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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 THULQADA 27, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Ooredoo Kuwait PM quits as Dubai property Leicester committed Shiite rebels prices show outfox to developing seize Yemen signs of United in local talent3 government8 HQ cooling21 dramatic20 win Police kill hostage Max 43º Min 25º High Tide taker in shootout 10:31 & 23:42 Low Tide Saudi man was under influence of drugs • Weapons found 04:48 & 17:50 40 PAGES NO: 16293 150 FILS

By Hanan Al-Saadoun and Agencies conspiracy theories Court asked to KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry yesterday said a Saudi man reinstate grilling who had taken members of his family hostage at gunpoint, and later stabbed one of them, was killed in a gun battle with Well done against premier the police. The young man was a drug addict, and at the time of the incident was under the effect of drugs, the ministry said MP blasts new currency in a statement. He started shooting at the police force that Scotland arrived at the scene in Taima in Jahra with a machinegun and By B Izzak injured two officers, who were taken to hospital, it added. According to the statement, the police received a report KUWAIT: Veteran lawyer and rights activist Mubarak that the 30-year-old man was holding members of his family Al-Mutawa said yesterday he has filed a petition at the at home at gunpoint and had stabbed his uncle. A police administrative court demanding it reinstate a grilling patrol rushed to the scene where he randomly shot at them By Badrya Darwish against the prime minister that was scrapped by the with a machinegun. Policemen ordered the suspect to surren- National Assembly in April. In an unprecedented case, der and had long negotiations with him and members of the Mutawa said he has demanded that the court forces family, giving him enough time, but he proved to be stub- the Assembly to reinstate the grilling against Prime born and continued shooting randomly, posing a threat to Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. security men and passersby. [email protected] The grilling, filed by former MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani, The police sought assistance from special forces, who Abdulkareem Al-Kandari and Hussein Quwaiaan, was broke into the house at 07.50 am yesterday and exchanged scrapped by the Assembly in an unprecedented man- fire with the suspect who was killed after injuring two non- othing impressed me more in recent years in ner on suspicion that it included a number of issues commissioned officers. They were taken to hospital and are in politics like the referendum which took place that breached the constitution. The three lawmakers stable condition, the ministry said identifying them as Nthis past week in Scotland. It went so later resigned in protest against the cancellation of the Sergeant Saad Al-Enezi, who received three bullets in the smoothly, so beautifully with lots of understanding grilling and two others - Ali Al-Rashed and Safa Al- shoulder, and Sergeant Abdullah German, who was hit in the and logic. As I’m sure you all know, on Thursday, Hashem - later followed suit. By-elections were held thigh, severing some arteries. Sept 18, Scotland held a referendum to decide and five new MPs were elected. Mutawa said that Police found the man had had a number of weapons whether to split from the UK or become an inde- scrapping the grilling in that matter represented a fla- including a hunting rifle, a machinegun and ammunition. It pendent nation. A simple majority won with 55 per- grant constitutional violation by the Assembly and was also found out that he was a drug addict. Investigations KUWAIT: Picture shows weapons that were recov- cent to 45 percent. called on the court to rectify the mistake. have started to reveal more about the incident, the statement ered from a Saudi suspect who died in a shootout said. Meanwhile, Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen In the days running up to the vote, there were Continued on Page 13 two camps - the Yes and the No groups. Both of yesterday. — KUNA Suleiman Al-Fahd, visited the injured at Jahra Hospital. them campaigned on a platform of nationalism and Scottish identity and it was beautiful to see cam- paigners wearing the Scottish national dress and Arab states lag carrying bagpipes. I’m sure all of you saw the news about it. I was surprised the results came in favor of in media war the No party as analysts and the polls predicted that it was neck-and-neck at 50/50. DUBAI: As the Islamic State group battles across Syria It was so beautiful that the nation realized its and Iraq, pushing back larger armies and ruling over interest, setting aside prejudice, patriotism, etc. entire cities, it is also waging an increasingly sophisticat- Instead, the voters thought about the interest of ed media campaign that has rallied disenfranchised themselves and their children and their families and youth and outpaced the sluggish efforts of Arab govern- the country. A few who changed their mind at the ments to stem its appeal. Long gone are the days when last minute, according to polls, made a significant militant leaders like Osama bin Laden smuggled grainy difference in the final results. Actually, I can never videos to Al-Jazeera. Nowadays Islamic State backers use imagine a Scotland without England or an England Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms to entice without Scotland. They both back each other - finan- recruits with professionally made videos showing fight- cially, economically, militarily, strategically, socially. ers waging holy war and building an Islamic utopia. It’s like a marriage that has its good years and its bad The extremist group’s opponents say it is dragging years but works overall. the region back into the Middle Ages with its grisly But I want to ask: Where would you see a referen- beheadings and massacres, but its tech-savvy media dum for independence go so peacefully without vio- strategy has exposed the ways in which Arab govern- lence anywhere in the world? Nations go to war over ments and mainstream religious authorities seem to be separatist movements. But not in the UK. There they living in the past. Most Arab governments see social had campaigns and parades, but logic and common media as a threat to their stability and have largely failed sense prevailed. Whether you supported the No or to harness its power, experts say. Instead, they have tried the Yes party, the reality is that the people were giv- to monitor and censor the Internet while churning out en the choice and chose wisely. They also did it stale public statements and state-approved sermons on peacefully. It was more like a festival than a sepa- stuffy government-run media. ratist movement. No bombing, no clashes, no Last week, Saudi Arabia’s top council of religious killings, no threatening, no blackmailing, no vio- scholars issued a lengthy Arabic statement via the state- lence. run news agency denouncing terrorism and calling on I admired the transparency of the voting and the citizens to back efforts to fight extremist groups like the result. There were no figures of 99.9 percent - and Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. Leading Sunni Muslim you know what I mean guys. It was free and fair and authorities in Egypt have issued similar government- transparent - 45% vs 55%. backed statements. Well done Scotland and good luck to you guys. Compare that to the Islamic State group. Its Furqan You have set an example for many other nations media arm produces slick videos complete with inter- who are killing each and conspiring against them- views, graphics and jihadist hymns echoing in the back- selves. I recommend that the Scottish referendum ground, with Arabic and English subtitles. It promotes be added to Arab schools’ curricula in our history the videos and its glossy monthly magazines on an array books, instead of the false propaganda that they put of social media, reaching out to people in the Arab world in our books and implant in our minds. and beyond. Continued on Page 13 Cairo blast kills 3 policemen

CAIRO: A bomb blast beside Egypt’s foreign ministry killed three policemen yesterday, including a key wit- ness in a trial of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The blast, the worst attack in Cairo for months, killed two police lieutenant colonels and a recruit, according to the foreign ministry. Ajnad Misr, the Islamist militant group that carried out the last signifi- cant attack in Cairo, claimed responsibility for the blast in a statement posted on their official Twitter account. “This new operation shows we can penetrate and reach the vicinity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...to destroy the officers of the criminal security agencies and make them taste some of what they have made Muslims taste,” it said. “Operations of retribution and revenge by this blessed group will not stop,” said the group, whose name means Soldiers of Egypt. The blast was the latest attack in a simmering insur- gency against the US-backed government, underlining security challenges facing President Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi. Sisi, who has just completed 100 days in office, has CAIRO: Egyptian security forces inspect the scene pushed through some badly-needed economic reforms after a roadside bomb went off on a busy street near such as a rise in fuel prices. the foreign ministry yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 13 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 LOCAL Premier, UN Secretary General discuss regional, international developments Sheikh Jaber represents Amir in UNGA meeting NEW YORK/ROME: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah met yesterday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York, where he is currently located to represent HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah and head the Kuwaiti delegation to the 69th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly and Climate Change summit. KUWAIT: Khaled Al-Jarallah leaving for Tehran yesterday. — KUNA HH the Prime Minister conveyed the appreci- ation of His Highness the Amir for the UN for honoring him as a Humanitarian Leader and the Jarrallah in Tehran for State of Kuwait as a Humanitarian Center. The meeting, attended by the official delegation accompanying HH the Prime Minister, touched committee meetings on regional and international developments. Sheikh Jaber expressed support for the endeav- KUWAIT: Foreign Ministry’s Undersecretary and deputy director of the Asia dept. ors exerted by Ban to achieve peace in the Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarrallah left yesterday Mosa’ed Al-Thuwaikh. Middle East, and affirmed Kuwait’s continued to Tehran to head Kuwaiti delegation par- The meetings, co-chaired by the support for the UN and its agencies with the ticipating in the meetings of the joint Ministry’s Undersecretary Khaled Suleiman objective of achieving peace, stability and devel- Kuwaiti-Iranian political committee, which Al-Jarrallah and Iranian Deputy Foreign opment around the globe. were set to start yesterday. Minister for the Arab and African Affairs The meeting was also set to discuss interna- The committee meetings, which con- Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, take place NEW YORK: Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah during his meeting with UN Secretary General Ban tional issues such as terrorism, climate change, Ki-moon yesterday. — KUNA clude tomorrow, will discuss various against the backdrop of serious threats fac- and the recent spread of the Ebola virus in aspects of bilateral relations between ing the Gulf region. Africa, said Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, and the Arab Summit, he added. respect its particular significance due to prevail- Kuwait and Iran as well as regional and The committee is affiliated to the Joint Kuwait’s Permanent Delegate to the UN. Kuwait Furthermore, the UN’s session includes meet- ing “major challenges” at the humanitarian, international developments, especially in Higher Committee; its meeting gains addi- has donated USD five million to the World ing of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation political, security and development levels across light of terrorist threats facing the region. tional significance as it will coincide with Health Organization (WHO) to fight the virus, he (OIC) and the Group of 77 and China, the the globe. Jarallah is accompanied by Director of regional turmoil and follow up the out- noted. The Climate Change summit will be held Ambassador noted. The First Deputy Premier will The Italian President’s hosting of Sheikh Jaber the Undersecretary’s Office Ayham Abdul- come of the visit by His Highness the Amir tomorrow, and Kuwaiti Minister of Oil, Minister perform a speech in the annual ministerial meet- Al-Mubarak with Heads of State-level protocols Latif Al-Omar, director of the Ministry’s Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al- ing of the OIC, and also in the meeting of the signals Italy’s consideration of Kuwait’s role in legal affairs dept. Ghanim Saqr Al-Ghanim to Tehran in early June. — KUNA Omair will deliver a speech on the topic, the African-Arab coordination committee, Otaibi facing such challenges, as well as the solid ties Ambassador said. said. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled will also meet with between the two parties. Moreover, it reflects Omair will showcase Kuwait’s role in fighting a number of international counterparts to dis- joint desire to bolster mutual cooperation. climate change, while also stressing the impor- cuss cooperation and developing ties in all Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak’s visit to Italy, on tance of cooperation between all countries fields, he added. September 16-17, was preceded by the visit of regarding the issue, he said. Moreover, the HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Minister will present measures taken by Kuwait Excellent ties Al-Sabah to the country in November 2009. including the reduction of greenhouse gas and Separately, Kuwait’s Ambassador to Italy Italian premiers visited Kuwait in November dependence on renewable energy sources, he Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said that 2012 and February this year. also added. the prime minister’s recent visit to Italy “depicted As a tangible development of the bilateral Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister will pres- half a century of deep and excellent ties bond- ties, Kuwaiti investments in Italy have grown to ent Kuwait’s point of view on the latest regional ing the Gulf State with the European nation.” euro 4.5 billion, he said, also indicating in this and international developments, in his speech The visit, paid earlier this week by Sheikh respect the growing cooperation at the scientif- Thursday, Otaibi said. The premier will also meet Jaber Al-Mubarak, who was the first ranking ic, educational, cultural, health and medical lev- with Presidents of Arab and foreign countries on Kuwaiti official to visit the country with compa- els. Ambassador Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled lauded the sidelines of the session, said the ny of a very senior delegation, crowned the con- Italy’s participation in Kuwait’s war of liberation Ambassador. tinuous development of the cooperation and in 1991, its unwavering support for Kuwait’s In the same context, First Deputy Prime solidarity between the two countries, said the rights, as well as the two sides’ backing for inter- Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh ambassador in remarks to KUNA, alluding to the national peace. Italian leaders, during the visit, NEW YORK: Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah with his Mexican counterpart, Jose Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah will head 50-year relationship between Rome and Kuwait expressed congratulations to Kuwait and the Antonio Maade Kuribrena. — KUNA different meetings on the situation in Syria, Iraq, City. Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled affirms significance of Amir for being proclaimed an international Yemen and Palestine, said Otaibi. the mission as it has come while Kuwait chairs Humanitarian Leader by the United Nations. He Mexico eyes better Kuwait will head the meetings on regional the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab confirmed that contacts are underway to hold issues since it is currently chairing the current League, as Rome is chairman of the current an exhibition for the Kuwaiti “Dar Al-Athar economic ties with Kuwait round of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) European Union’s session, also noting in this Islamiyah” in Italy. —KUNA

NEW YORK: Mexican Foreign Minister Jose said his government was preparing for a possi- Antonio Maade Kuribrena said yesterday that ble visit by the Mexican president to Kuwait to Ministry plan of action highlighted he was looking forward for boosting economic work on a much closer relationship. “We have a relations with Kuwait. lot of interest from the business community” to “We have a lot of interest that through the establish businesses in Kuwait and the two KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Technical vision, clear work plans, and pre-specified time- of the ministry’s health departments, held last enhanced political dialogue to provide better countries could explore many areas of coopera- Affairs in the Health Ministry Dr. Jamal Al-Harbi frames in order to conduct a scientific analysis Thursday, noting that the meeting discussed economic opportunity for the Mexican business tion, he added. He said he and Sheikh Sabah Al- highlighted yesterday the important role under- for the current situation of each of the ministry’s affiliated departments’ work plans regarding the sector,” namely in the field of agriculture and Khaled discussed a challenges facing the two taken by the ministries’ departments in imple- department such as medical emergency, labora- development plan, the ministry’s work program, energy, Kuribrena told KUNA after a meeting countries. The two senior officials held talks on menting the ministry’s plan of action in accor- tories, blood bank, physical therapy, and nurs- and developmental and constructional projects with First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign the sidelines of the United Nations General dance with the country’s development plan. ing, Al-Harbi said in a press statement. for expansion of medical services of the affiliated Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. He Assembly’s 69th session. — KUNA This is performed through laying out a future He pointed out the first meeting of directors departments.— KUNA IIFMENA to spotlight child refugee rights Physical, sexual violence, rights of refugee children main topics

3-year old Syrian refugee in Lebanon Syrian refugees in Jordan’s Za’atri camp A Syrian refugee in Jordan SHARJAH: The Emirate of Sharjah will host the and Legal Documentation’, and ‘Addressing The international and regional legal frame- Children First’. Other issues that will be dis- role of families and communities in protecting first ‘Investing in the Future Conference’ on the Exploitation and Separation: Putting the Best works and ways to protect refugee children and cussed during this session will include family children during a session titled ‘Creating 15th and 16th of October to discuss child and Interest of the Child First’. youth will be discussed. IIFMENA will also dis- separation, alternative care, child labor, human Opportunities: Life Skills and Livelihoods’, which youth displacement issues and ways to protect On day 2, the conference will continue its cuss challenges at the national level with a trafficking, and early marriage. The conference focuses on how means of livelihoods can refugee children and adolescents in the Middle discussions with the opening session focusing focus on those related to policy adoption and will also examine the current challenges, and enhance the ability of families and communities East and North Africa (MENA) region. on the introduction and recapitulation of pro- implementation. review the most important mechanisms cur- to protect children. The conference, ‘Investing in the Future | ceedings from day one, followed by the panel rently in place, as well as ways to find innova- IFFMENA will feature a number of sessions, Protecting Refugee Children & Adolescents discussion ‘Participation of Displaced Children Children protection tive solutions to these issues. dialogues and roundtable discussions rich in MENA’ (IIFMENA), will be held under the patron- and Adolescents in their Own Protection’. The conference, in one of its key sessions, The session ‘Live and Learn Safe’ will under- innovative ideas, initiatives, and programs that age of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin The roundtable discussions will feature three will highlight how wars and armed conflicts line how education can be used as a means of are all designed to help find solutions to the Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme sessions, including ‘Live and Learn Safe: expose children and youth to various dangers. protection, and highlight how education can problems of refugee children and youth. The Council and Ruler of Sharjah. Protecting Children through Education’, It will shed light on how children and adoles- provide protection and safe environments and conference is being organized within the frame- The two-day event will bring together more ‘Tapping into Potential: Participation of cents are exposed to sexual violence and gen- also how it can prevent situations that are work of coordination and collaboration than 300 leaders and government officials as Adolescents and Youth as Agents of Age’, and der-based violence, due to wars, conflicts, and harmful to children. The session will also pres- between the Big Heart campaign for the Syrian well as international and regional experts ‘Families and Communities at the Frontline of a forced displacement. The session will also dis- ent examples of various educational practices Refugee Children, which was launched by involved in refugee affairs. The conference will Child’s Protection’. cuss the various dangers that children get for different age groups that provide psycho- Sharjah last year, and the United Nations High feature a number of plenary sessions, round- Erum Mazher Alvie, Advisor Management & exposed to, and put appropriate mechanisms logical and social support for children and Commission for Refugees and has the unlimited table discussions, workshops and panel discus- Development at the Executive Office of Her and measures in place to ensure the protection young people. It will showcase examples of the support of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin sions that will discuss various topics related to Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al of girls and boys in conflict zones. appropriate mechanisms to ensure that chil- Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme refugee affairs with a focus on discussing ways Qasimi, said, “The conference aims to put meas- During the session ‘Every Child Counts: Birth dren and young people in the region have Council and Ruler of Sharjah. to protect refugee children and adolescents in ures in place to ensure that refugee children in Registration and Legal Documentation’, the access to good education and a safe environ- The first UN refugee conference will take the Mena region, which has become the second the MENA region are protected from all forms of attendants will highlight the importance of the ment to study. place in Sharjah in recognition of the immense largest source of refugees around the world. exploitation and violence, and to ensure that immediate birth registration of newborn In addition IFFMENA will discuss the possi- efforts and constructive role of Her Highness Day 1 will see four parallel sessions, a plena- they are provided with their full rights including refugees as a key means of child protection. The bility of dealing with adolescents and youth as Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi as ry session and High Level Panel discussion titled the right to food, shelter, healthcare, psycholog- session will also touch on the challenges that important community segments that must be a UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee ‘Towards Better Protection of Refugee Children ical treatment, and education. It also aims to face the birth registration of newborn refugees protected during the session ‘Tapping into Children. and Adolescents in the Middle East and North provide youth with a platform of engagement in the region, especially having access to legal Potential: Participation of Adolescents and The conference aims to engage leaders from Africa region,’ and another panel discussion and awareness on child/youth displacement documents, including birth certificates. It will Youth’. The session will illustrate how to work the MENA region to address and help find solu- focusing on ‘Enhancing Protection of Displaced issues. The conference will focus on protecting deal with the innovative ways to ensure the reg- with these two segments in local communities tions to the challenges related to child/youth Children: The Convergences of National and the right of every child in the world, the right to istration of all children immediately after birth, or communities of asylum to ensure positive displacement issues, and encourage interna- International Legal Frameworks’. grow up in a safe and stable environment and including refugee children. outcomes for all. It will also highlight innovative tional partners and donors to launch initiatives The four parallel sessions will discuss spe- to live a decent life, which entails the need for The conference will furthermore provide a approaches based on the engagement of chil- for protecting and helping refugee children and cialised themes about children’s issues in the the international community, with its organiza- deep insight into a number of key challenges dren and adolescents in activities concerning young people in the region. It also aims to raise region, including ‘Prevention and Response to tions and individuals, to shoulder their respon- faced by refugee children in the region, with protection in humanitarian conditions. awareness among youth in the MENA region Sexual and Gender-Based Violence’, ‘A sibility to provide these rights for all children in reference to the condition of Syrian refugee about the issues of refugee children and raise Generation Marked by Violence: Children the world, especially those who have become children in particular, during the session: Finding solutions the public awareness about child/youth dis- Affected by Armed Conflict’, ‘Birth Registration refugees. “ ‘Addressing Exploitation and Separation: The conference will also throw light on the placement issues in the region. p3.e$S 2_Layout 1 9/21/14 9:09 PM Page 1

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 LOCAL Ooredoo in Kuwait confirms commitment to developing local talent Programs enhanced in partnership with local, international organizations

A group photo with participants in the Innovation Challenge Program. Basel Ramadhan Shaimaa Al-Najdi

KUWAIT: Ooredoo in Kuwait announced would enrich their personal and profes- agement and disruptive innovation. ees’ personal and professional develop- an impactful change in the workplace. yesterday the successful completion by 2 sional lives. As Ooredoo, we want to foster Commenting on their Swiss trip, Basel ment. A series of programs have been Omar Al-Bassam, Director for Human senior leaders of the first module of a 5 a culture of excellence throughout our and Shaimaa said that they now have a developed to enhance training and devel- Resources and Strategic Development, month Business Leaders Development pro- company and develop Kuwaiti leaders.” new perspective on leadership practices opment of Kuwaiti talent. said: “This program is intended to cultivate gram that they were nominated to earlier During the program, participants were within their peer group globally. Their Recently, 4 Kuwaiti veterans from senior talent and recognize leaders within our in the year. Basel Ramadhan and Shaimaa able to learn essential skills through a international experience enhanced at one management, with 10 years of experience team who continuously contribute to the Al-Najdi attended the leadership program within the Ooredoo, successfully complet- growth of our organization. We have iden- at the International Institute for ed the first module of an Innovation tified a series of talent development for Management Development (IMD), ranked Challenge Program with the Kuwait executives that will enhance competitive- first worldwide in executive education. Foundation for the Advancement of ness amongst management and are need- Ooredoo is the first company in Kuwait Sciences. Jassem Abdul-Raheem, Khaled ed for further skill development and lead- to involve its senior management in similar Al-Saraya, Bader Al-Ali and Bader Al- ership styles.” high level international programs. Humaimeedi will undergo a three stage In terms of additional programs, Saleh Al-Houti, Chief Human Resources series of specific program that are expect- of the top schools in the world enhanced journey that started with a5 day training Ooredoo is developing 5 HR Kuwaiti and Administration Services, said: “One of ed to help them navigate through the fast their team skills and awareness of different on innovation in Kuwait and will end with nationals with the Chartered Institute of the major purposes of the training and changing market conditions within the cultures and best practices. an additional 5 days at UC Berkley in Personnel and Development (CIPD) accred- development program is to encourage telecommunications industry. Key topics In line with the company’s vision of California and Silicon Valley in the USA. The itation in England, one of the most profes- employees to think about leadership styles included setting and evaluating strategies, enriching people’s lives, Ooredoo has tak- objective is to plan and execute an innova- sional and reputable certification in the and people management practices that market and customer analysis, risk man- en steps to focus its efforts on the employ- tive initiative over 5 months that will create Human Resources field. Stateless in New 15 million work in York: A woman’s life as a ‘legal ghost’ tourism in Middle East

NEW YORK: When she was a schoolgirl in sity in the United States, taking her away Kuwait, Mona Kareem would ask her par- from the country where she was born KUWAIT: The General Manager of Leaders the report, pointing out that there are ample ents why she didn’t have a passport and but was not acknowledged. Group Company for Consultancy and job opportunities for Kuwaitis and that the 20- why they never left the country to visit In 2011, Kareem arrived in the United Development (Leaders Group) Nabila Al-Anjeri year tourism strategy set in 2005 provided at relatives. States on a student visa to study at recently stressed around 15 million people work least 30,000 job opportunities for Kuwaitis. Kareem, 26, and her family are Binghamton University in upstate New in the tourism sector in the Middle East and that “This requires the establishment of a special- bedoons, from the Arabic bedoun jin- York where she is completing a PhD in 210 million work in tourism worldwide with a ized college or institute because the only insti- siyya, meaning “without nationality” or comparative literature. total of 11.8 percent of the world’s workforce, as tute included in the PAAET only graduates stateless. Like many bedoons, they are She has a New York State driver’s stated by the World Tourism Organization. experts. The report also suggested sending stu- descendants of the nomadic Bedouin license for basic ID but she travelled to In this regard, the Leaders Group monthly dents on special scholarships to study tourism tribes which for centuries roamed freely the United States on a special passport report stressed that in view of rapid economic and hotel management , especially since the with their animals across what now is issued by Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior changes taking place worldwide and in view of last batch (of 120 students) sent by the ministry Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Affairs to a limited number of bedoons. the predicted decrease of oil production, many of higher education for that purpose was in the Iraq. Under nationality, it reads ‘non-identi- industrial countries have opted for the tourism early 1990s. Many bedoons fell through the cracks fied’. industry as an alternative source of develop- when Kuwait became independent in This type of identification paper is not ment and creating more job opportunities, Tourism contribution 1961. Some did not apply for citizenship recognized in many countries in the which include direct ones like those in hotels, The report also stressed that tourism has because they did not know how impor- European Union and in Gulf states, restaurants, travel agencies, etc, and indirect become one of the biggest contributors to tant it would become. Others were illiter- Kareem said, so the United States was ones like those in transportation, airports, food world GDP with 15 percent compared to only 4 ate or could not produce documents. the obvious choice as a destination for and furniture industries and so on. “The tourism percent for agriculture, 11 percent for banking, Kareem said her family filed for citi- her education. industry can activate and develop over 35 other 14 percent for industries in general, 12 percent zenship, but never heard back from Her passport expired shortly after she sectors and provide countless job opportuni- for analytical industry, 6 percent for investments authorities. settled in New York and the Kuwaiti ties,” stressed the report. and 12 percent for oil exports. The report highlights the importance of For years bedoons enjoyed most of embassy refused to renew it saying that Nabila Al-Anjari the rights of Kuwait citizens and Kareem’s it isn’t responsible for bedoons. She has- National manpower tourism in attracting considerable flows of for- parents were able to lead a somewhat n’t seen her family for three years. The report also noted that out of 388,000 eign exchange needed to carry out comprehen- that would eventually lessen governments’ bur- normal life but in 1986 the government Kuwait’s embassy in Washington, DC, employees working in tourism in UAE, only 2 sive development plans in various countries. dens,” stressed the report, noting that the next stripped them of basic rights, making life did not respond to a request for com- percent are nationals. “Saudis form 26.7 percent These revenues come in the form of foreign report would be dedicated to small and medi- far harder for Kareem and her generation ment. of the total tourism industry employees in the investments in tourism projects, fees collected um projects, especially since many calls have and with no resolution in sight. kingdom, Qataris are 1.8 percent of a total for issuing tourist visas and hotel revenues in been made in Kuwait to diversify its income “Being stateless is very humiliating ... Stateless ... And a woman tourism manpower of 25,000, Bahrainis are 13 addition to tourists’ daily spending in return for resources as recommended by Standard & because you feel rejected,” Kareem, One of the most unpleasant memo- percent of the total tourism manpower of touristic services they get. Poor’s that has already warned Kuwait for dressed casually in jeans, said over coffee ries Kareem has is one that stems from 11,600 while Kuwaitis are only 1.9 percent of the “The tourism sector is surely one of the major depending on oil revenues by more than 80 in an interview at the Thomson Reuters being both stateless and a woman in total tourism manpower of 10,000,” explained fields that activates small and medium projects percent. Foundation office in New York City. Kuwait. “When you’re meeting people every Kuwaiti roads are dotted with police By 1,000 Tourism sector workers in GCC countries National manpower percentage in the tourism sector day who feel that there’s something checkpoints and like most Kuwaitis, employees wrong about your identity ... it feels like Kareem was often stopped and ques- bullying.” tioned. For some time when Kareem was But being a woman with no recog- growing up, her parents didn’t tell her nized identity and virtually no right to that belonging to her tribe meant having protest made her an easy target for virtually no rights in Kuwait, the country abuse. of her birth. “We would get stopped and harassed Bedoons - who are among an estimat- verbally, they (police officers) would ed 10 million stateless people worldwide make fun of us ... it reached a point - don’t have access to the same level of where they would touch you,” she said. education or healthcare granted to Currently in the United States without Kuwaiti citizens, and cannot get married a passport and with her student visa or register newborn children, Kareem soon expiring, Kareem’s best hope to said. “There was a stigma, there was a remain in the country is to be granted stereotype,” Kareem said as the first glob- asylum. al forum on statelessness was held this She filed a request over two years ago week in The Hague in the Netherlands. and is awaiting a response but she “People would refrain from saying they doubts her application will be successful. were stateless.” Kareem is well known to Kuwaiti authori- ties because of her activism. She runs Finding a way out Bedoon Rights (www.bedoonrights.org), Kareem was born and raised in a website documenting human rights Kuwait, but her classmates and even her abuses suffered by Kuwait’s stateless teachers seemed to think she didn’t community. UAE Saudi Qatar Bahrain Kuwait UAE Saudi Qatar Bahrain Kuwait belong there. She was bullied at middle Because of her activism, Kareem and Arabia Arabia school and high school. She was con- her family were interrogated by Kuwaiti stantly asked how anyone could be state- authorities on more than one occasion, less. No one knows the exact number of she said. Kuwaiti bedoons but U.N. refugee “As a single political case, you’re just Hope for quick release of abducted Kuwaiti agency UNHCR has estimated there are too much of a headache (for US authori- between 93,000 and 120,000 while some ties),” Kareem said. “I have to answer BEIRUT: Kuwait’s Deputy National Assembly lauded, in a statement to KUNA, Speaker Berri’s efforts exerted by Kuwait’s Interior Ministry, NGO groups put the figure as high as questions from my mother and father Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej hoped that keenness in resolving the issue as soon as possi- Kuwaiti Ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaal Al- 140,000, according to a US State about my return, when they will be able efforts by Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih ble despite Lebanon’s current difficult circum- Qinaie, and the security office at the Kuwaiti Department report in March. to see me ... I don’t have answers for Berri results in a quick release of the abducted stances, expressing at the same time his grati- Embassy. Brothers of the abducted citizen Kareem’s break came when she them. I have to accept the reality.” Kuwaiti citizen in Lebanon. tude to the Lebanese Government for its hospi- accompanied Khurainej. He was abducted late earned a scholarship to a private univer- — Thomson Reuters Foundation Prior to his departure Saturday, Khurainej tality and generosity. He also commended August in Baalbek. —KUNA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 LOCAL Mixed reactions to changing ‘servant’ to ‘domestic helper’ Efforts needed to protect workers’ basic rights

By Ben Garcia to help this vulnerable sector in their the job title of workers rather than Crime society. Why can we set up groups for discussing issues in depth? We great- Crime KUWAIT: The Cabinet recently animal welfare, but despite hearing ly need laws that can protect these Report Report approved a decree to officially about mistreated domestic helpers, people so their basic rights are pro- change the job title of household we have no group to support them?” tected at least as human beings. workers from “servant” to “domestic she pointed out. These are basic rights and yet we Man charged workers” in all its official documents “They need to stick to their con- cannot give them to these people; it’s Accident victims die and transactions. The term will be in tracts - if they hire helpers to care for a shame for us to put on makeup and with sister’s use as soon as all official government their babies, let them be nannies and show the world that we are okay and on way to hospital documents have been changed beautiful, yet we are not okay murder attempt throughout Kuwait. The number of towards treating our workers,” she domestic helpers in Kuwait stands at asserted. KUWAIT: Detectives are looking for a citizen who kid- 682,000, according to the General Fuzai said the National Assembly napped his sister and took her to Saudi Arabia and beat Department of Residency, or approxi- should draft a law that will benefit her with intention to kill her after five days detention in mately two domestic helpers for generations of people in Kuwait and a Khafji house. A security source said the citizen con- each Kuwaiti family. According to the not just serve a few. “We need a law vinced his sister to go with him to Saudi Arabia to enroll Cabinet, this term is internationally that talks about welfare of workers, her in a school there, but as soon as they reached Khafji, recognized and acceptable for this talks about increasing domestic he sent back his mother with one of his brothers, then sector. helpers’ salaries - at least giving them tied his sister and began beating her to kill her. The situ- Some local recruitment agency their salaries monthly and strictly ation continued for five days, but she was able to owners praised the government on implementing the working hours and this move. “It’s about time. Servant is escape and went to Khafji police, but her brother focus more on their security and how a very lowly title which affects the they could be of help to the family, escaped to Kuwait. The girl’s father was contacted and treatment of people,” said agency community and our economy in gen- he took his daughter and returned to Kuwait and filed a owner Rasmiya. “Changing the title eral,” she mentioned. complaint in Saad Al-Abdullah. Detectives are working could help understand the nature of Muna Al-Fuzai Fuzai also emphasized an incident on the case. these people’s jobs. Domestic helpers at Kuwait airport which irritates her are here to help get the job done. avoid asking them to clean the entire till now. “One domestic helper who They are here to work and earn mon- five-floor villa every day or cook for was about to board a plane was Break in and robbery ey so they could feed their families, ten extended families,” she said. “Of barred by the immigration depart- A thief broke into the car of a citizen who was at a so I hope changes in attitude towards course they’ll be shocked and proba- ment. Why? Because they found wedding hall. He stole her purse which contained KD them will likewise follow,” another bly they’ll leave their sponsors,” she some papers and documents in her 170 and her smartphone and IDs. The incident took recruitment agency owner said. added. “In the Philippines we have handbag. When the immigration offi- place in Jahra. The cars involved in the fatal accident the so-called pre-departure seminar, cials examined the papers, they By Hanan Al-Saadoun Change of heart and we hope that after arriving in a found they were receipts of electrici- Drug possession A Philippine Embassy official who new place like Kuwait, a pre-deploy- ty and water bills of her sponsor. KUWAIT: Two adolescents were killed during a car collision Jahra police turned a citizen and a bedoon to narcotics spoke on the condition of anonymity ment orientation should be carried When the immigration officials asked between Fahd Al-Ahmad and Riqqa, after they ran a red authorities for possession of narcotics and hashish. Police said she hoped the change of job out by local recruitment agencies. why she was carrying these papers, light and hit a car driven by a citizen whose leg fractured. in Taima suspected the two, who seemed confused when title comes along with a change of This way we can prepare these peo- she said it was her salary given to her The two brothers, 17 and 14, drove the car at a high speed they arrived at a checkpoint, so they were searched and heart and attitude of some Kuwaitis ple on what to expect from Kuwaiti by her boss every month and it will and ran the red light, causing the collision. Paramedics the drugs were found. Meanwhile, Asima (Capital) police and expatriates on how domestic and expatriate families,” she men- be withdrawn only from her home took one of the youths to hospital in a critical condition as sent a citizen to the narcotics department for possession of helpers are treated. “My recommen- tioned. country’s banks. Without realizing it, he suffered from skull injuries, and left the other because four sticks of hashish and a knife. The arrest was made at a dation is for them to define in com- she was being fooled every month by they thought he was dead. When the coroner officers checkpoint near Granada. plete form the work of domestic Basic rights her sponsor. The sponsors had no arrived, the boy was found to be alive, so paramedics were helpers. As domestic helpers, they Muna Al-Fuzai, a columnist, said conscience at all even after serving called again, but they insisted that he was dead. He was Domestic violence need the right salaries and they need the change of job title is totally irrele- them for years. This type of sponsor taken to hospital at the orders of the area investigator, but A Gulf expat complained against her husband for regular rest days and off days. They vant and perhaps a non-issue to should be punished, but no, we have succumbed to his injuries before reaching hospital. His beating her following a dispute between the two. The do not have to work 24 hours but 8 many. “I really cannot understand no clear laws regarding this. These brother died also because of his injuries. incident took place in Naeem in Jahra. Police are look- hours only. I don’t know if people why our National Assembly wasted are the types of laws that we should ing for the husband for questioning. here can organize advocacy groups so much time discussing changing enact and implement,” she said.

Neighbors row A bedoon was arrested by detectives as his neigh- Army conducts live ammunition drills bor accused him of theft. A security source said the neighbor claimed that the bedoon entered his house KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Army Morale Department said the drills to Um Al-Maradem Island at an overall through the exhaust opening and stole KD 900 from announced yesterday that its forces would be conducted from 6:00 am to six nautical miles area. The army urged his bedroom cupboard. The bedoon man confessed to would conduct live-ammunition drills 18:00 pm (local time). The shooting all nationals and residents, both regu- the theft and confirmed that he entered from the tomorrow and Wednesday, range where the drills are to take lar sea-goers and fishing enthusiasts, exhaust fan opening. He is being referred to con- September 23 and 24. In a press state- place is located 16.5 nautical miles to stay away from the specified area cerned authorities. ment, the Army’s Public Relations and east off the coast of Julai and stretches for their own safety. — KUNA Liquor bottles confiscated during Wafra’s raid. ‘Jihadists’ summoned Liquor factory raided Ahmadi police raided a local liquor factory in Wafra for investigations residential area, where 60 bottles and 14 gas cylinders were found. Several Asians running the factory were KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said that jihadists and arrested. jihadist figures in Kuwait will continue to be summoned for investigations and that four of them were interrogated by the state security Saturday with charges of misleading young people and encouraging them to join international- ly-banned religious groups. “They were released after inter- rogation,” said the sources. Meanwhile, initial investigations with Islamic State-affili- ated people in Kuwait showed that they were not connect- ed as an organization and that they only sympathized with IS. “There is no group leader (emir) in Kuwait,” stressed the sources, denying that there were no indicators of any hos- tile activities during lunar month of Muharram as declared by an IS tweet. In addition, several sources said that most of the recent- ly prosecuted IS suspects were the remnants of terrorist cells that had had armed clashes with security forces in 2005 that claimed many lives. “Those cell members who managed to escape arrest and those who were too young then took part in sleeper cells until the revolution took The cash and cell phones that were intending to be place in Syria and clashes started between Maliki’s army smuggled into the Central Jail. and Sunni tribesmen in Iraq, when they flocked to Syrian and entered Iraq with IS and other terrorist organizations,” Prison smuggling foiled explained the sources. Prison security men foiled an attempt to smuggle mon- Other sources said that the suspects were indentified ey and mobile phones to the prison complex area. The dis- through coordination with military and security offices covery was made when a food company truck was abroad in addition to secret agents in Kuwait and their searched and the phones were found. own relatives who reported their joining IS until they returned to Kuwait where they were already known to state security. “Some of the suspects entered Kuwait a Robbery suspect escapes while ago and have been discreetly moving between Jahra police stopped a car with Saudi license plates farms, ranches and some houses until they were ambushed on the Sixth Ring Road, but the driver escaped. When and arrested,” added the sources. the car was searched, hashish, liquor and a Kuwaiti license plate were found. The car was reported as Security team being used in four armed robberies. Earlier reports had indicated that Kuwait has undertak- en new security measures to combat IS militants. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Shaikh Mohammad Al Unlicensed firearm Khalid announced a new security team comprising 80 offi- Police arrested two Iraqis and a bedoon with an unli- cers from the criminal investigation department and censed pistol. The three were sent to detectives for posses- national security sector, to pursue the extremist group, sion of an unlicensed firearm. Meanwhile, two citizens Mena news agency reported citing Al-Anbaa newspaper were arrested in Surra under the influence of drugs, and on Saturday. The security situation in Kuwait is under con- had drugs and paraphernalia. They were sent to the Drugs trol, the source said. Control General Department. Last week, Kuwaiti authorities arrested 11 people for supporting IS in their battles in Syria and Iraq and con- tributing financially to the movement. All suspects would be prosecuted for promoting terror-related activities. The Road accidents rebels were under the scrutiny of the government security In Khairan, a 17-year-old Kuwaiti girl suffered a agency after it received information that IS cells had start- back injury and various bruises during an all-terrain ed to make moves in response to the decision by the inter- vehicle (ATV) accident. And In Hawally, a 78-year- national community to form a global alliance against the old Syrian suffered various injuries during a car acci- Sunni militant group. dent on Fourth Ring Road. He was taken to The Kuwait Stock Exchange has also joined security Mubarak Hospital. Meanwhile, a motorcycle flipped measures taken against IS and Nusra Front members in over, injuring a 42-year-old Kuwaiti near the Kuwait Kuwait, said informed sources, noting that following Towers. He was taken to Amiri Hospital for treat- instructions to freeze all financial transactions and assets of ment. Also, a bus flipped over in Industrial Ardiya, people related to terrorist groups, KSE had frozen bidding injuring seven Nepalese workers, one critically. They accounts belonging to Hajjaj bin Fahd Al-Ajmi and Hamed were all taken to Farwaniya Hospital. Hamad Hamed Al-Ali. —Al-Anbaa, Al-Watan and Al-Rai ‘Election disputes’ blamed in MP’s attack

KUWAIT: The attack on MP the request of their father, because of the two brothers who were arrested Mohammad Al-Barrak at a wedding previous election differences. The pub- attacked the MP with a knife and hall in Farwaniya on Friday took anoth- lic prosecution decided to detain the knuckledusters because of disputes er turn as he accused the two attacking two brothers on charges of attempted with their father, who threatened to kill brothers of attempting to kill him at murder. Investigations revealed that him two weeks ago. — Al-Rai MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 LOCAL Municipality inspectors prepare for camping season Robberies lead to increased costs

By Nawara Fattahova Camping locations accompany the applicant to the place and check it. The Municipality has specified certain locations He may then set up his camp there. So it’s not legal KUWAIT: Although more than a month is still to go for camping while respecting certain rules and pay- to buy a reserved place from individuals who just for the camping season to officially begin, some ing fees. “This year camping is organized. Anybody occupied a location in the desert. Currently, camping people have stated marking locations to build their who wants to set up a camp has to register the loca- licenses are available only for Kuwaiti citizens and pri- camp after the season starts. According to a local tion where he will be camping at the ‘Cleanliness and vate companies,” stressed the inspector. daily, it also seems that the laborers who marked Road Occupancy Department’ at the Municipality. these locations for other persons did so to let the Basically there are two governorates in charge, Increasing costs place for money when the camping season starts. depending on the location - Ahmadi and Jahra. The Setting a camp is an expensive affair, in addition An inspector from the Municipality who wished applicant should be older than 21 years and should to the effort and responsibility it entails. In the last to remain anonymous told Kuwait Times that pay a KD 50 fee for the season in addition to paying few years, robberies of desert camps have increased, inspectors go on regular inspection tours, and if KD 300 as a refundable deposit, which he will get so those who set up a camp usually have to have a they find any violations, they will immediately back if no violations are found at his location,” he security guard watching it during the weekdays remove them. “Our inspection is not only limited to added. The departments for registering camping when the owner is not there. Usually it’s only the camping season - we also go before and after locations are located at the Municipality building in Kuwaitis who build camps, especially bachelors who the season. If we find such violations in the desert each governorate. “When a person chooses the spend the whole winter season at the camp. Expats and people reserving locations to sell it later, we will place, he may come before the beginning of the prefer to get something simpler for one or two visits definitely remove any fencing and the violator will camping season which starts on November 1 and we only, and this choice is in renting a readymade camp pay fines,” the inspector explained. set it by GPS. After paying the fees, an inspector will where they just bring their food or stuff they need for a picnic. Fatma Offtada, Operation Manager of Nuzha Tours, a company offering camp rentals, explained the services they provide. “The company has a camp in Wafra - it’s easy to reach even with a sedan. Our customers are both expats and Kuwaitis, and we are working in this field for more than 11 years. Our camp consists of 10 small tents and two big ones (social tents). The customer can book a package or Group photo with the student trainees just the tent, as we can provide catering and other activities such as magicians, face painting, inflatable castles and others,” she pointed out. “We usually VIVA meets Ejabi charge on a per person basis if they take the pack- age. It depends on the number in the group, as some tents are for four persons while others are for six. For Academy students those who like privacy, they can rent the whole camp. I don’t know about other companies renting camps, but I have seen individuals providing this KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing ness with the aspiration of achieving a service and posting it on social media. Also, there are telecom operator, held an enlightening global reach. Her experience and story companies that build camps for their employees,” meeting for the student trainees at the gave a boost of confidence to young KUWAIT: A camping site near the Shuaiba Port in this file photo. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat. added Fatma. Ejabi Training Academy entitled ‘Success trainees, and inspired their sense of creativ- Story’. The event, attended by VIVA’s ity and entrepreneurship. Corporate Communications team, high- Ejabi guest speakers lauded the launch lighted the company’s main achievements of the program and were delighted with and success since its inception. the opportunity to meet young trainees. NBK celebrates ‘Mega Draws’ winners In support of promoting and spreading They have also expressed their apprecia- a culture of productivity, entrepreneurship, tion to the Ejabi organizing team and vari- KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait Khader, NBK Deputy General Manager, During this summer, NBK launched and creativity among youth, VIVA invited ous sponsors for their efforts and role. They (NBK) organizes Mega Draws event to Consumer Banking Group. “NBK’s its Summer Campaign offering NBK guests from Al-Watan TV channel. Mr extended special thanks to VIVA for believ- announce the winners of its largest Mega Draws event at The Avenues will cardholders a chance to win and build Abdulwahab Al-Essa, a TV host and the cre- ing in the potential and capacity of youth campaigns this year. This huge event include four major draws of the a prestigious Rolls-Royce Phantom, ative mind behind A-Mouwajaha program, to acquire the skills they need, and the will take place on 26th of September largest campaigns NBK launched this being the first bank in Kuwait to give was one of the speakers who addressed the importance of motivating them to be pro- 2014 at the Grand Avenue in The year. We are keen to always exceed away a Rolls-Royce as well as a travel trainees and whose presence made a huge ductive by creating a learning environ- Avenues. our customers’ expectations.” NBK package to the renowned home of impact on them. During the gathering, he ment. A setting capable of broadening NBK Mega Draws event includes Mega Draw event will also offer the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in Goodwood, shared details of his experience, recalling their horizons, strengthening the concept the winner of the KD 250,000 Al- crowd chances to win valuable instant England to enjoy a unique experience his early career days as a journalist and of positivity, instilling nationalism, and Jawhara quarterly prize and the win- prizes and participate in the various by designing their own Rolls Royce news anchor despite his young age. He also developing work performance among ner of the Prestigious, custom-made, activities organized specially for this Phantom. The travel package includes interacted with the trainees, and answered youth to help build the next generation of Rolls-Royce Phantom in its Summer day. two round air tickets, accommodation all their questions and queries. leaders capable of achieving their aspira- Campaign. The winner of the Summer NBK re-launched Al-Jawhara at a 5 star hotel in Central London, Chef Hanouf Al-Balhan˝ who was also a tions for the good of society. Campaign will also be offered a travel account, by offering customers more transfer service to and from the air- guest speaker, shared her success story VIVA will continue to looking for unique package to the renowned Home of chances to win bigger prizes. A KD port and a visit to the factory to wit- that started with cooking from home opportunities to contribute to the welfare Rolls-Royce headquarters in England. 5,000 weekly, KD 125,000 monthly ness the making of their very own before she moved to hosting culinary TV of the society and help best serve the “NBK consistently delivers superior and a grand prize of KD 250,000 quar- bespoke Rolls-Royce Phantom - tailor- Ahmad Al-Khader shows. She also wrote various pastry books, youth and shed the light on its ongoing value to its customers”, said Ahmad Al- terly draw. made to their personal preferences. owns a successful bakery and pastry busi- corporate social commitment. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view The mission Supporting Syria’s against extremism neighbors By Ahmad Al-Sarraf ased on Kuwait’s participation with the world community in the war against terror- ism, the foreign minister said that there is a B By Labeed Abdal formulation of a strategic vision to wipe out the Islamic State (IS) because of the danger it poses against the security and stability of the region as a whole. This is strong rhetoric from a Kuwaiti deputy premier. But the minister may know that wiping IS out IS, if it is done, does not mean that the danger [email protected] of terrorism is gone, because there are thousands

or millions who are dreaming of what Abu Bakr Al- Al-Anbaa he United Nations and Lebanon signed a memo- Baghdadi is dreaming of. randum of understanding to carry out a project of What we said earlier about the failure of all reli- Tsupporting locals who provide relief aid and serv- gious leaderships in all Islamic countries to con- ices to Syrian refugees. This action is necessary to help Syria’s neighbors meet the needs of refugees who demn IS’ actions was accurate, because it was escaped violence in their home country. This interna- found from statements made by a large number of tional cooperation, which comes with purely humani- those leaderships that they support IS and strongly tarian purposes, also falls in line with efforts to elimi- oppose the new international coalition to eradicate nate poverty and maintain environment sustainability it. Some of them are clergymen in Kuwait such as that became threatened by violence caused by local and foreign hands. Addressing issues such as poverty, health, education, equality, environment and developmental partnerships are essential everywhere around the world, but have But the minister may know in my view become necessary in the region by the Syrian civil war. This war has also reflected negatively on Lebanon that that wiping out IS, if it is already suffers economically, and it could use all the done, does not mean that the Unmanned vehicles for future wars The international communi- danger of terrorism is gone. By Linda Gradstein ty is required to provide he latest versions of unmanned vehicles on air, sea and land problem we had in Gaza is that you know where the tunnels start that were on display at an exhibition in Israel recently shows but you don’t know where it ends. We created this prototype in humanitarian aid to the those from the Religious Scholars Association in Tthat the technology is getting better, and dozens of new just a few days, and it could fly around objects and map the tun- the Gulf as well as former politicians. systems are on the market. One new product is the Amstaff, an nel.” The prototype was made for Israeli defense company, Elbit, refugees and larger support Also, Brotherhood propagandist Yousuf Al- unmanned ground vehicle developed by Automotive Robotic and many of the parts were made in a 3-D printer that Peled was Qaradawi, who heads the International Association Industry. demonstrating. The total cost was $1000. He said that in the to societies that host them. of Muslim Scholars, has not uttered a word towards “The Amstaff is very unique - it’s not only intelligent driving, future, he thinks this would be one of the systems used. He said but it’s security-mission-oriented,” Amos Goren, the CEO and that Israel is on the cutting edge of drone technology. the decision to kick out seven of his Brotherhood help it can get. International reports indicate that more developer of the vehicle said. “It’s supposed to replace the driver “Because we don’t have a lot of natural resources we’re pushed than 28 percent of Lebanese people live under the colleagues from Qatar. Qaradawi opposed and the security officer. It can save money and people’s lives for to use our human resources more,” he said. “If you have tons of oil, poverty line. This makes Lebanon, after absorbing mil- America’s leadership of the new alliance troops. He dangerous or dirty missions.” you can just buy the technology from someone else. We don’t the lions of Syrian refugees, suffer under tremendous previously, along with the international The vehicle comes equipped with radiation sensors, which oil so we need to innovative, creative and one the cutting edge.” amount of pressure that threatens its economy and abil- Brotherhood organization, opposed the liberation could be used in the case of a nuclear disaster. It has two electric ity to provide services to its people, let alone the of Kuwait by America, so does he want Somalia or batteries, and runs silently. Goren says the vehicle was used dur- Drones’ role refugees. ing the recent fighting between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip The conference was organized by IsraelDefense, and brought Djibouti to lead the military campaign against IS? The international community is required to provide to protect a kibbutz on the Gaza border. together civilian and military applications. Many of the CEO’s humanitarian aid to the refugees and larger support to Based on that, the mission of the foreign minis- “If people are going out to the fields, it opened a path for today had long army careers, and many of the visitors to the exhi- societies that host them. Collaborative efforts are need- ter will not end with allying with Arab and Western them,” he said. “And if there are bombs and people are inside the bition seemed to know each other. There were as many dressed in ed to overcome the crisis, which has bred countless countries to eradicate IS abroad, but also with shelters, they send it to find out what’s going on outside.” army uniforms as in civilian clothes. repercussions felt by victims of what in my opinion is a applying pressure on the government and the edu- The fighting in Gaza was on many people’s minds here, and One product that attracted a lot of attention was a surveillance proxy war. Lastly, I would like to express gratitude to cation ministry in particular to cleanse educational the role that unmanned vehicles can play. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers balloon manufactured by RT, Ltd. the UN and the United Nations Development Program died in the fighting, many of them searching for the underground “We design, manufacture and fly technical aerostats under the (UNDP) for their efforts in maintaining stability in areas curricula from all that is related to Brotherhood tunnels that Hamas had dug to infiltrate into Israel. name SkyStar,” Managing Director Rami Shmueli said. “We will fly that suffered as a result of the Syrian crisis, such as ideology, and this is not a difficult or impossible “We made a prototype of a quadrocopter that can go into the any payload that will perform better if it’s above the ground - Lebanon, through improving living conditions, creating mission, if there is will and true determination. tunnels and map them out,” Tom Peled, of XLN, a company that radios, cameras, surveillance - we will carry it. We fly for 72 hours, job opportunities and securing services in the educa- —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas offers “maker spaces” similar to high-tech incubators said. “One come down for 15 minutes, and go up again.” —The Meda Line tional, health and social sectors.

kuwait digest The treatment abroad issues

By Dr Shamlan Al-Essa

he Cabinet decided during its recent weekly ses- United Arab Emirates learned about my illness and sion to take new decisions to deal with the health called me and expressed their assistance to be treated in Tsituation and regulate treatment abroad. We are the most famous hospitals in treating malignant can- in support of any serious decision to enhance any situa- cers, JP Anderson in Texas, because they deal with it and tion in the country including that of health, but we are they asked me to send them my medical report. They certain that the government took the new decisions contacted the hospital which accepted me. My brothers with full knowledge that its implementation will take a in the UAE asked me to go to Abu Dhabi with my family very long time and will not be realized because our gov- to travel to Texas directly. ernment has accustomed us to too much talk and less I, at this point, hesitated to accept the UAE offer action. because brothers in the ruling family asked me to Let us take for example the issue of health insurance process my transaction at the health ministry and the and guarantee, as 20 years elapsed while we are talking treatment abroad department, then after one month of about it. Studies were done and recommendations visits and various medical committees, a decision was came out, but the implementation decision did not see taken to send me to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the light of day so far. The decision to expand the invita- Maryland. tion of outstanding international consultants in all spe- When I went to receive my tickets, the officials at the cialties is not new and is used in the public and private treatment abroad department told me very frankly that sectors, as both invite specialized doctors, and we do my ticket will be economy and not business or first class not understand why the government is late in taking like the rest of the patients. When I wondered about this good decisions. discrimination, they asked me to bring the approval of The Saudis encouraged the private sector to build an MP in the National Assembly to change the decision. private hospitals with various specialties for all diseases, I phoned MP Nabil Al-Fadhl and complained against and the government is sending its patients to these hos- the discrimination and their request for a wasta from an pitals instead of sending them abroad, and this way it MP, so he laughed and asked me if I did not know that satisfies the private sector and most of those sent go patients whose treatment because of MPs’ wasta! He expenses are paid by the gov- The problem is that the govern- then told me he will not inter- ernment, and in turn it saves vene and offered to buy the money and encourages the ment wants to buy the loyalty of ticket at his own expense. He contribution of the private members of parliament by allo- at this point heard my angry sector to invest in their coun- swearing at him, because I try. cating tens, rather hundreds, of had complained to him to What about the treatment correct this problem and not abroad issue, and the govern- approvals for outer areas. beg for a ticket. ment’s decision to reduce allo- cations and costs? The main problem in the issue of Nothing happened treatment abroad cannot be solved by reducing alloca- Anyhow, I bought a business class ticket for me and tions, rather in reducing the number of those the gov- my son, and the government tickets were merged ernment sends abroad, especially the ministries of interi- together to get a ticket for my wife. or and defense. When Saud Al-Samakah and Hussein Abdelrahman learned about what happened, Saud called Health Buying loyalty Ministry Undersecretary Dr Khalid Al-Sahlawi who found The problem is that the government wants to buy it strange and asked me to send him a fax with the ticket the loyalty of members of parliament by allocating tens, cost, and I sent him everything but I did not hear any- rather hundreds, of approvals for outer areas. The minis- thing from him. Hussein told Information Minister ters of interior and defense both are from the ruling Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah about the matter and asked family and want the satisfaction of MPs, and they have him not to accept our professor being insulted. The to approve sending hundreds of tribe members who are information minister called the health minister but noth- loyal to the MPs for treatment abroad during summer. ing happened. The problem is that there are citizens who are really sick All what I want to say now is thanks to the govern- and deserve treatment abroad, but the majority do not ment for treating us abroad, and if it wants to buy and have anything wrong with them. gain the loyalties of members of parliament for political I hesitated a lot in writing about my personal experi- considerations, then it will lose for sure, and it has lost ence with a malignant disease and treatment abroad the loyalty of Kuwaitis who refuse subservience and when I was hit with it in March and decided to go buying of political loyalty. abroad for treatment. My students and friends in the —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

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TIRANA: Pope Francis touches a baby as he arrives at the Catholic University yesterday. —AFP Muslims, Christians throng Tirana to greet Pope Pope says religion cannot be used to justify violence TIRANA: Christians and Muslims thronged the Albanian in a continent gripped by secularism. capital yesterday to greet Pope Francis who arrived in the The 77-year-old pontiff will also meet Albanian mainly Muslim country for a one-day visit to praise it as a President Bujar Nishani and visit orphans during the trip. model of religious harmony. The pontiff’s plane landed at It is the second papal visit to Albania. Pope John Paul II Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport at 0700 GMT, where Prime travelled there the year after the collapse of its commu- Minister Edi Rama welcomed Francis for his first European nism regime in 1992. During that visit he paid tribute to visit outside of Italy. “Albania is a country that has suffered “martyrs of the faith” and created four new bishops, so much,” the pope told journalists on his flight from including Michel Koliqi-then 91 years old-who had spent Rome. “But it has managed to find peace between its dif- 21 years in detention. ferent religions, which is a good sign for the world.” The packed 11-hour trip comes at a sensitive time amid tur- Heightened security moil in the Middle East and rising intolerance in Europe. The country of three million will likely be looking for Authorities stepped up security to its highest level the popular pope’s support in its bid to become a mem- across the Balkan country after warnings from Iraq that ber of the European Union. “It is a strong signal and an Islamic State jihadists could be planning an attack on the encouragement to ramp up our move towards European Catholic leader. Tens of thousands of Albanians-many of integration,” Don Gjergi Meta, the Church’s spokesman in them Muslim and Orthodox-had already gathered in Albania, told Vatican Radio. The Vatican has insisted it has Mother Teresa square in central Tirana where the pope not increased security for the trip, but Albania’s interior will later celebrate Mass. Some waved welcoming banners ministry said police have set up 29 checkpoints in down- while others chanted: “Papa Francesco! Papa Francesco!” town Tirana, where most of the pope’s activities were Yellow-and-white Vatican flags flew alongside Albanian planned. ones in the main streets of the capital while vast portraits Some Vatican watchers fear Francis has made himself a of Catholic priests and nuns persecuted under commu- target by speaking out against the Islamic State organiza- nism-when Albania became the world’s first atheist state- tion. But the Argentine pontiff, who loves to mingle with were strung across roads. “The Catholic Church in Albania the crowds, will use the same open-topped vehicle he is a martyr church and with the visit of Pope Francis it will uses in Saint Peter’s Square. Albania last month began be known throughout the world,” said Aida Agustini, 51, sending weapons and ammunition to Kurdish forces one of the faithful waiting in the square. fighting IS militants in Iraq, and security sources in the Beside her Muslim Hysen Doli, 85, who had come to country have dismissed fears that home-grown militants the square with 10 members of his family, said, “We might be planning an attack. — AFP belong to another religion but have come here out of respect to get the pope’s blessing.” Francis had said he chose to visit the impoverished country for his first European trip outside Italy because of the example it set of religious co-existence. While the Vatican earlier this year voiced support for US air strikes in Iraq to defend perse- cuted Christians, Francis has made dialogue between reli- gions a cornerstone of his papacy.

‘We can all work together!’ In August, Francis said that his presence in Albania “will be a way of saying to everyone, ‘See, we can all work together!’” He will later have meeting with the heads of the country’s other religious communities including Muslim, Orthodox, Bektashi, Jewish and Protestant lead- ers. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics also wants to honor those who suffered under former commu- nist dictator Enver Hoxha, during whose rule priests and imams were persecuted and many churches and mosques razed. Between 1945 and 1985, 111 priests, 10 seminarians and seven bishops died in detention or were executed. Nearly 2,000 Orthodox and Catholic churches were destroyed or transformed into cinemas, theatres and dance halls, according to Francis, who said the successful rebirth of the Catholic faith after such persecution made Albania a place where “I felt like I should go”. The revival of Catholicism is due in part to the popular- ity of Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian born in neighbor- ing Macedonia. Yet only about 15 percent of the popula- tion are Catholic, with Muslims in the majority with 56 percent, and the Orthodox making up 11 percent. In a country with one of the youngest populations in Europe, the Vatican will be hoping to tap into a source for converts MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Arab nations need to help in Iraq

ZAGREB: The US-led military campaign gaining more Arab participation in the US- building a coalition. “The commitments been infiltrated by extremists. Dempsey Dempsey has said the Pentagon’s first pri- plan to retake Iraqi territory held by the led effort, suggesting that without it the are coming in every day,” she said on NBC’s focused his comments on military action ority is pushing the military campaign in Islamic State group calls for attacking the military campaign might not move to its “Meet the Press.” However, she did not in Iraq rather than Syria. Iraq. A number of Iraq’s Arab neighbors, extremists from several directions simulta- next phase. He called wider Arab partici- name individual Arab countries that have “We want to go from being episodic including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have neously, and its success depends on get- pation a prerequisite for President Barack promised to participate in military action with our offensive operations to sus- said they support the US effort but have ting more Arab help, the top American Obama’s approval of the military cam- in Iraq, saying it was up to them to tained,” he said, adding that no one should not publicly committed to taking any military officer said yesterday. “We want paign plan. Obama was briefed on the describe their own roles. expect a dramatic increase in airstrikes but offensive role in Iraq. France is the only ally them to wake up every day realizing that plan last week but has not okayed it. In an Obama’s signature on the military cam- rather a series of increases calculated to that has joined thus far in airstrikes in Iraq. they are being squeezed from multiple opinion column published yesterday in paign plan for Iraq and Syria operations match Iraq’s ability to retake territory with Having more Arab countries involved directions,” Army Gen Martin Dempsey, the Tampa Bay Times, Obama wrote, “This would move the effort into a new phase, its own ground forces. Obama has ruled would make the Iraq campaign more sus- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told is not and will not be America’s fight Dempsey said, enabled by a larger num- out US troops fighting another ground tainable and “more credible - that is to say, reporters, referring to the Islamic State alone. That’s why we continue to build a ber of coalition aircraft that would allow war in Iraq. this is not just about the United States; this group, which also is known by the broad international coalition.” He said Arab for a more persistent presence over the is a regional and even an international acronyms ISIL and ISIS. “If we can get ISIL countries have offered to help but he battlefields of Iraq and improved Pentagon’s first priority issue,” Dempsey said. The general said he looking in about five different directions, mentioned none by name and did not prospects for rebuilding key elements of Obama authorized US airstrikes in Iraq spoke to his Turkish counterpart during that’s the desired end state,” he added in describe their specific roles. the Iraqi army. Dempsey said last week on Aug 8, and earlier this month he the weekend NATO meeting in Lithuania an interview with reporters traveling with that only about half of Iraqi army brigades, announced Washington would lead an about Turkey’s role in the conflict. He said him to Croatia from Lithuania, where he Obama’s signature which originally were trained by the US, international effort linked to the formation the allied military chiefs also discussed the discussed Iraq and other issues with his The US ambassador to the United are suitable partners now for the US. of a more inclusive government in prospect of NATO playing a part in train- NATO counterparts. Nations, Samantha Power, said the admin- Yesterday he said one of the major prob- Baghdad. That plan includes the prospect ing and equipping Iraq security forces, Dempsey stressed the importance of istration is pleased with its progress in lems with the other half is that they have of US airstrikes in neighboring Syria, but although no decisions were made. —AP Yemen Prime Minister quits Shiite rebels seize Yemen govt HQ

SANAA: Shiite rebels seized the Yemeni government headquarters measures, including a fuel price hike, earlier this year. He has also yesterday and the premier resigned as violence raged despite a UN agreed to partly reverse the price hike. But the rebels have also announcement of a power-sharing deal to end days of fighting, offi- demanded posts in key state institutions as part of a push for greater cials said. Prime Minister Mohamed Basindawa stepped aside, accus- political clout. ing President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi of being “autocratic”, senior April Longley Alley, a Yemen specialist with the International officials said. State news agency Saba reported Basindawa’s resigna- Crisis Group, told AFP before the latest developments that the rebels tion, but without giving the reason. Mohammed Abdulsalam, were demanding a bigger role in Yemeni politics. “The Huthis want to spokesman for the Ansarullah rebels, also known as Huthis, con- be powerful decision makers at the national level with a share equal firmed on his Facebook page that the seat of government had been to, or possibly more than, their main political rivals Islah,” she said of taken. the powerful Sunni Reform party whose supporters are fighting Earlier, shelling and gunfire in the north of Sanaa was heard alongside the army. across the city, as Sunni militiamen and troops battled the rebels, prompting an exodus of terrified residents, an AFP correspondent Residents flee their homes reported. A week of fighting has left dozens of people dead on both “The upper limits of what they (Huthis) think they can obtain has sides and forced the suspension of all flights into and out of Sanaa likely increased as they have won on the battlefield,” she told AFP. The airport, which is in the battle zone. There was no let-up in the fight- fighting in northern Sanaa has raged continuously since Thursday ing on Saturday night despite Hadi ordering an after-dark curfew. when nearly 40 people were killed in a single day. Residents of north- The clashes centered on the campus of Al-Iman University, a bas- ern districts have begun to flee their homes, an AFP correspondent tion of Sunni Islamists that the Shiite rebels have been trying to cap- reported earlier yesterday. The city’s streets were largely deserted as ture, witnesses said. The violence came despite UN envoy Jamal shops remained closed and the education ministry ordered schools Benomar announcing late on Saturday that a deal had been reached to suspend lessons indefinitely. after “intense consultations with all the political parties, including Sanaa University told students to stay away until mid-October Ansarullah”. after its campus was hit by shellfire. One of Sanaa’s main markets, the ‘Preparations to sign deal’ Ali Mohsen Souk, has been closed for three days, which residents Benomar did not specifically mention a ceasefire, nor did he say said had started to cause problems in obtaining fresh produce. when a deal would be signed, although he said preparations were Yemen has been swept by political turmoil since longtime strong- under way for the signing. But he did say the accord will be a “nation- man Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced from the presidency in early 2012. al document that will advance the path of peaceful change, and will Al-Qaeda loyalists have taken advantage of the political turmoil lay the foundations for national partnership and for security and sta- in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state to launch persistent bility in the country”. Forces allied to the government have been bat- attacks on the security forces. Separatist protests have also rocked tling to halt the rebels, who swept into Sanaa from their mountain the formerly independent south. The rebels hail from the Zaidi Shiite SANAA: Armed Yemeni Shiite Huthi anti-government rebels shout slogans as they man a checkpoint stronghold in the far north last month and set up armed protest community, a minority in the mostly Sunni nation but the majority erected after the Huthi group seized northern districts of the capital Sanaa yesterday. —AFP camps across the capital to press their demands. community in the northern highlands, including the Sanaa region. Hadi has denounced the rebel offensive as a “coup attempt”, but Also known as Huthis after the name of their leading family, they agreed to involve the rebels in the formation of a new government have battled the government on and off for a decade from their to replace the unpopular administration that imposed austerity stronghold of Saada in the far north. —AFP Rise of Islamic schools alarms secular Turkey

ISTANBUL: When Turkish pupils received the Education Reform Initiative (ERG) at who based post-Ottoman Turkey on a clear their school entry exam results after the end Sabanci University revealed that the number division between religion and state. Erdogan of last term, textile worker and father Halil of Imam Hatip schools in Turkey has once famously said he wanted to raise a Ibrahim Beyhan received an unpleasant sur- increased by 73 percent in five years. “pious youth” and made efforts to ban prise. His daughter had been assigned to a In recent months, parents have demon- mixed-sex dorms at state universities. An religious high school, like thousands of other strated outside schools which have been education reform introduced in 2012 students under a new system that caught turned into Imam Hatips. In one them, some scrapped a ban on Imam Hatip schools sign- many parents off guard. Parents, educators 200 demonstrators stormed a government ing up pupils under the age of 15 and and civil society groups have decried the building in Istanbul’s secular Kadikoy district. allowed them to study subjects other than move as another attack on Turkey’s secular “The government is limiting the supply of theology at the university. principles by the Islamic-rooted Justice and mainstream education while expanding the Development Party (AKP) co-founded by supply of religious education. In the end, ‘Huge demand’ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing more and more children will find themselves Turkish officials say there is a “huge the government of imposing religion on stu- in a situation where they will have to go to a demand” for the schools, which have been dents. religious school,” said Batuhan Aydagul, the increasingly sought by conservative families “My child will be forced to wear a long director of ERG. “Even if one child is enrolled anxious to keep their children away from skirt. She will be forced to put a headscarf on in an Imam Hatip school against their will, it secular state schools. “Imam Hatip schools her head too. It is not mandatory for now, is a violation of human rights,” Aydagul said. have always played an important role within but who knows it won’t be one day?” said He added that there was a “systematic the Turkish education system. They should Beyhan, 49. “I am a practicing Muslim, I fast, I campaign” by public institutions, mosques not be portrayed as schools that no student say my prayers and read the Holy Quran, but and a number of NGOs around the country wants to attend,” said Muammer Yildiz, I still want my daughter to be educated in a to persuade parents to send their children to Istanbul director of National Education. normal school,” he said. As part of a new nationwide exam introduced this year, some 40,000 students have been assigned to reli- gious high schools either because they did not select any school, scored low marks or due to a technicality. Most of them have been placed in schools nearest their home, but since so many religious schools have opened in recent years, it was difficult for some to avoid Imam Hatips-schools specializing in religious education combined with a mod- ern curriculum. Erdogan himself was educat- ed in Istanbul at an Imam Hatip, beginning an education that saw him gain a place at university and then climb the ladder of Islamic politics. The name of the schools openly describes their religious vocation — Hatip being derived from the Arabic for ser- mon.

‘Violation of human rights’ ISTANBUL: Protestors march with placards reading “Enough! Don’t Parents raced against the clock to pull turn our schools to Imam Hatips” in Kadikoy in Istanbul. —AFP their kids out of the schools by Monday, the first day of the new academic year in Turkey. religious schools. Critics say that efforts to “Most of their graduates have moved into But it turned into an ordeal for many of expand religious schooling undermines the high positions. Recently, one of them has them, like Beyhan, who could not find a slot quality of education in Turkey, which already become the president,” he said, referring to in another school. His 14-year-old daughter compares poorly with OECD averages. A Erdogan. Hacer, who has just started at Guzeltepe quarter of the 40 hours Imam Hatip students “They are less likely to commit crime or Imam Hatip High School in Istanbul’s conser- spend learning a week is dedicated to reli- engage in illegal activities. It is scientifically vative Eyup district, fears she may have to gious education, which includes subjects proven,” he argued. At a male-only Imam put off her dream of becoming a doctor. like the Koran, Arabic and the life of the Hatip high-school in Carsamba, one of “My dreams have been shattered. I woke Prophet Mohammed. Combining them with Istanbul’s most conservative neighbor- up this morning and didn’t feel like going to the normal curriculum means a heavy work- hoods, students like 17-year-old Mahmut are school. Because this school thing frustrates load for students. not complaining. “In addition to religion, me so much,” she said, her eyes welling up Erdogan, who was elected president last they teach us history, geography, math and with tears. “Since they want all the girls to month after ruling Turkey as premier for over physics here. They teach these subjects at wear a headscarf in this school, those who a decade, is accused by his critics of betray- other schools too, but not the religion. I don’t wear one may face discrimination. This ing the secular principles of the Turkish think that’s a good thing for us,” he said, smil- is my biggest fear,” she said. A new report by Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, ing beneath his thin moustache. —AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Scotland’s leader: Voters ‘tricked’ in referendum UK PM Cameron and Labor leader disagree over approach

MANCHESTER: Defeated Scottish nationalist chief Alex The dispute overshadowed the start of Labor’s annual government, has rejected Cameron’s linkage, raising the Salmond accused Britain’s political leaders yesterday of conference in Manchester, the last before next year’s possibility that political squabbling could delay a new tricking Scots out of independence after a dispute about national election, where leader Ed Miliband is hoping to deal for Scotland. Miliband said yesterday Cameron had how and when to give them more powers. Salmond, who shift the political debate onto his vision for a society not raised the “English question” before he and Nick Clegg, is stepping down as leader of the pro-independence where wealth and opportunity is shared more equally. the leader of the Liberal Democrats, signed the “vow” - a Scottish National Party (SNP) after failing to persuade Instead, Miliband was forced to clarify his position on joint declaration with the British leader about granting Scots to leave the United Kingdom, accused Britain’s three more powers for Scotland and found himself engaged in new powers to Scotland. “You know we’ve spent two main political parties of winning last Thursday’s referen- what many voters are likely to perceive as a grubby party years trying to keep our country together. Let’s have a dum by 55-45 percent by making a false promise of new political spat. Cameron, under pressure from some of his proper constitutional convention, let’s look at these powers. “I think the vow was something cooked up in des- own lawmakers who represent English constituencies and issues,” Miliband told BBC TV. peration for the last few days of the campaign and I think whose own electoral hopes are threatened by the UK “Let’s not drive our country apart because David everyone in Scotland now realizes that,” said Salmond, Independence Party (UKIP), last Friday suddenly linked Cameron thinks it’s a sort of opportunity for him to do it.” NAIROBI: Relatives of victims of the Westgate Mall attack, carry flowers dur- referring to a pledge by Prime Minister David Cameron new powers for Scotland to agreeing new constitutional Cameron made it clear the dispute could resonate in the ing a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the attack, outside the and other leaders before the vote to rapidly expand arrangements for the rest of Britain, including England, at May 2015 general election, warning Miliband his reluc- Westgate mall yesterday. —AFP Scottish autonomy in the event of a “No”. “It is the people the same time. tance to restructure voting arrangements in favor of who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who In particular, he said he wanted to stop Scots lawmak- England could backfire. “The challenge to Labor and Ed were gulled, who were tricked effectively,” Salmond told ers voting on English issues in parliament, a matter he said Miliband is clear: either resolve this issue with us, or Kenya marks anniversary BBC TV, saying he thought the last-minute promise had should be the preserve of those representing English explain to the people of the rest of the UK why they swayed the referendum’s outcome. areas. His promise reflected fears inside his party that shouldn’t have the same powers as we are rightfully Scotland, which already has its own parliament and a devolving to the people of Scotland,” Cameron said in an of Westgate mall attack Rancorous row large measure of devolution, was set to be given greater article released on social media. “Why, for instance, If Britain voted to leave the European Union in a refer- autonomy and continue to receive greater funding per Scottish MPs should be able to vote to vary income tax NAIROBI: Kenya yesterday marks a year the event organizers. The plaque, on a endum pledged by Cameron in 2017, Salmond suggested head than the rest of Britain whereas England, the largest rates in England, when the Scottish Parliament is going since Somali Islamist gunmen attacked black granite stone, bears the names of that independence-minded Scots might push for another part of the United Kingdom, was not in line to receive any to be setting Scottish income tax rates in Scotland.” Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, with the 67 people who were confirmed to breakaway vote. All three main parties are united in want- concessions. Deputy Prime Minister Clegg, Cameron’s junior partner anniversary commemorations including have been killed in the attack, which ing to transfer new powers, over tax, spending and wel- in the two-party coalition, urged an end to the row. “We the unveiling of a memorial stone and began on a Saturday midday and was fare, to Scotland. But with eight months before a national Political squabbling cannot allow an exciting new chapter of empowerment candlelight vigil. At least 67 people were declared over four days later. election, Cameron’s Conservatives have become However, Labor, which has far fewer lawmakers in and constitutional renewal to be held hostage yet again killed and scores more wounded when a embroiled in a rancorous row with the opposition Labor England than the Conservatives and could therefore lose by a Labor and Tory (Conservative) pre-election standoff,” small group of Al-Qaeda-affiliated fight- ‘Healing process’ party about when and how that might happen. its ability to get legislation through parliament if it was in he said. —Reuters ers walked into the upmarket mall, toss- Relatives of the victims will also lay ing grenades and executing shoppers wreaths of flowers at a garden in the for- and staff. est where 67 tree seedlings were planted Kenya has been on high alert ahead of last year. “We expect the victims’ families the anniversary, especially amid fears of and friends to come out and be part of retaliatory Shebab attacks after their the healing process,” Shah said. The com- reclusive leader and the alleged master- memorations will end later in the day mind of the Westgate attack, Ahmed with a candlelight concert at the National Abdi Godane, was killed at the start of Museum, the venue of a memorial exhibi- this month in a US air strike. Police chief tion that opened this week. David Kimaiyo announced Saturday they All four gunmen are believed to have are on high alert following fears of a ter- died in the mall, their bodies burned and ror attack during the Westgate anniver- crushed by tons of rubble after a section sary. of the complex collapsed following a “We are prepared in case of anything. fierce blaze started by the fighting. The Specialised units are on the ground and mall was crowded with hundreds of we have intensified patrols during this shoppers and friends meeting for a meal, period of the anniversary,” Kimaiyo told as well as a children’s cooking competi- reporters. Kenyan officials, community tion. Shoppers were hunted down in leaders, attack survivors and relatives of supermarket aisles and killed, in what the the victims are due to assemble early yes- Shebab said was revenge for Kenya’s terday in Nairobi’s Karura forest for a sending of troops to fight the extremists memorial procession and inter-faith in Somalia as part of an African Union prayers. force. The extremists have launched a “We will be unveiling a plaque in hon- string of subsequent attacks in Kenya, or of those who lost their lives,” said including a wave of massacres in the Rajesh Shah, chairman of Karura Forest coastal region, which has badly affected Environmental Education Trust, one of the country’s key tourist industry. —AFP MOSCOW: Anti-war protestors march yesterday. —AFP p10 2_Layout 1 9/21/14 9:08 PM Page 1

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Security breach prompts more White House security Security review after knife intruder lapse

WASHINGTON: The Secret Service tightened had no convictions or arrest warrants, had tested ‘Commitment to duty’ security outside the White House after an negative Saturday for drug use and had been in With questions mounting, President Barack embarrassing breach in which a man with a the military for 18 years, including three tours in Obama tried to allay concerns about whether knife scaled a fence, ran across the lawn and Iraq, according to The Washington Post. the Secret Service is still up to the task of pro- made it all the way inside before agents stopped tecting him and his family. “The president has him. Increased surveillance and more officer ‘Arrest is not acceptable’ full confidence in the Secret Service and is grate- patrols are among the measures that Secret “This is someone who has provided service to ful to the men and women who day in and day Service Director Julia Pierson ordered. She also his country and shown commitment in his life,” out protect himself, his family and the White began an investigation into what went wrong said the lawyer, Margarita O’Donnell, as she tried House,” White House spokesman Frank Benenati Friday evening while the first family was away unsuccessfully to get Gonzalez released. said late Saturday. from the White House. A member of the House Gonzalez was expected to appear in federal He said the White House expected Pierson’s Homeland Committee said yesterday that it was court Monday to face charges of unlawfully review to be conducted “with the same profes- astonishing, at a time of concerns about terrorist entering a restricted building or grounds while sionalism and commitment to duty that we and attacks, that “someone could actually get into carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. the American people expect from the US Secret the White House without being stopped.” According to a criminal complaint, Gonzalez told Service.” The Secret Service said its Office of Rep Peter King, R-NY, said the intrusion was Secret Service agents after his arrest that he was Professional Responsibility was carrying out the “absolutely inexcusable” and he expected con- “concerned that the atmosphere was collapsing” review. The breach triggered a rare evacuation of gressional hearings into the incident at one of and needed to contact the president “so he much of the White House. Secret Service agents the world’s most heavily secured buildings. “This could get word out to the people.” drew their weapons as they hurried White House demands a full investigation, an investigation as Obama and his daughters had just left the staffers and journalists out of the West Wing to what happened, why it happened and what’s White House by helicopter Friday evening when through a side door. being done to make sure it never happens the intruder hopped the fence. He ran toward Less than 24 hours after Gonzalez’s arrest, a again,” he told “Fox News Sunday.” Officials first the presidential residence unimpeded, ignoring second man was apprehended after he drove up said the fact that the intruder, identified as Omar orders from officers to stop, until being tackled to a White House gate and refused to leave, J Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, just inside the doors of the North Portico - the Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said, appeared to be unarmed may have been a factor grand, columned entrance overlooking prompting bomb technicians in full gear to LOS CABOS: A man collects the rubble of his house at the El Vado Santa Rosa neighbor- in why agents at the scene didn’t shoot or have Pennsylvania Ave. “Every day the Secret Service search the vehicle as agents briefly shut down hood after hurricane Odile, in San Jose Los Cabos, Baja California State, Mexico. —AFP their dogs pursue him before he made it inside. is challenged to ensure security at the White nearby streets. There were no indications the But a criminal complaint issued late Friday House complex while still allowing public acces- two incidents were connected. But they only revealed Gonzalez had a small folding knife with sibility to a national historical site,” the agency intensified the scrutiny of the Secret Service, A week after devastating a 3 1/2-inch serrated blade with him at the time said in a statement Saturday. “Although last which is struggling to rehabilitate its image fol- of his arrest. At a hearing late Saturday after- night the officers showed tremendous restraint lowing a series of allegations of misconduct by Odile, Los Cabos struggles noon in DC Superior Court, the assistant public and discipline in dealing with this subject, the agents in recent years, including agents on defender representing Gonzalez said Gonzalez location of Gonzalez’s arrest is not acceptable.” Obama’s detail. —AP CABO SAN LUCAS: There is still no water, security in other parts of Mexico. The no electricity and almost nothing to eat in region has seen an exodus of those who Los Cabos, a small corner of paradise in have somewhere else to go-especially northwestern Mexico leveled by Hurricane those who have family or friends in the Odile. Nearly a week after being hit by one capital city Mexico City and in the central of the season’s most ferocious storms, this Mexican city of Guadalajara, the second vacation resort area still struggling to largest in Mexico. Others have made the recover is bracing for another sizable three-hour drive to the state capital, La Paz, storm. Tropical Storm Polo, due to skirt where supplies of food also have become along Mexico’s Baja California peninsula more scarce. yesterday, was not expected to make land- Cota said he was taking advantage of fall and was expected to pack less of a one of the few airlifts provided by the punch than Odile. Mexican government, to get his kids out of But the storm comes at the worst possi- Los Cabos. “The fewer mouths we have to ble time, with residents of this town locat- feed and the less we have to spend on ed at the southern tip of the Baja California water, the better,” said Cota, as he lined up peninsula desperate to return to normal with dozens of others at the partially life. Almost all the tourists have been evac- destroyed airport. Many residents lost their uated from Los Cabos, freeing up the gov- homes in the Odile, which thrashed the ernment to focus its full attention on help- Mexican coast as a powerful category three ing local inhabitants in dire need of help. hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson Some 8,000 troops have been dispatched scale, flooding hotels and flattening homes. to the area to help with the task, but it has Some of the region’s humble homes been an uphill slog. were brought to ruin in the storm, but luxu- The government sent a shipment of ry hotels were also damaged in this town, a tons of food Friday, providing relief to famous playground for tourists from the some, but the aid has not always reached United States and Europe. Thousands of those most in need. The military is helping tourists were airlifted from Baja’s Los Cabos rebuild highways and restoring the area’s and La Paz airports in the wake of Odile, devastated electrical grid, but it could be and the region continues to suffer wide- days longer before it is fully repaired. spread power outages several days after the storm. Growing desperation The region was also beset by looters Many supermarkets long ago ran out of seeking to plunder abandoned homes and food and water, and there is a fear that businesses, prompting the government growing desperation could lead to a surge sent extra federal police and soldiers to of violence that could see the looting that the Baja California peninsula. The death overran businesses spread to private toll from the storm has been raised to four homes. “There’s a greater fear of the people, officials said, including two South LOS ANGELES: In this file photo, Los Angeles police take part in a downtown counterterrorism drill.— AP human hurricane than the hurricane that Korean tourists whose car was swept away just passed,” said Jose Antonia Cota, 42, in the flood, a German who died in a boat, who decided to send his two teenaged and a British woman whose body was sons to live for the time being with his sis- found Saturday. The storm caused nearly Feds censure local police, ter in the central Mexican state of $1 billion in damage, according to the Queretaro. The youths were far from the Mexican Insurance Institutions yet give lethal weapons only residents seeking safety and greater Association. —AFP

LOS ANGELES: A Pentagon program that dis- do a better job there,” he said. Watchdog role Who wins Senate control? tributes military surplus gear to local law The Defense Department views the program, enforcement allows even departments that the Illegal searches which has handed out more than $5.1 billion in WASHINGTON: A suspenseful election night retiring: West Virginia, South Dakota and Justice Department has censured for civil rights The Los Angeles Police Department received military property since it started, primarily as a is one thing, but what if it stretches out for a Montana. Their best hopes to pick up three violations to apply for and get lethal weaponry. multiple shipments, totaling some 1,680 M16 way to get rid of equipment it no longer needs. month? Or into next year? A handful of tight more seats are in the four contests where That lack of communication between two assault rifles, under the Pentagon program, Equipment, much of it non-tactical gear such as races in states with quirky election laws make Democrats seek re-election in states Cabinet agencies adds to questions about a even while the department was under the sleeping bags and filing cabinets, is provided for the headache-inducing possibility that President Barack Obama lost: Alaska, program under review in the aftermath of the watch of a federal monitor and had been first-come, first-served. Law enforcement offi- Election Day will come and go without decid- Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. militarized police response to protesters in accused of poor practices, government records cials say the military gear can save lives and ing which party controls the Senate. If that Republicans are also making strong bids in Ferguson, Missouri. show. The LAPD entered into a court-supervised keep officers safe in dangerous situations such happens, brace for a fierce runoff election Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire, which The Pentagon, which provides the free sur- agreement with the Justice Department in 2001 as standoffs with heavily armed suspects and and possible recounts that could make for an Obama carried. plus military equipment, says its consultation after investigators accused it of a pattern of natural disasters. But images of police respond- ugly holiday season in politics and govern- with the Justice Department will be looked at as excessive force, false arrests and unreasonable ing to Ferguson protesters with tear gas, ment. Keep the govt running the government reviews how to prevent high- searches. armored vehicles and in riot gear raised new The main reason for uncertainty: If Republicans win two of those races, plus powered weaponry from flowing to the untrust- In Warren, Ohio, the police department in scrutiny about who was getting the equipment Louisiana’s election laws. Strategists in both the three where they are heavily favored, worthy. The Justice Department has opened civ- 2012 reached a settlement with the Justice and whether law enforcement agencies were parties say a Dec 6 runoff is likely because then all eyes and lots of campaign money il rights investigations into the practices of Department to resolve an investigation into a receiving proper training. Democratic Sen Mary Landrieu and top would turn to Louisiana if there’s a runoff. some 20 police departments in the past five pattern of excessive force and illegal searches. The Defense Logistics Agency, a Pentagon Republican challenger Bill Cassidy will strug- “And I don’t think there’s any chance we don’t years, with the Ferguson force the latest. The The department, which expects to have nearly branch that reviews the applications, looks at gle to exceed 50 percent on the crowded Nov go into a runoff in Louisiana,” said Brian investigations sometimes end in negotiated set- 70 officers soon, recently ordered 30 M16 rifles the department’s justification for its request and 4 ballot. In Louisiana’s “jungle primary,” all Walsh, a Republican adviser in Senate races. A tlements known as consent decrees that man- as part of the program, Police Chief Eric Merkel ensures that administrative requirements are candidates - regardless of party - run in major GOP campaign group has reserved $4 date reforms. Yet being flagged as problematic said. “We don’t have an issue here with bran- met, DLA spokeswoman Michelle McCaskill said. November. If none exceeds 50 percent, the million in Louisiana TV air time after Nov 4, by Washington does not bar a police depart- dishing firearms and shooting people. That’s not The agency has denied 26 percent of requests top two finishers head into a Dec. 6 runoff. anticipating battling Landrieu through Dec 6. ment from participating in the program. the reason the Department of Justice came in during the current budget year, which ends this It’s not implausible that control of the Senate Waiting for a make-or-break Louisiana out- “Given the fact that they’re under a consent here to begin with,” Merkel said. “I think the month. The agency says state coordinators play could hang on a Louisiana runoff. come would deeply affect the postelection decree it would make sense that the public reasonably expects their police depart- an important role in approving police depart- Republicans need six more seats to claim a congressional session scheduled to start Nov Department of Defense and Department of ment to be armed with a level that at least ments from within their states. “Bottom line is 51-49 Senate majority. A 50-50 split would let 12. Congress must appropriate money in Justice coordinate on any such requests, (but) matches what they might be coming up they just don’t say ‘we want it’ and they get it. Vice President Joe Biden break tie votes and November to keep the government running, that is currently not the state,” said Jim against.” There is a vetting process,” McCaskill said. It’s keep Democrats in charge. and it may revisit the president’s continued Bueermann, who heads the nonprofit Police A 2001 Justice Department memorandum of hard to determine exactly how much tactical Republicans are strongly favored to win authority to arm Syrian rebels, among other Foundation. At a Senate hearing this month, agreement with the Washington, DC, police equipment was received by a single police things.—AP Alan Estevez, a Defense Department official found a pattern of excessive force over the prior department because the federal government three races where Democratic senators are who oversees the program, acknowledged that decade. Several years later, when the depart- releases only aggregate totals by county. In Los consultation with the Justice Department was ment remained under the oversight of an inde- Angeles, where the consent decree formally “lacking” and he said that would be reviewed. pendent monitor, it received 500 assault rifles concluded last year, Deputy Chief Michael Under questioning, he acknowledged the from the military, a spokeswoman said. The Downing said the department’s Police Pentagon does not take federal civil rights Pentagon program was authorized by Congress Commission is informed of such acquisitions investigations into account in shipping out in 1990 to help fight drugs, with terrorism-fight- and updated on operations where such tactical weapons, but that could change. “We need to ing a more recent objective. equipment is used. —AP Nun-killer arrested for link to 3 new killings in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO: A man convicted of killing a part of an international drug trafficking net- kilometers (450 miles) from the Para state capi- US Amazon activist who was also a nun, was re- work, and had been tasked with moving 50 tal of Belem after meeting with peasants on an arrested in Brazil Saturday on suspicion of kilos of cocaine from Bolivia to Para state, in an ecological project. involvement in three new murders. Rayfran das operation allegedly coordinated by Neves Local ranchers accused her at the time of Neves Sales, who confessed to shooting US nun Sales. inciting landless farmers to invade their lands. Dorothy Stang in 2005 on her way back from a A phone message sent by one of the victims Neves Sales confessed and was jailed two days meeting with landless peasants, served only to his father, in which he warned he was with after the murder, and two ranchers were also eight of his 27-year sentence before granted the convicted killer should anything happen to sentenced to prison for ordering her death. The parole. Police in the Amazonian state of Para him, led police to Neves Sales. Under the condi- Stang case grabbed headlines in Brazil and said Neves Sales had been captured again for tions of the parole, Neves Sales was required to became a symbol of the end of impunity for the alleged involvement in a September incident in be home at certain times of the day and appear killing of landless squatter farmers who have AUGUSTA: In this file photo, A “Vote Here” sign is seen outside the main entrance to which three people were killed and a fourth in court monthly. Stang, 73, was shot to death often clashed with big landowners, especially the Fleming Park Bernie Ward Community Center during a run-off election day in was left with bullet wounds. The victims were on February 12, 2005 in the town of Anapu, 700 in the country’s remote rural areas. — AFP Augusta, Georgia.— AP

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Lanka president’s party suffers blow in vote test

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President test of whether Rajapakse has enough Rajapakse would attempt re-election denies. Just before Saturday’s election, Mahinda Rajapakse suffered a political support to call snap presidential polls for a third term in early 2015, by coming Rajapakse slashed electricity tariffs blow yesterday when his ruling party’s for January, when candidates need off the back of a strong win in Uva. nationally by 25 percent, reduced fuel popularity dropped in a local election more than 50 percent of the vote to In previous local polls Rajapakse, prices by three percent and secured seen as a gauge for snap presidential win. who has consolidated his power since investments from Japan and China that polls. Although Rajapakse’s United Political analyst Victor Ivan said the 2005, has taken advantage of his popu- he says promises more jobs and pros- People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won results were a setback for Rajapakse, larity among the Sinhalese majority for perity. But worryingly for his UPFA, the the election in the island’s southeastern who personally campaigned in Uva to crushing Tamil rebels and ending the party won 47.37 percent of the vote in province, its popularity plummeted by shore up his party’s vote-only to over- 37-year-long separatist war in 2009. Badulla compared with 67.79 percent in up to 22.98 percentage points from the see its worst decline since he came to “People were grateful to him for the 2009. In Moneragala, where it com- last polls there in 2009, results showed. power in 2005. The province, which war victory and gave him another term manded 81.32 percent in 2009, the par- The UPFA secured 19 out of the 34 seats includes the tea-growing district of (in 2010), but you can’t take that grati- ty won just 58.34 percent this time. in the election for the Uva provincial Badulla and sugar-growing area of tude for granted,” Ivan said. “He can no Presidential elections are due in council held on Saturday, winning 48.79 Moneragala, was previously considered longer capitalize on the military suc- November 2016, but Rajapakse has the percent of the overall vote, according to a UPFA stronghold, led by the presi- cess.” Rajapakse has stared down inter- power to call them at any time results released by the Department of dent’s nephew Shasheendra Rajapakse. national allegations of war crimes, Saturday’s election came after two simi- Elections. “This is a personal setback for the including that his troops killed up to lar polls elsewhere in March where the COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President The main opposition, the United president,” Ivan told AFP. “He will have 40,000 ethnic minority Tamil civilians in UPFA saw declines of 10 to 12 percent. Mahinda Rajapaksa (right) and National Party, almost doubled its vote to go for radical reforms to correct the final stages of the conflict. Colombo There was no official comment yester- Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen in the district while the Marxist JVP or course or he will increasingly become is under international pressure to coop- day from the ruling party or the main gesture during the opening of the People’s Liberation Front also made irrelevant.” Ivan, as well as other news- erate with a UN-mandated probe into opposition. More detailed results are Conference of Asian Political Parties gains. The election was seen as a crucial paper columnists, had speculated that the allegations, which Rajapakse expected in the coming days. — AFP in Colombo. — AFP

HK students ready to boycott classes in democracy battle

HONG KONG: Thousands of Hong Kong ‘Battle for public opinion’ students will begin a week-long boycott of The students can point to their success classes today, the start of what democracy in 2012, when they were at the forefront of activists say will be a wider campaign of protests against plans by the Hong Kong civil disobedience against Beijing’s refusal government to institute a “national educa- to grant the city full universal suffrage. tion” curriculum seen as pro-China. The China dashed hopes last month for full and government eventually backed down. But unfettered democracy in the former British in Beijing, the rhetoric in official media has colony when it announced plans to vet remained unrelenting against any conces- nominees who want to stand as its next sions to the Hong Kong democracy move- leader. ment, which some in the Communist A coalition of pro-democracy groups, regime see as an insidious threat to their led by Occupy Central, have labeled rule of the country as a whole. Beijing’s restrictions a “fake democracy” More than 3,000 students from Hong and have vowed a series of actions includ- Kong’s two main prestigious universities ing a blockade of the city’s financial dis- alone are expected to join the strike, trict. Laying the groundwork for what organizers predict. “The legitimacy of the activists call “a new era of civil disobedi- Hong Kong government is very, very low at ence”, thousands of students from more this stage, and in this situation we wish to than 25 universities and colleges will take redefine the direction of Hong Kong,” said part in the week-long strike from today to Yvonne Leung, president of the Hong voice their anger. Kong University student union, urging the The strike could breathe new life into NPC to reverse its ruling. the democracy campaign, which recently The strike marks the beginning of the lost some steam after its senior leaders “battle for public opinion” in Hong Kong, conceded that Beijing was highly unlikely said Sonny Lo, a professor at the Hong to change its mind whatever they do. “This Kong Institute of Education. “The class is a turning point,” Alex Chow, chairman of boycott is... a testimony to the students’ the Hong Kong Federation of Students, affinity to the Hong Kong political and told AFP. “The government has to respond legal identity,” Lo added. The NPC’s verdict to what so many Hong Kong people are still needs to win two-thirds support in calling an unfair election system.” Hong Kong’s 70-seat legislature, where KABUL: Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah (left) and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai leave after signing a power-sharing agreement at The student agitation comes a week pro-democracy lawmakers control slightly the Presidential Palace yesterday. — AFP after more than 1,500 activists marched over a third of seats. All 27 pan-democrats through Hong Kong’s streets carrying huge have pledged to reject the vetting plan. sheets of black cloth and banners demand- Britain handed Hong Kong back to Afghanistan’s presidential ing genuine universal suffrage. That China in 1997 under a “one country, two marked the first sizeable protest since systems” agreement which allows civil lib- China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) erties not seen on the mainland, including ruled in late August that candidates for the free speech and the right to protest. Public rivals ink power-sharing deal 2017 polls will be vetted by a pro-Beijing discontent has been growing over rising committee-and just two or three approved inequality, increased political interference Washington welcomes deal, calls for cooperation and calm nominees will be allowed to stand. and the perceived cozy relationship The city’s democracy activists are between the city’s powerful business elite KABUL: Afghanistan’s two presidential candidates governance. NATO said in a statement that it Ghani Ahmadzai with about 56 percent of the vote. demanding free and open nominations for and Beijing. However, opinion polls sug- signed a power-sharing deal yesterday that makes hoped both leaders could move forward “in the After the recount the election commission invali- the chief executive, the top government gest only lukewarm support for direct one president and the other chief executive, end- spirit of genuine political partnership.” The four- dated 1 million of the approximately 8.1 million post. The success of the university strike- action such as the mass sit-in of the ing months of political wrangling following a dis- page power sharing contract says the relationship cast in the runoff, suggesting that fraud was an echo of the student-led Tiananmen Central district promised by the Occupy puted runoff that threatened to plunge the coun- between president and chief executive - a position indeed widespread. Ghani Ahmadzai’s winning movement in Beijing that was brutally movement, which will be watching the try into turmoil and complicate the withdrawal of akin to prime minister - must be defined by “part- percentage dropped to about 55 percent. Though crushed 25 years ago-will be determined student strike closely as it plots its next foreign troops. The incoming president - Ashraf nership, collegiality, collaboration, and, most the White House statement said that “respect for by the scale of the turnout, Chow said. move.—AFP Ghani Ahmadzai - and new Chief Executive importantly, responsibility to the people of the democratic process” is the only viable path for- Abdullah Abdullah signed the national unity gov- Afghanistan.” It spells out the powers for the new ward for Afghanistan, the next Afghan government ernment deal as President Hamid Karzai - in power chief executive position: participation with the is more the product of negotiations than vote tal- since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban - president in bilateral meetings, carrying out lies. Bainimarama claims looked on. The deal creates the new role of chief administrative and executive affairs as determined Shekiba Hashimi, a lawmaker from the southern executive following weeks of negotiations on a by presidential decree, and parity in selection of province of Kandahar, said she was happy not only victory in Fiji election power-sharing arrangement, after accusations of key security and economic ministries. as a member of parliament “but as a woman and a fraud in the June runoff vote. The deal specifies that the president leads the mother” that the candidates reached a deal and The candidates signed the agreement at the Cabinet but that the chief executive manages the moved the country forward. “We are in a very sensi- SUVA: Fiji coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama ments toppled between 1987 and 2006, presidential palace, then exchanged a hug and a Cabinet’s implementation of government policies. tive situation, not only from a security point of view declared himself the Pacific nation’s new largely due to tensions between indigenous handshake. “I am very happy today that both of my The chief executive will also chair regular meetings or an economic or political point of view. The ene- prime minister yesterday, four days after the Fijians and ethnic Indians. Bainimarama has brothers, Dr Ashraf Ghani and Dr Abdullah of a council of ministers. An inauguration ceremo- mies of the Afghan nation were benefiting from country’s first democratic election in eight focused on growing the tourism-reliant econ- Abdullah, in an Afghan agreement for the benefit ny to see Ghani Ahmadzai replace Karzai as presi- this stalemate. Recent big and complex attacks in years since he took power. Although the final omy, winning favor with policies such as free of this country, for the progress and development dent and swear in Abdullah as chief executive was southern and southeastern provinces are exam- vote count has not been released, provisional education and improving infrastructure in of this country, that they agreed on the structure expected within days. Abdullah’s spokesman Fazel ples,” she said. A power-sharing deal was almost results show Bainimarama’s Fiji First Party rural areas. affirming the new government of Afghanistan,” Sancharaki said the event could be held on Sept sealed about a week ago, but Abdullah then heading towards a clear victory. “My fellow His authoritarian regime also tore up the Karzai said after the signing. 29. The election commission said it would release demanded that no vote totals from the runoff be Fijians, as you know Fiji First has won the gen- constitution, sacked the judiciary and tight- The deal is a victory for US Secretary of State official vote totals later. released. eral elections and I will lead the new govern- ened media censorship, In his speech yester- John Kerry, who first got the candidates to agree in As talks dragged on, Abdullah’s mostly northern UN and Afghan election officials spent weeks ment to serve the nation,” he told thousands day he specifically singled out the military principle to share power during a July visit to supporters had threatened to form a parallel gov- auditing the runoff results after allegations of of cheering supporters gathered in a sports “who have stood for the ideal of true democ- Afghanistan. Kerry returned to Kabul in August and ernment or react violently to any outright victory fraud, a common occurrence over Afghanistan’s stadium. racy” as he acknowledged “their vision, their has spent hours with the candidates, including in by Ghani Adhmadzai, a former finance minister and last two presidential elections. Abdullah’s side “I am deeply honored and humbled that perseverance and their sacrifice”. Following repeated phone calls, in an effort to seal the deal. A World Bank official whose power base is in the maintained the fraud was so sophisticated it was the Fijian people have put their trust in me to the coup, regional powerhouses Australia and White House statement lauded the two leaders, country’s south and east. Ghani Ahmadzai said he undetectable. The US has been pushing for a reso- lead them into our new and true democracy.” New Zealand labelled Bainimarama a dictator saying the agreement helps bring closure to always maintained that ethnic politics in lution so the next president can sign a security The former military strongman also told the and imposed sanctions, while the Afghanistan’s political crisis. Afghanistan demand some sort of power sharing agreement that would allow about 10,000 US crowd he would attend the upcoming United Commonwealth and Pacific Islands Forum deal and not a winner-takes-all government. forces to remain in the country after combat opera- Nations General Assembly to outline the suspended Fiji’s membership when he Security, economy and governance Abdullah believes he won the first round of the tions wrap up at the end of the year. Karzai refused nation’s progress. Bainimarama’s victory dec- reneged on a pledge to hold elections in “This agreement marks an important opportu- election back in April with more than 50 percent of to sign it; Ghani Ahmadzai has said he will. The 13- laration came after the Fiji Electoral Office 2009. Sanctions were lifted this year to nity for unity and increased stability in Afghanistan. the vote, which would have precluded a runoff. But year war against the Taliban has largely been showed Fiji First with 59.1 percent of support encourage the return to democracy, and Fiji We continue to call on all Afghans - including polit- the official results showed him winning about 45 turned over to Afghan security forces, a develop- after votes had been counted at 88 percent of was also allowed to compete in the July ical, religious, and civil society leaders - to support percent of that vote in a crowded presidential field ment that has seen casualties among Afghan sol- the polling booths. Commonwealth Games in Glasgow following this agreement and to come together in calling for of 10, not quite enough for an outright victory. diers rise significantly this year. The US and interna- This would give Fiji First 32 seats in the 50- years of isolation. — AFP cooperation and calm,” the White House statement tional community will continue to fund the Afghan seat parliament. The Social Democratic said. Jan Kubis, the top UN official in Afghanistan, ‘As a woman and a mother’ army in the coming years but the Afghans them- Liberal Party was a distant second at 28.3 per- said the uncertainty of the past months took a He also believes he won a June runoff with selves will have to fend off Taliban attempts to cent. “I give you my absolute promise that we heavy toll on Afghanistan’s security, economy and Ghani Ahmadzai. But initial results totals showed again take over wide areas of the country. —AP will govern for the well-being of all Fijians,” Bainimarama said. “As well as forming the government, I will be travelling to New York Victorious NZ PM pledges more in the coming days to attend the United Nations General Assembly. There I will tell the world what we have just accomplished in Fiji. of the same, eyes fourth term “It will be a landmark occasion, because I promised the nation of Fiji and the interna- WELLINGTON: The New Zealand govern- impact on the result as Key’s National Party budget figures say this should increase to tional community that I will take Fiji to the ment’s handling of a fragile economy was the increased its support. It was the first time in 4.0 percent next year, while inflation in the first genuine democracy in our history and I “overwhelming” reason for its third election the seven elections since New Zealand adopt- year to June was a benign 1.6 percent. The have kept that promise.” victory, Prime Minister John Key said yester- ed a complicated proportional representation government also posted its first budget sur- day after his party won a historic majority and system that a party has won enough seats to plus in six years in May, and says it has a plan ‘Credible’ election he eyed a fourth triumph. Voters “saw the eco- govern alone. But Key said he would not for- to keep spiraling debt under control. Although opposition parties have com- nomic direction we wanted to continue to get his coalition partners of the past two elec- plained of voting irregularities, a multi- take the country in and the things we have tions-ACT, United Future and the Maori Party- ‘Fourth term sounds great’ national observer group in Fiji to scrutinize achieved over the last six years”, the centre- and would offer them roles in the new admin- As the opposition left-wing parties licked the poll labeled it “credible” and representing right leader said. Asked if the economy was istration. their wounds following the rout, Key prom- the will of the people. The 60-year-old behind his resounding win in Saturday’s elec- “I always believed one of the reasons we ised an administration “that governs for all Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless tion, Key replied: “Yes. Overwhelming.” And he did hold our support was because in the New Zealanders” and even contemplated coup in December 2006 saying he needed to vowed more of the same. “I don’t intend to worst of economic times we really did contin- contesting a rare fourth term in office at the end widespread corruption and root out take the party veering off to the right,” Key ue to fund, and had to borrow to fund, pro- next election in 2017. “Well, I’d like to,” he entrenched discrimination against ethnic SUVA: This photo shows Fiji’s military said. “We’ve held the centre ground for the grams to support the most vulnerable New said. “You’ve got to believe we’ve got a Indians, who make up about 40 percent of strongman Voreqe Bainimarama carry- last six years. We’re not looking to do radical Zealanders and I know there’s more work to great chance of doing that but I’m not silly the 900,000 population. ing his granddaughter after casting his things.” be done,” he said. The central bank estimates enough (not) to know that to get that It was seen as pivotal to ending the coun- election vote at the Vatuwaqa Public Accusations of dirty politics and mass spy- the economy will grow 3.7 percent this year fourth term we have to deliver over the next try’s “coup culture”, which saw four govern- School in the capital Suva. — AFP ing dominated the hustings but had little and three years. —AFP NEWS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Arab states lag in media war Continued from Page 1 I really do encourage governments to do, not to leave the space but to enter the space.” Islamic State fighters even tweet live from the bat- The United States, which has long struggled to craft tlefield, giving real-time updates and waging theologi- an effective public diplomacy in the region, has taken cal debates with online detractors. note. The US State Department launched a “Think “They definitely have an electronic army behind Again Turn Away” campaign on YouTube, Facebook and them,” said Ray Kafity, vice president of FireEye for the Twitter, with Arabic and English videos similar in style Middle East, Turkey and Africa. The company manufac- to those of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. One tures IT solutions for defending against cyber threats. video is titled “Airing Al-Qaeda’s dirty laundry” and The Islamic State boasts thousands of foreign fighters, another shows images of children allegedly killed by some of whom were first drawn to it in the privacy and these groups. security of cyberspace. It also uses social media for But none have gained the traction of the Islamic fundraising. State’s videos, which pair brutal images of mass shoot- Fadi Salem, a Dubai-based researcher on Internet ings and beheadings - aimed at striking fear in the governance in the Arab World, said the immediate hearts of its enemies - with heroic portrayals of its response of Middle Eastern governments to the power fighters as models of bravery and piety. A slick 55- of social media has been to “control, block and censor minute video entitled “Flames of War” came with its as much as possible”. “Very few governments viewed own trailer, and features images of exploding tanks and this as an opportunity rather than a risk,” Salem said. wounded US soldiers. The video, which came out this Egypt shut down access to the Internet during the month, was allegedly released by the Islamic State bloodiest day of the 2011 uprising that toppled group’s Al-Hayat media center. It idealizes militants as President Hosni Mubarak, and Syria cut off access in “warriors” and “truthful men”. rebellious provinces shortly after the start of the revolt The message to alienated young men in the region against Bashar Assad later that spring. Iraq’s govern- and abroad is that they too can wage holy war, exact ment followed suit in June of this year, when the revenge on those seen as oppressing Muslims and help NEW YORK: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio (third right) walks down 6th Avenue during the People’s Climate March Islamic State group swept across much of the country’s build a just society based on divine law. The videos that yesterday. — AFP north and west. The government cut off Internet access have gained the most attention in the West are those to several areas overrun by militants, including Mosul, that show a masked man beheading two American Iraq’s second largest city. journalists and a British aid worker in the desert. But A study by The Citizen Lab at the University of others document life in militant-held Raqqa in eastern Thousands protest Toronto showed that despite blocking mobile messag- Syria, and cheerfully invite potential recruits to move ing apps and social media platforms, Iraq’s authorities there. “We want to be your brothers and for you to be failed to block seven websites affiliated with or sup- our brothers,” an Islamic State fighter tells Syrian men climate change portive of the Islamic State group. New accounts and children in a video entitled “The best ummah” - or appear almost as quickly as old accounts are reported Muslim society. and taken down. “It’s hard to wage a war with ideas The Arabic video with English subtitles depicts a NEW YORK: Activists mobilized in cities across the globe In Madrid, hundreds gathered in front of the Environment yesterday for marches against climate change, with one of Ministry, brandishing signs with slogans including “There’s online,” said Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, the spokesman for community where pious men police the streets, elimi- the biggest planned for New York, where celebrities, politi- no Planet B,” “Change your life, not your climate,” and “Our the Saudi Ministry of Information and Culture. “When nating drugs and alcohol and making sure everyone cal leaders and tens of thousands of people were expected. climate, your decision.” we talk about monitoring or controlling social media it prays together at the mosque. The militants distribute Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, former US vice presi- In Cairns, Australia, where finance ministers from the is like trying to control air, and this of course is hard.” food to those in need and ensure fair prices in the local dent turned advocate Al Gore, UN Secretary General Ban G20 nations were meeting, more than 100 people wearing Facebook says it has 71 million active monthly users markets. For many it’s a compelling vision of a better Ki-moon and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio took part in green paper hearts around their necks gathered outside in the Middle East, and youth between the ages of 15 world, one that stands in stark contrast with most what organizers hope will be the largest climate change the venue. They repeatedly chanted “Every dollar spent, and 29 make up around 70 percent of Facebook users states in the region, in which aging autocrats preside protest in history. every single cent, 100 percent, green energy” and carried in the Arab region, according to a report by the Dubai over governments seen as irredeemably corrupt and The “People’s Climate March” in New York has been banners including one that read: “Add climate change to School of Government. Facebook’s Elizabeth Linder stagnant. Combating that vision will require more than endorsed by more than 1,400 organizations, including the G20.” “I’m here because I’m a parent, I’m here because environment, faith and justice groups, as well as labor I’m a scientist, I understand what climate change means for says Middle Eastern governments are still in the early simply silencing its advocates, experts say. “Pure cen- unions. Students have mobilized marchers from more than our planet, our children, our economy, our health,” said stages of realizing the full potential of social media. She sorship and blocking is not really working. It will con- 300 college campuses. The rallies, including another 2,500 John Rainbird, an Australian biologist. Hundreds also gath- advises governments on how they can better use tinue to be a cat-and-mouse game,” Salem said. around the world, take place ahead of a climate change ered in Sydney, Australia, and in New Delhi, India, where Facebook for diplomacy. “The most important thing is “Another way is to use these tools to attract people summit hosted by Ban tomorrow on the sidelines of the around 300 protesters carried placards that read “I want to to be there,” she told AP on the sidelines of a social away from these ideas. A combination of both is United Nations General Assembly. save forests” and “Coal kills”, as they shouted slogans and media conference in Dubai. “And that’s something that required.” — AP In the French capital, nearly 5,000 people protested, danced to pounding drum beats. according to police estimates, many on bikes, with banners The New York protest started winding its way through that read “Climate in danger” or “World leaders, act!” midtown on a two-mile route at 11:30 am (1530 GMT). Cairo blast kills 3 policemen “Before we could say we didn’t know. Now we know. Thousands of people had already gathered two hours earli- Climate change is already underway,” Nicolas Hulot, the er, filling Central Park, carrying giant cardboard sunflowers Continued from Page 1 the Foreign Ministry building and work was proceeding president’s special envoy for the protection of the planet, and banners denouncing “dirty energy”. Ricken Patel, exec- normally, though security had been tightened, a source told the crowd in central Paris. In the southwestern city of utive director of Avaaz, a pressure group that is one of the But tackling Islamist militants, an issue that has in the ministry told Reuters. Airport authorities said they Bordeaux, up to 700 people also took part in a climate organizers, will present a petition signed by two million dogged one Egyptian leader after another, is far from were also taking greater precautions. change march. Protesters held banners, one reading: “If cli- people to Ban. “We feel very confident that we will achieve easy. Egypt has faced rising Islamist militant violence The last significant attack in Cairo was on June 30, mate was a bank, they would already have saved it.” our goal, which is to have the largest climate change since Sisi ousted Morsi last year after mass protests when two policemen died trying to defuse bombs plant- Hundreds more protested in several other cities in France. march in history,” Patel said. — AFP against his rule and cracked down on Morsi’s Muslim ed by Ajnad Misr near the presidential palace. Brotherhood, which the government has declared a ter- Yesterday’s blast caused a tree to fall on a car. Blood rorist group. stained a busy intersection beside a crowded market. Court asked to reinstate grilling against... One of the police officers killed in yesterday’s blast, While the death toll was low, any attack in the capital is Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Mahmoud Abu Sareeaa, bound to cast doubt over the effectiveness of security Continued from Page 1 the finance minister refused to provide him with the actual was a critical witness in a trial of Morsi related to a 2011 forces, who have vowed to end Islamist militant blood- cost of designing and printing the new notes, invoking mass prison break, court and security sources told shed that has hammered the tourism industry, a pillar of In another development, MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji yester- confidentiality, “which does not apply here”. The lawmaker Reuters. It was not clear if he was targeted or just hap- the economy. day launched a scathing attack against Finance Minister threatened to use constitutional tools against the minister pened to be at the site of the explosion. The challenge of Sisi has repeatedly expressed concerns about militan- Anas Al-Saleh over the issuance of the new Kuwaiti curren- unless he upholds his political and legal responsibilities. containing militancy has become more complex since cy in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. Security cy in June, saying the country did not need a new curren- MP Saleh Ashour meanwhile yesterday sent a series of Islamic State militants expanded their control over forces have killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood sup- cy. Turaiji accused the minister of failing to provide clear questions to Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al- northern Iraq and eastern Syria in June and declared a porters, arrested thousands and put top leaders on trial, and transparent answers to a number of questions he had Humoud Al-Sabah over the ministry’s media strategy caliphate, inspiring other militant groups including severely weakening what was once Egypt’s most organ- sent to him following the issuance of the new currency. regarding explosive developments in the region amid the some based along Egypt’s border with chaotic Libya. ised political group. The Brotherhood says it is commit- Islamic State established ties with Sinai-based Ansar Bayt ted to peaceful activism, but authorities make no dis- The lawmaker said the new banknotes have very clear rise of sectarian, political and other tensions. The lawmaker al-Maqdis and has been coaching Egypt’s most lethal tinction between the Brotherhood and groups such as grammatical mistakes in Arabic which constitutes a viola- asked if the ministry has produced programs to consoli- militant organisation, security officials and an Ansar Ansar, which has in recent weeks beheaded several peo- tion of articles in the constitutional. The new banknotes date the concept that Kuwait is a multicultural society in commander told Reuters. ple it has identified as spies for Israeli intelligence, sug- also have images not related to Kuwaiti heritage unlike the which the constitution insists on non-discrimination on Smoke rose and people ran after yesterday’s blast gesting it has become more radical. Egypt suffered other previous notes, he said. In addition, the country did not the basis of religion, language or origin. The Shiite lawmak- along a sidewalk in the neighbourhood of Boulaq bu losses yesterday. Six soldiers were killed after a military need new banknotes since there was a huge stock of the er asked the minister on why the official media outlets do Eila, just behind the Foreign Ministry, located in a high aircraft crashed due to a technical failure, the army old currency which had almost identical technical and not host Shiite speakers and religious leaders to explain rise building beside the Nile. There was no damage to spokesman said. — Reuters security specifications of the new one. Turaiji charged that their viewpoints like others. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Anatole Kaletsky

he war in eastern Ukraine, which has had more impact on the European economy than any news coming out of TFrankfurt or Brussels, appears to be ending. Despite the sporadic attacks that have wrecked previous ceasefire attempts. Investors have mostly assumed that the ceasefire would not hold, either because Russian President Vladimir Putin is deceitful and greedy for more territorial conquest, or because Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko would not accept the splintering of his country that Russia demands. But this fashionable pessimism is probably wrong. The ceasefire no longer relies on good faith or benevo- lence but on a convergence of interests: Putin has achieved all his key objectives, and Poroshenko recognizes that trying to reverse militarily the Russian gains would be national suicide. Scotland stays, but Britain faces change Admittedly, there is still a “party of war” in Kiev, seemingly led by Prime Minister Arsenyi Yatsenyuk, who has called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to back his country in an By Alistair Smout, Kylie MacLellan and inquiry into the future of devolution, is one of those opponents. “It wasn’t simply an economic policy time to build its case and got its way. “Salmond and all-out war with Russia. But this week’s vote in the Ukrainian Kate Holton who believe England does not need its own parlia- that was opposed,” said Devine. “It was an economic his advisers always knew that they were behind in Parliament on temporary autonomy for the rebel regions sug- ment, but should combine over-arching union with policy which was alien ... That’s what many people at the polls and that they would need a long time to gests that most of the country’s politicians have abandoned hen 3.6 million Scots voted on Thursday more devolution to regions. Change, he said, was the time thought.” When Labour won power in 1997 prepare the ground,” said David Torrance, a biogra- hope of winning a war with Russia. They also understood that on whether to leave or stay within the both much needed and inevitable. the party promised a new vote on devolution. This pher of Salmond. “If you think about the turn in the Western military assistance is not coming. WUnited Kingdom, they were answering “I think they (the politicians) have proved ... that time it passed easily; in 1999 a Scottish parliament polls, that was the culmination of a slow-burn cam- This may sound like a grimly defeatist analysis. Yet a mod- one simple question: Should Scotland be an inde- they can move like lightning when they need to,” was set up in Edinburgh. Far from dousing national- paign, a very, very clever one. And they needed two est victory for Russia was actually the least bad outcome to be pendent country? But for a time some politicians on Allen said. “We need all the parties to actually stiffen ist fires, though, the move led to more talk of inde- years to do that. “Cameron’s calculation may have expected - given that there was never any chance of econom- both sides of the debate wanted to include a third up, show some leadership and some boldness and pendence. That chatter increased through the been that it wouldn’t have made any difference. But ic sanctions stopping Putin, for reasons explained here in choice on the ballot: Maximum devolution of pow- just commit themselves publicly to devolution and Labour government years, and especially after Blair actually, by conceding another year you could argue March. There are several good reasons to welcome the incipi- ers to Scotland within Britain, or so-called devo-max. union, the twin pillars for the next 200 years in the took Britain into Iraq. that that was where he went wrong.” As the nation- ent Ukraine deal: First, this compromise is infinitely better for Even Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister and United Kingdom ... Otherwise it is trench warfare alists gained ground, London ended up offering Ukraine, as well as for Europe, than a protracted war. Though leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), backed and piecemeal change, crisis and anxiety, and I don’t The Question Scots greater powers - despite Cameron’s aversion to Poroshenko has been forced to make major concessions by including such an alternative, arguing that he was think that is necessary.” The SNP formed a popular minority administra- offering a vote on devo-max at the outset. offering partial autonomy to the Donbas rebels, this was “not for limiting the choices of the Scottish people”. tion in 2007, but an independence vote was not on inevitable. British Prime Minister David Cameron and many Thatcher’s Legacy? the cards until 2011 when sweeping electoral victo- The Campaign In fact, the compromise now under discussion seems close of Salmond’s SNP colleagues, though, were against To understand how Britain feared it might lose ry brought its first majority government. “Before the It came to that because the No camp’s Better to the deal that Putin and Poroshenko were near reaching the idea. Scots, Cameron said at the time, would be Scotland, and why its leaders felt compelled to offer SNP won in 2011, independence had just been this Together campaign was lacklustre. Only the efforts over the summer, partly in response to the German govern- faced with “what I’ve always wanted, which is one so many goodies for it to stay, look at Scots’ growing thing which people hadn’t really thought about,” of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown ment’s appeal for a non-military resolution to the crisis. single question. Not two questions, not devo-max, dissatisfaction with the direction Britain has taken in Stephen Noon, the pro-independence campaign’s gave it some ballast. Though unionists won the first Unfortunately, potential progress was shattered when pro- not different options; a very simple, single question.” the past few decades. Many see their rulers in the chief strategist, said. “When the SNP won it became TV debate in early August, Alistair Darling, a Russian rebels shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. This Scots answered that question decisively on British parliament, and the rich southeast more gen- real.” Even so, the polls still suggested a vote for con- Scotsman and former Labour finance minister cho- outrage forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to abandon Thursday, voting 55 percent to 45 percent to stay in erally, as arrogant, uncaring, and elitist. tinued union was a certainty. In the 15 years up to sen to head the Better Together campaign, often her role as an honest broker and simultaneously emboldened the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern “Whoever has been in government in 2012 and the Edinburgh Agreement, support for came across as dry and distant. He failed to stir pas- Ukrainian hopes of gaining Western military support. Ireland. Cameron, who may well have faced calls to Westminster just hasn’t really interacted with and secession had not topped 35 percent, according to sions - unlike Salmond, who has a populist touch Second, Putin shows no sign of wanting to extend Russia’s step down if the union had broken, said he was understood fully the concerns of Scotland,” Simon Scotland’s Social Attitudes Survey. Almost everyone and a flair for drama. The Better Together campaign boundaries after absorbing Crimea and destabilizing the “delighted” with the referendum decision, and there Reevell, a Conservative lawmaker and member of in Westminster believed a split was unthinkable. The sometimes muddled its message, in part because it Donbas. Putin has proved that he will fight against any further should be “no disputes, no re-runs”. the Scottish Affairs committee in Westminster, said. feeling was “let’s have the debate and see if it’s a yes awkwardly combined Conservative, Labour and encroachment onto Russia’s boundaries by the European “We got a chance to vote. So that’s what I’m “It is not something that has just sprung up over the or no,” said a senior British government official. Liberal Democrat politicians more used to criticis- Union and NATO, which he now views as an expansionist proud of, I’m proud that I voted yes,” said Lindsay last few weeks. It is tapping into a deep-rooted feel- “Clearly we always felt we had the right argument. ing each other. The result was that attempts to empire. This does not mean, however, that Putin hopes to Burgar, a nurse from Oban. However, what Scots also ing that they would be better on their own and I Clearly the British government thought it could win appeal to Scottish voters often came across as restore Russian control over countries already absorbed by the got - even though it wasn’t on the ballot paper - was ham-fisted. EU and NATO, such as Poland or Lithuania. Whatever Putin’s the promise of greater autonomy, something At one point, government officials in the ambitions, he understands that Russia is too weak economi- approaching devo-max. Unionists had always said Treasury posted on a government website a list of cally to compete directly against EU and NATO “imperialism.” they would offer Scots more autonomy if they voted 12 jokey financial benefits in voting No, including Rather than trying to reverse the territorial expansion to stay, but had not detailed what that would look Scots being able to “share a meal of fish and chips achieved in the 1990s by the European Union and NATO, like. That began to change as panic over a possible with your family every day for around 10 weeks, Putin’s record suggests a status quo leader trying to preserve Yes vote took hold in the two weeks before the vote. with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in.” existing spheres of influence. Third, the precedent set by carv- The leaders of the Conservatives and the Liberal The SNP said this was patronising; it was not until ing out parts of Ukraine is not necessarily catastrophic for Democrats - who form the current national govern- Brown stepped up his efforts in the last few weeks international law in Europe. Russia’s annexation of Crimea was ment - and the opposition Labour Party promised that the No campaign got back on track. By then, not, as is often claimed, the first attempt since 1945 to move Scots a fast-track timetable for further devolution, though, support for the Yes camp had soared. European borders by military force. Borders were forcibly including decisions on welfare, borrowing, and tax- “It’s very difficult to run a campaign when changed in the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Turkish invasion of raising powers. They also signed a pledge to main- you’re saying ‘no’ to anything,” said David Yelland, Northern Cyprus and the “frozen conflicts” in Moldova, tain indefinitely the higher funding levels that former editor of the Sun newspaper and now a Georgia and Azerbaijan. Scotland receives compared with many other partner at Brunswick, a PR firm. “It was always regions of the UK. On Friday, Cameron also promised going to be a difficult task because you need ener- Economic Consequences he would seek to shake up the constitutional gy, vim and vigour around political campaigns.” Finally, what about the economic consequences for Russia arrangements for the rest of Britain. “It is absolutely With a superior ground game, the Yes camp and Ukraine? For Ukraine, which could potentially challenge right that a new and fair settlement for Scotland “moved the conversation away from statehood Poland as the dominant power in Central Europe and overtake should be accompanied by a new and fair settle- into policy: What kind of Scotland do we want?” France as Europe’s leading agricultural producer, the key ques- ment that applies to all parts of the United said law professor Tomkins. tion is how much help the EU will provide by way of financial Kingdom,” he said. Those promises open up a support and technical assistance. Pandora’s box of further problems. Many voters out- Pro-independence supporters are seen in Glasgow on Sept 19, 2014 following Greater Powers Ukraine’s population of 44 million is roughly equal to side Scotland see Scotland’s gains as a bribe and a defeat in the referendum on Scottish independence. —AFP When polls showed growing support for leav- Romania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia combined. have grumbled that Scots are getting special treat- ing the UK, the No campaign came up with an Whether the EU is willing to devote the huge resources in ment. Cameron’s words sought to address a thorny think that reflects on the governance of Scotland that argument.” accelerated timetable to give Scotland greater money, time and manpower necessary to reform Ukraine is far constitutional problem: Scotland, Wales and under all the major political parties, probably over Cameron’s insistence on a yes/no vote was not powers by next year. Salmond scoffed at the offer. more important to the country’s future than the precise terms Northern Ireland elect representatives for their own the last 30 years.” just about giving a clear choice. It also rested on the “It is actually an insult to the intelligence of the of a Donbas autonomy deal. For Russia, the long-term effects regional parliaments and for Westminster. English The Scots, to be sure, have not been voiceless in fact that the SNP’s vision of devo-max was wide- people of Scotland to rehash these proposals last of the Ukraine crisis are equally ambiguous. Russia is certainly voters, on the other hand, have representatives only London. Cameron’s predecessor was a Scot: Gordon ranging, including almost every area but foreign pol- gasp in the campaign and hope beyond hope that suffering from the economic sanctions. In the long run, how- in Westminster. If his proposed changes don’t go far Brown of the Labour Party, who served at No. 10 icy, defence and the currency. “You’d have two differ- people think it is anything substantial,” the 59-year- ever, it could reap economic benefits from them, while its poli- enough, it may lead to increased support for pop- Downing Street for nearly three years and, before ent state pensions in a single state. You’d have two old Scottish leader said. The powers being offered tics become even more authoritarian. ulist parties, such as the eurosceptic UK that, was the powerful finance minister for 10 years different welfare regimes in a single state and two do not go as far as Salmond’s radical vision of devo- Russia’s economy is based on exporting energy to finance Independence Party, in the UK’s 2015 general elec- under Prime Minister Tony Blair. Several other Scots different immigration and citizenship policies in a max; nevertheless, they give Scotland preferential the import of Western consumer and capital goods - a glaring tion. That, in turn, would increase the chances of held senior positions in Blair’s governments, single state,” said Adam Tomkins, a professor in con- treatment compared with other regions of the UK. example of the “natural resource curse” described by text- Britain pulling out of the European Union. prompting one TV presenter to quip in 2005 that stitutional law who has advised the No camp’s Better The reaction from elsewhere in Britain was a mix- books of development economics. Textbooks, however, often “The genie is out of the bottle,” on the need for Britain was living under a “Scottish Raj”. Together campaign and appeared before ture of anger and disbelief. “The funding formula for fail to mention that the resource curse is a logical conse- change, said Labour lawmaker Peter Hain, who has What began to make independence economi- Westminster parliament’s select committee on the Scotland ... already delivers per capita funding north quence of David Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage: served as both Secretary of State for Wales and also cally enticing for Scots was the development of the referendum. “There is no state anywhere in the of the border well in excess of that spent per head in the classical free-trade idea that every country should special- Northern Ireland. “We need to recognise the reality North Sea oil industry - mostly in Scottish waters - world that is governed like this. Devo-max as the the other parts of the union,” Conservative lawmaker ize in whatever it makes most efficiently and import other that the United Kingdom should have a federal which started delivering large tax revenues in the SNP defined it is undeliverable and wholly without Claire Perry wrote in a newspaper column the day of goods. —Reuters political structure with a constitutional arrangement 1970s. A 1979 vote on a devolved Scottish assembly precedent.” the referendum. “Cool, calm analysis, not promises of which defines the demarcation of powers between won a slim majority of those who voted, but went Tomkins thinks Cameron did not want to appear financial party bags to appease Mr Salmond, are Westminster and the rest of the United Kingdom.” nowhere because the turnout was lower than as if London was dictating the terms again. what is needed.” Politicians from the left of Labour to That will be fraught with difficulty, which may required. The mood changed further in the 1980s, “Suppose Westminster had been more heavy-hand- populist right-winger Nigel Farrage of UKIP said the explain why politicians have spent so long ignoring when a shift to the left that had begun in Scotland in ed: That’s exactly how it would have been perceived UK now needed a new constitutional settlement. All articles appearing on these the issue. It was Labour lawmaker Tam Dalyell who the 1960s intensified after Margaret Thatcher’s in Scotland. And you can see the risks,” he said. Conservative lawmaker John Redwood demanded pages are the personal opinion of in 1977 first posed what became known as the West Conservative government reformed Britain. “What the SNP have thrived on, for as long as I’ve an English parliament, though others, including the the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Lothian Question, named after his Scottish con- Thatcher and the Tories privatised state firms and been alive, is a grievance culture of Scottish politics prime minister, said that was going too far. The stituency: Should lawmakers elected to Westminster took on the unions. Scottish heavy industry was dec- and the last thing that Westminster wanted to do prospect of a less centralised Britain carries risks as responsibility for views expressed from Scotland be able to vote on English matters, if imated, and there is lingering bitterness at the way was give the SNP any more grievances.” well as rewards. One downside of a move to devolve therein. Kuwait Times invites read- English lawmakers could not vote on matters Thatcher used Scotland as the testing ground for a But the kid-glove approach handed the SNP more powers could be damaging competition ers to voice their opinions. Please devolved to Scotland? regressive, flat-rate poll tax. power over vital decisions. Not only did the party between regional or local authorities to cut taxes to It’s more pertinent now that assemblies in “It is undeniable that the radical Toryism of the define the referendum question - the exact wording woo investment, possibly resulting in lower tax rev- send submissions via email to: opin- Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff control domestic 1980s confronted Scotland with a new challenge was tweaked by the Electoral Commission - it also enues overall, said David Philips, an economist at the [email protected] or via snail affairs over which English lawmakers have no say. As which it had never had since the mid-18th century,” gave 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote, a deci- Institute of Fiscal Studies, a think-tank in London. mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. a result, some English politicians argue that England Tom Devine, a Scottish historian, told an audience at sion one Conservative Party lawmaker described as Equally, the Institute for Public Policy Research, The editor reserves the right to edit should have its own, purely English parliament. the University of Glasgow earlier this week. Though “ridiculous”. Crucially, the SNP also dictated the tim- another think-tank, argues that shifting some pow- Graham Allen, Labour lawmaker and chair of a par- Thatcher won three elections, her policies divided ing of the vote. Cameron had wanted the referen- ers away from Westminster could be a positive for any submission as necessary. liamentary committee that has said it will hold an the country; Scots were among her most vociferous dum last year. But the Scottish party wanted more growth. —Reuters MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SPORTS

No easy ride for Pacquiao Ahly move closer to final Venus crashes out in china MANILA: Manny Pacquiao will receive no special treatment on his first foray into JOHANNESBURG: Egyptians Al-Ahly made a timely return to form WUHAN: Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams crashed out of the professional basketball, a rival player has vowed, as the Philippine boxing super- with a 1-0 CAF Confederation Cup semi-final, first-leg win at $2.4 million WTA Wuhan Open in the first round yesterday in a nail-biting three- star struggles with a hectic training schedule for both sports. Cameroonians Coton Sport this weekend. set defeat to French player Caroline Garcia. Garcia took the first set 6-4, only to Beau Belga, a 113-kilogram (250-pound), 1.95-metre (6 foot 5 inch) Philippine The Cairo ‘Red Devils’ had won just one of their previous five suffer a 6-4 reverse in the second before clinching victory in more than two- Basketball Association bruiser, told Manila’s sports news website Spin.ph on matches in the second-tier African club competition and scored a and-a-half hours, in a tie-break which finished 8/6. Friday that he will be no walkover when the 1.69-metre (5ft 7in) Pacquiao starts meagre three goals. Diminutive attacking midfielder Walid Soliman She will now face Polish fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the second playing next month. “I have no intention of hurting him, but I will play my nor- was a fitting match-winner for Ahly, scoring the lone goal on 72 min- round. Williams, 34, arrived in Wuhan after losing the Quebec City tournament mal game against him. I don’t have to change it just because he’s utes at Stade Omnisports Roumde-Adja in north-western city final to Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni last Sunday. Manny Pacquiao,” the 27-year-old centre-forward of the league’s Garoua. Elsewhere in the tournament, home favourite Xu Shilin Rain or Shine team added. “This is basketball. He won’t get an Collecting a pass from Burkina Faso-born substitute Moussa was forced to retire from her match with American Alison open shot or (be) allowed to drive past me,” Belga added. Yedan, Soliman unleashed a left-foot shot that beat Cameroon Riske in the third set with the scores at 6-6. The 16-year- Pacquiao, 35, has won world boxing titles in eight different weight reserve goalkeeper Loic Feudjou. Livewire Soliman, a recent returnee old wildcard was carried of with heatstroke after play- divisions and was drafted by expansion team Kia in August to the starting line-up after a long injury absence, troubled Coton ing more than 2 hours 45 minutes in high tempera- even though he has no experience in high-level basketball. from the kick-off. An acrobatic Feudjou save foiled Soliman in the tures in the central Chinese city.The Wuhan Open will He is known for playing intense pick-up games during opening minute and the Egyptian later failed to score when one-on- reach its climax on September 27. Nineteen of the top breaks in training for bouts, and remains in top physical one with the goalkeeper. Coton came close to breaking the deadlock 20 players are attending the Premier WTA event, condition while enjoying a successful sunset to his just before Soliman struck-Ivorian Kako Rostan narrowly failing to including Venus’s sister, world number one Serena career in the ring. The boxer was hired as player and connect with a cross from 16-year-old Moussa Bana. Williams. Meanwhile, Simona Halep looked back on a coach for Kia, which will open their account on This was the fifth CAF match between the clubs and Coton have “special year” yesterday following her remarkable October 19 in a league that has produced players of yet to win, losing twice and drawing three. Ahly host the return ascent to number two in the rankings, but said the enough calibre to see the Philippines qualify for this match in Cairo next Sunday and look set to become the first top spot remains a distant dream while Serena year’s World Cup. Confederation Cup finalists from Egypt. — AFP Williams is still playing. —AFP Tigers boost AL Central lead

KANSAS CITY: Max Scherzer and the Detroit wins over Toronto.With most of the 47,292 Tigers won their appeal on a wild play, and Joe fans at Yankee Stadium standing and chanting Nathan escaped a ninth-inning jam to hold off “Der-ek Je-ter!” his every at-bat, the retiring the Kansas City Royals 3-2 Saturday and boost captain doubled and singled for his third their AL Central lead. The Tigers increased their straight multi-hit game. He also scored his edge to 2 1/2 games over the Royals. Kansas 1,920th run to pass suspended teammate Alex City fell into a tie for the second wild-card spot Rodriguez for ninth place on the career list. with Seattle, which played later at Houston. Detroit, seeking its fourth straight division ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 1 title, has won 13 of 18 against the Royals this Eddie Butler pitched six solid innings for his year, including eight of nine at Kauffman first major league win and the Rockies beat Stadium. Scherzer (17-5) outpitched James the Diamondbacks. Corey Dickerson and Josh Shields (14-8). The Royals put two runners on Rutledge homered for the Rockies, who have against Nathan, but he retired Nori Aoki and won five straight for the first time since June pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez on grounders for his 11-15. Butler (1-1) made his debut against the 33th save in 40 tries. Los Angeles Dodgers on June 6 and went on It was 1-all in the sixth when a line drive the disabled list with right shoulder inflamma- and a wild throw led to an appeal toss and a tion the next day. pair of umpire discussions that wound up rul- He made nine minor league rehab starts ing a Royals runner had left third base too before getting the ball Saturday. He made the soon. most of it, allowing one run and five hits and giving the Rockies a glimpse into the future. CUBS 8, DODGERS 7 Butler was Colorado’s first-round pick in 2012 Chris Coghlan hit two homers, including and has quickly moved through the organiza- the go-ahead two-run drive off Brian Wilson in tion. Trevor Cahill (3-12) allowed five runs and the eighth inning, and the Cubs rallied to beat 10 hits in five innings. He hasn’t won since the Dodgers. beating Miami on Aug. 15. The Dodgers were looking to build on a 3 1/2-game lead over San Francisco in the NL PHILLIES 3, ATHLETICS 0 West after clinching a playoff spot for the fifth Jerome Williams beat the Athletics for the time in nine years on Friday. third time this season with three different Instead Los Angeles blew a five-run lead teams, and Oakland missed an opportunity to and wasted a pair of homers and five RBIs by extend its lead in the AL wild-card race with a Adrian Gonzalez. The Dodgers were up 7-2 in loss to the Phillies. the seventh, but the bullpen couldn’t hold the Freddy Galvis hit a two-run homer in the lead. JP Howell gave up an RBI single to seventh inning against Dan Otero (8-2). KANSAS CITY: Alcides Escobar No. 2 of the Kansas City Royals connects on the pitch from Max Scherzer No. 37 of the Detroit Tigers in the Anthony Rizzo and a three-run homer to Marlon Byrd added an RBI single in the eighth. fifth inning. — AFP Arismendy Alcantara, making it a one-run The A’s remained a half-game ahead of Kansas game. Wilson (2-4) came on in the eighth and City for the top wild-card spot. The Royals lost Rodriguez worked a perfect ninth for his 43rd hits, broke it open with a three-run homer off Tillman in a victory over Boston. Tillman (13-5) things just got worse from there. 3-2 at home to Detroit earlier Saturday. save of the season and 347th of his career, Trevor May (3-5) in the fifth inning. TJ House (4- gave up two runs in seven innings. He has Williams (4-2) allowed four hits, struck out moving him into a tie with Randy Myers for 3) got the win. allowed three runs or fewer in 20 straight BLUE JAYS 6, YANKEES 3 three and walked one in seven innings. 10th on the all-time list. starts. Baltimore’s likely starter in Game 1 of Jose Bautista hit his eighth homer of the Herrera reached on a forceout off Mark CARDINALS 8, REDS 4 the playoffs, Tillman is 6-0 in 13 starts since year against New York, Marcus Stroman BREWERS 1, PIRATES 0 Melancon (3-5) in the ninth and moved to Tony Cruz hit a three-run homer and the St. July 12. Jones connected against Rubby De La pitched six gritty innings and the Blue Jays Elian Herrera sprinted home on Logan third on Lyle Overbay’s second double of the Louis Cardinals connected three times, beating Rosa (4-8) in the third inning and Heath ended a season-worst six-game losing streak Schafer’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and night. Herrera scored when Schafer’s fly to left Cincinnati and moving closer to their fourth Hembree in the fifth. It was his sixth career to beat the Yankees and keep their faint play- the Milwaukee Brewers edged the Pittsburgh was just deep enough. straight playoff berth. two-homer game, the second this season. off hopes alive. to tighten the race for the second National The Cardinals cut their magic number to Christian Walker homered for Baltimore, his With eight games to play for both teams, League wild-card spot. PADRES 3, GIANTS 2 one for clinching a postseason berth. The mag- first in the majors. David Ortiz hit his third Toronto is 5 1-2 games back for an AL wild The Brewers overcame the ejection of start- Andrew Cashner pitched brilliantly into ic number is five for their second NL Central homer in two games and No. 35 of the season. card and the Yankees are 4 1-2. Seattle and ing pitcher Matt Garza and pulled within 3 1/2 the ninth inning and the San Diego Padres title in a row. Kolten Wong and Randal Grichuk He has 466 for his career, passing Dave Cleveland all played later Saturday night. games of the Pirates. Pittsburgh had won five kept San Francisco from advancing on the NL also homered as St. Louis won for the seventh Winfield for 33rd place on the all-time list. Danny Valencia hit a go-ahead, two-run in a row. Zach Duke (5-1), a former All-Star West leading Los Angeles Dodgers. time in eight games. Cincinnati has lost six in double, helping hand the Yankees their first with the Pirates, picked up the victory after The Giants remain 3 1/2 games behind the row and been outscored 30-8 in that stretch. METS 4, BRAVES 2 loss of Derek Jeter’s final homestand after two getting the final out of the eighth. Francisco Dodgers, who lost 8-7 to the Cubs. San Jason Motte (1-0) needed just three pitches The slumping Atlanta Braves were shut Francisco remains one game ahead of and one out to earn the win. Mike Leake (11- down by Jonathon Niese and lost the New Pittsburgh in the race for the top wild-card 13) went five innings and allowed six runs. York Mets, damaging their flickering playoff spot. Cashner (5-7) took a two-hit shutout hopes. Atlanta has lost seven of eight to drop into the ninth before allowing Hunter Pence’s NATIONALS 3, MARLINS 2 to 4-13 in September. Jonathon Niese (9-11) 20th home run. Kevin Quackenbush got three Ryan Zimmerman had two hits, including allowed two runs in 7 1-3 innings. Jenrry Mejia outs for his fifth save. an RBI triple, in his return to the lineup and the then worked the ninth for his 27th save in 30 Cashner hit his first career triple with one Washington Nationals beat Miami. chances. Dilson Herrera and Curtis Granderson out in the fifth, the first triple by a big league Zimmerman, who missed 55 games homered for New York. Braves starter Mike pitcher this season, and bunted for a single in because of a hamstring injury, had his run- Minor (6-12) left after one inning because of the sixth. Yusmeiro Petit (5-5), who has taken scoring triple to key Washington’s three-run discomfort in his left shoulder. Tim Lincecum’s spot in the Giants’ rotation, seventh inning. allowed two earned and four hits 5 1-3 Jordan Zimmermann (13-5) gave up two RAYS 3, WHITE SOX 1 innings. runs and five hits over six innings. He struck Nick Franklin hit his first home run with out four and stayed in the game and finished Tampa Bay and Chris Archer pitched shutout ASTROS 10, MARINERS 1 the inning despite getting hit by a line drive ball into the seventh inning, leading the Rays Seattle starter Chris Young got hit hard from Casey McGehee to start the sixth. Drew over the White Sox. and the Mariners missed a chance to move Storen gave up one-out singles to Marcel Franklin connected against Hector Noesi (8- up in the AL playoff race, yielding five home Ozuna and Justin Bour in the ninth before he 10) in the second inning. Franklin had to wait runs in a loss to Houston. retired pinch-hitter Garrett Jones on a game- 79 seconds for a replay review to determine if The Mariners stayed one game behind AL ending double play for his ninth save in 12 it was fair after it hit off a catwalk at Tropicana wild-card leader Oakland and a half-game in opportunities. Jarred Cosart (4-3) took the loss. Field. Franklin was acquired from Seattle in the back of Kansas City for the second slot. three-team trade that sent David Price to Chris Carter and Alex Presley hit two-run ORIOLES 7, RED SOX 2 Detroit on July 31. He was playing in his fourth homers and Matt Dominguez and Carlos Adam Jones hit a pair of two-run homers game for the Rays. Archer (10-8) allowed two Corporan added back-to-back solo shots. and the Baltimore Orioles received another hits and walked four in 6 1-3 innings. Jake Jake Marisnick had a three-run homer in the steady performance from right-hander Chris McGee got his 18th save. — AP seventh inning as the Astros snapped a four- MALAYSIA: Chapchai Nirat of Thailand posing with the trophy after winning the Worldwide game skid. Young (12-9) was tagged for seven Holdings Selangor Masters at the Seri Selangor golf club. — AFP runs in three-plus innings. Dallas Keuchel (12- 9) pitched eight strong innings, and reached MLB results/standings reached 200 innings in a season for the first Chapchai ends title drought time in his career. Chicago Cubs 8, LA Dodgers 7; Detroit 3, Kansas City 2; Toronto 6, NY Yankees 3; Philadelphia KUALA LUMPUR: Chapchai Nirat ended his overnight leader Cameron Smith of Australia ANGELS 8, RANGERS 5 3, Oakland 0; Colorado 5, Arizona 1; Baltimore 7, Boston 2; Milwaukee 1, Pittsburgh 0; five-year title drought when he held his nerve were among the five who shared the fourth Jered Weaver earned his AL-leading 18th Cleveland 7, Minnesota 3; NY Mets 4, Atlanta 2; Houston 10, Seattle 1; Washington 3, Miami 2; to roll in a putt at the first playoff hole and spot further two shots behind. victory, Albert Pujols reached the 100-RBI Tampa Bay 3, Chicago White Sox 1; St. Louis 8, Cincinnati 4; San Diego 3, San Francisco 2; LA beat Filipino veteran Antonio Lascuna to win Chapchai, who won his fourth Asian Tour mark with a two-run homer and Mike Trout Angels 8, Texas 5. Asian Tour’s Selangor Masters yesterday. title, seemed to be cruising to victory at one also hit a two-run shot to lead the Los American League National League The big-hitting Thai carded a closing three- point until he bogeyed the two final holes. Angeles Angels over Texas. under 68 for a four-day total of 10-under 274, “I felt a lot of pressure. When I saw Antonio Eastern Division Eastern Division David Freese added a three-run homer in W L PCT GB Washington 90 64 .584 - which was matched by the 43-year-old miss the putt (in the play-off), I knew I had a support of Weaver (18-8). Texas had won sev- Lascuna who fired a 63, studded with six chance. It took the pressure off me a bit and Baltimore 93 61 .604 - Atlanta 76 78 .494 14 en in a row. Huston Street pitched a perfect NY Yankees 79 75 .513 14 NY Mets 75 80 .484 15.5 birdies and an eagle. I’m delighted to hole the putt,” he said. ninth for his career-high 39th save as the AL Toronto 78 76 .506 15 Miami 74 80 .481 16 But Lascuna missed his par putt on the first “This win is different from the previous West champion Angels kept their 2 1/2-game extra hole while Chapchai made no error with three as it’s my first time in a play-off. The Tampa Bay 75 80 .484 18.5 Philadelphia 71 84 .458 19.5 lead over Baltimore in the race for the best Boston 67 88 .432 26.5 his four-foot putt to win the $410,000 event emotion is different. I’m glad I managed to pull record in the majors. Colby Lewis (10-14) took Central Division held on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital. through.” Central Division St. Louis 87 68 .561 - the loss. Adrian Beltre hit three doubles for Detroit 86 68 .558 - “I didn’t think this day would happen,” said Lascuna, who finished third in Taiwan last Texas. Pittsburgh 83 71 .539 3.5 Chapchai, who was drenched with water by weekend, was happy with his form and said he Kansas City 83 70 .542 2.5 Milwaukee 80 75 .516 7 fellow Thai players who had gathered around will continue to fight for his maiden title. Cleveland 80 74 .519 6 Cincinnati 71 84 .458 16 INDIANS 7, TWINS 3 Chicago White Sox70 84 .455 16 the 18th green. “I hit a good putt but the ball turned left at Chicago Cubs 69 86 .445 18 Yan Gomes homered and drove in four Minnesota 66 88 .429 20 “I didn’t think I’d have a chance to win (after the end. I saw it as a straight putt but it turned. Western Division runs to help the Cleveland Indians advance in Western Division five years). Golf is a game where you need to I’m still happy especially with a closing 63 the AL wild-card race by beating Minnesota. LA Dodgers 88 67 .568 - stay patient. I always talked to my caddie that which is my lowest on the Asian Tour,” he said. LA Angels 96 59 .619 - The Indians are 3 1/2 games out of the sec- Oakland 84 70 .545 11.5 San Francisco 84 70 .545 3.5 if I could keep my form, I felt I could get one “Last week, I also came close. I’m playing ond wild-card spot after Oakland, Kansas City San Diego 73 81 .474 14.5 win again.” India’s Anirban Lahiri finished third, really good. The feeling was exciting. I was try- Seattle 83 71 .539 12.5 and Seattle all lost ahead of them earlier in Colorado 64 91 .413 24 two behind at eight-under 276, while Order of ing to win. I’ll keep practising more, I won’t Houston 68 87 .439 28 the day. The start of the game was delayed an Texas 61 93 .396 34.5 Arizona 62 93 .400 26 Merit leader American David Lipsky and give up.” — Reuters hour because of rain. Gomes, who had three MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SPORTS ‘Nishikori effect’ comes to Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Japanese tennis sensation Kei More than 18,000 tickets had been snapped up dream of becoming world number one.” Malaysian-is set to emerge as a crowd favourite. Nishikori returns to the court this week for the first as of Friday for the sixth edition of the Malaysian Main-draw play starts Monday at Kuala Lumpur’s Kyrgios memorably defeated Rafael Nadal, world time since his breakout US Open performance, lead- Open, they said, surpassing total sales for the entire Putra Stadium, and Nishikori is hoping to land his number one at the time, at Wimbledon earlier this ing the field as the clear favourite in the Malaysian tournament last year. first title of 2014 after two agonising runner-up fin- year and became the first male debutant to reach Open. Nishikori’s exploits in the United States, Despite his crushing straight-sets loss in the US ishes. He also bowed out of the Madrid Open final the last eight of the tournament in a decade. where he beat world number one Novak Djokovic final to Croatia’s Marin Cilic, Nishikori’s showing in May through injury. His chances in the $1.02 mil- Last year’s doubles champions Eric Butorac of en route to the first Grand Slam singles final appear- vaulted him to his highest-ever ranking of eighth in lion tournament gained a boost with world number the United States and Raven Klaasen of South Africa ance by an Asian man, have sent expectations for the world. “It was obviously frustrating to lose the six Milos Raonic of Canada pulling out at the last are back to defend. India’s Leander Paes-the oldest the 24-year-old soaring. (US Open) final,” he said last weekend after a hero’s minute over fitness concerns. man to have won a Grand Slam when he clinched Malaysian organisers, crediting the “Nishikori welcome back home in Japan. “But in terms of my Also in the mix are Latvia’s 13th-ranked Ernests the 2013 US Open doubles with Radek Stepanek at effect”, say ticket sales for the men’s event have tennis career I’ve taken a very important step and it Gulbis and last year’s champion Joao Sousa of 40 years of age-will team up with Marcin Matkowski surged well past previous years. feels like I’ve moved a little bit closer to realising my Portugal. Australia’s Nick Kyrgios-who is half- of Poland. — AFP Ivanovic lifts Tokyo title

TOKYO: Former world number one Ana Ivanovic brushed aside Caroline Wozniacki to win the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo yesterday and move closer to sealing a berth for the sea- son-ending WTA finals in Singapore. The 6-2 7-6 (2) win in the $1 million tournament also gave the Serb her fourth WTA title of the year and the 26-year-old is projected to move from the eighth spot to fifth in the race for Singapore. After trading early break of serves, third seed Ivanovic breezed through the first set against the former world number one Danish, who won the tournament in 2010. Wozniacki, the finalist at this year’s U.S. Open, fought back to take a lead early and was up 3-1 in the second set but Ivanovic regained momentum and won five of the next eight games to force a tie-breaker, which she completely dominated. “Caroline played a great match today,” Ivanovic said after her win. “It was a really good battle out there- there were some very tough moments, espe- cially in the second set. “But I just tried to take it one point at a time, and I’m really happy to make it through. It’s just an amazing feeling to win this title.” Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova led tributes to Li Na at China’s Wuhan Open yesterday as the local hero tearfully explained her decision to retire to journalists in Beijing. The Russian world number four said the 32-year-old tennis trailblazer had a huge impact on the sport-particularly in her home country-and that she should have no regrets following her decision. “It is obviously a very SEOUL: Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic kisses the trophy after winning the big loss for tennis in general all around the women’s singles final against Varvara Lepchenko of the US at the WTA Korea Open world, and specifically here in China where Li tennis tournament. — AFP Na has been so influential for so many years,” Sharapova told reporters. JAPAN: Ana Ivanovic of Serbia holds the trophy during the awarding ceremony after the final match Pliskova clinches Korea Open “She can look back on her career with a big against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament. — AFP smile on her face.” China’s two-time Grand SEOUL: Czech Karolina Pliskova defeated withdrew from this week’s Wuhan Open Slam champion had inspired a raft of star enjoyed listening to her speeches during friendship at the press conference she held in American Varvara Lepchenko to win the in China with a foot injury and later names to attend the new tournament, which tournaments. Beijing Sunday. Korea Open title yesterday, ending her announced she would be out of action began in her home city yesterday, Sharapova “She’s really nice and was very good play- “It’s so nice from her that she said my run of defeats in WTA finals this year at for the remainder of the season. said, adding that it was “extra sad” that she er... very special, because every time her name. You know, I’m going to miss her so her fourth attempt. “Unfortunately I will not be compet- could not compete. “I think everyone should speeches were very funny,” the Romanian much,” the two-time Wimbledon winner said. The world number 32, seeded second, ing in any tournaments for the remain- be very proud of her achievements and put said. “She moved very well on court, she was a “She’s very funny. I think that you Chinese can won 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 after two hours and der of the season,” the 25-year-old up a good event for her,” added the 2014 great player and a real champion, and of be very proud of her.” The $2.4 million Wuhan 11 minutes to claim her second WTA title. Belarusian said in a message on her French Open Champion. course, I wish her all the best and to be happy Open will reach its climax on September 27. The 22-year-old lost three singles finals Facebook page. “It has been a very tough World number two Simona Halep for the rest of her life.” Petra Kvitova, who is Nineteen of the top 20 players are attending in 2014, the latest against Germany’s year for me. “I have been trying my best described Li as a “real champion” and “a very ranked at number three by the WTA, spoke the Premier WTA event, including world num- Sabine Lisicki at the WTA Hong Kong to improve day in and day out by push- kind person”, adding that she particularly appreciatively of Li, who mentioned their ber one Serena Williams. — AFP Open last Sunday. ing and pushing... but that does not Lepchenko, seeded fifth, ran out of appear to be the best approach for me steam after hard-fought victories over right now. top seed and defending champion “I will use this time to work on making Agnieszka Radwanska in the quarter- a full recovery and take care of my body finals and compatriot Christina McHale in to compete at my best next season.” the last four. Meanwhile, Victoria Azarenka, the Australian Open champion Azarenka will miss rest of the tennis sea- in 2012 and 2013, has struggled the son as she tries to make a full recovery whole year with foot and knee troubles from injuries that plagued her year, the and missed numerous tournaments, former world number one said yesterday. which has seen her singles ranking plum- The two-time grand slam champion met to 25 in the world. — Reuters Watson out of Australia’s series against Pakistan

MELBOURNE: Injury-prone all-rounder With a home series against India at Shane Watson has been ruled out of the end of the year to be followed by Australia’s entire series against Pakistan next year’s 50-over World Cup, CA decid- in the United Arab Emirates with a calf ed against risking Watson for the injury, the country’s cricket board said Pakistan series. yesterday. Watson, recovering from a “Shane has done everything he can to sprained ankle that kept him out of the get up for this tour and left no doubt in tri-series in Zimbabwe, has suffered a our minds that he wanted to push new setback and is experiencing sore- through,” national selector Rod Marsh ness in his right calf, Cricket Australia (CA) said. “Had the decision been left to physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said in a Shane, he would be on the plane to statement. “As Shane has previously had Dubai, however as selectors we have tak- similar calf injuries, we plan to hold back en a conservative approach to ensure he his return to running and bowling for has the best chance of being fit for the approximately 7-10 days. big summer ahead. “Right now we believe the best thing for Shane is to stay home and get 100 per cent fit as we know what a dynamic and destructive player he can be when his body is right. He remains an integral part of our plans for the summer.” The 33-year-old Watson, who has long struggled with his calves and hamstrings, said he will now focus on regaining total SPAIN: Team Specialized-Lululemon of the US competes to win the women’s team trial event over 36.15 kilometers (22.46 miles) for the third fitness before the busy summer. consecutive year at the Road Cycling World Championships. — AP “I’m naturally disappointed because I was desperate to play against Pakistan which is our opportunity to get back to BMC dethrones Omega Pharma number one in test and one-day interna- tional cricket,” Watson said. Shane Watson “Despite my strong desire to be on PONFERRADA: BMC dethroned two-time to miss the gold. This time it left no room for gold-medal winning teams. the tour, I understand why the selectors champion Omega Pharma-Quickstep to win error, beating Orica GreenEdge by 31 seconds. “I am ecstatic,” said Stevens. “I knew when “The unfortunate timing of this calf have made this decision. “Given I can’t be the men’s team time trial on the opening day The former champions were 35 seconds slow- we got to the start line that we were going to injury will mean that his preparation for with the boys, my goal now is to work as of the road cycling world championships yes- er than BMC. win.” Orica finished second, 1 minute, 17 sec- the UAE tour will be considerably affect- hard as I can to get back to 100 per cent terday. BMC was helped, and Omega Pharma- onds behind, and Astana completed the podi- ed and he would have been unavailable fitness so that I can make myself avail- BMC powered through the hilly 57.1-kilo- Quickstep hurt, by a late rain shower that um - 2:19 behind. for the T20 and ODI part of the tour and able for selection ahead of our series meter (35.4-mile) ride, starting and finishing arrived after BMC had finished its run. Rabobank Liv was on pace to defend its sil- significantly limit his bowling prepara- against South Africa in November. “I’ve in the city of Ponferrada, in 1 hour, 3 minutes, Martin will look to rebound on Wednesday ver medal from 2013 until three of their riders tion for the test matches.” been here before and know what I need 29 seconds. Orica GreenEdge repeated as sil- when he bids to win his fourth straight indi- crashed. Dutch riders Anna Van der Breggen Tasmania paceman Ben Hilfenhaus to do to get back to full fitness. That ver medalists from 2013. vidual time trial title. While Omega Pharma- and Annemiek van Vleuten were taken to the will take Watson’s place in the test squad, means remaining positive and working Omega Pharma-Quickstep, led by individ- Quickstep failed to defend its title, hospital. while Kane Richardson has been named hard. We have a huge summer of cricket ual time trial champion Tony Martin, settled Specialized-Lululemon won the women’s Rabobank Liv later said that Van der as a replacement for the limited-overs at home and my priority now is to play a for bronze after having won the event in its team time trial for the third straight year to Breggen had broken a pelvic bone. In 2012, matches. big part in that.” first two editions. “We knew coming in we had begin the weeklong championships. Van der Breggen was the under-23 European Australia have already lost captain After a one-off Twenty20 match on a strong team. We just went out there and did Specialized-Lululemon completed the champion in the individual time trial. Michael Clarke for the limited-overs Oct. 5, Australia play Pakistan in three matches of the series due to a hamstring one-dayers over the following week our thing,” said BMC’s American rider Tejay Van 36.15-kilometer (22.46-mile) course in 43 min- Van Vleuten needed to have sutures, injury and the top batsman is still a before the first test starts on Oct. 22 in Garderen. utes, 33 seconds. Evelyn Stevens of the United according to the team. The team time trials doubt for the tests. Dubai. —Reuters In 2012, Van Garderen’s BMC finished 3 sec- States and Germany’s Trixi Worrack are the were the first of 12 to be held this week in onds slower than Omega Pharma-Quickstep only two members to have ridden on all three northern Spain.— AP LENIN

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SPORTS

Ryder Cup win ‘icing Photo of the day on cake’ for McIlroy

EDINBURGH: Europe’s star-man Rory Graeme McDowell during recent Ryder McIlroy said yesterday that winning next Cups. However, relations between the two week’s Ryder Cup would be “the icing on friends have recently become strained as a the cake” of a brilliant year. result of McIlroy taking legal action against McIlroy will head to Scotland’s his former management company which Gleneagles course for Europe’s defence of still represents McDowell. the biennial team clash with the United States as the world’s number one-ranked ‘INTERESTING PAIRINGS’ golfer and having won four tournaments in Nevertheless, four-time major winner the last five months, including two majors- McIlroy said: “I’m very lucky that I get on the British Open and the US PGA. well with a lot of the guys. Graeme Now he is going in search of his third McDowell obviously is a big friend of mine, Ryder Cup success, having helped Europe Poults (Ian Poulter) I’ve played with before, triumph in both 2010 and 2012. “Personally Sergio Garcia’s another one where we’ve for me it would just be the icing on the got a good chemistry. “So there’s a few cake of what’s already a fantastic year,” guys I can play with. You might see a few McIlroy told Sky Sports. interesting pairings next week, I’m not “It feels like everyone involved is just so going to give much away here.” passionate about it, and even the public Meanwhile, 2010 US Open champion get so much more passionate about it than McDowell insisted he would have no the majors or individual tournaments,” the qualms playing alongside McIlroy again. 25-year-old added. “Myself and the other 10 guys would all “So it’s great to be a part of; I’ve been a love to be paired with the world’s number part of two winning European teams and one player,” McDowell wrote in his BBC obviously would love to make that a third Sport column. this week.” “There would be a queue out of the But whereas he was once the promising door of players wanting to partner Rory youngster, McIlroy is now a senior player in and, absolutely, I would be among them. Europe captain Paul McGinley’s team. “Yes, it has been a rough time over the “I’m going have to be one of the leaders last couple of years on the business side of Nils Buller performs at the Red Bull Martin Soderstrom Invitational in Uppsala, Sweden. — www.redbull.com and be expected to lead by example, and things for both me and Rory because he that’s a big responsibility, but one I want to has been involved in a lawsuit with my try and handle and try and get a few points management company. Hamilton wins Singapore GP on the board early for the team,” McIlroy “And it certainly has put a stress on our said. “It’s way better to win as part of a relationship, but we have put those things team. The best experiences in my golf behind us this year. If anything, our friend- SINGAPORE: Lewis Hamilton regained the radio. “Stop.” “It wasn’t so much a roller coaster lish speed superiority to make up for the advan- career have been the Ryder Cup and to be ship has been strengthened by what we Formula One drivers’ world championship lead ride because it was all downhill for me,” he tage handed to his rivals by running gently able to celebrate with all these guys. It’s have experienced. “We have talked about it yesterday when he claimed victory in the added. “It was very frustrating to drive behind a through six laps behind the Safety Car which very special.” McIlroy has tended to be and we would certainly love to renew our Singapore Grand Prix after his Mercedes team- Caterham and sit on a grid and watch everyone pulled in after lap 37. paired with fellow Northern Irish star partnership again.” — AFP mate Nico Rosberg limped out with electronic else leave. But that is the way it is.” After swallow- Hamilton responded with a measured charge. problems. ing his disappointment Rosberg watched the He opened up a 3.3 seconds lead on lap 39, The 29-year-old Briton led from pole position finale of an incident packed race from the knowing he had to pit again for the standard and dominated the 61-laps race before a lengthy Mercedes pit wall with Hamilton winning to take ‘soft’ tyres and, at the same time, hold off his Safety Car interruption reduced his lead and a three point advantage to the Japanese Grand rivals running on the ‘super softs’.By lap 45, he forced him to attack again in the closing stages Prix on October 5. led by 16 seconds, but faced a need to increase when he passed Sebastian Vettel to win. As Hamilton controlled the race the safety car that gap, pit and then pass cars in the final laps It was the 29th win of Hamilton’s career, his emerged on lap 31 after Mexican Sergio Perez to win. seventh this year and his second in Singapore, lost the front wing on his Force India after collid- For Mercedes, and Hamilton, it was a chal- ending four-time champion Vettel’s run of three ing with German Adrian Sutil’s Sauber. lenge that required a precision response. Finally, straight wins on the south-east Asian street cir- This interruption, to clear debris, saw Alonso the Briton pitted after 52 laps, re-joining second cuit. Hamilton came home 13.534 seconds dive in for another pit stop, gifting Vettel second behind Vettel for a dramatic attack that saw him ahead of Vettel, with Daniel Ricciardo third in the ahead of Ricciardo with the Spaniard fourth. regain the lead with a bold move on lap 54 as second Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alonso of After enjoying a comfortable lead, Hamilton Rosberg stood, watched the action from the pit Ferrari and Felipe Massa of Williams. faced a tense finale knowing he had to re-estab- wall. — AFP He moves up to 241 points, three clear of Rosberg, with five races remaining in one of the most tense and closely-fought championships of recent years. “I had dream this would happen last night,” said Hamilton. “Things have changed for me absolutely. I looked for a clean weekend and this was it. We always strive to get both cars 1-2 that was our goal, so things still to work on.” Rosberg turned up for the Marina Bay street circuit night race 22 points clear of Hamilton. But the German endured a wretched evening, his car failing to set off for the warm-up lap from sec- ond on the grid. He eventually started from the pitlane, in an under-performing car with restrict- ed electronic programmes available. By lap five, he had climbed to 20th while Hamilton was con- trolling a lead of 2.3 seconds ahead of Vettel. Hamilton pitted after 13 laps, but when Rosberg limped in one lap later, it was terminal for the German.

SUSPENSE TANGIBLE Struggling without fourth gear, he was asked to stall the engine on the pit apron as the team changed his steering wheel and settings again - and Hamilton flew by to lap him. The suspense was tangible as Rosberg strug- gled to re-start before waving his arms in surren- SINGAPORE: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain lifts up his winning trophy on the podi- der. “Ok park it, park it,” said a voice on team um after the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit. —AFP Kockott gets French call ATLANTA: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits his approach shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola at the East Lake Golf Club. — AFP PARIS: South African-born scrum-half Rory Maxime Machenaud of Racing Metro as Clermont’s veteran prop Thomas Domingo, Kockott looks set to make his debut for his Toulon’s Sebastien Tillous-Borde got the nod and backrow forwards South African-born adopted country France after coach Philippe instead to compete with Kockott. Antonie Claassen and Fulgence Ouedraogo. Curtis warns US to Saint-Andre named him in a 30 man squad for Saint-Andre, who has come under increas- Experienced hooker Dimitri Szarzewski, like a training camp for the November tests yes- ing pressure with his overall record a Machenaud and Claassen a stalwart of terday. The 28-year-old kicking specialist-who mediocre 11 victories, two draws and 16 Racing-Metro, was also left out although his beware of McGinley has been outstanding for his French club defeats in his 29 Test matches since taking exclusion may be more to do with having Castres since arriving in 2011 and scored 22 over from Marc Lievremont after the 2011 injured his left knee in Saturday’s 27-16 Top 14 EDINBURGH: Former US captain Curtis thought the matches would be really close,” points for them in their win over Oyonnax on World Cup, also dispensed with the services of victory over Toulouse. — AFP Strange has warned his compatriots to said the now 59-year-old Strange, a two- Saturday-is one of five uncapped players to be beware of the influence of European skip- time US Open champion. “I know I got sec- called up for the games against Fiji, Australia per Paul McGinley come next week’s Ryder ond-guessed, I got crucified over that.” and Argentina. Cup at Scotland’s Glenagles course. This “I am really happy to have the opportunity Custer youngest winner year the United States captain is Tom ‘FANTASTIC’ WOODS to be a member of a prestigious team such as Watson, an eight-time major winner and Woods will be missing from this years France,” Kockott told AFP. “It is a very proud at 16 in NASCAR series one of golf’s greatest players. Ryder Cup because of a longstanding back moment. I have been targeting a place in the Watson is also a revered figure in injury but the 14-times major winner has France squad since I arrived here. “Everything I LOUDON: Cole Custer’s first stand as a with five laps left, seizing it from Crafton Scotland, where he won four of his five often been accused of not caring enough did each season was with this goal in mind who had rallied from the back of the field, to British Open titles, and will be looking to about team golf. Strange said that was NASCAR winner landed him in the stock car and why I gave my best,” added the Top 14 record book. Custer became the youngest take the lead. lead the United States to their first victory unfair but added he wished Woods had player of the 2012/13 season, who became on European soil since he was last captain been a more vocal presence in the US side. winner in a NASCAR national series race at Custer had enough to make one last eligible for France in July. 16, taking the checkered flag at New stand for the victory. “When I got back for the biennial team event in 1993. “When I had him in 2002 he was still quite Saint-Andre said that he would observe McGinley has no majors to his name but young and he was fantastic. I can’t speak Hampshire in his seventh career Truck Series there, I was able to get my timing down on Kockott closely as there have been worries start. Custer dominated early and pulled the restarts,” Custer said. “It was just trying does have plenty of Ryder Cup experience, about how he is now,” Strange added. over his ability to bond with other players. which the Irishman will try to draw on as he “The only thing I wished he would have away late off the final restart Saturday to to hold (Wallace) off for the win.” “It is because of things such as that this bids to lead Europe to an eighth Ryder Cup done more of, as he was still by far and win at 16 years, 7 months, 28 days. He set a Already in NASCAR competition, Custer win in 10 editions. “There is a lot of talk away the best player on my team, is take a training camp (over three days) will be impor- track record of 131.897 mph to win the pole has set records as the youngest winner in about Tom Watson but do not underesti- little more of a vocal role in the team tant,” said Saint-Andre. “We will cast an eye and led 148 of the 175 laps for his fifth top- Pro Series history by scoring his first win at mate Paul McGinley,” said Strange, a repre- because he doesn’t say much, he leads over how he evolves within this squad, both 10 of the season. “This is a pretty special Iowa on Aug. 2, 2013, at 15 years, 6 months, sentative of Ryder Cup worldwide partner more by example. on and off the pitch. But of primordial con- race for our team,” Custer said. “I just love 10 days. He followed that up this season by Standard Life Investments. “If he’s like that still now I would want cern is the capacity of the players to be good this track. The fans are awesome. It was becoming the youngest pole winner in “Paul McGinley is a smart man, he’s a him to be more vocal in the team room and on the pitch and be good competitors. We will always one of my favorite tracks growing national touring series history at 16 years, 4 competitor and he captained the Seve on the golf course. You can only do what see if we continue with the adventure with up. I can’t believe I get to come here and go months, 22 days at Gateway Motorsports Trophy twice so he has experience and Paul your personality will allow you to do. him after the three days.” The other new faces to Victory Lane.” Park in Madison, Illinois. will represent his team very, very well.” “I’m not being critical, we are all way too are 24-year-old New Zealand-born prop Uini Darrell Wallace Jr., Matt Crafton, Johnny Custer is the son of Stewart-Haas Racing Strange knows what it is like to be a critical of Tiger to start with, everything he Atonio, who plays for La Rochelle, Toulon prop Sauter and John Nemechek completed the executive vice president Joe Custer and was Ryder Cup captain accused of a tactical does, but that’s the only thing I hope he Xavier Chiocci, Bayonne No8 Charles Ollivon top five. Last November in Phoenix, Erik raised around the racetrack. He started rac- error after skippering the USA at the Belfry would be better at because it is about team and Racing-Metro’s lively wing Teddy Thomas. Jones was the youngest winner in Truck ing when he was 5 and quickly rose through course in central England in 2002 after the building, it’s about rooting for each other Montpellier fly-half Francois Trinh-Duc, who the ranks all the way to the Truck Series. “I’ve match had been postponed because of the and motivating each other to do well that Series history, winning at 17 years, 4 many regard as France’s best fly-half, earns a months. His stint in the record book was been going since I was real young,” he said. 2001 terror attacks in the United States. The week. “I don’t suspect Jack Nicklaus or recall with the other No 10’s in the squad match was all square at 8-8 on the final day Arnold Palmer were like that either. They short- lived. Crafton leads the season standings by Clermont’s Camille Lopez and Kockott’s half- Custer had control of the race until a final seven points over Sauter. Wallace also and Strange, concerned the final few were the best players in the world at the back partner at Castres Remi Tales. matches could be decisive, left his time, their environment does isolate them pit stop dropped the No. 00 Chevrolet from remained in the championship hunt with However, there is no place for Saint-Andre’s the lead into seventh with 20 laps left. his ninth top-10 of the season. “I’m not wor- strongest players in Phil Mickelson and from the rest of the players somewhat. previously favoured two scrum-halves-Lopez’s Tiger Woods at the bottom of his line-up. “There’s a certain point of selfishness Custer was helped by pair of late cautions ried about the championship,” Wallace said. team-mate Morgan Parra, who formed an However, the contest was decided in that goes along with it. But I think Tiger that allowed him to stay close to the lead- “I’ll let the crew worry about that. I’m just Europe’s favour when McGinley secured a cares more about the Ryder Cup than peo- effective partnership with Trinh-Duc under ers. He took shortly after the final restart trying to win races.” — AP half point against Jim Furyk. “I really ple let on.” — AFP former coach Marc Lievremont-or the in-form MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SPORTS Roma return to the top

MILAN: Mattia Destro and Alessandro Florenzi hit one apiece for Roma in a 2-0 win over Cagliari that sent the Giallorossi to the top of Serie A thanks to superior goals difference yesterday. Champions Juventus had gone clear of the pack thanks to a 1-0 win over AC Milan on Saturday when Carlos Tevez’s 71st minute strike made the difference between the sides at a packed-out San Siro. However Roma, 5-1 winners over CSKA Moscow in midweek, continued their fine start to the season with a dominant performance in front of a sparse crowd at the Olympic Stadium. “We put the same ingredients into this game as we did in our meeting with CSKA in midweek, and it worked,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia told Sky Sports. “We had several players missing but we managed the game really well. We got early goals from Destro and Florenzi and we’ve yet to concede after three league games. “Winning today was very important. It has allowed us to pull three points ahead of Milan.” With Roma now back in the Champions League, Garcia rested Francesco Totti and Miralem Pjanic while Davide Astori, Juan Iturbe and Leandro Castan were all missing through injury. Garcia handed Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa his full debut, the France defender partnering GERMANY: Wolfsburg’s Danish forward Nicklas Bendtner (right) and Leverkusen’s Kostas Manolas at the heart of Roma’s defence Bosnian defender Emir Spahic vie for the ball during the German First Division with Ashley Cole and Maicon. Bundesliga football match. — AFP Cagliari, now coached by former Roma han- dler Zdenek Zeman, were looking for their first Wolfsburg thrash Leverkusen win of the campaign but from the early stages the Sardinians had their backs to the wall. BERLIN: Bayer Leverkusen missed a chance who beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 thanks to After just 10 minutes Florenzi drew the to reclaim the lead in the Bundesliga yes- goals by Shinji Okazaki in the 66th and an Cagliari defence before rolling a low cross ITALY: Cagliari’s goalkeeper Alessio Cragno fights for the ball with AS Roma forward of Ivory terday, suffering a 4-1 loss at VfL Wolfsburg, own goal by Matthias Ginter in the 74th. towards the back post, where Destro, unmarked, Coast Gervinho during the Italian Serie A football match. — AFP meaning that promoted Paderborn’s magi- Hoffenheim are third with eight points fired past 20-year-old Serie A debutant Alessio Parma striker Jonathan Biabiany, who has been Brazilian defender Danilo slid in at the back post cal weekend continued by staying atop the after a 2-0 win at VfB Stuttgart with Cragno from close range. Two minutes later stopped from playing indefinitely after being to send Kalidou Koulibaly’s wayward header past Bundesliga. Ricardo Rodriguez scored two Anthony Modeste scoring after 15 minutes Roma were celebrating again, Seydou Keita diagnosed with a heart problem. ‘keeper Rafael Cabral. Napoli have dropped to goals and set up another as Wolfsburg and Tarik Elyounoussi adding a second in sighting Gervinho in space as Cagliari tried to Cassano, who himself underwent a heart sixth from bottom, with Andrea Stramaccioni’s handed Leverkusen their first defeat of the the 84th. Champions Bayern Munich were spring the offside trap. season and picked up their first victory. unable to get the better of a Hamburg operation in 2011, said: “Of course I dedicate my Udinese now up to fourth. Fiorentina also goals to Biabiany, who is someone I really care moved up the table thanks to a first win of the Leverkusen went a man down after just team under new coach Joe Zinnbauer play- HUGGED HIS GRANDMOTHER about. “I hope he can get back on his feet as campaign secured by Jasmin Kurtic’s 58th seven minutes after a red card for Giulio ing out a 0-0 draw in Hamburg. The Ivorian took possession and beat his soon as possible. I understand what he’s going minute strike away to Atalanta. In yestreday’s Donati, whose foul in the box resulted in The reigning champions also have eight marker before laying off for Florenzi to beat through.” Napoli’s stuttering season continued late games Palermo host Inter while Verona visit Rodriguez’s first goal in the eighth minute. points from four games but are sitting Cragno with a precise angled strike from the with a 1-0 defeat away to Udinese where Torino. — AFP Leverkusen, who came into the week- fourth. Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said his right of goal. Florenzi celebrated in some style, end as table-toppers, equalised in the 29th team struggled just days after a tough mid- jumping over a barrier and leaping into the minute through Josip Drmic but Vieirinha week battle against Manchester City. stands to hug his 82-year-old grandmother-and Italian Serie A results made it 2-1 after 45 minutes after a pass “After the Champions League match, it earning a yellow card for his trouble upon his from Rodriguez. was tough to play,” said Guardiola. “We return to the pitch. “She’d never been to the sta- The Swiss defender added a second goal have to keep on working hard.” Zinnbauer dium, and told me after watching an Italy game Chievo 2 (Izco 4, Paloschi 84) Parma 3 (Cassano 65, 77, Coda 75); Genoa 1 (Pinilla 87) Lazio 0; in the 63rd and Aaron Hunt added the was delighted with his point against that she’d come to see me play,” explained Roma 2 (Destro 11, Florenzi 13) Cagliari 0; Sassuolo 0, Sampdoria 0; Atalanta 0, Fiorentina 1 fourth in the 81st minute. “The whole thing Bayern. “Getting a point against Bayern is a Florenzi. “I promised that if she came and I (Kurtic 58); Udinese 1 (Danilo 70) Napoli 0. was too much for us,” said Leverkusen big story. The guys showed they were will- scored, I would go and give her a hug. So I had coach Roger Schmidt. ing to run, but there was more team spirit to keep my promise.” Played Saturday “They are a strong opponent, there was today. And the teams deserved to celebrate Elsewhere, Mauricio Pinilla struck three min- Cesena 2 (Marilungo 30, Defrel 32) Empoli 2 (Tavano 55-pen, Rugani 72) AC Milan 0 Juventus 1 an early red card and goal. And then the with their fans,” said Zinnbauer, whose utes from the end to hand Genoa a 1-0 home (Tevez 71). goal right before the half-time. It was just team was the first to keep Munich scoreless win over Lazio to give Gian Piero Gasperini’s side too much for my young team.” Leverkusen’s this season. Werder Bremen’s streak of com- their first win of the season. Italian Serie A table ahead of yesterday’s late games (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals seven points leave them fifth behind a ing back from deficits to collect points was Lazio dominated at the Luigi Ferraris stadium against, points): quartet of teams with eight points - one snapped as Augsburg won 4-2 at home. but failed to turn chances into goals and when Roma 3 3 0 0 5 0 9 Cesena 3 1 1 1 3 5 4 more than Schmidt’s side. Schalke’s struggles continued with a 2-2 Stefan de Vrij received a second yellow card for a Juventus 3 3 0 0 4 0 9 Lazio 3 1 0 2 4 4 3 The other Sunday match saw FC draw at home in a hot-headed clash handling offence the hosts capitalised on their AC Milan 3 2 0 1 8 6 6 Parma 3 1 02783 Cologne hold Borussia Moenchengladbach against Eintracht Frankfurt where two man advantage three minutes from time. Udinese 3 2 0 1 3 2 6 Chievo 3 1 0 2 3 4 3 to a scoreless draw at home - as both teams Schalke players and one Frankfurt player Sassuolo hosted high-flying Sampdoria look- Sampdoria 3 1 2 0 3 1 5 Napoli 3 1 0 2 2 3 3 moved to six points while Cologne have yet saw red. Schalke, still hunting a first win ing to make amends for a 7-0 whipping by Inter Inter Milan 2 1 1 0 7 0 4 Sassuolo 3 0 2 1 1 8 2 to concede a goal this season. this season, fell behind 2-0 at home after Milan last week and escaped with a point from a Verona 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Palermo 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 The biggest winner of the weekend was just 24 minutes following goals from Alex scoreless draw. Earlier, Antonio Cassano hit a Atalanta 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Torino 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 promoted Paderborn, who beat Hanover Meier and Marco Russ. brace for injury-hit Parma to help claim their first Genoa 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Cagliari 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 96 2-0 on Saturday to take first place with But Eric Choupo-Moting pulled a goal win of the season with a 3-2 defeat of hosts Fiorentina 3 1 1 1 1 2 4 Empoli 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 eight points. Elias Kachunga scored in the back in the 40th minute on a penalty. And Chievo. Cassano dedicated his goals to fellow 71st minute for Paderborn and Moritz the German-born Cameroonian striker set Stoppelkamp added another after 93 min- up Julian Draxler’s equaliser in the 50th utes. Paderborn coach Andre Breitenreiter, minute. Kevin-Prince Boateng was sent off who saw his team win their first home after 61 minutes with his second warning, St. Etienne win at Lens match in the top flight, said: “We just want while Draxler followed 11 minutes later to keep collecting points to avoid relega- with a red card. PARIS: Saint-Etienne moved into third place in tion. Now we can go to Munich next week Frankfurt went a man down for the final Ligue 1 yesterday thanks to a goal eight minutes with confidence.” five minutes as Solodan Medojevic was from time by Fabien Lemoine for a valuable 1-0 The match also saw Stoppelkamp score shown his second yellow card. On Friday, win at Lens. from an estimated 83 metres out. “I didn’t Ronny scored his second goal six minutes Last season’s runners-up Monaco got some know that I could even shoot that far,” said into stoppage tie to save a 2-2 draw for welcome cheer after a dismal start to their cam- the goal scorer. In second are Mainz 05, Hertha Berlin at SC Freiburg. — AFP paign with a narrow 1-0 victory over Brittany side Guingamp while Lille and Montpellier bat- German League results/standings tled to a scoreless draw. In the final match yes- terday, champions Paris Saint-Germain host Lyon at the Parc des Princes in a bid to move VfL Wolfsburg 4 (Rodriguez 8-pen, 63, Vieirinha 45, Hunt 81) Bayer Leverkusen 1 alongside Lille on 12 points and one adrift of the (Drmic 29); FC Cologne 0, Borussia Moenchengladbach 0. leading trio. “It was a good week and good for the confi- Played Saturday dence,” said Saint-Etienne striker Mevlut Erding VfB Stuttgart 0, Hoffenheim 2 (Modeste 15, Elyounoussi 84); FC Augsburg 4 (Baier 14, following the team’s fourth win in six matches Verhaegh 45+3-pen, Werner 77, Matavz 90+3) Werder Bremen 2 (Selke 3, Di Santo 56- which took them to 13 points but behind pen); Hamburg 0, Bayern Munich 0; SC Paderborn 2(Kachunga 71, Stoppelkamp 90+3), Marseille and Bordeaux on goal difference. Hanover 96 0; Schalke 04 2 (Choupo-Moting 40, Draxler 50), Eintracht Frankfurt 2 “Physically, it was difficult especially with the (Meier 15, Russ 24); Mainz 05 2 (Okazaki 66, Ginter 74-og) Borussia Dortmund 0. travelling but we didn’t have time to worry about it,” added Erding in reference to the club’s Played Friday Europa League trip to Azerbaijan in midweek. SC Freiburg 2 (Kempf 30, Klaus 79) Hertha Berlin 2 (Ronny 36, 90+6) “We knew in the second half we had to be solid at the back and then wait for weaknesses in German league table after yesterday’s early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, our opponent.” At the Louis II stadium on the goals against, points): Cote d’Azur, former Sporting Lisbon coach SC Paderborn 4 2 2 0 7 2 8 Borussia Dortmund 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 Leonardo Jardim guided Monaco to their second Mainz 05 4 2 2 0 7 3 8 VfL Wolfsburg 4 1 2 1 8 6 5 win in six days thanks a goal seven minutes Hoffenheim 4 2 2 0 6 2 8 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 before half-time from Nabil Dirar. The team, who Bayern Munich 4 2 2 0 5 2 8 Werder Bremen 4 0 3 1 8 10 3 celebrated their return to European football Bayer Leverkusen 4 2 1 1 10 9 7 SC Freiburg 4 0 2 2 3 6 2 after almost a decade with a 1-0 win over Hanover 4 2 1 1 4 3 7 Hertha Berlin 4 0 2 2 7 11 2 Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen in midweek Moenchengladbach 4 1 3 0 5 2 6 Schalke 04 4 0 2 2 5 9 2 Champions League action, picked up maximum FC Cologne 4 1 3 0 2 0 6 Hamburg 4 0 2 2 0 5 2 points in the league for only the second time FC Augsburg 4 2 0 2 7 7 6 VfB Stuttgart 4 0 1 3 1 7 1 this season. They are now up to 15th with a FRANCE: Saint Etienne’s French midfielder Fabien Lemoine (left) vies with Lens French mide- return of seven points from six matches. —AFP fielder Wylan Cyprien during the French League football match. — AFP Celtic rescue point at Motherwell

GLASGOW: Celtic needed a second half Twardzik earned his side a point that leaves come here and tried to be open and take the round the post before Twardzik made a middle. The Hoops took confidence from the penalty from substitute Kris Commons to res- Celtic in fourth place, five points behind lead- game to them and been beaten two or three superb save to keep out a Virgil van Dijk head- goal and McGregor fired an effort wide before cue a point in a 1-1 draw with Motherwell as ers Dundee United who thrashed rivals nil. er from close range. Twardzik pulled off a superb save to stop the their stuttering start to the season continued. Dundee 4-1 earlier yesterday. “I thought, especially in the first half, we Commons, along with club captain Brown, midfielder’s shot that had taken a wicked The Hoops dominated early possession It was not the 39th birthday present man- carried a threat. Obviously in the second half came off the bench for the second half and he deflection. but it was Motherwell who took a 19th ager Deila would have wanted and leaves him we were camped in a lot but I thought we had almost made an instant impact when he Elsewhere, Dundee’s unbeaten start to the minute lead when John Sutton volleyed with just five wins from his first 13 matches in some outstanding performances.” forced Twardzik into a good save to stop his season came to an emphatic end with a 4-1 home Josh Law’s cross from close range. charge of the Scottish champions. It was Motherwell who opened the scoring low drive. The Motherwell keeper then denied defeat at home to city rivals United. Mario The English striker should have had anoth- “I’m not happy with the result. We wanted in the 19th minute following a rare foray for- Callum McGregor as he pushed away a fierce Bilate’s penalty gave United a 25th minute lead er minutes later but somehow sliced his effort to win the match and I think we deserved it in ward. Sutton started and finished the move as strike from the midfielder before on-loan before Ryan Dow doubled their advantage just wide from four yards out. Ronny Deila had the end but we made it so difficult for our- he laid the ball off to Law whose low cross Manchester City striker John Guidetti fired an after the break. Headers from Callum Morris handed a host of first team stars a rest follow- selves as the first half was so poor,” the Celtic found the striker in the six-yard box where he Emilio Izaguirre cross into the side netting. and Keith Watson completed the scoring for ing their Europa League exertions away to manager said. volleyed past Lukasz Zaluska. Celtic were containing Motherwell in their United. Things got worse for the home side Salzburg on Thursday but brought captain “I think in the second half we had two Sutton somehow missed a golden chance own half and finally got on level terms thanks when Thomas Konrad was sent off in the 90th Scott Brown and Commons off the bench at good subs coming on who brought energy to fire his side two in front in the 27th minute. a 68th minute penalty from Commons. minute for a second bookable offence before the break. The pair combined to haul Celtic into the game and I think we played quite Keith Lasley’s cross found the striker Referee Brian Colvin pointed to the spot Greg Stewart scored a consolation goal in the back on level terms as Brown won a 68th well.” Motherwell manager Stuart McCall was unmarked but the Englishman managed to after Brown’s surging run into the box had third minute of stoppage time. However, that minute penalty that Commons converted. delighted to end a nine match losing streak at slice his effort wide from four yards out. been abruptly ended by Motherwell defender wasn’t enough to stop United moving to the Celtic continued to push for a winner but a Celtic Park. “We came with a plan to try and Beram Kayal was inches away from hauling Law and Commons converted the spot-kick, top of the table on goal difference from series of saves by Motherwell keeper Dan frustrate Celtic. You can’t be too open as we’ve Celtic level when he sent a low shot curling drilling his left-footed effort straight down the Inverness Caledonian Thistle. — AFP LENIN

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 SPORTS Leicester outfox United

Leicester 5

Man United 3

LEICESTER: Louis van Gaal’s difficult start to his time as Manchester United manager continued as Leicester City sensationally came back from 3- 1 down to win 5-3 in a remarkable Premier League encounter yesterday. The visitors were on course to give the Dutchman his first away victory and second league win as United manager following last week’s 4-0 thrashing of QPR, another newly-pro- moted side, at Old Trafford. Goals from Robin van Persie, Angel di Maria and Ander Herrera had United winning by two goals after an hour. But David Nugent’s controversial penalty sparked a late revival by the Foxes. Further Leicester goals from Esteban Cambiasso, Jamie Vardy and another penalty, this time from LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian midfielder Erik Lamela (left) vies with Leonardo Ulloa, his second goal of the game West Bromwich Albion’s English defender Craig Dawson during the English Premier after a first-half effort, exposed the defensive League football match. — AFP weakness of a United side who had Tyler Blackett sent off in the incident that led to Ulloa’s success- Baggies climb ful spot-kick. Both sides matched each other up with a dia- mond midfield system. Wayne Rooney was in the hole for United with Radamel Falcao making his off the bottom first start for the club further forward alongside van Persie. Leicester had Nugent just behind Ulloa and Vardy, who made his first Premier Belgrade in the Europa League and this result League start. United took the lead in the 13th means they are now without a win in four minute, Falcao turning Ritchie de Laet down the games. By contrast, this result represented West Tottenham 0 Brom’s first win in five league games. left before crossing for van Persie who headed in The pre-season appointment of Irvine pro- via a deflection off Liam Moore. voked a muted response among Albion sup- Three minutes later came a moment of magic porters hoping to see a higher profile manager from Argentina winger di Maria. United’s British West Brom 1 take charge and the response to last week’s record £59.7 million ($98 million, 75 million home defeat by Everton confirmed the Scot had euros) signing from Real Madrid collected plenty of work to do to win over the doubters. Rooney’s pass before unleashing a delightful LONDON: James Morrison headed the only goal But the manager’s standing will soon rise if his chip from 15 yards that left Leicester goalkeeper of the game to secure West Bromwich Albion’s side can conjure more displays like this one. Kasper Schmeichel-son of United shot-stopping first win of the season as they climbed off the Irvine was finally able to draw on the services of great Peter-stranded and revived memories of bottom of the Premier League table with a 1-0 Joleon Lescott who made his first appearance Karel Poborsky’s scooped effort for the Czech win away to Tottenham Hotspur yesterday. after leaving champions Manchester City at the Republic against Portugal at Euro 96. end of last season. Scotland international Morrison’s 74th- However, Leicester were back in the game just LEICESTER: Leicester City’s English midfielder Danny Drinkwater (left) vies with Manchester minute header at White Hart Lane eased the And the centre-back almost made the per- 40 seconds later as Vardy’s pace allowed him to United’s English defender Chris Smalling (top) during a Premier League football match. — AFP pressure on Baggies manager Alan Irvine and fect start to his Albion career only for his goal- just about keep the ball in play before crossing condemned Spurs to a second successive home bound volley from a 10th-minute corner to be for Ulloa who produced an outstanding header the back with their all-round attacking threat and and beat di Maria before finding sub Andy King defeat. Yet while this result will inject some blocked by team-mate Craig Dawson. to make it 2-1. Leicester repeatedly threatened they were back in the match in the 62nd minute. who stabbed his shot just wide. More poor much-needed confidence into Albion’s cam- Albion midfielder Craig Gardner’s long-range United’s defence especially when Jonny Evans Vardy appeared to barge Rafael outside the box defending from the visitors then saw Vardy score shot drew an impressive save from Spurs keeper paign, it underlined the task confronting was forced off with a foot injury. But it was but referee Mark Clattenburg let play continue a deserved first goal of the season. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino as he Hugo Lloris as the visitors continued to look the only to blow for a penalty when, with roles United substitute Juan Mata lost the ball to de more threatening of the two sides. Tottenham United who created the better chances. attempts to turn Spurs into a top four side. A Early in the second half, they could have reversed, the United full-back made far less con- Laet whose long ball picked out the former non- promising start to the campaign delivered four had no shortage of possession and took every opportunity to press forward. But they appeared scored again as Falcao shot against the under- tact with Vardy inside the area. Nugent made no league striker, who made no mistake from the successive wins before stalling in recent weeks mistake, blasting down the middle past diving one-on-one position to bring the King Power with Pochettino’s men suffering a comprehen- to run out of ideas in the final third, eventually side of the crossbar from the edge of the area. United keeper David de Gea. Stadium its feet. sive 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool before claim- provoking former Southampton boss ing a point at Sunderland. They came into this Pochettino to scream “wake up” at his players as PENALTY TURNING POINT Quite incredibly Leicester were level two min- It was to get even worse for United as Vardy’s clash on the back of a scoreless draw at Partizan half-time approached.—AFP They did, though, go 3-1 up in the 57th utes later. Rooney conceded the ball to Dean express pace took him past the United defence minute when Herrera cheekily flicked in di Hammond in a dangerous position and his shot again four minutes later with Blackett bringing Maria’s effort from just inside the area to leave was blocked by Vardy only for Cambiasso to fire him down. The United youngster was red-carded Schmeichel wrong-footed. home his first goal in England. with Ulloa scoring the penalty for his fifth goal in That should have been game over but United’s defence were nearly caught out five Leicester games to round off an incredible Leicester were always likely to trouble United at again as de Laet charged forward from right back match. — AFP Palace rally to sink Everton

Everton 2

Crystal Palace 3

LIVERPOOL: Yannick Bolasie starred for Crystal Palace as they came from behind to win 3-2 away to Everton yesterday and record LONDON: Manchester City’s English midfielder James Milner (right) vies with their first Premier League victory this season. Chelsea’s Brazilian-born Spanish striker Diego Costa (left) during the English Premier Neil Warnock’s men kicked-off bottom of League football match. — AFP the table after fellow strugglers West Bromwich Albion had earlier beaten Old boy Lampard ends Tottenham Hotspur 1-0. And things looked even worse for the south London club when Romelu Lukaku gave Everton a ninth-minute Chelsea’s perfect start lead at Goodison Park. defender Kompany just managing to shrug off the But Mile Jedinak equalised from the penal- forward and earn a free-kick in a memorable tus- ty spot before Fraizer Campbell put Palace in front in the 54th minute. Democratic Republic Man City 1 sle. Chelsea were content to let City have the ball of Congo winger Bolasie capped a fine display and when Aleksandar Kolarov’s cross was blocked by giving Palace a two-goal cushion in the to the edge of the area, Fernandinho sliced wide 69th minute, with Leighton Baines’s penalty from a good position. Chelsea 1 seven minutes from time not enough to turn Sergio Aguero drove over on the half-volley the tide in Everton’s favor. after Chelsea failed to clear Silva’s cross, but the Samuel Eto’o started promisingly on his full hosts were being limited to half-chances. debut for Everton but the veteran Cameroon MANCHESTER: Frank Lampard scored against for- Chelsea finally showed some threat when Cesc mer club Chelsea to earn 10-man Manchester City Fabregas clipped in a free-kick from the right. Gary striker became an increasingly peripheral fig- a 1-1 draw with Jose Mourinho’s side at Eastlands Cahill won the ball in the air and the visitors had ure as the match went on. yesterday. sustained appeals for a penalty against Yaya Toure. But Everton manager Roberto Martinez Substitute Andre Schurrle put visitors Chelsea They also went close with another set-piece as would have been happy enough when ahead shortly after City’s Pablo Zabaleta was sent Cahill again got his head to the ball but Belgium striker Lukaku, following a neat lay- off for a second bookable offence. Fernandinho’s touch took the ball away from off by Leon Osman, beat Palace goalkeeper LIVERPOOL: Everton’s English midfielder Leon Osman (left) vies with Crystal Palace’s English Premier League leaders Chelsea looked set to Costa, who was waiting to turn in at the far post. Julian Speroni with a well-placed low shot. midfielder Jason Puncheon during the English Premier League football match. — AFP pull off a fifth straight league win in as many City continued to dominate after the break and Lukaku should have had a second goal four games this season to move eight points clear of had a penalty appeal themselves, when Toure ran minutes later but mis-kicked after being around Branislav Ivanovic and went down under the champions. But Lampard, on loan from New played in by Eto’o. Palace were barely in the York City after ending his 12-year stint at Chelsea, the Serbian’s challenge in the area. EPL results/standings turned in from James Milner’s cross five minutes City debutant Eliaquim Mangala laid off for game but seized their chance in the 30th Fernandinho and the Brazilian midfielder thumped minute when they were awarded a penalty from time-not long after coming off the bench. Everton 2 (Lukaku 9, Baines 83-pen) Crystal Palace 3 (Jedinak 30-pen, Campbell 54, Bolassie 69); The result left Chelsea three points clear of second- wide from the edge of the area. after Everton keeper Tim Howard fouled Leicester 5 (Ulloa 18, 83-pen, Nugent 62-pen, Cambiasso 64, Vardy 79); Manchester United 3 (Van placed Southampton. Much like their 1-0 win at Chelsea eventually struggled with the pressure James McArthur. Eastlands in February, Chelsea were prepared to and when Aguero’s shot was blocked by Courtois, Jedinak made no mistake and Palace were Persie 13, Di Maria 16, Herrera 57); Manchester City 1 (Lampard 85) Chelsea 1 (Schurrle 71); soak up City’s pressure and hope they took their Ramires pulled off a fine interception to deny level. The Eagles went ahead approaching the Tottenham 0, West Brom 1 (Morrison 74). chance when it came. And when Schurrle fired Dzeko. But Manuel Pellegrini’s side were reduced hour-mark when, after Howard flapped badly Played Saturday them ahead in the 71st minute, it was Chelsea’s to 10 men midway through the second half when at Martin Kelly’s cross, Campbell did enough Aston Villa 0, Arsenal 3 (Ozil 32, Welbeck 34, Cissokho 36-og); Burnley 0, Sunderland 0; Newcastle first shot on target. Zabaleta caught Costa and was shown a second to turn the ball over the line. Lukaku and 2 (Cisse 73, 87) Hull 2 (Jelavic 49, Diame 68); QPR 2 (Caulker 42, Kranjcar 88) Stoke 2 (Diouf 11, yellow card. But Lampard, who was substituted at half-time Gareth Barry missed chances to equalise for Crouch 51); Swansea 0, Southampton 1 (Wanyama 80); West Ham 3 (Reid 2, Sakho 7, Amalfitano in his first City appearance in the 2-2 draw at Chelsea responded almost immediately and a 88) Liverpool 1 (Sterling 26). Arsenal last weekend, made a crucial contribution. flowing move saw them cut through the hosts’ Everton and the Merseysiders paid the price defence before Costa fed the ball right for Hazard when Jason Puncheon dispossessed Osman After losing to Bayern Munich in the Champions English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals League in midweek, City were determined to to cross for Schurrle to tap in at the far post. The and played a perfect pass to the unmarked against, points): make the early running, with Edin Dzeko planting visitors began to look even more of a threat on the Bolasie, who eased the ball in for 3-1. a header wide of goal from Aleskandar Kolarov’s counter-attack and when Schurrle found Costa the Everton substitute Steven Naismith missed Chelsea 5 4 1 0 16 7 13 Liverpool 5 2 0 3 7 8 6 cross. striker’s low effort was deflected on to the post. As a chance to cut Palace’s lead, while Lukaku Southampton 5 3 1 1 9 3 10 Man Utd 5 1 2 2 9 8 5 Aston Villa 5 3 1 1 4 4 10 Stoke 5 1 2 2 4 5 5 City attempted to claw their way back, Silva drifted was denied by a well-timed Scott Dann inter- COSTA-KOMPANY BATTLE in from the right and his low effort flew just past Arsenal 5 2 3 0 10 6 9 Everton 5 1 2 2 11 13 5 ception and an Osman effort was saved by Swansea 5 3 0 2 8 6 9 Crystal Palace 5 1 2 2 8 10 5 David Silva also picked out Yaya Toure at the Courtois’s post. But just as Chelsea looked set to Speroni. But then came Baines’s penalty, after near post with a corner but the Ivorian’s header cruise to victory, Lampard got on the end of Man City 5 2 2 1 8 5 8 West Brom 5 1 2 2 3 7 5 lacked the power to trouble Thibaut Courtois. Milner’s cross to score his first City goal. Lampard Dann had brought down James McCarthy in Leicester 5 2 2 1 9 8 8 Sunderland 5 0 4 1 5 6 4 Much had been made in the build-up of the then came close to snatching the win when his the box. Everton pressed for an equaliser, with West Ham 5 2 1 2 9 8 7 QPR 5 1 1 3 3 11 4 contest between Chelsea’s Spain striker Diego low effort was blocked in the area by John Terry, Lukaku going close, but Palace survived six Tottenham 5 2 1 2 7 6 7 Burnley 5 0 3 2 1 4 3 Costa and City captain Vincent Kompany. before Didier Drogba thumped well over with a minutes of injury-time as they clung on for a Hull 5 1 3 1 7 7 6 Newcastle 5 0 3 2 5 11 3 Their first battle did not disappoint with central free-kick at the other end. —AFP much-needed victory. —AFP Ivanovic lifts Hamilton wins Tokyo title Singapore GP

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INCHEON: (From left) Kuwait’s team members Abdelrahman Al-Faihan, Fuhaid Al-Daihani and Khalid Al-Mudhaf celebrate after winning the silver medal in the men’s trap team shooting at the Gyeonggido Shooting Range for the 17th Asian Games in South Korea. — AP Kuwaiti shooters win Asiad silver

INCHEON: Information Minister, State Minister for 17th Asian Games, also known as the Asiad, began on join the existing 45 Asian member countries at the al soccer body ditched Oceania to join the Asian Youth Affairs and President of the Asian Shooting Sept 19h with the participation of about 30,000 male 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Games, to be held in Football Confederation, a move that has helped trig- Asiad medals table Federation Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Hmoud and female athletes. The games will run until Oct 4. the Turkmenistan capital Ashgabat. ger unprecedented success and interest in the game Al-Sabah feted winners of the individual and team Meanwhile, Asian Olympic officials have agreed to Sheikh Ahmad said the OCA might also consider Down Under. Australia represented Asia at the 2010 INCHEON: Asian Games medals table after yesterday’s competition: (gold, silver, bronze, trap event yesterday during the Incheon Asian let countries from Oceania compete at the region’s allowing Oceania to compete at the 2017 Asian and 2014 World Cups and will host the 2015 Asian total) Games. Sheikh Salman told KUNA he is happy as next indoor Games, a significant move that could Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, taking place the Cup. But their attempts to compete at the Asian Kuwait shooters Fuhaid Al-Daihani, Abdelrahman Al- open the door for sporting powerhouse Australia to year before South Korea hosts the Winter Olympics in Games, which is already second in size only to the South Korea 12 10 9 31 Faihan and Khalid Al-Mudhaf were able to take sec- integrate more into Asia. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahd Al- Pyeongchang. Australia has been investing heavily in summer Olympics, have failed. China 12 9 11 32 Japan 7 8 11 26 ond place in the team event, as well as Fuhaid Al- Sabah, the influential president of the Olympic its winter sports program, winning medals at each of Australia floated the idea of competing at the Mongolia 2 2 4 8 Daihani’s silver in the individual event. He said such Council of Asia (OCA), said there were no current the last six Olympics, including two silvers and a Asian Games before, believing their addition would Kazakhstan 2 1 5 8 achievements are the result of the great support for plans to allow Oceania countries to compete at the bronze at Sochi earlier this year. bring more revenue, exposure and sporting excel- North Korea 2 0 3 5 shooting and all sports by HH the Amir, HH the Crown main Asian Games but he did not rule it out in the But Australians rarely get to compete in big lence to the Games. They had the backing of China, Vietnam 1 2 4 7 Prince and HH the PM. He said this is clear from the future. regional championships because there is no major who also want tougher competition, especially for Taiwan 1 1 2 4 large Kuwaiti participation of 370 athletes and offi- “I think we have an opportunity,” he told a news winter games event for Oceania or Commonwealth their swimmers, but not Sheikh Ahmad, who is also Malaysia 1 1 0 2 cials at the games. conference at the Asian Games yesterday. “But we nations. “They have all those athletes in winter sports the president of the Association of National Olympic Hong Kong 1 0 3 4 Daihani won silver in the solo competition, shoot- don’t want to go directly for everything. “Let’s do it and they only have the Olympic Games, so maybe it Committees (ANOC) representing more than 200 India 1 0 3 4 Indonesia 0 2 1 3 ing 12 of 15 clay targets. The first place went to a step-by-step. Indoor will be good. Then we will think will be the corridor for their preparations,” Sheikh countries worldwide. Kuwait 0 2 0 2 Chinese competitor. Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti team at more.” Sheikh Ahmad, already one of the most power- Ahmad said. “Then we will think for further sports, Sheikh Ahmad previously rejected the idea, fear- Macau 0 2 0 2 the same discipline also won the silver medal, coming ful men in the Olympic movement, said the decision maybe the (Asian) Beach Games because they have ing the move would “kill” off Oceania but says he is Lebanon 0 1 0 1 second to the Chinese team. Speaking on the behalf to let Oceania teams into Asia had been approved by very interesting beaches.” now open to all possibilities. “We are happy that Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 of the team, Daihani told KUNA that he and the the OCA general assembly. The decision means the Australia has long entertained the idea of forging Australia has asked to join. It would add value techni- Singapore 0 0 3 3 Kuwaiti team were glad to have won the silver medals 17 Oceania nations, including Australia, New Zealand closer ties with Asia in the hope of exposing their ath- cally and financially,” he said. “We hope it will be a new Uzbekistan 0 0 2 2 and promised to do better in future competitions. The and other smaller Pacific nations, will be eligible to letes to stiffer competition. In 2006, Australia’s nation- success story.” — Agencies Hagino stuns Sun, Japan take men’s Park in the pool gymnastics gold INCHEON: Japan’s Kosuke Hagino boy for the Games in Incheon. stunned Chinese swim star Sun Yang Now they face a new challenge and home hero Park Tae-Hwan to from the 20-year-old Hagino, who also INCHEON: Japan upset favourites China to done by 23-year-old Shotaro Shirai, competing snatch gold as records tumbled at the beat American legend Michael Phelps claim the Asian Games men’s team gymnastics in his first major international games. Asian Games yesterday. when he took the 200m individual gold yesterday, with Beijing’s golden boy Zou To add to the ignominy for China’s most dec- Favourites Sun and Park, after medley at last month’s Pan Pacific Kai outshone in the floor routine by an unfan- orated Olympian, Shirai is not even the best whom the Incheon centre is named, championships in Australia. “I didn’t cied outsider. floor gymnast in his family-his younger brother duelled throughout the 200 metre think I could win tonight,” Hagino said. The Chinese, who have dominated Asian Kenzo is the world champion. freestyle race but it was Hagino, 20, “Sun and Park are on a different level Games gymnastics, with 123 golds out of a pos- But Shirai junior has skipped Incheon to who surged to an unexpected win. and it’s an incredible feeling to beat sible 175 since the event was introduced in defend his title in Nanning, China from October INCHEON: Japan’s Kosuke Hagino swims during his men’s 100m backstroke at 1974, were beaten into third by South Korea, let 3, along with Japan’s four-time world title hold- Hagino’s exploits followed a record- them. the 17th Asian Games. — AP breaking session at the weightlifting “It will give me so much more confi- down by a patchy performance across the six er Kohei Uchimura and reigning world pommel disciplines. champion Kohei Kamemiya. Zou, who per- where North Korea’s Kim Un-Guk broke dence when I race them again in inter- helped South Korea bag the team title often his nemesis at big events, owing The hosts had been targeting gold in the formed earlier in the day, could only look on three records on his way to gold and national competitions.” In weightlifting, and said winning Asiad gold was like a to their rankings. team event, hoping Olympic champion Yang and watch as Shirai outdid him with a routine Taiwan’s Hsu Shu-ching set a new com- Hsu equalled a new clean and jerk “dream come true”. Meanwhile, Asia’s Olympic chief Hak-Seon would vault them to victory. that was less technically challenging but exe- bined mark in the women’s 53kg class. record by Kazakhstan’s Zulfiya Badminton’s world number one Lee apologised for two sexual harassment But a hamstring injury suffered this week cuted more cleanly. Hong Kong’s Olympic cycling star Chinshanlo, raising the combined Chong Wei was unhappy with the glare cases in the build-up to the Games but meant the 21-year-old was unable to perform Afterwards Zou, the Chinese captain, con- Sarah Lee Wai-sze rode off with world mark and winning gold in the of the bright lights at the futuristic said they may have been down to cul- his gravity-defying triple aerial twist “Yang 1” gratulated Japan on a “very impressive perform- women’s keirin gold as the action process. Gyeyang Gymnasium as he made a tural differences. dismount. Forced to perform an easier vault, he ance” and said his side would go away and work increased on day two of Asia’s But her exploits were outshone by winning start in the team event. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah came up just short of North Korea’s Ri Se- to improve. Olympics. North Korea’s Kim Un-Guk, who set a “I think this court is very bad for me told reporters: “With different cultures, Gwang despite comfortably outscoring his rival For fans used to seeing the red lycra South Korea stayed just ahead of new clean and jerk record and twice because the light is not so good,” the sometimes this creates a problem,” he in the execution marks. machine crush opponents with ruthless effi- China at the top of the medals table by broke his own combined world mark to Malaysian said. “Normally there are added. “That kind of accident can hap- Japan, silver medallists behind China at the ciency, the Chinese display in Incheon’s a gap of one silver, with both countries win the men’s 62kg. only lights (at either end), but here you pen.” 2012 Olympics but without a single member of Namdong Gymnasium was surprisingly incon- tallying 12 golds at the end of day two. South Korea unearthed an unlikely have them all around so you are look- An Iranian official was kicked out of that team present, were impressive in their con- sistent. Like Japan, they were robbed of a num- Yesterday’s swimming clash was the hero in Seoul schoolboy Kim Cheong- ing into the light.” China’s multiple the Games for verbally harassing a vol- sistency and showed real class on the pommel ber of top performers because of the upcoming first in a triple-header between the Yong, 17, who upset the Olympic and world and Olympic champion Lin Dan unteer and a Palestinian footballer was and high bar. worlds, including Zhang Chenglong and Lin controversial but prodigiously gifted world champion Jin Jong-Oh to win also won to set up a team semi-final accused of groping a woman at an ath- The biggest surprise came on the floor as Chaopan, world champions in high bar and par- Sun and “Marine Boy” Park, a poster- the 10m air pistol title. The shy Kim also with Malaysia. But Lee will not face Lin, letes’ village laundry. — AFP five-time Olympic gold medallist Zou was out- allel bars. — AFP Dubai’s DIFC plans $700m sukuk issue by end-Oct

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DUBAI: Visitors gather near a scale model of a sixty storey tower at the annual Cityscape Global show, which has served in the past as the launchpad for grandiose projects yesterday in the Gulf emirates of Dubai. — AFP Dubai property prices show signs of cooling D-World debt restructuring deal expected soon DUBAI: Dubai’s booming property market is quarter, their first decline since 2012, pres- bility,” the JLL report said. introduced by the UAE central bank. the near future. “I can say for sure we will reach showing signs that it may be cooling off, sured by weaker demand during the holy JLL added it expected rents and sale prices The CBRE report yesterday showed the fall it. It is there and you will hear about it soon,” industry data showed yesterday, after two month of Ramadan and a rise in new home to remain relatively stable over the rest of in rents wasn’t uniform but was affecting some Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, chair- years of soaring prices that had drawn warn- supply, a report by real estate investment firm 2014, “with the market behaving in a more of Dubai’s more fashionable areas which had man of Dubai’s Supreme Fiscal Committee told ings of possible overheating from the CBRE said. sustainable and healthy manner”. The data is experienced the biggest rises, including reporters when asked whether Dubai World International Monetary Fund. A separate report by property consultant the first to suggest that the Dubai real estate Downtown Dubai - the area encompassing the has reached a deal with creditors. Property price rises, at close to 30 percent JLL showed that residential rents and sales market might by cooling off after soaring since world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa - He was speaking on the sidelines of a real year-on-year, had been among the highest in rose 2 percent and 1 percent in the same peri- 2012, and will be used by the authorities in the where they dipped by an average of 3 percent. estate event in the emirate, one of seven the world throughout 2013 and the first part od, slower than the respective 3 percent and 6 emirate as evidence that measures taken to which make up the United Arab Emirates. of 2014, causing many - including the United percent increases posted in the second quar- prevent speculation driving up prices are Dubai World debt Dubai World is offering creditors a series of Arab Emirates central bank - to fear a repeat of ter. “Driven by tighter government regulations beginning to impact. Dubai’s Land One of Dubai’s top government officials incentives to lengthen a $25 billion debt the local market crash of 2008-9, which saw and an increasing mismatch between buyer Department doubled last year the fee it said yesterday that he expects state-owned restructuring deal, including shares in global prices slump more than 50 percent. But aver- and seller expectations, the residential sector charges on property transactions to 4 percent, conglomerate Dubai World to reach a deal on ports firm DP World as collateral, sources told age residential rents fell 1 percent in the third is now experiencing a welcomed period of sta- while new lending limits on mortgages were renegotiating its debt repayment schedule in Reuters earlier this month.— Reuters G20 vows to breathe new Markets pull back life into world economy CAIRNS: G20 nations including the International Monetary Fund chief Hockey, who was chairing the meeting, after strong gains United States and China said yesterday Christine Lagarde hailed what she called welcomed the “genuine measures” put they can overcome geo-political tensions “significant progress” despite increased forward but warned against complacen- and financial risks to achieve extra com- geo-political tensions, including in cy, pointing to high levels of global bined growth of 1.8 percent, adding tril- Ukraine and the Middle East, since the unemployment and subdued interna- MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS lions of dollars to the world economy. ministers last met in February. “Despite tional confidence. Their two-day meeting in Cairns was the global recovery continuing, the pace “The G20 recognizes that many of the DUBAI: Stock markets in the United Arab Emirates in Industries Qatar fell 1.4 percent after the company focused on developing a suite of policies of growth remains low and uneven, in decisions and actions to get the world and Qatar pulled back yesterday after posting strong said it had put its multi-billion-dollar Al Sejeel petro- to reach an ambitious goal of raising the part given increased geopolitical tensions economy moving are difficult,” he said. “But gains on one-off fund inflows in the previous ses- chemical project on hold and was studying a new total GDP of the 20 major world and risks of financial market turmoil,” she we are determined to lift growth, and economies by two percent above current said. “Promoting economic policies that countries are willing to use all our macro- sion, while Saudi Arabia’s property stocks fell after scheme instead that would yield better returns. projections over the next five years. can contribute to a more robust and job- economic levers-monetary, fiscal and struc- the government began looking into a tax on unused Finance ministers and central bank gover- rich recovery is therefore critical at this tural policies-to meet this challenge.” To land. Dubai’s main index slipped 0.2 percent as Saudi, Egypt nors, including US Federal Reserve Chair stage. “I commend G20 countries for sig- help shift from government-led growth lenders Emirates NBD and Dubai Islamic Bank fell 0.5 Saudi Arabia’s main index fell 0.5 percent and Janet Yellen, want to take their plan to the nificant progress in developing growth towards private sector-led growth, a key and 0.6 percent respectively. property developers Jabal Omar and Dar Al-Arkan G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in strategies to lift medium-term growth.” G20 goal, the ministers agreed to establish The bourse gained 2.3 percent last Thursday as were the main drags, sliding 1.5 and 2.8 percent November. a global infrastructure hub to share infor- foreign funds bought into local stocks en masse respectively. Local media reported last week that the In a communique, they said that the Notes of caution mation between countries. The Global ahead of changes in the composition of the FTSE All- kingdom’s Supreme Economic Council, a top policy 1,000 measures agreed so far-include While welcoming developments, US Infrastructure Initiative was meant to accelerating infrastructure investment, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the increase “quality investment, particularly in World index, which will take effect on Sept. 22. body, would consider taxing undeveloped urban financial reform and encourage free world economy was facing headwinds, infrastructure”. “Investment is critical to Much of that demand focused on developers land as part of efforts to end a serious housing trade. This could add 1.8 percent to GDP pointing to disappointing growth in boosting demand and lifting growth,” they Deyaar and Union Properties which will join the shortage in the country. and create millions of new jobs. But more Europe and Japan and a slowdown in said. index for the first time. Both stocks maintained posi- Although it is unclear whether the proposed tax reforms were needed to meet the two emerging economies, including China. “In Hockey added the hub would provide a tive momentum yesterday, adding 3.1 and 1.4 per- would apply to developers, it could potentially hurt percent goal, agreed in Sydney earlier this light of these challenges to the global database to help match potential investors cent respectively, even though net buying by for- companies with large land banks. year. economy, the G20 has stressed the with global infrastructure projects, with the eigners was much smaller than last Thursday, Egypt’s bourse slipped 0.1 percent after hitting a “Preliminary analysis by IMF-OECD importance of immediate support for cre- World Bank helping to set it up. “We want indicates these measures will lift our col- ating jobs, growing the economy, and to create a knowledge platform to build according to bourse data. Meanwhile another index six-year closing high of 9,729 points in the previous lective GDP by an additional 1.8 percent implementing fiscal strategies flexibly to public sector expertise, and develop stan- addition, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank , declined, session. However, property firm Medinet Nasr for through to 2018,” they said. “In the lead support demand,” Lew said. dardized documentation to reduce the having earlier gained 6.8 percent on the back of the Housing and Development, which surged its daily up to the Brisbane (leaders’) summit, we The G20 also stressed concern over costs of new investment,” he said. The FTSE announcement. The stock dropped 3.3 percent limit of 10 percent last Thursday, continued to climb will continue to identify a series of addi- the human and financial costs of the meeting also saw progress on reforms to while Abu Dhabi’s benchmark fell 1.1 percent. and added 1.6 percent. The company said last week tional measures to meet our collective Ebola epidemic sweeping through West the world’s financial system, particularly on Qatar’s benchmark slid 1.5 percent after rising to that it targeted sales of 2.0 billion pounds ($280 mil- growth ambition. “We will hold each oth- Africa, which had potentially serious how banks apply capital rules, and ways to an all-time high of 14,351 points in the previous ses- lion) from its Tag Sultan project, more than some close tax loopholes that are used by many er to account in implementing these poli- impacts on growth and stability in affect- sion, also thanks to FTSE index adjustments. Shares analysts had previously expected. — Reuters cy commitments.” ed countries. Australian Treasurer Joe multinational companies. — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 BUSINESS News in brief Dubai’s DIFC plans $700m

Gold prices continue to fall on strong dollar KUWAIT: Gold price continued dropping for the last eight sukuk issue by end-Oct months to reach its lowest level at $1,214 per ounce amid strengthening of the US dollar, said an economic report yesterday. Sabaek Company pointed out that positive Funds to repay existing debt, finance real estate reports about American markets negatively affected gold, leaving gold prices between a rock and a hard place. Gold DUBAI: DIFC Investments, the investment event. Ijara is a leasing arrangement com- the new deal. as a financial free zone in 2004, becoming is expected to reach its lowest, at $1,180 per ounce. arm of the company running Dubai’s finan- monly used to structure Islamic bonds. DIFC took out a $1 billion syndicated the Middle East’s top banking hub. The num- According to reports from World Gold Council, gold-min- cial free zone, is seeking to raise as much as Chief Financial Officer Rajesh Pareek loan in May 2012 with Emirates NBD acting ber of registered firms operating in the DIFC ing costs around $1,100 to $1,200 per ounce, a high cost $700 million by issuing a sukuk to help said the lifespan of the dollar-denominated as financial adviser, while Standard jumped 7 percent in the first half of 2014 to that not all mines could afford. Even though it’s a good repay existing debt and fund real estate trade had yet to be finalized and a group of Chartered coordinated the debt. Dubai 1,113, according to figures released yester- opportunity to buy gold at its current price; nonetheless, development, its top executive said yester- local and international banks had been Islamic Bank and Noor Bank also participat- day. However, it has not come close to com- investors are holding their purchases for the precious stone day. chosen to arrange the transaction, ed in the loan. Proceeds from the issue will peting with the likes of Luxembourg, Dublin to hit even lower levels. As for silver, it dropped 4 percent The company aims to finalize the ijara- although he declined to name which ones. be used to refinance the around $650 mil- and the Cayman Islands as a top domicile for last week trading at $17,8 per ounce. Platinum was traded structured deal by the end of October, Essa IFR, a Thomson Reuters unit, reported last lion of the loan that remains, with the funds. Rapidly expanding financial markets at $1,336 per ounce, falling by $35. Palladium closed at Kazim, governor of the Dubai International month that DIFC Investments was planning remainder earmarked for investment in real and rising incomes in the Gulf suggest there $814 per ounce, falling by $28. Gold price in the local mar- Financial Centre (DIFC) and chairman of a sukuk, with the key banks on a 2012 loan estate by the DIFC, Kazim said. is room for a fund management hub to ket stood at KD 11.2 per gram (24 karats). DIFC Authority, told reporters at a media deal among those involved in arranging The DIFC has boomed since it was set up develop in the region. —Reuters

Dollar against dinar trades at KD 0.287 Limitless holds KUWAIT: Exchange rate of the US greenback vis-a-vis the Kuwaiti dinar stood at KD 0.287 per dollar yester- ‘positive’ talks on day. The EU currency went down to 0.368, said the daily bulletin of the Central Bank of Kuwait. The debt restructuring bank’s bulletin said the pound sterling was traded at KD 0.467, the Swiss franc at KD 0.305 and the DUBAI: Dubai government-owned property firm Limitless Japanese yen at KD 0.003. has held positive talks with creditors as it seeks to re-nego- tiate the terms of a $1.2 billion debt facility which has already been restructured once before, its chief executive KNRE agrees $537.6m told Reuters yesterday. debt restructuring “We have a revised business plan which we are dis- DUBAI: Kuwaiti National Real Estate Company said yester- cussing with creditors. The discussions have been positive day it had agreed to restructure 154.4 million dinars ($537.6 and we hope we can announce the outcome of these talks million) of debt owed to an unidentified local bank. The real soon,” Mohammed Rashed told Reuters on the sidelines of estate and investment company with presence in the Middle a real estate event. East and North Africa said its total debt levels remained The discussions were centered on re-negotiating the unchanged after the restructuring deal, which was reached terms of the debt, he said without giving any further earlier this month, it said in a stock market filing. The restruc- details. The news is a reminder of the debt challenges still tured loan is repayable over a period of seven years, it facing some Dubai companies, despite a robust rebound in added. The filing did not state the name of the bank. the economy after the global financial crisis and a local real estate crash at the end of the last decade. That period saw billion of dollars-worth of debt belonging to Dubai state- TAQA names Shamsi linked companies restructured, with most agreeing with as VP of treasury creditors to extend the debt’s lifespan to allow for assets to DUBAI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) recover in value before being sold to service payments. has appointed Suhail Al-Shamsi as group vice presi- Limitless, a former property arm of Dubai World, dent of treasury and member of the company’s glob- restructured the Islamic debt facility in October 2012 after al management team, it said yesterday. Shamsi, who several maturity extensions by a syndicate of lenders joined TAQA in 2010, takes over the role from Ryan including Royal Bank of Scotland and Emirates NBD. Wong, who was promoted to acting chief financial The company, whose ownership was transferred to the officer earlier this month. Al-Shamsi was previously Dubai government as part of Dubai World’s restructuring plan, was given an initial grace period before scheduled head of treasury operations, the company statement CAIRNS: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (left) speaks with director general of the treasury Bruno Buzard repayments between 2014 and 2016. The real estate firm’s said. (right) during a press conference at the end of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in debt obligations are small compared to other state-owned Cairns yesterday.—AFP companies, most notably its former parent. — Reuters Cash-strapped Europe looks to investment bank for help Worries over growth, jobless rate, low inflation

BRUSSELS: With the euro-zone’s mori- ting rates and launching schemes to pump But the bank’s director, former German conservatism, especially those from coun- white”. Whatever the Commission and the bund economy once more sparking global liquidity into the economy to encourage European affairs minister Werner Hoyer, tries with over-extended finances eager EIB come up with will take time to imple- fears, the region’s cash-strapped leaders banks to lend to households and compa- has sought to lower expectations about for stimulus. ment and the amounts involved will prob- are now hoping the EU’s investment bank nies. But so far this unprecedented effort the impact of the program. ably disappoint. “You get the false impres- can pull the bloc out of the doldrums. The by the ECB is proving a disappointment, “The EIB is no magic wand,” said econo- ‘False impressions’ sion that projects are ready and waiting OECD warned this past week the combina- with private banks skittish to take on more mist Fredrik Erixon, director of the Every few years a big push is made to for investment,” said Erixon. tion of feeble growth, high unemployment risk in the uncertain environment. Brussels-based European Centre for loosen the EIB’s purse-strings. The last try If Juncker were to get his wish, the 300- and super-low inflation made the sickly Another potential savior often cited is International Political Economy. was in June 2013 by France, whose billion-euro push in investment would 18-nation single currency area the “most the European Investment Bank, a little- “It’s not that the EIB is sitting on a big President Francois Hollande took office a require tens of billions of euros in member worrying feature” of the world economy. known EU institution sometimes pile of cash.” The EIB works with member year before on a promise to promote state cash, not easy in budget-conscious The bloc’s recovery from its debt crisis described by hopeful officials as a “sleep- states and other European institutions to growth in Europe as opposed to German- times. has run out of steam, with growth stagnat- ing beauty” that holds back on its true finance projects that further Brussels’ backed austerity. EU leaders at the time “I am an optimist, but I’m not naive,” ing in the second quarter. Many agree lending potential. ambitions, with a marked emphasis on agreed to add 10 billion euros to the EIB’s said Bernadette Segol, head of the that the main culprit is a lack of invest- lending to companies rather than the coffers, a commitment they estimated European Trade Union Confederation. ment, which has failed to return to pre-cri- Potential savior state. could equate to 180 billion euros of “Where is the 300 billion going to come sis levels after declining twice as much as Based in Luxembourg, the bank is the key “It’s important that public investment spending in the real economy. from? Is it really new money?” she asked. Japan and the United States between component of an ambitious plan by does not crowd out private investment,” a A year later, France is again calling for Unicredit chief economist Erik Nielsen 2008 and 2012. incoming European Commission head European official told AFP, describing the an EU-wide investment strategy. Germany believes the shot-in-the-arm should be a “There is a dearth of investment in Jean-Claude Juncker to invest 300 billion EIB’s strategy. The bank seeks only viable, agrees, but urges a strict focus on private no-brainer, and recommends a two per- Europe and this is the reason for weak euros ($390 billion) over the next five money-making projects, ever wary of investment. The proposals now being cent boost in government spending. “If growth,” said Italian Finance Minister Pier years. The EIB and Commission are now maintaining its prized triple-A credit rat- considered are almost certain to favor pri- we don’t think our governments can Carlo Padoan last weekend at a meeting of drawing up concrete proposals, which ing. This makes the EIB “more conservative vate investment, although European raise public investment without creating European Union finance ministers. should be available in November, timed to than a typical private bank”, Erixon said. Economic Affairs Commissioner Jyrki value for our societies ... maybe we The European Central Bank has taken to coincide with Juncker’s official taking of EU member states, whose ministers sit Katainen, often hawkish on government should close up shop and go home,” he the barricades to reverse the trend, cut- office. on the bank’s board, often bristle at this spending, said “things are not black and said. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.900 Sierra Leone 0.000071 0.000077 Nepalese Rupees 3.880 Singapore Dollar 0.224424 0.230424 South African Rand 0.020164 0.028664 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001905 0.002485 Japanese Yen 2.705 Australian Dollar 238.35 235.35 Thai Bhat 9.680 Taiwan 0.009415 0.009595 Indian Rupees 4.748 Canadian Dollar 266.66 267.66 Turkish Lira 134.045 Thai Baht 0.008594 0.009144 Pakistani Rupees 2.814 Swiss Franc 311.68 309.68 Arab Srilankan Rupees 2.204 Euro 373.63 374.63 Bahraini Dinar 0.757601 0.765601 Nepali Rupees 2.978 US Dollar 287.35 290.35 Egyptian Pound 0.038885 0.041985 Singapore Dollar 228.590 Sterling Pound 474.58 477.58 Bahrain Exchange Company Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Hongkong Dollar 37.093 Japanese Yen 2.69 2.71 Iraqi Dinar 0.000186 0.000246 Bangladesh Taka 3.706 Bangladesh Taka 3.713 3.983 CURRENCY BUY SELL Jordanian Dinar 0.402175 0.409675 Philippine Peso 6.585 Indian Rupee 4.731 5.031 Europe Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Thai Baht 8.970 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.206 2.641 Belgian Franc 0.007494 0.008494 Lebanese Pound 0.000142 0.000242 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Nepali Rupee 2.957 3.492 British Pound 0.463817 0.472817 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023388 0.047388 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Pakistani Rupee 2.803 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005520 0.017520 UAE Dirhams 78.30 78.77 Nigerian Naira 0.001160 0.001795 GCC COUNTRIES Danish Krone 0.045904 0.050904 Bahraini Dinar 764.80 766.87 Omani Riyal 0.742155 0.747835 Saudi Riyal 76.684 Euro 0.365250 0.373250 Egyptian Pound 40.19 40.79 Qatar Riyal 0.078410 0.079623 Qatari Riyal 79.013 Norwegian Krone 0.041497 0.046697 Jordanian Dinar 408.95 414.60 Romanian Leu 0.084388 0.084388 Saudi Riyal 0.076177 0.076877 Omani Riyal 747.010 Omani Riyal 747.28 754.58 Syrian Pound 0.001706 0.001926 Bahraini Dinar 763.780 Slovakia 0.008340 0.018340 Qatari Riyal 79.35 79.90 Swedish Krona 0.036634 0.041634 Tunisian Dinar 0.158732 0.166732 UAE Dirham 78.314 Saudi Riyal 76.76 77.16 Turkish Lira 0.131151 0.138151 ARAB COUNTRIES Swiss Franc 0.300180 0.310380 Turkish Lira 0.131151 0.138151 UAE Dirhams 0.077444 0.078593 Egyptian Pound - Cash 42.400 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemeni Riyal 0.001300 0.001380 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.117 Australian Dollar 0.249178 0.260678 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.342 New Zealand Dollar 0.228047 0.237547 Tunisian Dinar 163.320 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 406.090 US Dollar 281.500 Canadian Dollar 0.258021 0.266521 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.929 Canadian Dollar 259.510 US Dollars 0.283950 0.288650 Syrian Lira 2.049 Sterling Pound 475.750 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Euro 391.810 US Dollars Mint 0.284450 0.288650 US Dollar 286.750 Morocco Dirham 33.699 Asia EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 320.975 Euro 373.150 Bahrain Dinar 749.235 Bangladesh Taka 0.003293 0.003893 Pound Sterlng 466.600 US Dollar Transfer 287.450 Chinese Yuan 0.045453 0.048953 Euro 371.670 UAE Dirhams 76.620 Canadian Dollar 261.400 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035089 0.037839 Sterling Pound 463.510 Indian Rupee 4.700 Saudi Riyals 75.340 Indian Rupee 0.004413 0.004814 Canadian dollar 262.510 Egyptian Pound 40.090 Jordanian Dinar 396.715 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Turkish lira 132.160 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.200 Egyptian Pound 40.115 Japanese Yen 0.002567 0.002747 Bangladesh Taka 3.703 Swiss Franc 308.420 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.154 Kenyan Shilling 0.003325 0.003325 Philippines Peso 6.513 Australian Dollar 267.180 Indian Rupees 4.679 Korean Won 0.000265 0.000280 Pakistan Rupee 2.795 US Dollar Buying 286.250 Pakistani Rupees 2.852 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085657 0.091657 Bahraini Dinar 763.650 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.622 Nepalese Rupee 0.002972 0.003142 UAE Dirham 78.100 20 Gram 245.500 Philippines Pesso 6.322 Pakistan Rupee 0.002687 0.002967 Saudi Riyal 76.600 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 691.420 Philippine Peso 0.006409 0.006689 *Rates are subject to change 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.750 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 BUSINESS India’s tycoons crash to earth

MUMBAI: They were famed for their jet-set needs to secure bail from Delhi’s Tihar lifestyles and the names of their companies Prison. While he has several media inter- were emblazoned on airplanes, Formula ests, including a Hindi TV channel and One cars and the shirtfronts of cricket newspaper, Roy’s profile was heightened teams. But now the debt-laden empires of by his co-ownership with Mallya of Force three of India’s best-known tycoons-Vijay India and involvement in cricket. Mallya, Subrata Roy and T Venkattram As well as sponsoring the national side, Reddy-are crumbling before their eyes, Sahara set up a Pune-based franchise to downfalls that observers say stem from a enter the glitzy Indian Premier League (IPL). climate of weak regulation and deference The team’s expulsion from the IPL at the to conspicuous wealth. end of last year’s tournament in a dispute “All too often, the banks are dazzled by over finances hinted that all was not well. the halo of personal fortunes,” said Vishwas Things dramatically worsened in March Utagi, a veteran campaigner for banking when Roy was detained after failing to regulation. Some of India’s most successful meet a demand by regulators to pay back businesses, such as the family-run Tata and millions of small savers the $3.2 billion that Reliance conglomerates, have been led for Sahara raised via an illegal bond scheme. years by men with little appetite for public- ity and who prefer to operate in the shad- Palatial splendor ows. While Roy owns homes modelled on the But Kingfisher boss Mallya and Sahara White House and Buckingham Palace, supremo Roy came to epitomize a new Reddy’s penchant is for luxury cars with a breed of tycoon, unafraid of trumpeting fleet which reportedly included a Rolls their achievements when they started mak- Royce Phantom. He also couldn’t resist the ing a name for themselves in the early glamour of the IPL, buying the Deccan 2000s. Mallya-the self-styled “King of Good Chargers franchise before it went bust in Times”-became something of an icon as he 2012. While Roy’s fortune was self-made, turned the United Breweries Group which Reddy and his brother T Vinayak Ravi Reddy he inherited from his father into one of the inherited the ownership of the Deccan world’s largest spirit makers. As his core Chronicle from their father. The Hyderabad business flourished, Mallya branched out newspaper’s prestige enabled them to by launching the Kingfisher airline, named draw loans for riskier ventures including a after his company’s best-known beverage. chain of bookstores and a chartered jet CAIRNS: IMF managing director Christine Lagarde speaks at the end of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors His profile rose further when he acquired a company. Meeting in Cairns yesterday. —AFP stake in the Force India F1 team and owner- Even if the cricket team is no longer ship of the Royal Challengers Bangalore sucking money, the Reddys are struggling cricket team. to keep the wolf from the door and lenders have already seized several of their proper- Europe needs to do more Selling hotels for bail ties. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, author of a But as the Indian economy began to book on Sahara, said a weak regulatory slow sharply at the turn of the decade, with framework enabled tycoons to build up the aviation industry becoming one of the debts that should never have been to boost growth, says US sectors to be worst hit, Mallya’s fortunes allowed. “Mallya is a case of over-stretching nosedived too. After selling the liquor busi- and over-leveraging, while Roy is the case ness to Diageo in a bid to shore up his air- of exploiting regulatory arbitrage or the Moribund euro-zone economy hampering global growth line, Mallya looked on helplessly as loopholes in regulation,” Bandyopadhyay Kingfisher continued to haemorrhage cash. said. CAIRNS: US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew yester- Development said the euro-zone’s recovery from think the notion that there needs to be a balance The airline never took to the skies again Utagi, a retired bank worker who is vice day called on the euro-zone to do more to its debt crisis had run out of steam, with growth between the two, there is a growing consensus”. after a pilots’ strike over unpaid wages in president of the All India Bank Employees’ strengthen demand and make the structural stagnating in the second quarter. It also warned 2012. Having run out of patience over Association, said there were too many “pli- changes needed to kick-start a moribund econo- of the risk from increased tension over conflicts Growth is too small Mallya’s failure to clear debts said to be in able people” in the industry who face little my that is hampering world growth. in Ukraine and the Middle East. Lew, speaking at Asked about Lew’s remarks, European excess of $60 million, the United Bank of comeback if money they lend is not repaid. Last week the OECD said the sickly euro-zone a press conference, pointed to unemployment in Commission vice president for economic and India this month declared him a “wilful “When it comes to credit appraisals for cor- recovery-a combination of feeble growth, high Europe at near record highs and inflation at “dan- monetary affairs Jyrki Katainen said “Everybody defaulter”, making it nigh impossible to porates, the rules are more often honored unemployment and super-low inflation-was act- gerously low levels”. The treasury secretary said can see that our growth is too small. “We have access fresh loans. in the breach than the observance,” he said. ing as drag on the outlook for the global econo- the principle of both increasing demand and recognized the problem and it is now a question While Mallya is fighting to keep his Bandyopadhyay said the ambitions of my. It cut by a third its 2014 growth forecast to making structural reforms was “actually consis- of decision-making and implementation at the properties from creditors, Roy is trying to Indian tycoons were rarely held in check as 0.8 percent, from the 1.2 percent expansion it tent with many of the ideas that are being dis- national and European level,” he added. sell his portfolio of luxury hotels-including they were “surrounded by sycophants”. had projected in May for the 18-nation single cussed in Europe”. In contrast to Europe, the US economy is New York’s Plaza Hotel and the Grosvenor “That makes it very difficult for them to stay currency bloc. “The challenge in Europe is to get an agree- accelerating, although the Federal Reserve last House in London-to raise the $1.6 billion he in touch with reality,” he added. —AFP “The discussions over the weekend have ment on how to bring those pieces together,” he week said it expected growth next year at just shown a growing recognition that Europe is said. “The concern I have is that if the efforts to 2.6-3.0 percent, slower than the 3.0-3.2 percent going to need to do more to get its economy to boost demand are deferred for too long, there it forecast three months ago. Lew said the US where it should be,” Lew said in Cairns after a are risks that headwinds get stronger. “And what I economy “continues to be a source of strength Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers. “What think Europe needs is more tailwinds in the econ- in the global economy”. “Over the past four is clear from the US experience is that the combi- omy. That’s what boosting demand in the short years, we have improved our nation’s fiscal posi- nation of taking action to boost demand in the run would do,” he added. tion markedly and cut our federal budget deficit short run and making structural changes for the “At the same time it is clear of the great need by more than half,” he said. “Even as we continue long run is an important combination and it for structural reform in Europe. It is a question of to work to ensure that we build on these gains shouldn’t be a choice between the two. finding the right balance.” Lew said that while and ensure they are felt more broadly, it is clear “You really need to pursue both.” The there were “philosophical differences” with some how far we have come since the global financial Organization for Economic Cooperation and European countries on how to drive growth, “I crisis.” —AFP G20 emerging economies hail Fed transparency policy

CAIRNS: G20 finance chiefs prom- leagues-the transparency of Fed posed by the low interest-rate believed central banks were ised yesterday to “clearly commu- chair, Mrs Yellen-on their path of environment, which was highlight- equipped to tackle the possible nicate” their monetary policy tightening of monetary condi- ed by the Financial Stability Board build-up of excessive risks. “we actions “in a timely way”, as emerg- tions, which was communicated in before the G20 meeting. believe that central banks do have ing market member nations wel- a very clear and comprehensive “It is critical that the G20 retains the tools, particularly the macro- comed the US Federal Reserve’s manner to the G20,” Coeure said. its commitment to strengthening prudential tools, to actually react transparency on its tightening measures. “We will continue to NEW DELHI: In this photograph, Force India-Mercedes Team Principal and clearly communicate our actions in Chairman and CEO of India’s Kingfisher Airlines Vijay Mallya walks in the pad- a timely way and be mindful of impacts on the global economy as dock during the third practice session at the Buddh International circuit. —AFP policy settings are recalibrated,” finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 of the world’s biggest developed and Britain’s Labor pledges emerging economies said in a communique following a meeting rise in minimum wage in Cairns. “We are mindful of the poten- MANCHESTER: Britain’s opposition Labor sought to make the cost of living one of tial for a build-up of excessive risk in financial markets, particularly in party promised yesterday to raise the the main issues in next year’s election, has an environment of low interest national minimum wage by more than 25 previously promised to link the minimum rates and low asset price volatility.” percent within five years if it wins next wage to average earnings. Yesterday, An improving US economy has led year’s national election, a pledge Labor said its plan would see the mini- the Federal Reserve to withdraw designed to win over voters hit by rising mum wage boosted to 58 percent of its unprecedented stimulus and living costs. Earnings in Britain have median earnings by 2020, from 54 per- recently flag a possible sharper- lagged behind inflation since the 2008 cent. than-expected rise in interest rates when it does start increasing financial crisis. The rising cost of every- them. But central banks in Europe thing from gas to train tickets has shot up Labor leads in polls and Japan are set to continue pur- the political agenda since the return of In response, Cameron’s Conservatives suing loose monetary policies economic growth forced Labor to shift its said they were already implementing an amid stuttering growth. The tight- line of attack on the Conservative-led above-inflation rise in the minimum wage ening of US monetary policy has government ahead of the May 2015 vote. and they blamed Labor for making peo- sparked concerns among emerg- “Too many people are treading water, ple poorer by overseeing the economic ing economies fearful of capital flight. But European Central Bank CAIRNS: Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey speaks at the end of the G20 Finance Ministers and working harder and harder just to stay crash as they were in power at the time. board member Benoit Coeure said Central Bank Governors Meeting in Cairns yesterday. —AFP afloat. Too many working people have While centre-left Labor is leading opinion G20 members from emerging made big sacrifices but in this recovery polls by a few percentage points with less economies welcomed the trans- “This has been very appreciated by macroeconomic, structural and to potential excess evaluation in they are not seeing the rewards for their than eight months to go until the national parency shown by Fed chair Janet the colleagues from emerging also financial policy frameworks to various corners of the market and hard work,” Labor leader Ed Miliband said vote, it lags far behind the Conservatives Yellen at the meeting. markets and economies.” Coeure respond to such risks,” he added. they have all committed to poten- on the opening day of his party’s annual when voters are asked who would be bet- “It was important to notice the said the central bankers were also International Monetary Fund chief tially use them if and when neces- conference in Manchester. ter at managing the British economy. transparency of our Fed col- aware of the financial stability risks Christine Lagarde said she sary,” she said. —AFP “One in five of the men and women Business lobby the British Chambers of employed in Britain today do the hours, Commerce criticized the plan to raise the make their contribution, but find them- minimum wage, saying governments Unemployment rates rise in 24 US states selves on low pay.” If elected, he said he should leave the issue to existing bodies WASHINGTON: Unemployment rates rose in all the states. It was followed by Mississippi at months. would raise the national minimum wage such as the Low Pay Commission. nearly half of US states in August, even as 7.9 percent. That’s the first time Georgia has North Dakota had the lowest rate in the to eight pounds ($13) an hour by 2020, an “Businesses are in favor of an evidence- employers in two-thirds of the states added had the highest rate since the Great Recession nation, as it has for many years, at 2.8 percent. increase of more than 25 percent from its based approach to the minimum wage jobs. The Labor Department says unemploy- ended. Previously, Nevada, Michigan and The state is benefiting from an oil and gas current level of 6.31 pounds. Earlier this rather than political parties using it to ment increased in 24 states, fell in 15 and was Rhode Island have had the highest. drilling boom. It was followed by three states year, Prime Minister David Cameron’s gain support from voters. The govern- unchanged in 11. Hiring picked up in 35 states, Georgia’s rate rose even as its employers with 3.6 percent unemployment - Nebraska, coalition government agreed to a recom- ment should not intervene in such mat- while it fell in 15. Unemployment rates can rise added the fourth-most jobs in the nation last South Dakota and Utah. The biggest job gains even when hiring increases if more people month, gaining 15,800. The hiring and unem- were in Texas, which added 46,600 jobs, fol- mendation by the Low Pay Commission, ters, unless there is market failure,” BCC start looking for work and don’t immediately ployment data can conflict because they come lowed by California, with 27,700 and Michigan, the independent body which advises it on Director General John Longworth said in a find jobs. The state figures suggest hiring was from two separate surveys. One is of house- with 17,900. The Midwest had the lowest the topic, for a 3 percent increase in the statement. “Politicians should instead broad-based across most regions of the coun- holds and the other survey covers businesses. unemployment rate among the nation’s four minimum wage to 6.50 pounds in focus on implementing policies to raise try last month, even as nationwide job gains in The national unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 regions, at 5.8 percent. The unemployment October. productivity and improve skills in the August were the weakest this year. Georgia’s percent in August, from 6.2 percent the previ- rate in the Northeast was 6.2 percent, followed That would be the first above-inflation workplace, which are the keys to higher unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent ous month. Employers added 142,000 jobs, by 6.3 percent in the South and 6.6 percent in increase since 2008. Miliband, who has wages for all in the future.” —Reuters from 7.7 percent in July to the highest among below an average of 212,000 in the previous 12 the West. —AP BUSINESS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 ‘Great Stagnation’ worries return after Scotland vote

GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEK AHEAD

BRUSSELS: Scotland’s rejection of independ- how long OPEC is willing to accept oil prices interest rates will remain near zero for a consid- ated, many European economies are now to a US-style money-printing program. ence and a lack of any fireworks at a Fed meet- below the $100-a-barrel mark. erable time. Fed Chair Janet Yellen suggested at risk from what investment banks such ECB President Mario Draghi testifies at the ing last week have calmed investors enough to A common G20 concern is the risk of that despite an end to the US bond-buying as Goldman Sachs have called the ‘Great European Parliament today and visits shift the focus back to what some call the Europe’s malaise pulling others down. US stimulus next month, the era of easy money is Stagnation’. G20 host Australia put stutter- Lithuania on Thursday. “Great Stagnation”, and how to avoid it. The Treasury Secretary Jack Lew cited “philosophi- not yet over. But she also indicated the Fed ing global growth at the centre of the Group of 20 leading nations, meeting at the cal” differences with some of his counterparts could raise borrowing costs faster than expect- meeting of finance ministers and central Brazilian recession weekend, said they were tantalizingly close to in Europe, especially on the need for near-term ed when it starts moving. While the underlying bank governors in the tropical resort of Output from China’s vast factories adding an extra $2 trillion to the global econo- stimulus. However, “markets are spared one trend in the US economy is one of strengthen- Cairns at the weekend. cooled to a three-month low in August. my and creating millions of new jobs. major source of political and economic uncer- ing growth, euro-zone data out this week is “Back in 2011, we identified five coun- The manufacturing PMI for September But Europe’s extended stagnation remains a tainty,” Jorg Kramer, chief economist at unlikely to point to much of a pick-up. tries in stagnation,” said economist Jose will test the view among some investors major stumbling block and some big emerging Commerzbank, said of Scotland’s decision to Ursua, naming Canada, France, Italy, New that the recent slowdown will pass. Other economies are flagging too. Brazil is expected vote against independence in last week’s refer- Great stagnation Zealand and Portugal. “Fast-forward to major emerging market central banks to revise down its growth rate just three weeks endum. In April-June, the euro-zone economy’s today and most of the economies that hold monetary policy meetings and before a presidential election, Russia is mired Sterling touched a two-week high against recovery stalled and Italy slipped into recession were stagnating still are.” Given the weak- release crucial data during the week. in economic sanctions over Ukraine, and the dollar and a two-year peak against the for the third time since 2008, underlining ness across the euro-zone, the German The Turkish central bank, which meets China’s weak data is partly responsible for the euro on the result. Global stocks were lifted by Europe’s struggle to recover from the financial Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data on Thursday, has come under political 15 percent fall in the price of Brent crude since the news from Scotland, as well as by the US crisis, in what is often referred to as the Great and the Munich-based Ifo’s business cli- pressure to cut its overnight rate but that early July. Investors will be watching to see Federal Reserve’s assurances last week that Recession. While US growth has since acceler- mate index for September will give a could stoke already high inflation. sense of whether confidence is stabilizing Hungary last month ended a two-year in Europe’s biggest economy. period of cutting interest rates every Business morale dropped for a fourth month, leaving them at a record low. The straight month in August as concerns central bank, which meets on Tuesday, about the Ukraine crisis and the impact of says it will remain on hold until the end of EU and US sanctions against Russia next year, unless inflation jumps. Brazil’s depressed the mood in corporate board- central bank will publish its September rooms across Germany. PMIs will also be inflation report during the week and is published for France and the euro-zone. expected to revise down its forecast for The euro-zone’s economic sentiment indi- growth in the world’s seventh-largest cator for September later in the week will economy to close to 0.5 percent. give a fuller picture of just how much gov- Brazil fell into a recession in the first ernments and the European Central Bank half of the year as investment dropped need to do to revive the economy and sharply and the hosting of the World Cup stave off deflation. suffocated economic activity, a major The low take-up at last week’s first blow to President Dilma Rousseff’s round of cheap four-year loans offered by already fading hopes for re-election. the ECB has deepened doubts about its Some investors are hoping the Oct 5 elec- stimulus efforts and could push the cen- tion will end the interventionist policies of tral bank to take more radical measures, the ruling Workers’ Party that they blame although resistance remains in Germany for undermining growth. — Reuters MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 BUSINESS Volatile markets as Scotland says ‘No’

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KUWAIT: The US dollar maintained its increased their median estimate for the last week. Economists called for a est rate of 0.15 percent in its targeted record low of 0.5 percent and unani- strength against its major counterparts key rate to 1.375 percent at the end of decrease to 305,000. Those already col- longer-term refinancing operations. That mously decided for keeping the program as demand for the currency remained 2015 against June’s forecast for 1.125 lecting unemployment benefits fell to a was below market estimates, which of asset purchases steady at GBP 375 bil- intact despite disappointing data. percent. Fed Chair Yellen stated that the more than seven-year low. Companies gave a range of 100 billion euros to 300 lion. This outcome is in line with market Additionally, the demand for the green- Fed funds rate is expected to move close are retaining workers as stronger house- billion euros. Spanish and Portuguese expectations. Ian McCafferty and Martin back remained supported after the to normal levels by 2017. However, rates hold and corporate demand fuels order bonds rose, indicating that investors are Weale were the MPC members who pre- Federal Reserve statement reiterated could rise sooner and more rapidly as growth. betting the ECB president may ultimate- ferred to increase the interest rate by 25 that it expects rates to remain on hold the Fed’s decisions are mainly data ly resort to large-scale purchases of gov- basis points to 0.75 percent, arguing that for a “considerable time”, after its bond dependent. German ZEW sentiment ernment debt as he strives to avert robust UK economic growth justified a purchasing program ends. She said the Fed will first raise its German investor confidence dropped deflation in the euro area. Draghi has hike, and they said that a sharp pickup in The Euro opened the week at 1.2962 benchmark federal funds rate, or the cost for a ninth month amid increasing politi- signaled he wants to boost the institu- wage growth would be seen along with and surged to a high of 1.2994. The sin- of overnight loans between banks. It cal tension in Europe, even as the tion’s balance sheet to as much as 3 tril- the absorption of slack. On the other gle currency quickly lost its momentum, would then cease reinvesting maturing hand the remaining seven MPC mem- as the first TLTRO results were below esti- debt from its balance sheet, reducing bers didn’t see an early rate rise justified mates, signaling that the ECB will be asset holdings in a “gradual and pre- by the current UK inflation projections. under more pressure to stimulate the dictable manner.” She said it could take They also pointed to the possible easing economy, which drove investors to sell to the “end of the decade” to shrink the of growth in Q4, increased volatility due the euro. The currency reached a low of Fed’s holdings “to the lowest levels con- to the Scottish referendum and a general 1.2828 and closed the week at 1.2830. sistent with the efficient and effective rise in geopolitical risks. The sterling pound strengthened as implementation of policy.” Yellen empha- UK unemployment has fallen to the Scotland overwhelmingly rejected inde- sized that interest rates are unlikely to lowest in six years, indicating continued pendence after a record turnout of vot- rise quickly as the economy continues to strength in the labor market that Bank ers delivered a clear victory for the No overcome the damage wrought by the of England Governor Mark Carney says campaign. Now that the risk is behind, recession. “Even after employment and will eventually boost earnings. The job- BoE is expected to be back on track, and inflation are near mandate-consistent less rate fell to 6.2 percent in the three “business as usual” as some described. levels, economic conditions may for months through July from 6.4 percent, a The Central Bank is expected to hike some time warrant keeping the target bigger decline than economists had rates next year as the recovery gathers federal funds rate below levels the com- forecast. A separate measure for August momentum. GBP/USD reached as high mittee views as normal in the longer put the claimant count rate at 2.9 per- as 1.6523 on Friday comparing to this run,” she said. cent. Both rates are at their lowest levels month’s low of 1.6051. However, cable since 2008. While the UK economy is quickly dropped as investors quickly Consumer prices decrease strengthening, the recovery has yet to took their profit and pushed the curren- The cost of living in the US unexpect- boost wages. cy to close at 1.6288. edly dropped in August for the first time While investors focused on the in more than a year, showing inflation Scotland votes against independence pound, the Japanese yen was also a still is falling short of the Federal Scotland voted to stay in the UK in a notable mover on Friday, weakening Reserve’s goal as policy makers meet. referendum on independence, stepping against all other major currencies. The The consumer-price index declined 0.2 back from a breakup of the 307-year-old FOMC confirmation of the start of rate percent, the first decrease since April union while wringing promises of more increases around the middle of 2015 has 2013. Economists expected that price financial power from Prime Minister helped USD/JPY as divergence between will be unchanged. Excluding volatile David Cameron. After counting through the BoJ and the Fed policies grew wider. food and fuel, the so-called core meas- the night, 55 percent of Scottish voters USD/JPY opened at 107.30 and reached ure was unchanged, the first time it supported the “no” campaign compared a low of 106.79. The dollar gained as failed to increase in almost four years. A with 45 percent who backed independ- demand from investors was ignited fol- drop in energy costs and muted global ence. The pound surged ahead of the lowing the Fed’s statement, pushing the growth are helping contain inflation. result, which gave the Better Together pair to a 6-year high of 109.45. The campaign a wider margin of victory than Japanese currency recouped slightly to Housing starts drop suggested in opinion polls. There was a close the week at 109.04. Housing starts slumped in August European Central Bank steps up its stim- lion euros from 2 trillion euros. The ECB’s record turnout of more than 90 percent after reaching the highest level in almost ulus. The ZEW Center for European four-year loans are intended to spur in some of the 32 regions. The referen- Fed leaves rates unchanged seven years, pointing to an uneven pick- Economic Research in Mannheim said its lending to the real economy, with the dum outcome follows two years of The Federal Reserve stuck to its up in the US residential real-estate mar- index of investor and analyst expecta- offers of cheap cash tied to the size of increasingly bitter arguments over the pledge to keep interest rates near zero ket that will limit its contribution to eco- tions, which aims to predict economic banks’ loan books. Eight TLTROs will be economic viability of independence, the for a “considerable time” after it stops nomic growth. Beginning home con- developments six months in advance, held through 2016. The next one is currency to be used, custody of the buying assets, even as it outlined a strat- struction fell 14.4 percent, the most since fell to 6.9 in September from 8.6 in scheduled for December. ECB Vice health service and North Sea oil revenue, egy to exit from six years of unprece- April 2013 to a 956,000 annualized rate August. The gauge has decreased every President Vitor Constancio said today leaving a legacy of a divided Scotland dented easing. “The labor market has yet following July’s revised 1.12 million pace month since December when it reached that the total take-up of the TLTROs will while inspiring self-determination move- to fully recover,” Fed Chair Janet Yellen that was the strongest since November a seven-year high. Economists forecast a be “significant” and will lead the bal- ments across Europe. said at a press conference after a meet- 2007. Building permits also fell. Slow drop to 5, according to the median of 33 ance-sheet expansion. The central bank Cameron said he would stick with his ing of the Federal Open Market wage growth and tight lending stan- estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. also plans next month to release details promise to cede more policy making Committee in Washington. “There are dards continue to weigh on the housing of a program to buy asset-backed secu- powers for Scotland after a “no” vote. He still too many people who want jobs but market recovery. ECB targeted loans rities and covered bonds. also pledged a constitutional shakeup of can’t find them.” The number of Americans filing appli- Mario Draghi is facing renewed pres- the UK that would take into account how Yellen added, “Inflation has been run- cations for unemployment benefits sure to implement quantitative easing BoE meeting England and Wales are governed. ning below the committee’s 2 percent plunged last week to a two-month low, a after banks borrowed less than estimat- Bank of England Minutes from the objective,” a contrast to the panel’s July sign the labor market continues to ed in the European Central Bank’s first MPC monetary policy meeting held on 3 Kuwait statement that it was “somewhat closer” strengthen. Jobless claims decreased by targeted-loan offer. The Frankfurt-based and 4 September and released yesterday Kuwaiti dinar at 0.28725 to its goal. 36,000 to 280,000 in the period ended ECB lent 82.6 billion euros ($106.5 bil- reveal that the Committee voted 2-7 in The USDKWD opened at 0.28725 yes- Moreover, Fed policy makers Sept. 13, the Labor Department stated lion) to euro-area banks at a fixed inter- favor of holding the interest rate at the terday morning.

Ireland declares debt Silver lining for post-boom crisis dead and buried LatAm? A less painful bust DUBLIN: Ireland’s economy is growing at ments as the employment market recov- a rapid pace last experienced at the tail- ers. end of the Celtic Tiger boom, govern- Ireland had been forced to flee the Part of region still performing well ment statisticians reported Thursday as bond markets and seek emergency loans economists declared that the country’s from European Union partners and the MONTEVIDEO: Downgrades, defaults, reces- That expansion, combined with innovative Alliance countries or regional problem children debt crisis was dead and buried. The International Monetary Fund in 2010 as sions, crises: it looks like the end of the party social programs, famously lifted more than 30 Argentina and Venezuela. Costa Rica, whose report from the Central Statistics Office its deficit soared over 32 percent, a for Latin America’s economies after a so-called million poor Brazilians into the middle class- policies have often won praise in the past, got a said gross domestic product grew 7.7 European Union record, amid declining “golden decade.” But despite the dire headlines some of the 75 million Latin Americans who bit of unwelcome news this week when its percent from July 2013 to June 2014, the growth and overwhelming bank-rescue and the end of the commodities boom that exited poverty over a decade. But Brazil’s fall credit rating was downgraded the same day as biggest annual rate of growth since early costs. The rapid Irish turnaround has con- fueled breakneck growth, parts of the region into recession was particularly hard because it Venezuela’s. 2007. It said quarterly GDP rose 1.5 per- founded critics of austerity who have are performing well, analysts say. spent rather than saved during the boom, Moody’s lowered the Central American cent versus the January-March quarter. argued that a country cannot cut its way Brazil may be in recession, Venezuela hit by funding welfare programs at the expense of tourism darling’s rating a notch to Ba1, saying a Finance Minister Michael Noonan said to economic recovery. debt woes and rampant inflation, and infrastructure as the size of the government growing deficit was damaging its creditworthi- the figures suggested that Ireland would Ireland’s lobbying group for employ- Argentina mired in a mix of all three. But the swelled. ness. That could make the country a “canary in record around 4.5 percent GDP growth ers, the Irish Business and Employers Pacific Alliance economies-Chile, Colombia, this year, accelerating the country’s Confederation, called on Noonan to mini- Mexico and Peru-are looking at a respectable three percent growth this year and four percent escape from debt woes that forced it to mize further austerity measures and pro- next, according to forecasts. take a 2010-2013 international bailout. vide tax breaks in his 2015 budget being And while the region-wide forecast-less than Earlier this year, Noonan forecast growth unveiled next month. The group’s chief two percent GDP growth for 2014 — looks of just 2.1 percent. Ireland has already economist, Fergal O’Brien, said bleak after years of five and six percent growth, resumed borrowing normally and its Thursday’s unexpectedly strong growth the fact that the boom has not been followed credit ratings are rising, as evidenced by figures demonstrated “that our great by a generalized bust is good news, experts say. Thursday’s treasury sale of three-month recession can be consigned to the history “In the past, whenever there were these situa- debt securities at an effective interest books.” tions, the domestic policy frameworks in Latin rate of zero percent. The faster Ireland’s He argued that Ireland - which has America used to magnify the problem,” said the economy grows, the more easily and imposed six straight years of austerity World Bank’s chief economist for the region, cheaply it can refinance its debts on budgets since its credit-fueled property Augusto de la Torre. bond markets. bubble burst, driving Irish banks and “Latin America in those years (the 1980s and “These latest numbers are gang- eventually the government to the brink 1990s) was a region that was prone to boom- busters,” said Alan McQuaid, chief econo- of insolvency - “does not need any addi- bust patterns.” The key reforms that have res- mist at Merrion Stockbrokers in Dublin, tional austerity measures to fix the public cued part of Latin America from that cycle are who expects Ireland to post the best finances. It needs to keep a steady hand macroeconomic, de la Torre told AFP, praising growth figures this year in the 18-nation on expenditure, but has the capacity to the “first-world” central banks and monetary policies that now govern the big economic pic- zone that uses the euro currency. He said cut taxes on budget day.” Irish unemploy- ture in the Pacific Alliance countries. Ireland’s unusually strong exposure to ment has been slowly declining from a Juan Ruiz, chief economist for South Britain and the United States, its two 2012 peak of 15.1 percent and today America at Spanish bank BBVA’s research arm, biggest export markets, was driving stands at 11.2 percent, a six-year low. added to that list, citing prudent policy deci- improvements. Noonan said he would offer budget sions in countries that capitalized on the boom incentives to generate jobs and woo years to build international reserves. BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech during a ceremony to Bigger-than-expected GDP back university-educated 20-somethings, “Nowadays, it’s hard to talk about Latin America announce governmental plans to spend $4 billion on equipment purchases. —AFP Noonan said he still intends to impose who have been emigrating in their tens as one region because there’s so much hetero- further cuts, on top of a new water tax of thousands annually since the decade- geneity,” he said. Too big of a state? the coal mine” for the region, said Susan being rolled out nationwide this month, long Celtic Tiger boom collapsed in “There are countries that managed the The problem of an overlarge state still Kaufman Purcell, the director of the Center for to reduce Ireland’s 2015 deficit below the 2008. But he ruled out a generous budg- windfalls well and stayed the course in terms of plagues many Latin American countries, said Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami. euro-zone limit of 3 percent of GDP. A et because he didn’t want to fuel anoth- not falling into populist policies and keeping Carlos Sabino, an economist at Francisco And it spells political problems for ruling par- bigger-than-expected GDP figure will er bubble economy. Conall Mac Coille, sound macroeconomic management and Marroquin University in Guatemala. “When the ties, particularly the leftists who presided over make it easier for Ireland to achieve its chief economist at Davy Stockbrokers in building up buffers from the good years. And situation’s good, there’s no problem. The state the boom years-and subsequent slowdown-in deficit targets, because it means the Dublin, cited the breadth of growth as a there are countries that didn’t.” brings in lots of revenues and everything’s mar- much of the region. country can carry higher levels of deficit particular reason for optimism. “Every Among the latter is the region’s largest velous. But nobody ever seems to realize that At the top of that list is embattled Brazilian economy, Brazil. During the good times, with those revenues are going to rise and fall with President Dilma Rousseff, fighting a tight race spending and still meet, or exceed, its part of the economy - the export sector, the US economic stimulus flooding emerging commodity prices,” he said. to keep her job next month. Even if she wins, targets relative to the unexpectedly large construction, consumer spending - it’s all markets in cash and a ravenous China buying As Latin America looks for the exit from the said Purcell, Rousseff will likely have to adopt size of an expanding economy. It also picking up together and that’s giving up raw materials, Brazil’s economy posted current period of sluggish growth, trimming “more conventional policies.” “It’s very hard to means stronger than expected tax collec- you these really strong growth rates,” he annual growth that averaged 4.5 percent in the unwieldy states may be a key factor in deciding be a leftist populist when you’re not rolling in tions and lower costs on welfare pay- said. —AP five years to 2010, peaking at 7.5 percent. whether it hews closer to the path of the Pacific money,” she said. —AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 BUSINESS Nutrition-packed fertilizers next major prospect for GCC producers GPCA holds fertilizer convention in Dubai DUBAI: Fertilizers that can combat nutrition deficiencies will be a major opportunity for GCC producers, accord- ing to industry experts at the 5th annual Fertilizer Convention, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA). “Fertilizer producers in the Gulf region should look into micronutrient fortification, because this is the best way to ensure quality and quantity of food yield for both the developing and developed world,” said Esin Mete, President of the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA). “Micronutrient fortification-which involves adding key nutrients like zinc- is a simple, affordable and sustainable solution to eradicating food deficiencies globally.” Mete highlighted that up to 2 billion people worldwide suffer from zinc defi- tons of products, according to GPCA (IPNI). “We live in a world of extremes.” grew just 1.7 percent in the same peri- and global fertilizer sector. ciency, with 1.5 million child deaths due estimates. Nearly 50 percent of this With scientists predicting that 40 to od,” said Dr. Abdulwahab Al- Sadoun, The GPCA launched two industry to the absence of this nutrient in their capacity was used for export purposes 60 percent of future crop yield coming Secretary General, GPCA. “While the reports during the event. The Role of diets. She highlighted that Turkish fertil- to 80 countries. from fertilizers, Dr. Roberts concluded consensus on future growth is positive, GCC Fertilizers in Addressing Food izer companies have tackled this chal- Nutrient deficiency was a highlight- that fertilizers will be crucial in feeding what fertilizer producers in the Arabian Security, produced in collaboration with lenge by adding zinc into their prod- ed as a key challenge in global food billions of people that will inhabit this Gulf will need to focus on is innovation- Nexant, is an in-depth study on major ucts, resulting in a generation of chil- security by subsequent speakers. planet in the next few decades. specifically, to manufacture products trends across the agriculture, food, ener- dren free of this deficiency, $150 million According to Dr. Terry Roberts, President “Sustainable intensification, the method that will not only have a positive impact gy and petrochemical industries. The in economic benefits and a 500 percent of the International Plant Nutrition that will increase yields on existing on yield, and also benefit the health of 2013 GCC Fertilizer Industry Indicators increase in crop yield. Institute, roughly 842 million people lands in a way that is environmentally billions of people that need to be fed.” was also released during the conven- Micronutrient fortification in fertiliz- worldwide are deficient in key nutrients responsible, will be critical,” he said. The 5th annual Fertilizer Convention tion, offering a comprehensive statisti- ers will be an opportunity for innova- like zinc, iron and vitamin A. “The GCC’s fertilizer industry is an hosted more than 300 delegates from cal overview of the fertilizer industry in tion, trade ties and economic stability. “One in eight people go to bed hun- export oriented sector that has shown 35 countries. Over 21 speakers pro- the Arab Gulf region. Additionally, the “Fertilizer producers in the GCC will gry every night, yet at the same time, consistently high growth levels in the vided key insights delegates on sup- region’s top fertilizer producers, includ- have a significant role to play because 1.4 billion people are overweight and recent past. 2013 capacity figures ply and demand analysis from major ing Fertil, QAFCO and GPIC hosted 40 of exports,” she concluded. 500 million are classified as obese,” said showed a 4 percent increase from the markets around the globe, thought students and professors from local uni- In 2013, fertilizer producers in the Dr Terry Roberts, President, previous year, which is remarkable leadership from industry experts, and versities like Petroleum Institute, Qatar Arabian Gulf manufactured 42.7 million International Plant Nutrition Institute because the global fertilizer industry project case studies from the local University and the University of Bahrain.

Al-Tijari announces winners of Najma Account draw KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held prizes during the year worth KD 100,000 the Al-Najma Account Daily draw yester- each on different occasions: The National day. The draw was held under the supervi- Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha and on the 19th sion of the Ministry of Commerce & of June which is the date of the bank’s Industry represented by Saquer Al-Manaie. establishment. With a minimum balance of KD 500, cus- The winners of the Najma daily draw are: tomers will be eligible for the daily draw Fatima Ibrahim Al-Hajri — KD 7,000 provided that the money is in the account Rawan Rajaan Al-Hussaini — KD 7,000 one week prior to the daily draw or 2 Ali Sayed Abbas — KD 7000 months prior to the mega draw. In addi- Jamal Khair Habib — KD 7000 tion, for each KD 25 a customer can get one Abdulaziz Ebrahim Hussein — KD 7000 chance for winning instead of KD 50. Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this The Commercial Bank of Kuwait opportunity to congratulate all lucky win- announces the biggest daily draw in ners and also extends appreciation to the Kuwait with the launch of the new Najma Ministry of Commerce and Industry for account. Customers of the bank can now their effective supervision of the draws enjoy a KD 7,000 daily prize which is the which were conducted in an orderly and highest in the country and another 4 mega organized manner.

Burgan Bank announces winners of Yawmi account Imdaad appoints Robotina to deploy KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yes- draw date. Additionally, every KD 10 in in-house network operations centre terday the names of the lucky winners of the account, will entitle customers to its Yawmi account draw, each taking one chance of winning. If the account DUBAI: In line with the directives of Sheikh will also exclusively provide supplies to Imdaad tainable living as well as Dubai’s shift towards home a prize of KD 5,000. balance is KD 500 and above, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice for the center’s construction. 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The joint venture will carry out the remotely monitor and manage our facilities in the region as an adopter and implementer of Yawmi account customers, Burgan Bank about the new quarterly draw, cus- implementation and commissioning of the NOC addition to conserving energy, reducing opera- the latest FM technologies and practices. The now offers a Quarterly Draw with more tomers are urged to visit their nearest to remotely manage and monitor the facilities tion cost, and improving overall energy efficien- company acquires eco-friendly equipment and chances to win higher rewards, entitling Burgan Bank branch and receive all the currently managed by Imdaad. cy. We have selected Robotina for this project prioritizes sustainability across all its opera- one lucky customer to win KD 125,000 details, or simply call the bank’s Call Under the terms of the Memorandum of because of their experience, range of products tions. It also conducts recycling training for its every three months. The Yawmi Account Center at 1804080 where customer serv- Understanding between Imdaad and Robotina, and solutions, and expertise in proving building clients, corporate partners and staff, in addition now offers daily and quarterly draws, the ice representatives will be delighted to the two parties will jointly invest in the develop- management and automation solutions. We are to providing free recycling bins in certain proj- quarterly draw requires customers to assist with any questions on the Yawmi ment of the necessary applications and business confident that once operational, NOC will sup- ects where it handles waste management and maintain a minimum amount of KD 500 account or any of the bank’s products processes for commissioning the NOC. Robotina port the UAE’s vision of ‘Green’ solutions for sus- collection service. in their account for 2 months prior to and services. Battle for Italy economic Dubai Chamber report reveals reform intensifies huge demand for Islamic brands ROME: He’s promised to shake-up reces- Italy’s largest trade union CGIL, accusing sion-plagued Italy, but Prime Minister Renzi of being a “Thatcherite”. The CGIL and Spending by Muslim population on clothes to touch $322bn by 2018 Matteo Renzi’s ambitious schemes to revive other large unions threatened to strike over the euro-zone’s third largest economy have “five years of forced cuts and pay freezes” DUBAI: There is a huge gap in the global Al-Ghurair added: “The research note find- ure is expected to reach $2.9 trillion by 2018. hit a stumbling block, amid a fierce row with and called for demonstrations in the streets Islamic clothes, fashion and design market in ings are of relevance to Dubai considering that Spending by the Muslim population is expected powerful trade unions. of Rome. the absence of major Islamic brands capable of it aims to become a global centre for Islamic to grow from $224 billion in 2012 to $322 billion The spunky 39-year-old is under increas- A furious Renzi, head of the centre-left meeting the requirements of the Muslim popu- fashion and design as a key pillar of the Dubai by 2018, comprising about 11.2 per cent of the ing pressure to follow his pledges with con- Democratic Party (PD) and a Tony Blair fan, lation, especially women, states a research note Capital of Islamic Economy initiative launched global spending, the report states. crete action or risk losing face with Brussels wasted no time in responding in a video by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2013. The lack of a global Islamic clothing Further, the report points out that the global and Berlin just as he tries to win greater mar- posted on You Tube. “We are not concerned based on a study by Thomson Reuters. brand presents a unique opportunity for local Islamic clothes, fashion and design market is gins for budget flexibility from the bloc for with Margaret Thatcher, we’re concerned The Islamic clothes, fashion and design mar- fashion designers and companies to leverage larger than most top global clothing markets his debt-swamped country. with Marta, who is 28 years old, and doesn’t ket is an emerging industry with huge potential, Dubai’s status as a trendsetting centre and such as China, with customer spending worth With youth unemployment at a towering have the right to paid maternity leave,” he and is one of the core sectors of the Islamic make use of its successful retail sector to estab- $221 billion, Japan with $111 billion, Russia with 42 percent, Renzi is rushing to launch his so- said, slamming a “divide between first and economy. The findings of the report are there- lish global Islamic clothing brands.” $106 billion and Germany with $101 billion in called “Jobs Act” which aims to boost the second league citizens” for which he said the fore of significant interest to the market, espe- Currently, no single local Muslim brand dom- 2012. The only exception is the US, which is the labor market by getting rid of “precarious” unions were partly responsible. cially since the 10th World Islamic Economy inates the market. However, within the 57 coun- biggest market in terms of expenditure on temporary contracts and increasing incen- “Where were you during all these years Forum is scheduled to be organized in Dubai tries that form the Organization of Islamic clothing and footwear recording $494 billion in tives for employers to hire new workers. when Italy’s greatest injustice was develop- from 28-30 October 2014 by the WIEF Cooperation (OIC) countries, local clothing com- spending in 2012. Among the Muslim majority Critics, however, accuse Renzi of attempting ing, the injustice between those who have Foundation and Dubai Chamber. panies have managed to establish their pres- countries, Turkey recorded the highest spend- to do away with Article 18, a law cherished jobs and those who don’t, between those Commenting on the report, Abdul Rahman ence, producing local dresses based on local ing on clothing in 2012 worth about $24.9 bil- by trade unions because it protects those on who have permanent contracts and those Saif Al-Ghurair, Chairman of Dubai Chamber, cultural preferences. lion, followed by Iran with $20.5 billion. Other long-term contracts, obliging businesses to who have temporary ones?” he asked. said: “While the 1.6 billion Muslims around the prominent nations in this group are Indonesia pay large fines or re-hire workers if dis- His job is not being made easier by rebels world represent about 23 per cent of the world’s Global spending with $16.8 billion, Egypt $16.2 billion, Saudi missals are ruled to have been unfair. in his own ranks, led by former party secre- total population, the market does not have any The gap in the international Islamic clothes, Arabia $15.3 billion, Pakistan $14.4 billion and The premier-nicknamed “the scrapper” tary Pier Luigi Bersani, who has sworn to prominent Muslim clothing brand. As a result, fashion and design market is significant in the the UAE with $10.2 billion. for taking on the old guard-would rather defend Article 18. The premier looks increas- the Muslim population is not yet catered for in light of the Dubai Chamber report finding that Interestingly, the report shows that there is a have a system where workers’ rights and ingly forced to rely on the support of Silvio terms of their clothes and fashion aspirations. the global Muslim population spent $224 billion significant Muslim clothing market within benefits increase over time. Berlusconi, who was given up for politically The gap in the market is currently addressed by on clothes in 2012, accounting for about 10.6 Europe, the US and Canada. Collectively, dead last year but celebrated a symbolic vic- the main players of the global clothes fashion per cent of the global spending in the garments Muslims within these countries spent about Insults fly, Renzi ‘a Thatcherite’ tory this weekend after the European Court industry, who are not equipped to fully attend sector. $21billion on clothing and footwear in 2012, On Friday, the simmering squabble of Human Rights agreed to hear an appeal to the requirements of the Islamic customer Globally, spending on clothing and footwear making the western Muslim clothing market the boiled over with Susanna Camusso, head of against his tax fraud conviction.—AFP base.” reached about $2.1 trillion in 2012 and this fig- second biggest after Turkey. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 technology

Microsoft delays launch of its Xbox One console in China BEIJING: Microsoft Corp has delayed the launch of series of setbacks for Microsoft in China, where it is form a joint venture to manufacture the consoles in where revenues grew by more than a third from its Xbox One game console in China, which had under investigation for suspected anti-trust viola- Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone a year ago. 2012 to nearly $14 billion last year. However, piracy been set for release tomorrow, but the world’s tions related to the Windows operating system and The Xbox One console will cost 3,699 yuan and the dominance of PC and mobile gaming may biggest software company said it would be Microsoft Office. The Chinese government lifted a ($602.37) without the Kinect motion detection sys- leave little room for legitimate console and game released by the end of the year. 2000 ban on gaming consoles earlier this year. tem and 4,299 yuan ($700) with Kinect, Microsoft sales. In May, Sony Corp said it would set up a joint Microsoft did not give a reason for the delay in a Microsoft had reached a deal with Chinese internet said in July. venture with Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group to bring statement yesterday. The delay is the latest in a TV set-top box maker BesTV New Media Co Ltd to China is the world’s third-biggest gaming market, the PlayStation games console to China. —Reuters Twitter parody plays differently in US CHICAGO: Jon Daniel was watching car- cutor declined to file charges, but with the toons with one of his sons when he created a backing of the American Civil Liberties Union spoof Twitter account in the name of the of Illinois, Daniel filed the lawsuit, which he Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he hopes sends a warning to others in power. soon began sending profane messages The raid unleashed waves of criticism - about sex, drugs and alcohol. much of it on social media, where fake pro- Daniel never intended for the fake files of celebrities and prominent politicians account to be seen by anyone other than his have long proliferated. friends, and it never attracted more than a Authorities sought warrants on the basis few dozen followers. But within weeks the that Daniel falsely impersonated a public raunchy parody led to a police raid of his official. The fake account used the handle home and ignited a debate about online @peoriamayor and included Ardis’ official satire, free speech and the limits of a mayor’s photo, email address and a link to the may- power. or’s bio on the city’s website. Ardis saw the Now Daniel is taking the matter to federal account as an attempt to steal his identity. court in a lawsuit alleging the city violated Daniel only added the parody label - his civil rights. required under Twitter’s terms of service - a The 29-year-old, who works as a tavern few days after creating the account when he noticed that people he did not know were starting to follow him. Even without the label, an account that is clearly a parody is protected, legal experts say. The tweets - one said, “Im (sic) thinking it’s tequila and stripper night” - expressed a preoccupation with sex and drugs that no reasonable person could have concluded came from the actual mayor, the lawsuit argues. CAPE CANAVERAL: A contrail is seen behind the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon supply ship as it flies into space after lifting off from It would have been a more difficult ques- the launch pad on a resupply mission to the International Space Station yesterday in Cape Canaveral, Florida. — AFP tion if Daniel had been talking about policy issues, said Jack Lerner, an assistant law pro- fessor at the University of California at Irvine, though he does say Daniel was “unwise” not SpaceX launches 3-D printer, to include a clear parody label from the start. For Daniel, the line is simple. “You can’t other space station gear do terrorist type of things or threaten peo- CHICAGO: In this Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Jon ple,” he said in an interview at the ACLU Daniel speaks during an interview with office in Chicago. “But a simple joke, a paro- CAPE CANAVERAL: A SpaceX cargo ship rocket- uled to go into orbit around Mars late last night. NASA is paying SpaceX and Virginia-based The Associated Press at the American dy, mocking somebody, that’s obviously not ed toward the International Space Station yes- Orbital Sciences Corp. to make regular station Civil Liberties Union of Illinois office in illegal.” terday, carrying the first 3-D printer for astro- Safety standards deliveries. The SpaceX service began two years Chicago. — AP nauts in orbit. The space station-bound 3-D printer was ago. Just this past week, SpaceX - led by billion- Fake online profile In all, the unmanned Dragon capsule is deliv- developed by Made in Space, another California aire Elon Musk - won an even bigger and more cook in his hometown, modeled the tweets Twitter suspended the account after the ering more than 5,000 pounds of space station company. It’s sturdier than Earthly models to prestigious contract to transport US astronauts on those of other fake accounts that lam- city threatened to file a lawsuit. City attor- supplies for NASA. Dragon should reach the withstand the stresses of launch, and meets to the orbiting outpost, along with Boeing. poon sports stars by tweeting in a voice that neys insist authorities had probable cause to space station Tuesday. It’s the fifth station ship- NASA’s strict safety standards. The space agency Dragon rides could begin as early as 2016 or appears drunk. He was dumbfounded when seek Daniel’s identity from Twitter and to ment for the California-based SpaceX, one of envisions astronauts one day cranking out spare 2017. Twitter suspended the account. raid his home. They’ve asked a judge to dis- two new commercial winners in the race to start parts as needed. For now, it’s a technology NASA’s ability to launch its own crews ended “I was like, ‘Well, OK, that’s the end of that miss the case. launching Americans again from home soil. demonstrator, with a bigger and better model to with the shuttle program in 2011. Russia has chapter,’” he told The Associated Press. Except Ardis, Peoria’s mayor for the last nine The space station was soaring over the South follow next year. been providing rides on its Soyuz spacecraft for it wasn’t. A few weeks later, four police offi- years, said he felt the tweets “went way over Pacific when the SpaceX Falcon 9 thundered into A $30 million device for measuring ocean a hefty price. cers acting on a complaint from Mayor Jim the line” and made him “a victim of sexual Florida’s pre-dawn sky. Sunday’s weather was winds is also flying up on Dragon, along with 20 Another American astronaut is scheduled to Ardis raided the home Daniel shares with doggerel and filth.” ideal for flying, unlike Saturday, when rain forced mice and 30 fruit flies for biological research and blast off from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian several roommates, seizing computers and “And perhaps I’m guilty of reacting as a a delay. The rocket was visible for nearly three metal samples for a golf club manufacturer look- Soyuz later this week, along with two Russians, smartphones. man, as a father and as a husband rather Daniel discovered that the type of spoof than as a government official with whom minutes as it sped out over the Atlantic, with the ing to improve its products. one of them a woman, a rarity for Russia. They that might be tolerated - or even welcomed constituents might disagree,” he told a City Orion constellation as a backdrop. Much-needed spacesuit batteries are on will join the one American, one Russian and one as flattery - in Chicago, New York or Council meeting. “What a beautiful morning it was,” said Sam board as well, along with the usual stash of food, German already in orbit. Hollywood can play differently in smaller Other parody accounts have drawn Scimemi, NASA’s space station division director. clothes and electronic gear. Routine US space- SpaceX was delighted with yesterday’s suc- cities in middle America, like Peoria, a manu- scrutiny, although none apparently led to Yesterday was a red-letter day for NASA in more walks were put on hold following last year’s cess and the road ahead, and could hardly wait facturing center of 120,000 people. police raids. Police in Starkville, Mississippi, ways than one. close call with an astronaut’s flooded helmet. for the party to begin. “Nothing like a good recently subpoenaed Twitter for information Besides the flawless launch, the space That problem was solved, then the battery fuses launch,” observed Hans Koenigsmann, vice presi- Warning about the person behind an account in the agency’s Maven spacecraft was on the verge of were called into question. NASA hopes to dent of mission assurance for SpaceX. “It’s just After the April raid, Peoria’s public prose- name of Vice Mayor Roy Perkins. reaching Mars. The robotic explorer was sched- resume spacewalks next month. fantastic.” — AP Israel launches cyber defence authority

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers at the weekly cab- enemy state, by terrorist groups and by hack- Netanyahu launched a National Authority for inet meeting that the new body would be ers targeting military and economic sites, but Cyber Defence yesterday to oversee the protec- responsible not only for “protecting key facili- these attacks have no caused serious dam- tion of both military and civilian systems. ties and organisations linked to defence but age.” Israel’s cyber industry has grown rapidly The announcement comes after Netanyahu would also be tasked with defending Israeli in recent years, with around half of the 200 accused regional foe Iran of launching repeated civilians” against cyber attacks. firms and 20 research and development cen- cyber attacks on Israel, particularly during its Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Israel tres operated by multinationals set up since 50-day conflict with Hamas in July and August. had been the “target of electronic attack by an 2010. — AFP Oculus unveils new prototype VR headset

LOS ANGELES: Oculus has unveiled a new “That was not easy,” Oculus CEO Brendan The original prototype of the Oculus Rift PASADENA: Apple customers are reflected off the glass while they await the opening prototype of its virtual reality headset. Iribe told the audience Saturday at the com- headset was unveiled in 2012 and has of the Apple Store for the launch and sale of the new iPhone 6 on Friday in Pasadena, However, the VR company still isn’t ready to pany’s first-ever developers conference. “It’s received considerable attention from film and California. — AP release a consumer edition. The hew headset still not perfect. None of this is perfect yet, but video game makers. Oculus released a second intended for creators of VR experiences is it’s much, much better.” prototype headset to developers earlier this Apple locks itself out of nicknamed Crescent Bay and features a higher Oculus’ headset covers a user’s eyes and year. Iribe said 100,000 development kits have resolution and refresh rate, integrated head- can create immersive worlds that react to been shipped to 130 countries. devices with passwords phones and 360-degree head tracking. head movement. “I never expected it to go this quickly,” Iribe said. “None of us did.” The Irvine, California- SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has tightened its sites, causing some security experts to based Oculus VR Inc. was acquired by technological security so not even the question whether Apple had taken ade- Facebook earlier this year for $2 billion. Iribe company can pry into a password-protect- quate precautions to thwart hackers trying said Oculus’ staff has doubled in the six ed iPhone or iPad, a move meant to reas- to break into user accounts. sure the millions of people who are increas- Since the nude photos appeared, Apple months since the acquisition. “We’re really ingly storing vital pieces of their lives on has been stressing the need for its users to spiriting toward the consumer version,” he the devices. rely on passwords that are difficult to said. Oculus recently teamed up with The additional safeguard is part of guess. It has also recommended the adop- Samsung to introduce Gear VR, a $200 head- Apple’s latest mobile software, iOS 8, which tion of a security feature known as two- set with a slot for using the Galaxy Note 4 the Cupertino, California, company step verification that requires a special smartphone as a VR display. released Wednesday. Apple Inc. revealed code sent to mobile phones to be entered the stronger protection in a new section of along with a password to log into accounts. Over the past two years, Oculus’ technolo- its website that is prefaced with a letter gy has been demonstrated at events like San from CEO Tim Cook who emphasized the Personal data Diego Comic-Con and the Electronic company’s “fundamental” commitment to Apple’s inability to unlock password- Entertainment Expo with interactive experi- privacy and security. protected smartphones and tablets could ences that recreate scenes from the “X-Men” “Our commitment to protecting your frustrate law enforcement officials who and “Pacific Rim” films and thrust users into an privacy comes from a deep respect for our sometimes obtain court orders to vacuum intergalactic dogfight in the game “EVE: customers,” Cook wrote. “We know that personal data off the phones for potential your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we evidence in criminal investigations. Valkyrie.” have and always will work as hard as we The personal information will be Iribe reiterated several times during his talk can to earn and keep it.” blocked on more than just Apple’s newest at the Oculus Connect conference that creat- Apple is highlighting its heightened mobile devices, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 ing a sense of presence would be integral for security following a mortifying episode Plus, that go on sale Friday. That’s because the widespread adoption of VR technology, that unfolded earlier this month after com- Apple is giving away iOS 8 to anyone with puter hackers broke into the online devices dating back to 2011. The software BERLIN: In this Wed., Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, British television presenter Rachel Riley shows a which continues to leave some users feeling queasy despite Oculus’ strides in creating low- accounts of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer can be downloaded to devices as old as the virtual-reality headset called Gear VR during an unpacked event of Samsung ahead of the con- Lawrence and other celebrities who stored iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. That covers hun- sumer electronic fair IFA in Berlin. Oculus, the virtual reality company acquired by Facebook er latency and more realistic imagery inside copies of personal photos on the compa- dreds of millions of devices already in use. earlier this year for $2 billion, is holding its first-ever developers conference and is expected to the goggles. “You should believe you’re there ny’s iCloud service. The number of legal requests that Apple discuss the much-anticipated release of its VR headset for consumers. The two-day Oculus and feel great, even if you’re super-sensitive Nude photos of Lawrence and other gets for personal data off devices is rela- Connect conference began Friday. — AP like me,” Iribe said. — AP female stars were posted on various web- tively small. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Nigeria’s students back to school after Ebola lay-off

LAGOS: Nigeria’s students return to ease-spread through close contact with hand-washing facilities-or face sanc- ment’s response: days before school roundabout, ordering: “Wash your school today after an enforced summer bodily fluids of a person displaying tions. But there are signs that schools in was to start, he was still waiting for hands.” break because of Ebola, but with linger- symptoms-which has claimed more the private and public sectors are at a promised help from the government. But after months of worries, stu- ing fears about the virus and calls for a than 2,630 lives in West Africa this year. different state of preparedness. “No sanitizers, no hand wash. Those dents who broke up for the summer further delay by a major teachers’ Nigeria’s largest teachers’ union said At St Gregory’s Roman Catholic things are not in place,” he said. It was holidays back in July are just keen to union. it was still too soon to start classes and school in the Obalende area of Lagos- only on Friday that the government get back to their books. Eight people have died from the 20 called on its members to stay away within sight of the First Consultants told him supplies were available. Nigeria, where education is seen by who have contracted the haemorrhagic from work. President Goodluck hospital, where Nigeria’s first Ebola most as a key to escaping poverty, fever in Nigeria. Last month the govern- Jonathan has said the order was patient died-administrator Edmond ‘Wash your hands’ already more than 10.5 million children ment postponed resumption of classes “uncalled for”. Akpala said they were ready. Temperature checks and the use of are out of school-the most in the world, at all public and private schools until “The safety measures to contain the Everyone who steps onto the cam- hand sanitisers-as well as greater the United Nations children’s fund October 13. But as the rate of con- spread of Ebola have not been put in pus of the private, all-boys school will awareness about the dangers of sick- UNICEF said in June. firmed cases began to slow, ministers place,” the head of the Nigerian Union have to use hand-sanitiser, he said, ness-have become a way of life in Lagos “It’s going to slow down the chil- brought forward the start of term to of Teachers, Michael Olukoya, told AFP. adding that any further delay in resum- and elsewhere in Nigeria since the first dren’s education” if classes aren’t September 22. There have now been no ing classes could affect students’ educa- confirmed Ebola death on July 25. resumed, said Fatai Oduntan, a recent confirmed cases of Ebola in Nigeria for Public vs private tion. “Exams are coming in March.... If Airports, offices and even restau- high school graduate, as he shopped in 10 days, although some 350 people In postponing classes, the federal they don’t resume, they may find it dif- rants have introduced new hygiene Lagos’ Somulu neighbourhood. remain under watch for symptoms of government ordered all schools to ficult to make their papers,” he added. rules as a matter of course. A public Nevertheless, some students remained the virus in the financial capital, Lagos, implement training programmes for At the state-run Somulu Senior High information campaign includes a giant cautious. “Maybe they should resume and oil city of Port Hartcourt. staff in hygiene procedures, including School, principal Ayodeji Fatoki said he electronic billboard next to First some other time,” said Dorcas Sofadi, a Yet concerns remain about the dis- temperature checks, and to put in place was frustrated by the local govern- Consultants, at the bustling Obalende student at a boarding school. — AFP

Prosecutors look to new DNA testing in twin cases

BOSTON: Prosecutors in Boston were been able to identify genetic mutations to forced to put a rape suspect on trial three differentiate between twins. times before jurors were willing to convict him a decade ago. It wasn’t due to a lack of New tests evidence, but because the suspect was an Prosecutors re-indicted McNair earlier identical twin. this month after the new test results point- Similar cases have popped up else- ed to McNair and ruled out his twin broth- where, illustrating the challenges of prose- er, Wark said. Boston prosecutors have cuting a twin. Because identical twins been through this before. In 2004 and come from a single fertilized egg, standard 2005, two different juries were unable to DNA testing has not been able to differen- reach verdicts in a rape case against anoth- tiate between them. er twin, Darrin Fernandez. Several jurors But Boston prosecutors who have strug- later said they could not reach unanimous gled twice in the last decade with such verdicts because DNA found on the vic- cases believe they have a new tool to per- tim’s pillowcase could have come from suade jurors: cutting-edge DNA testing either Fernandez or his twin brother. they say can distinguish between identical Fernandez was convicted after a third trial. twins. Authorities in other states have also “The science behind this testing has struggled with prosecuting twins in cases been used in research, in paternity tests involving DNA evidence. In Colorado, a for- and in a variety of other capacities,” said mer Army officer blamed his twin brother Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District for a string of sexual assaults on young Attorney Daniel Conley, whose office is girls. now prosecuting Dwayne McNair, a twin Investigators said DNA linked Aaron who is charged in the rapes and robberies Lucas to the abduction of an 8-year-old girl of two women in 2004. in Colorado Springs and to other cases. “The forensic application is novel, but Lucas’s twin denied involvement, and it’s supported by a widely accepted scien- Lucas ended up pleading guilty in FREETOWN: Empty streets are seen during a three-day lockdown to prevent the spread on the Ebola virus, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, yesterday. tific foundation,” Wark said. McNair was November in nine cases ranging from Volunteers going door to door during a three-day lockdown intended to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone say some residents are growing increas- scheduled to go on trial last April. But after indecent exposure to kidnapping and ingly frustrated and complaining about food shortages. — AP prosecutors heard about the new DNA test rape. He was sentenced to 20 years to life done by a German company, Eurofins in prison. Scientific, they decided to temporarily In Grand Rapids, Michigan, months of withdraw the charges against McNair so DNA testing was unable to determine S Leone’s Ebola shutdown they could get a new round of testing which of two identical twins raped a done on DNA taken from a condom used woman in 1999. Neither brother was in one of the rapes. Eurofins says it has charged in the case. — AP uncovers 70 dead in capital ‘Up to this morning, we had 22 new cases’ FREETOWN: Sierra Leone wrapped up its 72- could erode trust between the government and patched to fly a Catholic missionary infected hour shutdown yesterday, with authorities the people. with Ebola home from Sierra Leone. reporting that the action aimed at containing Brother Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, director of a the Ebola epidemic had uncovered up to 70 ‘Publicity stunt’ hospital in the Sierra Leonean town of Lunsar, is dead bodies in and around the capital. Joe Amon, health and human rights director the second Spaniard to contract the virus in the Most of the west African country’s six million at New York-based advocacy organisation current epidemic. people were confined to their homes for a third Human Rights Watch, described the shutdown straight day, with only essential workers such as as “more of a publicity stunt than a health inter- ‘Still in denial’ health professionals and security forces exempt. vention”. Kamara said however that the shut- In Liberia, the hardest-hit country with more Almost 30,000 volunteers have been going down was “on track” in its objective to get infor- than 1,450 dead, health officials said action to door-to-door to educate locals and hand out mation to the entire population on how to pre- halt the spread of the disease was being ham- soap, in an exercise that was expected to lead to vent Ebola spreading. pered by traditional communities still ignoring scores more patients and bodies being discov- “There has been a total compliance to the advice on staying away from highly infectious ered in homes. order for people to stay at home... which made it dead bodies. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Sarian Kamara possible for campaign teams throughout the “Some people are still in denial. Because of revealed that the authorities had received thou- country to reach families in their own homes to that they are not listening to the rules,” said sands of calls but only a handful of new patients sensitise them about Ebola,” she said. Gabriel Gorbee Logan , a health officer in Bomi in the Western Area covering Freetown and its Ebola fever can fell its victims within days, County, northwest of the capital Monrovia. surroundings. causing severe muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhoea “And there is still ongoing burial rites-rituals “We were... able to confirm new cases which, and-in some cases-unstoppable internal and that citizens are carry out. They’re in the habit of WASHINGTON: Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and had they not been discovered, would have external bleeding. bathing dead bodies because tradition Prevention, receives a flu shot from Sharon Bonadies at the conclusion of a news con- greatly increased transmission,” she said. The outbreak has killed more than 2,600 peo- demands. ference at the National Press Club in Washington. “Vaccination is the single most “Up to this morning, we had 22 new cases. ple in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this year, “Religion demands that they need to bathe important step everyone 6 months of age and older can take to protect themselves The response from the medical (teams) has cutting a swathe through entire villages at the these dead bodies before calling the health and their families against influenza,” said Frieden. — AP improved and the burial teams were able to epicentre and prompting warnings over possible team, and by the time we get there, a couple of bury between 60 to 70 corpses over the past economic catastrophe. people have gotten into contact.” two days.” The widespread fallout from the outbreak Health authorities have placed tribal and reli- Options for protection Independent observers have voiced concerns was underlined by India’s decision Saturday to gious leaders at the centre of awareness cam- over the quality of advice being given out, postpone plans for a summit in New Delhi to be paigns, giving them the lead in advising their come with flu season deeming the shutdown a “mixed success” and attended by representatives of more than 50 communities on preventing Ebola’s spread. complaining about the poor training of the African nations. “The people trained us not to bathe bodies, door-to-door education teams. The spread of the virus made it “logistically not to play with vomit and not to eat bush meat,” WASHINGTON: It’s time for flu vaccine again whom weren’t vaccinated. About half of preg- Meanwhile aid organisations and medical difficult given the public health guidelines to said Boakai Sanoe, the imam of a mosque in and while it’s important for the whole family, nant women get vaccinated. The shot can be experts have questioned the feasibility of reach- manage” the Third India-Africa Forum Summit, a Dewein district. “And that’s the same thing we’re this year health officials have some different given during any trimester, and also protects ing 1.5 million homes in three days and have foreign ministry official said. telling our people in the environment-to avoid advice for different ages: Certain kids should the baby during the first few months of life, argued that confining people to their homes In Madrid, officials said a plane was being dis- all of those things.” —AFP opt for the ouchless nasal spray. Seniors, said obstetrician Dr. Laura Riley of expect to get a new kind of pneumonia shot Massachusetts General Hospital. along with that flu jab. And too many young and middle-age adults are skipping the vac- THE VACCINE SUPPLY cine altogether, says the Centers for Disease About 150 million doses are being Thousands protest delays to Control and Prevention - even though there shipped this year, with no signs of shortages are more options than ever. “The best way to or delays, Frieden said. About half will protect protect yourself against the flu is to get a flu against four strains of influenza instead of the tough Spanish abortion law vaccination,” said CDC Director Dr. Tom usual three, he said, as U.S. manufacturers Frieden on Thursday, before rolling up his move toward vaccines with that extra bit of MADRID: Thousands of protesters took to the rife in Spanish media. “It’s a complicated law, Maria Arevalo, 17, who attended Sunday’s sleeve to get his own flu shot. protection. CDC doesn’t recommend one streets of Madrid yesterday, accusing the gov- socially sensitive,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya march with two friends, said the government over the other. ernment of betrayal amid reports lawmakers are Saenz de Santamaria said on Friday. “The gov- has backtracked on its pledge because of fears it Some things to know about flu vaccinations: poised to abandon plans for tough new abor- ernment wants to work to achieve the broadest would be punished in municipal and regional WHO SHOULD BE VACCINATED WHICH KIND TO CHOOSE tion laws. possible consensus.” elections next year. —AFP The government recommends a yearly flu For the first time this year, the CDC says “Yes to life, no to abortion”, shouted demon- vaccine for nearly everyone starting at 6 the ouchless FluMist nasal spray version is the strators of all ages as they marched through the months of age. Yet only about half of preferred vaccine for healthy children ages 2 centre of Spain’s capital, while others yelled: “If Americans get one, a number Frieden called to 8, after research showed it works a little they kill, don’t vote for them.” unfortunate. On average, the CDC estimates, better for them. But don’t wait if your doctor “I voted for them and they betrayed me,” said flu kills about 24,000 Americans a year. has only the shot - just get them vaccinated, demonstrator Iciar Gereca, 41, as she marched said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt with the crowds carrying balloons and banners HOW MANY ARE University and the National Foundation for emblazoned with the slogan “Right to Life”. Vaccination rates last year were highest for Infectious Diseases. “Why are they holding back now? To win children under 5 - 70 percent - and for seniors FluMist also can be used by healthy peo- votes? It doesn’t make sense.” - 65 percent, the CDC said. But just a third of ple ages 2 through 49 who aren’t pregnant. Spain’s ruling conservative Popular Party in healthy adults ages 18 to 64 got vaccinated If a squirt up the nose isn’t for you, there December proposed legislation that would make abortion illegal except in cases of rape, or and, surprisingly, last year hospitalizations are lots of other options: the regular shot; an when the pregnancy threatens the health of the egg-free shot for those allergic to eggs; a were highest among that age group. mother. But nine months later the law, which About 55 percent of school-age children high-dose shot just for those 65 and older would be one of the toughest in Europe, has not were vaccinated. Parents need to realize that whose immune systems may need an extra yet been approved by parliament after facing flu vaccine is crucial even for otherwise boost; and a tiny-needle shot that just pene- stiff opposition in Spain as well as from abroad. healthy children, said Dr. Paul Offit of the trates the skin. The Food and Drug Spanish daily El Mundo recently reported the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. At least Administration also recently approved a nee- plan was unlikely to ever make it into law MADRID: Supporters of pro-life organization “Derecho a Vivir” (Right to Life) stage a protest 100 US children died of flu last year, only half dle-free injector to deliver flu vaccine, because of divisions inside the government. march against abortion in Madrid yesterday. The Spanish government has approved a draft law of whom had lung conditions or other illness- although it’s not clear how soon it will be Rumours that its author, Justice Minister to end women’s right to have the procedure on demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, but the es that put them at high risk and most of widely available.—AP Alberto Gallardon, is set to resign have also been text has not yet gone to parliament for a vote amid dissent within Rajoy’s Popular Party. — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Al Jothen launches Nashi Phyto repair, collagen hair treatment Unique mix of traditional & professional therapy KUWAIT: Al Jothen, one of the leading age, stress, illness and diet. It provides a hair shafts and reconstructing it with distributors of professional beauty new younger looking hair by penetrat- collagen and active plant stem with the brands in Kuwait, has announced the ing the hair shaft, reconstructing the gel; and sealing this with a perfect launch of Nashi Phyto Repair, Collagen cuticles and protects it from further shine with the beauty milk. The treat- Hair Care Treatment in Kuwait which damage. ment should ideally be done in only 25 has carved a niche in markets across The launch in Kuwait is part of Al minutes and shall be repeated every the globe. Jothen’s commitment to bring world- month. The Nashi Phyto Repair Dual class brands to its clientele and rein- Then, there is an option of the Nashi Complex is the first-of-its-kind hair care forces Nashi’s perception as the best Phyto Repair Express Treatment -also therapy which uses Collagen and active organic hair solution in the market with with collagen and helps reconstruct the plant stem cells and is one of the most a new innovation in Collagen treat- hair fibre leading to brand new hair in innovative treatments for professional ment. The innovative hair treatment is three minutes only! The treatment hairdressers. The treatment transforms designed to suit women’s needs offers a strong protection against a traditional therapy into a professional through its simplicity, time saving, effi- weather and environmental agents and one, with a short turnaround and amaz- cacy and smoothness to the hair. Al fights radicals thanks to its key ingredi- ing results. Jothen is renowned to bring top inno- ents of Vitamin E and Aloe Vera which The unveiling of the new treatment vation to the professionals in Kuwait, hydrates the hair, doing away with dry- follows the success of the launch of and this launch in Kuwait is part of its ness, fizziness and split ends. A single tion and Conditioner for maintenance. tions and detangles it making it easy to Nashi Argan by Al Jothen in Kuwait. The efforts to cap its success with an amaz- step therapy, the Express Treatment can The Remedy Treatment can be done at brush. Nashi Phyto Repair Collagen Hair Care ing product. For effective results, the be done once a week for effective Salon and Home. The shampoo main- The world-class Nashi Phyto Repair Treatment works on both external and Reconstructing Treatment, which is results. tains the Collagen in the hair shafts, Dual Complex Collagen Hair Care internal damaging factors, such as over- Salon Exclusive, encompasses three Also on offer as part of the Nashi hydrates, restores and facilitates comb- Treatment products are available in all use of chemical treatments, hair dryers, steps - cleansing and opening the hair Phyto Repair is the Remedy Treatment, ing. The Conditioner provides necessary high end salons, top beauty spas and Al weather, damage caused by chlorine, cuticle with a plant shampoo; filling the with Remedy shampoo for reconstruc- nutrients to the hair, prevents imperfec- Jothen showrooms. FDA revises food safety rules due next year

WASHINGTON: The Food and Drug found in irrigation water and reduce the fre- control of the House. Since then, many GOP law- Administration on Friday revised sweeping food quency with which it is tested, in some cases. makers have said the rules are too burdensome safety rules proposed last year after farmers The proposal also reduces the amount of time for farmers. Some Democrats advocating for complained that the regulations could hurt busi- required between fertilizing crops with raw organic farmers have also been critical. ness. The new proposals would relax water quali- manure and harvest and allows farmers to hold Supporters have said the new laws are need- ty standards and allow farmers to harvest crops produce in a packing house without further reg- ed after several high-profile foodborne illness sooner after using raw manure as fertilizer. The ulations. The smallest farms would continue to outbreaks. While many farmers and food manu- final rules are due in 2015, and the FDA has been be exempted from many of the rules. facturers already follow good food safety prac- haggling over how to write them since Congress tices, the law would aim to ensure that all of passed a food safety law in 2010. Regulators say Rules for human food them do. Government inspectors have pointed balancing the need for tighter food safety stan- The organic industry had expressed concerns to dirty equipment, unsanitary conditions and In this artist concept provided by NASA, the MAVEN spacecraft approaches Mars on a dards after major food-borne illness outbreaks in about the rules, especially because many organ- animal feces as likely causes for salmonella, E. mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrived yesterday, MAVEN’s 442 mil- spinach, eggs, peanuts and cantaloupe against ic farmers use raw manure as fertilizer and try to coli and listeria poisonings that have sickened lion mile journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the the needs of farmers who are new to such regu- treat irrigation water with fewer chemicals. hundreds in recent years. There are an estimated spacecraft into an elliptical orbit. It’s designed to circle the planet, not land.—AP lations has been a challenge. “This approach has less potential to impose 3,000 deaths a year from foodborne illness. Michael Taylor, FDA’s deputy commissioner economic hardship on organic farmers, while at The rules governing produce are already NASA’s Maven spacecraft for foods, says the agency is trying to “achieve the same time supporting the safest food supply somewhat tailored to make the changes easier the goal of food safety in a practical way.” The in the world,” said Gwendolyn Wyard of the on farmers. They would apply only to certain rules are new terrain for the agency, he says. Organic Trade Association. fruits and vegetables that pose the greatest risk, reaches Mars this weekend The rules originally proposed in January 2013 The revised rules will also benefit brewers like berries, melons, leafy greens and other foods would require farmers to take new precautions who sell leftover grain from making beer to that are usually eaten raw. A farm that produces CAPE CANAVERAL: Mars, get ready for stripping away of the early atmospheric against contamination, making sure workers’ ranchers and dairy farmers as animal feed. green beans that will be cooked and canned, for another visitor or two. This weekend, NASA’s water and carbon dioxide. hands are washed, irrigation water is clean and Brewers were concerned that they would have example, would not be regulated. Maven spacecraft will reach the red planet “We measure these things today even that animals stay out of fields, among other to comply with new rules for animal food - In addition to regulating farms and food following a 10-month journey spanning 442 though the processes we’re interested in things. Food manufacturers would also have to including testing, audits and other safety meas- manufacturing facilities, the food safety law million miles. If all goes well, the robotic operated billions of years ago,” he said. submit food safety plans to the government to ures. Friday’s revisions clarified the brewers will authorized more inspections by the FDA and explorer will hit the brakes and slip into NASA launched Maven from Cape show they are keeping their operations clean. not have to follow the animal food rules because gave the agency additional powers to shut Martian orbit last night. Canaveral last November on the $671 mil- Those changes would in many cases require new they already follow rules for human food. down facilities. The law also required stricter “I’m all on pins and needles. This is a criti- lion mission, the first dedicated to studying equipment, paperwork and record-keeping. The Food safety law marks the first time the standards on imported foods. cal event,” NASA’s director of planetary sci- the Martian upper atmosphere. As of None of those priorities would change in the FDA would have real authority to regulate food The new proposal will have a 75-day com- ence, Jim Green, said Wednesday. Maven is Wednesday, the spacecraft was less than revised rule. But after complaints from farmers on farms. The agency said when it proposed the ment period. The FDA is legally required to not designed to land; rather, it will study 750,000 miles from its destination; Maven’s big and small who said the rules were too bur- rules that they could cost large farms $30,000 a finalize the rules by next year after being sued Mars’ upper atmosphere from orbit. Hot on view of the red planet would be roughly densome, the new proposal would relax some year. The law was passed by Congress at the end by an advocacy group last year for missing Maven’s heels is India’s first interplanetary equivalent to a baseball about 52 feet away. standards for the amount of bacteria that can be of 2010, weeks before Republicans assumed deadlines. —AP spacecraft, Mangalyaan, which is due to go “So Mars is really growing right now as into orbit around Mars two days after we approach, just four days away,” said Maven. David Mitchell, NASA project manager. The Scientists want to learn how Mars went boxy, solar-winged craft is as long as a FDA approves Eli Lilly’s injectable diabetes drug from a warm, wet world that may have har- school bus and as hefty as a 5,400-pound bored microbial life during its first billion SUV. NASA expects a scientific bonus from WASHINGTON: The Food and Drug US cases of the disease and occurs when the improvements in blood sugar control. The years, to the cold, barren place of today. Maven thanks to Comet Siding Spring. Administration has approved a new body doesn’t properly produce or use the drug was studied as a stand-alone therapy Maven should help explain the atmospheric The nucleus of the comet, discovered injectable diabetes drug from Eli Lilly and Co. hormone insulin. Drugs to treat the disease and in combination with other commonly changes that led to this radical climate just last year, will pass within 82,000 miles of for adults with the most common form of the represent a large slice of Lilly’s product port- used diabetes drugs, such as metformin.The change. Mars on Oct. 19. NASA initially feared the disease. folio, which includes the insulins Humalog drug will bear a boxed warning - the most “Where did the water go? Where did the trailing comet dust might jeopardize The agency on Thursday cleared the drug, and Humulin. serious type - highlighting that rats tested CO2 go from that early environment?” said Maven, but the risk now appears to be mini- Trulicity, as a weekly injection to improve Indianapolis-based Lilly is counting on with Trulicity had cases of thyroid cancer, chief investigator Bruce Jakosky of the mal, Jakosky said. The spacecraft will blood sugar control in patients with type 2 new drugs like Trulicity to replace falling rev- though it’s unclear whether they were University of Colorado’s Laboratory for observe Siding Spring, providing it can do diabetes, which affects more than 26 million enue from blockbusters like the antidepres- caused by the drug. Lilly will be required to Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder. so safely, and analyze the Martian atmos- Americans. The drug is part of a new class of sant Cymbalta, which is facing cheaper conduct follow-up studies on cases of thy- These escaping gases likely went down phere before and after the comet passes by. medicines called GLP-1 agonists, which spur generic competition after the expiration of roid cancer, heart problems and other poten- into the Martian crust and up into the upper “I’m told the odds of having an approach the pancreas to create extra insulin after its patent. tial safety issues with the drug. The FDA is atmosphere and out into space. Jakosky that close to Mars are about 1 in 1 million meals. The FDA approved Trulicity based on six also requiring Lilly to educate doctors about and his team hope to ascertain whether the years, so it’s really luck that we get the Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 percent of studies in 3,342 patients that showed the drug’s various risks. — AP climatic about-face resulted from the sun’s opportunity here,” Jakosky said.— AP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Delegation from NDC of Bangladesh visits Kuwait ajor General Mohammad Ashab Uddin, ndc, Ambassador of Bangladesh in Kuwait hosted a dinner at his residence in honour of visiting delegation of National Defense College (NDC) of Bangladesh on 18 September 2014. Along with the NDC course members, the ambassadors of several other countries and Kuwaiti dignitaries also attended the function. The delegation arrived in Kuwait on 14th MSeptember and visited several important defense related establishment in Kuwait. They departed on 20th September. It’s Swiss time at The Regency Hotel he Regency Hotel features a luxurious panoramic view of Tthe swimming pool and Arabian Gulf in its main restaurant at Silk Road, which is also consid- ered to be one of the finest restaurants in Kuwait that serves a wide and rich variety of foods suitable for all tastes and ages. Based on The Regency’s efforts to continuously introduce exciting new developments to its restau- rants, Swiss Executive Chef at the hotel and his team, launched “It’s Swiss Time” at Silk Road restaurant on Thursday September 18th, 2014. On the night of the launch, Swiss Ambassador Etienne Thevoz and embassy delegates including members of the press enjoyed an for “It’s Swiss Time”, a dry beef sta- main dish menu had beef strips guests enjoyed Swiss carrot cake, “It’s Swiss Time” with The September 28th, 2014 at 7:00pm array of Swiss favorites. The menu tion, Raclette cheese station, and with tomato and caraway, stuffed warm apple tart with hazelnuts, Regency’s Executive Chef will run at the hotel’s Silk Road Restaurant. included a delicious display of a Classic Gruyere cheese quiche lamb leg in puff pastry and and an authentic Swiss Mont every night for 10 days starting For more information please visit Swiss cheeses imported specially including many other items. The cheese spaetzle. As for desserts Blanc. from September 18th until www.theregencykuwait.com

KD 720 bank guarantee Pravasi Bhartiya Divas needed to bring female he Government of India has decided to hold the next Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD-2015) at Mahatma domestic workers TMandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2015. The from India effort would be to have more meaningful and interactive sessions that would address the issues and concerns of the he Government of India has made it overseas Indian community effectively. Since 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the return of the greatest mandatory for employers in Kuwait wish- “Pravasi”of all, Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa, it is Ting to bring female domestic workers from desired that PBD-2015 would be celebrated in a grand way. India to submit a bank guarantee of $2,500 The detailed programe of PBD-2015 is being prepared equivalent to KD 720 as a security deposit with and will be uploaded on the Embassy’s Website in due From left to right: Olivier Sage, CFO, and David Butorac CEO from OSN, with Gups Jutla, Head of the Embassy of India in Kuwait with immediate course. More detailed information on Pravasi Bhartiya Divas Business Development, MENA, CyberSource, and Nimish Dwivedi, Head of Payments of Mashreq. effect. (PBD-2015) can be accessed at the Ministry of Overseas Henceforth, the employers in Kuwait bringing India Affairs’ website (http://www.moia.gov.in). OSN sets industry-first with CyberSource female domestic workers have to deposit a bank secure online payment gateway for customers guarantee of KD 720 (equivalent to $2,500) in Second annual favor of Embassy of India along with the docu- losely following the launch of ‘Go rity and convenience for OSN cus- CyberSource’s Payment Card Industry ments submitted for attestation by the embassy. Military Logistics by OSN,’ the region’s fastest-grow- tomers for any card transaction - (PCI)-compliant data vault. The actual The bank guarantee provided by a bank in Cing premium online TV service, whether it’s through our award-winning card data, therefore, never enters OSN’s Kuwait summit and the revamp of its website to offer customer service center, at an OSN system; only the tokenised number is Kuwait needs to be valid till such time the female multiplatform access, OSN, the region’s point of sale or online via our website,” stored in the ERP system. domestic worker remains in Kuwait. The Embassy leading pay-TV network, has fortified its said David Butorac, CEO of OSN. “We are excited to work with will attest agreements for employment of female oving, maintaining and sustaining naval, air online payment channel with an “The early adoption of the state-of- Mashreq,” said Gups Jutla, Head of and ground forces officially supported by the domestic workers in Kuwait once the above con- unprecedented industry-first. the-art payment channel is a strong tes- Business Development, MENA, MKuwait Armed Forces, represented by the OSN has now become the region’s tament of our continued commitment CyberSource. “We believe this agree- dition of Bank Guarantee is fulfilled. This meas- Logistics & Supply Authority (J4), the 2nd annual first home entertainment provider to to invest in the most advanced tech- ment helps Mashreq to provide fast, ure is being taken to safeguard the welfare of Military Logistics Kuwait summit will take place on 23 introduce the highly secure nologies to enhance the customer safe and a seamless buying experience female domestic workers in Kuwait. and 24 September 2014 at the Radisson Blu, Salwa. CyberSource payment management experience.” he added. to its merchant customers thereby solution for its subscribers. “Mashreq prides itself in building accelerating the adoption of online pay- This follows an agreement with lead- market defining propositions and we ments. ing financial institution, Mashreq, and are delighted to launch this innovative “OSN, one of the most significant Embassy of Cuba CyberSource, a Visa company, deliver- online payment product with one of clients of Mashreq is the first to benefit ing payment management solutions to our key partners, OSN. This is the first from this new agreement with What’s On - Submission Guidelines he visa to the Republic of Cuba is only for pur- over 400,000 merchants worldwide, to large scale implementation of a state of CyberSource. We are confident that an poses of tourism (Tourist visa) issued for Kuwaiti provide secure online payment services the art secure and encrypted form of effective and secure payment manage- Tcitizens and foreign residents in Kuwait. It is for Mashreq Bank’s merchant clients. card data usage and storage ment system will help enhance OSNs All photos submitted for What’s On valid for one single entrance into national territory for OSN, a merchant client of Mashreq, ‘Tokenization’ as a payment mode in the end-customers’ experience, and should be minimum 200dpi. a 30-days trip and can be extend it for an additional is among the first to leverage the signif- country. Besides vastly improving the improve customer retention and loyal- 30 days at the office in the hotel where you have icant advantages of the new relation- online payment experience for users it ty,” Jutla added. Articles must be in plain text and accommodations or at the immigration authority. ship with CyberSource. OSN subscribers will create an unparalleled level of data CyberSource also adds significant and ‘Go by OSN’ users across the region security,” adds Nimish Dwivedi, Head of value to OSN subscribers through its should include name and phone Children must have their own Tourist Visa even if they will benefit from an extra cover of cyber Payments of Mashreq. Recurring Billing solution, which is numbers. Articles and photos that are travelling under their parents’ passport(s). security as the network uses The significant security that the designed to streamline and automate fail to meet these requirements will To obtain this visa in person at the Consulate, CyberSource’s highly secure, convenient CyberSource payment gateway brings recurring payments. It will help ensure these documents are needed: Valid passport, return and end-to-end online payment chan- to OSN subscribers is its - tokenisation that regular payments, such as monthly not be published. air ticket, accommodation in Cuba, payment required, nel. “In today’s era of technology spe- service, whereby all sensitive bills, are made securely and convenient- travel insurance, one photo. Fill application form. The cialisation, it is important to leverage credit/debit card related data is ly. New subscribers as well as ‘Go by Please send them to Embassy is located in Rawda, Block 3, Abu Hayan Al- the significant strengths that global replaced with a unique identifier (or OSN’ users can also benefit from an [email protected] Tawhedy St., House No. 74, opening hours from 8:30 experts bring to our business. The token). Through this system, card data express checkout facility for repeat pur- am to 2 pm from Sunday till Thursday. agreement with Mashreq and entered by customers is immediately chases by saving a preferred payment CyberSource will help ensure total secu- encrypted and transmitted to method. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sonam Kalra regales audience with ‘Sufi Gospel Project’

By Sajeev K Peter sador hailed the deep-rooted India-Kuwait western gospel vocals. expressed her gratitude to the Indian tarist who are Christian. Her accompanists bilateral relations especially in the field of “The Sufi Gospel Project is an effort to embassy and NCCAL for hosting the musical on the Sarangi and Tabla are Muslim, her he Embassy of India under the aus- culture and art. Jain said that the collabora- blend various voices of faith through the evening. flautist and percussionist are Hindus-a testa- pices of National Council for Culture tion between the two countries in the field use of song, music and the spoken word,” Kalra first conceived this project when ment that when it comes to faith and music, TArts and Letters (NCCAL) presented of culture will continue and more such pro- she said. “Traditional western gospel melds she was asked to sing gospel music to com- religion does not matter. ‘Sufi Gospel Project’, a cultural program of grams will be held in future with the support with Indian classical sounds, and Indian memorate the birth centenary of the Sufi Her renditions, that emerged through a Fusion Group led by renowned Indian of NCCAL. Indian Embassy Second Secretary spiritual texts are enriched by elements of Hazrat Inayat Khan at the Inayat Khan collaborative and organic process, combin- singer Sonam Kalra. (Information and Culture) A K Srivastava wel- western poetry to create sound that touch- Dargah in Delhi. She had sung Gospel in ing musical abilities and collective improvi- Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain inaugurat- comed the audience. es every soul,” she added. Revealing that no churches and other music venues but for sation and feeding of four diverse beliefs, ed the musical program in the presence of Sonam Kalra said her troupe presents a matter what the language of the lyrics or the Urz of Inayat Khan, she wanted to create were well-received by the crowd at the the- senior NCCAL and Indian Embassy officials mixture of various Indian spiritual render- the ethnicity of the sounds, there is but one a sound that blended all the faiths. atre. The musical program continued on on Sept 16 at Shamiya Theatre. ings through music, songs and rhymes in language, the language of faith. And that is Sonam belongs to the Sikh religion but the second day on Sept 17 at Shamiya In his brief inaugural address, the ambas- which classical Indian vocals blend with the universal truth, she said. She also she works with a keyboard player and gui- Theater. FAIPS DPS, Kuwait founder’s day - celebrating 19 years of excellence

Indian Youth Society presents ‘Papa Kahte Hain’

fter the grand success of multi-talented king of comedy Kapil Sharma’s comedy show in AKuwait, Indian Youth society is bringing anoth- er one of its kind musical live in concert for the first time in Kuwait, father and son on the stage to per- form for their upcoming event “Papa Kahte Hain” on 26th September at American International School, Maidan Hawally at 6:30 pm. It is going to be unique experience for Kuwait audience to see Udit Narayan and Aditya Narayan performing live with their troop. “Papa Kahte Hain” is an event to showcase the love and unity of the family, a stage where the whole Narayan family will perform together; it will be an evening to witness the whole family and their special bond of love. Padmashri Udit Narayan needs no introduction, a he 19th Founder’s Day of FAIPS DPS ar ties and the cash prizes to the high renowned legendary singer known for his unique was celebrated on 11th September achievers of both the CBSE as well as the style and entertainment with a lineup of awards. He T2014 at the auditorium of the IGCSE, followed by the teachers. Narendra received the Padma Shri Award, 3 National awards, 9 International British School, Fahaheel with Kumar, in his address complimented the filmfare and many other awards. splendor and zeal. The celebrations students and the teachers for their aca- Aditya Narayan - an actor, playback singer, music included the Scholar Badge Ceremony to demic achievements. Pramod Grover too composer and TV anchor- a big achiever at a young honor the scholars of the institution with appreciated the faculty and the students age is the latest heartthrob of Bollywood. He started badges certificates, ties and cash prizes. for their hard work and sincere efforts. The his career as a child artist and playback singer for The teachers were also honored with cer- Vice Principal Ravi Ayanoli proposed the many hit films like Rangeela, Akelei Hum Akelei Tum tificates of appreciation and cash prizes Vote of Thanks and the day came to an and Pardes. He hosted the famous reality show Sa Re for their dedicated service. The occasion end with the singing of the Indian Ga Ma Pa and X-Factor. was graced by Narendra Kumar, the for- National Anthem. Following the celebra- Behind every successful man is the support of a mer Chairman of the DPS Society, Pramod tion Narendra Kumar and Pramod Grover woman and here we have a woman who is the Grover-Honorary Treasurer DPS Society, addressed the entire faculty of FAIPS DPS. strength & support of 2 successful men. Deepa Member FAIPS Management Committee The former urged the teachers to identify Narayan, a proud mother and a wife has been the as the Guest of Honor and Hemant achievers in their classrooms not only in strongest pillar of the family. She herself is a Agarwal, the CFO of Al Rayan Holding Co. terms of academics but co-curricular renowned singer and has a long list of hit songs to The Principal Mrs. Anju Dheman rolled out activities as well and to groom them while her name. Delicious and quality foods stall by Mehfil the red carpet with her warm words of ing the pollution of Ganga and then a provided glimpses of achievements of the the latter lauded the efforts of the teach- Restaurant will be the special attraction for the event. welcome. The FAIPS orchestra thrilled the soulful rendition of “SunehhraKal”, by the institution. ing community at large and reiterated the audience with their mesmerizing perform- choir heralding a brighter future. The The Chief Guest and the Guest of importance of teaching fraternity in build- ance followed by a graceful dance depict- FAIPS Odyssey, a PowerPoint presentation Honor handed over the certificates, schol- ing up a good society. TV PROGRAMS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

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Warner Bros will 07:50 Bargain Hunt 16:50 How It’s Made 12:30 Coronation Street release “Marshland” in Spain on Sept 26. 08:35 The Planners 17:15 How Do They Do It? 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Struck by Le Pacte and “Marshland’s” sales com- 09:25 Valentine Warner Eats 17:40 Gold Divers 14:00 Criminal Minds pany, Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment, Scandinavia 18:30 Siberian Cut 15:00 Royal Pains deal is the first major territory sale announced on 09:55 Come Dine With Me: South 19:20 Outback Truckers 16:00 Emmerdale “Marshland,” which world premiered Saturday at Africa 20:10 American Diggers 16:30 Coronation Street 10:45 Come Dine With Me 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show San Sebastian to score 7.2 out of 10, sufficient to 20:35 The Liquidator make it, at least in Spanish critics eyes, one of the 11:35 Come Dine With Me 21:00 Siberian Cut 18:00 Criminal Minds WHITE HOUSE DOWN ON OSN MOVIES HD 12:25 Bargain Hunt 21:50 Outback Truckers 19:00 Perception competition contenders at this year’s Spanish fest. 13:05 The Planners 22:40 Alaska: The Last Frontier 20:00 Revenge 03:05 Secretly Pregnant The fifth solo feature by Rodriguez - whose 2012 14:00 Valentine Warner Eats 23:30 Siberian Cut 21:00 Resurrection 03:55 Long Island Medium Seville narcotics squad chronicle “Unit 7” scored an Scandinavia 22:00 Boardwalk Empire 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 00:00 Live LPGA Tour appreciable EUR2.4 million ($3.15 million) at 14:30 Come Dine With Me: South 23:00 The Leftovers 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 02:00 PGA European Tour Spanish B.O., plus critical plaudits and foreign sales - Africa 01:00 Trishna-18 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 07:00 Golfing World “Marshland” is set in 1980, three years after Spain’s 15:20 Come Dine With Me 03:00 True Love-PG15 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 08:00 Trans World Sport first general elections in 40 years, after Franco’s rul- 16:10 Come Dine With Me 05:00 Knife Fight-PG15 07:00 Craft Wars 09:00 WWE Night Of Champion ing establishment had agreed to relinquish formal 17:05 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 07:00 Snow Flower And The Secret 07:50 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 09:30 Top 14 Highlights political power on the condition of a “pact of 17:30 Bargain Hunt 00:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler Fan-PG15 09:05 Say Yes To The Dress – 00:00 The Incident-18 10:00 Golfing World silence” about former crimes, including mass execu- 18:15 Homes Under The Hammer 01:00 Megastructures 09:00 The Entitled-PG15 Bridesmaids 02:00 5 Days Of War-PG15 11:00 Web.com Tour 19:10 Food & Drink 02:00 Is It Real? 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African Women T20I Highlights 07:10 I Didn’t Do It Produced by Jose Antonio Felez’s Atipica Films in 04:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 07:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Highlights Teenage Witch Madrid and Gervasio Iglesias’ Seville-based 05:00 Champions League T20 07:55 Win, Lose Or Draw Sacromonte, both longtime Rodriguez backers, plus 01:00 Barbie And The Diamond Highlights 08:20 Suite Life On Deck Atresmedia Cine, the film production-distribution Castle 06:00 Champions League T20 08:45 A.N.T. Farm arm of broadcaster Atresmedia, “Marshland” reps a 02:30 Marvel’s The Invincible Iron Highlights 09:05 A.N.T. Farm Man considerable step-up in artistic ambition for 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 09:30 Sonny With A Chance 04:15 Everyone’s Hero Rodriguez, packing 170, often brief, sequences, 07:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 09:55 Sonny With A Chance 06:00 Astro Boy some multi-shot, some not. “Marshland” will be 08:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 08:00 Barbie And The Magic Of released theatrically spring/early summer in France 09:30 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 10:40 Suite Life On Deck Pegasus on a minimum 80-100 copies, opening up the 10:30 ICC Cricket 360 11:05 That’s So Raven 10:00 Marc Logan 11:00 Champions League T20 11:25 That’s So Raven opportunity to expand and of screenings at French 11:30 Barbie Magic Of The Rainbow Highlights 11:50 A.N.T. Farm events such as at late March’s Beaune Thriller Film 13:00 Barbie And The Magic Of 12:00 Champions League T20 12:15 A.N.T. Farm Festival, well attended by the French press, Labadie Pegasus Highlights 12:35 Good Luck Charlie told Variety at San Sebastian. 14:30 Cinderella 13:00 Champions League T20 13:00 Good Luck Charlie The release will be coordinated with 16:00 Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Highlights 13:25 Jessie Trouble “Marshland’s” Benelux buyer, major arthouse dis- 14:00 ICC Cricket 360 13:45 Jessie 18:00 Marc Logan tributor Cineart. “I think the film will be a great, fan- 14:30 Champions League T20 14:10 Austin & Ally 20:00 Emilie Jolie tastic surprise in France,” said Labadie. “Jean Labadie Highlights 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 22:00 Cinderella has been in the business for getting on 40 years. I’m 15:30 Champions League T20 15:00 Mako Mermaids 23:30 Niko 2: Little Brother, Big sure he will dedicate passionate care to the film and Highlights 15:25 I Didn’t Do It Trouble 16:30 Champions League T20 15:50 Liv And Maddie create a name for Alberto in France,” Canales said at Highlights 16:10 Violetta San Sebastian. Starting in the business in 1978, 17:30 Live Champions League T20 17:00 Dog With A Blog launching in 1986 Bac Films, Miramax’s distributor 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 17:20 Jessie in France, Labadie was forced out of Bac in 2006, 21:30 Champions League T20 17:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A going on to create Le Pacte. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You could be frugal when it comes to possessions, always limiting your pur- You may be making definite moves to add to your friendship list. That rich chases to what is essential and has value. This same theme carries through feeling happens when you have good friendships, not just acquaintances, in your response to people. You do not tend to lavish unnecessary affection or sentiment- but really good friends. You may enjoy eccentric or unconventional friends and groups short and simple. A friend may ask you for advice today on some very personal issues. You with some kind of humanitarian flavor will appeal as well. You have very original ideas for are able to cut through the red tape and get beneath and behind. If you are looking for a community and making shared dreams a reality. Perhaps you can lead a community proj- way to express your creative talents, look into the possibilities of working with stone. ect to plant or trim trees in several neighborhoods. A burning zeal for the ideal world and Perhaps white marble could be worked into your living surroundings. The light colors of your need to be part of a group of likeminded souls are major factors in your makeup. You stone or marble will promote a clean feeling and are wonderful to place in or around pool learn and grow through your efforts to help others and to make your inner vision a reality. areas, spas, bathrooms, stairways, etc. Exercise by bicycling or walking with others.

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

You may find yourself guiding young people today-at least spending a great You may have a sense of circumstances working against you or feel a lack of deal of time with young people. You may be feeling that your work world has taken away support and love from those around you. You could clash with young peo- from family time and family may be where your interests are just now. A short trip to some ple or old habits. Your support system and your environment may feel a bit stressed. Find entertainment area or a nearby park is in order. Your perception is good and will guide the cause of the problem so the whole day is not stressed-show your gratefulness for this you accurately in making forecasts or decisions. Refinement and relationships are the keys difficulty, even though you may not be happy with it. This could be a person or a situation to emotional satisfaction for you now. Neighbors may join you this evening for an evening but it is teaching you something great. A need for psychological security and absolute treat and some good conversation. Close relationships are important to you and you take truth in all matters cuts through most chitchat and settles on core material. You concen- a little extra time to grant a wish. Making someone else’s dreams come true may give you trate on deep, inner changes in yourself and in others-depth psychology. Keep your some rewarding times. thoughts positive and make this evening a special one.

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

You might like to ignore responsibilities and do some socializing-realities Real insight into your own inner workings or psychology could surface may demand that you tend to business and forget your friends for the today, and in a manageable form. You may be in the mood for deep conver- moment. Although you may be tempted to stay inside or just goof off from your responsi- sations. You have a natural sense of what the public wants and may find yourself prepar- ACROSS 4. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern bilities, you are actually in a good position to make much progress. There are break- ing for a conference, lecture or some sort of political speech in the near future. Your ability 1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. throughs in compassion and communion. This is a very nice day, perhaps filled with some to coordinate events is something to be admired. 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Dancers with the Joburg Ballet prepare on September 17, 2014 in Johannesburg before a A dancer of the Joburg Ballet warms up before a full dress rehearsal of the “Nutcracker Re- full dress rehearsal of the “Nutcracker Re-Imagined”. —AFP photos Imagined”. South Africa sets ‘Nutcracker’ in the Kalahari Desert

t’s danced to Tchaikovsky’s famous South African setting and in summer.” Angela Revie, who plays Clara. Kitty melody, but it’s not your traditional “The Nutcracker Reimagined” was first Phetla, a soloist at the Joburg Ballet, IChristmas Nutcracker: the Joburg created in 2008 by the Joburg Ballet’s who plays the role of the Sugar Plum Ballet has set it in the Kalahari desert forerunner. It is on show again this year- Fairy-which in this case is a sangoma- among ancient Bushmen paintings. The from September 19 through 27. “This finds the latest version of the dance winter theme has been replaced with one is very, very different,” says dancer “more dangerous”. sun, sand and baobab trees. The role of Keke Chele, who plays the butler. “It’s more sculptured, rather than the Sugar Plum Fairy is instead played being classical, it’s exciting, it’s quick,” by a sangoma or traditional healer, and It’s a lot of fun she says. Choreographer Adele Blank, the famous “Russian Dance” is per- “Like a traditional Xmas party when admits that adaptation did not initially formed in overalls and gumboots. that uncle that you haven’t seen in a flow smoothly because many of the “The Nutcracker Reimagined” comes long time comes to visit, those are the dancers are not from South Africa and with the original music and story line of kind of characters that we get to have already played in the classical France’s famous ballet dancer and cho- explore and it’s a lot of fun,” he said. It is Nutcraker. “So they look at us as if we reographer Marius Petipa-during set in a magical world of South Africa’s have lost the plot,” said Blank. Christmas night. And a little girl named sangomas, baobab trees, the gumboot For several years, the Joburg Ballet- Clara experiences a magical adventure. dance - an invention of black miners- previously known as Mzansi But with no snowflakes or tutus, Clara is and would not be complete without Productions and South African Ballet led by a sangoma through the Kalahari koeksisters, a traditional local sweet Theatre-has tried to rebrand itself and Desert, where the cave paintings come treat.The choreography is based on clas- reach out beyond its predominantly to life. And a baobab is all there is for a sic and contemporary inspiration and is white audience. “We are trying to sus- Christmas tree. sometimes strikingly pictorial. tain the existing audience, but grow a Christmas in the southern hemi- But the 2014 version of the ballet very new South African audience, par- sphere comes around midsummer so adds circus performances, with some ticularly a young and black and exciting “trying to pretend that it’s winter out- characters travelling to a magical world audience,” said Badenhorst. This per- side, is a little bit ridiculous,” said Dirk suspended from ropes. Performers find formance “is one of the ways we are try- Badenhorst, CEO of the Joburg Ballet. some of those aerial tricks a bit ing to achieve that.” The first production “So the idea was to create a South demanding. “The most challenging for of The Nutcracker took place at the Kitty Phetla, senior soloist of the Joburg Ballet pauses during a full African Nutcracker that would tell the me is probably the new circus stuff that Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St normal story of The Nutcracker, but in a we’re doing, it’s quite difficult,” says Petersburg, Russia in 1892. —AFP dress rehearsal of the “Nutcracker Re-Imagined”. Lauryn Hill comeback gets off to rocky start in London

auryn Hill’s five shows in Britain this album she has made, and delving into pop nonplussed by some of her song choices. month were billed as a rare treat for and rock territory. Songs from “The Score”, “The former Fugees star Lauryn Hill gave us Lfans of the elusive singer-songwriter, another award-winning album Hill recorded bafflingly obscure reinterpretations of her coming less than a year after she was as part of the Fugees in 1996, were left best songs,” James Hall wrote for The released from US federal prison where she largely untouched, along with a number of Telegraph. served three months for tax evasion. But a tracks from her 2002 MTV Unplugged 2.0 The Guardian agreed. “‘Ex-Factor’, her late start, angry tweets and poor reviews album. Hill also performed covers of “Bang soulful dissing of former Fugee and ex-lover marred her first sell-out gig at the Brixton Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” by Nancy Wyclef Jean, deserves better than to be Academy in London. The 39-year-old singer, Sinatra, The Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes for reduced to a funk-metal workout,” Ian famous for her 1998 album “The You” and a few Bob Marley classics, includ- Gittins wrote. “When Hill does an acoustic Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”, arrived on ing “Soul Rebel”, “Jammin’” and “Is This Love”. guitar for relatively sensitive readings of stage with a five-piece band and three MTV album songs such as ‘Mr Intentional’, backing singers at 9:58 pm on Friday. ‘Disappointing’ you wish she’d apply the same courtesy to The show, with tickets selling for 55 After the show, a number of fans took to her better material.” But some fans defend- pounds ($90), had been advertised to start Twitter to complain. Yuichi Miyama, a 31- ed the singer’s performance, saying it at 9 pm, with doors opening at 7 pm. year-old paralegal from London, said on showed her growth as an artist. Rukea This April 21, 2012 file photo shows US actress Management of the 4,900-seater venue Twitter: “Lauryn Hill is the most disappoint- Azougaye, a 24-year-old student from Polly Bergen attending “Struck By Lightning” took to Twitter a few minutes before her ing concert I have ever been to. That’s heart- London, told Reuters: “It was beautiful. It Premiere during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at arrival to apologize to disgruntled fans, breaking.” He explained to Reuters at the was more than I expected because it was the Borough of Manhattan Community College in some of whom had started booing before concert that he didn’t recognize a lot of the everything I hoped for. I’m just blown away New York City. —AP her arrival. “We apologize for the delay songs Hill performed. “The bottom line is that I got everything that I wanted from it.” which is out of our control,” read a state- Lauryn Hill is a singer and there are a lot of Hill follows up her weekend London ment on Twitter. “Lauryn Hill will be on songs on that album that she sings certain shows with a performance in Birmingham stage very soon.” things in such a beautiful way,” he said. “And on September 23 before heading to Polly Bergen, ‘Cape Fear’ When she arrived, Hill spent 80 minutes I felt I didn’t catch any of it in anything she Manchester on September 25. Her brief tour performing a combination of re-worked hits sang. And a lot of the songs were so far wraps up with two more London shows at actress, dies at 84 from her debut album, the only solo studio away from the original.” Critics also were the end of the month. —Reuters Lauryn Hill ctress and singer Polly Bergen, who’s best known for her role in the original “Cape Fear” opposite AGregory Peck, died at her home in Connecticut on Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ sprints Saturday. She was 84. Bergen had battled emphysema in the late 1990s. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary actress and long-time friend and past Neeson with $32.5 Million client, Polly Bergen,” her publicist Judy Katz said in a state- ment. “She died peacefully at her home in Southbury, Conn. this morning at 11:10 am, surrounded by her family, he Maze Runner” showed that sometimes the battling nasty creatures in a nasty labyrinth into a fran- weekend. Despite boasting Liam Neeson’s name above the long-time personal manager, Jan McCormack and close weekend box office is a marathon, not a sprint. chise. title, the story of an ex-cop searching for a drug dealer’s friends.” “TTwentieth Century Fox’s adaptation of James It also allowed the film to jet ahead of Universal’s “A kidnapped wife may have been hurt by its darker subject Aside from a thriving acting career on film, TV and Dashner post-apocalyptic novel took a while to build up a Walk Among the Tombstones” and Warner Bros.’ “This Is matter and hard-R rating. Neeson’s action hits such as Broadway, she was also a prolific songstress, self help head of steam, but found its core audience by the week- Where I Leave You,” which racked up $13.1 million on 2,712 “Non-Stop” and “Taken” have earned PG-13 ratings. Cross author and businesswoman, having launched a successful end’s midpoint. It debuted to $32.5 million from 3,604 loca- screens and $11.9 million on 2,868 screens, respectively. Creek put up the high $20 million budget. cosmetics line that earned her millions. Bergen won an tions, in line with projections. That’s good news for the stu- “Tombstones’” numbers are disappointing given that the “This Is Where I Leave” sees comedy director Shawn Emmy in 1958 for her role as Helen Morgan on the 1950s dio, which hopes to turn the story of a group of teenagers thriller had been expected to bring in $18 million this Levy (“Night at the Museum”) in a more personal, under- anthology series “Playhouse 90.” She was a regular in TV stated vein. The shiva dramedy arrived with some impres- movies and miniseries in the 1980s, most notably in the sive star wattage in the form of Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, 1983 epic “The Winds of War” and its 1988 sequel, “War Adam Driver, Jane Fonda and others and performed on the and Remembrance,” which earned her an Emmy nom for low end of projections which had it debuting in the $12 best supporting actress. million to $14 million range. The film cost an economical She was also the star of her own short-lived NBC variety $19 million to make. series, “The Polly Bergen Show,” which ran from 1957 to Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. domestic distribution head, 1958. Bergen became a regular on the popular game show said the film played well in major cities such as New York “To Tell the Truth” during the 50s. Most recently, she City, Chicago and Philadelphia, where ticket sales climbed played Felicity Huffman’s mother on “Desperate on Saturday, but didn’t receive as warm a reception in Housewives” and Tony Soprano’s late father’s mistress on Southern and more rural parts of the country. “It’s going to “The Sopranos.” On the film front, she starred opposite have great legs in the cities and that’s where I need it to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in her very first movie, the generate the revenue,” said Fellman. “It’s playing like gang- 1950 musical comedy “At War With the Army.” She would busters in some parts of country, and it’s playing a little later join them in two additional comedies, “That’s My Boy” soft in others.” “The Maze Runner” saw fans of the book and “The Stooge.” series turn out in force on Saturday, sending grosses for the Bergen played the first female US president in 1964’s night up 19% to $13.4 million. Based on Friday mid-day “Kisses for My President.” Her other movies included “Move grosses it briefly looked as though the film might debut in Over, Darling” (1963), “Making Mr Right (1987)” and 1990’s the mid-$20 million range. “Cry-Baby” with a young Johnny Depp. The multi-hyphen- “The Maze Runner’s” strong opening must have inspired ate star was also a prolific singer and theater maven. She sequel hopes, but Dashner’s book is unique in many released nearly a dozen albums throughout her career. respects. It sold well, but not at the level of “The Hunger Bergen made her Broadway debut in the revue “John Games” and “Divergent” books-something its opening bore Murray Anderson’s Almanac” and received a Tony nomina- out. The film of “The Hunger Games” debuted to $152.5 tion in 2001 for her portrayal of Carlotta Campion in million, while “Divergent” kicked off with $54.6 million. “Follies.” She had a role in the 2002 revival of “Cabaret” and In this image released by 20th Century Fox, Dylan O’Brien, foreground, appears in a scene from “The Filmed for a mere $34 million, it was produced for a frac- returned to Broadway with the comedy “Six Dance Lessons Maze Runner.” —AP tion of what those movies cost. —Reuters lifestyle MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 MilanDesignersFashion go for the flow Week at

ilan designers are making a nonbind- ing treaty with women. The collec- Mtions being previewed during Milan fashion week, in its fourth day Saturday, are easy to wear and roomy, not binding, meant for every day and not rarified occasions. Here are some highlights from Saturday’s shows:

Cultural ambassadors pair up Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film opened Giorgio Armani’s womenswear collection for next summer, teaming up two of Italy’s top cultural ambassadors. The art short titled “Sand” formed a backdrop for the Armani collection inspired by Mediterranean sands both in its colors - powdery gray, rosy white, pearly beige, lava black - and in the undulating motion created by the light, often translucent, textiles. The collection projected a modern, urban feel, united by fluid silhouettes and rich but diaphanous textiles. As the looks unfurled down the runway, another theme emerged, one of constant cul- tural flows among the peoples of the Mediterranean rim and the role of the sea, where in recent months migrants have died as they flee strife for safety in Europe. In Sorrentino’s film, a man and a woman lie on the beach coiled in rope, holding hands. Was he intentionally referring to the record flow of humanity this year toward Italy’s southern shores? “Indirectly, perhaps yes,” said the film- maker, who won the foreign-language Academy Award earlier this year for “The Great Beauty.” Juliette Binoche, on hand for the show, said she admires Armani’s looks for “the elegance of the noble fabrics.” “He started everything, he showed everybody the way, he traced the path for everybody after him,” the actress said.

No monotony here Roberto Cavalli’s sensual collection incor- porated the feminine elements of silk, lace and accordion pleats. Cavalli favored atten- Models present creations from the Giorgio tion-grabbing billowing gowns in bright psy- Armani collection during the 2015 chedelic floral prints or his trademark animal Spring/Summer Milan Fashion Week in prints. This time the zebra got top billing, Milan. —AFP notably on a spectacular halter dress that floated down the runway. looks were androgynous with strong refer- Cavalli’s rocker spirit came through in all- ences to school uniforms in both form, with white lace ensembles, distressed jeans with sturdy materials, and in mascot-friendly colors jacquard underlay and feathery accents on like maroon, navy and sky blue. Paglialunga black sheer tops paired with bead-covered redefined minimalism by playing with propor- trousers. There was a gladiatorial vibe to a tions. Long blouses were tucked into high- mauve lace-bodiced dress with a short pleat- waisted belted skirts, wide pants had skirt-like ed skirt. Cavalli embraced the two-dress-in- sweep and jumper dresses were slit open to one trend on Milan runways, with long gowns reveal the hem of a shirtdress. The fashion hanging sensually open over minidresses. “I crowd was appreciative, applauding wildly for hate monotony, because life needs to be curtain calls. something special,” Cavalli said before the show. The designer also told reporters that he Dedicated to movement is in advanced stages of discussions over the Evolving from a dancer’s wrap, the latest sale of his fashion company-but that he would styles from Bottega Veneta put a premium on remain firmly at the creative helm. On hand a woman’s freedom of movement. Creative was long-time friend, supermodel Heidi Klum, director Tomas Maier used everyday materials in town to host Saturday night’s amfAR like denim and gingham, embellished with fundraiser, supporting research that aims to sequins and beads. Sheer mesh overlays, from find a cure for AIDS by 2020. the tulle used in a dancer’s tutu, added mys- tery and movement to the looks. Maier said in Androgynous minimalism his show notes he was inspired by a woman Rodolfo Paglialunga didn’t consult the “who has beautiful posture, moves her arms archives to make his debut collection for the gracefully and has a dancer’s walk.” — AP Jil Sander label. He didn’t have to. “I knew very well Jil Sander because I grew up looking at her. I didn’t want to make a copy of a Jil Sander look,” Paglialunga said backstage after the show. “I didn’t think minimalist or not.” The lifestyle MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 FASHION Fashion Week Milan

Models present creations from the Roberto Cavalli collec- tion during the 2015 Spring / Summer Milan Fashion Week.

Models present creations by Kuwaiti designer Tahani Al-Otaibi at London Fashion Week. Otaibi shines at London Fashion Week ahani Al-Otaibi is the first Gulf designer ture 2015. She was the centre of focus with lus- international fashion show. same as elegant dresses. Otaibi used French participating with her creations at the trous silky materials and attractive Swarovski The centerpiece of the show was the short embroidery, Italian crepe, and French tulle as TLondon Fashion Week. During the show, embroidery. Her participation is considered the abaya that are a new trend for unveiled well as chiffon. She used also crystal stones in Otaibi presented her collection of haute cou- first by a fashion designer from the Gulf in an European, Gulf and Arab women. They are the the collection. Bossini unveils AW ’14 collection omfort mixed with a good dose of style should be your denims. For some variety these key pieces are available in mantra for the new season and Bossini’s AW ’14 collec- interesting patterns like color-blocking, geometric, leopard Ction makes sure of that! With a range that caters to a and flag prints. You can mix and match to create a classic wide array of styles you are sure to make your own style state- American vintage appeal in the seasons’ must have colors like ment while the sun still shines bright. navy, camel and burgundy. Infuse you wardrobe with the best of the trends that range For the little bright naughty ones, the Kids range encapsu- from denims, florals and the all American inspired rustic look lates the fun, energetic vision of the brand in a fusion of color- that is set to be a rage in the fashion circles. Men, Women and ful prints and warm fabrics in interesting patterns. The girls Kids are in for a treat with something in there for everyone! can look pretty in a preppy chic range that features tartan Whether you fancy a girl next door look or a more fun jackets, skirts and coats with the embellishments for that adventurous perspective towards life and fashion, you are a sparkle or stick to the floral and cute animal prints in true blue Bossini girl. denim/velveteen dresses, cardigans and jeans. The boys look For the free spirited nomad in you slip on blouson jackets, smart and dapper in varsity themed collection, the music floral print blouses, cardigans inspired by the very trendy enthusiast and the nature inspired range as well featuring British fantasy theme with teal, red and green as the domi- pieces like plaid pants, padded jackets and graphic tees, den- nant hues. For the dainty feminine look you can pick a look ims and chinos. Choose from an array of bright cheerful from the winter blossom range consisting of key pieces in shades like pink, grey, red, blue and mustard to brighten up silky fabrics like blouson jackets, sheer blouses in rustic reds, their day. coffee and subdued pinks teamed with printed denims and Revive you wardrobe for the next fashion forward season crop pants. with the new Bossini collection. Men can rock a relaxed and sporty look with a range of Head to your nearest Bossini store located at Hawally (Al- smart polo tees and shirts that can’t go wrong worn over col- Othman Centre), Fahaheel (Ajial Mall), Farwaniya (Mugathir or chinos, a trend that makes its way into every season. Aim to by British vintage workers with quilted baseball/bomber jack- Complex), Khaldiya Co-op, Qortuba Co-op and all Centrepoint get a more rugged look for the chilly temperatures inspired ets, classic sweaters/sweatshirts, pattern shirts and evergreen Stores and shop the collection. lifestyle MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 FASHION

Models present creations from the Bottega Veneta collection. Fashion Week Milan

Models present creations from the Jil Sander collection.

Strawberry collection from Cilek: A new taste to your child bedroom ith school season starting over the strawberry-shaped moon. touch to any bedroom without skew- and autumn is around the Now available in Click’s for Kuwait ing the age range to suit one seg- Wcorner, Cilek is happy to showrooms, Safat in Al-Rai, Shuwaikh, ment over the other. bring a new range of color and style Tilal and Fahaheel, the Strawberry col- Combining polka dot patterns and to young girls’ bedrooms everywhere lection features fresh and vivid design embroidery patterns with smooth with a collection that will send them choices that add a modern feminine white wood and velvety color mix- tures of navy and rouge, the Strawberry collection is modern with- out being bland and traditional with- out being fussy. Features include internal under bed storage, fabric lined new wardrobes drawers, LED lighting in the hanger area and parti- tioned wardrobe drawers that add even more space. Another aspect worth admiring is functionality of the collection; like dresser’s adjustable mirror, small drawers, study unit and desk that offer both comfort and elegance. The new Strawberry collection, and along with many others, bedroom designs are all insured with Cilek’s 5 years war- ranty that offer you great quality and service for many years to come. South Africa sets ‘Nutcracker’ in the Kalahari Desert

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Indian women dressed in traditional attire practice Garba dance as they prepare to celebrate Navratri, or the nine nights festival in Ahmadabad, India, yesterday. The festival begins from September 25. —AP Hi-tech theatre revives Poland’s Shakespearean ghosts

he curtain has gone up on a ly diverse merchant class-including Englishmen Omilanowska, the Shakespearean venue is a Shakespearean playhouse with an ultra- and Scots-hungry for a good show on a night prime example of what she terms an “unprece- Tmodern twist in Poland’s port city of out. Troupes of English actors began arriving on dented blossoming” of cultural institutions in Gdansk, built on the very spot where four cen- Baltic shores in the early 1600s and soon Poland, thanks in large part to generous EU turies ago English actors performed master- became so popular they were “followed by vir- funds. Since 2007 Poland has received 553.6 mil- pieces by the Great Bard, albeit on a more hum- gins who would travel after them from one town lion euros in EU subsidies earmarked for culture ble stage. The new 22-million euro ($28-million) to the other like groupies today,” Limon told AFP. and regional development, the Polish culture venue, which opened this weekend with a per- “The theatrical impact of England in that peri- ministry said. formance of Hamlet by the world-renowned od is comparable to that of British pop and rock The nation of 38 million is slated to absorb Shakespeare’s Globe company, already boasts music in the 21st century,” he added. But in the 500 million euros more for similar purposes Britain’s Prince Charles among its most ardent decades after the English monarchy was between 2014 and 2020. “The sum total of all fans. restored, actors gradually abandoned the hither- these investments in such a short time is Professor Jerzy Limon, a literary scholar, is the to popular Gdansk as they sought fame and for- unprecedented in Europe and in all of Polish his- driving force behind the Gdansk Shakespeare tune back home, Limon explains. The city’s play- tory,” Omilanowska told AFP as the curtain went Theatre and the city’s annual Shakespeare festi- house was finally scrapped in the 1800s to make up in Gdansk. Unscripted high drama marked val, which has been drawing audiences since way for new homes, and in 1945 Nazi bombs the debut, also attended by incoming European 1993. “It’s a combination of a wonderful 400- razed the area to the ground. Union President, former Polish prime minister, year-old tradition and very modern, rather post- Located a stone’s throw from the Gdansk Donald Tusk. The Gdansk native-and friend of Babies held by amateur sumo wrestlers cry during the “baby-cry sumo” com- modern architecture,” said Limon of the venue. Shipyard, the cradle of Poland’s anti-communist Limon-and several hundred other guests were petition at the Irugi shrine in Tokyo yesterday. —AFP photos The “jewel box” design by Venetian architect Solidarity movement led by freedom icon Lech forced to evacuate the building for over an hour Renato Rizzi features a dark brick neo-Gothic Walesa, the land was paved over and turned into when state security agents found a suspicious style exterior and a retractable roof that can a parking lot after the war. Limon’s dream of a black suitcase, but it proved a false alarm. swing open to the sky like a two-winged draw- new theatre harking back to the days of Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s Oscar-winning film bridge. Shakespeare was born after Poland shed com- director, who is also renowned for stage produc- A shimmering golden-hue dominates the munism in 1989. European Union entry in 2004 tions including Hamlet, was visibly moved at the Having a bawl: wooden 600-seat interior, with its three tiers of made it come true. Brussels footed more than venue. “It’s wonderful that in the past English balconies. A stage comprising 56 moveable half bill for the theatre with grants to the tune of actors performed here for audiences and that, modules is versatile enough to accommodate 12 million euros ($15.4 million), with local and after many, many years and huge political Japan’s sumo wrestlers the quintessentially Elizabethan “thrust stage”, regional authorities covering the balance. upheaval, we have a Shakespearean theatre here surrounded by the audience on three sides; again-a bigger, even better one! “I won’t at all be “theatre in the round”, where the audience sur- Renaissance surprised if one evening the ghost in Hamlet rounds performers and the conventional For Poland’s new Culture Minister Malgorzata appears here.” —AFP grapple with cry­babies “proscenium”, with all viewers facing the stage. The cutting-edge venue was inspired by the apanese parents watched with glee yesterday drawing of a 17th century Gdansk artist detail- as sumo wrestlers tried to reduce their babies ing a humble wood-panel building used in the Jto tears, in a centuries-old ritual believed to city for fencing and theatre. bring good health to bawling infants. More than a It featured an open-air courtyard, similar to hundred sobbing babies were subjected to the London’s original Globe playhouse launched by ordeal at Tokyo’s Irugi Shrine, with their doting par- Shakespeare himself in 1599. Prince Charles has ents watching happily as the amateur wrestlers been among the most ardent supporters of bounced them up and down in a makeshift sumo Limon’s drive to revive the Shakespearean her- ring. Some of the infants, aged between six and itage of Gdansk. In a special video address mark- 18 months, were roared at in the face in a bid to ing its weekend grand opening, the heir to the get the tears flowing. British throne deemed it “fitting” to raise the cur- “The babies’ cries are intended to reach God tain 450 years after Shakespeare was born. and parents hope that their little ones will grow “There’s no other theatre like it. It really healthy and strong,” explained Yoshimi Morita, a exceeds expectations,” Neil Constable, chief priest at the shrine, where screams and squawks executive of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, told filled the air. “So if a baby doesn’t cry at this event, AFP in Gdansk. “We’re very jealous of Professor sumo wrestlers try to make him or her cry on pur- Limon’s new theatre with the opening and clos- pose, moving the baby up and down, while their ing roof and the opportunity to be able to per- parents watch with pounding hearts,” he said. form in winter months in the way that we can’t “There is no victory nor defeat in this wrestling, mother Mae Shige said her son had performed with our outdoor theatre,” he said of London’s and a match always ends with a chorus of ‘Banzai well at yesterday’s event. “He’s not a baby that cries Globe, a precise replica of Shakespeare’s very raku!’ which means ‘Live long’.” much but today he cried a lot for us and we are own venue. The ceremony dates back some 400 years and very happy about it,” Shige said. Yuki Ibusuki, is held at shrines nationwide. The rules vary from another mother at the shrine, said of her son: “He’ll Theatrical impact region to region-in some versions the babies are be one soon, and we wanted to come here so that Like Amsterdam, Gdansk was a bustling raced against each other to see who will cry first, we would have a memory of this event for when Hanseatic League trading port in the 15th to People crowd in front of the Shakespearean Theatre building at the opening in while in others the first crier is the loser. Delighted he grows up.” —AFP 17th centuries, hosting an affluent and ethnical- Gdansk, Poland, on September 19, 2014. —AFP