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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Proposal to ban Qatar in research deals with Japan institutes TSUKUBA CITY, JAPAN: H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar smoking in cars Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), yes- terday led a high-level QF Research and Development sparks debate visit to the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the National Institute for Materials Many citizens against the idea Science (NIMS) here. Sheikha Moza held a round- DOHA: A proposed amendment than the health risks associated table discussion with AIST in the country’s anti-tobacco with smoking. “The law is good President Dr Ryoji Chubachi law banning smoking inside because many motorists throw and other representatives of the cars has triggered angry reac- cigarette butts from the window institute, whose mission is to tion from citizens, with many of their cars without thinking that use green technology to build an describing it as an infringement they might go to other cars on the environment-friendly, healthy of personal freedoms. road. If a burning cigarette falls and safe society. Qatari social networking sites on the carpet, it can cause a fire,” “Qatar Foundation welcomes have been abuzz with comments read a posting. “Good news but your insights and experiences on the issue, following newspa- I wish it would be implemented of helping to build a sustainable per reports on Monday that the properly,” said another. industrial society, in particular amended anti-tobacco law includes A local Arabic daily yesterday with regard to water and energy a provision banning smoking inside quoted several CMC members security,” said Sheikha Moza. cars. The reports were based on arguing against the proposal. The roundtable discussion remarks made by an Supreme According to Mohammed Al focused on photovoltaic and energy H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser examines a robot at the Science Square in Tsukuba City yesterday. AR AL-BAKER Council of Health official at a Khayarin, this amendment is storage programmes, and culmi- recent workshop in Doha. an encroachment on personal nated in the signature of a Letter Materials Science (NIMS), which NIMS and QEERI in materials and QEERI. Sheikha Moza was Several members of the Central freedoms. “How are they going of Intent between AIST and Qatar is a leading global Institute for technology and photovoltaics. accompanied by a high-level Municipal Council (CMC) have to implement this law. Will they Environment and Energy Research Materials research. They held The meeting concluded with scientific delegation including also joined the debate, calling for use CCTV cameras to spy on Institute (QEERI). a discussion with NIMS senior the signing of a Memorandum President of QF Research and a review of the proposal. motorists or deploy traffic police Sheikha Moza and the accom- management, including President of Understanding to encour- Development, Faisal Alsuwaidi, “Smoking in car is like smoking or inspectors to detect the vio- panying delegation later vis- Dr Sukekatsu Ushioda, to explore age joint research activities and Executive Director of QEERI, in the house. They have no right lations or leave this job to some ited the National Institute for potential synergies between and exchanges between NIMS Dr Mohammad Khaleel. QNA to interfere in the private life of volunteers? All these options are people. If they want to stop smok- not practical,” he said. ing they should ban import of ciga- Another CMC member Ahmed rettes,” read a posting on a popular Al Sheeb also felt that the pro- Qatari social website. “It is better posal is not logical. “It will create to increase prices of cigarettes to more problems instead of solving QR100 per packet than banning the problems. I agree banning Qatar bourse index touches historic high smoking in cars,” wrote another. smoking in public places and near “First they should increase schools. Banning smoking inside BY SATISH KANADY The benchmark index rose 1.34 percent pattern for the past two weeks, you could see the prices of cigarettes, remove cars is not logical,” he said. yesterday pushing the bourse’s gains to 24.67 huge buying interests from local individual Sheesha from all places and stop According to Mohammed DOHA: Qatar’s bourse surged to its high- percent this year making QE the second best investors. Shares of companies like Vodafone, creating special areas for smoking Shaheen Al Dosari, another CMC est closing level ever, breaking its main index performer in the Gulf and one of the Mazaya and Ezdan saw a huge jump over the at the ministries and other govern- member, “ no law in the world index record yesterday on the back of a fastest growing markets in the world. past two weeks,” he told The Peninsula. ment departments,” was another has prevented people from smok- tenacious stock rally for six sessions in a Analysts attributed a combination of posi- There is huge amount of positive sentiment comment. “My car is my private ing in their cars”. “I will support row. The blue-chips did it with an exclama- tive sentiments to Qatar’s stellar performance, surrounding the market, volumes have doubled property and I have full right to this only in one case, if someone tion point -- 12,939.80 blast as against the including the investors’ expectation on immi- and we hope it’s set to be a bumper year for smoke inside my car. The UK has smokes in the presence of children previous high closing of 12892.76 recorded nent MSCI upgrade, better-than-expected first the equity market, Al Mansoori said. implemented a similar law but and women in the car,” he added. on September 20, 2005. quarter results, rapprochement on regional rifts Shares of al khaliji and Nakilat surged only when children are aboard. Another member Mubarak “We are delighted to see the market break and the proposed big ticket projects. yesterday. Al khaliji jumped 10 percent while A motorist can smoke if he/she is Fresh felt that there is no use new highs - it’s testament to the strength and Local market analyst Bashir Yousef Al Nakilat soared 8.53 percent. Qatar Electricity alone in the car,” said another. of drafting a new law, when the organisation of listed companies, and to all Kahloud said ‘the market is flooded with and Water edged up 1.92 percent and Ezdan There were also comments in existing law is not properly imple- stakeholders involved in developing the Qatari MPHC money’. “Qataris got a large amount closed 9.91 percent up. Market cap saw a huge favour of the proposal, but mostly mented. THE PENINSULA market”, commented Rashid Al Mansoori, of money in a small time. They are in a rein- jump from QR752bn to QR770bn. based on safety grounds, rather Continued on page 6 CEO, Qatar Exchange . vestment mood. If you look at the trading THE PENINSULA

Atletico and Chelsea draw 17 new MERS C-Ring Road overhaul from May 1 cases in Saudi DOHA: The Public Works RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has Authority (Ashghal) said yes- discovered another 17 cases terday that it will start work of Middle East Respiratory on a major overhaul of the Syndrome (MERS). The new C-Ring road, a key artery in cases, announced on the Health Doha on May 1. Ministry website, bring the total The renovations involve a number of Saudi infections to 261, 6.3km stretch of the C-Ring road of whom 81 have died. Combined from the Jabor bin Ahmed inter- with the other 49 cases announced section (Ramada intersection) to in recent days, they represent a Umm Ghuwailina roundabout ( jump of 34 percent in the number VIP Roundabout). of laboratory confirmed infec- The project also includes wid- tions within a week. Seven of ening of the C-Ring road from the 17 new cases were in Jeddah. three lanes to four and converting Six were in Riyadh, including a number of roundabouts to sig- one who died, while three were nal-controlled intersections. The the previous phase is completed, of Doha and Ashghal will take in Madinah and one was in the road will get three new U-turns said Ashghal. The project includes all necessary precautions during northern city of Tabuk. with pedestrian crossings before construction of permanent roads construction to enable road users the intersections. With the addi- with new layers of asphalt, traf- to safely traverse the construction tion of the fourth lane, capacity fic signals and street lighting, in area,” said the statement. PLO team in Gaza on C-Ring road is expected to addition to upgrading the irriga- To keep the public informed, GAZA: Palestine Liberation increase by approximately 25 per- tion pipes and diverting other Ashghal is planning an inte- Organisation delegates arrived cent, Ashghal said in a statement. existing utilities in the area. grated awareness campaign. in Gaza yesterday to discuss Three lanes will remain open to Phase One of the project will Project flyers will be distributed unity with militant group traffic in both directions through- extend from VIP Roundabout in both Arabic and English to Hamas for the first time since out the construction period and to midway between Najma and residents and business owners in their 2007 conflict, in a poten- alternative access will be provided Mansoura intersection and is these areas in addition to Twitter tial boost for Palestinian to shops and residences in the area. expected to be completed in the updates on project milestones and President Mahmoud Abbas. A signalised pedestrian crossing third quarter of 2014. As part of regular text messages to regis- Few Palestinians expect a will be created for all four crossings this phase, service roads in the area tered users on Ashghal’s website. breakthrough in the deadlock at each of the new intersections. will be closed for traffic. During A community liaison officer will that has paralysed Palestinian Atletico Madrid’s Brazilian defender Filipe Luis (left) vies with Chelsea’s To minimise traffic disrup- construction, pedestrian crossings be available to assist businesses politics, and many have low German forward Andre Schurrle during the UEFA Champions League tions, the project will be spread and side-walks will be provided to and residents with any query. The expectations of any resolution semifinal first leg football match at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in over four phases with all works access shops and residences around project will be implemented by a to the seemingly endless duel. expected to be completed by the the construction area. Qatari contracting company, Bin Madrid yesterday. The game ended in a draw 0-0. See also page 28 AGENCIES second quarter of next year. Work “C-Ring Road is one of the most Omran Trading and Contracting. See also page 7 on each phase will start only after important and dynamic arteries THE PENINSULA

WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Tarsheed cut power, PM, Georgian minister meet water consumption National programme marks second anniversary

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB than 500 litres per person per day, Kahramaa as the distributor of more than three times the glo- utilities in the country, launched DOHA: Kahramaa’s efforts bal average of 160+ litres. Qatar’s the Tarsheed campaign in April under the National Programme per capita electricity consumption 2012, aiming at decreasing per for Conservation and Energy (14,944) more than five times the capita consumption of electricity Efficiency (Tarsheed) resulted world average (2,684), according and water by 35 percent and 20 in per capita consumption of to data provided by Kahramaa. percent, respectively, by 2016. electricity and water falling According to reports, power Dr Al Sada, in his address, said: by 10 percent and six percent, consumption was down 10.5 per- “Qatar has occupied pride of place respectively, in 2013 from 2012 cent per capita in the first six as a key player in all economic, levels. months of 2013 compared to the commercial and political fields. This was announced yesterday same period in 2012. The decrease Qatar also occupies a leading The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met visiting by H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh in per capita consumption was position in terms of environment Georgian Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani yesterday. The two reviewed issues of mutual interest. Al Sada, the Minister of Energy even more impressive, at 16 per- conservation by adopting rational and Industry, at a ceremony to cent, between the first quarter and economic and environmental poli- mark the second anniversary of the second quarter of 2013. cies. Qatar managed to provide Tarsheed, organised by Qatar However, with the growing and monitor the potential envi- General Electricity and Water population, water consumption in ronmental need in a way that TFQ teachers to teach English, math Corporation (Kahramaa). Qatar increased by nine percent ensures meeting and exceed- In Qatar, per capita consump- in 2012 compared to the previous ing the environmental require- BY FAZEENA SALEEM changes in the classroom and They will undergo eight weeks tion of electricity and water is year, and demand for electricity ments of the society to achieve society. of training, including theoreti- among the highest in the world. (in the peak season) increased by development.” DOHA: Teach For Qatar (TFQ), “Every single child in this cal and practical classes, before Its water consumption is more 13 percent during the same period. THE PENINSULA a newly launched NGO working country deserves quality educa- joining the assigned schools in in the field of education, aims tion and deserves to be taught September. to train selected young gradu- by the smartest people and the “Once they finish the mini- ates and professionals to teach most inspirational people,” said mum of two years, they keep the English, mathematics and sci- Fakhroo. mission living, they ensure that ence in Independent schools. It will recruit 30 talented uni- every child gets quality education. Thirty trained teachers will sign versity graduates and young They can go to the SEC or Qatar an agreement with the Supreme professionals from various back- Foundation and work. Perhaps, Education Council (SEC) to teach grounds and specialisations, they can become entrepreneurs,” students in grade seven and grade provide teacher training and said Fakhroo. eight in 11 Independent schools, place them as teachers in 10 “May be some go back to the initially for a two-year fellowship, Independent schools across Qatar sectors, but even then they will be according to Mohammed Fakhroo, for a two-year ‘fellowship.’ ambassadors in taking the mission Managing Director, TFQ. They will continue to receive forward,” he added. “We reinvest them (talented additional training, mentoring, TFQ recently joined hands with youth) in Independent schools to and regular reviews throughout the SEC, Qatar Petroleum and overcome our educational obsta- the fellowship. Qatar Foundation for Education, cles in Qatar. Teaching is not their The NGO has called for poten- Science and Community career choice,” Fakhroo told The tial candidates to send their appli- Development to train youth to Peninsula. cations by May 10. Applicants can become teachers. “They will be trained to teach submit applications online on the TFQ is the 32nd mem- mathematics, science and English TFQ website. A group of experts ber of Teach For All — The because there is a shortage of will assess the applications for the Global Network for Expanding Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani (right), Chairman of Ezdan Holding Group, receiving an award from teachers for these subjects,” he applicants’ academic and leader- Educational Opportunity, with a H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, added. ship achievements. Once they are mission that one day all children during the Tarsheed second annual celebration organised by Kahramaa at Katara yesterday. H E Dr Mohammed TFQ seeks to bring Qatar’s shortlisted, they will be called for will have the opportunity to attain Saleh Al Sada (second left), Minister of Energy & Industry, and Eng. Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari, President of Kahramaa, young graduates into the pub- an assessment, and 30 finalists will an excellent education. are also seen. KAMMUTTY VP lic education system and make sign an agreement with the SEC. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Environment Fair opens today FM in Kuwait This year’s event to highlight use of water in oil and gas industry DOHA: The eighth edition on Saturday are: 7.30am to 1pm, opportunity to present its water and Wastewater Reinjection of the Qatar Petroleum (QP) and 4pm to 8pm. On Friday, it is preservation initiatives, currently and there are plans to share Environment Fair opens today open from 2pm to 7pm. undertaken in its deep offshore feed results with QP in the last at Qatar National Convention Total will be an active partici- projects and LNG plant project. quarter of 2014 prior to final Center (QNCC). pant in the Environment Fair. Dolphin Energy is to unveil implementation. Up to eight QP directorates The French oil and gas company details of its new proposal for its Posters have been developed for and departments as well as 29 will host and organise a number Industrial Water Management display at the company’s stand, companies and organisations will of interactive events in its booth Project (IWMP) at the highlighting the new project and showcase their environmental ini- during the fair. Environment Fair. the company’s water conservation, tiatives at the Fair, which has the The fair focuses mostly on The project aims to reduce the consumption and waste water theme, “Use of water in the oil and students, the majority of whom quantity of waste water being re- trends, as well as providing tips gas industry.” are Qatari school and univer- injected into deep wells and max- and messages to raise the public’s The four-day Fair also features sity students and graduates, imise internal reuse of waste water awareness on the need for water entertaining and educational and highlights the importance by treating waste water from the management. activities for students and for the of environment protection and sulphur recovery units and boiler The stand will also offer inter- whole family, among which are different ways to achieve it that blowdowns as well as from the oily active games designed to engage the plays “The Lost Treasure” will contribute to accomplishing water sewer, which will be used as children and their parents on the and “Tarsheed,” which will be the human development pillar of irrigation water using an existing need to preserve water using a 3D presented by Sasol and Kahramaa, Qatar National Vision 2030. sanitary water treatment package. model of the waste water treat- respectively. Total will be conducting pres- The produced water will be ment process. Displayed also is a There will also be technical entations in its booth, set up labo- treated to remove the chemical three-dimensional pop-up poster presentations revolving around ratories for schoolchildren of all Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor as per showcasing Dolphin Energy’s the theme of the event today and ages, and will have a daily draw Qatar Petroleum (QP) require- waste water treatment unit tomorrow. for prizes. Children of all ages will ments and will continue to be and the different water streams The exhibition is open today also get the chance to receive and injected. The IWMP consists treated and reused as irrigation The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah was from 10.30am to 1pm and 4pm to build solar-powered toys. of three packages addressing water or injected into deep wells. received by Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 7pm. The timings tomorrow and Total will also use the Sanitary Water, Non Salty Water THE PENINSULA Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah at Kuwait International Airport yesterday. Al Attiyah is leading Qatar’s delegation to the third session of the higher joint cooperation committee of Qatar and Kuwait. QPC joins Winners of research contest international on drugs announced association DOHA: The Permanent Secondary School for boys won The winners of a painting KUALA LUMPUR: Qatar Committee for Drugs and the third place for research contest for primary and pre- Police College (QPC) has joined Alcohol Affairs (PCDAA) has presented by Ahmad Jamal paratory students were also the International Association of announced the winners of the Farid and Amr Abdul Rauf on announced. Police Academies (INTERPA). ninth edition of the annual ‘Drugs Proliferation: Factors Aisha Muhammad Al The protocol of accession of research contest conducted and their hazards and meth- Solaiti of Nosaiba bint Kaab QPC to INTERPA was signed in by the secondary school stu- ods to save youth and society Independent Primary School Kuala Lumpur yesterday. dents union, under the theme from them.’ for girls won the first place The document was signed by ‘Weqaya.’ The jury for the contest in the primary level while the Director General of Police Ahmad bin Muhammad Al was chaired by Dr Hessa Mubarak Abbas Al Maas of College, Brigadier Dr Muhammad Thani Independent Secondary Muhammad Al Sadiq, Principal Al Dohail Model Independent Abdullah Al Mohanna Al Merri School won the first place for of Qatar University College of School for boys won the sec- and the head of INTERPA. The research presented by its stu- Education, and the members ond place and Ali Khalifa signing was attended by Badr dents Hamad Abdul Majeed included Dr Asma Abdullah Al Ghanim of Arabian Gulf Ibrahim Al Ghanim, director Al Yafie, Sohail Muhammad Al Atiyyah, Head of Mental Independent Primary School of the Technical Office of the Al Riyachi and Ahmad Saif Health Department of Qatar won the third place. Ministry of Interior and rappor- Shatnawi on the subject ‘Role of University, and Dr Ahmad Al In the preparatory level, teur of the Supreme Committee of school in spreading awareness Saaei. Ayisha Mansoor Al Noaimi Police College, and Captain Fahad of the hazards of drugs among Ibrahim Al Somaih, PCDAA of Al Bayan Independent Said Al Sobaiei, director of Police secondary school students.’ Secretary, said that the com- Preparatory School for girls, College Training Department. Jassim bin Hamad petition was held to create Saud Ali Abdullah Al Kaabi of The Interior Ministry said the Independent Secondary School awareness among students on Ahnaf bin Qais Independent move will enable the police col- won the second place for the harm done by drugs. A total Preparatory School for boys, lege to exchange experiences with research done by its student of 71 researches were presented and Abdul Rahman Ahmad other police colleges. Abdul Aziz Ahmad Quwaider in the competition. Al Zaina of Ali bin Abu Talib The International Association on the subject ‘Irresponsible Dr Sadiq said that they were Independent School for boys of Police Academies has 54 police impact of media in prolifera- delighted to cooperate with won the first, second and third academies and institutions as tion of drugs among youth’, PCDAA to organise the annual places, respectively. members. while Al Zobarah Independent programme. THE PENINSULA QNA

Food Festival from today at Lulu outlets

DOHA: A two week-long Food Festival will begin at Lulu outlets today. This is the 14th consecutive year that Lulu Hypermarket is holding the Food Festival. The event will include activities aimed at educat- ing customers about differ- ent food habits, and to give them insights into various cooking styles and ingredi- ents in different cuisines. The Festival, which will be officially inaugurated by Mohamed Althaf, Director of Lulu Hypermarket Group, at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Gharrafa, concludes on May 7. Major attractions of the event will be a Rice N’ Spice Festival, Cake Day, a Mediterranean Food Festival, Healthy Salad Day, Seafood Festival, South African Fest, Asean Food Festival, and promotion of meat products. Fun-filled competitions will be held for the entertain- ment of customers, including juice drinking, banana eating, flavoured milk drinking, laban drinking, ice-cream eating, biryani eating, noodles and chilly eating, and sandwich and burger eating. A cake icing competition, fruit carving competition, quiz competition, and painting and draw- ing competition for children will also be held. Customers can win prizes by participating in the promotions. A live demonstration of baking different kinds of cakes will also be held. The event will also include free sampling and tasting, and raffle draws by Lulu and major suppliers. There will be promotional offers on meat, poultry, sea- food, salads, and ethnic food from South Africa, Singapore, Lebanon, Egypt, USA, Brazil, UK, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. Coinciding with the Lulu Food Festival, Nestle, Mars, Mazola, Rayyan, Bayara, Gyma and Al Islami are offering their products at attractive prices. International brands like Philips and Tefal will conduct live demonstrations of their home appliances during the festival. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Katara showcasing Qatar, Uruguay transport ministers meet Palestinian heritage Week-long event to feature crafts, performances

DOHA: Katara, in collabo- and arts of many countries and the environment and the histori- ration with the Palestinian create convergence between peo- cal stages witnessed by Palestine Qatari Friendship Association, ple. Hosting Palestinian culture over the ages, will be held is launching a week-long today is evidence of our desire tomorrow. Palestinian Heritage Week to inform the Katara audience, The fourth and fifth days will today in Building 3. from various categories and cul- feature a lecture on the history of The festival will present a tural backgrounds, of this ancient photography in Palestine, with a glimpse of ancient Palestinian culture in all its details, concepts presentation by Palestinian his- heritage through an exhibition and values that formed the iden- torian Dr Khalil Chawka, and of Palestinian crafts, pottery tity of the Palestinian people and a lecture and presentation on and copper artefacts, ornaments is the symbol of their struggle and Palestinian heritage and art by and furniture, as well as folk bravery. We ask all the public of Professor George Aama, an expert performances. Katara to get to know some fea- on and the largest collector of Katara General Manager Dr tures of Palestine’s culture and Palestinian heritage and art. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, said: civilization,” he added. The sixth day will feature “We are happy to host Palestinian The opening day includes a a workshop that combines Heritage Week with its various number of popular and artis- Palestinian and Qatari graphic activities and performances that tic shows, such as a Dabke folk art, in the presence of a group of The Minister of Transport, H E Jassem bin Saif bin Ahmed Al Sulaiti, met Uruguay’s Minister of Transport and reflect the history and culture of performance by Ebdaa band for Palestinian and Qatari graphic Public Works, Enrique Pintado, yesterday. The two discussed issues of common interest, especially in the the Palestinian people over the Palestinian Dabke, and a number artists. area of air transport. ages.” of folk songs by Askalan band for The final day will include an “We continually seek at Katara traditional music and Palestinian exhibition of traditional crafts to extend bridges of communica- folklore. and a traditional fashion show, tion with many cultures; there- An exhibition of traditional in addition to a performance of fore, we organise such cultural crafts, which differ in their col- Palestinian Dabke and folk songs. WISE Awards finalists announced weeks that highlight the heritage ours and decorations and reflect THE PENINSULA DOHA: The World Innovation conventional tools with a range help improve access, quality and Summit for Education (WISE) of technologies to achieve results relevance the world over.” yesterday announced 15 projects in a variety of areas, including The WISE Awards finalists’ from around the world that special needs education, promot- projects, evaluated by a pre-jury have been selected as the 2014 ing literacy and reading, running of internationally recognised GU-Q students WISE Awards finalists. a small business, and reaching education experts, demonstrate ‘2022 World Cup a tool This year’s shortlisted projects marginalised communities. innovative thinking and concrete launch political represent some of the most Dr Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al impact on communities and socie- inspiring and visionary work Thani, Chairman of WISE and ties, as well as the potential to be for social progress’ science journal undertaken by non-governmental Chairman of the WISE Awards replicated in other contexts and and charitable organisations, cul- Jury, said, “This year’s WISE regions. DOHA: Nasser Al Khater (pic- DOHA: Georgetown University tural institutions and the private Awards finalists represent some The six winning projects will be tured), Executive Director of in Qatar (GU-Q) yesterday sector. of the most innovative and announced in September and cel- Communications and Marketing launched the first academic Launched in 2009, the WISE groundbreaking projects cur- ebrated at the sixth WISE sum- at the Supreme Committee for political science journal pub- Awards identify and promote rently changing lives around the mit, scheduled to be held between Delivery and Legacy has rub- lished by university students in novel solutions to real-world edu- world. They originate in many November 4 and November 6, bished allegations by German the Middle East. cational challenges. countries and they are break- 2014, in Doha. In addition to Development Minister Gerd The Journal of Georgetown This year’s finalists have taken ing down barriers to education publicity and networking oppor- Mueller, who recently criticised University-Qatar Middle Eastern creative approaches to issues in many areas. The sustainable, tunities, each winner will receive preparations for the 2022 Fifa Studies Student Association is the of access, quality and employ- replicable solutions created by $20,000. World Cup in Qatar by saying work of GU-Q’s Middle Eastern ment. The projects combine these educational projects can THE PENINSULA that the country did not have Studies Students Association a favourable work environ- (MESSA), and published by ment for workers. According to Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Al Khater, such allegations are Publishing. It will be made avail- made by people who have never able online through MESSA’s been to Qatar. website. Now in its third year, “Everyone is entitled to their taken steps to improve working MESSA is a uniquely student- opinion. But we have the impres- conditions. focused campus organisation, sion that many people talk badly “There have already been giving young people a chance to about Qatar without ever having improvements, but of course it can emulate their esteemed peers in been in the country. Many critics, still be done better. The Ministry the research community. who then come to Qatar, were very of Labour is working to increase The focus of the maiden issue, surprised about our commitment. inspectors’ numbers. Until the end which carries articles by stu- Many then said that the govern- of the year, 300 will be employed. dents at top universities, includ- ment and also ourselves have And they are working with inter- ing Harvard, Princeton and Tufts, undertaken many positive steps,” national organisations to train who presented their research at Al Khater said in an interview them in the right way,” he added. the second MESSA conference with Sport1, a German television Al Khater, who lived in Bonn earlier this year, reflects the con- channel. for some time, hopes for special ference’s theme: “Globalization & Al Khater views the World understanding from the Germans the Middle East: Youth, Media Cup as a tool for social progress for Qatar’s undertaking. and Resources”. because it will create pressure for “I was in Bonn when Germany Future issues will cover youth, improving the work environment. became World Champions in gender issues, sectarianism, non- “The World Cup is a tool to move a 1990. I saw how Germany lived state actors, culture, economics, lot in Qatar, which includes social the tournament and enjoyed it. development, and the interplay of progress. I, therefore contradict I want to point out that sport domestic, regional and interna- all those who say that the World has always been part of our cul- tional politics. Cup should be taken away from ture. In 1973, Pele was here with THE PENINSULA Qatar,” he said. Santos to play against Al Ahli. In “The World Cup has helped to 1988, we had the Asian Cup here. put more pressure on topics such Later, there followed many top as working conditions. If there is events like the 1995 U20 World a public discussion about these Cup, which we organised with Qatar Airways things it motivates us to make three weeks’ notice. In 2015, the progress more quickly,” he added. Handball World Cup will be here. increases capacity Allegations about workers All these have helped us to get in from India and Nepal dying while touch with the world. Also, as a on Vienna route working on infrastructure for the result of this history, we have got World Cup are factually incorrect, the chance to host the World Cup DOHA: Qatar Airways yes- he said. in 2022,” he said. terday said that it will upgrade “We have had zero accidents on He said Qatar will successfully services on its Vienna route World Cup sites. At the moment host the World Cup whether it with the introduction of an A330 we have had 93,717 man hours is in summer or winter, without aircraft. The upgrade from an without incident. Unfortunately, harming the environment. A320 to the A330 aircraft will many people link all projects in “Since bid sustainability has take place on September 1, 2014. Qatar to the World Cup, which is been an important topic, all sta- The switch from the A320 to an not correct,” he clarified. diums and buildings will be built A330 will increase the number of He expects the government to top standards, and cooling will weekly seats servicing the route to to announce more measures to be environmentally friendly,” he 336 Business Class seats and 3,304 improve the condition of workers. added. Economy Class seats, resulting in The government has already THE PENINSULA an increase of 168 and 1,624 seats in these classes, respectively. “We recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first flight to Ooredoo launches Hala Football Club Vienna, a milestone which is a tes- tament to our commitment to not DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday announced the launch of Hala only the city, but to our custom- Football Club, one of the company’s most popular packs, in time ers as well,” said Günter Saurwein, for a busy year of international football. Country Manager, Germany and When customers sign up for Hala Football Club, they will get 200 Austria, Qatar Airways. “We are local call minutes to talk to other Club members, for QR3 per week. extremely pleased that we are now Ooredoo had launched Football Club back in 2010, in time for the able to offer an increase in capac- last FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and it became one of the most ity by introducing the A330 to the popular initiatives of the time. route in order to help meet the The company has re-launched the product this year, as part of growing needs of our passengers. the company’s #Koora campaign, so that customers can share the It has been a pleasure to work with latest sporting news with football fans and friends across Qatar. Vienna Airport in developing this To subscribe to Hala Football Club, customers should send a text route over the last decade and we message, “HFC”, to 121. The Hala Football Club will be renewed look forward to many more suc- automatically weekly and will end on July 21, 2014. cessful years working together,” THE PENINSULA he said. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

12 Bahrainis Syria chemical given life in jail for spying, attack claims Iran links

MANAMA: A Bahraini court has sentenced 12 men to life as polls near in prison for spying, receiv- ing training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and processing weapons and explo- Indications of chlorine use: US sives, a defence lawyer and rights activist said yesterday. BEIRUT: New claims have The OPCW said last week that Attorney Fatima Al Adraj said emerged that President Bashar 65 percent of Syria’s stated chem- the court convicted the men on Al Assad’s regime may have ical weapons have been removed Sunday, and sentenced two others launched attacks with an from the country. to 15 years. industrial chemical earlier this Although chlorine is a toxic Some of the men were tried in month, despite an international chemical, it is widely used for absentia, said activist Mohammed agreement to eliminate Syria’s commercial and domestic pur- Al Maskati. It was not clear how chemical arsenal. poses, so Syria was not required many of them were actually jailed. The latest evidence, cited by to submit its stockpiles to the Separately, the public prosecu- the United States and France, OPCW, a chemical weapons tion charged eight men with being comes as Syria plans to hold a expert said. part of a terrorist group, state June 3 presidential poll, which the “However, as a chemical news agency BNA reported. The United Nations and the Syrian weapon it is prohibited under the charges follow the killing of three opposition have slammed as a Chemical Weapons Convention,” policemen by a bomb on March 3 “farce” that flies in the face of which Syria joined last year, said during a protest in a Shia village. efforts to end the country’s three- Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, CEO The charges include setting year war. of SecureBio, a British chemical A defendant who is in custody gestures in the accused cell during the trial of 20 individuals, including three Al up a group that makes and uses “We have indications of the weapons consultancy. Jazeera journalists. explosives “targeting police mem- use of a toxic industrial chemical, “The delivery method that bers with the intention of killing probably chlorine, in Syria this we’ve seen — the use of helicop- them for the purpose of sowing month, in the opposition-domi- ters — I am certain the opposition Egypt prosecutors submit new chaos and sedition, and weaken- nated village of Kafr Zita,” White don’t have any helicopters.” ing state institutions to make House spokesman Jay Carney said He also said that although them fail,” public prosecutor yesterday. chlorine is a weak agent, chemi- Hussein Albouali was quoted as “We are examining allega- cal weapons are “very effective evidence in Jazeera trial saying. tions that the government was in this kind of warfare, in urban, Yesterday, hundreds of responsible.” built-up areas, as chemical weap- CAIRO: Egyptian prosecu- One judge responded: “I can Egyptian producers and engi- Bahrainis clashed with police The revelation follows Sunday’s ons find their ways into the nooks tors submitted yesterday new hear it from my side”. neers working for the network in after the funeral of two men announcement by French and crannies.” evidence including audio tapes But journalists reporting on Qatar. They also are being tried who were killed in a car explo- President Francois Hollande that Syria meanwhile announced against defendants in a trial of the trial also talked of poor sound in absentia and have refuted the sion over the weekend, a witness his country had “information” Monday that it will hold a June 3 Al Jazeera journalists accused quality. charges levelled against them. said. — but no proof — that Assad’s presidential election, expected to of links with the banned Muslim Prosecutors also submitted pho- The other 11 defendants are As the funeral ended in Al regime was still using chemical return Assad to office. Brotherhood, although lawyers tographs of maps said to be of the alleged to have provided the net- Maqshaa’ village, outside of the weapons. Syria’s first presidential elec- disputed their quality. area housing the embassy of the work with videos and information capital Manama, some youths There have been conflicting tion — after constitutional At the trial’s last hearing, pros- United Arab Emirates in Cairo — on pro-Mursi demonstrations. threw stones and petrol bombs at accounts of an alleged chlorine amendments scrapped a refer- ecutors had aired video footage a site of some pro-Mursi protests, Prosecutors allege the Al the police, who fired teargas. No gas attack in opposition-held Kafr endum system — is to go ahead and showed random photographs and leaflets calling for protests. Jazeera journalists colluded with one was wounded and the gather- Zita in the central Hama prov- despite violence which has killed that were not linked to the case Photographs also showed bodies the Brotherhood, now designated ing dispersed shortly after that, ince earlier this month, with the more than 150,000 people since in which the authorities accuse 20 on the ground covered in blankets. a “terrorist” group, and falsely the witness said. government and the opposition March 2011. defendants of Brotherhood links. When the audio recordings sought to portray Egypt in a state trading blame. Syrians living outside the coun- Three of them are journalists were played, eight defendants who of “civil war”. Libyan charter Activists have also reported try will vote on May 28 and can- from Al Jazeera English who are in custody, dressed in white Al Jazeera English says the other chlorine gas attacks, most didates can begin registering from have spent more than 100 days prison uniforms, talked among allegations against its reporters panel elects recently on Monday in the north- today until May 1. in detention, despite an interna- themselves in a caged dock, the are absurd. western Idlib province. The United Nations condemned tional outcry against the case. reporter said. At yesterday’s session, Fahmy, liberal as head The Organisation for the the announcement, warning it At yesterday’s session, prosecu- Al Jazeera says nine of the 20 one of the three detained journal- Prohibition of Chemical Weapons would torpedo efforts to reach a tors presented audio recordings defendants are on its staff includ- ists, requested medical treatment TRIPOLI: Ali Tarhuni, a lib- and other experts have spent negotiated resolution of the con- against three defendants who ing the three detained journalists for an injury. “I have been pre- eral politician and former rebel months working to remove Syria’s flict. “Such elections are incom- allegedly provided videos of pro- working with Al Jazeera English scribed three physiotherapy ses- minister, was elected to head chemical stockpiles, following an patible with the letter and spirit Morsi protests to the network’s — Peter Greste of Australia, sions in prison, and I exercise in Libya’s constituent assembly, a agreement reached after deadly of the Geneva communique,” UN Egyptian channel, Al Jazeera Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed my cell,” he told the judges. spokesman for the body charged chemical attacks near Damascus spokesman Stephane Dujarric Mubashir Misr. Fadel Fahmy and producer Baher “I am sure I will be acquit- with drawing up a new consti- last August that killed hundreds. said in New York, referring to But defence lawyers complained Mohamed. ted but I don’t want to lose (the tution said yesterday. Western nations blamed those an agreement on a transition to they were unable to understand Two other Al Jazeera English use of) my hand. Allow me to Tarhuni, an exiled opponent attacks on the Assad regime and democracy. the recording due to its poor tech- journalists Sue Turton and be transferred for treatment of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the United States threatened mil- Ahmed Jarba, head of the oppo- nical quality. Dominic Kane are also among to a private hospital at my own returned to Libya to take part in itary action before backing down sition National Coalition, rejected “If anyone understands the the defendants but they are being expense because it is impossible the 2011 revolt which toppled his and reaching a deal with Russia to the planned election as a “farce.” content, please inform us,” one of tried in absentia. to get treatment in prison.” regime. eliminate the chemical weapons. AFP the lawyers told the judges. Four others named are AFP AGENCIES Al Shabaab kills Lebanon sends aid to citizens in Syria second Somali RAS AL-HARF, Lebanon: Lebanese author- trapped. For weeks the town’s population has lawmaker ities yesterday sent a rare aid convoy to the been unable to leave or receive any kind of assist- town of Tufeil, an island of Lebanese territory ance, with Syrian armed forces blocking the MOGADISHU: Islamist rebels inside Syria where thousands have become routes into Syria. shot dead a Somali lawmaker trapped in the country’s war. Inside Lebanon, the villages neighbouring Tufeil yesterday, a day after blowing Tufeil is located on the northeastern tip of are largely Shia, where support for Hezbollah and up one of his colleagues, and Lebanon, which stretches into Syria. the Syrian regime is strong, and residents accuse vowed to keep killing politicians Though the town is Lebanese, it is impossible to Tufeil of supporting Syria’s Sunni-led opposition. and wreck efforts to secure the reach it without passing through Syrian territory. With concern rising about the plight of the country. The town was once home to some 5,000 people, town, Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nuhad Al Qaeda-linked group Al most of them Sunni Muslims, but many have fled Mashnuq said Monday that authorities would Shabaab said they wanted to to safety inside Lebanon as the conflict in Syria provide assistance to Tufeil’s residents, as well as send a message to Western- has escalated. to Syrians who have taken refuge there. backed President Hassan Sheikh Ever since Lebanon gained independence from Mashnuq also said he had been in touch with Mohamud, who yesterday was due France in 1943, residents of Tufeil have voted Hezbollah in a bid to secure safe passage for the to wrap up a three-day confer- in Lebanon, but have gone to school, worked, aid convoy through the Shiite village of Britel, ence on improving security in the received medical treatment and bought their which neighbours Tufeil in Lebanon. capital. goods from Syria. A journalist, who travelled with the convoy “This proves that they can- But as the Syrian army, backed by Lebanon’s until Ras Al Harf, six kilometres from Tufeil, not and will never do anything Shiite Hezbollah movement, scored a string of said the terrain was rugged and that Hezbollah about security ... More serious victories this year in the surrounding Qalamun positions and flags were clearly visible. killings are on the way,” said Al area, Tufeil’s Sunni residents found themselves AFP Shabaab’s military spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab. REUTERS Proposal has positive impact S Sudan rebels dismiss massacre Continued from page 1 Dr Tahir Shaltout, a JUBA: Rebels in South Sudan rejected UN statement boasting of victory in Bentiu, a time psychiatrist at the Hamad reports they had massacred hundreds of when Koang previously said gunmen were “mop- Medical Corporation (HMC) civilians as “lies” yesterday, as they wrested ping and cleaning up” in the town. said that the proposal has a another town from government troops in a Bentiu is the capital of the key oil-producing positive impact, by preventing worsening civil war. state of Unity. people from smoking in some The rebels seized the town of Bentiu last week, Government forces said they have been forced areas and widening the time unleashing two days of ethnic slaughter as they to pull out of another major settlement nearby gap between each cigarette. hunted down civilians sheltering in mosques, amid furious rebel attacks. “The negative side is that churches and a hospital, butchering dozens on South Sudan’s army has been fighting rebels those in charge of implementing the roadside, according to the United Nations. loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar since the ban would find themselves But rebel spokesman Lul Ruai Koang praised the unrest broke out more than four months ago. interfering in a very personal the “gallant forces” of the insurgents, who the UN The conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, issue and in the privacy of the said took to the radio to urge men to rape women pitting President Salva Kiir’s Dinka tribe against people. This contradicts with from the opposition ethnic group and drive out militia forces from Machar’s Nuer people. the purpose of the law,” Shaltout rivals from the town. “The battles have been very heavy in Unity told this daily yesterday. “The government forces and their allies com- state,” army spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP, “Heavy smokers will find it mitted these heinous crimes while retreating,” adding that troops made a “tactical withdrawal” difficult to comply with the law, Koang said, adding that the rebel offensive tar- from the town of Mayom, a strategic local centre while it is helpful for those who geting oil fields was continuing. made up of dusty roads and thatch huts, some smoke less,” he added. However, the UN said the killings continued 50km west of Bentiu. THE PENINSULA for almost two days after the rebels issued a AFP WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Israel to send PLO delegation call-up papers to Christian heads to Gaza Arabs: Army JERUSALEM: Israel is to start sending call-up papers to for unity talks all Christian Arabs of military service age, army radio reported yesterday, angering Arab law- makers who accused the gov- First talks with Hamas since ’07 conflict ernment of seeking to divide Christians from Muslims. GAZA: The Palestine We want to build Gaza and the Military service will remain Liberation Organisation (PLO) West Bank and end the (Israeli) voluntary for Israel’s 130,000 sent a delegation to Gaza yes- occupation,” Al Ahmed told offi- Christian Arabs as it is for its terday to negotiate unity with cial Palestinian news agency more than 1.3 million Muslim militant group Hamas for the Wafa. Arabs. first time since their 2007 If Palestinian unity talks But commanders hope that the conflict, potentially boosting end with a deal, paving the routine sending out of call-up Fatah leader and Palestinian way to hold elections and plan papers will help boost the num- President Mahmoud Abbas’ a national strategy towards bers volunteering from around position. Israel, not only might Abbas 100 a year at present to 1,000, the Few Palestinians expect a gain negotiating power, but radio reported. breakthrough in the deadlock that Hamas, hemmed in by an “Under these new arrange- has paralysed Palestinian politics, Israeli-Egyptian blockade, ments, they will no longer have and many have low expectations might become less isolated. to submit their own enlistment of any resolution to the seemingly The two sides disagree on pol- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meeting with the delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) request and expose themselves endless duel. icy toward Israel. Islamist Hamas in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. to potential pressure from their A deal could restore a meas- refuses to renounce using force Christian coreligionists or from ure of sovereignty to Abbas in against the Jewish state and Muslims, who are overwhelmingly Gaza and boost his negotiating secular Western-backed Fatah Israel must take on Palestinian hostile to conscription,” the radio power with Israel in any future wants a deal with Israel to set said. An army spokesman had no peace talks, although such a up a Palestinian state in Gaza, immediate comment when con- partnership could also provoke the occupied West Bank and tacted said. a backlash from Israel against East Jerusalem — lands Israel govt if talks fail, says Abbas The reported move came just the PLO in the occupied West captured in the 1967 Middle East two months after parliament Bank. Wa r. RAMALLAH, West Bank: as it did before the establishment captured in a 1967 War. approved a law giving Muslim and The reconciliation mis- Both Hamas and Fatah also Palestinian president Mahmoud of the Authority,” he told the The Oslo interim agreements Christian Arabs separate repre- sion coincided with a meet- persistently trade blame over Abbas told a group of Israeli reporters visiting his presidential signed by the two sides in 1993 sentation on a national employ- ing between Abbas’s Fatah-led their arrests of rival members. journalists yesterday that if headquarters in Ramallah. created the Palestinian Authority ment commission and drew fire group and Israeli peace nego- Dozens of prisoners have been peace talks do not continue, “Also it will bear responsibility to govern Palestinian areas until from Arab lawmakers. tiators in Jerusalem to try to held by each side since Hamas Israel will have to take on the for security, meaning Israel will bear the signing of a final agreement - “The measure was to be extend talks beyond an April took control of Gaza and Fatah burden of governing Palestinian full responsibility ... We hope that which has proved elusive. expected following the cam- 29 deadline. remained the predominant party lands. we won’t come to this period but The negotiations plunged into paign by the Israel right to Hamas and Fatah have failed in the Israeli-occupied West Though Abbas has repeat- that we come to solutions,” he said. crisis this month when Israel divide Christians from their own since 2011 to implement an Bank following Hamas’s surpris- edly hinted that he could devolve Israeli, Palestinian and American refused to carry out the last of people by encouraging them to Egyptian-brokered unity deal ing win in 2006 parliamentary some of the limited powers his negotiators met for another round four waves of prisoner releases think that they are not Arabs,” because of disputes over power- polls. Palestinian Authority exercises in of talks yesterday, though sources unless it received assurances the said Bassel Ghattas, a member sharing and the handling of con- “If Fatah possesses the political the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from both sides of the divide say Palestinian leadership would con- of parliament for the communist flict with Israel. will to implement the agreement, his statement added urgency to a strong disagreements remain. tinue the talks beyond an April 29 Hadash party. Azzam Al Ahmed, a senior we would be going forward on the US effort to extend negotiations US Secretary of State John deadline for a peace deal. He urged Christians who Fatah official, denied that the right direction to please our peo- set to expire next week. Kerry revived the peace talks in After Israel failed to free the received call-up papers to “send attempt to negotiate a deal with ple,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu “If the negotiations stop, it’s July after a nearly three-year hia- prisoners, Abbas responded by sign- them back or publicly burn them, Hamas was designed merely to Zuhri said. the Israeli government that will tus, with the aim of ending a dec- ing 15 international treaties, includ- because the next step could be strengthen Abbas’s hand in peace “My feeling is closer to pessi- bear the responsibility for the ades-old conflict and establishing a ing the Geneva Conventions on the compulsory military or commu- talks with Israel. mism than optimism,” Palestinian economic situation and the pay- Palestinian state alongside Israel. conduct of war and occupations. nity service.” Not all Christian “We want to end the divi- Gaza political analyst Talal Okal ing of the salaries of (Palestinian) Palestinians seek a state in Israel condemned the move as a Arabs are opposed to serving in sion whether there is negotia- said. employees, workers and farmers, Gaza, the occupied West Bank unilateral step toward statehood. the Israeli army. tion (with Israel) or there isn’t. 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HE decision by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to hold presidential elections on June 3 amid a raging civil war is like calling for soft music to be played in Ta battlefield amid the sound of gunfire. The move, which is ludicrous, needs to be outrightly condemned. Time to slap sanctions on Israel A day before he got the election announced by his servile BY JONATHAN POWER parliament, Assad appeared in public and was shown talking That is natural. We have taken their to citizens and families in a Damascus neighbourhood. The country. Sure, God promised it to us, Syrian dictator — now an object of derision across the world S Secretary of State John but what does that matter to them? Our — often has his pictures flashed by the state news agency. Kerry’s foray into the politics God is not theirs. We come from Israel, Although Palestinians As Syria burns, the handout photographs show a pleasing of peace between Israel and it’s true, but two thousand years ago, Palestine appears to have run and what is that to them? There has have conceded fully half Assad chatting up citizens, kissing a child here, putting his U aground despite his tireless and single- been anti-Semitism, Hitler, Auschwitz, of the territory assigned arm around a person there. These shots of the Syrian leader minded efforts. It is clear that Israel’s but was that their fault?” [No, it was a to them in the UN’s try to show that nothing much has changed in the country Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Christian nation.] that has lost close to 150,000 people to bullets and bombs and never believed in it. One can add to that that the Jewish Partition Plan of 1947, a where more than a million have been rendered homeless. Israelis often see their predicament seizure of the land of present day move Israel’s president, as David against Goliath. In truth it is Palestine, as the Book of Deuteronomy Like a recalcitrant dictator, sticking to power has been the reverse. Contrary to popular belief in the Old Testament records, was only Shimon Peres has hailed the favourite game of Assad, who is married to a banker Israel had larger, better equipped and made possible by Moses, claiming to as unprecedented, they educated in the West. The White House has denounced the better led forces, during the 1947 war act on God’s words to him, ordering move, saying that “Assad was making a mockery of his own of independence against the joint Arab his army to kill all the women and are not demanding a pretentions to be a democratically elected leader.” armies. The Israeli Defence Forces won children of one tribe that stood in single square foot of Israeli Even thinking of holding an election when bloodshed quick and easy victories against Egypt their path. in 1956 and against Egypt, Jordan In more recent years the Israeli territory beyond the June is the norm and bombings an unsurprising distraction, is and Syria in 1967. All this was done grab of Palestinian land has continued. 6th, 1967, armistice line criminal. Assad’s predilection for denying the actual state before US aid starting flowing in large Israeli settlements have so encroached of his country is known. There are hundreds of pockets in amounts. Few doubt it has overwhelm- on Palestinian land that they are almost drawn at the end of the first the West Asian nation where ing power today, not forgetting its size- up to the gates of Bethlehem. Not even Arab-Israeli war. The decision there is no government control able armoury of nuclear weapons. the assassinated peace-making prime and gunmen belonging to one Another way to minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was willing of the Syrian look at the David/ to offer the Palestinians a viable state. 1967, armistice line drawn at the end of opposition group or another have Goliath anal- Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who led the first Arab-Israeli war. regime to hold a say. How does the Syrian regime ogy is to look at the Camp David negotiations presided Brzezinski, widely considered as the plan to hold free and fair elections In more recent years child deaths as a over by President Bill Clinton, only wise old man of US foreign affairs, has a presidential in this bloody chaos? Even the the Israeli grab of result of the con- offered a disarmed set of Bantustans, penned recently, together with a former elementary logistics of printing flict. The ratio of under de facto Israeli control. Prime US secretary of defence and a former Palestinian land has Palestinian to Minister Ariel Sharon had President chair of the House Foreign Affairs election on ballot papers and transporting continued. Israeli Israeli children George W Bush “wrapped around his Committee, among others, a strong June 3 shows them to polling stations will be a killed is 5.7 to 1. little finger”, says his father’s national statement. They write of the growth challenge for the government. settlements have Even though security advisor, Brent Scowcroft. The of Israeli settlements in Palestine: that Assad Holding a presidential election so encroached on the Palestinian principle US Jewish lobbying organisa- “Halting the diplomatic process on a has become in this climate of violence and fear Palestinian land leadership has tion, the American-Israel Public Affairs certain date until Israel complies with will amount to making a mockery “never missed a Committee, made sure of that. international law and previous agree- that they are almost chance to miss a Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security ments would help stop this activity of of the exercise that anyway is completely up to the gates of chance” and has advisor to Jimmy Carter, who helped settlements and clearly place the onus not practiced freely in Syria. The desensitised Bethlehem. Not even done some very the president broker the one and only for the interruption clearly where it leaders of such countries always foolish things- peace agreement- between Israel and belongs.” to death and win elections with overwhelming the assassinated and Hamas, the Egypt- wrote recently, “Netanyahu’s Brzezinski and his co-authors go on to majority. The percentage of votes peace-making prime ruler of the Gaza unrelenting efforts to establish equiva- say: “Clarity on America’s part regard- violence. cast is usually in the high 90s and Strip, has done lence between Israeli and Palestinian ing the critical moral and political issues minister, Yitzhak even worse, not demands, insisting that the parties split in dispute will have a far better chance there is no one to challenge the Rabin, was willing to least in its rocket the difference and that Israel be granted of bringing the peace talks to a success- winner’s legitimacy even though it is an open secret that the offer the Palestinians bombardment of much of its expansive territorial agenda ful conclusion that continued ambiguity polling was not free and fair. civilians in Israel beyond the 78pc of Palestine it already or silence.” Assad maintains there is not much wrong with his country a viable state. between 2011 and possesses, are politically and morally The US must gather its wits, assert and the way he has ruled it for decades. Blaming what he 2012, the fault unacceptable. The US should not be its power and speak clearly. It must clearly lies with party to such efforts.” fish or cut bait with the peace busi- calls terrorists for the predicament of Russia, the Alawite Israel. As one who has spent most of his Although Palestinians have conceded ness. Israel’s uncompromising stance leader has pointed the finger at other nations for trying to life fighting discrimination against the fully half of the territory assigned to has been allowed to go on for too long. destabilise his government. In this attempt of his, Assad has Jews, let me say that as clearly as I can. them in the UN’s Partition Plan of 1947, I would add a point to Brzezinski: eco- been helped immensely by Russia and China — who have I always remember the words of David a move Israel’s president, Shimon Peres nomic sanctions should be called for. stood steadfastly behind him. Ben-Gurion, the founding prime minis- has hailed as unprecedented, they are That should be the stick and the car- Assad will probably sail through the June 3 election. But ter of Israel, “If I was an Arab leader not demanding a single square foot of rot? — associate status with the EU. I would never make terms with Israel. Israeli territory beyond the June 6th, THE PENINSULA that would be another step towards his end. The other side Quote of Biden’s Ukraine agenda the day iplomatic pressure is now sizeable number of ethnic Russians who country, and introduced the new factor approach in collaboration with Nato. showing on Russia. Foreign look up to Kremlin for extra-territorial of violence and gun culture. This is too The transatlantic alliance says that more Minister Sergei Lavrov’s designs. Moscow has long said that deadly, and a departure from peace- than 40,000 Russian troops are near the Dremark that Ukraine is to be it reserves the right to protect ethnic ful protests that pro-EU supporters Ukrainian border, just hopping distance blamed for violating the Geneva accord Russians in Ukraine, and this stance had organised to further their political away from the strife-torn eastern cities, is incomprehensive approach. has emboldened the hooligans on the demands. The rise in unrest, however, which many fear are gripped in seces- Gabo (Garcia Last week the United States, Russia, ground to go on a rampage. has come at a time when US Vice- sionist undercurrents. Similarly, Nato’s Marquez) was more Ukraine and the European Union had The ensuing violence in eastern President Joe Biden is due in Ukraine, new expansionist mindset to broaden signed an agreement wherein Moscow regions is owing to the fact that pro- which inevitably underscores the impor- cooperation with Baltic States and other Colombian than agreed to assert its influence to curb Russian activists have a field day, and tance that Washington attaches to the southern republics will be interpreted separatist tendencies on the mainland, the government has not been able to crisis in the region. The high-profile visit as an encirclement policy by Russia. many Colombians, and disassociate from the rebels who crackdown in an effective manner. The could have far-reaching ramifications Biden has no choice but to reach out but this is had laid siege of government offices in interior minister’s assertion that Kiev will as diplomatic initiatives undertaken by to Moscow and talk it straight. He can some eastern towns and cities. Now all flush out anti-state elements is in want- Secretary of State John Kerry with his do well by furnishing guarantees for something for which of a sudden, Russia believes that it is ing, and the people are surprised as Russian counterpart are in a state of more cooperation with Russia by hold- off the hook and finds fault with Kiev for to why effective action is missing. The limbo. Biden who is considered to be a ing back the sanctions spree and lur- we respect the Juan Manuel Santos not doing enough. This is no less than latest episode of shooting has added great advocator of interventionist pol- ing Kremlin into a hands-off policy on family. an excuse and an attempt to appease a tension to the standoff in the crisis-torn icy could orchestrate a more assertive Ukraine. Khaleej Times Colombian President WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 65th anniversary of ruling China, not CCP The best lesson is that all political parties lose power eventually.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH the PRI was not only the longest running one-party state of the 20th century, the othing lasts forever, not even PRI also fared well after losing power. the Chinese Communist Today, the Russian Communist Party is in Party. Whether it will per- shambles; its saints and leaders -- Lenin, ish in a few years, or last Stalin, Brezhnev -- have been disgraced. for decades to come, there The PRI elite, on the other hand, faced Nare a series of worrying indicators. Beijing relatively little backlash after they lost has been slow to implement reforms that power in 2000. And in a relatively free will orient the economy on a sustainable and far election, Mexicans voted the PRI path. President Xi Jinping is knee-deep back into power in 2012 -- an ideal con- in an anti-corruption campaign against solation prize for a party that formerly senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) monopolised power. members unprecedented in its reach While the CCP and PRI structur- and scope in modern China, raising con- ally and ideologically are very different, cerns about the party’s ability to police the experiences they fostered, and the itself. Meanwhile, outside the corridors situations they find themselves in, have of power, China’s increasingly sophisti- some striking similarities. The USSR cated populace is concerned with pollu- on the eve of its collapse was an empire, tion, freedom of speech and the country’s overextended from an arms race with relationship with its neighbours, espe- the United States and reeling from a cially Japan. It’s impossible to predict the 10-year quagmire in Afghanistan. Poverty future, of course, and the CCP overcame was rampant, international travel was greater challenges following Mao’s death restricted, and Moscow’s insular economy in 1976 and after the Tiananmen Square meant domestic products were shoddy protests in 1989. But six months shy of and foreign goods were scarce. By con- US Vice-President Joe Biden, and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing on December 4, 2013. the Communist Party’s 65th anniversary, trast, Mexico and China were (and are) it’s worth emphasising that the party and healthily integrated into global markets. China are not the same thing -- China Mexico’s economy in the decade leading convictions wavered.” But by obsessing of civil society, which reminded him of There are many obvious areas of differ- predates the party, and will outlast it. up to the PRI’s fall from power, despite over the USSR, “I think they’re looking at the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, “which ence between the two political parties and Nothing lasts forever, not even the an economic crisis in the mid-1990s, kept the wrong example,” says Jorge Guajardo, laid bare the PRI’s corruption, lack of their experiences. China’s population of 1.3 Chinese Communist Party. Whether expanding healthily, as China’s continues who served as Mexico’s ambassador to transparency, and inefficiency,” he said billion people, is of course far larger than it will perish in a few years, or last for to do. While much of the Soviet Union’s China from 2007 to 2013. In hindsight, in a January 2014 speech. Mexico’s 120 million. And Mexico under decades to come, there are a series of leadership in the 1970s and 1980s was he told Foreign Policy, “living in China And just as the PRI fought corrup- the PRI held (and rigged) presidential elec- worrying indicators. Beijing has been stunningly incompetent, China today on a daily basis felt like living in Mexico tion by going after the “big fish,” Xi has tions -- and Beijing doesn’t hold national slow to implement reforms that will ori- and Mexico under the PRI were ruled by under the PRI.” vowed to go after “tigers and flies” -- both elections. Believing that the CCP can learn ent the economy on a sustainable path. competent technocrats. (In 1990, Nobel Guajardo remembers watching the cel- high-ranking and low-ranking corrupt from the experiences of the PRI is decid- President Xi Jinping is knee-deep in an Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa ebrations for the 60th anniversary of the officials. edly not a mainstream view in China. anti-corruption campaign against sen- called Mexico a “perfect dictatorship” -- Chinese Communist Party on October “On economic, political, and social While many countries face problems like ior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faint praise that could be applied to China 1, 2009, held on the Avenue of Eternal dimensions -- in some ways they’re corruption and a widening gap between members unprecedented in its reach as well.) Peace in central Beijing. The celebrations very similar,” says Li He, a professor at rich and poor, “this of course doesn’t mean and scope in modern China, raising con- Beijing’s mostly measured authoritari- -- meant to communicate longevity and Merrimack College in Massachusetts and that what happened in Mexico will happen cerns about the party’s ability to police anism after the death of Mao in 1976 is legitimacy -- featured a military parade author of the book From Revolution to in China,” says Jiang Shixue, the deputy itself. Meanwhile, outside the corridors more similar to Mexico in the 1980s and of 10,000 troops, where then-Chinese Reform: A Comparative Study of China head of the Latin American Studies Center of power, China’s increasingly sophisti- 1990s than the brutal repression that President Hu Jintao declaimed the oft- and Mexico. Both countries, Li said, faced at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, cated populace is concerned with pollu- characterised most of the Soviet Union’s spoken slogan “gongchandang wansui”-- wrenching peasant revolutions before a the country’s top think-tank. Chinese party tion, freedom of speech and the country’s history. And a corruption crackdown in literally, “Ten thousand years for the strong, single party unified the country. press occasionally write articles about why relationship with its neighbours, espe- the 1990s against Raul Salinas, whose CCP.” The CCP’s confidence -- and that Both adapted liberal economic reforms the PRI lost power, but comparing China cially Japan. It’s impossible to predict the brother Carlos had just stepped down of his fellow ambassadors, who seemed to both domestically and internationally to the USSR is far more common. future, of course, and the CCP overcame from the presidency, exposed the breath- believe that that the CCP would govern in -- Mexico joined NAFTA in 1994, China An article about China’s current anti- greater challenges following Mao’s death taking corruption and the splintering of perpetuity -- reminded Guajardo of the entered the WTO in 2001, nearly 25 years corruption campaign published on the in 1976 and after the Tiananmen Square the Mexican elite -- not unlike the cur- PRI. “Everyone agreed that Mexico was after it began its comprehensive Reform website of CCP journal Seeking Truth protests in 1989. But six months shy of rent corruption scandal involving former governed by one party, and that it would and Opening policy. in January summed up the lessons to be the Communist Party’s 65th anniversary security czar Zhou Yongkang, which may be that way forever,” he said. (In 1995, The PRI lost power in 2000, “but until learned from the Soviet Union: “If corrup- of ruling China, it’s worth emphasising do the same thing for China. Guajardo joined the opposition National the 1990s, it was completely laughable to tion cannot be effectively controlled, the that the party and China are not the Yet the CCP continues to fixate on Action Party [PAN], whose victory in the be in the opposition,” Guajardo said. “You people will eventually no longer recognise same thing -- China predates the party, comparisons with the shambolic USSR. A 2000 elections ended the PRI’s monopoly were seen as a loser who couldn’t get a [the validity] of the ruling party.” The and will outlast it. six-part party-made documentary about on power.) real job. Same in China.” conviction learned from the failure of the Russia’s Communist Party, which the Soviet Union’s collapse, based on a The similarities between the widely Guajardo recalls a 2008 meeting in Soviet Union seems to be that rooting out moulded the Soviet Union into its own 2012 book, has recently been shown at held assumption that China is the party Beijing between Enrique Peña Nieto, corruption will ensure the people remain image and dominated it from the union’s dozens of political meetings. The movie and the party is China reminded him then a state governor and now the first faithful to the CCP. But what lessons can 1922 formation to its 1991 dissolution, begins with a narrator warning, “On the of a time, in the not-too-distant past, post-2000 PRI president of Mexico, and be learned from Mexico? “I would tell Xi to offers the best cautionary tale for the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death when there was no daylight between the an official from China’s Communist Party stop the anti-corruption campaign,” says party. But in looking for ways to forestall of the Soviet Union and its party, we are PRI and Mexico. Guajardo, who’s now a who focused on Latin American affairs: Guajardo. “The system is built on corrup- the inevitable, the party may want to also walking on the same ground.” And in senior director at McLarty Associates, “The first question they asked was, ‘Why tion. Get used to it, own up to it.” study the experience of a government a December 2012 speech, Xi reportedly a Washington, DC-based consultancy, did the PRI lose power?’ Nieto responded, Perhaps the best lesson is that all politi- further afield: that of the Institutional told party insiders. “Why did the Soviet started noticing other comparisons. The ‘The tiredness of the system. Since we cal parties lose power eventually. “No one Revolutionary Party, commonly known Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet dissatisfaction with the government’s were the single party in power, we were for a second assumed you can have Mexico by its Spanish initials as PRI, which ruled Communist Party collapse? An impor- handling of a massive earthquake in blamed for everything.’” (Nieto’s spokes- without the PRI,” said Guajardo. “But you Mexico from 1929 to 2000. Mexico under tant reason was that their ideals and Sichuan in 2008 helped spur the growth person couldn’t be reached for comment.) could.” WP-BLOOMBERG Ferry disaster shows South Korea is growing too fast

Headquarters to begin rescue So does Korea’s obsession Sewol tragedy is a wake-up call for efforts for the 476 people, 325 of with rapid GDP at all costs. them high school students, on the Governments tend to view rising Korea to address the blind spots in ferry? living standards as the holy grail In February, President Park of credibility and competence. Geun-hye decided to strengthen Never mind that millions of its political and business culture. the Security Ministry’s role Chinese are dying each year in disaster management — a from pollution-related illnesses, BY WILLIAM PESEK have looked disturbingly weak. move that deemphasised the and studies warn that blackening While I’ve criticized Malaysia more experienced National skies and toxic water may be caus- he concept of “balle for its dismal handling of the the Emergency Management Agency. ing genetic harm in kids. China’s balle!” or “quick, quick!” search for missing Malaysian All Koreans, not just distraught 7.4 percent growth absolves the is at the very core of Airlines Flight 370, the govern- family members, have a right to Communist Party of all manner TKoreans’ view of them- ment there is burdened by a question whether such moves of sins. selves. After rising from the ashes one-party system that has bred have hurt or helped the govern- But only for so long. A first-rate of war in the 1950s, bouncing incompetence and hubris. ment’s ability to withstand crises. economy means little if govern- back from financial collapse in What explains this calamity Korean business culture ment institutions prove third- the late 1990s, and growing into in high-tech, proudly democratic also deserves a thorough rate in a crisis. Has rapid GDP a technology-and-entertainment Korea? reexamination. growth made Koreans happier? powerhouse over the last decade, What we have here is an object Are ferry operators putting In a July 2012 column, I explored South Korea has turned its abil- lesson of the limits of using rapid lives at risk to boost profits in a the riddle of why Koreans are so ity get the job done in a bewilder- gross domestic product as the hyper-competitive environment? morose if they’re supposedly get- ingly short time into a national dominant metric for a nation’s Should ships plying domestic ting so rich. hallmark. success. The Sewol tragedy is a waters like the Sewol be sub- It was based on an OECD life- But amid grief, recriminations wakeup call for Korea to address ject to the more stringent safety satisfaction study of 32 countries, and breathless news coverage, the blind spots in its political and standards applied to those that one in which Korea came in 31st. the investigation into the tragic business culture. sail internationally? One explanation was that Korea’s sinking of the passenger ferry One accident is no reason to Korea’s culture of basing sen- government had long been too Sewol on April 16 has exposed indict an entire government, ior appointments on seniority obsessed with growing rapidly and deep cracks in this narrative. never mind 50 million people. Any — as a reward for time served, catching up with Japan to address Details of the crew’s actions lead- attempt to do so is as hyperbolic not for ability or talent — must quality-of-life issues. ing up to the accident — when an as it is unfair. South Korean Coastguard vessel sails where the capsized passenger ship go, too. Ministries and compa- It’s time for Korea’s govern- inexperienced, 26-year-old third The developed and develop- Sewol sank, as fishing boats emit light during the night rescue operation nies run by officials who feel a ment to catch up to its own eco- mate was guiding the huge ferry ing worlds alike have reason to in Jindo yesterday The Sewol ferry sank last Wednesday on a routine trip greater sense of entitlement to nomic success. Park often tosses — and their confusion during be awed by Korea’s economic south from the port of Incheon to the traditional honeymoon island of Jeju. the perks of office than respon- around buzzwords like “safety,” the botched evacuation, paint a triumphs — beating the dreaded sibility are a disaster waiting to “principles” and “accountability,” picture of potentially criminal middle-income trap, creating a happen. all of which appear to have been incompetence. stable of companies that have much about how far a nation remains obsessed with bureauc- A corporate culture in which a sorely lacking in this crisis. Families outraged by how long Apple and Toyota looking over really has come, and when it’s racy, hierarchy and turf. ferry captain lets his third mate While Korea’s economy may be it’s taken to recover the bodies their shoulders, blanketing the time to plot a new course. Korea’s Why, for example, did it take make a risky turn and then tells ready for prime time, it’s not yet of their loved ones have trained world with its K-pop music, edgy problems trace in part from the nearly one hour for the gov- passengers to stay put below deck clear that its state and its society their anger on the government, movies and television dramas. collision between its quick-quick ernment’s Central Disaster as he scurries to safety needs a are. whose skills at crisis management But man-made disasters reveal culture and a government that and Safety Countermeasures serious reality check. WP-BLOOMBERG WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Kiev orders military operation against rebels Biden urges Russia to pull back forces from border

KIEV: Ukraine relaunched back towards violence, which president. But Russia says Kiev’s military operations against many fear could tip into civil war, leaders — whom it regards as ille- pro-Kremlin separatists late came when a Ukrainian recon- gitimate — are to blame for the yesterday, hours after US Vice naissance plane was hit by gunfire collapse of the accord. President Joe Biden ended a while flying above Slavyansk. It says ultra-nationalists two-day Kiev visit in which he The Antonov An-30 propellor- who were involved in months warned Russia over its actions driven plane received several bul- of Kiev protests that ousted in the former Soviet republic. let impacts, but safely made an pro-Kremlin president Viktor The US Defence Department emergency landing and none of Yanukovich in February killed at the same time announced it its crew members was hurt, the rebels in an attack Sunday near was sending 600 US troops to defence ministry in Kiev said. the eastern town of Slavyansk. neighbouring Poland and to Baltic The Organisation for Security A funeral for the militants was countries for “exercises”. and Cooperation in Europe, which held yesterday. Russia already has tens of has monitors in the country, also Biden, after meeting Ukraine’s thousands of its troops massed said that rebels had abducted leaders in Kiev, called on Russia to on Ukraine’s eastern border. a police chief in the town of pull back its forces from Ukraine’s The latest moves underscored Kramatorsk — calling it the sort border, and to reverse its annex- the severity of the crisis that has of “provocative” action that “can ation last month of Ukraine’s brought East-West relations to only worsen the existing tensions Crimea peninsula. their most perilous point since and contribute to further violence”. “We in the United States stand the end of the Cold War. Pro-Moscow militants had with you and the Ukrainian peo- Ukraine’s acting president, taken over Kramatorsk’s police ple,” Biden said in a joint news Oleksandr Turchynov, said he was station late on Monday, extend- conference with Ukrainian Prime ordering the military to restart ing their grip from the already Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. operations against the rebels after occupied town hall. He added that the United the discovery of two “brutally tor- Kiev, Washington and many EU States was stepping up to help tured” bodies in the eastern rebel- countries see Moscow as pulling the Ukraine lessen its dependence on held town of Slavyansk. strings in the Ukrainian separatist Russian gas, fight corruption, and A pro-Russia protester shouts slogans outside a government building in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. One of them, he said, was that insurgency. Biden, in his news con- prepare for a May 25 election to of a recently kidnapped local ference in the capital after meet- choose a new president. said in a televised speech to the jeopardise supplies of Russian gas. May 11, the Interfax-Ukraine councillor from a nearby town ing Kiev’s leaders, warned Russia Yatsenyuk responded that Kiev Russian parliament. As the crisis deepens, the news agency reported. Although who belongs to his party. of isolation if it continues to try to valued the US support against However, he acknowledged that insurgents in Ukraine’s east highly trained military personnel, Turchynov earlier said that the “pull Ukraine apart”, underlining what he said was a Russia “act- Russia’s economy was facing an remain firmly entrenched in whose camouflage uniforms are rebels’ refusal to comply with an a US threat to impose more sanc- ing like an armed bandit”. “unprecedented challenge”. public buildings they have occu- stripped of all insignia, are help- accord signed last week by Kiev, tions on Moscow. In Moscow, Russian Prime The European Union, mean- pied for more than a week. In ing the rebels secure the some Moscow and the West to de- “We have been clear that more Minister Dmitry Medvedev dis- while, is divided on going further the town of Lugansk, close to 10 towns they hold, Russian escalate the crisis “puts a cross” provocative behaviour by Russia missed the US threat of new sanc- with its own sanctions on Moscow, the Russian border, protesters President Vladimir Putin denies through the agreement. will lead to more costs and to tions. “I am sure we will be able to with some member states worried pledged to hold their own local they are Russian special forces. A further indication of a slide greater isolation,” said the vice minimise their consequences,” he that increased punishment could referendum on autonomy on AFP Espionage hacking grows: Report Italy rescues 1,149 SAN FRANCISCO: Hacking Those were by far the most Investigators from Verizon, Intel a bigger surprise might be the migrants in two days for espionage purposes is active areas detected in the sam- Corp’s McAfee, Kaspersky Labs study’s findings about attacks on sharply increasing, with groups pling, which drew more than half and other private companies and retailers. ROME: Italy has rescued over of 321 migrants, including 62 or national governments from of its data from victims in the public agencies contributing data Though recent breaches at 1,000 migrants over the past 48 women and five children, brought Eastern Europe playing a grow- United States. About 25 percent ascribed 11 percent of espionage Target Corp and other retailers hours, the navy said yesterday, the number of people saved over ing role, according to one of the of spying incidents could not be attacks to organized criminals through their point-of-sale equip- amid rising criticism from the the past 48 hours to 1,149 accord- most comprehensive annual attributed to attackers from any and 87 percent to governments. ment have dominated the headlines political right over the high cost ing to the navy, which did not studies of computer intrusions. country, according to the authors In some cases, the criminal and prompted congressional hear- of the operation. specify their nationalities. Spying intrusions traced back of the report. gangs were probably looking ings in the past few months, fewer The “Mare Nostrum” (Our Sea) Close to 22,000 migrants and to any country in 2013 were Though the overall number of to sell what they found to gov- such intrusions have been reported operation, launched last October, asylum seekers have arrived on blamed on residents of China spying incidents studied tripled to ernments or competitors of the to the Verizon team than in past plucks people from floundering Italy since the start of the year, and other East Asian nations 49 511 from total in the 2013 Verizon victims. “We do see a slight merg- years, even as the number of report vessels in the Mediterranean 10 times the number in the same percent of the time, but Eastern report, most of that increase is ing between the classic organ- contributors has multiplied. almost daily, at a cost of 9m euros period in 2013. On average, five European countries, especially due to the addition of new data ized criminal and the espionage “The media frenzy makes quite ($12.4m) a month according to military ships and 900 sailors Russian-speaking nations, sources. Even looking at just the crook,” Sartin said, adding that he a splash, but from a frequency Italian media reports. take part weekly in the rescue were the suspected launching same contributors as before, how- expected that trend to continue. standpoint, this largely remains a “This expensive and maniacal operation. site for 21 percent of breaches, ever, espionage cases grew, said If the rise of detected Eastern small-and-medium business issue,” operation must be immediately Immigration charities esti- Verizon Communications Inc’s Verizon investigator Bryan Sartin. European spying comes as a sur- the study says. The report will be stopped,” said Maurizio Gasparri mate between 17,000 and 20,000 said in its annual Data Breach Not all electronic spying prise to those mainly familiar released to the public today. from the centre-right Forza Italia migrants have died at sea while Investigations Report. was blamed on governments. with accusations against China, REUTERS party, describing Mare Nostrum trying to reach Europe in the past as “a taxi... with people smugglers 20 years, but fighting the phe- alerting the Italian navy, which nomenon from both Africa and Catherine in Australia’s Uluru then brings in endless numbers Europe has proved difficult. of illegal immigrants.” Last week, Italy joined six other The government has warned European Mediterranean nations that the landings are set to in calling on the EU to boost finan- increase, estimating this month cial support for those bearing the that up to 600,000 migrants from brunt of the influx of African Africa and the Middle East are migrants in search of a better life. ready to set off from Libyan shores. Migratory pressure pushing Matteo Salvini, head of the across the Mediterranean “is far anti-immigration Northern from diminishing, it is increas- League party, has also called for ing”, said foreign ministers the operation to be scrapped, from Cyprus, France, Greece, saying “Italian citizens end up Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain financing the people smugglers after an informal meeting in the and an invasion of our coasts.” Spanish port of Alicante. The arrival in Sicily yesterday AFP

French hostage in Mali dead

PARIS: A French hostage kidnapped two years ago in western Mali by the Al Qaeda-linked Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) is probably dead, France’s foreign ministry said yesterday. Gilberto Rodriguez-Leal was captured in November 2012 after crossing from Mauritania into Mali. Earlier yesterday, the group told AFP that he had been killed because France is “our enemy”. Rodriguez-Leal was one of two Frenchmen still held as hos- Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, speaks with Aboriginal tages overseas. The other, Serge Lazarevic, was taken in November elders during a visit to Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre at Uluru 2011 in the north of Mali by al Qaeda’s North African arm AQIM. in the Northern Territory of Australia yesterday. REUTERS

Hit by ‘hard times’, Mugabe accepts $4,000 a month HARARE: Zimbabwean President The average wage in Zimbabwe is $300 a at their wedding, which he hosted at his Robert Mugabe has said he gets by on a month, but unemployment runs at 80 per- mansion with more than 4,000 guests. modest salary of $4,000 a month because cent and most of the population of 13 million Zimbabwe last month announced a $6,000 of the “hard times” facing the country, live in poverty. salary cap for executives working for state- state media reported yesterday. The report did not say how much the owned companies following reports that Zimbabwe is still recovering from years 90-year-old president, who favours designer some of them were grossly overpaid. of economic collapse attributed mainly to suits and Rolex watches, might receive in The head of the public health insurance government policies under Mugabe, who has allowances or what he earns outside govern- fund was a top earner, with a gross monthly run the country since independence in 1980. ment. Mugabe has interests in farming among salary of $535,499, while the Zimbabwe “I am earning $4,000 just now, because of known business entities under his name. Broadcasting Corporation boss took home the hard times. This is what we decided on, The president built a plush private man- $37,050 a month. The country in 2009 that we should recognise the hard times at sion on the outskirts of the capital Harare, ditched the worthless Zimbabwe dollar cur- the moment,” Mugabe said in a BBC inter- reportedly worth more than $10m. rency in favour of the US dollar and a raft view at the weekend, according to excerpts Last month the veteran leader gave a other regional currencies. published in state media. $100,000 gift to his daughter and son-in-law AFP WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Ex-UK tabloid UKIP launches EU election campaign editor admits British anti-EU party posters highlight effects of immigration on workers approving

LONDON: British anti-EU seats in the British parliament in UKIP released a series of post- condemned them as “deeply divi- not going to do that.” police payment party UKIP launched its 2015 and piling pressure on the ers urging voters to “take back sive, offensive and ignorant.” UKIP was a non-sectarian, campaign for next month’s three main parties to sever Britain’s control of our country” by elect- “This UKIP campaign is a racist, non-racist political party, he said, LONDON: Former News of European elections yester- ties with the European Union. ing UKIP candidates. The party xenophobic campaign designed to and the posters were a “hard-hit- the World editor Andy Coulson day and fended off accusations UKIP wants Britain to leave currently holds nine seats in the win votes by whipping up animosity ting reflection of reality”. admitted in court yeseterday to that its posters were racist and the EU and an end to “open European Parliament. against foreigners living and work- Farage, a member of the approving a payment to a royal its anti-immigration rhetoric door” immigration, particularly One poster featured a picture of ing and contributing to this coun- European Parliament, was later policeman for information, hypocritical. from inside the 28-nation bloc. a finger pointing to anyone read- try,” Gapes wrote on his website. put on the spot over his German despite warnings it could land With polls showing the UK Polls show immigration to be ing it, saying “26 million people in Farage, who is married to a wife being his secretary when him in jail. Independence Party will come one of voters’ top three concerns Europe are looking for work. And German citizen, rejected the a BBC reporter asked him how The 46-year-old, who later second in the May 22 election, and Cameron is under pressure whose jobs are they after?” accusations, saying the posters he could justify her employment became Prime Minister David ahead of Prime Minister David to make good on his promise to Another showed a picture of a man were aimed at highlighting the while complaining that foreigners Cameron’s communications chief, Cameron’s Conservatives but cut net migration to the “tens of dressed as a construction worker fact that an influx of cheap foreign were taking British jobs. said he simply “rubber-stamped” behind the opposition Labour thousands” by 2015. begging on the street, saying: “EU labour had driven down wages and “It’s a very different situation to the request by the royal editor Party, UKIP hopes to attract The prime minister has also policy at work. British workers are increased youth unemployment. a mass of hundreds of thousands of the Rupert Murdoch-owned enough extra votes to win the promised Britons a referendum hit hard by unlimited cheap labour”. “This is the classic trick,” he of people coming in and flooding tabloid. ballot outright. on leaving the bloc if re-elected Mike Gapes, a Labour law- told the ITV TV channel. “Any the lower end of the labour mar- Giving evidence in his trial on Party leader Nigel Farage has next year. Labour and the Liberal maker, said the posters were debate on immigration is closed ket,” said Farage, saying she was charges of paying public officials said such a victory would trigger Democrats oppose such a vote. “racist”, while Nicholas Soames, down automatically. Decry it in a unique position as his wife to and phone hacking, Coulson also a “political earthquake”, putting Launching its campaign in the a Conservative lawmaker and the as racism. Don’t talk about it. work extremely unsociable hours. repeatedly denied that he knew UKIP in a position to win its first northern English city of Sheffield, grandson of Winston Churchill, Brush it under the carpet. We’re REUTERS that journalists were illegally accessing celebrities’ phones. In particular, he denied an accusation from a former col- league that he had been played a hacked phone message left by Obama departs US for actress Sienna Miller for James Bond star Daniel Craig. The Old Bailey court in London was told about an email exchange week-long Asia tour in 2003 in which the News of the World’s then royal editor Clive ANDREWS AIR FORCE islands in the East China Sea, as Goodman asked Coulson to sign BASE, United States: Washington seeks to reassure its off on a cash payment for a story. President Barack Obama Asia-Pacific allies of its commit- Goodman said he wanted to departed Washington yester- ment to regional security in the buy a royal contacts book for day for a week-long tour of Asia face of an increasingly assertive £1,000 ($1,700,) from a policeman in what the White House has China. assigned to the royal family, but called a “rebalancing” eastward On Tuesday about 150 Japanese warned that if they were caught of US foreign policy. politicians risked further sour- the officer “could end up on crimi- Obama left Andrews Air Force ing ties with China by visiting nal charges, as could we”. Base at 10.30am (1430 GMT) Yasukuni, a shrine in Tokyo that Coulson, who earlier told the aboard Air Force One, on a trip honours Japan’s 2.5 million war court that Goodman was prone that was first to make a stopover dead, including 14 leaders hanged to creating “unnecessary drama”, in Washington state to visit the for war crimes by the allies. said he signed off on the cash. scene of a deadly landslide. In Seoul, Obama will hold talks “I didn’t believe Clive was pay- From there, the president’s with South Korean President ing policemen, I still don’t believe itinerary was to take him to Park Geun-Hye that focus on it. I think what I did was failed to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and North Korea’s belligerence. The address it properly with him,” he the Philippines. US president will also attempt to told the jury. The visit is Obama’s fifth to the ease tensions between Seoul and “But I didn’t (address it), I region during his presidency. Tokyo. rubber-stamped it.” During his travel, Obama will Obama will then travel to Coulson resigned from the News attempt to make progress in Malaysia, where he will become of the World after Goodman and pri- dragged out negotiations over the the first US president to visit vate detective Glenn Mulcaire were Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) since Lyndon Johnson travelled President Barack Obama boards Marine One as he departs the White House in Washington for a week-long trip jailed for phone hacking in January trade deal, and reassure poten- there in 1966 as part of an Asian to Asia, yesterday. 2007. But he denies charges of con- tial partners that he can get it tour designed to check the spread spiring to hack phones and paying endorsed by a reluctant Congress. of communism. leaders across Southeast Asia at China is not on the president’s has been waylaid by recurring public officials for stories. Senior US officials have said Obama begins his Malaysia Malaya University. itinerary but is expected to loom crises at home and in other parts A former colleague, Dan Evans, both Japanese and US trade offi- programme with a state dinner On April 28, Obama will head large throughout his Asia visit, of the globe. The president’s brief has already pleaded guilty to cials have been working to narrow on April 26. to the Philippines for talks with because of its enormous reach as stopover yesterday before leaving hacking and claims Coulson knew gaps on market access in the auto The following day, he holds President Benigno Aquino. He is a regional economic and political the US mainland was to take him about the practice. and agricultural sectors that have talks with Prime Minister Najib scheduled to hold a joint press con- behemoth. to Oso, Washington, some 95km He said that in September 2005 slowed broader TPP talks. Razak and visits the National ference with Aquino, and be the Born in Hawaii and raised for northeast of Seattle. Obama was he played Coulson a voicemail left by Obama is expected to offer Mosque in Kuala Lumpur. guest of honor at a state dinner. four years in Indonesia, Obama to survey damage from the dis- Miller on Craig’s mobile phone that guarded support for Japan in In one of the keynote moments The US president will also lay a early in his presidency declared aster and meet survivors of the exposed their secret affair, which its bitter territorial dispute of the trip, he also will host a town wreath at the Second World War himself America’s “first Pacific mudslide one month ago. the then editor said was “brilliant”. with China over a group of hall style meeting with young American cemetery. president” but his Asia agenda AGENCIES AFP States can ignore Brown urges Scots to stick with UK race in university LONDON: Former British prime minister to argue pensioners will benefit from being in a Gordon Brown warned Scots yesterday of a UK-wide scheme. “The bills for pensions mount admissions: pensions “time bomb” in their ageing popula- because of a pensioners’ time-bomb as Scottish pen- tion as he joins a fight to dissuade them from sioner numbers rise by 300,000 even as Scotland’s US Supreme Court voting to leave the United Kingdom. working age population grows more slowly than Brown, a Scot, was making his first speech that of the UK,” he said, estimating the number of WASHINGTON: The US in support of the cross-party Better Together Scottish pensioners will rise to 1.3 million. Supreme Court ruled yester- campaign, warning Scots of a possible deficit in “Pensioners are better protected when the day that states can disregard pension funds if they opt out of the 307-year old risks are spread across the UK and it is also clear race as a factor in university union in a September 18 referendum. that in the year the SNP want independence, the admissions, in a fresh blow to a Polls show the campaign against independence Scots pension bill alone is three times the income legacy of the 1960s civil rights still in the lead but the Yes campaign has sustained from oil revenues,” he will tell an audience at movement. a rally in support that it won last year, narrowing Glasgow University, according to extracts released The 6-2 ruling upheld the con- the gap significantly. Brown, a former Labour in advance. The SNP, whose popularity has surged stitutionality of a measure passed leader, has kept a low profile since losing the 2010 in the past decade under the leadership of Alex by referendum in Michigan that general election and after being ranked as one of the Salmond, says independence would let Scotland disallowed so-called affirmative most unpopular prime ministers of modern times. make better use of its oil wealth rather than hav- action in college admissions. But he has respect in Scotland, where Labour ing often unpopular policies imposed by lawmak- Liberal justice Stephen Breyer was the major party until beaten by the Scottish ers in London. voted with the conservative National Party (SNP) in 2007. He used new figures REUTERS majority, and the fourth member of the court’s liberal wing, Justice Elena Kagan, had recused herself. The ruling was the latest to Protester’s wrath chip away at a practice used to promote racial and ethnic diver- sity of university student bodies while countering the effects of racial discrimination. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy argued that the case before the court was “not about how the debate about racial preferences should be resolved. It is about who may resolve it.” “There is no authority in the constitution of the United States or in this court’s precedents for the judiciary to set aside Michigan laws that commit this policy determination to the vot- ers,” he said. In 2006, Michigan voters approved a measure prohibit- ing the state’s public universities and schools from “discriminating against or granting preferential treatment for any individual An anti-government protester fires a homemade mortar towards police during a demonstration in or group on the basis of race, Caracas. Anti-Maduro protests since early February have led to violence killing at least 41 people, sex, color, ethnicity, or national according to official figures. origin.” AFP WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Insurance cover Korea ferry for sherpas on Everest raised by 50 percent death toll KATHMANDU: Nepal’s gov- ernment agreed yesterday to compensation demands for Mount Everest sherpas, after the single deadliest avalanche on the world’s highest mountain rises to 121 killed at least 13 guides. Expedition leaders said tension was running high at Everest base Two more crew members arrested camp after last Friday’s incident, which has rekindled debate on the JINDO: The confirmed death from the disaster site — awaiting disproportionate risks that sherpas toll from South Korea’s ferry dis- the increasingly frequent arrival take helping foreign mountaineers aster rose sharply to more than of boats with bodies. reach the 8,850-metre summit. 120 yesterday as divers speeded “I just want my son back,” said Ang Tshering Sherpa, presi- up the grim task of recovering the father of one missing student. dent of the Nepal Mountaineering bodies from the submerged ship, “I need to be able to hold him and Association, told Reuters that while police took two more of its say goodbye. I can’t bear the idea although some sherpas had pro- crew into custody. of him in that cold, dark place.” posed suspending work for the Better weather and calm seas The disaster has profoundly rest of this climbing season, they spurred their efforts but under- shocked South Korea, a proudly People attend a vigil for the missing passengers in central Ansan yesterday. had now agreed to resume expedi- water visibility was still very poor. modernised nation that thought tions on Saturday. Nearly one week into one of it had left behind large-scale However, an American climber South Korea’s worst peacetime accidents of this type. The fer- faced a hostile crowd when she deployed. “We tried to gain access By the time the evacuation at base camp said the sherpas had disasters, close to 200 of the ry’s captain, Lee Joon-Seok, was met relatives on Jindo last week, to the rafts but the whole ship order came, the ship was listing voted to head down and were pack- 476 people who were aboard the arrested and charged with crimi- has described the actions of Lee was already tilted too much,” one so badly that escape was almost ing up. “The ice doctors who set the 6,825tonne Sewol — most of them nal negligence and abandoning his and his crew as being “tanta- of them responded. impossible. Giant floating cranes routes say the current route is too schoolchildren — are still unac- passengers. mount to murder”. The large death toll has partly have been at the disaster site off dangerous and there are no alter- counted for. The official toll stood Six members of his crew are Four of the detained crew were been attributed to the captain’s the southern coast for days, but native routes,” said Ed Marzec in at 121, with 181 still missing. also under arrest and prosecu- paraded — heads bowed and faces instruction for passengers to stay many relatives remain opposed an email passed on by a colleague, Distraught families of victims tors said two more were taken hidden — before TV cameras yes- where they were for around 40 to raising the ferry before all the Daniel Beer, who is overseeing gathered in the morning at the into police custody yesterday. terday, and asked why only one of minutes after the ferry ran into bodies have been removed. communications for him. harbour on Jindo island — not far President Park Geun-Hye, who the Sewol’s 46 life rafts had been trouble. AFP Several expeditions have already been called off, includ- ing a Discovery Channel climb to launch a stunt man from the summit in a wing suit. The government said the mini- Philippine senators face suspension Pyongyang may be close mum insurance cover for sherpas on Everest would be raised by 50 percent to about $15,000 and it MANILA: Senate Minority arrest,” Drilon said. Drilon noted officials,” Drilon said. to fourth N-test: Seoul would establish a relief fund for Leader Juan Ponce Enrile and that the plunder complaint is Drilon said the issue will be the welfare of bereaved families Senators Jinggoy Estrada and a non-bailable offense, which out of the hands of the Senate SEOUL: North Korea could cautioned that it may be no more and also pay for the education of Ramon Bong Revilla Jr are fac- would warrant the detention leadership since it will be the well be preparing to carry out a than a “deception tactic” to raise their children. “We will also take ing automatic suspension once of the respondents even as the Sandiganbayan that will be issu- fourth nuclear test, South Korea tensions ahead of Obama’s visit steps to prevent such incidents the Sandiganbayan finds prob- Sandiganbayan is still hearing ing the suspension orders. said yesterday, citing increased which is due to begin on Friday. in the future,” Tourism Minister able case on the plunder com- the case. “Well, I am sure that the activity at its main test site just “We are thinking of possibilities Bhim Acharya said. plaint filed against them and Drilon cited the case of a cer- Sandiganbayan will act, or will days ahead of a visit to Seoul by that the North may stage a sur- In addition to the 13 sherpas more than 30 others in relation tain Governor Veloso, where the have to act on it. That’s their US President Barack Obama. prise nuclear test or just pretend killed on the Khumbu Icefall, one with the Priority Development Supreme Court ruled that public job. So we will just wait for the “Our military is currently to stage a nuclear test,” Kim said. of the most dangerous parts of the Allocation Fund misuse. officials will get automatic suspen- action of the Ombudsman on the detecting a lot of activity in and Kim said the South Korean and climb to Everest, three are miss- Senate President Franklin sion upon the filing of the prose- motions for recommendation around the Punggye-ri nuclear US militaries were closely sharing ing and at least three more are Drilon did not rule out this possi- cution of the appropriate decision which were filed on the first week test site,” defence ministry intelligence and Seoul’s Joint Chiefs being treated for serious injuries bility once the Sandiganbayan finds before the Sandiganbayan. of April,” Drilon said in Filipino. spokesman Kim Min-Seok said. of Staff had set up a special task in the capital Kathmandu. merit in the filing of plunder com- “Once the case is filed. So At the same time, Drilon also Kim stressed that North force in case Pyongyang goes ahead The men were trying to fix plaint against the three incumbent assuming that the case is elevated welcomed the move of lawyer Gigi Korea’s nuclear weapons pro- with an underground detonation. ropes and crack snow and ice senators and issues the warrants of before the Sandiganbayan, first, Reyes, Enrile’s former chief of gramme was at a stage where On Monday, Pyongyang to carve out a route for foreign arrest against them. I repeat, the Sandiganbayan has staff, to return to the country to it could conduct a test “at any slammed Obama’s upcoming trip climbers through the icefall, Drilon issued the statement the powers to issue the warrants defend herself against accusations moment” once the order was given as a “dangerous” move that would located not far above Everest Base when asked whether he thinks of arrest and that this is a non- of PDAF misuse. by the leadership in Pyongyang. escalate military tension over the Camp, when they were caught in the 24-member Senate will still bailable offense,” Drilon said. Drilon said Reyes made the North Korea has conducted Korean peninsula. Several ana- the avalanche. be complete once it resumes from “Secondly, this warrants for good move to subject herself to three nuclear tests — in 2006, 2009 lysts said they were sceptical that The government initially the Holy Week break on May 4. automatic suspension [which the legal processes in the country and 2013 — all at the Punggye-ri North Korea would carry out a announced an immediate pay- “That will be up to the happens] the moment that the where “the guilty are jailed and site in the northeast of the coun- test at the current time, and said ment of $400 to the victims’ fami- Sandiganbayan, which has the Ombudsman files the petition to the innocents are acquitted.” try. Kim declined to give details Pyongyang was just seeking to lies to cover funeral costs. power to issue the warrant of suspend those accused as public THE PHILIPPINE STAR of the monitored activity, but rattle a few cages. REUTERS REUTERS Sea dispute with China Drone search for missing jet to continue PERTH: A US submarine drone will keep scouring the Indian Ocean floor for traces of a missing Malaysian jetliner after it finishes its current targeted search, Australian authorities said as a tropical cyclone sus- pended the air search. Authorities are under grow- ing pressure to decide their next course of action as the Bluefin-21 drone nears the end of its first sweep of remote seabed which authorities believe is the most likely resting place of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which van- ished on March 8 with 239 people Filipino protesters demand an end to China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea, known as South on board. China Sea, at a rally in front of the Chinese consulate office in Makati City, south of Manila, yesterday. The Bluefin-21 is expected to finish its targeted search of a 10 square kilometres stretch of ocean floor, where a signal sus- pected to be from the plane’s black box was detected, come Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni Wednesday. No wreckage has yet been found. TOKYO: Nearly 150 Japanese unnecessary provocation. belief that I always keep in “Bluefin-21 has now com- lawmakers yesterday paid The South Korean Foreign mind when I come to Yasukuni pleted more than 80 percent of homage at the Yasukuni shrine Ministry said it “deplored” Shrine,” he said, adding that he the focused underwater search which honours the nation’s the mass visit as the shrine is was there in a private capacity. area and further missions are war dead, raising the stakes in a “place that enshrined war Shindo’s grandfather planned,” the Perth based Joint an already tense region on the crimes that caused a war and was General Tadamichi Agency Coordination Centre said. eve of US President Barack destroyed peace.” Kuribayashi, the figure sympa- “The search will continue. We Obama’s visit. Japan’s conservative Prime thetically depicted by actor Ken are currently consulting very A cross-section of parlia- Minister Shinzo Abe stayed Watanabe in Clint Eastwood’s closely with our international mentarians paid their respects away from Yasukuni, hav- “Letters from Iwo Jima.” partners on the best way to effect at the shrine, which honours ing offered a symbolic gift on The mass visit will inevitably this for the future.” those who have fought for Monday at the start of the further aggravate strained ties The search coordinator, Angus Japan including a number of three-day spring festival. in East Asia, and could irritate Houston, said on April 14 that senior military and political However, the right-leaning the White House, coming the the air and surface component of figures convicted of war crimes. minister for internal affairs day before Obama arrives on the operation would end about a China and South Korea see and communications, Yoshitaka the first leg of a four-nation week ago. the shrine as a symbol of what Shindo, was among the wor- trip which also includes South But daily sorties have contin- they say is Japan’s unwilling- shippers early yesterday, pay- Korea. ued unabated in what is shaping ness to repent for its aggres- ing his second visit in 10 days. The Japanese premier’s gift to be the most expensive search sive warring last century. The “I renew my faith in peace provoked a Chinese charge that in aviation history, involving some United States tries to discour- so that such tragedies will he was offering “a slap in the two dozen nations. REUTERS age visits, which it views as never be repeated. This is the face” to Obama. AFP WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Afghan police graduation ceremony Supreme Court Acid attacks stays election of Sunni hardliner ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday halted the election to the on the rise national parliament of the leader of a banned hardline sec- tarian group, officials said. An election tribunal earlier this month declared Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi, head of a in Pakistan group called Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), the elected member for the town of Jhang 65pc of victims awaiting justice in Punjab province. Ludhianvi, whose organisa- ISLAMABAD: Over the past attacks (15) was reported from tion is listed as a terrorist out- four years, there has been a Karachi, says the report. fit by the Pakistani government, substantive increase in the Out of the total number of came second in the seat in the number of reported cases of reported cases from across the May 2013 general election to acid attacks in Pakistan. The country, at least 519 out of 949 Shaikh Mohammad Akram of victims continue to face huge victims are females — clearly the Pakistan Muslim League-N medical, social, legal and eco- reflecting and confirming that (PML-N) party. nomic challenges to reintegrate acid violence is also a form of gen- But he took the matter to an in mainstream society. der based violence. Of the total, 15 election tribunal and successfully According to a report percent victims are children, says challenged Akram over allegations titled ‘Fostering Effective the study. Members of the Afghan National Police (ANP) march during their graduation ceremony at a police training of vote-rigging and defaulting on Implementation of Pro Human The report suggests that radical- centre on the outskirts of Jalalabad yesterday. Afghanistan forces, police and army, are due to take full a loan. Yesterday, a three-judge Rights Laws: Criminal Law isation, terrorism, easy availability security responsibility from their Western allies by the end of 2014 when the foreign troops leave the country. Supreme Court panel stayed the Amendment Act 2011 (Act XXV), of acid, defective law, rampant pov- tribunal’s ruling until Akram an Example of Good Practice’ — erty and lack of progressive educa- has appealed. “The bench today the total Number of Acid Attacks’ tion can fuel gender-based violence suspended the order of the elec- reported cases in 2009 was 43, that can eventually result in acid tion tribunal disqualifying Shaikh which jumped to 143 in 2013. attack, adding that majority of the Mohammad Akram and the noti- In the first three months of attack survivors belonged to rural Bomb, gun attacks kill nine in northwest fication by Election Commission 2014, a total of 49 cases have and feudal area. of Pakistan declaring Maulana already been reported; while 65 However, these statistics are PESHAWAR: Nine people, were wounded in a bombing in the opened fire. Senior police officer Ahmad Ludhianvi a returned can- percent of the victims scarred by just the tip of the iceberg as the including policemen, were killed Charsadda district of Khyber- Shafiullah Khan said unknown didate,” a court official said. acid attacks are still awaiting jus- individual interviews of respond- and dozens wounded in two Pakhtunkhwa province during people had planted a bomb on a The court would hear the appeal tice. The report — jointly compiled ents — including survivors, police separate bomb and gun attacks the morning rush hour. motorcycle and parked it near in three months time, he added. by the Acid Survivors Foundation and people from communities, con- in Pakistan’s volatile north- Six people, including five police- police headquarters in Peshawar. Akram’s lawyer Makhdoom Ali (ASF) Pakistan in collaboration ducted during study — reflect that west yesterday, police said, a men and an ambulance driver, “The bomb went off when a Khan argued that the tribunal with National Commission on the there are many families which do week after the Taliban refused were killed in a separate attack police van carrying 13 policemen could not declare the runner-up Status of Women (NCSW) and not always want to report attacks to extend a ceasefire with the on a police patrol on the out- for duty was passing through the as victor because when a candi- Australian Aid — was launched out of fear of reprisal or sim- government. skirts of the regional capital of spot. Three persons were killed date was disqualified, a fresh elec- in April 2014. ply because family members are Three people were killed and Peshawar overnight. Three oth- and 33 were wounded,” he said. tion should be held. The report reveals that from involved, or they are not empow- 33 others, including 12 policemen, ers were wounded when militants AFP AFP 2009 to 2013, the highest number ered enough to start legal action. of acid attacks (150) was reported Moreover, hospitals receiving in year 2011; the number declined acid attack victims lack gender to 110 in 2012. However, in 2013, segregated data and their data the number of reported cases entry indicators are too vague to once again shot up to 143. be relied upon. In acid attacks, Punjab took lead The report says that neither the Islamabad cracks down on illegal slums with 589 cases, followed by Sindh medical structures are resourceful with 29 cases. In Balochistan and enough nor the nurses sufficiently ISLAMABAD: Wrapped in a and pale blue eyes, saw the city’s thousands of people unable to vegetable market killed 22 peo- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 16 trained to adequately treat the purple shawl, Mirjan wanders Capital Development Authority afford the city’s high rents, in ple. Pervaiz Masih, who lives in cases each were reported, fol- attack survivors. Very few vic- downcast among the ruins of (CDA) demolish her meagre flimsy dwellings put up with con- a Christian slum, says the com- lowed by Islamabad Capital tims have an access to emergency the Islamabad slum where she world in a matter of minutes. crete, bricks and sacking. munity is frightened. Territory with 10 cases, Federally medical services and the govern- lived, newly demolished. The “I have been living here for the Some are located on drainage “We have no land or other Administered Tribal Area with ment does not provide sufficient authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, past 40 years. The CDA has com- cuts designed to channel away the property to move to, we cannot 6 cases and Azad Jammu and specailised acid burn treatment or affluent capital have declared pletely ruined me. I am a widow, heavy rains of the monsoon, and build houses even if the govern- Kashmir with 1 case. Meanwhile, rehabilitation facilities, it says. war on the slums, largely popu- my husband died 20 years ago, my many have no access to electricity, ment gives us land as we have no 282 incidents occurred at unknown The report highly recommends lated by Christians and Afghan two elder sons also died,” she said, gas or mains water supplies. money,” Masih said, tears rolling areas, the report claims. that the legislative framework of refugees, saying they are illegal stifling sobs. “I am a poor woman — The CDA, the city’s administra- down his cheeks. Districts of Southern Punjab Pakistan must evolve. It suggests and havens for militants. why did the CDA not listen to me?” tion, has now drawn up a list of 14 “This locality was not built present the highest number repealing discriminatory laws, The bulldozers came for More than two dozen slums, such settlements it says are ille- overnight. If it is illegal, why did of acid attack cases with 104 passage of pending legislation Mirjan’s slum by a railway line known as katchi abadis in Urdu gal and plans to clear — with no CDA officials not stop the people reported from Multan, 87 from related to human rights, adoption in the city’s south last Monday, and often euphemistically called compensation or rehousing plan when they started building?” he Muzaffargarh, 72 from Rahim Yar of new legislation to ensure gen- transforming hundreds of shacks “colonies”, are tucked into the for the residents. The demoli- said, accusing officials of taking Khan and 70 from Bahawalpur. der equity as well as development into a sea of rubble. corners of Islamabad’s neat grid tion of Mirjan’s slum came after bribes to let the settlement stay. In Sindh, the highest number of of human rights. INTERNEWS The 70-year-old, with grey hair pattern. They house tens of a bombing at a nearby fruit and AFP War of words over attack on scribe ISLAMABAD: Abrar Tanoli. trust the system to do that and Ayub Khattak. Shan Dahar. should focus our efforts for now, Bakhtaj Ali. Razik Baloch. as journalists, to demand and Almost no-one knows who pursue justice,” he said. these persons are, not even a Despite the enormous good- very big chunk of Pakistan’s will he enjoys, Mir finds him- 18,000-strong community of self unwittingly the catalyst working journalists. They of a deepening division within were all working journalists the media ranks. Says Iqbal who were killed in targeted Khattak, the Peshawar-based attacks in the last 12 months. Executive Director of Freedom Three other media workers Network, a media watchdog — Waqas Aziz, Khalid Khan and advocating for media safety: Ashraf Arain, non-journalists but “There was a time in Pakistan media assistants — were also killed when newspaper owners had a in the same period. They were code of ethics that disallowed working for various media groups criticism against each other in and died in the line of duty. Also each other’s publications.” attacked were media houses — But the advent of real-time offices of Express, Nawa-i-Waqt TV media has changed all and Aaj TV. There were protests Activists from the Defence of Human Rights Pakistan organisation shout that and we now actually find everywhere against those who slogans during a protest against the attack on television journalist Hamid Jang group, Express group and targeted these journalists and Mir by gunmen, in Islamabad, yesterday. ARY running active campaigns media houses. against each other.” But something curious framework of the civil-military position on the issue. Afzal Media activist and senior jour- has happened when one of equation. It all ballooned on Butt, who heads his faction of nalist Mazhar Abbas says the Pakistan’s well-known jour- from there as the focus of the the PFUJ, said that they can- media sector must take urgent nalist — Hamid Mir — last coverage shifted from the inci- not allow themselves “to be steps to stem the crisis of cred- week joined a long list of hun- dent to the accused. used as a platform” to malign ibility engulfing it by putting an dreds of journalists who have A fairly swift rebuttal of the ISI or the army. “We stand immediate end to criticism of been injured, assaulted, kid- the allegation from the Inter- by Hamid Mir and support his each other by media houses. napped, arrested, tortured Services Public Relations (ISPR) constitutional right to seek Scores of journalists have been and/or intimidated since 2000: in defence of the ISI was all that inquiry against those he sus- killed in Pakistan since 2000. As A passionate war of words has was required for all the other pects but as professionals we media fights its own demons, oth- broken out over the airwaves channels to jump into the fray. should be wary of becoming a ers pick off media targets one by among various media groups From then on there’s a party to someone’s personal one. And who’s killing them? on how to deal with the attack. clear position that Jang Group grudge,” he said. Many know and don’t speak It started when Mir’s brother has taken, and more or less “Supporting Hamid Mir should out as Mir and his family did Amir, himself a journalist work- another one — driven by tar- not mean being anti-armed but Reporters without Borders ing for Jang, was invited by Geo geting of Geo TV — that some forces.” There are opposing views. said in a recent report that the News to comment on the attack other channels have taken, Rana Azeem, the president of Taliban and intelligence serv- even as his better known sibling with ARY and Express groups another PFUJ faction, says they ices are the biggest predators of fought for his life in a hospital. being pretty liberal in taking are opposed to all attacks against media freedoms in Pakistan. On air live, Amir did not pull potshots at Geo for allegedly the media whatever the motive The Saleem Shahzad any punches in squarely lay- denigrating the armed forces and whoever the attacker. Commission agreed some- ing the blame on ISI chief Lt and intelligence agencies. “The attack on Hamid Mir is what. And now the Hamid Mir Gen Zaheerul Islam and his Even the Pakistan Federal audacious. Whoever is allegedly Commission announced by the colleagues for the murderous Union of Journalists (PFUJ), involved in attacking him, irre- prime minister has the opportu- attack and made a coherent already divided in three fac- spective of their rank or standing, nity to find some answers. if not audacious speech in the tions, has taken an astonishing should be investigated. We should INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Allegations BJP tsunami sweeping through India: Modi against Robert No escape for Congress, says BJP leader as Chandrababu Naidu joins rally in Hyderabad a political

NEW DELHI: BJP’s prime dais with the Gujarat chief would be used to pay back to the soil from Andhra Pradesh includ- “A family in Delhi has already attack: Priyanka ministerial candidate Narendra minister. salaried class who are honestly ing former president Sanjiva destroyed India. Will you commit Modi yesterday said the coun- Addressing the fourth meeting paying their taxes. Reddy, former prime minister P V the same mistake here,” he asked RAE BARELI: Priyanka try is witnessing his party’s in Telangana, Modi said like other He pointed out that the Narasimha Rao and former chief the people in an obvious refer- Gandhi Vadra, daughter of “tsunami” and no one can stop parts of the country, the tsu- Supreme Court yesterday pulled minister T Anjaiah. ence to the family of Telangana Congress President Sonia it from coming to power. nami was also sweeping through up the government for doing Earlier, addressing meetings in Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Gandhi, yesterday said the Winding up a day-long hec- Telangana. nothing to comply with its order three other Telangana towns, he Chandrasekhara Rao. allegations about her husband tic campaigning in Telangana Terming the bad governance of directing it to form a special promised to change the destiny Modi pointed out that four Robert Vadra were part of a with a massive election meeting the Congress as the root of all the investigation team to bring back of people of Telangana, which is members of a family are in fray concerted political attack on in Hyderabad last night, he said problems, he promised to usher in the black money. set to become India’s 29th state and wondered if they did not find her family. when he started the campaign, it development to meet the aspira- Describing Telangana and on June 2. Telangana boys and girls capable Speaking at an election rally was only a storm but it has now tions of 125 crore people. Seemandhra as two motherless He also assured people that he of contesting elections. in Rae Bareli where she is cam- turned into a tsunami. He promised that, if voted to newborn, Modi said he was ready would solve the problems faced by Chandrasekhara Rao, his paigning for her mother, Priyanka “There will be no escape for power, he would bring back black to take responsibility of nurturing lakhs of Telangana youth working daughter, son and nephew are also said she was hurt by such allega- Congress and its allies,” he told money stashed away in foreign them with care. as labourers in the Gulf countries contesting elections. tions and “feel strongly against the gathering at Hyderabad’s L banks, adding he would use every “If I get opportunity to serve and also vowed to check the farm- “Telangana is infancy stage. such vicious attack”. B Stadium law of the land and if necessary, you, I will give you in seven ers’ suicides. It needs special care and love “Chunav ka samay hai, tama- Telugu Desam Party (TDP) amend the laws and take help of months what they have not given Modi targeted both the which only BJP can give. It sha shuru ho gaya hai...(It is elec- chief N Chandrababu Naidu any country for the purpose. you in 60 years,” he said amid loud Congress and the Telangana can’t be allowed to die by giv- tion time and people are saying and actor Pawan Kalyan, who “I will bring back every rupee cheers. Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for pro- ing it in the hands of others,” so many things),” she said at the recently floated a political and use it for the welfare of poor,” Modi urged people to reject the moting dynasty politics and said Modi said. start of her address. party Jana Sena, shared the he said, adding part of the money Congress as it insulted the sons of their only aim is to loot. IANS Priyanka said: “There is a change in the way politics is being done in the current elections. My Campaigning ends in 11 husband and the entire Gandhi family is being maligned. My family is being attacked for the past two years. My husband has states, 1 union territory been used for the political attacks. The Congress will fight back with NEW DELH: Campaigning national attention again. determination.” for the Lok Sabha election The lone Puducherry seat too is She said she was saddened by ended yesterday across 11 states witnessing a keen contest. the way politics was being done and one union territory where In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi in the country. “India is a liberal 179 million voters are eligible to Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, nation. I am deeply saddened by decide the political fate of over who harbours prime ministerial the way harsh language is used 2,000 candidates in 117 seats. ambitions, and daughter-in-law to attack the political leaders This is the seventh round of the Dimple Yadav are both seek- during the political campaigns,” 10-phase polls across the subcon- ing re-election, respectively, she said. tinental size country, which began from in Mainpuri and Kannauj “I have learned from Indira April 7 and culminates on May 12. cosntituencies. Gandhi that strong determina- The results will be out on May 16, The candidates in Rajasthan tion acts as a shield. The Congress paving way for a new government. include India’s former cricket party will fight back with deter- Balloting will be held tomor- captain Mohammad Azharuddin, mination,” she added. row for six seats in Assam, seven union ministers Namonarain She said she found great in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, Meena and Jitendra Singh of the strength in the words of her one in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress, former DGP Harish grandmother and Indira Gandhi four in Jharkhand, 10 in Madhya Meena and Mahant Chandnath who always felt that truth was Pradesh, 19 in Maharashtra, five of the BJP, and Kirodi Lal Meena undefeatable and only emerged in Rajasthan, 39 in Tamil Nadu, of the National People’s Party. stronger by every attack. 12 in Uttar Pradesh, six in West In Assam, the main contest- She said the language and Bengal and one in Puducherry. ants are Ramen Deka and Bijoya allegations being hurled at her It will be third and final phase Chakraborty (BJP), Manas Bora family and husband had hurt her of voting in Assam, Chhattisgarh, (Congress), Badaruddin Ajmal (All immensely, and added how she Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and India United Democratic Front), tells her children that truth will Maharashtra. Chandan Brahma (Bodoland Supporters of Congress party climb up poles of a temporary tent to get a glimpse of Rahul Gandhi during an emerge one day. A total electorate of 179,084,206 People’s Front), Birendra Prasad election campaign rally in Mathura yesterday. IANS gets to vote across the length and Baishya (Asom Gana Parishad), breadth of the country — right and former Meghalaya governor from Jammu and Kashmir to R S Mooshahary (Trinamool Modi to visit BHU; Congress moves poll panel Tamil Nadu and from Assam to Congress). Maharashtra. In Bihar where the vot- The maximum 53,752,682 vot- ing has been staggered, ballot- VA R A NASI / NEW DELHI: ride to Mahatma Gandhi Kashi or any candidates...” the Congress universities do not allow use of ers are in Tamil Nadu and the ing takes place in Kishanganj, BJP’s prime ministerial candi- Vidyapeeth, a state government- said in a letter to Chief Election university premises or the ground least 901,357 in Puducherry. Purnea, Araria, Katihar, Supaul, date Narendra Modi is set to file run university, according to sources. Commissioner V S Sampath for any such purpose nor till date The fate of a total of 2,095 can- Bhagalpur and Banka — all of his nomination from Varanasi He would then hold a road show yesterday. it has so permitted any political didates across the country will be them having sizeable Muslim tomorrow after visiting the pre- from the Vidyapeeth compound to “...as such, Modi cannot use parties or the leaders. It is also sealed in the Electronic Voting population. mier Banaras Hindu University the office of returning officer where the premises of both universities the time when examination are Machines during this round. In Kishanganj, Janata Dal- (BHU), as per sources. he will file his nomination. for landing or use their names or going on in the universities,” it A maximum 846 nominees United (JD-U) candidate The Congress, however, has The Congress, however, premises in any manner what- said. are in the fray in Tamil Nadu Akhtarul Iman declared he won’t lodged a complaint with the approached the poll panel, point- ever, for filing his nomination”. “It is submitted that use of and just a dozen in Jammu and contest, so the minority votes go Election Commission that univer- ing out that university cam- The Congress letter pointed compound, ground or in any Kashmir’s only constituency en bloc to Congress’s Asrarul sity premises should not be used puses cannot be used for political out that in 2001 then prime other manner any portion of the Anantnag where opposition Haque. for political activities. According to purposes. minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee universities cannot be allowed Peoples Democratic Party chief Chhattisgarh’s political bigwigs sources, Modi will land at the Lal “It is pertinent to mention and Congress president Sonia to Narendra Modi or BJP,” the Mehbooba Mufti is locked in a in the poll fray include six-time Bahadur Shastri airport of Varanasi here that Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi were not permitted to Congress said, adding “how and bitter electoral battle with rul- BJP MP Ramesh Bais, Congress tomorrow and from there, he will Kashi Vidyapeeth and Kashi use Mahatma Gandhi Kashi under what pressure such per- ing National Conference candi- leader and union minister of state take a helicopter ride to the BHU. Hindu Vishwa Vidyalaya (BHU) Vidyapeeth premises. mission has been granted to Shri date Mehboob Beg. Charandas Mahant and Karuna In the BHU, Modi will pay a floral are central and state universi- The letter also pointed out that Modi and the BJP is a matter of For the DMK, which too is Shukla, niece of former prime tribute at the statue of university ties, which cannot be allowed to it is examination time, and such a investigation...”. It urged the com- going it alone this time, a good minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. founder Madan Mohan Malviya, be used for political purposes by visit may disturb students. mission to take “urgent steps”. performance will help it grab IANS and then take another helicopter the leaders of the political parties “The executive council of these IANS

Rebels kill three in Kashmir SC names panel Govt intended to punish to enforce roads safety laws Sikhs in ’84: Cobrapost

NEW DELHI: Terming Indian NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police slogans of ‘Indira Gandhi zinda- roads “giant killers” demanding succumbed to anti-Sikh senti- bad’,” Rohtas Singh, SHO at Delhi immediate attention and reme- ments in 1984, thus abetting Cantonment, told Cobrapost. dial action, the Supreme Court rioting and arson, a sting oper- Throwing light on the complic- yesterday appointed a three- ation by news portal Cobrapost ity of the state in the 1984 anti- member committee to scruti- revealed yesterday. The expose Sikh riots, the report added that nise and monitor enforcement triggered a political row. police logbooks were conveniently of statutory provisions includ- The Congress, which was also changed to eliminate evidence of ing the Motor Vehicles Act for in power then, sought a probe inaction by senior police officials. making roads safer. into the sting operation, while the Police did not allow the victims “Indian roads have proved to be BJP said it proves that the riots of rioting to file first information giant killers demanding immediate were sponsored by the then rul- reports (FIRs) or when they filed attention and remedial action. Such ing party and its coalition ally, the FIRs, they clubbed many cases of attention and necessary interven- Shiromani Akali Dal reiterated murder and arson that took place tion, in the first instance, is required its manifesto resolve to set up fast in different places under one FIR, to be made by the concerned gov- track courts to nail the guilty and according to Cobrapost. ernmental agencies,” said a bench of ensure justice for the victims. Police officers were also guilty Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice The sting operation titled of dumping bodies of victims else- Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N V “Chapter 84” claimed that the where to minimise riot-related Ramana in their judgement. government did not allow the crimes near their police stations, The court constituted a three- police to act while creating an Cobrapost claimed. member committee compris- impression that police were not BJP spokesperson Mukhtar ing Justice K S Radhakrishnan, performing their duty. Abbas Naqvi said the 1984 riots former surface transport secre- “The government’s intention were a Congress-sponsored tary S Sunder and ex-chief scien- appeared to be that the Sikhs pogrom in which not only “human tist of the Central Road Research should get some punishment,” beings but also humanity died”. Institute. said Shoorveer Singh Tyagi, then Congress’s Rashid Alvi said the The court said that the cen- police station house officer (SHO) claims made by the sting operation tral and state governments were at Kalyanpuri area of east Delhi, should be investigated properly. “It expected to enforce the existing Relatives mourn during the funeral of Kashmir village body head (Sarpanch), Ghulam Nabi and his son Firdous whom Cobrapost interviewed. should be inquired into and action laws including with all the might Ahmed at Batgund village in Tral, some 40km south of Srinagar, yesterday. Suspected rebels killed three “Messages were broadcast should be taken against all those at their command. people including two village headmen in attacks. directing police to not take action officers who are involved.” IANS against rioters who were shouting IANS

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After Mexico, German high-flyer Legal fight over Colombia gives extradition final farewell of art fraud to Marquez suspect

BOGOTA: Colombia said good- MADRID: A Spaniard sus- bye yesterday to its Nobel- pected of perpetrating one of winning author Gabriel Garcia the world’s biggest art frauds Marquez with a ceremony in has been freed ahead of a legal the capital’s cathedral, one day fight over his extradition to the after the late writer was feted United States. in his adoptive Mexico. Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz While rain soaked the was released by the National streets of Bogota, the National Court after refusing voluntary Symphony Orchestra played extradition over the $33m, two- Mozart’s Requiem in the Primary decade scam, court sources said Cathedral, filled with yellow roses, yesterday. Garcia Marquez’s favourite flower. US investigators say he was a President Juan Manuel Santos leading figure in the sale of fake attended the solemn ceremony masterpieces by artists includ- along with cabinet ministers ing Mark Rothko and Jackson and former Colombian leaders to Pollock, works that were actu- honour the man who Santos has ally done by a Chinese painter hailed as “the greatest Colombian he had met on a Manhattan of all time.” street corner. Hundreds of people stood in Spanish officers arrested line outside for a chance to sit in Bergantinos at a hotel in the the cathedral’s pews. southern city of Seville on Friday, “I came because I recognise acting on a US detention request, what he did for Colombia,” said a police spokesman said. Fernando Rodriguez, a 55-year- Bergantinos, aged in his mid- old accountant who stood at the 50s, was caught by surprise after cathedral doors. Mexico honoured checking in at the four-star NH its adopted son on Monday at the Viapol hotel and had to undergo capital’s Fine Arts Palace, with a medical check after apparently thousands of fans filing past his fainting after the arrest, police ashes and speeches from Santos sources said. and Mexican President Enrique He testified on Monday from Pena Nieto. Seville to Judge Fernando Andreu Affectionately known as of the National Court in Madrid. “Gabo,” Garcia Marquez died last Joerg Beckmann from Muensterland region tries to raise his kite into the air at the beach of North Frisian island Norderney, Germany, yesterday. AFP Thursday in Mexico City, where According to weather reports, calm winds from east and temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius are expected. he lived for decades and wrote his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” He was 87. His wife, Mercedes Barcha, and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo, did not attend the ceremony in Shakespeare’s birthplace plans for 450th birthday Bogota. The family has not said where his final resting place will LONDON: Most English adults St George’s events at their prop- his old school to lay flowers on his September 1769 was four months and buried, and the Royal be but Colombia hopes his ashes have only the haziest idea of who erties this weekend — despite a grave at Holy Trinity church. late for the birthday, and five years Shakespeare Company plans a will be divided between his home- St George was or when his feast survey revealing that only one in The first celebration of late for the bicentenary, Garrick firework display after tonight’s land and Mexico. AFP day falls, but one English town five people had any plans to mark Shakespeare’s birthday (he was organised a three-day event includ- performance of Henry IV, the is preparing to celebrate April the day — in the Warwickshire born in 1564 and died in 1616) was in ing a theatre beside the Avon. main celebrations, including the 23 with gusto; not for the sake town it is one of the most impor- 1769. It launched the Shakespeare This was a mistake. After two procession, are on Saturday. Most of the country’s patron saint, tant dates in the calendar. heritage industry but was a wash- days of nonstop rain the river burst buildings linked to Shakespeare but for the glover’s son born in Shakespeare was baptised on out. Actor David Garrick organ- its banks and swamped the thea- are open to the public, although Stratford-upon-Avon 450 years April 26 and died on April 23. The ised everything, down to writing tre. The pageant was abandoned. only the gardens survive of the ago on about that date — the town has celebrated his birthday all the verse so that not a line of However, Garrick transferred it to grand house bought when his founder of the town’s tourism for centuries but the plans are Shakespeare’s was spoken. He had his Drury Lane theatre in London genius made him rich: the house fortunes, William Shakespeare. more elaborate this year, with a been asked to open their new town where it proved a huge success. itself was demolished by an 18th- While English Heritage, which horse-drawn birthday cake, fire- hall, in the hope he might donate Although birthday cake will century clergyman irritated by cares for ancient buildings, is works, a fancy-dress parade and a Shakespeare statue. Instead, be served today in the church all the tourists. encouraging people to flock to a procession led by the pupils of cheerfully ignoring the fact that where Shakespeare was baptised THE GUARDIAN Wednesday 23 April 2014 23 Jumadal II 1435 Volume 19 Number 6044 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 MPHC posts QR463.8m net profit Ezdan Holding Group buys First quarter results in line with company’s expectations, says Dr Al Sada 20.16pc of Widam shares DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group DOHA: Mesaieed Elaborating on the financial polyolefins constituted 71 percent QR1.8bn, with the entire balance yesterday announced the acqui- Petrochemical Holding results, Khalid Al Subaey, Chief of revenue, alpha-olefins 27 per- due by Q-Chem II, while the com- sition of up to 20.16 percent Company (MPHC), a subsidiary Coordinator, MPHC, said: “Total cent with the remainder attribut- bined companies’ cash realisation shares of Widam Food Co (pre- of Qatar Petroleum and one of cash and cash equivalents across able to other minor products. ratio was over 100 percent. viously Mawashi), in a step to the region’s premier diversified all group companies grew by Combined EBITDA for the “QVC registered revenue of promote the Group’s investments petrochemical conglomerates, QR459.9m during the quarter to period was QR585.4m, at a cred- QR174.5m from the sale of its and its diversification strategy. delivered an impressive net a total of QR2bn, indicating the itable EBITDA margin of 64.5 chlor-alkali products,” said Al Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani profit of QR463.8m for the first group’s healthy cash position.” percent, as the business unit con- Subaey. “Results were not mate- bin Abdullah Al Thani (pictured quarter of 2014 (Q1, 14). On the performance of various tinued to benefit from the supply rially impacted by planned shut- on top), Deputy Chairman of H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh segments of the group, Al Subaey of competitively-priced ethane downs of the company’s EDC, the Board of Directors of Ezdan Al Sada, the Minister of Energy said the revenue of the combined feedstock by Qatar Petroleum. VCM and caustic soda facilities, Holding Group, said: “Ezdan and Industry, and the Chairman Q-Chem/Q-Chem II business Net profit for the quarter was as sales volumes were boosted Holding Group makes solid and of MPHC, said in a filing to Qatar unit for the first quarter of 2014 QR444.9m and net profit margin by the release of prior period premeditated purchasing steps Exchange that all group compa- reached QR908.3m. The revenue was 49.0 percent, with the dif- inventory.” in a number of Qatari companies nies performed in line with budg- was largely on par with the com- ference between net profit and Net profit recorded during the to enrich its investment portfo- eted expectations. “In addition, panies’ performance in the last EBITDA primarily due to current period was QR8.1m. Subject to lio. The Group seeks to diver- cash generation remained strong, four months of 2013, and was pri- and deferred taxes (QR81m) and fulfilling specified conditions in a sify its sources with the aim to with a total of QR629.5m of cash marily based on strong polyolefin depreciation (QR55.2m). Total clarification received from Public raise its net profit index as well from operations across all group utilisation rate of 123 percent. assets of the combined Q-Chem/ Revenues and Tax Department, as strengthening its role as a key companies for the first quarter. The polyolefin/alpha-olefin Q-Chem II business unit as at MPHC is eligible for a tax refund player in the Qatari market.” These results compare favourably sales mix was adjusted versus the March 31, 2014 were QR7.3bn, of QR 13.2m for the period from Sheikh Abdullah said that the to the group’s 2013 four-month last four months of 2013 in order with cash and cash equivalents the date of the company’s list- group’s strategy in the coming performance, and bode well for to take advantage of pricing and before dividends increasing by ing to the end of the accounting years will mainly dependent on the balance of year outlook”, Dr market opportunities identified QR367.3m versus the year-end, to period on March 31, 2014. the gradual dissociation from the Al Sada said. during the quarter. As a result, close at QR1.3bn. Total debt was THE PENINSULA real estate sector and allocating the Group’s returns in many sectors through the purchase of shares of companies listed on Kenya to seek Harley-Davidson earnings roar ahead Qatar Exchange, the fact that will be positively reflected in the Group’s profits, ensuring great natural gas deal of stability to Ezdan’s share. Ezdan Holding Group CEO Ali from Qatar for al Obaidli (pictured bottom) said: and an outstanding standard of “Ezdan Holding Group is steadily living for current and future gen- heading its goals according to a erations in addition to ensuring power plant deliberate and clear plan, target- maximum stability and growth ing the assignment of dissociation for all shareholders of the Group. NAIROBI: Kenya will negoti- returns from the real estate sector, The Extraordinary General ate the import of natural gas which has already started over the Assembly of the Qatar Company from Qatar Gas to fuel a power past year of 2013. A large portion For Meat and Livestock Trading station it wants to build in of these revenues will be allocated (Mawashi) has approved the the Indian Ocean port city of in procurement of companies listed amendment of Act 2 in the stat- Mombasa, the president’s office in the Qatari bourse, aiming at ute of the company, renaming said yesterday. supporting the domestic market the company to Widam Food The gas-powered power plant and benefit from promising oppor- Company as a Qatari sharehold- is part of the government’s plans tunities offered in the country.” ing company that focuses on to add 5,000MW to Kenya’s exist- Obaidli added that the clear animal transport, in addition to ing 1,664MW generation capac- vision of Ezdan Holding Group the management of a number of ity by 2017 to accelerate economic Board of Directors, chaired by slaughterhouses in the country growth, which is expected to push Sheikh Khalid bin Thani aims and a branch in Sudan. Widam Kenya’s power demand up to to achieve wider participa- Food Co is keen to use the lat- 15,000MW by 2030. tion in realising the goals of the est technology in its products The Ministry of Energy and National Development Strategy processing in line with the inter- Petroleum is evaluating bids from 2030 through investment in a national standards and specifica- investors interested in developing variety of sectors to stimulate tions, and based on several key the 700-800MW natural gas-fired Parked motorcycles at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Harley-Davidson Inc posted growth for medium companies. conditions, including fresh pro- plant near Mombasa, as well as a a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday, lifted by strong sales growth outside its core North The strategy aims at achieving duce, high quality and home deliv- 900-1,000MW coal-power plant American market. The company posted net income of $265.9m, up from $224.1m a year ago, that were 18.7 sustainable levels of development ery services. THE PENINSULA at Lamu. The announcement was percent higher than a year ago. made during a visit by President Uhuru Kenyatta to Qatar. “The President noted that Kenya Pipeline had already signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Qatar Gas to start negotia- Samsung demands Nakilat expands LNG fleet tion for the supply of 1 million metric tonnes per annum of LNG DOHA: Nakilat, Qatar’s pre- to Kenya to power the 700-mega- mier gas transporter, yesterday watt gas plant in the port city of $6m in Apple row announced that it has added Mombasa,” Kenyatta’s press office three new LNG vessels to its said in a statement. NEW YORK: Samsung has Samsung also claims that fleet through its joint venture The statement provided no fur- claimed that Apple’s FaceTime Apple’s media gallery app Maran Nakilat, which has ther details on when the negotia- feature infringes its video call infringes on a patent the Korean closed $807.4m of refinancing tions were expected to start. patent, as the trial between company bought from Hitachi provided by Qatar Islamic Bank The Nairobi government wants the two technology companies revolving the classification of (QIB) and Barwa Bank. to halve the cost of electricity intensifies. The Samsung return images and video on a digital The refinancing deal was signed within three to four years from follows three weeks of defence library. Combined, Samsung is during a ceremony held in Doha between 17 and 18 US cents per against infringement claims by demanding Apple pays around yesterday and attended by senior kilowatt hour, mainly by increas- Apple, which is seeking $2bn $6m for the alleged infringement representatives from Nakilat, QIB ing supply from cheaper energy from its number one competitor by Apple. Apple declined to com- and Barwa Bank. The contracts sources, phasing out diesel gen- in the smartphone market. ment on the trial. The Samsung were signed by Eng. Abdullah eration. REUTERS Samsung alleged Apple’s litigation is in response to the law- Fadhalah Al Sulaiti, Managing FaceTime app for the iPhone 4, suit brought by Apple demanding Director of Nakilat, Bassel Gamal, 4S and 5 infringes on a patent for that Samsung pay around $40 per QIB Group CEO, and Khalid Al UDC selling land the compression of video before device ($2bn in total) for infringe- Subeai, Acting CEO of Barwa Bank. (From left) Bassel Gamal, QIB Group CEO , Eng. Abdullah Fadhalah Al transmission over a mobile phone ment of five patents covering The three new LNG carriers Sulaiti, Managing Director of Nakilat, and Khalid Al Subeai, Acting CEO of network, demonstrating that mobile software, including the will be added to Maran Nakilat, Barwa Bank after signing the refinancing deal yesterday. worth QR1.45bn Apple’s software compresses video “slide-to-unlock” feature. Nakilat’s joint venture with before sending it to the FaceTime Apple claims the following Greek shipping company Maran DUBAI: United Development video call recipient. Samsung products now infringe Ventures. These new vessels financial institutions enables us to clients, and its contribution in Co, a real estate company devel- Prof Dan Schonfeld from the on Apple patents: Admire, Galaxy increase the joint venture’s total achieve this goal,” said Al Sulaiti. supporting the national compa- oping The Pearl residential computer engineering department Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note fleet from eight vessels to 11 and “We thank Maran, QIB nies in line with Qatar vision 2030 complex on an artificial island of University of Illinois at Chicago II, Galaxy SII, Galaxy SII Epic will be used in international trade, and Barwa Bank for their to build a stronger economy,” said in Doha, said it had agreed to described the video-transmission 4G Touch, Galaxy SII Skyrocket, growing Nakilat’s LNG fleet from continued and valued collabora- Bassel Gamal. sell 47 plots of land in the area patent, which Samsung acquired Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Tab II 10.1, and 58 vessels to 61, and expanding tion,” he added. “The signing of this agreement for QR1.45bn ($398m). for $2.2m in 2011 from inventors Stratosphere. Samsung claims the Nakilat’s total fleet, including Maran Nakilat has grown its confirms our strong relation- The land, totalling about Michael Freeman and family, as following Apple products infringe both LNG and LPG carriers, from fleet’s capacity over three differ- ship with corporates which has 103,000 square metres, will be sold “revolutionary” as people may not on Samsung patents: iPhone 4, 62 vessels to 65. ent stages. “The signing of this enabled us, in a short time, to to an unnamed “strategic part- have considered it possible before iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3, “We are dedicated to the con- agreement confirms the bank’s become the partner of choice for ner” and transferred later this 1994 when the patent was awarded. iPad 4, iPad mini, iPod touch (5th tinual enhancement of Nakilat’s strategy and commitment to a number of major corporations year, United Development said Apple’s lawyers claimed that generation), iPod touch (4th gen- position as the world’s leading providing financial Islamic solu- such as Maran Nakilat company,” in a brief statement yesterday the technology described in the eration), and MacBook Pro. LNG shipping company and sup- tions that meet the requirements said Khalid Al Subeai. without elaborating. REUTERS patent was obsolete. THE GUARDIAN port from the State of Qatar’s of its institutional and corporate THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Mideast body Al Khaliji posts agrees $500m National Petro QR109m net Services buy

DUBAI: A consortium of Gulf- profit in Q1 based investors including Fajr Capital and Arab Petroleum Investment Corp (APICORP) have agreed on a deal to acquire Loans and advances up 11pc Dubai-based oilfield serv- ices firm National Petroleum DOHA: Al Khaliji (KCBK) owing to non-recurring revenues. Services, Fajr said yesterday. yesterday reported net profit This reduction flows through on The transaction, which is of QR109m for the first quar- a first quarter comparative basis expected to close in the second ter ended March 31. Loans and to net operating income which is quarter of 2014, is valued “in advances for the period grew by QR213.8m. excess of $500m”, it said in a 11 percent, to reach QR22.9bn, Income from the banking fran- statement. and net interest income chise now accounts for 92 percent It was reported last November increased by 12 percent. of profits, compared to 81 percent that a Gulf consortium led by Fajr The acceleration in sustain- last year, reflecting a growing and also containing APICORP able recurring revenues is in book with less reliance on invest- (From left) Midhat Saleh, Rashid Yaqoub Al Nafisi, Abdullah Ali Al Kuwari, Mohamed Ali M Al Kubaisi, Chairman, and Saudi-Arabia based invest- line with the bank’s strategy to ment income which made up 19 Hamad bin Ali Al Hedfa, CEO and Dr Ali Al Qaradaghi at the Ordinary General Assembly Meeting yesterday. ment holding company Zamil progressively rely less on invest- percent in Q1, 2013. Group were in advanced talks KAMMUTTY VP ment gains for future growth in Total assets reached QR 43.7bn over a deal worth between $500m favour of increased proceeds from in the first quarter of 2014, up 27 and $700m. This followed an a growing banking franchise. percent from Q1, 2013 and up 6 unsuccessful attempt to sell NPS “Al Khaliji is starting the year percent from the previous quarter to Norway’s Aker Solutions in with a solid financial performance ending December 2013. Mazaya eyes education sector 2012. While Fajr didn’t specify supported by a growing banking Al Khaliji France represented how much of NPS the group was franchise. Following the Group’s 10 percent of the group’s total BY SACHIN KUMAR role will be as developer, building very strong in Qatar because of buying nor who the selling share- strong performance in 2013 it was assets. Loans and advances rose school for them. We have been in increase in population. holders were, the statement said expected that investment returns to QR22.9 billion, 63 percent DOHA: Mazaya Qatar Real residential, commercial and retail “We will always seek to develop some of the current sharehold- would be more muted this year higher than the same period end Estate Development is planning but we have never been into the our projects through our appli- ers would retain a minority stake, given the developments in quan- of the prior year and 11 percent to foray into education sector. education sector,” he said. cation of modern standards that including Abdul Aziz Al Dolaimi, titative easing and US treasury higher than the previous quarter. The company will construct Education is booming sector in combine latest technologies, who would continue as chairman. rates,” said Rob McCall, Group Deposits reached QR21.7bn, up schools for international firms Qatar and demand for school is design aesthetics, eco-friendli- In a separate statement to CEO, Al Khaliji. 25 percent compared to the first who are willing to set up schools rising due to increase in the popu- ness, the foundations of sustain- the Saudi stock market late The bank has stepped up quarter of 2013 and up 9 percent in Qatar. lations. The real estate major is able development and respond on Monday, Saudi Advanced financing of large infrastructure from the fourth quarter of 2013. “We are looking to get into an also planning to bid for projects in to the requirements of the Industries Co said it was selling projects and its private sector Earnings per share were education sector. We have been outside in order to pursue growth. communities,” said Mohamed its 20 percent stake in NPS for preferred customers to drive an QR0.30 for the first three months approached by international “This year we will be bidding Ali Al Kubaisi, board mem- $110m. It would book a SR7.3m increase in its lending book, up of this year. The bank’s capital school operators who would like for many projects in Qatar and ber, Mazaya Qatar Real Estate ($1.95m) loss on the investment 63 percent year-on-year, while adequacy ratio was 17.7 percent to have presence in Qatar. So we outside Qatar. We are looking for Development. due to unrealised profits and preserving superior asset quality as per Basel III. Non-performing are working with them to have opportunities in GCC countries “We have plans for cooperation investment costs incurred since as reflected in a low NPL ratio. al loans stood at QR62.4m at the schools for them,” Eng. Hamad and European countries,” he said. with other sectors like health, its initial $100m investment, the khaliji’s investment portfolio now end of March 2014, down 11 bin Ali Al Hedfa, Chief Executive The company is looking for education, tourism and sports statement added. accounts for 37 percent of total percent from end of December Officer, Mazaya Qatar Real Estate joint ventures in other coun- and other sectors that will open NPS chief executive Adnan assets in contrast to the end of 2013. The NPL ratio, at 0.27 Development told The Peninsula tries like Turkey, Spain, Bosnia up new horizons for real estate Ghabris will remain in his role, March last year when it made up percent, continues to improve on the sidelines of its Ordinary and some others. He said that during the short term,” he added. with the management team half of the bank’s assets. quarter-on-quarter. General Assembly Meeting. “Our the demand of real estate is THE PENINSULA unchanged. REUTERS Al Khaliji France SA’s net Sheikh Hamad bin Faisal bin profit reached QR16.3m, up 5 Thani Al Thani, Chairman and percent compared to Q1 2013 Managing Director said: “Al and represents 15 percent of the Khaliji continues to expand its Group net income. banking franchise in a manner Net profit for the first quar- that is capable of delivering long ter of this year is QR109.2m term value to its shareholders and Qatar’s growth to accelerate: QNB Group compared to QR131.5m for the customers. The financial strength same period in 2013. Net inter- of the organisation and our com- DOHA: Qatar’s economic workers driven by major invest- expected to narrow the fiscal underpinned by high fiscal est income increased by 12 per- mitment to deliver on our identi- diversification is expected to ment projects will add to aggre- surplus from 9.9 percent surpluses. cent, to QR165.9m, over the prior fied strategic initiatives ensures continue with its real GDP gate demand, putting moderate of GDP in 2013-14 to 4.7 percent Growth in domestic credit quarter. Net fee and commission we are well positioned to deliver growth expected to accelerate pressure on domestic inflation. in 2016-17. facilities and investments will income of QR37.8m grew by 11 on future business growth.” from 6.8 percent in 2014 to 7.8 Counterbalancing this, foreign “With an oil price assumption support asset growth over the percent on Q4, 2013; however it THE PENINSULA percent in 2016. inflation is expected to decline of $104 per barrel, we project medium term is QR9.4m lower year-on-year QNB Group’s “Qatar Economic in 2014-15 as international com- total revenues to be 37.6 percent Qatar’s loan to deposit ratio is Insight April 2014” yesterday modity prices fall on weak glo- of GDP in 2014-15. The govern- expected to decline gradually to noted the non-hydrocarbon sec- bal demand and record food ment expenditure is expected to reach 99 percent by 2016 owing tor is expected to account for harvests. increase to 28.1 percent of GDP to a more moderate growth in more than 50 percent of GDP Overall inflation is expected to in 2014-15, on higher capital lending compared with a buoy- by 2015. The report predicts a increase modestly to 3.4 percent spending,” the report said. ant deposit growth. Philips reports 15pc profit slump projected to double digits growth in 2014 and 3.5 percent in 2015 as The report noted the 2014-15 Non-performing loans are in the non-hydrocarbon sector higher domestic inflation, driven budget earmarked $182bn of cap- forecast to remain low in 2014- THE HAGUE: Electrical appli- start” to 2014 and warned of a is due to large investments in by the expanding population, is ital spending on major projects 16 as asset quality is supported ance group Philips reported a tough year ahead. Philips’ share infrastructure, real estate and partially offset by falling inter- over the next five years — this by the strong economic envi- 15-percent slump in net first price dipped by almost 7 percent on transport sectors. national food prices. will sustain higher non-hydro- ronment and the sizable pro- quarter profit, blaming a weak the Amsterdam stock exchange’s As a result, the share of the With food prices expected to carbon growth over the medium portion of low-risk loans to the performance by its new stra- AEX index in mid-afternoon non-hydrocarbon sector in GDP rise again in 2016, overall infla- term. government. Low provisioning tegic activities in healthcare trade. The group said Q1 net profit is projected to grow from 49.9 tion is expected to accelerate to The banking sector outlook requirements and efficient cost equipment. plunged to $190m because of a fall percent in 2014 to 57.2 percent 4.4 percent. remains positive as bank lend- bases will also support banks’ CEO Frans van Houten said the in underlying profit on a 12-month in 2016. Lower hydrocarbon revenue ing is expected to rise with accel- profitability. figures reflected a “challenging comparison. AFP The large influx of expatriate and rising capital spending is erated investment spending, THE PENINSULA Emaar Properties profit up 55pc

DUBAI: Dubai’s Emaar in the three months to March and leisure unit. Emaar diversi- Properties reported a 55 per- 31, compared to Dh556m in the fied out of property when Dubai’s cent rise in first-quarter net prior-year period. Analysts polled housing market prices slumped by profit, as the region’s economic by Reuters had forecast profit of more than half from a 2008 peak recovery brought consumers Dh873m. when the emirate’s building boom back to its malls and shop- Revenue was Dh2.26bn, up turned bust. ping units, and house buyers from Dh2.11bn a year earlier, of Over the last 18 months, returned to the market. which 38 percent, or Dh863m, Emaar has led a sector recovery, The builder of the world’s tallest came from Emaar’s malls and largely owing to speculative buy- tower, the Burj Khalifa, reported shopping unit and 16 percent, ers returning to the home sales a profit of Dh863m ($234.96m) or Dh483m, from its hospitality market. REUTERS

China auto show draws huge crowd

A model poses on a Toyota FV2 concept car at the Auto China 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing. The auto show is drawing huge crowd for the last couple of days. WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Novartis, GSK reveal major global deals Novartis to buy GSK’s oncology assets for $14.5bn

ZURICH/LONDON: Swiss products for $14.5bn, while selling in AstraZeneca. A weekend news- drugmaker Novartis announced to GSK its vaccines, excluding flu, paper said Pfizer, which has also a multi-billion dollar revamp for $7.1bn plus royalties and cre- been spinning off assets such as yesterday, swapping assets ating a joint venture with GSK in animal health and baby food, had with GlaxoSmithKline and sell- consumer healthcare. made a £60bn bid approach that ing its animal health arm in a Novartis also said it had agreed had been rebuffed by the British bid to simplify its business and to sell its animal health arm to firm. “We reckon the real value increase its focus on high-mar- Eli Lilly for approximately $5.4bn. of the deal should be searched gin cancer medicines. The global pharmaceuticals for in the pipeline and the newly The overhaul is part of a major sector has seen a flurry of deal- launched products, strengthening realignment in the global phar- making recently as large com- Novartis’ position in melanoma maceuticals industry as it strives panies seek to focus on a small and haematology,” Vontobel ana- to cope with a clampdown in number of leading businesses, lyst Andrew Weiss said of the health spending by cash-strapped while smaller speciality and cancer deal with GSK. governments. “The transactions generic producers seek greater Cancer is an extremely compet- A jogger runs past a signage for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in London yesterday. mark a transformative process for scale. Cancer is a particular focus itive marketplace, however, and us,” said Novartis Chief Executive for some drugmakers, thanks to some analysts said it made sense Joe Jimenez, who has been novel medicines that show prom- for GSK to exit a field where it shareholders as well. At 0905 it swaps lower-margin vaccines price tag for the oncology assets, undertaking a strategic review ise by boosting the body’s immune was only No. 14 in the world. GMT, Novartis shares were up business for higher-margin oncol- which could rise as high as $16bn of the once-sprawling business. system. The deal will see Novartis As well as strengthening its 2.3 percent to 76.4 Swiss francs. ogy drugs. if certain milestones are reached, “They also improve our financial strengthen its world No.2 position vaccines business, GSK will take GSK shares were up 5.4 percent Analysts at Swiss broker as “rather hefty.” strength, and are expected to add in cancer behind cross-town rival the lead in running a future con- to 1,643.5 pence. Notenstein said the new cancer Novartis said it would start to our growth rates and margins Roche. sumer health business worth Novartis’s Jimenez told report- drugs would help Novartis to navi- a separate sale process for its immediately.” A desire to boost its oncology about $10bn in annual reve- ers the deals would result in gate patent expiries on top-selling flu business immediately, which Novartis said it had agreed to business is seen as a key factor nue with Novartis. The British slightly lower overall sales for the medicines more easily. However, was not part of the GSK deal. buy GlaxoSmithKline’s oncology behind Pfizer’s reported interest drugmaker will return £4bn to Swiss group, but higher profit as analysts at Barclays described the REUTERS Oman expects 5pc UAW suddenly retreats from fight at VW

DETROIT: The United Auto South. VW workers due to tes- Washington small government whose term expires in June, had Workers, surprising even its tify at the hearing were already activist Grover Norquist said they vowed four years ago to suc- growth in 2014 with supporters, on Monday abruptly at the courthouse in downtown would ignore subpoenas to attend cessfully bring the union into a withdrew its legal challenge to Chattanooga when they heard the the hearing, which was to have foreign-owned Southern plant. a union organising vote that it news, which left lawyers in the focused partly on their conduct in Three years ago, he said that if lost at a Volkswagen AG plant hearing room wondering how to the days leading up to the plant the union was unable to do so, its steady oil prices in Chattanooga, Tennessee in proceed. workers vote. future was in jeopardy. February. The union did not explain why “It became obvious to us that “The UAW is ready to put AMMAN: Oman’s economy said. “With the existing oil prices, Just an hour before the start it waited until the 11th hour to they were going to become objec- February’s tainted election in should grow 4 to 5 percent this I think the deficit will be wiped of a National Labour Relations drop the case, but UAW official tionists and not allow the proc- the rearview mirror and instead year, underpinned by stable oil out,” he said. Board hearing on the challenge, Gary Casteel said the decision not ess to go forward in a transparent focus on advocating for new prices and the billions of dollars A projected rise in oil output the union dropped its case, cast- to go ahead was made last week. way. When that happens, these jobs and economic investment spent on major projects in the to around 1 million bpd from ing a cloud over its long and still That was when Tennessee things can drag on for years,” in Chattanooga,” King said in a past two years, the head of the the current 950,000 by year- unsuccessful push to organise for- Governor Bill Haslam, US Senator Casteel said in an interview. statement on Monday. Gulf country’s central bank said end should also improve state eign-owned auto plants in the US Bob Corker from Tennessee, and UAW President Bob King, REUTERS yesterday. finances, Zadjali. Oman is spending billions on Oman will continue to peg its infrastructure to diversify its currency, the rial, to the dol- economy, said Hamood Sangour lar, Zadjali said. The policy has UniCredit, Intesa Al Zadjali, and it hopes to attract anchored monetary policy and is more private investment. Projects helping to underpin the economy’s partner with KKR include a $1.8bn terminal at favourable outlook. “The rial is Muscat International Airport due strong because it’s pegged to the on loan rejig to be completed this year. dollar and we don’t expect the “We are building airports. We dollar to dip down,” he said. MILAN: Italy’s two biggest are building seaports, a lot of Foreign reserves managed by banks, Intesa Sanpaolo and roads are being built,” Zadjali the central bank stand at $16bn, UniCredit, have signed a deal said in an interview in Amman. up almost 10 percent year-on- with US private equity firm “Oman is like a huge workshop year, Zadjali said. KKR and restructuring adviser now ... this is generating increased Oman’s central bank will con- Alvarez & Marsal to create a economic activity.” tinue withdrawing liquidity from vehicle for restructured loans, a Analysts say government commercial banks, which are statement said yesterday. spending on welfare and sal- flush with cash. Deposits rose 11 An agreement to “jointly develop ary increases has also grown percent increase to OR15.3bn to and implement an innovative solu- since 2011, to placate protest- curb inflationary pressure and tion” has been signed and talks on ers demanding jobs and an end ensure monetary stability, Zadjali the details of the new partnership to corruption. Without the fiscal said. are ongoing, the four said in a joint reserves of its Gulf neighbours, Inflation was expected to aver- statement. The aim is to “optimise Oman has seen pressure growing age 2 percent in 2014, cushioned the performance and maximise on state finances. by expectations that global food the value of a selected corporate The International Monetary prices would remain at their loan portfolio under restructuring Fund warned Oman would need current levels, Zadjali said. It through proactive management to reform spending and find new fell to 0.6 percent year-on-year and additional funding at the asset revenue sources in coming few in February from 1.2 percent in level,” it said. years to avoid a series of balloon- January. Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit ing budget deficits. “Our inflation is imported, and together had billion of euros in The current trend of oil prices we see our import bill this year gross restructured loans in 2013. above $100 a barrel should help staying as it unless there will be The vehicle is expected to pro- to cover a shortfall in this year’s a catastrophic rise in food prices,” vide fresh capital for companies $35bn budget, which assumed Zadjali said. hit hard by a long period of reces- prices would average $85, Zadjali REUTERS sion in Italy. AFP

VIVA, BT join hands in Bahrain

VIVA CEO Ulaiyan Al Wataid (left) with British Telecom Vice President, Mena and Eastern Mediterranean Division, Wael El Kabbany (right) as Bahrain’s Minister of State for Telecommunication Sheikh Fawaz bin Mohammed looks on during a conference to announce the BT’s partnership with VIVA, a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Company Group, to build a global IP Exchange Interoperability Hub in Manama. WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Abu Dhabi Portugal due to exit bailout in May Commercial Exit plan unresolved as review kicks off; Possible standby EU loan focal point of troika talks Bank net profit LISBON: Portugal’s interna- ends is vital. The fund said on from its bailout without the need government was still mulling its Garcia said. “The market just tional lenders started yester- Monday the recent return of for a standby loan. But that is exit strategy, while pointing out wants to know that Portugal has climbs 15pc day their last evaluation of its economic growth had boosted is still unclear, and likely to be the country’s bond yields were a ‘rich uncle’. Europe has said it performance under its bailout, Portugal’s near-term prospects, a focal point of discussions dur- very close to where Ireland’s stood will stand by Portugal if it keeps DUBAI: Abu Dhabi Commercial with further reforms on the but more needed to be done to ing the review. The government about a month before it exited its working towards meeting its goals Bank reported a 15 percent agenda and the question of a free up the jobs market to cut has promised to define by May 5, rescue programme last December. and reinforcing this informal sup- increase in first-quarter net standby loan when it exits the labour costs and unemployment. when the eurozone’s finance min- Portugal’s benchmark 10-year port may be just enough.” profit yesterday, beating ana- programme next month still The Socialists agree the course isters are due to meet, whether bond yield hit its lowest level in Portugal has to cut its budget lysts’ expectations, as the lender unresolved. of fiscal discipline has to continue, it will follow Ireland by making a eight years of 3.68 percent on deficit to 4 percent of economic benefited from the improving In a sign of the review’s for- but reject further austerity, which clean exit from its €78bn bailout Thursday and was trading at 3.74 output this year after beating its local economic conditions. ward-looking bias, the inspectors the centre-right coalition govern- or request a precautionary loan percent yesterday. Ireland’s yields target with a 4.9 percent gap in The United Arab Emirates’ from the European Commission, ment will continue to apply this from the European Union to sup- were at just over 3.5 percent in 2013, and then to 2.5 percent in fourth-largest lender by assets European Central Bank and year and next on top of huge tax port its debt market funding. late November. 2015. It has to keep reducing the posted a net profit attributable to International Monetary Fund hikes and spending cuts already “The negotiation that mat- Today, Portugal will also hold budget gap to keep the structural shareholders of Dh953m ($260m) held one of their first meet- implemented under the bailout ters is with the European com- its first regular bond auction in deficit below 0.5 percent by 2017 in the opening three months of ings with the main opposition since 2011. ponent of the troika (of lenders) three years, which analysts see under the EU budget discipline 2014, up from Dh829.5m in the Socialists. Opinion polls put the Economic growth that ended about the (possible) precaution- as the last remaining element pact. The bailout programme is prior-year period. party on track to win next year’s Portugal’s worst recession since ary loan,” said Filipe Garcia, in its transition back to the debt due to end formally on May 17, but Analysts had estimated an general election. the 1970s, stoked by exports and head of Informacao de Mercados market. If successful the sale is the analysis of the last evaluation, average first-quarter profit of The IMF has said a political more recently a recovery in con- Financeiros consultants. likely to reinforce Portugal’s case which should last until the end of Dh853.1m. consensus on not raising expendi- sumer demand, has improved the Deputy Prime Minister Paulo for a clean exit. “I think it won’t April, and tranche payments will go UAE banks are expected to ture after the rescue programme country’s chances of moving on Portas said on Monday the be necessary to formalise a loan,” on until the end-June. REUTERS post strong profit growth in the first quarter, continuing the trend from 2013, as the local economy rebounds from a real estate crash and problems at Dubai sovereign- linked entities at the end of the last decade. Egypt’s SODIC posts On Monday, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank reported a 20.4 percent rise in earnings, citing higher lending. net loss of $64m First Gulf Bank and Emirates NBD are due to report their earn- ings for the first quarter today CAIRO: Egyptian property Badrawi said. Before accounting and tomorrow respectively. developer SODIC swung to a net for the one-off items, SODIC’s Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, loss of 447.1m Egyptian pounds normalised net income reached nearly 60 percent owned by the ($64m) last year, due to one-off 229m pounds, the firm said. Abu Dhabi government, saw a 10 items including a write-down on Last week SODIC ended a dis- percent increase in net interest its investments in Syria, man- pute with Egypt’s government, income as lower interbank lend- aging director Ahmed Badrawi agreeing to pay 900m pounds over ing rates and a growing deposit said yesterday. seven years after a revaluation of base from low cost sources cut The company had made a its Eastown development project interest expenses by a third, the net profit of 257m pounds a in Cairo. statement said. year earlier. Revenue in 2013 The Eastown project in New The percentage of deposits reached 1.324bn pounds, a 7 Cairo is twice the size of London’s made up of current and savings percent decrease on the year 97-acre Canary Wharf district accounts (CASA) grew to 46 per- before. “Operationally we had a and includes offices, shops and A passersby walks in front of a McDonald’s restaurant in the Brooklyn borough of New York. cent of the total at March 31 from very strong 2013 but that is not homes. The government had 32 percent at the same point of reflected in the actual figures sought to revoke SODIC’s rights 2013. CASA deposits are posi- reported because of these one-off over the land because of delays. tive for banks as they don’t have items,” Badrawi said. “The 900m will reduce the prof- McDonald’s profit dips as US sales slump to pay any interest on them, as The one-off items included a itability of Eastown a little but opposed to money borrowed from non-cash charge of 478m pounds we’ll try to make up for that by NEW YORK: Fast-food chain a year ago and came in three cents McDonald’s said the weakness the interbank market. related to the firm’s investments looking at the project econom- McDonald’s said yesterday its shy of Wall Street expectations. in sales came “amid challenging Impairment allowances in war-torn Syria. ics, increasing densities, increas- first-quarter profit dropped 5.2 Revenues rose 1.4 percent to industry dynamics and severe for the first quarter totalled “Our board decided it would be ing efficiency and if necessary percent amid declining sales in $6.70bn, slightly below estimates. winter weather.” The Oak Brook, Dh174m, down 46 percent from prudent for us to take an impair- increasing prices,” he said. its key US home market, and The home of the “Golden Illinois-based company is facing the Dh322m posted for the same ment for our investments in Syria The firm had already paid 100m vowed to boost global sales. Arches” said that in the United stiff competition in the fast-food period of 2013. ... On our books, it was reduced to pounds from the settlement and Profit for the first three months States, comparable sales — sales breakfast war in the US. As part of Loans and advances and depos- zero. So if anything negative hap- will pay the remainder in the of the year was $1.20bn compared of restaurants open at least a its fight back, the company kicked its were stable over the year-end, pens in the future we wouldn’t be coming six years in semi-annual with $1.27bn in the year-ago year — fell 1.7 percent in the off a two-week nationwide free chief executive Ala’a Eraiqat said impacted and if something posi- instalments, Badrawi said. period. Diluted earnings per share January-March period and oper- coffee promotion during breakfast in the statement. tive happens it would be a bonus,” REUTERS of $1.26 were down 4 percent from ating income dropped 3 percent. hours on March 31. AFP REUTERS

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.50 1.08% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.38 2.19% Aa2 AA Shandong orders 50 Boeing planes for $4.6bn Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 113.75 2.65% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 108.63 3.23% Aa2 AA BEIJING: Shandong Airlines, one of greater fuel efficiency. The manufacturer Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.38 4.65% Aa2 AA China’s smaller carriers, said it has will begin deliveries of the 737 MAX to glo- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 118.88 5.08% Aa2 AA agreed to buy 50 passenger planes from bal customers beginning in 2017, according Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 109.75 5.09% Aa2 AA US manufacturer Boeing for $4.6bn, in to Boeing’s website. Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.56 0.61% Aa2 AA another sign of the country’s growing Boeing could not be reached to confirm demand for air travel. the order, but it typically allows the cus- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 111.50 2.97% Aa2 AA The company signed a deal on Monday to tomer to make the announcement. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 102.38 0.77% A1 A- purchase 16 Boeing 737-800s and 34 Boeing Shandong Airlines aims to increase its Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.81% A1 A- 737 MAX planes, a statement said, in a fleet to more than 140 aircraft by the end drive to grow its fleet for future business of 2020, roughly doubling its total stock of QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 1.07% NR NR expansion. planes, China’s official Xinhua news agency QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.25 1.02% Aa3 A+ China’s commercial airline industry is late Monday quoted an airline official as QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.25 1.82% Aa3 A+ dominated by the “Big Three” — flag car- saying. It already operates 67 Boeing 737 rier Air China, China Eastern Airlines and planes. The airline, based in the eastern Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.25 1.98% A2 A- China Southern Airlines — but a move province of Shandong, will receive the air- Shandong Airlines flight at a Chinese airport. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.75 1.41% A2 A- towards greater competition has seen the craft in batches between 2016 and 2020, the Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 124.25 2.77% A2 A- growth of smaller players. statement said. and the Shandong Economic Development and Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 107.38 3.52% A2 A- The order represents a win for Boeing Shandong Airlines, established in 1994, Investment Co. Stock investors cheered the plane Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 104.13 4.54% A2 A- in the giant Chinese market and a vote of is controlled by the Shandong Aviation order. Shandong Airlines, which is listed on China’s Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 102.13 0.55% Aa3 A confidence in its newest family of single- Group which is backed by several govern- Shenzhen stock exchange, was up 3.54 percent by Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.63 2.98% Aa3 A aisle planes, the 737 MAX, which promises ment shareholders including Air China midday on Tuesday. AFP Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.63 3.77% Aa3 A SOVEREIGNS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P US gas prices at 13-month high Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.25 2.01% Aa2 AA Kuwait Oil posts Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.63 1.35% NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.88 2.19% NR NR KD1.13bn profits Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.38 3.34% NR NR Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.50 3.76% NR NR KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.63 0.42% Aa2 AA (KOC) said profits for 2013-14 Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 114.88 2.79% NR BBB fiscal year ending on March 31, Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 108.25 3.93% NR BBB amounted to KD1.13bn. KOC CEO Hashem Hashem Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 102.00 5.36% Caa1 B- said the board members met Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 106.38 3.38% NR BBB- earlier today to discuss the final statement and achievements of

*Periodic Distribution Amount the state-owned company in the IMPORTANT NOTE: 2013-14 fiscal year. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which Speaking to KUNA, Hashem is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services said KOC was looking forward to Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary increasing crude oil production data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not and developing the Jurassic gas take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds fields in northern Kuwait with can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant the objective of producing a billion liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not cubic feet of non-associated gas. a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. KOC, he added, also sought to develop heavy oil wells in north- ern Kuwait as well as increasing onshore and offshore explorations coupled with the use of state-of- Gabrielle Smith pumps gas at the Victory gas station yesterday in Florida. According to the Lundberg Survey, art technologies. the average price for a gallon of regular gas is now $3.69 — the highest price since March of last year. QNA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

More tower blocks, An expensive lottery ticket BY FELIX SALMON that computer engineers make particularly smaller slice of equity. While Magnetar was good entrepreneurs. Quite the opposite, in putting on its trades, the equity slice would not more luxury flats o Exit, the new book from fact: engineers tend to do quite well in struc- make money; when everything blew up, the Gideon Lewis-Kraus, should tured environments, where there are clear shorts made even more. be required reading for any- problems to solve, and relatively badly in the The Silicon Valley trade is also pretty close BY OWEN HATHERLEY body who thinks it might be a chaos of a startup, where the most important to being zero-sum. Even on a purely finan- good idea to found a start-up skills are non-engineering ones, like being cial basis, if you add up all the profits from henever a campaign wants to stop some new develop- Nin Silicon Valley. It shows just how miserable able to attract talent and investors. successful investments, they barely cover the ment it will use the phrase “tower block”. This isn’t the startup founder’s life is, and raises the Financially, starting up a company in losses on all the unsuccessful ones. But the what the developers would call them – they prefer question of why anybody would voluntarily Silicon Valley makes very little sense. You reality is much worse than that. Essentially W“stunning developments” or “luxury apartments”. subject themselves to such a thing. have a very high chance (indeed, a certainty) the way that the start-up ecosystem works is There is a national campaign afoot against new towers, specifi- A large part of the answer is that Silicon of having to scrape by on a very low income by taking the valuable labour of thousands of cally against the astonishing 230 mostly residential ones planned Valley is gripped by a mass delusion, com- in a very expensive city. At a time of your hopeful founders, and converting it into large for the capital. pounded by a deep “fake it til you make it” life when you should be out enjoying life and amounts of capital for a tiny number of suc- Inevitably, the campaign has referred to tower blocks and “the attitude toward success. Why do so many meeting friends and generally having lots cesses. And the message of the book is clear: mistakes of the 1960s” knowing this is emotive language, as if people in Silicon Valley want to be founders? of fun, you will instead be unhappily teth- the best possible outcome, in terms of the tower blocks are more scary than luxury flats, which is what Because every founder they meet is always ered to your laptop at all times. In return wealth, health, and happiness of the founders, these dozens of new towers all are. killing it, crushing it, having massive success, for sacrificing a six-figure salary elsewhere would be the latter. Their start-up fails, they Looked at in detail, it is clear that tower blocks and luxury flats just about to close a huge round, etc etc. At and general enjoyment of life, you’re given get their lives back. They can work for a living differ in almost every measure – who lives in them, how they look, some level, they must know this is impos- a lottery ticket: you get a minuscule chance and enjoy themselves and not stay stuck on who designs them, who owns them – except height. sible: if 90 percent of start-ups fail, it simply of making untold millions of dollars. But the evil start-up grind. If they do manage to Go and look at any area that has a lot of both “the mistakes can’t be the case that all of the start-ups is it so much nicer than the life of a well- raise their next round, that will only serve to of the 1960s” and “stunning riverside penthouses available now – they know are succeeding. But people tend paid computer engineer that you’re will- prolong their misery. off-plan luxury lifestyle” – Stratford in London, Salford, or the to believe the evidence of their own eyes, ing to give up your life, and hundreds of Founding a Silicon Valley start-up, then, centre of Sheffield, for example. and what they see is a combination of two thousands of dollars in foregone income, in is a deeply irrational thing to do: it’s a deci- Building mostly stopped in Sheffield in 2008, but the recently things: the founders they know all seem- order to have a tiny chance of grasping that sion to throw away a large chunk of your reclad towers south of the centre are typical tower blocks. There ingly doing great, and also a steady stream brass ring? So where does it come from, this precious youth at a venture which is almost are three of an identical design. Built with a concrete frame and of headlines showing other founders cashing intense Silicon Valley desire to buy the most certain to fail. Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley filled in with the local red brick, they are spaced out in a small out for millions or even billions of dollars. expensive lottery ticket in the world? ecosystem as a whole will happily eat you open square. On top of that, start-up founders have To find the answer, you have to look to the up, consuming your desperate and massively They are owned by, and were initially built by, the local council Silicon Valley cachet: they’re the stuff people running the lottery. In this case, those underpaid labour, and converting it into a and let to people on its waiting list – some of whom may since of legend. Everybody wants to be Mark people are the angel investors and venture few obscenely large pay checks for a hand- have cashed in their right to buy, taking the flats out of the public Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or Jack Dorsey. capitalists — the people who are throwing ful of extraordinarily lucky individuals. On sector and into the more expensive private rental market. There might be a generous pay check in ever-greater sums of money at ever-greater its face, the winners, here, are the people What makes them tower blocks is that they were built to a getting stuck on the Google bus for the next numbers of start-ups, in the knowledge that with the big successful exits. But after read- standard design by the city council’s architects department, with decade, but there sure ain’t any glory in it. the overwhelming majority of the companies ing No Exit, a different conclusion presents identical others elsewhere in the city. And so a huge number of incredibly well they fund will end up failing. itself. The real winners are the happy and Standards of insulation are higher now than in the 1960s so they qualified engineers, who in previous decades What we’re looking at here is basically the well-paid engineers, enjoying their lives and have been gradually clad. These ones have gone from red to grey. would have put their skills to work being a Magnetar Trade, in human form. Magnetar their youth while working for great compa- part of something much bigger than them- had a long/short relative-value strategy in nies like Google. In the world of start-ups, AFFORDABLE HOUSING? selves, instead decide to go it alone. the subprime market: it was short a lot of the only winning move is not to play. In the city centre itself are luxury flats – the Velocity Tower, There is no reason whatsoever to believe subprime securities, while also being long a REUTERS the iQuarter, the St Paul’s Tower – all of which have had trouble filling spaces too expensive for most in this city. Each is an indi- vidual design by a private architect; the names declare them as self-advertising products. Outside they boast asymmetrical cladding, and inside smaller, single-aspect flats. London and Salford have built a lot more luxury flats, but the contrast is the same. Salford has two major clusters of towers, one around the docks of the old Manchester Ship Canal, now known as Salford Quays, and another in Pendelton near the University of Salford. You can see the same contrast here: Pendleton has the standard design, is on a much larger scale and is repetitious and a little domineering; while at the Quays the contrast is in wonky-roofed attention grabbers, one residually public, one private, aimed often at BBC workers. You can also find the same contrast in actual quality of space. The Abito apartments on the quay boast of 17 square metre “microflats”, less than half the size of the average one-bedroom flat in Pendleton.

IS IT WORTH IT? Although luxury flats might have private security and cleaners making them look cosmetically nicer, their tenants and buyers are literally paying more for less. But London, where the 230 planned towers are being debated, shows the contrast especially starkly. In Stratford, the towers of the Carpenters Estate, narrowly saved from demolition by a local campaign, are surrounded by things called Icona, One Stratford and Sky View (“Galliard Homes’ most exclusive apart- ment opportunity”). They are roughly a similar size, but the standard, sober design of the Carpenters towers is alongside 10 or so confections of mul- ticoloured glass and trespa laminated cladding. Publicly owned 1960s towers aimed at solving London’s hous- ing crisis, with big flats let cheaply to those who need them, are surrounded by privately owned recent towers aimed at buy-to- let investors, with tiny flats let expensively to the few who can afford them. It is clear why people are opposing these towers of luxury flats, but it’s equally obvious we could really do with more tower blocks. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

China’s thorny state enterprise overhaul quietly moves forward

BY MATTHEW MILLER & Last week, CITIC Group Corp, China’s 113 central govern- to bring more non-government companies and Shanghai is set to elites. A political source who met YAN HUANG China’s flagship investment com- ment-controlled conglomer- capital to the firms they control transfer more state-owned assets Xi in private this year quoted him pany, detailed plans to inject its ates alone have borrowed ¥18tr and embracing new management to three asset management com- as saying implementing reforms ar from the spotlight, main operating business into the ($2.89tr) between 2008 and 2013, structures and incentives. panies the city has set up since had been “very difficult” due in in secretive high-level firm’s Hong Kong-listed subsidi- raising their debt-to-equity ratio The provinces of Guangdong, 2000. part to resistance from state- meetings and company ary CITIC Pacific Ltd in a $36.5bn 40 percentage points to 192 per- Anhui, Hunan, Guizhou and Economists expect those local owned firms. Fboardrooms, Beijing is deal that should improve the cent. That is on top of ¥32tr bor- Shaanxi along with the munici- initiatives to serve as a tem- Dong Minzhu, the chairwoman drawing up one of the country’s management and outside scrutiny rowed by 110,000 firms owned by palities of Shanghai, Chongqing plate for national-level reforms. and president of state-control- thorniest reforms: an overhaul of of the conglomerate. local governments, which raised and Tianjin and the city of Zhuhai Eventually, China’s central asset led household appliance maker China’s hugely inefficient state- During the last reform push, total state enterprise debt to have all announced privatisa- administrator could morph into Zhuhai Gree Group, now being owned industry. It shapes up as an the government sold off or closed about half of the country’s GDP. tion plans that are likely to vary an investment arm with a degree restructured by the Zhuhai gov- eclectic mix of pilot projects and thousands of firms, laying off “The financial leverage at SOEs depending on firms’ role and mar- of independence similar to ernment, voiced state managers’ initiatives rather than a single 30 million workers and cut- is too high,” said Steven Sun, head ket position. Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, misgivings about being cast as blueprint, which makes it harder ting the number of state firms of China equity strategy at HSBC In Guangdong, where state said Li Daokui, a Tsinghua those who stand in the way of to judge their progress than, for to around 110,000 from 260,000. Global Research. administrators oversee over ¥4tr University professor and former progress. example, regulation-driven finan- That boosted efficiency, opened Sun calculates China’s state- in assets, provincial leaders have central bank adviser. “What is right or what is cial liberalisation. room for private businesses and owned firms have spent all the announced they will diversify Some of China’s strongest con- wrong, I really can’t say,” Dong Yet taken together they prob- cemented China’s position as the cash flow generated from business ownership in 13 sectors, including glomerates are already reshaping told Reuters in an interview last ably mark the beginning of the world’s factory floor. This time, operations in the past five years transportation, electricity, health- their operations and ownership. month. “But if look at (who’s) biggest revamp of China’s state however, there is no one-size-fits- on capacity expansion, double the care and mining. The goal is to Besides CITIC, China paying taxes and improving the sector since late 1990s, when all solution. ratio for non-financial S&P 500 bring ¥100bn in private invest- Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or livelihood of our country, then I Beijing set out to shore up the “The situation is now different,” companies. ment by 2020. Sinopec, has announced a planned have to tell you that state enter- nation’s industry ahead of joining Li Yining, a Peking University Spearheading the government’s Guangdong, Hunan and spin-off of part of its marketing prises may be better.” the World Trade Organization. economist and a leading advo- restructuring efforts is one of six Guizhou are also allowing for the arm that could raise up to $20bn. Despite the pushback, many In recent weeks, some of cate of privatisation, told report- teams named by Xi Jinping as first time senior executives to own China’s state rail operator has economists are convinced there China’s top conglomerates have ers last month. He said resistance part of his comprehensive reform shares in firms they manage. said it will seek more outside is no turning back. announced spin-offs and restruc- from interest groups and insti- office. The team has already held Local governments are also investment and other big firms “Structural transformation turing plans, local authorities tutional inertia were the hardest several meetings, people familiar experimenting with using asset such as China Power Investment is a huge undertaking for any have begun experimenting with nuts to crack. There is no ques- with its activities say. management companies to act like Corp, and Baoshan Iron & Steel economy,” said Stephen Roach, a new management structures, tion that it is time for another Membership of the group value-driven institutional share- Co are also preparing restructur- senior fellow at Yale University and political sources say a group overhaul. In the five years since hasn’t been made public, but ana- holders rather than an extension ing plans. The pace of the over- and former Chairman of Morgan focused on state enterprises plays the global financial crisis, state lysts say that vice premier Zhang of government bureaucracy. haul will largely depend on Xi’s Stanley Asia. “In China it needs to a prominent role among six teams firms have grown bigger and more Gaoli may be in charge. In Chongqing, the government success in firming his grip on be viewed as a journey. The train that form President Xi Jinping’s dominant but also more indebted Provinces and major cities are aims to transform two state power and overcoming opposi- has left the station.” economic brain trust. and plagued by overcapacity. already running trials aiming firms into investment holding tion within political and economic REUTERS WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETS A List of Shares from the world

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Ahmed.Forg-B/D 155.85 1.85 34626 Colgate-A/D 1442.75 21.6 14489 Hind Unilever-/D 596.3 -2.9 68059 Kinetic Eng-B/D 38.5 0 3352 Ruchi Soya-B/D 36.75 2.05 373012 Next/D 6585 95 117934 Alembic-B/D 19.4 0 555104 Container Cor-/D 942 10.1 11269 Hind.Petrol-A/D 327.45 8.75 199787 Kopran-B/D 29.55 3.1 685175 Saur.Cem-B/D 22 0.4 5162 Pearson/D 1061 -1 387194 Alkyl Amines-B/D 283.1 -10.15 2314 Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 63.9 -0.45 10405 Hindalco-A/D 144.7 1.35 808266 Lakshmi Elec-B/D 231.7 -1.3 3234 Thirumalai-B/D 96.5 1.5 31348 Prudential/D 1333 9 878147 Alok Indus-B/D 7.75 -0.22 1143375 Dcm Financia-B/D 0 0 5100 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 874.55 -2.45 70860 Lakshmi Mach-B/D 3003.2 -16.25 2518 Timexgroup-B/D 11.31 0.31 48884 Rank Group/D 162.3 3.9 31153 Apollo Tyre-A/D 167.4 -9.9 549089 Dcm Shram Ind-/D 70.5 -2.95 4624 I F C I-A/D 26.1 0.2 725246 Lgb Broth-B/D 435 -4.9 3510 Tinplate-B/D 57.65 2.8 459191 Rentokil Initi/D 122.4 0.9 456431 Asahi I Glass-/D 61.2 0.65 13449 Dhampur Sugar-/D 45.85 0.35 15118 Idbi-A/D 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20760 Onward Tech-B/D 51 0.85 13718 Hsbc Holdings/D 617 -0.4 16488486 Chambal Fert-B/D 41.5 -0.45 41898 Goodyear I -B/D 423.85 -8.85 11692 Kabra Extr-B/D 37.45 1.45 2353 Orchid Chem-B/D 56.65 -1.25 242482 Imperial Tobac/D 2526.5 15 691408 WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Ex-Boston champion runs for love of city For Amby Burfoot it’s most exciting marathon ever

BOSTON: Amby Burfoot (pictured), the sure immediately that we wanted to come winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon, was back this year. We wanted to reclaim the race unable to complete last year’s race when two for the runners, for the people of Boston.” bombs ripped through the crowd at the finish While Burfoot was keen to take on the line.This year, the 67-year-old Burfoot is back, 2014 race, his body was not so willing. He running Monday’s race as a sort of public love said he had to overcome serious health prob- letter to the city and his favourite event. lems from October last year that left him in “Thank you, Boston Marathon fans, for a deep depression. “I was so sick I could not your 118 years of support for all runners, fast imagine that I would be able to run the Boston and slow alike. Without you, the Marathon Marathon. But on January 3rd, I started to wouldn’t be the amazing race that we cher- feel better. Every day since then, I’ve felt very Meb Keflezighi (left) of the United States and Rita Jeptoo of Kenya ish so much,” Burfoot wrote. He has printed good,” explained Burfoot, a thin man with gray after winning the 118th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, up 200 cards with his message and plans to hair, glasses and a beard. yesterday. hand it out to fans along the 26.2-mile course “My training is sufficient, it’s not superla- through the northeastern US city. “I made 200 tive. But it’s my most exciting marathon ever.” — I should have made 2,000,” Burfoot said in Burfoot ran with Team MR8, in memory an interview. “We know that it was the people of eight-year-old Martin Richard, one of the of Boston — fans and spectators — who were three people killed in last year’s attacks. killed last year, not the runners,” he said. The team has about 100 runners, including “We all feel terribly about what happened to several members of Burfoot’s family includ- the people of Boston last year and we want to ing his wife, his brother, his brother-in-law thank them this year for being so strong and and his future daughter-in-law. Team MR8 for healing the city, and we want to be part of has already raised nearly $1m for a founda- the healing process.” tion that promotes education, athletics and For Burfoot, Boston is a key part of his run- “We didn’t know what was happening at community service. While Burfoot, a native of ning career. Three years before his dream win, the point where we were stopped half a mile neighboring Connecticut, considers the cente- he made his race debut here in 1965. from the finish line. I was one of the 5,000 who nary Boston Marathon in 1996 “the greatest “That was 49 years ago and even then, I were stopped and they just said, ‘Go away’,” race in the history of the planet,” he said he was a student of the marathon. I always knew Burfoot recalled. believed Monday’s race would be much more I wanted to be a marathoner. For me, the He learned of the tragedy a few minutes emotionally significant. “The fans are the star Boston Marathon is the Holy Land— it’s the later when his terrified wife called, asking attraction,” said Burfoot. “We are 36,000 run- place I’ve always wanted to be,” he said. him to return to their hotel immediately. ners and we are lucky because we are going On April 15, 2013, he was less than a “Personally I was not scared by the experi- down the middle of a parade, with fans on both mile from crossing the finish line when the ence. We didn’t see or hear anything,” he said. sides of the road. All of us, we feel so lucky pressure-cooker devices packed with metal “But once we realised what happened, that that we are a part of this.” Ernst Van Dyk of South Africa holds the trophy after winning the men’s fragments — allegedly made and placed by the marathon had been disrupted in this hor- Burfoot finished the race in four hours, 42 wheelchair division. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — exploded. rific way, I think among the runners we were minutes and 48 seconds. AFP Blackhawks blank Blues 2-0 in Game 3

CHICAGO: After losing the first two games of a first-round NHL Results Western Conference play-off Results from the NHL Play-offs series in the National Hockey Quarterfinal games on Monday League against the St Louis Blues, a return to home ice was Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 the winning formula for the (Pittsburgh lead the best-of-seven series Chicago Blackhawks. by 2-1) An early goal from center and Colorado 0 Minnesota 1 team captain Jonathan Toews, cou- (Colorado lead the best-of-seven series by pled with an empty-net insurance 2-1) score with 20 seconds left by center St Louis 0 Chicago 2 Marcus Kruger, helped Chicago cut (St Louis lead the best-of-seven series by their series deficit to 2-1. Game 2-1) Four is also in Chicago tomorrow. Anaheim 0 Dallas 3 Toews missed the last two (Anaheim lead the best-of-seven series by weeks of the regular season with 2-1) an upper-body injury, and had been relatively quiet upon his the second time in the series. return for the first two games of The Blue Jackets won the the first round. Corey Crawford franchise’s first playoff game on stopped 34 shots in the shutout as Saturday and appeared set for the Blackhawks came alive. their second until Pittsburgh Brandon Sutter, Lee Stempniak struck three times in a two Vernon Fiddler (38) of the Dallas Stars battles for the puck against and defenseman Olli Maatta all minute, 13 second span in the Stephane Robidas of the Anaheim Ducks in Game Three of the First scored in the third period as the third period to take a 2-1 lead in Round of NHL Stanley Cup Play-offs in Dallas, Texas, yesterday. Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to the best-of-seven series. edge the Columbus Blue Jackets Center Mikael Granlund 4-3 and move ahead in their first- scored 5:08 into overtime as the Captain Jamie Benn, rookie in their first-round series with round playoff series. Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Valeri Nichushkin and center Anaheim. Dallas cut Anaheim’s Jermaine O’Neal (7) of the Golden State Warriors shoots over DeAndre Defenseman Brooks Orpik Avalanche to record their first Ryan Garbutt all scored goals as lead to 2-1 in the best-of-seven Jordan and Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers in Game Two of the also scored for the Penguins, who win of their playoff series after Dallas returned home and shook series with Game Four set for Western Conference Quarterfinals of NBA Play-offs in Los Angeles, came back from a 3-1 deficit for two losses in Denver. off two straight play-off losses tomorrow. REUTERS California, yesterday. Griffin leads Clips Astros beat Hernandez to end 7-game skid

SEATTLE: Off to one of the deficit to beat the Oakland A’s in third victory in five games. to thrash Warriors worst starts to a season on Baseball Results the opener of a three-game series. Wily Peralta gave Milwaukee offense in a decade, the Houston Baltimore 7 Boston 6 Relievers Jason Frasor, Neal six-plus badly needed innings and NEW YORK: Blake Griffin Astros busted out of their Cleveland 4 Kansas City 3 Cotts, Alexi Ogando and Joakin third baseman Aramis Ramirez scored 35 points as the Los NBA Results slump against one baseball’s Soria combined to blank the A’s (13- hit his third home run of the sea- LA Angels 4 Washington 2 Angeles Clippers thrashed WESTERN CONFERENCE best pitchers. Matt Dominguez 6) in the final three innings. Soria son as the Brewers beat the San Pittsburgh 6 Cincinnati 5 the Golden State Warriors in At Oklahoma City homered and drove in three runs posted his fourth save and Cotts Diego Padres. With the Brewers’ Chi White Sox 3 Detroit 1 Game Two of their Western Memphis 111 Oklahoma City 105 as the Astros broke a seven- picked up the win for Texas (12-8). bullpen in dire need of a day off Conference play-off matchup to (Series level 1-1) game skid with a 7-2 win over Atlanta 4 Miami 2 Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish after covering eight innings of even the series 1-1. Felix Hernandez and the Seattle NY Mets 2 St Louis 0 gave up three runs and eight hits Milwaukee’s 14-inning victory Griffin connected on 13 of 17 Mariners on Monday night. Chicago Cubs 5 Arizona 1 in six innings and received his third on Sunday in Pittsburgh, Peralta shots from the field and nine of third game on Thursday. Houston began the night with straight no-decision. struck out a season-high six. Milwaukee 4 San Diego 3 10 free throws while point guard Memphis had a nine-point lead a .192 batting average, the low- Cliff Lee and Jeff Manship 0Ryan Braun added a pair of Colorado 8 San Francisco 2 Chris Paul had 12 points, 10 assists in the fourth but let it slip before est for any major league team combined on a four-hit shutout to RBIs and the Brewers improved and six rebounds. Randolph scored the go-ahead through 19 games since the 2003 Texas 4 Oakland 3 lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a to a Major League-best 15-5. Point guard Stephen Curry led basket with 26 seconds left in Detroit Tigers (.180), according Houston 7 Seattle 2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Baltimore Orioles jumped Golden State with 24 points, scor- overtime as the Grizzlies ended to STATS. The Tigers went on to Philadelphia 7 LA Dodgers 0 After allowing three hits to on Boston Red Sox right-hander ing 20 in the second half when the the game on a 6-0 run. lose 119 games. The Astros col- the first five batters he faced, Clay Buchholz for six runs in the outcome was practically decided. Oklahoma’s Kevin Durant lected nine hits on Tuesday, five Dexter Fowler’s single in the Lee (3-2) retired 20 successive third inning, driving him from Zach Randolph scored 25 points led all scorers with 36 points on of which went for extra-bases, to fourth, Hernandez kept the Astros Dodgers (12-8). the game with just one out in the to lead the Memphis Grizzlies 12-for-28 shooting. He also made raise their average to .196. in check. Catcher Carlos Ruiz drove inning, on their way to a victory. past the Oklahoma City Thunder 11 rebounds and four assists. Early on, though, it appeared the Third baseman Kevin in four runs with a two-run Wei-Yin Chen allowed three in overtime of Game Two of their Guard Russell Westbrook Astros were headed for another Kouzmanoff went 2-for-4 with a double and a two-run homer. runs over five innings for first-round playoff series. added 29 points, eight assists and miserable night offensively after double and scored the go-ahead First baseman Ryan Howard Baltimore (9-9) and their bullpen The best-of-seven series is tied seven rebounds. Hernandez allowed just a walk run in the eighth inning as the added a two-run homer as the held off Boston (9-11) the rest of at 1-1 heading to Memphis for the AGENCIES to the first 12 batters. Even after Texas Rangers rallied from a 3-1 Phillies (9-10) posted their the way. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Al Shaqab grabs Champion Stallion’s title in Las Vegas Hariry Al Shaqab is strong candidate for the World Arabian Horse Show in Paris

DOHA: Al Shaqab, member of Qatar Foundation, contin- ued its impressive success in international Arabian Horse Show competition around the world, after the spectacular results achieved in the Arabian Breeders World Cup which was held recently in Las Vegas, USA, with a large international participation of the prominent and famous farmers and cleats from all over the world. Al Shaqab won gold medal in the stallion’s championship by Hariry Al Shaqab, who gave a great performance and sur- prised everyone, especially since Al Shaqab has prepared him to sit on the throne of the world of beauty. Hariry Al Shaqab is the son of Marwan Al Shaqab and White Silkk. Hariry Al Shaqab has won many Championship in the United States, and is a strong candidate to participate in the World Championship Arabian Horse Show which will be held before the end of the year in the French capital Paris. During The Arabian Breeders World Cup Victoria Al Shaqab, Al Shaqab delegation during the Arabian Breeders World Cup awarding ceremony in Las Vegas. daughter of Farhoud Al Shaqab and Victoria II HPS, won the silver medal in yearling filly cat- category. Moreover, Al Shaqab Al Shaqab delegation in The in addition to the rest of the support and encouragement for was a High-level test through the egory. Al Shaqab has participated was awarded the prize of the best Arabian Breeders World Cup group. Breeding and Show Department participation of farms from many with only Hariry Al Shaqab and breeder in the world for 2014, was composed of Mohammed Mohammed Al Sulaiti con- and Al Shaqab officials were countries, such as US, Britain, Victoria Al Shaqab, which shows which is the grand prize in the Al Sulaiti, Breeding and Show firmed that the achievements keen to reach the top and con- Brazil, Saudi Arabia, United the extent of success achieved by championship that confirms the Manager, Abdullah Al Kuwari, in The Arabian Breeders World tinue to maintain it. Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Poland, the win of stallions gold medal breeding excellence of Al Shaqab Breeding Specialist, and Majid Al Cup did not come from a vac- That is why the participation in Belgium and Chile. and silver medal in yearling filly in the world for Arabian horses. Kaabi, Head of Stable Operations, uum, but are the result of full The Arabian Breeders World Cup THE PENINSULA

European Ryder Nishikori makes Cup Points Table Tiger Woods to host new winning return BARCELONA: Japan’s Kei World points list Nishikori won his first clay 1. Sergio Garcia (Spain) ...... 203.86 match of the season return- 2. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) ...157.41 tournament for amateurs ing from a three week absence 3. Luke Donald (England) ...... 130.28 due to a groin injury with a 6-1, 4. Ian Poulter (England) ...... 122.96 NEW YORK: Tiger Woods at the end of the year. “My foun- Hill in Newport Beach, Calif., 4-6, 6-3 victory over Roberto 5. Justin Rose (England) ...... 102.97 (pictured), is hosting another dation provides really awesome Innisbrook in Florida and Myopia Bautista Agut to reach the European points list tournament, this one for rec- experiences, and this event allows Hunt north of Boston. third-round of the Barcelona reational golfers on courses all golfers to play cool courses for Most of the courses are pri- Open yesterday. 1. Victor Dubuisson (France) ...... 2,297,434 that include Merion and charity,’’ Woods said in an email vate, including Myopia Hunt The 24-year-old fourth-seeded 2. Jamie Donaldson (Wales) ...... 2,165,473 Congressional, and a gem north through his foundation. outside Boston, which hosted the Nishikori, who hadn’t played 3. Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) ...... 1,932,606 of Boston that a century ago Two-person teams can select US Open four times between 1898 since pulling out of his Miami 4. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) ...... 1,718,866 was reputed to be the toughest a regional qualifying tournament and 1908 and produced three of the Masters semi-final with Novak The top five in the world points list and the top US Open course. with a registration fee ($500 per highest winning scores in US Open Djokovic on March 28th, said he four in the European points list qualify automati- The Tiger Woods Foundation, player on most courses), a $1,000 history. The series was announced had felt no pain during the match cally for the team to play the United States in which has seven learning cent- charity pledge and a goal of fun- three weeks ago, and 31 donors which he won in just under two the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, Scotland from ers and funds the Earl Woods draising. The teams with the low already have signed up for Merion, hours against the 45th-ranked September 26-28. Scholarship Program, has been net and gross score from each where the US Open was played last Spaniard. AFP Captain Paul McGinley will also select three raising money primarily through site, along with any team that year for the fifth time. wildcard choices for his 12-man team after five events. There’s the Tiger Jam raises $10,000 or more, qualify “We wanted to reach out to a the Italian Open ends on August 31. in Las Vegas (a charity concert for the Charity Play-off Finals on new audience, amateur players, WTA Marrakech and poker night) and the Tiger December 1-2. who can play these great courses Woods Invitational (a private Finalists gets two days of golf, and raise money for charities,’’ designated by regional tourna- Results US Ryder Cup tournament for donors at Pebble two nights in the Four Seasons Foundation spokeswoman Emily ments, particularly if they don’t First Round: Estrella Cabeza (ESP) bt Beach). The foundation also ben- Resort at Walt Disney World Taylor said. Players can sign up at have a learning center. Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 6-3, 7-6 (7/2); Lara Points Table efits from the Quicken Loans Resort, a private exhibition with www.twcharityplayoffs.com. Woods isn’t just a golfer. He’s Arruabarrena (ESP) bt Urszula Radwanska National and Deutsche Bank Woods and clubhouse credentials Taylor said the foundation did the face of one of Wall Street’s (POL) 6-1, 6-3; Daniela Hantuchova (SVK 1. Bubba Watson ...... 6,258.984 Championship on the PGA Tour, to the World Challenge. The team not set a goal for how much money favourite sports. It’s no accident x1) bt Renata Vorácová (CZE) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5; 2. Jimmy Walker ...... 4,459.071 and his 18-man World Challenge that raises the most money will to raise. Proceeds are to benefit that some of the PGA’s biggest Shuai Peng (CHN x6) bt Ons Jabeur (TUN) 6-4, 3. Matt Kuchar ...... 3,925.333 in December. get pro-am spots in the three PGA the Tiger Woods Learning Centers sponsors are companies that cater 2-6, 6-1; Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Anastasia 4. Dustin Johnson ...... 3,759.812 The latest venture is called the Tour-sanctioned events for 2015. - the main one in Anaheim, Calif., to the higher economic class. Grymalska (ITA) 5-7, 6-1, 6-4; Alison Van 5. Jordan Spieth ...... 3,548.064 Tiger Woods Charity Playoffs. The first event is May 27 at one in Florida, two in Philadelphia It’s also no accident that the ad Uytvanck (BEL) bt Alexandra Cadantu (ROM) 6. Patrick Reed ...... 3,038.426 It’s an amateur golf series that Cascata in Las Vegas. Other and three in the Washington, spots seen during a golf tourna- 6-4, 6-1; María Teresa Torro (ESP) bt Bojana stretches over five months on courses are Congressional, DC, area - and the Earl Woods ment include the major financial Jovanovski (SRB x4) 6-2, 6-2; Garbiñe 7. Harris English...... 2,680.515 eight golf courses, and it rewards Merion, Trump National in New Scholarship Programme. Some services companies far more than Muguruza (ESP x5) bt Julia Glushko (ISR) 6-2, 8. Jason Dufner ...... 2,668.448 the best players and fundraisers Jersey, Sherwood Country Club of the money will be split among Larry the Cable Guy peddling 6-2; Stefanie Vögele (SUI) bt Silvia Soler (ESP) 9. Phil Mickelson...... 2,662.862 with a final event in Orlando, Fla., in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Pelican the foundation and charities acid reducers. AGENCIES 6-3, 6-2; Patricia Mayr (AUT) bt Elina Svitolina The top nine in the US points list qualify (UKR x2) 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-2. automatically for the team to play Europe in the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, Scotland from Bucharest ATP September 26-28. MEGARME to sponsor Summer League Golf Results PGA Tour FedExCup DOHA: MEGARME has Alex Lee, General Manager of First Round: Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) bt agreed to sponsor the 2014 MEGARME, Qatar, said: “Doha Nicolas Mahut (FRA x7) 6-3, 6-1; Carlos Berlocq Points Table Summer League at Doha Golf Golf Club is a fantastic facility for (ARG) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA x6) 6-0, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4); Lukas Rosol (CZE) bt Filippo Volandri (ITA) (US unless stated) Club by entering into an agree- all people from all walks of life ment to put their name to 10 fun offering a great deal back to the 6-1, 7-6 (8/6); Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Thomaz 1. Jimmy Walker ...... 2,046 events from June to September. community, which we are very Belluci (BRA) 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (8/6); Robin Haase 2. Bubba Watson ...... 1,840 MEGARME is the first and proud to be part of. As General (NED) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS) 6-4, 6-3; 3. Matt Kuchar ...... 1,436 longest standing IRATA Certified Manager of MEGARME we are Ricardas Berankis (LTU) bt Nikoloz Basilashvili 4. Patrick Reed ...... 1,364 Rope Access operator within the excited to be involved with Doha (GEO) 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-4; Victor Hanescu (ROM) 5. Dustin Johnson ...... 1,334 Middle East, established in 1993 Golf Club and we look forward bt Dudi Sela (ISR) 6-3, 6-4. 6. Harris English...... 1,290 now operating with a multi-dis- to continuing our support of a 7. Jordan Spieth ...... 1,173 ciplined workforce of over 500 great golf club and the great game Stuttgart WTA IRATA certified professionals. itself.” 8. Chris Kirk...... 1,152 Today the company is considered The first MEGARME Summer Results 9. Matt Every ...... 1,051 the leading Rope Access Service League event will be contested in 10. Zach Johnson ...... 1,040 Provider in the region… June and will feature upwards First Round: Carla Suarez (ESP) bt Ekaterina 11. Webb Simpson ...... 971 “We are very happy to welcome of 100 Doha Golf Club members. Makarova (RUS) 6-0, 6-4; Sara Errani (ITA x8) bt Klara Koukalova (CZE) 6-3, 6-4; Svetlana 12. Kevin Stadler ...... 936 MEGARME into our family of As part of the sponsorship, there Kuznetsova (RUS) bt Gioia Barbieri (ITA) 6-2, 13. Ryan Moore ...... 902 sponsors here at Doha Golf Club will be a total of 10 eventsbetween and look forward to establishing a June and September with many 6-3; Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Annika Beck (GER) 14. Will MacKenzie ...... 880 6-3, 6-2; Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) bt Ajla close relationship with them over work closely with MEGARME to various resources and marketing fantastic prizes up for grabs. 15. John Senden (Australia) ...... 844 Tomljanovic (CRO) 6-2, 6-4. the course of the year. We will raise their brand awareness using channels” THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Fifty One East official sponsor of Emir Cup

QFA and leading retail chain in Qatar sign three-year deal Qatar girls pose after a football training session organised as part of the ‘Girls Kick it’ initiative under the auspices of the Qatar Women’s Sport Committee. DOHA: Fifty One East, the leading retail chain in Qatar and Sony, the prominent consumer electronics brand, have further strengthened their support of Women in Qatar the annual Emir Cup football by signing a new three-year part- nership with the Qatar Football eager to join football Association (QFA) as the official sponsor of the Emir Cup. Fifty One East and Sony have been associated with the event training, says Staab since 2011 and the extended offi- cial sponsorship reaffirms once again their commitment towards DOHA: ‘Are women allowed to of school girls want to play and the country’s sports events in play football?’ reads the headline have talent, but some of them general, and the most popular of an article by Julia Gerlach in are not allowed to play because sporting event that attracts foot- the German newspaper Berliner of their families. After a summary ball fans from across the state of Zeitung. of Staab’s career as a player and Qatar. The answer comes in the intro- then coach and FIFA adviser, Fifty One East and Sony sup- duction, where the Cairo-based the German coach says: “The big port, strongly, the Emir Cup journalist writes: ‘The Qatari difference between our start of tournament by running different government says yes, because women’s football in Germany and promotional campaigns as well they take the path into a mod- the situation here is that here in as organising different activities ern future. And promotes in that Qatar we have the support of the that entice competition and thrill way the World Cup 2022 in their government.” football fans. country.’ The author writes With the football season com- After describ- that: ‘In Qatar peo- ing to a close with the Emir ing a scene from ple are proud to be Cup final, it provides football the training ses- more modern (than fans with one final event to cel- sion of the wom- in neighbouring ebrate the best of football tal- en’s national team Saudi Arabia) with ent in Qatar competing for the in Doha, the coach regards to women’s impressive title. Monika Staab (pic- rights and the role of The most watched local football tured) is quoted as the woman.’ tournament brings together the saying: “Isn’t this “I have to say top clubs who play over five stages, great? Football is I feel bad when with the first phase reserved for good for women, I read Western the low-ranked sides. Bader Al Darwish (left), Chairman and Managing Director of Darwish Holding and Saoud Al Mohannadi, Vice because it encour- papers which say Saoud Al Mohannadi, Vice President of Qatar Football Association, exchanging documents during an agreement signing function in ages them to find that women have President of QFA highlighting the Doha yesterday. their place in soci- no rights here,” says partnership said: “Our strategic ety. Women are Mead Al Emadi, ‘We relation with Sony-Fifty One East also good for the are a young country started 3 years ago; the extension which bears the name of His our long term partnership with them the very best for another game, because they that is not stuck in of this partnership for another Highness Sheikh Tamim bin the QFA to support the most exciting edition,” he said. “We are better team the past.’ three years is an indication of the Hamad Al Thani, therefore, we prestigious event in Qatar. The have since our association worked players and give the The article con- deep rooted relation we have. Our are confident that you will cover Emir Cup provides an amazing towards promoting the Emir Cup game new dynamics.” tinues: ‘She is fed up of the partners have prepared a com- it in a unique way this year and opportunity to showcase promis- in the best possible way, in com- Following a list of criticisms of criticism of her country and the prehensive promotion plan for the portray the true values of foot- ing local talent and is an impor- plete and continuous coordina- the country including workers’ World Cup, but professional and Emir’s Cup in its 42nd version in ball through your media organi- tant platform to further support tion with our partners at QFA rights and bribery allegations, reacts diplomatically: “We don’t a different and innovative style, sations. You are without a doubt and promote the future of football to execute many activities and the article points out that: ‘At see things as a problem, because and that indicates the responsi- an important partner that con- in the country. events in the past, and during the the moments the signs are good: we find a solution for everything.” bility and big role they play. With tributes to the success of this “Our sponsorship highlights coming tournament. I would like especially because of the World The author concludes Fifty One East, we always look for significant tournament and are our commitment to be part of to invite all football fans, Qataris Cup and specifically because with a quote from Nasser Al innovative and creative promotion important factor in spreading the the nation’s sporting legacy, help- and expats, to attend the matches Qatar is being criticised, there is Khater, Executive Director of campaigns that attract Qataris right messages about the Emir ing position it as a leading des- and support their favorite clubs,” a lot of good will from the side of Communications and Marketing and expatriates to the matches.” Cup.” tination for global excellence, as he added. the government, to place positive at the Supreme Committee for Addressing the media the Bader Al Darwish, Chairman Qatar prepares to host the world’s The final match of the Emir signs. In women’s football and in Delivery and Legacy: “The World attending the conference Al and Managing Director of biggest sporting extravaganza in Cup will take place on May general.’ Cup is more than a mega event Mohannadi added: “You have Darwish Holdings, said: “Football 2022. We look forward to sharing 17 and will be held at Khalifa The feature article traces the for Qatar. ‘It is a catalyst for our always shown us the best coverage is the most popular sport in the many successes together with the International Stadium. development of the Qatari wom- development.” for this prestigious tournament, region and we are proud to extend QFA in the coming years and wish THE PENINSULA en’s national team and how a lot THE PENINSULA Easy win for Kings XI Punjab Top court urges new SHARJAH: Glenn Maxwell could well be the luckiest man in the cricketing world at the moment if Kings XI Punjab’s encounter against Sunrisers corruption probe into IPL Hyderabad is anything to go by. Two teams have been at the NEW DELHI: The Supreme installed batting Indian great receiving end of his brutal assault Court yesterday urged a tough Sunil Gavaskar, who is charged Farbrace and Hyderabad yesterday could new investigation into allega- with overseeing the latest edition have avoided that fate had their tions of spot-fixing and illegal of the IPL. resigns as Sri Australian signing David Warner betting in the Indian Premier Srinivasan is still set to take not grassed a sitter when Maxwell League cricket competition over in July as head of the was on 11. after months of controversy. International Cricket Council. Lanka coach From then on, it was all about The top court said it wanted the The panel has been looking into Maxwell whose only disappoint- country’s investigation agencies allegations surrounding last year’s COLOMBO: Sri Lanka head ment from the game could be to team up with its own three- IPL, when former Test bowler coach Paul Farbrace has the fact that on a third succes- member panel appointed last year Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was resigned and is set to take up sive occasion, he missed out on a to probe the allegations into the caught deliberately bowling badly the position of assistant coach hundred. popular Twenty20 competition. while playing for the Rajasthan of England, Sri Lanka Cricket He ended up with 95 runs but The panel, led by former judge Royals in return for thousands of said yesterday. not before hitting nine sixes, Lakshmipathy Balaji (centre) of Kings XI Punjab celebrates with team- Mukal Mudgal, has already pro- dollars from bookmakers. Farbrace made it known to five boundaries leading Kings XI mates during their Indian premier league match against Sunrisers duced a damning report which The panel’s report concluded Sri Lanka Cricket that he no Punjab to a big 72 runs win over Hyderabad, in Sharjah, yesterday. lists 13 people, including Indian that Srinivasan’s son-in-law longer wanted to continue with Sunrisers Hyderabad, their third cricket boss N. Srinivasan, who Gurunath Meiyappan -- who was his present position after being straight win in IPL 7. has been forced to stand aside in the team principal of the Chennai offered the chance to become Sunrisers Hyderabad had Scoreboard the wake of the scandal. Super Kings -- could be guilty of assistant to England’s newly- established a reputation of being Justice AK Patnaik said he illegal betting on IPL games. appointed coach Peter Moores. good defenders in IPL 6 while KINGS XI PUNJAB D A Warner c Maxwell b Balaji...... 8 wanted the new investigation The Super Kings are owned by He had served only four months this season Kings XI Punjab have C A Pujara c V Rao b Sammy ...... 35 K L Rahul c Miller b Patel ...... 27 to look further into allegations India Cements, whose managing of his two-year contract with made light work of huge totals in V Sehwag c Sammy b Mishra ...... 30 Y Venugopal Rao b Sandeep Sharma ...... 11 contained in a sealed section of director is Srinivasan. The team Sri Lanka Cricket during which their previous two games. G J Maxwell c Sammy b Mishra ...... 95 I K Pathan b Patel ...... 5 the report -- which has not been is captained by India skipper time he led them to the World Yesterday, Sunrisers Hyderabad D A Miller c Warner b Kumar ...... 10 D J G Sammy c Patel b Balaji ...... 15 made public and which deals with Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Twenty20 title in Bangladesh. is skipper Shikhar Dhawan G J Bailey c Warner b Kumar ...... 10 K V Sharma c Miller b Johnson ...... 10 the 13 people. The court had asked the BCCI “We had talks with Paul and thought differently after winning M G Johnson b Kumar ...... 4 D W Steyn b Balaji ...... 12 “We want to know from the itself to investigate the panel’s tried to convince him to stay the toss and opted to field first. A R Patel (not out) ...... 0 A Mishra (not out) ...... 4 Mudgal panel if they are willing to report. But after hearing legal because of the valuable contribu- Led by Maxwell, KXIP posted Extras (LB-5, W-3, NB-1) ...... 9 B Kumar c Johnson b Dhawan ...... 1 continue investigations,” Patnaik arguments on Tuesday against tion he has made to Sri Lanka 193/6 and later put up a supe- Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 193 Extras (LB-3, W-3, NB-2) ...... 8 told the court. the BCCI’s proposed list of names cricket during his short tenure,” rior show with the ball, led by Fall of wickets: 1-51, 2-86, 3-154, 4-179, Total (all out in 19.2 overs) ...... 121 The court has accused to head the probe, the court asked Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Lakshmipathy Balaji (4/13), to 5-189, 6-193. Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-31, 3-33, 4-49, 5-74, Srinivasan, seen as the most if the Mudgal panel was willing to Nishantha Ranatunga said. bowl them out for 121 in 19.2 Bowling: D W Steyn 4-0-26-0 (1w); B Kumar 6-93, 7-95, 8-114, 9-118, 10-121. powerful man in world cricket, take over. “Paul wanted time till today to overs. Chasing a huge total under 4-0-19-3; I K Pathan 2-0-28-0; K V Sharma Bowling: Sandeep Sharma 4-0-26-1 (1w); M of effectively turning a blind Former judge Mudgal later told reach a final decision and he has lights, Sunrisers Hyderabad 4-0-37-0 (1w); A Mishra 4-0-56-2 (1w); D J G G Johnson 4-0-26-2 (2nb); L Balaji 4-0-13-4 eye to the allegations that have media that he would be happy to tended his resignation.” needed their top order firing on Sammy 2-0-22-1 (1nb). (1w); R Dhawan 2.2-0-23-1 (1w); A R Patel embroiled the IPL since last year. head another investigation. Farbrace’s name was linked to all cylinders. None of the batsmen SUNRISERS HYDERABAD 4-0-20-2; G J Maxwell 1-0-10-0. The court last month ordered “We have given our consent, it Moores when the England and got even a whiff of a start and A J Finch b Balaji ...... 19 Player-of-the-Match: G Maxwell (Kings XI Srinivasan to stand aside as is entirely for the Supreme Court Wales Cricket Board (ECB) began they ended losing by 72 runs. S Dhawan c Saha b Johnson ...... 1 Punjab). president of the Board of Control to decide,” Mudgal told the CNN- interviewing a list of candidates AGENCIES for Cricket in India (BCCI). It IBN channel. AFP to succeed Andy Flower. AFP WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Team staff Al Attiyah, Baumel tackle linked to Armstrong doping get Qatar terrain with ease long bans

NEW YORK: Lance Sealine Cross-Country Rally: Sunderland, Abu Issa claim stage wins Armstrong’s former cycling team manager Johan Bruyneel, doctor Pedro Celaya and trainer SEALINE: Qatar’s Nasser Jose “Pepe” Marti have all been Saleh Al Attiyah, Dubai-based handed long bans from sport Briton Sam Sunderland and for their involvement in dop- Qatar’s Mohamed Abu Issa won ing, the United States Anti- the punishing 396.46km second Doping Agency (USADA) said selective section of the 2014 yesterday. Sealine Cross-Country Rally Bruyneel was banned for 10 yesterday. years, while Celaya and Marti Al Attiyah, Spaniard Marc got eight-year bans after the Coma and Abu Issa hold the out- decision by the American right leads in the car, motorcycle Arbitration Association North and quad categories. American Court of Arbitration Al Attiyah and French co- for Sport (AAA), USADA said in driver Matthieu Baumel led from a statement. start-to-finish in their Mini All4 The trio all worked for Racing and managed to extend Armstrong’s US Postal Service their overall lead to 24min 29sec team (USPS), which changed its over Saudi’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi name to Discovery Channel after and his German co-driver Timo a change of sponsors in 2005, and Gottschalk in an Overdrive opted for arbitration when the Toyota Hilux. charges were originally levelled “It was a good day, no prob- against them in June 2012. lems,” said Al Attiyah. “The evidence establishes con- “To be the first car and open clusively that Mr. Bruyneel was the road is not easy, but the feel- at the apex of a conspiracy to ing with the car was incredible. commit widespread doping on Matthieu did a great job for the the USPS and Discovery Channel second day. I pushed hard and teams spanning many years and I knew this would be a test for many riders,” said the statement. him as well. But it was a good “Similarly, Dr. Celaya and Mr job. Maybe I soften the rear sus- Marti were part of, or at least pension tomorrow to make the allowed themselves to be used as wheels travel better over the instruments of, that conspiracy.” rocky ground, but I am not wor- American Armstrong was ried about opening again. I am stripped of his seven Tour de very happy,” Al Attiyah added. Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and French co-driver Matthieu Baumel drive their Mini All4 France titles and given a lifetime Al-Rajhi was upbeat despite Racing on day two of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally. RIGHT: Al Attiyah, the 2011 Dakar Rally ban for doping in 2012, finally losing his way three times. champion, smiles after retaining his overnight lead. admitting his use of banned sub- “I started well and was driving stances in a TV interview with well,” said Al-Rajhi. Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. “Then we lost our way. It is Al Attiyah continued to edge Two other doctors connected to easy to do that in Qatar. There Britain’s clear of his rivals and was 40sec Positions After the team, Spaniard Luis Garcia were three Minis going round and Dubai-based quicker than Al-Rajhi to the del Moral and Italian Michele round until one of us found the rider Sam checkpoint. Stage Two Ferrari, were handed lifetime track. I lost four or five minutes, Sunderland Sunderland continued to edge bans from professional sport by but the goal was to be in front navigates clear of the pack in virtual terms Cars USADA in July 2012. of Vladimir (Vasilyev) and I am on rocky at PC2 and PC3. The Briton was 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu USADA’s 2012 report said the doing that, so that’s okay.” terrain on day comfortably quicker than Paolo Baumel (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 43min USPS team had run “the most Overnight motorcycle leader two of the Goncalves, as the tail-enders 21sec sophisticated, professionalised Joan Barreda was always going to in the leading group continued and successful doping programme Sealine Cross- 2. Martin Kaczmarski (POL)/Filipe Palmeiro struggle opening the stage and he to close in on the front-run- the sport has ever seen”. Country Rally (PRT) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 54min 36sec reached the finish in sixth posi- yesterday. ners. By PC3 and PC4, Barreda, Belgian Bruyneel is a former tion, as Sunderland claimed the Coma, Goncalves, Viladoms and 3. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk (GER) professional cyclist who was team stage win and climbed from sev- Sunderland were riding close Toyota Hilux 3hr 55min 16sec manager for all of Armstrong’s enth overall to fifth. together and Al Attiyah extended 4. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov seven Tour de France wins from “It looks good on paper to have his advantage over Al-Rajhi to (RUS) Mini All4 Racing 4hr 04min 22sec 1999 to 2005. won the stage, but the strategy 6min 29sec in the car category. Often described as Armstrong’s 5. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) and the tactics mean that I will Sunderland held on to take the right-hand man, Bruyneel enjoyed Toyota Hilux 4hr 07min 57sec lose it all again tomorrow,” said stage win and reduce some of the further success with Astana in Sunderland. damage his navigational problems 6. Adam Malysz (POL)/Rafal Marton (POL) 2008-9 before moving to run the “Nice stage, tricky navigation had caused on Monday, but it was Toyota Hilux 4hr 12min 55sec RadioShack team, a position he and it’s good to get the stage win, on the navigation. To lead the Three quads, 15 motorcycles and Faria’s turn to lose his way on the 7. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin resigned from when USADA pub- but this rally had no Prologue and way for 400km is never easy. 20 cars started the special. second stage and the Portuguese (BRA) Toyota Hilux 4hr 18min 24sec lished its report into Armstrong’s my seeding position was not really Temperatures were not a factor, A fire had badly damaged plummeted out of contention for doping. 8. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Andreas Schulz favourable, so I’m back to square but the sand is more compact in Saudi driver Ahmed Al-Shegawi’s the win after taking a wrong “I do not dispute that there are (GER) Mini All4 Racing 4hr 24min 29sec one again.” the mornings and that helps a lot. Chevrolet Buggy on Monday track early on. certain elements of my career Coma holds the unofficial lead. I will just keep going and see.” afternoon and he retired. He finished the stage before Bikes that I wish had been different, “Today was a better rhythm Qatar’s Abu Issa was in inspired Sonik was awarded a five- any other rider, but could look 1. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 4hr 22min nor do I dispute that doping was and a better balance for me,” form on his Honda quad and he minute time penalty after stage forward to over 25hrs of time 22sec a fact of life in the peloton for a said the four-time Dakar winner. managed to catch and ride with one by race officials for having a penalties at the bivouac. considerable period of time,” the “It’s a case of finding the balance Poland’s Rafal Sonik to extend missing time card and he slipped “I lost the way very early and 2. Paolo Goncalves (PRT) Honda CRF 450 4hr 49-year-old said in a statement between speed and concentrating the lead he inherited on Monday behind Abu Issa and Adel Hussein came back into the stage to reach 24min 26sec on his website (www.johanbru- evening when Sonik incurred a in the quad rankings. the finish, but it’s over now for me 3. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) KTM 450 4hr 30min yneel.com). Spectator Vantage five-minute time penalty. Car drivers Holowczyc and with all the waypoints I missed,” 29sec “However, a very small minor- Adel Hussein Abdullah was Al-Rajhi were handed one-minute admitted the Portuguese. 4. Helder Rodrigues (PRT) Honda CRF 450 4hr ity of us has been used as scape- running well behind the leading time penalties for minor speeding Al Attiyah reached the stage 30min 52sec goats for an entire generation. Point duo in third place. violations. finish 11min 15sec in front of his There is clearly something wrong Day 3 - today “I started two minutes behind The special stage started to nearest rival in the car category 5. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 4hr 32min 25sec with a system that allows only six SS3 - 144.11km (1st bike Rafal (Sonik) and managed to the far south-west of Doha and to record a second stage win from 6. Joan Barreda (ESP) Honda CRF 450 4hr individuals to be punished as ret- 08.15hrs/1st car 09.15hrs) catch and ride with him,” said headed north through the desert Pole Martin Kaczmarski. Al-Rajhi 34min 23sec ribution for the sins of an era.” Doha/Salwa Road Abu Issa. “Then, after 178km, at along the western coast, before lost time between PC2 and PC3 7. Mohammed Al-Balooshi (ARE) KTM 450 5hr Bruyneel, who did not give evi- Follow Salwa Rd until the last the refuel, I got fuel in my goog- turning south, passing under the with navigational errors and 04min 36sec dence in the arbitration hearings roundabout before the Saudi les and they began to melt. I had Salwa Road, and then east across finished the stage in third, but in London in December, said he Quads border. The competitors will to ride on without goggles until the south of the country to a finish moved up to second overall. continued to dispute USADA’s pass the roundabout on a speed Rafal lent me a pair of googles. It 4.85km from the Sealine bivouac. Today, competitors will tackle 9. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 5hr 23min jurisdiction over him and might control zone (maximum speed of was not comfortable at all today, Sunderland was in fine form the longest stage of the entire 08sec still appeal to the Court of 50 km/h) going towards the sea. but I managed to keep the lead.” early on and was 55sec quicker event – a torturous 411.76km loop 10. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Honda TRX 680 Arbitration for Sport (CAS). After the end of the tarmac they The 396.46km second selective than nearest rival Rodrigues to stage through southern Qatar – 5hr 25min 07sec Pedro Celaya was USPS doc- go full speed on a very interest- section included four passage con- PC1 and Abu Issa had extended with the first bike reaching the tor from 1997 to 1999 before being ing track parallel to the sea and trols at the 29.75km, 130.03km, his virtual lead over Sonik by start at 5.45am. TBA. Adel Hussein (QAT) Yamaha Raptor 700 replaced by fellow Spaniard Del the highway. 178.67km and 244.93km points. 2min 11sec in the quad category. THE PENINSULA TBA Moral. He returned to the team in 2004. “The panel found that Dr. Poland’s Rafal Sonik and Qatar’s Mohamed Abu Celaya possessed and adminis- Issa in quad action on day two of the Sealine tered doping products, including Cross-Country Rally. EPO, blood transfusions, and cor- tisone,” the statement said. Spaniard Marti, who also refused to testify in front of the three-member arbitration panel, was a trainer for the team from 1999 to 2007 before going on to work under Bruyneel at Astana. He was accused by USADA of delivering banned substances “including EPO, testosterone, human growth hormone and cor- Qatar’s Adel tisone” from Valencia to riders Hussein around the world and assisting prepares for with the use of them. SS2 at the The AAA panel “confirmed Sealine camp. that” USADA had the author- PIC: DAVY ity to bring the cases because PATTERSON. it had discovered the violations, USADA’s statement said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

ACL: Elkeson Bayern, Real puts champs Guangzhou into last 16 BEIJING: A first-half dou- renew rivalry ble from Brazilian striker Elkeson rescued title-hold- ers Guangzhou Evergrande Ancelotti wary of risking Ronaldo in semis from possible elimination and sent them into the AFC Champions League last 16 MADRID: The last thing Real “Yes Madrid have a certain yesterday. Madrid wanted was another Champions League advantage in that respect,” Marcello Lippi’s injury-hit Champions League semi-final Guardiola, whose side have tournament favourites had clash against Bayern Munich Semi-final Fixtures lost twice and drawn once in been in danger of bowing out and today they will need to get LONDON: Champions League four outings since securing the but they shrugged off the the better of a familiar foe who semi-final, first-leg fixtures Bundesliga, told Marca. pressure to beat Yokohama very much appears to have their (all matches 1845 GMT) “We won the league much ear- F Marinos 2-1 in their final number. Playing today lier and that meant our rhythm group game. Pep Guardiola, whose Bayern dropped a little but we will try Guangzhou were joined by Real Madrid vs Bayern side play their last four, first leg to get back to our level as soon 2006 winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Munich at the Bernabeu, was appointed as possible. Motors, who survived a late as coach of the German champi- through on penalties after the tie “But that’s a normal thing penalty shout to draw 0-0 with ons at the end of last season after ended 3-3 on aggregate but lost to because we were playing league Melbourne Victory and escape taking a year out to recover from Chelsea in the final. games with nothing at stake. an ultra-tight Group G on goal a trophy-laden but draining four “Every time I have gone to the “Madrid’s enthusiasm will difference. years in charge of Real’s arch- Bernabeu, as a player and as a be greater than ours right now Earlier in Group H, Western rivals Barcelona. coach, I have never in my head after winning the Cup final but Sydney Wanderers beat During his time as a Barca gone there as the favourite,” we will try to be competitive at Guizhou Renhe 5-0, the biggest player and coach, Guardiola sel- Guardiola was quoted as saying the Bernabeu.” win by an Australian club in dom tasted defeat against the in Spanish sports daily Marca on Guardiola’s Real counterpart the competition, to reach the Madrid club and his all-conquer- Saturday. Carlo Ancelotti, in his first season knock-outs on their tourna- ing team dispatched Real in the “I have too much respect for in charge, is waiting on the fitness ment debut. last four of Europe’s elite club them,” added the 43-year-old, of top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo, And Japan’s Kawasaki competition in 2010-11 before whose Bayern side have already who has missed the last four Frontale also progressed when going on to win the final against wrapped up another Bundesliga matches due to knee and muscle they were 3-1 winners at home Manchester United. title and are still in with a chance problems in his left leg. Real Madrid’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo and team-mate Gareth Bale against Ulsan Hyundai, the His coaching record against of repeating last season’s treble The Portugal captain, the lead- practise during a training session on the eve of the UEFA Champions 2012 champions who paid the Real was an impressive nine wins, of Champions League, Bundesliga ing marksman also in La Liga this League semifinal football match at the Valdebebas training centre in price for losing their last three four draws and two defeats, while and German Cup. term, has been training hard this Madrid, yesterday. games. as a player in 14 La Liga meetings “Madrid deserve a lot of respect week, suggesting he should be able Last week’s shock loss to he won six, drew five and lost only for all their history. They are to play a part today. Victory had left World Cup- three. always a strong team whoever is “Cristiano has trained normally recurrence of the injury he will Bale also overcame flu-like winner Lippi’s much-admired Despite having the statistics the coach because they have a lot today and has trained well in the not play because we need to think symptoms to train yesterday and Guangzhou in the perilous firmly on his side, Guardiola is behind them: great players, fans past few days. Tomorrow we will that this is a tie of two games and Ancelotti believes he is enjoying his position of being level with too wily to take Real lightly and and a great history.” have another test with him to will not be decided tomorrow. The best run of form since Los Blancos all three of their group rivals he will know how desperate the Guardiola conceded that his be sure and then we will take a decisive match in the tie will come paid a reported world record fee on points with one game Spaniards are to win the record- players had gone off the boil in decision,” Ancelotti told his pre- next Tuesday.” to bring him to Madrid from remaining. extending 10th European crown the Bundesliga since winning the match press conference yesterday. In Ronaldo’s absence, Gareth Tottenham Hotspur last year. a tournament-record tally they have been chasing since their title last month. “He will play if everyone can be Bale has come to the fore as the “He is very happy at the by an Australian side with a last continental triumph in 2002. Real, fresh from beating Barca assured that he can play without Welshman has struck three times moment. Yesterday he had a rush of goals late in the sec- They will also be itching to in Wednesday’s King’s Cup final any problem. We are confident at in the last four games, including small problem, but today he was ond half. avenge their last-four reverse and still in the fight for La Liga, the moment, but the decision will a sensational solo run and finish fine and has the confidence and The Wanderers scored four to Bayern in the 2011-12 sea- may have something of an edge, be taken tomorrow. to win the Copa del Rey for Real enthusiasm the whole team has in 13 minutes with Labinot son, when the German side went he added. “If there is a risk of a against Barcelona last week. at the moment. AGENCIES Haliti seizing on a poor back- pass to the goalkeeper and Aaron Mooy converting a pen- alty after Michael Beauchamp had his jersey tugged by Guo Studious Giggs set for another reinvention Sheng. Japanese superstar Shinji LONDON: Following a record- Old Trafford hot-seat, then occu- Ferguson, who retired last year, However, Giggs lasted only 45 Ono lit up Parramatta breaking playing career, pied by Alex Ferguson. he saw his playing time diminish minutes of the quarter-final first Stadium with an unstoppable Ryan Giggs is poised to enter “He’s looking at that United job significantly under Moyes. leg against Bayern Munich, and volley and defender Nikolai uncharted territory after being for himself, Giggsy. He’s got top Having averaged 34 appear- with his contract due to expire Topor-Stanley completed the named as the interim successor potential,” Solskjaer said. ances over the previous four at the end of the campaign, talk scoring with a free header off to sacked Manchester United “Giggsy is going to play another campaigns, he has played only 21 of retirement had already begun. a corner. manager David Moyes. year, but I’d say he’s got his eyes times this season and has made The player himself was coy “It’s a fantastic feeling and As English football’s most deco- and ears open more to what the only four starts since the turn of when asked about his future plans to do it in that manner as well, rated player and United’s record manager is doing.” the year. It prompted reports of last month, saying: “I am just try- five goals, after we lost the first appearance-maker, he is guaran- Former United assistant a fall-out with Moyes, but Giggs ing to enjoy this season and then game in the group,” Wanderers teed to receive the full backing manager Rene Meulensteen, insisted that he had “no problem at the end I will take stock and coach Tony Popovic said. of the club’s fans, but manage- meanwhile, believes that Giggs with the manager”. see what I want to do.” “It was an uphill battle but ment represents a step into the possesses all the necessary cre- He demonstrated his endur- Whatever he achieves in the the players have shown a lot unknown. dentials to make a success of life ing importance with a magiste- United dug-out, Giggs is already of belief to finish top of the Giggs, however, has been pre- in the dug-out. rial display as United overturned certain to leave a historic legacy group.” paring himself for a career in the “Without a shadow of doubt, a 2-0 first-leg deficit by beating at Old Trafford. His 962 appear- Victory were unable to fol- dug-out. Giggs can be a manager. He’s got Olympiakos 3-0 in the Champions ances are unlikely ever to be low up last week’s win over The Welshman has been stud- enormous knowledge about the League last 16, prompting dis- surpassed, and some of his goals Guangzhou when they could ying for his UEFA Pro Licence game,” the Dutchman told the believing plaudits from his -- such as the season-defining only draw 0-0 with Jeonbuk, -- European football’s highest Daily Telegraph earlier this year. team-mates. solo effort against Arsenal in a in a frustrating evening when coaching qualification -- and was “He’s a very good thinker. He’ll “What’s left to say about him?” 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay -- a strong penalty appeal was promoted to United’s coaching be a very shrewd decision-maker. said midfield colleague Michael have passed into United legend. waved away late on. staff by Moyes at the start of the He’s tough. Believe me, Giggs is Carrick. A devilish tormentor of opposi- And Kawasaki went season. tough. He’ll handle the media and “He is just incredible. He comes tion right-backs when he blazed through thanks to goals from Speaking last year, Giggs’s the stress with ease. It’s about into a game like that and he onto the scene in the early 1990s, Yu Kobayashi, Yoshito Okubo former United team-mate Ole getting the right guys about him.” hasn’t played a lot of football, so Giggs has refined his game in and Jeci, against Rafinha’s lone Gunnar Solskjaer, now manager Giggs has defied convention by to physically be able to do it and recent years and now operates strike for the visitors Ulsan. at Cardiff City, said that the mid- continuing to play into his 40s, get through a game shows how more often than not as an elegant AGENCIES fielder already had designs on the but having been used sparingly by well he looks after himself.” midfield playmaker. AFP Emir Basketball Cup: El Jaish set date with Al Gharafa

DOHA: El Jaish defeated Al Rayyan 84-72 in the third and deciding match of the best- of-three semi-final series of the Emir Basketball Cup at Al Gharafa SC Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Yesterday’s win helped El Jaish qualify for the final where they will take on Al Gharafa Downey Devan Deangelo, with Action from the 26 points top scored for El Jaish. Emir Basketball Taggart Shawn Larell (25) and Cup match Nathaniel Johnson (15) made between El Jaish curcial contributions for El Jaish and Al Rayyan at victory. Al Gharafa Indoor Earlier on Sunday, El Jaish had Stadium in Doha registered a narrow 84-82 victory yesterday. over Al Rayyan in the second match of the semi-final series. On other hand, Al Gharafa booked their place in the final round, following their convincing 99-79 win over Al Sadd in their second match of the best-of-three series on Sunday. The final will be held at Al Gharafa Indoor Stadium on April 25. THE PENINSULA Wednesday 23 April 2014 23 Jumadal II 1435 Volume 19 Number 6044 Sport Price: QR2

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Champions League: Mourinho earns draw in first leg with cautious display DOHA: Rodrigo Tabata struck 11 minutes from time to give Al MADRID: Atletico Madrid Sadd a 2-1 win over Al Ahli yes- and Chelsea were locked at 0-0 terday which sent the 2011 win- after their Champions League ners through to the last 16 of semi-final first leg yesterday the AFC Champions League at after the Spanish side failed to Chelsea’s the expense of the UAE league break down their ultra-cautious Australian champions. visitors at the Calderon. goalkeeper Tabata sent a sublime chip from Atletico, through to the last the edge of the box over the head Mark four of Europe’s elite club com- of goalkeeper Ahmed Mahmoud Schwarzer petition for the first time in 40 as the Qatari side came from a years, dominated the defence- (centre) stops goal down at the Sheikh Jassim minded 2012 winners but were the ball dur- Bin Hamad Stadium to secure unable to carve out an advantage ing the UEFA the victory. Grafite had fired the ahead of next week’s return leg at Champions visitors ahead after 15 minutes Stamford Bridge. League semi- but Khalfan Ibrahim levelled in Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho, final first the 34th minute to set up the returning to the Spanish capital leg match dramatic finish as Al Sadd, who after three years at Atletico’s Club against began the game at the bottom city rivals Real, had clearly set Atletico of Group D finished runners-up out to frustrate the home team Madrid at behind Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia, and the result means his side will the Vicente who edged Iranian side Sepahan be slight favourites to advance to Calderon 1-0 in the other game. next month’s final in Lisbon. Stadium Al Ahli were unbeaten and at The Londoners lost goalkeeper in Madrid, the top of the group at the start Petr Cech when he fell heav- yesterday. of play but they slipped to third ily and hurt his right elbow in and missed out yet again on the the 15th minute but neither his knockout rounds, having failed replacement Mark Schwarzer nor to advance in their previous four Atletico keeper Thibaut Courtois appearances in the competition. were genuinely tested in a drab Al Sadd were looking to bounce affair. back after conceding a total of Home captain Gabi, who was atmosphere before kickoff at the Luiz in a holding role in a five- oldest player to feature in the bad news for Chelsea in the 73rd nine goals in back-to-back losses booked and will be suspended for 55,000-capacity stadium next to man midfield. knockout phase. minute when captain John Terry against Al Hilal and Sepahan and the return leg, said he and his the Manzanares river where the The Portuguese coach had obvi- With almost the entire limped off after turning his ankle they enjoyed the lion’s share of pos- team mates were not happy with fans have been flocking to enjoy ously instructed his players to sit Chelsea team behind the ball, at a corner. session in the opening half as they the result. what is easily the Madrid club’s back and try to catch Atletico on the hosts managed only one Captain Gabi forced a decent sought the win which would take “Atletico wanted to win the best season in almost 20 years. the break and they were happy to shot on target before the break, save from Schwarzer in the 76th them into the knockout rounds. match at any cost but they Atletico coach Diego Simeone let the home side have the ball in a a weak Diego effort, and the visi- minute as Atletico pressed for a Meanwhile, a penalty from defended very well,” Gabi told deployed an attacking formation first half short on entertainment. tors none. goal but Chelsea held out reason- Madjid Bougherra was the differ- TVE. “We knew they wouldn’t with Diego Costa leading the line Chelsea were forced to make Midfielder Mario Suarez ably comfortably. ence as Qatar’s Lekhwiya edged want to concede a goal and I think supported by attacking midfielder an early change when Cech was flashed a long-range drive nar- “Everyone was right up for it, out Tractorsazi Tabriz 1-0 in the Atletico played a much more Raul Garcia and Diego and Koke knocked to the ground by a tum- rowly wide in the 34th minute which you’d expect, and we have AFC Champions League yes- attacking game. providing the creative impetus bling Raul Garcia at a corner and and Diego Costa had a volley well got world-class players,” said terday in a game which will be “It leaves a bad taste in the just behind. he was helped off clutching his blocked by Cesar Azpilicueta but Schwarzer. largely remembered for a second mouth but the tie is still very Mourinho, by contrast, had right arm. otherwise there was little goal- “We knew if we could match half hailstorm which suspended open and we will go to Chelsea containment in mind, with former Australian Schwarzer, 41, mak- mouth action. their determination our quality play for over half an hour. and try to win.” Atletico captain Fernando Torres ing only his second Champions The second half was a similarly would come through.” The match had kicked off amid There was another cracking alone up front and defender David League appearance, became the cagey affair and there was more REUTERS heavy rain, but the weather sig- nificantly worsened shortly after half-time and play was postponed as the teams ran for cover. United sack Moyes, Giggs But after a 35 minute delay, play resumed and Bougherra con- verted a 70th minute penalty as 2013 quarter-finalists Lekhwiya claimed a third place finish in appointed interim manager Group C ahead of their hosts. Although Tabriz began the first MANCHESTER, United United’s Carrington training personally hand-picked Moyes to period on top, both they and their Kingdom: Manchester United ground near Manchester on succeed him after announcing his opponents struggled to create yesterday sacked manager Tuesday morning. retirement last May following 26 opportunities in front of goal with David Moyes following a dis- His first game in charge will and a half trophy-studded years the slick conditions underfoot not astrous ten-month spell at the be a league fixture at home to at Old Trafford. conducive to flowing football. world-famous club, with veteran Norwich City on Saturday. Moyes signed a six-year con- When Tabriz did press it was midfielder Ryan Giggs named as Giggs, 40, made his United tract and inherited a team that midfielder Meisam Baeoudizabadi interim manager. debut in March 1991 and has had romped to the Premier that was often the key figure they Moyes, 50, succeeded Alex made 962 appearances for the League title -- United’s 20th looked to, while forward Youssef Ferguson at the helm of the club, winning 13 Premier League English league crown -- by 11 Msakni was the main outlet for Premier League side on July 1 titles, two Champions Leagues, points, but he endured a torrid Lekhwiya. but the move quickly became a four FA Cups, three League Cups season. But despite all their industry, fiasco with the team slumping to and one FIFA Club World Cup. United have slumped to sev- the scores were level at half-time a series of embarrassing defeats. He has no previous managerial enth place in the league table as the rain continued to pour After feverish speculation in experience, but has combined his and been eliminated from both down and grew to a deluge. And Manchester’s United manager David Moyes (right) speaks to midfielder the British media, United con- role as a player with a position domestic cup competitions and 10 minutes into the second half Ryan Giggs during a training session at the team’s Carrington training firmed Moyes’s departure in a on United’s coaching staff since the Champions League. the rain took a turn for the worse complex in Manchester, north-west England, on the eve of their UEFA brief statement. the start of the current campaign. Moyes’s last game in charge was and a hailstorm forced referee Champions League group A football match against Shakhtar Donetsk “Manchester United announces Experienced Dutch coach Sunday’s 2-0 loss at his former Wang Di to call a suspension of in Ukraine in this file picture of October 1, 2013. that David Moyes has left the Louis van Gaal has emerged as club Everton, which confirmed play as the teams sought cover. club,” United said. the British bookmakers’ favour- that United will not compete in After 35 minutes the hail abated “The club would like to place ite to succeed Moyes on a per- the Champions League next sea- enough for play to be resumed David Moyes career factfile on record its thanks for the hard manent basis. The 62-year-old, son for the first time since 1995. with the match continuing from work, honesty and integrity he whose previous clubs include The defeat, United’s 11th of the the 56th minute. AGENCIES MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Factfile on career of David Moyes who was sacked as manager brought to the role.” Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern league campaign, left the defend- of Manchester United yesterday: United later confirmed Giggs Munich, recently expressed ing champions 13 points below the AFC Champions Name: David William Moyes would fill in on a caretaker basis. a desire to work in England Champions League places and 23 Age: 50 “Following the depar- when his contract as man- points behind leaders Liverpool. League Results Date of birth: April 25, 1963 ture of David Moyes as man- ager of the Netherlands expires Moyes’s transfer dealings SYDNEY: Results from group games in the Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland ager, Manchester United has after this year’s World Cup in proved equally disappointing, with AFC Champions League yesterday: Playing career announced that Ryan Giggs, the Brazil. However, Jurgen Klopp £27.5m ($46.2m, 33.5 meuros) Group G club’s most decorated player, will of Borussia Dortmund, another midfielder Marouane Fellaini, Position: Centre-back Guangzhou Evergrande (CHN) 2 (Elkeson 11, assume responsibility for the first rumoured contender, has already signed from Everton, and £37.1m 38) Yokohama F Marinos (JPN) 1 (Saito 85) Teams: Celtic (1980-1983), Cambridge United (1983-1985), Bristol City (1985-1987), Shrewsbury team until a permanent appoint- ruled himself out of the running. record signing Juan Mata, who Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (KOR) 0 Melbourne Town (1987-1990), Dunfermline Athletic (1990-1993), Hamilton Academical (1993), Preston ment can be made,” said another Klopp told British newspaper arrived from Chelsea in January, Victory (AUS) 0 North End (1993-1999) statement. The Guardian: “Man United is a struggling to make an impact. Playing honours “The club will make no further great club and I feel very famil- As a result, United’s American Group H Celtic -- Scottish League Premier Division (1): 1981-82 comment on this process until it iar with their wonderful fans. owners, the Glazer family, report- Western Sydney Wanderers (AUS) 5 (Cole 6, Haliti 75, Mooy 81-pen, Ono 85, Topor- Preston North End -- Football League Third Division (1): 1995-96 is concluded.” But my commitment to Borussia edly felt uneasy about the pros- Stanley 88) Guizhou Renhe (CHN) 0 Managerial career Giggs, Britain’s most deco- Dortmund and the people is not pect of handing him the funds rated player and United’s record breakable.” needed to rebuild the squad dur- Kawasaki Frontale (JPN) 3 (Kobayashi 32, Teams: Preston North End (1998-2002), Everton (2002-2013), Manchester United (2013-2014) appearance-maker, was informed Ferguson, British foot- ing the forthcoming close season. Okubo 34, Jeci 77) Ulsan Hyundai (KOR) 1 Managerial honours Preston North End Football League Second Division (1): 1999-2000 of the news after arriving at ball’s most successful manager, AFP (Rafinha 36)