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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Moza Debate over opens solar test facility Arab-Iran ties BY FAZEENA SALEEM DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser inaugurated a $20m solar test facility at the Qatar Science sparks row and Technology Park yesterday to coincide with the COP18/CMP8 climate talks being held here. The facility covers more than Iranian speaker levels charges 35,000 square metres (7 acres) and will produce nearly 400 kilowatts of DOHA: Disputes over sharing politically with the GCC states, power is a collaboration between more than a dozen oil and gas the latter lacked a unified pol- QSTP, GreenGulf and Chevron. fields by Iran and Gulf countries icy vis-à-vis their influential The project will evaluate how is one of the factors damag- neighbour. more than 30 different solar tech- ing relations between Iran and Iran has a well-defined vision nologies perform in Qatar’s climate the GCC states, according to a as regards its regional and inter- conditions, including the first ever speaker at a symposium that is national policies whereas the GCC Concentrating Photovoltaic system debating Arab-Iran relations. countries pursue contradictory installed in Qatar. The joint project Some participants at the sym- policies in their relations with will learn about the performance posium were in for surprise when Tehran, a speaker said. of solar cells in the Qatari envi- the speaker, a former Iranian Saeed Harib said the policies ronment with high temperatures, ambassador to Germany, said: of the GCC states towards Iran local radiation patterns, and study “Tehran accuses Doha of extract- were always reactionary and that H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser inaugurating the first solar test facility at the Qatar Science and Technology Park the impact of dust and moisture on ing way more than its share in explained why Tehran took advan- in Doha yesterday. AISHA AL MUSALLAM/HHOPL performance. THE PENINSULA the joint gas field of South Pars”. tage of developments in the Arab Full story on page 3 Few expected Seyed Hossein world like Arab Spring and the Mousavian to repeat his country’s Syrian crisis to further its interests accusations, of all the places, in and influence in the region. Doha, although none in the audience Dr Abdul Khaliq Abdullah, a stood up to question the allegation. UAE-based political scientist, The two-day symposium, which blasted Iran and said it viewed the opened here yesterday, is organ- GCC states as its enemy because Commuters complain of bus shortage ized by the Forum for Arab and of their closeness to the US. International Relations. He said one of the factors BY RAYNALD C RIVERA states the reduction of frequency shortage of buses because they are early for the next several days to Mousavian said Iran shares a responsible for increasing bit- of bus services by December 1 on not using the passenger buses for cope with this,” said Rodrigo. number of oil and gas fields with terness between Tehran and the DOHA: While COP18 shuttle routes including numbers 10, 12, 19, COP18. There are fewer bus driv- Around 17,000 delegates from countries like Iraq and GCC GCC was that the former was try- buses leave hotels virtually empty 22, 40, 42, 45, 100, 102, 119, 136, 137, ers as many Mowasalat drivers 194 countries are in Doha for the states such as Kuwait, Oman, ing to emerge a champion of Shia for the Qatar National Convention 170, 172, 104A, 109, 49, 56 and 34. are operating hundreds of buses COP18, the biggest conference Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. minorities in the Gulf countries. Center, the Mowasalat Bus “I was really surprised because for the conference,” claimed a the city is hosting. The marathon He quoted a visiting fellow of “Iran underestimates the GCC Terminus at Grand Hamad Street they announced frequency cuts Karwa driver. event runs until Saturday. Princeton University: “Qatar and states, has a superiority complex teems with impatient commut- over the weekend and I didn’t know If not for a colleague who According to media reports, Iran have straws in the same gas and takes its silence on the issue ers as very few buses are in serv- about the changes in the schedule,” passed by, Rodrigo, a regular com- some 430 shuttle buses have been field, but only Qatar is sipping.” of occupation of the three UAE ice due to the biggest conference said an Indian shopkeeper, who was muter of bus number 49, would pressed into service to ferry the It is also interesting to note islands as a sign of their weak- Doha is hosting. waiting for the bus at the terminal have been two hours late for work. delegates to the QNCC and back that the symposium organisers ness,” said Abdullah. Already late for their offices for more than an hour. “The frequency of Bus 49 is to hotels. They are stationed at cleverly avoided mentioning, in According to Mousavian, if the and appointments, commuters Illegal private taxi operators lurk- every 20 minutes but I waited for 32 hotels and they also include 24 their banners at the venue, the misgivings between the two sides who approach Mowasalat staff are ing near the bus terminus are hap- an hour in vain. They should have shuttle buses exclusively plying use of the term ‘Arabian Gulf’. have to go, the GCC states should shown a notice posted on the bul- pily cashing in on the situation as announced it advance,” he said. To between the QNCC, where the cli- They simply said ‘Gulf’ because do away with the western military letin board of the office announc- commuters turn to them in despera- make things worse, timings were mate conference is being held, and Iranians object to the use of the presence in the region and set up ing that they would be ‘reducing tion. Karwa taxis are also doing a not given in the changed schedule the Doha Exhibition Centre where term “Persian Gulf’. a joint security panel with Iran. the frequencies’ on 19 of their 38 brisk business as there is no dearth which left commuters unaware as the Qatar Sustainability Expo is Some speakers said that THE PENINSULA routes. of those in need of an urgent ride. to when to expect the buses. taking place. THE PENINSULA while Tehran knew how to deal Pictures on page 4 The notice dated November 30 “The problem is not the “I think I have to wake up very See also pages 5 & 6

Palestinian joy Egypt’s top court stops Kuwait parties to press scrapping work as crisis worsens of new parliament

CAIRO: Egypt’s top court sus- Egyptian judiciary’s blackest day KUWAIT CITY: The opposi- pended its work indefinitely to on record,” describing the scene tion vowed yesterday to press protest “psychological and phys- outside the court complex, with on with protests until a newly ical pressures” after supporters Islamist demonstrators carrying elected parliament is abolished of the Islamist president pre- banners denouncing the tribunal and a disputed law scrapped, a vented judges from entering the and some of its judges. day after Kuwait’s Shia minor- courthouse yesterday to rule Supporters of Mursi, who hails ity emerged as main victors of a on the legitimacy of a disputed from Muslim Brotherhood, claim largely-boycotted vote. constitutional assembly. that the court’s judges are loyal- “We will continue with our The decision by the Supreme ists of ousted president Hosni national and peaceful protests Constitutional Court is the latest Mubarak, who appointed them. under the umbrella of the consti- twist in a worsening crisis pitting Mursi’s backers accuse the judges tution to bring the downfall of the President Mohammed Mursi and of trying to derail Egypt’s tran- new parliament,” Islamist opposi- his allies against the mostly secular sition to democratic rule. The tion leader and former MP Faisal opposition and the powerful judi- court statement said the judges Al Muslim said. “We will use all A huge Palestinian flag made out of balloons is seen as people celebrate the successful bid by President ciary. The standoff began when approached the court but decided peaceful and constitutional tools, Mahmoud Abbas to win UN statehood recognition in Ramallah. Abbas returned from New York to the West Mursi issued decrees on November against entering the building including demonstrations and Bank yesterday, telling cheering crowds: “Yes, now we have a state.” See also page 10 22 that gave him sweeping powers because they feared for their safety. gatherings,” said Muslim. and granted the president immu- The judges also had been The opposition has no repre- nity from the courts. expected to rule to on the legiti- sentative in the 50-seat parliament The Islamist-dominated panel macy of the Islamist-dominated after it opted to boycott Saturday’s drafting the new constitution then upper house of parliament, known polls to protest the government’s raced in a marathon session last as the Shura Council. By suspend- unilateral amendment of Kuwait’s Law ends monopoly of Q-Media week to vote on the charter’s 236 ing its work, the court joined the key electoral law. Under the previ- clauses without the participation country’s highest appeals court ous law, a voter was able to choose DOHA: A new law issued ear- According to the new legis- other sports facilities. Similarly, of liberal and Christian members. and its sister lower court in their a maximum of four candidates lier this year breaks the near- lation, Qatar’s Civil Aviation Qatar Posts has been authorised The fast-track hearing preempted indefinite strike to protest what which was reduced to only one in monopoly of Q-Media over Authority is authorised to provide to accept advertisements for its a decision expected from the SCC they see as Mursi’s infringement the new system. street hoardings and other hoarding rights to advertisers at printed materials, local Arabic on whether to dissolve the com- on the judiciary. Most judges and The opposition, which held 36 publicity avenues, including its facilities, including the inter- daily Al Raya reported yesterday. mittee. The judges yesterday post- prosecutors in the country have seats in a dissolved 2012 parlia- Qatar Radio and TV as well as national airport. The law breaks the near- poned their ruling on that case. been on strike for a week. ment, has described the move Aljazeera network. The Qatar Media Corporation monopoly of Q-Media over the A day earlier, Mursi announced The strikes are indefinite and as unconstitutional. “We call for The Ministry of Municipality has the authority to take care of hoardings and publicity business a referendum on the draft charter there have been calls within their scrapping this parliament and the and Urban Planning has been advertisement rights for the audio- after eight years, the daily said. on December 15 despite opposition ranks to extend their action to repealing of the one-vote decree given the authority by the new law visual media, while the Qatar The State Cabinet has the right to protests and questions about the a boycott of overseeing the ref- because this parliament does not (No 1 of 2012 issued on March 19 Olympic Committee is responsible confer this authority on any other document’s legitimacy. erendum, something that would represent the Kuwaiti people,” this year) to regulate the hoard- for hoardings and other publicity entity it deems fit. The Supreme Constitutional further question the legitimacy Muslim said. AFP ings business. materials meant for stadiums and THE PENINSULA Court called yesterday “the of the entire process. AP See also page 7 MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Heir Apparent meets Italian Defence Minister Youth sports festival gets 3-day extension Festival encourages youth to lead an active lifestyle

DOHA: The second edition of the annual ‘Run the World’ youth-led sports festival has been extended from seven to 10 days and expanded to include more events such as an RTW Outdoor Festival, a fashion show and gala dinner under the theme ‘Youth and Sports.’ Organised by The Youth Company in partnership with the Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum, which is under the umbrella of the Qatar Museums Authority, the national youth sports festival will take place from December 12 to 22. The festival is designed to The Heir Apparent and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Qatari Armed Forces, H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad encourage the youth of Qatar Al Thani with the Italian Defence Minister Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. to lead an active, athletic and a healthy lifestyle and will fea- ture a Fashion Show, RTW Talk, “Heart Qatar”, “Young Corporate Cup”, RTW Comedy Show, a Medical Camp, a three- Plans to increase hospital day RTW Outdoor Festival and a Gala Dinner. Last year’s event attracted thousands of visitors beds by 60 percent: Report and volunteers. “Being a social enterprise, we as The Youth Company aim to DOHA: The number of hos- The number of child births fix the prices of 6,540 medicines facilitate the growth and devel- pital beds in the country will in the country from April 2011 and 292 cosmetics products. The opment of youth in different increase by about 60 per- to March 2012 rose to 7,350 Pharmacy and Drug Control aspects, thus ensuring a long- cent over the next two years, (Qataris) and 13,428 non- Department at the Supreme lasting positive social impact. according to a report released Qataris, according to the report. Council of Health (SCH) con- Following our mission, ‘Run by the State Cabinet. Of the Qataris born during the ducted 820 inspections at private The World’ was designed as a Currently, there are 1,575 period, 3,724 were males, while pharmacies, 13 raids at govern- platform for youth empower- hospital beds which will be females accounted for 6,601 of ment pharmacies and 15 raids at ment, networking and devel- increased to 2,300 in two years, the births among non-Qataris. medicine stores. opment through sports,” said Al Sharq said quoting a report Health authorities conducted Citing a HMC survey that Diego Pinzon, Acting Executive released by the Cabinet’s general laboratory tests on 507 samples covered six clinics, the report Director of The Youth Company. secretariat. of medicines while 11 phar- said that average waiting time “Run The World” festival This will be in addition to the maceutical companies and 139 for appointments reduced from is designed completely by the 110-bed hospital for specialised medicines were registered in the 29 days to seven days. youth for the youth. The organ- A youth performs in the first edition of the ‘Run The World’ festival held care which is on the pipeline. country during the period and The survey also found that ising committee comprises over last year. Three hospitals at the Hamad six new importing companies 90 per cent of expatriates were 60 young people along with over bin Khalifa Medical City will be were licensed. satisfied with the HMC services. 700 volunteers. ready next year, said the report. The authorities intervened to THE PENINSULA “The partnership between open for the general public and, and cultural program supported Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum mainly, target youth aged 14-29. by several embassies and cultural and The Youth Company to re- However, various activities groups in Qatar. create ‘Run The World’ festival were designed to make sure The Outdoor festival will also for the second time reinforces that people of different ages and host the finals of “Youth Got Qatar’s commitment to encour- interests could find a way to get Talent” Singing and Dancing age and enable cultural, and in involved. The “Young Corporate Contest and an exhibition of the extension sports initiatives,” said Cup”, for instance, taking place best submissions for the RTW Dr Christian Wacker, Director from December 14 to 15, aims Photography Competition on the of the Qatar Olympic & Sports to attract 16 football teams, topic of “Youth & Sports”. Museum. representing different compa- All events of “Run The World” The festival will commence nies and organisations. Another festival are free to participate in. on December 12 with a Fashion event, “Heart Qatar” will gather Some events such as the Fashion Show, dedicated to sports and children with special needs to Show, Comedy Show, and RTW leisure wear. ‘InspiringQatar’ is play with sports celebrities on Talk, however, require pre-reg- an opportunity for local design- December 19. istration due to limited number ers to showcase their talent while The main attraction for the of seats. All registration forms adhering to the overall theme of public is a three-day RTW and a detailed schedule can be the festival. Outdoor Festival from December found at the official event web- The majority of events during 20 to 22, which will include page www.rtwfestival.com the “Run The World” festival are sports tournaments, workshops THE PENINSULA

Qatar Airways celebrates launch of Mozambique flights with VIP dinner MAPUTO, Mozambique: Within a month of starting operations to Mozambique, Qatar Airways celebrated the launch of its 19th African des- tination with a VIP dinner in Maputo. Guests from the diplomatic community, government quar- ters, businesses and corpo- rates attended the event held at the Polana Serena Hotel in Mozambique’s capital city. The dinner was hosted by Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Marwan Koleilat, who extended a warm welcome to guests to mark the new air bridge between the Republic of Mozambique and Qatar. Qatar Airways launched thrice-weekly scheduled flights between its hub in Doha and Maputo on October 31 with its flagship Boeing 777 long-haul aircraft offering 335 seats in a Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Marwan Koleilat (left), speaks with two-class configuration of 42 in Mozambique’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Armando Inroga, as Qatar Business and 293 in Economy. Airways Senior Manager for Africa, Rashid Mordiffi, looks on. The Boeing 777 features the airline’s award-winning fully interactive seat back audio and across Europe, the Middle East, we have actually opened up an video Oryx entertainment system Asia Pacific and The Americas,” appealing air corridor for friends, with more than 1,000 programmes said Koleilat. families and businesses via our for all passengers to choose from “Mozambique is one of the fast- online points in Europe to and across both classes of travel. est growing economies in Africa, from Maputo.” “We are very happy to see the yet underserved in terms of air Key connecting points for pas- route performing well and that we services, so we are extremely sengers to and from Mozambique can now offer business and leisure delighted to have moved into this on Qatar Airways include London, passengers from Mozambique a market to help fill a void. With Paris, New York, Hong Kong, variety of travel options via Doha the country known for its his- Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok and to a wide range of destinations toric ties with southern Europe, Dubai. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir sends Sheikha Moza opens solar test facility greetings to $20m centre to help determine the best solar technology for the region UAE President

BY FAZEENA SALEEM DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza bint Al Thani and the Heir Nasser yesterday inaugurated a Apparent H H Sheikh premier solar test facility at the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Qatar Science and Technology have sent cables of congratu- Park (QSTP), to coincide with lations to the President of the the COP18/CMP8 climate talks United Arab Emirates, H H now being held in Doha. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al The Solar Test Facility covers Nahyan, on the occasion of over 35,000 sq m (7 acres) and his country’s National Day will produce nearly 400 kilowatts yesterday. of power. It is a collaboration The Prime Minister and between QSTP, GreenGulf and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Chevron. Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al The project will evaluate how Thani has also sent a similar more than 30 different solar cable to the UAE President. technologies perform in Qatar’s climate conditions, including the first ever Concentrating Emir congratulates Photovoltaic (CPV) system installed in Qatar. It will examine new Mexican leader and address challenges to the per- DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh formance of solar panels over high Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani humidity, high heat and excessive and the Heir Apparent H H dust. The assessment is expected Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad to end by 2015. Al Thani have sent cables of “Although our region is blessed congratulations to Enrique with high exposure to the Sun Pena Nieto on being sworn in making it an obvious renewable as the new President of the source of energy, many specific United Mexican States. challenges must be examined and The Prime Minister and addressed before we can take full Foreign Minister H E Sheikh advantage of this potential. We Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor are confident that this unique Al Thani has also sent a simi- testing facility will provide us lar cable to the new Mexican with data that will be able to President. support further development in H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser at the inauguration of the first solar test facility at the Qatar Science and Technology Park yesterday. Also seen are the the field,” said Dr Tidu Maini, Minister of Energy and Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, the Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, and Executive Chairman of QSTP. President of COP18/CMP8, H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, and Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres. AISHA AL MUSALLAM Prime Minister of The facility was inaugurated in the presence of the Minister Ethiopia in Doha of Energy and Industry H E Development at Qatar Foundation and development to improve the sites in the US to the Solar Test energy on major projects being Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al for Education, Science and performance of solar systems to Facility here in Doha, making this developed in Qatar, such as DOHA: The Prime Minister Sada, the Chairman of the Community Development, Faisal build local human and technical project the most comprehensive. the 2022 World Cup and the of the Federal Democratic Administrative Control and Mohammed Al Suwaidi, and US capacity. “We will evaluate the per- Qatar National Food Security Republic of Ethiopia, Transparency Authority and Ambassador to Qatar, Susan L “The region recognises the need formance of current and emerg- Programme,” Davis said. Hailemariam Desalegne, President of COP18/CMP8 Ziadeh. to diversify its energy production ing solar technologies under the The Solar Test Facility will also and his delegation arrived in H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al The joint project will learn methods and identified solar as a intense conditions found here in be able to assume an educational Doha last evening on an offi- Attiyah, Executive Secretary about the performance of solar viable complement to its oil and Qatar. The results of the tests and capacity building role, as stu- cial visit to Qatar of United Nations Framework cells in the Qatari environment gas economy,” said Omran Hamad being done here in Qatar should dents at the universities of Qatar The Ethiopian Premier Convention on Climate Change with high temperatures, local Al Kuwari, CEO of GreenGulf. help determine the most appro- Foundation and Qatar University was greeted on arrival at the (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, radiation patterns, and study the The $20m Solar Test Facility priate solar technologies for the will have the opportunity to study Doha International Airport by Chairman of the Organising Sub- impact of dust and moisture on is a sister project to three other region,” said Jim Davis, President, and learn about solar technolo- Minister of State H E Sheikh Committee for COP18/CMP8, performance. It will carry out an similar Chevron facilities in the Chevron Energy Solutions. gies through ongoing training and Hamad bin Nasser bin Jassim Fahad bin Mohammed Al Attiya, independent evaluation of solar US. Chevron will link research “This in turn should help sup- internship programmes. Al Thani. QNA the President of Research and system vendors, do research and studies from those three test port the deployment of solar THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME SDC to build halls for big events Thai National Day QF initiative to offer cheap alternatives to hold functions like weddings

DOHA: A community-based Science and Community venues for large-scale events serves to meet the needs of Qatari project which seeks to establish Development. like weddings, Riymas aims to society, to fruition.” and maintain eight multi-pur- The project ‘Riymas’ will build enhance the quality of the events Owned and managed by SDC, pose halls for large-scale events, the facilities within the next five sector in Qatar. Through Riymas, Riymas is licensed to manage wed- particularly weddings, in Qatar, years. SDC will set high management ding venues and other banquet has been announced by the Munther Al Dawood, Manager, standards for event venues in the halls across Qatar. This project Social Development Center Projects and Investments at SDC, country. I would like to thank all is being delivered in cooperation (SDC), a member of Qatar said: “By providing the community our partners for their cooperation with the Ministry of Municipality Foundation for Education, with alternative and affordable in bringing this project, which and Urban Planning to enhance the management of this sector, all of which supports the Qatari community and preserves the val- ues and traditions of the country. Following thorough market research, SDC tailored Riymas services to suit the needs of local Qatari youth who are often seek- ing venues for weddings and other events. The study, which was con- ducted by Tanween Consultancy, showed the need to establish a total of eight venues – further demonstrating that demand is expected to increase over the next five years. Initiatives like Riymas enable SDC to further its main objec- tive – promoting the role of the family unit in society, as well as maintaining its social and eco- nomic cohesion and stability. It also seeks to enhance the family role within society and improve its social and economic status, The Minister of Environment H E Abdullah Mubarak bin Ahbood Al while providing job opportunities Moadhadi receives a memento from Thailand’s Ambassador Panyarak through developments and pro- Poolthup during the celebrations of the Thai National Day held at Grand Officials of the Social Development Center announcing the ‘Riymas’ initiative. ductive projects. Hyatt yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL THE PENINSULA

Debating Arab-Iran relations

Speakers at the two-day symposium organised by the Forum for Arab and International Relations on Arab-Iran relations being held at W Hotel Doha yesterday. The event ends today. SYED OMAR

Demand high for QU graduates: Study Mozaic’s new Pehla packages DOHA: About 73 percent of employers in Qatar prefer to recruit graduates of Qatar University (QU), suggests a study. At least 83 respondents of the total of 118 to a recent sur- offer goodies from India vey conducted by Qatar University said that QU graduates are equipped with good skills and capability for local jobs and are DOHA: Qatar’s telecom giant, Qtel, has launched two new Mozaic well-worse in Arabic, Al Sharq reported yesterday. TV packages, Pehla Spice and Spice Plus, offering more TV chan- Some 94 percent of new academic staff at Qatar University nels and a wide range of programmes from the Indian subconti- said that the university is doing enough to get international nent, a statement said yesterday. accreditation. These new packages are available on Mozaic TV platform as part Some 86 percent of the surveyed said that safety and security of the Mozaic TV Pehla Package, which includes Pehla Variety and measures at the QU campus were good. Pehla Prime. The Pehla Spice packages offer a mix of entertainment, Seventy-six percent students of the final year expressed their infotainment and sports in Tamil, Malayalam, Telegu and Kannada. satisfaction over the academic programmes of the university The Pehla Spice package offers 16 channels, including Sony and 93 percent of the students were happy with the facilities, Entertainment, Star Plus, Cartoon Network, MTV India, and NDTV found the study. THE PENINSULA and will be available for customers for an extra QR30. The Pehla Spice Plus package is available for QR110, with 25 channels, including Starworld, Zee TV, Gemini, Surya, Udaya, Sky news and ABP. The launch of Pehla Spice and Spice Plus packages is part of Qtel’s ongoing strategy to offer more choice and great value for all customers, and to deliver entertainment from around the world for customers in Qatar. One of the reasons that Mozaic has become Qatar’s most popular digital television service is the incredible range of programming in multiple lan- guages, so that customers can enjoy the very best chan- nels from their home countries. It is the only TV entertainment service in Qatar that brings all of the various International, Arabic and Asian satellite packages and Free-to-Air channels available in the Qatari market together on one platform. Customers wishing to subscribe and benefit from these new packages can call 111. THE PENINSULA

Geologist to talk about Abu Dhabi sabkha

DOHA: Qatar Natural History Group will hold their monthly talk on December 5, with the participation of Dr Christian J Strohmenger, a geologist who will speak about ‘The Famous Abu Dhabi Sabkha: Stromatolites, Evaporites and a Whale’. The talk will take place at 7pm at the Doha English Speaking School. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Demand for natural gas to rise 60pc: Minister Development of natural gas necessary to balance global energy equation, says energy minister

DOHA: With the demand of investment challenges in supply of greenhouse gases. All nations, natural gas is projected to rise across the energy value chain. at different stages of development, in the long term, the develop- Each one of these factors are are aspiring to provide secure, ment of Natural Gas and LNG further influenced by the inter- affordable, and environmentally capacities is critical for bal- play of one or more of the three sound energy, endeavouring to ancing the world energy equa- core dimensions of energy sus- balance this delicate trade-off, and tion, Minister of Energy and tainability namely, energy secu- this will continue to be a challenge. Industry H E Dr Mohammed rity, energy accessibility and The minister said fossil fuels bin Saleh Al Sada has said . environmental impact mitiga- will continue to be the center Addressing the plenary ses- tion. From an energy security piece of the energy equation; sion of World Climate Summit perspective, all countries, be it they are expected to meet about here yesterday, Dr Sada said importers or exporters, need to 80 percent of the world’s energy demand for natural gas will rise ensure availability of different needs right up to 2040. by more than 60 percent from energy resources to the consum- With this in mind, the issue 2010 through 2040, overtaking ers, in order to meet current and that needs to be addressed here coal for the number two position future demand. is, what the right fossil-fuel mix behind oil. Unconventional Gas, Accessibility and affordability would be, that serves both the such as shale gas, is foreseen to be of modern sources of energy, as future global demand for energy 30 percent of Global Production in the second tier of energy sus- and the environment, through the 2040, meaning conventional gas tainability, remains a challenge minimization of the global carbon is expected to meet 70 percent confronting many countries, par- footprint. of gas demand even after three ticularly the ones where energy He said natural gas is consid- decades. consumption patterns of the ered the cleanest, most efficient “With this, the development of poorer regions of the world tends and versatile of all fossil fuels, Natural Gas and LNG capacities to add to their misery and aggra- abundant natural gas and widely will become necessary to balance vate their poverty. distributed reserves, make it the the world energy equation”, he There are some 1.5bn people fuel of choice from an environ- said. worldwide who have no access to mental and economic view point. Economic and equitable electricity while close to 2.6bn, Natural gas has an important development of nations, fuelled nearly a third of the World’s role to play in mitigating envi- by the growing need for energy population, rely on traditional ronmental impact when used across the globe, is the prior- biomass for cooking and heat- to replace old coal-based power ity of the day and it has to be ing which has a severe impact plants with new natural gas-fired achieved by minimising the on the environment and health plants, which lower emissions of carbon footprint. This is a seri- conditions. carbon dioxide by more than half ous warning and no country, The third dimension of energy per kilowatt-hour generated. energy consumer or supplier, H E Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, addressing the plenary session at the World sustainability is environmental It is expected to provide 30 per- can afford to ignore it or be Climate Summit at Ritz-Carlton yesterday. impact mitigation. As you are all cent of the world’s electricity-gen- indifferent to the call for sus- aware, energy production, con- eration needs by 2040 – up from tainable development. factors such as, the secure avail- development and deployment of demand in its wider sense, and version, and consumption, yields just over 20 percent today, the Dr Sada said the future of ability of conventional resources, new technologies, national energy reduction of geopolitical ten- by-products which are emitted minister said. energy will be shaped by decisive the growth of renewable energy, policies, security of supply and sions which lead to logistical and into the atmosphere, in the form THE PENINSULA

African ministers Call for private call for signing sector involvement of second to achieve target DOHA: Strong involvement Kyoto phase of private sector is key for a successful tackling of climate change challenges. The third DOHA: African environ- annual World Climate Summit ment ministers called on held in parallel with the ongo- participants in the high- ing UNFCCC COP18/CMP8 level ministerial meeting here yesterday has called on the of the UN Climate Change stake holders to bolster the pub- Conference COP18, to be lic private partnership (PPP) responsive to the demands to achieve the global emission the African ministers want reduction target. to negotiate. The event, attended by over 1,000 They also called for actively experts, discussed issues pertaining working on implementing From left: Gary S Guzy, Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environment Quality; Masahiko Horie, Japanese Ambassador to the UNFCC including Green those demands after they for Global Environment Affairs; Roy Jakobs, CEO of Philips Electronics - Middle East and Turkey; Joachim Kundt, Senior Vice President for Corporate Climate Fund (GCF), Public are agreed, especially the Strategies at Siemens AG and Rashad Kaldany, Vice President of Global Industries at IFC during a plenary session of the World Climate Summit 2012 Private Partnership, technology second commitment phase at Ritz Carlton Hotel yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL transfer came up with bottom- of the Kyoto Protocol and its up solutions including talking duration. the Global energy Mix, resource The ministers said that find- efficiency, smart infrastructure ing a legal framework that Climate talks: Shattered records for cities and regions. Addressing pleased all parties involved was the plenary panel session, Gary S paramount. Guzy, Deputy Director and General They expressed hope that Counsel for White House Council on the ministers who will partici- Environmental Quality said : ”The pate in the meeting will build drive demands for more urgency nature of the problem is divers. on the agreements reached Government alone can’t address in the Marrakesh Climate BY PILITA CLARK global average temperatures are likely to rise with inadequate policies.” the issue. Private sector partner- Change Conference in 2001. more than 2C above pre-industrial times. If Some blame the unwieldy nature of the UN ship is key to scale up the reduction The agreements in that DOHA: Normally, one set of annual UN cli- this happens, some scientists fear the climate talks themselves, which are based on consen- process”. conference laid down the mate talks looks much like another. But, as could start altering in ways that are difficult sus voting and have soared in size from fewer The US has already launched implementation mecha- ministers fly in to the Qatari capital for the to predict and hard to reverse. than 800 delegates when they began in 1995 to a five-point strategy to address nisms of the Kyoto Protocol. final week of this year’s meeting, the gap The process could be sharply accelerated by more than 10,000 at their peak in 2009. the issue. It has invested hugely The Marrakesh conference between the plodding nature of the 17-year- the melting of permafrost, the frozen ground “But that sort of misses the point,” says in the reduction strategies. also included agreements old talks and the pace at which scientists that covers 24 per cent of exposed land in John Ashton, who was until June the UK for- Investments in infrastructure in to decrease greenhouse gas say the climate is now changing has rarely the northern hemisphere, the UNEP warned eign secretary’s special representative for cli- the coming years will be scaled up emissions, one of the rea- seemed so vast. this week, because this could unleash huge mate change. Negotiators can only go as far as significantly to support broader sons for global warming, and Extreme weather events and broken records amounts of potent greenhouse gases. their respective governments allow them, he development and the economic having developed countries in the past 12 months have prompted a volley There is even a chance of warming beyond says, adding that administrations are divided growth agenda. Large areas of financially and technologically of urgent warnings from usually staid institu- 4C by the 2060s unless action is taken to halt between those advocating higher and lower Federal lands have been allocated back developing countries in tions in the lead-up to this year’s negotiations. emissions, according to the World Bank, which carbon policies, with the winners determining for solar power generation, he said. combating the effects of glo- “Climate change is taking place before our said there was “no certainty” that adaptation the nature of any deal agreed by 2015. Mary Barton-Dock, Director, bal warming. eyes,” said Michel Jarraud, head of the World to such a world was possible. Yet in Doha, Meanwhile, a so-called “bottom-up” world Climate Policy and Finance Commissioner of the African Meteorological Organization as he set out its negotiators are working on a deal agreed at of voluntary climate pledges seems likely to Department, World Bank said the Union for Climate Change annual assessment of climate conditions. last year’s UN talks in Durban, South Africa, prevail. Since 2009, dozens of countries have UNFCC’s Global Climate Fund Michael Gimen during his This was a reference to the unprece- to forge a global climate pact by 2015 that formally submitted emissions reduction tar- (GCF) has to be more ambitious. speech, in the press-conference dented melting of Arctic sea ice recorded in would be enforced from 2020. gets for 2020 to the UN. We need to think about differ- held on the sidelines of COP18, September, which followed record-shatter- Those dates seem distant to some observers, China, the world’s largest emitter, says it ently in terms of raising the fund. called on developed countries ing high temperatures in Europe and North given the signs of change in the climate in the will cut its carbon emissions intensity - or The initiatives are to raise $14bn a to provide technological back- America; dire floods across Africa and Asia; past 12 months. “It really is a mismatch,” says emissions per unit of gross domestic product year for the emission cut. It’s not ing to developing countries. and an above-average Atlantic hurricane sea- Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute - by up to 45 per cent in 2020 from 2005 levels. a big money. A multi-lateral fund- He called on all the parties son for the third year in a row that culminated on Climate Change and the Environment at The US, the second-largest emitter, says it ing would make our job easy, she involved to sign second com- in October’s superstorm Sandy. the London School of Economics. “The Arctic will make a 17 per cent reduction by 2020 over said. When it comes to the fund- mitment period of the Kyoto Overall, 2012 is on course to be the ninth sea ice suggests things are happening more 2005 levels and the EU has committed to a 20 ing on emissions reduction, private Protocol. warmest year since records began in 1850, said quickly than scientists expected, yet we are per cent cut from 1990 levels. But only a few sector is a ‘make or break’ factor.” He also called on developed the WMO, one of several agencies to warn behaving as if things are happening slower of the larger economies making such commit- Attending the plenary session, Prof countries to honor the finan- about the state of the climate. The World than expected.” ments are likely to meet their 2020 pledges, Masahiko Horie, Ambassador for cial commitments they made Bank, the International Energy Agency and Erwin Jackson of The Climate Institute according to research published this week by Global Environment Affairs, Japan in the Durban conference held the UN Environment Programme have also think-tank in Australia adds: “This reminder the Ecofys environmental consultancy and the wanted the developing nations in December 2011. raised concern over the rise of the greenhouse of what climate change looks like needs to hit PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment to play a proactive role in their QNA gases blamed for global warming. home in national capitals. Until that happens, Agency. ‘reduction commitment’. Unless these start to peak soon, experts say countries will continue to come to these talks FINANCIAL TIMES THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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DOHA: The 18th UN con- delegations on their views on the ference on Climate Change progress made in the ongoing “(COP18 / CMP8”) has entered negotiations in Doha about the its second week amid hopes climate change issues and the and demands that the confer- second commitment phase of the ence will come out with a real- Kyoto Protocol. istic and balanced agreement Al Attiyah said on the sidelines acceptable and satisfactory for of the conference that he had all participants despite the dif- called on the participants and the ficult negotiations and thorny heads of the groups in the meet- issues raised on the agenda of ing to expedite the negotiations the conference . without delay to the last minute It is scheduled that high-level and to coordinate with the heads From left: Dr Naoko Ishii, CEO of Global Environment Facility; Morten Baek, Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Climate, Energy and meetings begin tomorrow where of the related committees in this Building, Denmark; Mary Barton-Dock, Director of Climate Policy and Finance Department at World Bank; Ben Cotton of Earth Capital Partner; Rosemary a number of heads of state, min- regard. Bissett, Head of Governance and Risk at National Australia Bank and Katie Sullivan, Climate Finance Working Group - IETA during a session of the World isters, top officials of government “We should work in a spirit of Climate Summit at Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday. PICTURES: SHAIVAL DALAL agencies and regional and inter- solidarity and focus energies in national civil organisations will order to reach realistic and crea- gather to discuss issues relevant tive solutions, he added, noting to the climate change. that it is time to have the cour- Siemens to play key role in Qatar’s Because the problems of cli- age to have new thinking in order mate change have become a to reach results and to address priority issue worldwide, the del- the risks that result from climate egates during the first week of the change.” sustainable development programme conference had discussed among For their parts, the heads of the other topics means to implement groups presented their reports BY SATISH KANADY the commitments agreed upon on what has been made in the to double its workforce in Qatar and creating energy efficiency and at previous conferences, includ- terms of reference of the various over the next two years. “We flexibility. ing the financing of the Green committees and functions and DOHA: Siemens, an active are in partnership with Qatar Siemens Infrastructure & Fund, which was initiated at the stressed the need to work closely partner of Qatar’s sustainable Foundation. We invest massively in Cities supports Qatar General Copenhagen conference in 2009, among all parties to identify syn- development ambitions, will its innovation centre and actively Electricity & Water Corporation with a hundred billion dollars a ergies and commonalities between play key role in the country’s involved in the energy consumption (Kharamaa) by providing a turn- year until 2020 to be allocated them with a view to reaching commitment to combat the reduction”, Joachim said. key Smart-Metering-Solution. for helping developing and poor realistic, ambitious and balanced emission challenges. The tram project is in line With the help of Siemens’ Meter- countries in coping with the prob- agreement. The global powerhouse in elec- with Qatar’s 2030 national vision Data-Management Software, lem of climate change and its the Some speakers also called for tronics and electrical engineering to balance economic growth, large volumes of data can be negative and damaging impact the second commitment period is involved in a series of energy- social development and environ- picked out efficiently by Smart as well as the financing of clean of the Kyoto Protocol to include efficient projects in Qatar as well mental protection. The Avenio Meter and billing can be pre- development mechanisms in these more of the commitments by the as in the region. trams Siemens will supply are pared easily. This will be realised countries to meet the challenges parties to reduce greenhouse gas Talking to The Peninsula yester- designed to withstand climatic in three districts of Doha by 2013, of greenhouse gas emissions. emissions and finding solutions to day, Joachim Kundt, Senior Vice conditions in the Gulf state and and Siemens will install 17,000 The financing topic is expected the problems of funding and sup- President, Corporate Strategic to be equipped with the company’s Smart Meters. to be at the centre of discus- port and meet the Green Fund Projects, said Siemens is actively state-of-the-art hybrid energy Joachim said the region has sions in the second week of the and the agreement on the goal of involved in Qatar’s key upcoming storage (HES) system. immense scope for the public conference. “mid-financing.” projects, which are closely linked The percentage of reduction in private partnership boost its CO2 To assess achievements made Some heads of the groups to the country’s commitment energy consumption when utiliz- reduction programme. by the seven different negotiat- expressed satisfaction over to to slash the emission rate. The ing Avenio trams, which have An estimated 70 percent of ing groups for the conference in achieving tangible results, and projects include, Tram service, hybrid energy storage systems Siemens’ recent investment is its first week, H E Abdullah bin called for more flexibility and sporting, building solutions and and can operate without an over- in the emerging countries. It has Hamad Al Attiyah, the President work to resolve crises of climate smart grids.. head contact line. They are envi- plans to invest an estimated $3bn of the Conference held an open change and take clear decisions Siemens last year entered ronmentally-friendly and produce in the emerging economies over Joachim Kundt, Senior Vice session for groups and repre- that respond to the aspirations into a strategic partnership with less CO2 emissions than vehicles the next few years. “Recently, we President for Corporate Strategic sentatives of the countries par- in this area. They said the road is Qatar Foundation, which focuses without such systems. signed a $1.4bn project in South ticipating in this major global still difficult and long and efforts on the advancement of Qatar’s Projects at Siemens AG. Siemens created a customised Africa. We have plans to scale up environmental event. should be intensified in order to infrastructure capability and Total Building Solution for the our investment in the solar sec- Al Attiyah was briefed by the achieve the desired goal. competence, including estab- Qatar Science and Technology 200m high landmark Tornado tor”, Joachim said. groups and heads of participating QNA lishing an innovation center in Park (QSTP). Siemens has plans Tower through power distribution THE PENINSULA COY8 meet organises 25 sessions for youth DOHA: The three-day reach out to their communi- Conference of Youth (COY8), ties through social media and which brought together 400 be the change they want to see youth from all over the world at happen. Hamad bin Khalifa University’s It also served as a capacity (HBKU) Student Center, con- building effort for the Arab Youth cluded yesterday. Climate Movement (AYCM), a COY8 provided youth aged youth climate coalition effort 15-28, with the opportunity to recently formed with over 500 meet, network and to discuss the members pressing environmental issues “Because of climate change, we facing their generation. all overcame our diversities and They were also charged with united our efforts for a single developing an action plan to be cause,” said Zainab Al Mahdi. presented at the Conference of “COY brought together youth the Parties (COP) 18 to the United representing over 150 organiza- Nations Framework Convent on tions to learn and share skills Climate Change (UNFCC). on how they can continue to be “This conference managed to influential in the climate change gather youth from all over the movement,” said Christopher world into the heart of the Gulf Silva, HBKU representative and to make a difference for a better COY organizer. A plenary session on ‘Climate Financing for Mitigation and Adaptation’ during the World Climate Summit at Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday. world. It was life changing to not “Participants were engaged, only be a part of it but to also motivated and inspired; COY is help in organising it,” said Rahma a successful example of what we Kahramaa to unveil solar energy project today D Abu Swai, COY8 local team can achieve when we collaborate coordinator. together.” “We are beyond thankful to COY was established by the DOHA: Qatar General concentrated-solar technology of the project as well as its imple- It aims to efficiently meet its HBKU for providing us with Global Youth Movement on Electricity and Water systems. mentation program. obligation in to supply Qatar’s the space needed, and all the Climate Change; a group of young Corporation (Kahramaa) is The project will be launched The new initiative is part of needs for electricity and water, resources to make this event people energetically leading the set to unveil a 200-megawatt today at a press conference on Kahramaa’s plan to further sus- comply with local and inter- successful, productive and drive to finding solutions for the project to generate power from the sidelines of the ongoing cli- tain its power production and national health, safety, and effective.” climate change crisis facing the solar energy. mate conference in Doha in the take its renewable energy genera- environmental standards, and Youth participated in more worldwide community. The eight-year project is presence of H E Dr Mohammed tion to 2 of the total production maximise the employment of than 25 workshops and breakout The conference is held annu- part of Kahramaa’s initia- bin Saleh Al Sada, the Minister in Qatar by 2020. capable Qatari nationals, and sessions that ranged from a writ- ally and aims to galvanise youth tive to make smart use of the of Energy and Industry and the Kahramaa was established in develop them to the competence ing workshop, to panel discussions in the areas of climate change vacant electricity and water President of Kahramaa. July 2000 to regulate and main- level of employees in leading and UNFCC information sessions. policy, capacity-building and infrastructure through set- The press briefing will also give tain the supply of electricity and international companies. COY8 encouraged youth to estab- knowledge. ting up solar panels and details on the strategic objectives water to customers. QNA lish grassroots organizations, THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Shias score Car bomb kills 15 in Homs DAMASCUS: A car bomb rocked Syria’s third largest city Homs yesterday killing 15 people, state media said, as the army ham- mered rebel positions around Damascus in big win in a strategic assault aimed at securing the capital. Shell fire from Syria, meanwhile, hit a Turkish border town late on Saturday, with- out causing casualties. It was the first cross- border shelling since Ankara requested that Kuwait poll Nato deploy Patriot air defence missiles on the restive frontier. “A terrorist attack struck the Hamra dis- Bloc wins 17 out of 50 seats trict of Homs,” the state SANA news agency said, adding that it killed 15 people and KUWAIT CITY: The Shia majority of voters stayed home, wounded 24 in the government-held neigh- minority yesterday emerged the and described the election as bourhood. State television said it was a car main victors in Kuwait’s par- “unconstitutional.” bombing. liamentary polls boycotted by “Based on statistics compiled The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for the opposition which considered by the opposition, the voter turn- Human Rights also reported a car bombing the new assembly “illegitimate” out was 26.7 percent,” said former in Homs. amid poor voter turnout. MP Khaled Al Sultan at the end “At least seven civilians were killed in a car Shia candidates bagged 17 of of an emergency meeting by the bomb explosion near the sports stadium,” it the 50-seat parliament, their big- opposition after the ballots closed. said, adding that many of the wounded were gest tally ever, as they refused to The information ministry in a critical condition and the death toll was join calls by the Sunni-dominated website however reported that likely to rise. opposition to boycott the polls in turnout was 38.8 percent and “The Hamra neighbourhood has been A view of buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter protest against the amendment opposition youth groups reported under regime control throughout the revolt,” jet loyal to President Bashar Al Assad in the Akraba suburb of Damascus. of electoral law. lower percentages. No official fig- Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman Shias, who form around 30 per- ures have been released by the said. “The blast hit an area where there is a cent of Kuwait’s native population National Election Commission. large vegetable market. The closest checkpoint Homs was one of the cradles of the armed main highway to the international airport of 1.2 million, had nine seats in Veteran opposition leader is some 500 metres (yards) away.” uprising against Assad’s rule, earning it the that has been under sustained rebel assault, the previous parliament elected Ahmad Al Saadoun said the “elec- Amateur video footage posted online by monicker of “capital of the revolution” from a watchdog said. in 2009 and seven in the assem- tion is unconstitutional,” while opposition activists showed the bodies of at opposition activists. “The Syrian army has opened since bly elected in February and later several other former MPs called least three victims, including a woman buried The city suffered devastating violence early Thursday morning the gates of hell to all those scrapped by a court. on the Emir H H Sheikh Sabah in the rubble of a building as a car burned not this year, but in recent months the army has who even consider getting close to Damascus Three women were elected to Al Ahmad Al Sabah to repeal the far away. opted to keep mainly Sunni Arab rebel-held or of attacking the capital,” pro-regime news- the new parliament compared to disputed amendment. Another video showed an injured child lying districts around the centre under siege rather paper Al-Watan said. four in 2009, according to results The opposition Popular in hospital, wailing in pain. than launch an all-out assault. Fierce fighting erupted in several villages released by the National Election Committee for Boycotting Straight after the attack, hundreds of peo- Assad’s forces pounded rebel positions in the eastern suburbs and the army shelled Commission. Election said in a statement that ple started to protest against President Bashar around Damascus with artillery fire and air rebel positions in the larger towns of Douma The new house includes as the new parliament “does not Al Assad, according to activists, with some strikes, in an offensive aimed at securing a and Harasta, as troops sought to secure the many as 30 new faces reflecting represent the majority of Kuwaiti blaming the regime for the bomb attack. perimeter around the capital including the airport highway, the Observatory said. AFP the total boycott by former MPs people and has lost popular and who are leading members of the political legitimacy.” opposition. It also said all legislation issued Sunni Islamists were reduced by the house will be considered to a small minority of four MPs illegal. compared with as many as 23 in The Islamist, nationalist and Iran suspends death sentence of programmer the house elected in February. liberal opposition had vowed The boycott was called to pro- to continue street protests DUBAI: Iran has suspended arrested in 2008 while visiting used without his knowledge to the Revolutionary Court, was test the government’s unilateral until it forces the demise of the the death sentence of a compu- relatives in Iran, according to post pornographic images. Such confirmed by Iran’s Supreme amendment of the key electoral parliament. Political analyst ter programmer convicted of Amnesty International. images are illegal in the Islamic Court. law ahead of the polls. The oppo- Mohammad Al Ajmi said the running a pornographic web- Although Iranian authori- republic. “After the sentence was con- sition says the action enabled the new parliament will be unlikely site after he “repented for his ties accused him of running a Malekpour’s lawyer Mahmoud firmed my client repented for his government to manipulate the to survive for a long period as actions,” his lawyer was quoted pornography site, Amnesty has Alizadeh Tabatabaei told Mehr actions. With this repentance, outcome of polls. the country appears headed for as saying yesterday. said the charges appear to stem news agency that his client had the death sentence has been sus- The opposition hailed the an escalation of tension. Malekpour, an Iranian citi- from a software programme repented for his actions after pended,” the lawyer told Mehr. boycott as very successful as a AFP zen and Canadian resident, was created by Malekpour that was his death sentence, issued by REUTERS

UAE National Day

UAE citizens and expatriates during the Downtown Dubai Parade at the Emaar Boulevard Street in Dubai, yesterday. The UAE celebrated its National Day yesterday which marks the unification of the seven emirates : Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain, and the UAE freedom from the British Protectorate. MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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CHAIRMAN: SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: KHALID AL SAYED Israeli excesses E-MAIL: [email protected] ACTING MANAGING EDITOR: HUSSAIN AHMAD E-MAIL: [email protected] Punishing Palestinians for the UN vote EDITORIAL: TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 only serves to show Israel’s desperation. FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR. E-MAIL: [email protected] n outraged and dejected Israel is punishing Palestinians for government was entitled to deduct the sum from a debt of more than ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 their victory at the United Nations. Last week, the UN general $200m owed by the PA to the Israel Electric Corporation and conceded CLASSIFIED: E-MAIL: Aassembly voted overwhelmingly (with a backing of 138 coun- that the move was in response to the UN vote, and that it could be 44557857 [email protected] tries) to grant the enhanced ‘non-member state’ status for Palestine. repeated next month. Even as Israel announced its plans, Mahmoud SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY The victory came despite stiff opposition and threats from the United Abbas arrived in West Bank yesterday to a hero’s welcome, saying, States. The scale of defeat was embarrassing for the US-Israel bloc, and “Yes, now we have a state.” TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 emboldened Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who was facing There is no doubt that withholding tax revenues and expansion of E-MAIL: [email protected] the threat of political extinction due to a slew of factors. settlements are acts of desperation by Israel in the face of overwhelming SUBSCRIPTION RATES Israel has responded to the vote with two punitive measures against international support for the Palestinian cause. But Israel will achieve ANNUAL Palestinians. The first one came immediately after the vote results were nothing with such measures except sucking out the remaining life from QR 675 announced. Israel said it would build 3,000 new homes in settlements the peace process. Netanyahu is not going to stop at this, and said he 6 MONTHS QR 340 across the pre-1967 Green Line. It also said it would push ahead with would take more draconian measures to penalise Palestinians. the development of an area known as E1, which would close off East It is surprising that some Western backers of Israel haven’t reacted Jerusalem, which is the intended future capital of Palestine, from the strongly to Israeli encroachments. Despite their public pronouncements West Bank. of condemnation, there is a clandestine approval for its actions. This The announcement drew global condemnation, with even the United is the reason why Netanyahu is able to brush off criticism and carry States and Britain condemning the move on the ground that it would on with his plans. harm the peace process. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu While the UN victory is commendable, Palestinians need to move PUBLICATION yesterday brushed off the condemnation and reiterated his govern- forward. The UN recognition has only symbolic value and will make no ment’s resolve to go ahead with the settlement expansion. In the second difference on the ground. Palestinians need to work assiduously to fulfil punitive measure, Israel seized more than $120m in tax revenues it their dream of establishing a state. The UN victory is a small achieve- collects on behalf of Palestinian Authority. An Israeli official said his ment, and that should not lull them into complacency or inaction.

America has showed that it is willing to work with The other side Islamists who reject violence and work towards real democracy, but we will never Quote of work with terrorists. Stalemate in Cairo Hillary Clinton the day US Secretary of State he standoff in Cairo is gathering heat. The amateurish attempt on behalf of government supporters to surround the Supreme TConstitutional Court premises and obstructing the judges from reaching their offices is a blunder. This will go on to complicate the crisis, and plunge Egypt in a new phase of chaos and instability. The apex court, which was scheduled to rule on the legality of the constituent assembly and the draft constitution written under the dictates of President Mohammed Mursi, is in a state of fix. Irrespective of the fact that Mursi has called for a referendum on December 15 to elicit public response on the controversial draft and his decree of amassing powers, the judges seem to hold the final say. The reason is: not only the judiciary but also an overwhelm- ing segment of people believe that the document and the decree undermine basic freedoms. The confrontation between the judiciary and the executive has scaled new heights, and it seems quite unlikely that any of the party would voluntarily opt for a stand down. The opposition that has been rallying for almost two weeks now at the capital’s Tahrir Square is likely to act as the basic constituency for the estranged judges — who at a time of their choosing will pen down their verdict against the presidential powers. Though Mursi had made it clear that his intentions to invest more powers in his office is a temporary move until the new constitution is passed, and well within the spirit of the revolution, there are not many takers for his argument. The Muslim Brotherhood, which had desisted from taking to the streets and openly questioning the writ of the army in the twilight days of former president Hosni Mubarak, is surprisingly up in arms under its own governance. The decision on the part of Mursi and the Brotherhood to corner the judiciary is widely seen as an attempt in political naivety. Howsoever genuine may be the intentions of the govern- ment to introduce a balanced democratic setup, the fact that it is doing that on the premise of confrontation with other organs of the state is quite unfortunate. Rules of state business have to prevail in the corridors of powers in Cairo, if the stalemate has to come to an end. KHALEEJ TIMES

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BY GARY YOUNGE Pennsylvania went for Obama. everything from climate change The best example is Obamacare. Obama’s recent executive order up the exchanges] is about poli- Morris remained unbowed. denial to creationism. But in The new law decrees that by 14 to normalise the status of young tics. There’s still a feeling with ICK Morris’s twitter feed But there is still Ohio and the last four years they outdid December states should have laid Latinos. They strongly oppose any- some conservative governors on election night was a Wisconsin (and Minnesota) themselves with birtherism and out their plans to set up a local thing that smacks of comprehen- around the country that some- Dthing to behold. The day All went to Obama. death panels, insisting Obama health exchange. If they don’t the sive reform. Five years ago John how not participating will cause before the presidential election Virginia looks good up by 4 with was a Kenyan imposter imposing federal government will impose Boehner described George Bush’s this program to fail.” This prefer- Morris, a rightwing pollster, 3/4 counted European values. Believing they one. In many states Republican reform bill as “a piece of shit”. Last ence for failure and denial over analyst and Bill Clinton adviser, That too went to Obama. were entitled to their own facts, leaders dragged their feet in the month he said he was “confident engagement and negotiation was told Fox News: “Romney will win Watch Colorado. If we win they started to believe their own hope of a Romney victory. Now he can find common ground” with a hallmark of the Republicans’ by a very large margin. A land- [Florida] and Ohio and Va it will spin. Morris was merely the most open battles have broken out Obama on the subject. approach to Obama’s first term. slide, if you will... I think he’ll get come down to Colorado bullish illustration of a broader among conservatives about how On the most pressing issue, But saying no to everything 325 electoral votes.” (Romney They lost them all. derangement. The rot went all the to proceed. In Mississippi, the the so-called fiscal cliff, there has isn’t going to work in the same lost with 206.) A week earlier Desperation kicked in. At 10.45 way to the top. On election night Republican insurance commis- even been some movement. Last way now the nation’s said yes to he said his “personal hunch” was he wrote: Romney had $25,000-worth of fire- sioner and governor have each week one senior Republican con- Obama. the Republicans would take the Don’t give up! works all ready to launch on the sent a letter to Obama’s health gressman came out in favour of In 2004 a Bush aide (widely Senate with 53 seats. (They lost, Then nothing. Within half an Boston Harbor and a transition and human services secretary: Obama’s tax deal. He was immedi- believed to be Karl Rove) derided with only 45.) hour the networks called it for team of 200 waiting in the wings. one applying for an exchange, ately shot down by the leadership. a journalist for working in the When the results came he was Obama. Finally it appears defeat has the other expressing opposition Four others have since followed. “reality-based community”, pok- kind enough to share his transi- “If you beat your head against sobered some of them up, forc- to it. “We should not give in to the These developments should not ing fun at people who “believe that tion from hubris to humiliation the wall,” the Italian Marxist ing a rift between those willing Obama administration on this,” be exaggerated. It’s a chink not solutions emerge from your judi- in real time. Antonio Gramsci once wrote, “it to engage with the world as it the governor reportedly told the a gash, creating a trickle not a cious study of discernible reality”. He started the night is your head that breaks, not the is and others who prefer dysto- commissioner. “You cannot trust flood. The motivation for break- Like a cartoon character who confidently: wall.” pian visions, woven from whole them.” The commissioner is going ing ranks owes more to strategy can keep running off a cliff into So far I see nothing to disabuse On election night Morris’s head cloth. Over the past few years ahead anyway. than ideology. mid-air as long as they don’t look me of the notion that Romney will exploded, leaving shards of base- Republicans presented a united, Similar tensions, though In Kansas, where the down, that approach was time win by a lot. Nothing to confirm less braggadocio scattered across impenetrable front guided by less pronounced, are emerg- Republican governor and state limited. Now comes the fall. And it either cyberspace. Reality will do that, the latter. Now the party’s prag- ing over immigration. Respected commissioner are also at logger- as Dick Morris might tell you, the I bet that they will eat their sooner or later. For Republicans matists, who laid low for fear of Republicans are working with heads over healthcare exchanges, descent can be dizzying and the words on Pennsylvania on both it has been later. For some time Tea Party retribution, seem to be Democrats on a bill while others the commissioner explained to landing hard. senate and president now they have been bingeing on slowly finding their voice. are trying to use the courts to block Politico. “I think [refusing to set THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Detached Romney tends his wounds

would have if the shoe was on the other foot.” Romney is Romney relied heavily on like-minded millionaires such plotting his next as Simmons to raise more than $1bn during the campaign, and he career steps has been calling many of them to thank them individually for their help. Last week, he called Jet Blue — a return Airways Chairman Joel Peterson, an old friend. to business, “He just said, ‘I’m sorry I let you guys down,’ “Peterson said. “He sounded really calm, perhaps, or upbeat, warm. There was no anger or sense of defensiveness something in the or anything.” So far, however, Romney hasn’t called up some supporters who charitable realm contributed in other ways. For years, as he competed or with the for the affections of GOP activ- ists in Iowa, Romney called Joni Scotter over and over again — on Mormon Church. her birthdays, on her 50th wed- ding anniversary. When Scotter’s husband passed away this spring, BY PHILIP RUCKER Romney had white roses and lilies delivered to her. he man who planned to Scotter said she hasn’t heard be president wakes up from Romney since he lost Iowa each morning now with- on November 6. Tout a plan. “He hasn’t called,” she said. “I Mitt Romney looks out the know they’re moving to California windows of his beach house here . . . so he’s doing his very best to in La Jolla, a moneyed and pris- stand back.” tine enclave of San Diego, at noisy On November 15, his last night construction workers fixing up in Boston before jetting west, his next-door neighbour’s home, Romney rented out il Casale, an sending regular updates on the Italian restaurant whose owner is renovation. He devours news from a friend, for about 30 top advisers 2,600 miles away in Washington and staffers. about the “fiscal cliff” negotia- According to one aide, as eve- tions, shaking his head and won- ryone went around the dinner dering what if. table sharing stories, Romney told Gone are the minute-by- the group, “Even though I don’t minute schedules and the swarm always show it, I’m very emo- of Secret Service agents. There’s tionally attached to you, as if you no aide to make his peanut butter Former Republican US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives for lunch at the White House in Washington, DC. were all part of my family, and I’m and honey sandwiches. Romney going to miss you all.” hangs around the house, some- through six years of running for dishevelled Romney pumping gas into a single bedroom at the Nixon’s Cabinet, he ran a national Friends said Romney plans times alone, pecking away at his president. He has made no pub- is just how he looks without a suit Spanish-style villa on Dunemere non-profit organisation that to reside mostly in La Jolla dur- iPad and emailing his CEO bud- lic comments since his conces- on his frame or gel in his hair. Drive here. One friend said they advocated volunteerism. Friends ing the colder months and in dies, who’ve been swooping in sion speech in the early hours “He’s not a poor loser,” said ordered their turkey dinner from said Romney has mentioned the Wolfeboro, N H, where he has and out of La Jolla to visit. He of November 7, and avoided the John Miller, a meatpacking mag- Boston Market, the home-style Clinton Global Initiative as a a lakefront compound, during wrote to one who’s having a liver press last week during a private nate who co-chaired Romney’s restaurant chain, because there model he might replicate. the warmer months. But he will transplant soon: “I’ll change your lunch with President Obama at finance committee and owns the were too many kids running Unlike the last two unsuccess- maintain his official residency in bedpan, take you back and forth the White House. Through an beach house next door. “He’s not around the house to bother with ful nominees, Sens John McCain, Massachusetts. to treatment.” aide, Romney declined an inter- crying on anybody’s shoulders. cooking a feast. R-Ariz., and John Kerry, D-Mass., Romney will keep a small office It’s not what Romney imagined view request for this story. He’s not blaming anybody. ... He’s That big renovation to trans- Romney had no job waiting for in Boston — he is sub-letting the he would be doing as the new year After Romney told his wealthy doing a lot of personal introspec- form the Romney beach house him. His public platform fell out space from Solamere Capital, the approaches. donors that he blamed his loss on tion about the whole process into an 11,000-square-foot manse from under him on election night. private equity firm founded by Four weeks after losing a presi- “gifts” Obama gave to minority — and I’m not even sure that’s complete with a car elevator? It “That transition to happen his eldest son, Tagg, and his cam- dential election he was convinced groups, his functionaries were healthy. There’s nothing you can hasn’t begun yet. so fast — it’s got to be hard. He paign’s finance chairman, Spencer he would win, Romney’s rapid unrepentant and Republican do about it now.” Romney also is plotting his doesn’t talk about it or really Zwick — where his only remain- retreat into seclusion has been luminaries effectively cast him By all accounts, the past next career steps — a return to show it, but I know it’s got to be ing aide, assistant Kelli Harrison, marked by repressed emotions, out. Few of the policy ideas he month has been most difficult on business, perhaps, or something painful,” said L E Simmons, an oil will manage his affairs. second guessing and, perhaps for promoted are even being dis- Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends in the charitable realm or with investor and close friend who vis- Romney has personally helped the first time in the overachiev- cussed in Washington. said believed up until the end that the Mormon Church, said friends ited the Romneys here the Friday his out-of-work staffers land new er’s adult life, sustained boredom, “Nothing so unbecame his cam- ascending to the White House who have discussed possibilities after Thanksgiving. jobs, holding office hours inside according to interviews with more paign as his manner of leaving was their destiny. They said she with him. He kept a diary on the In private, Romney has told the campaign headquarters for than a dozen of Romney’s closest it,” said Robert Shrum, a senior has been crying in private and campaign trail and is considering friends he has little interest in anyone who wanted his counsel. friends and advisers. strategist on Democratic presi- trying to get back to riding her writing a book. helping the Republican Party Campaign chairman Bob White “Is he disappointed? Of course dential campaigns. “I don’t think horses. “He’s a very vibrant, young rebuild and rebrand itself. created an internal rsumbank he’s disappointed. He’s like 41,” he’ll ever be a significant figure in Romney has been keeping in 65-year-old. He looks 55 and acts Advisers also said he felt no and marshaled the vast donor adviser Ron Kaufman said, refer- public life again.” shape with bike rides around La 45,” Kaufman said. “He’s got a lot need to explain himself after his network to help. ring to former president George Yet friends insist Romney is Jolla, past the bistros and bou- of life left in him.” comments to donors about Obama Here in California, there is still H W Bush. “Forty-one would hate not bitter. Bitterness, said one tiques that hug the rugged coast- Romney has ruled out running using the power of incumbency some joy, friends say. A photo sur- to lose a game of horseshoes to member of the family, “is not in line. The son of Detroit — who for another office, adviser Eric to give “gifts” to women, black faced before Thanksgiving show- the gardener in the White House, the Romney genetic code.” boasted of the Cadillacs he owned Fehrnstrom said. Still, he doesn’t and Latino voters leaked into the ing a grinning Romney riding a and Mitt hates to lose. He’s a born One longtime counselor con- as a sign of support for the US plan to recede completely from public sphere. One adviser said roller coaster during a visit with competitor.” trasted Romney with former vice auto industry during the cam- public life. “He’ll be involved in Romney regretted the remarks his grandkids to Disneyland. The defeated Republican nomi- president Al Gore, whose weight paign — was spotted driving a some fashion because that’s the “coming out the way it did.” Romney also wrote to Miller, nee has practically disappeared gain and beard became a symbol new black Audi Q7, a luxury SUV commitment of his family to pub- Fehrnstrom, meanwhile, said, “He who has been out of town, that from public view since his loss, of grievance over his 2000 loss. manufactured in Slovakia. lic service,” Fehrnstrom said. was expressing the frustration his La Jolla neighbour’s house was exhibiting the same detachment “You won’t see ‘heavyset, hag- Over Thanksgiving, one of After Romney’s father, George, that any challenger would feel “a mess” from an ongoing renova- that made it so difficult for him gard Mitt,’” he said. Friends say Romney’s five sons, Josh, his wife lost his 1968 presidential race about an incumbent who used the tion project and that “nobody was to connect with the body politic a snapshot-gone-viral showing a and their four children packed and finished serving in President powers of his incumbency — as we working.” WP-BLOOMBERG Tunisian town erupts against Islamist govt

SILIANA, TUNISIA: In a remote but you can’t take away our voice!” reads a call by the leftist labour union UGTT Iyad Dahmani from the centre-left The shift to slogans town in Tunisia’s interior, protesters a slogan daubed in red paint on a wall. to take to the streets to demand jobs, Republican Party. “It’s an arrogant gov- angry over joblessness and harsh police “The people want another revolution” investment and the removal of Ennahda’s ernment that thinks its election victory against the Islamists tactics call for the downfall of new and “Ennahda, go away! Game over!” say Islamist governor. means it can use tear gas and birdshot Islamist rulers, echoing the revolt that others. The shift to slogans against the on people instead of giving them jobs and ignited the Arab Spring two years ago. The revolutionary graffiti recall Sidi Islamists has seemed to wrong-foot the investment.” has seemed to Siliana, 140km (90 miles) from the Bouzid, the deprived town to the south government, which has been absorbed The Western-backed government coastal capital, has been convulsed as where a street peddler burned himself with violent disputes between conserva- secured international funding last week wrong-foot the thousands of largely unemployed youth to death two years ago in despair at the tive Salafi Islamists and liberals over the for an economy suffering from the battle riot police firing tear gas and confiscation of his fruit cart. future direction of a once staunchly secu- financial crisis in the European Union, birdshot. His suicide provided the spark for an lar state. Tunisia’s main trading partner. government, which “I lost my eye because of the police, this uprising in Tunisia that spread to Egypt, The protests are the fiercest since Clashes broke out again on Saturday is what Ennahda has done,” says Anis Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Salafis attacked the US embassy in Tunis between around 3,000 people throwing has been absorbed Omrani, 24, referring to the Islamist Aware of comparisons between Siliana in September over an anti-Islam film stones and security forces firing tear gas party that won the North African coun- and Sidi Bouzid, the government tem- made in California, in violence that left and live rounds into the air from inside with violent disputes try’s first free elections last year after the porarily removed the local governor on four people dead. armoured vehicles. overthrow of dictator Zine Al Abidine Saturday and promised jobs to victims of They also mirror conflict in Egypt, Men gathered outside the local branch Ben Ali. the 2010 uprising. Police stopped using where secularists have mobilised in of the UGTT, chanting the revolutionary between Salafi “We don’t have jobs and we’re mar- birdshot. recent weeks against post-Arab Spring songs of Sheikh Imam, a famed leftist ginalised, but they attack us savagely ... “Siliana will be the second Sidi Bouzid, Islamist rulers whom they accuse of cleric in 1970s Egypt. Islamists and The police of Ennahda just add another we’re going to get rid of these Islamists doing little to reform security poli- One protester, a teacher who did not problem,” Omrani says, with a patch over who know nothing of Islam,” Omrani cies and treating non-Islamists with wish to be named, said she had voted for one eye. said. disdain. Ennahda last year but felt the Islamists liberals over the Of at least 252 wounded, medical Ennahda was late to respond to the Leftist opponents of Ennahda have had let people down. sources say 17 have been blinded through protests, after first accusing leftists who been a clear presence on the ground in “This is the paradise of Ennahda that future direction of a police use of birdshot, and UN Human lost last year’s elections of fomenting the Siliana, though most protesters seemed we elected,” she said, grasping an empty Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay con- unrest by provoking Tunisians in impov- to be apolitical youth angry over their tear gas canister. demned the government on Friday for erished areas into confrontations that economic prospects. “This is what Ennahda has to offer us. once secular state. what she called excessive violence. would drive away foreign investors. “The government is reproducing the We won’t make this mistake again.” “You may have taken away our eyes The protests began on Tuesday after behaviour of Ben Ali’s regime,” said REUTERS MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Palestinians cheer exuberant Abbas Palestinian president returns after winning non-member observer status for Palestine at UN

RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned to the West Bank yesterday after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: “Yes, now we have a state.” “Palestine has accomplished a his- toric achievement at the UN,” Abbas added, three days after the United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestinians non-member state observer status in a 138-9 vote. “The world said in a loud voice... yes to the state of Palestine, yes to Palestine’s freedom, yes to Palestine’s independence, no to aggression, no to settlements, no to occupation,” Abbas told the ecstatic crowd. Abbas pledged that after the victory at the United Nations, his “first and most important” task would be working to achieve Palestinian unity and reviving efforts to reconcile rival factions Fatah and Hamas. “We will study over the course of the coming days the steps necessary to achieve reconciliation,” he said, as the crowd chanted: “The people want the end Supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas celebrate at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday. RIGHT: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas poses of the division.” for a photo after delivering a speech to cheering crowds upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. In Gaza, Hamas official Salah Bardawil said the group was calling “for urgent meetings to achieve reconciliation.” that of a non-member observer state, but prayer at the grave of the iconic late will be drawn on the map very soon.” don’t mean anything, particularly if we “We are interested in achieving with no vetoes available in the General Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is Abbas’s return drew supporters from achieve our unity.” Palestinian reconciliation and Hamas Assembly, the measure easily passed. buried within the presidential complex, across the West Bank, including Bajis While the Palestinians have expressed has presented several positive initiatives The move gives the Palestinians access later dedicating the UN victory to the Bani Fadl from the northern town of satisfaction and joy over the success to protect the unity of the Palestinians,” to a range of international institutions, former president’s memory. Nablus. of the bid, it has not been without Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. including potentially the International Abbas called the approval a milestone “I came to celebrate this day because repercussions. The return was a moment of triumph Criminal Court, and raises their interna- in Palestinian history, saying it was the the Palestinian leadership accomplished Washington has warned it could with- for Abbas, who last year tried and failed tional profile after years of stalled peace achievement of Palestinians everywhere. a great achievement, and this is a joy we hold funds to the already cash-strapped to win the Palestinians full state mem- talks with Israel. “Our people everywhere, raise haven’t experienced in our lives,” he said. Palestinian Authority, and Israel said bership at the United Nations. Abbas was received with a full hon- your heads up high because you are “President Abbas... took us from a yesterday it would not transfer millions The bid stalled in the Security Council, our guard, descending from his car to Palestinians,” he said. “You are stronger historical stage to a new stage, although of dollars it collects in tax funds for the where the veto-wielding United States walk along a red carpet at the Ramallah than the occupation... because you are it won’t be easy to become a state on Palestinians in response to the UN bid. has vehemently opposed it. presidential headquarters known as the Palestinians. the ground,” Mohammed Bani Audeh, And on Friday, Israel revealed plans The United States, Israel and a hand- Muqataa, where he shook hands with “You are stronger than the settlements 54, added. to build 3,000 settler homes in east ful of other countries also opposed the waiting dignitaries. because you are Palestinians,” he added. “I know that the pressures will Jerusalem and the West Bank in response Palestinian bid to upgrade their status to He laid a wreath and said a brief “You are making history and Palestine increase on us now, but these pressures to the bid. AFP Peeved Israeli government vows to keep expanding settlements

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime cabinet meeting. In another blow and theft”. Stung by the UN for thousands of housing units in At the cabinet meeting, France, Britain and the European Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Palestinian Authority General Assembly’s upgrading areas including the so-called “E1” Netanyahu said the “unilateral Union. yesterday brushed off world (PA) in the West Bank, Israel on Thursday of the Palestinians’ zone near Jerusalem. step the Palestinians took at the “The recognition of Palestine as condemnation of Israel’s plans also announced it was withhold- status from “observer entity” to Such construction could divide UN is a gross violation of pre- a state changes a lot of the facts, to expand Jewish settlements ing Palestinian tax revenues “non-member state”, Israel said the West Bank in two and further vious agreements signed with and aims to establish new ones,” after the Palestinians won this month worth about $100m on Friday it would build 3,000 dim Palestinian hopes, backed Israel”. The government of Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud de facto UN recognition of because of a $200m PA debt to more settler homes in the West by the United States and other he added, “rejects the General Abbas told a cheering crowd in statehood. the Israeli Electric Corporation. Bank and East Jerusalem, areas international sponsors of the Assembly’s vote”. the West Bank city of Ramallah “We will carry on building in Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestinians want for a future Middle East peace process, for a Israel’s settlement plans, on his return from the United Jerusalem and in all the places Palestinian official, said confisca- state, along with Gaza. contiguous country. widely seen as retaliation for the States. “But we have to recognise that are on the map of Israel’s tion of the funds due to the cash- An Israeli official said the gov- But Israeli officials said it could Palestinians’ UN bid, have drawn that our victory provoked the strategic interests,” a defiant strapped Authority and vital to ernment also ordered “prelimi- up to two years before any build- strong international condem- powers of settlement, war and Netanyahu said at the weekly meeting its payroll, was “piracy nary zoning and planning work” ing begins in E1. nation from the United States, occupation.” REUTERS

Headed home Sudanese forces kill two militants in raid

KHARTOUM: Sudanese forces raided a training camp of militant Islamists in a remote southeastern corner of the country, killing two insur- gents, a government official said yesterday. Ahmed Abbas, governor of Sudan’s Sennawr state, said gov- ernment forces had attacked the camp in a national park on Friday after a radical Islamist group attacked a nearby police station and stole weapons in October. After this attack, security authorities tracked them and found their camp headquarters,” he said. “Two Islamists were killed and four police officers wounded during the raid on Friday.” The British destroyer HMS Diamond crosses the Suez Canal yesterday, close to the port city of Ismailia, State radio said 25 people had some 120km north east of the capital Cairo, as it sails from the Red Sea towards the Mediterranean on been arrested during the raid. its way back home after months in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden where it took part in war games REUTERS with American navy war ships of the 5th Fleet. Libya dissident to be buried after 19 years

TRIPOLI: Leading Libyan brother Mahmud Al Kikhia. abduction and indicated Zeidan recalled that Kikhia dissident Mansour Al Kikhia, He was “abducted in Cairo the location of the body, the had founded the Libyan human who disappeared 19 years ago in 1993 by the former regime,” brother said. rights league and was abducted under the Gaddafi regime, is and his body was discovered in On the eve of his burial, in Cairo in 1993 during a meet- to be buried today, weeks after mid-October in a morgue inside Libya’s top brass attended a ing of the watchdog. his body was found in an intel- a Tripoli villa that once served funeral ceremony to pay tribute The foreign ministry issued a ligence services morgue, his as a headquarters for Gaddafi’s to Kikhia. statement saying: “The tyranni- brother said. infamous intelligence services, Megaryef and Zeidan hailed cal regime (of Gaddafi) abducted Libya’s new authorities, who he said. Kikhia as a “martyr for liberty” the dissident Mansour Rashid announced only last week that Mahmud added that DNA and spoke of his accomplish- Al Kikhia, killed him, hid his the body had been discovered, analysis of Kikhia’s body ments during years of activism body and did not bury it, prov- held a funeral ceremony yes- matched those of his brothers against Gaddafi’s regime. ing it was more afraid of him trerday to pay tribute to Kikhia. and sons. “The values and principles of dead than alive.” Kikhia will be buried in his Gaddafi intelligence chief justice for which strove are now Speakers at the ceremony native city of Benghazi, cradle Abdullah Al Senussi, who is being implemented thanks to also urged officials to bring to of last year’s revolt that ousted currently imprisoned by the the February 17 (2011) revolu- justice those responsible for now slain dictator Muammar country’s new authorities, tion,” that ousted Gaddafi, said Kikhia’s abduction, both in Gaddafi, said the dissident’s acknowledged the dissident’s Megaryef. Libya and in Egypt. AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 No US budget Clinton heads to Europe for Nato talks deal without Nato foreign ministers likely to give go-ahead to Patriot deployment in Turkey tax hikes: WASHINGTON: US Secretary officials, take part in the Nato for- missiles would likely be supplied by wars in Syria and Libya and cli- taking over from his predecessor of State Hillary Clinton headed eign ministers meeting in Brussels Germany, The Netherlands or the mate change. George W Bush, the relationship White House yesterday on her 38th trip to and then fly to Dublin for a meet- United States. Clinton will also “But if the United States and with Europe “was frayed. There Europe that may well be one of ing of the Organisation for Security visit Belfast in Northern Ireland Europe are not strong, stable and were sceptics and doubters on both WASHINGTON: Lead White her last to the continent, a stra- and Cooperation in Europe. for meetings with top ministers prosperous in the long term, our sides of the Atlantic,” she said. House negotiator Timothy tegic US ally, as she prepares to One of the issues likely to be before flying home on Friday. ability to tackle these and other And while the relationship was Geithner insisted yesterday step down early in 2013. discussed at Nato is whether to Speaking at The Brookings issues will be put at risk,” the top now on a new footing, “we also that there would be no deal to Ahead of her visit, Clinton took agree to Turkey’s request to deploy Institution, she said the world was US diplomat warned. need to remain focused on areas avert the “fiscal cliff” unless pains to stress the importance that US-made Patriot missiles along its counting on European leaders to “So it’s vital to the entire global where our partnership still has Republicans allowed tax rates on the United States places on its ties border with Syria. meet tough economic challenges economy that European leaders work to do,” Clinton added. the wealthiest Americans to rise. with Europe and the ways in which Nato foreign ministers meet- ahead and offered assurances that move toward policies that pro- “Perhaps the most important Talks to avoid the dreaded the Obama administration has ing tomorrow and Wednesday the United States was not turning mote credible and sustainable question in the years ahead will “fiscal cliff” are at a dangerous sought to revitalise the relationship. in Brussels are expected to sig- its back on old alliances. growth and create jobs.” be whether we invest as much impasse after President Barack “Visits to other parts of the nal support for alliance member “Our pivot to Asia is not a pivot Clinton said she would travel to energy into our economic rela- Obama’s opening gambit in the world often get more attention, Turkey by giving the go-ahead to away from Europe. On the con- Prague “to discuss our efforts to tionship as we have put into our high-stakes negotiations was shot because I think it’s kind of taken deploy Patriot missiles near its trary, we want Europe to engage promote Czech energy independ- security relationship.” down by leading Republicans on for granted in a way that we’re border with Syria. The 28-nation more in Asia, along with us, to see ence and to advance human rights Clinton recalled that the United Thursday as “ridiculous”. going to be going back and forth alliance is more than likely to the region not only as a market, and democracy,” and while in States remained one of only a few Markets are jittery as, with- across the Atlantic,” Clinton told agree to Turkey’s November 21 but as a focus of common stra- Brussels she will also discuss the World Trade Organisation mem- out a deal by the year-end, a poi- a Washington forum. “But indeed, request for cover from aerial tegic engagement,” Clinton said. future of energy security with EU bers not to have moved beyond son pill of tax hikes and massive 38 visits to Europe is something attack, diplomatic sources said. She outlined how in the past leaders. She was visiting Belfast most favoured nation statutes spending cuts, including slashes that I have been delighted to do Military sources in Turkey have four years they had worked “to reiterate America’s commit- with the European Union, saying to the military, comes into effect because of the importance we said Nato is considering the deploy- together on many key issues— ment to a peaceful, prosperous the two sides needed a compre- with potentially catastrophic place on these relationships.” ment of up to six Patriot batter- from the conflict in Afghanistan Northern Ireland.” hensive deal to aid trade on both effects for the fragile US economy. Her six-day trip will see her visit ies and some 300 foreign troops to to ways to rein in Iran’s suspect Four years ago, when President sides of the Atlantic amid growing Budget negotiations go right Prague for meetings with Czech operate the missiles. The US-made nuclear programme, as well as the Barack Obama came into office trade barriers. AFP to the heart of ideological differ- ences between Democrats and Republicans on the size and scope of government, but the biggest Slovenia elections sticking point has clearly been on Gunmen attack tax rates for high-earners. Merkel to rally CDU for Obama campaigned on a plat- form of raising taxes on individu- DR Congo camp als who make more than $200,000 per year and on families that rake as forces take poll battle next year in more than $250,000, as a way of raising extra revenue to tame over Goma BERLIN: German Chancellor mantra on the streets of crisis- the deficit. Angela Merkel will seek to rally ravaged eurozone nations. She is Republicans insist that rais- MUGUNGA CAMP: Autho- her ruling conservatives to win a expected to be re-elected head of ing taxes on the wealthy would rities in Democratic Republic th i rd term i n p ower nex t yea r at a the party she has led since 2000 be counter-productive, hurt small of Congo’s eastern city of Goma party congress tomorrow, buoyed at the congress. business owners, slow economic assumed gradual control of the by her position as Germany’s Merkel recently set the cam- growth and dampen job creation. mining hub yesterday after a rebel most popular politician. paign tone boasting hers was the “There’s not going to be an pullout, but tensions were running With general elections loom- “most successful government agreement without rates going high with gunmen attacking a ing in less than a year, Merkel since reunification” in 1990, as up. There’s not,” Geithner told nearby camp for displaced people. will address the rank-and-file of Germany weathers Europe’s pro- CNN’s “State of the Union” pro- UN refugee agency offi- her Christian Democratic Union tracted crisis better than many of gram, saying the ball was in the cials reported cases of looting (CDU) at its annual two-day its neighbours. Republicans’ court to propose a and rape in the attack late on gathering in the northern city of In an interview with Bild news- counter-offer to the Obama plan. Saturday on the giant Mugunga Hanover. Even after seven years paper, Merkel said Germans were Republicans say they are ready camp, which lies about 10km at the helm of Europe’s top econ- better off today than three years to raise more revenue from west of Goma and is home to up omy, the 58-year-old enjoys a level ago but much still had to be done. wealthy Americans, but want to to 35,000 displaced people. of domestic popularity unseen by “Fortunately we have more people do so by closing tax loopholes and The attack came hours after any post-war leader before her in work than ever and clearly fewer limiting deductions rather than the withdrawal of M23 rebel despite heading a fractious cen- unemployed than before my time by raising income tax rates. fighters in line with a region- tre-right coalition. in office—that’s not only, but also, “Increasing tax rates draws ally brokered deal to end their During Europe’s economic to do with clever politics,” she said. money away from our economy occupation of Goma which had woes, she has become the ‘go-to’ However, she may now face that needs to be invested in our stoked fears about stability in the A Slovenian citizen casts her ballot at a polling station in Sempeter dur- leader — named by Forbes maga- choppier waters amid signs that economy to put the American war-blighted area that borders ing the second round of presidential elections in Slovenia, yesterday. zine as the world’s most power- Germany is beginning to feel the people back to work,” Republican Rwanda and Uganda. Slovenians voted in a presidential run-off with opinion polls favouring ful woman for six out of the last pinch with slowing growth in the House Speaker John Boehner “It’s a step in the right direc- seven years — but has also been third quarter and rising unem- said. “It’s the wrong approach.” former premier Borut Pahor, despite his support for government auster- tion,” government spokesman maligned for her pro-austerity ployment in November. AFP AFP ity plans that have brought thousands of protesters on to the streets. Lambert Mende said of the with- drawal, adding that President Joseph Kabila would soon start “listening to the grievances” of the mainly Tutsi rebels as part of peace negotiations. WikiLeaks suspect’s trial France, Italy battle to keep rail link on track Security remains fluid follow- ing the M23’s 12-day occupation LYON: Controversial plans for shared outlook has helped the two when every other area of public of Goma, despite over 160 police date postponed to March a ¤26bn high-speed rail link countries come closer than they spending is being tightened. reinforcements arriving by boat at between France and Italy will have been in decades. It is now 21 years since the idea the lake port to beef up some 300 be at the centre of talks between Supporters of the scheme claim of the link was launched at a previ- colleagues who arrived Saturday. FORT MEADE, MARYLAND: court-martial could begin March leaders of the two countries it will take a million heavy lorries ous Franco-Italian summit. Back Alongside United Nations The trial date for a US Army pri- 6 or 18, depending on the pace of here today. off the saturated roads between then, there was much talk of the peacekeepers, a few police patrols vate accused of passing a trove of legal proceedings, the judge said. French President Francois Italy and France, as transAlpine economic benefits that would be were seen on the streets of Goma, secret documents to WikiLeaks The latest round of pre-trial Hollande and Italian Prime freight switches to rail, cutting generated by halving journey times a city of around one million people has been pushed back from hearings that began on Tuesday Minister Mario Monti are deter- CO2 emissions by three million between Lyon and Turin to two that is the hub of the resource- February to March next year, a has focused on Manning’s deten- mined to press ahead with a tonnes per year. But the plans hours; and cutting the Paris-Milan rich area. Some 600 government military judge said yesterday. tion for nine months at a brig in scheme that has generated furi- for a new tunnel under western time from seven to four hours. soldiers are also reported to be on The court-martial of Bradley Quantico, Virginia. ous opposition from environmental Europe’s highest mountains have But while the first trains are their way to Goma. Manning, 24, charged with the The defence argues the case activists on both sides of the Alps. also come under fire. currently scheduled to travel on The UN-backed Radio Okapi — most serious security breach in should be dismissed because of Both leaders see the project Critics argue it could become the new line in 2028 at the earli- a key source of independent news, American history, previously what it calls unduly harsh treat- as emblematic of the pro-growth a white elephant subsidised by est, French officials acknowledge broadcasting in French and four had been scheduled to begin on ment Manning received at the US agenda they have jointly promoted unjustifiable injections of national that the target may slip as budget local languages — has also been February 4. Marine Corps jail, where he was within the European Union. This and European funds at a time constraints bite. AFP jammed since Saturday, officials But the judge, Colonel Denise held under strict “suicide watch” said, after it aired an interview Lind, announced at a pre-trial measures against the advice of with M23 political leader Jean- hearing north of Washington two military psychiatrists. The Marie Runiga. Its jamming is in Fort Meade, Maryland that government maintains he did not “troubling and regrettable”, head more time was needed to handle suffer illegal punishment and that of UN mission in DR Congo Roger various motions from both the commanders wanted to ensure Meece said in a statement. defense and prosecution. Manning did not take his life. AFP Due to last about six weeks, the AFP

British PM to meet newspaper editors, owners

LONDON: British Prime quash claims that a new law is Miller would press the newspaper Minister David Cameron will needed to make it truly effective. industry figures to come up with meet national newspaper editors The main agenda will be trying a timetable for setting up a new and owners next week to urge to “set a timeframe for a response” regulator “within a few weeks”. them to agree a time-frame for from the newspaper industry to “She will be holding their feet setting up a new press watchdog, Leveson’s recommendation for to the fire,” Hindley said, adding a government spokesman said. independent self-regulation of the that Miller would tell the industry The meeting follows proposals press, the spokesman added. “that the status quo is not accept- set out by judge Brian Leveson in Britain’s press currently reg- able.” Hindley confirmed that a major report into press ethics in ulates itself through the Press Richard Desmond, proprietor of Britain, conducted in the wake of the Complaints Commission (PCC), the mid-market Daily Express and phone-hacking scandal at Rupert a body staffed by editors. Its crit- Daily Star tabloid, would be at the Murdoch’s News of the World, which ics say it is toothless and partly meeting. Desmond, one of Britain’s was published on Thursday. responsible for a failure to punish most controversial media barons, The meeting, tomorrow, will be journalists for harassment, inva- owns a media empire that also hosted by Maria Miller, the cul- sion of privacy and the hacking of includes celebrity magazine OK!, ture minister who has responsi- voicemail messages. Channel 5 television and several bility for the media. Miller will Parliament will debate adult channels. appeal to the powerful group not Leveson’s proposals today when Hindley said Miller will lead to “drag its feet” in establishing Miller will make a statement to further cross-party talks on the a new regulator, the culture min- fellow lawmakers, the spokes- Leveson recommendations today istry spokesman said. Cameron man added. Miller’s special and tomorrow morning. hopes the new body will help adviser Joanna Hindley said that AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Alarm over 5 die as Japan tunnel caves in depleting tuna stocks due to Emergency workers scramble to rescue people caught inside five-kilometre stretch overfishing OTSUKI, JAPAN: Japanese was believed trapped. rescuers found five charred Chikaosa Tanimoto, professor MANILA: Asia-Pacific fish- bodies in a highway tunnel that emeritus of tunnel engineering at ing experts yesterday warned collapsed yesterday, crush- Osaka University told NHK the against depleting tuna stocks, ing cars and triggering a blaze, concrete panels are suspended saying the region needs to and sparking fears of another from pillars. reduce its catch of the vulnera- cave-in. “It is conceivable that the parts ble bigeye species by 30 percent. At least seven people were connecting the ceiling panels and Participants at the confer- missing inside the nearly five- pillars, or pillars themselves, have ence of the Western and Central kilometre (three mile)-long tun- deteriorated, affected by vibra- Pacific Fisheries Commission nel. Witnesses spoke of terrifying tions from earthquakes and pass- (WCPFC) said action must be scenes as at least one vehicle burst ing vehicles,” he said. taken not only to preserve tuna into flames, sending out clouds of An official from highways oper- resources but also other marine blinding, acrid smoke. ator NEXCO said material degra- life that are accidentally caught For several hours rescuers dation was a possibility, adding the with them. were forced to suspend their risk of further collapse remained. Some tuna varieties are over- efforts to reach those believed His colleague said the ceiling had fished while others are near their trapped under the more-than undergone its regular five-yearly limits, participants at the meet- one tonne concrete ceiling pan- inspection in September this year. ing said. Additionally, tuna fishers els that crashed from the roof as A reporter said two large often catch sharks, rays and other engineers warned more debris orange tents had been erected at fish in their nets, depleting their could fall. the tunnel mouth and a helicopter numbers as well. Emergency crews who rushed remained nearby, ready to ferry The area covered by the to the Sasago tunnel on the the injured to hospital. WCPFC provides more than Chuo Expressway, 80km west of The tunnel, which passes 50 percent of all the tuna catch the capital, were hampered by through hills near Mount Fuji, is in the world, said Asis Perez, thick smoke billowing from the one of the longest in Japan. It sits head of the Philippine Bureau of entrance. on a major road connecting Tokyo Fisheries. Dozens of people abandoned with the centre and west of the The commission, which groups their vehicles on the Tokyo-bound country. over 30 countries and territories section of carriageway, and ran A man in his 30s, who was just ranging from the United States, for one of the emergency exits or 50 metres (yards) ahead of the China and Australia to small for the mouth, where they hud- caved-in spot, recounted details Pacific island nations, has a spe- dled in bitter winter weather. of the terrifying experience. cial role in protecting tuna, he Emergency crews equipped Rescue workers and highway officials work at the entrance of Sasago tunnel, which collapsed in Otsuki, west of “A concrete part of the ceil- added. with breathing apparatus bat- Tokyo, yesterday. ing fell off all of a sudden when Because tuna is a migratory tled around a third of the way into I was driving inside. I saw fire species that moves from one the tunnel, where they found 110 coming from a crushed car. I was country’s territory to another, metres (yards) of concrete panels “Anyone please help” from the pile the vehicle. “She said: ‘All of my apparently having collapsed from so frightened I got out of my car cooperation is crucial to sustain- had come crashing down, crush- before a young woman emerged friends and my boyfriend...Please the middle, with teams of men in right away and walked one hour ing the resource. ing at least two vehicles. with her clothes torn, he was help them,’” said the man, adding protective gear scrambling over to get outside,” he told NHK. WCPFC executive director Hours after the collapse, engi- reported as saying. the flames were too strong. them. Japan has an extensive web Glenn Hurry said bigeye tuna, one neers warned the structure could She could not stop trembling, Footage from security cameras A fire department official said of highways with thousands of of the most caught species, was be unstable, forcing rescuers to he told the agency, as he asked in the late afternoon showed large workers were still trying to reach tunnels, usually several hundred reaching its limits and measures halt their work as a team of her how many had been inside concrete panels in a V shape, a van in which at least one person metres long. AFP must be taken to limit the catch- experts assessed the danger. ing of this species. It was during this inspection “This is the one we’re worried that accompanying police officers Survivors talk of horror amid debris, fire about. The catch is too big. We confirmed the first deaths. need to find a way to reduce that,” “What we found resembled he told reporters. bodies inside a vehicle, they were OTSUKI, JAPAN: A man who which passes through hills near One man told the Jiji Press thought it was impossible for me Hurry said the region was pro- blackened. We have visually con- survived a tunnel collapse in Mount Fuji, as cars drove the news agency he had watched in to rescue anyone inside.” ducing about 151,000 tonnes of firmed them but have yet to take Japan spoke yesterday of how wrong way to try to escape the horror as concrete crashed down Suzuki said people in the tunnel bigeye tuna annually which was them out for closer examination,” a woman who crawled from a cave-in and ensuing fire. onto a vehicle in front of him, were in panic, with cars starting too high. an official said. mound of debris begged him to Officials have said five charred leaving little more than a mound to drive the wrong way to try to “We need to reduce that catch The Fire and Disaster help her friends and boyfriend bodies have been found inside the of dust and debris. get out. by 30 percent,” he said. Management Agency later con- trapped in a burning vehicle. tunnel on one of Japan’s most Tomohiro Suzuki, 37, said he He gathered up his 38-year-old But the catching of the other firmed there were five bodies, Another told of how he fled important roads. They earlier had jumped out of his car and wife, Nishiki, and their two chil- popular varieties like skipjack, adding another vehicle had also with his wife and children after said at least seven people were rushed towards a vehicle that had dren, six and nine, and hurried yellowfin and Pacific albacore — been burned. trying and failing to get into missing. been crushed by the fallen con- them to safety as several dozen should not increase either, Hurry One man who fled the tunnel a flaming car to rescue people Other vehicles were believed crete, in a bid to rescue people people rushed to get out. warned. told the Jiji Press news agency he inside in a horrifying incident on to have been buried when the inside. “A part of the ceiling, just “I was anxious as I could not Skipjack tuna catch was about had watched in horror as concrete a highway that has so far claimed 20-centimetre-thick concrete as wide as the road, had collapsed see the exit,” he said. 1.4 million tonnes last year, while crashed down onto a vehicle in at least five lives. roof panels caved in on the Tokyo- straight down and broken in the “I kept wondering when the fire yellowfin tuna catch was at about front of him, leaving little more Witnesses spoke of scenes of bound side of the Sasago tunnel, middle into a V-shape,” he told would spread and catch us. I tried 550,000 tonnes in 2010, Hurry than a mound of dust and debris. confusion in the nearly five-kil- around 80 kilometres from the Jiji, adding there was a fire in its to let my children get away first said, adding it should ideally be Voices cried out “Help” and ometre (three mile)-long tunnel, capital. bonnet. “I called the police as I of all.” AFP at 450,000 tonnes a year. AFP Workers clash with police in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Police fired rubber tear gas to disperse them,” keep their word. There was no nine-storey factory had per- bullets and tear gas yester- Uddin said, adding that the pro- payment even on Sunday,” he mission for three floors, while day in clashes with thousands testers blocked a key highway, said. Scores of factories declared firefighters said all three of the of Bangladeshi workers pro- torching furniture and tyres. an impromptu holiday yesterday, fire exits led to the ground floor, testing over the deaths of 110 Protesters fought back with which is a workday in Muslim where the blaze started, mean- people in one of the country’s stones, police said, turning the majority Bangladesh, fearing the ing staff upstairs were effec- worst factory fires and the industrial area, home to hun- protests would spread and turn tively trapped. sacking of labourers. dreds of plants which make into larger-scale labour unrest, There have also been accu- Industrial police deputy clothing for Western retailers, he said. sations that managers told director Baser Uddin said the into a battleground. Survivors of the blaze said employees to stay at their work sacking of scores of workers at He said Tazreen Fashion how workers, most of them stations when the fire broke out a plant triggered the latest dem- workers joined the protest, women, tried to escape the and that the activation of a fire onstration following the deadly demanding their wages and jus- burning Tazreen Fashion fac- alarm was only a routine drill. blaze last weekend at Tazreen tice for the victims of the fire. tory, which supplied clothes to Police have arrested three Fashion in the Ashulia indus- “The Tazreen workers were a variety of international brands managers and questioned the trial area north of the capital told that they would be paid including US giant Walmart and owner and managing director Dhaka. their November salary on Dutch retailer C&A. of the factory, Delwar Hossain. “We shot rubber bullets and Saturday. The owners did not Authorities said the AFP

Myanmar police arrest Chinese court asks newspaper two at rally over to apologise, say reports China mine row YANGON: At least two people BEIJING: A Chinese court which allows citizens to request Chinese news websites and have been arrested at a rally has asked for an apology the central government to widely spread on Chinese in Yangon held to condemn a from a newspaper which investigate disputes such as social networking websites, as violent police crackdown on said it jailed 10 “intercep- land grabs and unpaid wages. “fake news”, another state-run protesters at a Chinese-backed tors” who illegally held peti- Officials, eager to pro- newspaper, the China Daily, copper mine, an activist and a tioners attempting to lodge tect their reputations, often reported. reporter said yesterday. complaints with the govern- employ “interceptors” to catch The spokeswoman, who was The arrests come after ment, state media reported petitioners and detain them not named, “confirmed a case Myanmar opposition leader yesterday. in secret facilities known as involving city officials from Aung San Suu Kyi was appointed The state-run Beijing Youth “black jails” to prevent them Henan had been heard”, but by the government to lead a Daily reported yesterday that from lodging complaints. “denied judges had handed probe into the raid on protest 10 were imprisoned for ille- The newspaper said a Beijing down any verdict”, the paper camps at the mine, in northern gally detaining people from court handed down sentences said. Myanmar, in an apparent bid to the central province of Henan ranging from several months to Beijing’s Chaoyang District assuage public anger over the who had travelled to Beijing to a year-and-a-half in prison for Court, which reportedly handed crackdown, which left scores complain about local govern- “illegal imprisonment”, the first down the verdict, is “in nego- injured. ment abuses. time such workers have been tiations with Beijing Youth Daily An reporter at the Yangon rally The widely-circulated report sentenced in the capital. over the printing of an apology witnessed two men, including a struck a chord among many But a court spokeswoman and explanation”, the paper protest leader called Moe Thway, Chinese dissatisfied with the branded the report, which said. being arrested by uniformed age-old “petitioning” system, was carried by most major AFP police. AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Attack on Afghan Nato base kills 5 Taliban claim responsibility for the suicide operation

JALALABAD: Taliban suicide was to put so much pressure on of security, with the Nato base set attackers struck at a Nato base the Taliban that they would come well back from the first entrance, on an Afghan city airport at to the negotiating table, but the which an Afghan official said had dawn yesterday, killing five peo- insurgents called off early con- been breached. ple and wounding several for- tacts in March. Three Afghan guards were eign troops in a two-hour battle, The hardline Islamists have killed and 14 wounded, while two officials said. waged an 11-year insurgency civilians also died and four others Nato helicopters went into against the Afghan govern- were injured, police spokesman action, firing on the insurgents as ment since being overthrown in Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said. they tried to storm the base after a US-led invasion for harbour- “First there was a car bomb- two suicide car bombs hit the ing Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin ing next to the entrance followed perimeter gate of the Jalalabad Laden. by gun attack by the insurgents,” airport near the Pakistan border. The Taliban claimed its mili- a senior Afghan security official A total of eight attackers tants had managed to enter the said. “They couldn’t reach Nato armed with rocket propelled base and caused heavy casualties forces and they were killed in the grenades and automatic weapons but this was denied by Nato’s area between the first and second Afghan forces arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Jalalabad yesterday. were killed, Afghan officials said. International Security Assistance gates.” The assault came as the usual Force (ISAF). The Taliban claimed their mili- are an indication of weakness of south, destroying six fighter air- today along with a delega- summer fighting season should “Insurgents including suicide tants had entered the airport and the Taliban terrorists. craft in the largest single loss of tion including Chief of Army be drawing to a close, indicat- bombers attacked the perim- caused heavy casualties. “These enemies of peace and air assets for the United States Staff General Ashfaq Pervez ing that the insurgency remains eter of the Jalalabad air base “First a fedayee (suicide stability must understand that since the Vietnam War. Kayani, the Foreign Office said. resilient after surviving the big- this morning,” a spokesman said. bomber) mujahid... detonated such cowardly, un-Islamic and Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Foreign Pakistan wants durable peace in gest onslaught US-led forces will “None of the attackers succeeded a car bomb causing the enemy inhuman attacks can not deter Minister Hina Rabbani Khar Afghanistan and a guarantee that throw against them. breaching the perimeter. heavy casualties and losses and Afghan security forces from serv- would focus on a responsible exit like the past the country would The last of the extra 33,000 “I can confirm that there were removed all the barriers,” the ing the suffering Afghan nation.” from Afghanistan and the recon- not be left with neighbours in soldiers President Barack Obama helicopters involved in the coa- Taliban said on their website. The Jalalabad airport has come ciliation process besides discuss- trouble, the sources informed. deployed in a “surge” nearly three lition response to the attack. “After the attack other fedayee under attack on two previous ing bilateral issues in her meeting They said that Pakistan also years ago left in September, and “A number of ISAF forces were mujahids entered the base... and occasions this year. with US Secretary of State wants surety that ethnic division the vast majority of the remaining wounded,” he added, noting that started attacking the invading But the biggest attack on a Hillary Clinton and Nato leader- in Afghanistan would not be wid- Nato force of more than 100,000 it was ISAF policy not to disclose forces in the base.” coalition base this year came ship in Brussels, official sources ened with Nato withdrawal, and will follow by the end of 2014. the toll of those injured. The air- The interior ministry said in a in September, when insurgents informed yesterday. the country has a viable security One of the aims of the surge port complex has multiple layers statement that “suicide attacks stormed Camp Bastion in the Khar will leave for Brussels system. AFP/INTERNEWS

Court restrains temple Elite in the govt oppose border trade with India demolition in Karachi

ISLAMABAD: A court in ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has going to complete its tenure in the current list of a mere 100 items sensitive list to 100 items. addressed by better understand- Pakistan has restrained a mili- missed a self-imposed deadline next few months. allowed to enter Pakistan. “I don’t see these commitments ing of the benefits of normalisa- tary estates officer and the for allowing all tradable items The general election will most India also missed the deadline being honoured in the present cir- tion of relations. administration of the port city through land routes from India probably be held in May. set for it to reduce the sensitive cumstances,” the official said. In At a meeting with members of of Karachi from demolishing a because of stiff resistance from “No one can afford to take a list by 30 per cent under the South reply to a question, he said the the Pakistan Business Council in pre-Partition era temple. land-owning elite in the federal decision that could send a nega- Asia Free Trade Agreement government was not backtracking New Delhi Sharma expressed sat- The Sindh High Court on cabinet. tive message to voters,” he said. (Safta) last month. The products from its decision, putting down isfaction over the trade normali- Saturday issued an order The two countries had agreed The People’s Party’s constituency placed in the sensitive list are the delay to “procedural hiccups”. sation between the two countries. restraining the demolition of the in September to open the Wagah consists mostly of landowners allowed for trade, but the flows A commerce ministry official “Pakistan government has Shri Rama Pir Mandir in the border and other land routes for and farmers in southern Punjab, are restricted through tariff. said the agricultural lobby was taken some steps to move towards Soldier Bazaar area, the News trade in all commodities, includ- Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Contrary to this, Pakistan has trying to sabotage the liberalisa- full normalisation of trade rela- International reported yesterday. ing agricultural produce, by the end “The election will cause a 1,209 items on the negative list, tion process. tions with India by making the The order came on a petition of October. It was learnt that the delay in the liberalisation process disallowing their trade through Recently, India’s Minister for transition from a ‘Positive list’ to filed by Ram Chander, a resident cabinet is reluctant to take up the launched in April,” the official said. any route from India. Pakistan Commerce and Industry Anand a ‘Negative list’ for imports from in the temple premises, who summary on the issue owing to The commerce ministry had also set a deadline to phase out Sharma had called for both India. This process must be taken challenged the demolition of the resistance from its members and submitted a summary seeking the negative list by December 31 nations to continue moving for- to its logical end by phasing out temple and its adjoining quarters parliamentarians. approval of the decision allowing as part of the trade liberalisation ward towards a non-discrimina- the negative list and eventually and took to courtthe military An official said it appeared to India to export more than 5,600 programme. India had agreed to tory trade regime and said that according most favoured nation estates officer, police and a pri- be a very difficult decision for the items by land, especially through phase out the negative list by any perceptions that come in (MFN) status to India,” he said. vate builder. government at a time when it was the Wagah border, as against the April next year and confine the the way of this process should be INTERNEWS/AGENCIES IANS

Rescuers find more bodies after Pakistan landslides

MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN: Rescuers have found three more bodies after landslides in Pakistan- administered Kashmir, officials said yesterday, taking the con- firmed death toll to 15, with three people still missing. A military and civilian rescue operation was launched after heavy snows on Friday triggered two landslides at a remote outpost in the Kel area of the disputed territory near the de facto border with India. “Despite bad weather and heavy snowfall rescuers found three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers shift bags of potassium chlorate from a bus in Quetta, yesterday. more bodies on Saturday and are searching for three more who are still missing,” local administration official Raja Saqib Muneer said. Pakistan seizes 14 tonnes “So far 15 bodies have been recov- ered, including nine soldiers and six civilians.” Disputed Kashmir has been the of bomb-making chemical cause of two of the three wars between India and Pakistan since QUETTA: Pakistani authori- people,” Frontier Corps Captain Baluchistan province, of their independence from Britain ties seized nearly 14 tonnes of Johar Sarwar said. “The sub- which Quetta is the capital, is in 1947. potassium chlorate, a key ingre- stance was hidden in sacks frequently hit by bomb attacks. But with separatist violence dient in bomb-making, from a under various food items.” The oil and gas-rich area having dropped sharply follow- bus in the country’s violent and Frontier Corps spokesman borders Iran and Afghanistan, ing the start of a peace process unstable southwest yesterday, Murtaza Baig confirmed the and suffers from sectarian vio- in 2004, the greatest dangers fac- officials said. haul and said the substance lence, attacks by Taliban mili- ing soldiers stationed at remote The haul was made when could be used to make bombs tants and a tribal insurgency. outposts are often landslides and officials acting on a tip-off and was so dangerous that only Baluch rebels rose up in 2004, extreme weather conditions. stopped a bus just outside the a simple detonator was needed demanding political autonomy In April, 140 Pakistani soldiers city of Quetta loaded with the to make a deadly device. and a greater share of prof- were buried when a huge wall of volatile substance hidden under The bus was bound for its from the region’s mineral snow crashed into the remote cartons of food, an official with the remote town of Naushki, resources. Baluchistan has also Siachen Glacier base high in the the government paramilitary around 110km west of Quetta, been a flashpoint for violence mountains in Kashmir. They have force said. he said, adding that bomb dis- between majority Sunnis and all been declared dead, although “We have seized some posal officers were summoned Shiites, who make up around 20 some of the bodies remain buried. 13,900kg of potassium chlorate to check for detonators, but percent of the population. AFP from a bus and arrested five they found none. AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Government confident Crying for justice over FDI, FEMA issues Role of SP and BSP crucial in voting

NEW DELHI: The UPA gov- government has 30 working days reservation for dalits and trib- ernment yesterday said it was of parliament to get the nod. als in job promotions -- an idea confident of its numbers ahead A debate with voting on the backed by its archrival, the BSP. of a crucial debate with voting FDI issue will take place in the In the Rajya Sabha, of the total on FDI in multi-brand retail in Lok Sabha Dec 4 and 5 and later 245 members, the UPA claims the the Lok Sabha on December 4 in the Rajya Sabha, said govern- strength of 90 members. With 27 and 5. ment sources. Though the govern- outside supporters from the BSP, “We are confident of the num- ment is now confident of sailing SP, Lok Janshakti Party and the bers. The opposition motion (on through in the lower house, it Rashtriya Janata Dal, the govern- FDI in retail) would be defeated does not have the numbers in the ment tally stands at 117. in both houses,” Parliamentary upper house. The opposition claims the sup- Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told “We are urging other parties to port of 110 members. Besides, CNN-IBN channel in an interview. reject the politics of the motion,” there are seven Independents, He also countered the opposi- said Kamal Nath. five from smaller parties and 10 tion’s argument that amendments “We are talking to other par- nominated members. to Foreign Exchange Management ties to support us in both the While the debate in the Lok Act (FEMA), required to facili- houses,” Minister of State for Sabha will be held under Rule tate foreign direct investment Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev 184, in the Rajya Sabha it will (FDI) in retail, have to be passed Shukla said. be held under Rule 168, both by both houses. “If one house has The role of the Samajwadi Party entailing votes. The Bharatiya passed it, it passes. It does not (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Party and CPI-M had need both houses to pass it. That’s (BSP), which support the United submitted separate notices for what is prescribed in the rules,” Progressive Alliance (UPA) gov- a debate with a voting provision. said Kamal Nath. ernment from outside, would be The CPI-M also wants a vote on Communist Party of India- crucial here, said the sources. amendments to the FEMA, tabled Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Samajwadi Party leader Ram in the Lok Sabha Friday. Both Yechury said recently that FEMA Gopal Yadav surprised everyone houses of parliament have seen amendments need to be passed in last week by saying the party repeated disruptions on the issue both houses and the government’s would oppose FDI in multi-brand since the winter session began on failure to do so will be challenged retail in the Rajya Sabha. November 22. in court. Kamal Nath made light “If there is a vote on FDI in Stock markets will closely of the threats. Rajya Sabha, we will vote against track the issue of FDI in multi- “Anything can go to court. If it it. We will not let it pass,” Yadav brand retail that will dominate Victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy carry an effigy symbolising a group of ministers and union and state goes, we will deal with it,” he said. said. Government sources Parliament next week with the government representatives, and a poster of former chairman of the US company Union Carbide Corporation He, however, said that a vote expressed hope they would be Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha Warren Anderson, during a demonstartion on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the disaster, in Bhopal, yes- on FEMA amendments could be able to persuade the Samajwadi witnessing a trial of strength over terday. A gas leak at the Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal in 1984 killed at least 15,000 people in postponed to the budget session Party, which is furious over what the matter, said experts. what is considered the world’s worst industrial accident. scheduled in February 2013 as the it feels is the UPA’s support for IANS/AGENCIES

Arvind Kejriwal Congress meet in Jaipur to chalk out poll agenda launches party NEW DELHI: The Congress now heads the party’s coordina- 2009 general elections, in which it party leaders and Congress min- According to party sources, will hold a brain-storming ses- tion committee for the next Lok returned to power with a stronger isters, the Jaipur session will see issues like pre-poll alliances, sion in Jaipur from January Sabha poll. mandate than 2004. around 300 senior leaders from manifesto and government in Maharashtra 18-20 next year to set the party’s The 2013 session comes a dec- The 2013 session follows from a all over the country, including programmes and communica- political and economic agenda ade after the last one held in grand public rally in Delhi on Nov state unit heads, MPs, legislators, tions and publicity besides the ROHA, MAHARASHTRA: for future challenges ahead of Shimla in 2003, which was fol- 4 addressed by top Congress lead- chief ministers and union cabinet economic challenges before Arvind Kejriwal launched his the next general election, party lowed by the Congress romping ership, including Sonia Gandhi, members. the country will dominate the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) sources said yesterday. back to power in 2004 and forming her son Rahul Gandhi and Prime According to party sources, deliberations. Maharashtra unit yesterday Before that, the party’s de facto the United Progressive Alliance Minister Manmohan Singh. while the first two days of the Party sources said plans for a with a rally from Mumbai to number two - Rahul Gandhi - government at the centre. A few days later, the party Jaipur ‘chintan shivir’ will be ‘chintan shivir’ were in the pipe- Roha in Raigad district. could be officially named so dur- This will be the third AICC ses- held a dialogue session at spent discussing the political line for the past one year but the Kejriwal also released a “black ing the much-awaited All-India sion since Sonia Gandhi became Surajkund, near Delhi, to thrash and economic situation, the final event could not be organised as paper on irrigation” to counter Congress Committee reshuffle, Congress chief in 1998 and headed out a road map for the 2014 gen- day will be devoted to an AlCC the UPA-II was busy battling the the white paper released by the said the sources. the Pachmarhi session in Madhya eral election. session, where around 1,200 del- various political crises triggered government, which gave a clean Congress sources said the AICC Pradesh the same year. While the November 9 ‘samvad egates are expected to endorse by a slew of corruption charges chit to Nationalist Congress Party session is expected to bring Rahul Interestingly, the Congress did baithak’ was a small gathering of key ideas that emerge from the against the government. leader and former Maharashtra Gandhi’s ideas centre-stage as he not hold any such meet before the around 60 people, including senior brain-storming. IANS deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in allegations of irregularities worth Rs200bn in irrigation projects in the state. Pawar was Construction record also irrigation minister during Kashmir to 1999-2009. BJP backs Modi as PM The rally is being held in Roha, the hometown and stronghold of vote for council current Irrigation Minister Sunil NEW DELHI: The BJP yester- backed Modi for the post of Tatkare, who is also allegedly polls today day backed senior party leader prime minister. “Narendra Modi involved in financial irregulari- Sushma Swaraj’s statement is capable of becoming PM and ties in irrigation projects. JAMMU: Arrangements, that Gujarat Chief Minister I am satisfied with Sushma The “black paper” claimed including security and other Narendra Modi was “fit” for the Swaraj’s opinion... He has poten- that the cost per hectare for measures, are in place for elec- job of prime minister, terming tial of becoming PM,” Munde said bringing land under irrigation tions today for four seats to the him a “very popular and suc- in Ahmedabad. in Maharashtra is the highest in state Legislative Council from cessful” chief minister. “People love him a lot and peo- the country and probably in the the panchayat quota, being held Party leader Arun Jaitley said ple are in his support. The BJP world. in Jammu and Kashmir after 38 the Gujarat chief minister is “very will win in Gujarat,” he added. Kejriwal also said that the years. successful and popular and we However, striking a different white paper was a complete The contest is set to be multi- will obviously praise him”. note, Congress leader and Power eyewash and was meant only to cornered with all political par- Jaitley also hit out at the Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said absolve the guilty. He also alleged ties fielding their candidates Congress, saying it has a “phobia” Modi has “squandered Gujarat’s that every political party was in and coalition partners National about Modi and attacks the BJP future... 45 percent of the children collusion in looting the nation. Conference (NC) and the chief minister. in the state are malnourished, and The “black paper” demanded Congress contesting two seats Sushma Swaraj had on the health of over 40 percent girls immediate resignation of Tatkare each. The opposition parties - Saturday told reporters in is very poor”. “The atmosphere and that a Special Investigation including Peoples Democratic Vadodara that Modi is “definitely in the state is very bad, we would Team be set up to investigate the Party (PDP) and Panthers Party fit for the job (of prime minister) not want that replicated in India,” irregularities. (PP) - have fielded candidates on and there is no doubt about it”. said Scindia. It also demanded that all dam all four seats while the Bharatiya Asked to elaborate, she said Water Resources Minister projects in the state where there Janata Party (BJP) is contesting Modi is “kabil and yogya (capa- Harish Rawat said Modi lacks have been “violations” and where three seats - two in Jammu region ble) and there is nothing wrong an all-India image and backed rehabilitation and resettlement and one in Kashmir valley. The in our praising him”. BJP leader Congress general secretary Rahul has not been completed be halted Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has Gopinath Munde yesterday Gandhi as prime minister. IANS immediately. also fielded three candidates. The rally had left Mumbai Inspector General of Police yesterday afternoon with a huge (IGP) Jammu Zone Dilbagh Singh number of vehicles including told IANS that seven companies First Sikh to guard Buckingham Palace buses and cars. of the Central Reserve Police Thousands gathered to support Force (CRPF) and 17 companies LONDON: An Indian-origin Sikh is all set to be the first person Kejriwal in Mumbai and in Roha. of state armed and regular police guarding the Buckingham Palace in his turban after being given He was accompanied by Prashant will monitor security in Jammu the privilege not to wear the mandatory bearskin on ceremonial Bhushan, Mayank Gandhi, Anjali region during polling Monday. duties. Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, who joined the Damania, Dharam Rajya Paksh “Police is mostly deployed for Scots Guards this year, has been given permission to wear a tur- leader Rajan Raje and other polling duty while the CRPF and ban when on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace, breaking activists. police will jointly look after law hundreds of years of tradition, Daily Mail reported Sunday. With an aim to set the agenda and order,” Singh said. He added The regiment traces its origin back to 1642 and its soldiers have for AAP in Maharashtra, the rally that electronic voting machines worn bearskins on parade since 1832. took on issues that are plagu- have reached polling stations. Bhullar is based at Wellington Barracks in Birdcage Walk. The ing farmers, tribals, fishermen, “The polling is a limited exer- base is used by soldiers from the Scots Guards’ F Company, who are labourers and the poor. cise as only panches and sar- responsible for public duties and guarding the Queen. “Issues faced by farmers are A 10-storied building named ‘Instacon’, which was constructed in record panches are voting, but the According to military sources, Bhullar, from Birmingham, is important and should be dealt 48 hours in the northern city of Mohali in Punjab. According to reports, activity is widespread,” Singh said. expected to parade for the first time next week. When he marches with. Country’s biggest irriga- the construction work of the building erected by Synergy Thrislington Of the 36 seats in the legislative with his colleagues he will become the first guardsman not to wear tion scam has taken place here began on November 29 in the evening and was completed in 48 hours. council, four from the panchayat a bearskin headgear. As a devout Sikh, it is mandatory for Bhullar (in Maharashtra). Farmers are The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Structural Engineering quota and two from local bodies, to wear a turban. It is intended to protect his hair, which he never being deprived of their lands, and Research Centre, Chennai, has vetted the building for structural safety. are lying vacant. cuts, and to keep them clean. IANS now water,” Kejriwal said. IANS IANS

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip: For eight in lake entombed under days, the sounds of illegal com- merce here at the ragged south- ern edge of the Gaza Strip were 3km of Antarctic ice silenced by the pounding thrum of battle. ANTARCTICA: British sci- the lake bed, scientists hope to Israeli military jets bombed entists flew into Antarctica learn when the overlying glacier the sandy stretch of land just a on Saturday night to begin an waxed and waned, and how the center fielder’s throw from Egypt extraordinary search for life local environment changed over each day, hoping to collapse the in a stretch of water the size of time. underground avenues for food, Lake Windermere buried under The team will spend this week cars, medicines and weapons that three kilometres of solid ice. preparing for a three-day drill- support Hamas’ rule in Gaza. The researchers join a team of ing operation, due to start on 12 Ahmad Al Arja, a 22-year-old engineers who set up camp on the December. To bore into the lake, engineering student, was among West Antarctic ice sheet, where engineers made a 3.4km-long hose the army of diggers forced to the December sun shines night that is strong enough to bear its take the conflict off. But minutes and day, and temperatures plunge own weight and a nozzle on the after Israel and Hamas reached far below freezing. end. The hose is supplied with a cease-fire on the evening of In the coming days, the team ultraclean water heated to 90C, November 21, his boss was on the will use a sterile hot water drill to which blasts out of the nozzle phone. bore down to the sub-glacial Lake and melts its way through the “He said, ‘Come on, count on Ellsworth and retrieve samples ice sheet. God, and tomorrow morning, of water and sediments that may Once the team has broken start digging,’” Arja recalled, as have been isolated from the rest through to the lake they will have he began with his cousins the of the world for a million years. 24 hours to sterilise the entrance tedious, treacherous work of tun- Should life be found lurking in to the hole with intense ultravio- nel repair. Ismael Al Arja, and Mahmoud Al Arja, watch as a bucket of soil is hoisted out of the tunnel they are digging along the depths of the lake, it will have let light, and lower equipment The business of Rafah is the the Egypt-Gaza border. evolved in isolation for at least into the water to collect all the tunnel network that circumvents 100,000 years, but probably much samples they need before the hole the Israeli blockade of Gaza, and longer. Scientists want to know refreezes again. business once again is booming. believe they came out of this lat- “taxes” from the merchants who to the tunnels. Hamas officials first whether life can endure such “It’s pretty exciting to have For Israeli leaders, who are est round significantly depleted in buy the imports — say at least chose him three months ago to harsh environments. If it can, the to do all your science first time seeking assurances since the terms of rockets and missiles. The 50 were collapsed along one busy help guard the site, which they next question is how. within a 24-hour or so window recent cease-fire that Hamas way to prevent a future round is mile-long stretch alone. Diggers monitor constantly. The answers will further our with no chance of a second go,” be prevented from restocking to prevent their ability to rearm.” think that hundreds of tunnels Bahrawi said it is his job to understanding of life on Earth, said Dr Matt Mowlem, who its potent weapons arsenal, the Maj Avital Leibovitz, an Israel span the border. make sure only permitted goods and inform searches for life else- developed submersible tech- thriving return of tunnel com- Defence Forces spokesman, said But as the Arja family and oth- come through the tunnels, and to where in the solar system, such nology for the project at the merce poses a daunting strategic there is so far no evidence any ers toiling under a warm winter prevent people from using them as in the ice-capped ocean of National Oceanography Centre challenge. new arms shipments have gone sun less than a week after the to leave for Egypt. Jupiter’s moon Europa. in Southampton. Since leaving Gaza seven through the tunnels since the cease-fire made clear, none of “But I am not going to lie to “Extreme environments tell The scientists will collect water years ago, Israel’s military has cease-fire. the tunnels will remain dormant you,” Bahrawi said. “Many other you what constraints there are samples from various depths of lost its on-the-ground ability to Leibovitz said an Israeli ground for long. things enter, too.” on life,” said Mike Bentley, a the lake, which is 150 metres stop tunnel smuggling. Since the presence is not necessary to stop “Some wanted to get to work Of primary concern to Israel geologist on the team at Durham deep, by lowering down probes cease-fire, Israeli Prime Minister smuggling under the border. Like during the bombings,” said are the weapons — missiles, small University. “If we find a particu- that stand nearly 6 metres tall Benjamin Netanyahu has sought the intelligence assets that the Mohammed Bahrawi, 23, a Hamas arms and explosives — that mili- lar set of environments where and weigh 400kg. The first sam- guarantees from Egyptian military drew on to target under- guard who monitors a particularly tary officials say have arrived in life can’t exist, that creates some ples are expected on 18 December. President Mohammed Mursi that ground rocket launchers, she said, busy patch of tunnels. “But, look, Gaza from Iran, Sudan and Libya bookends: it tells you about the The team has two designs of corer he will do more to prevent the “we know what we need to know” they were crazy. We wouldn’t let through the tunnels. limits of life.” to grab sediments from the lake illegal trade into Gaza — a diplo- about the tunnels. them.” Bahrawi points toward clus- Lake Ellsworth is one of more bed. matic negotiation between uneasy Whether that will always be Dressed in an all-black military ters of apartment buildings, their than 360 sub-glacial lakes in Speaking by phone from a small neighbours that in the past has enough is unclear. uniform, Bahrawi walked among walls pocked long ago by Israeli Antarctica that formed when gen- tent in Antarctica, Chris Hill, a proved fruitless. Israel targeted 140 tunnels dur- the churned, pitted landscape that shrapnel. tle heat from the planet’s interior British Antarctic Survey engineer Without such help, the trade ing the recent operation, severely hummed with generators, bulldoz- Many of the tunnels, he said, melted the base of an overlying who is managing the programme, will almost certainly continue. damaging dozens of passages ers and trucks. The trucks hauled have secret extensions that end glacier. On Earth, less hospitable told the Guardian about the harsh As Israel has found in trying to beneath Gaza’s nearly seven-mile smuggled propane gas canisters, out of sight. Those are the ones environments are hard to imag- conditions and the weeks ahead. suppress rocket fire from Gaza, border with the Egyptian Sinai. crates of fish and gravel into the used to smuggle materials that ine. Any organisms that live here The team will spend six weeks an airstrike campaign against the The bombs buried entrances, strip for sale. Israel is not meant to see. are cut off from the air above, and on the ice. The focus of the camp tunnels provides a respite, not a destroyed cement-reinforced Only three months ago, The tunnels vary in size and must contend with subzero con- is a tent that houses the kitchen, solution. walls and cratered the muddy Bahrawi was a digger himself. A depth. Two that are big enough ditions, few nutrients, complete dining area and office facilities, “Our expectation of Egypt, and access roads used by flatbed business administration graduate for cars to enter stand on either darkness, and intense pressure. around which are a handful of the rest of the international com- trucks that deliver goods across of Khan Younis College of Science end of a roughly mile-long stretch The search for life is only part smaller tents for sleeping in. In a munity, is to stop Hamas from the strip. and Technology, Bahrawi, like — one damaged by the bombing is of the motivation to probe Lake blizzard, visibility drops to around rearming,” said Mark Regev, a Hamas security officials who many young Gazans, could not closed, the other is open for busi- Ellsworth. Through studies of 5 metres. spokesman for Netanyahu. “We monitor the tunnels — and collect find work in his field. So he turned ness. WP-BLOOMBERG sediment cores drawn up from GUARDIAN NEWS Monday 3 December 2012 19 Muharram 1434 Volume 17 Number 5537 Price: QR2

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FRANKFURT: The European is necessary... even to an unlimited holding fire on other emergency DOHA: “Offshore Middle East has an abundance of reserves of Fields; and David Paganie, Chief Central Bank will lower its extent”. But it was essential that anti-crisis measures, after pump- 2013” — a three-day confer- natural gas – much of it offshore Editor, Offshore magazine and growth forecasts for the euro governments get their economies ing vast amounts of liquidity into ence and exhibition — organ- such as the South Pars/North Director, Offshore Conferences, area at its last policy meeting of and finances in order, Draghi said. the markets earlier this year. ised by Offshore and hosted by Field reservoir which is the PennWell Corporation. the year, but also argue that cut- “The ECB perceives its job — But with the central bank Qatar Petroleum, will be held largest non-associated gas field A panel session Managing ting rates is not the appropriate both on conventional and uncon- scheduled to publish its updated here under the patronage of in the world – but only Qatar is a Ageing Oil and Gas Assets is also response yet, analysts predict. ventional policy — as just about economic forecasts for 2012 and H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh significant natural gas exporter. expected to draw interest par- With ECB interest rates done,” said UniCredit chief euro- 2013 and its preliminary estimate Al Sada, Minister of Energy Since its inception four years ago, ticularly from oil and gas plants already at record lows and its lat- zone economist Marco Valli. for 2014, the spotlight is back on and Industry at Qatar National Offshore Middle East has carved a in the Middle East since ageing est anti-crisis weapon ready and Market tensions have indeed whether there is room for more Convention Centre (QNCC) niche for itself as the leading confer- infrastructure poses unforeseen primed for action, central bank eased since the ECB unveiled its rate cuts, analysts said. from January 21 to 23, a state- ence and exhibition for the offshore major and complex breakdowns chief Mario Draghi will insist anti-crisis bazooka in September, “Conventional monetary policy ment said yesterday. oil and gas market and continues to and follow-on risks to safety and once again that the ball is in the the so-called OMT bond-purchase will stay centre stage” at the ECB The event will discuss new experience significant expansion as production. court of the governments to find a programme. governing council meeting on developments, enhancements the industry experiences renewed Running alongside the con- way out of the long-running crisis, The scheme is credited with Thursday, said UniCredit’s Valli. and regional challenges related growth in the Middle East and ference, the exhibition floor will economists said. marking a turning point in finan- There is some debate, however, to the oil and gas industry. North Africa region. showcase innovative products Draghi said as much in a cial market sentiment towards the on the effectiveness of further mon- A main driver for offshore The event will commence with and technologies by leading French radio interview on Friday. crisis-wracked euro even though it etary easing since the rate cuts so gas development has been, and the Opening Plenary on Monday regional and international com- “We will succeed on condition has not actually been used. far have not been feeding through will likely continue to be, strong 21, January featuring key- panies including Qatar Petroleum, that governments act,” he told In fact, the ECB has kept its to the countries that would benefit growth in natural gas demand in note speakers Dr Mohammad Qatar Shell, Maersk Oil, Al Nasr Europe 1 radio. gunpowder dry since then, keep- from them most, notably the debt- the Gulf region and the broader Al-Sada; Mubarak A Al Hajri, Holding Co and Total. “We will do what is needed, and ing interest rates at their all- wracked countries. Middle East. The Gulf region Operations Manager -Offshore THE PENINSULA we are ready to intervene again if it time low of 0.75 percent and also AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Maaden in deals Big plans make with US firms for phosphate project a comeback in AL KHOBAR: Saudi mining firm Maaden signed deals worth SR977m ($260m) with US firms Fluor Corp and Bechtel to help develop an industrial city in the post-crisis Dubai country’s north, it said. Saudi Arabia, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, is keen to develop its mining indus- Doubts linger over finance, feasibility try to diversify the economy away from relying on oil. DUBAI: Dubai is back in the Sheikh Mohammed said the Under one contract, worth business of unveiling mega emirate must stay ahead of SR745m, Fluor Arabia will provide projects, three years after a expanding demand and match engineering consultancy services severe financial crisis crippled its ambitions. and manage the construction of a its booming property sector, but “The current facilities available new phosphate project for Maaden, doubts still linger over finance in Dubai need to be scaled up in line called Umm Wual in Waad Al and feasibility. with the future ambitions for the Shimal City for Mining Industries, Just as the economy in the city,” he said, highlighting a constant Maaden said in a bourse statement glitzy city-state begins to look rise in tourism and the business of issued late on Saturday. promising, despite a large debt hosting forums and exhibitions. Maaden also signed two other burden dating back to the years “A large part of these projects contracts worth SR232m with when growth appeared endless, are linked to expanding Dubai’s Bechtel Arabia to monitor and Dubai has once again set its sights capacity in core sectors with com- manage the project to develop the on building superlatives. parative advantage, such as tour- city as well as preliminary designs “We do not anticipate the ism, which is positive,” said Monica of the infrastructure of the Waad future. We build it,” Dubai’s ruler Malik, chief economist at EFG- Al Shimal city. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al- Hermes investment bank in Dubai. The contracts run through late Maktoum, architect of its mete- But the source of funding for such 2016, when phosphate production oric rise into a regional tourism grandiose projects remains vague. Abdul Aziz Al Emadi (right) receiving the award. is expected to start from the mega and services hub, boasted last “We do have our own resources project estimated to cost SR26bn. week as he unveiled plans to build and way to finance... We are The Umm Wual project would a “city” carrying his name. sure that these projects will be Qatar Exchange bags award add nearly 1.5 million tonnes annu- Among the attractions of the achieved,” the Arabian Business ally of phosphorus oxide to Maaden’s new mega plan is a mall touted to online magazine quoted Hani Al planned phosphate capacity. be the largest in the world, not far Hamli, Dubai Economic Council from what is already the world’s secretary general, as saying. from Middle East-IR Society Zain appoints largest shopping and entertain- Beyond general assurances, ment destination, the Dubai Mall. Dubai continues to deal with the DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) today’s gathering, may have QE has been an active partici- ex-Wataniya Mohammed bin Rashid City burden of maturing debt, after it received recognition from the helped in promoting the profes- pant in the Society’s activities in will sprawl over a large swathe racked $113bn in borrowings dur- Middle East Investor Relations sion and set an example for the Qatar since its inception and is a chief as CEO of the emirate’s desert and have ing years of extensive investments, Society (ME-IR Society) for its listed companies of Qatar and we one of its founding members. The gardens 30 percent larger than with $9.8bn reportedly coming due contribution to the development look to continue setting the exam- Exchange has been a strong sup- DUBAI: Kuwait’s Zain London’s Hyde Park, in addition next year and $3bn in 2014. of IR in Qatar and the region. ple for IR progress in the Middle porter of the Society given their appointed Scott Gegenheimer to 100 hotels, and a Universal “Banks remain wary about The award was presented to East,” Al Emadi added. aims of promoting transparency as group chief executive yester- Studios theme park. lending to real estate develop- Abdul Aziz Al Emadi, Director The ME-IR Society, established amongst listed companies and day, the former monopoly said in No price tag was attached to ments at a time when they still Listing Department at the in 2008, is a platform for the shar- assisting where possible in achiev- a bourse statement, six months the project which is to be devel- have to make major provisions ME-IR Society’s annual regional ing of best IR practices between ing this goal through education and after he quit as CEO of rival tel- oped by the ruler’s Dubai Holding against non-performing real conference held in Abu Dhabi. IR professionals who are focused awareness of best market practice. ecom operator Wataniya. conglomerate and Emaar, which estate loans from the last develop- Abdul Aziz Al Emadi said: “We on providing clear, consistent and The event was the annual stag- Gegenheimer will start his new built Burj Khalifa, the world’s ment boom,” said real estate con- are delighted to receive this award timely information to the regional ing of the awards which recog- role immediately, Zain said, replacing tallest tower. sultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle as recognition of our activities in and international investment com- nises excellence in the field of IR; Nabeel bin Salama, who in October This week, Dubai also in a statement on Thursday. the area of IR for listed compa- munity. The Society’s objectives are a number of Qatar’s leading com- announced he would step down as announced a Dh10bn ($2.7bn) However, “the fact that these nies to date. We hope the active to promote excellence in investor panies were represented on the group CEO at the end of his contract leisure centre and theme parks. projects have long-term time lines support of QE has been a stimu- relations through executive train- nominee list including QTel, QNB, in February 2013. Gegenheimer Dubai appears keen to capital- is positive as they can be developed lating influence in the success of ing, professional qualifications, semi- Al Khaliji, Commercial Bank of joined Qatar Telecom (Qtel) sub- ise on its growing tourism sector alongside demand, both domesti- developing of Investor Relations nars and network events, working in Qatar, Masraf Al Rayan, Vodafone sidiary Wataniya in 2002, became which it said is expanding 13 per- cally and internationally, so as not for the listed companies of Qatar.” partnership with stock exchanges, Qatar, Doha Bank, QIB and Gulf CEO in 2008 and resigned from the cent a year, with hotel occupancy to build overcapacity,” Malik said. “We believe the various events regulatory bodies and market pro- Warehousing. company in June this year. rate hitting 82 percent last year. AFP we have worked on, in line with fessionals in the region. THE PENINSULA AGENCIES MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Five companies Qatari bourse bid for new Sabic plastic plant AL KHOBAR: Five interna- tional engineering firms have index drops bid to build a 50,000 tonnes- per-year polyacetal plant at Ibn Sina, an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic), indus- try sources said. Sabic said in 2010 the project, 41.88 points producing a plastic which is mainly used in the car indus- try, would require investment of Egypt market recoups losses nearly $400m. Spain’s Dragados, China DOHA/DUBAI: Qatar president Hosni Mubarak from National Chemical Engineering Co Exchange index dropped 41.88 power. (CNCEC), Taiwan’s CTCI, South points or 0.50 percent to reach “There was an aggressive sell- Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and 8,358.66 points from the previ- off last week on expectations of SK Engineering and Construction ous closing of 8,400.54 points. bloodshed over the weekend,” have all made bids. The volume of shares traded said Mohamed Radwan, head of Bidding closed on November rose to 2,553,160 from 2,074,068 on equities at Pharos Securities in 28 after it was extended from Thursday, and the value of shares Cairo. “The market is making a an October deadline, the sources increased to QR121,269,857.68 relief rally, also on the referen- said. from QR107,359,586.51 on dum announcement.” National Methanol Co, better Thursday. Investors hope the referendum known as Ibn Sina, is 50-per- Among the top losers were will help soothe political tensions, cent owned by Sabic, the world’s Industries Qatar whose share he added, speaking before the largest chemical company, while dropped 0.26 percent to QR151.90, Supreme Constitutional Court Construction work in progress at the Barwa Commercial Avenue . Celanese Corp and an affiliate of Qatar Navigation lost 1.85 per- postponed its work indefinitely Duke Energy Corp each have a cent to QR63.80, Doha Insurance after a protest by Islamists out- 25 percent-stake. fell 5.22 percent to QR28.15 and side its headquarters. Construction of QR7bn Barwa The plant was originally Vodafone Qatar down 1.32 percent The main index ended 1.8 per- planned to start up by 2013 with to QR8.24. cent higher after rising by as engineering and construction The banking and financial sec- much as 2.8 percent intraday. It work beginning by 2011. tor dropped 7.97 points while the fell 11.6 percent last week. Commercial Avenue on track Sabic’s CEO said last month insurance sector lost 8.38 points. Orascom Construction the company has given the go- The industrial sector down 11.31 Industries climbed three percent, DOHA: Construction of Barwa Khaled district, Barwa Commercial featuring 118 retail units is now 95 ahead for the polyacetal plant, points and the services sector fell tracking gains in its London- Commercial Avenue (BCA), the Avenue provides tenants and visi- percent complete. Other zones such which will use methanol feedstock 56.83 points. listed global depository receipt iconic mixed-use development tors alike with easy access to a as, Jeera, which is designed to serve from Ibn Sina. Egypt’s index rose yesterday, (GDR), which rose 5.7 percent which stretches over an impres- superior highway system, and the as a community hub and Safwa, a Some Saudi petrochemical recouping some of last week’s steep on Friday. sive 8.5km in length, is well on proposed Doha Metro rail transit zone dedicated to furniture and companies have said they have losses, after fears of clashes between Commercial International track to become Doha’s ultimate system. The QR7bn development home décor retail outlets are also faced difficulties sourcing feed- supporters of President Mohammed Bank and Ezz Steel were other retail and residential destination. has already radically transformed in the final stages of construction. stock supplies for new projects Mursi and his opponents over the notable gainers, adding 1 and 2.8 Comprising five distinct yet inter- the area into what will become a Barwa Commerical Avenue has as the oil-rich kingdom balances weekend proved unfounded. percent respectively. connected zones — Jeera, Safwa, mix of modern commercial com- already secured leasing agree- their claims for gas supplies Middle East markets were Kuwait’s index slipped 0.03 Joud Mall, Arkan and Sayer, BCA plexes, showrooms and high-stand- ments with a number of major against the need to use it for mixed, with Saudi Arabia up for percent to 5,942 points, trimming offers 908,000sqm of state-of-the- ard apartments. local, regional and international power generation. a third session since Tuesday’s its gains since early November’s art facilities, a mix of residential, “Barwa Commercial Avenue businesses, such as, Dragon Mart, 10-month low, while Kuwait gave eight-year low to 5.2 percent after commercial, and retail offerings, and is progressing as planned and Qatar’s first Chinese product mar- Saudi Mobily gets back early gains as a post-election hitting an intraday high of 6,004. an advanced infrastructure network. leasing agreements have been ket, Qatar International Islamic bounce proved short-lived. Kuwaitis voted in a new parlia- Facilities include 640 retail stores, increasing steadily due to the Bank (QIIB), 30 high quality furni- regulator nod for Mursi on Saturday called a ment on Saturday that may prove a medical centre, entertainment variety on offer, the high quality ture outlets, automotive groups, such December 15 referendum on a to be more government-friendly venues, food and beverage outlets, retail outlets and accommodation, as, Al Muftah, and almost 25 build- bonus share issue new constitution, hoping to end after the opposition refused to 730 offices, 540 residential units, and state-of-the-art facilities and our ing materials suppliers. Additionally, protests over a decree expanding stand in the election. \ “We came 12,000 parking spaces. competitive prices”, he added. almost 50 Memorandums of DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s stock his powers, as at least 200,000 of into work today thinking the “Barwa Commercial Avenue The Sayer zone which is dedi- Understanding (MoU) have been market regulator has approved his Islamist supporters rallied in market would be positive, but we is closely aligned with the Qatar cated to general trading outlets signed with a number of lead- a 10 percent bonus share issue Cairo. were quickly reminded that it’s National Vision 2030 and is a was launched at the end of 2011 and ing companies. There is a growing by telecom operator Etihad Islamist groups demonstrated still a retail-dominated, lacklustre direct response to the future needs will include the key anchor tenant demand for retail and residential Etisalat (Mobily), according to at Cairo University, avoiding market - investors are cautious of the Qatari market”, said Saad Dragon Mart; construction of the space on the project and negotia- a statement on the kingdom’s clashes with opponents staging and any trigger can send it lower,” Al Dosari, Chairman of Barwa Arkan zone, an area dedicated tions are well underway to include bourse yesterday. an open-ended sit-in at Tahrir said a Kuwait-based trader who Commercial Avenue. to medium and large-scale home a number of additional well-known Mobily will now hold an Square, the centre of protests declined to be identified. Located in close proximity to improvement retail stores is also names to the retail mix. extraordinary shareholders meet- that ultimately forced former AGENCIES Doha’s industrial area in the Ain now complete; Joud Mall, an area THE PENINSULA ing within the next six months to confirm the share issue, with those holding stocks at the close of bourse trading on that day qualifying, the statement said. The operator, an affiliate of the Russia willing to raise winter gas flow to Turkey United Arab Emirates’ Etisalat, will give shareholders one new bonus share for every 10 held. KARASU, Turkey: Russia in the past, we have always helped to do this again,” he said. A country of 75 million people, from 125 million. Turkey is Russian This will raise the number of would be willing to increase its Turkey when they have experienced Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Turkey has limited underground Gazprom’s second-largest natural shares issued to 770 million from gas supplies to Turkey this win- problems managing during the win- Yildiz told Reuters last month storage capacity and faces diffi- gas consumer after Germany. 700 million. ter if Ankara asked it to and an ter,” Novak told reporters during a Ankara planned to enable state culties meeting high demand as Last week, Gazprom clinched Each share has a nominal value agreement was reached, Russian visit to the Turkish Black Sea town pipeline company Botas to buy nat- temperatures plunge in the winter a long-term deal to export natu- of 10 riyals, meaning Mobily’s Energy Minister Alexander of Karasu east of Istanbul. ural gas on the spot market, a move months. Energy ministry officials ral gas to private companies in capital will increase to SR7.7bn Novak said yesterday. “If needed and a joint agree- that would help it meet demand say daily demand could rise to near Turkey. ($2.05bn) from SR7bn currently. “As has happened many times ment was reached, it is possible during harsh winters. 220 million cubic metres this winter REUTERS AGENCIES GIH approves stock delisting from Kuwait bourse KUWAIT: Shareholders in Kuwait’s Global Investment House have approved the delisting of the stock from the Kuwait bourse, nearly a year after firm’s shares were suspended from trading. “(The general assembly) agreed to authorise the board of directors to cancel the listing of the company on the Kuwait Stock Exchange,” a stock market statement said on Sunday, following a board meeting. Global’s shares have not traded in Kuwait since last December, when the bourse suspended the stock after Global accumulated losses exceeding 75 percent of its capital. Last month, the firm said it would ask shareholders to approve delisting its shares from the bourse after failing to secure the regulatory waiver needed to implement its restructuring plan. Global shareholders in September approved a debt-for-equity style plan to create new special purpose vehicles to carry the company’s debt. Under the plan, Global will offer new shares worth KD122.2m ($433m) to creditors. However, Global said on Monday it had been unable to get an exemption to rules requiring it to allow existing shareholders to take part in any new equity offering. REUTERS

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Vietnam empty towers show Obama pipeline decision dream turned to rubble

ROM afar, the gleaming metal and glass edifices of Hanoi’s EVN Tower illustrate Vietnam’s rapid economic develop- to preview energy policy Fment. Up close, the rubble-strewn entrance and missing windows tell another storey: one of loose lending and property speculation that now hangs over the country’s banks. T’S A decision President Barack But Obama has shown little urgency “It’s just a no-brainer,” Senator Mary State-run monopoly Vietnam Electricity began construction Obama put off during the 2012 cam- about the pipeline, which would carry crude Landrieu, said. “Canada is going to export of the 33- and 29- storey dual-tower development in 2007, a year paign, but now that he’s won a second oil about 1,700 miles from western Canada this oil. It’s either going to come to the US when 54 percent credit growth helped fuel the fastest economic term, his next move on a proposed oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The pipe- or it’s going to go to Russia or China. Even expansion since 1996. Now, the economy has slowed, banks are pipeline between the US and Canada line requires State Department approval Democrats that aren’t really excited about struggling with an increase in bad debts, and unfinished property Imay signal how he will deal with climate because it crosses an international boundary. oil and gas development generally can figure projects, empty offices and lower rents risk adding to the pile of and energy issues in the four years ahead. The pipeline became an issue in the cam- that out.” non-performing loans. Obama is facing increasing pressure to paign, and Obama put it on hold while a Many Democrats from states whose econ- “Banks were far too eager to lend and a lot of the projects that determine the fate of the $7bn Keystone XL plan was worked out to avoid routing it omies depend on oil support the pipeline. have been built haven’t been well thought through,” said Stephen project, with environmental activists and through Nebraska’s environmentally sen- So do some trade unions, whose workers Wyatt, managing director for real estate broker Knight Frank oil producers each holding out hope that sitive Sandhills region. stand to gain thousands of new construction Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. “A number of developments are on the president, freed from the political con- TransCanada, the company applying to jobs. While environmentalists make up an hold, purely because they have run out of funding. Banks are no straints of re-election, will side with them build it, revised the route, but that caused important part of their base, Democratic longer willing to fund these massive developments.” on this and countless other related issues the lengthy environmental review process lawmakers are under intense pressure to Vietnam’s economy, which the communist government opened down the road. to start over. In the meantime, the company create jobs and reduce American reliance up in 1986, expanded at a 4.7 percent annual rate in the third On its surface, it’s a choice between split the project into two parts, starting con- on Mideast oil. quarter, after exceeding 7 percent from 2002 through to the first the promise of jobs and economic growth struction in August on a southern segment There’s less variation among Republicans, quarter of 2008. After a lending binge fuelled the fastest inflation and environmental concerns. But it’s also between Oklahoma and Texas even as it who generally support the project. in Asia, policymakers raised interest rates in 2010 and 2011, and become a proxy for a broader fight over waits for approval for the northern segment But in Texas, a deep red state that nor- restricted lending. Among the casualties are many of the nation’s American energy consumption and climate that crosses the Canadian border. mally embraces the oil industry, the project inefficient state-owned enterprises, which had diverted cash to change, amplified by Superstorm Sandy and Although the lower leg didn’t require has drawn intense opposition from land- property developments. the conclusion of an election that was all Obama’s sign-off, he gave it his blessing in owners who argue their property along the “When the developer is a state-owned enterprise and is using about the economy. March anyway, irking environmental activ- pipeline’s route is being unfairly condemned. the money it should be using for say, power generation, airlines, “The broader climate movement is abso- ists who see the pipeline as a slap to efforts Their complaints, along with those from shipping or banking, that’s where the oversupply has come,” said lutely looking at this administration’s to reduce oil consumption and fend off cli- Texans who oppose an influx of foreign oil Marc Townsend, the Ho Chi Minh City-based managing director Keystone XL decision as a really signifi- mate change. from Canadian tar sands, have fostered an of CBRE Group Inc’s Vietnam unit. “They all felt they could make cant decision to signal that dirty fuels are “At a time when we are desperately trying unlikely alliance with environmentalists, easy money by being a property developer.” not acceptable in the US,” said Danielle to bend the emissions curve downwards, it who have taken to chaining themselves to State firms’ so-called non-core investments, such as property Droitsch, a senior attorney with the Natural is wrong to open up a new source of energy machinery and trucks in an attempt to stall and stocks, account for as much as 12 percent of their registered Resources Defence Council. that is more carbon intensive and makes construction. capital, Deputy State Auditor Le Minh Khai said in July. The Once content with delays that have kept the problem worse,” wrote former Vice- A group of Keystone XL opponents, Communist Party’s Central Committee on October 15 called on the pipeline from moving forward at full speed, President Al Gore, now a climate activist, organized by climate activist Bill McKibben, state-owned enterprises to end non-core investments. opponents of Keystone XL have launched pro- in an email. marched on the White House in November, Office and retail rents in Vietnam’s two largest cities have tests in recent weeks at the White House and Still, in an otherwise highly polarised hoping to call attention to an issue that got slumped as a wave of supply entered the market at a time when in Texas urging Obama to kill the project out- political climate, access to affordable energy barely a mention during the presidential slowing economic and retail-sales growth curbs demand for com- right. On Capitol Hill, support for the pipeline has become a rare issue with bipartisan campaign. mercial real estate. The Hanoi market added more office and appears to be gaining. appeal. AP retail space since the start of 2011 than in the previous four years combined, according to property broker CBRE. The average asking rent for top-grade central business district office space in Hanoi was about $47 per square metre per month in 2009, more than double the levels for the same grade space in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur at that time, according to data from the Vietnam unit of Los Angeles-based CBRE. The rate was 11 percent lower at $42.01 per square meter in the third quarter. Average asking rents for Grade B office space in the capital’s western district, where some of the nation’s largest state-owned enterprises have their headquarters, have fallen 39 percent since the first quarter of 2009, and slid 22 percent in the city’s central business district, according to the data. “I have never seen rents decline this fast in the market,” said Son Nam Nguyen, managing partner at Vietnam Capital Partners, an investment bank in Ho Chi Minh City. “If real estate rents and values continue to decrease as we’ve seen in the past three months and six months, the biggest risk is we will see develop- ers walk away from projects and banks’ bad assets will increase very rapidly.” Real estate loans totalled 203 trillion dong ($9.7bn) as of August 31, of which 6.6 percent were classified as bad debt, Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung told the National Assembly on October 31, citing a State Bank of Vietnam report. A broader category of real estate-related loans, including property-backed debt, account for 57 percent of total outstanding borrowing, or about 1,000 trillion dong, he said. Average office occupancy in Hanoi fell two percentage points to 79 percent in the third quarter from the previous three-month period, according to data from property broker Savills, while average rents dropped four percent. The number of new leases signed in the period slid to the lowest this year. Office occupancy rates in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s commercial hub, rose one percentage point to 87 percent in the third quarter from three months earlier, while average monthly rents fell two percent to about 540,000 dong per square metre from the April-June period, with almost a quarter of buildings lowering their rates, according to Savills. Almost 16 percent of available Hanoi retail space was vacant at the end of the third quarter, according to CBRE, with most free space to be found in the capital’s shopping centres, which had an occupancy rate of 82 percent. WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Commodity currencies come under pressure

HIS week, markets President Obama and Boehner while oil at Sandy And Fiscal and promised further measures to million people were unemployed saw German retail this week, financial markets 88.91. Cliff Worries lower it below 110 percent in 2022. in the Euro area in October, up sales weakness and closed the week almost flat. New home The Fed’s Beige However, there are still some 173,000 from the previous month. German Bundestag In summary, the Euro started sales edged Book indicated hurdles that need to be cleared, At 26.2 percent, Spain had the approving the Greek the week trading at 1.2771 levels down 0.3 per- that US economic as the latest revision to Greece’s highest overall jobless rate. Weekly Money Market Review Tbailout package, by 473 to 100. then dropped to a low of 1.2878 cent in October activity expanded bailout programmes still requires Portugal’s unemployment rate The outcome came after Finance before turning around and hit- after post- at a measured pace the approval of seven Euro area was 16.3 percent, while Ireland Minister Schaeuble warned that a ting a high of 1.3027 on Friday ing modest improvement ear- in recent weeks. Hurricane Sandy parliaments, including Germany, reported a jobless rate of 14.7 default in the country could trig- and ending sessions at 1.2986. lier in the year. The slight drop and concerns about the fiscal Finland and the Netherlands, percent. ger the collapse of the single cur- The Japanese Yen hit a seven- in new home sales was concen- cliff were main factors hamper- as well as the head of the The Bank of Canada Governor rency. Eurozone unemployment month low against the euro and trated in the Northeast and the ing growth during the surveyed International Monetary Fund. Mark Carney will take over from numbers were at 11.7 percent in fell against the US dollar on South. However, Inventories of period. While the housing mar- On Friday, one main hurdle was Sir Mervyn King next June. He October. The Eurozone is hoping Friday, extending losses amid new homes rose slightly for the ket performed better, manufac- cleared, as the German lawmak- was praised for his “pragmatic” that Greece will be able to repur- speculation that Japanese mon- month but remain low by his- turing activities weakened with ers approved the latest bailout for response to the financial crisis chase at least ¤40bn with private etary policy could be aggressively torical standards. Even with seven districts reporting either Greece by a large majority, despite and global recession, with Canada investors, yet the Euro could eased when a new government the weaker sales in October, the slowing or outright contraction. growing unease about the cost one of the few leading nations to not make a new high and the is formed. USD/JPY opened the housing market recovery remains Business owners explicitly stated to taxpayers. The parliamentary escape without a bank bailout. currency slipped when Moody’s week at 82.39 and then dropped intact, with sales up 19.8 percent that worries over the fiscal cliff floor leader of Merkel’s Christian He is considered more “hawkish” downgraded the ESM to AA1 to 81.67 only to find support and over last year’s levels delayed their business decisions. Democrats, Michael Grosse, said than Sir Mervyn after raising from AAA and the EFSF to AA1 rally back toward 82.74, closing he was happy with the result of the interest rates in Canada to offset from AAA. the sessions trading at 82.46 Inventories boost US GDP Europe vote, adding: “Greece must now con- a housing bubble. Globally, commodity curren- The Sterling Pound had a range The US Gross Domestic Eurozone finance ministers and tinue its efforts to reduce its debts cies were under some pressure. bound performance as it opened Product expanded at a 2.7 per- the IMF reached an agreement and carry out structural reforms.” Japan Canadian GDP disappointed given at 1.6030 levels, and then dropped cent annual rate, as inventories on allowing the release of finan- Europe’s unemployment rate The Japanese retail sales fell both quarterly GDP and monthly to 1.6023, before gaining some accumulated and export growth cial aid to Greece. The aid dis- rose to a record in October as the 1.2 percent in October from a growth were less than expected, strength and trading as high as offset weak consumer spending bursement will not only include fiscal crisis and tougher austerity year earlier, adding to mount- while the Australian dollar held 1.6062 on Friday, the currency also helping to boost the GDP the ¤31.5bn that should have been measures deepened the region’s ing evidence that the economy strong over the week despite talks closed the session at 1.6010. was stronger corporate profit released in Q2, but also the addi- economic crisis. The unemploy- has fallen into a mild recession. of easing from the Reserve Bank Commodities continue to trade growth for the quarter, rising to tional ¤12.2bn of aid that is sched- ment increased to 11.7 percent The fall compared with a median of Australia. cautiously with gold slipping on $67.3bn from $21.8bn in the sec- uled for disbursement in Q3 and from 11.6 percent in September, estimate for a 0.7 percent annual Hopes in the US continue over Thursday over $30 and oil trading ond quarter. Q4. They also decided on steps to marking its highest level since the decline, according to the latest the fiscal cliff resolution despite with a Middle-East risk premium. Beige Book Shows Modest cut Greek debt to 124 percent of data series started in 1995. The economic polls. the public fiscal fighting between Gold ended the week at 1,714.19 Growth, Hampered By Hurricane gross domestic product by 2020, jobless report showed that 18.7 THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Greek deal puts eurozone in slow recovery room

PARIS: The euro zone is in the to reduce public deficits and debt daily issue”. European Internal closer economic, fiscal and bank- zone assistance early in the new Hollande’s labour market and wel- recovery room now the danger mountains off track. Market Commissioner Michel ing union last week, including a year, when it needs to raise at fare financing reforms disappoint or of a Greek default has been Political risks abound; possi- Barnier, using a soccer metaphor, common euro zone fund to reward least ¤230bn ($300bn) on capital meet militant street resistance. averted for a couple of years, ble social revolt against auster- said the peak of the debt crisis was structural reforms, but most big markets. France’s borrowing costs are but it is not yet safe from a ity policies in Greece, Spain or over and “we are now at the start changes will be on hold until after That would trigger European hovering close to historic lows Japanese-style “lost decade”. Portugal; a messy, inconclusive of the second half”. the German vote. Central Bank buying of its bonds, despite its loss of the coveted AAA The currency area’s escape election outcome in Italy; and Some analysts are less In the meantime, modest which might reassure investors credit rating from Moody’s this route hinges more on the pace of perhaps labour unrest against convinced. progress is likely on creating a and further reduce borrowing costs month after Standard & Poor’s expansion in the United States more modest structural reforms Mujtaba Rahman of Eurasia single European banking super- for Madrid and Italy initially. downgraded Paris in January. and China, lifting the world being mooted in France. Group said the Greek fix “keeps visor, the first step towards a euro But it would raise hackles in Fitch Ratings, the only credit economy, than on the policy mix Monday’s EU-IMF agreement the show on the road, but is no zone banking union, but without Germany, given the Bundesbank’s watchdog still to have France on in Europe, which will continue to to keep Greece afloat inside the game changer”. a joint deposit guarantee to deter continued opposition, prompting AAA, said last week it could lower favour austerity over growth in eurozone, by reducing its debt The campaign for Germany’s capital flight and bank runs. market speculation about the that grade if the country fails to 2013. now and hinting at official debt general election in September IMF Managing Director ECB’s will and ability to sustain meets its deficit reduction targets At best, Ireland and Portugal relief to come later, has removed means that bolder steps towards Christine Lagarde says swift bond purchases. and its economy performs worse could emerge slimmed down from the biggest risk of a financial writing off debt or sharing liabili- implementation of a banking Markus Huber, senior trader than forecast. their bailout programmes and shock that could re-ignite market ties will have to wait until at least union with powers to supervise at ETXCapital, reckons that even Yet many investors believe regain capital market access by panic and send the euro back into the end of next year. Public oppo- all banks in the euro area is now though economic reforms and France, with a deep, liquid debt the end of the year, demonstrat- the emergency ward. sition to a “transfer union” in the the top priority. ECB reassurance have cut Italy’s market, enjoys an implicit German ing that adherence to a tough fis- Market relief over the Greek euro zone’s biggest economy and Germany will continue to press borrowing costs, an indecisive guarantee and so buy French bonds cal adjustment plan can work. deal, coupled with European main paymaster remains high. for stricter European control over outcome of a general election due as a proxy for the strong northern But question marks hang over Central Bank promises to do Yet no eurosceptical party has budgets in euro zone states, but in April could send yields soaring euro zone states that have less debt both. And Greece, like miracles, what it takes to preserve the euro, emerged to capitalise on that that will involve trade-offs with again. Rome is also at risk of con- to issue. French economist Jacques will take a little longer. And helped Italy sell its last 10-year mood, and the next Berlin govern- greater mutualisation of risk and tagion if Spanish Prime Minister Delpla, co-author of a proposal for another debt writedown. bonds of 2012 on Thursday at the ment, whether a “grand coalition” treaty changes that might only Mariano Rajoy continues to dither a limited issuance of common euro Gloomy forecasts from the lowest yield for nearly two years. of centre-right and centre-left, come after the 2014 European and delay a euro zone credit line zone bonds, argues that euro states’ OECD and private economists French Finance Minister Pierre which seems the most likely, or Parliament elections. for Madrid, he said. debt will become more attractive in suggest the 17-nation euro cur- Moscovici called it “a turning point another permutation, may be Many EU officials and ana- A more remote but much- the next few years as other major rency area may stay in recession for the euro zone because it helps more open to such solutions. lysts expect that Spain, which talked-about risk is the possibility economies try to inflate away their all next year, swelling the armies recreate stability and confidence. The European Commission has so far avoided a sovereign that financial markets could turn problems. of unemployed and pushing efforts Greece’s fate will no longer be a set out ambitious proposals for bailout, will have to request euro against France if President Francois REUTERS

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Tennis: Roddick beats Murray in the US

Andy Roddick of the US rests on his couch between games against Andy Murray of Great Britain during the inaugural Miami Tennis Cup at Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Florida, yesterday. RIGHT: Murray congratulates Roddick after the American beat him 6-2, 6-3. Roddick will play 11th-ranked Nicolas Almagro of Spain in the final today. Almagro advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over 14th-ranked John Isner. Roddick, recently retired from tennis after his fourth round defeat against Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro at the US Open. The 30-year-old won 32 career titles including the US Open in 2003. Meanwhile, Murray, had an extraordinary 2012 season, where he became the first British man since 1936 to win a Grand Slam at the US Open in September 2012. The Briton had previously lost to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final. At the London 2012 Olympics, Murray gained revenge over Federer winning gold medal.

World Challenge Scores McDowell stays in control THOUSAND OAKS, California: Third-round scores yesterday in the $4m World Challenge golf tour- The Northern Irishman two shots ahead of Bradley; Woods in third spot nament (USA unless noted, par-72): THOUSAND OAKS, “But two shots ahead going into 203 Graeme McDowell (NIR) 69-66-68 California: Northern Ireland’s Sunday, I’ll take that any week, 205 Keegan Bradley 69-69-67 Graeme McDowell fired a bogey anywhere, any time. It’s right 208 Tiger Woods 70-69-69, Bo Van Pelt free four-under par 68 yes- where you need to be.” 70-68-70 terday to take a two-shot lead Woods, who chipped in for 209 Jim Furyk 69-69-71 over Keegan Bradley going into birdie at the first and added three 210 Rickie Fowler 73-67-70 the final round of the World birdies in the last five holes to stay 211 Nick Watney 67-73-71 Challenge. in touch, said the soggy conditions McDowell had a 54-hole total made for hard play, even with 212 Bubba Watson 71-74-67, Steve of 13-under 203 at Sherwood players allowed to lift, clean and Stricker 73-71-68, Webb Simpson Country Club and though his place the ball in the fairway. 70-73-69 three-stroke overnight lead “It was wet out there,” Woods 214 Zach Johnson 74-70-70, Dustin slipped a notch, he is still well- said. “It was a little sloppy early Johnson 74-68-72, Matt Kuchar 73- placed to capture his first victory and overall I thought it was tough 69-72 since he won this tournament in to get the ball close today. 2010. “The greens were so soft, Nedbank Challenge That victory capped an out- they’re spinning so much, and standing season for McDowell, then on top of that they didn’t Final Round Scores in which he won the US Open up cut the fairways. Even though we SUN CITY, South Africa: the Pacific coast at Pebble Beach had ball in hand, a couple times Scores after the final round of and delivered the clinching point we caught a couple of little fliers the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Europe’s Ryder Cup win. from the fairway.” invitation tournament at par- This year a victory in the Bradley, the first player to win 72, 7162-metre Gary Player unofficial event hosted by Tiger a major title using a long putter Country Club, yesterday: Woods would give a sweet taste to with the tip of its handle resting a mixed season in which he set- against his midriff, felt more fall- 280 Martin Kaymer (GER) 72-69-70-69 tled for a tie for second at the US out from this week’s announce- 282 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 72-71-70-69 Open, and a tie for fifth at the ment by global golf authorities 285 Bill Haas (USA) 70-73-71-71 British Open. that they propose to ban the prac- 286 Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 71-72-69-74 “It would be nice to kind of get tice in 2016. 287 Lee Westwood (ENG) 71-73-70-73 the reward, because I feel like “I had some guy here call me 289 Paul Lawrie (SCO) 71-69-75-74 I’ve been playing pretty solidly a cheater on the last hole, which Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland hits his tee shot on the fifth hole during the third round of the Tiger Woods 290 Francesco Molinari (ITA) 72-71-78- for a couple of months and got was no fun,” he said after the play World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, 69, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 72-75-74- nothing from it,” said the player, yesterday. yesterday. 69 who struggled in this year’s Ryder Bradley, who said this week Cup, again won by Europe. he believes golf’s rules-makers Today, McDowell will play have put an “X” on the back of alongside 2011 PGA Championship all players currently using belly winner Bradley, who had six bird- putters, said he didn’t respond to Kaymer clinches Nedbank Challenge title ies in his five-under 67 and was the heckler. alone in second place on 205. “I’ve got to try to look at it SUN CITY, South Africa: of the final round in Sun City three pars on the final three holes Three shots further back was as motivation to help me try to Martin Kaymer ensured it was yesterday. in the rain. tournament host Woods, who win this tournament,” said the a German-double in Sun City An eagle for Kaymer at the Kaymer’s final round of 69 carded his second straight 69 and American, who added that he this week as a final round of par-five second hole was imme- helped him finish on an eight- Bo Van Pelt, who hit a 70 for 208. heard “way more positives than 69 was enough to clinch a two- diately cancelled out by an ugly under score of 280 for the With the rain-softened negatives” from the local fans. stroke victory in the Nedbank double-bogey at the third which tournament. Sherwood layout again playing McDowell, himself no fan of Golf Challenge at the Gary sent him back to the chasing The former world number one long, McDowell drained lengthy the long putters, said he thought Player Country Club yesterday. pack. banked the lucrative winner’s birdie putts at the second and the announcement of the pro- The German, who on Saturday South African Charl Schwartzel cheque of $1.25m in the 12-man fourth holes, adding birdies at the posed rule change meant “a slight saw countryman Bernhard emerged as his closest challenger invitational tournament event in ninth and 11th before parring his inevitability” to such comments in Langer prevail in the Nedbank and the former Masters cham- South Africa. way in. coming years, as the practice of Champions Challenge, started pion got to four-under for his Ernie Els hold the aggregate “Bogey-free is always nice on “anchoring” a putter to the body the day at five-under par for the round after a birdie at the 14th. tournament record score with any golf course,” McDowell said. remains legal but suspect. tournament and enjoyed a slender However, a loose bogey at the 293 in 1999. “It would have been nice to “I’m sure Keegan can handle one-stroke lead when he teed off. 17th hole effectively ended the Before Kaymer’s victory,Lee pick a few more up on the way it,” McDowell said. “Let’s be hon- However, a bottleneck at the crowd’s hopes of a home victory Westwood of England had tri- in I guess, finishing with seven est, with a long putter, if it was Martin Kaymer celebrates after top meant he faced stiff competi- and Kaymer, who became the umphed in the 2010 and 2011 edi- straight pars when there are that easy, everybody would be winning the 2012 Nedbank Golf tion with numerous players mak- world number one in Feburary tions of the tournament that was some chances out there. using them.” AFP Challenge in Sun City, yesterday. ing early moves at the beginning 2011, was able to coast home with established in 1981. REUTERS NBA: Heat rally past Nets MIAMI: The NBA champions “We had an honest talk with Miami Heat fought back from NBA Results ourselves at half time and we cor- a 14-point deficit yesterday to Miami 102 Brooklyn 89 rected a lot of mistakes,” Heat beat the Brooklyn Nets 102- center Chris Bosh told reporters. Portland 118 Cleveland 117 Miami Heat’s 89 and maintain their perfect “We don’t really get too rattled if LeBron James home record this season. Chicago 93 Philadelphia 88 teams jump out on us.” (left) fouls Brooklyn Trailing from tip-off until Oklahoma City 100 New Orleans 79 Bosh rejected suggestions the Nets’ Deron late in the third quarter, Miami Houston 124 Utah 116 side was falling into the habit of Williams (centre) stepped up their game late to Milwaukee 91 Boston 88 starting slow. during the first half overcome the Nets (11-5) with San Antonio 99 Memphis 95 “I don’t think it’s a habit. It’s of their NBA game Dwyane Wade scoring 34 points Dallas 92 Detroit 77 just playing a game,” he said. while LeBron James added 21. “Every game is different. Some in Miami, Florida, LA Clippers 116 Sacramento 81 It is the 12th consecutive win games we’re going to be ahead, yesterday. for Miami over the Nets. The Nets Golden State 103 Indiana 92 some games we are going to be had seven players score in double down. figures, led by Andray Blatche’s more than 100 points in all eight “The most important thing 20, but failed to keep pace with victories. to us is consistency. We need to the Heat’s late charge. Six of the Heat’s previous have a more consistent effort on The Heat top the Eastern wins this season have come with defence and I think today was a Conference with a 12-3 record fourth-quarter fightbacks but good start to what we are trying and improved to 8-0 at home Miami made their move earlier to do,” he said after yesterday’s for the first time, having scored in yesterday’s game. match. REUTERS MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Bindra backs India maintain IOC threat to ban India

NEW DELHI: India’s lone individual Olympic gold medal- list Abhinav Bindra yesterday perfect record lashed out at the country’s sports officials, saying an Olympic ban could be a “blessing in disguise”. “The current mess is com- England upset Germany in Melbourne pletely of the Indian Olympic Association’s making,” Bindra, who won a rifle shooting gold at MELBOURNE: India got in the eight-team competition to The draw means that Australia, the 2008 Beijing Games, wrote in a step closer to the quarter- have won both their matches. the Dutch and Pakistan can all the Hindustan Times newspaper. finals by beating world No.6 India continued to be the still finish on top of their pool The International Olympic New Zealand 4-2 in a Pool A surprise team as they are low- with one more round of matches Committee’s (IOC) executive match of the 34th edition of the est ranked (11) in the nine-day remaining today ahead of board, which meets in Lausanne Champions Trophy hockey here tournament. Thursday’s quarter-finals. on December 4 and 5, will decide yesterday. After conceding the opening Number two ranked Australia if the Indian federation should Having already beaten England goal from a costly turn over, India will be particularly frustrated be suspended for flouting the (3-1) on Saturday, India sit pretty dominated the remainder of the with the result given they domi- Olympic charter in its election atop Pool A and are the only team first half to take a 3-1 half-time nated much of the game, failing to process. lead. convert numerous penalty corner The IOA had been directed by Champions Trophy New Zealand hit back early in opportunities against third-rated Captain Sadar Singh of India (left) battles with Nicholas Wilson of New a Delhi court to hold elections the second half with a brilliant Dutch. Zealand during their match at the Champions Trophy in Melbourne, according to the government’s goal to Nicholas Wilson, how- Having eight penalty corners to yesterday. sports code, while the IOC wanted Hockey Results ever a goal to Danish Mujtaba in only one, Dutch goalkeeper Jaap it to abide by the Olympic charter Pool A the dying minutes ensured India Stockmann proved to be the dif- that favours autonomy. England 4 (Dixon 6; Martin 10; own goal 33; remained undefeated. ference, producing several mag- Olympic champions and scored to the Netherlands by overcoming Elections to the faction-rid- Cheesman 61) Germany 1 (own goal 14) Meanwhile, field hockey pow- nificent goal saves. again through Harry Martin in Belgium. den IOA are due to be held on India 4 (own goal 10; Chani 14; Raghunath erhouses Australia and the Earlier England pulled off an the 10th minute. The result leaves the Belgians December 5, but have become a 25; Mujtaba 65) New Zealand 2 (own goal Netherlands played out a score- upset against the world number Things improved slightly when as the only winless team in Pool B formality after a rival group led 4; Wilson 38) less draw to keep open the fight one Germans. Germany pulled one back four while Pakistan still have a chance by IOC member Randhir Singh Pool B for top spot in Pool B. It was the first time England minutes later through an own to finish on top of the pool. withdrew from the contest last In the day’s other matches, had defeated Germany at the goal, but England regained their After a goalless first half, week. Pakistan 2 (Khan 56; Rasool 69) Belgium 0 England created history by Champions Trophy and they con- two-goal buffer with an own goal Pakistan lifted their tempo after It left tainted sports official Australia 0 Netherlands 0 defeating Germany for the first trolled the match from the open- two minutes before half time and half time, and a goal to Abdul Lalit Bhanot elected unopposed as Today’s third round of pool matches: time at the eight-nation tourna- ing whistle, scoring their first rounded it off with a fourth goal Haseem Khan was followed by the IOA’s secretary-general while New Zealand vs England, Belgium vs ment 4-1, while Pakistan looked goal through Adam Dixon on six to Darren Cheesman. another from Shafqat Rasool to Haryana state politician Abhey Netherlands, Germany vs India and Australia impressive in downing Belgium minutes. Pakistan made amends for put the result beyond doubt. Singh Chautala became president. vs Pakistan. 2-0. England continued to press the Saturday’s disappointing 3-1 loss AGENCIES Bhanot is out on bail after serv- ing 11 months in jail last year over corruption charges during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi when he was sec- Hockey: Azerbaijan qualify for Round 2 retary-general of the organising committee. DOHA: Formidable Azerbaijan The IOC Ethics Commission defeated Sri Lanka 4-3 to qual- had in October warned the ify for Round 2 of the World Indian body against fielding Hockey League at the Al Rayyan either Bhanot or former IOA chief Stadium yesterday. Suresh Kalmadi -- who is also on Azerbaijan with yesterday bail over corruption charges. victory finished with an all-win Both Bhanot and Chautala have record and topped the pool in been close associates of Kalmadi. the round-robin tournament Bindra, whose victory in Beijing contested by five countries. The was warmly received in cricket- Eurasians finished with 12 points. crazy India, said he was aghast at Hosts Qatar came second with Bhanot joining the IOA. nine points, with three wins and “It’s about politics and stoop- one loss. The Shaiful Azli coached ing to a new low,” Bindra wrote side only loss came against in the newspaper. “How can he Azerbaijan, to whom they went return? It is agonising to see such down fighting 5-4. people coming back. It makes my In the first match yesterday, blood boil.” Turkey stunned Oman 4-3 to clinch Bindra said any possible ban the first win of the tournament. from the Olympic movement may Turkey, Oman and Sri Lanka all just be what India needed to set finished with three points, with one its sports house in order. win and three losses. “If our Olympic association Azerbaijan join Poland, is banned, it could be a blessing Ukraine, Bangladesh, Ireland, in disguise,” he wrote. “With no Austria, Egypt, Scotland, multi-sport event in 2013, Indian Mohammad Al Enazi (left), Development Director at Qatar Hockey Fedration hands over the World Hockey League trophy to Azerbaijan captain, Saleh Portugal, Trinidad & Tobago, athletes could afford a morato- Balamiyev at the end of Round 1 of the World Hockey League at Al Rayyan Stadium yesterday. RIGHT: Azerbaijan’s Muhammad Tofeeq and Milinda Chile and USA who have already rium of three to six months, and Sapugassoda of Sri lanka vie for the ball at Al Rayyan Stadium yesterday. Azerbaijan won 4-3. Azerbaijan topped the five-team tournament with an qualified for Round 2. unite to change the present sys- all-win record. Hosts Qatar finished second. PICTURES BY: ABDUL BASIT THE PENINSULA tem.” AFP NFL player Belcher Eljaish win thriller against Qatar SC BY DANOTZKI SANTOS commits suicide Men’s Basketball League DOHA: Fadi Abilmona helped Team Standings KANSAS CITY, Missouri: A with Scott Pioli,” Lindaman said. Eljaish to clinch a thrilling 77-76 Team Win Loss player with US football’s Kansas “There was no threat and it was win over Qatar Sports Club in Al Sadd 7 1 City Chiefs fatally shot his girl- quite friendly, from what I under- the Qatar Men’s Basketball Al Rayyan 7 1 friend then drove to the team’s stand. The Chiefs’ organization League at the Al Gharafa Indoor Al Arabi 6 2 Action from the stadium and took his own life had been very supportive of him Hall yesterday. Eljaish 6 2 Qatar Men’s as his coaches pleaded with him and he was expressing that.” Abilmona maneuvered his way Al Gharafa 4 4 Basketball not to pull the trigger. Lindaman said Belcher’s through a couple of picks and Police Captain David mother who was visiting her son, scored to push El Jaish to a heart- Qatar Club 3 5 League match Lindaman told the Kansas City the girlfriend and their infant stopping win. The wily Eljaish Al Shamal 1 7 between Al Star newspaper that Chiefs line- daughter, witnessed the shooting guard had an awful shooting night Al Ahli 1 7 Rayyan and Al Sadd at Al backer Jovan Belcher, 25 shot that led to the death of the young going 7 of 21 from the outside but Al Wakrah 1 7 himself at Arrowhead Stadium woman, Kasandra Perkins, who saved the day for Eljaish with his Gharafa Indoor yesterday after killing his was pronounced dead at a local heroics in the end game and gave The defending champs broke Hall yester- 22-year-old girlfriend following hospital. his team a 6-2 finish in the first the ice and led outright 7-6 but day. Al Rayyan an altercation. The Chiefs management round of the tournament. Al Sadd was quick to respond won 79-63. In Police spokesman Darin Snapp expressed sorrow over Belcher’s Leading 76-74 with a minute and scattered a string of points another match, told reporters at the stadium that suicide. left in the ball game, it looked to wrest the upper hand, 13-11. Eljaish defeated authorities had responded to a “The entire Chiefs family is like Qatar SC was headed towards Targuy Ngombo and Erfan Saeed Qatar Sports call from the residence where deeply saddened by today’s events, pulling off a monumental upset were scoring with impunity for Club 77-76. the woman was shot.Shortly after and our collective hearts are against Eljaish but the black Rayyan but Chris dela Rosa’s At the end of they received a second emergency heavy with sympathy, thoughts shirts muffed six opportunities gritty plays kept his team at a the first round call from the stadium, and as and prayers for the families and from the free throw line and 21-16 advantage at the end of the of the double police were responding the second friends affected by this unthink- failed to win a single basket in the first period. leg League Al shooting took place. able tragedy,” chairman Clark remainder of the match. Al Rayyan gunners kept punc- Rayyan and Al “When officers arrived they Hunt said in a statement. The game was hard-fought turing the hoops to establish a observed a black male who had a “We sincerely appreciate the from the start, as the two teams 37-28 half time advantage. Sadd are tied gun to his head and he was talk- expressions of sympathy and exchanged leads 24 times, and Coach Brian Rowsom’s charges on top of the ing to a couple of coaches out in support we have received from were tied six times including at used their running offensive to team standings the parking lot,” Snapp said. so many in the Kansas City and 40-all halfway in the game. the hilt after the break keeping with seven wins “As officers pulled up and began NFL communities, and ask for Qatar SC took the first period Southall and the rest of the white and one loss to park, that’s when they heard continued prayers for the loved at 23-20, the third at 62-60 and shirts catching up on defense as each. the gunshot and it appears the ones of those impacted.” were in control in the final period they pulled away 57-46 entering individual took his own life.” Belcher, who was originally until Fadi hit the shot that stole the final quarter. Police said Chiefs staff from Long Island, New York, the game away from their hands. The defending champions blew attempted to calm Belcher, who had been with the Chiefs for Mohammad Bakir led all scor- the contest wide open in the final spoke with head coach Romeo four years. He joined them as an ers with 31 points. Fadi managed period as they soared to their big- Crennel and general manager undrafted free agent out of uni- 16 points. gest advantage of 22 points going Scott Pioli before shooting him- versity and worked his way into In the first game, Al Rayyan into the final buzzer. self. “He had a conversation a starting position. AFP had the better of Al Sadd, 79-63. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Anamul hits maiden ton as Bangladesh crush Windies The hosts record their biggest ODI win; Anamul named Man-of-the-Match

KHULNA, Bangladesh: their 146-run win over Scotland one-days. Bravo added 41 for the England now Anamul Haque became the in Dhaka six years ago. The West third wicket with Samuels before third youngest Bangladeshi to Indies were never in the hunt for left-arm spinner Razzak struck hit a hundred before the home the big target chase, losing wick- thrice, dismissing Dwayne Smith the team team spun out the West Indies ets at regular intervals as the (nought) in his second over and for their biggest one-day win of Bangladeshi spinners once again had Bravo and Devon Thomas 160 runs in Khulna yesterday. made stroke-play difficult for the (nought) in his fourth. to avoid in Anamul, who was named Man- batsmen on a slow Sheikh Abu Rahim praised Anamul’s knock. of-the-Match, scored a dominat- Naser Stadium pitch. “Boys really played well, espe- Cup draw: ing 120 in Bangladesh’s imposing Only Darren Bravo (28) and cially Anamul and everyone took 292-6 before spinners Abdur Kieron Pollard (25) offered some the responsibility. It is a great Razzak (3-19) and Sohag Gazi resistance as the top-order West opportunity for the young guys in Woodward (3-21) dismissed the tourists for Indian batsmen Chris Gayle (15), the team to develop,” said Rahim. a low score of 132 in 31.1 overs in Marlon Samuels (16) and Lendl West Indian captain Darren LONDON: Clive Woodward the second one-day for a 2-0 lead Simmons (nine) failed once more. Sammy said his team was (pictured) has said England’s in the five-match series. Gayle hit two boundaries and outplayed. stunning victory over New Bangladesh won Friday’s first a six before edging paceman “Bangladesh outplayed us in Zealand has made them the match by seven wickets, also in Mashrafe Mortaza to wicket- both these games. Both the bowl- team all other sides will want Khulna. keeper Mushfiqur Rahim, while ing and the batting are areas of to avoid in today’s draw for the But the hosts took a giant leap Simmons and Samuels were dis- concern. We need to dig deeper if 2015 Rugby World Cup. yesterday as they achieved their missed by Gazi who remained the we have to come back from behind Woodward, who coached biggest one-day win, improving on best home bowler in Tests and in this series. We have the guys to England’s World Cup-winning do that,” said Sammy. side of 2003, also said the shock Scoreboard Earlier, it was the 19-year-old win had rescued Europe’s Six right-hander Anamul who in only Nations from being regarded as BANGLADESH C Gayle c Rahim b Mortaza ...... 15 his second one-day set up the win a “second division” international Tamim Iqbal c Pollard b Russell ...... 5 D Bravo c Rahim b Razzak ...... 28 with a solid 174-run partnership tournament Anamul Haque c Narine b Rampaul ...... 120 M Samuels c Rahim b Gazi ...... 16 with Rahim (79), courtesy of England produced one of the Naeem Islam c Narine b Rampaul ...... 6 D Smith lbw Razzak ...... 0 Anamul’s maiden ton. greatest performances ever seen Mushfiqur Rahim c Simmons b Rampaul ....79 K Pollard b Islam ...... 25 Anamul faced 145 balls and at Twickenham to beat reigning Nasir Hossain c Gayle b Rampaul ...... 4 D Thomas b Razzak ...... 0 hit 13 fours and two sixes, lifting world champions New Zealand by Mominul Haque c Pollard b Rampaul ...... 31 D Sammy c (sub-Jahurul) b Mahmudullah ..12 the innings during a sixth wicket a record 38-21 on Saturday and Mohammad Mahmudullah (not out) ...... 3 A Russell (run out) ...... 9 stand of 64 with Mominul Haque so end the All Blacks’ 20-match Mashrafe Mortaza (not out) ...... 18 S Narine c Iqbal b Gazi ...... 10 (31) as the hosts scored 86 in the unbeaten run. Extras (LB-6, NB-1, W-19) ...... 26 R Rampaul (not out) ...... 0 last 10 overs. New Zealand, South Africa, Total (for 6 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 292 Extras (LB-2, W-6) ...... 8 The Anamul-Rahim stand is a Australia and France are the Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-21, 3-195, 4-201, Total (all out in 31.1 overs) ...... 132 new record for Bangladesh-West top four seeds in today’s draw 5-265, 6-265. Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-32, 3-63, 4-65, 5-78, Indies one-days, beating the 146 but Woodward said none of them Bolwing: Rampaul 10-1-49-5 (1nb; 4w); Rus- 6-78, 7-100, 8-111, 9-132. between Ramnaresh Sarwan and would want to be in the same pool sell 9-0-58-1; Sammy 5-0-35-0; Narine 10-1- Bowling: Gazi 7.1-2-21-3 (1w); Mortaza 6-0- Samuels in Dhaka 10 years ago. as 2015 hosts England. 48-0 (10w); Smith 9-0-46-0 (1w); Samuels 26-1 (1w); Razzak 5-0-19-3 (1w); Hasan 1-0- It also becomes the highest “It was a great, great victory Bangladesh cricketer Anamul Haque reacts after scoring a century 7-0-50-0 (4w). 9-0 (1w); Islam 7-0-28-1 (1w); Mahmudullah total by Bangladesh in all one- for the English team,” Woodward during the second One-Day-International cricket match against WEST INDIES 5-0-27-1 (1w). days against the West Indies, told BBC Radio Five’s Sportsweek L Simmons c Iqbal b Gazi ...... 9 Result: Bangladesh won by 160 runs. improving on 276-7 they scored West Indies at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna, yesterday. programme yesterday. in Dominica. AFP “The scoreline absolutely reflected the performance,” he added of an England victory that followed narrow defeats by De Villiers wary of record-chasing Australians Australia and South Africa in the preceding two weeks. PERTH, Australia: South batsman Ricky Ponting’s farewell change over the last two days of “They have some great play- African vice-captain AB de match. the match. ers in there -- Joe Launchbury Villiers said yesterday the Perhaps mindful that he was “It is playing quite well,” he said (lock), Tom Wood (blindside Proteas were not taking any- part of the South African team of the pitch. flanker), Chris Robshaw (captain thing for granted, despite being that reached a victory target “We are hoping that it will and openside flanker) -- who were in a seemingly unbeatable posi- of 414 on the final day in Perth break up a little bit over the next world class yesterday (Saturday). tion in the final Test against in 2008 for the loss of just four couple of days, there are a couple “They had lost the previous Australia at the WACA Ground. wickets, de Villiers said there of cracks that are developing and two. This was a real David and South African bats- De Villiers made 169 as the was still a lot of work to be done hopefully they do open up for us.” Goliath effort. They came out and man AB de Villiers Proteas piled on 569 in their sec- before they won the match and Personally, de Villiers ended a threw the kitchen sink and New throws his bat in ond innings to set Australia an the series. mini-drought with the bat in scor- Zealand got completely rattled. the air as he leaves improbable 632 runs to win in just “We haven’t ruined anything ing his 14th Test century, bringing Every phase of the game they the field after being over two days of cricket. yet,” he said of Ponting’s last up the milestone in remarkable won,” insisted former England dismissed for 169 It was the second-biggest tar- match. fashion with three successive centre Woodward. runs on day three get Australia had ever been set “We are aware that if they reverse sweeps to the boundary “It makes the draw fascinating of the third cricket in Test cricket, and they need we go the full length of the Test off spinner Nathan Lyon. given England have just demol- to substantially beat the cur- match they will come quite close. It was his first century in nine ished New Zealand. The top four Test match against rent record run chase to win the “They won’t be giving it away, Tests, his indifferent form leading sides will not want to be playing Australia at the match and claim the top rank- we are aware of that and we to speculation over his ability to against England.” AFP WACA Ground in ing in Test cricket off the South are not arrogant in any way perform with the bat while also Perth, yesterday. Africans. whatsoever. taking the wicketkeeping duties. The world record run chase “We have a lot of hard work However, de Villiers is commit- Sharpe bows out stands at 418, set by the West ahead of us tomorrow. ted to the dual role. Indies against Australia in “We haven’t ruined his “I felt it coming for a long with a victory Antigua in 2003. (Ponting’s) last Test match yet, time,” he said of the innings. However, wicketkeeper de but hopefully we do.” “There is a bit of pressure on CARDIFF: Not only did Villiers said it was too early for De Villiers said the WACA me with the gloves, I feel really Nathan Sharpe have to play all the South Africans to celebrate pitch was still a good batting proud about what happened today 80 gruelling minutes of his final spoiling retiring Australian wicket, but he expected that to (yesterday) AFP Test match against Wales, but he also found himself lining up to take an injury-time touchline Cricket Kenya Sachin is my Pakistan’s T20 conversion kick. PCB team happy with Needless to say, the 34-year-old lock’s effort fell well short of the picks first hero: Yuvraj competition posts, but he had already guided Eden Gardens facilities his Wallaby team to a nail-biting chairwoman KOLKATA: Indian cricketer gets under way 14-12 victory thanks to Kurtley KOLKATA: A four-mem- Sarwar was profuse in his Yuvraj Singh’s triumph over Beale’s last-gasp try at the ber team from the Pakistan praise for the eastern metropolis. cancer and subsequent return Millennium Stadium on Saturday. NAIROBI: Cricket Kenya yes- Cricket Board (PCB) yester- “Kolkata is special. We know to the field may have inspired a LAHORE: Pakistan’s most “Yeah it was (my first ever con- terday unanimously elected day expressed satisfaction with the passion for sports here. There nation -- but for the man him- prestigious Twenty20 cricket version) and I’d say it’s my last!” Zehra Janmohammed as its the facilities here ahead of the is lot of emotion for sports. The self the hero is cricket’s demi- tournament, with the par- joked Sharpe, who brings a cur- new chairwoman, the first side’s One-Day International spectators are excellent.” god Sachin Tendulkar. ticipation of 14 teams, started tain down on 16 seasons of inter- ever woman to head a national against India at the Eden Asked whether Pakistan pres- “As a kid I always looked up to yesterday. national rugby. cricket board. Gardens on January 3. ident Asif Ali Zardari will be Sachin and still continue to do so. The Faysal Bank National T20 “Of course I’m going to miss Janmohammed, a Nairobi- The PCB delegation, com- coming for the match, the media He is my hero... he is the nation’s Cup will be played at three differ- it. It’s what I’ve done since I can based lawyer, was elected unop- prising its cricket operations manager said: “Some important hero,” said Yuvraj at the launch ent grounds in Lahore and will be remember. I’m going to have to posed to replace the incumbent manager Usman Walia, media personality will come, but the of a book on Tendulkar yesterday. concluded with its final played at find some walls to run into every Samir Inamda. manager Nadim Sarwar and two name has not been finalised yet.” Titled “The Peak”, the book the Gaddafi Stadium December 9, weekend just to get my head “I take this opportunity to security officials Ehsan Sadik The PCB has picked a -- a unique snapshot story on reports Xinhua. around things and ease my way thank the cricket fraternity for and Sohail Khan, visited the 10-member delegation of former Tendulkar by photo-journalist Officials from the Pakistan out of things. placing their trust for leadership team hotel and went around the players, who will act as goodwill Suman Chattopadhyay -- was Cricket Board (PCB) inaugu- “The thing I’ll miss the most is under me,” Janmohammed said. iconic venue after arriving in the ambassadors in India during launched by Yuvraj who handed rated the annual championship being part of the team environ- “I would like to make a cov- city in the morning from Delhi. the much-anticipated bilateral the first copy of it to Tendulkar. Saturday in which a total of 45 ment and having a collective goal enant of uniting everyone for the “We came here to see the series involving five games -- “Sharing the dressing room matches including two semi-finals that is in a pressure cooker situ- benefit of the sport and my only arrangements, logistics and two twenty20 internationals and with Sachin has been a dream will be played. ation each weekend. agenda will be to grow the sport infrastructure. We are satisfied three One Day Internationals. come true for me and it has been During the group stage, at least “As much as you love it, you and achieve measurable results.” and happy,” said Sarwar. “But we are yet to decide on a wonderful journey with him,” six matches will be held each day. hate it, it’s big highs and low lows, She takes over at a time when The recce team also called on the duo who would be sent to added Yuvraj. The tournament will be played so that’ll be the most challenging the national cricket board is city commissioner of police RK Eden,” he said. Yuvraj played a gritty knock in under the format of round robin thing for me.” implementing a comprehensive Pachnanda and discussed the CAB treasurer Biswarup Dey the first Test of the ongoing series and knockout stage. Try-scorer Beale, had only review process following the security issues. later said the names discussed against England, but failed with Top Pakistani cricketers will words of admiration for Sharpe. country’s worst-ever perform- “We reviewed the security sys- for the Kolkata ODI are Majid the bat in the second match. take the event as a chance to show “What better way of finishing a ance at the 2011 World Cup that tem. We are happy. We all know, Khan, Zaheer Abbas and Imran He is now looking forward to their skills and form in order to game for a great man as Nathan, was held in India, Sri Lanka and Kolkata is a peaceful place.” Khan. IANS hitting form at the Eden Gardens be selected for the upcoming tour our skipper who’s retiring?” said Bangladesh. AFP beginning on Wednesday. IANS to India. IANS Beale. AFP MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Top-flight Norwich sink Sunderland to FA Cup opposition stretch unbeaten run in EPL for United, Defeat leaves Sunderland just one place above the relegation zone Chelsea

NORWICH, United Kingdom: free-kick glanced off the arm LONDON: Manchester United, Norwich City extended their of Sunderland defender Carlos Arsenal and holders Chelsea unbeaten run to eight Premier Cuellar and into the path of were all handed ties with fel- League games with a 2-1 win at Bassong, who charged in to vol- low Premier League sides in home to Sunderland yesterday ley past Simon Mignolet from the draw for the FA Cup third that left the visitors just a point close range. round yesterday. above the relegation zone. Sunderland threatened through Chelsea, winners of four of the Goals from Sebastien Bassong Danny Rose, whose low strike last six tournaments, will travel and Anthony Pilkington put from a corner forced a smart save to Southampton, while current Norwich 2-0 up and although from Mark Bunn, but in the 37th league leaders United face an Craig Gardner replied before half- minute, the hosts doubled their away game at West Ham United, time, Martin O’Neill’s side could lead with a neat goal. who eliminated Alex Ferguson’s not find an equaliser despite a Bradley Johnson’s pass released side in the fourth round in 2001. spate of second-half opportunities. Pilkington and he showed excel- Arsenal, meanwhile, face a Sunderland remain one place lent composure to flick the ball swift reunion with Swansea City, above the bottom three, albeit inside Cuellar before curling a whose 2-0 success at the Emirates with a game in hand on most of shot into the bottom-right corner. Stadium on Saturday bumped the teams around them, while Sunderland were floundering, Arsene Wenger’s men down to Chris Hughton’s Norwich climb but they grabbed a lifeline on the 10th place in the English top one place to 12th. cusp of half-time when Gardner flight. Beaten only once in their previ- beat Bunn with a 20-yard shot In the only other all-Premier ous seven home games, Norwich from Adam Johnson’s lay-off. League tie, Queens Park Rangers began brightly at Carrow Road Pilkington stung Mignolet’s were drawn at home to West and went ahead in the eighth palms with an ambitious vol- Bromwich Albion, with English minute. ley early in the second half but champions Manchester City due Robert Snodgrass’ inswinging Sunderland were soon pressing to face second-division Watford. their hosts back in search of an Liverpool, runners-up to English Premier League equaliser. Chelsea last season, face an away Their best chance arrived just game at either Lincoln City or results before the hour, with defender Mansfield Town, two former Matt Kilgallon spooning the ball league clubs who now play in the Norwich 2 Sunderland 1 Norwich City’s Anthony Pilkington (right) celebrates with his team-mate Grant Holt after scoring against Sunderland Playing today (2000GMT): over an open goal from 10 yards fifth-tier Conference National. after Gardner’s swerving 25-yard during their English Premier League match at Carrow Road in Norwich, yesterday. Tottenham Hotspur will play Newcastle v Wigan free-kick came back off the post. League One (third division) side Played Saturday: Javier Garrido then had to be cut short by the assistant ref- fourth place and demonstrate the erratic but he made the most Coventry City in a repeat of the Arsenal 0 Swansea 2 hack a Gardner effort clear from eree’s flag. undoubted talent of the winger of his chance against Deportivo 1987 final, which saw Coventry Fulham 0 Tottenham 3 just in front of the Norwich goal, Meanwhile, Joel Campbell who is still raw around the edges. with Juan Carlos injured in left prevail through an extra-time Liverpool 1 Southampton 0 while Bunn saved from Stephane showed what Arsenal are missing Campbell moved from Saprissa midfield. own goal by Spurs defender Gary Sessegnon, who also flashed an this season with a sweetly-struck in his native Costa Rica to Arsenal Deportivo had responded with Mabbutt. Man City 1 Everton 1 overhead kick wide. shot giving Real Betis a 3-2 win in 2011 but was first loaned out a brace from Ivan Sanchez-Rico The ties are scheduled to be QPR 1 Aston Villa 1 Sunderland substitute Connor over Deportivo La Coruna in La to French side FC Lorient before after a Ruben Castro double had played on the weekend of January Reading 3 Man Utd 4 Wickham, a half-time replace- Liga yesterday. joining Betis last summer. put the Andalusians ahead but 7-8, 2013. AFP West Brom 0 Stoke 1 ment for injured top scorer Steven The on-loan 20-year-old Although blessed with pace Campbell picked up a pass from West Ham 3 Chelsea 1 Fletcher, then had the ball in the curled a 25-yard effort into the and plenty of natural ability Benat Etxebarria and fired home English FA Cup third net, only for his celebrations to top corner to put Betis clear in his performances have been the winner. AGENCIES round draw Draw for the FA Cup third round made yesterday. (Premier League clubs Holders Hearts crash out of Scottish Cup unless stated, numerals denote Football League division, ML denotes minor EDINBURGH: Hibernian Hearts captain Scottish Cup results came within a culprit as he couldn’t connect league): scored late on to finally break Zaliuskas to seal whisker of going with Wotherspoon’s superb cross Hibernian 1 Hearts 0 Ties to be played on the Jan. 5 and 6. their Edinburgh derby hoo- a famous win ahead in the into the box. Crystal Palace (II) vs Stoke City doo as they defeated city rivals and gain some Rangers 3 Elgin City 0 second minute Hibs finally broke the dead- Hearts 1-0 to knock the holders revenge for their when Williams lock in the 83rd minute through Brighton and Hove Albion (II) vs Newcastle out of the Scottish Cup. 5-1 Scottish Cup final defeat to made a great save to deny Wootherspoon. United The home side had started the Hearts in May. Paterson’s bullet header from The Hibs midfielder collected Tottenham Hotspur vs Coventry City (III) fourth round tie against Hearts Hibs manager Pat Fenlon was Novikovas’ accurate cross. a cross field pass from substitute at Easter Road as favourites delighted with the win. Hibernian then seized the ini- Ivan Sproule and stepped away Wigan Athletic vs Bournemouth (III) thanks to an excellent start to “It’s been a difficult couple of tiative with Tawio slicing a shot from Kevin McHattie before fir- Fulham vs Blackpool (II) the season that sees them sit seasons for the club so we will high and wide after Wotherspoon ing in a shot that took a wicked Aston Villa vs Ipswich Town (II) in second place in the Scottish enjoy today. It wasn‘t a great had used his chest to lay the ball deflection off Zaliukas and flew Premier League. game but in cup football you take off to him in the box before Leigh into the net past the helpless Charlton Athletic (II) vs Huddersfield (II) However, despite their financial what is going,” Fenlon said. Griffiths fired in a free-kick from MacDonald. Barrow (ML) or Macclesfield Town (ML) vs worries and inconsistent league Hearts manager John McGlynn the right that Jamie MacDonald In yesterday’s other game, Cardiff City (II) form Hearts hadn’t been beaten felt his side deserved a replay. punched clear. fallen Glasgow giants Rangers Barnsley (II) vs Burnley (II) in the previous 12 derby matches “I don’t think we deserved to Williams then produced progressed to the fifth round -- a run spanning three and a half lose the game that’s for sure. I another fine save after Zaliukas’ with a 3-0 win over fellow Manchester City vs Watford (II) years. thought we had the better of the header from a corner was diverted Third Division side Elgin City Swansea City vs Arsenal Both sides had chances in an first half and their goalkeeper had towards goal off the chest of Hibs at Ibrox. Leicester City (II) vs Burton Albion (IV) entertaining first half with Hibs a couple of good saves,” he said. defender Paul Hanlon. Dean Shiels fired the Gers keeper Ben Williams making Hibernian named an unchanged Hearts’ Jamie Walker showed into a first-half lead and Kevin Millwall (II) vs Preston North End (III) good saves from Calum Paterson side for the fifth game running good control and quick feet to Kyle’s 68th minute header from Cheltenham Town (IV) or Hereford United and a deflected Marius Zaliuskas while Hearts made two changes skip past two defenders in the a Barrie McKay corner doubled (ML) vs Everton header. from their defeat to Celtic with box before firing and angled shot their advantage. The frantic pace fell away in the Mehdi Taouil in for Jason Holt across the six-yard box that trick- Kai Naismith rounded off the Rangers’ Dean Shiels celebrates Derby County (II) vs Tranmere Rovers (III) second half and the game looked and Arvydas Novikovas replac- led wide. scoring in the 85th minute after his goal against Elgin City during Crawley Town (III) vs Reading their Scottish FA Cup fourth round to be heading for a replay until ing Dylan McGowan. The Easter Road side began to coming on as a substitute with a Aldershot (IV) vs Rotherham United (IV) or soccer match at Ibrox Stadium in David Wotherspoon’s 83rd minute Hearts may be struggling look more dangerous going for- low finish past John Gibson. Notts County (III) strike took a wicked deflection off for form in the league but they ward and again Doyle was the AFP Glasgow, yesterday. Middlesbrough (II) vs Harrogate Town (ML) or Hastings United (ML) Barca make record start; Real win derby Accrington Stanley (IV) or Oxford United (IV) vs Sheffield United (III) MADRID: Lionel Messi closed which came off knock it home. Messi had the final say with his Southampton vs Chelsea in on Gerd Mueller’s scoring defender Fernando Spanish League Minutes second. Atletico Madrid, riding Queens Park Rangers vs West Bromwich mark as Barcelona crushed Amorebieta on later and high in second place, felt they Albion Athletic Bilbao 5-1 to set a new the line, before Results Barca dou- had their best chance to beat Real record for the best ever start Adriano Correia Getafe 1 (Lopo 57) Malaga 0 bled their lead Madrid since their last triumph Peterborough United (II) vs Norwich City to a La Liga season and stay 11 hit the third on the Valencia 2 (Soldado 2, 73) Real Sociedad 5 due in part to in October 1999 but they rarely Lincoln City (ML) or Mansfield Town (ML) vs points clear of Real Madrid. point of half-time. (Alberta De la Bella 44, Gonzalez 57, Ifran slack defend- threatened. Atletico’s Argentine Liverpool Defending champions Real Cesc Fabregas 64, Agirretxe 83, Vela 90+1-pen) ing which coach Diego Simeone has brought Bolton Wanderers (II) vs Sunderland edged city rivals Atletico 2-0 then added to the Barcelona 5 (Pique 22, Messi 25, 70, has plagued success based on solidity. Nottingham Forest (II) vs Oldham Athletic (III) with Cristiano Ronaldo on target deluge of goals and Adriano 45+1, Fabregas 57) Athletic Bilbao Athletic’s The midfield of Gabi Fernandez to keep their slender hopes of a Ibai Gomez got a 1 (Gomez 65) season. and Mario Suarez were holding West Ham United vs Manchester United title repeat alive. consolation before Fernando their own and the visitors had the Real Madrid 2 (Cristiano Ronaldo 16, Ozil Hull City (II) vs Alfreton (ML) or Leyton Orient Barca have now put together 13 Messi struck Amorebieta first clear chance of the game. 66) Atletico Madrid 0 (III) wins and a draw from their first again. failed to keep Radamel Falcao got in front of 14 matches to beat the previous Messi is now tight to Messi Pepe to prod a Diego Costa pass Blackburn Rovers (II) vs Bristol City (II) best start set by Real in the 1991- just one goal off Mueller’s record who slipped the ball past the goalwards but keeper Iker Casillas Leeds United (II) vs Birmingham City (II) 92 season. of 85 goals in a calendar year set keeper and a despairing dive managed to palm the ball behind. Bury (III) or Southend United (IV) vs Bradford “It is great to have achieved for Bayern Munich and Germany from the defender only served to Ronaldo has had a quiet run this but I am happier still with in 1972. help the ball over the line. Messi by his own high standards with- City (IV) or Brentford (III) the performance of my players Barca had their first sight hit the post before Adriano burst out a goal in three games but he Luton Town (ML) vs Wolverhampton and that even at 5-1 we contin- of goal with a low drive from in from the right and fired a responded on 15 minutes with Wanderers (II) ued to keep pressing and trying Andres Iniesta after 12 minutes Fabregas pass into the roof of a free-kick from fully 30 yards Sheffield Wednesday (II) vs MK Dons (III) to score,” said Barca coach Tito which keeper Gorka Iraizoz saved the net. which nestled in the corner. Vilanova. comfortably. There was no let up after the Ronaldo blazed wide from the “There are still things we can They got their breakthrough restart and Iraizoz did well to edge of the area after 53 minutes English FA Cup results Barcelona forward Lionel Messi improve on and we can still work after a spell of pressure. block Messi but could do nothing and then set up Mesut Ozil to M Keynes Dons 2 AFC Wimbledon 1 reacts during the Spanish League harder.” Athletic failed to clear their to stop Fabregas who fired home volley home the second from 15 Alfreton Town 2 Leyton Orient 4 match against Athletic Bilbao Gerard Pique put the Catalan lines from a corner and although an Iniesta pass. yards. The Portuguese also hit the Playing today: at the Camp Nou Stadium in side ahead after 22 minutes fol- Iraizoz repelled Fabregas’ shot, Barca were guilty of easing off post twice in the closing stages. Cheltenham vs Hereford Barcelona on Saturday. lowed quickly by Messi’s first, Pique pounced on the rebound to as Gomez pulled a goal back but AFP Monday 3 December 2012 19 Muharram 1434 Volume 17 Number 5537 Sport Price: QR2

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Beckham’s Beckham’s LA Galaxy stint top six MLS moments Full debut vs New York Red Bulls, August 18, 2007 60,000 turned out in New ends on a winning note York and witnessed a thrilling match as NY won 5-4 despite three Beckham assists for LA. Two goals vs Real Salt Lake, The midfielder clinches second MLS title, unsure where he will play next May 4, 2008 An outstanding curling strike LOS ANGELES: David happy I been successful with this from wide on the right, and Beckham wrapped up a six-year club.” the second a trademark stint in America by playing his At 37, Beckham’s career is free-kick. final game in the MLS yester- coming to a close but he has been 70-yard goal vs Kansas City, day, capping his time with the careful not to mention the word May 24, 2008 Los Angeles Galaxy with back- retirement. Beckham gave MLS fans to-back championship titles. He is expected to make a deci- another ‘wow’ moment when The former England captain sion on where he will end up play- he fired in from 70 yards with Beckham went out with bang, ing next by the end of the year. the opposition goalkeeper up not only leading the Galaxy to a Sources close to the player for a corner. 3-1 win over Houston and their have confirmed an approach by MLS Cup final, November fourth MLS Cup crown. Monaco. He has also been linked 20, 2011 Robbie Keane, Omar Gonzalez with a possible move to Ligue 1 and Landon Donovan scored goals high-flyers Paris Saint-Germain First silverware with a 1-0 win for the heavily-favoured Galaxy where he would team up again over the Houston Dynamo in who clinched their fourth MLS with Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti which Beckham and Robbie Cup title by beating the Dynamo and team director Leonardo, Keane helped tee up Landon for the second consecutive year. whom he knows from his two pre- Donovan to score the winner. Beckham’s presence has helped vious loan stints with AC Milan. Two goals vs Portland, July the league achieve unprecedented There have also been offers 14, 2012 growth and newfound respect from China, Russia and Brazil for Scored two goals in the space overseas. the former Manchester United of five minutes to turn a 1-0 Beckham is now set to begin a and Real Madrid player, who says deficit into a 2-1 lead. The first new chapter with another club in he could not see himself playing a curling strike from nearly a brilliant football career that has in the Premier League for anyone 30 yards out. Minutes later, allowed him to also win titles in other than Manchester United. he curled in a trademark free- his final games with Manchester Beckham celebrated in the kick to send Los Angeles on United and Real Madrid. Galaxy dressing room with his their way to a 5-3 win. Beckham deflected questions teammates, taking turns spraying MLS Cup final, December 1, yesterday about where his next each other with bottles of Korbell 2012 stop would be. champagne. “I have no idea,” Beckham said. Both happy and relieved, Beckham ends his stint with David Beckham poses with his sons Brooklyn (left), Cruz (centre) and Romeo with the Major League Soccer LA Galaxy with a 3-1 win over “More important I am happy Beckham paused at one point (MLS) trophy after LA Galaxy beat Houston Dynamo 3-1 in the MLS Cup in Carson, California, yesterday. It wearing this uniform today. I am during the post-match press Houston Dynamo, to claim his was Beckham’s last game for LA Galaxy. second MLS title.

conference, after losing his train playing for the Galaxy in 2007. Galaxy, to the league and to the in southern California has not of thought then said, “Too much The league has expanded from 12 sport and that doesn’t change been without controversy. He has champagne already.” to 19 teams and it has more than even though I am not playing faced criticism for missing games Fans hold posters and “At the end of the day, winning doubled its overall attendance. here,” he added yesterday after and has had run-ins with fans, signs in recognition to a championship in my last game Beckham hopes to get back into the match, especially when he first arrived. David Beckham during at Manchester United and win- the league one day as an owner of Beckham has been capped 115 His loans to European teams, his last game with LA ning a championship in my last an MLS team. times for England, scoring 17 which caused him to miss parts of Galaxy during the Major game with Real Madrid and then “It is better going out with two goals while captaining the side MLS seasons, angered some Los League Soccer (MLS) winning championship here in titles than one,” Beckham said. on more than 50 occasions. Angeles fans who displayed their Cup match against my last game it never gets old,” “It has been a successful six years He captured a half dozen dislike with signs at games that Houston Dynamo, in Beckham said. here with reaching three MLS Premier League titles during said “Go home fraud,” and “Part Carson, California, “The feeling of making the Cup finals. I will enjoy this one a sensational 12-year career at time player.” final, the preparation, the feeling tonight. Manchester United that also saw The Galaxy also made sev- yesterday. LA Galaxy around the club it never gets old. I “I just hope people have enjoyed him win the FA Cup twice and eral mistakes in their handling claimed their second am 37 and I have been able to play me playing here and watching me the 1999 Champions League title. of Beckham, including giving the successive MLS title in quite a few finals and champi- play for the Galaxy. He joined the Galaxy in 2007, appearance that they were treat- with a 3-1 victory. onship games. I still love it like I “My impact will be down to debuting in a friendly against ing him as just any other player did when I won my first.” what other people decide. But I Chelsea at the Home Depot despite paying him more money Even before yesterday’s victory, think I have had a successful time Center. for one practice than several of Beckham had made a huge impact here. When I came here six years Beckham helped grow the sport his team-mates made in a full on the league since he began ago my commitment was to the in the United States, but his time season. AFP

Scoreboard South Africa (I innings): ...... 225 Proteas set Australia mammoth target Australia (I innings): ...... 163 South Africa (II innings): A Petersen c and b Johnson ...... 23 PERTH, Australia: Australia successful fourth innings run a 149-run partnership with de G Smith c Lyon b Starc ...... 84 will have to produce the great- chase remains 418 by the West Villiers for the fourth wicket. It H Amla c&b Johnson ...... 196 est run chase in Test history to Indies against Australia at St was Amla’s 18th Test century. J Kallis c Johnson b Starc ...... 37 beat South Africa in the third John’s in 2003. After resuming at 99 not out A B de Villiers c Wade b Starc ...... 169 Test at the WACA Ground and Tall fast bowler Morne Morkel on the third day, Amla took just D Elgar lbw Johnson ...... 0 claim the top spot in the Test threw a major scare in the South three balls to reach triple figures, F du Plessis c Clarke b Johnson ...... 27 rankings. African camp when he appeared having faced a mere 87 balls. R Peterson c Johnson b Starc ...... 0 Set 632 to win after the Proteas to roll his left ankle in his delivery At one stage, retiring Australian V Philander (not out) ...... 14 were finally dismissed for 569 stride late in the day. batsman Ricky Ponting was even D Steyn c Wade b Starc ...... 8 in their second innings on the Morkel was on the pitch for given a bowl as Amla and de M Morkel b Starc ...... 0 back of Hashim Amla and AB de several minutes, but just when it Villiers took the game away from Extras (B-4, LB-4, W-3) ...... 11 Villiers centuries, Australia were seemed the Proteas may be down the Australians. Total (all out) ...... 569 40 without loss at stumps on the to two fast bowlers, Dale Steyn De Villiers reached his 14th Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-206, 3-284, 4-436, third day yesterday. and Vernon Philander, the big Test century in memorable fash- 5-436, 6-538, 7-539, 8-557, 9-569. The Australians still need a man picked himself up and fin- ion just before tea. He eventually Bowling: Starc 28.5-3-154-6 (1w); Watson further 592 runs to win with two ished his over without apparent fell for 169 as he appeared to tire, 9-3-24-0; Johnson 25-1-110-4; Hastings days to play. discomfort. caught behind from the bowling of 19-1-102-0 (1w); Lyon 22-2-128-0; Hussey David Warner will resume Amla led the way for the Mitchell Starc, having faced 184 4-0-26-0 (1w); Warner 3-0-14-0; Ponting today’s fourth day on 29 with Ed Proteas with the bat and looked balls, hitting 21 fours and three 1-0-3-0. Cowan not out nine. certain to notch a third Test dou- sixes. Australia (II innings): It was only the second time in ble century, but on 196 he fell to a South African Dean Elgar was E Cowan (batting) ...... 9 Test history Australia had been superb reflex caught-and-bowled trapped lbw by Johnson for a D Warner (batting) ...... 29 set over 600 runs to win. The pre- from Mitchell Johnson (4-110). four-ball duck to complete a pair Extras (LB-2) ...... 2 vious occasion was Don Bradman’s The right-hander had a lucky for the match. Total (for no loss) ...... 40 first Test against England in 1928, escape on 108 when Mike Hussey Left-armer Starc cleaned up South Africa’s Hashim Amla hits a shot off a ball from Australia’s Mike Bowling: Steyn 5-2-14-0; Philander 5-0- when they folded for 66 all out dropped a tough chance in gully the South African tail to claim Hussey at the WACA Ground during the third day’s play of the third Test 15-0; Morkel 3-0-9-0. chasing 742 runs. off Johnson, but he was in total his first five-wicket haul in Test match in Perth, yesterday. The current record for a command, his dismissal ending cricket. AFP