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Wednesday 24 September 2014 • 29 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6198 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Syria strikes, Yemen Emir meets UN chief unrest ignite Arab ire Calls to hit Houthi rebels who have seized Sana’a

DOHA: Social media in the region went viral yesterday after Shia Houthis seized much US, Arab allies hit Islamic of the Yemeni capital and Qatar and some of its GCC peers joined hands with the US to strike State targets in Syria Islamic State (IS) operatives. A Twitter campaign was WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: The United States and its Arab launched, ‘#GCC Fighters Shelling allies bombed Syria for the first time yesterday, killing scores of IS in Iraq’ (it should have been Islamic State fighters and members of an Al Qaeda-linked group. Syria instead), in which a number The attacks encountered no objection — and even signs of tacit of Qataris took part, with several approval — from President Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian government, participants saying the Houthis which said Washington had notified it in advance. should have been attacked first. US Central Command said Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia People commenting on and the United Arab Emirates participated in or supported the Aljazeera.net, meanwhile, mainly strikes against Islamic State targets. argued that the air strikes on IS The White House said some of the strikes had been conducted to were a ploy to weaken the Sunni- disrupt an Al Qaeda affiliate known as the Khorasan Group, which led opposition in Syria. it said had been plotting an imminent attack either in the United The fact that Qatar and some States or in Europe. other GCC states are taking part Warplanes and ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles struck in the military strikes on IS was a dozens of targets including fighters, training compounds, headquar- subject of comment by many par- ters and command and control facilities, storage sites, a finance ticipants in the Twitter campaign. centre, trucks and armed vehicles. US forces acted alone to launch The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations “Qatar is part of the allied forces eight strikes in another area of Syria on the Khorasan Group. headquarters in New York yesterday. The two reviewed ties between Qatar and the global body and discussed pounding IS operatives. After a The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the regional and international issues and the main topics on the agenda of the 69th session of the General Assembly. week (US President) Obama will war in Syria, said at least 70 Islamic State fighters were killed in The Emir later attended the opening session of the UN summit on climate change. issue a statement that air strikes strikes that hit at least 50 targets in the provinces of Raqqa, Deir are over and Arab leaders should Al Zor and Hasakah. It said at least 50 fighters and eight civilians now send ground troops to fight,” were killed in strikes targeting Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra tweeted a Qatari woman. Front, in northern Aleppo and Idlib provinces. The Observatory said “(Syrian President) Bashar Al most of the Nusra Front fighters killed were not Syrians. Assad and Al Houthis in Yemen Islamic State vowed revenge against the United States. “These All drug prices to fall next year should have been targeted first,” attacks will be answered,” a fighter said by Skype from Syria. wrote a commentator. REUTERS DOHA: Prices of about 4,500 prices was taken by the GCC cheaper in other GCC countries,” Well-known Qatari newspa- See also page 6 registered medicines in Qatar Supreme Council to reduce she explained. per columnist Faisal Al Marzouki will be reduced by the end of medicine prices in the member The reduced prices are not tweeted: “Yemenis are shocked by against the IS but the Houthis welcomed the attack on IS as next year, and in the initial countries which remained high. taking effect in all the GCC Al Houthis as Sana’a has fallen should be killed first. they had been targeting innocent phase a major cut in prices The decision is also intended to countries on the same date. Some to them. And GCC citizens are Meanwhile, commenting on people and violating basic human of 657 medicines came into prevent movement of medicines countries have implemented shocked that GCC fighters are Aljazeera.net people said that IS rights. “It is good news.” effect on Monday, the Supreme between GCC countries,” Dr them earlier, she added. bombing IS operatives in Iraq.” militants had hijacked the revolu- Another commentator who Council of Health (SCH) said Saleh Al Merri, assistant secre- With the implementation of He, however, added with regard tion in Syria as they were attack- seemed to be a sympathiser of IS, yesterday. tary general for medical affairs at unified import prices, differ- to the anti-IS attack that what- ing the Free Syrian Army. said he saw a bigger conspiracy In the next phase, a similar cut SCH, said at a press conference ences in retail prices between ever was happening was in the The commentators were from behind the attack. in prices of 652 medicines from 48 yesterday. GCC countries will not be more overall interest of the people. different GCC and Arab countries. THE PENINSULA manufactures will take effect dur- Dr Aisha Al Ansari, direc- than 10 percent, said Al Ansari. A commentator said he was One commentator said he Continued on page 5 ing the first quarter of next year, a tor of the Pharmacy and Drug There is also a decision to limit senior SCH official disclosed. Control Department at SCH, said the profit margin for wholesalers Of the 657 medicines from that the reduction will apply to and retailers to 45 percent. 52 manufacturers that are now all medicines sold in Qatar in a Accordingly, the profit margin available at reduced prices, about phased manner. for retailers and wholesalers in 400 are commonly sold in phar- “Currently 4,500 medicines Qatar has been fixed at 25 per- Bahrain parliamentary polls on Nov 22 macies across the country. are registered in Qatar and the cent and 15 percent, respectively. The SCH move is based on a plan is to reduce prices of all the Asked about possible losses to DUBAI: H M King Hamad on Shia protesters. They were and also has monitoring powers. GCC decision to unify import medicines by the end of next year. retailers and wholesalers due to bin Isa Al Khalifa has set a replaced in by-elections held later However, the upper chamber, or prices of medicines in member About 1,500 medicines will be the price cut, Al Ansari said they November 22 date for Bahrain’s in 2011. Consultative Council, appointed by countries. available at reduced prices in the had been given three months to first parliamentary elections In a copy of a royal decree pub- the king and which has the same The prices of several com- first quarter of next year,” she said. dispose of old stocks. since a Shia-led uprising rocked lished on the official BNA news number of members, has the monly used medicines for treat- She explained that the new “We cannot take responsibil- the Sunni-ruled Gulf state in agency’s website late on Monday, power to block legislation by the ing diseases like diabetes and prices had been fixed based on ity for the losses because we had 2011. King Hamad urged eligible voters lower house. hypertension fell by five to 70 the lowest price in the GCC for told them well in advance not to The main Shia opposition group to elect members of the 40-seat Bahrain’s opposition, demand- percent on Monday, bringing joy each medicine. place orders for new stocks until Al Wefaq, which made slender lower house of parliament. ing a constitutional monarchy, has to customers who have been com- “Saudi Arabia has the lowest the new prices came into effect,” gains in the last poll held in 2010, The lower house has the author- not yet announced if it will partici- plaining of high medicine prices prices in most cases, being the she said. withdrew its 18 MPs after a gov- ity to examine and pass legislation pate in the polls. in the country. largest market in the region. THE PENINSULA ernment crackdown the next year proposed by the king or cabinet AFP “The decision to unify import However, certain medicines are Continued on page 5

New taxi service to Bin Laden son-in-law start tomorrow gets life term DOHA: The third private taxi operator in Qatar, NEW YORK: A US court sentenced Osama Profit Group, will launch its yellow-roofed taxis bin Laden’s son-in-law and former Al Qaeda tomorrow, Al Sharq reported. spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith to life in Under the brand name “Cars”, the company will start prison yesterday. its operations with a fleet of 50 taxis, said the daily. The 48-year-old Kuwaiti, who has defended The taxis also carry the Karwa brand name and the September 11, 2001 attacks, was found guilty meet the requirements set by public transport company on March 26 of plotting to kill Americans and Mowasalat. providing material support to terrorists. Last January, Mowasalat, which operates Karwa Before the sentence was handed down in a taxis, had signed contracts with the Profit Group and US federal courtroom, Abu Ghaith spoke in Ibin Ajayan Trading Group for the two companies to Arabic through a translator to say the only launch 500 taxis each by the year-end. judgement he would accept was that of God. Al Million and Al Ijarah are the other two private “Today when you are shackling my hands, companies operating taxis in a franchise agreement and intend to bury me alive, you are unleashing with Mowasalat. the hands of thousands of Muslims and they will Quoting Abdulla Sultan Al Sabbagh, CEO of Profit join the rally of free men,” he said. Group, the daily said that the company will start with Judge Lewis Kaplan said Abu Ghaith failed 50 taxis and expand its fleet to 500 in phases. to show remorse for the September 11 attacks. The plan is to add 50 taxis every week until the tar- “You continue to threaten,” Kaplan said. geted is achieved. One of the Cars taxis that will hit Doha’s roads tomorrow. “What you have done warrants the maximum THE PENINSULA sentence.” AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Al Fakhoora attends forum on Mideast deaf DOHA: Al Fakhoora, a pro- Gaza through creativity, collabo- community in the Middle East. gramme of Education Above All ration and effective partnerships. The third session explained the (EAA), founded by H H Sheikha Farooq Burney, Director, Al situation of the deaf community Moza bint Nasser, participated Fakhoora, said: “We are delighted in Gaza, while the fourth session in a forum hosted by Qatar to participate in the event to introduced future initiatives for Charity and Aljazeera to raise raise awareness about the deaf the deaf community in Gaza. awareness about the reality and community. Al Fakhoora’s work Founded in the aftermath of challenges facing the deaf com- includes a focus on the impor- the 2008-2009 war, Al Fakhoora, munity in the Middle East. tance of equipping students with named after a UN school that Taking Gaza as an example, the skills through real life learning was the scene of an attack that forum showcased work of NGOs activities, and we hope to encour- took the lives of 43 people, was in Gaza through film, photog- age forum participants to think launched as a student-led cam- raphy, presentations and panel creatively about opportunities and paign advocating education and discussions. partnerships to further support the end of the Gaza blockade. Al Fakhoora was invited to the deaf community in Gaza and Its comprehensive approach present its current work and in the Middle East.” focuses on empowering Gaza’s future initiatives in Gaza to help The opening session showcased youth with narrative rather than support the deaf community. work and activities in Gaza for arms, and provides opportunities Dalia Maarouf, Advocacy the deaf community, the second to enable them to continue their Officer, Al Fakhoora, presented session presented the reality studies. One of the participants giving a presentation at the forum. ‘Future initiatives’ on the youth in and challenges facing the deaf THE PENINSULA Qatar Red Crescent takes part in GCC meetings DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and possible future scenarios. took part in coordination meetings The main agenda item was to review at the GCC Secretariat-General in the collective humanitarian interven- Riyadh recently. tion by Gulf red crescent societies in Dr Fawzi Oussedik, Director, QRC the humanitarian tragedy in Syria and International Relations and International its repercussions on neighbouring coun- Humanitarian Law, chaired the first tries, explore potential building capacity meeting of the permanent working group for humanitarian workers, and discuss following up International Red Cross and relevant issues. Red Crescent Movement Deliberations The permanent working group on on the Seville Agreement (Agreement the humanitarian situation in Syria on the Organisation of International was formed following a resolution at the Activities of the Components of the Red 10th meeting of GCC red crescent presi- Cross and Red Crescent Movement). dents in Kuwait to deal with the situa- The meeting followed up decisions of tion of Syrian refugees in neighbouring the 10th meeting of GCC Red Crescent countries. presidents on the agreement, in Kuwait The mandate of the working group in May 2014. was to follow up on the humanitarian Dr Khaled Diab, Director, QRC situation in Syria and propose joint International Relief and Development action plans for GCC national societies Department, attended the first meet- to anticipate possible future changes in ing of the permanent working group on this respect, ensuring a better coordi- the humanitarian situation in Syria to nated position and stronger role for GCC Officials attending one of the meetings. review the latest developments in Syria countries. THE PENINSULA QC allocates $500,000 for young Arab entrepreneurs

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) and Somalia. Funds on Narwi Silatech will offer technical has allocated $500,000 in direct are given as revolving donations, assistance to QC, enabling it to funding to help finance small so that when an entrepreneur showcase selected youth develop- projects for young Arab entre- repays the original loan, the dona- ment projects of QC outside Qatar preneurs, officials have said. tion moves on to support others. for crowd funding opportunities. Funds were announced along- “Through this key partnership The Arab world has the highest side the signing of an agree- between Silatech and QC, we’re percentage of youth unemploy- ment between QC CEO Yousef taking advantage of technology, ment — about 26 percent — in bin Ahmad Al Kuwari and his innovative programme design fea- any region in the world. Silatech counterpart Dr Tarik tures and crowd funding through The only option for many young M Yousef yesterday, committing Narwi that will make it easier to adults is to start their own very both organisations to work jointly support young Arab entrepre- small, or micro enterprises. to support young Arab entrepre- neurs through Shariah-compliant Unfortunately, funding is dif- neurs through Silatech’s Narwi lending,” said Al Kuwari. ficult for young entrepreneurs in micro-giving portal. Headquartered in Doha, the Arab world to obtain. The agreement follows a mem- Silatech is a regional social ini- Narwi will leverage the proven orandum of understanding signed tiative that promotes employment power of crowd funding to help in 2013 between QC and Silatech and entrepreneurship opportuni- provide this financing. to cooperate in technology, fund- ties for young people throughout “Micro-enterprise funding is an raising and technical assistance. the Arab world. approach to boost youth enter- Narwi (narwi.com) will be the QC is a leading Arab charita- prise that has generated impres- first online micro-giving platform ble organisation, with a broad and sive results for Silatech. created by Arabs for Arabs. diverse range of programming “It is testimony to the vision of It will allow visitors to the worldwide. QC that they recognise the dem- site to directly and securely con- Through the agreement signed onstrated impact of micro-enter- tribute to financing young Arab on Sunday, QC will provide prise and the region’s untapped entrepreneurs of their choice in $500,000 of direct funding for potential of online crowd funding countries, including Palestine, Narwi, as well as outreach assist- through Narwi,” said Yousef. Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen ance in marketing the portal. THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo launches 4G roaming service DOHA: Ooredoo has become said: “Ooredoo strives to be the areas of Qatar, becoming fully- the first operator in Qatar and first for our customers, deliver- nationwide earlier this year. the first company in the glo- ing the best network and widest The 4G network can be bal Ooredoo Group to offer range of services wherever they accessed by sending the keyword 4G roaming services, enabling are in the world. Our 4G net- ‘4G’ to 114 for Shahry and ‘121’ for customers to enjoy superfast work was the first and is the big- Hala customers. Internet speeds when they gest in coverage and capacity in When travelling abroad, travel. Qatar, we were the first to launch Ooredoo recommends customers Ooredoo customers will be a true roaming product with to subscribe to Ooredoo Passport, able to access 4G LTE networks Ooredoo Passport and we are the which includes a pre-activated 1 on their 4G-enabled devices in first to offer 4G roaming for our GB data and 100 roaming min- specific countries, with no sub- customers.” utes for QR100 a week to more scription required. 4G roaming To ensure full transparency effectively manage their roam- from Ooredoo will be available at and make customers aware of all ing costs. Passport data usage standard roaming rates. roaming costs, Ooredoo has set- includes 4G usage if available with Ooredoo’s first 4G roaming up a page at www.ooredoo.qa/ that partner. partner is Mobily in Saudi Arabia en/4G, which will be constantly Ooredoo Passport can be acti- – one of the most-visited destina- updated with destinations where vated by sending the SMS ‘OP’ to tions in the region – and plans 4G roaming is available, along 114 for Shahry and 121 for Hala are in place to add new partners with standard roaming rates. customers. in the coming weeks. Since the launch of 4G in For details, please dial 111 or Waleed Al Sayed, Chief 2013, Ooredoo’s 4G network has visit http://www.ooredoo.qa/en/ Operating Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, expanded to cover all inhabited op#. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Greetings sent to Saudi monarch QRC to hold ‘Support Gaza’ auction DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent bidding — 14 world-class cars from 17,200 homes destroyed and yesterday sent a cable of con- (QRC) is holding a ‘Support Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, nearly 500,000 or more than one gratulations to the Custodian Gaza’ charitable auction on Mclaren, Jaguar, Maserati, BMW, quarter of Gaza population were of the Two Holy Mosques King Friday at the Katara Cultural Chevrolet Camaro, and Mini displaced. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Village. Cooper and three Ducati motor- After the war, the campaign Saud of Saudi Arabia on his The event, in the pres- cycles — and three pieces of the shifted focus from relief to recon- kingdom’s National Day. ence of eminent scholar Dr Kiswah of the Kaaba embroidered struction. The QRC office in Gaza The Prime Minister and Yusuf Al Qaradawi, Chairman, with gold threads. initiated reconstruction work Interior Minister H E Sheikh International Union of Muslim Participants must be at least 18 and resumed work on pre-war Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Scholars, will be held between and deposit QR50,000 as registra- projects. It surveyed the dam- Al Thani sent a similar cable. 7.30pm and 9.30pm in cooperation tion payment, to be refunded to age in some completed projects, with Qatar TV and Al Rayyan losing bidders. For winners, the particularly in the healthcare, Qatar to host UN satellite channel. The auction deposit will be applied towards the education, and water and sani- has attracted sponsorship from final selling price. The remain- tation sectors, for repair and forum on crimes major corporations and institu- ing amount must be paid in full rehabilitation. tions, including Alfardan Group, within 72 hours of the auction, In August, a Gaza solidarity VIENNA: Qatar and the Jaidah Group, and Al Wajba otherwise the sale will be can- festival was organised by QRC in United Nations Office on Establishment. celled and the deposit forfeited. cooperation with Katara Cultural Drugs and Crime on Monday Proceeds will support Gaza The auction is part of the Village Foundation, Qatar TV, Al signed an agreement to reconstruction efforts, includ- humanitarian campaign launched Rayyan TV and Q-Media. It fea- host the 13th UN Congress ing rebuilding destroyed homes, by QRC more than two months tured cultural, artistic and musi- Children taking part in a QRC event to express solidarity with the Gazans. on Crime Prevention and schools, mosques, and hospitals ago to support Gaza people cal shows by artists, singers and Criminal Justice in Qatar at and resuming utilities and serv- affected by the Israeli attacks in poets from Qatar, Palestine and state institutions, raising about in Old Slata or QRC agents at Qatar National Convention ices stopped due to the recent which 2,120 people died, 10,854 Saudi Arabia. QR150m. QRC still receives dona- malls, online on www.qrcs.org. Centre on during on April Israeli aggression. were injured, two doctors and Donations poured in from tions from any person willing to qa, or by sending an SMS with 12-19, 2015. The deal was The auction will feature 2013 42 medical workers killed while all segments of society, includ- help victims of the Gaza war via the word “???” to 92766 to donate signed by Qatari Ambassador and 2014 cars and motorcycles for performing humanitarian work, ing individuals, companies and hotline 66666364, QRC premises QR100. THE PENINSULA and permanent delegate to the UN and international organisations in Vienna, Ali Disney stars visit Corniche Khalfan Al Mansouri, and UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov in the presence HBKU session to highlight of the Deputy Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for hosting the conference Dr Harvard workshop 2015 Ahmed Hassan Al Hammadi. The congress is held every five DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa University will host an informational years. Over 5,000 delegates are session on September 28 for Harvard Law School’s Institute for expected to attend. Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop to be held on January 3-10 next year at HBKU Student Centre in Education City. Real estate deals The workshop is an intensive residential programme for junior fac- ulty, doctoral and post-doctoral scholars developing innovative ideas worth QR660m and alternative approaches to issues of global law, economic policy, and social justice. Previously, the workshop attracted over 100 scholars DOHA: Real estate transac- and senior IGLP faculty from around the world. Building on the suc- tions during September 14-18 cess of the two previous years, the workshop 2015 will again welcome registered at the Ministry young policy professionals, who are neither academics nor scholars, of Justice were worth from Qatar and the region, to its Young Policy Professionals (YPP) QR660,849,178, the Real Estate programme. Registration Department said YPP professionals will explore policy and governance processes and in its weekly report. Properties challenges with workshop faculty during afternoon discussions. included open plots, two- The session will provide details on the application process, IGLP floor villas, annex and houses workshop, and the YPP programme. It will be held at Cinema Theatre in Umm Salal, Al Khor, Al of centre from 4pm to 5.30pm. Those interested are invited to confirm Thakhira, Doha, Al Rayyan, Mickey Mouse, the star of Disney On Ice presents Rockin’ Ever After, and his friends took time out from rehears- their attendance at http://www.hbku.edu.qa/iglp. Al Shamal, Al Daayen and Al als to visit the Corniche. The show opens today and runs until September 27 at Qatar National Convention More information on the workshop is available at http://www.har- Wakra. QNA Centre. Ticket are available at all Virgin Megastores and on www.virginmegastore.qa. vardiglp.org/iglp-the-workshop/. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Sheikha Moza attends panel discussion on primary education

NEW YORK: H H Sheikha time since the Millennium areas of development. Education Moza bint Nasser yesterday Development Goals (MDG) makes good economic and busi- addressed the high-level ple- were launched in 2000, Unesco ness sense; every dollar invested nary session “2015 Education reported an increase in the num- in primary education generates Countdown: Failure is Not an bers of out-of-school children to $10-$15 in economic returns. The Option” in New York and urged 58 million. Half of these are living costs of not educating out-of- the global community to drive in conflict zones.” school children far outweigh the further targeted efforts for She said this summer saw over investment needed.” innovative funding models and 116 schools bombed and destroyed Brown echoed her views on the increase focus on universal pri- in Gaza, and statistics from Save importance of increasing focus on mary education for millions of the Children show that 2.8 mil- universal primary education. disadvantaged children. lion Syrian children are now out He praised the work of Educate The session was moderated of school. a Child and said, “It is tempting by UN Special Envoy for Global She called on the international to talk about the future goals Education Gordon Brown. community to realise the poten- between 2015 and 2030, but in my Sheikha Moza argued that uni- tial of education as an enabler of view, the credibility depends on us versal primary education has not sustainable global development. doing everything in our power to been prioritised. She said educa- Sheikha Moza asked the audi- achieve the existing ones. Educate tion has been forgotten and has ence why basic education has been a Child is the biggest foundation been an orphan policy. unable to mobilise more support outside government to do the H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser addressing the plenary session on “2015 Education Countdown: Failure is Not an “We are now seeing the impact from the business sector. most to achieve the goals of uni- Option” in New York. AR AL-BAKER of this neglect and for the first She said: “Education benefits all versal education.” QNA QIBS 2014: Global HMC marks World Sepsis Day maritime industry Campaign begins to highlight disease caused by infections DOHA: Hamad Medical bring genuine and enduring common and most dangerous Corporation (HMC) is raising improvement to every area of in older adults and those with awareness of sepsis – a com- HMC’s work. weakened immune systems such plication commonly triggered According to Dr Abdulsalam as human immunodeficiency comes on board by an infection - and helping Saif, Clinical Lead, MICU virus (HIV) or leukaemia.” the public understand how to Registry, about 500 patients He said that those most vul- DOHA: Counting down the Alfardan Marine Services and prevent the potentially life- with sepsis are admitted to the nerable to sepsis include individ- days before the official opening Sunreef Yachts. Nakilat Damen threatening condition as part Medical Intensive Care Unit uals who are receiving medical of the second edition of Qatar Shipyard, Qatar, will also attend. of activities to mark World annually. He said that with sep- treatment, such as long-term International Boat Show (QIBS) It is the only superyacht builder in Sepsis Day. sis, the body’s immune system steroids that weakens their in November, organisers have Qatar — a joint venture of Nakilat The critical care team at goes into overdrive, setting off immune system, very young confirmed that many top names and Damen. Hamad General Hospital’s reactions, including widespread or very old, pregnant, having a in the maritime industry will be Prestige Yachts will launch its (HGH) Medical Intensive Care inflammation, swelling and long-term health condition such present at the show. dealership in Qatar with Gulf Unit (MICU) has launched a blood clotting. “This can lead to as diabetes, recovering from sur- Four shipyards will exhibit Yachts that will also represent campaign to raise awareness a significant decrease in blood gery, or have wounds or injuries for the first time at QIBS 2014 Everglades boats. of six simple steps to reduce pressure, which can result in a as a result of an accident, on — Palmer Johnson from the US, Lagoon catamarans represented the number of deaths caused reduction of blood supply to vital mechanical ventilation (where Blohm and Voss from Germany, by Tan Services, Hydrasports by sepsis; the Sepsis 6 Protocol organs such as the brain, heart a machine is used to help with Esen Yacht from Turkey and Custom represented by Plantation educates staff on the disease, and kidneys.” breathing), having drips or cath- Grupo per Mare Amer Yachts from Boats and Ventus lounge boats, will its causes, symptoms and According to Dr Fawzy, early eters attached to their skin, and Italy, who will also exhibit one of also exhibit for the first time. prevention. Dr Ibrahim Fawzy, Director, symptoms usually develop genetically prone to infections. the largest yachts — at 92-foot in Faysal Mikati, Vice-President, “Sepsis refers to an inva- Medical Intensive Care Unit, quickly and can include high According to him, the best length. QIBS organisers, Snow Comms, sion of bacteria into the blood- Hamad General Hospital, temperature (fever), chills and defence against sepsis is limit- Many exhibitors who took part said the line-up of exhibitors is stream. It is often referred to as addressing the event. shivering, a quickened heartbeat ing exposure to infections by in the first edition are returning like a Who’s Who in the maritime blood poisoning. While it can be and fast breathing. washing hands thoroughly and once again, including Sunseeker, industry. caused by viral or fungal infec- Day, the team also organised a “In some cases, symptoms frequently, keeping wounds Azimut and SeaRay represented “We are still getting enquiries tions, bacterial infections are multi-disciplinary symposium of more severe sepsis, or sep- clean and speaking with the by Seas&Deserts, Cranchi rep- from other potential exhibitors for by far the most common cause,” for healthcare professionals tic shock, develop soon after. physician about vaccinations resented by MG International, the show; and it seems news of the said Dr Ibrahim Fawzy, Director, involved in the care of patients These can include feeling dizzy against illnesses like influenza Majesty Yachts represented by success of the first edition of QIBS MICU. with sepsis. Activities were held or faint, confusion or disorienta- and pneumonia. “It is impor- Aurora, Princess Yachts repre- last year has filtered through the “Our awareness activities are in collaboration with Institute tion, nausea and vomiting, diar- tant for everyone to be aware sented by Chelab Marine, Benetti international boating community focused on simple steps that can for Healthcare Improvement rhoea, cold, clammy and pale or of how sepsis occurs; people a brand of Azimut Benneti Group, and it’s as if the whole of the indus- be implemented to reduce the (IHI), an independent not-for- mottled skin.” should avoid putting their sick Lagoon represented by Tan try is making a beeline for Qatar. condition’s potentially devastat- profit organisation based in Dr Ahmed Labib, Clinical loved ones at the risk of devel- Services, Ferreti Group whose We have very high expectations for ing effects. Ensuring our staff, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lead, Severe Sepsis Project, oping sepsis when visiting them brands include Ferreti repre- this year’s edition.” and the public are able to spot Considered the leading inno- said that if not treated quickly, in hospital. They can do this by sented by Ventura Yachts, Riva The show will be open daily from the signs of sepsis is the first vator in health and healthcare sepsis can lead to multiple organ observing precautions such as and Itama represented by Art 3.00pm to 9.30pm from November step in combating it; with this improvement worldwide, HMC failure and death. “Sepsis is a good hand hygiene or refrain- Marine, Cigarette 1 represented by 11 to 15 at Mourjan Marinas – condition, the sooner treatment entered into a strategic partner- potentially life-threatening com- ing from visits when they might Performance Marine, Quicksilver Lusail City. begins, the better the outcome.” ship with IHI last year to design plication of an infection. Anyone have some infection,” Dr Labib and Rinker Boats represented by THE PENINSULA In recognition of World Sepsis and develop innovative ways to can develop sepsis, but it’s most said. THE PENINSULA

Officials at the awards ceremony. HMC wins Enterprise Agility Award in Healthcare DOHA: Hamad Medical The award was received by Awards recognise and honour the key role HMC has played in Corporation (HMC) has Ali Al Janahi, Chief of Business enterprise leaders and indi- delivering high quality, compas- won the Enterprise Agility Services Group, on behalf of Dr viduals who have distinguished sionate healthcare to the people Achiever Award in Healthcare Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing themselves and demonstrated of Qatar,” said Dr Al Kuwari. for 2014 at the inaugural Qatar Director, HMC. innovation and outstanding “As we continue to establish Enterprise Agility Awards: Qatar Chamber’s Vice- business conduct, and made ourselves as innovators and Entrepreneur of the Year Chairman Mohamed bin Ahmed significant economic and social leaders in healthcare not just organised by Entrepreneur bin Tawar Al Kuwari presented contributions to Qatar. in Qatar but the region, HMC Middle East and North Africa the award. “We are honoured to receive is committed to building a leg- in association with Barclays. The Enterprise Agility the award as it demonstrates acy of healthcare expertise for Qatar. “We continue to work to meet the growing healthcare needs of our growing popula- tion and remain committed to the people of Qatar and their values,” he added. Ali Abdulla Al Khater, Executive Director, Corporate Communications, HMC, David Astley, Chief of Tertiary Hospitals Group, HMC and other HMC officials also attended the ceremony at Grand Hyatt Doha last week. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

FM attends meeting on Libya QMIC monitoring system to be used in Education City

DOHA: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) has selected Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre’s (QMIC) Hawa’ak Environment Monitoring System to estab- lish a smart environmentally- friendly campus in Education City. Following a successful two- year pilot programme, a deal was finalised with a contract signing ceremony last week, attended by representatives from both organi- sations at QMIC office at Qatar Science & Technology Park, part of Qatar Foundation Research The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah (left, second row) with US Secretary of State John Kerry (centre) and other foreign ministers during a meeting on Libya on the and Development (QF R&D). sidelines of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday. The meeting was also attended by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, the UAE, the UK, QF R&D has been active in France, Germany, Italy, the European Union and the UN. promoting QF’s vision of cultivat- ing life-long learning and interest in science and research in Qatar with work carried out at the park, one of the region’s supreme tech- nology and science parks, located Gynaecological cancers detected in 108 within QF’s Education City. THE PENINSULA Many women seek medical care at later stages due to lack of awareness: Expert Attacks ‘meant to eliminate BY FAZEENA SALEEM especially about ovarian cancer. obesity. Also 20 percent of ovar- in treatment. Treatments often Worldwide gynaecological cancer ian cysts might have the risk of include some combination of sur- all jihadists’ DOHA: Three types of gynae- represents 19 percent of all types cancer. gery or chemotherapy. cological cancers were diag- of cancer among women. “Signs and symptoms of ovar- “Taking oral contraceptive Continued from page 1 nosed in 108 women in Qatar in “Women come at the late stage ian cancer are frequently absent pills might induce some cancers, He said in his view it was being 2013, and most were at a later of gynaecological cancer, espe- in early stages and when they but not all. Contraceptive pills awaited that all ‘mujahideen’ stage of the disease, according cially ovarian cancer. exist they may be subtle. Most sometimes have beneficial effects (jihadists) of different hues came to a senior health expert. This is because most of the typical symptoms include bloat- on the endometrial cancer; they under a single umbrella and Around 1,180 women were time either they are not aware of ing, and abdominal or pelvic pain. can protect women from getting then they were targeted so that screened and majority of those the symptoms, or are scared of “Some gynaecological cancers endometrial cancer. But they have the danger from Islam does not diagnosed with the illness had the disease,” said Dr Ansari. are preventable, but for ovarian bad effects on the breasts,” Dr remain. endometrial cancer, ovarian can- “Worldwide they call the ovar- cancer early diagnose is impor- Ansari said, adding every woman “They want to weaken the cer and cervical cancer, Dr Afaf ian cancer as the silent killer, tant, because there is no specific is at the risk of gynaecological opposition in Syria, including Al Ansari, Senior Consultant because usually when we diag- methods of prevention,” said Dr cancer which is more related to Nusra Front and IS,” said yet Obstetrics and Gynaecology, nose the disease, it is very late. Ansari. hormones. another commentator. “It is a Women’s Hospital, told this daily A simple ultrasound can detect “However, cervical cancer is “Most women think they won’t matter of pride that Sunni Arab yesterday. it,” she said. the only disease for which some get gynaecological cancer, if they states are attacking IS. It is a “There are other types of Ovarian cancer occurs more prevention is possible with early show any symptoms, they must Dr Afaf Al Ansari, Senior Consultant stigma for us,” said another. gynaecological cancers like vagi- frequently in women who ovulate screening, and taking HPV vac- undergo screening,” said Dr Obstetrics and Gynaecology, One commentator said, laud- nal cancer and fallopian tube can- more, thus those who never have cine,” she added. Ansari. Women’s Hospital ing IS, that he wondered who cer, which is very rare,” she said. children are at increased risk. Endometrial cancer shows Screening for gynaecologi- they were and how strong they Many women seek medical care Other risk factors include hor- early symptoms such as abnor- cal caner is available at primary is checked at Women’s Hospital were that 70 countries had come at later stages of gynaecological mone disorder after menopause, mal pain and abnormal bleeding, healthcare centres and any- within 48 hours. together to fight and try to finish cancers due to lack of awareness, fertility medication, smoking and and an early diagnose can help one suspected with the illness THE PENINSULA them. THE PENINSULA Temporary shortage of medicines ruled out Continued from page 1 She ruled out the possi- bility of a temporary short- age of some medicines that are included in the price cut. The GCC decision to reduce prices applies to both innovative (branded) and generic medicines. Innovative medicines used for common chronic dis- eases in the GCC countries include those for heart, endocrine, musculoskeletal Dr. Saleh Al Marri, (right) Assistant Secretary-General, Medical Affairs, and Aisha and skin disorders, and gas- Ansari, Director, Pharmacy and Drug Control Department at the Supreme Council trointestinal medications. of Health during the press conference yesterday. ABDUL BASIT THE PENINSULA Shafallah Centre sacks 13 staff

DOHA: The Shafallah Centre action, said the daily. “We are taking care of chil- that provides education and Some said they were ask- dren with disabilities and we healthcare to children with ing authorities to intervene and have to ensure that all staff disabilities has terminated 13 restore them to their positions, are highly qualified and effec- employees, including citizens, especially as the decision comes tive in handling them,” the daily and gave them one day to return ahead of Eid Al Adha. quoted Mohammed Badr Al Sada, all office property and collect The daily said more employees Director-General, as saying. He end-of-service benefits, Al Sharq would be terminated soon. said the centre has 850 employ- reports. The centre defended the deci- ees and removing a few would Some of the employees had sion, saying some of the sacked not affect the functioning of the been with the centre for about staff did not have proper papers centre or the performance of the 14 years and were stunned by the required for their jobs. students. THE PENINSULA

QC funds to boost healthcare in Syria DOHA: Qatar Charity’s (QC) worldwide. outbreak intensifies in Sierra $2.3m collaborative fund- “Thanks to Qatar Charity’s Leone, it is imperative that the ing will enable International generosity, compassion and com- international community react Medical Corps to immediately mitment to human dignity world- swiftly.” scale up healthcare and train- wide, this timely award will help Now in its fourth year, the con- ing programmes to help those us rapidly expand to meet these flict in Syria has resulted in 6.5 affected by conflicts in Syria increasing humanitarian needs,” million displaced people, 50 per- and Central African Republic. said Nancy A. Aossey, President cent of whom are children. The funding will also help con- & CEO of International Medical Due to disruptions in routine tain the spread of Ebola in Sierra Corps. health care, overcrowding of liv- Leone. “Joining forces with a leading ing areas due to displacement With the common mission to global organization like Qatar and damage to water and sani- assist and strengthen the capac- Charity will make a tremen- tation infrastructure, many are ity of vulnerable communities dous impact in our emergency at high risk of communicable and worldwide, International Medical response, and in establishing pro- preventable diseases. Corps and Qatar Charity had grams that will have long-term, International Medical Corps, formed a global strategic part- sustainable results. with support from Qatar Charity, nership earlier this year. “As the conflicts in Syria and will provide lifesaving health care The partnership will allow the Central African Republic wear to Syrian children displaced by organisations to maximise their on, putting countless families the conflict. reach in humanitarian hotspots at great risk, and the Ebola THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST US informed Syria before anti-IS strikes Washington defends attacks in letter to UN chief; Syria refrains from criticising US WASHINGTON: Syria was informed by the United States in advance of Erdogan says airstrikes against targets includ- ing Islamic State (IS) strongholds, but there was no strategic coordina- Turkey could give tion with the Syrian government, a State Department spokeswoman said military support yesterday. Although the United States said it ISTANBUL: Turkey could give gave no specifics on the attacks and did military or logistical support to not request clearance from Damascus, US-led air strikes against Islamic it marked a rare display of interaction State insurgents in Syria, President between Washington and envoys for Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. as saying yesterday. “We warned Syria not to engage US “We will give the necessary support aircraft,” said State Department spokes- to the operation. The support could woman Jen Psaki in Washington. “We did be military or logistics,” Erdogan was not request the regime’s permission. We quoted by Turkish broadcaster NTV as did not coordinate our actions with the telling reporters in New York. Syrian government,” he said. US Secretary of State John Kerry In a sign of how IS’s rise has blurred said that Turkey had pledged to take conflict lines, the Syrian government said part in the US-led coalition against Washington had informed it hours before IS militants following the release of the strikes in a letter from Secretary of 49 Turkish hostages. State John Kerry sent through his Iraqi “Turkey is very much part of this counterpart. coalition, and Turkey will be very The United States led airstrikes engaged on the frontlines of this against IS militants in Syria because effort,” Kerry told a global counter- Damascus has “shown it cannot and terrorism forum after meeting with will not confront these safe havens,” Turkish officials. the United States wrote to the United “Clearly Turkey had an initial chal- Nations in a letter yesterday. In the letter lenge with respect to its hostages and to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, that being resolved now Turkey is US Ambassador to the United Nations ready to conduct additional efforts Samantha Power said the strikes were along with the rest of us in order to necessary to eliminate the IS threat to guarantee success.” Iraq, the United States and its allies. She said the action was justified under Article 51 of the UN Charter, which cov- 3,000 European militants ers the individual or collective right of states to self-defence against armed in Syria, Iraq: EU official attack. Syrians check a damaged house, hit by US-led coalition air strikes, in the village of Kfar Derian in the western Aleppo province, yesterday. The United States and its Arab allies BRUSSELS: The number of bombed Syria for the first time yesterday, the strikes against IS targets. Warplanes cautiously. President Hassan Rowhani proxy forces backed by countries across Europeans joining Islamist fight- killing scores of Islamic State fighters and ship-launched Tomahawk cruise mis- said in New York that without a UN the region. ers in Syria and Iraq has surged to and members of a separate Al Qaeda- siles struck dozens of targets including mandate or a request from the gov- The Syrian military pressed its cam- about 3,000 from 2,000 only months linked group, opening a new front against fighters, training compounds, headquar- ernment of the affected state, military paign against the rebels unabated yester- ago, the EU counter-terrorism chief militants by joining Syria’s three-year- ters and command and control facilities, strikes “don’t have any legal standing”. day, shelling and carrying out air strikes said. old civil war. US Central Command storage sites, a finance center, trucks and However, he neither condemned nor in the southern province of Deraa and the Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of (CENTCOM) said Bahrain, Jordan, armed vehicles, CENTCOM said. endorsed the action. outskirts of Damascus, as well as Raqqa Europeans may have been boosted by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab The Pentagon said the US Ambassador Residents of the city of Raqqa, Islamic and Idlib provinces, the Observatory said. the Islamic State militant group’s dec- Emirates participated in or supported to the United Nations, Samantha Power, State’s de facto capital in eastern Syria, Rebel and loyalist forces fought in the laration in June of a caliphate strad- had informed Syria’s envoy in advance said by telephone that people were flee- northern city of Aleppo. dling Syria and Iraq. but there had been no coordination and ing for the countryside after the bombs US forces have previously hit Islamic Hezbollah opposes no communication between the two coun- fell overnight. State targets in Iraq, where Washington tries’ armed forces. IS vowed revenge against the United supports the government, but had held fighting both Assad and Islamic State, US-led action in Syria The Syrian foreign ministry refrained States. “These attacks will be answered,” back from a military engagement in Syria welcomed the air strikes and said they from criticizing the US-led action. State a fighter said by Skype from Syria, blam- where Obama still calls for the downfall need more support. BEIRUT: The leader of Hezbollah media reported that a senior Iraqi envoy ing Saudi Arabia’s ruling family for allow- of Assad. Washington has said it would “There is an exodus out of Raqqa as said yesterday his Lebanese Shia briefed Assad on the next steps and the ing the strikes to take place. not coordinate action against Islamic we speak,” a resident said by phone. “It group opposed US-led air strikes Syrian leader said he supported any The Sunni fighters, who have pro- State with Assad’s government. started in the early hours of the day after on Syria. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, international effort to fight terrorism. claimed a caliphate ruling over all IS State fighters, equipped with US the strikes. People are fleeing towards the whose group has been helping Only a year ago Washington was on the Muslims, shook the Middle East by weapons seized in Iraq, are among the countryside.” Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad verge of bombing the Syrian government sweeping through northern Iraq in June. most powerful opponents of Assad, a The city’s two-storey main administra- fight a Sunni-dominated insurgency, over the use of chemical weapons, before They alarmed the West in recent weeks member of a Shia-derived sect. They tive building had been hit by four rock- was speaking after strikes against Obama cancelled the strikes at the last by killing two US journalists and a British are also battling rival Sunni groups in ets, which were so precise that nearby Islamic State (IS) and other groups minute. Tightly-controlled Syrian state aid worker, raising fears that they could Syria, the Shia-led government of Iraq buildings were not damaged, said the in Lebanon’s neighbour Syria. TV interviewed an analyst who said the attack Western countries. and Kurdish forces on both sides of the resident, named Abo Mohammed. He “We are against American military air strikes did not amount to an act of border. In recent days they have captured said hundreds of fighters, who had been intervention and an international coa- aggression because the government had PITCHED INTO CIVIL WAR villages from Kurds near Syria’s Turkish visible in the streets controlling traffic lition in Syria, whether that (action) been notified. “This does not mean we are The action pitched Washington for the border, sending nearly 140,000 refugees and security, had now vanished. is against the regime or IS,” Nasrallah part of the joint operations room, and we first time into the Syrian civil war, which across the frontier since last week. The The main Syrian Kurdish armed said in a speech aired on Hezbollah- are not part of the alliance. But there is began with “Arab Spring” democracy United Nations said it was preparing for group said Islamic State fighters were run Al Manar television. a common enemy,” said the analyst, Ali protests in 2011 but has descended into a up to 400,000 people to flee. redeploying from areas hit by the US REUTERS Al Ahmad. sectarian conflict that has killed 200,000 The Western-backed Syrian opposition strikes towards territory controlled by Syria’s closest ally, Iran, responded people, displaced millions and drawn in and Syrian Kurdish groups, which are the Kurds. AGENCIES France seeks Iran’s support in Mideast

UNITED NATIONS: French President Francois Hollande told Iranian leader Hassan Rowhani during a meeting at UN headquarters yester- day that “every support” was required to find political solu- tions with regard to Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. “We need every support to find political solutions,” Hollande said during the 20-minute meet- ing at the French delegation at the UN, to which the press were admitted for the first few moments. “I think that we can, through the idea that we hold the bal- ance of the world, find outcomes, including at this terrible, tragic time,” said Hollande. The two presidents “exchanged views on the way to combat terrorism,” according to a statement from the French presidency issued at the end of the meeting. The French head of state opened the meeting by talk- ing about Iran’s nuclear pro- gramme, which the West fears could allow Tehran to develop a nuclear arsenal. The French statement said that Hollande had hoped that French President Francois Hollande (left) with Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on the sidelines of the 69th negotiations on finding an United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York yesterday. agreement to add international concerns over Iran’s nuclear to demonstrate in a clear and the two leaders discussed nuclear question.” programme would come to a verifiable way that it will not “means of bilateral coopera- The two leaders last met a swift conclusion. develop a nuclear military tion which could begin when year ago on the sidelines of the France wants Iran to put capability. trust has been reestablished by UN General Assembly. in place concrete measures The French statement said a definitive agreement on the AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Israeli forces shoot dead 2 Gaza talks to resume in October Palestinians Palestinian delegation condemns Hebron killing, won’t allow Israel to escape commitments

HEBRON: Israeli troops yes- CAIRO: Israel and the for talks on a broader deal. terday killed two Palestinians in Palestinians agreed yesterday Palestinian delegates said yes- the West Bank suspected of the to resume talks late next month terday’s meetings were intended murders of three Jewish teen- on cementing a Gaza ceasefire, to set the tone for wider negotia- agers in June, which sparked allowing time for Palestinian tions that will take place in late events leading to the devastat- factions to resolve internal dif- October, after the end of upcom- ing war in Gaza. ferences which could threaten ing Jewish and Muslim religious Amer Abu Eisha, 32, and the Egyptian-mediated holidays. Marwan Qawasmeh, 29, whom negotiations. “Each side proposed the head- Israel accused of kidnapping Yesterday’s meetings began line files that it wants to include and murdering the teens, were in Cairo around noon under the on the timetable of future nego- killed “in an exchange of fire” in leadership of Egyptian intel- tiations,” Hamas official Izzat the southern West Bank city of ligence, having been delayed Risheq said in a statement on his Hebron, the army said. for almost three hours while Facebook page shortly after the The pair were hiding out in a Palestinian factions discussed meetings ended. “It was agreed Hebron house and killed when whether to withdraw in protest (the talks) would be resumed in gunfire erupted during an opera- over Israel’s killing of two Hamas the last week of October”. tion by the Shin Bet internal members in Hebron hours before Risheq said Palestinian nego- security services and the army’s the talks were set to begin. tiators had pressed for the con- anti-terror unit. Israel said the two men struction of air and sea ports in Residents said they heard shots abducted and killed three Israeli Gaza and for an end to punitive fired in what appeared to be a youths in the occupied West Bank measures imposed on the West clash between the suspects and in June, touching off a chain of Bank since June, including the security forces, and that the army events that led to the July-August release of Hamas prisoners. had also broken down the doors war in Gaza. The Palestinians want an end of several shops. The Palestinian delegation to the blockade of Gaza by Israel. Dozens of youths threw stones condemned the killings but said But the Jewish state views Hamas at the soldiers nearby, and fol- it would not give Israel a pretext as a security threat and wants lowing the shooting, a general “to escape” commitments made guarantees that weapons will not strike was being staged across in an August 26 truce that called enter the densely-populated area the city. for talks within a month to agree of 1.8 million people if restrictions Sporadic clashes between long-term border arrangements are eased. The Israeli delega- stone-throwing youths and sol- for the blockaded Gaza Strip. tion left Cairo early on Tuesday diers continued, but ceased briefly Fifty days of conflict between evening without making any during the funerals of Abu Eisha Hamas and Israel left devastation comments. A Palestinian hurls a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes following a gun battle where the troops shot and Qawasmeh. in some Gaza districts. More than dead two Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. Some 3,000 mourners attended 2,100 Palestinians, most of them PALESTINIAN DIVISIONS the processions and burials, with civilians, were killed in the fight- Efforts to turn the cease- President Mahmoud Abbas’ public sector workers has brought This thorny issue will not be many waving the flags of Islamist ing, according to the Gaza health fire into a lasting truce could Fatah faction over a range of tensions between the two main easy to resolve and could under- movement Hamas, which controls ministry. Sixty-seven Israeli sol- prove difficult, however, with key issues including control of Palestinian factions to near- mine any broader deal with Israel. Gaza and has a large support diers and six civilians in Israel the sides far apart on their cen- Gaza. breaking point, raising the risk “We cannot take one step for- base in Hebron. Hamas’ armed were also killed. Israel launched tral demands. At the same time, The ceasefire struck last month of a return to conflict. ward because all the issues related wing the Ezzedine Al Qassam the offensive on July 8 with the divisions among the Palestinians to end the Gaza war included Azzam Al Ahmed, a Fatah to Gaza, especially after the war, Brigades praised the two “mar- declared aim of halting cross- themselves could make it harder stipulations that the Palestinian official who is leading the joint cannot be resolved except with tyred fighters”. border rocket salvoes by Hamas to secure a deal. Authority, led by Abbas, should delegation in Cairo, said in a national unity... and the presence Shin Bet said troops had and other militant groups. A Fatah delegation arrived in take over civil administration in statement that as well as control of a government that represents also arrested at least three Egyptian-mediated talks in Cairo last evening ahead of sep- Gaza from Hamas. of Gaza, Fatah wants decisions the recognised national authority, Palestinians alleged to have helped July and August succeeded in arate two-day talks beginning But a dispute over the related to war and peace to be and this includes the ending of Abu Eisha and Qawasmeh to hide. securing a series of ceasefires today aimed at mending a rift Palestinian Authority’s non- taken at the national level rather the blockade,” Ahmed said. AFP aimed at laying the groundwork between Hamas and Palestinian payment of salaries to Gaza’s than by individual factions. REUTERS Israel shoots down Syria warplane over Golan Heights

JERUSALEM: Israel downed from the Syrian village of Jubata strategic plateau from Syria dur- by rebels fighting to overthrow this year calling for international been tense, with a growing a Syrian warplane over the Al Khashab which had been ing the Six-Day War of 1967, then President Bashar Al Assad. action against jihadist groups. number of rockets and mortar Golan Heights yesterday in bombed by the warplane just annexed it in 1981 in a move never The Assad regime has been But Yaalon warned that Israel rounds hitting the Israeli side of the first such incident in three moments before it was shot down recognised by the international hitting back with frequent air would not tolerate any threats to the ceasefire line. decades and warned it would by a Patriot surface-to-air mis- community. strikes in a bid to retake control. its security and would respond Most of them have been stray, respond “forcefully” if its secu- sile fired by Israel. The burning A senior military official quoted Some have been close to Israeli “forcefully”. but there have been several inci- rity is threatened. wreckage, also caught on camera, by Israeli public radio said the positions. “We will not allow anyone, dents of intentional fire, one of It was the first time Israel plunged down on the Syrian side Russian-made Sukhoi Su-24 Damascus said the downing of whether it is a state actor or a which killed an Israeli teenager in had shot down a piloted Syrian of the ceasefire line. had penetrated some 400 metres its fighter jet showed Israel’s sup- terror organisation, to threaten June, and Israel has occasionally plane since 1985 and drew a sharp Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon (yards) into Israeli air space port for the rebels on the Golan, our security and breach our sov- retaliated. response from Damascus. said the army had brought down before being shot down. who include Al Qaeda loyalists ereignty,” he said. Some 510 sq km of the Golan Israel said the Syrian fighter “a Syrian fighter plane which The downing came just three who held 45 UN peacekeepers “We will respond forcefully remain under Syrian control, with jet had crossed the UN-patrolled approached Israel’s sovereign ter- weeks after Israel shot down a hostage for two weeks before against any such attempt, whether UN peacekeepers overseeing a ceasefire line on the Golan which ritory on the Golan in a threaten- drone over the Golan as heavy releasing them earlier this month. it is an error or intentional.” buffer zone along the armistice it regards as its international ing manner, and even crossed the fighting raged on the Syrian- It described it as a “flagrant Since the uprising against line stretching some 70km from border. frontier.” controlled side of the plateau, violation” of a UN Security Assad’s rule erupted more than Lebanon in the north to Jordan Pictures showed smoke rising Israel seized 1,200 sq km of the most of which has been seized Council resolution passed earlier three years ago, the Golan has in the south. AFP Yemeni president warns of civil war SANA’A: President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi warned yesterday of “civil war” in Sunni-majority Yemen and vowed to restore state authority as Shia rebels in apparent near-total control of Sanaa hailed their “victory”. Yemen “is facing a conspiracy” and “the danger of slipping into civil war”, Hadi said in a speech at the Presidential Palace, two days after Ansarullah rebels took all other key state institutions in the capital, over- shadowing a UN-brokered peace deal. In a televised speech, rebel leader Abdelmalek Al Houthi hailed what he called the “victory” of his fighters. “We congratulate our people on the victory of their popular revolution that has established a new era based on cooperation,” Huthi said. Hadi had earlier evoked the spectre of foreign plots aimed at torpedoing progress in Yemen. “Internal and foreign forces (have) allied to... overthrow the Yemeni model” of power transition follow- ing an Arab Spring-inspired uprising, the president said. Yemen was the only Arab Spring country where an uprising led to a political settlement by which Hadi replaced former autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh. Egypt forces kill four in Sinai

CAIRO: Egyptian security forces yesterday killed four fighters from the country’s deadliest militant group on the Sinai Peninsula, where troops regularly battle jihadists, officials said. The four fighters from Ansar Beit Al Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) were killed when the car they were travel- ling in was struck by artillery fire south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid, the security officials said. Eight other members of the group were arrested in separate raids in the towns of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Ansar Beit Al Maqdis has orchestrated a string of attacks targeting security forces to avenge a deadly gov- ernment crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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orth Korea’s cruel and inhuman prison system is in the spotlight once again. US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday came down hard on the Npenal colonies that Pyongyang uses to silence its critics and political opponents. On the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly meeting, an event held to discuss the The breaking up of UN human rights report on North Korea heard the many gruesome details of the abusive prison camps in the secluded country. Present at the meeting was Shin Dong Hyuk, who was born in a North Korean prison camp and was forced to watch international law his mother and brother being executed when he was 14. BY JONATHAN POWER began bombing ISIS inside Syria with- believes that his account “of both The notorious prison colonies of the country, which is often out Security Council approval. American and European constitu- shielded by China and Russia, have a record of enslavement, HERE is little doubt that International law has a long pedigree tionalism is historically inaccurate and murder, and severe torture. Russia broke international going back to the 17th century Dutch politically naïve.” North Korea may not be alone in housing such facilities but law with its takeover of jurist, Hugo Grotius. Over centuries Rubenfeld, she continues, ignores Crimea and the rushed ref- it has been codified in various inter- Article 6 of the US constitution which its self-imposed isolation and estrangement from much of the T erendum that didn’t give citizens time national treaties and by the rulings of declares that “treaties are the law of rest of the world makes it all the more vulnerable to criticism to have a deep think on its implications the World Court. It is often quoted by the land” and so trump government of its rights records. However, its isolation and unconventional (as they did in Scotland). It is not only Western powers — as with the recent laws. The US must continue to believe approach to diplomacy neither makes it immune to criticism observers in the West who say this but argument over the possession of small in the extension of international law nor gives it a right to keep abusing its population. a good number of Russians — I met a islands in the South China Sea. because it serves all nations’ long term A large number of dissidents or political prisoners who cross section of them in Russia on my But at various times both the US and interests. “If other nations no longer recent visit. Russia have equivocated over whether believe that the US will honour those have been able to flee North Korea for the South have spoken Nevertheless, the Kremlin is right to they truly believe in international law. rules they will no longer agree to bind of unbearable lives in the prison camps or gulags. Many an say the West has done this quite often A few years ago a debate in Prospect themselves, and then we will slide from authoritarian regime, and even democratic ones, has been too. It wrongly interpreted a unani- magazine between two high powered coalitions of the willing to chaos.” accused of custodial torture and mous UN Security Council resolution, American lawyers threw into relief The influential American political human rights abuses, but the one in authorising military intervention in the question as to whether the US scientist, John Ikenberry, has argued The discussion North Korea crosses all limits. The Libya to save was obligated to follow international the US should continue to support lives, as a man- law and human rights standards. The international law because “it is the on the UN opaque way in which the country date to strafe and argument was primarily about the only way that the US can reassure its report on functions hides the abuse of power bomb the forces tensions between the US and Western allies that it is willing to restrain its and the presence of a systematic For post-war of President Europe over the role of international own power in the service of common abuses in North governance structure, if any. Muammar law. goals, thereby increasing that power “If we who are free .... if we Europeans Gaddafi. Yale law professor, Jed Rubenfeld, by diminishing the incentive of either Thirty years put this down to the immediate after- allies or enemies to find a way to bal- Korea puts the don’t stand with men and women the point of ago the US mined math of World War II. “For Americans ance against the US, which would lead spotlight back suffering in anonymity, in places international law the harbour winning the war was a victory for US to more self-conscious and antagonistic on the country’s like North Korea, then what do we of Nicaragua’s nationalism, whereas Europe reacted power blocs”. stand for? If we don’t give voice to was to address main port dur- against the excesses of nationalism The truth is that international law devious ways. the voiceless, then why bother to ing the country’s that in Germany had precipitated the is in disarray. By a continuous policy of speak about these issues,” Kerry the problem civil war. The war”. going ahead with interventions with- World Court Thus for post-war Europeans the out consensus in the Security Council said in a harsh tone. of nationalism. condemned the point of international law was to the US, Russia, Israel, France, the UK North Korea’s response to the American diatribe will US for breaking address the problem of nationalism. and now some Arab countries under- probably be a counterattack on Washington’s human rights But in the US international law. But in the US the belief is that inter- mine international law. International record and the existence of the reviled Guantanamo Bay the belief is that In between nationalism was “for the rest of the law is like a rubber band — if you prison. But the US used Guantanamo in dealing with a threat these two events world, not for us. What Europeans stretch it it does not return to its that was unparalleled in history. The ‘extraordinary rendition’ internationalism the US, along would recognise as international law original shape. with the UK and we already had. The notion that US The US, China, India, Israel, the of the George Bush administration and the ‘enhanced was “for the rest France, went to practices held constitutional under our Arab countries and Russia (the latter interrogation’ techniques led to information that prevented war with Serbia bill of rights might be said to violate two have signed but not ratified, with further attacks on the United States. Guantanamo’s closure of the world, not without the international law was, from this point the exception of Jordan and Yemen) has been delayed due to political wrangling, which will be for us.” backing of the of view, not a conceptual possibility”. should take another look at joining the resolved over time. Security Council. It was pressure from this viewpoint International Criminal Court in par- Later the US and that led to a 30 year delay in the US ticular, meant to try those who com- Through the United Nations, Shin pleaded with the world the UK did the same in Iraq with dev- ratifying the Genocide Convention mit war crimes and crimes against to save his father who languishes in the North’s prison system. astating consequences that upset the and the refusal today to join the humanity. Though Pyongyang is on a muted drive to reach out to the whole balance of relatively peaceful International Criminal Court. Nothing would show more that they international community — its foreign minister has visited power in the Middle East. (The inter- Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, are willing adherents to the expansion a number of Middle East countries, including Iran— it first vention in Afghanistan following 9/11 ex-president of the American Society of international law — an important has to open up and do away with symbols of oppression and was approved.) of International Law, took issue tool for more peace in the world. Today the US and some Arab allies with Rubenfeld’s arguments. She THE PENINSULA torture, to gain international acceptability• The other side Quote of Freedom or security the day

USTRALIA IS in a quandary society, and recruiting the youth to fur- notorious Patriot Act and the setting fighting beside the ISIS, and some- as it addresses its security ther their nefarious designs. Australia up of Guantanamo Bay in the back- thing special has to be done to not concerns. Prime Minister had cracked down at several levels waters of America are cases in point. only restrict their return back home but ATony Abbott made a startling in the last few weeks, and arrested But that didn’t help the US overcome also to discourage people from trav- disclosure when he said that certain a number of citizens and expatriates the terror syndrome, and rather it had elling to such flashpoints. An instant freedoms might have to be forfeited for allegedly being part of extrem- to live a miserable life under the psy- solution is to enforce a travel ban and I look at it (the air in the name of security. ist groups or sympathising with their che of terror. The controversial war that is no solution in the long run. strikes) in a positive His new philosophy is likely to stir cause. But if Australia goes ahead to on terrorism, which saw Washington Abbott, who is bogged down in immi- a debate in the civilised societies legislate against fundamental rights bombard Afghanistan back to the gration and asylum issues since his way. It would be that value more for personal space of its citizens, it won’t be acting in Stone Age and destroy world’s rich- inception, has to look at the broader wrong if they stopped. than caring for state-centric affairs. isolation. est Mesopotamian civilisation, were no picture of civil liberties and cleanse Canberra’s fears are many as it resur- The United States went through a answers to the challenge of fighting the Australia of criminals by adopting This roadmap should rects its security profile. Its major con- similar bizarre process and cracked terrorists inside out. an inclusive approach. There are no be continued. cern is over the level of penetration down on civil liberties in the after- Australia believes that more than quick-fix legislative solutions. that militants groups are making in the math of September 11 attacks. The 60 of its citizens are in the Middle East Khaleej Times Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Turkey’s complicated role against IS As PKK has joined the fight against Islamic State, Turkey has grown increasingly nervous about what might happen to the modern weaponry from Germany, the US and other countries that’s beginning to flow into Kurdish areas.

BY MARC CHAMPION So Erdogan, too, now faces conflict- ing enemies in Syria. The difference is urkish Prime Minister Recep that Turkey is far more vulnerable than Tayyip Erdogan says the the US to retaliation by IS, even without release of 46 citizens held hostages in the mix. hostage by Islamic State has “Many people are talking about how freed him to cooperate more Turkey is free to join the coalition now Tsubstantially with the US-led coalition to the hostages are free, but I see no chance,” destroy the group. It might not be that says Behlul Ozkan, an assistant profes- straightforward. sor of international relations at Istanbul’s Although the US strategy on IS is Marmara University. IS would be able to complicated — it is attempting to crush carry out terrorist attacks in Turkish cit- the group, while also trying to force a ies, including tourist destinations. nuclear deal on one of the group’s two The country is expected to attract 40 most powerful regional opponents (Iran) million international tourists this year, and topple the second (Syrian President accounting for 6 percent of Turkey’s gross Bashar Assad) — it’s simple compared domestic product, according to the World with that of Turkey. Travel & Tourism Council. A few well- Erdogan aggressively committed him- placed bombs could shrivel the industry. US Secretary of State John Kerry (second right) and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) with officials as they meet in Ankara, self to Assad’s demise soon after Syria’s Erdogan also faces conflicting incen- Turkey, yesterday. military began slaughtering protesters tives with the Kurds that the United in 2011. He opened Turkey’s borders States doesn’t. Turkey has become a A PKK affiliate runs the Kurdish areas he needs to risk a terrorist backlash at zone, but so would Russia and China in and coffers to opposition groups will- strategic partner for the Kurdish autono- of Syria, which have just come under home to join the military effort against the United Nations Security Council, giv- ing to fight the Syrian dictator, includ- mous region in northern Iraq, but still assault by IS, driving 130,000 refugees IS in Syria, if in humanitarian guise; pro- ing the enterprise a poor legal basis. ing Islamist radicals. Whether or not IS has an unresolved conflict with Kurdish across the border, according to Turkish vide the coalition with reliable boots on Erdogan doesn’t want to break his received any of this official support, it insurgents who operate in Turkey from officials. So Turkey’s radical Islamist the ground to ensure success against IS; security alliance with the US and the has been recruiting within Turkey and bases across the border. enemy is now threatening its Kurdish and create a space within Syria to host North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, is embedded among the 850,000 Syrian So now Erdogan faces two registered enemy. some of the 3 million refugees who are and is reportedly unhappy about the refugees on Turkish soil. terrorist organisations — IS and the Turkish police fired warning shots currently in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. way Turkey is being portrayed as a semi- Once IS erased the frontier between Kurdish Workers’ Party, or PKK — that on Sunday to prevent a large group of The catch is that Turkey’s agenda sponsor of IS. Syria and Iraq this summer, an already are recruiting among sympathisers in Turkish Kurds from crossing the bor- would not be the same as that of the So he will try to offer some kind of shaky Turkish policy collapsed. The Turkey and fighting each other in Syria der to go fight with their compatriots in US Turkey would want to use the new additional support to the coalition, now group threatened the Kurdish areas in and Iraq. Syria. safe zone as a place from which to base that the hostages have been freed. But the north, where Turkish companies have As the PKK has joined the fight against There’s one way of cutting this Gordian and train Assad’s opponents, includ- unless the coalition is willing to adopt invested billions of dollars in oil wells, IS, Turkey has grown increasingly nerv- knot in Syria. Erdogan has begun to float ing Islamists, because unlike the US, Turkey’s agenda in Syria and create a pipelines and construction. ous about what might happen to the mod- (again) the idea of creating a “safe zone” Erdogan’s top priority remains remov- safe zone, don’t hold your breath for The enemy of Turkey’s enemy in Syria ern weaponry from Germany, the US and in northern Syria. This would have mul- ing Assad. Erdogan to risk contributing Turkish was now attacking Turkish interests in other countries that’s beginning to flow tiple advantages: As a result, not only would Assad jets or air bases to the effort. Iraq, into Kurdish areas. It would give Erdogan the incentive forcefully oppose the creation of a safe WP-BLOOMBERG Of course, Australia is going back to Iraq Federalism may work in Germany but not in UK Canberra is described in the BY JOCHEN HUNG

Wikileaks documents as “rock n yesterday’s Observer, Andrew Rawnsley bemoaned the fact that the British helped to give Germany a federal constitution, but have solid”, but uninfluential on not yet been able to give one to themselves. Federalism seems to be Iworking out for Germany so could it – in a sort of constitutional re-import – be a model for a “devolution revolution” in the UK? American thinking. The German federal states, the so-called Bundesländer, enjoy far- reaching autonomy: according to Germany’s basic law, legislative BY ANTONY politicians and advisors have authority rests with the states unless it is not explicitly stated other- LOEWENSTEIN attended the conferences and wise. They have their own constitutions, parliaments and governments, forums at the heart of the and exert considerable influence on federal legislation through the ack in July, Australian US-Australia relationship that German upper house, the Bundesrat. While this arrangement might Opposition Leader Bill it’s almost better to ask who sound attractive to Scottish yes voters, it is doubtful that it could be Shorten delivered a hasn’t been, and to thank them. easily introduced in the UK. Germany’s brand of “cooperative federal- Bspeech at the Australian The Australia-Israel Leadership ism” only works because it rests on a long, arduous and often violent American Leadership Dialogue Forum, modelled on the history. A detail from the surfboard given as an official gift to US President Barack at the New York Academy of Australian American Leadership When Germany was first unified in 1871, its structure was, in many Sciences. It was full of moth- Dialogue, has attracted huge Obama by Australian President Tony Abbott. ways, similar to the UK’s: a union headed by a constitutional monarch, erhood statements – “We are numbers of politicians in recent dominated by one country, Prussia, which had more or less foisted it on bonded, we are blood cousins” years. alliance, and he’s in his 80s. pithy comment on the depth of the other kingdoms, principalities and duchies that formed part of it. – praise for Israel’s “innovation” The same month that Shorten Just how deep does the connec- the unequal relationship: However, even under this “hegemonial federalism”, the states still had (no mention of the Palestinians) was extolling the virtues of the tion go? Wikileaks cables released I guess what’s striking about it sovereignty over finances, education, electoral law and cultural policy, and clichéd rhetoric about a pio- US in New York, Christopher in 2010 revealed the long list of though is how hard people in the with the Kingdom of Bavaria keeping a particularly strong national neering American “legacy” that Pyne, the education minister, vis- Liberal and Labour politicians Labour Party, people in Australian identity. The reasons why Bavaria joined the union had faint similari- inspires Australians. ited Jerusalem for another leader- lining up to praise the US alli- politics in general, work at being ties to Scotland’s disastrous Darien scheme: its monarch Ludwig II The assembled journalists ship forum, which also included ance. Many of them were upset liked by the Americans, and had nearly bankrupted the country by building ever more extravagant would have clapped with appre- the UK. He praised Israel like an that their overly close ties with there’s nothing wrong with being fairy castles such as Neuschwanstein, and only consented to the union ciation, though the vast bulk of excited school-boy and used the Washington were exposed in the liked by the Americans, but what after being bribed by Bismarck. the event went unreported. It’s word “freedom” 20 times in a very public domain. strikes me about what we’ve seen The traditional autonomy of the states was only destroyed under the extremely rare for any journalist short speech. After the cables were released, in the WikiLeaks saga so far is Nazis in the drive towards national “coordination” (Gleichschaltung) to criticise the meeting. If they Australian politicians and the Lowy Institute’s Michael so little evidence of us asking for and a concentration of power in a central authority in Berlin. After the do, their invitations from the US media courtiers constantly praise Fullilove argued that the cables something back. second world war, the federal system was reinstated in West Germany lobby tend to get lost in the mail. the “shared values” between showed a benign US and resented Even David Kilcullen, the but, apart from Bavaria, the states were entirely new creations by the Shorten’s kowtowing to Australia and Israel (though it’s diplomatic embarrassments being Australian counter-terror expert, allies. Most importantly, they decided to break up Prussia because, Washington made it unsurpris- clear what values a brutal mili- made public. Former Labour poli- said this week that an open- according to the Allied Control Council, it had “from early days been ing that he offered his support tary occupation of Palestine rep- tician Stephen Loosley, who writes ended conflict was a “concern” a bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany”. for Tony Abbott involvement in resents). A rare exception was glowingly about the US, claimed and Australia “should be pushing So, as Rawnsley said, the well-functioning federal system in Germany Obama’s new Middle East con- the former foreign minister Bob the cables would have a “chilling for a pretty definite end (date)” today is a top-down creation by an occupying army – like in Iraq. flict, but then again, this is how Carr, who caused a storm earlier impact in terms of people speak- to any new Iraq conflict, though However, the reason it worked in Germany is more complex: besides we’re expected to behave in a US this year when he condemned ing very frankly.” Former foreign he’s been an active supporter and the country’s own federal tradition, the experience of defeat, total col- client state. the extremism of the Zionist minister Alexander Downer also advisor of failed, US-led policies lapse and the subsequent exposed existence between two superpowers Our politicians and journal- lobby, saying that it was damag- talked about “embarrassing” in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. forged a union in which regional animosities became negligent. ists are duchessed with countless ing Israel’s future. Less was said revelations. In the parallel universe of This legacy was strong enough to enlarge the union to encompass conferences and overseas trips. about Palestinian viability. A rare voice of establish- Washington talking points cre- the reinstated East German states in 1990 without major problems. They’re the willing subjects of Carr was immediately pounced ment dissent came from Paul ated by the US-Australia alli- By 2019, close to €200bn will have been transferred from west to east. endless lobbying, “insider access” on by both his political enemies Barratt, a former intelligence ance, Obama’s war is about the While the old Länder have started to grumble over this massive loss and so on. Then there’s the din- and allies – standard practice for analyst and former secretary of “battle for hearts and minds” in of income, federalism is stronger than ever. This is reflected at the ners, lunches, breakfasts and off- critics of Australia’s closeness to the Department of Defence. He the Islamic world, not the brutal polls: the only active separatist party in Germany, the Bavaria Party, the-record chats with the cream the US or Israel. Former Labour worried that public trust was reality of US policy on the ground which demands a referendum over Bavarian independence, won only of the US establishment. leader Mark Latham, was simi- breached by Australian politicians in Syria, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia. 2.1 percent of the votes in the state elections last year. The drip-feed is addictive and larly condemned after he appar- so uncritically accepting the goals Alternatives to bombing yet more Before the breakup of Prussia, federalism was not necessarily a good consequently the public often ently risked the US alliance by of two foreign powers, Israel and Arab nations are plentiful if we deal for many Germans in other states. England’s obvious dominance receives little more than press correctly, in my opinion, stating America. care to look – but we don’t. would create a similarly unbalanced federal system as in imperial releases dressed up with a byline. in 2005 that our incestuousness Canberra is described in An independent foreign policy Germany. Most importantly, however, federalism needs a strong bond Even questioning last week’s with Washington made us more the Wikileaks documents as requires Australia recognising it to hold the individual elements together, especially when one or more Australian anti-terror raids of a terrorist target. Former “rock solid”, but uninfluen- has never really become a sover- members are in need. brings condemnation. Get with prime minister Malcolm Fraser tial on American thinking. eign nation. The bravado over IS In postwar Germany, it was the memory of collapse and the threat the programme, repeat the word is another of the few high-profile Obsequiousness is Canberra’s shows the political elite prefers to of a cold war turning hot that created that bond. It is doubtful if a “terror”, ask questions never. political figures who write hon- permanent stance. Australian live in Obama’s shadow. simple vote in the Commons or even a constitutional convention would So many editors, journalists, estly about the true nature of the academic Hugh White offered a THE GUARDIAN pack the same emotional punch. THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

France vows Ukraine rebels not to give in to blackmail over announce Algeria hostage

PARIS: President Francois Hollande vowed yesterday not November polls to give in to jihadists who have threatened to kill a French hos- tage in Algeria, as troops raced against time to find him. Heavy artillery hits Donetsk airport Algerian military planes were combing the mountainous eastern DONETSK, Ukraine: Pro- The separatists launched their Tizi Ouzou region backing elite Russian rebels defiantly uprising against Kiev in April, anti-terrorist units on the ground announced yesterday they seizing towns and cities across the in a desperate bid to find 55-year- would stage their own elections eastern rustbelt and holding dis- old Herve Gourdel, a security in November, raising the stakes puted independence referendums source said. in a standoff with Kiev despite in May for Donetsk and Lugansk. The kidnapping was claimed both sides moving to end five Across both Donetsk and by Jund Al Khilifa (Soldiers of months of deadly fighting. Lugansk, the level of violence the Caliphate) — a group linked The prime minister of appears to have subsided after to Islamic State jihadists — that the self-proclaimed Donetsk months of warfare that sent East- has vowed to kill the hostage by People’s Republic, Alexander West tensions soaring. last night if Paris did not stop air Zakharchenko, said the eastern But journalists said Donetsk strikes in Iraq. separatist region would hold elec- airport, a key battleground in the Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a welcoming ceremony as he inspects the Vice-Admiral Kulakov anti- As the deadline loomed, some tions to choose a parliament and conflict, was hit by heavy artil- submarine warfare ship in Novorossiysk, yesterday. 20 truckloads of paratroopers also a leader on November 2. lery yesterday morning, sending joined the search, a witness said, The chairman of the “Supreme flames and large clouds of black and police set up roadblocks along Soviet”, or parliament, in the smoke shooting into the sky. Black Sea Fleet to get 80 warships the highway that snakes through neighbouring Lugansk People’s Donetsk city hall said a civil- the mountains. Republic, Alexei Karyakin, told ian was killed overnight, bringing “As grave as this situation is, the TASS news agency that the to 40 the number of Ukrainian NOVOROSSIYSK, Russia: new pro-Western authorities Yesterday, Shoigu was over- we will not give into any black- region would hold polls on the troops and civilians killed since Russia will increase its Black might try to join the Atlantic seeing Russian military exercises mail, any pressure, any ultima- same day. an initial September 5 truce that Sea fleet with more than 80 alliance. involving 155,000 servicemen in tum, no matter how odious, how The surprise announce- was also signed in the Belarussian new warships by 2020 and will A Nato official saids in Brussels the Far East. despicable,” Hollande said in New ments came just hours after capital. complete a second naval base there were no alliance plans to He told Putin in a video con- York, where he is due to attend Zakharchenko told the Interfax “Not everything’s clear with for the fleet near the city of build a Black Sea base but said ference that the army’s firepower the annual UN General Assembly. news agency the insurgents were the ceasefire,” Zakharchenko said. Novorossiysk by 2016, its com- it already had access to the and assault capabilities had France opened an official withdrawing their big guns from “Firing from the Ukrainian side mander said yesterday. resources of member states in increased lately as part of spend- inquiry into the kidnapping, which the frontline under a peace plan is still going on as before. I would In comments made to President the region. ing plans for the armed forces took place on Sunday in the heart forged with Kiev aimed at ending call this a slow-moving military Vladimir Putin as he visited the “Our Black Sea allies have set to cost hundreds of billions of of Algeria’s Djurdjura National a conflict that has killed around operation.” port city, Vice Admiral Alexander ports that we use from time to dollars. Park, whose dense forests, deep 3,000 people. Ukrainian President Petro Vitko said a second Black Sea time but (there are) no plans to “The firing, assault and gorges and picturesque lakes were Journalists said they saw Poroshenko agreed to the peace base was needed in addition to build a “Nato” base as suggested,” manoeuvre capabilities ... have once a major draw for tourists. tanks moving back from an area plan after several rounds of the main base on the Crimea the official said. increased due to the supplies of However, the mountains near Donetsk — the main rebel talks with Russian counterpart peninsula annexed from Ukraine Three Nato members have a modern weapons and equipment,” became a sanctuary for Islamists stronghold in the industrial east Vladimir Putin, who is blamed by because of Nato expansion. Black Sea coastline — Bulgaria, Shoigu said. in the 1990s who would later — although fighting was reported Kiev and the West for fomenting “Eighty ships and other ves- Romania and Turkey. Russia plans to spend 21 tril- swear allegiance to Al- Qaeda, around the city’s airport in the the rebellion by sending in elite sels are expected to arrive (in The former Soviet republic of lion roubles ($545bn) by the end and security forces have been morning. “We have withdrawn troops and heavy weapons. Novorossiysk) before 2020. The Georgia, on the eastern shore of the decade on refurbishing unable to dislodge them. artillery but only in those areas The war “cannot be won by mil- Black Sea Fleet will have 206 of the Black Sea, has sought Russia’s armed forces. Some Jund Al Khilifa was formed where the Ukrainian regu- itary means alone,” Poroshenko ships and vessels by 2020,” Vitko membership in the past but of those funds will be used to recently after splintering from lar units have done the same,” said on Sunday, while warning told Putin. like Ukraine is very unlikely improve the defence infrastruc- Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Zakharchenko said. “Where that Ukraine would defend itself “Nato ships are constantly to be admitted any time soon ture of Crimea. (AQIM), which experts say has Ukraine hasn’t withdrawn artil- with renewed vigour should the present in the Black Sea and it due to Moscow’s fierce opposi- Russia has staged several mili- raked in some $120m in ransom pay- lery, we haven’t done so.” truce collapse. plans to establish a naval base in tion to Nato’s further eastern tary exercises this year, includ- ments in the previous eight years. Ukraine had said on Monday Kiev signed up to the deal after the Black Sea,” he added. expansion. ing near Ukraine’s border, which Paris—which has denied accu- it was starting a pullback under the rebels — apparently with Nto has regularly conducted During NATO exercises have contributed to the tensions sations it pays ransoms—refused the terms of the deal signed in Russian military backing — swept naval exercises in the Black Sea, in western Ukraine earlier with the West, which sees the to be cowed by the threat against Minsk on Saturday that calls for across the southeast of Ukraine, especially since Russia annexed this month, Russian Defence increased training as sabre rat- Gourdel, and Hollande insisted the both sides to withdraw from the delivering a series of battlefield Crimea, populated mainly by Minister Sergei Shoigu promised tling amid the persistent disagre- country would press on with air frontline and establish a 30km defeats to government. ethnic Russians, in March to boost the number of troops in ments over Ukraine. strikes alongside the United States. wide demilitarised zone. AFP partly from fear that Ukraine’s Crimea. REUTERS AFP

Ebola cases to explode without drastic action: WHO Rajoy scraps abortion

GENEVA: The Ebola epidemic “We’ve rather modestly only “rumble on as it has for the last on the ground but the UN has is set to explode unless the extended the projections to few months for the next few said they need at least 600, and reforms; Minister quits response is radically intensified, November 2, but if you go to... years,” Dye said, adding that “the health authorities are aiming to the WHO said yesterday, warn- January 2, you’re into hundreds fear is that Ebola will become scale its current 400 Ebola beds MADRID: Prime Minister rejected it. ing that hundreds of thousands of thousands,” said Christopher more or less a permanent feature up to around 2,000 within weeks. Mariano Rajoy yesterday The PP has an absolute major- could be infected by the end of Dye, the head of strategy at the of the human population”. Its response has been bolstered scrapped proposed changes in ity in parliament, allowing it to the year. World Health Organisation and a Liberia, the hardest-hit nation, by a US military mission. the abortion law that would pass laws without the support The UN agency said in a report co-author of the study. has seen 3,000 cases of Ebola and But Antonio Vigilante, UN have made Spain one of the of other parties, but this pro- that new cases would surge from The research paper warns that almost 1,600 deaths, with health deputy special representative most difficult countries in posed reform had stirred dissent hundreds each week to thousands the outbreak could drag out for workers turning people away from for recovery and governance in Europe in which to termi- amongst its own members. without “drastic improvements years and become entrenched in treatment units due to chronic Liberia, likened the struggle to nate an unwanted pregnancy, “We will continue to look for in control measures”, with the west Africa, which has already shortages of beds and staff. “trying to remedy an earthquake prompting the justice minister ways to reach the widest consen- number of infections set to more seen almost 3,000 deaths. The country has some 150 for- when it is happening”. to resign. sus,” said Rajoy. “We cannot have than triple to 20,000 by November. The epidemic might simply eign specialised medical workers AFP The bill had proposed allow- a law that will change within the ing abortion only in the case of first 30 seconds of a new govern- rape or if the pregnancy posed a ment entering power.” serious health risk to the mother. Political analysts said the draft Pumpkin harvest It had deeply divided the centre- law had likely been dropped ‘Mere tolerance’ right People’s Party (PP) as well because it was divisive within the as being unpopular with the PP rather than an attempt to towards migrants electorate. win votes from the centre of the “As president of the govern- political spectrum, as the party not enough: Pope ment, I have taken the most could lose votes from the right as sensible decision,” Rajoy told a consequence. VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis reporters in Madrid. Anti-abortion activist group yesterday said “mere tolerance” Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz- ‘Right to Life’ said it would start a toward migrants and asylum Gallardon, architect of the pro- campaign to stop Spaniards voting seekers is not enough and he posed reform, resigned. The for Rajoy. Thousands of Spaniards called for a “globalisation of former mayor of Madrid said he had marched on Sunday urging charity” towards those fleeing would step down from politics. Rajoy to comply with his election warzones and poverty. Rajoy said the subject of abor- promise to restrict abortion. “It is necessary to respond to tion stirred up great differences “We find ourselves with a prime the globalisation of migration of opinion and the government minister who has betrayed his core with the globalisation of char- had done all it could to reach supporters,” said Gador Joya, spokes- ity and cooperation, in such a consensus. Opposition politicians woman for the group. “Mr Rajoy has way as to make the conditions welcomed the move. “We are cel- shown he is not to be trusted because of migrants more humane,” ebrating this withdrawal,” said he does not have principles.” the pontiff said in a message Carmen Monton of the opposi- The previous Socialist govern- to mark the World Day of A farmer Harald Wenske transports pumpkins near the Spreewald village of Lehde, Germany, yesterday. tion Socialists. “It was about time ment changed the abortion law Migrants and Refugees next Autumn is pumpkin season. Rajoy realised he cannot meddle in 2010, allowing women to ter- January. with women’s freedom.” minate unwanted pregnancies “Large numbers of people are Rajoy said the government on demand within 14 weeks, or leaving their homelands, with a would instead look to modify up to 22 weeks in cases of severe suitcase full of fears and desires, existing law so that young women abnormalities, putting Spain in to undertake a hopeful and dan- Adoption offers for shipwreck toddler of 16 and 17 could not terminate a line with most of Western Europe. gerous trip in search of more pregnancy without their parents’ Abortion was first decriminalized humane living conditions,” he said consent. The government would in Spain in 1985 in the cases of mal- in the text of an address he will ATHENS: Dozens of families Mediterranean sun in the arms of a on September 6. take measures to support families formed foetuses, rape or potential give January 18. have offered to adopt a Syrian 19-year-old Syrian woman wearing “Dozens of Greeks call every by the end of the year, he said, mental or physical damage to the “Often, however, such migra- toddler who survived the “mass a life jacket. Her parents perished. day to be informed about the without elaborating. mother. Most European countries tion gives rise to suspicion and murder” of a migrant ship- The child’s life in no longer in danger. state of health of the child and to The ruling PP had promised offer abortion on request, according hostility, even in ecclesiastical wreck in which 500 people were Traffickers allegedly drowned express their wish to adopt her,” abortion reform in its 2011 cam- to the World Health Organisation, communities, prior to any knowl- deliberately drowned, Greek the migrants — who may have Lena Borboudakis, deputy direc- paign, but the bill announced last with 88 percent allowing the termi- edge of the migrants’ lives or their authorities said yesterday. included up to 100 other children tor of Heraklion hospital in Crete, year angered women’s groups and nation of pregnancies if the foetus is stories of persecution and destitu- The little girl, believed to be 17 — off Malta by ramming their where the child — called Massar led to huge street protests and thought to be impaired or in cases tion,” he said. to 19 months old, survived three rickety boat when they refused — is being treated, said. complaints from leading doctors. of rape or incest. AFP days in the water under the hot to move to an even smaller vessel REUTERS Polls showed most Spaniards REUTERS WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Rousseff Miliband pitches regains slight edge in Brazil to be next PM; presidential race

BRASILIA: President Dilma Rousseff has regained a slight shifts to left edge in Brazil’s presidential race after weeks of aggressive campaigning against environ- mentalist Marina Silva, who is Labour has narrow lead in surveys losing some voter support in the campaign’s homestretch, a poll MANCHESTER, England: British people face one of the big- showed yesterday. Opposition Labour party leader gest choices in generations. We Rousseff would have 42 percent Ed Miliband cast himself as are ready,” he said, before walking of the votes against 41 percent for Britain’s prime minister-in- through the conference hall hand Silva in a second-round runoff if waiting eight months before in hand with his wife Justine. the election were held today, a one an election, pledging to wring The centrepiece of Miliband’s point advantage that amounts to money from wealthy home own- speech was a promise to create a statistical tie as it is within the ers, hedge funds and tobacco an annual 2.5 billion pound(4.09 margin of error of the survey by firms to fund better health care. billion US dollar) fund to improve polling firm MDA. Yesterday’s speech, the last he Britain’s health service which he Silva, who would be Brazil’s will deliver at a party conference said could be used to recruit thou- first black president, was leading before a national election in May sands more doctors and nurses. by almost three percentage points next year, shifted his party fur- The extra money would be in the previous MDA poll two ther to the left and away from raised by taxing wealthy home US President Barack Obama speaks during the Climate Summit 2014 at the United Nations headquarters in New weeks ago, just as the Rousseff the centre ground, where one of owners, by cracking down on York, yesterday. campaign was unleashing a wave his predecessors, former prime tax avoidance schemes including of negative campaign ads ques- minister Tony Blair, anchored it. those used by hedge funds, and tioning Silva’s ability to lead Latin “There is a choice of leader- by levying a new “fee” on tobacco America’s largest economy. ship at this election, a real stark manufacturers calculated on their Obama urges global action Anxiety about Rousseff’s recov- choice of leadership; leadership market share, he said. ery in the polls has weighed on that stands for the privileged few The reaction from party activ- Brazilian financial markets in or leadership that fights for you ists was mixed. on growing climate threat recent days. The Bovespa stock and your family,” Miliband, 44, “There was no ‘and finally Steve index lost more than 1 percent on told delegates at Labour’s annual Jobs ‘I’ve just invented the iPhone the poll numbers and Brazil’s cur- conference in Manchester, north- moment’,” Mark Ferguson, an UNITED NATIONS: US Obama said that he met in New Nations Secretary General Ban rency weakened past 2.40 per dollar ern England. editor of LabourList, a grassroots President Barack Obama yes- York with Vice Premier Zhang Ki-moon said at the opening of for the first time in seven months. Narrowly ahead of Prime organisation, told fellow activists tersday urged all nations Gaoli of China, which has sur- the summit at UN headquarters After four years of sluggish Minister David Cameron’s afterwards. including emerging economies passed the United States as the in New York. “I am asking you growth and heavy-handed state Conservative party in opinion “I think it was an OK speech, to act against climate change, world’s top emitter of greenhouse to lead.” intervention in the economy polls, Miliband faces a tough task I think the mood of the confer- warning that time was running gases blamed for climate change. Diplomats and climate activ- under the left-leaning Rousseff, to win May’s election with some of ence has been a bit flat. I think it out to prevent further damage. Obama said he “reiterated ists hope the summit attended investors are hoping the election his own activists complaining they needed to be a brilliant speech to Obama, addressing a UN cli- my belief that as the two largest by 120 leaders will pave the way will bring in a new president who find him an uninspiring figure. change that and I’m afraid for me mate summit hours after order- economies and emitters in the for a deal to be reached in Paris will push for pro-market reforms Labour, in power from 1997- it probably hasn’t,” he said. ing strikes on Syria, said that the world, we have a special responsi- on reducing greenhouse gas emis- that economists say are needed to 2010, should enjoy a much bigger Other supporters were more “urgent and growing threat of bility to lead. It’s what big nations sions after 2020. lift Brazil out of its current rut. lead in opinion polls at this stage enthused. climate change” would ultimately have to do.” But no-shows from the lead- Silva, a former senator and envi- in the electoral cycle than just one “It was very uplifting,” Chantal “define the contours of this cen- “Today I call on all countries ers of China, the world’s biggest ronment minister, surged in the or two percentage points if it is to Franco, a Labour party member, tury more dramatically than any to join us—not next year or the polluter, and India, the number- polls after being thrust into the win, experts say. said. other” issue. year after that but right now— three carbon emitter, cast a cloud race last month following the death Wearing a dark suit and stand- “For someone like me who has “We know what we have to do because no nation can meet this over the event. of her party’s original candidate in ing in front of a giant wall banner to go round the houses knock- to avoid irreparable harm. We global threat alone,” he said. France pledged up to $1bn to a plane crash. Recent polls have reading ‘Labour Plan for Britain’s ing on doors and talking about have to cut carbon pollution in World leaders at the summit the UN Green Climate Fund, showed her support eroding, but Future’, Miliband spoke for more Labour, it gave us some very posi- our own countries to prevent the billed as the largest-ever gather- which helps finance climate she still looks like the best-placed than an hour without notes and tive messages for people who want worst effects of climate change,” ing on climate change faced calls change reform in poorer coun- challenger to unseat Rousseff. drew several rounds of applause, to vote Labour but who perhaps Obama said. yesterday to take bold action to tries, and the United States was A flurry of opinion polls in the earning a standing ovation at the have been a bit worried about The world also has to “adapt reverse global warming. expected to make pledges later in next few days should confirm end. what Labour will do.” to the impacts that unfortunately “Today, we must set the the day. whether Silva’s surge was based “In the next eight months the REUTERS we can no longer avoid,” he said. world on a new course,” United AGENCIES partly on support from voters who have now switched back to Rousseff or Aecio Neves, giving the current president a chance to turn the race around. “This week will be critical to see Mexico frees Cuban found at sea; some bound for US border if Rousseff still has momentum to flip the lead,” said Joao Augusto Castro Neves of the Eurasia polit- CHETUMAL, Mexico: Mexico off the Yucatan peninsula badly United States. The group set off They were released from an confirmed that his wife, Maylin ical risk consultancy, which views yesterday released 14 Cuban sunburned and dehydrated after on August 7, and were forced to immigration center in Chetumal Perez, had been released. Rousseff as the favorite to win. migrants rescued at sea by its three weeks adrift at sea, and fashion a makeshift sail for their on the Yucatan peninsula on “My wife just called. We spoke In yesterday’s poll, Silva’s sup- navy this month, some of whom Mexico’s government had said vessel after the motor failed early Tuesday and the group split into very briefly,” he said, explaining port in a first-round vote dropped headed for the United States by they would likely be deported. in the journey. two. Some made for the south- she was using a borrowed cell- six points to 27.4 percent, whereas bus to take advantage of a US Only 15 survived the jour- A Mexican immigration official eastern city of Villahermosa and phone and asked him to send Rousseff slipped just two points, policy that allows Cubans arriv- ney from Manzanillo in east- said on Monday that the Cuban said they were on the way to the money to pay the bus fare to the to 36 percent. Support for Neves, ing by land to stay. ern Cuba, with 15 dying at sea, government had not recognised US border, while the rest headed US border. a pro-business centrist who has The Cubans, who were with- and two more dying after they the survivors as its citizens. The for the Yucatan capital of Merida. “I’m running now to send the been stuck in third place, rose to out food and survived by drink- were rescued. One migrant had Cuban government has not com- Jose Caballero, the husband money,” he added. 17.6 percent from 14.7 percent. ing rain water, were intercepted already been released and is in the mented on the case. of one of the rescued women REUTERS REUTERS SpaceX cargo Ex-BBC DJ Travis convicted of assault ship arrives at LONDON: Dave Lee Travis, one of Britain’s researcher in 1995. “David Griffin...indecently International best-known radio DJs in the 1970s and 1980s assaulted a young woman by touching her in who counted Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi a way that was not only deeply invasive but Space Station among his fans, was found guilty yesterday of also against the law,” said Deputy Chief Crown indecently assaulting a television researcher. Prosecutor Jenny Hopkins. WASHINGTON: SpaceX’s The 69-year-old is the latest ageing British “The prosecution of sexual offences is often dif- unmanned Dragon spacecraft celebrity to be convicted of sex crimes follow- ficult and complex, perhaps even more so when the arrived at the International ing police investigations launched in the wake allegations are from some years ago,” she added in Space Station yesterday with of revelations that the late Jimmy Savile, one of a statement after the verdict. He will be sentenced a cargo of supplies, including the BBC’s top TV presenters, had sexually abused on Friday. freeze-dried meals, 20 live lab hundreds of victims over decades. Travis had denied all the accusations, describing mice and a 3D printer. Travis, a former BBC Radio 1 DJ, had been himself as a “big, hairy, cuddly bear” who was tactile Astronauts at the orbiting lab cleared in February of a string of sexual offences but not a sexual predator. He accused the women of reached out with the space sta- against women over three decades, but the jury making up the claims to make money. Among his fans tion’s robotic arm to grasp the at Southwark Crown Court had failed to reach was Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, who singled Dragon at 6.52am (1052 GMT), verdicts on two indecent assault charges and out his weekly show on the BBC World Service for Nasa said. prosecutors decided he should be re-tried. making her world “much more complete” during her Germany’s Alexander Gerst, Travis, appearing under his real name of 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and 2010. an astronaut from the European David Griffin, was convicted of assaulting the REUTERS Space Agency, operated the 57.7- foot robotic arm to capture the Dragon, and was assisted by Nasa astronaut Reid Wiseman. The berthing operation was completed at 9.21am when the vessel latched fully onto the research outpost. The Dragon capsule is carrying more than 2,200kg of food, cloth- ing, spare parts, exercise equip- ment, science experiments, a small satellite and a tool to measure wind speed at the ocean’s surface. The spacecraft launched early Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is SpaceX’s fourth contracted mission with NASA for supply trips to the ISS and back. The lab mice are the first live mammals to hitch a ride aboard a commercial cargo ship, and they are enclosed in a Nasa-made research cage for studying the effects of weightlessness on their bodies. Former Radio 1 DJ, Dave Lee Travis leaves Southwark Crown Court in London yesterday. AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES 16,000 protest Chinese court against Tokyo nuke restart jails Uighur TOKYO: Some 16,000 peo- ple rallied yesterday in the Japanese capital against the government’s plan to restart nuclear reactors. scholar for life It was one of the largest anti- nuclear demonstrations since the nuclear watchdog on September Verdict completely unjustified: EU 10 approved plans to restart two reactors at the Sendai plant in BEIJING: A prominent aca- so upset she couldn’t walk,” he southern Japan. demic from China’s mostly- added. “Three and a half years has Muslim Uighur minority was China blames unrest on mili- passed since the nuclear accident, jailed for life yesterday for “sep- tant groups seeking independence but self-examination has yet to aratism,” with the European for Xinjiang. Rights groups say be made,” Nobel literature laure- Union expressing outrage at discrimination and government ate Kenzaburo Oe told the Tokyo the “completely unjustified” repression of the Uighurs’ religion rally. response to criticism of Beijing’s and language has fuelled violence. “(The government) is going policies in the Xinjiang region. Police detained Tohti in January ahead with the plan to resume The EU, United States and after he criticised the govern- operation at the Sendai plant human rights groups had all been ment’s response to a suicide car without compiling sufficient anti- calling for the release of Ilham attack last October in Beijing’s disaster plans,” Oe said. Tohti, a persistent but moder- Tiananmen Square, which the After the rally, demonstrators ate government critic who cam- government blamed on Xinjiang Policemen guard a checkpoint on a road near a courthouse where ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti’s trial took marched through the capital, car- paigned for minority rights in the separatists. place in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, last week. rying banners reading: “We don’t vast western region. Chinese courts are controlled need nuclear plants.” Analysts say his unusually by the ruling Communist Party, On Sunday new industry harsh sentence shows increased and appeals in criminal cases are years. “Ilham Tohti’s sentence is referring to China’s Han majority in shackles for weeks at a time minister Yuko Obuchi said the official intolerance for dissent and rarely successful. extremely harsh, it’s unexpected ethnic group. while under detention, his law- resource-poor nation should be could stoke ethnic tensions. The EU called the sentence and it’s shocking,” said Maya “It certainly reflects the values yers said. realistic about its energy needs The former university profes- “completely unjustified” and Wang, a researcher for US-based and the style of the Xi Jinping “This tragedy proves that solv- as the government tries to con- sor would “certainly appeal” the demanded the scholar’s immedi- group Human Rights Watch. administration... to crack down ing problems through peaceful vince a sceptical public about the sentence passed in Xinjiang’s ate and unconditional release. “For someone like Tohti, who on any dissident or opposition,” means is not possible in China,” necessity of nuclear power. capital Urumqi, his lawyer Li “The EU deplores that the due is prominent and known outside he added. said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman In pre-Fukushima Japan, Fangping said. process of law was not respected, China, to be given a life sen- Tohti, who has three children for the exiled World Uyghur nuclear power accounted for Tohti, 44, said he “did not in particular with regard to the tence for very measured criti- and taught economics at a uni- Congress. nearly one-third of the country’s agree” with the sentence as right to a proper defence,” it cism, that is unprecedented,” versity in Beijing, said he opposed Prosecutors presented videos energy needs. it was announced but was not added in a statement. she added. independence for Xinjiang in of Tohti’s university lectures and The Nuclear Regulatory allowed to make any further China has cracked down on “It’s a sign of just how much the interviews and was seen as a posts from his website Uighur Authority has said the two reac- statement before officials led dissent under the leadership of Chinese government’s intolerance moderate voice on Uighur issues, Online as evidence that he had tors were satisfactory but hurdles him away, Li said, adding that President Xi Jinping, with doz- of dissent has deepened.” but was repeatedly subject to led a separatist group, Li said. still remain, including getting the the court will “confiscate his ens of academics, journalists Joseph Cheng, professor at the house arrest and prevented from They also cited testimony from consent of local communities in a entire property.” and activists detained or jailed City University of Hong Kong, leaving the country. some of Tohti’s students, around country still scarred by the catas- Tohti’s wife cried loudly after — though Tohti’s is the heaviest said the verdict was “a very bad He went on trial last week eight of whom have also been det trophe where all 48 viable reac- the verdict was read and “was sentence given to a dissident in signal for Han-Uighur relations,” after being denied food and kept ained. AFP tors are offline. AFP

Sacrificial animals Philippine mall N Korea demands fine on pulls shirt after online outrage seized China fishing boat MANILA: The Philippines’ BEIJING: North Korea the newspaper said. Their wallets biggest mall operator said yes- detained a Chinese fishing boat and belts had been stolen. terday it had withdrawn from on September 12 and demanded “The crew insist that their its shelves a T-shirt that made a fine for its release, Chinese boat did not enter North Korean fun of rape, following social media reported yesterday, waters, not to mention crossing media outrage. apparently the first such move the line for fishing,” Zhang Xikai, A photo of the dark blue T-shirt in more than a year. the fishing boat owner, was quoted with the slogan: “It’s not rape. It’s The owner of the boat said he as saying. “They were conducting a snuggle with a struggle”, was received a phone call, apparently normal operations within Chinese posted by writer Karen Kunawicz from the North Korean coast waters when they were hijacked on her Facebook page on Monday guard, two days later and was by North Korean personnel with and quickly went viral. told that his boat and crew had guns and dragged into North SM Supermalls said in a state- been detained for fishing in North Korean waters by force.” ment the message on the T-shirt Korean waters. China’s foreign ministry con- was “unacceptable”, and that it The North Koreans demanded firmed it was aware of the boat’s only found out about it through a fine of 250,000 yuan for releas- seizure and the Chinese embassy social media. ing the boat and its crew, but in Pyongyang on Monday made “We have immediately pulled on September 17th the six crew representations to the North out all the T-shirts of the con- returned to their fishing village Korean government, the news- A sales promotion girl feeds cows as she sells it for the upcoming Eid Al Adha festival at a cow barn in Depok, signor that distributes them,” it with wounds from being beaten, paper said. REUTERS Indonesia, yesterday. Millions of Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid Al Adha, which falls in the said in a statement. first week of October in Indonesia, by slaughtering goats, sheep and cattle. “Appropriate action will be taken to ensure this does not hap- Annual festival pen again. Thank you for inform- ing us.” Scrap time limit on reporting rape, Nepal told SM Supermalls, owned by the Philippines’ richest man Henry KATHMANDU: Nepal must perpetrators have walked free,” will not have access to justice. Sy, operates 46 malls locally and scrap a 35-day time limit for said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Some of the women inter- has expanded to China. reporting rapes that prevents Asia director at Human Rights viewed described how soldiers Kunawicz’s Facebook photo of victims from seeking justice, Watch. “Justice and reparations targeted female relatives of sus- the T-shirt, which was displayed Human Rights Watch said for women who suffered sexual pected Maoists, while others in the teen boys’ section, was yesterday in a report on war- assault is long overdue unfinished spoke of rapes by rebels who for- shared almost 3,000 times and time sexual violence in the business from the civil war.” cibly recruited women into the liked by close to 1,000 people by Himalayan nation. Nepal is in the process of set- insurgency. yesterday afternoon. The report is based on the tes- ting up two commissions to inves- A victim identified by the “I’m angry not just with SM timonies of more than 50 women tigate wartime crimes and heal pseudonym, Shona, said she was but with the group of idiots that — some of whom were just school- wounds from the conflict. accused of being a Maoist and envisioned and actually produced girls when they were attacked. It Although lawmakers have raped repeatedly by a police offi- this,” one Facebook user said in a calls for the government to revise barred the commissions from cial who would come to her house comment to Kunawicz’s post. its 35-day time limit and to pro- offering amnesty in cases of sex- while her husband worked over- “A big company has an even big- vide reparations to victims. ual violence, HRW warned that seas. “He used to kick (the door) ger social responsibility to control “For more than 10 years unless the statute of limitations and come inside. I was alone. The what goes through their stores,” already, these women have suf- is overturned, enabling investiga- children used to run away as soon another person on Facebook said fered in silence and fear while the tions of wartime rapes, victims as the police came.” AFP in a separate comment. AFP Men ride horses in Kandal province in Cambodia yesterday during an annual buffalo-racing ceremony. The ceremony also marks the end of the Festival of Pchum Ben. Scuffle as Hong Kong students escalate pro-democracy strike

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Beijing’s hard-line stance. security officials forced the stu- the current state of democracy Kong government’s Tamar head- shade of trees and tents. students mobbed the city’s Activists say the student pro- dents back, escorting them from in Hong Kong, whose leader is quarters took on a carnival The students are heartened leader yesterday in angry test marks the start of a cam- the grounds as dozens of journal- currently appointed by a pro- atmosphere as protesters trick- by past successes, including the scenes as they took their anti- paign of civil disobedience against ists joined the melee. government panel. led in under the summer sun, to government’s 2012 climbdown on Beijing strike to government China’s plan to vet nominees for “This is a warning. Your actions “You can see that he has no attend a programme including a plan to implement patriotism headquarters, where more than the leadership of the former have already severely disrupted intention of having a dialogue lectures on the lawns. classes which was abandoned in 1,000 protested against China’s British colony, dashing hopes for order here,” police said over with the students,” said Alex “The government officials, the the face of mass protests outside refusal to grant full democracy. full universal suffrage at 2017 loudspeakers, while in response Chow, chairman of the Hong legislators, they can look out their government headquarters. Organisers said 13,000 univer- polls. protesters chanted: “Hong Kong Kong Federation of Students window and see us calling for true “Someone needs to take the sity students massed at a campus About a dozen students rushed belongs to us!” and one of the activists who chal- democracy,” 20-year-old political lead in showing the government in the north of the semi-autono- towards Hong Kong’s leader, chief Leung told the press conference lenged Leung. science student Ester Wong said. they’re wrong, and this time it’s mous city on Monday to launch executive Leung Chun-ying, yes- that authorities had “paid close Chow threatened an escala- “This park has a lot of sig- up to the students,” said 19-year- a week-long boycott of classes, terday when he emerged from attention to the demands for the tion of the protest action if Leung nificance in Hong Kong protest old theatre student Ryan Lo. “We a strong showing that breathed government headquarters after election in 2017 by the university refuses to speak with the students movements, and we’re here to oppose the Chinese government new life into the democracy cam- holding a press conference. students” and that Beijing’s pro- within 48 hours. continue that tradition,” she said, trying to limit the freedoms Hong paign which had been stunned by Leung was hustled away while posals were an improvement on The park outside the Hong huddled with others under the Kong people deserve.” AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Karzai slams US, Pakistan in farewell speech ‘No peace will arrive unless the US, Pakistan want it’

KABUL: Outgoing Afghan forces in Afghanistan. security pact with the US. President Hamid Karzai yes- “One of the reasons was that He said he had travelled to terday blamed the United the Americans did not want Pakistan, where much of the States for his country’s long peace because they had their own Taliban’s leadership is believed to war, a final swipe at the coun- agenda and objectives,” Karzai be based, at least 20 times seeking try that helped bring him to said. a negotiated end to the war, but power 13 years ago but towards He did not elaborate, but in the his efforts were thwarted. which he has become increas- past has suggested continued vio- Neither the US nor the ingly bitter. lence has been an excuse for the Pakistani embassies in Kabul had His farewell speech came days US to keep bases in the country. immediate comment on Karzai’s ahead of the planned swearing in He also accused Pakistani speech. of a new president, Ashraf Ghani, power players of trying to control Karzai has been in power since after months of potentially violent Afghanistan’s foreign policy. 2001 after being plucked from vir- crisis over a disputed election that “Today, I tell you again that the tual obscurity by the US follow- ended in a power-sharing deal, yet war in Afghanistan is not our war, ing the overthrow of the Taliban’s to be tested, with rival Abdullah but imposed on us and we are the radical Islamist government for Abdullah. victims,” Karzai said. sheltering Al Qaeda’s terrorist Karzai blamed both the US and “No peace will arrive unless the leadership after the 9/11 attacks neighbouring Pakistan for the US or Pakistan want it.” on the US. continuing war with the Taliban- In recent years, Karzai has The deterioration of his rela- led insurgency and warned the sharply denounced the US for tionship with the West was seen new government to be ‘be extra the deaths of Afghan civilians in by some as an effort to shape his cautious in relations with the US air strikes and for holding sus- legacy as an independent leader and the West’. pected Afghan militants prisoner rather than a US puppet as main- The conflict kills thousands of without trial. tained by the Taliban. Afghans each year and has claimed The relationship deteriorated Karzai was barred by the con- the lives of more than 2,200 to near breaking point this year, stitution from running for a third Outgoing President Hamid Karzai (centre) bows during a meeting of civil workers in Kabul yesterday. American and other international when Karzai refused to sign a key term this year. REUTERS

3 militants blown up while placing Blaze destroys poll material in Lahore Gunmen kill Ahmadi LAHORE: Material belonging Fire-fighters were unable to is estimating the losses caused to IED in Kandahar to the Election Commission of determine the cause of the blaze. their material by the fire and will doctor in Mirpur Khas KABUL: At least three mili- Pakistan (ECP) was destroyed Rescue 1122 spokesperson Jam inquire into the incident. Acting tants were killed while they in a blaze at a government Sajjad said the fire was control- election commissioner Khaliqur were planting an improvised school in the Lower Mall area led before all the ECP material Rehman reiterated that no record KARACHI: Gunmen in south- the murder asking him to come explosive device (IED) in south- of Lahore yesterday. was gutted and half the material of the 2013 elections had been ern Pakistan shot dead a doc- out of his clinic,” adding: “We are ern Kandahar province of The fire broke out in the base- was saved. present at the site. tor from Pakistan’s Ahmadi working on this clue.” Afghanistan. ment of Central Model School, The ECP clarified that material The responsibility and duty Muslim minority, police and The police officer said that in According to local government Ratigan Road, in the afternoon. of vital importance was not stored of conducting elections are members of the community said 2008, another Ahmadi doctor was officials, the incident took place Students and staff were evacu- at the school and only additional established the Constitution of yesterday, in the latest attack gunned down in a similar way in early yesterday in Maruf district. ated as fire-fighters managed materials, including forms, ballot Pakistan. on one of the country’s most the same city. The provincial government to douse the blaze after a few boxes and stationery were kept Established in 1956, the persecuted groups. Founded by Ghulam Ahmad, media office confirmed in a state- hours. here. Election Commission of Pakistan The assailants stormed who was born in 1838, the Ahmadi ment that the militants were However, PTI leader “The material in the school was holds the purpose of elections to Mubashar Ahmad Khosa’s clinic in sect has a number of unique views planting IED in Walki area early Mehmoodur Rasheed accused the not in use and was for the upcom- Houses of Parliament, four pro- the city of Mirpur Khas, which is including that Ahmad himself was yesterday. Punjab government of deliberately ing by-elections and local bodies vincial assemblies and for elec- around 230 kilometres northeast a prophet and that Jesus died The anti-government armed destroying the material to hide elections,” ECP Deputy Director tion of such other public offices of Karachi, on Monday evening. aged 120 in Srinagar, capital of militant groups have not com- evidence of rigging in the 2013 Abdul Hameed said at the site of as may be specified by law or “He was attending to patients Indian-ruled Kashmir. mented regarding the incident so elections. the fire. Material for the general until such law is made by the at his clinic when two unknown Every September, anti-Ahmadi far. Taliban militants and other He asked for an explanation for elections was not affected, he Parliament. assailants came in and fired at groups hold conferences through- insurgents frequently use IED as the blaze and a list of materials added. The Election Commission is him repeatedly before fleeing on out the country on the anniver- the weapon of their choice to tar- burned in the fire. Hameed said it is routine to constituted with comprising the a motorbike,” a statement by a sary of a 1974 Supreme Court get Afghan and coalition security The basement was being used store election material in govern- Chief Election Commissioner community group said. judgement that ruled the group forces which normally leads to to store ECP material for the ment schools and permission was as its chairman (who is a judge Zafarullah Dharejo, a senior non-Muslims. civilian casualties. last few years and school offi- sought from the Punjab govern- or retired judge of the Supreme local police official, added that a Ahmadis are one of the most At least two civilians were cials said they rented the base- ment in this regard. Court) and four appointed mem- third attacker kept watch outside. persecuted minority groups in killed and three others were ment to the ECP after the May “The commission had been bers from each four provinces, Khosa, who was a well-known Pakistan. They are frequently injured following an improvised 2013 elections. Material, includ- using the basement for storage each of whom is a judge of four in the area, succumbed to his attacked, accused of blasphemy explosive device (IED) explosion ing ink, ballot boxes and stamps purposes temporarily and had High Courts of the four provinces; injuries on his way to hospital. and subjected to discrimination in Helmand province a week ago. were also stored here, the school rented it out,” he added. all appointed by the President by Dharejo said: “The doctor got a in education and the workplace. AGENCY officials said. He stated that the commission constitution. INTERNEWS text message half an hour before AFP Taliban attack kills four in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A car bomb suicide attack by the Taliban that targeted a senior mili- tary officer rocked Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, killing at least four people and wounding 24, offi- cials said. Broken glass and human remains littered the scene of the explosion near the city’s main railway station, where one SUV was blown to pieces while the wreck of another smouldered. “It was a vehicle-borne suicide attack which killed three peo- ple including an FC (Frontier Corps) soldier,” senior local police official Najib-ur-Rehman said, adding the two others were civilians including a woman. A senior security official later said, a fourth person had died. Fourteen injured people were being treated at the city’s Lady Reading Hospital and 10 at the Combined Military Hospital, officials said. Senior police official Faisal Shahzad said the target of the bombing appeared to be Pakistani soldiers use a crane to lift a damaged vehicle in Peshawar yesterday. Brigadier Khalid Javed, the sec- ond most senior officer in the FC force, who escaped unhurt. “We are still as active as the his hospital bed it was an deaf- passed by, killing one soldier and The Pakistani Taliban fac- past and will show the mirror ening explosion. wounding two others, a security tion led by Maulanah Fazlullah to the PML-N as we showed “I fell from my motorbike official said. claimed responsibility for the the ANP (Awami National after the blast and regained The military began a long- attack, vowing revenge against Party).” consciousness in the hospital,” awaited push to clear militant the ruling Pakistan Muslim The secular ANP ruled said Rizwan, who sustained bases from North Waziristan in League Nawaz (PML-N) for the northwestern Khyber head and shoulder injuries. June after a bloody attack on a military operation in the Pakhtunkhwa from 2008-2013 Peshawar is the gateway to Karachi airport finally sank fal- northwest. and was regularly targeted by the seven semi-autonomous tering peace talks with Taliban The group’s spokesman the Taliban who killed hundreds tribal regions where the mili- rebels. Shahidullah Shahid said: “We of its workers and some senior tary has been battling Taliban Air strikes, artillery, mortars claim responsibility for the figures. and Al Qaeda-linked militants. and ground troops have all been Peshawar attack yesterday. We Muhammad Rizwan, a gov- In the Boya area of North used to retake territory there. have no loss from operation ernment employee who was Waziristan yesterday a road- The tribal areas have for years Zarb-e-Azab,” referring to the passing on a motorbike when side improvised explosive device been a hideout for Islamist mili- military strikes. the blast occurred said from went off as an army vehicle tants of all stripes. AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Mars mission brings Modi to Bangalore Excitement as spacecraft enters Martian orbit today

BANGALORE: India’s tryst brief Modi about the operations. receiving the signals from the with Mars begins early today Buoyed by the test-firing of the spacecraft after its insertion into when its inter-planetary 440 Newton liquid apogee motor the Martian orbit. spacecraft readies to enter (LAM) engine on Monday, about The five scientific instruments the Martian orbit in a maiden 300 days after it was shut off on board the 475kg Orbiter will attempt to study the red plan- following the spacecraft’s trans- study the Martian surface and et’s atmosphere and search for Mars injection into the Sun’s its mineral composition and scan life-sustaining elements. orbit on December 1, 2013, for its atmosphere for methane gas. Excitement is building up at its voyage to the red planet, the India became the first Asian the Mars Mission control centre scientists also corrected its tra- country to enter the Martian in the space agency’s telemetry, jectory (direction) for the final gravity or sphere of its influence tracking and command network manoeuvre. on Monday. (Istrac) in this tech hub for “Everything is going on The Rs450 crore ambitious the historic event, which Prime smoothly as programmed and the Mars Orbiter Mission was Minister Narendra Modi will also spacecraft’s health is normal. We launched on November 5, 2013, witness. Modi, on a two-day visit to are waiting for the final move,” on board a polar rocket from A father and his daughter look at information about planet Mars on a poster put up at the Nehru Planetarium as Karnataka for the first time after the mission’s programme director the country’s only spaceport at a special preview on maiden Mars Orbiter Mission, in Bangalore yesterday. assuming office, was yesterday M Annadurai said. Sriharikota off the Bay of Bengal, given a rousing welcome by thou- The spacecraft will consume about 80km northeast of Chennai. sands of people at the HAL airport. about 250 kg of liquid fuel with ISRO is the fourth international Premier vows to abolish ‘Make in India’ “As Modi is also in charge of oxidiser. In the absence of sun- space agency after Nasa of the US, the space department, he has light on the Martian surface Russian Federal Space Agency and expressed keen interest to wit- from 7.12am causing eclipse, eight European Space Agency to under- campaign ness the historic event when thrusters (smaller engines) on take a mission to Mars. ‘jungle’ of outdated laws NEW DELHI: Some 500 top the spacecraft (Orbiter) enters board the spacecraft will control As the second smallest celestial chief executives from across the Martian orbit in its maiden its attitude due to lack of solar body in the solar system, Mars BANGALORE: Prime them to suit the needs of the the globe are set to converge attempt,” a space official said. energy during the operation. is also known as the red planet Minister Narendra Modi yes- present and future generations,” at the Vigyan Bhavan con- Though the orbit insertion “As the spacecraft will pass due to the presence of iron oxide terday vowed to abolish the “jun- Modi said in Hindi. vention centre here tomorrow exercise begins at 4.17am, the through the eclipsed region dur- in abundance, giving it a reddish gle” of laws that are outdated Modi also appealed to Indians to log in to Prime Minister prime minister will be at the mis- ing the firing, radars at the four appearance. and holding up the country’s to join him in cleaning up the filth Narendra Modi’s “Make in sion control centre from 6.45am earth stations will not receive Though both the planets have socio-economic development. that has brought a bad name to the India” campaign. From top to watch the crucial operation telemetry (radio) signals till equal period of revolution around “I have decided to abolish the country. “I want all of you to join honchos of large conglomer- when the spacecraft main engine 7.53am,” the director noted. their axis, Mars takes 24 hours jungle of laws as they have become me in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ates like the House of Tatas, will be fired at 7.17am to carry In the event of the engine not and 37 minutes to complete a outdated and irrelevant in the (operation clean-up) programme the two Reliance Groups the Orbiter through the region firing at the designated time revolution. Earth takes 365 days present times. I have formed a our government is launching across and the Aditya Vikram to enter the Martian orbit by (7.17am), the mission control will to orbit the sun while Mars takes special committee to single out all the country tomorrow, marking Birla empire to chief execu- 7.53am,” the official said. give commands to fire the eight 687 days to move around sun. those laws that have been delaying the 99th birthday of Bharatiya Jana tives of global companies like As command signals to the thrusters for sustaining the India launched its space pro- decision-making and hampering Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Mercedes, Airbus, Vodafone, spacecraft and signals from it to momentum. gramme five decades ago and growth,” Modi told a gathering of Upadhyaya,” Modi said. Honda and Samsung have the mission control centre take The deep space networks of developed rockets after sanctions BJP cadres at the HAL airport. “I came here to beg you to confirmed their attendance. 12.5 minutes each way, confirma- America’s National Aeronautics were imposed on it for conducting Modi said it was ridiculous that spare 100 hours in a year, or two Modi will also launch a tion about its insertion into the and Space Administration (Nasa) two nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998. laws framed 50-60 years ago or hours in a week, to clean up your “Make in India” portal which orbit will be known by 8.15am. at California in the US, Madrid in ISRO has so far launched 40 for- even over a century were being dwelling, surroundings, locality, will offer a platform to address Indian Space Research Spain and Canberra in Australia eign satellites, many of them for applied in the 21st century. “It is city, town or village and maintain queries from potential inves- Organisation (ISRO)Chairman will coordinate with ISRO’s developed countries like Britain, unfortunate that people have to cleanliness so that none dare say tors by a panel of top officials, K Radhakrishanan and scientists deep space network at Baylalu, Canada, Germany and France. suffer from such outdated laws. our country is filthy or dirty,” including those that are more of the Mars Orbiter Mission will about 40km from Bangalore, for IANS We have to abolish or change Modi said. IANS complex in nature. IANS IAF Day rehearsals Supreme Court Copter deal: Businessman cracks down Gautam Khaitan arrested on ‘encounter’ NEW DELHI: Businessman custody of the accused. They said killings by cops Gautam Khaitan was arrested that the ED must quiz bank offi- yesterday in the AgustaWestland cials to unearth the money trail chopper deal case and produced in the case. NEW DELHI: The Supreme before a court, which sent him The supply of 12 VVIP heli- Court ruled yesterday that to seven days Enforcement copters from British firm police killings must be inde- Directorate custody. AgustaWestland came under pendently investigated, seeking Chief Metropolitan Magistrate scrutiny after Italian authorities to hold the force accountable for Sanjay Khanagwal sent Khaitan alleged that a bribe was paid by a high incidence of extra-judi- An Indian Air Force MIG-29 jet takes off during a routine flying sortie at the IAF Air Base at Jamnagar, 350km to ED custody after he was pro- the company to clinch the deal. cial killings across the country. from Ahmedabad, yesterday. The flying sortie took place in the run-up to IAF Day on October 8. duced by the ED. Khaitan, who India on January 1 terminated Indian police have long come was on the board of Chandigarh- the Rs3,600 crore (about $770m) under fire from human rights based company Aeromatrix, was deal with AgustaWestland for groups for so-called “encounter arrested early in the morning in the purchase of 12 VVIP chop- killings”, in which they gun down the case after the agency con- pers over allegations of kickbacks an alleged criminal to sidestep ducted a search of his premises having been paid to fix the deal. court procedures and claim the Monday. The deal was inked in February victim fired first. Three Kerala doctors suspended ED’s counsel Navin Kumar 2010 for supply of the 12 helicop- The Supreme Court said every Matta told the court that they have ters to the Indian Air Force. India death at police hands must now THIRUVANANTHA-PURAM: medical officer K J Reena submit- case and began a probe. Reena collected certain documents and had paid around 45 percent of the be recorded and investigated by Three Kerala doctors who ted her report to health authori- told reporters that the visuals do relevant material related to the total contract value for the chop- an independent agency or a police were booked after pictures of ties. A woman from Kasargode show the C-section performed at money trail in the case, and said pers which were meant to ferry unit not involved in the case. Each a patient of theirs undergo- district had delivered triplets on the Payyanur taluk hospital. Khaitan’s custody was required to the president, the prime minister death must also be examined by a ing a caesarean section went July 18 through C-section at the Four other staff members who unravel the entire conspiracy. and other VIPs. magistrate, said the court. viral on the social media, were state-run Payyanur taluk hospi- were present during the delivery However, senior advocate The ED had registered a case Amnesty International wel- suspended from service by the tal. In the past few days, visuals have also been booked. Political Siddharth Luthra and lawyer in this deal in July 2013 under the comed the ruling and called for health department yesterday. of the delivery went viral on the outfits demanded action against Pramod Kumar Dubey, appear- Prevention of Money Laundering an end to impunity. “Too often, Earlier in the day, the Kerala social media, forcing her to file a the erring officials. The doctors had ing for Khaitan, opposed the ED Act (PMLA). A total of 21 enti- investigations into alleged fake High Court had denied anticipa- police complaint. stopped coming to work and their plea, saying that the case is based ties have been named by the ED encounters are neither inde- tory bail to the three. The suspen- Following her complaint the mobile phones were switched off. on the money trail and the probe in the case. pendent nor impartial and lead to sion came after Kannur district Payyanur police registered a IANS can be continued without taking IANS impunity for these crimes,” it said. The court gave its ruling after the People’s Union for Civil Liberties filed a petition asking it to investigate the matter. Exact fig- ures are not available, but human rights groups say hundreds of peo- PM has a packed schedule during maiden US visit ple have been killed in clandestine offensives launched by the police NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: the UN General Assembly, saying during their talks. Both sides would become the leader of the country “substantive outcome” from and armed forces over the years. Prime Minister Narendra there are “no plans for a meeting”. seek to give much-needed impetus of 1.2 billion people. Modi’s visit to the US. While in A 2009 Human Rights Watch Modi has a packed schedule He would also be meeting to the flagging bilateral relation- To a question about the US’ Washington, Modi would also report quoted an Indian police of 35 engagements, including the UN Secretary General Ban ship during the meeting. earlier boycott of Modi, external meet Vice President Joe Biden, officer as saying that almost every an address to the UN General Ki-Moon, New York City Mayor This is Modi’s maiden visit to affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Secretary of State John Kerry, so-called encounter killing was Assembly and a much-antic- Bill de Blasio, and former US the US since becoming prime Akbaruddin said that the prime Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel in fact deliberate. “In 99.1 per- ipated summit meeting with president Bill Clinton and his minister and it would also be his minister “looks forward and not and House of Representatives cent (of cases), it’s fake... in a real US President Barack Obama, wife and former secretary of state first interaction with Obama. backward” in a relationship. Speaker John Boehner among encounter, the police would also get during his September 26-30 Hillary Clinton. Modi has held successful diplo- Modi is also to pay homage at others. injured,” said the unnamed officer. visit to the US. Modi would be meeting the matic meetings with the leaders the 9/11 memorial in New York Modi’s address at the UN Many such cases occur in parts Modi, who would be observ- CEOs of Fortune 500 US compa- of China, Japan, and Australia and meet 300 members of the General Assembly is expected to of central and eastern India, and ing the nine-day Navratri fast nies, including Boeing, Pepsico, besides a whole lot of diplomatic Indian American business com- address issues important to India, in northern regions. during his trip, would also be Google, General Electric and interactions with other coun- munity. He would also address a including expansion and reform of In one high-profile case in holding three bilateral meetings Goldman Sachs among others tries so far. The US visit is being few thousand of the large Indian the UN Security Council, espe- 2005, police in the western state with neighbours — Sri Lankan and also hold one-on-one meet- looked forward to as the US had community at Madison Square. cially keeping in mind the 70th of Gujarat gunned down a Muslim President Mahinda Rajapaksa, ings with some of them. slapped a ban on Modi’s entry in His interactions in the US anniversary of the UN that falls man, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. They Nepal Prime Minister Sushil His visit to Washington on the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat would be with the US politi- in 2015 and on its peacekeeping claimed he planned to assassinate Koirala and Bangladesh Prime September 29-30, would also see riots, in which over 1,000 people, cal leaders, and administration, operations. India is one of the the then-chief minister Narendra Minister Sheikh Hasina. a dinner date with Obama on mainly Muslims were killed while with the business community, largest contributors to the UN Modi, now India’s prime minister. However, India virtually ruled September 29. Trade and invest- he was chief minister. civil society, with the US states peacekeeping force. Modi is also The state later admitted in out a bilateral meeting between ment, energy, science and tech- Early this year, the US sought a and cities and the vibrant Indian to meet members of the Sikh com- court that police had killed Sheikh Modi and Pakistani Premier nology, defence and security are rapprochement with him when it diaspora, said Akbaruddin. munity while in New York. in a staged gun battle. AFP Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of expected to be the areas of focus became clear that Modi was set to He said India expects IANS WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Kerala honours Standoff at Ladakh White tiger kills film veteran MT with top award border continues

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: soldiers, an Indian government M T Vasudevan Nair, a gifted, Hundreds of Indian and Chinese official said. The two sides are well-known and veteran script- troops have dug into positions on not in an eyeball-to-eyeball con- man in Delhi Zoo writer who is popularly known a high Himalayan plateau, lead- frontation and are well separated as MT, was given the J C Daniel ing India’s army chief to cancel a from each other, he added. Award for his overall contribu- foreign trip and monitor a stand- India’s army chief, General Inadequate response, unruly visitors led to man’s death tion to Malayalam films. off that underscores deep differ- Dalbir Singh, cancelled a three- The winner of the award insti- ences between the Asian giants day visit to neighbouring Bhutan NEW DELHI: In a hair-raising tuted by the Kerala government as they seek closer ties. on Monday in order to monitor incident, witnessed by scores was declared here yesterday Military officials in New Delhi the border situation, a government and captured live on many by State Minister for Cinema and Kashmir said yesterday that official in New Delhi said. Military cameras, a 200kg white tiger Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan. Chinese troops set up a camp commanders from both sides were mauled and killed a youth after “The award will be given on about 3km into territory claimed due to hold a meeting in the border he fell into the animal’s moat in October 17. It has a cash prize of by India in the Chumar region of area in a fourth such gathering to the Delhi Zoo, eyewitnesses and Rs100,000,” said Radhakrishnan. the Ladakh plateau more than try and resolve the dispute. officials said yesterday. MT, 81, is a Padma Bhushan a week ago. Indian soldiers have The alleged incursion by The incident, which took place awardee and also the winner of the set up their own base nearby and Chinese troops into territory between 12.30pm and 1pm, cre- Jnanpith award. He has directed have been told not to back down, claimed by India dominated a visit ated a sensation and word soon seven films and written the screen- the officials said. by Chinese President Xi Jinping spread through the city, with pho- play for around 54 films besides Asked about the standoff, last week. During Xi’s visit, Modi tos and video of the tiger — one of winning the National Award for China’s Ministry of Defence said urged an early border settlement the zoo’s star attractions — drag- best screenplay four times. the two sides’ understanding of with China. Both sides have held ging the youth going viral. The J C Daniel Award is named the line of the border was not 17 rounds of border talks since the Eyewitnesses and zoo officials after Daniel, considered as the the same. “The two countries’ early 1990s, with little progress. said the young man, identified as father of Malayalam cinema for border, to this day, has not been Small incursions are common Maksood, 20, a resident of Anand producing, directing, writing, designated,” the ministry said in a across the Line of Actual Control Parbat in Delhi, had “crossed the photographing, editing and acting faxed statement, adding that the between the nations, the de facto stand-off barrier” of the white A photograph received from the Delhi Police at the scene of the incident in the first film made in Kerala, Chinese military respected pacts border that runs some 4,000km tiger’s enclosure and then fell shows a youth being confronted by a white tiger inside its enclosure at the Vigathakumaran (The Lost Child), signed by both countries. across the Himalayas, but it is rare or jumped into the moat which Delhi Zoo in New Delhi yesterday. in 1928. It is said to be the most India has deployed about 1,500 for either country to set up camp separated the enclosure from the prestigious award given in the troops in the Chumar area and deep within disputed territory. visitors’ gallery. pounced on the youth with his paw and medically examined,” Khan film industry in Kerala. IANS there are about 800 Chinese REUTERS The majestic six-foot, seven- and dragged him inside his enclo- said. The space where the white year-old tiger, named Vijay, which sure by his neck,” Bittoo said. tiger stays comprises of a moat, was some distance away, saw the The tiger then dropped the limp a natural space for the animal man in the concrete moat, that body at the far end of the enclosure. to roam around and a concrete was covered with dry leaves, and Some eyewitnesses said it was enclosure. There are in all ten bounded up to him. not clear whether the man was tigers in Delhi Zoo, six of them SC seeks status of PoWs in Pakistani jails Footage showed the tiger glow- drunk or he was clicking photos of white and four Royal Bengal. ering face-to-face at the man, the tiger when he accidently fell Suparna Ganguly, founder NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday soldiers and the efforts made to secure their release, as it initially appeared to be from the cemented fencing. Delhi trustee of Bangalore-based asked the Centre for a status report on 54 defence the court said may be some of them were not alive. surprised on seeing the sudden Police official said post mortem Compassion Unlimited Plus personnel who were languishing in Pakistani jails Seeking a fresh affidavit from the government, the human intrusion into its habitat. report will reveal whether the Action, an NGO for animal reha- for over 40 years as prisoners of war (PoWs). court wanted to know the latest position as it has “As soon as the youth fell into man was drunk and fell accidently bilitation, said the tiger was not at The bench of Chief Justice R M Lodha, Justice been four years since the last affidavit was filed by the the moat, the tiger approached or jumped knowingly. fault. “We get to see a lot of hooli- Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman also Centre on the issue before the Gujarat High Court. him and silently watched him for The victim’s father Mehfooz ganism among zoo visitors. People made it clear that courts had no role in bilateral rela- The court said this during the hearing of a petition nearly 15 minutes,” Bittoo, an eye- later told police that his son had misbehave, disturb and harass the tions between India and Pakistan and no accord signed by the Centre challenging the Gujarat High Court witness, who recorded the entire long “history of mental illness”. “He animals who have already been between them was subject to judicial examination. order by which it had in December 2011 asked the incident on his mobile, said. had a long history of mental illness deprived of their natural habitat.” The Court said it wanted to know how many Centre to move the International Court of Justice He said what possibly provoked but was fine now and was working But many thought that since there defence personnel were lodged in Pakistani jails. (ICJ) on the breach of the Simla Agreement for not the tiger to attack the man was in a factory. He used to take can- was a considerable gap between the “Many of them might have died by now,” it said. releasing Indian soldiers in Pakistan’s custody. when onlookers and a guard tried nabis,” Mehfooz said, adding that man falling into the tiger enclosure Stating that 40 years was a “pretty long” time, the Appearing for the Centre, counsel K to divert its attention by pelting Maksood was his youngest son. and the animal attacking him, zoo court told the government it was for it to weigh Radhakrishnan told the court there was a Simla stones at it. “Everyone was pelt- National Zoological Park cura- authorities could have reacted with the pros and cons and decide. The position of the Agreement between India and Pakistan and since ing stones and making noises to tor R A Khan said that the tiger greater alacrity and could have 54 Indian soldiers in Pakistani jails as PoWs was both were members of the Commonwealth, thus divert the tiger’s attention,” Bittoo was later locked up. “The tiger been better equipped to handle this reiterated by the Centre in an affidavit before the any issue rooted in that accord between the two added. “It was then that the tiger will be kept under observation emergency. IANS Gujarat High Court in 2010. Seeking the status of the countries could not be raised before the ICJ. IANS

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Profit-taking ‘Qatar not a gas alternative to Russia’ pulls down Producers complement each other, says Al Sada Europe wants Russia, Ukraine BERLIN: Qatar has no plans to pitch in as an QE index alternative supplier as Europe seeks to reduce to sign interim gas deal its reliance on Russian gas, H E Dr Mohamed DOHA: Profit-taking continued bin Saleh Al Sada (pictured), the Minister of to pull Qatar stocks down on Energy and Industry, told a German newspaper KIEV: The European realise an interim solution to avoid third consecutive session yes- yesterday. Commission (EC) will propose problems with supply for winter terday. The benchmark index “Qatar doesn’t see itself as an alternative to other that Russia and Ukraine sign an season up to April next year.” shed 0.79 percent or 111 points producers and exporters. We producers comple- interim gas agreement in Berlin Ukraine was paying about $500 to settle at 14,006. ment each other,” Dr Al Sada told the Frankfurter as a step towards resolving per 1,000 cubic metres, the high- Five sector indices ended red Allgemeine Zeitung daily. their long-standing row over gas est in Europe, until June when as two finished flat. Blue chips Qatar is the world’s largest producer of liquefied prices, Energy Commissioner Russia’s Gazprom cut gas supplies were the main drag. Banking natural gas (LNG). “We know that energy is not just Guenther Oettinger said to former Soviet republic. major QNB shed 0.96 percent, a commercial product but a very strategic one and yesterday. Naftogaz has filed a lawsuit at while Industries Qatar slid 1.53 we know what responsibility a producer therefore Russian, Ukrainian and EC offi- the international arbitration court percent. Shares in Islamic lender has,” he added. cials are meeting on September in Stockholm to establish a “fair Masraf Al Rayan fell 0.71 percent. The European Union is due to hold a fresh round 26. Oettinger said the gas agree- and market price” for natural gas Ezdan Holding, which will become of talks with Russia and Ukraine in Berlin on ment should fix an interim price supplies from Gazprom. part of the 20-stock benchmark Friday in a bid to settle an ongoing dispute over for a specified amount of gas to be Ukrainian Energy Minister from October 1, rose 1.69 percent. gas deliveries. shipped to Ukraine. Yuri Prodan said Kiev would sup- The bourse’s total traded value Europe gets more than 30 percent of its gas from “The most pragmatic way port the EC’s proposal. “We have rose to QR628m from QR567m Russia, with half of that transiting through Ukraine, would be to have an interim con- to determine an interim price yesterday. Total traded volume but in June Moscow cut off supplies intended for tract for some billion cubic metres which must be market price and decreased to 13 million from 16 Kiev amid a bitter price dispute. Europe this winter as international tensions remain of gas, delivered by Gazprom to we are ready to work with this million, down 18.7 percent. For now, gas is continuing to flow as normal high over the Ukraine crisis. (Ukrainian state gas company) price until the Stockholm arbitra- Market experts contradicted through Ukraine into the EU, but Russia has warned Europe does not have the infrastructure to accept Naftogaz, to have an interim tion court adopts the final deci- on the extension of bear mar- there was a high risk of disruption of deliveries to LNG in major quantities. AFP price,” he said. “Our proposal is to sion,” he said. REUTERS ket. “Valuation is going on a premium rate”, said one analyst while another attributed ‘negative reports’ on World Cup to the pull- EC President visits NYSE back. The value of banking stocks rose to QR251m from the previ- ous session’s QR216m. Industrials US closes loopholes value soared to QR118m from QR77m, while the value of real estate stocks declined to QR127m to curb corporate from QR189m. In the region, Dubai’s index rose 0.7 percent, while Egypt’s main index edged up 0.3 percent tax inversions to a six-year high of 9,760 points. THE PENINSULA WASHINGTON: The US company, after an inversion, would Treasury took action to halt a be able to take advantage of earn- rising torrent of US companies ings accumulated and held by the moving offshore to cut their US partner offshore without ever Project Qatar to tax bills, saying the surge in paying taxes on it. so-called inversions threatened Currently many US companies attract 15 sectors government income. retain substantial foreign earn- The move to close loopholes that ings offshore to avoid taxes they DOHA: The 12th edition of encourage US companies to merge would have to pay upon repatriat- Project Qatar, scheduled to be with a foreign firms and relocate ing them into the United States. held from May 4 to 7, 2015 at their tax residences offshore Inversion deals, with the US the Qatar National Convention could stifle takeovers announced company redomiciling itself to the Centre (QNCC). this year worth hundreds of bil- home of the other partner in the It will showcase products cov- lion of dollars. Those include sev- deal, ostensibly allowed the new ering over 15 sectors at the event. eral high-profile medical industry “foreign” firm to take control of Organised by IFP Qatar Ltd deals, including AbbVie’s $55bn those earnings and use them, even NYSE Specialist Wingszi Chiang (left) works at her trading post with European Commission President Jose (International Fairs & Promotions), purchase of Shire and Medtronic’s in the United States, without pay- Manuel Barroso (right) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Project Qatar 2015 has expanded $43bn merger with Covidien, as ing taxes on them. its portfolio providing thousands well as Burger King’s$11bn tie-up But Lew said that advantage of professional visitors, industry with Tim Hortons, and Chiquita will be blocked by the new rules. buyers and decision makers from Banana’s proposed $1bn merger The new foreign parent of the around the world with the opportu- with rival Fyffes. company will be deemed as owning UAE in no rush to change Opec target nity to network with leading manu- The Treasury said it was mov- shares in the former US parent, facturers and suppliers in the key ing after Congress failed to act making it liable for taxes on the sectors including Construction & on the issue. “We cannot wait old offshore earnings. ABU DHABI/FUJAIRAH: UAE Oil Minister Suhail bin emirate of Fujairah later in the Building Materials; Industrial & to address this problem,” said Other parts of the inversion The United Arab Emirates is in Mohammed Al Mazroui said in day: “I think the existing prices Commercial Cleaning, Lighting, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. strategy, involving loans between no hurry to see Opec cut its oil one of the first public responses are fair.” Metal Manufacturing, Heating, “These first, targeted steps make the partners in the new company, output target this year despite by a senior Gulf oil official to Current UAE oil output is “just Ventilation & Air Conditioning, substantial progress in constrain- and asset transfers, will also not the sharp drop of global crude Badri’s comments: “It is prema- below 3 million bpd”, and the UAE Aluminum Manufacturing & ing the creative techniques used bring any tax advantages to the prices in the last few months, ture to decide — we (will) meet plans to raise its output capacity Processing, Power, Glass & Glazing to avoid US taxes, both in terms new company. senior UAE energy officials to discuss and agree on measures. to 3.5 million barrels per day by Products & Technologies, Heavy of meaningfully reducing the eco- “Genuine cross-border mergers indicated yesterday. We still have two months to mon- 2017, Neyadi said. Machinery, Facilities Management, nomic benefits of inversions after make the US economy stronger by Last week, Opec Secretary- itor. Once we meet we will make Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Stone, Concrete & Masonry the fact, and, when possible, stop- enabling US companies to invest General Abdullah Al Badri said sure our supply meets demand.” Al Naimi on Monday also seemed Products, Woodwork, Mechanical, ping them altogether.” overseas and encouraging foreign he expected the group to lower Matar Al Neyadi, undersec- to downplay worries about the Electrical & Plumbing and Waste The measures take aim par- investment to flow into the United its output target when it meets retary of the UAE’s ministry impact of lower oil prices. Management & Recycling. ticularly at expectations that a States,” the Treasury said. AFP in late November. But yesterday, of energy, told reporters in the REUTERS THE PENINSULA

Alibaba’s Jack Ma is now China’s richest person after largest ever stock offer

SHANGHAI: The largest stock said China-based luxury maga- educated and his father depended offer in history has made Jack zine publisher Hurun Report in its on a monthly retirement allowance Ma, founder of e-commerce giant annual rich list. of just $40 to support the family, Alibaba, China’s richest per- Ma reaped more than $800m according to Chinese state media. son with a fortune of $25bn, an from selling shares through the Alibaba’s listing raised a total of annual wealth ranking for the initial public offering in Alibaba, $25bn. country showed yesterday. based on company filings, with the Only one other of Alibaba’s 18 Ma, who had to persuade friends value of his remaining stake of 7.8 co-founders made the rich list this to give him $60,000 to start Alibaba percent surging to more than $17bn year. He is Simon Xie, now vice just 15 years ago after being rejected by Monday. president of Alibaba’s China invest- by US venture capitalists, now leads Last year the estimated wealth ment, with $1.6bn. a company valued at more than of the former English teacher Ma pushed property tycoon $200bn after listing on the New turned Internet entrepreneur was Wang Jianlin, whose Wanda com- York Stock Exchange on Friday. just over $4bn, which did not even pany bought US cinema chain AMC “It has been an amazing year for place him in the top 20, according Entertainment, into second place China’s best tycoons despite the jit- to the 2013 survey. from first last year with a fortune ters about the Chinese economy,” Ma’s parents were poorly of $24.2bn. AFP Chelsea Clinton and Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma at the Clinton Global Initiative 2014 in New York yesterday. WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Canon to create Gulf Helicopters takes new firm with Salam Technology

delivery of first AW189S DOHA: Canon Middle East announced the intention to establish a new company in GIS subsidiary has placed orders for 15 AW189s Qatar with Salam Technology, its existing imaging solutions DOHA: Gulf International region in February 2014. in general and is also developing distribution partner. Services (GIS), the largest serv- Mohammed Al Mohannadi, further as an AgustaWestland The new company will ice group in Qatar, with inter- Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Training Centre and a Regional strengthen Canon’s presence in est in a broad cross-section of Helicopters said, “I am delighted Hub, in particular,” he said. the region and demonstrates industries, has announced the to strengthen our relationship The AW189 was designed in Canon’s commitment to operating delivery of the first two AW189 with AgustaWestland and our response to growing market closer to customers and meet cus- super medium helicopters in recent acceptance of delivery of demand for a versatile, affordable, tomers’ demands through diver- offshore configuration to its our first two AW189 is based not multirole super medium class hel- sifying its business offering. The Anurag Agrawal (left), Managing Director of Canon Middle East, with wholly-owned subsidiary, Gulf only on our marketing strategy icopter. The new 8.3 tonne, twin company will accelerate Canon’s Mahmoud El Deeb, Managing Director, Salam Technology. Helicopters. Gulf Helicopters for the future of the company’s engine helicopter is optimised for growth in the rapidly evolving has a total of 15 AW189s on expansion, but also on our cus- long range offshore transport and Qatari market. order and the delivery of the tomers’ requests for such a heli- SAR missions and has already Once established, the new com- our close relationship with Salam place, we will be better positioned whole batch of aircraft is now copter size. Our AW189s are received over 130 orders, includ- pany will provide Qatari custom- Technology, we believe that this to support and meet our custom- scheduled to be completed by already committed for one of our ing options and framework agree- ers the opportunity to receive new strategic step will enable us ers’ needs.” 2017. major clients. Gulf Helicopters ments, in more than 10 countries direct advice on products and to be closer to our customers by Salam Technology will continue Gulf Helicopters, already has obtained bank loans with very from 15 customers, making it services from Canon profession- enhancing our presence in Qatar to manage their existing customer a major AW139 operator, competitive interest rate from the outright market leader in its als. The variety of solutions avail- and continuing to deliver excel- relationships for Canon for the becomes the first customer in local banks.” class. able to the market will span from lence in imaging and printing next few months, during the the Middle East to introduce “These two deliveries are in Gulf Helicopters has provided imaging needs to office solutions products and services.” transition period while the new the AgstaWestland Family con- line with Gulf Helicopter’s expan- helicopter services since 1970 and and managed print services. Mahmoud El Deeb, Managing company is being set up. The new cept into operational service, sion plans, and specially cater to operates with companies through- Anurag Agrawal, Managing Director Salam Technology: “We company will focus on Business the GIS said in a mandatory contracting with international out the Middle east, India and Director of Canon Middle East, are extremely excited about the Imaging and Production Printing filing to Qatar Exchange. Gulf oil companies outside of Qatar, North Africa. Gulf Helicopters explains: “We continue to invest huge potential that this new com- products and solutions and it is Helicopters was also established which is expected to increase the has its own in-house maintenance in strengthening our country pany with Canon will provide. The expected to begin trading towards as an AgustaWestland Authorised company’s revenue and profitabil- facility with a team of highly qual- presence in this strategically new company will help our cur- the end of 2014. Salam Studio Training Centre for the AW139 ity. Gulf Helicopters, being one of ified and experienced engineers important region in order to real- rent and future customers grow will continue to be the distribu- and AW189 in September 2013 the largest helicopter operators undertaking fleet maintenance ise our ambition to become mar- their own businesses, through our tion partner for all of Canon’s and ordered the first AW189 Full in the Middle East, is also build- and modification work. ket leader in imaging solutions excellent pre- and post-sales sup- Consumer Imaging in Qatar. Flight Simulator (FFS) in the ing on our training capabilities THE PENINSULA in the Middle East. Building on port. With this new structure in THE PENINSULA Gulf Air signs MoU with Tamkeen for job training Apple set to DOHA: Gulf Air, the national Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa, shut down carrier of the Kingdom of said: “Tamkeen is committed to Bahrain, and Tamkeen signed a developing the skills and capabili- Memorandum of Understanding ties of Bahrainis, and within this Beats music to provide 40 Bahraini nation- framework, we work diligently to als with the opportunity to ensure that they receive the right take part in on-the-job train- and sufficient type of training in service ing within Gulf Air’s Technical order to allow them to achieve Division to gain aviation skills their desired professional goals SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is set and experience. and objectives. As a result, we to discontinue the Beats stream- The MoU sees Gulf Air and continue to provide Bahrainis ing music service it acquired ear- Tamkeen join forces to provide with skills development as part lier this year to focus on iTunes, a tailored comprehensive pro- of the Aeronautic Engineering the news website TechCrunch gramme of intensive on-the-job Training programme in Gulf Air.” reported on Monday. training for Bahraini nationals Commenting on the occasion Citing sources at both Apple who wish to pursue careers in Gulf Air Acting Chief Executive and Beats, TechCrunch reported aviation as aircraft technicians Officer, Maher Salman Al that engineers from Beats music or engineers. Musallam, said: “As the national have been moved off the product Aircraft technicians will carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and onto other projects at Apple, undergo comprehensive training one of Gulf Air’s long-term goals including iTunes. Apple did not for one year to qualify in the field is to help enhance the aviation respond to a query on the report. while engineers will participate skills and experience of Bahrainis. TechCrunch said it had not in the training for two years. We are delighted to support the determined a date for the shut- Under this agreement 22 candi- strengthening of the Kingdom’s down but that five sources familiar dates will join Gulf Air as Trainee people development further with the product said Apple would Engineers and 18 as Trainee affirming our commitment to “sunset” the brand. Aircraft Technicians. developing a national workforce Signs of the move were also evi- Tamkeen’s Chairman and of aviation professionals.” dent with the lack of Beats Music Officials after signing the memorandum of understanding. Acting Chief Executive, Shaikh THE PENINSULA pre-installed on the new iPhone 6 and 8 Plus, the report noted. The Apple Watch unveiled this month includes an unnamed music app with a blue play button, another sign of the end of Beats. Tesco parachutes in new finance head A shutdown also would fit with Qatar infrastructure Apple’s strategy of maintain- ing a unified brand, according to LONDON: Tesco rushed its — chief executive Dave Lewis said and the company’s decision to call the report. Apple paid $3bn for sector to benefit new chief financial officer into yesterday that M&S boss Marc in investigators wiped £2bn off Beats, which is known for high- place yesterday, trying to shore Bolland had now agreed to release Tesco’s stock market value. end audio equipment in addition up a leadership team badly Stewart early. Its shares added another 4 per- to the streaming music service, a damaged by the accounting The 54-year-old must now set cent to Monday’s 12 percent drop move which appeared to be aimed from BIM software mistake revealed on Monday about restoring the credibility of after industry sales data yester- at helping the iPhone maker reach that knocked millions off the Tesco’s finances after Monday’s day showed no signs of recovery new audiences. DOHA: Qatar’s ambitious plans Jean Nouvel with interlocking company’s profits and billions revelation that the firm’s first in its key UK market. Apple’s biggest-ever acquisi- to roll out more than $200bn in discs resembling “desert rose” from its share price. half profit forecast had been over- Stewart is expected to imme- tion also brought onboard the infrastructure projects by 2022 crystals, is a prominent example Britain’s biggest retailer hired stated by $409m. diately start preparing Tesco’s talent of Beats brains Dr Dre, a will require advanced Building of Tekla and Gehry Technologies Alan Stewart from Marks & That news — effectively Tesco’s interim results, the date of which rap musician, and Jimmy Iovine, a Information Modeling (BIM) solving complex design challenges. Spencer early in the summer third profit warning in two was pushed back on Monday from music producer seen by some as a software, according to global Paul Wallett, Area Business but he was not due to start until months — along with the sus- October 1 to October 23. visionary for recognising the trend industry specialist Tekla. Director, Tekla Middle East, December. Tesco’s — also new pension of four senior executives REUTERS toward online streaming. AFP With open BIM software con- said: “With Qatar’s construction tractors and project developers plans ramping up, the country’s can produce reliable and detailed architects, engineers, and project feasibility studies, ensuring a developers will need to use the German industry meet smoother communication dur- most advanced BIM software to Al Rayan to hold ing the whole workflow, from the customize plans, and provide a design to design, build, and oper- clear schedule of development. By stake buy in Libya ate phases. leveraging the hands-on experi- By 2022, Qatar will invest ence and knowledge of recently- more than $200bn in infrastruc- acquired Gehry Technologies and DOHA: The Board of Directors ture projects, including a metro their consulting services, we have meeting of Masraf Al Rayan system, hotels, and stadiums, broadened our capabilities and has decided to put on hold all according to the recent Deloitte services to Qatar.” steps concerning acquisition of report. As more projects in Qatar Gehry Technologies has ena- stake in a bank in Libya. are completed using Tekla’s inno- bled the delivery of global vision- The board meeting, held on vative BIM solution, Tekla, one ary projects on time, under September 22, 2104, decided to of the world’s leading BIM com- budget, and without change suspend all arrangements regard- panies, has opened an office in orders. As a result, Qatar’s aim to ing this until further notice or till Qatar. benefit from Gehry Technologies’ positive indications in the field of Qatar’s innovative projects will BIM technology, GTeam soft- investment in Libya are evident, be able to be completed efficiently ware, and project delivery serv- a Qatar bourse filing stated. by leveraging the advanced col- ices to ensure efficient design The second-largest Shariah- laborative construction tech- that speeds up the design-build- compliant lender by assets in the nology, thanks to a recent operate process. country had said in January 2013 partnership between Trimble, Tekla technology has already that it was looking to buy a strate- Tekla’s parent company, and been used in Qatar’s iconic gic stake in a Libyan commercial Gehry Technologies, the tech- projects, including the Museum of bank, although it did not name the nology company created from Islamic Art, and sporting facili- acquisition target. However, in a the practice of world-renowned ties such as Khalifa International bourse filing yesterday, Masraf President of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) Ulrich Grillo (centre) with French Prime Minister Manuel architect Frank Gehry. Stadium, the Lusail Multi- said it had put the deal on hold Valls (left) and French Economy and Industry minister Emmanuel Macron at the BDI’s Day of the German Industry The under-construction Purpose Sports Hall, and the Al until further notice, or till positive conference in Berlin yesterday. Valls sought to convince Germany that Paris is serious about making its economy National Museum of Qatar, Shaqab Equestrian Academy. indications in Libya. more competitive, declaring that France “is not the sick child of Europe”. designed by acclaimed architect THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA/REUTERS WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Growth slows Philips splits off lighting unit in historic move AMSTERDAM: Philips, the whether the lighting business Dutch conglomerate that started would be sold off to investors, life making light bulbs 123 years or listed on the stock exchange, ago, is splitting off its lighting but the move would bring better in eurozone as business in a bold step to expand returns for investors. “I do appre- its higher-margin healthcare ciate the magnitude of the decision and consumer divisions. we are taking, but the time is right Putting the lighting business to take the next strategic step for in a separate company is part of Philips,” Van Houten said. “Great China picks up a wider strategy that began with companies need to reinvent them- Philips’ move out of less profita- selves, we can do that, we can stay ble consumer electronics and into relevant, we can grow and we can More monetary policy action likely fast-growing healthcare markets, stay successful. It takes courage largely in emerging Asian markets. but it’s a path we’ve been prepar- LONDON/BEIJING: Eurozone above the 50 mark that separates The decision to split the com- ing for carefully.” business growth dipped to a 2014 growth from contraction since pany in two marks a definitive Van Houten declined to com- low in September as firms again July 2013. break from its origins in the south- ment on whether either new cut prices, while factory activity But Markit said the latest ern Dutch town of Eindhoven, company could become a takeover in China picked up only slightly, survey pointed to third-quarter where Gerard Philips and his target: “Our decision is not driven The logo of Philips on a building of its headquarters in Amsterdam. surveys showed, keeping the economic growth of just 0.3 per- father Frederick founded one of by fear of what other companies spotlight on policymakers’ plans cent — not enough to generate the earliest makers of incandes- may do.” The Philips split will take for economic stimulus. strong inflation. “This survey cent light bulbs in 1891. up to 18 months and would make it to focus on its more profitable analyst Hans Slob: “It will elimi- The data seems sure to dis- does nothing to alter the picture Philips, which invented the easier for both companies to raise life-science operations German nate the conglomerate discount, I hearten the European Central of a struggling euro zone economy, audio cassette and compact disc, money and invest, he said. engineering giant Siemens spun always used a 5 percent discount Bank, struggling to spur growth intensifying the pressure on gov- grew into a world-leading elec- The new structure should save off its light bulb maker and Philips for the sum of the parts valuation.” and revive disconcertingly low ernments and the ECB to provide tronics company by the 1960s but €100m next year and €200m in competitor Osram last year. Philips said in July it would inflation and whose head Mario more policy support,” said Jennifer it has always been ruthless about 2016. It expects restructuring Philips shares, which have combine its light-emitting diode Draghi again raised prospects on McKeown, senior economist at moving out of less profitable busi- charges of €50m from 2014 to 2016. underperformed the broader mar- (LED) and car lights division in Monday of using extra unconven- Capital Economics. nesses, such as audio and video, The Philips move is another ket and are down 9 percent this a stand-alone firm to focus on an tional measures if needed. Growth ground to a halt in vinyl records and TVs. example of companies overhaul- year, rose 2.4 percent to €24.07 in LED boom as the world switches In China, signs of a weakening the bloc in the last quarter as Unveiling the split on Tuesday, ing long-standing structures. Last trading in Amsterdam. from incandescent bulbs to more labour market reinforced expec- Germany’s economy shrank and Philips Chief Executive Frans week, Germany’s Bayer said it was Splitting the company would be efficient and durable lights. tations that authorities in Beijing France’s stagnated, and the ECB Van Houten said it was not clear spinning off its plastics business good for valuations, said Rabobank REUTERS would further relax financing con- surprised markets earlier this ditions in coming weeks. month by cutting benchmark “The Chinese number beat lending and deposit rates fur- expectations but it’s not really ther and said it would buy asset- going anywhere,” said Peter Dixon, backed securities and covered senior economist at Commerzbank. bonds. Notwithstanding Draghi’s US manufacturing nears four and half year high “It’s indicative of an economy that remarks, no more changes to policy doesn’t have a lot of momentum are expected when the Governing behind it. It’s doing okay but we Council meets next week. NEW YORK: US manufactur- A reading above 50 signals Bank of Philadelphia said its gen- reports bode well for third-quar- would be looking for a bit more Consumer inflation in the 18 ing activity hovered at a near expansion in manufacturing, which eral activity index for non-manu- ter economic growth, whose strength.” countries sharing the euro rose four and a half year high in accounts for about 12 percent of facturing firms jumped to 35.7 this estimates range as high as a 3.5 The HSBC/Markit Flash China to just 0.4 percent year-on-year September and factory employ- US economic activity. month from 27.3 in August. percent annual pace. The economy PMI rose to 50.5 in September in August, slightly higher than ment surged, supporting views Factory employment increased It was the first time that the expanded at a 4.2 percent pace in from August’s final reading of 50.2. July’s 0.3 percent but staying so far of sturdy economic growth this for a second straight month, with survey of non-manufacturing firms the second quarter. “We expect Economists polled had expected below the ECB’s 2 percent target quarter. a gauge of labor market conditions in the Mid-Atlantic region was GDP to grow at an annualized factory growth to stall at 50.0, ceiling that it was not enough to The growth picture was also touching its highest level since published. The survey, however, rate of at least 3 percent and as citing deteriorating business con- radically alter the outlook. boosted by other data on Tuesday March 2012. “The third quarter has been conducted since March much as 4 percent, depending to a fidence and the growing drag from According to the PMIs, firms showing an acceleration in services as a whole has seen the strongest 2011. The surge in activity reflected large extent on how the vast serv- the cooling property market. cut prices again this month - industry growth this month. expansion since the sector began to a jump in new orders, sales as well ices economy fared in September,” Markit’s Eurozone Composite although not as steeply as they Financial data firm Markit recover from the financial crisis,” as an increase in full-time hiring. Williamson said. Flash Purchasing Managers’ did in August. The composite out- said its preliminary or “flash” said Chris Williamson, chief econo- Non-manufacturing employees Markit’s gauge of new orders Index, based on surveys of thou- put price index rose to 49.2 from US Manufacturing Purchasing mist at Markit in London, adding also worked longer hours this held steady above the 60 level for sands of companies across the 48.9 but has now been below the Managers Index was at 57.9, that he expects manufacturing month, while firms increased their the third time in the past four region and seen as a good indicator 50-mark for a full 2-1/2 years and unchanged from August’s reading to add to third-quarter US gross spending on capital. months, indicating persistent of growth, dipped to a nine-month the discounting may still not be when it touched its highest level domestic product growth. The relatively strong manu- demand for manufactured goods. low of 52.3. The index has been paying off. REUTERS since April 2010. Separately, the Federal Reserve facturing and services sector REUTERS

China’s home-grown airliner getting ready

Employees at a factory of China’s home-grown airliner C919 during its final assembly in Shanghai. China is marking a major step in the success of its first self-designed and self-manufactured large passenger jet. GM to open Cadillac Dollar dips after headquarters in NY 10-week rally SINGAPORE: The dollar DETROIT: General Motors Co “distance between Cadillac and the slipped in Asia yesterday fol- said its Cadillac brand will open rest of the General Motors entity.” lowing a 10-week rally, while a headquarters in New York De Nysschen told the News he gains in the euro were capped next year in a move to remake expected the New York office to by concerns about slackening the luxury marque’s image employ about 120 people. European economic growth. and broaden its appeal outside Caldwell said the move would The greenback bought 108.72 North America. only affect sales and marketing, yen in Singapore trade against Cadillac spokesman David while product development, design, 108.94 yen in New York late Caldwell said the brand expects the engineering and research and Monday. The euro rose to $1.2853 office, including display and event development staff would remain from $1.2850, while slipping to space, in the trendy Soho neighbor- in place, mostly in the Detroit area. 139.75 yen from 139.78 yen. hood of Manhattan to open around De Nysschen, in his previous Japanese financial markets are the second quarter of 2015. GM role as head of Nissan Motor Co’s closed for a public holiday. said the move will establish the Infiniti brand, relocated the unit The dollar’s upward momen- brand as a separate business unit. from Yokohama to Hong Kong, in tum has taken a breather after “With the relentless upward part to give the Infiniti team more last week hitting highs above 109 repositioning of successive new- autonomy from the Japanese yen not seen since August 2008. generation Cadillac products, the parent and the opportunity to The gains came after the the next logical step is to provide explore new ways to expand in Federal Reserve hinted that Cadillac more freedom to culti- global markets. interest rates could rise further vate the brand in pursuit of further GM has been on a similar quest than expected when they are global growth,” GM President Dan to expand the 112-year-old Cadillac, eventually hiked, probably in mid- Ammann said in a statement. one of the world’s oldest surviving 2015. Singapore’s United Overseas Cadillac President Johan de brands, beyond its home base, while Bank said the dollar was facing Nysschen, who took over the brand resurrecting Cadillac’s earlier sta- some selling in Asian trade after in August, told the Detroit News tus as one of the world’s top luxury a “surprisingly weak set of US that the automaker wanted to put vehicles. REUTERS housing data”. AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Serbia and IMF Greece can exit bailout early: Premier discussing 5pc Merkel sees ‘tender shoots’ of success in Greece after talks with Samaras cut in state

BERLIN/ATHENS: Greek quarter of 2016. Merkel put Greece’s success municipal workers shut down found,” said Daniel Lenz, a fixed- administration Prime Minister Antonis “I don’t accept the term down to its persistence with state schools, hospitals operated income strategist at DZ Bank in Samaras expects his country ‘divorce’, even if it’s a velvet one,” the type of structural reforms on emergency staff, and trolleybus London, adding that the larger the BELGRADE: Serbia is dis- to exit its international bail- he said, adding that talks on fur- Germany has insisted on - which services were briefly disrupted. share of market funding, the higher cussing with the International out ahead of schedule, and to ther debt relief should start after have made her a hate figure in The ¤240bn package from the the risk for private investors. Monetary Fund cutting the cover its own financing needs the next EU/IMF review and Greek anti-austerity protests. EU and IMF has kept Greece Merkel’s talks with Samaras work force in the state admin- from next year, he said yester- bank stress tests. Samaras is hoping that an afloat since the second half of coincided with the second day of istration by five percent, a min- day after talks with German “I believe this cooperation will early end to the bailout, deeply 2010. It nearly crashed out of the a visit by French Prime Minister ister was quoted as saying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. be completed ahead of schedule. If hated for the austerity demands euro zone two years ago but has Manuel Valls, who wants more Tuesday, as the Balkan country “We need to become a normal that happens, it would be a suc- that come with it, will help him now brought its public finances time to bring France’s public pursues a new loan deal. country, and we’ve proven that we cess, not a divorce.” to regain ground on the left-wing under control. deficit to within EU treaty limits. It follows the announcement are reliable and we can stand on “I believe that we can certainly Syriza party, which is well ahead Samaras would like further Paris acknowledged this month last week by Prime Minister our own feet,” he told a news con- cover our funding needs from in opinion polls with an election relief on a national debt that is that its deficit would not be below Aleksandar Vucic of pension and ference with Merkel, who hailed next year,” Samaras said. “We will potentially on the cards next year. projected to top 177 percent of the EU limit of three percent of public sector wage cuts in an the “first tender shoots of suc- see what happens with the next That discontent came to the gross domestic product in 2014 — national output until 2017. It had effort to curtail a budget deficit cess” in Greece thanks to painful bailout tranches.” fore once again yesterday when most of it owed to the EU or the pledged to do so by 2013, before forecast at 8.3 percent of national economic reform efforts. Kostas Boukas, head of asset Greek public sector workers IMF — though investors fear his winning a reprieve until 2015. output. Samaras rejected talk that he management at Athens-based launched the first nationwide determination to exit the bailouts France is being urged by the Serbia is expected to start full wanted a “divorce” from one of Beta Securities: “It’s evident strike after the summer to protest may hurt his chances. EU and European Central Bank loan negotiations with the IMF Greece’s lenders, the International from what Samaras said that the against the job cuts prescribed by Greek 10-year yields rose 17 to step up reforms and budget after the government revises the Monetary Fund, but for the first Europeans and the Greek govern- the international lenders. basis points to 6.08 percent, their consolidation at the same time 2014 budget later in September or time publicly acknowledged that ment want the IMF to exit the During a six-year reces- highest in over a month. as Germany is being asked to early October. Greece could forego some IMF aid programme. They don’t want the sion, unemployment has risen “The fact that Greece could try boost public investment as part “We are in talks with the instalments. Funding from the IMF to continue supervising the to around 27 percent, twice the to rely on market financing could of a strategy to revive a stagnant IMF about cutting the number eurozone ends in December 2014, reform programme for Greece, a eurozone average. Yesterday’s postpone a lasting solution (to its eurozone economy. of employees in public sector while IMF aid expires in the first eurozone country.” strike by teachers, doctors and debt pile) that still needs to be REUTERS by five percent,” Kori Udovicki, minister for state administra- tion and local self management, was quoted as telling the Serbian Truck show in Germany daily Blic. “We hope to be able to meet Barclays fined this demand to the largest degree as workers retire, but there are $62m for client concerns that we will have to lay off 25,000 people.” fund failings The IMF did not immediately respond to a written request from LONDON: British bank Reuters for confirmation. Barclays was fined £38m Udovicki specified that she was ($62m) yesterday for exposing referring to the state administra- customers to unnecessary risks tion, which includes doctors and by failing to ensure client assets teachers. The state administra- were properly safeguarded and tion numbers around 500,000 adequate records kept. people, in a country of 7.3 million. Imposing its highest fine for Another 200,000 are employed in client asset breaches, Britain’s a host of indebted state-owned financial regulator said there companies, which together with were “significant weaknesses” in the state administration makes Barclays’ systems and controls up the public sector. between November 2007 and Vucic’s government wants a January 2012 that put £16.5bn three-year precautionary loan pounds of client’s assets at risk. deal with the IMF, a safety net The Financial Conduct that is crucial to reassuring Authority (FCA), which has investors worried over the size tightened rules governing cli- of the budget deficit and a pub- ent asset protection since the lic debt pile now seen hitting 73 collapse of Wall Street bank percent of gross domestic product Lehman Brothers in 2008, said (GDP). that customers risked incurring Analysts say Serbia may need extra costs, lengthy delays or los- to cut its public sector work- ing their assets if the bank had force by more than 100,000 peo- become insolvent. ple to put its finances on a stable “Barclays failed to apply footing. Unemployment already the lessons from our previous stands at 20 percent. enforcement actions, numer- Journalists at the booth of German truck maker Mercedes Benz at the IAA truck show in Hanover, yesterday. The IAA 2014 will open its doors for REUTERS ous industry-wide warnings and the public tomorrow. exposed its clients to unnecessary risk,” said Tracey McDermott, the head of enforcement and finan- cial crime at the FCA. “All firms should be clear after Lehman that there is no excuse for failing to Ukraine crisis risks recession in Europe: El Erian safeguard client assets.” Barclays, which said it did not NEW YORK: Mohamed El about his controversial departure placing “enormous faith” in the paying very little attention to geo- ran Harvard University’s endow- profit from these failings and that Erian, the chief economic from Pimco earlier this year, El world’s central banks, such as political issues, but they’ve done so ment, El Erian made waves in no customer had lost money, qual- adviser at Allianz SE, warned Erian said just “one or at most the US Federal Reserve and the for good reasons so far,” he said. January when he resigned from ified for a 30 percent fine reduc- that global markets do not fully two” more rounds of sanctions European Central Bank. Through To date, investors have largely Pimco, a unit of German insurer tion because it cooperated with appreciate the risk posed by and counter sanctions between a series of experimental policy succeeded in navigating numerous Allianz and an investment pow- the FCA. This reduced the pen- the Ukrainian crisis, a conflict Russia and the West would likely actions since the 2008 financial brief bouts of market choppiness erhouse with nearly $2 trillion of alty from an original £54m. which could push Europe into push Europe into recession. crisis, the world’s largest central in the face of “geopolitical shock.” assets. There, he had been chief “Barclays identified and self- recession. That’s especially true if Russia banks have gotten deeply into the An endemic hazard arising executive and had shared the role reported to the FCA the issues He saw few options to de-esca- cuts energy supplies during the “business of divorcing” asset valu- from that is that investors want of chief investment officer with giving rise to the FCA’s findings late tensions between Ukraine, its coming winter heating season. ations from fundamentals. unambiguous evidence that “the bond market guru Bill Gross. and we accept their conclusion,” Western supporters and Russia, “I think markets are underes- The space between what El turn” has occurred before they The Standard & Poor’s 500 the bank said in an emailed state- which has been accused of back- timating Ukraine,” El Erian said. Erian sees as lofty valuations and opt for a more defensive alloca- Index and the Dow Jones indus- ment. “Barclays has subsequently ing an insurgency led by ethnic “It is very hard to find a solution more earthly fundamentals is “an tion, El Erian said. “The problem trial average have both hit records enhanced its systems to resolve Russian separatists. that reconciles the three parties air pocket” at risk of rapid collapse with that is that once you get that, in recent weeks, gains he contends these issues and to ensure we have In an interview at Reuters’ involved— Ukraine, the West and if markets are confronted with a everyone wants to get out. And at are emblematic of the disconnect the requisite processes in place.” New York headquarters on Russia.” jarring catalyst, such as Ukraine. that point, you get the air pocket.” between valuation and fundamentals. REUTERS Monday, in which he also spoke El Erian said markets also were “I worry that the marketplace is A respected investor who once REUTERS

Pertamina reforms Jimmy Choo unveils London IPO

LONDON: Shoemaker to the on social media websites. The top- profile TV shows including “Sex stars Jimmy Choo unveiled end luxury brand, whose shoes and the City”, and was worn by plans yesterday for a London retail at between £350 and £2,100 celebrities and royalty, including stock market float valuing it at per pair, counts Kate Middleton, the late princess Diana. up to £800m ($1.3bn) to fund Michelle Obama, Nicole Kidman, Jimmy Choo has since devel- expansion in Asia. Victoria Beckham and Lady Gaga oped into a luxury fashion brand The company said in a state- among its celebrity fans. encompassing shoes, handbags, ment that its owner, investment Denis added in the statement: leather goods, scarves, eye wear firm JAB Luxury, has agreed to “Jimmy Choo is an outstanding and fragrances. sell a 25-percent stake in a par- business operating in one of the Since the opening of its first tial initial public offering (IPO) fastest growing segments of the store in London in 1996, the com- on the London Stock Exchange luxury market. pany has grown to become a lead- next month. “Jimmy Choo is a clear success ing global luxury brand with 120 The company is now seeking story with strong momentum and shops worldwide and annual sales to tap further into soaring Asian I am confident that our future as of £282m. demand for luxury goods, particu- a public company can only extend Revenues jumped 9.4 percent larly in China and Japan. our reputation and position in to £150.2 million in the first half “We want to accelerate our this attractive sector.” of this year, or six months to the growth in Asia,” Jimmy Choo’s The group is meanwhile seek- end of June, compared with a year chief executive officer, Frenchman ing to raise up to £200m from earlier. Shoes are widely regarded Pierre Denis, said in an interview. the London IPO in late October, as one of the fastest growing seg- Denis, who worked formerly at according to a source close to the ments of the global luxury goods French giant LVMH, adding that matter. The brand was founded market. Drivers of fuel tankers wait to load their cargo at a Pertamina fuel depot in Jakarta. In his first energy action global demand for luxury shoes, by Malaysia-born Jimmy Choo in The company added on Tuesday plan since being confirmed as Indonesia’s president-elect by the Constitutional Court last month, Joko handbags, scarves and other 1996 with British socialite Tamara that it would continue to open 10 Widodo will impose major changes at state-owned oil firm and cut coal exports to ensure ample domestic accessories was “booming” as Mellon. to 15 stores a year, with growth in supplies for power plants. many consumers wanted to “cre- It became a household name Asian markets a key target. ate a look” to show off purchases after repeatedly featuring on high AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

How Big Oil could easily The TLTRO effect of ECB BY ROSS FINLEY Part of the problem is he’s spinning a lot results in order not to create havoc if they grease the invisible hand of policy plates at the same time. contain any ugly surprises. So why won’t HEN banks are offered The latest round of cheap cash — banks take free money in the meantime? hundreds of billions of dubbed Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Komileva explains it this way: The big dif- BY STEPHANIE ROGAN euros worth of what is Operations (TLTROs) — comes along with ference between bank activities in financial essentially free money record low interest rates and an even more- markets and in real economies is the finan- HE US energy problem is very much due to a break- and they don’t take eve- negative deposit rate, which in theory should cial incentives and risk aversion. Lenders down of the free market, contends the new documentary, Wrything they can get, something has gone drive banks to take the cash and lend. manage their cost of credit and capital “Pump.” Married codirectors Josh Tickell and Rebecca seriously wrong. The ECB also plans to build up the Asset- more efficiently by selling securities to THarrell Tickell show how Big Oil’s monopoly on trans- The European Central Bank’s latest offer Backed Securities (ABS) market in Europe other investors and by borrowing from the portation fuels hurts Americans more than they realize. If driv- of cheap cash to banks — only this time tied in order for the central bank to swoop in ECB, whereas when a loan is made in the ers had options when filling up their tanks, both country and to loans they provide to private sector busi- and purchase vast swathes of it. That will be real economy it stays on the bank’s books consumers would benefit. nesses rather than with no strings attached lucrative for those who want to sell on those until it matures. This is an expensive diet A narrow focus helps “Pump” make its point clearly. The film- — has gotten off to a weak start. securities, and some traders have suggested for capital-constrained banks. makers don’t take on global warming or automobiles. Their solu- That suggests not only that temporary that waiting for details on ABS purchases Lending to the private sector has been in tion is simple and straightforward: introduce competition at the liquidity for lending may be the wrong has interfered with the TLTRO. decline for the better part of two years and gas station and let the invisible hand do the rest. approach to boost a flat-lining euro zone Either way, banks will need to expand credit shows no signs of abating since the TLTROs What that competition might be doesn’t turn up till much later economy that is barely generating any infla- in order to usher in a climate where securi- were launched in June. The latest data from in the story, when it is explained that an inexpensive modifica- tion, but it also underscores the much more tisation — which involves parcelling together the ECB due on Thursday are expected to tion on most cars would enable them to run on alcohol-based serious lack of demand in the economy. new securities backed by loans against assets show a 1.5 percent annual decline in lending, alternatives. With only €82.6bn taken up in the first of — takes place. The idea is to connect small and according to the latest Reuters poll, barely Talking heads, including former Shell Oil boss John Hofmeister, two tranches it is now clear that the ECB mid-size businesses with the broader capital changed from the month before. trace the origins of the powerful industry. Sobering data links will not be able to find enough takers for markets, where large companies tend to go Economists appear to be paying very little just about every aspect of Americans’ lives back to crude oil and the €400bn it has put on offer. The latest first to borrow. But that underlying lending attention to this data series, making no vis- outlines the ways US democracy is fettered by dependence on it. Reuters poll of euro zone money market does not appear to be happening. ible attempts to establish the link between For starters, the United States spends nearly $1bn overseas every traders predicts that banks will take up Lena Komileva, chief economist at G+ whether a revival in private sector lending day to pay for oil, leaving its economy vulnerable to the whims of €175bn in the December auction, leaving Economics, wrote: In market psychology might generate any significant amount of foreign nations. The Tickells also point to its outsise role in US one-third of the cash untapped. To put that terms, it creates a dangerous market co- inflation. Either way, one thing is clear. If a foreign policy decisions. number in perspective, when the ECB last ordination loop between ‘buying’ the ECB central bank offered hundreds of billions of Often, the film’s rhetoric stretches to make connections that offered money like this in the depths of the announcement and ‘selling’ policy action, euros worth of cheap cash directly to indi- are tenuous at best. Detroit’s downward spiral is tied to the price euro zone debt crisis a few years ago banks which threatens to disrupt the core channel viduals, there wouldn’t be much humming of oil, a point underscored by visuals of derelict neighbourhoods swallowed up more than €1tr. That made of policy transmission into real economies and hawing over whether or not they’d take it. and abandoned buildings. for explosive results on asset prices but also – confidence. And the sudden explosive demand for The causal mechanism is never made clear, however. “Pump” did very little to spur lending. In other words, so long as markets are just goods and services that would most cer- also dubiously claims that the stock market crash of September Now ECB President Mario Draghi, who trading the effect from policy announcements tainly follow from such a massive infusion 2008 was the result of that summer’s record-high oil prices. is running an institution that appears pro- but not actually responding to the policy, of cash in a climate where saving it pays Mortgage-backed securities and the collapse of Lehman Brothers grammed to do everything in its power to nothing will ever happen to real lending. The you less than nothing would almost cer- don’t even get a mention. avoid outright purchases of sovereign bonds ECB also is close to wrapping up a lengthy tainly spawn a powerful rush of inflation. At long last, though, the film gets to the point. Unbeknownst to as a policy option, is running out of room assessment of euro zone bank balance sheets For now, we wait for the lending to pick up. most Americans, the vast majority of cars are capable of running for manoeuvre. and will have to walk a fine line reporting the REUTERS just as efficiently on ethanol and methanol, two alcohol-based fuels, as they can on gasoline. With a do-it-yourself kit that costs about $300, “Pump” shows how drivers can make their vehicles run on these alternative sources. What’s more, automakers already manufacture a global model of flex-fuel cars, but purposely programme the software in the engines to tolerate only gasoline. A single software hack would allow these cars to accept alcohol-based fuels. The Tickells present Brazil, the first country in the world to adopt ethanol as a major fuel, as a case study. In response to the 1973 oil shocks, Brasilia launched an alternative energy pro- gramme with the slogan: “Let’s unite, make alcohol.” Today, almost every car sold in the world’s seventh-largest economy is flex-fuel capable. Domestic ethanol is made from home-grown sugarcane and offered at every pump. “Brazil is booming,” narrator Jason Bateman, of “Arrested Development” fame, explains. That’s not entirely true. The country slipped into a recession last month. An analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research indeed suggests, however, that from 1980 to 2008, Brazil’s GDP increased by 35 percent more than it would have without the energy policies it enacted. In 2011, President Dilma Rousseff forced state-controlled oil producer Petrobras to subsidize the price of fuel as part of an effort to contain inflation. The policy gutted the ethanol indus- try and forced Petrobras to keep petrol prices at artificially low levels, costing the company an estimated $40bn. Last year, only a quarter of Brazil’s flex-fuel cars were filled with ethanol, down from 82 percent in 2009. Brazil’s energy policies have taken centre stage again in the run-up to next month’s election. Environmentalist candidate Marina Silva has vowed to end gasoline subsidies and resurrect ethanol, and the Brazilian government recently announced it will expand tax credits for ethanol exporters. The United States has a much steeper mountain to climb. Sugarcane ethanol has a net energy balance that is seven times greater than that of its corn counterpart, meaning corn ethanol can barely offset the fossil fuels needed to produce it. Demand for alternatives, including electric vehicles from Elon Musk’s Tesla, is nevertheless growing alongside a crude back- lash. On Monday, for example, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, an $860m philanthropic organization that owes its existence to the Standard Oil fortune, said it would divest from fossil fuels. The collective effect of all these efforts, including the message from “Pump,” may just help fuel a trend. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Lack of liquidity in corporate bonds hits index funds

BY TIM MCLAUGHLIN and to trade, analysts and fund man- producing returns that severely percentage points for a 12-month having high yields and fees of 0.40 expensive, Kinney said. ASHLEY LAU agers said. lag their index. period within the past two years, percent of assets invested, com- Even so, he said the State “The days where you can go out The $30m Market Vectors Pre- according to ETF.com data. That’s pared to 0.50 percent at a rival Street junk bond ETF tracks its NDEX fund managers are and say, ‘I want these ten bonds’ Funded Municipal ETF holds partly because it weighs its sample fund run by BlackRock. But the benchmark pretty tightly, given finding it hard to secure the ... and get the Street to offer them only about 60 bonds, tracking more heavily to high-quality bonds, fund’s tracking error - the differ- how volatile that sector can be. bonds they need at the prices to you, are probably gone,” said a benchmark with more than which limits its yield. ence between return an investor To be sure, though some index Ithey want, forcing them to Josh Barrickman, head of bond 46,000 issues. It offers a unique BlackRock Inc, the world’s receives and benchmark’s per- funds select bonds that allow make trade-offs that can hurt indexing at Vanguard Group Inc, slice of the bond market of pre- largest asset manager, says rock- formance - has been twice its fees them to outperform their indexes, investors and leave managers which oversees $325bn in index funded municipal bonds, but high bottom interest rates and low vol- at times, according to ETF.com. it’s more common for an index vulnerable in a market downturn. bond fund and ETF assets. “So transaction costs have produced atility have created complacency As of June 30, the junk bond fund’s tracking difference to lag Bond liquidity has all but dried now it’s more, ‘what can I get and a 12-month return net of fees among issuers and investors, and ETF’s 12-month median track- its index because of the cost of up for corporate issues after new are those suitable substitutes for and expenses of 0.92 percent in that the market for trading cor- ing difference was -0.72 percent, running a fund that a benchmark regulations and capital require- what I actually want?’” the year ending Sept. 19, which porate bonds is broken. or six times higher than the -0.12 doesn’t have. ments forced Wall Street banks To combat the problem, is 23 basis points, or 20 percent, “Driven by record new issue percentage points produced by Nevertheless, index fund man- to slash their inventories of fixed- Vanguard has relied on more fixed- lower than the broad benchmark’s volume, the size of the market BlackRock’s $12bn iShares iBoxx agers have always behaved a little income products following the income trading specialists to hunt return of 1.15 percent, according has grown substantially while $ High Yield Corporate Bond like political pollsters who sample financial crisis. That’s especially for hard-to-get bonds that are to Thomson Reuters data. the market’s trading capacity has ETF, according to ETF.com. a small group of people to get a challenging for index fund man- best suited for building efficient “There’s plenty of room to find decreased,” BlackRock said last “JNK has been sloppy in its reading on a larger population. agers who must acquire certain index portfolios, Barrickman said. different names that satisfy our week in a research paper made tracking over the past two years, Indexing giant Vanguard typi- bonds to be able to track specific Index funds have less latitude than need,” said Jim Colby, manager of public on Monday. It’s a perfect so investors may find the all-in cally builds bond portfolios that benchmarks. The lack of liquid- actively managed funds, whose the Market Vectors fund, which recipe for a bond market rout to cost higher than advertised,” ETF. come closest to having the same ity also means funds may have managers are paid to beat bench- is operated by Van Eck Global in whipsaw investors, one fund index com said in a research report. number of holdings as their trouble selling bonds in the event marks, not track them. New York. “On the other hand, it manager said. Brian Kinney, an executive benchmarks, fund disclosures interest rates rise and the inves- More corporate and municipal makes the process more complex Meanwhile, many index bond at State Street Global Advisors, show. The $121bn Vanguard Total tors who have sunk about $1.2tr index funds are sampling the bonds to sort through the scenarios.” funds are paying too much atten- said higher transaction costs due Bond Market Index Fund holds in net deposits into long-term contained in their benchmark Even funds holding larger per- tion to building portfolios that are to the lack of liquidity on the 6,730 bonds, compared to nearly bond funds since the end of 2004 instead of trying to approach full centages of their index can find easy to trade. That doesn’t mean bond market contributed to the 8,900 in its benchmark. head for the exits. replication of the index. They also their sampling cuts perform- they are doing an efficient job of junk bond ETF’s wider tracking “I chuckle when people talk Bonds inventory at Wall Street are going outside their benchmark ance. The $617m PowerShares tracking their benchmarks, said difference. about a passive index bond fund,” banks has dropped to about index to find substitutes for hard- Fundamental High Yield Corporate Dave Nadig, chief investment Wall Street banks want to Nadig said. “There’s really no $60bn from about $250bn since to-get bonds, said Steve Sachs, ETF has 257 bonds in its port- officer at ETF research firm ETF. make more money per transaction such thing. There ain’t much the 2008 credit crisis, according head of capital markets at ETF folio, compared with about 2,100 com. State Street Global Advisors’ because regulators’ new capital passive about it. These funds are to the Federal Reserve Bank of provider ProShares. Sometimes in its benchmark, and has lagged $9bn SPDR Barclays High Yield requirements have made holding constantly buying and selling.” New York, making them harder the sampling can be extreme, its benchmark by as much as 1.40 Bond ETF gets high marks for bonds on their balance sheets more REUTERS WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Qatar Endurance Racing Team celebrates 24H Le Mans win

FROM LEFT: QMMF Public Relations Manager Rashid Al Sulaiti, QMMF President and FIM Vice-president Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, QERT Rider Mishal Al Naimi, QMMF General Secretary Mohamed Saad Al Morraikhi, QERT Rider Saeed Al Sulaiti, QMMF Board Member Sultan Zaher Al Morraikhi celebrate the Qatar Endurance Racing Team’ final round victory in the Superstock Category at the 24H Le Mans last Sunday, at the QMMF headquarters in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: QERT riders Mishal Al Naimi (left) and Saeed Al Sulaiti are seen with QMMF President Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah (centre).

Afridi, Akmal among Jeter drives in three players penalised for poor fitness runs as Yankees win KARACHI: Four Pakistani payment category, which includes international cricketers have Afridi and Misbah, currently been docked part of their sala- receive around $4,200 a month Starting pitcher Pineda dominates Baltimore’s hitters ries in a crackdown on fit- from the board. ness standards, the Pakistan Pakistan are down in sixth Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed place in the ICC’s test rankings NEW YORK: New York yesterday. and Waqar Younis, the team’s Yankees captain Derek Jeter The PCB has penalised Shahid head coach, admits they no is doing everything he can to Afridi, Umar Akmal, Abdul longer have the individual bowl- extend his last Major League Rehman and Hasan Reza for fail- ing firepower to win matches Baseball campaign. ing to reach the levels of fitness single-handedly. Jeter drove in three runs on required under their contracts. The former fast bowler and Monday in the Yankees’ 5-0 vic- “Yes we have started this proc- Test captain, who took more tory over American League East ess and in the initial stage Afridi, than 800 international wickets, division winners Baltimore — Akmal, Rehman and Reza Hasan says bowlers will need to work as helping keep the Yankees’ faint will have 25 percent of their a unit to win matches in future. hopes of a wildcard berth alive. monthly salaries deducted as a “The days of Wasim (Akram), Jeter delivered an RBI ground- penalty,” the PCB’s media man- Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain or out in the third inning and a two- ager, Agha Akbar, said. Asif are gone. We don’t have indi- run double in the fifth. He said the board had also viduals now who can win matches With adoring fans hanging on introduced a system of reward- on their own like we did in the his every move, Jeter’s big night ing those players who excelled in past,” he said on the Geo Super overshadowed a stellar perform- the fitness tests. sports channel.” ance from New York starting “In the first stage Shaan Waqar said he was satisfied pitcher Michael Pineda, who Masood and Umar Amin will get a with the current Pakistan bowl- dominated Baltimore’s hitters 17.5 percent increase in their sala- ers, whom he described as capa- over seven and one-third innings ries for four months as an incen- ble, but he added: “They will now to help the Yankees win for the tive, while national team captain have to work as a unit to win fifth time in six games. Misbah-ul-Haq, Bilawal Bhatti matches. They will have to make Pineda surrendered just one and Ahmed Shehzad have also use of modern technology.” hit — a fifth-inning single to J.J. been given a 10 percent increase Waqar said the suspension of Hardy — and a walk while strik- for working hard on their fitness,” top off-spinner Saeed Ajmal for ing out eight. he said. an illegal action could prove a Jose Pirela drove in a run with The PCB organised a month- blessing in disguise. a triple in his first major league long fitness camp in Lahore in “With the World Cup round the at-bat and finished 2-for-3 with June, after which players were corner, it is an opportunity for two runs scored to boost the given specific targets. younger bowlers to take Ajmal’s Yankees’ cause. In further tests in early place,” he said. “Secondly I think Chase Headley also collected New York Yankees’ shortstop Derek Jeter hits a two-run double against the Baltimore Orioles during the fifth September, four national team in his absence senior players like a brace of hits, including a solo inning at Yankee Stadium in New York on Monday. players failed to meet the required Muhammad Hafeez and Shahid homer. targets, according to Akbar. Afridi have to take more respon- Nevertheless, the Yankees still battling for a playoff spot. In addi- and autographs as he makes his Then he went to the ball park, Contracted players in the top sibility.” REUTERS trail the Kansas City Royals by tion, Jeter has indicated he will way on foot to Yankee Stadium — and showed just how much life is four games for the American play the Yankees’ last three games all to the strains of Frank Sinatra left in him, with his first three League’s final wild card berth of the season at Boston. singing “My Way.” RBI game since 2012. AFP with six games to play. “It’s different in a sense with Before Monday’s game Jeter Yankees manager Joe Girardi Derek, because you don’t know appeared at the Hudson Theatre, is already planning Jeter’s exit where you’re going to be at and taking part in a question and Baseball Results from what is likely to be his last the meaning of the game at that answer session with memora- Cleveland 4 Kansas City 3 game at Yankee Stadium when point,” Girardi said. bilia mogul Brandon Steiner with Kansas City 2 Cleveland 0 the series against the Orioles con- “I’ll just kind of wait and see whom he has a business deal. NY Yankees 5 Baltimore 0 cludes on Thursday. how it goes, and we’ll make a deci- “I’m trying not to reminisce Toronto 14 Seattle 4 Girardi orchestrated a poign- sion when it’s time, I guess.” yet,” Jeter said. “I play a game Chicago White Sox 2 Detroit 0 ant departure for closing pitcher Jeter, meanwhile, is trying to where you’re supposed to control Mariano Rivera last year, sending stay focused on playing the game, your emotions. It’s a game of fail- Pittsburgh 1 Atlanta 0 Jeter and pitcher Andy Pettitte to even as his 20-year big-league ure. You’re going to fail more than Texas 4 Houston 3 the mound to execute the pitching career — all with the Yankees — you’re going to succeed. You have St Louis 8 Chicago Cubs 0 change that let Rivera leave the is celebrated. to be able to control it. At times Arizona 6 Minnesota 2 field to an ovation from fans. He’s featured in a heart-tugging this year, it’s been difficult. You Oakland 8 LA Angels 4 Girardi acknowledged that television commercial for spon- go places and they show a video San Francisco 5 LA Dodgers 2 Pakistan’s new Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi will have 25 percent of his it could be tougher to focus on sor Gatorade, which shows him montage and you feel as though monthly salary deducted for failing to meet fitness standards. the moment if the Yankees are delighting fans with handshakes you’re dying.” San Diego 1 Colorado 0 Bears strike early to hold off Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD, touchdown grabs were from quar- three-pointer from Robbie Gould found it unusual for him to leave United States: The Chicago terback Jay Cutler, who passed for before Smith connected with without telling her. Bears struck early and never 225 yards. Wide receiver Alshon wide receiver Jeremy Kerley for The newspaper also posted on trailed as they rode two Jeffery had 105 yards from eight 19 yards and a Jets touchdown its website a recording of a call Martellus Bennett touchdowns receptions. to narrow the gap to 17-13 by made to emergency dispatchers to a 27-19 win over the New Jets quarterback Smith threw halftime. that had the voice of another York Jets on Monday. for 316 yards and a touchdown but Bennett’s second touchdown driver who said Bironas, a former The Jets trailed 14-0 early on was left to rue two interceptions. early in the third period opened kicker with the Tennessee Titans, and while the home side battled The Bears had a fast start up a 24-13 Bears lead before two tried to run her and her husband hard to come back, getting within when Ryan Mundy intercepted Folk field goals pulled the Jets off the road. five points in the fourth quarter, Smith on just the second play within five at 24-19. Nashville police have said the Bears were able to hold them in the game, running it back 45 Gould then extended the lead Bironas, 36, lost control of the out. yards for an early 7-0 lead. with a 45-yard field goal with sports utility vehicle he was driv- The Jets had marched into Chicago then took advantage three and half minutes remain- ing at high speed around a curve the red zone in the final minute of a muffed punt return by Jalen ing to ensure the Jets could not on Saturday night. He was taken and at fourth and five from the Saunders that gave them superb come back. to a hospital where he was pro- nine-yard-line, quarterback Geno field position for Cutler to connect Meanwhile, The Tennessean nounced dead. Smith connected with Jeremy with Bennett four plays later for newspaper reported on Monday The crash happened less than Chicago Bears’ tight end Martellus Bennett (83) catches a touchdown Kerley at the back of the end a seven yard score and 14-0 lead that former NFL kicker Rob a mile from Bironas’ home, and pass against New York Jets’ defensive back Phillip Adams (24) during the zone, but the wide receiver failed inside the opening six minutes. Bironas was reported missing no evidence of drugs or alcohol game at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Monday. to keep his feet in bounds. Two Nick Folk field goals by his wife the night he died in was found, Nashville police said Bears’ tight end Bennett’s two for New York sandwiched a a crash in Nashville because she on Sunday. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Djokovic, Sick Williams follows Serena top tennis rankings JOHANNESBURG: The ATP seeds out of Wuhan Open issued the latest men’s tennis rankings on Monday and the top 10 list remains unchanged with Serbian tennis ace still leading Second seed Halep tumbles, Wozniacki survives as upsets continue the rankings. Djokovic tops the list with WUHAN, China: World 12,150 points and has a huge number one Serena Williams Wuhan Open advantage over long-time rivals added her name to the list of Rafael Nadal on 8,665 and Roger slain seeds at the Wuhan Open Federer on 8,170. yesterday after the American Results Serena Williams maintained was forced to retire from her Results from the Wuhan first place in the women’s ten- second round match against Open women’s singles round 2 nis rankings while Li Na climbed France’s Alize Cornet because matches on Tuesday into fifth in the WTA list issued of illness. Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) bt Mona Barthel on Monday despite retiring from The top seed, playing her first (Germany) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 the sport. match since winning her 18th Angelique Kerber (Germany) bt Zarina Diyas The US Open champion Grand Slam singles title at the US (Kazakhstan) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 Williams commands the rank- Open earlier this month, broke ings with 9,430 points ahead of Casey Dellacqua (Australia) bt Anastasia Cornet to lead 6-5 in the first set Simona Halep (6,160) and Petra Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 7-6(7), 6-7(5), 6-1 when she called for the doctor to Kvitova (5,926). come on court at the change over. Alize Cornet (France) bt Serena Williams (USA) Li moved up one place into fifth Williams sat solemnly, head 5-6 (S. Williams retired) owing to WTA arithmetics which down with a towel around her Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) bt Carla Suarez take into account results over neck and a thermometer in her Navarro (Spain) 6-1, 3-6, 7-6(4) the past 52 weeks. The two-time mouth during the examination Coco Vandeweghe (USA) bt Jelena Jankovic grand slam winner and Chinese before making the quick decision (Serbia) 4-1 (Jankovic retired) sports icon remains in the rank- against continuing. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Czech Republic) ings although she quit tennis last The 32-year-old also had her bt Madison Keys (USA) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 week. AGENCIES blood pressure checked and Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) bt Jarmila Gajdosova walked slowly off court with the (Australia) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 help of the trainer, with reports ATP Rankings saying she went to hospital for Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) bt Andrea 1. Novak Djokovic Petkovic (Germany) 6-4, 6-4 further tests. 2. Rafael Nadal Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) bt Simona She had shown flashes of her 3. Roger Federer usual brilliance but looked shy of Halep (Romania) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 4. Stanislas Wawrinka full fitness throughout her hour Alison Riske (USA) bt Sara Errani (Italy) 6-4, 6-4 5. David Ferrer of activity on the centre court, Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) bt Sabine Lisicki with the lengthy 11th game, which 6. Milos Raonic Medical personnel treat Serena Williams of the USA during her match against France’s Alize Cornet at the Wuhan (Germany) 7-6(3), 6-3 included several deuces, proving 7. Tomas Berdych Open in Wuhan, China, yesterday. Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) bt Ekaterina particularly taxing as she leant on Makarova (Russia) 6-4, 6-1 8. Kei Nishikori her racquet between points. 9. Marin Cilic Her exit only added to the injury, joined 10 other seeds in Germany’s Sabine Lisicki 7-6(3), set to edge Spain’s Carla Suarez match of the tournament. One 10. Grigor Dimitrov headache for organisers of the failing to make the last 16. 6-3. Navarro 6-1, 3-6, 7-6(4). German who did make it through inaugural $2.4m hard court They included Romanian world Italian 11th seed Sara Errani Wozniacki returned to the was seventh seed Angelique WTA Rankings event, where top names tumbled number two Simona Halep, who was ousted by American Alison centre court later in the day to Kerber, who also needed three 1. Serena Williams in early action after the city’s ten- was beaten by an aggressive dis- Riske 6-4, 6-4, while Swiss quali- present twice Grand Slam win- sets to beat Kazakh qualifier 2. Simona Halep nis trailblazer Li Na announced play from Garbine Muguruza to fier Timea Bacsinszky defeated ner Li with flowers as the Wuhan Zarina Diyas 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. her retirement from the game kick-off a second day of upsets in 13th seed and US Open semi- resident received warm applause Wimbledon champion Petra 3. Petra Kvitova last week. China. finalist Ekaterina Makarova of from the crowd. Kvitova, the highest seed standing 4. Maria Sharapova Former world number one and The Spanish 20-year-old Russia 6-4 6-1. Wimbledon finalist Eugenie at the tournament at third, had a 5. Li Na (CHN) 10th seed Jelena Jankovic was also smashed 34 winners as she Danish eighth seed Caroline Bouchard was another seed relatively easy outing in the day’s 6. Agnieszka Radwanska forced to quit her second round knocked out the second seed Wozniacki, who lost to Williams pushed all the way in Tuesday’s last singles match. 7. Caroline Wozniacki match yesterday in the first set 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 and set up a third- in the Flushing Meadows final in evening session. The Canadian set The Czech world number three 8. Angelique Kerber while trailing American CoCo round meeting with Ukrainian New York, narrowly avoided join- up a third round clash with Riske brushed past Italian qualifier Vandeweghe 4-1. Elina Svitolina, who battled back ing the exodus after battling back after edging Germany’s Mona Karin Knapp 6-3, 6-0 in just over 9. Eugenie Bouchard The Serb, suffering a back from a 5-0 first set deficit to edge from a break down in the third Barthel 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in her first an hour. REUTERS 10. Ana Ivanovic Malaysian Open Murray has no regrets over Scottish independence tweet Results LONDON: British tennis star of 55 percent to 45 percent, but do stuff like that.” Murray, who but England” when asked who Andy Murray (pictured) yes- despite facing a backlash on social represents Great Britain in the he would support in that year’s Results from the Malaysian terday admitted his Twitter media, Murray said he stood by Davis Cup and won gold and World Cup and has quipped that Open men’s singles round one message in support of Scottish his decision to air his views. silver medals for Britain at the he is considered British when he matches yesterday independence had been out of “I don’t regret giving an 2012 Olympics, was subjected to wins, but Scottish when he loses. character, but said he had no opinion,” the 27-year-old world abuse from some Twitter users He also criticised pro-inde- Marinko Matosevic (Australia) bt Nick Kyrgios regrets about doing it. number 11 told the BBC. “I think after declaring his support for pendence leader Alex Salmond for (Australia) 7-6(4), 7-6(3); Pierre-Hugues Murray gave the “Yes” cam- everyone should be allowed that. independence. unfurling a Scotland flag in the Herbert (France) bt Bernard Tomic (Australia) paign a boost on the eve of last The way I did it, yeah, it wasn’t The 2013 Wimbledon champion royal box at Wimbledon last year 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(7); Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) Thursday’s referendum by tweet- something I would do again. was unable to vote in the refer- after he became the first Briton bt Philipp Oswald (Austria) 6-1, 6-2; Philipp ing: “Huge day for Scotland today! “I think it was a very emotional endum because he no longer lives in 77 years to win the men’s sin- Petzschner (Germany) bt James Ward no campaign negativity last few day for a lot of Scottish people in Scotland. gles title. (Britain) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5); Pablo Andujar days totally swayed my view on and the whole country and the He had previously been reluc- However, he told The Guardian (Spain) bt Gregoire Burquier (France) 6-2, it. excited to see the outcome. lets whole of the UK. It was a big day. tant to back either side in the newspaper last month that 6-4; Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Omar Jasika do this!” “The way it was worded, the independence debate. he would probably represent (Australia) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Go Soeda (Japan) Scottish voters ultimately voted way I sent it, that’s not really in Murray sparked controversy Scotland if the country became bt Kento Takeuchi (Japan) 6-2, 6-1. against independence by a margin my character and I don’t normally in 2006 when he joked “anyone independent. AFP McGinley ropes in Ferguson Ryder Cup captain Watson to motivate Europe’s team names Bubba as US ‘big dog’ GLENEAGLES, United crowns and two Champions Kingdom: Europe’s Ryder Cup League titles. Calling in big GLENEAGLES, United Watson, who played college golf But, he stressed, not in the captain, Paul McGinley, has names to inspire players is noth- Kingdom: Reigning Masters for the University of Georgia Ryder Cup. called on retired Manchester ing new in Ryder Cup lore and champion Bubba Watson was Bulldogs. “No. You don’t do that in The United manager Alex Ferguson two years ago in Medinah out- declared the American “big dog” “I don’t want to make too much Ryder Cup,” Watson said. “You (pictured) to give a motiva- side Chicago, European captain yesterday by United States cap- of targets, but obviously there are. play like gentlemen. When you’re tional speech to his team ahead Jose Maria Olazabal called on the tain Tom Watson when asked I think Bubba would be a target,” playing just for fun, you can get of the weekend showdown with services of then-Barcelona man- who Europe would likely target Watson said. “I wouldn’t define out the needle. Then you can stick the United States at Gleneagles. ager Pep Guardiola. in this week’s Ryder Cup. him as a target. I would just say it in.” The Irishman said that he His US counterpart Davis Watson, the oldest Ryder Cup that he can really get it going and Watson has not attended a had intended to keep the move Love employed golf-mad basket- captain at 65 and an eight-time make it happen. I hope he does. Ryder Cup in person since 1993, secret, but the cat got out of ball star Michael Jordan with major champion, had declared “I hope the European team when he guided the US team’s the bag when the legendary backup from such as swim legend world number one Rory McIlroy, is thinking every one of us is a most recent victory on European Scottish coach was spotted at Michael Phelps, comedian Bill the British Open and PGA target.” soil. The Americans have lost the course yesterday morning as Murray and singer/actor Justin Championship winner, and 2012 Watson again stressed McIlroy seven of the past nine meetings. the European team prepared for Timberlake. Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter as top as a key man to beat for the “They have been able to pull it their first official practice round. In that case, the celebrity fac- targets for his players to beat for Americans. out a little better at the end than “We met a number of times tor failed to work as Europe won an extra emotional boost. “I wouldn’t say target. We we have,” Watson said. “I can’t over the last few months. I met eight of the closing 12 singles to When asked whose defeat would like to beat every player,” explain why. I have to give credit him initially 15 years ago ... and I retain the trophy. might provide the same lift for Watson said. “But if you look at to the Europeans. They have met him a number of times over Asked if he had any plans to Europe, captain Watson chose the players right now, the number played better at the end.” the last few months. We’ve had very well, obviously, and Rory is bring in motivational speakers player Watson, the long-driving one player in the world is Rory Watson said his team is well lunch, no more than that,” West a big Man United fan. for his players this week, US star who captured his second McIlroy, and that’s somebody that mentally and physically but called Ham fan McGinley said. “But this is not about him skipper Tom Waston said he did, green jacket in three tries last we’d like to see on the losing end for fewer events in the run-up to “Haven’t went into massive being a headmaster and coming but refused to give any names April at Augusta National. of a match. the Ryder Cup. detail. He’s asked me a lot of in and preaching to them. This away. “If you knock off the big dog, “Every player, when they’re “I am concerned about how questions and I’ve given him is about fun.” “Yes, have some people coming. that gives your team a boost,” paired up, they will be targeting much these players are playing some interest, and I know he’s Ferguson retired as Basically the PGA has spoken to Watson said. “I would say that the players they are playing, not before they reach the Ryder Cup,” very keen and looking forward Manchester United coach in the team, our PGA of America, if I just had to pull a name, looking at somebody else.” Watson said. “These players are to tonight (team dinner). 2013 after a 26-year career that and we have some other special he would probably be the guy Watson also spoke fondly of playing seven out of eight tourna- “He’s a big fan of golf, as we brought the club 38 trophies, guests,” was all he would say. that people would be looking to getting under an opponent’s skin, ments or eight out of nine. They know. He knows Rory (McIlroy) including 13 Premier League AFP defeat.” or “needling” them, saying, “I love are tired. That’s too much golf. It’s not the first canine tag for that element of the game.” AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Celtic eye turnaround Suarez to play Barca B against Hearts today

GLASGOW: Celtic manager Everyone knows how hard it is to Ronny Deila has backed his side come into it. to bounce back from their disap- “There are a lot of new faces, game against Indonesia pointing draw with Motherwell so it will take a little while to gel when they take on Hearts in the together but it’s definitely coming Scottish League Cup today. as it’s been coming on the training A poor first half display meant field, and hopefully we can do that Uruguayan wants to maintain fitness until his ban expires the Hoops had to come from in matches as well. behind to claim a 1-1 draw at “It’s only one bad perform- Celtic Park. ance in the last couple of games. BARCELONA: Barcelona mar- conceding a goal. Their defence The Glasgow giants now go into We have been getting better and quee signing Luis Suarez is set was a weakness last season and today’s clash with Hearts with better.” to play a friendly for the club’s an important reason why all the just one win in their past seven Elsewhere on Wednesday, B team against Indonesia today major trophies escaped them, but games while the Jambos sit top Dundee United host Dundee at to maintain his fitness until his they looking more solid as they of the Scottish Championship Tannadice in the second Dundee ban ends in October, coach Luis prepare to take on Malaga today. as they bid to bounce straight derby in just three days. Enrique said yesterday. “We are doing well there is no back up following relegation last United brought their city rivals’ The Catalan club splashed out doubt and I think that we will season. unbeaten start to the season to 81m euros ($105m) on the contro- still improve at the back. It still However, Deila says he is confi- an emphatic end on Sunday as versial Uruguayan knowing that doesn’t mean that we won’t go on dent his side will respond accord- they triumphed 4-1 at Dens Park they would not be able to use him to concede goals and lose matches ingly and get back to winning to go top of the table and will in an official match from the start and we are looking to improve ways. be favourites to progress to the after he was given a four-month individually and as a group,” said “We will be meeting a good quarter-finals. ban for biting at the World Cup. Luis Enrique. team at Celtic Park and can High-flying Hamilton take on “He has been training hard, The coach has been pleased bounce back in just a few days Motherwell at New Douglas Park showing a lot of willingness and with the impact of new signing after a bad performance,” the in the first Lanarkshire derby of is looking forward to returning Jeremy Mathieu who has become Celtic manager said. the season as both sides battle it so this game does look like a good his preferred choice ahead of “I’m really looking forward to out for a place in the last eight. opportunity to give him a run Gerard Pique. the game. Our dream is to win the Hamilton are unbeaten in seven out if (Barca B coach) Eusebio is “We brought him in for his Treble. So this cup is important matches while Motherwell will happy to do that,” Luis Enrique qualities as a left-footed central to us and we are going to go with take heart from their weekend told a news conference. defender and someone who can our strongest team in this game.” draw with Motherwell. Suarez was initially prohibited play at left back. He has boosted Club captain Scott Brown Meanwhile, Lille captain and from being engaged in any foot- the backline but he can still believes Celtic will soon hit full France international midfielder balling activities but on appeal improve,” said Luis Enrique. stride once the new players Rio Mavuba will be out of action he has been allowed to return “I have no problem with Gerard brought in by Deila adjust to life for up to four weeks with a right to training and to play friendly who has a great attitude. I like at the club. thigh injury, the northern French games. his open, good humoured style. He The Scottish champions have club has announced. The former Liverpool hit- has overcome a hip problem and made a stuttering start to the The 30-year-old sustained a man already played in a match is working hard. season but midfielder Brown muscle tear late in the Ligue 1 0-0 between the Barca first team and “We face a Malaga side who insists progress is being made. draw against Montpellier. the reserves and the game against will be tough and they have Santa “It’s hard for people coming Mavuba, a member of the Indonesia will be another chance Cruz as a focal point in attack. into this squad,” the Celtic cap- France team that took part in for him to sharpen up. They have a lot of players behind tain said. the World Cup in Brazil, will miss Although early days, Barcelona him that can cause problems and FC Barcelona forwards Uruguayan Luis Suarez (right) and Argentinian “There are a lot of people who at least three Ligue 1 matches, have made their best ever start to are dangerous from long balls and Lionel Messi joke during their team’s training session at Joan Gamper have been here for a few years and against Nice, Bastia and Lyon, a La Liga campaign in his absence set-plays so we have been concen- Sport Complex in Barcelona, yesterday. struggled when they first came as well as a Europa League game with four straight wins without trating on this.” REUTERS into the squad, including myself. against Wolfsburg. AFP

FIFA set Manchester Blanc acknowledges PSG City’s Frank to adopt Lampard reacts to fans at the end of problems ahead of Barca tie concussion the English Premier PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain themselves,” added the under- they look to close the three-point breaks League coach Laurent Blanc yesterday pressure coach. “But we get the gap opened up by early leaders match against acknowledged that his team are impression that things can very Marseille. “The matches against PARIS: World football’s gov- Chelsea at having “a bit of a hard time” just quickly go one way or the other. Ajax and Lyon were difficult, but erning body FIFA yesterday the Etihad a week before their Champions We could plunge into real diffi- it is in that difficulty that we can announced plans to allow ref- Stadium in League clash with Barcelona. culty, but we could also get going raise our game,” said Blanc. erees to halt matches for three The reigning French champi- again like we did last year with “But we mustn’t differenti- minutes so that players sus- Manchester, in ons have drawn their last three a few victories. That is the best ate between Ligue 1 and the pected of sustaining a concus- this September games 1-1 despite taking the lead remedy.” Champions League. We have to sion can be assessed. 21 file photo. on each occasion, with Sunday’s Blanc also urged his team to give everything in our domestic The issue of concussion in stalemate at home to Lyon leav- “give everything in every match”, matches if we want to be at our football has made recent head- ing them fifth in Ligue 1. regardless of the opponents. best in the Champions League.” lines following high-profile cases “It is true that all these draws PSG are still unbeaten this He added that his team “were at the World Cup in Brazil, an Lampard may get Chelsea are not reassuring,” he said. season, but they were held by doing things last year that they incident that involved Germany’s “We must acknowledge that Ajax in Amsterdam last week in have not done in this season so Christoph Kramer during final. we are going through a bit of a their opening Champions League far”. “The incidents at the World send-off, says Pellegrini hard time,” said Blanc at a press group game. His side have visibly tired in Cup have shown that the role of conference ahead of today’s trip That places added impor- recent matches, while Zlatan team doctors needs to be rein- LONDON: Frank Lampard’s down reports in the British media to Caen. tance on next Tuesday’s meet- Ibrahimovic had one of his poor- forced in order to ensure the loan spell at Manchester City linking City with a move for “Everyone, the players, the ing with Barcelona at the Parc est games for PSG against Lyon, correct management of potential could come to an end with a Everton playmaker Ross Barkley. coach and the members of des Princes, but before that they and the coach admitted that cases of concussion in the heat of game at his former club Chelsea “I don’t talk about rumours. We staff, must ask questions of must go to Caen and Toulouse as fatigue was an issue. AFP the competition,” FIFA said in a on January 31, City manager are not trying to bring anyone to statement. Manuel Pellegrini revealed. our squad at this moment,” he “Under the proposal, whenever Lampard scored a late equal- said. a suspected incident of concussion iser for City in their 1-1 draw at “We have an important restric- occurs, the referee will have the home to Chelsea in the Premier tion on money and the amount of Paris Saint- ability to stop the game for three League on Sunday. It was his first players we can have in our squad Germain’s French minutes, allowing the relevant appearance against Chelsea since (due to Financial Fair Play sanc- defender Serge team doctor to complete an on- he ended his 13-year association tions). I don’t know where the Aurier (third left) pitch assessment and decide if the with the club in June. news comes from, but for here in gets a yellow card player has suspected concussion,” The 36-year-old former Manchester City it is not a prob- from French referee it said. England midfielder is due to link lem at this moment. We have the Ruddy Buquet “The referee will only allow the up with parent club New York squad. I am not looking at any after he fouled injured party to continue playing City FC in January, but Pellegrini other players.” Lyon’s French with the authorisation of the team says he could feature in City’s City begin their defence of forward Alexandre doctor, who will have the final return fixture against Chelsea at the League Cup away to sec- Lacazette (second decision.” The medical committee Stamford Bridge. ond-tier Sheffield Wednesday left) during the also reported that the World Cup “Frank will stay until January on Wednesday, with right-back French L1 game in Brazil had been a “clear success because until January he doesn’t Pablo Zabaleta unavailable due in Paris in this from a medical perspective, with have anything to do in the US to suspension. September 21 file a decrease in injuries and no posi- because they are not working,” David Silva (ankle) and Sergio tive doping cases reported”. Pellegrini told a press conference. Aguero (knee) have both been photo. “The number of injuries went “In January, we will see what ruled out due to minor injuries, down from 2.7 per match at the happens here and make a deci- but Pellegrini said that they will 2002 World Cup to 1.7 per match sion. It is not a problem in this return for Saturday’s league game at Brazil 2014,” it added. AFP moment.” Pellegrini also played at Hull City. AFP United need £100m more on new players, says Neville LONDON: Manchester United, another two transfer windows of But United’s defending was Shaw, Marcos Rojo and Daley Manchester who spent £150m ($245.18m) similar amounts of money needed shambolic, leaving new coach Blind in the summer but did United’s on new players in the summer, -- maybe 100m -- before they can Louis van Gaal needing to fix the not sign a top-class centre back manager might need to spend another even think about winning the problems urgently if United are to replace the departed Rio Louis Van £100m before they can compete title. going to launch any kind of bid Ferdinand or Nemanja Vidic. for the Premier League title, “There are still key positions in for the top four positions, never Neville, who was on the coach- Gaal (right) according to former defender the team that need filling. mind the title, this season. ing staff at United last season, and his Phil Neville. “I think the centre-back posi- To add to his problems, Jonny said there was a good reason for assistant United’s defenders have been tion is obviously the key area,” Evans went off injured leaving that. Ryan savaged in the media after squan- Neville added. “Holding midfield the ground on crutches and with “That squad needed quality, not Giggs react dering a 3-1 lead to lose 5-3 at or centre midfield needs address- his foot in a protective boot, while just run-of-the-mill players, they during their Leicester City on Sunday but ing too.” young defender Tyler Blackett, needed world-class players, and EPLmatch Neville, who won six Premier The imbalance in the United who has played in all five league there were no world-class centre- against League titles with United, said team was glaringly obvious on matches at centre-half was sent backs out there,” he said. Leicester City he was not surprised at what Sunday with Robin van Persie, off and will be suspended from United have made a worse start in Leicester, happened. Angel di Maria, Ander Herrera, Saturday’s game against West to this season than they did a year in this “I know United have spent Radamel Falcao and Wayne Ham at Old Trafford. United ago when David Moyes was start- September 21 150m pounds,” Neville told BBC Rooney looking dangerous going signed forward Di Maria, mid- ing his short-lived stint as man- file photo. Radio 5 live. “I think there’s forward. fielder Herrera, defenders Luke ager. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

South Korea’s judo team take a ‘selfie’ as they celebrate on the podium after defeating Kazakhstan in their men’s team gold medal final event at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday. RIGHT: Joung Da-Woon (bottom) of South Korea fights with Kim Sug-Yong of North Korea during their women’s judo team quarter-final of the Asian Games.

Asian Games Medal Table Asian Games: Abdi shines INCHEON, South Korea: Asian Games medals table yesterday: G S B T China 40 22 20 82 South Korea 19 19 21 59 Japan 16 22 22 60 in Qatar’s win over Kuwait Kazakhstan 4 4 10 18 North Korea 3 4 7 14 Mongolia 3 3 6 12 Basketball: Saeed scores 14 points in opening match of Group F Malaysia 2 2 2 6 Taiwan 2 1 5 8 INCHEON, South Korea: sure they will rise to the country’s win in Pool H. They defeated Myanmar 2 0 0 2 Khalid Sulaiman Abdi scored a expectations.” Sharif Yorzada and Mukhseni Vietnam 1 2 9 12 game-high 25 points as Qatar Qatar led 21-16 after the first Rustamzada of Tajikistan 21-7, Iran 1 2 1 4 began their basketball campaign quarter but as the match pro- 21-15 in a matter of just 25 Kuwait 1 2 0 3 with a 79-69 win over Kuwait at gressed they kept pulling away minutes. the Asian Games yesterday. even further. In men’s shooting, Qatar’s Hong Kong 1 1 9 11 Qatar maintained a steady lead By the end of the second quar- Viacheslav Skoromnov ended India 1 1 9 11 over their Gulf rivals to wrap up ter, Qatar were comfortably up in 22nd position in the men’s Thailand 1 0 5 6 the match in comfortable fashion placed 43-32 ahead with Kuwait 10M Air Rifle qualification, while Indonesia 0 3 2 5 to boost their chances of quali- hardly showing any signs of Rashid al-Mohannadi finished Macau 0 3 0 3 fying from Group F, which also catching up. 34th and Mohamed Zain al-Sun- Uzbekistan 0 1 6 7 includes Japan. Qatar captain Yasin Ismail aidi 52nd out of 53 triers. Singapore 0 1 5 6 Abdi single-handedly demol- Musa, who has not recovered fully In women’s Trap qualification, A Qatari ished the Kuwaiti defence time from his shoulder injury, did not Qatar’s Amna Al Abdulla fared hoopster Turkmenistan 0 1 2 3 and again, scoring 11 field goals not take any part in the match much better, finishing sixth while tries to Laos 0 1 1 2 out of 18 attempts and convert- but is expected to play a few min- Kholoud al-Khalaf was 24th. score a Philippines 0 1 1 2 ing three of five free-throws, with utes against Japan tomorrow. China Zhu Jingyu later went on point during Lebanon 0 1 0 1 Irfan Ali Saeed and Atif El Hadry Daoud Mousa scored nine to win the gold medal. the Asian Iraq 0 0 1 1 scoring 14 and 10 respectively to points for Qatar, all from the The men’s weightlifting compe- Games Pakistan 0 0 1 1 complete the rout. three-point mark, but Boney tition saw Qatar’s Essa Saleh al- match Qatar coach Vasilis Fragkias Watson, who stayed on the court Buainain just managing a total of against was satisfied with the team’s for 28 minutes, could only man- 140kg, a whopping 90 kilos lesser Kuwait India await performance, although he said age four. than the next best competitor in yesterday. he expected much more from the Ahmad Al Baloushi excelled the 77kg class. team. for Kuwait with 17 points which Qatar also suffered a wipeout Qatar won Pakistan after “It was a good win and over- included two three-pointers, while in squash with Pakistan cruising 79-69. all I have no specific complaints,” Hussain Al Khabbaz had 12 and to a 3-0 win in the men’s team Oman scalp Fragkias said. Nayef Al Rashidi 10. competition. “We started off well and main- At one point of time in the Qatar’s bowlers too did not fare INCHEON, South Korea: tained our advantage throughout match, Qatar enjoyed an 18-point well with Jassim Al Muraikhi and India warmed up for their and never allowed the Kuwaitis to lead thanks to a purple patch that Jassim Al Deyab ending up 18th Asian Games field hockey clash mount a serious challenge.” saw them score nine consecutive and 19th in Men’s Singles Squad against arch-rivals Pakistan by However, he emphasised that points. A. thrashing Oman 7-0 yesterday Qatar should raise their game a In other action involving Qatar, In Men’s Singles Squad B, as South Korea nudged ahead notch or two in their next game the beach volleyballers contin- Ibrahim Al Deyab and Yousef Al of Japan in the race for the against Japan tomorrow. ued their fine run with Tamer Jabir were 16th and 17 respec- semi-finals. “This team is capable of much Abdulrasool and Abdulaziz tively, while Khalid Al Dosari was India, seeking their first Asiad better performances and I am Khallouf scoring yet another 20th. QOC gold medal since 1998, converted five penalty corners and a pen- alty stroke in the one-sided pool B game, but several scoring oppor- tunities were wasted. China enjoy pool party; Tajik India and Pakistan face-off tomorrow in the competition’s marquee match that could deter- mine the pool leader. Both teams have won their first two games in footballer fails drugs test the 10-nation tournament. India beat Sri Lanka 8-0 in INCHEON, South Korea: and a slew of emerging stars the their opener, while Pakistan China proved they are still the Chinese won’t be losing any sleep showed their prowess with a 2-0 Asian Games gold standard in just yet. Sun and Ye showed their win over China and a 14-0 rout of the pool by scooping six swim- Olympic class by cruising to vic- Sri Lanka. ming titles yesterday, while the tory while China also offered a “There is always room for first doping test of the 17th sneak peek of their next wave of improvement, but we will be well- Asiad also came to light with a potential champions with teen- prepared for Pakistan,” said India’s Tajikistan football player testing ager Shen Duo picking up her Australian coach Terry Walsh. “I positive. A swim- third gold and Chen Xinyi, Fu am confident we will do well.” The Olympic Council of Asia mer from Yuanhui and Ning Zetao getting Two teams from each pool (OCA) said in a statement that Macao their first. qualify for the semi-finals. Khurshed Beknazarov had tested competes The only blemish on an other- Hosts South Korea, the high- positive for a stimulant and had in the free wise perfect night in the pool for est ranked Asian team at number been thrown out of the Games. combina- China came in the men’s 200m eight and four-time champions, “His urine specimen collected tion syn- breaststroke, where Kazakhstan took a step towards the last four on 14 September 2014 after the chronised teenager Dmitry Balandin slashed from pool A with a 4-0 demolition competition was found to con- swimming nearly six seconds off his best of Japan. Veteran Jang Jong-Hyun tain methylhexaneamine, a pro- event. time to win gold. scored off a penalty corner and hibited substance in the WADA “I’m tired,” said Balandin. “But a penalty stroke as the Koreans Prohibited List 2014,” the OCA South Korea, who are aiming events and while there are no firm today was my best day. I am happy swept past the lacklustre Japanese said. to finish runner-up to China for plans to allow Oceania countries this time.” with two goals each in the first Beknazarov, who played a fifth straight Games and win to compete at the main Asian The same situation played out and third quarters. South Korea in Tajikistan’s 1-0 win over 90 gold medals, have earned 19 so Games, the Olympic Council of at the Ongnyeon International beat Singapore 12-0 in the first Singapore in the football pre- far, three more than third-placed Asia has opened the door. Shooting Range, where the game, to join Malaysia at the top liminaries that day, also had his Japan. “We would definitely be inter- Kazakh women’s trap team pre- of the pool with six points each. accreditation withdrawn, the The powerhouse countries of ested in competing in the Asian vented a Chinese clean sweep. Japan, left with one win OCA added. Northeast Asia may one day have Games,” Australian Olympic While China continues to gorge from two games, must defeat On the fourth day of compe- a major rival to worry about from Committee spokesman Mike on gold, Thailand savoured its first Singapore and Malaysia in their tition in Incheon, China’s sleek the south, with Australia welcom- Tancred said. Competition from success when Yannaphon Larp remaining matches to stay in the swimmers and sharp shooters ing the idea of possibly competing Australian swimmers would Apharat won the men’s bowling hunt for a semi-final berth. In A swimmer trains during a prac- helped them reach the 40 gold at future Asian Games. undoubtedly make life more diffi- singles title, and Abdullah Kh Kh other matches, Bangladesh beat tice session at the Munhak Park medal mark, while hosts South Asian Olympic officials have cult at the Asian Games, but with H M Almezayen struck gold for Singapore 2-1 in pool A and China Tae-hwan Aquatics Center. Korea kept their noses in front agreed to let Oceania nations a squad boasting Olympic cham- Kuwait in the men’s squash final. blanked Sri Lanka 6-0 in pool B. of fierce rivals Japan. join them in smaller multi-sports pions Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen AFP AFP WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Brennauer wins world Spirit of Qatar heads for time-trial gold

PONFERRADA, Spain: German Lisa Brennauer pro- duced a stunning ride to win the women’s world time-trial title Super Boat race in Florida in Ponferrada, north-western Spain, yesterday. The 26-year-old, junior world champion in 2005, beat Anna Sheikh Hassan, Curtis to run 96 in turbine class, Al Attiyah at helm of 613 Solovey of Ukraine by 18sec with American Evelyn Stevens another CLEARWATER, Florida: rally driver Nasser Saleh Al 3sec further back. Fresh from rewriting the his- Attiyah and Italian throttleman And she admitted it was an tory books with a stunning Matteo Nicolini at the helm of unexpected success. record run of 244mph at Ozarks Spirit of Qatar 613. “For me, it couldn’t have been shoot-out in Missouri, H E While Sheikh Hassan has any better so I’m very happy right Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al entered the history-making Al now,” she said. Thani and Steve Curtis front a Adaa’am 96 in the turbine class “I’m still surprised right now, I three-boat Spirit of Qatar Team he won at Clearwater last season, can’t believe it. The world cham- challenge at this weekend’s Al Neama lines up in the com- pionships have their own rules; Sixth Annual Clearwater Super petitive Superboat category and sometimes there are people who Boat National Championship Al Attiyah looks set to lock horns you don’t see the whole year who race in Florida. with Marc Granet in Superboat only prepare for this one race so The popular round of Super Unlimited. All three boats run they’re not on your plan.” Boat International (SBI) is the under the auspices of the Qatar Last year’s champion Ellen van final opportunity for the world’s Marine Sports Federation Dijk finished a disappointing sev- most competitive offshore racers (QMSF). enth. But the Dutchwoman, who to fine tune their boats and give Granet won the Superboat was last to ride, was hampered in them a final shakedown before Unlimited class last time out in the closing stages by a torrential the coveted Key West World Pensacola in the absence of his downpour that also affected New Championships in November. Qatari rival, although Al Attiyah Zealand’s Linda Villumsen, last Joining Sheikh Hassan and will be hoping to make amends year’s runner-up, who could only Curtis and representing the for a disappointing outing at a manage ninth. Spirit of Qatar Team is the usual car rally in Cyprus last weekend, Solovey’s silver medal ensured line-up of Qatari Ali Al Neama when he suffered an engine issue Ali Al Neama and Billy Moore in action in Spirit of Qatar 20 recently. The duo faces a tough challenge at Clearwater a dramatic return to form for the and American throttleman Billy after the first special stage. this weekend to boost their confidence before Key West World Championships in November. 22-year-old who came back from Moore in Spirit of Qatar 20 and “Basically, we will use a two-year doping suspension a year ago. Clearwater as a shakedown for against another turbine class added Sheikh Hassan. “I think Before that she had won back- Key West,” enthused Sheikh boat. Clearwater is a fast course. it’s time now to test our new to-back junior time-trial titles in Hassan said. I raced it for the first time last upgrades and, hopefully, this will 2009 and 2010. “Key West runs for three days year and think it will be a chal- give Ali and Billy an advantage Stevens, the runner-up two and we want to make sure the lenging racecourse..” and see them come out on top,” years ago, made up for the dis- equipment will hold together and Team Stihl, Broadco and WHM he said. appointment of finishing fourth we can make all three races. After Motorsports have been the three “We are aware that Stihl, last year, missing out to team- Ozarks, we know more about tur- boats to beat this season in Broadco and WHM are very mate Carmen Small by just four bines now. “ Superboat and Al Neama and strong and we will also need hundredths of a second. “The Shoot-out was an excel- Moore face a tough challenge to to look out for the rest of the Earlier in the day, another lent test of acceleration for the overcome the American trio at Superboat fleet. They might German took gold as Lennard boat but, when it gets to rough Clearwater and boost their con- have upgraded their game as Kamna won the junior men’s conditions and open waters, fidence before Key West. well. WHM are rumoured to be event, also held over 29.5km. things need to be a little bit more Team Stihl won the last round introducing their new boat at His winning time of 36min reliable. of SBI and was the victor over Clearwater and that would also 13.49sec was more than two-and- “Nasser and Matteo will race WHM Motorsports in Clearwater change the game plan.” a-half minutes quicker than his against Miss Geico at Clearwater. last year, but Al Neama ran well After technical inspections and compatriot’s. I don’t know if race officials would on this course in 2013 and finished registration tomorrow, boats will American Adrien Costa was The Spirit of Qatar Team poses with the trophy after conquering the permit us to race in the same in the final podium position. undergo official testing on Friday. second, nearly 45sec behind, with Ozarks shoot-out recently. class as Extreme, but we will be “We have been working hard on Two races will then take place on Michael Storer of Australia third, there and hope that we can race the 20 boat since the last race,” Saturday. THE PENINSULA almost a minute slower. AFP

Indian motif removed after Everton CEO among experts at Josoor religious players rebel Institute’s ‘Business of Football’ course DOHA: A team of internation- Association, Qatar Stars League SAO PAULO: A Brazilian foot- ally renowned experts includ- and Aspire Academy. Delegates ball club who take their name ing Robert Elstone, CEO of from regional football federations from one of the country’s larg- Everton FC, and Dr Hazef are also attending the course. est indigenous tribes have ended Medlej from the Asian Football All attending delegates are a losing streak after removing Confederation are passing on developing business skills and an indian motif emblazoned on their knowledge and experience understanding in the growing their shirt. to delegates who are central to football industry in the MENA Religious players of third divi- the future development of foot- region. sion club Guarani believed the ball in Qatar and the MENA The short course has been figure, which was added to their region. designed to support the 50 football kit in May, was bringing the team The sessions that started leagues from across the region. bad luck. yesterday are part of Josoor Locally, delegates from Qatar’s Coincidentally, the addition of Institute’s two-day short course five annual football competitions the figure marked the start of a titled ‘The Business of Football’ including the Sheikh Jassim Cup, dismal run in which the team won taking place at the Qatar National Qatar Stars League, Qatar Cup, just one of six games. Convention Centre in Doha. Emir Cup and Qatargas League “They confused the indian This introductory course pro- are benefitting from the experi- with a religious symbol and some vides delegates an overview of ence of the speakers. athletes and fans thought it was the business side of football, “It is crucial for everyone linked to (the Afro-Brazilian discussing powerbrokers, how involved in the business of foot- religions of) macumba and can- the business works, the finances ball to understand how this busi- domble,” said Guarani’s market- of football, the roles of players, ness works, how to manage all ing director Marcelo Tasso. teams and leagues and what les- finances and implement strategies “Some of the Protestant and sons can be learned from around to secure a sustainable business Catholic players didn’t feel com- the world for the future of football model,” said Robert Elstone, CEO fortable using that symbol so we in the Middle East. of Everton FC. decided to take it off the shirt.” The course includes delegates “Qatar is witnessing a boom in The kit change worked like from organisations including the football industry with busi- Speakers and delegates pose for a group photo, yesterday on the opening day of the Josoor Institute’s two-day a charm for the Campinas side, the Supreme Committee for ness opportunities across the short course titled ‘The Business of Football’ at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. whom have lost just one of the five Delivery & Legacy, Qatar Football board as we approach the World games played in their new green- and-white striped jersey. Cup in 2022, and events like this introduce local and regional tal- which time almost 130 individu- The club, which prides itself on will help prepare the industry ent to world renowned experts to als have taken part. being the only Brazilian side from towards a sustained and profit- learn from their experience,” he Josoor Institute will soon be outside a state capital to win the able future.” said. introducing a new set of long First Division, have since climbed During the course speakers are “By doing this, we are providing courses early next year. out of the relegation zone. providing a framework for football the brightest stars of the future These more involved educa- However, the controversy split governance including integration with the knowledge and under- tional programmes are designed the club and Tasso said he was between different football federa- standing that will help them build to give an in-depth understanding hurt by the players’ ignorance of tions and the growing importance the future of football, wider sports of the industry and develop the Guarani’s history. of finance and revenues using the and events industry.” skills required to work in sports Not only is the name short for English Premier League as a key He further elaborated: “With and events for those leaving Tupi-Guarani, the biggest indig- case study on how finance flows mega sporting events, like the higher education or those plan- enous tribe in Brazil, the club’s from broadcasters, fans and spon- 2022 FIFA World Cup, com- ning a career. symbol is an indigenous figure sors to clubs and players. ing up in the region, sport and Josoor Institute is training and their nickname is Bugre, an Speakers are also taking the events will play an important role many of the people who will play old slang term for non-Christian opportunity to review the evolu- in our future, and understanding an integral role in Qatar’s hosting indians. tion of football and look to the all aspects of sport, including how of the 2022 FIFA World Cup™, Four bugres have been painted game’s bright future in the region. to run it as a successful business, individuals who will then have the into the pavement around their Mushtaq Al Waeli, Executive is key to the industries success.” knowledge to deliver large-scale stadium since the 1970s and they Robert Elstone, CEO of Everton FC, speaks on the first day of Josoor Director (Acting) for Josoor This course was the second sporting and non-sporting events have had an indian on their shirts Institute’s short course in Doha yesterday. Institute said: “One of the impor- set of courses hosted by Josoor across the region long after 2022. before. REUTERS tant roles of Josoor Institute is to Institute this month, during THE PENINSULA Wednesday 24 September 2014 29 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6198 Sport Price: QR2 SRI LANKA’S WEEKLY NEWS UPDATES Sick Serena, Suarez to play    retires ill at Barca B in Wuhan Open Indonesia LANKADEEPA MIDDLE EAST WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY DAR AL SHARQ                  !"#$%&'()#*#+,'-*,)# Sport | 24 Sport | 25

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INCHEON, South Korea: many institutions helmed by the standing as a regional leader in Secretary-General of the QOC with the aim of developing sports with its renowned, world- Qatar Olympic Committee a solid sporting infrastructure. class facilities reaping interna- (QOC) Sheikh Saoud bin The agreement also enables tional acclaim. Meanwhile, the Abdulrahman Al Thani and Asian athletes to train at the Qatar Medical Committee and Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) QOA and its affiliated world- the Aspetar Orthopedic and Secretary-General Randhir class facilities. This is an already Sports Medicine Hospital won Singh signed a Protocol of common occurrence in Doha, the Sheikh Ahmed Al Fahad Cooperation on the sidelines which regularly hosts training Hiroshima Asia Fund Science of the OCA’s 33rd General camps for regional and inter- Award in Incheon. Assembly in Incheon, during national athletes – the most Aspetar is one of the world’s the ongoing Asian Games. recent of which was held in the leading specialized orthopedic The agreement stipulates that world-class Aspire Academy for and sports medicine hospitals the distinguished Qatar Olympic talented young Asian athletes and the first in the MENA Academy (QOA) will provide from across the region. region. In 2009, Aspetar was academic and technical training Speaking after the ceremony, officially accredited as a FIFA sessions for coaches, referees, Sheikh Saoud said: “Through its Medical Centre of Excellence specialists and technicians from meticulous planning and strate- while in 2013 Aspetar became across Asia. gic growth, the Qatar Olympic the first GCC Sports Medicine The signing ceremony was Academy will become a beacon Reference Centre in the Middle also attended by OCA President of sport education regionally East. Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al and internationally. The acad- Last week, Aspetar’s labo- Sabah and the Presidents emy offers unique courses and ratory was accredited by the of Asian National Olympic programmes to further advance College of American Pathologists. Committees as well as repre- sport professionals and will ele- Sheikh Saoud said: “Aspetar sentatives of 45 Asian nations. vate educational standard in this is an invaluable resource to the Founded in 2006, the QOA is field throughout the region. It is region’s athletes and has contin- a member of the International an honour to sign this agreement ued to distinguish itself as world- Olympic Academy and offers with the OCA and we look for- class facility year after year. high-quality professional edu- ward to continuing to further the The Sheikh Ahmed Al Fahad cation programs to develop and development of sport regionally Hiroshima Asia Fund Science enrich national and regional and internationally.” Award is an honour for Qatar sport leaders, managers and The QOA has several nota- and illuminates its unwavering coaches and to help them lead ble alumni including Acting commitment to excelling in every Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Academy and Secretary-General in sports and the Olympic Secretary General of the UAE aspect of sports. I give my sincer- of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), and Randhir Singh, Secretary-General of Olympic Council of Asia Movement. It is the first acad- National Olympic Committee est congratulations to Dr Khalifa (OCA) sign a Protocol of Cooperation on the sidelines of the OCA’s 33rd General Assembly in Incheon, South emy in the MENA region to offer Mohamed Al Kamail and Al Kuwairi, head of Aspetar, for Korea, during the Asian Games. The QOC holds coaching camps for teams from all over the world. OCA such programs. Secretary General of the Dubai this fantastic achievement – one President Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al Sabah also presented a certificate of appreciation for OCA for its efforts The QOA also includes a Sports Council Ahmed Al Sherif. of many more to come.” in developing Olympic values through its training programmes. research center and is one of Qatar continues to solidify its THE PENINSULA Australia ‘interested’ Qatar clinch thriller to in joining Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea: Australian Olympic Committee Australia has welcomed the (AOC) said the country was open idea of possibly competing at to participating in other events. qualify for quarter-finals the Asian Games after Asian “We would definitely be inter- Olympic officials agreed to let ested in competing in the Asian Oceania nations join them in Games,” AOC spokesman Mike Asian Games: Cichello’s side edges Kazakhstan smaller multi-sports events. Tancred told Reuters. While there are no firm plans While Oceania’s participation as yet to allow Oceania countries in the summer Asian Games is ANSAN, South Korea: Qatar’s to compete at the main Asian likely to be years away, Sheikh spikers held their nerve dur- QOC to launch Games, which are second in size Ahmad said OCA’s next step ing crucial moments to edge only to the Olympics, the Olympic might be to invite the region to Kazakhstan in three straight A Qatari spiker new strategic Council of Asia (OCA) has now compete at the Asian Winter but tense sets to record their opened the door. Games. tries to break second consecutive win at the The OCA general assembly, Australia, in particular, has through the Asian Games yesterday. sports project meeting on the sidelines of the been investing heavily in their Two days after powering their Kazakhstan 17th Asian Games in South Korea, winter sports programme, win- way past Chinese Taipei, Qatar player’s defence in DOHA: The Qatar Olympic voted over the weekend to allow ning medals at each of the last encountered stiff opposition from their Asian Games Committee (QOC) is prepar- Oceania countries to compete at six Olympics, including two silvers the Kazakhs before clinching a volleyball match ing to launch its second project the next Asian Indoor Games, to and a bronze in Sochi earlier this 25-23, 25-22, 25-21 victory in their yesterday. Qatar within the Qatar Sports Sector be held in 2017. year. Group A preliminary to book won 3-0 to regis- Strategy (2013-2016), it was The OCA president, Sheikh But Australians rarely get to their spot in the quarter-finals. ter their second announced here yesterday. Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, compete in big regional champi- Many times during the match successive vic- The project is based on the said the two regions were tak- onships because there is no major the Kazakhs tested the Qataris tory in their Group important role played by sport ing things slowly but the OCA winter games event for Oceania by clawing back from several A preliminary to in building modern communities, had not ruled out the prospect of or Commonwealth nations. points down. But they lost steam book a spot in the and in establishing a healthy life- allowing Oceania nations to com- The next Asian Winter Games and handed back the initiative to quarter-finals. style for individuals and families. pete at bigger multi-sports events will be held in Japan in early Qatar just when they should have The Sports Sector Strategy in Asia in the future. 2017, just over a year before the gone for the kill. inspired by the Qatar National “I think we have an opportu- Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in “The match could have gone Vision 2030 is aimed at achiev- nity,” said Sheikh Ahmad. “But South Korea. either way but I am glad we came ing the three main outcomes we don’t want to go directly for “We would view the Asian through in straight sets. It would which are increased commu- everything. Winter Games as another oppor- have been a tricky affair had the and matched each other spike for spikes. The early lead, however, nity participation in sports and “Let’s do it step-by-step. Indoor tunity to further develop our match gone into five sets,” Qatar spike during the first 10 minutes vanished in a jiffy as Kazakhstan physical activity for a healthier will be good. Then we will think young skaters, alpine and free- coach Juan Cichello said. before Qatar pulled away to a 10-6 came back strongly to catch up, population, improved and inte- more.” style athletes,” Tancred said. “We need to be stay positive lead. The Kazakhs, however, were and aided by a few defensive grated planning for community The news was welcomed in “It would be of particular inter- throughout as the competition is not disheartened and kept peg- errors from Qatar. The compla- and elite sports facilities and Australia, which has long enter- est because of Pyeongchang 2018 getting tougher if today’s match is ging away to get closer. cency in Qatar’s ranks showed up increased and improved sports tained the idea of forging closer and with Beijing bidding for the any indication. I wanted to try out Qatar stayed in front for most for the umpteenth time during talent development, management ties with Asia to expose their ath- 2022 Games.” most of the players in the squad part of the set, albeit only mar- the match and a couple of poor and performance. letes to stiffer competition from The agreement to let Oceania and rotated them, especially in ginally, but with Vitaliy Vorivodin serves and lacklustre defending Qatar National Vision the likes of China, Japan and nations compete at the Asian the third set.” serving well, the Kazakhs lev- allowed Kazakhstan to inch dan- 2030 is built on four pil- South Korea. Indoor Games will be formally Cichello added that it was a eled at 22-22 and went ahead gerously close. lars of Human Development, Australia sent a team to the signed in November, when the big relief for Qatar to have made through a smash from Nodirkhan Renan Ribeiro then put Qatar Social Development, Economic 2001 East Asian Games in Osaka Association of National Olympic the last eight with one match Kadirkhanov. on match point and a few seconds Development and Environmental and in 2006, Australia’s national Committees (ANOC) meet in remaining. However, a couple of minutes later a great block by Hammad Development. soccer body left Oceania to join Bangkok. “It’s a great advantage espe- later, Kadirkhanov undid his good sealed the win for his side. Sadikh The QOC accords special atten- the Asian Football Confederation, The Oceania National Olympic cially in our case because our work by sending a serve wide had a whopping 13 spikes for tion to women, children, youth a move that has helped trigger Committees (ANOC), which rep- third match in the group stage is which helped Qatar take a 24-23 Qatar, while John, Jumah and and people with special needs to unprecedented success and inter- resents the region’s 17 member against hosts South Korea who lead, and Nadir Sadikh finished Hammad had eight each. Ibrahim introduce to them the values of est in the game Down Under. states, including Australia, New are always a dangerous side,” the off the set with a powerful smash. Ibrahim once again excelled in an sport and the importance of its Australia qualified for the 2010 Zealand and smaller Pacific Argentine said. Qatar served notice at the start all-round role with six spikes and role in protecting the environ- and 2014 World Cups and will nations, will also be meeting in Both sides started strongly of the second set with deadly six blocks to his credit. QOC ment. THE PENINSULA host the 2015 Asian Cup and the the Thai capital. AFP