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If you think the discounts and was a clear case of cheating, the customer Customers want the Consumer Signal to Maliki to quit told Al Raya Arabic daily. The shopping Protection Department to monitor offers special offers being made by centre was offering discounts before Eid. and discounts and ensure that shop- BAGHDAD: Iraq’s senior cleric urged politi- shops ahead of Eid Al Fitr will The argument attracted many people, keepers don’t demand more than the cal leaders to refrain from clinging to their who supported the customer and alleged announced prices. posts, an apparent reference to Prime Minister help you save money, think that price manipulation was becoming “On special occasions, prices are Design: Abraham Augusthy Nouri Al Maliki, who has defied demands that again. Shops are using the common during Eid. Many people cited increased by traders in a tricky way. he quit. Speaking through an aide who deliv- pre-Eid excitement to fool examples of other items in which there They do it in a way that customers do ered a sermon after Friday prayers in Kerbala, was a difference between the sticker price not realise. They do it for some types of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani said leaders customers by manipulating and the price demanded by the cashier. sweets when Garangao is nearing. They should show flexibility so that political dead- prices. “They (shopkeepers) exploit high use attractive wrapping and take more locks could be broken and Iraq could confront demand during Eid to cheat customers. money. This happens ahead of Eid as well,” militants. See also page 8 AGENCIES ome customers say that the pric- For example, one of the offers said that said an Arab expatriate. ing is not transparent while others prices start from QR49, but when peo- People say that shopkeepers adopt this say the offers and discounts are ple come, they find the prices of products is strategy to attract customers into the Smisleading. A heated argument starting from QR100. This has become shop, and once inside, they hope the cus- was heard yesterday between a customer a permanent feature during Eid,” said tomers will be persuaded or pressed by and a cashier at a prominent shopping Awadiya Mohamed, a customer out for their family members to buy something. centre. The customer got angry on discov- Eid shopping. “It is very disappointing to see the ering that the printed price on the label “After seeing different offers and dis- exploitation of customers by shopkeepers was different from the price displayed at counts we think that we can save a little during Eid. The authorities should take Ramadan Timing the cash counter. He said he had bought money, but the reality is different. Products some strong steps to end the greediness PAGEthe product 6based on the sticker price, under offers and discounts are overpriced of shopkeepers,” said Mariam Al Marri, Todays Iftar: but when he reached the cash counter the and are usually old. Shopkeepers use Eid a customer. 06:25pm cashier demanded a higher price, which to clear old stocks,” said Mohamed. See also page 2 Tomorrow’s Imsak: 03:22am

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Pics: Kammutty VP & Abdul Basit Shops cash in on Eid fervour Customers accuse outlets of manipulating prices to create false impression of discounts BY FAZEENA SALEEM “On special occasions, prices should be punished,” said a face make-up between QR300 and some restaurants also pro- thousands of faithful, including are increased by traders in a customer. and QR350, manicure and pedi- vide their customers facilities for women and children, gathering DOHA: With Eid Al Fitr tricky way, they do it in a way Ahead of Eid, demand for aba- cure QR120 and hair colouring smoking. in mosques and prayer grounds around the corner, traders are that customers don’t realise yas is high in the local market, between QR250 and QR350. “Since it’s holidays we will get to perform the Eid prayer. Some exploiting high demand for it. They do it for some types of especially for the Qatari and Many people purchase tradi- more customers. Many of them expatriate communities organ- goods and services by increas- sweets when Garangao is nearing. Emirati-designed ones. tional sweets, incense and other like mint and grape flavours,” ise their own Eid congregations ing their prices, claim many They use attractive wrapping and Abdul Rasad Zain, an abaya items traditionally associated said an employee at a restaurant where sermons are delivered in customers. charge more money. This happens seller, said that Eid was a good with the festival. Desserts, includ- preparing the water pipe. He said their language. They have urged the Consumer ahead of Eid as well,” said an Arab time for traders like her, as ing chocolates, petits fours and that prices would not change dur- Eid Al Fitr is particularly Protection Department to strictly expatriate. women are interested in new Arabic sweets, especially maamool ing the festival. important to Qataris because it monitor the prices of commonly When Eid Al Fitr approaches, designs and the demand for aba- and ghoraiba, top the orders list. High prices notwithstanding, is a time when the entire family consumed goods and services. clothes are a major attraction, yas increases. A shopkeeper in Souq Waqif a festive mood and a sense of comes together. They make it a Some say that even goods on especially for women and children. “We get new designs; some are selling traditional Eid sweets excitement are in the air as the point to spend at least the first offer in Eid discount sales are not Some consumers have expressed tailor-made. Each shop has its imported from Lebanon, said, country, along with Muslims all day of Eid here even if they are really being sold at lower prices. shock at the significant increase own customers,” she said. “People always buy sweets at the over the world, prepares to cel- travelling out of the country to They claim that traders increase in prices of imported garments, A ready-made abaya would last minute and the night before ebrate Eid Al Fitr, which marks spend the rest of the holidays. their prices before the season and especially children’s garments and cost, on average, between QR250 Eid becomes very busy.” the culmination of the holy month The thousands of expatriates then reduce them ahead of Eid. footwear. and QR800. The price depends on Shops selling Bukhoor, the of Ramadan. who spend their Eid holidays Consumption of fruits and veg- “Although there are procedures the design and the quality of the scented chips and bricks used to After a month of fasting and here try to follow their native etables increases at the start of for discount sales or special offer cloth, and some pieces can cost perfume homes, especially during prayer, Eid brings in a sense of joy traditions. Ramadan. However, it falls by the prices, we feel that the traders are more than QR1,000. festivals, also do brisk business and fulfilment to the faithful. For For many, the harsh weather at 15th day of Ramadan, and near cheating. They initially increase Besides, beauty salons become during the final days of Ramadan. others, the week-long national this time of the year and the small Eid Al Fitr the demand for non- the price and then reduce it. busier during the last week of Different varieties of Bukhoor are holiday provides an opportunity number of venues for entertain- food items increases, according to Some have special offers only for Ramadan as women prepare for sold at prices starting from QR15. to relax. ment during the holidays are a retailers. clothes from old stocks. The new Eid Al Fitr. “Prices are decided by the qual- Shopping malls, hypermar- dampener. Moreover, the zoo and Fixed prices for selected food and good quality ones are sold at Hala Ahmed, manager of a ity; there are also very expensive kets and souqs are packed with one shopping mall are closed. items are announced and moni- higher prices. beauty salon, said, “Hair colour- ones. Usually, Qataris and others people getting ready to celebrate Another category of people — tored by the Consumer Protection “Inspections are more focused ing, henna, eyebrow shaping, buy it, and the demand is very Eid. Grocery stores, barber the low-income workers who stay Department during Ramadan, on food items; this should change. face make-up are popular among high during Ramadan, especially shops, eateries, tailoring shops, home due to financial constraints and many customers want such The number of inspectors should women preparing for Eid.” during the festival season,” said a laundries, car wash outlets and and the fact that they are not monitoring to include non-food be increased. People also should She said all her prices complied shopkeeper. garages in residential areas are allowed into many public places, items ahead of Eid Al Fitr. complain about high prices with a list given by the munici- Demand for shisha also goes staying open until late in the night including parks, shopping malls Some customers have to the Consumer Protection pality. A haircut for women costs up. As smoking shisha is a part to cater to the rush of customers. and some beaches — devises its expressed their concerns in Department. Traders quoting between QR80 and QR100, hair of the culture of many Arabs, they The celebrations will start early own ways to celebrate Eid. Arabic newspapers. unreasonable prices for goods dressing from QR250 to QR350, buy tobacco of different flavours, in the morning on Monday with THE PENINSULA Gaza war dampens celebrations BY RAYNALD C RIVERA aerial adventure, which can be enjoyed from 3pm to 6pm on the first five days DOHA: For the last three years, of Eid, will cost QR250 per trip per Alvin Cruz and his family have person. been visiting Katara to watch the Qatar Shooting and Archery fireworks display organised by the Association will hold shooting prac- Cultural Village for tourists, citizens tices in the afternoons on the first five and residents during Eid Al Fitr. days of Eid. This activity will be held at The breathtaking pyrotechnics, Lusail Shooting Club on Al Khor coastal shown nightly during the week-long road for those aged 18 and above, with celebrations, attract thousands of peo- a fee of QR100 for 25 shots. ple to Katara every year. The Aqua Park will welcome visi- “The fireworks display in Katara is tors to more than 15 attractions on its stunning and my kids love watching it, 50,000sqm entertainment facility. It will and I love taking photos of the colourful open from 3pm to 6.30pm on the first show,” said Alvin. five days of Eid. The entry fee is QR130 This Eid, however, visitors to one of per person. the major tourist destinations in the Tours of the Muhammad bin Abdul country will not get to see the pyro- Wahab Mosque and the Sheikh Faisal technics as Katara has announced it is bin Qassim Al Thani Museum are also cancelling all its Eid Al Fitr activities in being organised free for the public. solidarity with the people of Gaza, who The Al Dosari Zoo and Game Reserve are suffering due to an Israeli military will be open to the public from 4pm to offensive. 7pm from the second to the fifth day The offensive, which is in its A circus tent would be erected on Al Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) is Show, Mix Juggler, Fritters, Lazy Town, of Eid. third week, has left more than 800 Ahmad field, in front of the Gold Souq, collaborating with more than 10 com- Hedge People, Dora the Explorer, Angry ‘Eid in Qatar’ was launched to pro- Palestinians dead and thousands more and a Ukrainian circus troupe would panies and organisations under its ‘Eid Birds, Tanoora and Oud Musician. mote the country as a preferred tour- injured. perform there. in Qatar’ programme to make sure that The Pearl Qatar is hosting an Eid ist destination in the region during Souq Waqif has also announced that A tent for entertainment and other there are enough activities and events festival from 6pm to 10pm on the first the festival. For this, QTA launched it has cancelled some of its Eid Al Fitr activities would also be erected and it to attract tourists from neighbouring three days of Eid. The activities and a GCC-wide advertising campaign to events out of respect for the victims of will host carnival shows, face painting, countries as well as residents and citi- events for children and families can be publicise the Eid events and activities the Israeli attacks. hoppers, skill-based games and a mov- zens. The diverse activities are aimed enjoyed for free at The Pearl Qatar’s in the neighbouring countries. The big music concerts it used to host ing train, among other things. at people of all ages and backgrounds. Porto Arabia parcel 9 and 10. Last year’s Eid festival saw a signifi- nightly during Eid Al Fitr will not be The entry fees for the circus tent are For seven days, major malls, includ- For those who wish to see traditional cant increase in the number of visitors held this year, it said. In recent years, QR50 (general) and QR100 (VIP), while ing City Centre Doha, Landmark, The Qatari shows, the Ministry of Culture, from the five other GCC countries, from the concerts have featured well-known the entry fee for the activities tent is Mall, Hyatt Plaza, Al Khor Mall and Arts and Heritage is staging events free 24,579 in 2012 to 75,086 last year. Arab singers and attracted thousands QR20. Lagoona will stage shows packed with for the public at the Heritage Village in Reflecting Qatari customs and Arab of music lovers. Despite the cancellation of some fun and entertainment for children Al Bidaa Park. hospitality, QTA representatives will However, other activities aimed at events at the two major tourist destina- and the whole family. The shows, to For adrenaline junkies aged 18 and welcome guests arriving at Hamad children would still be held in Souq tions in Doha, Eid Al Fitr is expected to run from 5pm to 9.30pm, would include above, Qatar Air Sports Committee is International Airport and the Abu Waqif from the second to the fifth day have its usual lustre, with many other Beauty and the Beast, 4D Magic, organising paragliding tours near the Samra border crossing. of Eid. events lined up for the occasion. Balloonatic, Mighty Jokerz, Clown Sealine Beach Resort roundabout. The THE PENINSULA Home JULY 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

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Tel Katara, Aspire Zone extend Fax charitable campaign for Gaza Tel Fax Employees to donate one-day salary, customers back initiative Tollfree DOHA: Katara and Aspire Fax Zone restaurants extended their charitable campaign to support the Palestinian peo- Tel ple in Gaza for another day Fax yesterday. The campaign aimed to donate the income of the res- taurants on Thursday and yes- Tel terday to the people of Gaza Fax facing Israeli aggression. The extension was in response to public demand and the record turnout of Tel customers. Fax “The campaign is in accord- ance with our belief in the www.doha.hilton.com Palestinian cause and the crisis people have been facing in Gaza Tel +974 44233333 because of brutal Israeli aggres- sion which has caused massive Fax +974 44233000 destruction to infrastructure and death of hundreds and inju- ries to thousands. “We will spare no effort to support our brothers in Palestine,” said Katara General Manager, Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti. He praised the turnout of customers at the restaurants Tel and their response to the cam- Fax paign that encouraged Katara and Aspire Zone to extend the initiative for another day. Customer turnout encouraged authorities to extend the campaign for another day yesterday. In addition, employees of Katara, Katara Hospitality and Tel Aspire Zone have decided to Khan Farouk restaurant, “I thank Katara for giving destroying infrastructure and Fax donate their one day’s salary in praised customers’ participa- this opportunity to support our killing human beings,” said solidarity with their brothers in tion in the initiative. brothers in Gaza at this difficult Abdul Rahman Al Hurmozi, a Gaza, reflecting their awareness “This is the least that we time. Qatari. about difficulties facing the peo- should do for our brothers in “The initiative reflects the “The Palestinians, instead of Tel ple in Gaza and the importance Gaza during this difficult time,” importance of solidarity and buying food for their kids, are Fax of supporting them. he said. supporting people in difficult buying kafal (grave clothes). Many appreciated the initia- Aspire Zone restaurants times and what the people in Therefore, we have to do our tive and expressed desire that have 446 employees of different Gaza are facing is not easy best to support them financially the campaign was extended. nationalities and religion who to describe in words because and morally,” he added. Mustafa Al Basha, Manager, have supported the initiative. of Israeli offensive that is THE PENINSULA Tel Fax Last Friday prayer in Ramadan Tel Fax

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DOHA: Remittances from Qatar have surged 30 percent in the past few days compared to normal days due to Eid holidays. Exchange houses are witness- ing huge crowds of expats trans- ferring money to their families back home to meet their Eid expenses. “We have seen around 30 per- cent rise in remittances in the last few days. Remittances are rising Qatari Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Sultan bin due to Eid Al Fitr as expats are Salmeen Al Mansouri, visited the Civil Aviation Administration of China sending money to their families to and met its Deputy Chief Wang Zhiqing. They discussed means of meet expenses,” said Zuber Abdul enhancing cooperation in the field of civil aviation. Rahman, Operations Manager, Al Zamam Exchange. The surge is driven by early transfer of salaries by the govern- Several health centres to ment and private companies, with more and more people queuing at exchange houses. To manage crowd, exchange work during Eid holidays houses have increased working hours and opened extra counters. DOHA: Some primary and spe- the centres might open when peo- There is also huge demand for cialised health clinics and gov- ple call or visit. foreign currencies as people are ernment dental clinics will be The dental clinic in Al Wakra going on vacation — US dollar, closed and many will remain will remain open from 7am to euro and sterling pound, followed A file photo of people waiting to send money home at an exchange house in Qatar. open during the nine-day Eid 2pm and from 3pm until 9pm. by Saudi riyal, Emirati dirham. Al Fitr holidays from tomorrow The dental clinics in Al Khor Demand shows the countries until August 4. and Al Shamal will work from people are going on vacation. Several health centres in Doha, 7am until 2pm. Bashar Al Wakafi, General Shortage of dollars amid high demand Al Rayyan and Madinat Khalifa They will, however, remain Manager, Alfardan Exchange, will be working in two shifts dur- closed on the first day of Eid and said Eid Al Fitr is one of the main ing the holidays — from 7am until Friday and Saturday. seasons during which exchange DOHA: There is a shortage of dollars at some the sale of dollars. They aren’t selling as many dol- 2pm and 4pm until 11pm. The health centres in Al houses see huge crowds and exchange houses here as demand for the US cur- lars as demanded by a buyer to ensure equitable The timings will also apply to Dhayeen, Umm Salal, Old Airport extreme work pressure because rency has been soaring ahead of Eid Al Fitr holi- distribution by way of sales. the two major primary health cen- Area, Al Karana, Mesaimeer, Al expats want to send money home days when most people travel overseas. “We need to give at least some quantity to a tres in Doha — Umer Bin Khattab Gharrafa and Abu Nakhla will for the festival. Eid holidays are for nine days, from tomorrow buyer on demand. We can’t say ‘no we don’t have Centre in West Bay and the one remain closed during holidays. Significant rise is seen in until August 4 in the government sector. Though stocks’,” said an official from another exchange in the expat-dominated working The specialised clinics (eye as remittances to Asian and Arab there are fewer holidays for staff of private com- house. class locality of Ummghuwailina. well as ear, nose and throat (ENT) countries. “Remittances to India, panies, most being expats, are also likely to travel. He said many people coming to them to buy dol- All government dental clinics will be open in Al Muntazah only Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Asked about the shortage, a senior official of a lars are regular customers and so it isn’t a good in Doha will remain closed during in the morning shift during the Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco leading exchange house said there wasn’t shortage business policy to say no to them. the holidays. holidays and will be closed on have risen significantly,” Rahman of the currency notes actually but stocks were being Demand is from all segments of people, including As for health centres outside Friday and Saturday. said. exhausted faster these days due to high demand. citizens and expats — Westerners as well as Asians, Doha, those in Al Shamal, Al During the holidays, marriage Wakafi said there is more Most people travelling overseas buy dollars as it people in high income brackets and those in lower Khor and Al Wakra will be work- medical services will be closed demand for dollars, particularly is the easiest international currency for exchange. -income groups. ing from 7am until 11pm. except at the primary health cen- from Egyptian and Jordanian Some exchange houses have put up notices on There are families demanding dollars and there However, health centres in Al tre in Al Rayyan. teachers. This has led to a rise in their entrances announcing that they had run out single workers, since people travelling to any part Khor and Al Shamal will have a At Al Rayyan health centre, money transfers by 30 percent. of dollars, especially small exchange firms that get of the world, including destinations in Asia, prefer two-hour break from 2pm until marriage medical services will Qataris are also visiting limited stocks of the US currency. to carry dollars. 4pm. The centre in Al Shahaniya be available tomorrow from 9am exchange houses for currencies Some exchange houses are cautious and rationing THE PENINSULA will be open from 7am until 9pm. until 1pm and on Wednesday from for use their trips and majority The health centres in Al 7am and 1pm. are seeking US dollar. One of the customers, Rida have taken steps in advance to after waiting for an hour and Jamiliya, Al Kabaan, Al Quwairiya Medical tests are compulsory Demand for Saudi riyal and Yousuf, said he was in the queue manage crowd properly, reports went outside Doha to transfer and Umm Baab will open on a call for couples wishing to get mar- Emirati dirham is high because for one hour and still he could not Al Raya. money because of huge crowds in system, Al Sharq said yesterday. ried. people are going to these coun- send money to his family in Egypt. Ehab Al Saduni, another cus- exchange houses in the city, Call system apparently means THE PENINSULA tries to meet relatives and friends. He said exchange houses should tomer, said he left the queue THE PENINSULA

Limited supplies Vegetable production drops due to hot weather pushing up DOHA: Vegetable production as salad like the cucumber but in And this explains why the out- of Arab-Qatar Agricultural wholesale market. in Qatar comes down dras- cooked form. It is one of Qatar’s door markets, called Mazrooa, Production Company. “Our farm is in Al Shahaniyah tically during the summer most popular vegetables and that operate during the winter Ibrahim Deeb Dallool told and we have some 200 workers. prices of date, months when the weather is much of its requirement is met season in several places and run local Arabic daily Al Watan in The weather is affecting local harsh. through local production. and monitored by the agricul- remarks published yesterday that production,” he added. says Ministry Yet some farms continue to The farm season begins in tural division of the Ministry of these days vegetable stocks pro- By the time it is winter, his produce and supply limited stocks September which is just a month Environment, are open during duced locally being limited, sup- company will start supplying to DOHA: Demand for dates of popular vegetables like cucum- away. Land is prepared for culti- these months. plies to the local market are also the local market in a big way, he goes up substantially during ber, tomato and koosa to the local vation in this month and saplings “Maximum produce cultivated restricted. said. Ramadan so do the prices. market, including retailers and are bought and sold. in Qatar such as vegetables, are He said his company supplies “We are able to meet much of However, this and the pre- wholesalers. Production of vegetables begins not able to fight the high heat its top quality produce called ‘A the local demand in the winter vious years the fasting month Koosa is of the size of cucum- in November and lasts until and humidity levels,” says the class’ to shopping centres, while season,” he added. coincided with the harvest ber but light green and not eaten mid-April. sales and marketing manager the ‘B class’ is supplied to the THE PENINSULA season. This year, the peak harvest season coincided with the holy month but the prices of the dates, much of which comes from Saudi Arabia and Oman remain high. Ramadan: Ooredoo brings joy across its global footprint The Ministry of Economy and Commerce told local Arabic daily DOHA: Ooredoo’s companies Ooredoo also launched a feature and humanitarian activities. The Al Watan in comments published have launched community and on its nationwide network of Self partnership provides financial sup- yesterday that the high prices charity events during Ramadan Service Machines, enabling cus- port to various causes and initia- of dates at the Central Market to enrich lives and reach out to tomers to donate to charity wher- tives undertaken by Algerian Red and the Omani Market were people across the Middle East, ever they are in the country. Crescent. Ooredoo Tunisia spon- due to the “supply and demand” North Africa and Southeast The Nawras Goodwill Journey in sored a project, DARNA, to help situation, which means supplies Asia. Oman embarked on its 10th cross- establish the first home for orphans remained limited while demand They have paid attention to sup- country mission to connect local with special needs. DARNA aims has been increasing. porting social initiatives aimed at communities. A 36-member convoy to ensure that children with mild Responding to a question as children and young people’s devel- undertook a two-week journey, giv- disabilities and without family sup- to why dates were expensive opment, as part of the brand’s ing donations and household items port are integrated into society, despite the fact that this was focus on increasing life chances of to needy families and individuals. and Ooredoo has sponsored the the harvest season, the minis- the next generation. In the first leg of the jour- construction and refurbishment try said its Price Monitoring Dr Nasser Marafih, Group CEO, ney, volunteers travelled more of the home. Department was monitoring the Ooredoo, said, “Giving back to the than 1,000km to visit charitable Indosat has donated to chari- prices of dates in the market on community is embedded into every organisations and branches of ties supporting orphans in eight a daily basis. Ooredoo company, and this year Omani Women’s Association in of Indonesia’s big cities, and sup- According to the ministry, has seen employees donate time Seeb, Mussanah, Sohar, Khasab, ported an initiative which used inspectors conducted 279 raids and resources to improve people’s Buraimi, Ibri and Ad Dakhiliyah. apps and video steaming to enable on date outlets and caught some lives. In the second leg, the team people to read the juz’z (chapters) 145 violations in the first quarter “We are committed to doing bet- visited charitable organisations, of Holy Quran. It was held in of this year. ter for our customers, and have associations and orphanages in eight cities, and volunteers from “The ministry will continue to stressed the importance of car- Al Amerat, Sur, Jalan Bani Bu Indosat’s regional office took part. monitor the pricing and will not ing, particularly with projects for Hassan, Ibra, Haima and Salalah. Dr Nasser said: “Ooredoo is a tolerate any violations. Sellers young people.” The convoy travelled more than youth-focused brand, so it is fitting will not be allowed to raise In Qatar, the Alrabaa (‘Friends’) 2,000km, with volunteers donating that so many of our campaigns this prices,” it said. were back with surprises and acts appliances, laundry facilities and year have focused on young needy The ministry has urged of kindness as part of #DaysOfJoy household items to assist organisa- Alrabaa with children in Qatar. people. “We believe that mobile people to remain vigilant and campaign running throughout tions with their ongoing projects. technology has the power to enrich report any violation they notice Ramadan. Loved by young people, In Kuwait, Ooredoo supported and aspirations. Iftar tents have been set up people’s lives and, with coordinated to the Consumer Protection the mascots hosted activities that initiatives to enrich the lives of Ooredoo’s Wataniya Mobile across four Palestinian universities efforts, we are striving to make a Department on hotlines saw volunteers give gifts to chil- the underprivileged and children, Palestine is supporting commu- with activities for students. difference for the next generation 44945550 and 44945500 or via dren, help shoppers with their bags particularly orphans. It is also run- nity programmes focused on health Ooredoo Algeria worked with through our community engage- SMS (92665). People can also and visit hospitals and homes for ning its ‘I want’ campaign to ena- and first-aid through Nawartna ya Algerian Red Crescent to estab- ment activities.” communicate their suggestions. the aged. ble people to achieve their dreams Ramadan campaign. lish a common programme of social THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA JULY 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

Patema Youssef, Agencies 22, an Uighur woman, holds a dish of Xinjiang noodles, her favourite Iftar food, Favourite Iftar meals at her home in Shanghai.

Hussain Hawi Warid, 55, holds a tray of dolma, a traditional Iraqi meal of vegetables and vine leaves stuffed with meat, rice and tomatoes, which is what he likes to eat when breaking the daily Ramadan fast.

Mevlida Mrgic, 66, holds a plate of dolma, a traditional dish of stuffed vegetables, with which she likes to break her Ramadan fast, in the central Bosnian town of Zenica.

Hamed Mahmoud, 30, holds grilled fish as he poses for a photograph in Alexandria, Egypt. Grilled fish and seafood Zelfira Mansurova, a Tatar woman, holds a are the favourite meal of jerked goose near her house in Russia’s Siberian Mahmoud, who is from city of Krasnoyarsk. Cairo.

Sara Naqvi, 36, holds a plate of her favourite Iftar meal, puri-chole, deep fried Srikandi Hakim, 69, holds a plate of brongkos, a Javanese dish made from bread and spicy chickpeas, as she waits to break her fast in New Delhi, India. oxtail, tofu, and red beans, in Jakarta, Indonesia. JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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he world doesn’t know much about ISIS, now loosely expanded as the Islamic State, but from what we know, it’s a bigger threat to Islam and Muslims Tthan all those terrorist organisations deriving their sustenance from this religion. Why did everyone forget about What adds to the mystery of this outfit is its relative obscurity and what compounds this obscurity is the fact it’s now ruling over large swathes of northern Iraq. When Syria when Gaza started? a legitimate opposition in Syria is struggling to make gains against a dictatorial ruler and losing most of the gains it made, BY IAN BLACK despite a vigorous international support including from the around the oil fields of Deir al-Zor. For thinktank. “The regime uses the con- Arab world, it’s surprising that ISIS could carve out a huge anyone who wants to play a macabre flict to legitimise itself, and the opposi- space for itself with unprecedented ease, and without any t’s a truism that news organisa- numbers game, the overall figures are tion ignores it and pushes for demands ostensible international support. The US-trained, numerically tions and audiences alike strug- still a smaller proportion than 800 unrelated to it.” powerful Iraqi forces fainted like terrified children before the gle to cope with more than one Palestinian deaths out of a Gaza popu- Bracketing the two wars together advancing ISIS army. If some thought that Iraqi forces were major international crisis at a lation of 1.8m. stirs instant controversy. Commentators time: if the war in Gaza wasn’t a But the levels of slaughter in Syria who are deemed to favour Israel are caught off guard by the instantaneousness and ferocity of the big enough story, then the down- had become routine months before Gaza accused of using Syria “to distract attack, they were proved wrong: ISIS continues to hold onto its Iing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 erupted. In the words of one Libyan from Israel’s war crimes in Gaza” or gains while Iraqi forces look as muddled and weak as before. over Ukraine was almost unbearable woman: “My 10-year-old daughter being keen to bring Assad to account ISIS is no answer to the mess Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri overload. But what about Syria, where asked me: ‘Why did everyone forget while ignoring Israel’s prime minister, Al Maliki has created with his divide-and-rule policy. Sunnis 1,700 people are reported to have died about Syria when Gaza started?’ I sadly Binyamin Netanyahu. Many support- in the country, sidelined and blatantly discriminated against in the last 10 days alone? replied: ‘They forgot about Syria a long ers of Palestinian resistance back the The uprising time ago.’” Syrian president against rebels who by their own prime minister, were forced to support the against Bashar The two Middle Eastern crises are they characterise as jihadi fanatics who extremists to restore their dignity al-Assad has separate but linked in many ways. are bankrolled by sectarian and reac- The world and self-respect, but the brand of been the biggest Syria’s state-controlled media has tionary Gulf states, while ignoring the Islam ISIS is imposing would be If the war in and longest story reported on air strikes and shelling moderate and democratic elements of and Muslims unpalatable to most dyed-in-the- of what used to by “the Zionist enemy” – the familiar the opposition. wool extremists and it wouldn’t Gaza wasn’t be known as the language of decades of confrontation. It Israelis and their supporters complain “Arab spring”. broadcasts images of dead Palestinian about “selective outrage” and often hint have suffered take long for ordinary Iraqis to a big enough Recently the tide children that are grimly reminiscent at anti-semitic motives. It is unclear, enough from shun them. of the war has of the young victims of Assad’s barrel- however, how closer media attention to The ISIS has done enough to story, then the turned, due to bombing, who are not shown on state Syria, or less focus on Gaza, would help Al Qaeda and cause shock and scorn. Some of downing of government mili- TV. In some cases photographs that resolve the Palestinian issue, unless a their decisions have already grabbed tary successes, originated in Aleppo have been posted solution can be found by more effec- Malaysia Airlines rebel disarray, the on social media as if they were from tive PR. Anti-Assad activists protest can’t tolerate international headlines. According flight MH17 rise of Isis jihadis Gaza, and as if the genuine ones weren’t against a “selective internationalism” another rabid, to one report, the jihadists are in both Syria bad enough. which opposes “the collective punish- said to have ordered the genital over Ukraine and Iraq … and The latest chapter in the unequal war ment and mass murder of Palestinians medieval mutilation, aka female circumcision persistent and between Israel and the Palestinians has and Arabs in one land by one govern- was almost outfit which is or FGM, of approximately four crippling inter- allowed Assad to dust off the old narra- ment and supporting or justifying their million women between the ages national divisions. tive about an “axis of resistance” that collective punishment and mass murder unbearable Reporting on it includes Syria, and its loyal allies, Iran next door when a different government of 11 and 46 in Mosul. The source claiming to be overload. But is difficult: Syrian and Hezbollah. It is worth remembering, is the perpetrator”. of the news was a UN official, but visas for journal- though, that Hamas was forced to aban- To call the Syrian and Palestinian its offshoot. some reporters based in Mosul what about ists are sporadic don its Damascus headquarters because struggles “one revolution, and a free- later tweeted that they were not Syria, where and access is it could not bring itself to oppose the dom that is indivisible” may be a moving aware of such an edict. There are two more reprehensible strictly control- Syrian uprising, which is one of the slogan, but it ignores the many differ- orders from the Sunni extremists: one, an ultimatum to 1,700 people are led. Reporting reasons for its current weakness, and ences between the wars. Still, they do from the rebel arguably, its desperation in choosing to have one important thing in common: Christians in Mosul to leave or convert to Islam, and second, reported to have side via Turkey take on a vastly superior enemy. since the collapse of UN-backed Geneva a warning to Muslim women to wear niqab, face veil, or risk is extremely dan- Syrian hostility to its southern neigh- talks in February, there have been no punishment. Mosul was once among Iraq’s most diverse urban died in the last 10 gerous. It is much bour is real enough. Israel occupies peace negotiations about the future centres, home to Shias, Shabaks, Turkmen and Yazidiz, as well days alone? easier to get into the Golan Heights and oppresses the of Syria. The same has been true for as Assyrian and Chaldean Christians. Will Iraqis allow the besieged Gaza, Palestinians (who used to live better in Palestine and Israel since John Kerry’s where most inter- Syria than in any other Arab country), marathon mediation effort ran into the extremists to wipe out this grand heritage? national news though Assad, like his father before him, sand in April. The lesson for the inter- The world needs to know more about ISIS and its organisations are has exploited the Palestinian cause for national community, fatigued or bored financiers. The mystery surrounding its origins and leaders now represented. Financial and human his own ends. by competing stories of Middle Eastern needs to be resolved. The world and Muslims have suffered resources are stretched. “Now that the Arab-Israeli con- carnage, is that problems that are left to enough from Al Qaeda and can’t tolerate another rabid, Syria’s latest toll includes 700 killed flict is back in the spotlight, Assad fester only get worse – and always take medieval outfit which is claiming to be its offshoot• in just two days in the Homs area, and is back in his comfort zone,” argues a terrible human toll. hundreds more in fighting against Isis Nadim Shehadi of the Chatham House THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Emerging role of Saudi women the day

he full participation of women went on to appoint 30 women in what there have already been many exam- in a campaign to allow women drivers. in next year’s municipal has been judged as highly successful ples of successful women taking on Such activism worries those who elections is a highly significant development. important and leading roles. Women believe that the strength of Saudi We are working step. The Council of Ministers Not only have the female members are having an ever-greater impact in society has always been its cautious T towards a brief seven has just given legislative form to the contributed successfully to debates public affairs, from the Shoura Council evolution. ground-breaking announcement made but their very presence has had a to, as of next year, the running of the Calls for equality are meaning- days of peace. Seven at the 2011 poll by Custodian of the transformational effect. Their involve- Kingdom’s towns and cities. less unless they are placed in some Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. ment on the Shoura Council’s various There is of course a conserva- context. On the Shoura Council, days of a humanitarian As the king intended, women will committees has added to the special- tive train of thought, which includes there is no difference between male ceasefire in honour of now be able to stand for office as ist consideration of important areas. some women, that is uneasy at these and female members. They have the Eid in order to be able well as cast their votes. This is the Over the last 18 months, the newly- changes. The Commission for the same rights and responsibilities. This latest move in a process he initiated constituted Shoura council has been Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of equality seems likely to carry over into to bring people together in 2009, when he appointed the first seen as a potent demonstration that Vice has admitted this month that it municipal councils where women are to try to work to female as the deputy education min- women are able to make a valuable has put on hold plans to recruit female elected. It is of course inevitable that ister. At the start of last year the king contribution to Saudi society outside officers to its exclusively male ranks. there will be tensions. A few will strug- create a more durable, decreed that at least 20 percent of the home. Of course, especially in the At the other end of the spectrum, gle to accept and work with female sustainable ceasefire for John Kerry Shoura Council should be females. He private sector as well as in medicine, there are those willing to break the law councilors. ARAB NEWS the long (term). US Secretary of State JULY 26, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Humanitarian breakthrough in Syria?

detail and challenge the restrictions on Achieving what humanitarian access from all sides and advocate for the full implementation of we can on the international law, as embodied in UN Security Council resolutions 2139 and 2165. humanitarian They would support the work of UN humanitarian coordinator Valerie Amos front is the bare by engaging supporters of the belligerents, listening to the experiences of NGOs, and counselling all sides on their responsibili- minimum for people ties under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. suffering on an The envoys must be the kind of high- profile figures who can slice through red tape. The United States enlisted former extraordinary scale. presidents Bill Clinton, George H W Bush, and George W Bush in the after- It could also set the math of the 2004 tsunami in South Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, charg- scene for political ing them with overseeing recovery efforts and raising funds for those in need. As former foreign ministers, we see negotiations and an no reason why the establishment of such positions should be limited to natural, as end to the conflict. opposed to man-made, disasters. There is no time to waste. The Syrian conflict has already resulted in 11 mil- It is an opportunity lion people displaced and in need of aid, 175,000 dead, nearly 3 million refugees we cannot afford to in neighbouring countries, and a quar- ter of a million people in the Damascus suburbs and the governorate of Aleppo miss. living under siege. If we had described such a catastrophic BY MADELEINE ALBRIGHT & Men unloading boxes of UN humanitarian aid in a besieged section of Homs in western Syria in February. scenario three years ago, even the wisest DAVID MILIBAND of diplomatic minds would have doubted separate boxes. On both counts the inter- political imperatives. The key now is that to test each other’s trustworthiness and that the international community could he Middle East suffers a new national community is failing. UN appeals the resolution’s humanitarian impulse is gauge the viability of potential political allow for such suffering and neglect in trauma every week. Iraq is are not funded, and UN-sponsored peace joined with the opportunity created by de deals. the 21st century. disintegrating, as the Syrian talks are going nowhere. Aid convoys are Mistura’s appointment. To give due priority to humanitarian After the last decade of interventions conflict crashes across its blocked, and UN resolutions are ignored. For too long, a focus on the humani- outcomes, we propose that the govern- in Afghanistan and Iraq, we are now wit- borders. Gaza is in flames, Yet two recent developments -- one tarian situation was seen as a diversion ments of the permanent members of the nessing the price of inaction -- and it is a Tas long-term neglect takes its toll. No humanitarian, one political -- have pro- from the political track. In fact, progress Security Council, and other countries price that is rising. Every new day brings wonder it seems difficult for policymak- vided a potential for a breakthrough. on the humanitarian front needs to be concerned with the crisis, each mandate only worse options. ers, never mind the public, to get their First, a new UN Security Council reso- the first step toward political progress. and empower a “humanitarian envoy” to Achieving what we can on the humani- priorities straight. lution has given an explicit mandate to This has happened before. Operation work to secure access to those in need. tarian front is the bare minimum for peo- One consequence is that the humani- UN officials to deliver aid across bor- Lifeline Sudan, launched in 1989, saw In place of episodic attention by foreign ple suffering on an extraordinary scale. tarian crisis in Syria threatens to become ders from Turkey, Jordan and Iraq to southern Sudanese rebels and the ministers and senior officials, who are Importantly, it could also set the scene a sideshow -- not because things are get- rebel-held areas. Second, UN Secretary- Khartoum government agree on the safe over-stretched by multiple crises, this for political negotiations and an end to ting better, but because complexity has General Ban Ki-moon appointed a new transportation of aid along designated would be a chance to bring political mus- the conflict. It is an opportunity we can- become an excuse for inaction. Suffering political negotiator, seasoned diplomat “corridors of tranquillity.” In its early cle and humanitarian concern together. not afford to miss. on an appalling scale is now the new nor- Staffan de Mistura, to try to hash out a days, it also created an atmosphere con- These envoys would be senior diplo- Albright was US ambassador to the mal: In the last few days, upwards of 700 negotiated settlement between the Syrian ducive to the reopening of peace talks. mats and politicians with a clear respon- United Nations from 1993 to 1997 and people have been killed in Syria, a fact regime and opposition. The same thing happened in Angola in sibility to bring global attention to the secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. that has gone unremarked in most news Throughout a long career that 1990, when the United Nations’ Special human consequences of inaction and to Miliband is president and CEO of the outlets. stretches from the Balkans to Iraq, de Relief Program delivered assistance to the policies undertaken by all parties to International Rescue Committee and was For three years, humanitarian action Mistura has shown an acute understand- Angolan civilians -- and also allowed the the conflict that worsen the humanitar- British foreign secretary from 2007 to and political progress have been put in ing of how to balance humanitarian and government and the armed opposition ian situation. They would meticulously 2010. WP-BLOOMBERG Abbott’s admirable response on MH17 Meet Putin’s master Abbott might take this of propaganda moment to mature into BY JOHN LLOYD ussian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity has soared at the prime ministership, home in the wake of his actions in Ukraine – and the mas- terful spin his intervention has been given. and to listen to what R The joy that greeted Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March was due, at least in part, to a propaganda system less complete but more virulent than its Soviet predecessor. Australians say, think At the centre of the system is a remarkable journalist called Dmitry Kiselyev. A long-time and popular presenter on the state-owned and believe. Channel One, Kiselyev has “put the nation on a diet stripped of criti- cal voices and soaked in patriotism.” BY BRUCE HAIGH In December 2013, Putin put Kiselyev in charge of a big media- holding company, Rossiya Sevodnya (Russia Today), which replaced ony Abbott has handled the MH17 the relatively balanced RIA Novosti news agency. It’s separate from the crisis with pluck and maturity – and country’s TV news channel, also called Russia Today, which broadcasts that seems to be the general con- to the world but is milder in tone and more closely allied to the narra- Tsensus. On this issue he has shown tive lines put out by the state. Kiselyev has boasted that Russia is “the greater leadership than Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott only country in the world capable of turning the US into radioactive other leaders whose nationals were affected dust.” He said it with a mushroom cloud in the background. He heaped by the criminal tragedy. Julie Bishop has also abuse on the Ukrainian government, its armed forces and the coun- performed well, exceeding earlier indicators. delegates threatened to walk out of the 1981 because of the equivalent military illegitima- try itself – “there is no Ukraine, it is only a virtual concept, a virtual There is nothing manufactured for elec- Chogm meeting in Melbourne, which he was tion displayed by rebel separatists and their country… now it’s a failed state.” toral advantage in Abbott’s response to MH17, hosting. advisers in the Ukraine. The bullet-headed, pugnacious newsman’s delivery is confident, sar- as there has been with his so-called budget The issue was support for Commonwealth Abbott might take this moment to mature castic and often witty, and he is deeply attached to Putin’s view of the and asylum seeker crises. The Australian sporting sanctions against South Africa, which into the prime ministership, and to listen to world. He dismissed the demonstrators in Kiev who dethroned corrupt electorate has seen through both and until were opposed by Margaret Thatcher and what Australians say, think and believe in. President Victor Yanukovich as Western stooges, and told the ethnic a week ago Abbott’s ratings in the polls the prime minister of New Zealand, “Piggy” He has earned the right to stand tall. It is a Russians in Ukraine that they are at risk from the “fascists” who have reflected that. Muldoon. sign of strength to acknowledge past mistakes, grabbed power in the Ukrainian capital. He has a particular fascina- But Abbott has been perceived by the Fraser and his diplomats had to work hard and were he to do so he might be more than tion with and disgust for gays, notoriously saying that they “should Australian public as genuine in his anger and to prevent a walkout and to get the two recal- a one term prime minister. be prohibited from donating blood, sperm and, in the case of a road grief. He has shown admirable humanitarian citrant prime ministers to not vote against The opportunity to stop listening to Scott accident, their hearts should be either buried or cremated as unsuit- concern for the victims and their families. the proposal. In the ensuing frenzied negotia- Morrison and the denialists on asylum seek- able for the prolongation of life.” He has demonstrated empathy and compas- tions Fraser learned a lot about Apartheid and ers is now; as long as the world allows people Responding to criticism for his remark, Kiselyev said that he believes sion and has instinctively tapped the outrage, became its vocal public opponent. like the Russian separatists sway, refugees will the problem with homosexuals “is that they carry themselves pro- horror and disgust of the Australian people. Similarly, the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur be with us. vocatively… deliberately encouraging and provoking a situation so Abbott must stand firm and insist the per- had a significant initial impact on John With the credit and gravitas he has earned they become victims.” Kiselyev and the propaganda machine under petrators of the MH17 attack are brought Howard and left a lasting impression. His during this situation, he could begin to temper his control have challengers. One of the sharpest, Sergei Medvedev of to justice. His single-mindedness is in stark asylum seeker moment came with eventual and restrain the right-wing ideologues in his the New Economic School, wrote recently that the Ukrainian adven- contrast with the US secretary of state, John acceptance of the evidence of harm to women present inner circle on other issues, too. ture, and above all the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, had Kerry, who let the cat out of the bag a few and children held in detention. The dignity Abbott and Bishop have shown inflicted an “irreversible defeat” on Russia, that it had sealed the loss of days ago when he said the US relationship The conservative mind takes a while, some- during the MH17 incident should be brought Ukraine to the West. In the English-language Moscow News, Gregory with Russia had some complexities, including times a long time, to accept change and in turn back to parliament, with the abuses of process Bovt highlighted the “prohibitory and restrictive laws” that Putin’s co-operation over the destruction of Syria’s to change itself. and games giving way to real debate. government has introduced but said that most of them don’t affect chemical weapons stockpile. Hopefully, this is Abbott’s moment; it Having opened a dialogue with the ordinary Russians since they are levelled against heavy Internet users Abbott will need to guard against the US would be a shame if, for example, he does Australian people during this crisis, Abbott and nongovernmental organisations. attempting to spin the facts to suit other not translate his compassion for the families might extend it to other issues of social and Grabs of territory, bellicose rhetoric against an old enemy and relent- agendas. of Australian victims of MH17 into equiva- national importance – the budget and the role less and well-crafted propaganda have, for the moment, produced a Could the handling of this crisis become lent compassion for the families of asylum of the ABC, for example – rather than relying state apparently largely sealed against doubt. No matter that the West Abbott’s conversion on the road to Damascus? seekers. on the results of polls or the opinions of think is patently reluctant to ramp up sanctions and is eager for negotiations, It seems to be the way of conservative leaders. It would be heartening to believe that he tanks, with all of their flaws. Russia’s leadership deems that the people need an enemy once more, Malcolm Fraser became seized by the evils could see the motivation for their children He might be surprised at what he finds. and its president, with his propagandist-in-chief, is happy to dust off of Apartheid when African and Caribbean and relatives to leave their countries of birth, THE GUARDIAN an old one and parade it as new again. REUTERS JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East No agreement on Gaza truce Hezbollah pledges full Palestinian death toll rises to 844; six die in West Bank clashes support to Hamas BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader But the Hamas leadership, once GAZA/JERUSALEM: US Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah based in Damascus, refused to Secretary of State John Kerry pledged full support yesterday support Assad as he confronted said yesterday that there were to the Palestinian group Hamas with force peaceful protests which still disagreements on the ter- in its conflict with Israel despite broke out in 2011 and descended minology for a Gaza truce and a deep rift between the two mili- into an insurgency and civil war. called for a seven-day humani- tant organizations over the civil “We call for all differences and tarian ceasefire for the Eid Al war in Syria. sensitivities on other issues to be Fitr holiday next week. “We in Hezbollah will be put to one side,” Nasrallah said in “We are working toward a brief unstinting in all forms of support, reference to the rift over Syria. seven days of peace. Seven days assistance and aid that we are able “Gaza is above all considerations” of a humanitarian ceasefire in to provide,” Nasrallah said. The Hezbollah leader spoke for honour of Eid in order to be able “We feel we are true partners an hour in front of hundreds of to bring people together to try to with this resistance, a partnership supporters at Hezbollah’s Martyr’s work to create a more durable, of jihad, brotherhood, hope, pain, Compound in the south of the sustainable ceasefire for the long sacrifice and fate, because their Lebanese capital. (term),” Kerry told a news confer- victory is all our victory, and their “We say to our brothers in ence in Cairo. defeat is all our defeat,” he said. Gaza: We are with you, by your Senior Hamas official Ezzat Nasrallah delivered his speech side, trusting in your strength and El Rishiq who is in the group’s in public in Hezbollah’s stronghold your victory. We will do all that political wing based in Cairo said of south Beirut, a rare event for we believe to be our duty, on all on his Twitter account that the the militant Shia Lebanese leader fronts,” he said. seven-day ceasefire was “under who has lived in hiding, fearing for Nasrallah did not specify what study in motion.” his security, after Hezbollah’s 2006 support would be given, but he Another Hamas official, war with Israel. pointedly said that Iran, Syria and Mohamed Nazzal, told Al Jazeera Hezbollah has sent thousands Hezbollah in the past had supplied television that the current “ini- of fighters into Syria to fight “all factions of the Palestinian tiative in this form is not accept- alongside President Bashar Al resistance, financially, materially, able at all.” Assad’s forces, helping turn the politically...with weapons, logistical UN Secretary-General Ban tide against overwhelmingly Sunni help and training.” Ki-moon and Egypt’s Foreign Muslim rebels. REUTERS Minister Sameh Shukri backed Relatives mourn over the body of 48-year-old Hashem Abu Marieh, who was killed by Israeli soldiers according the call for a pause in fighting for Eid. Ban said it could start with to medical sources, during his funeral in Beit Omar village, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. an extendable 12-hour stoppage. A US official said later that Militants fired a barrage of Protesters surged against an the negotiations said Turkey and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin rockets out of Gaza, triggering Israeli army checkpoint, throw- Qatar had proposed a seven-day Netanyahu told Kerry that Israel sirens across much of southern ing rocks and Molotov cocktails, halt to the fighting, which had will begin a 12-hour pause in Gaza and central Israel, including at the and Palestinian medics said one been relayed to Israel by Kerry hostilities starting at 7 am Israeli country’s main airport. No inju- was shot dead and 200 wounded while Hamas considered it. time today. The Israeli govern- ries were reported, with the Iron when troops opened fire. Israel insisted that, even if such ment did not immediately com- Dome interceptor system knock- Israel said three more of its sol- a ceasefire was agreed, its army ment on the report. ing out many of the missiles. diers were killed in Gaza yester- should continue destroying tun- The search for a breakthrough The Gaza turmoil has stoked day, bringing the army death toll nels along Gaza’s eastern frontier, will continue in Paris today when tensions in the nearby occupied to 35, as troops battled militants in a mission that could take between France hosts diplomats from the West Bank. the north, east and south of Gaza. one and two weeks. United States, Britain, Germany, Medics said six Palestinians It also announced that a soldier The World Health Organisation Italy, the European Union, Turkey were killed in separate incidents unaccounted for after an ambush called yesterday for a humanitar- and Qatar, a French diplomatic near the cities of Nablus and in Gaza six days ago was definitely ian corridor to be set up in Gaza to source said. Hebron, including one shoot- dead, although his body had not allow aid workers to evacuate the Gaza officials said Israeli strikes ing that witnesses blamed on an been recovered. Hamas said on wounded and bring in life-saving killed 55 people yesterday, includ- apparent Jewish settler. Sunday it had captured the man, medicines. ing the head of media operations On Thursday night, 10,000 dem- but did not release a photograph “People are dying at an alarm- for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and onstrators marched in solidarity of him. ing rate, being injured at a very his son. They put the number with Gaza near the Palestinian Three civilians have also been alarming rate,” Jens Laerke of the The head of Lebanon’s militant Shia movement Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan of Palestinian deaths in 18 days administrative capital Ramallah killed in Israel by rockets from UN Office for the Coordination of Nasrallah, speaks during a rare public appearance at a gathering to mark of conflict at 844, most of them - a scale recalling mass revolts of Gaza. Humanitarian Affairs said. Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in a southern Beirut suburb yesterday. civilians. the past. A Palestinian official close to REUTERS Iran rallies for Gaza, Rowhani slams world ‘silence’ TEHRAN: Iranians rallied on the 18th day of Israel’s deadly demands of Hamas for any truce behind you to save you,” a young nationwide yesterday in a show campaign against rocket-firing with Israel to end the deadly vio- protester called Hassan said. of support for Palestinians militants in Gaza. lence. The Rafah border crossing Iran does not recognise Israel’s as arch foe Israel pursued its More than 800 Palestinian civil- between Gaza and Egypt is the existence, and supports Palestinian deadly campaign against the ians have been killed in the assault territory’s only one not control- Islamist groups that fight it. Gaza Strip. on Gaza and the Islamist Hamas led by Israel. On Thursday, the speaker of Demonstrations were held in movement that dominates it and General Hossein Salami, sec- Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, told Tehran and more than 700 towns has long been supported by Iran. ond in command of Iran’s elite state television’s Arabic service and cities across the country on “The Islamic world must in Revolutionary Guards, struck a that Tehran had provided Hamas the last day of prayer and rest of unison declare this day one of defiant tone in a speech broadcast with the technology it has used to the Muslim holy fasting month anger, hatred, unity and resistance on state television. rain down rockets on Israel. of Ramadan, state television against Israel,” President Hassan “Now no place in the occupied “Today, the fighters in Gaza reported. Rowhani said at the Tehran territories is safe for the Zionists. have good capabilities and can In the capital, footage showed demonstration. The missiles of Palestinian fighters meet their own needs for weap- demonstrators, carrying placards Rowhani, who has overseen a have a range well beyond what the ons,” he said. proclaiming “Death to Israel” and fledgling rapprochement with the Zionists believe,” he said. “But once upon a time, they “Death to America”, converging West condemned, “those who stay “We will continue house by needed the arms manufacture from nine different points on silent in the face of the Zionist house and avenge the blood of know-how and we gave it to them.” Tehran University in the city regime’s crimes”. martyrs shed in Palestine.” Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali centre. “The world demands an end to Salami’s sentiments were ech- Khamenei on Wednesday called on Iran holds Al Quds Day the Gaza blockade, opening the oed by demonstrators. the Palestinians to keep fighting Iranian President Hassan Rowhani takes part in an anti-Israeli rally marking (Jerusalem Day) rallies in support Rafah crossing and halting attacks “My message to the Palestinians Israel and to expand their resist- Al Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in a show of support for Palestinian resistance of the Palestinians every year on on Gaza so its people can live nor- is this: continue the struggle until ance from Gaza to the occupied against Israeli occupation, in Tehran yesterday. the last Friday of Ramadan, but mally,” he said. your last drop of blood. Islamic West Bank. this year’s demonstrations came He was referring to the countries, especially Iran, are AFP Top cleric signals to Maliki to step aside

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s senior cleric threatened to march on Baghdad. a prime minister, may prove far month’s advance are included. yesterday urged political lead- Sistani said it is time for politi- more difficult as Maliki digs in. Aside from military campaigns, ers to refrain from clinging to cians to think of Iraq’s interests, Sistani’s call for flexibility could insurgents have been stamping out their posts - an apparent refer- not their own. hasten his departure As he is seen any religious or cultural influences ence to Prime Minister Nouri Al “The sensitivity of this phase as a voice of reason in the deeply they deem non-Islamic. Maliki, who has defied demands necessitates that all the parties divided country. Yesterday, the group warned that he step aside. concerned should have a spirit A recluse who favours a behind- women in the city of Mosul to Speaking through an aide who of national responsibility that the-scenes role, he has called for wear full-face veils or risk severe delivered a sermon after Friday requires the practice of the princi- Iraqis to take up arms against the punishment. prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, ple of sacrifice and self denial and Sunni insurgency. “The conditions imposed on her Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani not to cling to positions and posts.” The insurgents, who changed clothes and grooming was only to said leaders should show flexibility Maliki, a Shia, has ruled since their name to the Islamic State end the pretext of debauchery so that political deadlocks could an election in April in a caretaker and declared a caliphate in parts of resulting from grooming and over- be broken and Iraq could confront capacity, dismissing demands from Iraq and Syria, have put Iraq’s sur- dressing,” said the Islamic State in militants. the Sunnis and Kurds that he step vival as a unified state in jeopardy. a statement. Last month, Sunni militants aside for a less polarizing figure. The army virtually collapsed in the “This is not a restriction on her from the Islamic State of Iraq and Even some Shias oppose his bid face of their lightning advance. freedom but to prevent her from the Levant swept through north- for a third term. Sectarian militias and Kurdish falling into humiliation and vul- ern and western Iraq, posing the Iraq’s parliament elected senior peshmerga fighters have become a garity or to be a theater for the biggest challenge to Maliki’s Shia- Kurdish lawmaker Fouad Masoum critical line of defence against the eyes of those who are looking.” Residents look at damage at the site of car bomb attacks in Baghdad’s led government since the depar- as president on Thursday, a long- Islamic State as the militants set A cleric in Mosul said that ture of US forces in 2011. awaited step in creating a new their sights on the capital. Islamic State gunmen had shown Karaada district, yesterday. Two car bombs killed 15 people on Thursday. Critics say Maliki is a divi- government capable of counter- US military and Iraqi secu- up at his mosque and ordered sive figure whose alienation of ing the insurgency. Politicians rity officials estimate the Islamic him to read their warning on to this duty and is motivated by maintain the necessities of religion Sunnis has fuelled sectarian have been in deadlock over form- State has at least 3,000 fighters loudspeakers when worshipers glamour will be subject to account- and protect it from debauchery,” hatred and played into the hands ing a new government since the in Iraq, rising towards 20,000 gather. ability and severe punishment to said the Islamic State. of the insurgents, who have election. The next step, choosing when new recruits since last “Anyone who is not committed protect society from harm and to REUTERS JULY 26, 2014 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Bad weather likely cause of Air Algerie crash No survivors; one black box flight recorder recovered

PARIS/OUAGADOUGOU: draw conclusions,” Hollande said Aviation officials lost contact Poor weather was the most of the wreckage of the plane car- of flight AH5017 at around 0155 likely cause of the crash of an rying at least 51 French nation- GMT on Thursday, less than an Air Algerie flight in the West als that crashed near the border hour after taking off for Algeria, African state of Mali that killed with Burkina Faso, from where it following a request by the pilot to 118 people on board, French had taken off. “There are theories, change course due to bad weather. officials said yesterday. especially the weather, but I’m not “The aircraft was destroyed at Investigators at the scene of the excluding any theory.” the moment it crashed,” French crash in northern Mali concluded The death toll was revised to 118 Interior Minister Bernard the airliner broke apart when it from 116 after a final passenger Cazeneuve told RTL radio. hit the ground, the officials said, manifest was issued. “They have Another plane crash is likely to suggesting this meant it was to do everything to reassemble the add to nerves over flying a week unlikely to have been the victim bodies and bring them home so after a Malaysia Airlines plane of an attack. “French soldiers who that we can mourn properly,” said was downed over Ukraine, and are on the ground have started Alidou Ouedraogo, whose daugh- after a TransAsia Airways plane the first investigations. Sadly, ter was among the 27 citizens of crashed off Taiwan during a thun- there are no survivors,” French Burkina Faso killed in the crash. derstorm on Wednesday. President Francois Hollande told Highlighting the impact of the Transport Minister Frederic reporters. crash, television footage issued by Cuvillier said the strong smell A column of 100 soldiers and Burkinabe officials showed hun- of aircraft fuel at the crash site 30 vehicles from the French force dreds of small pieces of debris and the fact that the debris was stationed in the region arrived scattered around flat scrub land scattered over a relatively small yesterday morning to secure the in pools of muddy water with little area also suggested the cause of crash site near the northern Mali visible sign of an intact aircraft. the crash was linked to weather, town of Gossi and to recover Burkina Faso Prime Minister a technical problem or a cumula- French soldiers at the wreckage site of the Air Algerie flight AH5017, which crashed in Mali’s Gossi on Thursday. bodies, a Defence Ministry offi- Luc Adolphe Tiao told a news tion of such factors. “We exclude cial said. Hollande said one of conference in Ouagadougou that — and have done so from the start has about 1,600 soldiers based in assistance to the site. a Belgian, an Egyptian, a the black box flight recorders the plane had been scattered into — any ground strike,” Cuvillier Mali predominantly in the north- Burkina Faso authorities Ukranian, a Swiss, a Nigerian and had already been recovered and small fragments: “We’re not even told France 2 television. ern city of Gao. The UN peace- said the passenger list also a Malian. Spanish private airline would be analysed quickly. “The sure that we can piece together France deployed troops to keeping force in Mali, which is included Burkinabes, Lebanese, company Swiftair, which owned plane’s debris is concentrated in the bodies they have been so badly Mali last year to halt an Al about 8,000-strong, said it was Algerians, Canadians, Germans, the plane, said the six crew were a small area, but it is too early to destroyed,” he said. Qaeda-backed insurgency and also sending civilian and military Luxembourgians, a Cameroonian, Spanish. REUTERS

Mass grave uncovered Ukraine forces in Ukraine ex-rebel area take another strategic city SLAVYANSK: Local authori- Ukrainian forces earlier this ties say they have uncovered the month recaptured Slavyansk KIEV: Ukrainian troops have first mass grave in the former which had served since April as retaken the strategically- separatist bastion of Slavyansk the main stronghold of the pro- important city of Lysychansk in in eastern Ukraine, containing Russian rebellion. The rebels have eastern Ukraine, as they press the bodies of at least four civil- been accused by rights groups of on with their offensive to stamp ians they say were executed by abducting hundreds of pro-Kiev out a pro-Russian rebellion, pro-Russian rebels. activists and ordinary citizens in President Petro Poroshenko “We know there are others the territory they control. said. “Ukrainian forces have in the town but we don’t know Meanwhile, a total of 230,000 raised the flag over the town where. This is the first one people have fled their homes in council in Lysychansk,” the we’re excavating,” said Anton the face of Ukraine’s spiralling presidency said in a statement Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian conflict, the United Nations refu- late Thursday. interior ministry adviser who gee agency said yesterday. Operations were continuing presided at a brief ceremony UNHCR spokesman Dan to drive the remaining insur- Thursday for townspeople. McNorton said the number of gents out of the town, the state- Local officials, police and foren- people who have left the conflict ment said. Lysychansk — a city sic experts oversaw the exhuma- zone for other Ukrainian regions A convoy of the Ukrainian military vehicles drives towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk yesterday. of around 105,000 some 90km tion and Gerashchenko said that was now close to 100,000, while Russia called the latest US accusations of Moscow’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict a baseless “smear northwest of the rebel strong- the grave could also contain the some 130,000 had crossed the bor- campaign” and said Washington bears responsibility for the bloodshed. hold of Lugansk — was seized by remains of some 20 rebel fighters. der into Russia. AFP separatists in early April at the start of a bloody insurgency that has now claimed the lives of some 1,000 people, including the nearly Ukraine crisis worsens after PM’s resignation 300 on board downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. KIEV: Ukraine’s parliament quitting on Thursday, saying Oleksander Turchinov, speaker of Artillery fire echoed around the of the second separatist bastion The government offensive said yesterday it had yet to parliament was betraying the the parliament, said Yatseniuk’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk yes- of Luhansk. against the rebels has made sig- receive a resignation letter people’s demands for change by letter of resignation had been sent terday for the third day, as rebels A spokesman for Ukraine’s nificant progress since rebels from Prime Minister Arseny failing to pass legislation. from government but had yet to fortified defences and Ukrainian Security Council said 13 soldiers unexpectedly fled a string of key Yatseniuk so could not vote on The move by an ally of former be received by parliament. troops moved to squeeze them had been killed in the last 24 towns earlier this month. whether to accept it, stalling prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko An aide to President Petro further. hours, taking the total death toll Government forces say they are work at the heart of government. could hamstring decision-making Poroshenko, Oleksander Local health officials said 14 to 325 since the start of fight- now closing in on the major cities Yatseniuk, a key interlocu- as Ukraine struggles to fund a Danilyuk, said the resignation people had been killed in the last ing against the rebels who say of Lugansk and Donetsk, where tor of the West during much of war against pro-Russian rebels should not hurt what Kiev calls 24 hours In the Donetsk region. they want independence for the the bulk of the insurgent fighters the turmoil in the country since and deals with the aftermath its “anti-terrorist operation” Kiev said it had taken the Donbass region. have dug in and pledged to fight November, announced he was of a passenger plane crash. against rebels in eastern Ukraine. town of Lysychansk, northwest REUTERS to the death. AFP

Lethal injection Obama on skills training US soldiers under Americans alarmed as execution in US rape charges to faces scrutiny face Italy trial heat kills kids in cars WASHINGTON: Leaving themselves — but in another 52 WASHINGTON: The US ROME: Two American para- children in parked cars in the percent of cases, they were simply Supreme Court is under increas- troopers charged with rap- blazing heat of summer: it’s so left behind by forgetful adults, the ing pressure to consider halting ing and beating a pregnant obviously wrong, yet it happens National Highway Traffic Safety death sentences by lethal injec- Romanian prostitute will stand with astonishing regularity, Administration (NHTSA) said. tion after a convicted Arizona trial in Italy, the justice minis- with tragic results. Young children are particularly killer took two hours to die. try said yesterday. From 1998 through 2013 in the vulnerable because their body Opponents and supporters of The two soldiers, aged 21 and United States, officials say, an temperature can rise three to capital punishment alike say they 22, were arrested on Wednesday average of 38 children a year have five times faster than an adult’s, believe the highest US court will for the alleged attack in Vicenza died of heat stroke in cars — the said pediatrician Leticia Manning agree to consider the issue. in northern Italy, where the para- overwhelming majority of them Ryan of the Johns Hopkins Double murderer Joseph Wood troopers are based. “The two sol- under the age of five. Children’s Center in Baltimore, gasped and snorted as he lay on a diers will be put on trial in Italy. And so far this year, the toll Maryland. “When a child’s gurney for 117 minutes after offi- This decision is final,” Justice stands at 17, prompting a national internal temperature gets to 104 cials from the US state of Arizona Minister Andrea Orlando said. campaign urging parents and car- degrees (40 Celsius), major organs injected him with a relatively Italian police, who did not name egivers never to leave kids alone start to shut down — and when untested lethal drug cocktail. the woman, said the paratroop- in parked cars. “Every summer it that child’s temperature reaches His was the third execution ers were accused of kidnapping seems that we live out the same 107 (41.7 Celsius), the child can this year to have been drawn out and raping the woman earlier this nightmare,” said Transportation die,” she said. far beyond the usual 10 minutes, month, before beating her, steal- Secretary Anthony Foxx, a father More often than not, children as states face a shortage of tried ing her wallet and dumping her of two, at Thursday’s launch of the are forgotten in cars because and tested drugs after European in a field. One of the soldiers had “Where’s Baby? Look Before You stressed-out parents and caregiv- manufacturers halted exports. been accused of raping a 17-year- Lock” drive. ers suffer memory lapses, Foxx Arizona Department of old girl in a separate incident last To make the point, ther- said. “Based on the data we have, Corrections Director Charles November, police said. mometers fitted to a dark green often, it’s being fatigued and over- Ryan refuted suggestions Wood’s In the latest attack, officers Chevrolet Cruze sedan at the whelmed that leads to these kinds execution had been “botched”, tracked down the soldiers after launch in Washington showed 78.3 of tragedies,” he said. insisting he was “comatose and the woman memorised the num- degrees (25.7 Celsius) outside, but Tragic tales of children — many never in pain” during the proce- berplate of their car. “There are 96.1 degrees (35.6 Celsius) inside of them buckled into special child dure. But opponents of the death two large US military bases in — and that, on an overcast day. seats that are mandatory on US penalty allege that the lengthy President Barack Obama speaks at Trade-Technical College about the Vicenza where many Americans Twenty-nine percent of chil- roads — are a regular summer fix- execution of Wood and others importance of “job-driven skills training” in Los Angeles on Thursday. reside,” Vincenza’s mayor Achille dren who die of heat stroke ture of US news coverage. amount to a form of torture. AFP Variati said. AFP in cars got into the vehicle by AFP JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia Prabowo files Taiwan airline challenge to election result JAKARTA: The ex-general apologises for who lost Indonesia’s presidential election to Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo mounted a legal challenge to the result yes- terday, alleging widespread fraud and irregularities in vote plane crash counting. Prabowo Subianto claims that massive fraud tipped the scales in Widodo’s favour, but his chal- Victims’ relatives blast chairman lenge is directed at the election commission, in part for failing to MAGONG: Taiwan’s TransAsia “TransAsia pledges to the investigate allegations of cheating, Airways ran an apology on the deceased, the survivors and their according to a spokesman. front pages of five major news- relatives as well as Penghu resi- “We are now taking the legal papers yesterday, pledging to dents who were injured to shoul- path, the constitutional path,” shoulder the “utmost respon- der the utmost responsibility and Prabowo told hundreds of sup- sibility” after 48 people died make every effort to deal with the porters outside the court. “We when one of its planes crashed aftermath and provide the best have almost one million docu- in stormy weather. compensation.” ments and 52,000 witnesses.” It came as airline chairman TransAsia said it would fully Prabowo has refused to con- Vincent Lin was confronted by collaborate with the authorities cede defeat despite the commis- grieving relatives as he was pay- in the probe into the cause of the sion’s declaration on Tuesday that ing respects to the dead at the crash and will “reflect deeply and Widodo won with 53 percent of crash site in the Penghu islands heed the lesson.” the vote in the world’s third-big- after flying in yesterday morning. Dozens of workers donning gest democracy. The domestic flight from white protective gear were still He is seeking a repeal of the Kaohsiung in Taiwan’s south- cleaning up the crash site yester- People injured in the plane crash in Penghu arrive for treatment at an airport in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, yesterday. result and declaration of Widodo west was carrying 54 passengers day, disinfecting the area after the as president, Prabowo’s coalition and four crew members when it bodies of victims were removed spokesman Tantowi Yahya told plunged into houses in Magong and breaking up plane wreckage a little more space to deal with cockpit voice and other in-flight that the meteorology data showed local television. in the Penghu islands Wednesday, for removal. the aftermath as this is not an data -- that had been recovered that aviation safety requirements Both candidates claimed vic- leaving just 10 survivors, some of At a funeral home near the easy matter to handle,” Lin told at the crash site were sent back were met when the plane was tory on the election day, leaving them badly injured. Two French crash site, grief-stricken relatives reporters. to Taipei for examination. cleared to fly. Indonesians waiting two weeks medical students were among the rounded on the chairman Lin, The ATR 72-500 propeller Initial results are expected in Two planes had landed safely for the official vote count to con- dead. who had flown to Magong early plane was trying to land for the a week as authorities continue to at Magong airport shortly before firm a winner. “TransAsia and its staff express yesterday. He was on a business second time after aborting the investigate the cause of the crash, the disaster, officials said. The challenge means an even our deepest condolences for those trip in the United States at the first attempt in thunder and but aviation officials said a final TransAsia, Taiwan’s first pri- longer drawn-out process, with who died on Flight GE222 and time of the crash. heavy rain as Typhoon Matmo result could take up to a year to vate airline, also runs interna- court officials saying the decision offer our apologies to the rela- “My son was only 27 years pounded Taiwan. Five people on determine. tional flights to China, Japan, will be delivered by August 21. tives and the injured,” it said in a old, give me back my son’s life,” the ground were injured in the Taiwanese officials have Singapore, South Korea and Prabowo’s supporters held ban- statement covering half the front a woman wailed, as a silent Lin crash. defended the decision to allow Vietnam. It was planning to ners demanding a re-vote and page of four Taiwanese dailies and bowed to her several times. Officials said Thursday that the flight to go ahead. Transport launch the island’s first low-cost vowing “revolution” if his chal- a business paper. “I wish everyone would give us the black boxes -- which record minister Yeh Kuang-shih has said airline later this year. AFP lenge fails. AFP Ketupat shells China imposes airline-like restrictions on buses

BEIJING: China has banned called East Turkestan. also drinking water, cooking oil Such searches are already car- bus passengers in the capital of Fires have erupted on buses in and yogurt. Restrictions on liq- ried out at subway stations in western Xinjiang region from various parts of China, including uids have been in force for several many cities, but implementing the carrying items ranging from in two eastern cities, Hangzhou years on aircraft, aimed at pre- ban on packed and heaving buses cigarette lighters to yogurt, and Guangzhou. venting militants from bringing could prove more challenging. state media said yesterday, in Authorities have blamed on board sophisticated, hard-to- Rights advocates say heavy- the latest effort by authorities those incidents on arsonists, not detect explosives. handed policies in Xinjiang, to prevent violent attacks. militants. The Legal Daily said at least including restrictions on Islam The new rules in the capital The local government in two security guards would con- and the Uighur people’s culture Urumqi, similar to restrictions Urumqi, a city of three million, duct hand checks and bag and language, have contributed to usually imposed by airlines, reflect issued new rules after a transport searches at every bus stop on 154 unrest. Authorities reject those how nervous officials are about security meeting, barring pas- Urumqi bus routes and stop pas- assertions. trying to contain outbreaks of vio- sengers from bringing on board sengers with banned items from About 200 people have died lence in the region, home to the liquids, lighters and unknown boarding. in unrest in Xinjiang in the past Muslim Uighur minority. powders “to strike a severe blow “Bus drivers have two roles - year, including a suicide bombing Xinjiang has been beset by vio- on all forms of criminal activity while successfully carrying out that killed 39 people at a market lence for years, blamed by the on public buses,” the state-run their regular tasks they will also in Urumqi in May. Some 200 died government on Islamist militants Legal Daily said. conduct security checks on suspi- in riots pitting Uighurs against A Muslim woman checks for the quality of ketupat (rice cakes) shells and separatists it says are bent on Banned substances include cious individuals,” the newspaper Han Chinese in the city in 2009. made with coconut leaves, an Indonesian tradition to welcome Eid Al establishing an independent state gasoline and firecrackers, but said. REUTERS Fitr, in Jakarta yesterday. Boat bound for Ferry disaster: ‘Impossible to determine cause of owner’s death’ Indonesia sinks SEOUL: South Korea’s foren- Seo Joong-seok said. questions and did our best, but it heavy decomposition damage to owned the operator of the ferry, off Malaysia sic agency said yesterday it was Yoo, 73, was found dead in an was impossible to determine the the tissues in the head and neck, Sewol, which capsized and sank impossible to determine the orchard on June 12 after eluding cause of death,” said Lee Han- Lee said. on April 16 on a routine journey. KUALA LUMPUR: At cause of death of a businessman authorities for nearly two months young, a senior official at the Kang Shin-mong, a forensic Many of those killed were chil- least three people died after linked to a ferry that sank and in South Korea’s biggest man- forensic agency. expert at the Catholic University dren from the same school on a an overloaded boat ferrying killed 304 people in April, deep- hunt, hiding behind the wall of a “It is possible in some cases of Korea’s School of Medicine, class trip. Indonesians home for the com- ening the mystery surrounding rural cabin in the final days while involving decomposed bodies to said after the agency’s announce- The ferry disaster triggered ing Eid Al Fitr festival sank off the final days of Korea’s most it was being searched. determine the cause of death but, ment it was possible Yoo died of outrage across South Korea, espe- southern Malaysia, a maritime wanted man. Police identified his body only in Yoo Byung-un’s case, there was hypothermia, citing his age and a cially when video footage emerged official said yesterday. An autopsy and DNA tests this week, 40 days after a farmer simply too much tissue damage history of diabetes. of crew members abandoning ship Three bodies were recovered, on the badly decomposed body reported its discovery at his so it was difficult to find leads Weather records showed tem- while the children stayed in their ten people were rescued and of ferry owner Yoo Byung-un orchard, stirring a storm of pub- that can determine the cause of peratures in the region where cabins as instructed. eight more remained missing in revealed no evidence that he lic outrage at what many said was death,” he said. his body was found dipped to 12 Three police officers, including the incident early Thursday, the was poisoned, and there was incompetent work to arrest Yoo The autopsy found no evidence degrees Celsius at night in late the provincial chief of the region latest in a string of tragic boat also no indication of external over the ferry disaster. of trauma from a weapon or May and early June. where his body was found, were accidents to mar the run-up to trauma, forensic agency chief “We are aware there are many strangulation, although there was Yoo headed the family that sacked this week. REUTERS the Islamic holiday. The boat capsized in rough seas off Malaysia’s Johor state with Stop genocide in Palestine 21 Indonesian illegal migrant workers aboard and sank, said Iskandar Ishak, local head of the 3 killed, 36 wounded in Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. “An intense sea and air search Thailand car bomb blast and rescue operation is underway in the Malacca Straits with sea BANGKOK: A car bomb Ramadan,” Sophon added. conditions being slightly choppy,” exploded yesterday outside a More than 6,100 people have he said. hotel in insurgency-wracked been killed in near-daily bomb- In three previous reported southern Thailand, killing ings and shootings in the Muslim- incidents in recent weeks, more three people and wounding 36, majority region near Thailand’s than a dozen Indonesians died police said. southern border with Malaysia and about two dozen others went Of the wounded, three were since 2004. missing in similar tragedies off in critical condition, Lieutenant Buddhists and Muslims alike Malaysia’s west coast. Colonel Sophon Saisuree said fall victim to the shadowy mili- Iskandar said the boat used in by telephone from Betong in tants, who target security forces, the latest incident had a capacity Yala province where the blast civilians and perceived represent- of just eight passengers. happened. atives of state authority. It was heading to Riau prov- “A car bomb went off in front Peace talks between some ince in the huge Indonesian island of Holiday Hotel at around 4pm,” rebel factions and the Thai of Sumatra across the Malacca he said. authorities stalled as a political Strait when it was hit by strong “We had been informed that crisis erupted in Bangkok last waves some 15 nautical miles off there would be unrest in the year, culminating in a military Bangladeshi Shia activists protest against ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, in Dhaka yesterday. Malaysia. AFP deep South near the end of coup in May. AFP JULY 26, 2014 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Homeless Palace set to push Bangsamoro bill Milf stretches protocols to catch up with agreement

MANILA: President Benigno Front (Milf) on the recommenda- submitted its proposed bill to the Aquino III said he will aggres- tions of Aquino’s legal team to the Office of the President on April sively push for the enactment draft BBL. 22 for review. The Office of the of the draft Bangsamoro Basic Milf, the largest Muslim sepa- President returned the draft last Law (BBL) in Congress as peace ratist group, said Wednesday in month with comments for review panels resumed discussions on an editorial posted on its web- by the BTC. the draft measure yesterday. site that it will not accept a The two panels then met in Aquino said in a statement that “watered- down” version of the Kuala Lumpur for five days in it is his “obligation” to the peo- draft measure. early July and another four days ple who are yearning for peace in “The Milf is stretching the pro- in Manila recently to thresh out A homeless man rests beside his wooden cart under a flyover in Manila yesterday. Optimism is soaring that southern Philippines. tocols of the engagement in order their differences. the Philippines is becoming an Asian tiger economy, but critics caution a tiny elite is amassing most of the “I want to be able to push this to catch up with commitment and The Philippine government new wealth while the poor miss out. with conviction. Let’s approach come up with (an) agreed version said “due diligence” is necessary this with an open mind, see if of the BBL,” the group said. since Aquino will certify the BBL everything is consistent with The group said that the govern- as an urgent bill to fast-track its the Comprehensive Agreement ment peace panel wanted the Milf passage in Congress. on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and to accept a version of the BBL The BBL is the organic law Five die as army, rebels clash in Basilan limit potential challenges,” he that may be constitutional but for the envisioned Bangsamoro said during a meeting with will not solve “the Bangsamoro government that will replace the ZAMBOANGA CITY: The around 1pm when two platoons of The dead militants were tagged the Bangsamoro Transition Question.” existing Autonomous Region in military staged an attack on soldiers from government’s 18th as those involved in the abduc- Commission (BTC). “The current government pro- Muslim Mindanao by 2016. Abu Sayyaf militants in Basilan Infantry Battalion backed by the tion of US national Gerfa Yeatts The meeting with the BTC posals will not restore dignity to a The passage of the BBL is part on Thursday, leaving at least military intelligence on their way Lunsmann and her son Kevin Eric came on the heels of reports people who suffered tyranny and of the CAB that the Philippine five people dead, including three to track down the Abu Sayyaf two years ago. Muyuela identified that “significant points of dif- will not secure a peaceful and government and the Milf signed Abu Sayyaf members, a security faction met with the group, said the slain Abu Sayyaf sub-leader as ferences” continued during this prosperous future,” the editorial in March to end decades of official said yesterday. Rowena Muyuela, spokesperson Sulaiman Ajanti alias Ulay while week’s meeting of the peace pan- read. armed conflict in southern The clash occurred at the vil- of Western Mindanao Command his two followers were unidentified. els of the Philippine government The BTC, which was created Philippines. lage of Ungkaya in Pukan town (Westmincom). THE PHILIPPINE STAR and the Moro Islamic Liberation to draft the Bangsamoro law, THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Typhoon death toll reaches 100 Armed forces ‘should be insulated from politics’ MANILA: The govern- uprising in the military as the because the military is for the that there was no movement from parts were declared as uncon- MANILA: The death toll ment said today that the Aquino administration is now country and for the people. the military to oust President stitutional by the Supreme from Typhoon Rammasun 125,000-strong Armed Forces of being rocked by controversies on We should not engage in any Benigno S Aquino III, who is fac- Court, and one was in connec- has reached 100 while prop- the Philippines (AFP) should be the Disbursement Acceleration efforts to politicize the mili- ing at least three impeachment tion to the Enhanced Defence erty damage was estimated at insulated from politics. Program (DAP), a stimulus pack- tary,” she said in a news briefing complaints before the House of Cooperation Agreement between P10.8bn. Deputy Presidential age of the government to pump- in Malacanang, the presidential Representatives. the Philippines and the United Two more fatalities were Spokesperson Abigail Valte made prime the economy. palace. Two of the impeachment raps States. reported in Marinduque, accord- the remarks amid rumours of “We should not drag them Valte also expressed confidence were related to the DAP, whose THE PHILIPPINE STAR ing to the Office of Civil Defense in Mimaropa region. The victims were identified as Joseph Lasic, 50, and Abelardo Lope Sr, 64, who both died of heart attack at the height of the typhoon. Landslide zones found Around 70 of the fatalities were from Calabarzon, the region worst hit by Rammasun. in La Union village There were eight fatali- ties recorded in Central Luzon, SAN FERNANDO: The director Renato Solidum Jr wrote seven in Mimaropa, six each in Philippine Institute of Mayor Pablo Ortega about the Bicol and Eastern Visayas, two Volcanology and Seismology agency’s programme, started in in Metro Manila, and one in (Phivolcs) has discovered poten- 2008, to develop and deploy early Western Visayas. tially dangerous landslide zones warning systems for deep-seated The number of injured persons in Barangay Nagyubuyuban catastrophic landslides. stayed at 630 while five others here. Homeowner Erinia Judan said remain missing. Edna Patricia Mendoza, the cracks in her house appeared More than four million indi- Phivolcs senior science research after heavy rains last year. The viduals or about 887,000 fami- specialist, said massive move- city environment office earlier lies have been affected in seven ment of underground soil has had reported to the Mines and regions. created cracks in the concrete Geosciences Bureau the soil ero- Of the affected residents, about floorings of several houses in sion and cracks in the houses in 27,000 persons are still staying in the village, while the landscape Nagyubuyuban. evacuation centres. of adjacent areas has subsided The report prompted Mendoza’s Agriculture sector damage by about six feet. team to inspect the village also as accounted for P9.19bn while Nagyubuyuban, an upland part of Phivolcs’ programme on infrastructure damage reached barangay located some 10 kilo- landslide early warning system. P1.61bn. metres east of the city proper, is Ortega said they have laid out A total of 497,276 houses among the sites in the country an emergency disaster plan for were damaged in Metro Manila, recommended for the deploy- the Nagyubuyuban residents. Ilocos, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, ment of Phivolcs’ landslide Mendoza said they will install Mimaropa, Bicol and Eastern sensors. sensors in the village to monitor Visayas. Mendoza and her team went soil movement. THE PHILIPPINE STAR to Nagyubuyuban after Phivolcs THE PHILIPPINE STAR

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Residents tearing down their homes at a slum in Manila yesterday. Thousands of families living near a creek were forced to demolish their homes and relocate them amid fears flash floods may hit and damage the structures during this typhoon season. JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Taliban kill 15 after Al Quds Day intercepting vans Most victims belonged to Hazara Shia community

KABUL: Taliban insurgents others and shot them dead,” said as second-class citizens and that intercepted two minibuses provincial governor Sayed Anwar President Hamid Karzai has done travelling through central Rahmati. The Taliban, an austere little to improve their lot. Afghanistan and killed at least Sunni militant group that ruled The Taliban insurgency began 15 passengers overnight, offi- Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, shortly after the group’s fall from cials said yesterday. has been fighting US-led and power following the 2001 war in “These indiscriminate kill- Afghan forces since they were Afghanistan. ings by the Taliban are aimed at removed after the September 11, The Taliban forces are fight- instilling fear in the people,” said 2001 attacks on US targets. ing against the Afghan govern- Sediq Sediqqi, an interior min- The Taliban, made up mainly ment, led by President Hamid istry spokesman. At least three of ethnic Pashtuns, have often Karzai, and against the US-led women and a three-year-old child targeted Shias, whom they see as International Security Assistance were among those killed. infidels who deserve to die. Force (ISAF). Local officials in the remote, Many of the Hazaras - believed The insurgency has spread to mountainous province of Ghor to be descended from Mongol some degree over the Durand said most of the passengers were invaders - suffered enormously Line border to neighbouring from the ethnic Hazara Shia under Taliban rule and the Shia Pakistan, in particular the North minority, but that could not be minority saw many of its commu- Waziristan region and Khyber independently verified. nities levelled. Pakhtunkhwa. The Taliban “The insurgents stopped two Many were killed and buried in conduct low-intensity warfare vans and after checking peo- mass graves or thrown into wells. against civilians, the Afghan ples’ identifications cards, they Tens of thousands were jailed. National Security Forces and Pakistani Shia children hold toy guns during a rally to protest against Israel and the US, to mark Al Quds Day separated 15 passengers from 32 They still believe they are treated their Nato trainers. REUTERS (Jerusalem Day) in Karachi yesterday. Many Muslim countries mark the annual day of protest decreed in 1979 by the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini, on the last Friday of Ramadan. $10.68m given Four soldiers, policemen killed in Pakistan attacks to internally ISLAMABAD: A bomb killed “Two soldiers embraced sha- province, killing both of them, a major base for the Tehreek-e- air strike on June 16, 37 civilians displaced persons at least two Pakistani soldiers hadat (martyrdom) Thursday police said. Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which including 20 women and 10 chil- in the country’s northwestern evening in an improvised explo- “One of the policemen died on rose up against the state in 2007, dren were killed -- contradicting ISLAMABAD: The Federal tribal district where the army sive device blast in the Ghulam the spot while the second suc- while the United States had the military’s claim of “35 terror- Government of Pakistan has is carrying out a major offensive Khan area,” the statement said, cumbed to injuries in hospital,” a long called for action in the area ist” deaths in the action. disbursed over 1,047m rupees against Taliban militants, offi- issued late Thursday. local senior police official Imran against militant groups targeting In addition, more than 800,000 ($10.68m) among the inter- cials said. Ghulam Khan is 20 kilometres Qureshi said. Nato forces in Afghanistan. people have been forced to flee nally displaced persons (IDPs) The incident occurred on northwest of Miranshah. Pakistan began the offensive More than 500 militants and from North Waziristan by the of North Waziristan Agency. Thursday evening near the border Elsewhere, two gunmen riding against militants in mid-June fol- 27 soldiers have been killed in assault, with most ending up in According to FATA Disaster with Afghanistan just northwest a motorbike yesterday opened lowing a brazen insurgent attack the assault so far, according to the nearby town of Bannu where Management Authority of Miranshah -- the main town fire on two policemen on security on Karachi airport that left doz- the military, though their death they either live in government- (FDMA), 22,941 IDPs families of North Waziristan tribal region duty on the outskirts of south- ens dead and a peace process with toll for insurgents cannot be inde- run camps or pay high rents for have received cash assistance, -- a statement from the military western city of Quetta, the capi- the Pakistani Taliban in tatters. pendently confirmed. private accommodation. Radio Pakistan reported. said. tal of oil and gas-rich Baluchistan North Waziristan had become According to five witnesses one AFP Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government under Esaar Programme has Ballot boxes given cash assistance of 102.5m rupees to the IDPs. The IDPs have been advised Pakistani boy loses arms to contact Provincial Disaster Management Authority Office Peshawar through toll free after row with landowner number if they face any dif- ficulty in receiving the cash LAHORE: Pakistani police Ijaz Ahmed, said yesterday. assistance. have arrested the son of a The landowner’s son, Ghulam Internally displaced people landowner for an assault on a Mustafa, beat up the boy, tied are people or groups of people 10-year-old boy which resulted up his hands and then threw who have been forced or obliged in his injured arms being ampu- him onto a well where his arms to flee or to leave their homes tated, the latest case highlight- were mangled in the well’s pump, or places of habitual residence, ing harsh treatment of villagers Ahmed said. in particular as a result of or by feudal families. “The arms were left attached in order to avoid the effects of A tiny number of families own just by a bit of flesh and doc- armed conflict, situations of huge tracts of land in Pakistan, tors had to completely amputate generalised violence, violations in particular its bread-basket them,” he said. of human rights or natural or province of Punjab, and political Police arrested Mustafa and a human-made disasters, and who parties woo the families, hoping court ordered he be held for 10 have not crossed an internation- to win the votes of the villagers days, Ahmed said. Landowner ally recognised State border. working for them. Ghulam Ghaus could not be IDPs are often referred to as Police said the injured boy’s reached for comment. refugees, although they do not father, Muhammad Iqbal, had a The chief minister of Punjab fall within the current legal def- long-running dispute with land- has ordered police to investigate inition of a refugee. At the end owner Ghulam Ghaus who accused and the province’s child protec- of 2006 it was estimated there Iqbal of letting his cows graze on tion and welfare bureau said it were 24.5m internally displaced his land in central Punjab. was looking into the matter. persons in some 52 countries. “Iqbal’s son, Mohammad According to the World Bank, The region with the larg- Tabassum, was grazing the cows about two percent of households est internally displaced per- near Ghaus’s fields on Monday in Pakistan control more than 45 son population is Africa with when one of the cows went on his percent of the total land area. some 11.8m in 21 countries. UN workers escort ballot boxes to a plane to be transported to an Independent Election Commission warehouse land,” district police officer, Rai REUTERS AGENCIES in Kabul, at an airport in Farah on Thursday. The election panel on July 17 began the audit of all 8.1m ballots cast during the presidential run-off last month. Islamabad puts military Govt launches scheme to support poor in charge of its security ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan poor to have an easy access to these will impart skills through Baitul Mal has launched a resources of the social safety net. different courses to women to special programme to provide Another major change brought enable them to earn their live- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is possible blowback of Operation financial help to deserving about in the organisation, the lihood and not to be dependent putting the military in charge Zarb-e-Azb”, the office said, poor people earning less than MD said, was the automation on the Baitul Mal for assistance. of security in the capital, referring to the offensive. $100 a month. process. Courses to be taught at these Islamabad, in case Pakistani Pakistan has seen numerous The programme is aimed to The PBM head office and centres, he said, would include Taliban militants try to launch militant attacks since it joined the mitigate financial hardship of all its branches and district graphic designing, computer attacks in response to an army United States in its “war on ter- the poor and bring them into the level offices across the country skills, beautician, cooking, jew- offensive against them, the gov- ror” after the September 11, 2001, mainstream of the social fabric. are now interlinked through ellery-making, rug-making etc. ernment said yesterday. attacks on US cities by Osama bin Under the programme, the Internet and this has been done The MD said these skills The military launched an Laden’s Al Qaeda. assistance would be provided to ensure complete transpar- would enable women and chil- offensive against the militants in Terrorism in Pakistan has on a handwritten application to ency and increase efficiency in dren to capture their shares in their strongholds in ungoverned become a major and highly be submitted with a copy of the the organisation. local and international markets. stretches of the northwest, along destructive phenomenon in recent national identity card by a person The PBM, Sheikh said, had Abid Waheed Sheikh These courses will be free-of- the Afghan border, last month. years. having less than Rs10,000 income also been working on a new charge. Rather, he said, trainees The Pakistani Taliban, fight- The annual death toll from per month, PBM Managing project under which Great would be provided Rs5,000 sti- ing to bring down the state, have terrorist attacks has risen from Director Barrister Abid Waheed Homes would be set up for been launched in Lahore, Sheikh pend a month. The PBM has vowed to retaliate. 164 in 2003 to 3318 in 2009 with Sheikh said. those senior citizens in their said. He said that keeping its also been running centres for “The federal government has a total of 35,000 Pakistanis killed After scrutiny, he said, the 60s or above who had none to success and requirement in rehabilitation of child labour. requisitioned the services of the between September 11, 2001 and PBM would provide the assist- look after them or who had been mind, such centres would be set These centres are especially Pakistan army in aid of civil power May 2011. ance within a week. abandoned by their children. up in other different cities also. for those children who have in Islamabad,” the prime minis- According to the government of The new MD of Baitul Mal These elderly people would be Women empowerment is also been forced by domestic prob- ter’s office said in a statement. Pakistan, the direct and indirect claimed that he had intro- provided all facilities of a home, one of the objectives of the social lems to take up small jobs. Such The army had been put in economic costs of terrorism from duced austerity, transparency, including lodging, clothes, food safety net for which vocational children are provided education charge of the capital for 90 days 2000–2010 total $68bn. efficiency and accessibility in and entertainment. centres have been planned to be from class 1-5. from August 1 “to pre-empt any REUTERS the organisation to enable the One such pilot project had opened in different cities and INTERNEWS JULY 26, 2014 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Anti-Israel protest One dead as Shia Pakistani envoy protesters clash with police summoned over LUCKNOW: One person was killed and over two dozen others injured yesterday when a crowd of thousands of Shias protest- ing against Uttar Pradesh 26/11 trial delay Urban Development Minister Azam Khan clashed with the police here. A crowd comprising of old Hearing adjourned for seventh time and young Shias, after offering the Friday prayers at the Asifi NEW DELHI: India sum- because the judge was on leave, Imambada, decided to go ahead moned a top Pakistani diplo- the Press Trust of India reported. and stage a sit-in outside the mat yesterday, two days after Trial proceedings have also been residence of Azam Khan, who is announcing resumption of for- delayed by absence of pros- also the Waqf minister, against eign-secretary-level talks, to ecution lawyers amid security his efforts to allegedly sneak in voice unhappiness over repeated worries. some “corrupt” office bearers in delays in the trial of seven men The seven Pakistani suspects the Shia Waqf Board. accused in the deadly Mumbai have been charged with planning When the procession was pre- attacks on November 16, 2008. and financing the attacks on vented by police from moving “We asked them to ensure a India’s financial capital. ahead near the Shaheed Smarak, mechanism whereby Indian dip- The summoning of the the protestors became violent and lomats in their country get regu- Pakistani diplomat came days broke past the barricades. Police lar briefings about the Mumbai after the Indian foreign min- then carried out a baton charge in terror trial and related investiga- istry said the foreign secretar- which many people were injured. tions,” a foreign ministry official ies of both foreign secretaries Demonstrators take part in a protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza, after offering last Friday prayers said. would meet in Islamabad on of the fasting month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque in the old quarters of Delhi. The trial, which began in August 25. Nepal is high 2012 and is being conducted by In a surprise move in May, a Pakistani anti-terrorism court, the Prime Minister Narendra priority for India, was adjourned for the seventh Modi invited for his swear- time on Wednesday, according to ing-in ceremony his Pakistani says Sushma the Press Trust of India. counterpart Nawaz Sharif and Home Minister regrets bid to India blames the three-day leaders of other SAARC (South KATHMANDU: Indian rampage in November 2008 on Asian Association for Regional External Affairs Minister the outlawed Pakistan-based Cooperation) nations. Sushma Swaraj arrived here group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Modi’s gesture spurred hopes force-feed fasting Muslim yesterday, saying the new The attacks killed 166 people and about a resumption of peace talks NEW DELHI: Home Minister objections. Thereafter, they religious freedom guaranteed by Narendra Modi government strained further relations between between the neighbouring states Rajnath Singh yesterday said reportedly tried to feed a ‘chapati’ the constitution to its citizens. I held relations with Nepal in the nuclear-armed neighbours. whose relations have remained the incident of a Shiv Sena MP to Arshad Zubair, resident man- will like to appeal to all members “high priority”. “Pakistan’s deputy high com- chilly since the terror attacks. trying to force-feed a fasting ager of the IRCTC, while taking that we should make constant “The new government in India missioner in New Delhi was sum- In 2012, India executed the sole Muslim staffer of Maharashtra exception to the quality of food efforts in maintaining religious has put its relations with Nepal moned to the foreign ministry,” surviving gunman, Mohammad Sadan was “regrettable and being served,” the home minister harmony in the country,” Rajnath in high priority,” the minister told said the official, who asked not to Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of 10 unfortunate”. said while informing the Rajya Singh said. the media soon after her arrival to be identified. attackers in the deadliest militant Rajnath Singh said the Shiv Sabha. Shiv Sena MP Rajan Vichare co-chair the third meeting of the The Indian deputy high com- onslaught on Indian soil since the Sena MPs had expressed objec- He said IRCTC, which was han- was seen in a video clip trying to Nepal-India Joint Commission. missioner in Islamabad lodged a country’s 1947 independence. tion to the food served at the state dling the catering, has cancelled force food into the mouth of the The commission is expected to similar protest at the Pakistan Kasab, who was 25 at the time guest house. its contract with Maharashtra Muslim staffer who was observing review the entire range of bilat- foreign office, the official also of his execution, first pleaded not “It has been informed they Sadan while Zubair has not filed Ramadan fast. eral relations. said. guilty at his trial but later con- entered the camp office and any complaint with police. It kicked off a political storm “I am here to take part in the The last hearing in the ter- fessed he was one of the gunmen kitchen room of the resident “I will also like to inform the Wednesday, with parliament wit- Joint Commission meeting. I am ror case as well as the one slated sent by the LeT. commissioner at the Maharashtra House that our government nessing an uproar. here two months after becoming for late June could not be held AFP Sadan here to express their is committed to safeguarding IANS the foreign minister,” Sushma Swaraj said. Modi is to visit Nepal on August and during the trip he will address parliament and hold Grief-stricken parents talks with the country’s leaders. Congress sweeps Adverse weather Uttarakhand bypolls kills 50 soldiers NEW DELHI: Fifty Indian sol- diers have died in Siachen since DEHRADUN: The rul- in Someshwar, while Hera Singh the start of 2011 due to adverse ing Congress yesterday won Bisht won from Doiwala, making weather, Defence Minister all the three assembly seats in it a clean sweep for the Congress. Arun Jaitley said yesterday. Uttarakhand for which bypolls This comes as a setback for the The minister said landslides, were held. Chief Minister Harish BJP which made a clean sweep floods, avalanches and harsh cli- Rawat won from Dharchula. in the Lok Sabha elections held matic conditions killed 24 soldiers The senior Congress leader in May, winning all five seats in 2011, 12 in 2012, 10 in 2013 and won by over 20,000 votes and of Almora, Garhwal, Hardwar, four until July 20 this year. defeated his nearest Bharatiya Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar and India and Pakistan dispute the Janata Party rival B D Joshi, elec- Tehri Garhwal from Uttarakhand. ownership of Siachen. tion officials said. Rawat thanked the voters of Jaitley said Indian troops Rawat was an MP from the state and expressed hope deployed in the icy heights “were Uttarakhand before taking over as that pace of development will suitably equipped, trained and Parents of eight-year old-school student Dattu, sit near his body after it was dug up from a grave at Kishtapur the chief minister of the hill state accelerate. “The chief minister organized to face the operational village, about 58km from Hyderabad yesterday. Dattu, one of 11 students who died in a collision between a and had to become a lawmaker and Congress extend thanks to challenges and carry out their school bus and a train, was wrongly identified and buried by a family from Kishtapur village whose son Danush within the stipulated period of the voters for ensuring Congress mandated tasks”. Goud was being treated at Yashoda Hospital. six months. The Dharchula seat victory. By-poll results means a “All efforts are made to mini- was vacated by legislator Harish lot to us” said Surender Kumar, mize the casualties by providing Dhami to facilitate election of the media advisor to Rawat. BJP state suitable infrastructure, habitat, chief minister as a legislator. president Teerath Singh Rawat medical support and casualty The other two seats — Doiwala said party will review results. evacuation procedures,” he said. and Someshwar — were also The results of the by-poll are The minister said the govern- Seven die in IAF copter crash held by BJP leaders Ramesh likely to set new political equations ment was cognizant of the strate- Pokhariyal Nishank and Ajay in state. The Congress government gic importance of Siachen. LUCKNOW: An Indian Air flying from Bareilly to Allahabad, Sub Divisional Magistrate at Tamta who are now party MPs might show door to ministers of “Requisite forces have been Force (IAF) helicopter crashed allegedly sent a distress call Sidhauli, A K Srivastava said from Haridwar and Almora. Progressive Democratic Front deployed in the area keeping yesterday in Uttar Pradesh’s shortly before 5pm when it was that the chopper was engulfed in Congress candidates won on (PDF) — group of seven MLAs — in view the threat perception, Sitapur district, killing all seven about 40km north of Lucknow. fire as it crashed in Manipurwa both these seats. that includes three BSP, one UKD ground situation and other opera- people on board, police said. After that, it lost contact with Air in Ataria area. Rekha Arya won by over and three independent members. tional aspects,” said Jaitley. The helicopter, which was Traffic Controllers in Lucknow. AGENCIES 10,000 votes over her BJP rival AGENCIES IANS

Finance Bill passed NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha Hindu Nation comments trigger uproar in Goa yesterday passed the Finance Bill, 2014 by a voice vote with which the legislative proposals PANAJI: Controversial com- saying India was always a Hindu said: “He (Dhavalikar) has taken no intention to hurt the feeling of cure was worse than the disease. notably on direct and indirect ments made by two ministers country and that he was Christian oath on the Constitution which people from other religions. A third alternative is the need taxes proposed in the national of the BJP-led Goa govern- Hindu. swears by ‘Secular Socialist Dhavalikar’s colleague Lavu of the hour, but it should not be budget for this fiscal can now ment, one wishing for a Hindu “India is a Hindu country. Democratic Republic’ principles Mamledar, however said that the the case of old wine in new bot- become effective formally. nation under Prime Minister It is Hindustan. All Indians in in the preamble. How can he say “Hindu Nation” claim is wrong. tles!” said Derrick Dias, a banker. The bill was passed after Narendra Modi and another Hindustan are Hindus, including India will be a ‘Hindu nation’ “If he has said Hindu nation, The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claiming India is already one, I, am a Christian Hindu,” D’Souza, under Modi? He has to explain then it is wrong, because our meanwhile has welcomed the gave his reply to the debate on the created an uproar both in the one of the seniormost minority this to us.” country is secular. People of dif- comments. A formal statement budget, assuring the house that state assembly and across social members of the Bharatiya Janata On Thursday, Dhavalikar, ferent caste, creed and religion released by the Hindu right wing the measures he has outlined will media yesterday. Party (BJP) in Goa, told reporters who belongs to regional outfit stay in India,” he said. organisation says Dhavalikar’s create more jobs, generate eco- Minutes after the opposi- in the assembly complex. Maharashtrawadi Gomantak On the social media, in a reac- statement gives “solace to millions nomic activity and achieve higher tion Congress and an independ- The ‘Hindu nation’ comments Party (MGP), while speaking tion to the comments by both of Hindus”. growth, without burdening the ent legislator staged a walk out have found backers amongst Hindu during a motion congratulating D’Souza and Dhavalikar, a minor- “The issue of establishment people. demanding a clarification from right wing groups, but have also Modi on becoming PM had said: ity voice has expressed regret at of the Hindu Nation which was “Our’s is not a high-tax govern- Co-operation Minister Deepak been the target of criticism from “If we all support it and we stand voting for the BJP in the last confined only to the Hindus till ment,” the finance minister said. Dhavalikar for his Thursday’s other politicians as well as civil by Narendra Modi systematically, election. “We have to blame the yesterday has attracted nation- “A high tax government cannot comments that India would society commentators on the social then I feel a Hindu Rashtra will Congress for making us so des- wide debate due to Dhavalikar’s promote business activity, since become a Hindu nation if eve- media. Earlier in the day, Leader be established.” perate and hurling us into the statement,” it said. it will make domestic products ryone supported Modi, Deputy of Opposition Pratapsing Rane, Yesterday, however, Dhavalikar arms of the BJP. The Congress Christians account for nearly non-competitive. Chief Minister Francis D’Souza while staging a walkout in protest said that the word “Hindu” had a was arrogant; corrupt with their 26 percent of Goa’s population. IANS dropped another bombshell, against Dhavalikar’s comments, “big meaning”, adding that he had family rule. Unfortunately, the IANS JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

India holds firm on blocking WTO customs deal Failure could seriously harm WTO’s standing; trade deal must be ratified by all members by July 31 deadline

NEW DELHI: India yesterday Nirmala Sitharaman told parlia- could add $1 trillion to the glo- be constructive engagement on by consensus. Under India’s gov- agriculture, Indian officials say. said it wanted “visible” signs ment New Delhi “would find it bal economy, WTO officials say. issues that impact the livelihood ernment stockpile programme, While the European Union said the World Trade Organisation difficult to join the consensus” While there has been progress on of a very significant part of the grain is bought from farmers at in a statement failure to adopt the (WTO) would agree to its vast unless it gets WTO assurances on the trade deal, other decisions on global population”. often higher-than-market rates pact would mean loss of “a great food subsidy schemes before freedom to roll out food security food stockpiling and other devel- Prime Minister Narendra and sold at subsidised prices to opportunity to mobilise trade as approving a landmark global programmes for its hundreds of opment issues “have been side- Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party the poor. an instrument for growth” and customs pact as talks went millions of poor. lined”, Sitharaman said. government, elected in May, Rich WTO member nations damage WTO credibility, Indian down to the wire. Sitharaman’s statement came India wants “visible outcomes” warned earlier this month it say food stockpiles and subsidies business leaders urged the gov- Refusal by India to endorse the as WTO members were in Geneva demonstrating WTO members might not ratify the pact, citing distort trade. ernment to stand firm. agreement streamlining customs for what was envisioned as rub- “will engage in negotiations with worries about WTO acceptance When the Bali deal was struck, “India must hold its ground” procedures could derail the first ber-stamp approval of the Trade commitment to find a permanent of its food stockpile and subsidies WTO members agreed on a and developed countries “must big global trade reform by the Facilitation Agreement or TFA, solution on public stockholding”, programme, a hot-button political “peace clause” to allow India’s be told in clear terms the issue WTO in two decades. reached in Bali last year. she said. issue with many poor voters. food stockpile programme with of farmers’ security and welfare The deal must be ratified by all The agreement is aimed at Separately, India’s government The WTO can approve the no penalties until a “permanent” of the poor is not negotiable”, WTO members by July 31 and is lowering trade barriers and in a statement late yesterday said trade agreement by a simple solution by 2017. But since then the Association of Chambers of to be implemented in mid-2015. spurring trade between develop- it had told fellow WTO members majority but this would be highly there have been 20 meetings on Commerce and Industry of India But Indian Commerce Minister ing and developed countries and it lacked “trust that there will unusual as it normally operates the trade pact and just two on said yesterday. AFP

EU eyes economic sanctions on Russia takes aim at McDonald’s as Russia, with trade deals intact US ties worsen

BRUSSELS: The European MOSCOW: McDonald’s burg- Union reached outline agree- ers and shakes may become ment yesterday to impose the Russia raises main interest rate the latest victims of worsen- first economic sanctions on ing ties between Moscow and Russia over its behaviour in MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank moved yesterday to shield the Washington after a Russian Ukraine but scaled back their country’s economy from tightening Western economic sanctions consumer watchdog agency scope to exclude technology for over Ukraine, raising its main interest rate in a surprise move. accused the US chain of sani- the crucial gas sector. The Bank of Russia explained its decision to raise its main rate by tary violations. The sanctions on access to half point to 8 percent by saying that “inflation risks have increased McDonald’s Corp, which capital markets, arms and hi- due to a combination of factors, including, inter alia, the aggrava- opened its first Russian restau- tech goods are also likely to apply tion of geopolitical tension and its potential impact on the ruble rant in Moscow in 1990, became only to future contracts, leaving exchange rate dynamics.” an iconic symbol of flourish- France free to go ahead with the The increase was the third since March as the central bank began ing American capitalism dur- controversial delivery of Mistral to tighten monetary policy when the Russian economy was buffeted ing the fall of the Soviet Union. helicopter carriers being built for by the uncertainty generated by the Ukraine crisis and Western But its Golden Arches may be in Russia. sanctions. “If high inflation risks persist, the Bank of Russia will the Kremlin’s crosshairs as ties After months of hesitation, continue raising the key rate,” it added. AFP between Moscow and Washington the 28-nation EU toughened its have fallen to their lowest point stance towards Moscow after last since the end of the Cold War week’s downing of a Malaysian European Council President prospect of EU sanctions sent with consecutive rounds of US airliner, killing 298 people, in an Herman Van Rompuy wrote to shares in French energy services sanctions over Russia’s role in the area of eastern Ukraine held by EU leaders saying the discussion firm Technip plunging 8 percent Ukraine crisis. Russian-backed separatists. But among ambassadors had led to on Thursday. “We have identified violations the narrowing of the proposed “an emerging consensus on some Gazprom’s main partners in which put the product quality and measures highlighted the diffi- key principles.” South Stream are Italy’s Eni, safety of the entire McDonald’s culty of agreeing to tough sanc- One was that “the measures in France’s EDF, Austria’s OMV chain in doubt,” Anna Popova, tions among countries which have the field of sensitive technologies and Germany’s Wintershall, a the watchdog’s head and Russia’s widely different economic inter- will only affect the oil sector in subsidiary of German chemical chief sanitary inspector, was ests and rely to varying degrees view of the need to preserve EU giant BASF. A second agreement quoted by Interfax as saying. on Russian gas. energy security,” the letter said, cited by Van Rompuy was that The watchdog agency After a discussion that lasted according to an EU source. “the principle of non-retroactivity Rospotrebnadzor has previ- all day Thursday and part of yes- The Commission had proposed will apply across all targeted sec- ously been accused of acting terday, ambassadors asked the restricting equipment for deep- tors, notably in the field of arms in the political interests of the executive European Commission sea drilling, shale oil and Arctic trade and restrictions on access People near a Rosneft gasoline station in Stavropol, southern Russia. Kremlin, banning Georgian wine to draw up a legal text setting out energy exploration. to capital markets”. Rosneft, Russia’s No. 1 oil producer, said yesterday its second-quarter net as Tbilisi strengthened ties with economic sanctions for possible If the sanctions had applied to France was determined to income rose by almost five times, year-on-year, to 172bn roubles ($4.9bn), Washington and spirits from agreement as early as next week. gas technology, they could have uphold existing contracts with Moldova after the former Soviet beating analyst forecasts, thanks to a stronger rouble. Key measures included clos- affected Gazprom’s huge South Russia to preserve a €1.2bn 2011 republic boosted its drive to part- ing EU capital markets to state- Stream pipeline project to Europe deal to supply two Mistral heli- ner with the European Union. owned Russian banks, an embargo and Novatek’s Arctic Yamal liq- copter carriers. Rompuy assured leaders that special EU summit. One official A court said a regional branch on arms sales to Moscow and uefied natural gas (LNG) facil- A third agreement was that the package would maintain an said there was “an overall prelim- of Rospotrebnadzor had asked it restrictions on the supply of dual- ity. That in turn would have hit the ban on exports of dual-use overall balance across all sectors inary agreement on the concept” to declare production and sales of use and energy technologies. They large EU energy suppliers and technology — that can be used in and all EU countries. He asked at the meeting but ambassadors some McDonald’s products illegal would not affect current supplies manufacturers with an inter- both military and civilian prod- leaders to delegate authority to would hold more discussions next after the watchdog agency carried of oil, gas and other commodities est in the project, including in ucts —would be limited at this their ambassadors to agree on week on the basis of the legal text. out inspections of McDonald’s from Russia. Germany, Austria and Italy. The stage to military end-users. Van the sectoral sanctions without a REUTERS restaurants last June. REUTERS

BSkyB to pay $9bn to create Sky Europe China nod for setting

LONDON/PARIS: Britain’s BSkyB has agreed to pay $9bn up three private banks to buy Rupert Murdoch’s pay- TV companies in Germany and Italy, taking its hunt for growth SHANGHAI: China has them have minority shares listed into Europe by creating a media approved the setting up of three on the stock market. powerhouse with 20 million private banks, including one “The target is to provide effi- customers. by Internet giant Tencent, the cient and diversified financial BSkyB, in which Murdoch’s industry regulator said yester- services to support the develop- 21st Century Fox is also the larg- day, in a long-awaited economic ment of the real economy,” CBRC est shareholder, will pay for the reform aimed at bringing com- chairman Shang Fulin was quoted deal using cash, debt, its stake petition to state banking giants. as saying in a statement. in a TV channel and a placing Previously, China had just two Tencent, parent of China’s most of shares that represents privately-owned banks, Minsheng popular messaging app WeChat, around 10 percent of its issued Bank and Ping An Bank, accord- said it would take a leading role share capital. ing to state media. in the establishment of a new The deal adds to a flurry of The China Banking Regulatory bank in Shenzhen, where it is consolidation in the global media Commission (CBRC) said it had also headquartered. “Our English sector as traditional entertain- approved private banks in the name is ‘Webank’, ‘We’ stands for ment companies seek to bulk up southern boomtown of Shenzhen, group innovation spirit,” Tencent to compete against more nimble the northern port city of Tianjin said in a separate statement. Internet rivals. and the eastern city of Wenzhou, Two local investment firms, Fox is expected to use the pro- which is known as the cradle of Shenzhen Baiyeyuan Investment ceeds to fuel its pursuit of Time private enterprise in China. Co and Shenzhen Liye Group, will Warner, which recently rejected The move followed a declaration also fund the new bank along with Fox’s initial $80bn bid. by the government in March that Tencent, the CBRC said, adding BSkyB had flagged a possible it would reform China’s banking the new lender will be tailored for deal for Sky Deutschland and Sky sector, which is dominated by four retail customers and small firms. Italia in May. REUTERS Two BSkyB employee minibuses pass each other in west London yesterday. state-owned banks — though all of AFP JULY 26, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY UK economy Fiat unveils Jeep Renegade Kia Motors net profit grows to above down 13.3pc SEOUL: South Korea’s Kia Motors said yesterday its sec- ond-quarter profit fell 13.3 per- pre-crisis level cent year on year, as a pick-up in sales was offset by a stronger won that hurt exports. Net profit for April-June at Sharp fall in unemployment the country’s second largest auto maker came to 1.02 trillion won LONDON: Britain’s economy ($988m), with unit sales up 4.3 grew strongly in the second US durable goods percent year on year. quarter, overtaking the size Operating profit plunged 31.7 it achieved before the global orders rebound percent on-year to 769.7bn won in financial crisis, data showed the three-month period. “As the yesterday in the latest sign of WASHINGTON: Orders won remained high, profitability robust recovery. for long-lasting US manufac- fell seriously as exports account The latest figures, along with a tured goods rose more than for 75 percent of our business,” sharp fall in unemployment to the expected in June, pointing the company said in a press lowest level for five years, give a to momentum in the econ- statement. boost to the government before a omy heading into the third The South Korean currency general election next year. quarter. rose more than eight percent Gross domestic product (GDP) The Commerce Department against the US dollar in the sec- expanded by 0.8 percent between said yesterday durable goods ond quarter, touching a six-year April and June from the first orders increased 0.7 percent high. A no-discount policy based quarter, when it grew by the same as demand increased from on the popularity of its new mod- amount, the Office for National transportation to machinery els abroad and efficient marketing Statistics (ONS) revealed in a and computers and electronic Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (centre) gestures during a meeting with Fiat Chairman John Elkann (left) expenditure prevented a further statement that matched market products. and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne (second right) to mark the presentation of new Jeep Renegade car at Chigi drop in earnings, it said. AFP expectations. The increase in orders for palace, in Rome yesterday. The data was published one day these goods, which range from after the International Monetary toasters to aircraft that are Fund forecast Britain, a member meant to last three years or of the European Union but not of more, was above economists’ the eurozone, would outpace the expectations for a 0.5 percent Obama rails against US Inc over tax evasion world’s major advanced economies rise and followed a 1.0 percent this year. The economy is now drop in May. “This is consistent LOS ANGELES: US President be US-domiciled. The proposed 0.2 percent bigger than before its with broad, increasing demand Barack Obama hammered US changes, already put forward in the pre-crisis peak in early 2008, the throughout the economy,” said companies that avoid federal Ireland defends tax-avoidance deals president’s annual budget, would be ONS added, lifting Conservative Gus Faucher, senior economist taxes by shifting their tax dom- retroactive to May 2014 and imple- Prime Minister David Cameron’s at PNC Financial Services in iciles overseas in deals known DUBLIN: Ireland defended its tax regime yesterday against mented independently of moves to coalition government, which has Pittsburgh. Non-defence capi- as “inversions” and called on criticism from US President Barack Obama, insisting that it achieve broader tax reform. pursued austerity and tax-rais- tal goods orders excluding air- Congress to pass a bill to curb does not seek to entice US companies to make the country its Republicans prefer a change ing policies since it won power in craft, a closely watched proxy the practice. domicile to lower their tax bills. to inversions to be part of an 2010. The coalition, comprising for business spending plans, During remarks in Los Angeles, Investment from multinationals, whose employees account for effort to reform the US tax code. also minority partners the Liberal rebounded 1.4 percent after Obama promoted what he called some 10 percent of Ireland’s workforce, is a central plank of Irish “Under President Obama, the Democrats, has sought to slash a declining 1.2 percent the prior “economic patriotism” and made economic policy and the head of the country’s investment agency United States has the highest cor- record deficit inherited from the month. REUTERS clear he believed the companies has warned that inversions could damage its reputation. porate tax rate in the developed previous Labour administration, that were engaging in such prac- “Ireland has a very robust strategy for attracting foreign compa- world. It doesn’t have to be that in order to ward off tensions aris- tices were not being patriotic. The nies who invest substantively, put real investment into the ground way: Comprehensive tax reform ing from the eurozone debt crisis, Britain’s recession shrank the president was in California on a and provide employment,” enterprise minister Richard Bruton told would reduce deductions and while lifting investor confidence economy by a total of 7.2 percent, three-day fund-raising swing for reporters. “That is very different from what has been discussed in lower tax rates for everyone,” said and boosting growth. from peak to trough. Amid the Democrats. recent days around tax inversions. Ireland does not promote such Michael Steel, spokesman for the “Thanks to the hard work brightening economic backdrop, So-called inversion deals occur investments and nor do we want such investments. They actually Republican speaker of the House of the British people, today we the Bank of England appears on when a US company acquires or cost us money and we derive no benefit from them.” REUTERS of Representatives, John Boehner. reach a major milestone in our course in the coming months to sets up a foreign company, then The White House supports long-term economic plan,” said raise its main interest rate from moves its US tax domicile to the but growing group of big corpora- made it harder for the middle broad tax reform but argues that finance minister George Osborne a record-low level of 0.50 percent, foreign company and its lower-tax tions that are fleeing the country class — his target political con- action on inversions should not in response to the latest data. where it has stood since March home country. to get out of paying taxes,” Obama stituency — to succeed. wait. “We need to stop compa- Opposition politicians argue 2009 to stimulate growth. Nine inversion deals have been said. Several Democrats have offered nies from renouncing their citi- that ordinary households are Economic output in the second reached this year by companies “They’re technically renounc- bills to curb inversions, which let zenship just to get out of paying facing falling pay in real terms, quarter was lifted by particularly ranging from banana distributor ing their US citizenship, they’re companies cut their taxes prima- their fair share of taxes,” Obama and have yet to benefit fully from strong growth in the nation’s Chiquita Brands International Inc declaring their base someplace rily by putting foreign earnings said. “We can’t wait for that. the recovery. Britain’s economy services sector, which accounts to drugmaker AbbVie Inc, and else even though most of their out of the reach of the Internal You shouldn’t get to call your- escaped from recession in late for three-quarters of overall more are under consideration. operations are here. You know Revenue Service. self an American company only 2009, after a fierce downturn activity and surged by 1 percent. The transactions are setting a some people are calling these Obama threw his weight behind when you want a handout from rooted in the global financial cri- That helped eclipse contrac- record pace since the first inver- companies ‘corporate deserters.’” the Democratic bills, calling for American taxpayers.” sis, staging a stuttering recovery tions to agriculture and construc- sion was carried out 32 years ago. Obama said he did not begrudge a rule change that would deem The issue is a prominent one that began to accelerate last year. tion, while manufacturing grew “Even as corporate profits are companies making profits but said any company with half of its in Obama’s home state of Illinois. The ONS added on Friday that by just 0.2 percent. AFP higher than ever, there’s a small corporate tax evasion practices business in the United States to REUTERS

Argentina, hedge funds Brazil eases reserve rules in fail to strike debt deal $13bn stimulus NEW YORK: Argentina failed from. Under restructuring plans BRASILIA: Brazil’s central to reach a deal with hedge funds reached in 2005 and 2010, it has bank said it would ease banks’ demanding full payment on its persuaded 92 percent of its credi- reserve requirements, freeing defaulted bonds, veering closer tors to accept writeoffs of up to up $13bn to stimulate lending to what the IMF warned could 70 percent. and boost an economy facing its be a painful new default. But US District Judge Thomas fourth year of sluggish growth. With less than a week to go Griesa’s ruling in favor of the so- The new measures, which to either pay up or risk being called “holdout” hedge funds — also loosen the rules on lend- declared in default, Argentine which Argentina calls “vulture” ing to small businesses, come as officials met with a US court- funds — has trapped the country President Dilma Rousseff heads appointed mediator trying to in a catch-22 situation. into October elections in which break the impasse, but refused to Under the ruling, it cannot she is seeking a second four-year meet the hedge funds’ representa- pay its other creditors without term. “The central bank decided tives directly. also paying the hedge funds; but to adopt measures to improve the “After speaking with both sides, under the restructuring deal, it is distribution of liquidity in the separately, I proposed and urged supposed to pay all its creditors economy,” the bank said. direct, face-to-face talks between the same. If it pays the holdouts It attributed the move to the parties. The representatives 100 percent of the $1.3bn it owes “recent moderation in credit con- of the bondholders were agreeable them, it could be forced to pay all cessions, relatively low levels of to direct talks; the representa- remaining creditors in full, as well default and the reduction of risk tives of (Argentina) declined to — for a total bill of up to $15bn. levels in the financial system.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a news conference in Seattle. engage in direct talks,” said the The International Monetary It said the requirements could mediator, New York lawyer Dan Fund’s chief economist, Olivier be loosened because total reserves Pollack. “The issues separating Blanchard, warned a default could in the banking system had risen the parties remain unresolved at hurt both the Argentine economy from around $87bn in 2009 to Amazon loss widens despite climbing sales this time.” and the global financial system. nearly $182bn today, including a One of the main funds battling “If it goes into default and $22.4bn increase in the past 12 SAN FRANCISCO: Internet than nine percent to $323.53 in service introductions that for full payment, NML Capital, doesn’t pay the holdouts, there months. retail titan Amazon reported after-market trades that followed included improved delivery oper- said Argentina had “made clear might be substantial costs, being Under the new rules, banks will a money-losing quarter despite release of the earnings figures. ations in the US and Europe; a that it will be choosing to default.” basically unable to access markets be allowed to use up to 50 percent impressive growth in sales, The loss came as Amazon streaming music service, and The Argentine government for some time,” he said at a news of reserves for credit operations, sending shares plummeting by poured money into a new Fire Kindle Unlimited all-you-can- “refused to negotiate any aspect conference where the IMF cut its new loans and diversified invest- more than nine percent. smartphone, original program- read book subscriptions. of the dispute,” it said. “There is global growth forecast for 2014 by ment portfolios. The Seattle-based firm said ming for its Prime subscription “I feel like this is ‘Groundhog currently a total lack of willing- three percentage points to 3.4 per- The bank also changed the way that it had a net loss of $126m in service, drone package delivery Day’ over and over again,” ness on Argentina’s part to solve cent. A default would also cast seri- it calculates the reserves banks the quarter that ended June 30, and more. “We continue work- Forrester analyst Sucharita this problem.” ous doubts on the ability of existing must keep on hand to cover their widening the deficit from $7m in ing hard on making the Amazon Mulpuru said, comparing Amazon With a July 30 payment dead- systems to resolve debt disputes outstanding loans, basing the the same period a year earlier. customer experience better and earnings to a Bill Murray com- line looming, time is running out when countries get into trouble. amount on the number of pay- Sales, meanwhile, climbed to better,” Amazon founder and chief edy film about a man perpetually for Argentina to deal with the “There’s much more uncertainty ments remaining rather than the $19.34bn in a 23 percent rise from executive Jeff Bezos said. reliving the same day. “I don’t fallout of its 2001 default, which as to how we’ll be able to restruc- total term of the loan. That could the second quarter of last year. He rattled off a list of know how much longer it can plunged the country into an eco- ture debt for others countries in free up an additional $6.7bn, offi- Amazon shares plunged more recent Amazon product or keep going.” AFP nomic crisis it is still battling back the future,” he said. AFP cials estimated. AFP

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I think I just want to finishes and how you play with the “I’m not trying to relive that be myself more than ever,” added time that you’re given.” banner season,” Lin said of his Lin, who is also the first Chinese- Mostly, Lin said, he wants to breakout campaign with the American to play in the NBA continue to improve as a player Knicks, when he became the first with a grandmother in China and as he believes he did in Houston, player in NBA history to score parents from Taiwan. and help the Lakers bounce back at least 20 points and contrib- Last season Lin averaged a from their disappointing 2012-13 ute seven assists in his first five career best 44.6 percent shoot- campaign. STATIONERY & OFFICE starts, twice making the cover of ing from the field and limited his Lin said he’s been in touch with SUPPLIES Sports Illustrated magazine while turnovers to an average of 2.5 a both Nash and Kobe Bryant. 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Nash’s status still uncertain. ing to work and understanding “I’m not trying to recreate a Nash played just 15 games last that we have to earn everything, CROSS ROAD FOR TRANSPORT ‘Linsanity.’ I’m not trying to be season because of persistent nerve I think we’ll be OK.” AFP Specialist for Heavy Machine inside & outside Qatar. Mobile: 77950000/55985000 JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Striker Neymar’s brain on Drogba makes Chelsea auto-pilot: Neurologists TOKYO: Brazilian superstar that the test results “provide Neymar’s (pictured) brain valuable evidence that the foot- activity while dancing past ball brain of Neymar recruits very opponents is less than 10 per- limited neural resources in the cent the level of amateur play- motor-cortical foot regions dur- return with 1-year deal ers, suggesting he plays as if ing foot movements”. on auto-pilot, according to Asked whether Neymar’s Japanese neurologists. Barcelona team-mate Lionel It always feels like home with this club, says striker Results of brain scans con- Messi or Real Madrid’s Cristiano ducted on Neymar in February Ronaldo might display similar this year indicated minimal cere- test results, Naito said: LONDON: Premier League Premier League title successes bral function when he rotated his “It is fair to assume they giants Chelsea announced yes- and also won four FA Cups and ankle and point to the Barcelona would show similar levels given terday that their former striker two League Cups, in addition to striker’s wizardry their footwork and Didier Drogba has returned to the Champions League triumph being uncannily technique.” the club on a one-year contract. at Bayern’s Allianz Arena, which natural. Naito told Japan’s Citing the influence of manager is among the highlights of his “From MRI Mainichi Shimbun Jose Mourinho, Drogba told the career. images we discovered newspaper: club website: In total he has made 341 Neymar’s brain activ- “Reduced brain “It was an easy decision. I appearances for the club, scor- ity to be less than 10 activity means less couldn’t turn down the opportu- ing nine cup-final goals, and was percent of an amateur burden which allows nity to work with Jose again. voted Chelsea’s greatest ever player,” researcher (the player) to per- “Everyone knows the special player in a 2012 fan poll. Eiichi Naito said form many complex relationship I have with this club After leaving in 2012, he played yesterday. movements at once,” and it has always felt like home for Chinese club Shanghai Shenua “It is possible genet- he said. to me,” he said. before joining Galatasaray on an ics is a factor, aided by “We believe this “My desire to win is still the 18-month deal in January 2013. the type of training he gives him the ability same and I look forward to the An Ivory Coast great, he does.” to execute his various opportunity to help this team. played in all three of his coun- The findings were shimmies.” “I am excited for this next try’s matches at the World Cup in published in the Swiss journal Neymar carried the hopes of chapter of my career.” Brazil, leaving him with 104 caps Frontiers in Human Neuroscience host nation Brazil on his shoul- Drogba, 36, was a free agent Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba celebrates after scoring a goal during and 64 international goals to his following a series of motor skills ders at the recently ended World after leaving Galatasaray at the the 2012 edition of Champions League, in this file photo. The veteran name. tests carried out on the 22-year- Cup but his involvement ended in end of last season. striker has returned to the club after making a one-year deal. Drogba is likely to provide old Neymar and several other tears as he fractured a vertebra in The Ivory Coast star scored 157 cover for new Chelsea signing athletes in Barcelona in February the 2-1 quarter-final victory over goals for Chelsea over an eight- Diego Costa, who completed a this year. Colombia. year period and left the club in personality very well and I know if in a £24m ($40.7m, 30.3m euros) £32 million move from Atletico Three Spanish second-division Without their talisman, who 2012 shortly after scoring the he comes back he’s not protected transfer in 2004 during his first Madrid earlier this month. footballers and two top-level had scored four goals in the winning penalty against Bayern by history or what he’s done for stint as manager. Mourinho can also call upon swimmers were also subjected tournament, Brazil suffered their Munich in the Champions League this club previously,” he said. The burly, powerful centre-for- Fernando Torres and Romelu to the same tests, added Naito most humiliating defeat ever final. “Drogba is coming with the ward went on to become one of Lukaku, who has returned from of Japan’s National Institute of when they were pulverised 7-1 by “He’s coming because he’s one mentality to make more history.” the greatest players ever to have a season-long loan at Everton, but Information and Communications eventual champions Germany in of the best strikers in Europe,” Mourinho brought Drogba to played for the west London club. Demba Ba and Samuel Eto’o have Technology. the semi-final. Mourinho said. “I know his Stamford Bridge from Marseille He was instrumental in three both left the club. AFP Naito concluded in his paper AFP Japanese referee shrugs Pinto quits as Costa Rica coach off World Cup criticism SAN JOSE: Coach Jorge Luis Pinto has decided to quit World Juventus sign TOKYO: The Japanese referee the Japanese official. However, Cup quarter-finalists Costa whose decisions in the opening Nishimura took umbrage with Rica because they refused to match of the World Cup trig- claims made by Croatian players allow him to choose his back- Argentina’s gered a storm of controversy that he did not speak English and room staff. has shrugged off criticism of his had addressed them in Japanese. “I realised I would not be able Pereyra performance. “I spoke English on the pitch,” to count on conditions to carry Yuichi Nishimura awarded he said. “Those I spoke to under- out my work,” the 61-year-old Brazil a soft penalty and decided stood me. I just refereed the way Colombian said on his personal ROME: Juventus have signed against sending off superstar I always do.” website (www.jorgeluispinto.com). Argentine winger Roberto Neymar for an elbow in the host For fans of Japan’s J-League, Pinto’s contract ended after Pereyra from Udinese in a side’s 3-1 win over Croatia on however, Nishimura is a polaris- this month’s World Cup in Brazil 15.5m euro ($20.8m) deal, the June 12, leading to furious pro- ing figure with a reputation for where rank outsiders Costa Rica Italian Serie A champions said tests from the Europeans and awarding dubious penalties and reached the last eight for the first yesterday. lighting up social media. he has been in scrapes at interna- time, playing an exciting brand “Juventus Football Club can “I was prepared for (criticism) tional tournaments before. of fast counter-attacking football. Colombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto reacts during a press conference in today announce that Roberto before the match,” the 42-year- At the 2008 Africa Cup of “It wasn’t possible to reach San Jose, Costa Rica, last week, where it was announced that Pinto will Maximiliano Pereyra has com- old Nishimura told a news confer- Nations, Nishimura was shoved an agreement,” he added. “I ask no longer continue as the coach of Costa Rica. pleted a move to the club after ence late on Thursday in his first by Angola players during an ill- myself, ‘What use are the victo- terms were agreed with Udinese comments since the game. “That’s tempered quarter-final with ries obtained in Brazil?”. on a one-season loan deal for a fee all part of the job.” Egypt but failed to send any of Federation president Eduardo and a half. “It hurts me to leave native country between 2007-08. of 1.5m euro,” the club said. Explaining his decision to them off, and did not feature in Lee confirmed at a news confer- Costa Rica because I did an out- Costa Rica began the finals “The agreement includes the award a penalty for Fred’s dra- the rest of the tournament. ence that the two parties had not standing job here. I demanded with a stunning 3-1 upset victory option for Juventus to make the matic flop, he added: “If you look In 2010, Congolese fans incan- managed to agree fresh terms. the staff be dismissed and they over twice champions Uruguay in deal permanent at the end of the at how it happened, the forward descent at his performance in Costa Rica were unbeaten in didn’t accept,” said Pinto of the their opening Group D match. 2014-15 campaign for a price of 14 was looking to shoot in one move. a Club World Cup game took five World Cup matches before federation. They followed up with a 1-0 tri- million euros to be paid over the The defender put his hands on misguided revenge by vandalis- going out on penalties to the Lee said the people of Costa umph over four-times World Cup course of three years.” him. That was a mistake. ing a Chinese restaurant in their Netherlands. Rica “would always be grateful” winners Italy before drawing 0-0 Pereyra joined Udinese from “Some of the criticism was country. Pinto said disagreements with to Pinto. with England. River Plate in 2011, offering his quite severe, but some of the Nishimura brushed off a con- members of his backroom team “I want to thank Pinto with all The ‘Ticos’ then beat Greece side close control and good deliv- opinions raised were a help to me. frontation with angry Croatia became the central issue in nego- my heart for his work which no 5-3 in a penalty shootout in the ery from the flanks in over 100 Refereeing is tough.” fans at the airport after the Brazil tiations with Lee. doubt was the key to obtaining last 16 following a 1-1 draw after appearances for the small town Social media lit up after Brazil’s match, saying he had attempted “Some of my staff don’t have the successes we got in Brazil,” he extra-time. club as they punched above their contentious victory, with sev- to blend in with travellers by my style. I’ve had differences with added. “Unfortunately we couldn’t Costa Rica were eventually weight in Serie A. eral posts mocking up photos dressing casually only for volun- my staff, I want dedication and agree on some aspects.” eliminated by the Dutch, 4-3 in The 23-year-old played 36 of Nishimura sporting a Brazil teers to blow his cover by holding commitment,” he told the news The Colombian, who took a shootout following a 0-0 draw times in the league last season jersey or superimposed over the up a greeting sign for him. conference. charge in 2011, steered the Central after extra-time. and scored two goals. statue of Christ the Redeemer in “The security staff protected “A year and a half ago a mem- American nation to their fourth Pinto will now look at other Unpopular new coach Rio. me,” he said. ber of my staff told president Lee World Cup finals in his second options after attending an inter- Massimiliano Allegri is looking to It was no laughing mat- “There was a minor coming to get rid of me, that with me we spell at the helm. national congress for coaches in bolster his squad as he aims for ter for Croatia, who also had together but it was nothing seri- weren’t going to the World Cup. Pinto was previously coach Germany, read the statement on the European success that eluded a goal harshly disallowed by ous.” AFP I slept with the enemy for a year from 2004-06. He also guided his his website. REUTERS his predecessor. REUTERS

Canadian Open Pendrith one off pace at Canadian Open Scores Scores from the US PGA Tour MONTREAL: Canadian ama- His bogey-free 64 was a strong and Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez- Canadian Open at the par-70 teur Taylor Pendrith was just start to a bid for a second career Castano were in another big course, yesterday in Ile-Bizard, one shot behind leaders Tim PGA Tour title. bunch on three-under par 67. QC Petrovic and Michael Putnam Putnam, seeking his first PGA Putnam’s 64 was the lowest Seung-Yul Noh Thursday after the first round Tour crown, also shot a 64 with- round of his PGA Tour career. 64 Michael Putnam (US) 64; Tim Petrovic reads the green of the US PGA Tour’s Canadian out a bogey. “Obviously it was playing easy,” (US) 64 of the 11th Open. He opened at the 10th tee and he said of Royal Montreal’s Blue 65 Taylor Pendrith (Canada) 65; Kyle Stanley hole during Pendrith birdied the final hole birdied 12 and 17, then picked up Course. (US) 65 the second at Royal Montreal Golf Club to birdies at the second, third, fifth “I hit a lot of fairways and I 66 Greg Chalmers (Australia) 66; Nick round of the join American Kyle Stanley in and eighth coming in. hit a lot of greens. It got windy Watney (US) 66; Robert Allenby RBC Canadian third place on five-under 65 -- Stanley also teed off on 10 and there this afternoon and it was (Australia) 66; Troy Merritt (US) 66; Open at Royal and put himself at the head of made five birdies in his first nine tough golfing but somehow I was Justin Hicks (US) 66; Charlie Wi (South Montreal GC - a Canadian contingent trying to holes. able to keep it in the fairway and Korea) 66; Joel Dahmen (US) 66; Jason Blue Course, break a 60-year title drought in He gave back a stroke at the take advantage of the soft greens, Bohn (US) 66; Dicky Pride (US) 66; Charl yesterday. their home open championship. third, but birdied the sixth to fin- get a couple shots close and make Schwartzel (South Africa) 66; Bo Van Pelt The 23-year-old had earlier ish the day one off the pace. a couple of five-to-10 foot putts,” (US) 66 rolled in a 29-foot birdie putt on A big group on four-under 66 he said. 67 David Hearn (Canada) 67; Jim Furyk the par-three 13th and nearly included former Masters cham- Petrovic, who got into the (US) 67; J.J. Henry (US) 67; Charlie holed an even longer attempt at pion Charl Schwartzel of South field only after the withdrawal Beljan (US) 67; Ben Curtis (US) 67; 17. Africa, Australians Robert of Benjamin Alvarado, made the Tim Wilkinson (New Zealand) 67; Alex Petrovic posted three birdies Allenby and Greg Chalmers and most of his opportunity. Prugh (US) 67; Andrew Svoboda (US) on the trot from the second hole South Korean Charlie Wi. “I really didn’t set my expecta- 67; Nathan Green (Australia) 67; Bryce and added another on the seventh Jim Furyk, coming off a fourth- tions high because I got in late,” Molder (US) 67; Tim Clark (South Africa) before eagling the par-five 12th. place finish at the British Open, he said. AFP 67; Scott Brown (US) 67. JULY 26, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY Qatar prepares to host motor sport’s finest in Dec DOHA: The Qatar Motor As always, the FIA’s annual Al Attiyah hopes this global and the successes we have had in and Motorcycle Federation Gala Prize-Giving ceremony will event will be a bright spot in successively attracting major (QMMF) is pulling out all the see champions from every major the history of motor sport and international sporting events,” stops to make the FIA Annual branch of international motor will bring international limelight he said. General Assembly week and sport gather together to receive to Doha — as the events will be “It is also a great opportu- FIA Gala Prize-Giving cer- their awards on one star-studded broadcast live on several sports nity to promote tourism because emony, which will be held here evening. channels. thousands of people, members of from December 1-5, a memora- On December 1, 2 and 3, sev- “It was a big effort to persuade local and international federa- ble affair. eral meetings will be held while the members of the General tions and world champions will They are among the motor- the Annual General Assembly Assembly to approve our request attend the event. The event will sport community’s most antici- will be on hold on December 4 to host this event, especially be broadcasted in different coun- pated annual events. and the Prize-Giving ceremony after many other countries also tries, which will contribute to the Hotel St Regis has been on December 5. expressed interest in it, but we promotion of our country,” the selected as the venue where all For the first time, the Prize- succeeded in winning everyone’s QMMF President said. the meetings and the Annual Giving ceremony will be divided confidence, including the FIA,” Al “We all hope that this celebra- General Assembly will be hosted. into two parts. The first part will Attiyah said. tion will be a big success and we The QMMF celebrated the 10th be dedicated to honouring organ- “There is no doubt that the want to thank Prime Minister anniversary of MotoGP at the isers and various committees great support of our wise leader- and Interior Minister H E Sheikh same venue. while the second part will be for QMMF President Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah (left) with FIA President ship — particularly the Emir H Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa It will be the first time that the World Champions, followed Jean Todt H Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Al Thani, H E Sheikh Joaan bin the Annual General Assembly by the gala dinner. Thani and H H Sheikh Abdullah Hamad Al Thani, H E Salah takes place in the Middle East Programmes will also be held Katara beach. Doha beat several as an endorsement of Qatar’s bin Khalifa Al Thani — and bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali, and North Africa and more than in other venues of Doha, including countries, like Mexico, Brazil, efforts, headed by QMMF the athletes had a great role in Minister of Youth and Sports, 6,000 guests, including world the Museum of Islamic Art and Australia, Cyprus and Japan, in President Nasser bin Khalifa Al swinging the advantage to our and Nasser Al-Khulaifi, Director champions, heads of clubs and Katara Cultural village. Fans will being chosen as the venue to host Attiyah, to spur the development side. And, I think all the unions General of beIN sports channel, local federations, from all over have the opportunity to get auto- this global event. of motor sports in the Middle are well aware of the capabilities for their support,” Al Attiyah the world are expected to attend. graphs of the world champions at The choice was seen by many East and the world. of Qatar in the field of sports added. THE PENINSULA Hamilton stays on top in Hungarian GP practice

BUDAPEST: Lewis Hamilton of two-time champion Fernando 25.814 seconds in clear, dry and ahead of his Ferrari team-mate continued to top the times Alonso of Ferrari, who was nine- hot conditions at the Hungaroring Fernando Alonso. Second Free ahead of his Mercedes team- tenths adrift. circuit, set in a rural bowl of Defending four-time champion mate and championship leader Danish rookie Kevin farmland 25km north of the Sebastian Vettel was fifth for Practice Session Nico Rosberg in yesterday’s sec- Magnussen continued his impres- Hungarian capital. Red Bull ahead of Danish rookie 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:24.482 ond free practice session for this sive progress with McLaren by His best lap left him 0.183 sec- Kevin Magnussen of McLaren, 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 1:24.720 weekend’s Hungarian Grand clocking the fifth best time ahead onds clear of his team-mate Nico Jean-Eric Vergne of Toro Rosso, 3. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) RedBull – Renault Prix. of Kimi Raikkonen in the sec- Rosberg and 0.6 seconds clear of Australian Daniel Ricciardo in 1:25.111 The 29-year-old Briton, who is ond Ferrari, Australian Daniel the rest of the field as the action the second Red Bull and Jenson seeking to complete a hat-trick Ricciardo in the second Red Bull began at the final race weekend Button in the second McLaren. 4. Fernando Alonso (Spain) Ferrari 1:25.437 of wins and claim a record fifth and rising Finnish star Valtteri before F1 heads to the beach Felipe Massa of Williams was 5. Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) McLaren victory at the Hungaroring to Bottas of Williams. for its now-traditional August down in 10th as he returned to 1:25.580 cut into Rosberg’s 14-point lead Jenson Button was ninth holiday. action five days after being tipped 6. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 1:25.730 in the title race, clocked a best in the second McLaren and Hamilton is seeking to com- upside down in an accident at 7. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) RedBull - Renault lap in one minute and 24.482 Felipe Massa 10th in the second plete a hat-trick of Hungarian the first corner of last Sunday’s 1:25.983 seconds. Williams, having survived a lurid wins and claim a record fifth at German Grand Prix. 8. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes This lifted him 0.238 seconds spin during the session. the event to regain ground on Raikkonen finished on the 1:25.999 clear of the German, who seemed Lewis Hamilton took the early championship leader Rosberg in podium in his last five races at 9. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 1:26.234 at a loss at times as to how he initiative when he topped the the title race. The German leads the Hungaroring and his form Mercedes-AMG’s driver Lewis 10. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes could claw back any of Hamilton’s times as Mercedes dominated by 14 points after winning last will be vital to help Ferrari avoid Hamilton prepares for the second 1:26.402 practice session of the Hungarian apparent advantage on one of his yesterday morning’s opening free Sunday. extending their dismal run and favourite circuits. practice session for this weekend’s Kimi Raikkonen shrugged off making 2014 their worst start to 11. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) Toro Rosso - Renault F1 Grand Prix in their box of the 1:26.689 pit lane at the Hungaroring in Four-time champion Sebastian Hungarian Grand Prix. his indifferent form this year on a season since 1986. Vettel was third, six-tenths off The 29-year-old Briton clocked his return to one of his favour- Ferrari have secured only one 12. Jean-Eric Vergne (France) Toro Rosso - Budapest yesterday. the pace, in his Red Bull ahead a best time of one minute and ite circuits to finish third-fastest podium this year. AFP Renault 1:26.703

Jadeja Amla, De Villiers dig in for SA fined over Sri Lanka’s spinners take early wickets, tourists still trail by 323 runs Anderson incident COLOMBO: South Africa bat- (2) and Lakmal (4) to catches by Scoreboard ted cautiously to reach 98 for wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock. LONDON: India’s Ravindra three as they try to preserve Debutant Dickwella’s innings Sri Lanka (I innings): Jadeja has been fined half his their 1-0 lead in the series in the of 72 off 116 deliveries ended in a U Tharanga c de Kock b Steyn ...... 11 match fee for his involvement second and final Test against Sri run out when he hesitated over K Silva c de Villiers b Duminy ...... 44 in an altercation with England Lanka yesterday. a single to a ball that went off K Sangakkara c Tahir b Steyn...... 0 quick bowler James Anderson The touring side, replying Herath’s shoulder and De Kock M Jayawardene (run out-Petersen) ...... 165 during the drawn first Test at to the hosts’ 421 all out, trailed reacted quickly to throw the A Mathews c de Kock b Duminy ...... 63 Trent Bridge. by 323 runs at the close on the stumps down. K Vithanage c de Villiers b Morkel ...... 13 The clash, which occurred second day with Hashim Amla Leg-spinner Imran Tahir N Dickwella (run out-de Kock) ...... 72 as the players left the field at unbeaten on 46 and AB de Villiers picked up his first wicket after D Perera c Amla b Tahir ...... 12 lunch on the second day, saw on 11. conceding over 100 runs when he R Herath (not out) ...... 7 Jadeja charged with a level two Amla had two escapes on had Perera caught by Amla at A Mendis c de Kock b Philander ...... 2 misconduct charge for alleg- 10 and 34, edging a drive off mid-on for 12 attempting a big S Lakmal c de Kock b Philander ...... 4 edly approaching Anderson in a Dilruwan Perera past Mahela hit. Extras (B-11, LB-14, NB-3) ...... 28 threatening manner. Jayawardene’s outstretched hand Jayawardene was run out for Total (all out) ...... 421 Anderson was charged with at slip and then having his stumps 165 and Dickwella scored a half- Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-16, 3-115, 4-246, a level three offense for hav- shattered by Suranga Lakmal as century as Sri Lanka piled on the 5-285, 6-385, 7-404, 8-409, 9-415. ing “abused and pushed” his he moved away from his crease runs on the second morning. Bowling: Steyn 22-5-69-2; Philander 21.4- opponent. when a crow flew across the pitch. The hosts were 395 for six Match referee David Boon 7-52-2 (1nb); Morkel 26-6-69-1 (1nb); Tahir The bowler appealed to the at lunch with wicketkeeper found left-arm spinner Jadeja, 33-4-121-1; Duminy 18-1-80-2 (1nb); Elgar umpire who signalled a dead ball. Dickwella unbeaten on 63 and who was batting at the time, not 1-0-5-0. Sri Lanka’s only success in the Perera on nine. guilty of the offence for which he South Africa (I innings): final session was the wicket of South Africa’s only success had been charged but felt his con- Faf du Plessis who was caught of the morning session was the A Petersen c&b Herath ...... 2 duct was contrary to the spirit of D Elgar c Silva b Perera ...... 1 brilliantly down the leg side by South Africa’s AB de Villiers plays a shot during the second day of the wicket of Jayawardene, who had the game. F du Plessis c Dickwella b Lakmal ...... 36 wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella second Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Ground passed 150 for the 16th time in “While I was in no doubt that H Amla (batting) ...... 46 off Lakmal for 36 to end a part- in Colombo yesterday. his career before he was run out. confrontation did occur, and that nership of 58 with Amla. The elegant right-hander A B de Villiers (batting) ...... 11 such conduct was not in the spirit Sri Lanka’s spinners had taken tame return catch with his score short leg to leave South Africa in swept JP Duminy to fine leg and Extras (LB-1, NB-1) ...... 2 of the game and should not have two early wickets to reduce South on two. trouble on a turning pitch at 13 Petersen’s direct throw at the Total (for 3 wkts) ...... 98 taken place, I was not comfort- Africa to 23 for two at tea. Perera, who replaced fast for two. stumps caught the diving bats- Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-13, 3-71. ably satisfied that this was a Left-armer Rangana Herath, bowler Lakmal after only four Sri Lanka’s first innings ended man well short of his ground. Bowling: Lakmal 11-4-13-1; Herath 13-5- level 2 offence,” Boon, the former who opened the bowling, struck overs, had Dean Elgar, on one, an hour after lunch with Vernon His 165 came off 284 balls and 16-1; Perera 15-6-24-1; Mendis 9-0-27-0 Australia batsman, said in a state- with his fifth ball when he forced caught off the inside edge off his Philander picking up the last included one six and 17 fours. (1nb); Vithanage 4-0-17-0. ment yesterday. Alviro Petersen to hit back a third ball by Kaushal Silva at two wickets of Ajantha Mendis REUTERS “Therefore, in exercising my discretion under Article 7.6.5 of the Code and having heard all the Al-Feroz Youngsters win inaugural Ramadan Tournament evidence, I was comfortably satis- fied that Mr Jadeja had commit- ted a level 1 offence under Article DOHA: Al-Feroz Youngsters CC elected to bat. The impressive wickets and Kamran Khan adjudged Man-of-the-Match. been a great advertisement for 2.1.8 of the Code.” defeated Elite Force Choudhary Inam Ul Haq blasted 49 runs scalped two. “Congratulations to Al-Feroz local cricket,” he said. Sanjay Patel, honorary secre- CC by 41 runs to win the inau- and Faisel scored 33 to help their Elite Force got off to a steady and Elite Force for delivering “The good news is that there tary of The Board of Control for gural West End Park Ramadan side reach a total of 175/6 in the start but were unable to replicate high-quality performances wor- are plans for more local and Cricket in India (BCCI), said in Tournament at West End Park stipulated 20 overs. The Al Feroz the aggressive batting displayed thy of a final. Al-Feroz are indeed international tournaments in the a statement that the governing Stadium here on Thursday. innings took a little time to gather by Al-Feroz in the late overs. deserving champions with con- coming months, the first of which body was not satisfied with the The chief guest of honour, Mr speed — after 12 overs the total They ultimately fell 41 runs short sistent performances through- will be a smaller format tourna- verdict and reserved the right to Mana Al Mana, Chairman of was a modest 70 runs. However, of their target. out,” Al Mana said. ment to celebrate Eid Al Fitr next appeal. West End Park, joined around 500 over 100 runs were scored in the Iqbal (47) and Farhan (18) put “I am delighted that the tour- week. Anderson’s hearing will be fans to watch the final. last eight overs to give Elite Force in good performances for Elite nament has been so well received “Special thanks to H E Sheikh held on August 1, the day after The champions took home prize plenty to think about during the Force to take them to 134/6 in 20 and the international-class Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani the third test at Southampton money of QR 50,000 while the break. overs. Al-Feroz’s bowlers Nadeem facilities at West End Park were for his support of the Ramadan is scheduled to finish, where he runners-up collected QR 25,000. Kaaleed was the pick of the and Inam Ul Haq scalped two enjoyed by the cricket fraternity Tournament,” Al Mana added. faces a possible four-test ban if Al-Feroz won the toss and Elite Force bowlers with three wickets each. Inam Ul Haq was in Qatar. The tournament has THE PENINSULA he found guilty. REUTERS JULY 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Commonwealth Games Podiums Commonwealth Games podiums in Glasgow, (till 11pm local time) Australia target more gold; yesterday. SWIMMING Men’s 50M butterfly Gold: Benjamin Proud (ENG); Silver: Roland Schoeman (RSA); Bronze: Chad le Clos (RSA) Women’s 50M breaststroke Gold: Leiston Pickett (AUS); Silver: Alia Wales in doping shock Atkinson (JAM); Bronze: Corrie Scott (SCO) Men’s 200M freestyle Gold: Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS); Silver: Cameron McEvoy (AUS); Bronze: Calum Jarvis Aussie swimmer breaks own record; Welshman Williams fails dope test (WAL) CYCLING Women’s 3,000M individual pursuit GLASGOW: Australia’s swim- opneing day on Thursday, had a Gold: Joanna Rowsell (ENG); Silver: Annette mers were back on the gold fine 2-0 win over tough Australian Edmondson (AUS); Bronze: Amy Cure (AUS) medal trail early on the sec- Matthew Glaetzer in the sprint Men’s 1000M Time Trial tandem ond day of the Commonwealth quarter-finals. para-sport Games in Glasgow yesterday, The win set up a semi-final Gold: Neil Fachie and Craig MacLean (SCO); while Wales were hit by a sec- against another Australian in the Silver: Kieran Modra and Jason Niblett (AUS); ond doping shock. shape of Peter Lewis. Bronze: Matthew Ellis and Ieuan Williams (WAL) Welsh 400m hurdler Rhys The other semi-final is an Men’s 4000M individual pursuit Gold: Jack Bobridge (AUS); Silver: Alex Williams, son of 1970s Wales all New Zealand clash between Edmondson (AUS); Bronze: Marc Ryan (NZL) and British Lion rugby icon Edward Dawkins and Sam Men’s sprint ‘JJ’, was withdrawn from the Webster Gold: Sam Webster (NZL); Silver: Jason Kenny Commonwealth Games after fail- But there was bitter disap- (ENG); Bronze: Eddie Dawkins (NZL) ing a doping test. pointment for Kenny’s girlfriend SHOOTING It was the second failed doping Laura Trott who could only place Women’s 10M Air Pistol test to hit the Wales team follow- sixth in qualifying for the wom- Gold: Teo Shun Xie (SIN); Silver: Malaika Goel ing that of 800m runner Gareth en’s individual pursuit after set- (IND); Bronze: Dorothy Ludwig (CAN) Warburton last week. ting a new Commonwealth Games Men’s 10M Air Rifle The 30-year-old Williams, who record in qualifying. Gold: Abhinav Bindra (IND); Silver: Abdullah had been named co-captain of his Fastest time went to English Baki (BAN); Bronze: Daniel Rivers (ENG) country’s team and had been due world champion Joanna Rowsell, Women’s skeet to have run in the 400m hurdles, who overtook New Zealand’s Gold: Laura Coles (AUS); Silver: Elena Allen said he had been left “devastated” Lauren Ellis in the last pair as (WAL); Bronze: Andri Eleftherious (CYP) by the news of his positive test. she clocked three minutes 29.038 RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS “I am utterly devastated about seconds. Individual All-Around 1. Patricia Bezzoubenko (CAN); 2. Francesca the news of this anti-doping rule New Zealand’s men brought a Jones (WAL); 3. Laura Halford (WAL) violation, which has come as a 12-year gold medal drought on the Papua New Guinea’s silver medalist Dika Toua competing in the women’s weightlifting 53kg class, during the JUDO great shock to me,” he said. Commonwealth Games track to 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, yesterday. RIGHT: Australia’s Leiston Pickett (right) leads Jamaica’s Alia Women -63kg In competition, the Australian Atkinson in the women’s 50m breastroke final at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre. an end with victory in the team Gold: Sarah Clark (SCO); Silver: Helene Wezeu men’s 4x100m freestyle relay sprint and could add more in the Dombeu (CMR); Bronze: Katie-Jemima Yeats- team solidified their status as 4,000m individual pursuit. Brown (ENG) and Faith Pitman (ENG). heavy favourites to retain the title 100m S8 final. England’s Fran “It’s pretty good, it’s my fast- Adam Peaty who comfortably led Veteran Marc Ryan remains Men -73kg as they qualified fastest ahead of Halsall, however, set a new est time of the year so it was a the world class field in the 100m a quality performer shown Gold: Danny Williams (ENG); Silver: Adrian England and Scotland for the Commonwealth Games record of nice way to start the Games,” said breaststroke as he broke the by his bronze in the World Leat (NZL); Bronze: Jake Bensted (AUS) and final later yesterday. 24:31sec in qualifying fastest for Halsall ahead of the semi-finals. Commonwealth Games record in Championships in Colombia in Jacques van Zyl (RSA). There was also a comfortable the semi-finals of the women’s Scotland’s Ross Murdoch also a time of 59:47sec. February and he is likely to be Men’s -81kg passage into the semi-finals of 50m freestyle ahead of Australian built on his dream opening day as Australia ended the opening joined by youngsters Patrick Gold: Owen Livesey (ENG); Silver: Tom Reed (ENG); Bronze: Boas Munyonga (ZAM) and the women’s 100m backstroke for sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell just over 12 hours after claiming day of the Games atop the med- Bevin and Dylan Kennett, who Jonah Burt (CAN). another Aussie as Emily Seebholm on Friday. 200m breaststroke gold, he quali- als table with six golds ahead are tipped as ones to watch. Women’s -70kg broke her own Commonwealth The Campbell sisters had been fied second fastest for the 100m of England on five and hosts New Zealand start their cam- Gold: Megan Fletcher (ENG); Silver: Moira de Games record from Delhi four part of the Aussie 4x100m free- breaststroke semi-finals. Scotland with four. paign for a third successive net- Villiers (NZL); Bronze: Alix Renaud-Roy (CAN) years ago in a time of 59:51sec. style relay team that broke the “I took me a little bit of time to In cycling, where four golds ball gold while men’s boxing also and Sally Conway (SCO). And Australia’s Maddison world record in claiming gold on get over what I did last night and were up for grabs on the track, starts with bouts in the ban- WEIGHTLIFTING Elliott pipped Stephanie Slater Thursday and Bronte was first to finally get some rest but I eventu- English Olympic champion Jason tamweight, welterweight, super Women 53kg of England to qualify fastest for break the Commonwealth record ally got to sleep,” said Murdoch. Kenny, who claimed silver in heavyweight, flyweight and light Gold: Chika Amalaha (NGR); Silver: Dika Toua the women’s para-sport freestyle in the third heat of the day. However, it was England’s the team sprint event on the heavyweight divisions. AFP (PNG); Bronze: Santoshi Matsa (IND). Wiggins shifts focus on Australia, NZ dominate cycling Rio 2016 after silver GLASGOW: Oceanic pow- team-mate and world champion erhouses Australia and New Alex Edmonson in the final. GLASGOW: Bradley Wiggins Sky for Tour de France. And the Zealand added to their already “It was awesome to race him. has set his sights on claiming 2012 Tour de France winner says impressive Commonwealth He’s like a brother to me now and gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016 he will focus on the track as he Games cycling medal hauls with we are going to be together right after losing out to Australia in aims to claim a fifth Olympic gold another dominant day on the through to Rio (2016 Olympics) the final of the men’s team pur- in Rio. track yesterday. and hopefully beyond,” Bobridge suit in Glasgow. “I think we’re disappointed but Australia’s Jack Bobridge said of his compatriot. The Australian quartet of Jack in hindsight we will look back on claimed his second gold of the New Zealand claimed bronze Bobridge, Luke Davison, Alex this and think this was the start of Games as he retained his men’s as veteran Marc Ryan powered Edmondson and Glenn O’Shea things for us,” Wiggins said. 4000m individual pursuit title to home ahead of Owain Doull from set a new Commonwealth record “Over the next two years Rio is add to the team pursuit gold he Wales. on their way to beating England. the goal and we’re going to work won on Thursday. There was more success for Wiggins, making his return to back from that target. “It was a fantastic honour to the Kiwis as Sam Webster won The men’s 4000m individual pursuit bronze medalist, New Zealand’s Marc track cycling for the first time “It takes four people to be on a come back to the track guys and a thrilling men’s sprint final Ryan, men’s sprint semi-final gold and bronze medalists, Sam Webster since 2008, couldn’t inspire his par and we’ve all had such differ- try and defend my two titles from against England’s Jason Kenny. and Edward Dawkins, pose with their national flag, yesterday. team-mates of Ed Clancy, Andy ent preparations this year.” Delhi and I am over the moon to Webster, who defeated team- Tennant and Steven Burke to vic- “Catching the Australians is be able to do it,” said Bobridge, mate Marc Ryan in the semi- tory as the 34-year-old collected not going to be easy, we’ve got who only had two weeks of final, claimed first blood with a decisive third heat to collect his was dominant but conservative,” the fourth silver medal of his our work cut out because they set training on the track before the runaway victory in the first heat second gold of the Games fol- Webster said. Commonwealth Games career. the standard once again,” he said Games. before Kenny levelled following a lowing New Zealand’s win in the Scotland won its first track Four-time Olympic champion before showing optimism. “To walk away with two golds photo finish in the second. team sprint on Thursday. cycling gold medal as world cham- Wiggins only made the decision to “But we’ve been in that position again is amazing.” However, the 23-year-old, who “After yesterday I was really pion Neil Fachie and pilot Craig compete in the Games four weeks before and it’s not a bad position.” The world record holder fin- claimed bronze medal in Delhi, happy with how I came into the MacLean won the para-sport ago after being dropped by Team AFP ished nearly five seconds ahead of powered home to victory in the individual sprint. I felt like I 1000m time trial tandem. AFP England, India sail in table tennis Malaysia’s David cruises into quarter-finals GLASGOW: Third and fourth over Wales with a 3-0 win over seeds England and India main- Mauritius and they are joined in tained their strong starts to the knock-out phase by Wales GLASGOW: Malaysia’s world have the whole Malaysia crew the women’s table tennis at the after their 3-0 win over Vanuatu. number one Nicol David cheering me on is always great. Commonwealth Games yester- Twelve years after she won cruised into the quarter-finals New Zealander Joelle King day, following Singapore and gold in the women’s singles in of the women’s squash at the secured her place in the quarter- Australia into the knock-out Manchester, Li Chunli, 54, and Commonwealth Games yes- finals with a four-game win over phase with near perfect records. team-mate Sun Yang believes the terday with a three-game vic- India’s Joshana Chinappa. With smaller pools of three veteran has made a significant tory over New Zealand’s Megan The world number four took a teams, Singapore and Australia difference. Craig. two-game lead with 11-3 and 11-8 confirmed progression from their Malaysia and Canada also pro- David, the world’s top player wins but Chinappa, ranked 11 in pools on the opening day. gressed to the knock-out stages since 2006, made it through to the world, fought back to win the They were joined by an from Pool F. the last eight with an 11-7, 11-6, third 11-8. England team that picked up its With their qualification 11-5 win. But despite some over-zealous third successive 3-0 win, beating already sealed, Singapore’s men “It was good to be out there support for her opponent from Tanzania after earlier victories completed a perfect start to the playing better squash,” she said. the crowd, King gathered herself against Ghana and Trinidad and tournament with a third straight “Megan has been playing well to respond and win the fourth Tobago. 3-0 win, backing up victories and it was my first time playing game 11-5. India followed up a 3-0 win against Ghana and Sri Lanka her so it’s good to just get a feel King won gold in the women’s over Barbados and a 3-1 victory with a win over Seychelles ear- of how she plays in the first game doubles and silver in the mixed against Nigeria with a 3-0 suc- lier in the event. and then I got my bearings on the doubles in Delhi four years ago cess against Kenya in their final Second seeds England beat court, just feeling the court better and the third seed felt the match Pool D match and they are fol- Barbados 3-0 to follow up their as the match went on so I was was a good test of her game and Scotland’s Gillian Edwards serves the ball during her individual match against lowed through by Nigeria, who victories over Jamaica and really pleased with that.” mental strength. Guyana’s Chelsea Edgehill in the women’s table tennis preliminary round at beat Barbados 3-0. Trinidad and Tobago by the same “It’s fantastic to see, even from The rest of the women’s round the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, yesterday. New Zealand followed up scoreline. the first round and the crowds of 16 and the men’s round were their memorable 3-2 victory AFP just keep getting better and to scheduled later in the day. AFP JULY 26, 2014 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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Arizona Universities extracted to the 18th century,” NASA knocked out power across Quebec, Next are the coronal mass ejec- a protein complex from spinach said. scientists said. tions, billion-ton clouds of mag- called Photosystem-II. Once the Salzburg Festival kicks off The extreme space weather “I have come away from our netized plasma that take a day proteins were carefully extracted, SALZBURG: Budget problems and widely publicised management that tore through Earth’s orbit recent studies more convinced or more to cross the Sun-Earth the team excited them with a laser disputes: the Salzburg Festival, one of the world’s top opera events on July 23, 2012, was the most than ever that Earth and its divide. and recorded changes in the elec- which kicks off this weekend, has seen almost as much drama powerful in 150 years, according inhabitants were incredibly for- These are often deflected by tron configuration of their mol- behind the scenes as on stage in recent years. to a statement posted on the US tunate that the 2012 eruption Earth’s magnetic shield, but a ecules. These proteins required For the next month, the Austrian city and birthplace of Mozart will space agency website Wednesday. happened when it did,” said Baker. direct hit could be devastating. light to work so the laser acted as again welcome the cream of the music world, with singers like Anna However, few Earthlings had The National Academy of There is a 12 percent chance of the Sun in this experiment. Netrebko and Placido Domingo, pianist Lang Lang and conductors any idea what was going on. Sciences has said the economic a super solar storm the size of the Once the proteins started Zubin Mehta and Sir Simon Rattle performing a rich programme of “If the eruption had occurred impact of a storm like the one in Carrington event hitting Earth working, researchers used opera, theatre and concerts. only one week earlier, Earth 1859 could cost the modern econ- in the next 10 years, accord- advanced techniques like elec- But the festival’s internal problems have made just as many headlines would have been in the line of omy more than two trillion dollars ing to physicist Pete Riley, who tron paramagnetic resonance and ever since the arrival in 2012 of artistic director Alexander Pereira, fire,” said Daniel Baker, professor and cause damage that might take published a paper in the journal X-ray spectroscopy to observe who will now leave after just three stormy years at the helm. of atmospheric and space physics years to repair. Space Weather earlier this year how the electronic structure of The Austrian — who now heads to Milan’s La Scala — greatly at the University of Colorado. Experts say solar storms can on the topic. the molecules changes over time expanded the festival’s programme, but also leaves a serious financial Instead the storm cloud hit the cause widespread power black- His research was based on an as they performed their functions. gap in his wake. STEREO-A spacecraft, a solar outs, disabling everything from analysis of solar storm records “The proteins we study are Under the 66-year-old Pereira, the festival gained a two-week observatory that is “almost ideally radio to GPS communications to going back 50 years. part of the most efficient system “Ouverture Spirituelle”, dedicated to religious music from around equipped to measure the parame- water supplies -- most of which “Initially, I was quite surprised ever built, capable of converting the world, ahead of the main opera programme. ters of such an event,” NASA said. rely on electric pumps. that the odds were so high, but energy from the Sun into chemi- The number of performances rose and so did the number of visi- Scientists have analyzed the They begin with an explosion the statistics appear to be cor- cal energy with an unrivalled tors — Pereira insisted this was necessary to renew a festival that was treasure trove of data it col- on the Sun’s surface, known as rect,” said Riley. 60 percent efficiency,” explained becoming “increasingly inconspicuous”. lected and concluded that it a solar flare, sending X-rays and “It is a sobering figure.” Yulia Pushkar from Purdue AFP would have been comparable to extreme UV radiation toward AFP University. 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HONG KONG: Fans dressed The Xbox One will launch in were first launched in the US and as Transformers, Iron Man and China in September, the first other markets in late 2013. Jedi knights were among thou- games console to be officially For 19-year-old Hong Konger sands at the first day of Hong released on the mainland after Kaze Wong, dressed in the Kong’s comic and games expo Beijing lifted a ban on the devices, brown-and-white robes of a Star yesterday, where Xbox and which it had imposed in 2000. Wars’ Jedi knight, the expo was PlayStation went head-to-head The console went on sale in a chance to share his enthusiasm with their new consoles. Hong Kong yesterday and is for the legendary American film The Ani-Com show at the city’s also set to launch in Japan in franchise. harbourside convention centre is September. “We want to help Hong one of the biggest of its kind in “We have superior gaming Kongers familiarise themselves Asia and was packed with teen- experience,” Microsoft head of with science fiction characters agers, many of them in coloured marketing Anna Chow told AFP, from the US — a lot of people are wigs and costumes mimicking highlighting the Xbox’s voice more interested in the Japanese their favourite Japanese comic command function and Kinect comic characters” Wong said, as book heroes. motion detection system. he and half a dozen other ‘Jedi’ While some lined up for lim- But Sony — exhibiting at Ani- posed waving toy lightsabers. ited edition toys and figures, Com for the first time — was con- Production for the new “Star hundreds of gaming aficionados fident it would remain dominant Wars: Episode VII” movie began queued at Sony and Microsoft’s in the Asia market. in May with many of the lead booths to try the games giants’ “We are a very popular brand actors from the original film latest launches. in Hong Kong and in Asian coun- making a return. The latest Sony was showcasing the tries... the feedback from our installment is due for worldwide PlayStation 4 and much-antic- customers is very positive,” Sony release on December 18, 2015. ipated racing game, ‘Driveclub’ Entertainment public relations Ani-Com, which saw almost Participants wearing costumes depicting their favourite characters, a trend known as Cosplay, wait to get on while US rival Microsoft was manager Jessie Chan told AFP. 730,000 visitors in 2013, runs stage at the 16th Ani-Com and Games exhibition in Hong Kong yesterday. promoting its Xbox One console. Both the PS4 and Xbox One until July 29. AFP