against jihadists. Race discrimination commissioner have been banned from entering the While overturning the plan was Tim Soutphommasane told Fairfax building or who may be known to be a largely welcomed, Palmer United Party Media the original ruling meant Muslim security risk,” it said. “Once this process senator Jacqui Lambie, an outspoken women were being treated differently has taken place visitors are free to opponent of face coverings, said it to non-Muslim women. “No-one should move about the public spaces of the would encourage extremists to commit be treated like a second-class citizen, building, including all chamber gal- “acts of violence against Australians”. not least in the parliament,” he said. “I leries, with facial coverings in place”. “The decision today to allow burqas have yet to see any expert opinion or Parry explained that the original “inter- and other forms of identity-concealing analysis to date which indicates that im” decision was made after rumors items of dress to be worn in Australia’s the burqa or the niqab represents an began circulating earlier this month parliament will put a smile on the face additional or special security threat.” that burka-clad protesters were plan- of the overseas Islamic extremists and Labor opposition frontbencher Tony ning to disrupt parliament. No protest their supporters in Australia,” she said in Burke welcomed the backdown but took place. a statement. “This decision will not stop said the initial decision should never Australia has been on edge since the me from putting private members leg- have been made. “What possessed rise of the IS group with the govern- islation before parliament, which will them to think that segregation was a ment tightening counter-terrorism laws make illegal the wearing of the burqa SYDNEY: Photo shows a group of men and women dressed in burqas from the good idea?” he said. “Segregation was and police in recent weeks conducting and any other form of facial identity- group ‘Faceless’, calling for the banning of the conservative Muslim apparel previously introduced, apparently, with major terror raids amid fears of an concealing outfit or items of clothing in throughout Australia during a rally in Sydney. — AFP no security advice attached to it and no attack on home soil by radicalized public.”—AFP

Syria Kurds find refuge in camp named after a suicide bomber

SURUC: Syrian Kurdish refugees who last week. “Both her name and her honor not to call such places refugee camps. streamed into Turkey from Kobane have had to be kept alive,” Inco said. “She Many of the refugees, so focused on the found sanctuary in a new camp named demonstrated that there are also women daily battle to make ends meet, were after a female Kurdish suicide bomber in the YPG who can fight and sacrifice even unaware of camp’s name. Some of who blew herself up in the battle against their lives for their freedoms.” them had not bathed for days, and others jihadists for the besieged Syrian town. were seen carrying water from a gas sta- The new camp in the Turkish border town ‘She shed her blood for us’ tion across the camp. of Suruc has been named by the munici- IS began its advance on Kobane in Learning that the camp was named pality-which is controlled by the pro- September, seeking to cement its grip after the Syrian Kurdish fighter, they said Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) - over a long stretch of the Turkish-Syrian they were proud. “We are honored to be after Arin Mirkan. Arin Mirkan was a border. The jidhadist offensive promoted taking a shelter under the shadow of her young Kurdish woman from northern a mass exodus from Kobane and its sur- name,” said Vahide Mustafa, a female Syria who killed herself earlier this month rounding villages, with 200,000 fleeing refugee, outside her tent. “She was hon- at an Islamic State (IS) position in Kobane. into Turkey, which already hosts 1.5 mil- orable. She was a combatant. Daring to It was the first reported instance of a lion Syrians from the three-year-old con- take such action was worth the strength female suicide bomber used by Kurdish flict. Many Syrian refugees stay at camps of seven men,” she said. “Arin was more forces in the conflict against IS, which has in Suruc run by Turkey’s emergencies courageous than us. Nobody can do itself often employed the tactic. A full- directorate, AFAD. But Inco said this new what she did,” 55-year-old Fawaz Abdo time fighter with the Syria-based Kurdish camp has received no support from the said in his tent, sitting on a blanket. “She rebel group the People’s Protection Units government agency. shed her blood for us. That cannot be (YPG), the woman was claimed to have The camp still lacks electricity and compensated,” he added. Twenty-nine- killed a number of jihadists. “Arin dedicat- water, and construction was continuing year old Cazya Ibrahim, standing next to ed her life to her people and proved what as refugees tried to survive in squalid her four children in the camp, said: “She can be done with a woman’s power,” said conditions. The signs outside read “Arin sacrificed herself for a decent cause. She SURUC: Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobane, Syria is seen from a hilltop on the Cihat Inco, the local coordinator of the Mirxan Cadir Kenti”, using a Kurdish vari- kept up our morale. I wish I were in her outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border yesterday.— AP 5,500-person capacity camp, which ant of Mirkan’s surname and the Turkish place. I wish our hearts were as strong as began accepting refugees from Kobane for “tent city”-in line with Turkey’s practice hers.”—AFP Turkey to let Iraqi Kurds help resist Islamic State US drops arms to defenders

ANKARA: Turkey said yesterday it reinforcements to go there. Ankara itant group in Syria. It points to the would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to views the Syrian Kurds with deep sus- growing coordination between the reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian picion because of their ties to the US military and a Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane, while the PKK, a group that waged a decades- group that had been kept at arms’ United States air-dropped arms for long militant campaign for Kurdish length by the West due partly to the the first time to help the defenders rights in Turkey. Earlier the US Central concerns of NATO member Turkey. resist an Islamic State assault. Command said it had delivered Washington has pressed Ankara to Washington said the arms had been weapons, ammunition and medical let it use bases in Turkey to stage the supplied by Iraqi Kurdish authorities supplies to allow the Kurdish fighters air strikes, and a Turkish foreign min- and had been dropped near Kobani, to keep up their resistance in the istry official said the country’s air- which came under Islamic State town which is called Kobani in space had not been used during the attack in September and is now Kurdish and Ayn Al-Arab in Arabic. drops on Kobani. US President Barack besieged to the east, west and south, The main Syrian Kurdish armed Obama gave advance notice to his and bordered to the north by Turkey. group, the YPG, said it had received “a Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has stationed tanks on hills large quantity” of ammunition and of its plans to deliver arms to the overlooking Kobani but has refused weapons. Redur Xelil, a spokesman for Syrian Kurds, a group Turkey views to help the Kurdish militias on the the YPG, said the weapons dropped with distrust because of its links to ground without striking a broader overnight would have a “positive Turkish Kurds who have fought an deal with its NATO allies on interven- impact” on the battle and the morale insurgency in which 40,000 people ing in the Syrian civil war, saying of fighters who have been out- were killed. action should also be taken against gunned by Islamic State. But he “President Obama spoke to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. added: “Certainly it will not be enough Erdogan yesterday and was able to However, Foreign Minister Mevlut to decide the battle.” “We do not think notify him of our intent to do this and Cavusoglu told a news conference the battle of Kobani will end that the importance that we put on it,” one that Turkey was facilitating the pas- quickly. The forces of (Islamic State) senior US official told reporters. US sage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga are still heavily present and deter- officials, speaking in a conference call, forces which have also fought Islamic mined to occupy Kobani. In addition, described the weapons delivered as State when the militants attacked the there is resolve (from the YPG) to repel “small arms” but gave no details. Kurds’ autonomous region in Iraq this attack,” he told Reuters in an inter- Escalated US air strikes on Islamic over the summer. He gave no details. view conducted via Skype. State in and around Kobani have Turkey’s refusal to intervene in the He declined to give more details helped to slow its progress there in battle against Islamic State, which has on the shipment. The United States the last week. The Kurds say the US seized large areas of Syria and neigh- began carrying out air strikes against military has been coordinating the air boring Iraq, has led to growing frus- Islamic State targets in Iraq in August strikes with them, helping to make tration in the United States. and about a month later started them more effective. The Syrian The policy has also provoked bombing the militant group in neigh- Observatory for Human Rights, which lethal riots in southeastern Turkey by boring Syria. However, the resupply tracks the war in Syria using sources Kurds furious at Ankara’s refusal to of Kurdish fighters marks an escala- on the ground, said there had been help Kobani or at least open a land tion in the US effort to help local two new air strikes on Islamic State corridor for volunteer fighters and forces beat back the radical Sunni mil- positions after midnight.—Reuters Al-Qaeda kills 20 Shiite rebels

SANAA: Al-Qaeda militants have killed rocket-propelled grenades and artillery Yemeni branch, and Sunni tribesmen at least 20 Shiite rebels in fresh clashes used by both sides in several hours of have instead fought to halt the rebel for control of parts of central Yemen, clashes, security officials said. The Al- advance, leaving dozens dead including tribal sources said yesterday. The rebels, Qaeda militants also attacked rebel 47 Huthi supporters in a suicide bomb- known as Huthis, have been facing positions northeast of Rada and along a ing in Sanaa this month. fierce resistance from Al-Qaeda fighters road connecting the town in Baida and Sunni tribesmen as they seek to province to neighboring Dhamar, a ‘Failed’ withdrawal talks expand their territory after seizing the Shiite-populated province taken last The fighting has raised fears of capital Sanaa and the Red Sea port city week by the rebels. Yemen-located next to oil kingpin Saudi of Hudeida. Heaving fighting erupted The Huthis have seized on chronic Arabia and important shipping routes in overnight Sunday to Monday in the cen- instability in Yemen since the 2012 the Gulf of Aden-collapsing into a failed tral town of Rada, a mixed Sunni-Shiite ouster of veteran strongman Ali state. Hadi’s government is also a key US area that has been the scene of frequent Abdullah Saleh to take control of large ally in the fight against Al-Qaeda, allow- clashes. parts of the country. President ing Washington to conduct a longstand- The rebels were killed in a car bomb- Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi’s weak Sunni- ing drone war against the group on ing that targeted a building where they led central government has failed to Yemeni territory. The rebels faced no had gathered and in subsequent clash- stop the rebels, despite a UN-brokered resistance when they took control of es, tribal and security sources said, peace deal that was supposed to see Sanaa last month and have refused to adding that 12 rebels were also cap- them withdraw from the capital. Al- leave despite appearing to agree to the tured by Al-Qaeda militants. The town Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), naming of a new prime minister under was rocked by heavy explosions, with the extremist network’s powerful the UN deal. — AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Federal police take control of 13 towns in Southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY: Federal police have taken control of 13 tested, he said. Federal forces had already disarmed local municipalities in southern Mexico where local police are police in Iguala and Cocula, and arrested a total of 36 suspected of links to organized crime and possibly to the police officers. Both the mayor and police chief of Iguala case of 43 missing students, a top official said. The munici- are fugitives and accused of links to the local drug cartel, palities are all within a roughly 125-mile radius of Iguala, Guerrero Unidos, believed to have worked with police in the town where the students from a rural teachers’ college disappearing the students. disappeared more than three weeks ago after a confronta- The disappearance of the students has outraged tion with police. Twelve of the municipalities are in Mexicans, with thousands of protesters marching recently Guerrero state and one is in Mexico state. Among them are in Mexico City, Acapulco and elsewhere to demand their the tourist destinations of Taxco and Ixtapan de la Sal. safe return. On Friday, Mexican officials announced the National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido arrest of Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, the purported said Sunday night that authorities investigating the disap- leader of Guerreros Unidos. He was detained Thursday on a pearance of the students found “irregularities” and “pre- highway leaving Mexico City, federal prosecutor Tomas sumed links to organized crime” in the 13 municipal police Zeron said. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam had said forces. he hoped the arrest would bring new leads in the case. Federal police have assumed control of public security Rubido said Sunday night that the search for the 43 stu- in the municipalities, the police chiefs have been sent to a dents is being carried out by land, air and water with the special center for “certification” and their guns are being help of relatives and the International Red Cross. — AP Ana downgraded OLAVARRIA: Araceli Gutierrez walks at Monte Peloni, a former detention center where she was illegally detained during last dictatorship in Olavarria, Argentina. — AP to tropical storm Argentina’s town faces HONOLULU: Hawaii residents started to relax Sunday was plenty of brown water from runoff, which attracts after days of keeping a cautious eye on Hurricane Ana, sharks. which was downgraded by late afternoon into a tropi- Honolulu resident Trevor Kaplan and his family took ghosts of its Dirty War cal storm. After churning dangerously close for several advantage of the lack of crowds Sunday to hike to days the closest Ana got to Hawaii was about 70 miles Manoa Falls. “We think it’s the best time to come out ... southwest of the island Niihau on Sunday, leaving the lots of rain, huge waterfall and no people usually.” Unearthed secret cracks facade of quiet rural life state soaked but largely unscathed. “It was a fortuitous Kauai officials remained on alert with the storm warn- OLAVARRIA: Shade trees hide the crumbling farm house from one resident to another like ghost stories. “I had one track,” said Chris Brenchley, a meteorologist for the ing and flash flood watch in effect. Kauai County Mayor outside of Olavarria. Hidden at the end of a dirt path, the friend who would tell us that it scared him to walk by there National Weather Service in Honolulu. Bernard Carvalho Jr said some beaches had been white plaster coating is falling away from the brick founda- at night,” said Facundo Carlucho, an industrial engineering Preparations for the storm began last week, with res- closed due to rain and high surf, but the day was other- tion like scabs peeling off an unhealed wound. Araceli student in Olavarria. idents stocking up on bottled water, shelters opening wise typical. A few hundred people on the island expe- Gutierrez guards the memories of this place like a fragile and various events being canceled. On Sunday after- rienced power outages, but many had their service keepsake. A voluntary caretaker, the 61-year-old with fad- Dirty War-era abuses noon, all but one shelter on Kauai had closed, accord- restored by Sunday morning. ed blonde curls watches over the house known as Monte “I think it’s good that justice is being done for what hap- ing to the Hawaii chapter of the American Red Cross. Hawaiian Airlines canceled some morning Kauai Peloni where, as a young woman, she was tortured and pened in this country. I didn’t live through that time but, “The good news is, it looks like we’ve dodged a bullet flights, leaving about two dozen travelers to wait for an raped by her military captors. from what my parents told me, I know enough.” Other yet again,” Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said. A tropical afternoon trip. There were no reports of problems on “This is a faithful reflection of the memory,” she says, communities in Argentina launched investigations into storm watch was canceled Sunday for Oahu, the state’s Niihau, a privately owned island that’s home to fewer walking through the decaying rooms, her expression lost their Dirty War-era abuses years ago, but in Olavarria, there most populous island. But a flash flood warning was than 100 people. Ana was the second large storm to in time. “If it collapsed, it would be as if the most important was “resistance” by longstanding social groups that contin- extended to 5 pm and then again to 8 pm. bear down on Hawaii recently. Tropical Storm Iselle hit part of my life were to collapse.” The events that took place ue to hold influence, according to Walter Romero, the pros- A tropical storm warning remained in effect for the Big Island in August, leaving the Puna region with in 1977 now are coming to light, forcing residents of this ecutor leading the Monte Peloni tribunal. “It’s a small town Kauai and Niihau, and a hurricane watch was issued for downed trees and power outages. Kauai braced for the pastoral community to examine their role in Argentina’s with a conservative profile,” said Rafael Curtoni, dean of parts of a few remote northwestern Hawaiian islands, worst, after forecasters said the storm was coming clos- Dirty War against those who challenged the military social science faculty at Central University of Buenos Aires home to a largely uninhabited marine sanctuary. An er than had been predicted. Many there remember the regime. province. Curtoni said Olavarria continues to guard “certain emergency shelter on Kauai was shut down. Gradually destruction of Hurricane Iniki, which killed six people secrets of the business sector and of people in power” who turning northwest, Ana was 150 miles southwest of and destroyed more than 1,400 homes in 1992. Kevin One secret unearthed cooperated with the dictatorship. Kauai and 220 miles west of Honlulu at 5 pm and had Adkisson, however, wasn’t on Kauai for that storm and One secret unearthed this summer already cracked “We all know who they are and where they are,” he said. sustained winds of 70 mph while traveling at 8 mph. It had mixed feelings Sunday. Olavarria’s facade of quiet rural life. In August, residents Many in Olavarria were stunned by the story of Hurban, was expected to gain strength and become a hurricane “It’s kind of a nonevent so far,” he said. “I was kind of learned an Olavarria music teacher named Ignacio Hurban who learned his true identity after volunteering to have his again, the weather service said. looking forward to my first hurricane, but I’m glad it was, in fact, Guido Montoya Carlotto, the lost grandson of DNA tested. Shortly after his birth in 1978, he was taken There have been no reports of injuries, deaths or sig- didn’t tear anything up or hurt anybody.” Road crews in Estela de Carlotta, whose Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo from his mother, who died in military captivity, and given nificant damage from the storm, which was upgraded Kau, a coffee-growing region on the Big Island, group searches for children taken by the regime. Now, to a couple who raised him on a local farm. Hurban has to a hurricane as it neared Hawaii late last week. The reopened Mamalahoa Highway, which had been shut Olavarria is learning about the secrets of Monte Peloni. said his adoptive parents are “an extraordinary couple” who effects have been limited to heavy rain, large waves down. “We just lucked out this one,” Darryl Oliveira, Gutierrez is among the witnesses testifying before a judi- cared for him “with the greatest of love.” The Plaza de Mayo and some minor flooding. Officials, however, asked director of Hawaii County Civil Defense, said. It was cial panel investigating the detentions of 21 people taken group opposes any effort by authorities to question the people to stay home, avoid rain-soaked roads and keep good to be prepared anyway, said Susanna Ferris, of there by military officials. couple, concerned such an interrogation would discourage out of the ocean. “The ocean is angry today,” Honolulu Honolulu as she watched the waves in Waikiki. “It didn’t A hearing set for next year will uncover abuses allegedly other lost children from coming forward. Ocean Safety Chief Jim Howe said, noting that there turn out to be as bad as we thought it would be.” — AP committed against 40 other people at Monte Peloni by 70 As many are realizing, examination of the past is a deli- defendants, including former police officers, prison officials cate endeavor. Carmelo Vinci, a former Monte Peloni and town leaders who served as advisers to the regime detainee who now heads the Commission for the Memory that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. “With this tribunal, of Olavarria, says local business owners participated in the plus the appearance of Guido,” Gutierrez said, “Olavarria repression of dissidents, noting that the people they has woken up.” But it has been a difficult awakening. employed in local factories were among the first to be Olavarria, some 220 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, is a detained. The tribunal has said it will investigate allega- prosperous farming and industrial town that holds onto tions that local Rotary Club members were given advance tradition. The afternoon siesta is still a part of life for many knowledge of who the military intended to pick up. of the 90,000 residents. The twin steeples of the Catholic But Oscar Unzaga, president of the city’s main Rotary Church stand over Olavarria’s tree-lined central square, Club, denied that any such collusion occurred. After con- right next to city hall. sulting with the club’s oldest members, he said, “we decided The process is exposing secrets long buried by not to say anything (about the charge) because that would Olavarria, where victims and the accused share the same give importance to an embittered testimony that does not streets and know the same people. Four aging military deserve a response.” The whole process of the tribunal, he men could be sent to prison for life as a result of the tribu- said, is “a circus where the result is already decided.” All of nal that opened Sept 22 and is expected to conclude the charges should be dismissed, he said, “because we are before the close of the year. The four defendants are Omar suffering attacks” perpetrated by guerrillas. “Pajaro” Ferreyra, 64, an army sergeant who went on to The airing of Olavarria’s secrets has made for uncomfort- serve as Olavarria’s director of urban control; retired Gen. able encounters, said Vinci, who owns a printing shop in Ignacio Verdura, 82, who commanded the regiment that town. A former military officer connected to the regime controlled the region; former Capt Walter Grosse, 69; and occasionally passes his store, he said. “Before, he would greet former Lt Horacio Leite, 64. me very cordially. ... But since the hearings began, he is not Townspeople old and young crowd into a room at the so friendly.” A confrontation Gutierrez had with Ferreyra local state university, or gather outside at the windows, to while he led the city’s urban control department some years hear recollections of kidnapping and torture, of being tak- ago was recorded by a television program and broadcast en to the bathroom of the old farmhouse, where the most nationwide. The camera recorded Gutierrez as she chased sensitive parts of one’s body were fastened to electrical him down the corridor of city hall shouting, “Come and tell cables and shocked. Tales of Monte Peloni, named for the me that you don’t know me.” Ferreyra simply walked away, Swiss family who built the home in the 1800s, long passed leaving her demand to hang in silence. — AP Bodies of women found in northwest Indiana

GARY: The bodies of seven women have now been found in northwestern Indiana after a man confessed to killing one woman who was found strangled at a motel and leading investigators to least three other bodies, authorities said yes- terday. The Lake County coroner’s office said three of the bodies were found Sunday night at two locations in Gary, in addition to the four bodies found earlier over the weekend. The coroner’s office called the new deaths homicides, with one victim strangled and unspecified injuries for the other two women. It was- n’t immediately clear yesterday whether INDIANA: Photo shows Motel 6 in Hammond, Ind where police found one the man directed police to the three of seven women’s bodies the weekend. — AP bodies Sunday night. Phone and email messages seeking comment from Gary Hammond as 19-year-old Afrika Hardy Police investigating her death police spokeswoman Cpl Gabrielle King and ruled she had been strangled. obtained a search warrant for a home weren’t immediately returned. The coroner’s office said a second vic- and vehicle in Gary. Police conducted Police said Sunday that a 43-year-old tim had been identified by family mem- the search Saturday afternoon and took man confessed to killing a woman bers as 35-year old Anith Jones of the man into custody. Hoyda said the whose body was found in a Motel 6 in Merrillville. Autopsies had not yet been man confessed during questioning and the neighboring city of Hammond and completed on her or the other two then told investigators “where several told investigators where the bodies of women, who have not yet been identi- other female victims of possible homi- three other women could be found in fied. Jones had been missing since Oct 8, cide were located.” Hoyda wouldn’t com- Gary. Those women were found late and Gary police had recently searched a ment on how the man knew the Saturday and early Sunday. Gary police block looking for her, the Post-Tribune of women, on a possible motive or on found the bodies of three women at dif- Merrillville reported. Police discovered whether the man confessed to killing ferent locations in Gary late Saturday and Hardy’s body about 9:30 pm Friday at a any of the other women. Hoyda said the early Sunday, following up on informa- Motel 6. “A friend of the deceased called man’s name wasn’t being released tion the man provided during question- us, and she was concerned when she because he had not yet been formally ing, Hammond police Lt Rich Hoyda said didn’t respond to her calling,” Hoyda said. charged. He would not say when Sunday. The county coroner’s office on “We were sent there and found that per- charges will be filed. He was being held Sunday identified the victim found in son dead.” in the Hammond City Jail. — AP p10 2_Layout 1 10/20/14 10:02 PM Page 1

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Kenyan girls trading sex for food: One woman’s battle to help NAIROBI: The alcohol lining the 12- 3.1 million people is home to two mil- hated it. I couldn’t speak the language. I broad smile and the word ‘Love’ tat- Russell - who gave a notorious TED talk year-old Kenyan girl’s stomach did lion slum dwellers, and the Kenyan cap- had never been a parent. We had these tooed inside her left arm. called ‘Looks aren’t everything’ where nothing to quell her hunger pangs. So ital’s slum population is growing by 6 kids in the house that we were sup- she changed from a black micro dress when one of her mother’s drunken cus- percent a year. Kenya has up to 30,000 posed to take care of... They are trauma- Recovery through arts into a long floral skirt to show the pow- tomers, in the one-room drinking den child sex workers, according to the tised, they can’t sleep, I can’t sleep.” Richardson said her commitment to er that image has over our lives - and that doubles as their home in Nairobi, United Nations children’s fund, mainly Richardson found herself becoming her work stemmed from personal expe- Morley, a New York singer-songwriter offered her a boiled egg in exchange along its palm-fringed tourist beaches, one of a growing number of activists rience as she was sexually abused as a who has performed with Sheryl Crow. for sex, she agreed. Brittanie with child prostitution widely acknowl- running grassroots campaigns to stop child by a close family member but Richardson said it was heartbreaking Richardson, a 27-year-old American edged as a problem that needs to be grinding poverty from sending children everyone tried to ignore it. She credits that in Sinai’s fetid alleys, most of the campaigning against the child sex tackled by stronger law enforcement from the slums into the sex trade. She the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble girls’ mothers were alcoholic sex work- trade in Kenya, witnessed the act dur- and by giving the youngsters a way out. would sneak into brothels, strip clubs of Atlanta, a theatre company founded ers. Some knowingly sent their daugh- ing a routine visit to meet the family and alleys, sometimes posing as a pros- by a jazz trumpeter, for saving her. “I ters out to sell their bodies while others and felt powerless to act. Brothel rescues titute, to lure girls away, an experience saw what the arts and genuine love did forced them into situations where they “The room was full of people: men, Richardson, from Atlanta, Georgia, she described as “terrifying”. for me as a survivor and I wanted to do were raped. women, the mum is there, the sister. It had no idea of the extent of the prob- But after two years of running the it for more girls,” said Richardson. The youngest girls in her program was one of those things where you felt lem in Kenya until she started travelling Mtwapa rescue centre, Richardson “It built up so much self confidence are sisters, aged eight and 10, whose you should try and be the knight in regularly to Africa while at college, ini- wanted to do more to help and in April in me. It was just a really free space, full mother made them sell peanuts in a shining armor and just grab the kid,” tially to South Africa to help fight social this year set up the charity Art and of a love that none of us had ever had local nightclub. Both of the girls were Richardson told the Thomson Reuters injustices and then to Mozambique. A Abolition which aims to help “sex before, and so it really just changed my raped. Their mother was in denial until Foundation. “But I kept reminding meeting with a Canadian woman in slaves” through the performing arts, life.” Art and Abolition ran its first camp Richardson took the children for med- myself, I could snatch this kid right now Mozambique who needed help to set therapy and education. Assisted by a in August - a week of music, dance, dra- ical examinations and confronted her, and then be this enemy in this commu- up a rescue home for children caught local social worker, Richardson selected ma and visual arts - culminating in a making her come to terms with what nity or I can sit and make relationships. up in the sex industry led Richardson to 10 girls aged between eight and 16, performance. A two-week camp is she was doing to her daughters. It just broke my heart that rape had the Kenyan town of Mtwapa, a notori- who were living in the slum of Sinai to planned for December. But her work Richardson said she no longer judged become so normalized. “When she fin- ous red-light district on the coast. take part in her program. Sinai is one of comes at a cost and Richardson has women who sold their children after ished, she just sat and ate her egg with “It was a time of being heartbroken about 200 slum settlements in the city. managed to garner the support of a her work in Kenya. “After I hear their a blank stare.” and shocked. Seeing a 15-year-old, “All 10 of them have either been raped dozen artists and activists in New York stories and I get to know these women, In Nairobi’s overcrowded slums, hun- much less an 8-year-old, telling me that or been forced by poverty or their par- who are holding fundraisers for Art and I realize that they really are not differ- gry children often trade their bodies for she has to have sex to eat was com- ents to have sex for money,” said Abolition this month. ent to us at all. I probably would have a few coins or food. The city of about pletely shocking,” Richardson said. “I Richardson, who has dreadlocks, a They include US model Cameron done it too,” she said.— Reuters

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LONDON: European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso argued yesterday that Britain is better in the European Crash kills at least Union and warned that alienating its allies would be a “historic 25 in Bangladesh mistake”, as pressure mounts from British eurosceptics before DHAKA: At least 25 people were killed in Bangladesh yes- elections. “In the years to come the UK could be facing a terday when two passenger buses collided head-on, police choice-to stay or leave the European Union,” the outgoing said. More than two dozen people were injured in the acci- head of the 28-member bloc’s executive body said in a speech dent at Baraigram, 200 kilometers west of Dhaka, said dis- at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. “Could trict police Chief Basudev Banik, warning the death toll the UK get by without a little help from your friends? My could rise. “It was a nasty collision: both the buses were answer is probably not.” Squeezed by growing momentum of severely mangled. So far the death toll is 25,” Banik said. the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), Prime Minister “The condition of some of the injured is very critical.” David Cameron has vowed to renegotiate the terms of Bangladesh has one of the world’s highest death rates from Britain’s EU membership and hold an in-out referendum if he transport accidents, due mainly to the poor state of roads is re-elected next year. and vehicles and a failure to comply with road rules. Barroso urged politicians to make “the positive case” for staying in Europe, expressing concern about “negative and false portrayals in... newspapers from Monday to Saturday.” “It Robbers raid Pakistan’s worries me that so few politicians on this side of the Channel charity, steal $400,000 are ready to tell the facts as they are,” Barroso said. After press KARACHI: Armed robbers have raided one of reports that Cameron might seek to impose a cap on EU Pakistan’s leading charities and stolen $400,000 in migrants coming to Britain, Barroso told a BBC interview on cash as well as five kilos of gold, police said yester- Sunday that such a limit would be against European law. “Any day. At least eight robbers struck at the Edhi Centre kind of arbitrary cap seems to me to be not in conformity with in the southern city of Karachi, taking several staff European laws. Because for us it’s very important the principle hostage and threatening the organization’s revered of non-discrimination,” he said. “The freedom of movement is founder Abdul Sattar Edhi at gunpoint. Edhi, aged in a very important principle in the internal market: movement his 80s, is one of Pakistan’s best-loved figures for his of goods, of capital, of services and of people.” unstinting work providing ambulance services across STOCKHOLM: Swedish corvette HMS Stockholm patrols at Jungfrufjarden in the Stockholm archipelago yes- the country and running shelters for women, chil- ‘Historic mistake’ terday. —AFP dren and the destitute. Police said the robbers broke The Sunday Times this week reported that Cameron was into the centre, where Edhi also lives, on Sunday and exploring whether national insurance numbers-personal iden- took the mostly female staff hostage. Edhi, who has tifying codes needed to work in Britain-issued to EU migrants been on dialysis for the past year, was sleeping in his could be capped. “It would be an historic mistake if on these Mysterious submarine near room and was woken at gunpoint by the robbers, issues Britain were to continue to alienate its natural allies in who demanded the keys to the vaults. The philan- central and eastern Europe, when you were one of the Stockholm might be Dutch thropist told the robbers he did not have the keys strongest advocates for their accession,” Barroso said. which were held by his wife. The robbers then Migration to Britain from other countries in the EU, particu- smashed the locks open. “Our investigation is going larly from newer and poorer member states in eastern Europe, Dutch deny link to mystery submarine off Sweden on but it seems that some insider was involved in the is a sensitive political issue in Britain and UKIP has put border robbery,” Zahid Hussain, a police officer who is part of control at the heart of its electoral campaign. The party won MOSCOW: A mysterious “foreign ves- Swedish media reported over the Marnoes Visser said. the investigation team, told AFP. The robbers made its first elected seat in parliament in a by-election earlier this sel” the Swedish military have been weekend that a Russian U-boat might “The Bruinvis then departed for off with five kilograms of gold ornaments and about month with the re-election of lawmaker Douglas Carswell, searching for off the coast of be in trouble around islands off Estonia, where it has been at anchor in $400,000 in cash, he said. The value of the gold has who had defected from the ruling Conservative Party. UKIP Stockholm might belong to the Stockholm, but the Swedish military the Tallinn harbor over the weekend.” not yet been established. hopes to win a second seat in a November by-election, follow- Netherlands, a source in the Russian said on Sunday that it was not possible The Bruinvis was now making its way ing the defection of another Conservative MP to the once- defense ministry was quoted as saying to determine the nationality of the back to the Netherlands, Visser added. fringe party that has risen to around 17 percent support in yesterday. “To remove tensions in the vessel. The Russian defense ministry “The Dutch submarine is not involved Checkpoints attacks polls. waters of the Baltic Sea and to save was not immediately available for and we are further not involved in any kill 4 Afghan troops The country holds a general election sometime in the first money of the Swedish taxpayers we comment. search action or such,” she said. KABUL: Officials say insurgents have attacked several army half of next year, with the Conservative party currently run- would recommend (Sweden) to turn Meanwhile, The Netherlands yes- Swedish Rear-Admiral Anders checkpoints in eastern and southern Afghanistan, killing at ning neck-and-neck in opinion polls. Cameron has vowed to to the naval command of the terday denied a Russian claim that a Grenstad on Sunday said the armed least four troops and wounding several people. No one has negotiate hard to “get what Britain needs” on immigration, but Netherlands for an explanation,” a mystery submarine that the Swedish forces were carrying out an intelli- claimed responsibility for the attacks, which happened has not given details on specific proposals. International source at the defense ministry in military has been looking for could be gence operation to establish the pres- Sunday, but the Taliban have stepped up assaults on Development Secretary Justine Greening, a cabinet minister Moscow told Russian news agencies. Dutch. The Dutch defense ministry ence of a foreign vessel. A Swedish Afghan and NATO forces ahead of the pullout of most for- in the Conservative-led government, said on Sunday that a The source said that the Dutch said its submarine was no longer in media report had suggested that a eign combat troops by the end of the year. Defense min- need to address migration from within the EU meant the rules diesel-electric submarine Bruinvis was the area when the mystery vessel was Russian emergency transmission had istry spokesman Gen Mohammad Zahir Azimi said yester- would have be examined. “That means taking a fundamental carrying out tasks near Stockholm last reportedly sighted. “We participated in been intercepted from the vessel-indi- day that the four soldiers died in an attack in the eastern look at some of the rules that allow unrestricted immigration week. It was in the Estonian capital of an exercise with Sweden with several cating that a Russian U-boat was in province of Logar, in the Charkh district. He says scores of in a way that we don’t think is sensible,” Greening told Sky Tallinn on Friday and was expected to ships, but it ended last week Thursday,” trouble in the area. But Grenstad had insurgents were killed in a subsequent airstrike there. In News.—AFP return on Monday, the source said. Dutch defense ministry spokeswoman dismissed the claim.—Agencies southern Uruzgan province, spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab says insurgents attacked police checkpoints in Gezab district. He says Afghan forces suffered no casualties Ukraine says goodbye Lenin as Communists face poll wipeout but that four attackers were killed.

ZAPORIZHIA: Ever since Oleksiy Baburin’s Communists had considerable support-said under several vandal attacks. “The first time extinction. In July, the pro-Western parliament Stalin statue in southeastern Ukraine was he may have to work underground after the his head was cut off. The second time they voted to kick out its deputies and a court in 2 arrested in death bombed, he has been hiding it behind heavy October 26 vote. tied a bag of explosives to it and blew it up,” Kiev is hearing a case on whether it should be of Saudi student metal blinds. Now the Communist lawmaker “Today there are anti-Communist attitudes. Baburin said as an assistant struggled with the banned nationwide. To make things even CALIFORNIA: Two people have says his entire party is under attack. As A nationalist orgy is at its peak,” Baburin said metal blinds now shielding the statue from harder, it lost a sizeable chunk of constituents been arrested in the death of a Ukraine gears up to vote in a snap parliamen- sitting in his office surrounded by red Soviet vandals. Blaming anti-Communist attitudes on when Russia annexed Crimea and pro-Russian college student from Saudi tary election after a year of dramatic upheaval, flags and a selection of cheaply-made party “oligarchs” who stirred pro-European rallies separatists declared independence in two Arabia whose remains were the Communist Party is finding its power base newspapers. “All our attempts to hold a nor- that eventually toppled Kremlin-backed presi- eastern regions-home to 680,000 Communist found alongside a freeway in a has collapsed. mal campaign are met with aggression” by dent Viktor Yanukovych in February, Baburin supporters. Southern California desert city, Polls indicate that for the first time in 20 football hooligans and nationalist activists, refuses to trust surveys showing his party According to an opinion poll on October the Los Angeles Times reported years it will fail to be elected into parliament, a who attack campaign stands and tear up fly- being shut out in the polls. “People are afraid... 13, only four percent will vote for the Sunday. Abdullah Abdullatif symbolic rupture with Ukraine’s Soviet past as ers, he complained. “Now we focus on door- when there is persecution, this anti- Communist Party, one percent short of the Alkadi, 23, was last seen at his the country lurches toward the West amid a to-door campaigning.” On the porch of his Communist orgy in Ukraine. They are afraid to threshold to win a proportionate share of the home in the Los Angeles sub- dispute with Russia. Baburin, a veteran law- office once sat a bronze bust of Joseph Stalin- talk about who they will vote for,” he said. seats in the new parliament. “The odds of the urb of Reseda on Sept 17. maker who is running for office in the city of the Soviet dictator Ukrainians blame for a Even before the early polls, Ukraine’s Communists making it into parliament are not Authorities discovered his body Zaporizhia-historically part of the so-called famine in the 1930s that killed millions. Communist Party-accused by nationalists of very high,” said political analyst Vadim Karasev in Palm Desert, roughly 125 Abdullatif Alkadi “red belt” of regions in the southeast where But that had to be hidden after it come being Moscow proxies-had been staring at of the Institute of Global Strategies in Kiev. miles to the southeast, on And if the old party ever intends to attempt a Thursday. Alkadi was an international student at California comeback in an increasingly right-wing State University, Northridge. Broadcaster KCBS-TV has Ukraine, it would have to completely rebrand reported that Alkadi sold one of his cars, an Audi worth itself, breaking from Lenin and Stalin, he said. about $52,000, on Craigslist around the time of his disap- “The main criticism of the Communist Party pearance. The Los Angeles Times has reported that his cell now is that it’s more pro-Moscow than pro- phone had been traced to the city of Beaumont, some 80 Ukraine,” he said. miles east of Los Angeles, but that it had been deactivated.

Ukrainian-style Lenin Ukraine-historically split into the west, Car bombings kill 16 where nationalist guerrillas have battled the in Shiite shrine city Soviets well into the 1950s, and the Russian- BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say three car bombings in the speaking east, where a bloody conflict with revered Shiite shrine city of Karbala have killed at least 16 pro-Moscow rebels has raged since April-has people. A police officer said yesterday that the explosives- been physically shedding its Soviet symbols. laden cars were parked in commercial areas and parking Statues of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir lots near government offices. He says 41 others were Lenin have fallen throughout Ukraine, with wounded in the explosions. A medical official confirmed the largest in the eastern city Kharkiv hooked the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of with a lasso and downed in September. anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to media. Zaporizhia now has the largest standing Lenin Karbala is home to two revered Shiite saints and is located in the country, a statue on the Dnipro River about 90 kilometers south of Baghdad. The attacks came with arm outstretched to point at the Dnipro hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up among Shiite hydropower plant a monstrous Soviet-era worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in a commer- facility in the region. — AFP ZAPORIZHIA: A statue of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin stands in Zaporizhia. — AFP cial area in central Baghdad, killing at least 17 people. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Controlling the message: Modi chooses state media Private Indian news channels frustrated NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘From the heart’ Ravi, editor of the Hindu newspaper and has anointed India’s state-backed broad- Modi has never given a news confer- president of the Editors Guild of India, caster as his media brand of choice, help- ence as prime minister, but he has been which issued a statement in September ing shield his government from tough active on Facebook and Twitter, where he calling on the government to interact questions and prompting private news has over 7 million followers, bypassing tra- more with journalists. “It’s been a one-way outlets to complain that they are being ditional media and spurring editors to street.” The Guild statement noted “a cer- kept out of the loop. Starchy and unpol- complain about a lack of two-way commu- tain deficit of transparency in the function- ished, Doordarshan News and All India nication and debate. Now, for the first time, ing of the government,” citing the delay in Radio (AIR) were not the obvious choice for an Indian prime minister has a direct link to setting up a media liaison in the PMO and a government that took power in May after voters’ living rooms in his home. Last restricting access to ministers and bureau- a high-octane election campaign that used month, the state broadcaster set up a crats. special effects to beam Modi’s image to ral- recording studio at Modi’s official resi- lies across the nation. dence where he will record “Man ki Baat” Bad blood But the old-fashioned outlets are (“talking from the heart”), his regular Modi has had rocky relations with the expected to offer one big advantage over address to the nation on AIR that debuted media since 2002, when at least 1,000 peo- their slicker private rivals: a less combative earlier in October. Doordarshan has been ple, mostly Muslims, died in religious riots and questioning platform from which Modi contracted to build a television studio at in Gujarat state, where he was chief minis- can get his message out to tens of millions Modi’s residence so his talk can be tele- ter at the time. Local and international of Indians. Carefully controlled communi- vised as well, according to an engineer media reported extensively on the vio- cation has been a defining characteristic of working on the project. lence, raised questions about the state the new government since Modi’s national- Separately, the government has sent a government’s role and some blamed Modi ist Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power. letter asking ministries to engage more for failing to stop the brutality. Modi has MUMBAI: Indian musicians and supporters dance in front of a portrait of Indian Prime Critics see it as one symptom of a broader with the publicly funded broadcaster, always denied any wrongdoing, and Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi during celebrations out- leadership style under Modi that has weak- according to the India Today news web- Indian courts have never found sufficient side the BJP party office following state elections in Mumbai. — AFP ened opponents, sidelined ministers and site, and has given its journalists coveted evidence to prosecute him. But the rela- concentrated power in the Prime Minister’s spots in a significantly reduced press corps tionship remained fraught. Since 2002 his Since taking office Modi has not given an would give Prasar Bharati, the state body Office (PMO). that travels with the prime minister over- aides have routinely requested journalists interview to the Indian media, though he that operates AIR and Doordarshan, more Information and Broadcasting Minister seas. Thirty or more journalists usually to present their questions in advance as a has spoken with foreign news outlets autonomy and editorial freedom. The gov- Prakash Javadekar said Modi’s preference for travelled with the previous prime minister. condition to secure a formal meeting with ahead of trips abroad. “Even for the posi- ernment’s new reliance on these networks the public broadcaster was not an attempt But on Modi’s recent trip to the United him. In 2007, Modi abruptly walked out of tives of the government to be brought may complicate that. The government to suppress information or limit access. “I States, only nine - the majority from state- an interview with a private Indian news out, a certain amount of access is neces- asked ministries to strengthen ties with think everyone must welcome it. He has not funded organizations - accompanied him, channel when he was asked whether he sary,” said NDTV political editor Rahul state-run broadcasters because of their banned anybody, his programs are telecast according to the foreign ministry. regretted the 2002 incidents. Shrivastava, who has covered the PMO national reach, Bimal Julka, secretary of live, practically on all channels, so where is Private news outlets say diminishing Modi sat through an interview with since the mid-1990s. Javadekar’s ministry said. The government the issue? There is no denying somebody interaction with the government has Reuters last year, dismissing concerns Now, he said, “you have to accept as it wants information “to penetrate to the last access.” “There is complete freedom in our made their jobs harder. “There has been a about his style of management and saying comes both in terms and quality and mile”, he said, but it is “distorted” by some regime,” he told reporters. PMO officials were lot of communication from the govern- that he welcomed criticism because “the quantity.” In June, Information and private outlets and so public broadcasters not available to comment for this story. ment, but it’s been very top-down,” said N strength of democracy lies in criticism”. Broadcasting Minister Javadekar said he also need to distribute the facts.— Reuters India boss gives workers cars, jewelry for festival

AHMEDABAD: A generous boss in Krishna Exports said yesterday. given to those who did not own one,” he western India has given 1,200 of his “They have sacrificed their family said, while cars were given to those workers new cars, deposits for flats and lives for the progress of the firm and workers who already have their own thousands of dollars worth of diamond hence they deserve the reward,” home. Jewelry, worth a maximum jewelry as rewards for loyalty. The dia- Dholakia said from Surat, a diamond pol- $5,860 apiece, was given to some mond merchant from the city of Surat ishing and export hub. Most employees employees as presents for their wives presented the lavish gifts to the receive presents of some kind from their because spouses “have also contributed employees in a ceremony on Sunday bosses during Diwali, the festival of indirectly to the progress of the firm”, he before the major Hindu festival of lights, but they are usually just boxes of said. Employee Gaurav Duggal said his Diwali. The presents, including those for Indian sweets. Dholakia’s complex loyal- two-odd years of working for the com- worker’s wives, were part of Savjibhai ty program, in which employees earn pany had been “indescribable”. “The jew- Dholakia’s company loyalty program points in 25 criteria, has been in place for elry which they have given me is not worth a total of 50 billion rupees ($815 five years-but this year the rewards have only priceless, it shows the sentiment million). “We have rewarded those reached new heights. “We gave apart- that the company has towards me and employees who have contributed to the ments to 207 employees, cars to 491 and other employees,” he told the NDTV net- development of the company over the jewelry to 500 employees,” Dholakia said. work. Dholakia’s firm exports polished years,” Dholakia, chairman of Hari “The (deposits on) apartments were diamonds to 75 countries.—AFP

HONG KONG: Pro-democracy demonstrators study in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong yesterday.—AFP After clashes, HK students, govt stand their ground before talks Clashes in Mong Kok protest hot spot

HONG KONG: Hong Kong students and the government ker what he hoped would be a non-violent end to the stood their ground yesterday ahead of talks aimed at upheaval. “To work out a solution, to put an end to this defusing more than three weeks of pro-democracy problem, we need time. We need time to talk to the peo- protests that have blocked traffic around the Chinese- ple, particularly young students,” he told Hong Kong’s controlled city, but expectations of a breakthrough were ATV Television. “What I want is to see a peaceful and a low. Student-led protesters are calling for free elections meaningful end to this problem.” in the former British trading post, but China insists on Hong Kong’s 28,000-strong police force has been screening candidates first. Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed struggling to contain the movement. Over the weekend, leader, Leung Chun-ying, has said the city’s government demonstrators in Mong Kok squared off against police in was unwilling to compromise on China’s restrictions. late-night confrontations, surging forward to stake their The talks between student representatives and senior claim to an intersection. Scores of riot police smashed city government officials, scheduled for today evening, batons at a wall of umbrellas that protesters raised to may yield small confidence-building measures and an defend themselves. Scuffles erupted amid shouts and agreement to continue the dialogue, but are unlikely to hurled insults. On Sunday night, crowds again built up bridge the chasm between the two sides or end the and protesters stockpiled safety equipment such as hel- demonstrations. “I don’t expect much from tomorrow’s mets. Some wore homemade forearm shields made out meeting, but I still hold some hope for the talks,” said of foam pads to parry baton blows. But unlike the previ- protester Woody Wong, a 21-year-old student who ous two nights, there were no clashes. camped overnight on Nathan Road, the main thorough- fare in the densely populated Mong Kok district. “I will ‘Criminal acts’ on computer keep doing this until the government listens.” Dozens of Hong Kong is ruled under a “one country, two sys- people were injured in two nights of clashes over the tems” formula that allows it wide-ranging autonomy and weekend in Mong Kok, including 22 police, media and freedoms and specifies universal suffrage as an eventual police said. Four people were arrested for assault, police goal. But Beijing is wary about copycat demands for said. reform on the mainland. Leung appears hamstrung, The area was calm yesterday although scores of pro- unable to compromise because of the message that testers remained on the streets. Today’s talks, which will would send to people on the mainland, while using more be broadcast live, offer a rare opportunity to try to ease force would likely only galvanize the protests. the worst political crisis in Hong Kong since Britain hand- Hong Kong Security Chief Lai Tung-kwok said some ed the free-wheeling city back to China in 1997. The gov- clashes in recent days had been initiated by activists affil- ernment called off talks scheduled earlier this month iated to “radical organizations which have been active in after the students called for the protests to expand. “So conspiring, planning and charging violent acts”. In addi- far we’ve seen no hope that they will reach some agree- tion to the four arrested for assault, police on Sunday ment in the coming week because both sides have differ- announced the arrest of a man suspected of inciting oth- ent expectations of the dialogue,” said James Sung, a ers “on an online forum to join the unlawful assembly in political analyst at City University of Hong Kong. Mong Kok, to charge at police and to paralyze the rail- ways”. The arrest of the 23-year-old man for “access to (a) Possible wiggle room computer with criminal or dishonest intent” appeared to The Hong Kong government’s scope for negotiation is be the first of its kind since the demonstrations began. severely limited by the ruling Communist Party in Mobile phone chat groups and social media sites like Beijing, which at the end of August announced the Facebook have been major platforms for protest chatter, parameters for the 2017 election of Hong Kong’s leader including calls for action by demonstration leaders. that sparked the protests. The government may have Besides Mong Kok, about 1,000 protesters are camped some wiggle room in determining how the committee out at the headquarters of the civil disobedience that selects candidates for Hong Kong’s leadership elec- “Occupy” movement on Hong Kong Island in a sea of tion is picked, Sung said. The committee is now expected tents on an eight-lane highway beneath skyscrapers to be stacked with Beijing loyalists, anointing only candi- close to government headquarters. Hong Kong came up dates palatable to China’s Communist Party. in weekend talks between US Secretary of State John “There is some flexibility within the framework, but Kerry and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi in Boston. the problem is whether or not the students will accept it,” A State Department official said it was discussed as part said Sung. “No one knows because the students are all of candid exchanges on human rights. The Chinese idealistic.” Leung, who has rejected calls by protesters to Foreign Ministry said Yang told Kerry Hong Kong was an quit, said on Sunday that more time was needed to bro- internal affair.— Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Kerry in Southeast Asia seeking support against IS JAKARTA: US Secretary of State John During talks with Najib Razak, the for a hardline Muslim caliphate. Kerry yesterday visited Indonesia, home prime minister of Muslim-majority Malaysian police have arrested a total to the world’s biggest Muslim popula- Malaysia, Kerry thanked the leader for of three dozen people this year for sus- tion, to press Southeast Asian nations to “Malaysia’s strong public comments” pected IS-related activities. Jakarta has step up efforts in the fight against the condemning the IS organization and sought to ban support for IS ideology Islamic State (IS) group. Kerry was support for a United Nations resolution while police believe up to five among foreign dignitaries in Jakarta for aimed at tackling the threat of radicals Indonesians-including two suicide the inauguration of President Joko who join the extremist group, said bombers-have died fighting with radical Widodo, a former furniture exporter who another senior US official. “They also dis- groups in the Middle East this year. is the first leader of the world’s third- cussed the need for the international Indonesia launched a crackdown on biggest democracy to come from out- community to continue to do more to extremists more than a decade ago after side the country’s political and military crack down on foreign fighters,” said the a series of attacks on Western targets, elites. official. As well as Widodo, Kerry was and managed to weaken major militant On the sidelines of the event, the top meeting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee networks. In the Philippines, the Al- US diplomat was using a series of bilater- Hsien Loong, the sultan of Brunei Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group that al meetings to urge Widodo, known by Hassanal Bolkiah and Philippine Foreign recently pledged allegiance to IS mili- his nickname Jokowi, and other Secretary Albert del Rosario yesterday. tants last week released a German cou- Southeast Asian leaders to take more ple after a harrowing six-month hostage action against the growing threat from Growing alarm ordeal. IS militants, officials said. IS’s jihadist There is particular concern about the The extremists had threatened to appeal is fanning fears that it could influence of the IS group in Indonesia, behead one of the hostages unless JAKARTA: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at the airport in Jakarta, serve as a potent rallying cry for extrem- which has a population of some 250 mil- Berlin pay them a $5.6-million ransom Indonesia yesterday, for the inauguration of new Indonesian President Joko ists in the region, who had been largely lion Muslims and a history of Islamic mil- and withdraw its support for US offen- ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and meetings with other regional leaders.— AP brought to heel following a run of dead- itancy, and in neighboring Malaysia. sives against IS jihadists in Syria and Iraq. ly attacks. A senior State Department Authorities in those countries have During his meetings Kerry will press State Department official said. Territorial cials said. Following his visit to official said discussions on combating watched with alarm as scores, possibly Southeast Asian countries on areas disputes in the South China Sea, climate Indonesia, Kerry will head to Germany to the IS group were “at the top of the list” even hundreds, of their nationals have “where we believe and hope that the change and the Ebola virus will also be attend events marking the 25th anniver- for the meetings. gone to Syria and Iraq to join the fight individual countries can do more”, a on the agenda during the meetings, offi- sary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.—AFP Japanese PM Abe suffers setback as ministers quit Abe loses two female ministers over cash scandals TOKYO: Two Japanese cabinet ministers resigned yesterday over the dubious use of polit- ical funds, dealing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe his biggest setback since he took office in December 2012. The resignations of the two women, including the high-profile trade and industry minister, could complicate tough deci- sions on key policies, including whether to go ahead with an unpopular plan to raise the sales tax and planned restarts of nuclear reactors shut down after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Abe hopes to contain the damage through swift replacements of the two, but the opposi- tion is looking for other potentially vulnerable ministers also appointed in an early September cabinet reshuffle. Further resignations could raise doubts about Abe’s own future, some polit- ical experts said. “There are more than two (oth- er) ministers with regard to whom there are sus- picions,” Yukio Edano, the opposition Democratic Party’s second-in-command, told reporters. “We will coordinate our actions among oppo- sition parties, point out the problems and ask for TOKYO: Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi bows during a press conference at explanations about the other ministers.” He did her ministry yesterday. Obuchi resigned yesterday amid growing controversy over allegations not identify the ministers nor explain how the that she misused campaign funds. —AP opposition planned to seek any explanations. Harvard-educated Yoichi Miyazawa, 64, a former support will decline and ... policy implementa- Trade and industry Minister Yuko Obuchi, 40, the vice economics minister and the nephew of the tion will not go smoothly,” he said, adding the daughter of a prime minister and tipped as a late Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, to replace situation would become far tougher if other future contender to become Japan’s first female Obuchi. He selected Yoko Kamikawa, 61, a for- ministers also quit. premier, tendered her resignation after allega- mer gender equality minister, for the justice The Tokyo stock market took the resignations tions that her support groups misused political portfolio. She also studied at Harvard. The in stride. The Nikkei share average surged 4.0 funds. departures are the first cabinet resignations for percent in its biggest daily rise since June 2013 JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo gestures to the crowd during a street Just hours later, Justice Minister Midori Abe, who took office in December 2012 for a rare as investors took heart from upbeat U.S. data parade following his inauguration in Jakarta yesterday. — AP Matsushima also resigned. The opposition second term, promising to revive Japan’s stalled and the weaker yen lifted exporters. Abe must Democratic Party had filed a criminal complaint economy and strengthen its security stance to decide by year-end whether to implement a against Matsushima, accusing her of violating cope with challenges such as a rising China. planned hike in the sales tax to 10 percent from Indonesia’s Widodo takes the election law by distributing paper fans to October 2015. A rise in April to 8 percent pushed voters. Obuchi and Matsushima were two of five Opposition taking aim the world’s third-largest economy into its deep- office, reaches out to foes women appointed by Abe in the cabinet reshuf- Abe’s first stint as prime minister in 2006- est quarterly slump since the 2009 global finan- fle, a move intended to boost his popularity and 2007 was marred by scandals among his minis- cial crisis. show his commitment to promoting women as ters - several quit and one committed suicide. “I think there is a big possibility that in order JAKARTA: Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s first heavy metal fan, is expected to take to part of his “Abenomics” strategy to revive the Abe himself resigned after just one year in the to prevent his support rates from falling, the leader from outside the political and mili- the stage with rock bands at a huge out- economy. face of parliamentary deadlock, sliding support sales tax rise could be delayed for a year and a tary elite, was sworn in as president yes- door concert. About 24,000 police and “I appointed them and as prime minister, I rates and ill health. His current government had mid-sized economic package crafted,” said terday and reached out to political foes military personnel were deployed to bear responsibility,” Abe told reporters at his been little touched by scandal until the cabinet Koichi Kurose, chief economist at Resona Bank. to seek support for his ambitious reform secure the day’s events but there was no office. “I deeply apologize to the people of the reshuffle. Abe’s ruling coalition has a hefty par- Abe’s support fell 6.8 percentage points to 48.1 agenda. After the inauguration, Widodo sign of trouble and the atmosphere was nation.” Abe added he wanted to pick successors liamentary majority and no general election percent in a weekend survey by Kyodo news capped his remarkable rise from an festive. for the two posts within the day. As head of the need be held until 2016, but the opposition agency from last month. Nearly two-thirds upbringing in a riverside slum by travel- “Long life to Jokowi, this is the first powerful Ministry of Economy, Trade and Democrats have taken aim at new ministers in opposed a second tax hike and almost 85 per- ling through the streets of the capital time in our history that the people are Industry (METI), Obuchi, a telegenic mother of debates to try to dent Abe’s popularity. cent said they didn’t feel the economy had Jakarta in a horse-drawn carriage, with joyfully celebrating the presidential inau- two, was tasked with selling Abe’s unpopular Defense Minister Akinori Eto, also appointed recovered. The scandals could also dampen the tens of thousands of flag-waving sup- guration,” shouted a supporter outside plan to restart nuclear reactors to a wary public in September, has faced questions from the outlook for a bill to legalize casino resorts, a porters cheering and shouting his name. the palace. But the euphoria of the inau- worried about safety. The process to restart the opposition over his political funds. “They are try- move that Abe has said would help the econo- Widodo, a 53-year-old former furni- guration is likely to be short-lived as reactors is made difficult but unlikely to be ing to limit the damage by getting rid of those my by boosting tourists but which many voters ture exporter known by his nickname Widodo faces up to the task of leading delayed by her resignation, officials said. (two) quickly,” said Tomoaki Iwai, a political sci- oppose and about which Abe’s coalition partner Abe told reporters he had picked the ence professor at Nihon University. “But Abe’s has doubts. — Reuters Jokowi, won the presidency in July after the world’s fourth most populous coun- a close race against controversial ex-gen- try, with 250 million people spread over eral Prabowo Subianto. The former more than 17,000 islands, at a critical Jakarta governor, who won legions of moment. The growth rate in Southeast fans with his man-of-the-people image, Asia’s top economy is at a five-year low, Famed US-born translator dies is the country’s first leader since the end corruption remains rampant and fears of Suharto’s three decades of dictator- are mounting that support for the BEIJING: Sidney Shapiro, a famed US-born trans- ing on the sidelines of that year’s annual meet- Chinese party, and fully supported its principles ship in 1998 to have no major links to Islamic State group could spawn a new lator who was one of the few Westerners to gain ing of parliament. “In the States today, the intelli- and goals,” he wrote in his autobiography “I that era. Hopes are high for a new style generation of radicals in the world’s most Chinese citizenship and become a member of a gence agencies have even got the power to tap Chose China”. Shapiro died on Saturday morn- high-level parliamentary body, died on the citizens’ phone calls and inquire what books a ing, just two months short of his 99th birthday, of leadership in the world’s third-biggest populous Muslim-majority country. weekend in Beijing, his granddaughter said. He person is borrowing from the library,” he said. his granddaughter, Stella Guo, said in an email. Kerry’s attendance was in part aimed democracy, but there are also fears an was 98. Shapiro was born in New York in 1915 However, he never joined the Communist “As his granddaughter, I am blessed with so opposition-dominated parliament could at seeking support from Indonesia and and first came to China in 1947, having been Party, unlike some other Westerners who were many memories - his quirky humor, wonderful make it hard for Widodo to enact reforms other Southeast Asian nations in the selected by the US army to learn Chinese during equally committed to the cause of modern stories, great taste in music, appreciation for old to revive the G20 economy and help fight against the extremists, who have World War Two. He married a Chinese actress China. “I was still too much of a maverick, reluc- movies, his American-Jewish heritage, energetic society’s poorest. After taking the oath in taken over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria. who was a supporter of the Communist Party, tant to accept any organizational strictures or debates, love of new technology and so much parliament at a ceremony attended by During a meeting later, Kerry also which at the time was fighting a civil war with discipline. But I had the greatest respect for the more,” she wrote.—Reuters dignitaries including US Secretary of planned to encourage Widodo to ensure the Nationalists, and did not visit the United State John Kerry and Australian Prime Indonesia, a major player in regional States again until 1971. He remained in China Minister Tony Abbott, he called for unity diplomacy, paid adequate attention to after the Communist revolution in 1949, when Thai scholar faces royal insult following the most bitterly fought elec- foreign affairs, a State Department offi- many Western foreigners left, and became a tion in Indonesian history. “Unity and cial said. There have been concerns that Chinese citizen in 1963 - an honor reserved only charge over mediaeval king working hand in hand are prerequisites the new president will focus solely on for a select few foreigners judged to have per- for us to be a great nation,” said Widodo. domestic issues. Widodo’s first test will formed special services for China. BANGKOK: A prominent Thai intellectual has was not available for comment. Thailand’s army “We will never become a great nation if be to reduce the huge fuel subsidies that He was best known for his English transla- been accused of insulting a mediaeval king, a seized power in a May 22 coup saying it needed we are stuck with division.” “This is a his- eat up about a fifth of the nation’s budg- tions of the Chinese classic novel “Outlaws of the government spokesman said yesterday, and to restore order after months of street protests toric moment for us all to move together, et, a move which economists say is Marsh”, as well as works by the more modern faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted. Thailand that helped overthrow an elected government. authors Ba Jin and Mao Dun. “Translators like us to work and work,” the president urged. urgently needed but which risks spark- has a strict lese-majeste law which makes it a Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who have the responsibility to let the world know The new leader also referred to Prabowo ing street protests. crime to defame, insult or threaten the king, led the coup and was appointed prime minister as “my best friend” during the speech, Prospects for his ambitious reforms that China has the richest tradition of virtue,” he told the official Xinhua news agency in 2010, queen, heir to the throne or regent. The law does in August, is a self-proclaimed royalist and has and the ex-general responded by stand- dimmed in recent weeks after Prabowo’s after being bestowed a lifetime achievement not apply to past or deceased monarchs but is vowed to root out critics of the monarchy. supporters in parliament used their ing up and giving a salute, the latest sign award by the Translators Association of China. often loosely interpreted for political ends. Two David Streckfuss, a Thailand-based scholar of a thaw between the pair after recent majority to abolish the direct election of Better known in China by his Chinese name, Sha retired army officers filed a complaint against who monitors lese-majeste laws, said the com- tensions. local leaders, a move opposed by Boli, he was appointed in 1983 to the Chinese veteran social campaigner Sulak Sivaraksa, 82, plaint against Sulak was symptomatic of atti- Widodo, and to win key posts in the leg- People’s Political Consultative Conference, a over remarks he made at a seminar on Oct 12 tudes to the royal insult law under a junta, Colorful celebrations islature. Prabowo’s appearance at the largely ceremonial but high profile advisory including comments about King Naresuan the known as the National Council for Peace and After travelling through the streets in inauguration and an unexpected meet- body to parliament. Great, a national hero who died in 1605. Order (NCPO), that has been pursuing such the carriage, accompanied by Vice ing with Widodo Friday during which he He lost none of his fire in the later part of his If convicted, Sulak could be jailed for up to 15 cases with zeal. “The junta has made it clear President Jusuf Kalla and a colorful pledged support have raised hopes that life, lambasting the United States in 2006 follow- years. “Police received a complaint filed by two from the beginning that it means to pursue parade of dancers and musicians, he was tensions are easing. But observers say ing one of the State Department’s regular criti- retired soldiers against professor Sulak,” said alleged violations of lese-majeste with extra received at the presidential palace by the ex-general may still oppose the new cisms of China’s human rights. “Democracy in government spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp. vigor. And it has,” said Streckfuss. “Cases that outgoing leader Susilo Bambang leader’s policies. Widodo is expected to America, which was won by the public through Sulak, one of Thailand’s most prominent scholars would have been shelved under the previous Yudhoyono and watched a military announce his new cabinet later in the long-time struggle, had started going downhill and social activists, has been the target of sever- government are being fast-tracked into mili- parade. Later in the evening, Widodo, a week.— AFP in the 20th century,” Xinhua quoted him as say- al lese-majeste complaints since the 1980s. He tary courts.”— Reuters NEWS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014

A Yemeni policeman walks on motorcycles that were seized after their owners violated a ban on motorcycles yesterday at the police headquarters in the capital Sanaa. Yemen began the day before enforcing a temporary ban on motorcycles in the capital to prevent blasts or attacks. — AFP Africa’s image takes a hit due to Ebola

JOHANNESBURG: In the United States, some parents Africa,” said Michael Jennings, a senior lecturer in interna- tourism operators and conference organizers are record- games even though none of the squad lives in Sierra fearful of deadly Ebola pulled children out of a school tional development at the School of Oriental and African ing increasing cancellations. Leone because they play for clubs in Europe and else- after the principal returned from Zambia, an African Studies in London. He cited the recent decision of a Thirty international buyers pulled out of an annual where. Opponents have sometimes refused to shake the nation far from the area hit by the disease. In Geneva, a British school to postpone a visit by a teacher from the tourism expo that began Thursday in Zimbabwe’s resort hands of the Sierra Leoneans or swap shirts - a soccer tra- top UN official warned against anti-African discrimination West African country of Ghana after parents expressed town of Victoria Falls, said Karikoga Kaseke, the national dition after a game - because of fears of catching the fueled by fears of Ebola. The disease has ravaged a small concern about the Ebola virus. Ghana does not border tourism agency chief. He said business travelers from deadly virus. part of Africa, but the international image of the whole the hard-hit nations and has not reported any cases of China and Malaysia were among those who recently can- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad continent is increasingly under siege, reinforcing some the disease. Jennings said fearful people don’t necessarily celed trips, and Jamaican musicians have also skipped Al Hussein has warned against “a mentality that locks old stereotypes. react in a rational way and the message of some com- Zimbabwean shows. The southern African country is people into rigid identity groups and reduces all Africans Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the African coun- ments on social media in Britain is: “Why don’t we just more than 4,800 km from Ebola-hit Liberia, or about - or all West Africans, or some smaller, national or local tries afflicted by the Ebola outbreak - have a combined stop everyone in West Africa from coming?” twice the distance between London and Moscow. group - to a stereotype”. Jens David Ohlin, a professor at population of about 22 million on a continent with more In the US state of Mississippi, a middle school principal Cornell Law School in the United States, said discrimina- than 1 billion people. Their corner of West Africa encom- Perpetual Crisis has taken a week of vacation in an attempt to allay par- tion was a concern as states seek to prevent the Ebola passes an area the size of California, or almost as big as Africa has had a troubled image. Famine in Ethiopia, ents’ fears about Ebola after he returned from a trip to virus from entering their borders, but he warned against Morocco. Yet the epidemic feeds into a narrative of disas- chaos in Somalia and genocide in Rwanda drove the idea Zambia, another southern African nation without any “oversensitivity to discrimination that will prevent gov- ter on a continent of 54 countries that has seen some of a continent in perpetual crisis. In recent years, though, reported Ebola cases. In Pennsylvania, two high school ernments from appropriately dealing with the situation”. progress in past years, and false perceptions of Ebola’s an end to a number of wars and ensuing stability and soccer coaches resigned last week after their players The early international response to Ebola’s spread, reach are hurting African business distant from the growth pointed to a turnaround that some enthusiasts hurled Ebola taunts at an opponent from West Africa. described by some as slow, is linked to its location, affected areas. dubbed “Africa Rising”. Now the economic impact of Football players on Sierra Leone’s national team have according to Ohlin. He said: “Because it was in Africa, peo- “It speaks to a whole discourse about the danger of Ebola fears is being felt in many parts of Africa. Hotels, been treated as Ebola risks in African Cup qualifying ple just sort of threw their hands up.” — AP MoH denies Ebola cases as MP queries... Syrian prof in Saudi Continued from Page 1 minister should come out and provide a transparent explanation of what is happening in the oil market, said He asked if citizens of infected countries are provided Duwaisan, who also questioned why a number of oil disappears, joins IS with visas to Kuwait or if the ministry has banned their projects have been suspended. He said that the govern- entry. ment should be brave and explain facts to the people RIYADH: A Syrian professor at a Saudi Arabian universi- “I left my dear university, my fancy car, my big Separately, MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan yesterday criticized instead of this “shameless silence” towards a crisis “that ty has disappeared and joined the Islamic State group house and large salary”, to be free from “sinful laws what he called the government’s silence over a number threatens our very existence”. fighting US-backed forces in her homeland, a newspa- of the tyrants that suffocate the ummah”, Boga post- of developments in the oil market, especially the sharp Meanwhile, MP Youssef Al-Zalzalah meanwhile called per reported yesterday. Al-Hayat quoted Ibrahim Al- ed on Oct 14. She later added that she had travelled drop in prices and the closure of Khafji joint operations. for a major Cabinet reshuffle that should oust five to six Khaldi, the spokesman for the University of Dammam, without assistance from anyone.”We do not know The lawmaker called on Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair to ministers who proved they are incapable of carrying out as saying Iman Mustafa Al-Boga had resigned for the reason behind her resignation”, Al-Hayat quoted explain to the public the real reasons behind the slide in their jobs. The lawmaker rejected calls to provide this unknown reasons. It quoted from her Facebook page, the university spokesman as saying.The university the price of oil, the sole source of Kuwait’s revenues. He Cabinet another year to allow it to perform, saying that it which says she is “moving around in the north of Syria”. “is keen to protect its students from ideas and meth- said that the Kuwaiti people are also asking whether the was clear during the past year that a number of minis- “I was Daesh even before Daesh existed,” she says in ods that could be a danger to them, and could ques- closure of the Khafji oilfield, jointly operated with Saudi ters cannot perform. He said that it is difficult to keep another post, using the Arabic acronym for the group tion their beliefs, traditions and customs”, he added. Arabia, was for technical reasons or others and whether the current Cabinet without a reshuffle because it is which has been accused of atrocities including crucifix- Al-Hayat reported that Boga, who was known to the halt has any impact on the drop in oil prices. clear that five to six ministers have nothing more to offer ions and beheadings. “And I have always known that have extremist ideas, had spent many years at the The lawmaker said that certain media attributed the and should be replaced. He provided no names. The law- there is no solution to the problems faced by Muslims campus teaching Islamic jurisprudence and eco- slide in oil prices to a plan prepared by the United States maker also rejected any attempt to change the current but in this jihad,” Boga added. nomics.— AFP for political reasons to impact another alliance. The oil one-vote electoral system. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Issues Nepal disaster a ‘wake-up call’ for trekkers, agencies

By Ammu Kannampilly

snowstorm that killed dozens of people in Nepal is a “wake-up call” for the trekking industry and Atourists alike, experts say, with some heading to the world’s highest mountains unprepared for conditions that can easily turn deadly. At least 26 hikers, guides and porters were killed when heavy snow and avalanches struck the Annapurna circuit in the Himalayas last Tuesday at the height of the trekking season, in one of the worst disasters ever to hit the country. Hundreds more have had to be airlifted to safety, some suffering from frostbite after days in freezing conditions without adequate clothing or shelter. But unlike a deadly avalanche that hit Mount Everest Doubt over Nigeria-Boko Haram ‘ceasefire’ earlier this year, experts say the latest disaster could have been alleviated had warnings of bad weather in the area By Phil Hazlewood far as I know,” said Ahmad Salkida, a Nigerian journalist said exposed the apparent factional nature of the group, sever- been heeded. “This is a wake-up call for us. We need a to have high-level contacts among the group’s leaders. He al analysts noted. Previous military statements about the weather warning system and emergency shelters for igeria’s announcement of a ceasefire with Boko “does not speak” for Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, conflict that have been contradicted by reports on the stranded hikers,” Nepal Tourism Board spokesman Sharad Haram has surprised many and convinced few, par- he wrote on Twitter on Friday. ground have also increased doubts. In the days after the Pradhan told AFP as emergency workers continued to ticularly when talks with the militants on the possi- Further doubts came after Ahmadu failed to announce mass kidnapping, for example, defence officials maintained pull bodies out of the snow, almost a week after the storm N ble release of 219 kidnapped schoolgirls had been at a explicitly that Boko Haram had agreed to a ceasefire or that most of the girls had escaped but were forced to hit. “It’s also a reminder for thousands of trekkers who frustrating standstill. The insurgents have had the upper give concrete details about the girls’ release in an interview retract. think they can go up 4,000-5,000 metres alone that they hand in fighting in the far northeast in recent months, broadcast on Voice of America radio’s Hausa language need to take responsibility for their safety,” he added. “If reportedly seizing at least two dozen towns and villages as service on Friday. “It is not clear who the said Boko Haram Cynical Politics? they had gone with registered guides, the casualties part of their quest to establish a hardline Islamic state. And negotiator is and whether he has the mandate of the entire Many observers viewed the announcement as politically would have been much lower.” in the aftermath of Friday’s declaration by Nigeria’s military group or just a faction of the entire group,” said Nnamdi motivated, with President Goodluck Jonathan expected to Every year thousands of tourists hike the Annapurna and presidency, reports of attacks continue to emerge, Obasi, Nigeria researcher for the International Crisis Group. announce that he will stand for re-election in coming weeks. circuit, known as the “apple pie” trek because of the food casting further doubts about the credibility of the ceasefire Positive news about the insurgency and the kidnapped girls served at the lodges known as teahouses that line the claim. Talks and Deals - whether true or not - would likely give him and his ruling route. Most of the route follows clearly marked paths at The announcement has been greeted with scepticism Ordinarily, a clear statement about such a development Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a political boost even if vio- relatively low altitudes, making it suitable for inexperi- by security analysts, those with knowledge of previous would be expected from Shekau, who has previously lence continues. Ahmadu indicated in his interview that any enced trekkers. But the Thorong La pass, near where negotiation attempts with Boko Haram and ordinary refused to end the violence until strict Islamic law is further violence would be perpetrated by “hooligans and many of the victims were killed, climbs to 5,416 m, expos- Nigerians suspicious about their government’s motives. imposed across northern Nigeria. He has also said the thieves” and not Boko Haram, which could sow enough ing trekkers to the risk of altitude sickness as well as ava- “The kinds of claims have been made (by the government) schoolgirls would only be released if Nigeria agreed to a doubt to get the government off the hook. lanches. “It’s not an ordinary trek if you go up to the a number of times before,” said Shehu Sani, a lawyer and prisoner swap of jailed militants. Talks on that issue broke The timing also comes just days after the six-month Thorong La pass - it’s almost mountaineering,” said Kunda civil rights activist who has been involved in previous back down in recent months over Abuja’s refusal to accept such anniversary of the girls’ abduction, with renewed domestic Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times and an authority on the channel talks. a demand, several sources involved have indicated to AFP. and international attention on their plight. But Ryan Himalayas. “There are no immediate details about what Boko Haram is Cummings, chief analyst for sub-Saharan Africa at risk con- Paul Sherridan, a British survivor who has described Identity Issues getting out of the deal - and it is unlikely that it would give sultants Red24, said even if confirmed, Boko Haram’s how his group made their way to safety in near-zero visi- The main question mark was the identity of the pur- up all the girls for nothing,” added Obasi. “If we see Boko upholding of a ceasefire should be seen as temporary. bility, claimed trekkers were “herded to their deaths” by ported Boko Haram envoy, Danladi Ahmadu, who claimed Haram getting a major prisoner swap as part of the deal, “Boko Haram has not been pressured in any way to lay Nepalese guides who lacked the expertise to deal with to be the group’s chief of security and to have been that would dampen some of the excitement.” down their arms and it remains highly unlikely that the the conditions. “My view is that this incident could have involved in talks to broker the deal. “Danladi Ahmadu is Claims of amnesty deals in the past with Boko Haram to Nigerian government would cede to all of the sect’s been prevented,” the 49-year-old policeman told the BBC. NOT part of #BH Shura (ruling council) or speak for them as end the five years of violence have come to nothing and demands,” he said in an email exchange. —AFP Warning Systems Nepal’s prime minister has promised to set up weather warning systems in remote mountain areas, particularly those popular with tourists. But experts say much more Expelled Nazis got millions in benefits needs to be done to raise awareness of the dangers of trekking at altitude in a country where many tourists head By David Rising, Randy The deals allowed the Justice Maloney of New York, a senior upon learning after the fact about better word, on friendly states.” into the mountains with little preparation. Anna Solander, Herschaft and Richard Lardner Department’s former Nazi-hunting Democratic member of the House a deal made with Martin Bartesch, a 21-year-old Swede among the many young people who unit, the Office of Special Oversight and Government a former SS guard at the Diplomatic Niceties flock to Nepal for holidays, had planned to hike across the ozens of suspected Nazi Investigations, to skirt lengthy Reform Committee. She said she Mauthausen concentration camp Neal Sher, a former OSI direc- Annapurna region later this month - but said she was now war criminals and SS deportation hearings and plans to introduce legislation to in Austria. In 1987, Bartesch land- tor, said the State Department debating whether to go ahead. “I didn’t even know that Dguards collected millions increased the number of Nazis it close the loophole. Efraim Zuroff, ed, unannounced, at the airport in cared more about diplomatic trekking was, like, dangerous - I thought it was only dan- of dollars in US Social Security expelled from the US. But internal the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Vienna. Two days later, under the niceties than holding former gerous if you go for Everest or something,” she said. benefits after being forced out of US government records obtained Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, terms of the deal, his US citizen- members of Adolf Hitler’s war About 30 percent of the around 200,000 hikers who the United States, an AP investiga- by the AP reveal heated objec- said he would support efforts to ship was revoked. machine accountable. Amid the trek in Nepal every year do so without a registered guide, tion has found. The payments, tions from the State Department close the loophole. “If it can be The Romanian-born Bartesch, objections, the practice known as according to Pradhan, who said trekkers needed to shoul- underwritten by American taxpay- “Nazi dumping” stopped. But the der some responsibility for their own safety. Some sur- ers, flowed through a legal loop- benefits loophole wasn’t closed. vivors have said they were unaware the storm was com- hole that gave the US Justice Justice Department spokesman ing when they set out on their trek - even though it had Department leverage to persuade Peter Carr said in an emailed state- been forecast by meteorologists. Nazi suspects to leave the US If ment that Social Security pay- But much of the blame for the scale of the disaster has they agreed to go, or simply fled ments never were employed to fallen on trekking agencies, who critics say should have before deportation, they could persuade Nazi suspects to depart been better prepared. Tashi Sherpa, a trekking agency keep their Social Security, accord- voluntarily. head who postponed his clients’ trip after seeing the ing to interviews and internal US The Social Security weather forecast, said lives could have been saved had government records. Administration refused the AP’s the proper precautions been taken. “We take many pre- Among those receiving bene- request for the total number of cautions when we go up the Annapurna circuit - we carry fits were armed SS troops who Nazi suspects who received bene- emergency oxygen, masks, medicines, satellite phones, guarded the network of Nazi fits and the dollar amounts of extra jackets, snowboots, goggles. Basically whatever we camps where millions of Jews those payments. Spokesman might need in case the weather turns bad,” said Sherpa, perished; a rocket scientist who William “BJ” Jarrett said the agency director of the Seven Summit Treks agency in Kathmandu. used slave laborers to advance Sherpa said there were no particular requirements to does not track data specific to open a trekking agency in Nepal and called for better his research in the Third Reich; Nazi cases. A further barrier, Jarrett government regulation. “There are no criteria in place to and a Nazi collaborator who engi- said, is that there is no exception open a trekking company - anyone can do it, regardless of neered the arrest and execution in US privacy law that “allows us to experience,” he told AFP. “If you speak enough English and of thousands of Jews in Poland. disclose information because the you can convince clients, you are in business.” But Dixit There are at least four living ben- individual is a Nazi war criminal or cautioned against overregulation of trekking in Nepal and eficiaries. They include Martin an accused Nazi war criminal”. The said improving mobile communications in mountain Hartmann, a former SS guard at department also declined to make areas should be the priority. “The spirit of trekking in the Sachsenhausen camp in the acting commissioner, Carolyn Nepal’s mountains, it’s about the freedom to go any- Germany, and Jakob Denzinger, Colvin, or another senior agency where, with or without a guide,” he said. “If you start regu- who patrolled the grounds at the official available for an interview. lating it, you lose that freedom.” —AFP Auschwitz camp complex in Paul Shapiro, director of the Poland. United States Holocaust Memorial Hartmann moved to Berlin in Museum’s Mandel Center for 2007 from Arizona just before In this July 28, 2014 photo, Jakob Denzinger looks from his apartment window in Osijek in Advanced Holocaust Studies, said being stripped of his US citizen- eastern Croatia. —AP the revelation that many received All articles appearing on these ship. Denzinger fled to Germany Social Security benefits even after pages are the personal opinion of from Ohio in 1989 after learning to OSI’s practices. Social Security done, it should be done,” he said in who had emigrated to the US in removal was revealing. “Beyond the writers. Kuwait Times takes no denaturalization proceedings benefits became tools, US diplo- an interview Monday. 1955, was suddenly stateless and the undermining of American val- responsibility for views expressed against him were underway. He matic officials said, to secure Since 1979, the AP analysis Austria’s problem. Bartesch con- ues that these people represent- soon resettled in Croatia and now agreements in which Nazi sus- found, at least 38 of 66 suspects tinued to receive Social Security ed, as a group they gained lever- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- lives in a spacious apartment on pects would accept the loss of citi- removed from the country kept benefits until he died in 1989. “It age over government policy in ers to voice their opinions. Please the right bank of the Drava River zenship and voluntarily leave the their Social Security benefits. The was not upfront, it was not trans- critical areas relating to national send submissions via email to: opin- in Osijek. Denzinger would not United States. Social Security Administration parent, it was not a legitimate security and immigration policy,” [email protected] or via snail discuss his situation when ques- “It’s absolutely outrageous that expressed outrage in 1997 over process,” said James Hergen, an he said yesterday. “And even tioned by an AP reporter; Nazi war criminals are continuing the use of benefits, the docu- assistant legal adviser at the State decades later as they were forced mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Denzinger’s son, who lives in the to receive Social Security benefits ments show, and blowback in for- Department from 1982 until 2007. to leave the country they contin- The editor reserves the right to edit US, confirmed his father receives when they have been outlawed eign capitals reverberated at the “This was not the way America ued to apply that leverage at the any submission as necessary. Social Security payments and said from our country for many, many, highest levels of government. should behave. We should not be expense of the American taxpay- he deserved them. many years,” said US Rep Carolyn Austrian authorities were furious dumping our refuse, for lack of a er.” —AP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 SPORTS

Siddle targets Pakistan Peruvian Referee Injury sidelines Parnell DUBAI: Australia’s frontline paceman Peter Siddle is targeting the experienced duo of abandons match WELLINGTON: All rounder Wayne Parnell has failed to recover from a shoulder injury Misbah-ul Haq and Younis Khan in the first Test against Pakistan starting in Dubai in time to play for South Africa in the first one-day international against New Zealand tomorrow. The 29-year-old paceman is likely to share the new ball with the more liveli- SAO PAULO: A referee in northern Peru halted a at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui today. er Mitchell Johnson on a dry Dubai stadium pitch which will have little to offer for the cup match eight minutes early after five players Parnell is the only major injury concern for the Proteas, who are likely to select fast bowlers. But Siddle said yesterday that getting ten wickets would be key. “I think went down injured at the same time in an appar- Vernon Philander in his place as they open their preparations for next year’s World we need to get ten wickets, it does not matter which ones we get but there are a few ent bid to have a match they were losing aban- Cup. Captain AB de Villiers says he was not unduly worried by Parnell’s absence going older blokes in the middle — Younis and captain Misbah — they are going to be doned, local media reported yesterday. into the three-match series against the Black Caps and has backed his country’s depth. tough ones out there,” said Siddle. Five players from Defensor Bolivar feigned “Any of the 15 in the squad can find a spot in the main 11,” De Villiers told reporters “I think we always want to put pressure on the captain and they are the injury in Sunday’s first leg of their Copa Peru yesterday. “I would even go so far as to say there are 20 to 25 guys in South players we are looking obviously to get on top of and that will give confi- semi-final against Defensor La Bocana, according Africa who can walk into this 11, that I know are good enough and that I dence to everyone else as well.” to Depor newspaper. have seen perform under pressure. “I am very excited to see guys like Pakistan’s fragile batting was exposed in the preceding 3-0 one- Bolivar were losing 4-1 at the time and lost Vernon Philander back, he has bowled well in the nets and bowled with day series loss and will be under pressure as Misbah has been strug- another goal as their players writhed on the a lot of skill, especially on wickets like these that we face in New gling with his batting form, having scored only 67 in his last four ground. Having already had two men sent off, Zealand.” Parnell is expected to be fit for selection for the second ODI at the same venue on Friday. De Villiers also says he will look to be “cre- Test innings. Siddle stressed that it would be important to use the the referee had no option but to halt the game new ball well on the Dubai pitch, known for helping the spin- ative” with his captaincy in the series, which will help to shape early. At least seven players are required on each South Africa’s thinking for the World Cup, which runs from ners more. “I did not have a look at the wicket today and I side. The second leg, which is due to take place think using the new ball well will be important and you Feb. 14 to Mar. 29 in Australia and New Zealand next year. on Thursday, is now in doubt as authorities need to get a few breakthroughs and obviously reverse “This is the perfect opportunity for me and the team to swing and spin is going to play a part,” said Siddle. decide whether to punish Bolivar. The winners of be creative and adapt really quickly in the first 10 to 15 Pakistan have not beaten Australia in a Test series since the regional qualifier will go into the national overs and hopefully find some weakness in the opposi- their 1-0 home win in 1994. —AFP competition. — Reuters tion,” he said. —Reuters Betty Finnegan learns fast: From school to World Series

KANSAS CITY: Betty Finnegan made the 5 $2,200,600 and made his pro debut in 1/2-hour drive from Fort Worth, Texas, with Delaware on July 10 for Class A Wilmington. a friend Aug. 31 to watch the last two He went 0-1 with an 0.60 ERA in five starts games of the season for the Northwest and on Aug. 1 moved up to Double-A, Arkansas Naturals. Her 21-year-old son was where he was shifted to the bullpen and finishing his first summer as a professional went 0-3 with a 2.25 ERA in eight relief baseball player on the Double-A team after appearances. helping pitch TCU into the College World While the organization envisions him as Series. a starter long-term, he quickly became its They had checked into a Holiday Inn best short-term option for late lefty heat. and left for the ballpark when her cell- Chad Lee, the Kansas City scout who phone rang, and she saw Brandon tracked Finnegan the past two years, Finnegan’s number flash. “I said, ‘Oh my thought back to a conversation they had God, something’s wrong.’ The first thing in last October. Lee asked whether Finnegan my mind is did he get hurt?” she recalled saw himself someday as a starter or reliever last week. Nothing of the sort. in the majors. “He goes, ‘I think I can get hit- Instead, the Kansas City Royals minor ters out right now in the big leagues,’” Lee leaguer said: “You know the hotel you just recalled. paid for? You’re not going to need it.” “I just Finnegan made his big league debut at got promoted to the major leagues,” he Yankee Stadium in early September, a told her. “And we have to be there by mid- nationally televised game before a crowd night tonight.” Sitting in a car with her of 45,262 on a steamy Saturday afternoon. friend and Brandon’s girlfriend, Betty start- He was the first player from this year’s draft ed screaming. to reach the majors. “We were laughing and crying, all at the With the Royals trailing 6-1, Finnegan same time,” she said. They quickly packed took the mound wearing the No. 29 pen- up his stuff and made the 3 1/2-hour drive dant with a TCU marking, even though the to Kansas City, Betty in her gray Chevy Royals assigned him 27. He worked exclu- Equinox and Brandon in his black Cadillac sively from the set position when he Escalade, which had been delivered just entered in the bottom of the sixth and the night before. And the ride has kept on John Ryan Murphy flied out. going. Jacoby Ellsbury got fooled on a change- Betty Finnegan had been prepared for up, a pitch Finnegan developed in the last the trip to Omaha, Nebraska, and the year, and was left with just one hand on the College World Series last June. She never bat as he flailed at strike three. And then expected her son could become the first Derek Jeter - Finnegan was 2 years old player to appear in the CWS and the big when the Yankees star made his big league league World Series in the same season. debut - struck out when he swung over a “I got really lucky,” Brandon Finnegan 94 mph sinking fastball. explained as his Royals got ready to play “It was such a whirlwind for him. I don’t the San Francisco Giants. “I mean, that’s think he knew where he was at the time,” about all I can say.” TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said. “He said, Talk about long seasons: After going 0-8 ‘Coach, I didn’t even realize it was Jeter. As for the Horned Frogs as a sophomore in soon as I toed the rubber and looked up to 2013, he started preseason bullpen ses- get the sign, it’s like, Holy cow! It’s Derek sions just before Christmas and began his Jeter!’” 2014 season by striking out 13 over seven Finnegan allowed one run in seven reg- shutout innings against Jacksonville in ular-appearances with the Royals and two LOS ANGELES: Goalie Jonathan Quick No. 32 of the Los Angeles Kings guards the net in this file photo. — AFP TCU’s Valentine’s Day opener - more than more in four postseason outings, getting eight months ago. In the CWS, he gave up a the win in Game 2 of the AL Division Series double on his first pitch. He trailed after sweep of the Angels. two pitches and wound up going eight Finnegan played first base and outfield Kings march, Rangers win innings in a 15-inning, 3-2 loss to Virginia. at Southwest High School in Fort Worth TCU teammate Preston Morrison, the and also pitched once a week. He still Big 12 Pitcher of the Year, said they pushed speaks frequently with coach Frankie LOS ANGELES: Jonathan Quick made 40 saves each other over their three seasons togeth- Gasca. and Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist in the NHL results/standings er. Pitching coach Kirk Saarloos, a former “I’ll tell you what, he definitely likes his Los Angeles Kings’ fourth straight victory, 2-1 big leaguer, developed a system where his shoes - sneakers,” Gasca said. “It seems like over the Minnesota Wild on Sunday. staff would compete for Frog Points, he’s got one that will match for whatever Toffoli scored an early power-play goal and Los Angeles 2, Minnesota 1; NY Rangers 4, San Jose 0; Calgary 4, Winnipeg 1; Anaheim 3, St. earned for first-pitch strikes, quick innings outfit he’s got on.” Tanner Pearson added a third-period goal for Louis 0. and fielding prowess. “He’d be super upset Finnegan was drafted by his hometown the defending Stanley Cup champions, who Western Conference Eastern Conference if I got one more Frog than him and I’d get Texas Rangers with the 1,374th pick in the stayed perfect on their six-game homestand Pacific Division Atlantic Division super upset if he was one Frog above me. It 45th round in 2011. But he decided to Montreal 5 1 0 20 20 10 with another dominant game from Quick. WL OTLGFGAPTS Ottawa 4 1 0 14 10 8 was probably about 50-50 on who won,” accept a scholarship from TCU - as a fresh- The Kings also got two more goals from Anaheim 5 1 0 21 13 10 Tampa Bay 3 1 1 17 10 7 Morrison said. man, he once hit six batters in a game. That 70s Line - the jersey-number-inspired Los Angeles 4 1 1 15 10 9 Detroit 3 1 1 11 8 7 Kansas City took Finnegan with the 17th Finnegan’s father, Gary, pitched at TCU nickname for Jeff Carter’s combo with young- San Jose 4 1 1 20 15 9 Boston 3 4 0 15 17 6 pick of the June draft - unusual, given that in 1979. “I hurt my arm, and that was the Toronto 2 3 1 15 19 5 sters Toffoli and Pearson. The trio has scored 11 Calgary 4 3 0 19 17 8 he’s just 5-foot-11 and not the prototypical end of it,” Gary said. “Shoulder. Back then Florida 1 2 2 5 11 4 of Los Angeles’ 14 goals this season. Niklas Vancouver 3 1 0 13 10 6 Buffalo 1 5 0 8 22 2 6-foot-4 pitcher many teams seek. they didn’t do the surgeries like they do Arizona 2 2 0 13 18 4 Metropolitan Division The left-hander signed for a bonus of now.” —AP Backstrom stopped 14 shots and Matt Cooke scored with 13:13 to play for the Wild, who lost Edmonton 0 4 1 11 25 1 NY Islanders 4 1 0 20 15 8 Central Division Washington 3 0 2 18 11 8 back-to-back games in Southern California Nashville 3 0 2 12 8 8 Pittsburgh 3 1 0 16 10 6 despite largely impressive performances. Columbus 3 2 0 15 12 6 Chicago 3 0 1 12 7 7 New Jersey 3 2 0 17 16 6 Dallas 2 1 2 15 17 6 NY Rangers 3 3 0 17 20 6 RANGERS 4, SHARKS 0 St. Louis 2 2 1 12 9 5 Philadelphia 1 2 2 17 21 4 Martin St. Louis and Rick Nash scored 4 sec- Minnesota 2 2 0 10 4 4 Carolina 0 2 2 10 15 2 onds apart late in the second period, tying a Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point Colorado 1 4 1 9 20 3 in the standings and are not included in the loss New York Rangers record, and Henrik Winnipeg 1 4 0 8 15 2 column (L). Lundqvist made 33 saves against San Jose. Lundqvist extended his franchise mark with his 51st career shutout as the Rangers (3-3-0) DUCKS 3, BLUES 0 FLAMES 4, JETS 1 won their second consecutive game after los- Sami Vatanen scored two power-play goals Mason Raymond had a goal and two assists ing three straight. Carl Hagelin and Kevin and Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots in his as Calgary handed Winnipeg its fourth straight Hayes also scored for New York, which handed first career shutout, leading Anaheim over St. loss. Dennis Wideman, Johnny Gaudreau and the Sharks (4-1-1) their first loss in regulation Louis. Raymond scored against Ondrej Pavelec in a this season. St. Louis made it 2-0 at 19:16 of Vatanen had his first career multigoal game, second-period span of 6 minutes, 42 seconds. the second period with his first of the season. scoring on a pair of blistering one-timers as The Flames finished a six-game road trip with The Rangers won the ensuing faceoff and Nash the Ducks (5-1-0) won their fifth straight and their fourth win away from home. immediately shot the puck. Sharks goalie Alex extended their home winning streak against TJ Brodie scored Calgary’s other goal to add Stalock couldn’t contain the rebound, and St. Louis to eight games. to his career-high, six-game point streak. Nash put it in for his league-leading seventh of Brian Elliott made 22 saves for the Blues, Wideman and Gaudreau, who was benched in the season at 19:20. The two goals 4 seconds who went 1-1-1 on their road trip. St. Louis the previous game, each had an assist. Jonas apart set a Rangers record for the fastest pair played without free-agent prize Paul Stastny, Hiller stopped 34 shots for the Flames. without one being an empty-netter. Kris King who sustained an upper-body injury Friday Mark Scheifele scored in the first period for against Arizona. Matt Beleskey scored his Winnipeg. After opening the season with a 6-2 OKLAHOMA: In this May 24, 2014, file photo, TCU’s Brandon Finnegan pitches in the and James Patrick scored 4 seconds apart on first inning of a game against Baylor in the Big 12 conference NCAA college baseball Oct. 9, 1991, against the New York Islanders, fourth of the season 1:37 into the first period. win over Arizona, the Jets have managed two tournament. — AP with Patrick’s going into an empty net. Ryan Getzlaf had two assists. goals during their four-game skid. — AP Admire Rakti confirmed to run for Melbourne Cup

MELBOURNE: Connections of Japanese stayer ers said they had received confirmation that Caulfield Cup winners are traditionally given a handicapper Carpenter said after the penalty was Admire Rakti have confirmed the seven-year-old Admire Rakti would start the Australian show- weight penalty for the Melbourne Cup and the announced. The last Melbourne Cup winner to stallion will run in the A$6.2 million ($5.44 million) piece at Flemington Racecourse on Nov. 4 after last to escape one for “the race that stops a carry more than 58kg was Think Big in 1975. Since Melbourne Cup despite being penalised an extra handicapper Greg Carpenter raised the stayer’s nation” was the 1980 entrant Ming Dynasty. Think Big, 33 horses have been entered in the half-kilogramme for winning the leadup Caulfield weight from 58 to 58.5 kg earlier on Monday. “While the Caulfield Cup was not run in fast Melbourne Cup with 58kg or more but Makybe Cup on Sunday. Owner Riichi Kondo told Fairfax “Representatives of owner Richii Kondo, who is time, Admire Rakti was enormously impressive Diva (58kg, 2005) is the only one to have won it. Media after the win at Caulfield that he would in transit back to Japan, have advised Racing making a long sustained run down the middle of Admire Rakti was rated a 7-2 favourite by consider pulling the Tomoyuki Umeda-trained Victoria late this afternoon that the horse will the track and he was strong through the line at major bookmakers on Monday ahead of German Admire Rakti from the gruelling 3,200 metre remain in Australia to contest the A$6.2 million the end of 2400m suggesting that 3200m at stayer Protectionist and locally trained mare Lucia handicap if the horse were penalised. But organis- Melbourne Cup,” organisers said in a statement. Flemington would be to his liking,” Racing Victoria Valentina. — Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 SPORTS Keselowski keeps title hopes alive at Talladega

TALLADEGA: Brad Keselowski packed a punch on the track, the only place that mattered after a controver- sial week. Pushed around in the garage, he came out fighting like a champion at Talladega Superspeedway, where his win Sunday staved off elimination and pushed him into the third round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. “There’s a part of me that’s come to accept that this isn’t going to be easy,” Keselowski said, referring to both his week and his career. Fined $50,000 by NASCAR this week for his post- race meltdown at Charlotte, Keselowski’s professional- ism had been under attack and his season was slip- LAS VEGAS: Ben Martin kisses the trophy after winning the Shriners Hospitals for ping away. He reported for work at Talladega, where Children Open golf tournament Sunday. — AP he had to win to remain in title-contention. It was no easy task as Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were in the same must-win position, and Martin wins first PGA hadn’t been knocked around all week the way Keselowski was for losing his cool at Charlotte. “I’ll take the 50 grand and the win this week, Tour title in Las Vegas wouldn’t you?” Keselowski team owner Roger Penske said. The owner and driver can just take the fine out of LAS VEGAS: Ben Martin made a 45-foot eagle had to make as many (birdies) as possible as the winner’s check of $288,361. putt to regain the lead and finished with a 20- quickly as possible.” But Penske, winner of the IndyCar title this year foot birdie putt for a 3-under 68 and his first Russell Knox, who played in the final with Will Power, strongly defended the driver who PGA Tour victory Sunday in the Shriners group with Martin, took a double bogey on gave him his first career Cup title two seasons ago. Hospital for Children Open. No. 9 to fall back. He made three straight “These guys are jealous of the job he’s done this Martin played his final four holes at the birdies late in the round, and then made a year,” Penske said. “He’s won six races. He’s made poles. TPC Summerlin in 4-under par, though no tough par putt on the 18th for a 70 to finish He’s been up front. Nobody likes to see a guy win like shot was more important than the eagle. alone in third. that. “I want him to get mad. I don’t want him to take TALLADEGA: Brad Keselowski celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto it. We talked about it (last week). I said, ‘Brad, put it in Kevin Streelman ran off five birdies in a six- Defending champion Webb Simpson (68), race. —AP hole stretch to overtake Martin for the lead, Brooks Koepka (68) and Jimmy Walker (69) the rearview mirror.’” Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick, the winners of the So it was widely noted that it was Kenseth on But she made a poor move that knocked her out of and Streelman hit a wedge into 5 feet on the tied for fourth, four shots behind. Keselowski’s bumper on the final lap Sunday, when the pack, and she dropped through the field. “I got 18th hole. Martin, who led by as many as four Martin had a four-shot lead after 10 holes first two races in the second round, also advanced to the third three-race round along with Ryan Newman, Kenseth essentially aided Keselowski’s win. either hung out to dry, or I made a bad move,” she shots on the back nine, hit a 6-iron over the when he pulled his tee shot behind a tree and He was able to find the humor in it, but said any- said. “I don’t know what I should have done different.” water to the back of the green on the par-5 dropped a shot at the 11th, and Streelman Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin and Kenseth. The field will be cut to four after the ninth one questioning it was overthinking. “You have to do She settled for a 19th-place finish. 16th. His eagle putt broke back to the left began his run of his birdies. Martin finally race. Points are reset after each round, and the title what’s best for your best finish,” Kenseth said, noting SURPRISING ELIMINATION: Being in the wrong over the final few feet and dropped in the cup answered with a drive that hopped onto the will be decided by finishing order in the Nov. 16 finale that following Harvick would have knocked him out of place at the wrong time cost Kyle Busch his champi- to put Martin back in the lead. Moments later, green at the par-4 15th that set up a two-putt at Homestead. After the race, NASCAR said Newman’s traffic. “I knew my path to the best finish was going to onship hopes. He was hit by Austin Dillon from behind Streelman missed his short birdie attempt. birdie, and then he made good on his second car failed inspection because it was too low on both be at the bottom (of the track). That’s where I felt I had during an accident early in the race that sent Busch to Martin two-putted for par on the 17th, straight eagle attempt. sides of the back of his Chevrolet. Penalties will likely to put my car for my best chance at the best finish.” the garage to repair his car. He had entered the race and then rolled in a birdie putt he didn’t need It was a quick turnaround for Martin, who be issued Tuesday, but that infraction typically is PATRICK LEADS: Danica Patrick had the potential ranked second in the standings, but his 40th-place fin- for a two-shot victory. The 27-year-old from opened the PGA Tour season last week at the docked 15 points. Newman holds a 27-point lead over for a big finish at Talladega, where she led seven laps ish dropped him to 10th and out of the Chase. South Carolina won in his 56th career start. Frys.com Open with rounds of 78-79 to miss Kasey Kahne, who was eliminated Sunday. late in the race and won the battle off pit road after a “I thought we were in a decent spot coming into “It was an awesome way to finish,” Martin the cut. He took the lead in Las Vegas with a The much-anticipated championship battle round of pit stops. the race and rode around in the back,” crew chief Dave said. “I didn’t feel like I had much going all 62 in the third round to take a two-shot lead between Team Penske and Hendrick Motorsports took She was in good shape to race for the win until a Rogers said. “Kyle got checked up for the wreck and day. Four under on my last four to cap my first into the final round. a major hit. Penske got both Keselowski and Logano caution set up a restart with nine scheduled laps had everything saved up, but he got run over from win was just awesome.” Martin finished at 20- Martin said he tried not to look at leader- into the third round, but Hendrick had three of its four remaining. She got a pep talk from her spotter before behind. There is no safe place here. The truth is that if under 264 and returns to the Masters, this boards even though “my heart was beating drivers eliminated today. Only Gordon advanced. the field went green, “You gotta believe in yourself you’re out there on the race track at Talladega or time as a pro. He played Augusta National in out of my chest.” “I tried to keep plugging “Great teams, great drivers, great friends. I hate to here. I know you can do this, gotta prove it to all these Daytona, you have a pretty good chance that you’re other guys.” 2010 as the US Amateur runner-up. along and let it happen,” he said. see them not in there,” Gordon said about Johnson, going to get in a wreck, and today was our day.” — AP Streelman set a PGA Tour record in June Streelman didn’t look at leaderboards Earnhardt and Kahne. when he closed with seven straight birdies to either, although he couldn’t ignore the one Here’s how other drivers fared at Talladega: win the Travelers Championship. He was behind the 18th green. He heard the cheers NEW CHAMPION: NASCAR will have a new cham- Carter, Sonny Bill named headed down that path again with a string of from the 16th green as he was lining up his pion this year following the elimination of six-time and defending champion Johnson. birdies until he missed his last putt on the low birdie putt on the 18th, not realizing at the A poor race at Kansas put him in a deep hole in the in All Blacks tour squad side of the hole. He closed with a 65. time it was Martin making eagle. “I saw I was 1 second segment that he couldn’t climb from. Johnson “I tried not to look at the leaderboard,” up on the 18th green, and then I saw I was 1 took a moment to watch Keselowski’s post-race cele- WELLINGTON: Injured flyhalf Dan Carter did next year with Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett, Streelman said. “It was kind of like Travelers. I down,” Streelman said. —AP bration, and later turned his head to watch Keselowski enough to prove his fitness to New Zealand coach who shared the starting role this season while Carter drive by him on pit road while waving the American Steve Hansen and win a berth in the All Blacks was on a six-month sabbatical then recovering from flag in celebration. squad for the northern hemisphere tour. injury, in the backup roles. Cruden was supplanted Asian Tour to unveil new event It’s the first time Johnson has been out of title con- Carter, one of three flyhalves in the 34-man by Barrett as the starter for the latter part of the NEW DELHI: The Asian Tour will add a third Middle East but it was too long we did not tention before the finale since 2011, when he was squad named on Monday, replaces Colin Slade, who Rugby Championship after he was late for the team’s new tournament to next year’s calendar play there. We will add more tournaments inspired by watching contenders Tony Stewart and kicked the game-winning conversion against assembly time for their flight to Argentina following and hopes to offer more than $50 million in in the Middle East in future.” Carl Edwards hold their pre-finale news conference. Australia on Saturday. Carter will go on tour for tests a boozy night out and left at home by Hansen. prizemoney by 2017, chief executive Mike Kerr also envisaged a season-ending “I vividly remembered the lunch presser that took against the United States, England, Scotland and The 25-year-old Cruden was brought back into Kerr said. tournament on the lines of the U.S. Tour’s place with the champions and how much that ate at Wales despite having barely played this year and still the squad for the third Bledisloe Cup match in The $3 million tournament in Thailand, FedEx Cup or its European version ‘Race to me to watch it on TV and not be a part of it,” Johnson trying to overcome the effects of a broken leg sus- Brisbane but not named in the matchday team with co-sanctioned by the European Tour and Dubai’, though on a smaller scale. said. “I get the pleasure of going through that again. I tained in the Super Rugby final in August. Barrett given the nod to start and Slade offering slated for February, was further proof of the He pointed to the success of Noh Seung- went down swinging, and I take pride in that.” “He’s been training without being able to play more versatility off the bench by being able to cover Tour’s robust health, Kerr told Reuters. yul and Hideki Matsuyama on the PGA Tour, EARNHARDT’S ENDING: It’s been a career year for because he’s had a bit of nerve damage to the leg he flyhalf, wing and fullback. “In the last couple of months we have David Lipsky’s victory in the co-sanctioned Earnhardt, who won the Daytona 500 and two other broke,” Hansen told Fairfax Media in Christchurch of added four new events,” Kerr said in a tele- Omega European Masters and the rise of races to become a legitimate title contender. Carter’s inclusion. “He’s getting better and better all SBW BACK IN BLACK phone interview. “We are projecting robust Thai Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Anirban But NASCAR’s most popular driver will have to wait the time and he’s extremely confident of being able Code-swapping centre Sonny Bill Williams was growth in 2015 and carry on in 2016. Next Lahiri of India as reasons to be bullish about until next season to grab his elusive first Cup champi- to play. “He knows his body better than anybody included after having played less than a full game of year, we’re going to have around 30 events, Asian golf. onship. He was eliminated Sunday following a 31st- and if he’s confident, I’m confident.” While Hansen rugby since his return to the 15-man code following which is a significant growth from this year. “They are representing Asia very well. I place finish that was aided by late contact from Greg said Carter was confident of getting through two seasons with the Sydney Roosters in Australia’s “The total prizemoney this year is $40 think the players (in Asia) are of higher stan- Biffle that caused him to wreck. He said he was disap- unscathed, Slade’s conversion of Malaki Fekitoa’s National Rugby League. million, next year it would be $45 million, dards that we have ever seen,” he said. pointed, but will move on. 80th minute try that clinched a 29-28 victory over Williams had a successful stint in union that which is more than 10 percent growth. We “Aphibarnrat, Lahiri, Lipsky-they are “I’m not retiring or anything, so we’ll try next year,” the Wallabies may not be his last act on the rugby included a World Cup win with the All Blacks in 2011 hope to break the $50 million mark in 2017.” doing well and all of them are in their 20s. said Earnhardt, who turned 40 last week. “We’ve had a field this year. “We’ve spoken to Sladey about the DC and a Super Rugby title with the Waikato Chiefs. The other events to be added to next year’s The strength and depth of the field is very good season and have a lot to be looking forward to. situation,” Hansen added. “We’ll monitor DC this However, with only five tests before next year’s calendar are the $1.3 million AfrAsia Bank good and the golfers are performing really We’re definitely not going to get too tore up about. week and get an idea of where he’s likely to be. “If World Cup, Hansen was keen to have the bullocking Mauritius Open, tri-sanctioned by the Asian, well.” Golf’s return to the Olympics at the We didn’t run well.” DC can’t make this trip because of his leg then Colin player involved as quickly as possible. European and South African ‘Sunshine’ 2016 Rio Games will also do a world of KENSETH-KARMA: It was just last week that an Slade will come back in.” Carter’s inclusion despite Lock Luke Romano was a surprise inclusion after tours, and the Vascory Classic in Malaysia. good for the game in the continent, Kerr enraged Kenseth had Keselowski in a headlock follow- having barely played this year suggests he remains breaking his leg in Super Rugby and not playing for The Asian Tour also recently announced the added. ing the race at Charlotte. firmly in Hansen’s 2015 World Cup plans despite a five months. Hansen said his selection was to get new Dubai Open would be added at the “Golf in Olympics is a major boost for Angry that Keselowski had hit his car on pit road horrendous run of injuries since the 2011 tourna- him up to speed with the team’s game plan and end of this year’s schedule. professional golf in Asia. The Olympic body following the race, Kenseth jumped him from behind ment. Widely considered the best flyhalf in world allow first-choice pairing Brodie Retallick and Sam Kerr was particularly happy with the in each Asian nations is taking it seriously. in between a pair of haulers in the darkened garage. rugby, he is likely to be the starting pivot in England Whitelock some down-time on tour. —Reuters tour’s foray into the Middle East with the “Golf is getting more attention and more Dubai Open. “It was important for us,” he funding at the professional, amateur and said. “Historically we’ve played in the junior levels and it bodes well.” — Reuters Haas bags Kia Classic

CONOVER: Jay Haas became the 18th player completely fall off the map when I turn 61 in to win a Champions Tour at 60 or older, clos- December.” Haas extended his streak of ing with a 5-under 66 on Sunday for a two- under-par rounds to 23 and finished at 17- stroke victory in the Greater Hickory Kia under 196 on Rock Barn Golf and Spa’s Classic. The 60-year-old former Wake Forest Champions Course. He ended a 27-month, player has 17 victories on the 50-and-over 49-event winless streak since June 2012. tour after winning nine times on the PGA Players 60 and older have won 22 events Tour. He also won the event in 2005 and 2009. on the tour, with Hale Irwin accomplishing “Sixty is some sort of benchmark, not that the feat three times and Tom Watson and many guys have done that,” Haas said. “It’s just Jimmy Powell doing it twice each. Mike a number, I guess. I still like feel I’m capable, Fetchick is the oldest winner at 63 years in the especially after this weekend, and it certainly 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational. gives me some confidence for the last couple Joe Durant and Kirk Triplett tied for sec- events and into next year. Hopefully, I won’t ond. Durant and Triplett, the winner last week in Cary, shot 66. Haas began the round with a two-stroke lead over Durant, Triplett and David Frost. Durant - who joined the Champions Tour in April - birdied five of the first six holes to tie Haas for the lead. “I got off to a nice start,” said Durant, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour. “Then I just kind of hit the doldrums. I couldn’t make a ZAIN welcomes home putt. I had some good opportunities and did- n’t make any of them.” Haas pulled back in front with a bogey on No. 13. Durant lost another stroke with a National Jet Ski champions bogey on No. 15. “It certainly didn’t help,” Durant said. “I just knew I was going to have to make a putt for a par because I just didn’t KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications Kuwait in the various internationally renowned Kuwait, Zain is constantly looking to identify and have much of a second shot, really. That’s a company in Kuwait, yesterday announced that it championships, and that its sponsorship of the support excellence across the sports sector. The hard hole. You need to hit the fairway there, has welcomed Kuwait’s National Jet Ski team team for four years falls under its Corporate Social company will continue to put Kuwaiti National and I didn’t.” Haas pushed his lead to two champions at Kuwait Airport after the team won Responsibility strategy towards the youth and teams and individual athletes at the forefront of strokes with a birdie on No. 17, sinking a 16- a number of titles in the World Jet Ski sports sectors. its priorities and pledges to continue motivating foot putt. Haas nearly pushed his lead to Championship held in Arizona, United States, as The company expressed pride in the latest them to achieve all the recognition they deserve. three shots on No. 18, just missing a 12-foot the company is the main sponsor of the tam for achievement the team accomplished, raising the It is worth noting that the National Jet Ski birdie putt. the fourth consecutive year. Kuwaiti flag high with a number of top interna- team is authorized by the Kuwait Sea Sport Club “I never made it easy on myself,” Haas said. In a press statement, Zain mentioned that it tional titles. Zain confirms its commitment to officially represent Kuwait in regional and inter- “I’ve felt like I played well enough to win at participated in the welcoming ceremony held in towards Kuwaiti champions, which resembles the national Jet Ski championships. The team cham- CONOVER: Jay Haas smiles as he holds times, but for whatever reason wasn’t able to Kuwait Airport’s Honoring Hall where many of the company’s endless confidence of the skills of pions won a number of prominent titles during the trophy after winning the Greater pull it off. But having the lead pretty much team’s sponsors and supporting organizations these young athletes and their capabilities in past and present participations, most notably the Hickory Kia Classic Champions Tour golf the whole day, and hold on to do that makes attended. The company expressed its keenness excelling in different fields. first place title of last and this year’s World Jet Ski tournament. — AP it pretty special.” — AP on encouraging Kuwaiti athletes to represent As a leading telecommunications company in Championship, held in the United States. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 SPORTS

Murray eyes Tour Finals Photo of the day momentum in Valencia

VALENCIA: Two-time Grand Slam winner meeting in the semi-finals with three- Andy Murray continues his bid to reach time champion Ferrer the top seed and the ATP World Tour Finals next month at Murray seeded third. the Valencia Open fresh from his second “It’s the same for both of us, we’ve had tournament victory of the season in very close matches,” added Murray, who Vienna. now hold a 8-6 head-to-head record over The Scot downed David Ferrer 5-7, 6- Ferrer. “Whoever qualifies for London will 2, 7-5 to claim the title on his first deserve it.” appearance in the Austrain capital to And Ferrer is determined to take his move ahead of the Spaniard into the battle down to next week’s final qualify- final qualifiyng spot for the season-end- ing tournament at the Paris Masters. ing finals in London. With five of the “Andy played a great match and eight places already secured and US deserved to win the title,” said the 32- Open finalist Kei Nishikori almost guar- year-old. anteed his Tour Finals debut, there is a “I had my chances but it was so tough five-way battle between Murray, Ferrer, today. I’m going to keep fighting for Tomas Berdych, Milos Raonic and Grigor London.” Berdych’s 10th career title in the Dimitrov for the remaining slots. Swedish capital kept his Tour Finals bid Berdych joins Murray and Ferrer in the on track and the second seed appears to south of Spain having also claimed his have an easier draw in Valencia. second title of the year in Stockholm “They are 250 freshly-baked ranking with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over Dimitrov. points but it is still not the end, the battle “Every event is so important now with is still on and we are still going to fight the race for London going strong,” said for that,” he said. “I think it is going to be Murray, who will be playing in his fourth a really interesting end to the year, I just event in as many weeks. need to be prepared and go for it again. Carlos Sainz performs during the Peugeot 2008 DKR test in Chateau de Lastours, Portel des Corbieres, France. — www.redbull.com Murray’s victory in Vienna moved the The Czech starts off against Spaniard 2013 Wimbledon champion 110 points Pablo Andujar and could face American clear of Ferrer, who also has 300 points to John Isner in the last eight. Murray is up defend in Valencia having been beaten against Austrian Jurgen Melzer, whilst Serena sends Ivanovic by Mikhail Youznhy in last year’s final. Ferrer faces Italian Andreas Seppi in the The two are on course for another first round. — AFP PREVIEW packing in WTA Finals Ajmal-less Pakistan seek to SINGAPORE: An all-action Serena Williams end 20-year Australia drought eased concerns over her injured knee as she opened the WTA Finals with a 6-4, 6-4 victory DUBAI: Pakistan hope to end a 20-year 15 in the preceding 3-0 one-day series over Ana Ivanovic yesterday. drought against Australia when they meet defeat, admitted Ajmal’s absence is signifi- The world number one withdrew from this in the first of two Tests in Dubai from cant. “Ajmal has left a big hole,” said Misbah, month’s China Open with a left knee problem tomorrow but they are hobbled by the who skippers a team whose last Test series but she showed no discomfort during an enter- absence of spin king Saeed Ajmal. win over Australia was back in 1994. “But taining round robin win in Singapore. Ajmal, who has been suspended due to we have youngsters who should grab the With no strapping on her knee, Williams slid an illegal bowling action, has single-hand- chance and I am confident they can.” around the court and at one point did the splits. edly ruled the dry and slow tracks of The return of veteran batsman Younis She shouted “Come on!” so many times she Pakistan’s neutral venues in the United Khan and Azhar Ali will boost Pakistan’s made herself hoarse. Arab Emirates, especially at Dubai where he fragile batting as they seek to remain “I never do it in practice,” said Williams of her has 37 wickets in six Tests, three of which unbeaten in a Test series in the UAE since impromptu splits in the final game, which she Pakistan won. they were forced to decamp in 2009 due to said she’d only done once before on court. security fears in their country. “I never run that hard in practice. I save it for a Australia will also look to include both match. I do work on my flexibility, but not for spinners in Nathan Lyon and Steve O’Keefe tennis. Because I dance... I guess it comes in despite their unimpressive record of losing handy.” After a nervy start it was an ultimately five of the last six Tests (one draw) in which convincing win from the top seed, who is seek- they played with two spinners. But they ing her third straight season finale victory and have dominated Pakistan, winning 13 out the year-end world number one ranking. of the last 14 Tests against them. Later in the eight-player tournament, Australia will hope skipper Michael Romania’s Simona Halep enjoyed a straightfor- Clarke, top Test run getter in 2013 with ward 6-2, 6-3 victory over a misfiring Eugenie 1,093, anchors the batting after recovering Bouchard of Canada. from a hamstring injury sustained two Williams also pulled out of last month’s months ago. Wuhan Open with illness and the American said Clarke failed to get much-needed prac- she felt like she had “nothing to lose” as she tot- tice in the 153-run defeat in the four-day ted up her 16th straight WTA Finals win. tour game against Pakistan ‘A’ on Sunday, “I didn’t have any fear at all. I felt pretty good. managing just ten and five. I really felt like I don’t really have anything to Clarke admitted Ajmal will be missed by lose at this point,” she said. “I felt the knee a little Pakistan. “I think there is no doubt that bit, but compared to what it was in Beijing, it Ajmal is an amazing bowler. I think obvi- feels so much better. I’m getting better, which is great,” she added. SINGAPORE: Serena Williams of the US returns a shot against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during ously Pakistan wish they had him available their singles match at the WTA tennis finals yesterday. — AP for selection,” said Clarke. Williams recovered from a slow start to earn “I have always said that Pakistan have the first break, but Ivanovic saved break points ahead. With Ivanovic serving at 4-5 down, tournament’s youngest players. always had a lot of talent in any form of the at 4-1 before a net cord helped her break back Williams again raised her game as she drilled a Halep, the world number four, gave Bouchard game and I am sure the Test eleven that and win three games in a row for 4-4. backhand down the line, before converting the a miserable introduction to the elite event as she they put on the field is very talented and However, the Serb wasted another break first of two match points when the Serb went broke twice in each set and profited from the know these conditions.” point when she volleyed long and as she served long. “You come up against the best, you really Canadian’s 30 unforced errors. Australia will hope all-rounder Mitchell to stay in the set, Williams made her pay when have to try and make all parts of your game at “I played really well, I’m really happy I found Marsh, who has recovered from a ham- she grabbed her second break and the first set 6- that level,” Ivanovic said. “That’s going to be my my game again,” said Halep, who will face string injury, will be able to fill in for the 4. An attritional second set came alive in the sev- big focus for the next matches.” Williams in her next match. “Of course she’s the Saeed Ajmal more experienced Shane Watson who is enth game when Ivanovic’s baseline smash win- Williams’ victory puts her in the box seat for a best player in the world and I have nothing to out of the tour due to a calf injury. ner was followed by Williams’ fabulous cross- place in the semi-finals with Red Group matches lose. I’ll try to play my game and to fight for That includes 24 wickets in a 3-0 rout of Australia’s pace attack will be led by court drop-shot as the American went 4-3 still to come against Halep and Bouchard, the every point,” she said. — AFP England in 2012. Pakistan have also lost Mitchell Johnson who bowled with venom frontline seamers Junaid Khan and Wahab in the two one-dayers he played-taking six Riaz-both through knee injuries-and have wickets-and supported by the hard-work- to rely on uncapped leg-spinner Yasir Shah ing Peter Siddle. and two-Test left-armer Zulfiqar Babar, A 2-0 cleansweep would return Australia both of whom are likely to play. to the top of the Test rankings. The second Captain Misbah-ul Haq, under pressure Test will be played in Abu Dhabi from to score runs after managing nought and October 30. — AFP Neesham gets crack at World Cup opening spot

WELLINGTON: All rounder Jimmy that with Williamson’s off-spin bowling Neesham has been given the first oppor- under review by International Cricket tunity to settle questions at the top of Council accredited biomechanists, he New Zealand’s order ahead of next year’s wanted one of his top five to be able to cricket World Cup when he opens the bowl a few overs during each match in batting with Martin Guptill against South the global showpiece as well. Africa today. Neesham’s ability to bowl handy The attacking Neesham has typically medium pace could help settle any selec- batted lower down the order for New tion quandaries as they look to settle the Zealand but with coach Mike Hesson mix of their World Cup squad. looking for a replacement for the out-of- Ryder has not been considered for favour Jesse Ryder, the 24-year-old left- New Zealand since he was disciplined for hander will occupy the role against the a heavy drinking session the night before Proteas at Mount Maunganui in the first a test match against India in February. match of the three-game series. “He will The 30-year-old had a successful OSN brings live action get an opportunity tomorrow at the top county season in England and local of the order,” captain Brendon McCullum media had reported of possible rap- told reporters at Bay Oval on Monday, prochement talks between Hesson and while confirming that batsmen Ross the aggressive batsman, though the of Indian Super League Taylor (calf) and Kane Williamson (wrist) coach is obviously casting his eye over and pace bowler Tim Southee (shoulder) potential replacements. would not be considered. McCullum added that batsman Dean DUBAI: OSN, the region’s leading pay-TV net- Swedish player Freddie Ljungberg, England’s Dynamos FC, while the North East “He’s an exciting player and it’s not an Brownlie, who impressed on a New work, is now bringing to its subscribers the David James and France’s Nicolas Anelka, United FC fights out FC Goa on Oct. 19. easy role that, especially against a team Zealand ‘A’ tour in England earlier this live action and excitement of the new Indian among others. OSN will bring all the live Chennaiyin FC will face Kerala Blasters FC on like South Africa with their quick bowling year, would bat in Williamson’s number Super League football championship, which action of the Indian Super League matches Oct. 21, while FC Goa will play against AtlÈtico options. “Until you put people in those three spot today. has generated tremendous fanfare and featuring eight teams playing home/away de Kolkata on Oct. 23. The Mumbai City FC vs positions you’re not 100 per cent sure McCullum said the clash against excitement with the matches attended by matches through the final on December 20, North East United FC match is on Oct. 24, and how they’re going to respond. South Africa should be a good marker for their celebrity team owners and fans. 2014. All the 61 matches will be broadcast on Oct. 25, Delhi Dynamos FC will play against “For me it’s about how he goes about how they need to progress towards the From cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and between OSN Sports 1 HD and OSN Sports 4. Chennaiyin FC. On Oct. 26, join the excite- constructing his innings. If we can get Feb. 14-March 29 tournament co-hosted Sourav Ganguly to Bollywood’s leading Co-promoted by IMG-Reliance and Star ment as FC Pune City will play against FC Goa. that destructive kind of player at the top, by New Zealand and Australia. heroes Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, India, and supported by All India Football OSN presents the best of cricket too with playing with some freedom, then that “If we look forward four to six months Ranbir Kapoor and John Abraham as team Federation (AIFF), the Indian Super League OSN Sports Cricket HD bringing live interna- goes a long way to assisting us with the to the World Cup, for us to win it we need owners, the inaugural Indian Super League 2014 has eight teams: AtlÈtico de Kolkata, tional cricket in true high definition. The net- rest of our lineup.” Neesham’s inclusion at to go in with momentum,” McCullum has kicked off on an upbeat note. Chennaiyin FC, Delhi Dynamos, FC Goa, Kerala work holds the rights for all ICC events, Indian the top of the order could not only settle said. “We’ve got to play some good crick- The event has also generated international Blasters, Mumbai City FC, Northeast United Premier League (IPL), Champions League T20, the Ryder question, but also provide et going in, and we’ve got to build some interest with the participation of a number of and Pune City FC. Big Bash league, Caribbean Premier league coach Mike Hesson with options lower depth in case we are struck down with down the order. Hesson has already said injuries or loss of form.” — Reuters marquee players including Italian footballers In the coming days, football fans can look and all India, England, Australia, Bangladesh Marco Materazzi and Alessandro Del Piero, forward to AtlÈtico de Kolkata taking on Delhi and New Zealand home series. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 SPORTS Barca need to avoid Clasico obsession and focus on Ajax

BARCELONA: Barcelona need to avoid getting we want to play well and be ready for the El sucked into the Spanish obsession with El Clasico. “We need to continue improving Clasico when they face Ajax Amsterdam in the aspects despite the win,” he added. “Even when Champions League today. we weren’t able to score we did not panic and All eyes in Spain are on leaders Barca’s visit kept on trying. to Real Madrid next Saturday which could see “There is also a physical element as well the possible debut of Uruguay forward Luis because in the second half our rivals have Suarez after his four-month ban for biting problems against us. Playing with intensity and Italian Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. forcing the opposition back into their own area With so much interest, there is a real risk means that they tire.” Lionel Messi and Neymar that the visit of four-times European champi- both started against Eibar despite long trips for ons Ajax could take a back seat and be treated recent international matches and between as a mere warm-up. However, defeat in their them they have scored 17 of Barca’s 25 goals so previous outing against Paris St Germain far. Barca coach Luis Enrique admitted that means that Barca cannot afford to be compla- Messi’s value to the team made it difficult to cent, even if Ajax are nowadays a provider of leave him out. “I look at who to give a break to young talent for other European clubs rather including Messi but later I think to myself if you than a force in their own right. don’t play him you will miss out on the goals he Paris St Germain lead Group F with four scores,” he said. “I think over what they say and points followed by Barca on three points and how the players are feeling. During the season Ajax on two. “The most important game for us he will have a break but I think it is a special now is against Ajax and we want to play well in moment for the team and him at the moment. GERMANY: Schalke’s new head coach Roberto Di Matteo talks to his team during a training session at the arena in Gelsenkirchen. Schalke will that so that we are in good condition for the El “Sometimes I sit there on the bench and play against Sporting Club in a Group G Champions League match today. — AP Clasico,” Javier Mascherano told reporters after think to myself how lucky I am to have Messi. It Saturday’s 3-0 win over Eibar. “You cannot live is not just what he can do but also the stimulus in the past or for games that are going to take he provides for the others.” Schalke plan Sporting ambush place in the future,” he added. “The match Ajax are second in the Eredivisie and came against Ajax is important for us and we need to from behind to draw 1-1 against Twente on be fully focused on that. If we don’t play well Saturday with Kolbeinn Sigthorsson scoring in LISBON: Schalke 04 are hoping their freshly- was good and the organisation of the team against Hertha, his first since suffering a knee today then that can also change the mood and the second half. — Reuters found discipline under new coach Robert Di was also good. We have to increase our pos- injury in August. Matteo, coupled with his Champions League session and play better between the lines. “We have not taken a huge step but we pedigree will help them beat Sporting Lisbon But we cannot change everything at once.” did take an important step forward,” today for their first win in the competition Schalke looked sharp in attack, with mid- Hoewedes said. “We have to remain patient this season. Italian Di Matteo, who replaced fielder Julian Draxler and Dutch forward and keep working and push ourselves for- Jens Keller, enjoyed a successful debut on the Klaas-Jan Huntelaar on target. Di Matteo, ward bit by bit.” For bottom-placed Sporting, Schalke bench with a 2-0 victory over Hertha whose appointment is the first since his a win is of paramount importance to main- Berlin on Saturday in what also was only their Chelsea sacking in late 2012, will be hoping tain their chances of advancing, having col- second clean sheet of the league so far. the striker’s streak in Europe also continues lected only one point in their two games so The former Chelsea coach, who won the after having scored in both the previous far. Chelsea top the group on four points, Champions League in a caretaker role in group games this season. with Schalke level on two with Maribor. 2012, must now also kickstart their European “Our focus is now on Sporting and success The Portuguese, however, enjoyed a confi- campaign after two draws in Group G against in this game in the Champions League,” said dence-boosting 3-1 win over Porto on Chelsea and Maribor. Di Matteo. Di Matteo will be able to count on Saturday for a spot in the Portuguese Cup “What was positive was the win and the captain Benedikt Hoewedes, after the fourth round. clean sheet,” Di Matteo said following Germany defender started against Hertha Although five of their 10 matches this sea- Saturday’s win which lifted them back up the following a five-week break with a hip injury. son have ended in 1-1 draws, Sporting’s only Bundesliga table into eighth place after a Defender Jan Kirchhoff also returned to defeat was at home to Chelsea in the rollercoaster start to the season. “Our defence action, making a brief substitute appearance Champions League. — Reuters

SPAIN: Ajax players attend a training session at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. Barcelona will play against Ajax in a Group F Champions League today. — AP Sound of silence no boost to Pellegrini

MOSCOW: Manchester City manager league leaders Zenit St Petersburg to just Manuel Pellegrini has said playing in an two points. empty stadium won’t help his side when Forwards Ahmed Musa and Seydou they travel to Russia for their potentially Doumba scored two goals apiece, with decisive Champions League match against midfielder Roman Eremenko also finding CSKA Moscow today. the back of the net. European football governing body UEFA “Of course we were not awarded any have ordered CSKA to play the game extra points for a 6-0 victory,” former behind closed doors because of racist Manchester United midfielder Zoran Tosic, behaviour by their fans-something City who is currently playing with CSKA, said. have direct experience of after Yaya Toure “But such a solid win raises the team’s self- was on the receiving end of verbal abuse confidence a great deal. when the clubs met last season. Self-confidence is just what we need But Pellegrini does not believe this will ahead of the match with Manchester City.” give the reigning Premier League champi- CSKA are rock-bottom of the Champions ons, still struggling to make their mark on League Group E table without points fol- Europe’s elite club competition, an advan- lowing two defeats in as many matches, tage in the Russian capital. one point behind third-placed City. “I think that affects football. I don’t think The 2005 UEFA Cup winners are still it is the best way to play, not only for our without Swedish midfielder Rasmus Elm team but for the Russian team,” Pellegrini and Brazilian forward Vitinho through said. “I think football is about the fans. It is injury, while Brazilian winger Mario the most important thing because they Fernandes, who suffered an arm injury on give an atmosphere at the stadium which is Saturday is in doubt for the match with different to an empty stadium. It will be a City. Russian international Alan Dzagoev different experience but that cannot affect and Swede Pontus Wernbloom will also sit our performance,” the Chilean added. out the last of their respective three-match City badly need victories in both their bans after being sent-off last season matches with CSKA, having been beaten by against Czech side Viktoria Plzen. Bayern Munich and drawn at home to “Our attacking line of Musa-Doumbia Roma in their opening Group E fixtures. proved their scoring abilities in the match “We have two games against CSKA with Kuban,” CSKA manager Leonid Slutsky Moscow in the Champions League that we said. “And I’m happy I can count on them need to win both of them,” said Pellegrini. both in the match with Manchester, even COBHAM: Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas (centre right) controls the ball during a training session. Chelsea will play Maribor in a Champions League “The best way is to treat every game as a though Doumbia hasn’t reached his top Group G soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium today.— AP final, try to win it and then win the next form yet.” UEFA ordered CSKA to play their final,” added Pellegrini, whose side will trav- next three European matches behind el to Russia on the back of a 4-1 win over closed doors following supporter incidents Chelsea wary of Maribor threat Tottenham Hotspur where striker Sergio during the club’s match with Roma last Aguero scored all of their goals. month. CSKA have appealed but the UEFA LONDON: Chelsea may be five points clear at to finish the first three matches with seven explained. “Now I am playing deeper in mid- Defender Eliaquim Mangala was expect- decision remains in force for today’s match the top of the Premier League and unbeaten points.” field there will be moments during the season ed to travel despite a thigh injury but mid- at the Khimki Arena. in top-flight domestic action this season but Nemanja Matic, the match-winner against when maybe I go five or six games without a fielder Samir Nasri was due to stay behind In the last season’s Champions League they are determined not to be caught off Sporting, is in no doubt of the threat posed by goal or an assist, and I am more proud about while recovering from groin surgery. campaign City visited CSKA in October and guard when they face Maribor in the a Maribor side that, on paper at least, should the teamwork, the discipline, the way we CSKA enjoyed an even more emphatic came from behind to win 2-1 courtesy of victory last weekend, routing Kuban an Aguero double. They also won the Champions League at Stamford Bridge today. be regarded as the weakest team in the coped with the sending off, than my goals or Krasnodar 6-0 to narrow the gap to Russian return fixture 5-2. — AFP Jose Mourinho has already seen his side group. my assists. “I give those to other people to talk slip up at home in Group G with Klaas Jan “Nobody expected Maribor to take points about.” — AFP Huntelaar punishing the Blues for failing to off Sporting and Schalke-but they did and make more of a number of chances by scoring showed that in football there are no Schalke’s equaliser in the 1-1 draw in the favourites. So until the end I expect hard opening game of their latest European cam- work,” the Serbia midfielder said. Matches on TV paign. “But I hope we will win every game and we (Local Timings) Chelsea recovered from that disappoint- will make it to the next round.” Mourinho ment with victory over Sporting in Lisbon. But claimed the victory over Palace provided the UEFA Champions League with Maribor having held both Schalke and latest demonstration of how his side has Sporting, Blues manager Mourinho will resist evolved from last season when they dropped CSKA Moskva v Man City 19:00 any temptation to make wholesale changes out of the Premier League title race in the final beIN SPORTS 2 HD for the clash. stages and were beaten in the Champions Saturday’s 2-1 victory at Crystal Palace League semi-final by Atletico Madrid. AS Roma v Bayern Munich 21:45 ensured Chelsea will return to European The arrival of Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona beIN SPORTS 3 HD action having maintained their unbeaten start has been one of the factors behind Chelsea’s Apoel Nicosia v PSG 21:45 and five-point advantage in the Premier progress and the Spain midfielder capped an beIN SPORTS 5 HD League. impressive start at his new club by scoring his Barcelona v Ajax Amsterdam 21:45 “For today I cannot make lots of changes first Premier League goal for the Blues at beIN SPORTS 1 HD because I cannot break the balance of the Palace. Chelsea v Maribor 21:45 team,” said Mourinho. “I can make a couple of Fabregas’s finish capped a slick passing beIN SPORTS 4 HD changes. But I don’t think I’m going to have move that also involved Oscar and Eden BATE Borisov v Shakhtar 21:45 any of the injured players back. I don’t think Hazard and the former Arsenal man said he beIN SPORTS 8 HD Ramires will be available, Andre Schurrle, was enjoying his new surroundings. Diego Costa for sure is not available.” The “I like to play this kind of football, and Eden Schalke 04 v Sporting Lisbon 21:45 Portuguese boss added: “I don’t have a lot to and Oscar do as well, and the three of us con- beIN SPORTS 6 HD MOSCOW: Manchester City’s Alvaro Negredo (left) and Pablo Zabaleta (right) attend change. But I’m going to make a couple of nect very well and that goal showed well the FC Porto v Athletic de Bilbao 1:45 a training session at Arena Khimki stadium. Manchester City will face CSKA Moscow changes. It’s an important match for us to win qualities of the whole team,” Fabregas beIN SPORTS 2 HD in the UEFA Champions League Group E soccer match today. — AP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 SPORTS Roma take aim at Bayern’s defence

ROME: If anyone can breach Bayern Munich’s apparently impregnable defence, then it is AS Roma and their talismanic forward Francesco Totti. Last year’s Serie A runners-up, who host Bayern at the Stadio Olimpico in a Champions League Group E match on Tuesday, have hit the target in each of their nine games this season, scoring a total of 20 goals with Totti providing three of those plus four assists. Just past his 38th birthday and in his 23rd season at his only professional club, Totti has been a fundamental part of Roma’s resur- gence under French coach Rudi Garcia. Operating in a hole just behind the for- wards, the captain still pulls the strings when he plays, repeatedly creating openings for the likes of Gervinho and Mattia Destro in one of the strongest Roma sides for years. Garcia had initially planned to rest Totti for Saturday’s match against strugglers Chievo but changed his mind at the last minute. Totti responded by converting a penalty and crashing a shot against the post in the 3-0 MUNICH: Bayern’s Arjen Robben from the Netherlands stretches during a training session pri- ITALY: Napoli’s Juan Zuniga (left) challenges for the ball with Inter Milan’s Pires Dodo during win. “I couldn’t have started this match with- the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Napoli at the San Siro stadium. —AP or to the Champions League Group E soccer match against AS Roma. Bayern Munich will face out the captain,” said Garcia. “It was an impor- Roma today. — AP tant game and we need to get back on the winning trail.” Borussia Dortmund in the season-opening League. It is the sort of match that Garcia has Inter fights back to Totti, who became the oldest player even German Supercup clash, they have kept eight been looking forward to ever since he took to score in the Champions League in the 1-1 successive clean sheets and have not conced- over at the start of last season. “Today, we will draw away to Manchester City last month, ed a goal since the 1-1 draw against Schalke be the outsiders, facing one of the best teams draw against Napoli scored the winning goal when Roma hit back on Aug. 30, a total of 748 minutes. With a goal in the world,” said Garcia, whose last con- difference of 19, and having scored 10 goals frontation with Bayern, when he was coach of MILAN: Inter Milan came back twice to res- Honda doubled Milan’s lead shortly from 2-0 behind to win 3-2 when Roma last faced Bayern, almost exactly four years ago. in their last two games, they top the Lille, ending in a 6-1 drubbing two years ago. cue a 2-2 draw at home to Napoli in Serie A afterwards when he drove home Stephan Bundesliga by four points and are already “Bayern are very strong and I really can’t wait on Sunday, while AC Milan climbed into El Shaarawy’s cross-field pass. The Japan Bayern coach Pep Guardiola will be well aware of the dangers as he played alongside threatening to run away with the domestic to play this game, as the Stadio Olimpico fourth after securing a 3-1 victory at Hellas international bagged his second of the title once again. atmosphere will be fantastic. “I was one of Verona thanks to a brace from Keisuke game 11 minutes into the second half Totti, and Daniele De Rossi during a brief Roma, while not as dominant, have been those who knew Pep Guardiola hadn’t cho- Honda. when he latched on to a long through ball spell at Roma during his playing career in The match at San Siro sparked into life from Adil Rami before drilling it into the 2002/03. The Bavarians will provide the almost as impressive, winning six out of sev- sen an easy challenge at Bayern Munich,” he late on when Jose Callejon capitalized on bottom left corner. stiffest of tests for Roma. Unbeaten in 11 en Serie A games and taking four points from added. “He has done and will continue to do an error by Nemanja Vidic to break the Nico Lopez scored a consolation for games in all competitions since losing to their opening two matches in the Champions very well there.”— Reuters deadlock but substitute Fredy Guarin lev- Verona three minutes from time but eled almost immediately. defender Rafa Marquez was sent off in Callejon thought he had scored the win- stoppage time for a second yellow card to ner in the final minute but Hernanes equal- compound the home side’s misery. ized moments later. “The lads make me proud to train them,” The result should relieve a bit of the Milan coach Filippo Inzaghi said. “I didn’t pressure on coach Walter Mazzari - who left think we’d be 3-0 up at such a difficult Napoli for Inter - after back-to-back defeats. ground.” Like Verona and Milan, both “The coach is very tired and very angry, Fiorentina and Lazio went into the match he will speak on Wednesday about the on the same points. match. He apologizes, but today it’s like Filip Djordjevic gave Lazio a deserved that,” Inter sporting director Piero Ausilio lead in the 35th minute, with his fifth goal said. “We were really playing at the top in in three matches after Antonio Candreva the first half, there was only one team on latched onto Lucas Biglia’s through ball and the pitch and I think it’s undebatable that put in a low cross for Djordjevic to smash in we deserved more than one goal.” at the near post. Sampdoria remained third despite Fiorentina dominated the second half squandering a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at and Alberto Aquilani almost equalized with Cagliari, while Lazio won 2-0 at Fiorentina a bicycle kick that crashed off the upright. and Palermo beat fellow promoted side Lazio sealed a third successive win in Cesena 2-1. stoppage time after a counterattack as Also, Torino beat Udinese 1-0 and Candreva squared the ball for Senad Lulic Atalanta defeated Parma by the same to tap into an empty net. scoreline. There was little sign of the crazy In Cagliari, Sampdoria broke the dead- finale to come at San Siro, although both lock in the 28th when Manolo Gabbiadini sides hit the post through Hernanes and volleyed in from close range a chipped free Lorenzo Insigne. Callejon scored his first in kick from Angelo Palombo. the 79th minute, pouncing on the ball after Sampdoria seemed to be heading for a Vidic had headed on a throw-in and smash- comfortable win when Pedro Obiang went ing it past Samir Handanovic. on a run and drove home to double his Guarin had been on the pitch for barely side’s lead shortly before halftime. a minute when he leveled, tapping in at the Gabbiadini should have sealed the post after Mauro Icardi nodded on a corner. result minutes after the restart but he hit Mazzarri was sent to the stands for step- the post from close range and Samp was ping out of his technical area and matters left to rue that miss as just before the hour grew worse for Inter when Callejon mark Fabrizio Cacciatore was sent off for a volleyed into the far right corner in the final foul on Victor Ibarbo which resulted in a minute but Hernanes ensured the home second booking and a penalty. side snatched a point in stoppage time. Danilo Avelar fired home from the spot Neighbors Milan fared better as Honda before setting up Marco Sau for the LONDON: Liverpool team celebrates in this file photo. — AP scored in either half to take his tally to six equalizer in the 77th. Palermo recorded for the season and match Carlos Tevez as its first win of the season thanks to a stop- top goal scorer. page-time header from debutant Real seek first win over Liverpool Verona gifted Milan the lead in the 21st Giancarlo Gonzalez. Cesena played the when an attempted clearance went wrong final 11 minutes with 10 men after LONDON: Two of Europe’s greatest clubs with to remember that behind the goals there is played behind closed doors on UEFA’s orders and Rafa Marques sliced Ignazio Abate’s Manuel Coppola received two yellow 15 European Cup successes between them sacrifice, fight and concentration. You don’t because of the continuing troublesome behav- cross into his own net. cards in quick succession. — AP renew their rivalry at Anfield tomorrow with score without sacrifice and concentration. The iour of CSKA’s fans. When the two clubs met in Liverpool looking to preserve their unlikely 100 best players realise that,” Ancelotti said. the group stage last year, CSKA’s fans racially percent record against Real Madrid in Europe’s abused City’s Yaya Toure and had one of their River extend winning streak elite competition. DON’T LOOK BACK stands closed, but following continued trouble While that match evokes past and present Barcelona’s Javier Mascherano believes that this will be their second successive European ARGENTINA: River Plate continue to set teams as an incentive to play better glory, Barcelona play Ajax Amsterdam in Tuesday’s visit of Ajax will not only help get game without fans after their opening 1-0 a high standard in the Argentine cham- rather than a worry. “It’s good that no- another Champions League match between their Group F campaign back on track, after defeat by Bayern Munich last month. pionship with the weekend’s 3-0 home one wants to drop out (of the race). European aristocracy with eight European Cup losing 3-2 to Paris St Germain three weeks ago, City who beat CSKA 2-1 in Moscow last sea- win over bogey team Belgrano extend- That keeps us focused on what’s ahead,” wins between them. but also prepare them for the Clasico. son, could well kick start their stuttering cam- ing their unbeaten run to 18 matches he told reporters. The game between AS Roma and Bayern Barca beat a resolute Eibar 3-0 on Saturday paign with another win there after losing their this season. This did not, however, pre- “We’ve been involved in a lot of com- Munich in Rome, another heavyweight affair, with Lionel Messi taking his Liga tally to 250 opener 1-0 to Bayern Munich and drawing 1-1 vent Belgrano’s former River goalkeeper petition and it’s tough to handle but the gives Francesco Totti another chance to beat goals and Mascherano says it is important at home to AS Roma three weeks ago. Juan Carlos Olave from having a dig at mentality of this group (of players) is his own record as the oldest man to score in Barca keep winning and do not look back to Today’s Roma-Bayern match should also be the league leaders over his team’s role strong and the will to play well is there,” the competition. the past after they beat Ajax 4-0 at the Nou one of the week’s highlights. While Bayern’s in their relegation at El Monumental added Gallardo, whose team are also Camp in last season’s group stage. defence appears impregnable, Roma have four years ago. “This time River beat us playing the regional Copa Real, the reigning European champions, well and showed off their skills but it Sudamericana. have lost all three competitive European “You cannot live in the past for games that scored in each of their nine games this season. looks like it still hurts,” said Olave, whose Defender Leonel Vangioni put River matches they have played against Liverpool: are going to take place in the future. The match Totti became the oldest scorer in the side upset River in a 2011 promotion- ahead in the 34th minute and the 1981 European Cup final when Liverpool against Ajax is important for us and we need to Champions League era at 38 years and three relegation playoff in which he saved a Colombia’s Teo Gutierrez, back from beat them 1-0 in Paris as well as 4-0 and 1-0 be fully focused on that,” said the Argentina days when he netted for Roma against City crucial penalty. international duty after missing the 1-0 defeats in the last 16 of the Champions League midfielder. “If we don’t play well on Tuesday three weeks ago and has been a fundamental “It’s obvious they needed to give win at Newell’s Old Boys, added two in in 2009. But Real arrive for their Group B match then that can also change the mood and we part of Roma’s resurgence under French coach vent (to their frustration) but it took the second half to take his tally as the in great form, having won their last seven want to play well and be ready for the Clasico,” Rudi Garcia. Totti also scored the winner when four years,” he told reporters after River’s league’s top scorer to 10 in eight matches in all competitions following their sec- he said. Roma beat Bayern 3-2 almost exactly four years first home win over Belgrano since that matches. ond successive 5-0 win in La Liga, over Levante The atmosphere at Anfield and the Nou ago. But Bayern, unbeaten in 11 games in all fateful day. Belgrano have consolidated Rosario Central beat Newell’s Old on Saturday. Camp will be fantastic, which is more than can competitions, have kept eight successive clean their place in the top flight after that Boys 2-0 at home for their third succes- be said for the one the players of CSKA sheets and have not conceded a goal since the promotion. “We’re always going to have sive victory in the city derby, known as OWN GOALS Moscow and Manchester City will experience 1-1 draw against Schalke 04 on August 30, a that reminder and they too I won’t for- “clasico rosarino”. Newell’s had two Liverpool meanwhile will need to improve in Moscow, with their Group E match being total of 748 minutes. — Reuters get (River) fans set fire to their stadium,” players sent off in the final quarter of on their somewhat fortunate 3-2 Premier added Olave, who had a season at River an hour. League win over Queens Park Rangers on in 2005/06. Independiente beat Libertadores Sunday when they needed the help of two But under coach Marcelo Gallardo, a Cup champions San Lorenzo, who are own goals from the struggling London side for Indian footballer dies former River and Argentina midfielder, struggling badly with the Club World a late victory. they have been putting to rest years of Cup looming in December, 2-1 at the Still, coach Brendan Rodgers says he is keen after goal celebration frustration and poor play by their exalt- Nuevo Gasometro. to face Real tomorrow. “Real Madrid are playing ed standards that was only partially Copa Sudamericana holders Lanus as well as they have played for the last five to NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old Indian footballer Chanmari West FC, a flipping Biaksangzuala cured with last season’s title under won 2-1 away to promoted Defensa y 10 years, the threats they have,” he said after has died from severe spinal cord damage after landed awkwardly and was lying unconscious Ramon Diaz. Gallardo has yet to taste Justicia, who are in their first season in the QPR game. “I am really looking forward to attempting to celebrate a goal with a somer- as his team mates surrounded him and ges- defeat as River’s coach, the most nega- the top flight, and fourth-placed Racing that.” Real’s win at Levante featured another sault, an official told Reuters yesterday. tured for help. tive result being elimination from the Club continued their good run with a 2- two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, who has Bethlehem Vengthlang FC midfielder Peter “The association president also being the Copa Argentina knockout competition 0 home victory over Velez Sarsfield, now scored 15 goals in seven La Liga starts this Biaksangzuala died on Sunday at a hospital in state health minister, he did all that was possi- on penalties. River lead the first division their third win on the trot. season. Real coach Carlos Ancelotti, always the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram after ble even though he was out of station. standings with 28 points from 12 Boca Juniors came from behind to keen to do well against Liverpool after they the incident in Tuesday’s match in the third “We considered the option to fly him to matches, four more points than Lanus win 3-2 at Godoy Cruz and climb to beat his AC Milan side on penalties in the tier Mizoram Premier League (MPL). Delhi but his condition was pretty bad. He was and five ahead of Independiente, who fifth eight points off the pace, recover- famous 2005 final in Istanbul after trailing 3-0 “We are shocked by the case. We at the mostly unconscious, occasionally spelling out also both won at the weekend. ing from a humiliating 1-0 home at halftime, has two big games ahead of him Mizoram Football Association did all we could a few words,” Hmar said. defeat by modest Paraguayan side this week. but could not save him,” MFA secretary Bethlehem has decided to retire the num- TEO BRACE Deportivo Capiata in the first leg of After the trip to Anfield comes the first Lalnghinglova Hmar told Reuters by tele- ber 21 jersey as a tribute to Biaksangzuala Gallardo said the team treated the their Copa Sudamericana last-16 tie in phone. while Hmar said MFA would organise a match pressure from the chasing group of midweek. — Reuters Clasico of the season against Barcelona next weekend. “We are on a good run but we need After scoring the equaliser against in his memory. — Reuters Serena sends Barca need to Ivanovic packing avoid Clasico in WTA Finals obsession and focus on Ajax

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JACKSONVILLE: Jaguars running back Denard Robinson (left) is brought down by Cleveland Browns strong safety Donte Whitner (31) after a run during the first half of an NFL football game. — AP Broncos toy with 49ers, Jaguars win

DENVER: Peyton Manning became the NFL’s new leader The Cowboys are off to their best start since they went with 1:48 remaining. The Packers never looked back after Rodgers connect- in career touchdown passes as the Denver Broncos toyed 13-3 in 2007 and were the top seed in the NFC before los- The Saints (2-4) were in control late in the fourth ed with Jordy Nelson for a 59-yard touchdown pass on with the San Francisco 49ers in an emphatic 42-17 victo- ing to New York in their first playoff game. quarter when Stafford found Golden Tate for a 73-yard the opening drive in winning their fourth straight. Eddie ry Sunday night. Eli Manning had three touchdown passes for the catch-and-run that made it 23-17. Then Drew Brees was Lacy and James Starks each added TDs rushing in the Manning went into the showdown two TDs short of Giants (3-4), who have lost at the NFC East’s top two intercepted on third down by Glover Quin, whose 23- first half. Brett Favre’s record of 508 and threw four touchdown teams in consecutive weeks. yard return gave the Lions (5-2) the ball at the New passes, giving him 510. Orleans 14. RAVENS 29, FALCONS 7 He surpassed Favre’s mark with an 8-yard strike to CHIEFS 23, CHARGERS 20 Detroit caught a break when Rafael Bush was called Elvis Dumervil and Pernell McPhee each had two Demaryius Thomas late in the second quarter. As he Cairo Santos kicked a 48-yard field goal field goal with for pass interference on fourth down. Stafford eventually sacks, part of a dominant defensive performance that went to retrieve the football, his teammates decided to 21 seconds left and the Chiefs snapped the Chargers’ connected with Fuller in the back of the end zone for a 5- carried the Ravens. Baltimore (5-2) led 17-0 at halftime have some fun. five-game winning streak. yard touchdown and the win. The Saints committed 12 and coasted to its second straight blowout win. The Thomas tossed the historic ball over Manning and to The Chiefs moved into field goal range thanks to Alex penalties for 134 yards. Ravens beat Tampa Bay 48-17 last week. Emmanuel Sanders, who then lobbed it to Wes Welker. Smith, who completed three straight passes for 43 yards, The Falcons (2-5) averted their first shutout loss since From there, Welker dished it back to Sanders, who then including a 29-yarder to Dwayne Bowe. Smith was play- COLTS 27, BENGALS 0 December 2004 when Matt Ryan connected with Roddy flipped it to Julius Thomas - all of Manning’s favorite tar- ing on the same field where he led Helix High to consec- Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and the White for a 4-yard touchdown with 7:12 remaining. It was gets getting into the act. Finally, Manning got the ball utive San Diego Section championships. Colts’ defense dominated Cincinnati. Luck was 27 of 42 Atlanta’s first fourth-quarter score in five games. Terrell along with congratulations from his teammates and Coming off their bye, the Chiefs (3-3) made the AFC for 344 yards as Indianapolis (5-2) won its fifth straight. It Suggs sacked Ryan for a safety and Joe Flacco threw a coaches. West a three-team race, pulling within 1 1/2 games of was Indy’s first shutout since December 2008. Cincinnati 39-yard touchdown pass to Torrey Smith on a fourth- San Diego (5-2). The Denver Broncos (4-1) hosted San (3-2-1), which hasn’t won since starting 3-0, endured its and-9 to seal Baltimore’s fourth win in five games. JAGUARS 24, BROWNS 6 Francisco on Sunday night. first shutout since December 2009 and had a franchise The Ravens allowed only four first downs in the piv- The Jacksonville Jaguars are winless no more. Denard The Chiefs’ Andy Reid is 14-2 after a bye week, the record tying 11 punts Sunday. Andy Dalton was 18 of 38 otal first half and finished with five sacks in dealing the Robinson ran for a career-high 127 yards and a touch- most victories for any coach. The Chargers flunked their for 126 yards. Falcons their fourth straight defeat. down, Jacksonville’s defense came up big in the red zone, sternest test in a month and lost for the first time since a Indy churned out 506 yards, struck early and pulled and the Jaguars snapped a nine-game losing streak. defeat at Arizona in the season opener. away late. Bradshaw’s 1-yard TD run made it 10-0 in the DOLPHINS 27, BEARS 14 Jacksonville (1-6) won for the first time since beating second quarter and Luck threw two second-half TD pass- Ryan Tannehill threw for 277 yards and two touch- Houston on Dec. 15, 2013. CARDINALS 24, RAIDERS 13 es to make it 24-0. Colts linebacker Erik Walden was eject- downs in an efficient performance. Tannehill connected Blake Bortles connected with fellow rookie Allen Carson Palmer threw two touchdown passes in his ed in the first half for making contact with umpire Bruce on his first 14 passes and was 25 of 32 overall, helping Robinson for a 31-yard score and the game’s first touch- return to Oakland to send the Raiders to their 12th Stritesky. Miami bounce back from a brutal 27-24 loss to Green down. It was really all the Jaguars needed on a day in straight loss. Stepfan Taylor caught one touchdown pass Bay. which coach Gus Bradley’s defense delivered time and and ran for another, and Andre Ellington gained 160 PACKERS 38, PANTHERS 17 Lamar Miller also had a 2-yard touchdown run for the time again. yards from scrimmage for the Cardinals (5-1), who are off Aaron Rodgers threw for 255 yards and three touch- Dolphins (3-3), who had lost three of four since an open- The Browns (3-3) settled for field goals in two trips to their best start since 1976. downs, and Randall Cobb torched the Carolina second- ing victory over New England. The Bears (3-4) remained inside the 20-yard line and failed to convert on fourth- Darren McFadden ran for a touchdown for the Raiders ary for 121 yards on receptions. winless in three home games this season and have and-1 at the 24. (0-6), off to their worst start to a season since losing their Sure-tackling Green Bay (5-2) limited quarterback dropped five of their last seven at Soldier Field. Matt Cleveland, which entered the game with the league’s first 13 games in 1962 - the year before late owner Al Cam Newton in the first half. The Packers scored touch- Forte scored two touchdowns and Jeremiah Ratliff fin- third-best rushing attack, was held in check most of the Davis joined the franchise. downs on their first three series and led 28-3 at halftime, ished with a career-best 3 1/2 sacks. day. The Browns ran 30 times for 69 yards, including 36 eliminating the threat of the Panthers’ running game. by Ben Tate. LIONS 24, SAINTS 23 Newton, who had a career-high 17 carries last week, REDSKINS 19, TITANS 17 Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes in had 41 yards rushing on seven attempts. He passed for Kai Forbath kicked a 22-yard field goal on the last play RAMS 28, SEAHAWKS 26 the final 3:38, including the winner to Corey Fuller 205 yards for Carolina (3-3-1). of the game, and Colt McCoy stepped in after Kirk Punter Johnny Hekker’s pass from the St. Louis 18 Cousins was benched at halftime to lead the Redskins. caught the Seattle Seahawks by surprise for the last of McCoy completed 11 of 12 passes for 128 yards and a three big plays by Rams special teams. NFL results/standings touchdown in his first meaningful role in a win since Nov. Stedman Bailey had a 90-yard touchdown on a trick 20, 2011. Back then, he led the Browns to a 14-10 victory return that fooled the Seahawks into thinking another Buffalo 23, Baltimore 20; Arizona 13, Tampa Bay 10; Minnesota 34, Pittsburgh 27; Kansas City 31, NY Giants 7; Indianapolis 37, Jacksonville 3; over the Jaguars. player was going to catch the punt. Benny Cunningham’s Seattle 23, Houston 20 (OY); Cleveland 17, Cincinnati 6; Detroit 40, Chicago 32; Tennessee 38, NY Jets 13; Washington 24, Oakland 14; Denver The Redskins (2-5) snapped a four-game losing streak. 75-yard kickoff return set up an early touchdown for the 52, Philadelphia 20; San Diego 30, Dallas 21; New England 30, Atlanta 23. The Titans fell to 2-5. McCoy’s first pass was a career-long Rams (2-4). American Football Conference National Football Conference 70-yard touchdown to Pierre Garcon after the Redskins Russell Wilson rushed for 106 yards on seven carries AFC East NFC EAST trailed 10-6 at halftime. Charlie Whitehurst was 17 for 26 and also passed for two touchdowns while going 23 for W L T OTL PF PA PCT Dallas 2 2 0 0 104 85 .500 for 160 yards with two touchdowns and one interception 36 for 313 yards. New England 4 0 0 0 89 57 1.000 Philadelphia 1 3 0 0 99 138 .250 for the Titans. The Seahawks (3-3) dominated statistically, outgain- Miami 3 0 0 0 74 53 1.000 Washington 1 3 0 0 91 112 .250 ing the Rams 463-272. Doug Baldwin’s’ 9-yard reception NY Jets 2 2 0 0 68 88 .500 NY Giants 0 4 0 0 61 146 0 BILLS 17, VIKINGS 16 cut the deficit to two with 3:18 to go, but the Rams were Buffalo 2 2 0 0 88 93 .500 NFC North Kyle Orton hit Sammy Watkins on a 2-yard touchdown able to run out the clock after Hekker’s completion to AFC North Chicago 3 1 0 0 127 114 .750 pass with 1 second remaining. The touchdown capped a Cincinnati 2 2 0 0 81 81 .500 Cunningham. Detroit 3 1 0 0 122 101 .750 15-play, 80-yard drive which Orton extended by convert- Baltimore 2 2 0 0 91 87 .500 Green Bay 1 2 0 0 96 88 .333 ing a fourth-and-20 and a third-and-12. Orton set up the COWBOYS 31, GIANTS 21 Cleveland 2 2 0 0 64 70 .500 decisive score with a 28-yard pass to Chris Hogan at the Pittsburgh 0 4 0 0 69 110 0 Minnesota 1 3 0 0 115 123 .250 Tony Romo threw three touchdown passes, and NFC South Vikings 2. DeMarco Murray broke Jim Brown’s 56-year-old NFL AFC South Orton overcame an interception, a lost fumble and six New Orleans 3 0 0 0 70 38 1.000 record with his seventh straight 100-yard rushing game Indianapolis 3 1 0 0 105 51 .750 sacks to finish 31 of 43 for 283 yards and two touch- to start a season. Tennessee 3 1 0 1 98 69 .750 Carolina 1 2 0 0 68 36 .333 downs - both to Watkins. The Cowboys (6-1) won their sixth straight. Romo had Houston 2 2 0 1 90 105 .500 Atlanta 1 3 0 0 94 104 .250 It was Orton’s second last-second victory in three a fourth scoring pass overturned on replay. Instead, Jacksonville 0 4 0 0 31 129 0 Tampa Bay 0 4 0 0 44 70 0 starts for Buffalo (4-3), which overcame injuries to run- Murray wound up with his seventh TD rushing on a 1- AFC West NFC West ning backs Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller. yard plunge. Denver 4 0 0 0 179 91 1.000 Seattle 4 0 0 0 109 47 1.000 The Vikings’ defense forced four turnovers. Teddy Murray finished with 128 yards rushing to pass Brown, Kansas City 4 0 0 0 102 41 1.000 San Francisco 2 2 0 0 79 95 .500 Bridgewater went 15 of 26 for 157 yards with a touch- who hit the century mark in the first six games of the San Diego 2 2 0 0 108 102 .500 Arizona 2 2 0 0 69 89 .500 down and two interceptions as Minnesota (2-5) lost its 1958 season for Cleveland. Oakland 1 3 0 0 71 91 .250 St. Louis 1 3 0 0 69 121 .250 third in a row. — AP Moody’s raises Egypt’s ratings outlook to stable

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DUBAI: Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK), in 2013, even as other Gulf Arab oil the state’s fifth-largest lender by assets, has exporters were growing strongly. Mahfouz reached a string of debt settlements with said her bank’s business was growing 5-10 clients that have helped to slash its non- percent annually. “The bank is currently performing loans, the bank’s acting chief experiencing growth, albeit at moderate executive said. levels. I will not say 20 or 30 percent. This Kuwaiti investment companies were hit does not exist for many reasons...The hard by the global financial crisis in 2008- domestic market does not aid in achieving 2009 and many were forced to enter debt this significant growth.” restructuring talks. This has pressured But the bank’s strategy through 2016 Kuwait’s banking sector over the last several focuses on local expansion and there are years. CBK’s success in reaching debt settle- currently no plans to expand international- ments with such firms suggests the banking ly, Mahfouz said. CBK is now aiming for sector is now leaving that problem behind. long-term financing of one year or more as “We have achieved a good number of this allows greater stability, Mahfouz added. BERLIN: (From left), France’s Finance Minister Michel Sapin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, France’s Economy Minister settlements over the last two years. We will Last week the bank announced plans for a Emmanuel Macron and German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel pose for media prior to a news conference after a meeting at the continue on the same path. There really was 120 million dinar bond sale that would finance ministry in Berlin yesterday. — AP a huge effort made over the last two years boost its capital reserves, with the transac- from 2012 to today,” Ilham Yousri Mahfouz tion set to close around the end of this said in an interview for the Reuters Middle month. France steps up calls for East Investment Summit. The bank has said it aims eventually to “However, the third quarter (of 2014) convert itself into an Islamic bank, but was the key test for settlements. They were Mahfouz said in the interview that CBK had much larger than we had expected,” she not yet started taking steps in that direc- Germany to spur growth added without giving a monetary figure. tion and the conversion would in any case Earlier this year, CBK announced that it had require central bank approval. However, reached a KD28 million ($97 million) settle- there is strong interest in doing this among BERLIN: French and German ministers met in Berlin on Germany to increase investment by 50 billion euros of crisis is for euro-zone countries to get their finances ment with Bayan Investment Co and a KD17 big shareholders and steps may be taken in yesterday, amid calls on Germany to do more to boost ($64 billion) in the next three years to match the in order by sticking to agreed rules on the size of their million deal with Safat Investments. 2015, Mahfouz said. growth in Europe, while France faces a battle in Brussels amount Paris is seeking to save from public spending. deficits. Asked by the mass-circulation daily Bild CBK has now reduced its non-perform- “There is no plan so far. However, there over its budget. The meeting comes at a crucial time for “Fifty billion euros savings for us and 50 billion of addi- whether Europe should abandon the path of austerity, ing loans to 1.3 percent of its total loan is a strong desire from majority sharehold- Paris, which is at loggerheads with Brussels over its 2015 tional investment by you-that would be a good bal- Economy Minister Gabriel said: “No. “But the money we book from a 2009 level of 25 percent, ers to convert. We may start in 2015 to take budget as it is likely to overshoot targets once again. ance,” Macron told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung spend on Europe can be put to better use-for invest- Mahfouz said. The bank’s provisions for bad the necessary steps, but this year I can say French economy and ministers Emmanuel Macron yesterday. ment in research and development, in a fast Internet loans grew to KD480 million at the end of no.” and Michel Sapin were welcomed by their German “It’s in our collective interest that Germany and in saving energy,” he conceded. French President the second quarter this year. Plunging global oil prices over the past counterparts Sigmar Gabriel and Wolfgang Schaeuble invests.”Recent data has suggested that the German Francois Hollande’s government has refused to few months have threatened to cut for a mini-summit in preparation for a wider EU gather- economy-traditionally Europe’s growth engine-is approve further spending cuts needed to meet the Economy Kuwait’s big surpluses from oil exports. ing at the end of the week. The four ministers were stalling, threatening to pull the euro-zone back into EU’s budget deficit target before 2017, arguing that While balance-sheets at Kuwaiti banks However, Mahfouz echoed many other scheduled to hold a joint press conference later. recession and put the brakes on the global recovery. more austerity would only further slow a stagnating have improved, banks still face a sluggish executives in the Gulf by saying she did not According to a report in the weekly Der Spiegel, And France, grappling with sky-high unemployment economy. economic environment compared to other expect key building projects in Gulf states, Germany is helping France to draw up a pact with the and a ballooning budget deficit, has been spearhead- Berlin is concerned about the lack of progress in Paris wealthy Gulf economies, partly because of especially Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates European Commission on deficit reduction and struc- ing a campaign for Germany to soften its stance on fis- in getting its finances in order and in reforming its econ- bureaucratic red tape and delays in the gov- and Saudi Arabia, to be affected as they tural reforms to win Brussels’ approval of the 2015 cal austerity and loosen its purse strings to provide omy, but has refrained from making any public com- ernment’s infrastructure building programs. had sufficient liquidity. These countries budget plans. much-needed stimulus. ment in recent weeks on the French budget so as not to The International Monetary Fund esti- have built up huge fiscal reserves over Ahead of the mini-summit, Sapin and Macron called But Berlin remains adamant that the only way out antagonize its key ally and trading partner. — AFP mates Kuwait’s economy shrank 0.2 percent recent years. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 Saudi August oil Moody’s raises Egypt’s News exports fall to ratings outlook to stable in brief lowest in 3 years Dollar remains steady DUBAI: Saudi crude exports fell in August for the fourth Political stability, improved growth cited against Kuwaiti dinar month in a row to their lowest levels in three years, offi- KUWAIT: The US dollar exchange maintained stability cial data showed yesterday, as the top oil exporter fights against the Kuwaiti dinar, yesterday, at KD 0.288, and DUBAI: Moody’s raised Egypt’s credit likely to be held by early 2015, had government’s financing costs, it noted. for market share amid weak demand and ample sup- the euro followed suit maintaining the level of KD 0.368, ratings outlook to stable from nega- provided a political reform roadmap Gulf Arab States have pledged compared with Sunday’s rates. The sterling exchange plies from rival producers. Saudi crude exports have tive yesterday, citing a more stable and led to greater institutional stabili- almost $17 billion in financial support been sliding in the past few months as shale oil rate also remained stable, at KD 0.464, but the Swiss political and security situation and ty, Moody’s said in a statement. to the Egyptian government during franc fell to KD 0.304 and the Japanese yen retained the squeezes Saudi oil out of US markets and as demand in signs of economic recovery. It Egypt’s economic outlook has 2014, and the US government has level of KD 0.003, said the daily bulletin of the Central Asia, particularly in China, has been slower than expect- refrained from upgrading the credit brightened in recent months. The resumed military cooperation and aid. Bank of Kuwait (CBK). Meanwhile in the US, the Federal ed. The OPEC heavyweight exported 6.663 million bar- rating, keeping it at Caa1, still one economy grew 3.7 percent year-on- Standard & Poor’s rates the country B- Reserve Bank (the Central Bank), indicated that global rels per day in August, down from 6.989 million bpd in notch below Standard & Poor’s, saying year in the fourth quarter, up from 2.5 minus with a stable outlook. S&P economic recession might lead to delaying an interest July, according to data from the Joint Organizations government finances are still too percent in the previous quarter, and upgraded Egypt’s credit rating in rise, thus causing drop of demand for the green-back, weak. more recent economic indicators have November 2013, citing support from Data Initiative (JODI). amid negative economic conditions, worse than previ- Moody’s said government initia- pointed to a sequential pick-up in other countries which continued to ously anticipated. In Europe, the UK is expected to lift The August export figures were the lowest since tives and reforms launched over the growth. “Domestic investors are show- prop up government finances. March 2011 and down from 7.795 million in August last the interest rate, coinciding with forecast that the past year, including plans to phase ing confidence in the economic recov- In June, Fitch affirmed its credit rat- European Central Bank (ECB) may offer further mone- year. They compared with 6.946 million bpd in June and out fuel and electricity subsidies, and ery of Egypt,” Moody’s said, adding ing for Egypt at B-minus. Moody’s said tary incentives. 6.987 million bpd in May. North America’s shale boom measures to lift public revenues by a that strong demand from the recent the affirmation of the Caa1 rating has started to squeeze Saudi oil out of the US market shifting to value-added tax system $8.5 billion issue of Suez Canal invest- reflected the very weak and challeng- the International Energy Agency said in a report last from a goods and services tax, had ment certificates to retail investors ing state of Egypt’s government Egyptian pound steady improved the outlook. was testament to investor confidence. finances. Egypt’s budget deficits month, estimating Saudi exports would run below 7 after Moody’s review The upgrade to the credit outlook Economic growth and employment remaining at over 10 percent of GDP million bpd for the last four months of the year. may help restore confidence in an will be supported at least for the next and the country’s policy of increasing CAIRO: Egypt’s pound held steady at a central bank dollar US imports of crude oil from Saudi Arabia averaged economy hammered by political tur- five years by the expansion of the Suez expenditure to meet social welfare sale yesterday, showing little reaction to Moody’s decision to around 1.0-1.2 million bpd from May to August, com- moil that has weighed on investment canal and development of the sur- demands indicates that fiscal consoli- raise the nation’s credit rating outlook to stable from nega- pared with around 1.3-1.6 million bpd from mid-2013 and tourism for nearly four years. A rounding area, it said. This, coupled dation will be very gradual, with the tive. Mood’s said the political and security situation was more stable and saw signs of economic recovery, but kept the rat- through April 2014, analysis of data from the US Energy constitutional referendum in January with external support from Gulf fiscal deficit still expected to be ele- ing at Caa1 saying government finances are still too weak. Information Administration and Thomson Reuters Trade and presidential elections in May this Cooperation Council member states, vated by fiscal 2019 at 8.5 percent of year, with parliamentary elections supports Egypt’s budget and cuts the GDP. —Reuters The bank said it sold $37.6 million at a cut-off price of 7.1401 Flows shows. Last week, Saudi officials briefed oil mar- pounds per dollar yesterday, unchanged from the last sale on ket participants in New York on the kingdom’s shift in Thursday. The rates at which banks are allowed to trade dol- policy, making clear for the first time that the kingdom lars are determined by the results of central bank sales, giv- is prepared to tolerate a period of lower prices - perhaps ing the bank effective control over official exchange rates. In as low as $80 a barrel - to retain market share, Reuters the unofficial market, the pound was trading at 7.47 to the reported on Monday. dollar, weaker than Thursday’s rate of 7.45 to the dollar, one trader said. Another trader said the pound was trading at It has already cut selling prices for its crude to hold 7.475 midday yesterday. The pound has been steadily weak- on to Asian customers. ening in the unofficial market for just over a week.

Domestic demand A large volume of Saudi oil output went to the UAE’s First Gulf Bank domestic market in August due to the seasonal burning plans bond issue of crude to generate power for air-conditioning in the ABU DHABI: First Gulf Bank, the second largest lender hot summer months, and as the kingdom launches two by market capitalization in the United Arab Emirates, refineries to add 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) in com- plans to make a benchmark foreign currency bond bined capacity to process crude. Saudi refiners issue in the next 12 months, chief executive Andre Sayegh said yesterday. “There will be a bond issuance in processed 2.167 million bpd of crude in August, up the coming 12 months. It is for balance sheet manage- from 1.915 million bpd in July and 1.551 million in ment,” Sayegh told reporters. He also said the bank August 2013, according to the JODI data. Crude vol- expected to post double-digit loan growth in the next umes used by domestic refineries in August were the 12 months. “Loan growth is picking up and some major highest since at least January 2002, the start of JODI’s projects are coming up.” Sayegh said FGB aimed to records. open a representative office in China in the coming 12 Meanwhile, Saudi oil use for power generation was months. The office is expected eventually to be upgrad- 769,000 bpd in August, down from 899,000 in July and ed to a branch, he added. little changed from a year ago. Industry sources in Saudi Arabia say domestic consumption has no relation to Qatar fund buys a fifth exports, given the kingdom’s significant spare capacity. of Hong Kong retailer Riyadh can easily ramp up production, running at AMSTERDAM: Logo of Dutch electronics giant Philips on a building of its headquarters. Dutch elec- around 9.6 million bpd in August, or draw on storage to tronics giant Philips plunged into loss in the third quarter, it revealed yesterday blaming a patent law- DOHA: Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund said yesterday it had cover any surge in domestic demand and keep its suit and ever-slowing markets in China and Russia. —AFP bought a 19.9 percent stake in Hong Kong-based retail oper- exports steady. But that could leave it in the long run ator Lifestyle International Holdings for $600 million (470 mil- lion euros). The Qatar Investment Authority said the acquisi- with less than the 1.5 million to 2 million bpd of spare Philips blames Russia and China tion was part of its strategy in “diversifying” its investments capacity it would like to retain in case of any unexpect- and “expanding into new markets in Asia”, according to a ed global supply shortage, as risk remains high in the statement published on the official QNA news agency. complex politics of the Middle East. Lower crude burn- slowdowns for plunge into loss Founded in 2005 and headed by Qatar’s emir, QIA has invest- ing may free up some Saudi crude oil for exports in ed billions of dollars in businesses ranging from Germany’s THE HAGUE: Dutch electronics giant Philips plunged into loss in company Masimo for violating two medical device patents. The coming months, analysts say. Volkswagen to French energy giant Total, Britain’s Sainsbury’s the third quarter, it revealed yesterday, blaming a patent lawsuit eight members of the Delaware jury gave their verdict after a two- But a 400,000 bpd refinery in Jubail, known as supermarket chain and Barclays Bank. Its assets are estimated and ever-slowing markets in China and Russia. The outcome was a week trial, which came after the California-based Masimo had filed at $100-$200 billion. Lifestyle International Holdings oper- SATORP, reached full capacity in the middle of 2014, and sharp downturn to a net loss of 103-million-euro ($131 million). a complaint in 2009. “We will appeal the verdict,” Van Houten said. ates a number of retail outlets including the Sogo depart- another 400,000 bpd refinery in Yanbu started trial runs Philips, which has diversified into high-margin healthcare technol- ment store in Hong Kong. last month. “Lower demand for direct burn in the fourth ogy, said it thought that a state anti-corruption drive in China was China, Russia sales flat quarter versus August allows for higher exports current- slowing down sales of its equipment there. Sales in China and Russia in particular remained flat, van ly than in August, but structurally the increase of refin- In Russia, consumers were holding off from purchasing house- Houten said, as both economies showed signs of slowing down. Masraf Al-Rayan posts ery runs in Saudi Arabia is a new challenge to its role of hold appliances, it said, against a background of slowing growth in “The slowdown is very much related to the market situation in 16.6% rise in net profit the local economy which is also suffering from western sanctions Russia and China and not related to our own performance,” Van swing producer,” said Olivier Jakob, oil analyst at over the Ukraine crisis. Houten pointed out. In China, the world’s second-biggest econo- DOHA: Masraf Al-Rayan, Qatar’s largest Islamic lender Petromatrix in Switzerland. Saudi Arabia is likely to keep The Amsterdam-based Philips, one of the world’s leading mak- my, sales dipped by 34 million euros over the last 20 months, by market value, reported yesterday a 16.6 percent its oil output steady throughout the rest of the year, an ers of lighting, health care and consumer electronic goods, turned including in what Van Houten referred to as a “volatile healthcare increase in net profit for the first nine months of the industry source told Reuters. Industry observers esti- in a comparable net profit of 281 million euros for the third quarter sector.” Healthcare sales were mainly affected because Philips year. Net profit for the year-to-September 30 was 1.4 mate that monthly Saudi exports will amount to around last year. “We are not satisfied with our overall performance for the believed “orders are being held back due to anti-corruption billion riyals ($384.5 million) compared to 1.2 billion 6.9 million to 7.1 million bpd until December. “Once the third quarter,” said chief executive Frans van Houten. Philips’ share processes” by the Chinese government. “This leads to a much high- riyals in the same period a year ago, a bourse filing said. peak summer demand is over for power, there will be price by mid-afternoon fell by 3.8 percent to 21,21 euros on the er administrative burden and lengthy processes,” he said. The bank did not provide a breakdown of third-quarter earnings. Analysts polled by Reuters on average had some changes in Saudi production which have nothing Amsterdam stock exchange’s AEX index. China’s economic growth in the third quarter fell to the lowest “We are facing sustained softness in a number of markets such since the depths of the global financial crisis more than five years forecast a net profit of 529.4 million riyals for the three- to do with exports,” said Sadad Al-Husseini, a former as China and Russia. We were also confronted with an adverse jury ago, projected an AFP survey published on Sunday. Ratings month period. It had recorded in July a six-month net Aramco executive, referring to output adjustments verdict with a surprisingly high proposed award to Massimo,” Van agency Moody’s on Friday downgraded Russia’s credit rating to profit of 904 million riyals, up from 821 million riyals in related to domestic demand. “I think they will try to stay Houten said during a conference call with journalists. Earlier this Baa2 from Baa1, citing poor growth prospects, the Ukraine crisis the previous year. at around 7 million bpd in exports.” —Reuters month, a US jury ordered Philips to pay $466.8 million to American and sanctions as well as capital flight. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

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UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.780 Singapore Dollar 0.223788 0.229788 Nepalese Rupees 3.920 South African Rand 0.020171 0.028671 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.210 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001918 0.002498 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.635 Taiwan 0.009430 0.009610 Japanese Yen 2.717 Australian Dollar 234.07 231.07 Indian Rupees 4.714 Thai Bhat 9.915 Thai Baht 0.008601 0.009151 Canadian Dollar 260.97 261.97 Turkish Lira 128.830 Pakistani Rupees 2.813 Swiss Franc 312.97 310.97 Srilankan Rupees 2.211 Euro 374.22 375.22 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.940 US Dollar 289.75 292.75 Bahraini Dinar 0.761844 0.769844 Singapore Dollar 227.990 Sterling Pound 469.38 472.38 Bahrain Exchange Company Egyptian Pound 0.038825 0.041925 Hongkong Dollar 37.323 Japanese Yen 2.76 2.78 Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Bangladesh Taka 3.735 Bangladesh Taka 3.734 4.004 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 Philippine Peso 6.448 Indian Rupee 4.712 5.012 Belgian Franc 0.007538 0.008538 Jordanian Dinar 0.404442 0.411942 Thai Baht 8.944 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.217 2.652 British Pound 0.453546 0.462546 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal transfer 1175.280 Czech Korune 0.005292 0.017292 Irani Riyal cash 142.380 Nepali Rupee 2.946 3.481 Lebanese Pound 0.000143 0.000243 Pakistani Rupee 2.821 2.790 Danish Krone 0.045147 0.050147 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023585 0.047585 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.74 79.20 Euro 0.360233 0.368233 Nigerian Naira 0.001168 0.001803 Saudi Riyal 77.285 Bahraini Dinar 769.05 771.12 Norwegian Krone 0.040019 0.045219 Omani Riyal 0.746312 0.751992 Qatari Riyal 79.634 Egyptian Pound 40.41 41.01 Romanian Leu 0.083079 0.083079 Qatar Riyal 0.078849 0.080062 Jordanian Dinar 411.23 416.88 Omani Riyal 752.760 Slovakia 0.008415 0.018415 Saudi Riyal 0.076603 0.077303 Omani Riyal 751.44 758.74 Swedish Krona 0.035894 0.040894 Bahraini Dinar 769.570 Syrian Pound 0.001716 0.001936 Qatari Riyal 79.79 80.34 Swiss Franc 0.296375 0.306575 UAE Dirham 78.918 Tunisian Dinar 0.157789 0.165789 Saudi Riyal 77.27 77.67 Turkish Lira 0.128247 0.135247 Turkish Lira 0.128247 0.135247 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 0.077879 0.079028 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.650 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.411 Australian Dollar 0.244022 0.255522 Yemeni Riyal 0.001307 0.001387 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.351 New Zealand Dollar 0.220450 0.229950 Tunisian Dinar 162.440 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 409.060 US Dollar 289.300 Canadian Dollar 0.251048 0.259548 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.943 Canadian Dollar 259.550 US Dollars 0.285550 0.290250 Syrian Lira 2.064 Sterling Pound 466.260 US Dollars Mint 0.286050 0.290250 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.865 Euro 370.735 US Dollar 288.950 Swiss Frank 306.160 Asia Euro 371.400 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 770.030 Bangladesh Taka 0.003357 0.003957 Pound Sterlng 467.700 US Dollar Transfer 289.550 UAE Dirhams 78.745 Chinese Yuan 0.045714 0.049214 Canadian Dollar 258.550 Euro 371.350 Qatari Riyals 80.345 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035272 0.038022 Indian Rupee 4.702 Sterling Pound 467.620 Saudi Riyals 77.405 Indian Rupee 0.004482 0.004883 Egyptian Pound 40.392 Canadian dollar 257.950 Jordanian Dinar 408.625 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Turkish lira 128.090 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.209 Egyptian Pound 40.407 Japanese Yen 0.002620 0.002800 Bangladesh Taka 3.730 Swiss Franc 307.380 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.214 Kenyan Shilling 0.003239 0.003239 Australian Dollar 256.250 Philippines Peso 6.430 Indian Rupees 4.708 Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 US Dollar Buying 288.350 Pakistan Rupee 2.812 Pakistani Rupees 2.816 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085458 0.091458 Bahraini Dinar 769.500 Bangladesh Taka 3.736 Nepalese Rupee 0.002960 0.003130 GOLD UAE Dirham 78.700 Philippines Pesso 6.434 Tola 1 142.380 Pakistan Rupee 0.002790 0.003070 Saudi Riyal 77.150 Cyprus pound 710.585 Philippine Peso 0.006388 0.006668 Tola 2 280.020 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 694.065 Japanese Yen 3.705 Sierra Leone 0.000064 0.000070 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 BUSINESS News in brief Saudi’s NCB pledges to Mezzan Holding to sell 30% of shares in Kuwait IPO DUBAI: Mezzan Holding, a Kuwaiti producer and dis- convert to Islamic bank tributor of food and fast-moving consumer goods, said yesterday it would float 30 percent of its stock in an initial public offer, the country’s first since the Bank launches $6bn IPO of its shares 2009 financial crisis. The company, whose revenue totalled 141 million dinars ($489 million) last year, RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s biggest bank has The sharia board reviewed a plan by NCB said its existing shareholders would offer 88.95 mil- responded to criticism of its operations to convert itself into a full-fledged Islamic lion shares for sale. It did not say how much money from Islamic scholars by pledging to con- bank within a period “that is expected not they sought to raise. Mezzan has hired NBK Capital as vert itself into a full-fledged Islamic bank to exceed five years”, the board said in a lead manager and listing advisor, and will proceed within about five years. statement. It determined that the bank had with the offer once Kuwait’s Capital Markets The decision, made as the bank launches a “sincere will” to become fully Islamic, Authority approves its listing application, it said in a a $6 billion initial public offer of its shares, adding that some fatwas or religious rulings statement. Kuwaiti companies have stayed away the largest-ever equity sale in the Arab in the past had found it permissible to buy from the IPO market since the financial crisis, which world, shows how Saudi Arabia’s conserva- shares in a conventional bank that would caused the main stock index to tumble 56 percent tive brand of Islam can have a big impact on become Islamic. business decisions in the kingdom. As of June, two-thirds of the bank’s from peak to trough. However in August, the CMA State-owned National Commercial Bank assets were Islamic in nature while the approved the delayed listing of Viva Kuwait, the (NCB), which has about $116 billion of remaining third were conventional; 78 per- country’s number-two mobile operator by sub- assets, currently has a mixed business - cent of all of NCB’s financing deals were scribers, which had conducted its IPO in September most of it conforms to Islamic principles sharia-compliant, as were 92 percent of its 2008. such as bans on interest payments and pure liabilities and 73 percent of its income, the monetary speculation, but some of it sharia board said. Conversions of conven- involves conventional banking. Some other tional banks into Islamic ones are rare but Dubai’s Aramex aiming banks in Saudi Arabia are also mixed. not unprecedented; there have been exam- for 2 acquisitions in 2015 Last week some members of Saudi ples among lenders in Bahrain and Pakistan, ABU DHABI: Dubai-listed logistics firm Aramex Arabia’s highest religious body, the Council although NCB would be unique because of is targeting at least two acquisitions in 2015 as of Senior Scholars, said investing in NCB’s its size and complexity. NCB would be share offer was not permissible because too expected to convert various subsidiaries part of the company growth strategy, its RIYADH: A Saudi man walks in front of a branch of the ‘National Commercial Bank’ much of its business was non-Islamic. such as brokerage and fund management (NCB) in the capital Riyadh yesterday. Shares in National Commercial Bank went on founder and vice-chairman said yesterday. “We “Religion comes above everything,” Sheikh units. sale Sunday in Saudi Arabia’s largest-ever initial public offering, which at $6 billion is are going to grow through acquisitions, we are Abdullah Al-Mutlaq, one of the members, NCB’s 435.5 billion riyals of assets as of also one of the biggest in the world this year. —AFP going to acquire next year and will be more told state television. Although securities June exceed the 295.2 billion riyals held by aggressive,” Fadi Ghandour told reporters on analysts said the scholars’ criticism was Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Banking and believe the shares are cheaply valued - IPOs affected a wide range of Saudi business the sidelines of an event in Abu Dhabi. unlikely to derail the IPO, which promises Investment Corp, currently the world’s in Saudi Arabia are often priced low as a practices, including the growth of health Ghandour said plans are under way to acquire big profits to Saudi individual investors, biggest full-fledged Islamic bank. way for the kingdom to share corporate insurance and the use of residential mort- firms in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia NCB held a meeting last Thursday of its own Subscriptions for NCB’s IPO, the first by a wealth with its citizens - and that the offer gages; women are not permitted to drive, a and Turkey. However, did not give any further sharia board of Islamic scholars plus its chief bank in the kingdom since 2008, opened on will draw heavy demand. significant cost for some families and busi- details. Aramex, which competes with global executive, chairman and other officials. Sunday and will run until Nov 2. Analysts Clerics’ opinions in Saudi Arabia have nesses. — Reuters giants such as DHL and FedEx, has been focused on expanding in Africa. It acquired South African logistics and transportation com- pany Berco Express Ltd in 2011. It also bought France shows UK Australian domestic courier company Mail Call Couriers this year. Ghandour said in January grocers how to that the company would look to acquire firms in South Africa and east Africa. Asked if the firm beat discounters would conclude at least one or two deals next year, he said “possibly yes”. Analysts polled by PARIS/BERLIN: The success of French retailers in stopping Reuters expect Aramex to post a third-quarter the advance of discounters in the last five years shows a net profit of 74.83 million dirhams, up 25 per- way out of the crisis embroiling Britain’s “big four” grocers. cent year on year. It reported a 12 percent rise in Their simple formula: fewer complex promotions and big price cuts across the board. In Britain, Tesco, Wal-Mart’s second-quarter net profit this year, helped by Asda, Sainsbury and Morrison are all losing shoppers to growing revenue in its core Gulf market. discounters Aldi and Lidl, which have grown market share to over 8 percent from 5 percent in 2012. France, meanwhile, is the only country in Europe where Electrolux Q3 profits, sales up discounters have seen a significant drop in market share, STOCKHOLM: Electrolux says third-quarter growth slipping to 11.9 percent in the second quarter of 2014 from in the Americas and increased efficiency in Europe a 2009 peak of 14.9 percent, according to Kantar helped the home-appliance maker achieve a 42 per- Worldpanel data. cent jump in earnings, with overall sales growth of French retailers managed to turn the tide after a law change in 2008, which allowed them to freely negotiate more than 5 percent. Net profit in the three-month prices with suppliers, prompting cooperative Leclerc to go period was 933 million kronor ($130 million), while on the offensive, followed in late 2011 by market leader revenue grew to 28.8 billion kronor. The Swedish Carrefour. The French grocers expanded their budget prod- company, which last month announced a $3.3 billion uct lines, cut a proliferation of promotions, simplified own acquisition of the appliances business of General brand ranges and worked with suppliers to slash prices of Electric, said Monday that demand for core appli- branded goods. ances in North America increased by some 8 percent The inevitable squeeze on margins was easier to stom- but that was offset by transition costs for new energy ach for the likes of Leclerc, a cooperative of independent requirements and lower sales of air-conditioners. The store owners, and family-owned Auchan than for listed groups Carrefour and Casino, which are under pressure to world’s second-largest appliance maker has more JALALABAD: Afghan carpenters are pictured at a woodworking shop on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Afghanistan’s deliver short-term returns to stock market investors. But than 60,000 employees, including 10,000 in North economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of Carrefour and Casino were eventually spurred to follow suit America where its regional headquarters are in international assistance. Despite significant improvement in the last decade the country is still extremely poor by years of underperformance. A basket of budget own and remains highly dependent on foreign aid. —AFP Charlotte, North Carolina. brand goods is now about 13 percent cheaper at a French hypermarket than at a discounter, while a basket of brand- ed goods is only 5 percent more expensive at Carrefour Industries Qatar StanChart readies to close than at Lidl, compared with a 20 percent premium in Q3 profit rises 5% Britain, according to data from LEK Consulting. DUBAI: Industries Qatar (IQ) reported a 5 per- “British supermarkets must focus on price - they have a cent rise in third-quarter net profit yesterday, thousands of UAE accounts big gap to close. Today, a basket of similar branded goods at Tesco costs over a fifth more than it does at Carrefour,” above analysts’ forecasts, halting a sustained said Jonathan Simmons, LEK Consulting partner. slide in profits. The Middle East’s second- ABU DHABI: Standard Chartered has payments for some clients at its Hong ience, it said. Those affected by notified thousands of UAE small and Kong unit. The UAE central bank said Standard Chartered’s exit have an biggest petrochemicals company by market Discounter decline medium enterprise customers it is in August that between 1,400 and annual sales turnover of between $1 value after Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) had While Aldi and Lidl are planning dozens of new open- closing their accounts as it responds 8,000 Standard Chartered accounts in million and $35 million, it added. The posted declining profits in the five preceding ings in Britain, discounters closed about 150 stores in to pressure from US regulators to cut the country were expected to be bank had initially considered selling quarters. But it made a net profit of 1.86 billion France in 2013. Lidl has slowed its expansion in France and its risks following an anti-money laun- affected by the US settlement. “The part of the SME business, sources Spanish discounter Dia is exiting the country, selling its Qatar riyals ($511 million) in the three months dering settlement. “We regret to noti- bank is putting a lot of peoples’ liveli- familiar with the matter said in loss-making Dia France unit to Carrefour in June. The to Sept. 30, Reuters calculated based on finan- fy you that Standard Chartered Bank hoods at risk as businesses like ours August, and several local banks decline of the discounters was also driven by a big roll-out cial statements, up from 1.77 billion riyals in the will no longer be able to provide have salaries and suppliers to pay,” Reuters spoke to had expressed a of convenience stores by the major French chains as well as year-earlier period. Analysts polled by Reuters banking services to you, and your said Louay Al-Samarrai, managing potential interest in buying the assets. their investment in new pick-up points for collection of had on average expected the company to make account(s) will be closed 30 days from director of Active Public Relations in But the tight deadline imposed by online orders, moves also already afoot in Britain. the date of this letter,” the London-list- Dubai, who has banked with Standard the US regulator and the risk to a quarterly profit of 1.66 billion riyals. It took time for price cuts to translate into improved ed bank wrote in a letter to customers Chartered for 13 years. potential buyers of handling accounts Petrochemical prices have strengthened in performance for Carrefour, with hypermarket sales only dated Oct. 9. The letter - seen by “I need more than 30 days notice that could lead to further regulatory recent years, but worries persist over the impact returning to growth in the third quarter of 2013, while at Reuters - has angered UAE customers, as it takes a minimum of a few weeks penalties proved stumbling blocks to of a global slowdown on industry earnings in Casino, which started cutting prices at the end of 2012, who say they have not been given to set up a new account with another a sale. “In an ideal world you would the world’s top oil exporting region. Industries Geant hypermarket sales were back to growth in the first enough time to close their accounts. bank.” sell it and get some value but in the quarter of 2014. And it’s been painful too. French grocery Qatar, whose other main areas of business Under a settlement agreed with In a statement, Standard Chartered overall scheme of things it’s not that operating margins fell to around 3.8 percent in the last 12 include steel manufacture and fertiliser produc- the New York State Department of said it would honor existing borrow- large an asset. The key driver is to months, down from an average of 4.9 percent in the last tion, made a profit of 4.7 billion riyals in the Financial Services in August, the bank ing agreements with customers with keep the regulator happy,” one of the five years. Moody’s predicts operating margins of the UK nine months to Sept. 30, down from 6.3 billion was fined $300 million and given 90 loans, allowing them to pay back out- sources with knowledge of the matter “big four” will fall to an average of 2.5 percent over the next riyals a year earlier, it said in a statement to days to end high-risk relationships standing amounts under the existing said. Standard Chartered declined to 12-18 months- around half their historical average-from with SMEs in the UAE and suspend repayment timetable. It would make comment on any potential plan to sell Doha’s bourse. around 3 percent now, as Aldi and Lidl approach 10 per- processing of dollar-denominated every effort to minimize the inconven- the SME business. — Reuters cent market share.— Reuters Egyptian developer SODIC to invest $336m in 2015 CAIRO: SODIC, one of Egypt’s largest listed real estate right time to expand strongly inside Egypt and that is of October Development and Investment Co, was cur- acquired a near 10 percent stake in SODIC, in anticipa- developers, plans to invest 2.4 billion Egyptian pounds why we have bought the new land and increased our rently working on eight projects. Its portfolio compris- tion of an economic recovery following three years of ($336 million) in 2015 and is hunting for new projects capital.” es 11 million square meters, including 3.6 million upheaval. Despite billions of dollars that have poured as the sector recovers from three years of turmoil, its SODIC will complete a deeply discounted 1 billion meters that have yet to be exploited. in from Gulf countries in the past year, Egypt’s econo- managing director said. Egypt’s once-booming con- pound capital increase on the Egyptian stock Its existing projects include West Town, a residen- my grew a meager 2.2 percent in the 2013/14 fiscal struction sector was hit hard by the 2011 revolt that exchange on Thursday. Badrawi said two-thirds of that tial neighborhood in the Sheikh Zayed City area west year ended in June. ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule but ushered in a money would be invested in a new project in the of Cairo. Earlier this year, it ended a dispute with the But demand for housing remains strong and offi- period of economic and political volatility. upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, while the rest government, agreeing to pay 900 million pounds over cials have said Egypt needs around 500,000 new units Many large real estate contracts were cancelled in would be dedicated to new land SODIC is seeking to seven years after a revaluation of its vast Eastown proj- a year to meet demand. New satellite towns have the wake of the revolt and investment dried up. Three buy either on the northern coast or outside the ect in Cairo. sprung up around Cairo in recent years, many offering years on, the economy is showing the first signs of sprawling capital. plush amenities away from the busy centre, while bill- recovery, bringing an uptick in demand for property in SODIC plans to begin construction and offer the Returning to profit boards advertising coastal holiday homes dot the cap- the Arab world’s most populous country. Speaking at first phase of units in the mixed-use development on Badrawi said he was confident the company could ital. the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit, Ahmed its 1.3 million-square metre site in Heliopolis before consolidate its return to profit following losses of Badrawi said sales had reached 2.2 billion pounds Badrawi was bullish, saying it was a good time to invest the end of the year. It won rights to the land earlier 447.13 million pounds in 2013 as it wrote off cancelled so far this year and could exceed 2.7 billion by the end in the sector with SODIC likely to have made 2.5 billion this year and is targeting sales of 300-600 million contracts and investments in Syria. “We wanted to get of 2014 after it brings the next phase of its West Town pounds worth of investments by the end of this year. pounds in the first phase and 9 billion pounds from rid of all our problems from the previous period and project to market next week and sells the first units in “We are also targeting investments worth 2.4 bil- the whole project, which it has yet to name. we succeeded in this. The figures from the second half Heliopolis later this year. lion pounds next year,” he said, adding that the figure Badrawi said SODIC had also won a 2010 auction of this year will not be dissimilar from the numbers in “The real estate sector is growing strongly. There is could rise if SODIC takes on new projects on the for 63,000 square metres of land in the Nile Delta town the first half,” he said. a big shortage of property in Egypt and demand out- Mediterranean coast or elsewhere. “The market is of Mansoura where it plans to build a mall at a cost of In the first half of 2014, SODIC made a profit of strips supply. We offered a phase in one of our projects strong and that is why we are investing strongly...We 310 million pounds. It expects to take control of the 90.53 million pounds on revenues of 635 million two weeks ago and demand for units was fierce...I am are planning for the next five years. We see this as the land this year. Badrawi said SODIC, also known as Sixth pounds. In May, US private equity firm Ripplewood very optimistic about this sector.” —Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 BUSINESS European stocks trim gains; SAP drops

EDINBURGH: European stocks fell early yesterday, trimming lofty gains made in Cyclicals have been underperforming in recent months ... (and) with respect to Tueni said. “US macro data is reassuring (and) the earnings season has been the previous session, with SAP’s profit warning hitting shares in the tech sector. SAP, it’s a result of the business investment climate,” Mike Ingram, market strate- quite good so far.” Shares in Electrolux jumped 6.3 percent after the home Shares in the German business software maker fell 4.1 percent after it cut its gist at BGC Partners, said. appliances maker reported forecast-beating quarterly profits. The market’s outlook for full-year operating profit, echoing a raft of profit and sales warnings “People don’t think that the broad-based acceleration in global economic losses were also limited by brisk M&A activity, boosting the shares of Nutreco, from other tech groups in the past few weeks. growth, expected at the start of the year, is going to pan out.” Ingram added Adidas and Havas. Shares in Dutch animal feed and nutrition company Dutch tech firm Gemalto plunged 6.1 percent after Barclays cut the stock to that the DAX’s high exposure to growth-sensitive stocks would keep it under Nutreco soared 40 percent after a Dutch investment firm said it had agreed to underweight from overweight, and with SAP it was a top faller on the STOXX pressure in the coming weeks. At 1104 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top acquire the group. 600 Technology index which was down 2 percent. SAP was the worst performer European shares was down 0.8 percent at 1,269.66 points. German sportswear firm Adidas AG surged 4.3 percent after the Wall Street on the German DAX, which fell 1.4 percent, lagging other major European stock That trimmed a sharp 2.8 percent rise on Friday following reassuring US Journal reported that an investor group was planning a bid to buy Adidas’s indexes. It has dropped 7.7 percent so far in October, after data called into ques- macroeconomic data, although some analysts said the market was still rela- Reebok unit. Havas also rose, by 4.7 percent, after French tycoon Vincent tion Germany’s economic resilience. tively stable after the US data had halted a previous sell-off in European Bollore launched an exchange offer on the stock on Friday with a view to gain- Both the technology sector and German blue-chip index are very sensitive to shares. ing control of the world’s sixth-largest advertising company. Shares in Groupe economic growth, or highly “cyclical”. “It’s all about growth at the moment. “Calm returns after last week’s roller-coaster ride,” Saxo Bank trader Andrea Bollore dropped 8.5 percent. —Reuters

TOKYO: Pedestrians stand in front of a share prices board displayed on a window of a securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo stocks jumped 3.98 percent yesterday, notching up their biggest one-day points gain in over a year following a sharp rise on Wall Street and as a weaker yen boosted exporters. —AFP Oil slips below $86 on oversupply

LONDON: Brent crude slipped below $86 a ther. “The (recent) price recovery is unlikely barrel yesterday, resuming a downward to last unless we get clear messages from move that took the global oil benchmark to OPEC that they will curtail production.” near a four-year low last week as supply Output has been halted temporarily for overwhelmed weak demand in several key environmental reasons at the Saudi-Kuwait markets. Abundant global oil supplies, par- Khafji oilfield, which has output of 280,000 ticularly of very high quality, light oil, cou- to 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), a little pled with a gloomy economic outlook from more than 2 percent of Saudi Arabia’s total Europe to China pushed Brent last week production capacity. below $83, to its lowest since 2010. Oil But the move is unlikely to affect oil sup- prices are down more than 25 percent plies from Saudi Arabia, the world’s top since June. exporter, because the kingdom has signifi- Energy economists have slashed their cant surplus capacity. Morgan Stanley oil forecasts of world oil demand growth for analyst Adam Longson said the closure of next year as the global economic outlook the Khafji oilfield was a temporary factor weakens. And it is not clear if the for the market. “The shutdown was not Organization of the Petroleum Exporting aimed at OPEC policy and ultimately may Countries will decide to cut output to sup- not affect production, given spare capacity,” port prices when they meet for a biannual Longson said. Saudi Arabia pumped gathering on Nov. 27. around 9.7 million bpd in September but Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran have all says it has the ability to produce as much as indicated reluctance to change supply poli- 12.5 million bpd. Investors kept a wary eye cy. Brent was down 25 cents at $85.91 by on any disruption to oil supply from 1140 GMT after rising 2 percent on Friday, geopolitical developments. Tension mount- its biggest gain in over a month. US crude ed as Islamic State’s fight against Kurdish rose 20 cents to $82.95 a barrel. defenders further destabilized the Syrian Hans Van Cleef, energy economist at border town of Kobani. ABN Amro Bank NV in Amsterdam said he Traders are also concerned about uncer- expected Brent crude to resume its move tainty over who is in charge of Libya’s vast towards recent lows as oil supply exceeded oil reserves, after a self-styled government demand. “A test of the $75 to $80 range controlling Tripoli announced its oil poli- could be seen this week or next week,” van cies. Libya is currently producing 800,000 Cleef said. Carsten Fritsch, senior oil and bpd of oil, down more than 40 percent commodities analyst at Commerzbank in from its peak of 1.4 million bpd in mid- Frankfurt, agreed oil was likely to fall fur- 2013. —Reuters Gold ticks up after 2 sessions of losses

LONDON: Gold snapped two days of loss- 0.85 percent, while Spanish, Italian and es yesterday as renewed weakness in most other yields were down 1-2 basis European stocks boosted interest in the points on the day. metal as an alternative asset, though a ten- tative recovery in risk appetite on other Bullish bets markets limited its gains. Hedge funds and money managers The metal rebounded sharply after increased their bullish futures and option falling to its lowest in over a year earlier this bets in gold in the week up to Oct. 14 after month, as jitters over growth prompted eight consecutive weekly declines, the stock markets to sell off aggressively. A Commodity Futures Trading Commission bounce in equities after upbeat housing said on Friday. The world’s largest bullion- and consumer sentiment data on Friday backed exchange traded fund, SPDR Gold helped take the shine off that recovery, but Trust, has also seen an uptick in invest- gold’s subsequent move lower proved tem- ments. Its holdings rose 1.5 tons last week, porary. its first weekly inflow since early Spot gold was up 0.8 percent at September. Demand from the leading cen- $1,247.34 an ounce at 1222 GMT, while US tres of physical gold buying in Asia has gold futures for April delivery were up been strong, but may be set to abate, MKS $9.20 an ounce at $1,248.20. “It’s very much said in a note yesterday. what’s happening in the European equity “Physical demand has been a primary markets, what’s happening with the dollar, driver of the $70 move off the $1,182 lows a that’s driving gold,” Mitsubishi analyst few weeks back,” it said. “However, now that Jonathan Butler said. we are closing in on Diwali this week, Indian “Maybe there’s a re-rating of risk physical demand should moderate.” appetite going on... the prospect of defla- “Chinese physical demand has been tion in the euro zone, and also potentially steady but tepid, with outright demand on in the United States, should support the the modest side at these higher levels long-term view on gold.” European stocks though metal is still being snapped up for fell 1 percent on Monday, trimming lofty loans,” it added. “Shanghai Gold Exchange gains made in the previous session, with a premiums have backed off as a result, with profit warning from German business soft- the kilobar contract slipping into discount ware maker SAP hitting shares in the tech on occasion last week.” Spot platinum was sector. Stocks had risen overnight in Asia. up 1.4 percent at $1,271.30 an ounce, while Sentiment in the broader financial mar- spot palladium was up 1.3 percent at kets showed some tentative signs of recov- $759.72 an ounce. Silver was up 1.4 percent ery, however. Euro-zone bond yields at $17.44 an ounce. The gold/silver ratio, dipped as concerns about a slowdown in which measures the number of silver ounces global growth eased. German 10-year Bund needed to buy an ounce of gold, edged yields, which set the standard for euro- back from last week’s five-year high yester- zone borrowing costs, fell 1 basis point to day as silver prices outperformed. —Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 BUSINESS

EU, China end telecoms row, threats against Huawei dropped

BRUSSELS: The European Union has the swift rise of Chinese manufacturer ended a long-running telecoms row with Huawei in the European telecoms equip- China, the EU’s trade chief said yesterday, ment market-to a 25 percent market dropping a threat to levy punitive tariffs share from 2.5 percent in 2006 — could on Chinese telecoms exports and easing only have been achieved with state aid tensions between two of the world’s top that global trade rules say are illegal. trading powers. Both Huawei and ZTE deny receiving As Reuters reported exclusively on Oct illegal subsidies. China exports network 8, the deal struck between Brussels and equipment, base stations and connec- Beijing sets out a framework for China to tions used by telecoms providers to address EU concerns about subsidies to transmit voice and data messages and Huawei, China’s No 2 telecoms equip- Europe has become crucial to China after ment maker, and its smaller rival ZTE. the United States and Australia effective- Resolving the dispute marks the latest ly shut Huawei out of their markets over step in improving trade relations that security concerns. were helped by a visit by China’s But De Gucht was also under pressure President Xi Jinping to Brussels in March from EU countries to resolve the issue and that Beijing hopes will eventually because European industries ranging pave the way for a free-trade deal from healthcare to water utilities are MUNICH: People wait in front of Lufthansa ticket counters at the airport in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. A planned strike by pilots at between the two. “The EU and China becoming reliant on cheaper Chinese Lufthansa has been expanded to include a one-day walkout yesterday at the German airline’s long-haul fleet. —AP have resolved the telecoms case,” the wireless technology. After more than a EU’s Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht year of discussions, De Gucht and China’s German pilots strike after weekend rail chaos said in a statement. minister of commerce, Gao Hucheng, “The investigation into mobile sealed the deal on Oct. 18, a day after BERLIN: Lufthansa pilots launched a strike yes- flights scheduled to leave Tuesday between Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels said telecommunications networks from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met senior terday, deepening Germany’s travel chaos after 0400 and 2159 GMT. The strike will not affect the company wants new “rules of the game for China will not be pursued,” De Gucht said EU officials at a summit in Milan. train drivers stopped work at the weekend just Lufthansa subsidiaries Austrian, Swiss and such labor disputes, which are needed especially of the formal threat of duties against According to De Gucht, Beijing has as school holidays began in much of the country. Brussels Airlines or Germanwings, the low-cost in infrastructure-critical” sectors of the economy. China’s telecoms exports that he agreed to discuss limiting its export cred- The top-selling Bild daily complained that “ping- carrier whose pilots held a 12-hour strike last Berlin is working on legislation to stop small launched on May 15, 2013. Europe is its to Chinese companies, steps that the pong strikes are crippling our economy”, week. groups of employees from paralyzing large parts China’s most important trading partner EU hopes will bring state support for Europe’s biggest, as about 10,000 pilots and Pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) of the infrastructure of the German economy, and for the EU, China is second only to national champions in line with interna- 20,000 train drivers had “taken hostage” 80 mil- launched what was its ninth action to buffet and a draft law is expected in November. the United States. But ties had been tional rules. lion Germans. Lufthansa this year in a bid to keep an early The flight chaos compounded disruptions damaged by rows over goods ranging Major economies abide by rules set The German Industry Federation charged retirement scheme that management wants to faced by German rail passengers after a week- from steel and wine to solar panels as down by the Paris-based Organization that the pilots strike, following the “dispropor- phase out to reduce costs. end when train drivers halted at least two thirds tionate” railway stoppage, “harms the entire of passenger and cargo services nationwide. The China seeks to produce the kind of for Economic Co-operation and economy” by impacting logistics, tourism and Infrastructure paralyzed GDL train drivers’ union launched their biggest sophisticated products that compete Development that place limits on business travel. The stoppages come as autumn school holi- stoppage since 2008 in demand for more pay, directly with Europe. export credits. They include minimum The Economy Ministry said the strikes will days start in seven of Germany’s 16 states and shorter hours as well as the right to represent Imports of Chinese telecoms equip- interest rates and maximum repayment certainly “impact some sectors of the economy”, are ongoing in two more. “Now, during the holi- other rail carriage personnel. ment into the EU are worth some 1 bil- terms, as well as transparency about the though there was no reason to change the 2014 day period, I think this is pretty brazen,” one GDL chief Claus Weselsky announced a sev- lion euros ($1.3 billion) a year, bringing credit process. Both sides have also growth forecast which was lowered this month affected air passenger told NTV television, en-day pause to strikes but warned of more China into competition with European agreed to task an independent authori- to 1.2 percent. though he voiced some understanding that stoppages after that if rail operator Deutsche companies including Ericsson , the ty to monitor the market share of Pilots for Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, “everyone has interests they want to promote”. Bahn (DB) does not offer “real negotiations”. His world’s biggest mobile telecom equip- Chinese telecoms companies in Europe said they would broaden strike action to long- Lufthansa accused the union of bringing union earlier rejected an offer of a five-percent ment maker, Nokia Siemens Networks and European companies in China. The haul flights on top of a previously announced Germany to “a standstill” and sought to draft in wage increase over 30 months. DB said the strike and Alcatel-Lucent. EU and China will also cooperate on stoppages on short- and medium-length routes. qualified pilots in management positions to had caused damage “in the tens of millions of industrial research, agreeing to equal The industrial action yesterday and today was ensure a third of scheduled services still operate. euros” while its human resources director Ulrich Swift rise treatment of companies bidding for expected to affect some 200,000 passengers. The airline labelled the strike “completely Weber charged that the small union “has not According to an EU document seen by publicly-funded research and develop- Pilots were to stop short- and medium-haul incomprehensible and disproportionate” and moved one millimetre, has applied pressure, Reuters, the European Commission says ment project. —Reuters flights departing between 1100 GMT yesterday demanded legislation against actions that crip- angered millions of customers and damaged the and 2159 GMT today, as well as intercontinental ple large parts of Germany’s travel infrastructure. company”. — AFP Hope, hurdles as Russia, Ukraine seek gas deal Differences over debt, prepayments remain MOSCOW/KIEV: A tentative agreement Russia was overthrown in February, Russia siphon off gas from the pipeline system. between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents annexed Crimea in March and pro-Russian sepa- has raised hopes of ending a dispute in which ratists rose up in April in east Ukraine in a con- Debts Moscow has halted natural gas supplies to Kiev, flict that has killed over 3,700 people. Putin said on Friday Ukraine’s debt for Russian but several obstacles still have be overcome. Moscow cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in gas supplies stood at $4.5 billion, considerably Movement on the gas row was the only sign June after failing to secure a deal on the unpaid less than the $5.3 billion previously demanded of progress at talks between Vladimir Putin and bills and price, and pressure has been mounting by Gazprom. A spokesman for the company said Petro Poroshenko on Friday which failed to on the former Soviet republic’s leaders to reach the decrease in debt was due to a recalculation resolve differences over fighting in eastern an agreement before winter sets in. of the second quarter price to $385 per 1,000 Ukraine and a deep crisis in relations. The two European leaders fear there will also be dis- cubic meters from $485. Kiev had balked at the sides, whose energy ministers will meet in ruptions in supplies of Russian gas to the rest of $5.3 billion figure and said the price used to cal- Brussels today, still differ over how to calculate Europe via Ukraine, but say ending the gas dis- culate the arrears should be $268.5 - the cost of Kiev’s huge gas debt and the schedule for pay- pute could help build trust overall. “The German gas in the first quarter. Ukraine has also been ments and there are doubts about Ukraine’s abil- government considers a durable solution unwilling to make any pre-payments for Russian ity to pay. between Ukraine and Russia as a clear sign for gas. The Russian energy ministry said on Friday “The devil is in the details. I don’t think that de-escalation and a commitment for such a de- Ukraine had agreed to make a first debt payment Russian gas will be delivered soon to Ukraine,” a escalation,” said Georg Streiter, a spokesman for of $1.45 billion by the end of this month and Russian government source close to gas talks German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Poroshenko, another $1.65 billion by the end of the year. told Reuters. European Energy Commissioner who met Putin in Milan on Friday, said they had Ukraine is likely to buy up to 5 billion cubic Guenther Oettinger, who will mediate today’ reached a preliminary agreement on a price until meters of Russian gas this winter, but state cof- meeting between Ukraine’s Yuri Prodan and March 31. fers have been drained by the conflict in the east, Russia’s Alexander Novak, was also expected to The interim price would be $385 per 1,000 despite a shaky ceasefire. Kiev faces a $3.5 billion SUNRISE: Freddy Jerez of Hollywood (Florida) fills out a job application during a job hold talks in Kiev yesterday to work out what cubic meters - much higher than the average funding shortfall for this year and next but the fair in Sunrise. Florida. A quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Ukraine called a “common position”. amount of some $350 that the Russian gas International Monetary Fund has said the gov- Economics released yesterday found that only 24 percent of companies increased “There are quite a number of details. We are exporter Gazprom charges European companies ernment should be able to cover most of it with wages and salaries in the July-September quarter. — AP just continuing with our discussions on a bilater- but $100 less than Russia had demanded. planned debt issues and an expected $900 mil- al basis today,” Marlene Holzner, a European The EU wants to avoid a repeat of disputes lion in further donor support. “This time all sides Commission spokeswoman, said. She said they in 2006 and 2009 in which its gas flows were appear to be in agreement. But it remains were discussing the price, the number of pay- disrupted - it gets a third of its gas supplies unclear where Ukraine would get the money for Markets slide again ments Kiev should make and how much gas from Russia, half of that via Ukraine. Despite either the back payment for the gas delivered or Ukraine will get from Russia over the winter peri- halting Ukraine’s supplies, Russia has contin- the prepayment for future gas. Ukraine does not od. Ending the gas row is complicated by the ued the flow via Ukraine to the rest of have the means to pay, and no one has yet in line with Europe deterioration in relations between Moscow and Europe, though Putin has said there could be offered the country a loan to finance this gas,” Kiev since a Ukrainian president sympathetic to disruptions in winter because Ukraine could analysts at Sberbank CIB said. — Reuters MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS

DUBAI: Most Middle Eastern stock mar- briefly moved into negative territory. Japan minister’s quitting a hitch kets fell yesterday as a rebound by glob- Bank Albilad jumped 3.6 percent after al equities turned out to be short-lived, reporting a 20 percent profit jump in the TOKYO: Japan’s plan to restart nuclear reactors shut Monday after the opposition filed a criminal com- but Saudi Arabia’s bourse rose after a third quarter, ahead of estimates. down after the Fukushima disaster will not be affect- plaint against Justice Minister Midori Matsushima, string of strong quarterly earnings. Stock Alinma Bank surged 6.8 percent and ed by yesterday of the industry minister, but Prime accusing her of violating the election laws. Abe told indexes in the United Arab Emirates and was the main support for the bench- Minister Shinzo Abe is losing a convincing advocate reporters he wanted to name successors for the two Qatar rose in early trade but quickly mark. The lender has yet to publish its of a step most view with suspicion. posts within the day. Abe told reporters he had Forty-year-old Yuko Obuchi’s resignation from the tapped 64-year-old Yoichi Miyazawa, a former vice gave up all their gains after European quarterly results, but most other Saudi Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, six weeks economics minister and the nephew of the late bourses once again weakened. banks have either met or beaten ana- after she was appointed, is the latest hitch in a prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa, to replace Obuchi as Dubai’s index, which was up as much lysts’ forecasts. Shares in Yanbu National process bogged down by documentation over safety industry minister. as 2.5 percent early in the session, closed Petrochemical Co (Yansab) edged up 0.4 standards, concerns about natural disasters and local “I have not yet had a detailed discussion with the 1.0 percent down, having changed percent after it reported a 20.1 percent opposition. “Obviously as a young mother, the bureaucrats. I will have something to say after I have direction shortly after the pan-European drop in third-quarter net profit, which youngest cabinet minister, she was a reassuring fig- heard from them,” Miyazawa told reporters, when FTSEurofirst 300 index opened and was in line with analysts’ estimates. ure (who showed) that restarting the reactor asked about the restart. In Satsumasendai, 1,000 km moved into negative territory. Bourses in Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co rose wouldn’t be as threatening as people feared,” said (600 miles) from Tokyo, where the first reactors that Abu Dhabi and Qatar, both of which had 1.3 percent. The firm’s third-quarter prof- Professor Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian Studies have received safety clearance are located, local offi- opened on a positive note, also retreat- it rose 55 percent. Petrochemicals giant at Temple University’s Japan campus. cials yesterday started debating whether to give their ed and fell 1.5 and 1.4 percent respec- Saudi Basic Industries, which is affiliated “Now that she’s gone, (Abe has) lost that reassur- final go-ahead. “I do not think there will be an tively. with both Yansab and Kayan, gained 1.7 ing presence and it’s unlikely that he’s going to be impact. We are steadily moving forward in the restart Major petrochemical producer percent. Egypt’s index edged up 0.1 per- able to find anyone as convincing as her,” Kingston process and it is down to the city and the prefecture Industries Qatar, up 0.2 percent, was one cent after Moody’s changed its outlook said. Opinion polls have consistently shown that a now,” said Hirofumi Yahisa, a city official and aide to of the few gainers in Doha after report- on the country’s sovereign rating to sta- majority of Japanese are opposed to restarting reac- the mayor of the city. “Of course, it may have been ing a 5 percent rise in third-quarter net ble from negative, citing a more stable tors since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi good for residents’ sensibilities if (Obuchi) had visit- profit on Monday. The conglomerate political and security situation and signs station in March 2011 after an earthquake and tsuna- ed, but it’s not a situation where we can’t move for- earned 1.86 billion riyals ($511 million) of economic recovery. mi. Among women, there is overwhelming opposi- ward without her visit,” he said. The city’s assembly in the quarter, while analysts polled by Shares in property developer SODIC tion to restarting reactors. Abe and his cabinet argue will vote on the restart of the reactors at Kyushu Reuters had on average expected 1.66 rose 2.0 percent after its managing that rebooting the country’s nuclear reactors is cru- Electric Power Co’s as early as Oct. 28. Once the cial to reducing a record trade deficit, as utilities have Satsumasendai assembly gives its expected approval billion riyals. director Ahmed Badrawi told the Reuters TOKYO: Yoichi Miyazawa, a lawmaker and nephew of former prime minister Kiichi been forced to import expensive fossil fuels. to the restart, the matter will go the wider Middle East Investment Summit that the “This is established policy and I think it will go Kagoshima prefectural assembly. According to a poll Saudi, Egypt company planned to invest 2.4 billion Miyazawa, is surrounded by reporters after being appointed as the new Economy, Trade ahead. But it will hurt his (Abe’s) support rates,” said by the Minami Nihon Newspaper earlier this year, 59 Saudi Arabia’s main index rose 1.1 pounds ($336 million) in 2015 and was Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon percent of Kagoshima residents are opposed to percent in a volatile session, having hunting for new projects. —Reuters and Industry Minister at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday.—AFP University. A second minister resigned later on restarting the reactors.— Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 BUSINESS Tbilisi marks Air Arabia’s 100th destination

SHARJAH: Air Arabia, the Middle East and Georgia, from October 28, 2014. Tiblisi is Air Mountains, is home to 1.5 million people. tory and, due to its location at the cross- tral region of the world.” North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carri- Arabia’s 100th global destination. An increasingly popular tourism destina- roads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Previously a landmark on the Silk Road, er, yesterday announced yesterday that it The capital and largest city of Georgia, tion, the city is the social and economic cen- offers a rich tapestry of different cultures Georgia may be steeped in tradition but the will begin regular direct services to Tbilisi, Tbilisi, located in the beautiful Caucasus tre of Georgia. The country has a vibrant his- brought together under a single flag over nation has experienced a period of rapid the last millennium. development and modernization over the Air Arabia will fly twice weekly to Tbilisi past two decades becoming one of the from its primary Sharjah International fastest growing economies in Eastern Airport hub on Tuesdays and Fridays at Europe. The country today is an internation- 13:00, arriving at Tbilisi International Airport al business hotspot, as well as a destination at 16:30 that afternoon. Return flights will for any tourist looking to experience fine depart Tbilisi on the same days at 17:10 and cuisine, ecclesiastic art and a fusion of strik- arrive in Sharjah at 20:20. ing architecture. “The beautiful city of Tbilisi is a tremen- Air Arabia, recently voted amongst the dous addition to the Air Arabia network and ten most profitable Low Cost Carriers (LCC) we are confident the route will prove to be in the world by Airline Business, has seen its highly popular with leisure and business route network in the first half of this year travellers alike,” said Adel Ali, Group Chief increase with the addition on new routes Executive Officer, Air Arabia. “We are such as Cairo in Egypt and Antalya in Turkey delighted to be able to bring a value for from its main base at Sharjah International money offering to customers in Georgia, Airport. The carrier currently operates from while further extending Air Arabia’s excep- four hubs in the UAE, Morocco and Egypt. tional coverage of destinations in the cen- 60 winners celebrate 60 years of success Toyota Genuine Spare parts promotion

KUWAIT: Mohamed Naser Al-Sayer & Sons Co, Prize Draw for brand new Toyota Camry GL 2014. spare parts or service outlet, customers entered one of the Al-Sayer Group Holding Companies, The Spare Parts Summer Promotion had one of the 3 draws for a chance to win fabulous held the third and final electronic draw on the commenced on 1st of July, and successfully gold coins as well as to enter the grand prize 12th October 2014 at the ministry premises to concluded on 30th September 2014. During the draw. pick winners of gold coins for Toyota Genuine promotion period with every KD 5 spent on 34 gold coins were distributed among the fol- Spare Parts promotion and one winner of Grand Toyota Genuine Spare Parts at any Al Sayer lowing 19 winners from the third and final draw: 1.Mohammed Abdelltif Alsaeed 2. Yousef Issa Ahmed Alrefaei 3. Abdel Rehman 4. Abdulah Enhater Snaid Aldfiri 5. Saif Samy Saleh Alamer Qatar Airways’ first liveried A350 6. Saleh Naser Mhana Aleneze 7. Ahmmed Aalmawgoud Taha XWB completes maiden flight 8. Berj 9. Hussain Muhamed Moosa TOULOUSE: Qatar Airways’ first A350 XWB mark for service in the sky.” 10. Hussin Ibrahim Sayed Hasan Alshakhas in full airline livery has successfully complet- With a cross-section of 220 inches from 11. Waleed Awath Mehiah Alrashedi ed its maiden flight over the Airbus facility armrest to armrest, the A350’s cabin pro- 12. Yaqob Abdalla Negm Mohsen in Toulouse, France. The airline, which is the vides the widest seats in its category, offer- 13. Naser Alhemede Qweaan Almeterat14. global launch customer for the Airbus A350, ing its passengers a unique experience of Badreya Ali Mohammed Alrejaiba is scheduled to take delivery of its first space and comfort. 15. Fayez Masoud Khaled A350-900 before the end of the year. The A350 XWB is Airbus’ all-new mid- 16. Atta Ullah Naser Al-Hussain Following the successful inaugural size long range product line and the 17. Yassein Mohammed Basam Almaqwaa flight, Qatar’s A350 XWB is now continuing newest member of Airbus’ leading wide- 18. Vasand its production phase, including cabin com- body family, and offers a combination of 19. Hussein Jassim pletion and further ground and flight tests, enhanced passenger comfort and techno- A grand draw was also conducted to offer all before final delivery. logical innovation. the customers who participated in all three Qatar Airways has 80 A350s on order, Built hand-in-hand with its customers, draws a chance to win brand new Toyota Camry including 43 A350-900 and 37 of the larger the A350 XWB will set new standards in GL. The key of the Grand Prize was handed over A350-1000 models. terms of passenger experience, operational to the winner Maher Hamza Saleh by Mohamed “We are delighted to see the new A350 efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Qatar Ali Hilal, Business Director, Parts and taking to the skies in our livery,” said Qatar Airways has seen rapid growth in just 17 Accessories. Airways Group Chief Executive, His years of operation, to the point where From left to right: Konkara Oommen Philip, Deputy Manager, Marketing and Pricing, Al-Sayer Group thank customers who partici- Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker. “The A350 today it is flying a modern fleet of 137 air- Maher Hamza Saleh - Camry Winner, Mohamed Ali Hilal, Business Director, Parts and pated to make the promotional campaign a big will be a very valuable addition to our fleet, craft to 144 key business and leisure desti- Accessories and Valiyaveettil Xavier Yesudas, Manager, Parts and Accessories Sales. success and congratulates all the winners. and thanks to its extra width, we will be nations across Europe, the Middle East, able to offer our passengers even greater Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and comfort and continue to raise the bench- South America. Burgan Bank announces third Sultan Telecom Co delivers winner of monthly SMS draw FM, digital radio broadcast stations to MoI, South Subahiya KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the Burgan Bank’s SMS service is the quickest way Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - Turkey, winner of its monthly SMS Draw, Nada for customers to stay ahead and be informed Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International Bank, in KUWAIT: Sultan Telecom, a subsidiary of entities which position it as leading in its AbdulSattar Maqboul, who won the new iPhone 6 about their latest transactions. With Burgan which Burgan Bank owns a majority stake. Burgan The Sultan Center Group of companies and industry. Sultan concluded there are many for subscribing to the bank’s SMS service. Bank’s SMS service, customers can choose Bank Group has one of the largest regional the leader in Telecommunications in Kuwait, major projects in the pipeline which the In an attempt to create further excitement, between signing up for one or more automatic branch networks with more than 231 branches announced the inauguration of its first of company will execute in Kuwait and abroad. Burgan Bank announced that its SMS service alerts or for pulling the information they need to across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, the two Radio Broadcast Station Projects Director of Sultan Telecom, Mamoun draw will now be giving subscribers the chance to their mobile devices in Arabic or English lan- Lebanon and Palestine. with the Ministry of Information. The Project Sweiss spoke about the company guide- win the latest iPhone 6 device. The selection of guages. The Bank has continuously improved its per- consisted of setting up for the Ministry an lines and its operations in Kuwait. He said: the prize offers customers the latest smartphone For detailed information and subscription, cus- formance over the years through an expanded FM & Digital Radio Broadcast Station in “Sultan Telecom provides several services device available in the country as a symbol of tomers are advised to call Burgan Bank’s call cen- revenue structure, diversified funding sources, South Subahiya. The inauguration was done through our subsidiaries in Kuwait and gratitude for their trust in the bank’s services. ter on 1804080 or visit the nearest Burgan Bank and a strong capital base. The adoption of state- earlier this month by Sheikh Salman Al- abroad. In Kuwait, Arabian ITS focuses on Burgan Bank’s customer-centric strategy was branch to fill in an application with the required of-the-art services and technology has posi- Humud Al-Sabah, Minister of Information providing specialized IT Security Services designed to provide customers with far beyond details. tioned it as a trendsetter in the domestic market and State Minister for Youth Affairs. Also and ATCO focuses on providing Data Center than financial solutions and services, thus, the Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the and within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s present were, Ayman Badr Sultan (The Infrastructure Management Solutions. In bank continuously works towards accommodat- youngest commercial Bank and third largest by brand has been created on a foundation of real Sultan Center Group Chairman), Mamoun Bahrain, Horizon Telecom focuses on pro- ing customers’ needs in all possible ways. assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus on the values - of trust, commitment, excellence and Sweiss (Director of Sultan Telecom) and rep- viding specialized telecom services”. Customers who are interested to take part in corporate and financial institutions sectors, as progression, to remind us of the high standards resentatives of media from Kuwait. Each of The new broadcast station works on FM the monthly draw can subscribe to the Bank’s well as having a growing retail, and private bank to which we aspire. ‘People come first’ is the the two projects is valued at around KD 2.15 and DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcast) simul- SMS service for KD 10 per year, and enjoy multiple customer base. Burgan Bank has five majority foundation on which its products and services million and the station is considered to be taneously which is a more efficient method chances of winning the latest iPhone 6 device. owned subsidiaries, which include Jordan Kuwait are developed. the latest in the field of FM & Digital Radio of utilizing existing frequencies in radio Broadcasting technology. broadcasting. The Station includes three FM Commenting on the project, Ayman transmitters each with 20 KW of power. Sultan said: “We are committed to deliver- There is also a fourth redundant FM trans- ing strategic telecommunications projects mitter to cater to any faults. for the country. We are extremely pleased to Moreover, the station is also equipped deliver the first project which comprises of with an RDS system (Radio Data System) the state-of-the-art technology in FM & allowing the receivers to automatically tune Digital Radio Broadcasting. We strongly to frequency variations enabling high audio believe that this technology will cater to the quality while in motion and an excellent lis- current and future broadcast requirements tening experience. The Radio signals are of Kuwait”. transmitted via a 200m high tower Sultan elaborated that the company is equipped with two power lines. committed to expanding its operations in The station is powered through two gen- Kuwait and the region. Recently Sultan erators along with the power provided by Telecom has signed an agreement of over the Ministry of Electricity & Water. USD 5 million with the Bahraini Telecom Co. Sultan Telecom is committed to maintain Batelco to supply, implement and operate its leading position in Kuwait by providing KUWAIT: Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager Corporate Communications fiber optic cables in Bahrain. The company quality services to the people of Kuwait and at VIVA receiving the award. has also won several strategic local con- would not spare any effort to achieve this VIVA wins ‘Best 4G Package’ award tracts with both governmental and private objective. Survey: Pay raises rarer at 2nd annual Teknotel Awards despite strong US hiring

WASHINGTON: US businesses were much healthy pace, which usually pushes wages KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most Corporate Communications at VIVA said: “We are through new branches and partnerships, offer the less likely to boost pay in the third quarter higher as employers compete for workers. developed telecom operator, has been awarded very proud to be presented with this esteemed latest in products as well as presenting its cus- than in previous months, even as hiring A measure of hiring in the survey dipped the ‘Best 4G Package’ award at the 2nd Annual award, and it’s an honor to have our efforts tomers with award winning services. remained healthy, a sign that wage gains in the third quarter but remained near a Teknotel Awards ceremony. The award was acknowledged by a leading organization. VIVA In 2014, VIVA was also awarded the ‘Best Mobile may remain weak in the coming months. three-year high. The figures suggest that announced on 14 October 2014 in Dubai. began its operations with the aim to make a differ- Operator’ Award from Service Hero, the ‘Editor’s A quarterly survey by the National the number of people out of work The award highlights VIVA’s outstanding efforts ence through the services it offers and to differen- Choice Award’ from Network World Middle East, Association for Business Economics found remains high enough that companies to provide integrated and complete internet solu- tiate its customers by presenting them with a and the ‘Best Speech Analytics Implementation’ that only 24 percent of companies aren’t under any pressure to raise pay. tions that allow customers to enjoy uninterrupted unique experience. Our customers motivate us to from INSIGHTS - Middle East Call Center Awards increased wages and salaries in the July- And just one-third of respondents said data streaming, and its commitment to offering its expand our horizons and to lead further with 2014. To find out more about VIVA’s awards, initia- September quarter. That’s down from 43 they expect their companies will boost customers the latest in the world of technology excellence and innovation.” tives and latest competitive promotions, products percent in the April-June quarter and the wages in the October-December quarter, with attractive packages. VIVA’s plan to invest further in its network, serv- and packages, visit one of the 58 VIVA branches, or first drop after three straight increases. about the same proportion as three Commenting on VIVA’s great achievement, ices and human capital has been very evident as it the VIVA website www.viva.com.kw, or call VIVA’s Yet the firms still added jobs at a months ago.—AP Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager continues to expand its reach across Kuwait 24 hour call center on 102. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 technology

Japan man jailed for making guns with 3D printer

TOKYO: A Japanese court yesterday “The criminal responsibility for this detailing how he built them. Imura’s Weapons assembled from parts pro- ly functional 3D-printed firearm: a sin- jailed a man for two years for making act is serious” as it could encourage lawyers argued that he did not know duced by the printers are not gle-shot pistol made almost entirely guns with a 3D printer in what is others to replicate the act, said presid- his acts were illegal, a notion that the detectable with regular security equip- out of hard polymer plastic. believed to be a first in a nation with ing judge Koji Inaba. court rejected. The rapid development ment, including scanners found at air- In December the US Congress strict gun controls. Imura, a former employee of the of 3D printing technology, which ports, leading to fears that they could renewed a ban on guns that contain no Yoshitomo Imura, 28, was found Shonan Institute of Technology, used allows relatively cheap machines to be used in hijackings. metal. While Japanese police do carry guilty of making two guns at his home Internet-based information to build the construct complex physical objects by The debate about home-made guns guns, Japan has very strict firearms and publishing a video online detailing two functional guns, according to the building up layers of polymer, has took off last year in the United States control laws and few people possess the process, said the Yokohama District ruling. proved a challenge for legislators when a Texas-based group, Defense guns or have ever come into contact Court. He then posted a video online around the world. Distributed, posted blueprints for a ful- with them. — AFP

REVIEW Macs, mobile unite with Yosemite system

CUPERTINO: If you’ve upgraded your directions with just one click. iPhone or iPad to iOS 8, the new soft- ware update for Mac computers will Simpler browsing seem familiar. Web browsers have gotten more The Yosemite update to Apple’s OS X powerful over the years, but added system, available as a free download functionality also leads to complexity. starting Thursday, adds several features The Safari browser that comes with to bring the Mac in line with last Yosemite simplifies all that by consoli- month’s iOS 8 update for mobile dating many basic functions into a sin- devices. There’s also new functionality gle box. to make Macs act more like iPhones. While most browsers now combine Yosemite still has plenty of touches the box for Web addresses and search, that make a Mac a Mac. But it continues Safari moves bookmarks and frequently a trend of breaking down barriers visited sites there, too. A menu pops between the various devices as people out when you click there, with choices depend more on smartphones and that sync with those on your iPhone tablets for their everyday computing. and other devices. And as you type in search terms, you also get Spotlight’s Seamless Web suggestions. Let’s say you’re writing a lengthy email on your iPad and would prefer What’s happening? the Mac’s keyboard. You can just click On iOS devices, you can swipe down an icon on the lower left corner of the from the top to get nuggets to help Mac and continue there. What you’ve you through the day calendar appoint- already started on the iPad automati- ments, weather conditions, stock cally appears on the Mac, including the quotes and more. Now, you can do that CUPERTINO: In this photo, Eddy Cue, right, Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, demonstrates the new Apple Pay “Sent from my iPad” footer. on the Mac as well by pulling out the mobile payment system at a Whole Foods store in Cupertino, Calif. The new system launched yesterday. — AP It works with several other apps, too. Today panel from the right. The Safari Web browser opens to the Preferences sync with your mobile specific page being viewed on the oth- devices, though content will vary. For er device. The Maps app launches to instance, I noticed the iPhone gave me Google’s Q3 earnings fall the location you were viewing. This fea- weather for the current location, while ture came in handy as I was chatting Yosemite offered me additional choices with a friend through Messages and based on past settings. I’m also able to got tired of pecking on the iPhone’s add tools such as a calculator to the as expenses climb 30% small keyboard. You can also start tasks Today panel, so I no longer have to dig on a Mac and continue on an iPhone or for it in the recesses of the Mac’s SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s third-quarter earn- nected eyewear, Internet-beaming balloons, a ure known as “cost-per-click.” iPad. Dashboard. ings slipped as the Internet search leader hired fleet of drones, driverless cars and robots. Ad prices have been sagging because mar- nearly 3,000 more employees while pouring To investors’ frustration, exploring new tech- keters haven’t been willing to pay as much to Hello! More versatile storage more money into its zest for innovation and nological frontiers tends to be expensive. That’s pitch to consumers who are squinting at the Mac computers already come with a Apple’s iCloud online storage serv- quest for new markets. one reason that Google’s operating expenses smaller screens on the smartphones that are FaceTime app for videoconferencing, ice has been mostly useful for sharing The results announced Thursday fell below surged 30 percent from a year earlier to $5 bil- drawing eyeballs away from desktop and laptop but that’s limited to calling other and syncing music, photos and other analyst estimates, causing Google’s stock to lion in the third quarter, after subtracting the computers. FaceTime users. With Yosemite, you can drop by $12.92, or 2.4 percent, to $524 in costs for employee stock compensation. The Google has been able to offset the lower ad documents among Apple apps on vari- make voice calls to anyone. Yosemite extended trading. The shares had already pace of rising expenses outstripped the 20 per- prices by inducing people to click on marketing ous Apple devices. With iCloud Drive, connects wirelessly to your iPhone to declined by 4 percent so far this year. cent gain in Google’s third-quarter revenue to links more frequently. The volume of activity is you can do that with non-Apple apps make and receive calls. The recipient The report helps explain why Wall Street has $16.5 billion. important because Google bills advertisers and Windows computers, too. Just had mixed emotions about Google Inc. for A big chunk of the higher expenses went when people click on a promotional link. sees Mac calls as coming from the move files to a special Mac folder for years. toward bringing in more employees, mostly Google’s paid clicks during the third quarter iPhone’s number. syncing. It’s similar to what Dropbox Powered by its dominant search engine, engineers, to supplement Google’s already large climbed 17 percent from last year, slackening You don’t get video, and there’s a and other storage services offer. Google’s digital ad network consistently delivers brain trust. The 3,000 workers added in the third from a 25 percent year-over-year increase in the slight lag with audio. In my tests, call For iOS 8 mobile devices, though, the kind of steady financial growth that endears quarter nearly doubled from the roughly 1,600 previous quarter. quality was comparable to what you’d investors. employees hired at the same time last year. The deceleration in clicking gains raised developers need to tweak individual get over a speakerphone. It won’t repli- But Google Inc. could be making even more The hiring spree stemmed from an especially some concerns that Google’s revenue growth cate a landline, but it’s useful when apps to take advantage of it. That’s just money if not for CEO Larry Page’s belief that attractive class of college graduates this sum- may start to weaken in the months ahead. your phone is charging in another starting to happen. Android devices some short-term gains should be sacrificed so mer, according to Patrick Pichette, Google’s Google earned $2.81 billion, or $4.09 per share, room. The phone and the Mac must be aren’t supported at all. that the company can invest in projects and chief financial officer. for the three months ending in September. on the same Wi-Fi network. A related feature lets you send large other research that could take years to pay off. The trends in Google’s search and advertis- That compared to income of $2.97 billion, or Page refers to these sometimes risky initia- ing business also provided investors with rea- $4.38 per share, at the same time last year. If not With the iOS 8.1 update coming attachments through the Mac’s Mail tives as “moon shots.” He defends them by sons for hope and potential worry. certain items, Google said it would have earned Monday, you’ll be able to send regular app without clogging your recipient’s inbox. Attachments get uploaded to pointing out that Google might not had ever In a positive sign, Google’s average ad prices $6.35 per share. That figure missed the analyst texts from the Mac, too. Currently, developed its market-leading Android mobile in the third quarter dipped by just 2 percent target of $6.46 per share among analysts sur- iCloud, without counting against your you’re limited to reaching other Apple software and Chrome Web browser if the com- from last year. That’s the smallest decrease dur- veyed by Zacks Investment Research. users through iMessage chats. storage quota. Your email then pany hadn’t gone out on a limb. ing what is now a three-year slump in the prices After subtracting Google’s ad commissions, includes a link instead of the massive Some of the other innovations that Google is paid to Google for ads appearing alongside revenue stood at $13.2 billion, in line with ana- Universal search file. I was able to open a 27-second still trying to fine tune include Internet-con- search results and other Web content, a meas- lyst projections. —AP The Mac’s Spotlight feature already video clip of kangaroos on Windows, is good about finding various docu- but not Android. ments on your computer, no matter where you stored them. Yosemite goes Time to upgrade? Japan firm showcases further by pulling related items from Yosemite works with all Macs intro- the Web as well, similar to a feature duced since 2009 and some older ones, Microsoft introduced last year with too. If you use a lot of obscure or spe- Windows 8.1. cialty software, you might want to Bat-Signal of the future A search for “Lady Gaga” got me not check first to make sure it’s compatible just an email receipt for an album I with Yosemite. If you mostly use Apple TOKYO: A free-floating image created by fir- they can be seen day and night and do not science museum in Tokyo, can currently dis- bought (I’m busted!), but also her software and services, you’re not likely ing lasers into thin air was unveiled in Japan require screens. play images five metres (16.5 feet) above the Wikipedia entry, Twitter account and to encounter problems because Apple yesterday, offering the possibility one day of “We could go by car anytime 24 hours a device. But the company is aiming to double other albums I can buy on iTunes. A tested Yosemite with Apple users more projecting messages into a cloudless sky, as day into a disaster zone and help send infor- that height, he said. search for “Empire State Building” deliv- extensively than before. It’s free, so seen in Batman. mation and warnings,” said Burton chief exec- The company, based in Kawasaki City ered news and map results. I can get why not? — AP And, like the Bat-Signal that alerted the utive Hideki Kimura, adding the images could southwest of Tokyo, hopes to start negotia- Caped Crusader to trouble brewing in offer alerts to people who could not hear tions next year with businesses and munici- Gotham City, its inventors hope that it might conventional radio. pal bodies on putting the system to eventual eventually be used to warn people of danger The technology, which was unveiled at a practical use. — AFP such as an approaching tsunami. The company behind the technology, Burton Inc., showed off rotating spirals, flut- tering butterflies and the outline of an apple hovering a few metres over a van loaded with the system. Like a child concentrating sunlight with a magnifying glass, the device focuses intense laser light into a tiny spot in the air. This makes the molecules there emit white light that looks like a cross between a tiny explo- sion and a bright LED. “The biggest feature of our technology is that we can concentrate light on one spot and make it emit light wherever we like,” said Akira Asano, researcher and director of Burton Inc. The bursts of light come hundreds of times a second, and as the beam moves, are able to form what appear to the naked eye as rudimentary three-dimensional images. Researchers said the system, as well as BLACKPOOL: People drive the route of Blackpool Illuminations in Blackpool, north having possible value for advertisers, could TOKYO: A free-floating image created by firing lasers into thin air is displayed above a vehicle west England yesterday. The illuminations, an annual event since their first switch at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo yesterday, during its be used to send alerts and evacuation advi- on in 1879 stretch along the sea front for 6 miles (10 km) and use over one million unveiling in Japan, offering the possibility one day of projecting messages into a cloudless bulbs. — AFP sories during major natural disasters because sky, as seen in Batman. — AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

China’s companies, billionaires must step up to fight Ebola

BEIJING: China’s corporations and bil- China, at a briefing. He added Liberia’s government was in tion for combating Ebola. The United and Liberia. lionaires have lagged behind in contribu- “You can ask the same thing of the talks with other large Chinese investors, States contributed $12.67 million and Mao Qun’an, a spokesman for China’s tions to fighting the Ebola epidemic in corporate sector, being the largest including the state-owned China-Africa Japan gave $6 million, Rierson said. National Health and Family Planning West Africa despite vast economic ties to investors in West Africa right now.” Sihuan Development Fund, a private equity fund China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday Commission, said in addition to sending the region, the World Food Programme Pharmaceutical Holdings Group Ltd., a focusing facilitating investment between the country would continue to provide aid to affected countries, China has been said yesterday. Chinese drug maker with military ties, China and Africa. support. “The Chinese government and training doctors in public hospitals in An Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the has sent several thousand doses of an Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook people have followed the development handling Ebola cases. worst on record, has killed more than experimental Ebola drug to Africa and is Inc., said last week he and his wife were of the epidemic situation and have pro- China has also toughened health 4,000 people. China has contributed planning clinical trials there. donating $25 million towards combating vided four batches of aid to relevant checks at airports in Beijing, Shanghai about $40 million in aid to fight the dis- China has also sent hundreds of aid Ebola. The Bill and Melinda Gates African countries and international and Guangzhou, he added. ease, including $6 million to the World workers to Africa to help. Dudley Thomas, Foundation has pledged $50 million. organizations,” ministry spokeswoman “If they come across a person running Food Programme. Liberia’s ambassador to China, told China’s donation to the World Food Hua Chunying said. a fever or with other possible symptoms “Where are the Chinese billionaires Reuters his country had secured one Programme would be used to provide The World Food Programme said it of Ebola, they will be taken directly to a and their potential impact? Because this donation of $100,000 from a large staple foods in the three hardest-hit had only raised about a third of what it local hospital,” Mao said. “These entry is the time that they could really have Chinese construction firm that has proj- countries, Sierra Leone, Guinea and needs for the anti-Ebola fight. About a points are key.” China has not implement- such a huge impact,” said Brett Rierson, ects in the country, but few other contri- Liberia, Rierson said. That puts China million Chinese nationals live in Africa, ed any restrictions on travel to and from the organisation’s representative in butions. among the top donors to the organisa- with about 10,000 in Sierra Leone, Guinea affected countries. —Reuters Nigeria declared Ebola-free after containing virus: WHO Rare success story in combating deadly virus

ABUJA/LAGOS: The World Health which it becomes impossible to con- response from the federal govern- hours of being here, he would have Organization declared Nigeria free of tain because contacts are too diffuse ment, state governments (and) inter- contacted and infected a lot more the deadly Ebola virus yesterday to trace. national organisations ... was essen- people ... The lesson there is: stand after six weeks with no new cases, an As the commercial hub of Africa’s tial,” said Samuel Matoka, IFRC Ebola your ground.” achievement with lessons for coun- most populous nation, largest econ- operations manager for Lagos. Once the hospital contacted the tries still struggling to contain the omy and leading energy producer, it “The swiftness and fastness of the ministries of health in the state of deadly virus. would have been an ideal spring- reaction from all parties, helped to Lagos and the federal ministry in “This is a spectacular success sto- board for Ebola to spread across the contain Ebola in Nigeria.” Abuja, authorities quickly set up and ry,” WHO representative Rui Gama country. equipped an isolation unit. Vaz told a news conference in the The first case in Nigeria was HOW NIGERIA DID IT Lagos state governor Babatunde capital Abuja, where officials broke imported from Liberia when Liberian- Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh at the Fashola rushed back from a pilgrim- into applause when he announced American diplomat Patrick Sawyer First Consultants hospital in Lagos age to Mecca to handle the crisis, that Nigeria had shaken off the dis- collapsed at the main international where Sawyer was first brought kept Ohiaeri said. “Everyone played their ease. airport in Lagos on July 20. him in the hospital despite his part. We’re so proud,” Ohiaeri said. DALLAS: William Gluckman, president of FastER Urgent Care, poses for The “It shows that Ebola can be con- Authorities were caught unawares, protests and those of the Liberian Even when the virus found its way to Associated Press in his facility in Morris Plains, N.J. Word that a second tained, but we must be clear that we airport staff were not prepared and government, preventing the dying the oil hub of Port Harcourt in the Dallas nurse caught the ebola disease from a patient has put the spotlight southeast, authorities were able to on weak spots in the US health care system. —AP quickly contain it, an example WHO said others should be able to follow. “If a country like Nigeria, ham- US clinics say not best pered by serious security problems, can do this ... any country in the world experiencing an imported place to check for Ebola case can hold onward transmission to just a handful of cases,” WHO NEW YORK: When a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy suspects they may have contracted Ebola to go to a Director Margaret Chan said in a who had entered the apartment of the first patient hospital emergency department. statement. to die from Ebola in the US started feeling ill himself, The Urgent Care Association of America sent Nigeria’s success in preventing he didn?t rush to the nearest hospital. He chose an emails to its roughly 6,400 members asking them to the spread of the disease contrasts urgent care clinic. spread that message. One of the fastest growing with its slower and more fractious So did a man who recently traveled to West segments of the US health care industry with more response to crises such as the kid- Africa and was complaining of flu-like symptoms, than 9,000 clinics, urgent care is designed to treat as napping in April of more than 200 prompting the suburban Boston urgent care prac- many patients as quickly as possible for minor ill- girls still being held by Islamist mili- tice where he went to briefly shut down last week. nesses, like the flu or a sliced finger. tant group Boko Haram. The deadly virus arrival in the US has put the But people are increasingly using them for any “The approach to Ebola was prag- spotlight on weak spots in American hospitals, but emergency to avoid the costs, long waits and matic, patriotic and non-partisan,” those facilities are not the only ones who have sud- crowds at hospitals. said Lagos-based political analyst denly found themselves on the front lines against ‘I think patients have a difficult time deciding and lawyer Emekanka Onyebuchi. Ebola. Urgent-care clinics for many people have where they need to go for care so sometimes we?ll “They put the nation first and this is become de-facto emergency rooms. They are not, see someone come in suffering from an acute heart what we should have done in other however, equipped like hospitals to treat serious ill- attack or stroke, but urgent care shouldn’t be the areas, like the (kidnapped) girls.” nesses, such as Ebola, nor do they have isolation place to go for that,’ said Gluckman, who owns The announcement that Nigeria units. FastER urgent care clinic in Morris Plains, NJ. has, for now at least, stamped out Clinics are urging potential patients to get MedExpress - which runs 130 clinics in 10 states the deadly hemorrhagic fever, fol- checked for the highly contagious virus at a hospi- - said its employees have been told to encourage lows a similar declaration in much tal. Given the problems at the Texas hospital, where patients with flu-like symptoms who have been in BRUSSELS: Journalists are shown the Brussel Ebola training center during a press conference smaller Senegal, where one case was Thomas Eric Duncan died and two nurses have West Africa or in contact with someone infected held by Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Brussels, yesterday. European imported from Guinea. been diagnosed with the virus, an Ebola case could with Ebola to go to a hospital. foreign ministers gathered in Luxembourg to try and come up with a joint EU response to com- Officials hope such success sto- have posed even greater problems at a clinic or The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bat the Ebola outbreak as a Spanish nurse who became the first person outside Africa to be ries will change the way the West, smaller hospital, experts say. says Ebola isn’t contagious until symptoms appear. infected tests negative for the virus. —AFP where many are currently in the grip ‘That would be an even less controlled situation,’ Ebola isn?t spread through the air like the flu; peo- of a panic about a disease brought said Dr David Weber, an epidemiologist at the ple catch it by direct contact with a sick person?s have only won a battle, the war will the government had not set up any man from spreading it further, to their shores from “Africa”, sees the University of North Carolina?s hospital. ‘The likeli- bodily fluids, such as blood or vomit. only end when West Africa is also hospital isolation unit, so he was able Benjamin Ohiaeri, a doctor there crisis. hood for that is so remote that they may never have The urgent care association recommends front declared free of Ebola.” to infect several people, including who survived the disease, told “There is focus on the worst-case thought about that.’ desk staff ask for specifics on symptoms from This year’s Ebola outbreak, the health workers in the hospital where Reuters. scenarios, which again perpetuate Still, clinics are preparing staff in case someone patients and recent travel history. worst on record, has killed 4,546 he was taken. But they acted fast Ebola is much more contagious the wrong, negative image of Africa with Ebola does walk in. They are distributing pro- If that the person has a fever, headache or other people across the three most-affect- after the doctor on duty, who later once symptoms become severe. “We as opposed to looking at some of tective gear and quickly trying to get up to speed flu-like symptoms and has been in an Ebola hot ed countries, Liberia, Guinea and herself died of the disease, quaran- agreed that the thing to do was not the areas where there has been suc- on the best protocols to teach their health spot, clinics have been told to isolate them in a sin- Sierra Leone. tined him in the hospital against his to let him out of the hospital,” Ohiaeri cess,” Abdul Tejan-Cole, a Sierra providers. gle room, Gluckman said. The clinic should call pub- Its arrival in Lagos, an overcrowd- will and contacted officials. said, even after he became aggres- Leonean who is executive director of Dr. William Gluckman of the Urgent Care lic health officials and contact a hospital to trans- ed city of 21 million people, sparked “Nigeria was not really prepared sive and demanded to be set free. the Open Society Initiative for West Association of America, which represents more than port them there as quickly as possible, per CDC fears of a doomsday scenario in for the outbreak, but the swift “If we had let him out, within 24 Africa. —Reuters 2,600 clinics, said the facilities want anyone who guidelines. —AP

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High Intensity Interval Training commutes to the cubicle

NEW YORK: High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, who is based in Placentia, California. progress so over time the body will become turer at California State University, Fullerton, said which has successfully sprinted from the playing “But for people who work in an office 12 hours a stronger.” HIIT is very effective in achieving conditioning fields of professional athletes to the fitness centers day, spending another hour at the gym might be The book, which is not limited to office-friendly effects with short periods, if both the body and of everyday exercisers, may be coming to a cubicle unreasonable.” activity, accommodates three levels of fitness: the mind build up gradually to high intensity. near you. The best exercise, he said, is the one you will do. beginner, the reasonably fit and the exerciser seek- “Unfortunately you need to go really hard if you Experts say even mini-interludes of this cardio- Foy proposes a 4-3-2-1 formula that entails four ing maximum intensity. are going really short,” he said. vascular workout, which alternates short, high- minutes of high-energy aerobic training to raise A 2013 report by the American College of Sports Kelly added that continuous moderate exercise intensity intervals with longer, slower ones, can help heart rate and metabolism, three minutes of resist- Medicine (ACSM) says that HIIT training has been also has its benefits. fend off the sedentary perils of time-pressed, com- ance training to strengthen muscles and bones, two shown to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness, “Many are claiming that just moving or stand- puter-shackled men and women. minutes of core-strengthening exercises for abs and blood pressure, cardiovascular health, abdominal ing is more beneficial for disease avoidance than a Air boxing, in-place marching, wall push-ups and back and one minute of breathing and stretching. fat and body weight while maintaining muscle quick workout in a day surrounded by laziness,” he chair jogging are among the office-friendly cardio For the desk-bound, Foy said even a minute of mass. said. Foy thinks the dialogue around fitness has to bouts that exercise physiologist Sean Foy suggests activity can have a profound, positive impact on ACSM recommends at least 30 minutes of mod- change. “Too many people say the only reason in this new book “The Burst! Workout: the Power of psychological, emotional and stress responses. erate-intensity physical activity five days per week, they exercise is that they want to lose weight,” he 10-Minute Interval Training.” “Take a sedentary person and ask them to air box or 20 minutes of more vigorous activity three days said, adding that the fitness community should “We’re pushing people like athletes, and that’s as quickly and as safely as they can and their heart per week. spread the word that exercise makes people feel great for the P90X and CrossFit crowd,” said Foy, rate will be elevated,” he said. “The key element is to Dr. Mark Kelly, an exercise physiologist and lec- better. —Reuters Has sugar lost its sweet spot?

NEW YORK: The maker of America’s top than 170 million tonnes. It is also still a rare sugar brand Domino Sugar is launching its ingredient in U.S. foods - only 1.5 percent of first no-calorie “natural” sweetener extract- new food products launched in the first ed from the stevia plant in Paraguay, the nine months of 2014 contained stevia, strongest sign yet that the upstart product Datamonitor Consumer’s database shows. is threatening to eat into raw-sugar Some health experts caution the sweet- demand. In less than a decade, the sweet- ener contains additives as well as the plant tasting stevia powder has stolen a big extract. Questions also remain whether its chunk of the $1.3-billion global market for taste can really match the flavor of sugar. artificial sweeteners as more health-con- Still, US consumers will eat and drink scious consumers use it in what they eat about 597 tonnes of stevia in manufactured and drink. food and drinks by 2018, with demand soar- Consumers’ appetite for artificial sweet- ing from a meager 14.5 tonnes in 2008, eners like Cumberland Packing Co.’s according to estimates from market Sweet’N Low and corn syrup has waned research group Euromonitor International. amid rising interest in foods perceived as Over the same period, the country’s natural. demand for artificial sweetener aspartame The powerful corporations that domi- is expected to drop by a third to 3,243 nate the global sugar market are also facing tonnes, Euromonitor’s forecasts show. U.S. slowing demand, especially in the United sugar consumption has stagnated - the States, for refined sugar that is used in average American consumed about 68 everything from coffee to cakes. The US pounds of refined sugar last year, down slowdown is due in part to concerns about from a 1972 peak of over 102 pounds, This October 19, 2014 NASA artist’s concept handout shows NASA’s Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their “duck extremely high rates of obesity and dia- according to the U.S. Agriculture and cover” maneuver to shield them from comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) on betes. Big Sugar’s response? To offer new Department (USDA). October 19. A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars on Sunday, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a- non-sugar products that are not calorific, Natural no-calorie sweeteners “have defi- are suitable for diabetes sufferers and, more nitely eroded some volume of traditional sug- million-years encounter. —AFP importantly, are seen as a more attractive ar sources,” Steve French, managing partner of alternative for health-conscious consumers market research firm Natural Marketing than artificial sweeteners. Institute (NMI) in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. “If you look down the sweeteners aisle at “It’s not that we’re using more sweeteners as a Comet Siding Spring any supermarket, there are stevia products population, we’re just shifting usage across there. Whatever consumers are looking for, different types of sweeteners.” we want to provide,” Domino President and Chief Executive Officer Brian O’Malley told Roots in Paraguay whizzes past Mars Reuters. Stevia’s roots go back to Paraguay and ASR Group, which sells Domino Sugar Brazil, where people have used leaves from and is the world’s largest refiner of cane the plant to sweeten food for centuries. sugar, will launch its new product by the It became big business in the United WASHINGTON: A comet the size of a small moun- of Mars-orbiting satellites and robots on the plan- outskirts of the solar system. end of the year - its first to be made solely States through a medical products salesman tain and about as solid as a pile of talcum powder et’s surface were primed for the flyby, hoping to As it hurtled through space it created a meteor from the plant extract rather than a blend in Arizona called James May who got his first whizzed past Mars on Sunday, dazzling space capture the rare event and collect a trove of data shower and shed debris which scientists had of sugar and stevia. taste of stevia in 1982 when a Peace Corps enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years for Earthlings to study. feared could damage valuable spacecraft. For ASR Group, which also owns the Tate volunteer returning from a stint in Paraguay encounter. The comet, known as Siding Spring, MAVEN, NASA’s latest Mars orbiter, reported “All it takes is a little tiny grain of sand traveling & Lyle brand, it’s a bold move: sugar repre- gave him some leaves to try. made its closest encounter with the Red Planet at back to Earth in “good health” after spending at that speed and you’ve got damage to solar sents 98 percent of its business. But stevia’s “After tasting them, I gave him my life 1827 GMT, racing past it at a breakneck 203,000 about three hours ducking a possible collision arrays, or your propulsion line or critical wires,” said low production costs and relatively high savings to go back to Paraguay and send kilometers (126,000 miles) per hour. with the comet’s high-velocity dust particles, the Schneider. Before the comet entered the Red retail sales prices are a sweet spot for food me some stevia leaves,” he told Reuters. At its closest, Siding Spring was 140,000 kilo- US space agency said. Planet’s orbit, NASA moved its Mars companies. After spying growing interest He now runs Wisdom Natural Brands in meters from Mars-a near miss by astronomers’ “We’re glad the spacecraft came through, we’re Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey and four years ago, Louis Dreyfus Corp.’s Gilbert, Arizona, whose SweetLeaf sweeten- standards. Before the comet buzzed Mars, it could excited to complete our observations of how the MAVEN to avoid damage by the comet’s high- Imperial Sugar has its own blends of sugar er is used in salad dressings, tortilla chips be seen in space racing toward the brightly illumi- comet affects Mars, and we’re eager to get to our speed debris. and stevia, and agri business Cargill Inc.’s and ice creams. His big breakthrough came nated planet trailed by a cloud of debris. primary science phase,” said MAVEN principal All three orbiters later reported back with a Truvia brand is the US market leader after in 2008 when US regulators approved stevia Scientists said the passing of the comet-also investigator Bruce Jakosky. clean bill of health after taking shelter behind entering the fray in 2008. as a sweetener after more than two decades known as C/2013 A1 and about a mile wide- “Mars Odyssey hard at work now to image Mars, NASA said. Archer Daniels Midland Co, a major play- of lobbying. Until then, it had been used in offered a unique chance to study its impact on #MarsComet Siding Spring, after closest approach The comet traveled more than one million er in the U.S. corn syrup market and global foods, but not as a sweetener. Mars’s atmosphere. & before dust tail hits,” NASA said on Twitter, refer- years to take its first pass by Mars, and will not commodities trade, this month completed a Some 17 percent of US consumers sur- “What could be more exciting than to have a ring to one of its robotic spacecraft. return for another million years, after it completes $3-billion acquisition of Wild Flavors, look- veyed in 2013 by the Natural Marketing whopper of an external influence like a comet, just its next long loop around the sun. ing to expand in the fast-growing “natural” Institute said they use stevia, up from just 4 so we can see how atmospheres do respond?” Duck and cover The comet was discovered by Robert markets. percent in 2008. Just under half of con- asked Nick Schneider, the remote sensing team The comet-a ball of ice, dust and pebbles-is McNaught at Australia’s Siding Spring Observatory To be sure, demand is still tiny compared sumers used table sugar, down from 57 per- leader from NASA’s MAVEN mission to Mars. believed to have originated billions of years ago in in January 2013. Its flyby of Mars was not likely to with global sugar consumption of more cent in 2008, the survey showed. —Reuters “It’s a great learning opportunity.” NASA’s fleet the Oort Cloud, a distant region of space at the be visible to sky watchers on Earth. —AFP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 Malabar Gold & Diamonds celebrates festive season with customers

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he Residence Inn by Marriott Kuwait City has offers guests inviting and functional public spaces to dential-feel suites, fully equipped kitchens, free wi-fi, recently opened its doors to the 139 suites relax or collaborate. Other hotel facilities and services and free grocery delivery for all guests are the main Tproperty to welcome its extended stay travel- include a fitness center, business center and three amenities that the property will offer its guests to ers. This is the brand’s first property in Kuwait, but it’s meeting rooms designed to accommodate small ensure they have a comfortable stay.” second in the region with an existing Residence Inn meetings or events. It is also an ideal option provid- Diane Mayer, Vice President of the Residence Inn by Marriott Manama Juffair in Bahrain. Coming to ing spacious overnight accommodations for out-of- brand, highlighted the growing Middle East and the region under a long term management agree- town wedding guests and family reunions. Rates vary Africa opportunities in the extended stay segment, ment with United Family, the Residence Inn by depending on length of stay and the hotel is now “Across the region we see demand rising for this Marriott Kuwait City has become the third brand and unique product and we are perfectly positioned with property within Marriott International’s portfolio in our expertise through the Residence Inn by Marriott Kuwait along with JW Marriott Hotel Kuwait City and brand to serve the needs of this distinct group of Courtyard by Marriott Kuwait city. travelers. Throughout this year and continuing into “We believe that Kuwait is an ideal fit to invest in a 2015, we will continue our efforts to boost the mid to brand that will accommodate the needs and desires long-term business traveler market which is seeing a of business and leisure travelers from around the tremendous growth across the Middle East and world who are constantly looking for options for Africa.” their long stays. Residence Inn by Marriott provides a Perfectly located in the Sharq business district, tremendous value for travelers through its spacious Residence Inn by Marriott Kuwait City has a lobby suites, fully equipped kitchens, and daily free hot that offers a communal environment including a self- breakfast among many other features. With the service lounge, and a warm casual restaurant - The growth in tourism, high disposable income, oil Blendz. A “grab and go” kiosk/market offering snacks, wealth and economic development and increase in basic food items, newspapers, magazines and various infrastructural projects that are underway, we are sundries is located adjacent to the front desk. Three confident that this dynamic product will find huge fully equipped meeting rooms are available with success in Kuwait,” expressed George Aoun, Cluster state-of-the-art technology and a professional event General Manager of Kuwait Marriott Hotels. management team to handle all details. Overlooking A long-standing leader in the extended-stay seg- the beautiful blue waters of the Arabian Gulf, the ment, Residence Inn by Marriott has the third-largest open for bookings for all stays for all dates. sun-drenched meeting rooms are an ideal location number of hotels and revenue in the Marriott Ghazi Al Nafisi, Chairman of United Family, said, for any corporate events and meetings. Residence International portfolio worldwide. Designed for a “The Middle East is a region that continuously proves Inn featuring its fitness facilities will allow travelers to traveler who seeks balance on the road, along with its passion for growth and expansion, especially in continue with their regular routine of a healthy and large suites and upscale amenities, Residence Inn Kuwait where we are seeing huge projects in the balanced lifestyle. hotels are ideal for guests who need accommodation pipeline. Residence Inn by Marriott Kuwait City will for a day, a week, a month or more. set a new trend in the market, with its extra spacious Residence Inn by Marriott Kuwait City extends the suites, ranging from suites to two-bedroom accom- feeling of a comfortable home away from home and modations. A mix of 139 spacious, stylish and resi- WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014

Group picture of cake cutting. Holiday Inn Salmiya team. Holiday Inn Salmiya celebrates 9 years of success among the presence of media, press & hotel guests

oliday Inn Kuwait Salmiya cele- the Management of the hotel headed ness suites for the long staying guest brated nine years of success by Monjed Salha, the general manag- which is totally inspired with a touch Hand achievements, where the er who expressed his delight in hav- of elegance and comfort and hotel proven its presence in the world ing this event, warmly welcomed their designed to feel more like a comfort- of hospitality & also won the satisfac- presence on this occasion and able private residence than a hotel tion and approval of its guest in expressed his appreciation for their accommodation. Kuwait and abroad at both business constant support for the hotel during The hotel also offers a wide range and pleasure level. the year around and wished them to of excellent restaurants that serve The day began with a wonderful have a great evening. Everyone was both Regional and International festive atmosphere where the lobby invited for a group picture and cutting Cuisines, each with a unique style, had a great adornment reflecting the cake. EDGE Fitness Center a fully equipped spirit of this ceremony. An exclusive Holiday Inn Salmiyah launched 24 hours Health Club, the rainbow cocktail reception was hosted in hon- many special offers that met the kids’ club available to all your little or of all media personnel and hotel in- expectations and satisfaction of all ones, extensive Outside Catering, house guests at Tang Chao as a recog- hotel guests as they were welcomed Meeting and Banquet facilities accom- nition and gratitude from the hotel in opulent rooms and suites that modating every type of event from management for their usual presence offers the ultimate in luxury accom- small business meetings to large and continued support and loyalty to modations featuring an abundance of social gatherings. the hotel. technology amenities convenience of All attendees were welcomed by hotel guest, in addition to the busi- Holiday Inn team cutting cake.

GM Monjed Salha, with Ramy Hamdoun & Fayad Abbass. Maged Hanna with Holiday Inn guests. Lobby decorations.

Holiday Inn team with the media family. Haydar Rafraf, Sarah Khansa, Monjed Salha and Shereen Al Monoufy.

Marketing & PR team - Haydar Rafraf & Shereen Al P31N: Taleb Kanjo & Simon Slim. Shereen Al Monoufy with Ahmad Al Ali. Dolly Chatat and Joseph Ziade Monoufy.

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Kuwait ACCOMMODATION Sharing accommodation KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY near Salmiya City Center, Gadeer clinic building, (16/10/2014 TO 22/10/2014) Bahrain street, Salmiya. Tel: 66792392, 50505384. (C 4787) SHARQIA-1 FANAR-1 20-10-2014 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 12:30 PM THE BEST OF ME (DIG) 1:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 2:30 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 3:45 PM Sharing accommodation OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 4:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 5:45 PM AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 6:30 PM THE BEST OF ME (DIG) 7:45 PM near Salmiya City Center, OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 8:45 PM ONE DIRECTION: Where we are- The Concet film 6:00 PM Gadeer clinic building, THE GUEST (DIG) 10:45 PM ONE DIRECTION: Where we are- The Concet film 8:00 PM Bahrain street, Salmiya. Tel: ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:45 AM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:00 PM 66792392, 50505384. OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 12:05 AM (C 4787) SHARQIA-2 19-10-2014 THE JUDGE (DIG) 1:45 PM FANAR-2 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 4:30 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 12:45 PM THE JUDGE (DIG) 7:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 2:45 PM CHANGE OF NAME THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 10:00 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:30 AM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:45 PM The public is hereby noti- SHARQIA-3 fied that BABY GIRL JACK- JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:00 PM FANAR-3 IELOU BELARMINO ESCON- NO FRI+SAT RIBBIT (DIG) 1:15 PM DO II, has filed with the RIBBIT (DIG) 2:00 PM RIBBIT (DIG) 3:00 PM Philippine Embassy in the RIBBIT (DIG) 4:00 PM BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 4:45 PM State of Kuwait a Migrant JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 7:45 PM Petition for Petition for JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:45 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 10:45 PM Correction on Clerical Error Jackielou II, which is the JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:45 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 AM in the date of marriage and true and correct first name first name of wife in the of wife. Any person having MUHALAB-1 MARINA-1 Report of Marriage THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 1:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:30 PM knowledge and/or claiming between Baby Girl THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 4:00 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 2:30 PM interest or may be adverse- OKA LAILA KOSAM (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 4:30 PM Jackielou Belarmino ly affected by said Petition ANNABELLE (DIG) 7:00 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 6:30 PM Escondo and Peter may file his or her written THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 9:00 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 8:30 PM Constantine Convento opposition with the THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 11:45 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:30 PM Catibog. The date of mar- Philippine Embassy in the ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:30 AM riage should be written as State of Kuwait within ten MUHALAB-2 28 March 2012, which is (10) working days. (C 4788) RIBBIT (DIG) 12:30 PM MARINA-2 the true and correct date of 21-10-2014 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 2:30 PM RIBBIT (DIG) 1:00 PM marriage. The first name of RIBBIT (DIG) 4:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 3:00 PM wife should be Baby Girl OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 6:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:05 AM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 AM Prayer timings MARINA-3 Fajr: 04:33 THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY MUHALAB-3 THE JUDGE (DIG) 1:00 PM FORCIVIL INFORMATION JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:30 PM RIBBIT (DIG-3D) 3:45 PM Shorook 05:52 Automated enquiry JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 3:30 PM RIBBIT (DIG-3D) 5:30 PM Duhr: 11:33 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:30 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 7:15 PM about the Civil ID card is Asr: 14:47 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:30 PM THE JUDGE (DIG) 10:00 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:30 AM 1889988 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:45 AM Maghrib: 17:13 Isha: 18:30

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CROSSWORD 701 STAR TRACK

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

This is a significant day; the energies are not too lazy or too stressful. There Today is an extremely busy day. Much is accomplished as you go through is time for accomplishing tasks or setting things up to work in your favor. this day. There are opportunities at the noon break to really enjoy some Educational matters may be high on your priority list now. You may even be considering time away from work; catch a breath. A co-worker may have a surprise for you during the the job of tutoring someone else in order to make a little extra income. Intense-passionate noon break. Your refreshed, bright energetic mind and attitude makes work easy to tackle feelings and drive will be at your command for a long time. You want to accomplish things this afternoon. Your charisma shows and your friends enjoy your company. Pay attention and get others to do the same. Take time to smell the flowers. You could find yourself driv- to your dreams-they contain valuable insights for you now. This could be an area of great en to dig and search deep within the human passions, deep in the psyche. Close personal enlightenment for you. Friendly interaction with the opposite sex may occur this evening. ties to other people are a focal point for your feelings-marriage and other partnerships If you are away from home tonight, be good to yourself and get home at a reasonable could be a key arena for this. Finances are boosted tonight. time, healthy, wealthy and wise. Happy birthday!

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

Although you will find an overall increase in your finances this month, you You may find that both your personal growth and your career depend upon may also find an increased urge to spend. Less is sometimes better-every month may not how you can handle some sensitive material that may be coming up now fare so well. Savings and investments should take uppermost attention now. Consider that between co-workers. You will benefit from analytical insights, getting to the truth of a your financial earnings could be best found in the medical or health food fields. At this matter, penetrating. Your mind is clear and your thoughts will bring a sharp focus to any time, you may consider travel to a foreign land, especially if your job is in import-export. difficult situation at this time. It should be easy to organize your thoughts-communication There is a greater than usual interest in social connections and the arts. Seeing both sides of all kinds can be furthered. Your thoughts count-use your mind-communicate. Take time of an issue-and figuring out resolutions to opposing views-take on more importance in for a lunch break away from your business-whether you are at home or in an office. your life. The ideal partnership, the perfect balance, the highest standards of truth and Organize periods of recreation with family and friends. By organizing your time creatively, beauty are some of the things that quicken your pulse now. you can accommodate your needs and those of others.

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

Meeting yourself in another person is a subject you may ponder at this time. You may not feel as though you are clear with your instructions to others . . . Relationships-romantic, business, social-are the areas where this may be Perhaps you are not as familiar with some product as you would like. played. Coming to know the other person and what causes ties that bind two people Consider a little research as well as requesting some hands-on study. This makes it much ACROSS DOWN helps you to a better understanding of yourself. It’s easy in theory, but it’s only in practice easier to explain or answer questions. There are also times that you get so busy you may 1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by 1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake that it comes to mean anything real-so practice until you get it right! You will be able to not realize you have not been clear. Take turns to ask questions and discover how you can behavioral and learning disorders. Chad. use your finely tuned skills and expertise to solve problems and feel successful. Figuring clarify or enlighten others. Take time to write down one or two words that will help you 2. (informal) Exceptionally good. things out, spotting the fly in the ointment and separating the sheep from the goats begin remember where you were when you do become distracted or interrupted. There are 4. Pronounce with a lowered velum. good practical job-related thoughts and ideas this afternoon. Ideas for enlarging your liv- 12. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid. 3. An informal term for a father. to take on a special appeal for you. The difficulties, blocks, all many heated situations will smooth out nicely when you take the controls. You are humble but secure. ing space may include some recently learned building techniques. 15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere 4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow near Telescopium and Norma. leaves and small flowers. 16. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs. 5. A human limb. 17. An accountant certified by the state. 6. A vast Asian region of Russia. ) 7. A line spoken by an actor to the audience Cancer (June 21-July 22 Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal. but not intended for others on the stage. 19. The act of consuming liquids. You seem to be in charge of some new project this today. A solid plan needs There is a growing self-confidence and outgoing attitude-the constant 8. Open to change. developing very early. Make it as simple and practical as possible, especially 20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that inward examination and learning will soon come to a close. You have a 9. Of or relating to located near the iris of the if there are going to be several hands in the making of the end result. If you need a loan, was responsible for research into atomic ener- growing sense of direction and self-worth and will find the urge strong to reach out and eye. today brings high probabilities of having a loan granted to you. Refinement and relation- establish yourself. This is a period of great social involvement-especially with neighbors gy and its peacetime uses in the United States. 10. A typical star that is the source of light and ships are the keys to emotional satisfaction for you on the home front. Discussions about and brothers or sisters. Learning and teaching seems to satisfy an important need and 21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of heat for the planets in the solar system. education may draw your attention and you give thought to how society goes about edu- being more in touch with other people gives you a sense of belonging. You may have the the Old World. cating the young. Close personal ties to people are a focal point for your feelings-marriage urge to overspend or indulge too much just now. Careful-you could be guiding a young 11. A graphical record of electric currents asso- and other partnerships could be a key arena for this. You may become more actively 23. Make editorial changes (in a text). ciated with muscle contractions. person today and may want to set an example. You will prosper by diving in and following involved on a social level, taking a bigger part in collective events. a plan to help you accomplish your goals-making your dreams real. 25. A public promotion of some product or 12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue. service. 13. An organization of countries formed in 26. Relying on another for support. 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. Any place of complete bliss and delight and of petroleum. Leo (July 23-August 22) peace. 14. 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A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part skewer usually with vegetables. of an organism. 65. Jordan's port. 75. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus 67. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly having thin pale bark that scales off in small aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads stems and roots and leaves. of fruits. 68. Strong woody fibers obtained especially 78. System of measurement based on centime- from the phloem of from various plants. ters and grams and seconds. 70. (physics and chemistry) The smallest com- ponent of an element having the chemical 79. A port city in northeastern Greece on an properties of the element. inlet of the Aegean Sea. 71. Something causes misery or death. 81. A light touch or stroke. 72. A blue dye obtained from plants or made 82. Headdress that protects the head from bad synthetically. weather. 76. A local computer network for communica- 83. 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The creators pored over the maga- Davy Rothbart was still a little zine’s archive of some 10,000 notes, put- Adazed. The celebratory drinks after- ting some into projected thought bub- ward sure didn’t hurt, but those weren’t bles, wry commentary on the action - what kept him floored. He’d just watched “You are here in the friend zone. That’s an actor portray him in a new, semi-fic- all” and song lyrics. Rothbart offered tionalized musical account of the way he’d feedback but stayed out of the creating started the super-cool magazine “Found” process. and how its success nearly destroyed him. “It’s like looking at a funhouse mirror and Applauded the effort seeing your own life reflected back to The bizarre and funny tunes include you,” Rothbart said over coffee while wait- the bizarre childish rambling “Cats Are ing for a movie. “It’s a really wild ride. It Cats” - including the indecipherable was like doing mushrooms.” word “dlerd” that is faithfully sung - and A drug metaphor is sort of appropri- the he-man musings of “Lord Patrick, ate for the quirky and surreal musical King of the Ladies.” Only names and itself. “Found,” now playing at the phone numbers have been changed to Atlantic Theater Company, is a rollicking protect the real authors. Actor Nick account of how Rothbart built a mini- Blaemire, who has been on Broadway in empire on misdirected or discarded “Godspell” and “Cry-Baby,” plays Rothbart notes and other ephemera that litter the and he and the cast - including Barrett streets. “Found” magazine - and its web- Wilbert Weed and Betsy Morgan, who site - is a fascinating compilation of play romantic rivals - have wrestled with poetry on napkins, to-do lists, misdirect- wrapping their heads around a complex ed emails, love letters, random notes show with some 600 different cues. and scribbles. They are sometimes funny “I haven’t been able to explain it to or scary and often touching. Or weird. anybody. I just say, ‘You have to come One reads: “You bring the paper bag, I’ll see it.’ In rehearsal, we all had that actor’s bring the handcuffs... let’s party.” fear of, ‘Am I in a thing that’s unexplain- “You get to see people at their most able?’ And then we realized, ‘Yes, I am - in This image released by 20th Century Fox shows, from left, Ben Affleck, Patrick Fugit, David Clennon, Lisa Barnes and Kim Dickens unselfconscious. There’s a truth to them,” the best way.’” in a scene from “Gone Girl.” —AP says Rothbart. “They’re so un-self-con- Critics have applauded the effort, scious, revealing, honest and raw.” His with the New York Post calling it “the mother calls them “people watching on best date-night show of the season” and paper.” He stumbled over the concept in The New York Times declaring it an 2000 after finding a misdirected note on “engaging oddball of a musical” and his car windshield intended for a cheat- “imperfect but endearing.” Rothbart, Box Office: Pitt’s ‘Fury’ edges ing boyfriend. Celebrating such notes who has also become a writer and film- has spawned a magazine, tours in which maker, says the musical captures what Rothbart reads aloud the notes, and art he loves about “Found,” which is “cele- gallery installations. brating our collective weirdness.” “When Now, as unlikely as it sounds, it’s a you’re laughing at a found note, you’re out ‘Book of Life,’ ‘Gone Girl’ musical, with a book by Hunter Bell and laughing at yourself,” he says. “You know Lee Overtree, and music and lyrics by Eli you’ve written that same pitiful love let- Bolin. Bell wrote the Obie-winning “(title ter or to-do list or journal entry. We’ve all rad Pitt and a squadron of up-and- story that deals with dark subject matter. “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No of show),” while Overtree and Bolin have been there. Or maybe we’ve never been coming actors held off “Gone Girl” at The bloody action film is set in the waning Good, Very Bad Day” showed more staying worked with Story Pirates, which makes there but we can imagine what it’s like.” Bthe multiplexes this weekend as days of World War II and follows a gruff power despite the release of another family theatrical shows from stories written by —AP “Fury” topped box office charts with a $23.5 Sherman tank commander (Pitt), an idealis- film, “The Book of Life.” The Disney live million debut. Despite surrendering first tic newbie (Logan Lerman) and his crew action comedy dipped a mere 35% to $11.3 place after two weeks wearing the crown, (Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf) million, enough to capture fourth place. “Gone Girl” had impressive stamina. David on an impossible mission. Sony Pictures Opera buffs turned out in force for the Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best- released the $68 million production which Metropolitan Opera’s live transmission of selling mystery dropped just 32 percent to was backed by QED and LStar Capital, It was Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” on $17.8 million. Its total now stands at $107.1 written and directed by David Ayer (“End of Saturday, with an estimated attendance of million and it is striking distance of surpass- Watch”). The opening is slightly lower than 90,000 in North America, which gave the ing “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” projections, which predicted a debut of $25 special event a $2.1 million gross from 900 ($127.5 million) as Fincher’s highest-gross- million. But Sony said the film is resonating screens. In limited release, Fox Searchlight’s ing domestic release. Water cooler effect with audiences, which could help it build “Birdman” achieved liftoff, riding a boatload achieved. word-of-mouth. of rave reviews to a $415,000 debut in just In third place, 20th Century Fox and Reel “As people leave the theater, it resonates four theaters. That accounts for a dazzling FX’s Day of the Dead themed animated fan- with them and it takes them on a journey per-screen average of $103,750. It’s the sec- tasy, “The Book of Life” took in $17 million and provokes conversation,” said Rory Bruer, ond best debut from a per-screen standpoint across 3,071 theaters. The weekend’s other Sony Pictures president of worldwide distri- since “The Grand Budapest Hotel” bowed in wide release, Relativity’s “The Best of Me,” bution. “We’re seeing a lot of social media March to a $202,792 average. racked up $10.2 million from 2,936 theaters, conversation going on, and I believe we’re Another art house standout was “Dear good enough for fifth place, but below such going to get a terrific multiple and be White People,” which Roadside and Lionsgate previous Nicholas Sparks’ pictures as “The around for a long time.” launched on 11 screens in New York, Los Notebook” ($13.5 million debut) and “Dear Angeles, Washington DC and Atlanta. The John” ($30.5 million). The animated picture More staying power race relations satire grossed $344,136, for a cost $50 million to produce, while romantic “Fury” played to an opening crowd that heady per screen average of $31,285. The drama carries a $26 million price tag. was 60 percent male, and 51% over 35 years Weinstein Company expanded “St Vincent” Relativity says that foreign and ancillary pre- old. Among holdovers, “Dracula Untold” fell from four theaters to 68, earning $685,000 In this Oct 10, 2014 photo, actor Nick Blaemire, left, and magazine pub- sales and tax credits limit its exposure on 58% to $9.9 million, bringing its domestic and a per screen average of $10,074. The Bill lisher Davy Rothbart pose in downtown New York. —AP the film to $5 million. total to $40.7 million, and “The Judge” Murray comedy co-stars Melissa McCarthy “Fury” relied on Pitt’s star power and dropped 41% to $7.9 million, giving it $26.8 and was backed by Chernin Entertainment. It strong critical notices to attract crowds to a million after two weeks. goes wide next weekend. —Reuters Singer Neil Diamond digs An android opera: Japan’s Shibuya for ‘real gold’ with new album plots new era of robot music ife and death, surveillance and privacy, humans and ing noodles, helping patients undergo physiotherapy and aking music is all about “dig- experiences over a period of years, my his unique sound, and it seems to be robots: Keiichiro Shibuya likes to unsettle and push even helping in the clean-up after the 2011 nuclear melt- ging inside of yourself” for observations, my impressions... It’s a working as his 2008 album, “Home Lboundaries in music. The Japanese composer made down at Fukushima. And Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka M“real gold”, Neil Diamond, journey, a musical journey.” The musi- Before Dark” topped charts in the a stir in 2012 when he created the first ever virtual opera University, is the master of robotic science, known for cre- one of the bestselling singer-song- cian, a member of the Rock and Roll United States and Britain. “I try to starring a computer-generated image of a girl, and he is ations such as his recent news-reading android. writers of all time, told AFP in an inter- Hall of Fame whose music has been avoid getting involved with or being now preparing to go a step further with a show per- He even has a humanoid version of himself which he view. Speaking in London before this covered by artists as diverse as Elvis infected by the music that I hear on formed by singing androids made by leading roboticist sends overseas to give lectures. But beyond his country’s week’s release of his latest album, Presley and Andrea Bocelli, has stuck the radio, the music that’s on records,” Hiroshi Ishiguro. obvious propensity for robotic breakthroughs, Shibuya “Melody Road”, the 73-year-old said to his classic style in his new work. Diamond said. “I’m focusing on my “I have a project that I will put on later with robots that says he is trying to understand the very nature of art via that success is often down to luck and A mix of rock, country and folk, music and I have to stay clear of every- have human form,” said the 41-year-old, in Paris yesterday his high-tech creations. being a musician is a gamble. “It’s not peppered with love songs, “Melody thing else while I’m doing that.” Will he for a separate solo concert called “Perfect Privacy” that a very practical way to live your life, Road” was greeted as a “schmaltzy but ever retire? “I think it would be horrid sees him marry traditional piano playing with computer- the odds are against you being able to well-crafted honeymoon album” by for me, stopping would be very diffi- generated music and sounds. “There will be only robots make a living doing it. the Guardian newspaper-Diamond cult,” Diamond said. “It’s part of who I on stage, no human beings,” he told AFP of his future proj- “But if you insist then you have to married his third wife Kate McNeil, am.” Or as he croons on “Melody Road”, ect planned for 2016, acknowledging that he likes to devote yourself almost entirely to it three decades his junior, in 2012. The the title track of the eponymous unsettle and stir up intense emotions with high-tech cre- and remain passionate about it,” musician said he tends to avoid being album: “Melody road I’m on with you, ations. Diamond said. The Brooklyn native, influenced by other music to protect all the way to the end.” —AFP who has sold 128 million albums with Hunted by paparazzi hits such as “Red Red Wine”, “Sweet With his trademark long fringe covering part of his Caroline” and “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman face, Shibuya is fast becoming a household name in Soon”, was in London to promote his Japan, where his electronic music, piano and futuristic cre- latest album. “Definition of optimism: ations have placed him firmly in the limelight. He is also bringing my sunglasses to London,” he dating well-known actress Miho Nakayama, and the joked to his 810,000 Twitter followers paparazzi hunt for proof of their relationship was an inspi- as he arrived. “When you’re creating ration for “Perfect Privacy”, yesterday’s concert that will see the music, you’re compiling ideas, scores of cameras installed in the Theatre du Chatelet to you’re digging inside of yourself, project his every move on stage onto a giant screen. The you’re reflecting on the past,” concert in the French capital comes almost a year after he Diamond said. “It’s a pretty difficult put on his sell-out virtual opera “The End”, which tackles “When a human being plays something, when he cre- process. But it’s supposed to be diffi- life and death, at the same theatre. ates art, others are impressed or moved,” he said. “Why? cult. If it were easy, you couldn’t really That show starred Hatsune Miku, a virtual young girl Because they feel that this human being has made an dig down and get the real gold, the whose image is projected on stage and who “sings” effort, has performed perfectly as a human being? Or important elements that you’re look- through a vocal synthesizer-a so-called “Vocaloid”. Miku because the art itself is beautiful? We don’t really know.” ing for.” has become a star in Japan, performing in concerts Putting on an opera without any human beings around the country and she even appeared on David involved is one way of finding out,” says Shibuya, adding ‘A musical journey’ Letterman’s Late Show earlier this month, leaving the smil- he aims to put on “something beautiful but created by Dressed in a taupe blazer with a ing host slightly bemused. something other than a human being.” Shibuya started carefully trimmed salt and pepper playing the piano when he was six, and has never stopped beard, as he appears on the front of Robot newsreader despite branching off into electronic music with his ATAK his new album, Diamond met AFP in a Shibuya’s next opera will be even more futuristic with music label. But his experiments with high-technology are luxury hotel and explained that his several androids designed by Ishiguro singing on stage, what really make him stand out. “If others appreciate latest work is very personal. “The story and the music entirely computer-generated. Robots are something that was created by something other than a of Melody Road is the story of my life,” used in Japan to perform a variety of tasks such as cook- human being, it’s a new type of pleasure,” he says. —AFP Diamond said. “It takes us through my Neil Diamond LIFESTYLE37 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 Music & Movies ‘Little Apple’: The hit song all of China is singing

as China found its own “Gangnam Style”? banking scams. “We changed the words to make Abe and the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki- of ethnic minorities. “But with Xiao Pingguo that’s From Beijing parks to Shanghai skyscrap- people aware,” a police officer said in comments moon. The song’s success has also put a spotlight not the case,” she added. Hers and in Guangzhou factories to karaoke broadcast on CCTV. And a clip showing soldiers on “Da Ma”-the old ladies who gather every rooms in Macau, people are singing “Little dancing to “Xiao Pingguo” with child survivors of morning and evening to dance in city squares Not K-pop Apple”-a song apparently so catchy it has even an August earthquake that killed 600 people in across China. Zheng Xiaomin, a 76-year-old Despite its nationwide appeal, there are few won over the army and police. Calling them- the southwest became an online sensation. retiree in Beijing, said the Xiao Pingguo dance expectations that “Little Apple” will become the selves the “Chopsticks Brothers”, Xiao Yang and There are countless other amateur videos of phenomenon has brought more people together, kind of global phenomenon that was “Gangnam Wang Taili are neither brothers nor composers, groups of people dancing to the song, including although she was happy to remain a spectator. Style”, the stratospheric 2012 hit by South Korea’s but are responsible for a hit that has become a air stewardesses, cheerleaders, firefighters and “In a park, it is usually embarrassing to be seen Psy that has been viewed on YouTube more than nationwide phenomenon. students. One parody brings together North putting your hands on the shoulder or hip of a 2.1 billion times. In contrast the Chopstick “Xiao Pingguo” (Little Apple) was originally Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Barack Obama, partner,” said the former typographer, who used Brothers’ video has only clocked up three million intended to promote their latest film when it was Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo to translate official documents into the dialects hits on the site, which is blocked in China by the released in July, but has proven to be an ear- country’s vast network of Internet controls, worm-the kind of song so insistent it gets stuck despite South Korean K-pop singer and actress in the brain. “This song is easy to follow, the pace Bae Seul-Ki also featuring prominently. Experts is basic and repetitive. Even the old ladies in pub- say Xiao Pingguo lacks the Westernized ingredi- lic gardens are learning it quickly,” said Zeng ents that helped Psy find such success. Qiumei, a marketing manager from Sichuan Chinese pop music has remained within its province. The accompanying music video has borders-unlike K-pop which has assimilated vari- notched up more than 50 million views on ous influences to help it conquer Southeast Asia Chinese video sites such as Sohu, iQiyi and and Japan as well as gain attention beyond the Youku. continent, Chinese music critic Hao Fang told The surreal six-minute clip begins with a AFP. “China does not focus on the development botched plastic surgery operation before cutting of its cultural and creative industries” in the way to Xiao and Wang naked in the Garden of Eden. that South Korea does, he said. “The songs are They then appear in a number of sequences, stylistically outdated. ‘Xiao Pingguo’ takes on a including dressed as mermaids on a beach or act- disco beat heard in 1980s and 1990s China. This ing as village children. The lyrics are largely non- prevents it from competing with current pop sense, with the chorus running “You’re my little music from the rest of the world,” said Fang, apple, you’re my little apple”. Even so, and per- decrying its popularity as “definitely a shame for haps aided by relaxed attitudes towards intellec- the country”. tual property in China, the tune has become And for all its mass appeal, it seems that “Xiao ubiquitous-whether playing on smartphone ring- Pingguo” still has a long way to go before it wins tones to shopping malls, nightclubs and gyms. the hearts and minds of the state. After President Xi Jinping called on artists to promote socialism Moves like ‘Da Ma’ and serve the people last week, China’s official The People’s Liberation Army in the city of This picture shows paramilitary soldiers dancing to a song by Chinese video director duo the news agency Xinhua decried “vulgar, repetitive Xian has used the song in a recruitment video, “Chopstick Brothers”, the “Xiaopingguo”, which means “little apple”, during a joint show par- and fast-food art works”. “Not a single Chinese pop while police in Shandong last month modified ticipated by local governmental department and security personnels in Heihe. —AFP song has gained as much international popularity the lyrics for a broadcast warning about phone- as ‘Gangnam Style’ did,” it lamented. —AFP Queen guitarist rocks out with Victorian 3D photos

ueen guitarist Brian May yes- terday launched an exhibition Qfrom his collection of Victorian 3D photographs, united for the first time with the famous paintings they tried to recreate. Staged using props and actors, the “stereoscopic” cards were a British middle-class craze from the 1850s to the 1870s-giving anyone with a viewer a three-dimensional glimpse of the era’s celebrated but rarely seen artworks. Triggered by childhood cereal box giveaways, May has held a lifelong passion for 3D photos and the 67- year-old rock star’s now 100,000- strong collection of stereoscopes is one of the biggest in the world. The exhibition at London’s Tate Britain gallery, matching up the 3D photo Singer Bob Seger poses for a portrait in a Capitol Records studio on Thursday in Los Angeles. —AP recreations with the original Victorian British musician Brian May poses with an owl viewer in front of John paintings, is a dream come true for Everett Millais painting ‘Hearts are Trumps’ in 1872. —AFP photos Still the Same: Bob Seger the guitar wizard. launching tour, album

t 69, Bob Seger says he’s ready to hit the road again: years ago.” Seger - a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of He’s scaled back smoking and bicycles 10 miles a Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame - plans to play sev- Aday as part of a workout routine. “I think I’m in pret- eral songs off his new album on tour, plus a mix of staples ty good shape,” Seger said in a phone interview, noting that he knows he must perform, including “Night Moves,” that a colonoscopy from a few years ago was clean and he “Mainstreet” and “Turn the Page.” just had a checkup for his tour to promote “Ride Out,” the “There’s about eight of them that you cannot not do” album released last week and his first since 2006. or fans get upset, Seger said, noting that over time he The 25-city tour begins Nov 19 in Saginaw, Michigan, and his Silver Bullet Band have tried dropping a few and continues into next year. Seger isn’t saying whether from the set list. “Ride Out” features a mix of rock songs, he’ll continue touring beyond that, though he definitely covers and ballad-like tunes, including one that takes on plans to continue creating music: “I just take it tour by tour.” the topic of climate change. “It’s all about my kids,” Seger He acknowledges that it is much tougher to get radio time said. “I’m not going to be around that much longer but British musician Brian May poses A Victorian stereoscopic photograph by Michael Burr entitled ‘Death for his music these days, and that the digital transforma- we’ve all got to worry about our kids and their future.” — with an owl viewer. of Chatterton’ c 1861. tion has reshaped the industry. “It’s half the size it was 10 AP

“It’s only recently that I realized the re-creation, then look up and see Gallery”, which May co-authored with Singer James Blunt calls how intimately they were connected,” the original painting. “When people French expert Denis Pellerin, a stereo May told AFP. “The stereoscopic side look at the paintings, they go, ‘oh, photography historian. It unravels in was always regarded as not quite beautiful’. When they look through detail the links between the two very ‘You’re Beautiful’ annoying artistic or as valid as the painting side the stereoscope they go ‘oh, wow!’” different-but at the time competing- but in this exhibition, you can make said May. “This stuff, the very earliest, art forms. “Stereoscopy was the poor ritish singer-songwriter James Blunt has described “force-fed down people’s throats”. The song was Blunt’s up your own mind.” Just as two eyes is full of the excitement of the new- relation of photography, just as pho- the multi-million selling song that made his name, break-out hit when it was released in 2005, topping produce three-dimensional vision, ness of the medium. “I’m really tography was the poor relation of art BYou’re Beautiful, as “annoying” and says it was charts from the United States to Australia. It sold more two pictures taken eye-width apart, thrilled. I hope people get a kick out in the beginning,” Pellerin told AFP. than three million copies in the US alone, where it topped when laid side by side and seen of seeing this stuff.” “The whole point of this exhibition is the charts, and was number one in ten countries includ- through a viewer, produce a 3D The exhibition coincides with a to show people that stereoscopy is an ing the UK, Spain and Canada. image. heavyweight book of these Victorian art.” —AFP But Blunt, a former soldier who served with NATO in At the Tate gallery, visitors can see images, called “The Poor Man’s Picture Kosovo, has admitted there was a flipside to having such a massive global hit. “There was one song that was force- fed down people’s throats, ‘You’re Beautiful’, and it became annoying, and then people start to associate the artist with the same word,” Blunt said in an interview in the latest edition of Hello! magazine, to be published today. The song tells the story of Blunt’s surprise at seeing an ex-girlfriend on the London Underground with anoth- er man. The 40-year-old musician added that, because of the success of the track, his music had been marketed to women-and he had therefore lost out on male fans. “The marketing also painted me out as an insanely serious per- son, an earnest person and, as all my friends know, I’m anything but,” Blunt said. “I have a couple of over-emo- tional miserable songs that I’m known for, but I think it’s turned that corner now.” The album that contained the song, “Back to Bedlam”, was the most-sold in the United Kingdom in the 2000s and went platinum all over the world. Several versions of ‘You’re Beautiful’ have been released, the latest being a remixed version in Japan in 2012. Blunt also sang a different version (From left) Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp, John Keeble, Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and Gary Kemp of the song, “My Triangle”, when he appeared on the chil- pose for photographers during the photo call of the documentary ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’, in James Blunt dren’s television program Sesame Street. —AFP Rome, yesterday. —AP lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 FEATURES

View of the Louis Vuitton Foundation designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. — AFP photos ‘Glass ship’ Vuitton museum kicks off art-rich week in Paris

merging from the woods at the edge of Paris like a glass ship, the hyper-modern ELouis Vuitton art museum was inaugurated yesterday, kicking off an art-filled week in the French capital. A flurry of cultural activity ending with the highly-anticipated reopening of the Picasso museum after an extensive five-year renovation has been hailed by the city as proof that Paris still has an edge among the world’s art capitals. However the week began with controversy after a sculpture erected on the ritzy Place Vendome was vandalized amid outrage-and mirth-over its resemblance to a sex toy. American artist Paul McCarthy, 69, ultimately decided not to reinstall the giant inflatable sculpture called “The Tree”. “Paris has been and will always be an old lady. But she is a magnificent old dame, sparkling, insolent, even audacious, whose history is inti- mately linked to art,” wrote an editorialist in the Parisian daily. “And the beautiful lady is not afraid to be scandalous... she still knows how to seduce,” the article said, referring to the outrage over View of a model of the Louis Vuitton Foundation. View of the early models of the Louis Vuitton Foundation. McCarthy’s work, and the art-rich week ahead. never designed anything exactly like it,” Gehry on Saturday after five years of renovation said on the foundation’s website, which describes engulfed in controversy. ‘Cultural calling of France’ it as “an iconic building for the 21st century”. The museum’s president Anne Baldessari was A decade in the making, the impressive Louis Gehry is best known for designing the Walt sacked mid-renovation after a public spat with Vuitton Foundation museum will be inaugurated Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles staff, a move which angered the painter’s son a week before its official opening to the public. and the Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao, Claude Picasso who said he was “scandalized and The private contemporary art museum was Spain. The Paris building was highly controversial very worried” about the future of the museum. financed by Bernard Arnault, who heads up the and parliament had to pass a special law allowing The price tag for the refurbishment of the 17th- LVMH luxury goods empire and whose net worth for it to be built after local groups wanting to pre- century baroque mansion in Paris’s historic Marais is estimated at almost $30 billion (23 billion serve the park’s character won a court battle that quarter also shot up amid the delays. euros) by Forbes. The foundation was designed blocked construction. The final bill now stands at 52 million euros, 22 by 85-year-old architect Frank Gehry who wanted million euros higher than the original budget, to “design, in Paris, a magnificent vessel symboliz- Finally, Picasso due to changes in the scope of the work. Putting ing the cultural calling of France”. Aside from the foundation’s glitzy inaugura- the squabbles in the past, the museum is now A transparent cloud of 12 glass sails billows tion by President Francois Hollande, the FIAC ready to unveil around 5,000 paintings, drawings, around the main building, referred to by the contemporary art fair also gets under way on sculptures, ceramics, photographs and docu- architect as “the iceberg”, which sits above a Thursday, with 26 countries displaying art in ments. Previously only a fraction of these could sunken lake on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne 191 galleries at the Grand Palais museum. And be displayed at any one time, but the museum’s park. The architect says he was inspired by the to cap off the week, the Picasso Museum, which exhibition space was more than doubled to 3,800 lightness of late 19th-century glass and garden houses one of the world’s most extensive col- square meters (41,000 square feet) during the architecture. “It is a very unusual building. I have lections of the Spanish master’s work, reopens Interior view of the Louis Vuitton Foundation. renovation. — AFP Underworld queen Persephone uncovered On the road to find in Greek myth mosaic the world’s funniest person

t was last summer and Israeli-Palestinian lowing another competition and vote, the tensions were at the highest they’d been winner will be crowned on Friday, Oct 24, Iin some time when Jamie Masada hit on United Nations Day. “It might sound stupid,” a formula for world peace: Forget about Masada says. “But some people, they sit guns and bombs, and just tell jokes to each down, they break bread together, they nev- other. The onetime stand-up comic is, after er hurt each other. Some people, they sit A handout picture all, the owner of the venerable Hollywood down, they laugh together, they never hurt released by the Greek nightclub The Laugh Factory, so the idea each other.” Culture Ministry on wasn’t unfamiliar. Still, it’s one thing to get a October 16, 2014 liquored-up audience laughing at lines like, Opposite ends shows a part of the He says he has already seen the fully excavated floor approach work - at least on a small scale. mosaic depicting “The During the latest Palestinian-Israeli ten- Abduction of sions, Masada, an Iranian-born Jew, got the Persephone” based idea of defusing them for at least one night on a Greek myth, by hosting a comedy exhibition featuring where Pluto abducts locally popular Jewish comedians sharing Persephone. — AFP the stage with their Muslim counterparts.

n imposing mosaic uncov- Persephone was abducted by In this Nov 20, 2006, file photo, Jamie Masada, owner of the venerable ered in the largest antique Hades, also known as Pluto, the Hollywood nightclub The Laugh Factory, speaks at the club in West Atomb ever discovered in god of the underworld, to be his Hollywood, Calif. Greece depicts the myth of the wife. Zeus, pressed by Sunda Croonquist, a black, Orthodox Jew they would be from all over the world. So in abduction of Persephone, Zeus’s Persephone’s grief-stricken moth- who lives in Beverly Hills, opened things Europe he found Mustapha El-Atrassi, a daughter who became goddess of er Demeter, sent Hermes to bring by pointing out to the audience that white French-born Muslim comic who sometimes the underworld, the Greek culture her back. But Hades had her first people frequently mistake her for Puerto dons a helmet and parodies the French ministry said Thursday. The 4.5 taste red pomegranate seeds-the Rican: “I tell them there are two groups of music duo Daft Punk. They say we hide our meter by three meter (15 foot by fruit of life-and thus secured her people who know that I’m black. “Other faces to keep up the mystery,” he tells the 10 foot) floor mosaic was discov- return to be with him for part of black people and the Beverly Hills Police audience in thickly accented English as he ered in a huge tomb that was dis- every year. Katerina Peristeri, the Department,” Croonquist said. Soon jokes impersonates both members of Daft Punk. covered in August in Amphipolis, chief archeologist at the dig, told were flying about wearing a keffiyeh, an “But it’s not true. We just hide our faces a northern Greek town. It dates a news conference on Thursday Arab headdress, to an airport and watch- because we are very ugly.” back to the fourth century BC. that the mosaic’s theme was This undated photo provided by The ing people cower in fear. Or of mischie- From Finland was Ishmo Leikola, who Other parts of the picture, “purely to do with death”. Laugh Factory shows comedian Nitin vous Muslims who crank up Persian music says he has found the solution to made of tiny pieces of white, “But the scene represented in Mirani from the United Arab on the car stereo because they have found America’s national debt problem: don’t black, blue, red, yellow and grey, the form of a mosaic is unique in Emirates. —AP photos it frightens white drivers even more than pay it. “The country has an army. The bank show a chariot driven by a beard- Greece,” stressed the secretary hip-hop. And, suddenly, both sides were has four cashiers and a cleaning lady.” ed man and the Greek god general of the culture ministry, “Take my mother-in-law - please.” laughing. Masada, meanwhile, learned that comedy Hermes on foot, looking back at Lina Mendoni. There is wide- It’s another to bring people from across “At the end of the night they were hug- already is an international sport. “I’m look- the man. The rest of the mosaic, spread speculation over who was the world who dislike each other together - ging each other,” Croonquist marveled, and ing forward to the competition because This undated photo provided by The Masada was off in search of the world’s fun- the Chinese guy, the Pakistani guy are uncovered only this week, shows buried at the site: from Roxana, and hope they will laugh at each other. And yet, that’s what he’s trying to do with what Laugh Factory shows comedian niest person. Some suggested he might friends of mine and I’ve crossed paths with a woman on the chariot, holding the Persian wife of Alexander the he calls the first Funniest Person in the Mustapha El Atrassi, a French-born save time simply by putting in calls to peo- a couple of the others on the comedy fes- out one arm with a sorrowful Great, to Olympias, the king’s World competition. Masada has scoured Muslim who sometimes dons a hel- ple like Dave Chappelle, Jay Leno or numer- tival circuit,” one of the 10 finalists, United expression on her face. mother, to one of his generals. comedy festivals from Afghanistan to South met and parodies the French music ous others who have headlined The Laugh Arab Emirates representative Nitin Mirani, The figure “is that of a young “It’s too early to say if this is a roy- Korea and Egypt to Palestine for candidates duo Daft Punk. Factory over the past 35 years. But Masada said during a phone interview - from India. woman with red tresses, wearing al tomb,” Peristeri said. The burial and had online voters winnow the list to 10 was having none of that. But can comedy really facilitate peace? a white dress and jewels on her site contains three chambers, semi-finalists who would perform at the The idea was that both sides would get Mirani, for one, thinks so, if you spread the left wrist. It’s obviously the abduc- two of which have been uncov- Laugh Factory and before a worldwide together and learn a little something Crossed paths jokes far and wide enough. “I think come- tion of Persephone by Pluto,” the ered. The archeologists are to Internet audience today. about each other. Instead, both sides gath- The comedy impresario wanted an dy is one of the most sincere ways of ministry said in a statement. begin on the third chamber on After online voters narrow the list to ered on opposite ends of the club and Olympics-style competition, and even if the entertaining and educating people,” he According to Greek mythology, Saturday. — AFP five, the finalists will travel to the Laugh engaged in an unnerving stare down that contestants weren’t strictly amateurs - says. “I connect with you, you connect with Factory’s sister club in Las Vegas. There, fol- prompted Masada to star the show early. which they aren’t in the Olympics, anyway - me and we have a good time.” — AFP lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 FEATURES

Tourists ride in a classic American car on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. A man drives a classic American car after exhibition of antique classic cars. — AP photos New glossCuba’s on classic cars

hen Martin Viera’s Chevrolet rolled out of the dealer’s lot, WHarry Truman was president of the United States, gasoline cost 27 cents a gallon and a 24-year-old lefty Photo shows a man cleans his American classic car An American classic car is reflected in a mirror. named Tommy Lasorda was pitching before going to work in Havana, Cuba. for Almendares in the Cuban winter baseball league. That world is long gone, but the Chevy’s still running on the streets of Havana - part of a fleet of classic cars that have become an icon of tourism in the socialist nation. For decades, the cars slowly decayed. But officials in recent years have eased state control over the economy by allowing limited self- employment. So those lucky enough to have a pre-revolutionary car can earn money legally by ferrying tourists - or Cubans celebrating wed- dings - along Havana’s waterfront Malecon boulevard. That’s allowed many to paint and polish their aging vehicles. Viera’s 1951 Chevrolet and Osmani Rodriguez’s 1954 Ford are A man drives a now part of Havana’s tourist draw. classic American car Rodriguez, who has three daugh- on The Malecon in ters, said the opening to self-employ- Havana. ment “was a great benefit for me. I bought an apartment to live in and really it improved my standard of liv- ing a lot.” The cars may gleam on the outside, but they’re often battered, rolling monuments to ingenuity within. People like Yoandri Failu fabri- cate parts in crude workshops. Many scavenge parts, particularly engines, from Soviet-era cars and trucks. While the US embargo that took effect in 1961 stopped the flow of new cars, and most parts, a few Cubans now manage to bring in replacement parts when friends or A group of men work together to repair a classic Yoandi Failu, 34, repairs coil spring of a classic family visit from the US. —AP American car. American car in Havana, Cuba. Tourists ride in a classic American car on the Malecon in Havana. ‘Make Meaning’ opens first international store in Kuwait’s 360 Mall

he first Make Meaning store outside of the United States was launched in Kuwait at Tthe 360 Mall, level 3 on October 14th 2014. Make Meaning is a world-class events and family entertainment destination that is all about fun with creativity. A variety of hands on creativity activities provide an unforgettable outing filled with fun and creativity for kids and adults of all ages. At Make Meaning, guests can choose from an interactive activity wall featuring Glass Making, Candle Making, Plaster Painting, Soap Making or Ceramics Painting. Make Meaning’s highly trained staff will assist guests to bring their cre- ative vision to life resulting in a fantastic piece to bring home. The Make Meaning store was launched by the US Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas Alan Silliman who expressed his happiness to witness this store opening in Kuwait. The launching cere- mony was also attended by Ahmad Al-Osaimi, CEO of Tamdeen Entertainment Company, Melody Conwell, VP of International for Make Make Meaning and Tamdeen Entertainment a party, we have that covered too. From unique Meaning, Buck Hendrix Executive Vice President Company have foraged a partnership to expand birthday parties for all ages, corporate team of Make Meaning and others. the brand into the MENA region starting with building events and much more the Make Ahmad Al-Osaimi welcomed the guests and Kuwait. “We are proud to bring this great experi- Meaning team will customize your event to any invited them to try the amazing entertaining ence for people in Kuwait and the region. When size and budget and take care of all the details experiences. “Just bring your imagination, and you arrive, our staff will help you choose from a to provide a spectacular and unforgettable we’ll handle the rest. Walk in and choose from a wide variety of activities. Our prices include event for any occasion,” concluded Al-Osaimi. wide assortment of creative activities for the everything you need to let your imagination run Alan Silliman noted that he is pleased to family can enjoy having fun and expressing cre- boasts 112 seats for walk-in activities, two large whole family or work with our experienced wild and make something amazing,” added Al- inaugurate this great event. “Make Meaning is a ativity all in one place. The variety of materials private party rooms, a VIP lounge, and an in- events team to plan the perfect party or event Osaimi. very popular and successful store in the United provided at this store offers something for store cafÈ. Other locations are planned to open for your friends, family or colleagues,” he said He also said that the Make Meaning store has States as the provided activities combine educa- everyone. soon throughout the region through Make during the launching ceremony. much more to offer. “For those who are planning tion and entertainment for all ages. The whole Make Meaning’s flagship store in Kuwait Meaning’s franchise program. ‘Little Apple’: The hit song all of China is singing

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In this handout image released on Saturday Katy Perry visits Knotts Scary Farm in Buena Park, Calif. — AFP Moscow hotel goes ‘halal’ in bid to woo Muslim visitors o bacon for breakfast, a room for the globe-including Muslim nations in the nations,” said Samat Sadykov, from the Halal prayers and a Quran on your bedside Mideast and Asia that have placed no sanctions International Centre for Standardization and Ntable: a hotel in Moscow has launched on Moscow over its intervention in Ukraine. Certification in Moscow. “Creating the right a special “halal” service as Russia tries to attract “We equipped 20 rooms out of the 308 in conditions for them to have a comfortable visitors from the Muslim world. “Around 70 the hotel with a prayer mat, a basin for ritual stay here has become all the more important,” percent of our guests are from overseas and washing and a small compass that indicates he said. “Halal services are now in high 13 percent of these or some 5,000 people- the direction of Makkah,” said Shiyan. Those demand.” Despite being home to some 20 mil- come from Muslim countries, especially Iran,” staying in the specially modified accommoda- lion Muslims, Russia today has only two said Lyubov Shiyan, marketing director at the tion at the hotel, in the capital’s north halfway hotels-both in the traditionally Muslim region Aerostar hotel. between Sheremetyevo International Airport of Tatarstan-that are officially recognized as “Our Muslim visitors were constantly asking and downtown Moscow, will also find a copy halal, Sadykov said. One other hotel in the for a separate prayer room or a special menu,” of the Quran provided. “Even the shampoo Black Sea resort town of Sochi is also applying she said. “We wanted everyone who came here and soap in the rooms have been certified as for the status, after the 2014 Winter Olympics to feel at home.” To make that happen, the halal and do not contain any animal fats or pointed to the lack of appropriate facilities to hotel had to go through a rigorous procedure alcohol,” she added. meet the needs of Muslim athletes like prayer before it could finally be certified halal by Two prayer rooms-one for men and one for rooms and halal menus. Muslim officials in Russia and launch the service women-have been set up and a separate “It is totally insufficient,” lamented Sadykov. this month. But the extra work looks like it kitchen will be cooking exclusively halal food. Other Sochi hotels, however, are now looking could be worth it. These are tough times for “You won’t find any pork or ham here,” chef into offering similar features for Muslim Russia’s tourism industry with the numbers of Vitaly Ukhanov told AFP, standing in his small guests, with the Olympic facilities set to host visitors-especially from the West-nosediving in bright kitchen, with a sign with the word fet, there are no signs indicating it is a halal Iranian businessmen. In the first two weeks future high-level sports events including some recent months amid the worst East-West ten- “halal” written inside a green star hung up on section and they are tended to by a special since its launch the hotel has already boosted of the 2018 World Cup football matches. “If we sions since the Cold War over the crisis in the wall. “All the crockery is new and has never team of waiters. reservations from Malaysia and Iran for the now add in the number of tourists and busi- Ukraine. Industry sources set the drop in been used in the main kitchen,” added the service. “Due to the fall in the number of visi- nessmen coming to Russia from the Middle Western visitors, notably from the US and cook. Discretion, however, is maintained. ‘Services in high demand’ tors from the EU and the US, the Russian East, Turkey or Iran then we’re talking about a Britain, at 30 to 50 percent. That has sent hotels Though Muslim clients are served at a sepa- The investment has already started paying tourist industry has started paying greater truly enormous number of potential cus- scrambling to attract guests from other parts of rate group of tables away from the main buf- off for the hotel, which hosts many high-level attention to people coming from Muslim tomers,” said Sadykov. — AFP Future of food served up in Paris

cai, kimchi, black garlic and yuzu juice: something new to offer global palates. Black countries are vying to conquer global garlic-a Kyoto specialty in which the herb is Bike Ride Aplates, and palates, with their home- caramelized-buckwheat noodles, leek oil and grown specialties at the International Food Fair organic juice from the citrus fruit yuzu are all which opened in Paris on Sunday. From Brazil on show. “We aren’t here necessarily to sign to South Korea, 105 countries boasting 400,000 contracts but above all to make ourselves products were present at the fair, which offers known,” said Yuzuke Kuzuhara, director of food a window into the future of food, from tradi- processing for Japan External Trade tional know-how that could make its way onto Organization. Brazil, already a massive exporter modern plates, to high-tech inventions. of coffee, sugar, soya, beef, chicken and fruit And after a few lethargic years due to the juice, hopes to reap some one billion dollars in economic crisis in Europe, innovation is back new contracts at the food show. “The European on the table with 1,700 new concepts served Union is a very important market,” said Rafael up at this year’s edition of the food show. “The Prodo of the Brazilian Trade and Investment market is going to explode with nine billion Promotion Agency. Aside from raw products, humans to feed in the next 30, 40 years. You Brazil also hopes to promote much-loved spe- need to position yourself now,” said Nicolas cialties such as Acai berries-the fruit of a palm Trentesaux, president of the exhibition. tree grown in the Amazon-delicious when “Especially with the explosion of the middle juiced and considered a “superfood” for their class in Asia and even Africa who all want antioxidant qualities. access to diversity in their food.” The food fair, celebrating its 50th edition, Frugality and DIY has grown ten percent in two years, both in Xavier Terlet, a specialist in food innovation size and number of exhibitors, he said. working for the food show, said the industry “The companies here want to export to the had to adapt to new demands from con- whole world,” said Trentesaux. South Korea, sumers. On one hand, consumers are becom- present for the second time, has brought 28 ing more sensitive to food waste. “The industry companies keen to make themselves known. has yet to understand this behavior, it contin- “Compared to Japan or China our products are ues to promote family formats, over packaging still largely unknown,” said Kim Young Bum, rather than smaller doses, like a 100 gram (3.75 director of the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade ounces) packet of flour to make one cake,” he Organization. On display are large clay pots said. There is also a return to a culture of “do-it- In these Sunday, Oct 19, 2014 photos provided by the showing the process used to ferment vegeta- yourself” amongst some cooks, whether for Florida Keys News Bureau, a portion of some 7,000 bles and make kimchi, a staple of the Korean pleasure or to save money. participants pedal on South Roosevelt Boulevard dur- diet, as well as novel dishes such as algae chips, Companies “are targeting the production of algae marmalade and smoked oysters. While foods with a kit to produce your own beer at ing the Zombie Bike Ride in Key West, Fla. The event already well-known for dishes such as sushi, home, or to grow mushrooms in coffee dregs.” coincided with the island city’s annual Fantasy Fest miso soup and ramen, Japan believes it still has The food show is on until Thursday. — AFP costuming and masking festival that continues through Sunday, Oct 26. — AP photos