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TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 • 23 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6428 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 No reprieve UN failures abetting crises: PM from traffic No peace in region until Israeli occupation ends, 15th Doha Forum told jams for four

DOHA: The failure of UN years: Official Security Council to press for sanctions on Israel, as it did DOHA: Motorists should not with some other countries, expect any reprieve from the reflects its double standards, frustrating traffic jams on the Prime Minister and Interior city roads in at least four years to Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah come, warns a top traffic official. bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani “It wouldn’t take less than said yesterday. four years for the traffic The Prime Minister said that snarls on Doha roads to ease,” the inability of UN Security Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Council to resolve several dis- Kharji, Director of the Traffic putes has resulted in the failure Department, told Al Sharq. of the collective security system He said while Al Rayyan road and this would lead to creation upgrade project, which is part of of an environment favourable to the Expressway Programme was violence and instability. going to be completed soon on He was addressing the 15th time, the Lusail City project will Doha Forum and Enriching the take two years to finish. Middle East’s Economic Future The Sharq Crossing Conference, which Deputy Emir Programme (which comprises H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad West Bay Bridge, Cultural City Al Thani opened at the Doha Bridge, Sharq Bridge and sub- Sheraton last evening. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and merged tunnel links) is expected The Prime Minister said other dignitaries at the 15th Doha Forum and Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future Conference at Doha Sheraton yesterday. to be completed in 2018. that it was regrettable that the Unless these projects are over Security Council did not shoul- committed. This reflects the independent State, with Al Quds number of other dignitaries. take the necessary legal measures traffic jams will continue on the der its legal and moral responsi- double standards in dealing with Al Sharif as its capital on the 1967 H E Sheikh Abdullah bin to preserve the security of the roads in Doha, the daily quoted Al bilities to maintain international peoples’ issues, and is contrary to borders in accordance with the Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani said Syrian people and realise their Kharji as saying. peace and security and to put an international law and costs the legitimate Arab and international that the international community, legitimate aspiration according to New vehicles are coming on the end to settlements, oppression international community its cred- decisions. especially the Security Council Geneva 1 conference’s decisions. roads in large numbers by the day and destruction, arrests and ibility,” he said. The opening ceremony was has also failed to end the Syrian The Prime Minister stressed and the roads with limited capacity siege pursued by Israel. The Prime Minister pointed also attended by Advisory Council crisis despite the continued suf- that the phenomenon of terror- are unable to accommodate them. “The Council did nothing out that there will be no peace Speaker Mohamed bin Mubarak fering of the Syrian people due ism poses a real threat to inter- “So efforts are being made to ease towards these Israeli practices and stability in the region until Al Khulaifi, Iraqi Vice-President to the destruction, genocide and national peace and security and congestions on the roads.” He urged and did not press or threaten there is an end to Israeli occu- Iyad Allawi, Somali Prime displacement carried out by the damages the economies of target office-goers to not use their cars in to impose sanctions on Israel, pation and giving the Palestinian Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Syrian regime. countries. Al Dafna area and instead use free as it did with other countries people their rights, including Sharmarke, Former President of He called on the Security Council Continued on page 2 bus shuttle services. where less aggressive acts were the right to establish their own Tunisia Moncef Marzouki and a to shoulder its responsibilities and THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Illegal visa trade to stop after online wage transfer: NHRC

DOHA: Qatar’s human rights transferring workers’ salaries their workers and payments made watchdog says it hopes the ille- online. “There will be no escape to them. The aim of the new sys- gal trade in work visas would for any company after that, and tem would be to stop irregularities end once companies begin pay- once every company begins paying in the local job market. ing salaries to all their workers all its workers online, bogus com- Hwail said it was the NHRC through banking channels. panies that sell work visas will be which had demanded from the The National Human Rights exposed.” government few years ago to Committee (NHRC) says it is These are the firms that sell make it mandatory for every eagerly waiting to closely moni- visas. Workers arrive here on worker in the country to be paid tor private companies transfer- such visas and then they are through banking channels. ring workers’ pay online once the left abandoned, Hwail told local The idea was to make sure that wage protection system (WPS) is Arabic daily Al Raya in remarks workers are paid on time. “With in place. “Companies have been published yesterday. the WPS in place, we at the given six months’ time to com- However, once the WPS is in NHRC also hope that workers’ ply with the new system after a force, these fake companies that complaints lodged with us would WPS law was issued recently,” thrive on the illegal visa trade drastically reduce drastically in said Jaber Al Hwail. would cease to exist as they number,” he said. Hwail hinted A huge explosion rocks military weapon depots controlled by the Houthis in Sana’a yesterday. Al Hwail, head of legal affairs at wouldn’t be able to pay their work- that most worker complaints the NHRC, said the six months’ ers online. The companies will also filed at the NHRC were regard- deadline was to end soon, after be required to periodically submit ing delayed wage payment. Warplane missing; raids heat up which companies must begin reports citing details of salaries of THE PENINSULA

SANA’A: Yemeni rebels said wreckage of a plane bearing a areas killed six civilians, includ- yesterday that they shot down Moroccan flag. ing three women and a child. a fighter jet as Saudi-led coali- Moroccan state media said Residents reported three hours Restaurant fined QR32,000; tion air strikes intensified a day contact was lost with the F-16 of continuous air raids on the city. Al Jazeera sued ahead of a hoped-for five-day late on Sunday afternoon, and “a In Aden, at least 19 people 3 months closure ordered humanitarian truce. second plane flying in formation were killed and 93 were wounded, for $100m Morocco announced that one was not able to see whether the including women and children, in DOHA: In a first, a court here has fined a famous Turkish res- of its warplanes taking part in pilot ejected”. The Houthis said on fighting on Sunday between rebels CAIRO: An Al Jazeera televi- taurant QR32,000 and ordered its closure for three months and operations against the rebels was television that there were “more and supporters of exiled President sion journalist on trial in Egypt sentenced five of its employees to jail for varying terms after they missing along with its pilot, and than 20 raids since the morning” Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. has filed a lawsuit in a Canadian were found guilty of serving stale food that led to food poisoning. that a search was under way. by coalition aircraft across Saada. Elsewhere, a Pakistani and a court accusing his employer of All the five staff members of Marmara Istanbul Restaurant Coalition air strikes hit Iran- The coalition has declared the Saudi were killed when the Saudi negligence and has demanded in Bin Omran neighbourhood will be deported after serving backed rebels in their northern entire rebel stronghold of Saada border area came under renewed $100m in compensation, his their jail term. Among those convicted are the manager who has stronghold of Saada and in Sana’a, province to be a military target bombardment from Yemen, state lawyer said yesterday. been sentenced to three months in jail and given a fine of QR10,000, where they sparked powerful after Houthi bombardment of media said. Mohamed Fahmy, who spent three others have been ordered to spend a month in jail and pay explosions at an arms depot that Saudi towns across the border The latest violence comes ahead more than 400 days in a Cairo a fine of QR7,000 each and another staffer who didn’t have health shook the city. caused several deaths. of a five-day truce Riyadh has jail on charges of aiding a ter- certificate has been jailed for a month and fined QR8,000. Officials said the twin strikes Aid agencies say some 70,000 offered to start from 11pm (2000 rorist organisation, suggested The matter will go in appeal, it is understood. Among the vic- in Sana’a left five people dead civilians have fled the province, but GMT) today to enable aid deliver- Al Jazeera’s actions had landed tims of the food poisoning was a seven months’ pregnant woman and 20 wounded, while witnesses that many more remain trapped by ies. It would be the first pause in him in jail. Fahmy is a natural- who was rushed to hospital and she gave birth prematurely. said huge explosions sent artillery the bombardment because of a lack air raids since the coalition cam- ised Canadian who gave up his The incident had occurred late last October and the Ministry of pieces flying, with one crashing of fuel for transport. paign began on March 26. Saudi Egyptian citizenship. Municipality and Urban Planning had closed the outlet as pun- onto a residential building. Seven consecutive air strikes Arabia has stressed the offer is “It’s sad to see Fahmy and his ishment for two months. Houthi rebel television said hit rebel positions in the south- conditional on the rebels recip- lawyer repeating criticisms of Al Some 20 people, including the pregnant woman, her husband and tribesmen shot down a coalition ern province of Shabwa, residents rocating and not exploiting the Jazeera made by the Egyptian two children, took ill after eating food from the restaurant. The trial aircraft in the Wadi Nushur area said. Fighting intensified in Taez, ceasefire for military advantage. authorities,” said an Al Jazeera in an environmental misdemeanours court began last November and of Saada, and broadcast pictures where a Red Crescent official said AFP spokesman. the verdict has come in a little over six months. THE PENINSULA of them celebrating around the rebel mortar fire on residential See also page 9 REUTERS TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Deputy Emir Emir issues three decrees meets heads DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued yesterday Decree No. 27 of 2015 ratifying a Memorandum of delegations of Understanding in the tourism sector between Qatar and Croatia. The Memorandum was signed in Doha on 8/2/2010. DOHA: Deputy Emir H H Emir also issued Decree No. 28 of 2015 ratifying a cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al agreement in the security field signed with Azerbaijan. The agree- Thani met a number of heads ment was signed in Doha on 20/10/2014. of delegation participating in Additionally, the Emir issued Decree No. 29 of 2015 ratifying an the 15th Doha Forum and the agreement regarding a joint supreme strategic committee with Enriching the Middle East’s Turkey. The agreement was signed in Ankara on 19/12/2014. The Economic Future Conference decrees will have the power of a law in accordance to article 68 of which began at Sheraton Doha the constitution. Emir also issued law No. 7 of 2015 amending some yesterday. provisions of Decree No. 17 of 2009 concerning setting up a Qatari Deputy Emir met Iraqi Vice- company to manage ports. The law is effective starting from its President Iyad Allawi, Somali date of publication in the official gazette. Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke and former presi- dent of Tunisia Moncef Marzouki. Emir ratifies six agreements Talks focused on bilateral relations and means of enhanc- DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued ing them, in addition to review- instruments of ratification for a total of six agreements. ing topics to be discussed during The first instrument of ratification was issued approving a coop- the Doha Forum. The meetings eration agreement in the legal field between Qatar and Ecuador. were attended by Prime Minister The agreement was signed in Quito on 16/2/2013. and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Emir also ratified a cooperation agreement in the field of educa- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa tion, higher education and scientific research between Qatar and Al Thani. Kyrgyzstan. The agreement was signed in Doha 22/9/2014 Deputy Prime Minister and The third instrument of ratification approved a cooperation Minister of State for Cabinet agreement in economic, technical and scientific field between Qatar Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al and Costa Rica. The agreement was signed in Doha on 1/4/2014. Mahmoud met here yesterday with Emir issued a fourth instrument of ratification approving an the UN Development Programme agreement between Qatar and Fiji on avoiding tax duplication and Administrator Helen Clark. Prevention of Fiscal Evasion related to income tax. The agreement They discussed cooperation was signed in Doha on 17/6/2013. Emir signed a fifth instrument of between Qatar and the United ratification on the same issue that was signed with Latvia in New Nations Development Programme York on 26/9/2014. The final instrument of ratification was also on in the development and recon- avoiding tax duplication and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion related struction projects in Darfur and to income tax signed with Gambia. Emir also ratified yesterday cooperation in accordance with the cabinet decision No. 23 of 2015 amending some provisions of law agreement between the two par- Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with Iraqi Vice-President Iyad Allawi during Doha Forum No. 34 expropriating some real estate for public use. QNA ties. QNA and Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future Conference at Sheraton Doha yesterday. Don’t equate fight for freedom with terrorism: PM

Continued from page 1 Terrorism hinders sustainable development of nations, he said, pointing to the events which took place recently in many countries in the Middle East and the world and claiming lives of innocent peo- ple and disrupting the process of development. “More than ever, the interna- tional community is required to strengthen cooperation to eliminate this phenomenon by tackling the roots of organised violence repre- sented in extreme poverty, blatant non-equality and disrespect for human rights as well as political and sectarian exclusion,” said the Prime Minister. He said if fighting against ter- rorism is confined to security and military solutions, peace will remain an unachievable mission. He added that there must be a clear distinction between terrorism Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with former president of Tunisia Moncef Marzouki. and the legitimate rights of people in the struggle for freedom and legiti- mate rights. The Prime Minister said that realising peoples’ aspirations leads to provision of security as well as political and social stability, thus achieving comprehensive develop- ment. This requires large invest- ments which are not accessible to poor countries. He said Qatar has fulfilled all its international commitments in development assistance to the coun- tries of the region and the world. Concluding his speech, the Prime Minister said: “We are aware of the great impor- tance of the issues and topics to be discussed in this forum, and we look Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser forward to its positive and fruitful bin Khalifa Al Thani addressing the 15th Doha Forum and Enriching the results.” Middle East’s Economic Future Conference at Sheraton Doha yesterday. Al Sharq THE PENINSULA Editor-in-chief of Jaber Al Harami (left) at the Doha Forum. SYED OMAR 40pc professionals unhappy with income: Survey

DOHA: Some 40 percent of in Qatar (34 percent) who receive earn. For 25 percent, however, grew by more than 20 percent. In the next 12 months, 52 per- regular investments (at least Qatar-based professionals are a basic salary along with other that is just not the case. Other These Qatar respondents who cent of Qatar professionals intend once a month), with property (27 unhappy with their income, benefits, the basic salary consists variables that drive Qatar profes- mentioned that the cost of living to look for a better job in the same percent) being the most popular compared to just four percent of 25-50 percent of their monthly sionals’ loyalty to their company increased attribute it to increases industry, while 25 percent aim to investment product. who say they are highly satis- salary package, while for 40 per- include opportunities for long- in the cost of rent (74 percent), find one in another industry. 66 While almost half (44 percent) fied with what they earn, shows cent their basic salary represents term career advancement (40 food and beverages (69 percent), percent believe that salaries in of Qatar respondents already a survey. 51-75 percent of their overall percent) and their line manager and utilities (28 percent). 80 per- Qatar are increasing. own a home, 30 percent of Qatar More than third (38 percent) of monthly income. (30 percent). cent of Qatar respondents expect As for the factors causing sala- respondents who currently do not respondents said they did not get Some 51 of Qatar profession- In Qatar, 75 percent of respond- that the cost of living will con- ries to increase, respondents in own a home would like to own a pay raise in 2014, and for those als surveyed said they were quite ents receive an end-of-service tinue to soar throughout the year. the Qatar think that these include one in their country of residence. who did, 27 percent were either unhappy or very unhappy with gratuity and a mere 3 percent get The increased cost of living has, inflation/rise in cost of living (53 Another 70 percent aspire to own very or modestly happy with the their raise. Almost a quarter (22 pension upon retirement. 23 per- in turn, hampered these profes- percent) and opportunity and a home in their home country. raise. percent) of Qatar respondents cent have access to other forms sionals’ ability to save: 19 percent economic growth (27 percent). On According to a quarter of Qatar A 2015 Bayt.com MENA Salary do not expect to receive a salary of end-of-service benefits or none of Qatar respondents admit that the other hand, the elements that respondents, the average length of Survey, conducted by Bayt.com, increase in 2015, while 33 percent at all. they save nothing from their are hindering pay rises are poor time that they have held a job for the Middle East’s famous job said they expected a raise of up to More than one third of Qatar monthly salary. Still, 74 percent of corporate performance/decreased is at least six years. site, and market research agency, 15 percent. professionals (38 percent) have expats in Qatar manage to repat- profitability (21 percent) and a Data for the 2015 Bayt.com YouGov, has found that more The most common benefits access to medical insurance riate a portion of their salary to bad economy (24 percent) MENA Salary Survey was col- than half of Qatar professionals offered by companies in Qatar are for themselves – through their their home country. “The 2015 Bayt.com MENA lected online from March are expecting a salary increase personal annual air ticket (45 per- company – while 14 percent are Despite Qatar’s high cost of liv- Salary Survey indicates that 30-April 6 2015. Results are based in 2015. cent) and personal medical insur- also offered coverage for their ing, 53 percent of Qatar respond- there is a growing gap between on a sample of 12,158 respondents. Some 59 percent of respondents ance (38 percent). dependents. ents say that they are better off, the cost of living in Qatar and Countries that participated are said they receive a basic salary Sixty percent of Qatar respond- A staggering 85 percent of in terms of quality of life, when salary earnings and propensity to the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, with benefits; another 12 percent ents recognise that their loyalty Qatar respondents have seen compared to other people of a save,” said Suhail Al Masri, VP Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, are also entitled to commissions. to their company is, on some level, the cost of living rise in 2014, similar generation in their coun- of Sales, Bayt.com. Only 23 per- Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, For over a third of respondents based on the salary that they with 27 percent saying that it try of residence. cent of Qatar respondents make and Tunisia. THE PENINSULA HOME TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir receives Pakistan military chief

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan Gen Rashad Mahmood at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. Poor quality: 361,400 tonnes of imported food destroyed Five quality check-up units at three entry ports

DOHA: Food imports totalled on imported foodstuff are con- 200,000 tons arrived through the more than 933,000 tonnes in ducted as per Law Number 8 of land customs check post of Abu Qatar in the first three months 1990 and GCC technical specifica- Samra. of this year, and only a smaller tions and regulations. Barely 14,500 tonnes arrived part of the stocks (1,181 tonnes The Council took 2,774 samples by air cargo, through the air- or 0.13 percent) was rejected. from the imported food stocks, port customs, and these stocks At least 361,400 tonnes of the estimated to be more than a 100 mostly comprised perishable imports were destroyed due to items, and sent them for lab tests. foodstuff and food items imported substandard quality, apex pub- Some 2,560 of these samples directly by star hotels and top- lic health agency, the Supreme were found fit while 214 of them, end restaurants. Council of Health (SCH), said. or 9.6 percent, unfit for several Milk and other dairy products The SCH said it has installed reasons, not necessarily because as well as sweets were mostly world-class equipment and sys- they were of bad quality. the items imported by air cargo tems at all the ports of arrival of For instance, many a time the that were rejected, while edible imported food stocks for strict validity of a food item in the place oil, sauces of different types and quality checks. “We have five food of origin or in other countries juices that arrived through Abu quality checkup units at the three where it is exported is for two to Samra land post were rejected. ports of entry of food imports three years while in Qatar it is Among the rejected items that (land, sea and airport),” the SCH just a year. arrived by sea most was meat. said in a release. A vast majority of the imports Most imports through Abu Some 820,400 tonnes of the (720,000 tons of a total of 933,000 Samra came from the neighbor- imported food were re-exported. tons) came through the sea via ing GCC states, the SCH release The SCH said the quality checks the port, while a little less than said. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Foreign Minister Roads around new meets UN Chief

NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Qatar National H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah held a meeting with Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon at Museum open the UN Headquarters in New York. During the meeting, they DOHA: Roads around the new and to the museum and the discussed key developments in Qatar National Museum is commercial and residential the region, including the ques- now open for traffic, the Public places nearby. tion of Palestine and the situa- Works Authority — Ashghal — The project also provides new tion in Yemen, Syria and Libya. said yesterday. street lighting, car parking, safe Foreign Minister highlighted The QR79m project is located pedestrian crossings, and cycle the efforts of the Gulf Cooperation at the intersection of Doha paths. Council (GCC) to back a politi- Corniche with Ras Abu Abboud The works also included infra- cal solution in Yemen, noting the Street. structure development for the importance of the meeting called As part of the project, an inte- museum area, such as construc- by President of Yemen Abdrabuh grated road network was con- tion of an advanced wastewater Mansur Hadi in Riyadh to which structed to ensure smooth traffic system, irrigation systems and various Yemeni parties were in the Qatar National Museum general utilities services includ- invited. He also stressed the area, providing efficient links to ing electrical lines, drinking importance of all parties’ accept- the surrounding main roads. water, telecommunications lines, ance to the invitation as well as The project included rede- and intelligent transportation the role of the United Nations and signing and constructing of systems. to commit all parties to imple- roads surrounding the museum The development of roads and ment the Security Council’s and converting them from one infrastructure in Qatar National resolution 2216. Al Attiyah also lane to two lanes in each direc- Museum Peripheral Roads project pointed to the humanitarian tion, as well as providing spe- is part of Ashghal’s Local Roads assistance provided by the State cific entrances and exits to and Drainage programme. of Qatar to the Yemeni people. facilitate visitors’ access from THE PENINSULA The flow of traffic after the opening of a road near Qatar National Museum. QNA Experts share road safety plans Two-day Vision Zero Qatar-Sweden conference concludes

DOHA: The Vision Zero Qatar-Sweden conference concluded yesterday with a wide range of road safety plans. The final day of the two-day conference featured PowerTalks on relevant topics about road safety and traffic medicine. Dr Lars Englund, Chief Medical Officer of Road and Rail Department, Swedish Transport Agency and Chairman of ITMA (Sweden) discussed “The Concept of Traffic Medicine and the ITMA perspective.” He said that there are over Participants at the Vision Zero Qatar-Sweden conference, which concluded yesterday. four million people in the world dying due to car accidents, (ITMA) Congress in November “Introduction to TrMC, He said that the Qatari strate- which is more than deaths due this year. The event, she said, is Driving assessment for differ- gic planning has achieved great to infectious diseases such as global gathering of experts from ent patient populations,” Dr success beyond the expectation malaria or heart disease. “Many different disciplines in the fields Catarina Lundberg, Head of that helped to considerably countries are exposed to fatal of medicine, traffic and roads. Traffic Medicine Centre (TrMC), reduce the number of deaths traffic accidents, and in Sweden Dr Ahmad Zarour, Senior Karolinska University Hospital in and road accidents. we try to get as much as possible Consultant at Trauma Sweden, discussed other aspects Other topics discussed were to the best way for the safety of Department, Hamad Medical which affect driving such as eye STRADA (Swedish Traffic vehicles, as we would like to share Corporation who presented diseases, ability to see in the dark, Accident Data Acquisition), this with Qatar,” he added. “Trauma Department Statistics” and other medical conditions such Emergency Services in Qatar, Dr Wafa Al Yazidi, Director said accident injuries are a big as shock diabetes. She stressed General Overview of Qatar: of Medical Rehabilitation at problem that affects more than neurological problems may affect Qatar as a Fast Developing Hamad Medical Corporation five million people a year around one’s efficiency in driving. Country, Human centered traf- said that the traffic medicine the world and that 10 percent Lieutenant Fahad Mubarak fic safety research, Simulator is a field of medicine used in of these injuries may result to Al Abdulla from the Traffic based research on driver assess- the developed countries but is 10 percent of deaths around the Department at the Ministry ment and adaptation evaluation, not common in the Arab world. world. In every five seconds one of Interior presented his paper and Introduction to the National She announced that Doha would person dies because of serious on “Crash Statistics in Qatar; Traffic Safety Committee: A host the 24th International road accidents, he said. Introduction to One Second Snapshot of Road Safety in Traffic Medicine Association Speaking on the topic National Road Safety Brand”. Qatar. THE PENINSULA

WISH partners with Philips for healthcare innovation

DOHA: World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), has part- nered with Royal Philips, a diversified health and well- being company, to improve the lives of people through meaningful innovation. As part of WISH’s continued efforts to inspire and diffuse healthcare innovation and best practice, the partnership supports the vision and mission of Qatar Foundation to drive innovation and serve to underscore Qatar’s pioneering role as an emerging centre for healthcare innovation. Philips recently delivered two projects to leading healthcare providers in Qatar that focuses on improving all aspects of the patient and staff experience. Philips has a unique approach to rapid innovation that uses empathy- mapping and co-creation to ensure that the practical and emotional needs of patients and staff are at the heart of the health service and facility design. Commenting on the association, Egbert Schillings, CEO of WISH, said: “As a proud initiative of QF, WISH is com- mitted to disseminating healthcare innovation and best practice through our community of like-minded leaders and policymakers, for the benefit of the Qatari population. “Our on-going research programmes and partnerships with key healthcare providers are crucial in identifying the best ideas that are most relevant to the local commu- nity. By engaging with innovative healthcare experts like Philips, we can learn faster, share insights more widely and improve patient outcomes more dramatically – ulti- mately improving people’s lives both locally and globally.” Through its partnership with WISH, Royal Philips has demonstrated its commitment to supporting Qatar’s National Vision 2030 of a prosperous, stable, educated, sustainable and healthy population. Reinier Schlatmann, General Manager at Philips Gulf Region, said: “We believe that global initiatives like WISH evoke discussions and disseminate best practices that will not only change but fuel the transformation of healthcare in the region. Our partnership with WISH is a good example of our deep commitment to working with the state of Qatar to improve the lives of its residents through the development of a world-class health system.” THE PENINSULA

TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME PHCC to mark QA begins Asia’s first A350 XWB service International Inaugural flight lands at Changi Airport in Singapore Nurses Day DOHA: Qatar Airways, as the destinations in Europe and the global launch customer for the Americas.” DOHA: The Primary Health A350 XWB, became the first Qatar Airways is the global Care Corporation (PHCC) today airline to operate the world’s launch customer for the A350 celebrates the role nurses play newest aircraft to Singapore XWB, and remains the only air- in delivering the highest level and the Asia Pacific region line to currently fly the world’s of quality care to their patients yesterday, with the inaugural newest wide-body aircraft. by promoting the activities and A350 XWB service arriving in Following Frankfurt, Singapore services that nurses provide in Singapore Changi Airport. is only the second route for all health care centers. This cel- Upon touching down at the world’s newest aircraft for ebration will coincide with the Singapore Changi Airport, QR944 which Qatar Airways was a International Nurses Day. was greeted by a traditional water significant contributor to its This year’s theme is ‘Nurses: a cannon salute, a long-held tradi- cutting-edge design in partner- force for Change; Care Effective, tion to welcome special flights or ship with aircraft manufacturer, Cost Effective’. planes to an airport, and an exclu- Airbus, and engine manufacturer, This focuses on the nurses as sive welcome ceremony. Rolls-Royce. a force for change who have the Marwan Koleilat, Qatar The Business Class cabin has chance to improve efficiency and Airways’ Chief Commercial 36 seats in a 1-2-1 configuration reduce waste. Officer, speaking at the welcome featuring an 80” full flat bed and According to the International ceremony held at Changi Airport, 17” HD in-flight entertainment Council of Nurses, nurses can said: screen. The Economy Class fea- improve prescribing guid- “The A350 XWB is the third tures 247 18-inch wide seats in ance, information, training and and final major new aircraft in a 3-3-3 configuration, each with practice. a decade and Qatar Airways is a 10.6” in-flight entertainment They can also educate indi- delighted to be the first global screen, and more space at shoul- viduals and communities on airline to fly this state-of-the-art der level for passengers in window detection and surveillance of aircraft into Singapore and Asia seats due to the vertical side wall counterfeit medicines, as well as Pacific,” panel design. develop and implement clinical “Singapore is a key mar- The aircraft features the and evidence based best practice ket for Qatar Airways and we state-of-the-art Oryx entertain- Qatar Airways QR944, Asia’s inaugural A350 XWB service, touching down at Singapore Changi Airport yesterday. guidelines. remain committed to offering ment system, with up to 2,000 In addition, nurses can evaluate our Singapore-based passengers entertainment options on indi- flight, as well as in-flight Wi-Fi Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Singapore, as part of its global and incorporate into the policy the best in-flight experience pos- vidual screens in all classes. The connectivity for all passengers aircraft will be progressively expansion drive and to cater to evidence the costs and impact of sible. With the A350 XWB, all A350 XWB also offers advanced allowing them to surf the web on replaced by the next-generation the increase in passenger demand. interventions, technologies and 283 passengers can be assured of air conditioning technology and the go. A350 XWB. All three daily flights will be oper- medicines. unprecedented levels of comfort LED mood lighting to enhance The Doha-based airline cur- In addition, from later this ated using the A350 XWB by Primary Health Care across all classes when travel- the comfort of passengers while rently operates a double-daily summer, Qatar Airways will mid-August. Corporation appreciated the work ling to Doha and onwards to key reducing fatigue after a long service to Singapore with the add an additional daily flight to THE PENINSULA done by the PHCC nurses. This day is a true opportunity to con- gratulate all nursing staff at the Primary Health Care Corporation on the annual International Nurses Day. DIFI selects three research HEC Paris welcomes Class of 2017 This day is in recognition of all nurses efforts and contributions to the excellent level of health papers at annual meet DOHA: HEC Paris has wel- care services that our patients comed the latest cohort of receive”. DOHA: Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), a member of participants of the Specialised “The important role of nurses Qatar Foundation, (QF), concluded its inaugural Annual Conference Master in Strategic Business is to protect, promote, optimize on Family Research and Policy by announcing this year’s Best Unit Management (SBUM) health, prevent illness and injury, Research Papers. Held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, programme at an orientation alleviate suffering, and advocate DIFI’s conference centred around the theme ‘The Arab Family in event for the Class of 2017 at the in health care for individuals, an Age of Transition: Challenges and Resilience’. And through con- Tornado Tower in Doha, Qatar. families, communities, and popu- tinuous efforts to preserve the Arabic family and its status as a The 49 participants of the lations. all nurses play a vital role nucleus for the society, DIFI supports Qatar Foundation’s mission Class of 2017 include 29 males in the success of the health care to enhance human, social and cultural development. and 20 females from 10 differ- services in Qatar generally, and in Three papers were then selected for Best Paper Awards in the three ent nationalities (Qatar, KSA, PHCC in particular. specified subtopics; which were all peer-reviewed by individual experts. Egypt, Venezuela, the Philippines, Fathima Abdulrahman Abdi, Under the theme ‘Political, economic and cultural challenges facing Kuwait, Nigeria, Jordan, Canada Nurse at Airport Health Center, the Arab Family’, Dr Paola Gandolfi, Junior Lecturer at the University and the USA). The average age explained the importance of this of Bergamo in Italy, was awarded for her research paper titled ‘Multiple of the class is 31 years, with an day. families in changing societies in the Maghreb: the case of Morocco’. average work experience of eight “The International Nursing Professor Humoud Al Qashan, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs years. Day is an occasion to celebrate and Graduate Studies at Kuwait University, was awarded for his paper Around 40 percent of the new the role that we play in pro- on ‘Does Parental Divorce Affect the Attitudes Towards Marriage and participants come from the oil viding the patients and their Divorce: A Comparative Study of Intact and Divorced Families’, under and gas sector, in addition to families with safe medical the theme of ‘Marriage and Divorce in the Arab World’. 12 percent from banking and Prof Kerbache, Dean & CEO of HEC Paris in Qatar, addressing students at services that stand up to the And finally, Dr Jocelyn Mitchell, Assistant Professor at Northwestern finance, 10percent from telecom- the orientation event. highest level of international University in Qatar, was awarded for her paper about ‘In Majalis munication, 8 percent from the standards”. Al Hareem the complex, professional and personal choices of Qatari public sector and 6 percent from Dean & CEO of HEC Paris in Business Unit Management In addition she added: Women’ under the theme ‘The Role of State Policies on Family education. Qatar and Abdulaziz Al Tamimi, a programme,” Prof Kerbache “We are the first point of con- Formation and Stability’. Recognising the three Best Research Papers, The rest of the participants Senior Process Engineer at Qatar said. “Since we introduced this tact for health services and our Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, Executive Director of DIFI, said, “The awards come from engineering, build- Petroleum (QP) and SBUM alum- program in Qatar, we have had a role encompasses collaborative are intended to recognise high quality research, evident from the nomi- ing and construction, health and nus from the Class of 2015, deliv- tremendous response from aspir- care of individuals of all ages, nated papers being subjected to a rigorous peer review process. DIFI social services, travel and tourism, ered keynote speeches. ing professionals, including a sig- families and communities, sick or congratulates the winners of this year’s awards and we look forward transport and logistics, media and “We are truly honored to wel- nificant number of Qataris and well and in all settings. As part of to our next conference and Best Research Papers awards next year.” charity sectors. come into the fast growing HEC women. This is a clear indication our job, we promote health, pre- The two-day conference featured formative panel discussions and A reception and dinner was also Paris family in Qatar this lat- that this program is aligned with vent illness and care ill, disabled parallel sessions along with presentations that highlighted the key held in the evening in honour of est batch of participants of our the Qatarisation needs.” and dying people”. themes of the conference through selected papers. THE PENINSULA Class 2017, where Prof Kerbache, Specialized Master in Strategic THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Students excel in genetic research project DOHA: Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have suc- cessfully conducted the first fully Qatar-based study on the effects of smoking and aging on our genetic material. The study, undertaken at WCMC-Q by Qatari PhD students Mashael Al Shafai and Wadha Al Muftah, confirmed that aging causes modifications to DNA and that smok- ing tobacco causes simi- lar changes to our genes. Crucially, the project is the first study of its kind to be based on samples drawn entirely from an FROM LEFT: Dr Shaza Zaghool, Senior Arab population, as pre- Bioinformatics Data Specialist, Dr Karsten vious research in this area Suhre, Director of Bioinformatics Core and has generally focused on Qatari PhD student Mashael Al Shafai. Qatari PhD student Wadha Al Muftah Caucasians. Al Shafai and Al Muftah are DNA methylation with age, gender Shafai and Al Muftah by WCMC-Q both working at WCMC-Q through and smoking in an Arab population’, researchers Dr. Shaza Zaghool, the Qatar Foundation Science the paper has been published in the Senior Bioinformatics Data Leadership Program (QSLP), a highly regarded medical journal Specialist, and Dr. Pankaj Kumar, Qatar Foundation initiative that Clinical Epigenetics and marks a Research Associate in Physiology & supports talented Qatari graduates significant success for both QSLP Biophysics. The team was supervised to help them build careers in sci- and WCMC-Q. Epigenetics is the by senior researchers Dr. Karsten ence and research. They carried study of the epigenome, which con- Suhre, Director of the Bioinformatics out their groundbreaking research sists of chemical compounds that Core at WCMC-Q, and Dr. Mario project with support from a team influence the production of proteins Falchi of the Department of of graduate and senior scientists by switching genes in the DNA on Genomics of Common Disease at at WCMC-Q and Imperial College and off. Imperial College, London. London. Entitled ‘Association of Support was provided to Al THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Ministry of HMC conducts Municipality launches ‘Enquire Service’ three kidney DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality has launched the “Enquire Service” for facili- tating communication with its staff and the customers. transplants A unified phone number (8885) has been assigned for communica- tion with customers from within the ministry, and the phone Successful surgeries in three days number (44348885) from outside the ministry, said a press state- DOHA: Hamad Medical discharged one week later. ment yesterday. Corporation’s (HMC) Commenting on the sharp Jabor Abdullah Al Attiyah, Qatar Center for Organ increase in the number of organ Director of Human Resources Transplantation has success- transplants, Dr Al Maslamani Department, said the services fully performed three kid- said: “The number of kidney and provided by the Department to ney transplants within a span liver transplants performed dur- the staff such as personnel affairs, of three days, said Dr Yousef ing the first four months of 2015 wages and salaries, leaves and Al Maslamani, Director has exceeded the total annual personal transactions, training of Qatar Center for Organ number of transplants in the pre- and development and air tickets, Transplantation and Medical vious years.” will be completed by means of the Director of Hamad General The remarkable increase in unified number. Hospital (HGH). the number of organ trans- The number is abbreviated The transplant procedures, plants is attributed to the sin- and handy to the customers for which took place in the past cere efforts of the clinical, use in communicating with any weeks, included three live-donor nursing, and support staff at section of the Human Resources kidneys donated by a Qatari to HMC’s Qatar Center for Organ Doctors with one of the patients. Department, and through which, his uncle a Jordanian to her Transplantation and Qatar the customer will be notified with husband and an Egyptian to her Organ Donation Center (Hiba). transplants from live-donors is death) organ donations have been save the lives of their loved ones. the latest available services and daughter. “We give credit to the leader- underway; portfolios of 50 live- arranged so far this year, Dr Al Dr Al Maslamani urged the pub- references. One advantage of the The outcome of the three pro- ship at HMC and the Supreme donors willing to donate organs to Maslamani added. lic to pledge to after death organ new phone service is the possibil- cedures was excellent as donors Council of Health for their con- their relatives have been opened He expressed hope that the rel- donation and have their names ity of recording calls, which helps left the hospital in a few days tinued support in this endeavour,” and organ transplants would atives of patients in need of organs entered into the national donor documentation of the quality of after the donation and the recipi- he said. eventually be performed for the would be encouraged to take the registry at Hiba. staff performance. ents of the donated organs were Preparation for more kidney recipients. Four cadaveric (after initiative of donating organs to THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Triage system at Airport health centre from 28 Ministry recalls Land Cruiser models DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has announced recall of Toyota Land Cruiser models 2009 – 2011. This recall came as a precautionary DOHA: The Primary The roll out is due to be appointment will be assessed an appointment will have ade- measure to update an electronic system for smart stop in the vehicle. Healthcare Corporation completed by August this by well trained nurses who will quate time with the physician. The Ministry said that it will coordinate with the dealers to follow up on the (PHCC) will introduce year. The service is currently ‘sort’ the patients according to In health centres where maintenance and repair and will communicate with the customers to make sure patient triage system at running successfully at Abu clinical need. Those who, based triage has already been imple- that the necessary repairs are carried out. The Ministry has urged all customers Airport health centre on Nakhla, Al Gharrafa, Omar on their assessment, need to be mented the majority of patients to report any violations to its Consumer Protection and Anti-Commercial Fraud May 28. Bin Khattab, Al Daayen, West treated by a physician as a pri- (91 percent) are reporting Department on its hot line 8005000 or email: [email protected]. Triage was piloted in Abu Bay, Al Sheehaniya, Messaimer, ority will be seen first. shorter waiting times and are Meanwhile, the Ministry has intensified inspections on commercial outlets in Nakhla Health Centre in July Al Rayyan, Al Wakra , and Al The remaining patients, benefiting from the new appoint- Al Najada and Musherib areas, and caught 22 violations. They included practicing last year and following positive Shamal Health Centres. with more routine needs, will ment system that is imple- commercial activities not mentioned in the license, and as the expired licenses. feedback has been rolled out on Under the triage sys- be allocated an appointment mented alongside the Triage The Ministry asked erring shops to correct their situation, and urged consumers a phased basis to the remaining tem, patients who attend the on the same day or at a later System, PHCC said yesterday. to report any violations related to commercial licenses through email info@mec. PHCC health centres. health centre without a prior date. Patients returning for THE PENINSULA gov.qa. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST One killed as Last journey Libya shells Turkey ship Ankara complains to UN over attack

BENGHAZI: Forces loyal to statement. It did not specify Libya’s internationally recog- the assailants, but said the ves- nised government said yester- sel was carrying plasterboard day they shelled a Turkish ship from Spain to Tobruk and was off the Libyan coast after it was 21km from its destination when warned not to approach, and it came under fire. Hejazi con- one crew member was killed firmed that one crew member in what Turkey described as a was killed and said one other “contemptible attack”. person was wounded. Libya is in a state of violent A Libyan military source said factional chaos with two rival the vessel was on fire and being governments backed by various towed to Tobruk terminal. But a armed groups vying for con- Turkish foreign ministry official trol of the oil-producing North denied this, saying it was return- African state including its ports, ing to Turkey. four years after rebels overthrew “Turkey approached the Muammar Gaddafi. United Nations and the IMO The dry cargo ship was tar- (International Maritime geted about 10 miles from the Organization) in connection with Fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah carry the coffin of Shia militant Mohammed Rida Zaraket, who was killed last week in combat alongside Syrian coast on Sunday after it was told the matter. A note was given to government forces in the Qalamun region, during his funeral procession yesterday in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut. not to break a ban on approaching Libya’s Ankara embassy and the eastern city of Derna, Libyan Istanbul consulate seeking an military spokesman Mohamed explanation,” the Turkish official Hejazi told Reuters. said. Libya’s rival administra- The forces of Libya’s interna- tion, whose armed supporters Over 300,000 South Sudan refugees without aid tionally recognised government took over the capital last sum- have said they will hit any ships mer, condemned the Turkish ves- approaching Derna to stop sup- sel shelling in a statement as an JUBA: Over 300,000 South “As a consequence, over 300,000 forces loyal to President Salva even an effective ceasefire. plies getting to Islamist militants act of “terrorism” by Gen Khalifa Sudanese civilians are without civilians who are in need of emer- Kiir and rebel leader Riek The violence, which has esca- based there. Haftar, a former Gaddafi ally who “life-saving aid” in the northern gency relief, including food aid Machar was forcing thousands lated into an ethnic conflict The Turkish foreign minis- leads the military forces of the battleground state of Unity, the and medical services, do not cur- of civilians to flee for their lives involving multiple armed groups, try said the vessel was shelled recognised government. United Nations said yesterday, rently have access to such life- yet again. has killed tens of thousands of as it approached the nearby Internationally recognised as it and aid agencies pulled out saving assistance.” Leer, the birthplace of Machar, people in the world’s youngest Mediterranean port of Tobruk Prime Minister Abdullah due to heavy fighting. On Friday the UN said that was ransacked by government nation, which gained independ- and then attacked from the air Al Thinni said in February his The violence is some of the up to 100,000 people had been forces in January 2014. Gunmen ence from Sudan in 2011. as it tried to leave the area. government would stop dealing worst in the country’s 17-month- uprooted in the first week of May looted the MSF hospital, mur- It has also left over half of the “We condemn strongly this with Turkey because it was send- old civil war, as government forces alone, following a marked spike in dering patients in their beds and country’s 12 million people in need contemptible attack which tar- ing weapons to a rival group in push south from the state capi- hostilities. razing the building to the ground. of aid, with 2.5 million people fac- geted a civilian ship in interna- Tripoli so that “the Libyan people tal Bentiu into an opposition zone Doctors Without Borders MSF has since rebuilt the hos- ing severe food insecurity, accord- tional waters and curse those kill each other”. around the town of Leer, home to (MSF) said Saturday it was pital, the only referral facility in ing to the UN. who carried it out,” the minis- Turkey denies taking sides in some of the country’s once lucra- forced to pull its foreign staff opposition areas. “Renewed violence in south- try said in a statement, adding the conflict, saying it supports tive oil fields. out of Leer and halt all medical South Sudan’s civil war began ern Unity comes at a time when that Ankara had protested to the UN-led efforts to broker a peace. “Ongoing hostilities in Unity services amid fears the rebel-held in December 2013 and has been stocks of food are depleted, and authorities in Libya. A Libyan warplane from forces state have now obliged all non- town was about to come under characterised by ethnic massa- precisely at the height of the The third officer on the Cook loyal to Thinni’s government governmental organisations and “imminent attack” from govern- cres, rape and attacks on civilians traditional planting season when Islands-chartered Tuna-1 ves- bombed a Greek-operated oil UN agencies to evacuate staff ment forces. and medical facilities. civilians could be planting their sel died and other crew members tanker anchored off Libya’s coast from Leer and other locations,” The International Committee Peace talks in neighbouring crops in order to reap a harvest were wounded in the attacks, in January, killing two crewmen. UN aid chief in South Sudan Toby of the Red Cross has also warned Ethiopia have so far failed to later this year,” Lanzer added. according to the Turkish REUTERS Lanzer said in a statement. that escalating fighting between reach any lasting agreement, or AFP

Tehran’s notorious Evin prison may be converted into public park

TEHRAN: It is Iran’s most notori- International, alleging maltreatment of while other sections hold thousands of that after 44 years Evin’s days of lock- announced moves to move prisons and ous jail, renowned for housing politi- inmates by authorities there. other offenders. ing people up are now numbered, after military bases outside the capital. cal activists, but if Tehran’s mayor has But Mayor Mohammad Bagher Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post’s plans were presented to the judiciary two Evin has been a detention centre since his way Evin Prison will close and be Ghalibaf, a former Revolutionary correspondent in Tehran, is detained at months ago seeking to change its purpose. before the 1979 Islamic revolution, having transformed into a public park. Guards Air Force commander, has plans Evin as he awaits trial for espionage and “We can reach an agreement whereby been built by the Shah who was toppled A concrete monstrosity, guarded by to demolish the complex and turn its three other charges. Many political activ- the Tehran municipality assumes part of from power that year. Ghalibaf cited the razor wire atop high walls on the edge sprawling 43-hectares into a green space. ists arrested after demonstrations that the cost and we turn the Evin complex example of Ghasr prison, a much older of a highway in the north of the capi- It would be a radical change for the followed the disputed re-election in 2009 of into a park,” he was quoted as saying on facility that was closed in 2008 and tal, Evin has been a target of reports prison site. A special wing houses aca- former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the local government’s website and by turned into a museum as a precedent. by rights monitors such as Amnesty demics, intellectuals and journalists, were also held there. But Ghalibaf believes news agencies. Officials have previously AFP Turkey publishes Quran in Armenian

ANKARA: Overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey’s top religious authority Diyanet said it has published thou- sands of copies of the Holy Quran translated into Armenian for the first time, as it seeks to reach out to minority communities. Yuksel Salman, director of Diyanet’s religious publica- tions office, denied the publication of the Muslim holy book in Armenian has any link to the 100th anniversary last month of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He told AFP there was a “serious demand” from the small remaining Armenian Christian community in Turkey and diaspora for the translation of the Holy Quran into their own language. “In addition to our Armenian citizens, we could not remain indifferent to interest from the Armenian diaspora in learning the Holy Quran,” he said in emailed comments. “We have taken this step to introduce first-hand infor- mation about Islam, one of the biggest religions in the world.” Some 4,000 copies of the Holy Quran have been published in the two primary eastern and western dialects of Armenian after four years of work. Turkey is home to a tiny Turkish-Armenian commu- nity, mostly based in Istanbul, who number around 60,000 and an even larger number of citizens of Armenia who migrated for work. The timing of the Muslim holy book’s translation in Armenian coincided with the 100th anniversary this year of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. But Salman said the project had no connection “neither with the 1915 events, nor other political agendas,” “Translating the Holy Quran into other languages is nothing new. This has been done for centuries. “What we’ve been doing is to reach out to languages we have neglected so far.” Turkey has been under mount- ing pressure to qualify as genocide the 1915 killings of Armenians. AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Two killed on Syria army pushes toward rebel-held town BEIRUT: Stung by recent losses, Syria’s regime is mak- ing a concerted push to reach besieged forces trapped in Saudi border the rebel-held town of Jisr Al Shughur, hoping to give supporters a much-needed morale boost. The strategic town in north- western Idlib province fell to with Yemen rebels including Al Qaeda’s local affiliate just over two weeks ago, but a group of regime loyalists Missiles from Yemen hit school remain trapped inside a hospital complex. RIYADH: A Pakistani and a nationals had died. In the past few days, army Saudi were killed yesterday “We are ascertaining from troops have launched a major when the Saudi Arabian bor- Saudi authorities the details counteroffensive in a bid to reach der region came under renewed about the victim’s identity,” said the besieged group but also poten- bombardment from Yemen, offi- the official, asking for anonymity. tially to retake the town, which cial media reported. Later yesterday, a residential lies near the Turkish border as The Pakistani’s killing was a area of Jazan district adjacent to well as the regime stronghold of rare death of a foreigner during Najran also came under attack, Latakia province. weeks of war the United Nations SPA said. “The loss of Jisr Al Shughur says have killed more than 1,400 Civil defence Major Yahya had an effect in terms of psy- people in Yemen. Al Qahtan was quoted as saying chology and morale on the Syrian Civil defence spokesman Ali one citizen was killed and four street, so it’s a particularly impor- Rebel fighters of Jaysh Al Islam (Army of Islam) carry their weapons as they walk along a military post used by forces Al Shahrani, quoted by the Saudi people, including three foreign- tant battle for the regime,” said loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Deir Salman frontline, near the highway to Damascus international Press Agency, said “military ers, were wounded by missile Bassam Abu Abdullah, Director airport, yesterday. missiles” hit a school and resi- fire on a border village in Harth of the Damascus Centre for dential neighbourhood in Najran municipality. Strategic Studies. Al-Watan newspaper. executions spread throughout There are differing accounts city, “resulting in the death of a A husband and wife died in the In addition, the presence of The regime’s commitment to social media and horrified sup- of who is trapped in the hospital Pakistani resident”. same municipality last Tuesday the officers and soldiers stranded returning to Jisr Al Shughur and porters of the regime, with many complex on the southwestern edge SPA said the latest barrage when the cross-border bombard- inside the hospital is a bitter freeing those trapped inside the questioning why the forces had of Jisr Al Shughur that rebels came from inside Yemen. ments began. reminder of a similar situation hospital comes from President been left behind in Tabqa. entered on Sunday, prompting Shahrani said it also wounded Twelve people on the Saudi side last summer where regime forces Bashar Al Assad himself. A group of pro-regime Alawite fierce clashes with those inside. a Saudi child and three civilians of the boundary have now been were left behind and killed by Last Wednesday, he pledged youth were even arrested for their The Observatory said some 150 “of different nationalities”. killed since Shia Houthi rebels in jihadists. “the army will arrive soon to criticism of the defence minister regime forces and another 100 Saudi news channel Yemen began firing the rockets “This battle is both symbolic these heroes trapped in the Jisr afterwards. civilians and government bureau- Al-Ekhbariya showed footage of a and mortar rounds. in terms of the army proving it Al Shughur hospital.” “The regime wants to send a crats are inside. building with its brickwork blown The Saudi-led coalition which doesn’t leave soldiers behind on Assad’s government is eager message that it won’t leave its sol- But a Syrian security source out, a shattered storefront and has been bombing the Houthis in the field and helpless, and strate- to avoid a repeat of August 2014 diers behind like in Raqa,” said said 120 special forces were in what appeared to be remains of Yemen since March 26 said on gic because Jisr Al Shughur opens when jihadists executed more Rami Abdel Rahman, Director the complex, including a colonel, a rocket. Thursday that they had crossed a the door to the Latakia region,” than 200 soldiers after they seized of the Syrian Observatory for adding that the troops had barri- A Pakistani official confirmed “red line” with their deadly cross- said Waddah Abed Rabbo, chief Tabqa air base in Raqa province. Human Rights, a Britain-based caded themselves in after refusing to AFP that one of his country’s border fire. AFP editor of the pro-government Photos and video of the monitor. orders to evacuate. AFP

‘King skipping meet not a snub’ Egyptian justice minister resigns after controversial remarks WASHINGTON: Saudi not intended as a snub to Arabia’s new foreign min- Washington. CAIRO: Egypt’s Justice Minister Mahfouz interview. Judges are “lofty and have status”, artisans who contribute to building the future ister insisted yesterday “This is not related in any Saber, who stirred protests with remarks and must come from “a respectable milieu”, of the country.” that Custodian of the Two way, shape or form to any dis- that becoming a judge was too lofty an ambi- Saber said. If a son of a cleaner were to work The justice minister chose to resign “out of Holy Mosques King Salman agreement between the two tion for the sons of cleaners, has resigned, as a judge, “he would get depressed and won’t respect for public opinion” and regretted the bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s countries,” Foreign Minister the premier announced yesterday. continue”. way he had expressed himself, according to last minute decision not to Adel Al Jubeir told reporters Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said he Mahlab, quoted by state news agency the premier, who was speaking from a visit attend a Camp David sum- at Saudi Arabia’s embassy in accepted the resignation, two days after the MENA, said: “The government respects all to Paris. mit in the United States was Washington. AFP controversial remarks made in a television sectors of society, especially the labourers and AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Editorial Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Yemen truce New face but same problems FIVE-DAY ceasefire in Yemen is expected to begin today. It’s premature to read too much into this truce. Some are calling it a step towards a Asolution, though a baby step, and others are not so for EU foreign policy optimistic. But whatever the long-term dividends, this is a BY PAUL TAYLOR truce that all Yemenis desperately need after seven weeks of interests, diplomacy or armed forces Middle East and African wars and relentless airstrikes. It will help them breathe normally for under an EU hat, despite their treaty risk their lives trying to cross the a few days, assess the damage, and perhaps brace themselves O one was holding their commitments to do so. Mediterranean, Italy has mostly been for a prolonged period of misery and destruction. breath for the results of For France, Germany and Britain, left to rescue them from drowning with All sides have agreed to hold fire during these five days, Syria’s presidential election, bilateral political and economic rela- scant support from EU partners wary but a complete peace can’t be guaranteed if we look at the Nwhich was always certain tionships with the world’s major powers of a migratory pull factor. to confirm that Bashar Al Assad has - the United States, Russia, China and Since a war-weary United States direction of developments. A small mistake, deliberate been given a third seven-year term by a Japan - are too important and sensitive under President Barack Obama stepped or accidental, from any side can upend this hard-earned grateful, or frightened, people. to outsource to Brussels. back from military intervention in the ceasefire. What causes concern is the fact that fighting was Bleak Europe’s chequered attempt While they benefit from negotiating Middle East, Europe has not filled the continuing until the last minute. Yesterday, the Houthis to build a common foreign and security trade deals as a 28-nation bloc, they vacuum. Most EU member states, except claimed to have shot down a coalition aircraft, a provocation policy has a new face, Italy’s Federica also compete with each other for mar- France, Britain and Poland, have severely Mogherini, but the European Union kets and influence. That makes them cut military spending. Public support for that could have been avoided. Al-Masirah, a Houthi-backed is stuck with the same old problems reluctant to be drawn into thrashing out foreign operations has evaporated due in TV channel, said tribesmen had shot down a warplane in despite her bright start. In her first six differing national interests with EU col- part to the perceived Western failures Sa’ada which is the stronghold of the rebels. It was unclear months as EU foreign policy chief, the leagues and working to identify a com- to stabilise Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. what happened to the pilot. 41-year-old former Italian foreign min- mon European interest. France intervened militarily alone to The war has plunged Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest ister has tried to harness Europe’s soft Mogherini wants to change that. “It’s stop Islamists taking over Mali and pre- country, into a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of power and diplomacy more effectively right that we need to talk about our dif- vent the Central African Republic from and initiated a review of the bloc’s out- ferences,” she said. descending into sectarian slaughter. It thousands displaced and more than 1,400 killed since the dated security strategy and of its flawed But some long-time insiders reckon turned to the EU only afterwards for violence escalated almost seven weeks ago. The country “neighbourhood policy”. that efforts to integrate European for- help with peace keeping and security faces an acute food shortage, and shortages of medicine and She has taken a higher public pro- eign policy have gone backwards in the training. fuel which are essential to run file than her media-shy predecessor, last five years, even as national foreign When European Commission hospitals. Britain’s Catherine Ashton, and is and defence budgets were cut. President Jean-Claude Juncker recently The ceasefire was proposed using her role as ”The financial crisis has resulted in revived talk of an EU army, he sparked A five-day vice-president the renationalisation of a lot of European perplexity rather than hostility, because by the Saudi foreign minister, of the European policies. Foreign policy is one,” said the idea seemed so remote from reality. ceasefire Adel Al Jubeir, after a meeting Commission, Stefan Lehne, a former senior EU and Since 2009, the EU has set up a quasi starts today with the US secretary of state, For France, which Ashton Austrian diplomat now at the Carnegie foreign ministry awkwardly named John Kerry. It also comes before Germany and shunned, to coor- Endowment for International Peace. the European External Action Service a key summit between US dinate the EU’s ”The notion that foreign policy can be (EEAS). It runs a network of diplomats and both sides Britain, bilateral trade, aid and a driver of European integration is not around the globe and drafts policy President Barack Obama and political and state-building very plausible. I don’t think the trust is papers for the council of EU foreign must strictly Gulf leaders at Camp David, resources to max- there. If things get really tough, it will ministers, chaired by Mogherini. which is expected to discuss the economic imise its toolkit. be national decisions by a few big coun- But the EEAS, with 3,600 staff includ- adhere to its Yemen crisis. For Gulf leaders, relationships with ”If we put tries or coalitions of the willing,” said ing seconded national diplomats, has so terms. Yemen isn’t a separate crisis that the US, Russia, together the Lehne, who was an EU troubleshooter far struggled to add value. Like a Soviet needs to be addressed separately numbers of the in the Balkans. In Ukraine, it is German factory, the sum total of the inputs in China and Japan EU and the Chancellor Angela Merkel, with French manpower and resources often seem to and independently, but is part member states, President Francois Hollande, who has exceed the output. of an overall vicious attempt by are too important then we are the mediated between Moscow and Kiev, Sceptics such as former French Iran at redrawing the power equations in the region and it’s and first heavyweight. not Mogherini or European Council Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine see also symptomatic of the challenges this region will face if sensitive to It’s just that we President Donald Tusk. the whole effort as premature and naive, corrective measures are not taken. The crisis is also linked, don’t realise the The EU plays a supporting role in arguing that the EU spends too much though indirectly, to the nuclear deal that West is expected outsource to power we have designing and building a consensus for time issuing well meaning statements Brussels. in our hands, and sanctions against Russia over its annex- rather than dealing with the hard reali- to sign with Iran. An emboldened and economically powerful we don’t use it,” ation of Crimea and the destabilising of ties of a rough world. Iran is likely to expand its influence, and Yemen will be the Mogherini said at eastern Ukraine. It is also trying to use Furthermore, the EU has turned its centerpiece of this plan. a recent session on the EU’s changing its competition rules and energy pol- back on arguably its most potent tool The current strategy on Yemen is unlikely to work. The security environment. “Just using all our icy to counter the power of dominant to shape its neighbours, rolling up the country is already in ruins, and more airstrikes will not potential in terms of institutions and Russian gas supplier Gazprom. welcome mat for new members with a money would be a game changer.” Mogherini and her predecessors have five-year moratorium on enlargement make a difference. All sides need to work for a political ”Outside Europe, people are looking led negotiations with Iran on its nuclear that some fear may be indefinite. solution and efforts must be initiated by the United Nations at us with a certain disbelief and saying: programme, along with three EU nations The EU has no shortage of crises or countries which are acceptable to both sides. The Gulf ‘You are a big trade and economic power, - Britain, France and Germany - at the on its borders and beyond, but despite countries need to work harder to win wider international and what are you doing with that?’” table alongside the United States, Russia Mogherini’s energy and communica- support for this military operation. Her fundamental challenge is that and China. But in the decisive phase, tion skills, it is hard to see that she will when push comes to shove, Europe’s Washington and Tehran forged the key succeed in galvanising European gov- main powers take matters into their compromises in secret bilateral talks. ernments into a more coherent foreign own hands rather than pooling their As tens of thousands of people flee policy. REUTERS The other side Quote of Malnutrition crisis the day

OR several years, now, the their total income on food alone. of five in the country are stunted, Most obviously, it is necessary to alarm bells have been ringing Take a look: ‘Food fortification’ 15.1pc wasted, and 31.5 under- initiate a large-scale awareness-rais- but have largely been ignored planned to overcome malnutrition weight because of the lack of proper ing campaign to give nutrition-related Fby policymaking circles. It Years later, the situation has not nutrition. information. has been four years since a survey improved. Indeed, it has grown to At the meeting, it was decided that Small studies have from time to conducted by Unicef and the Sindh such disturbing proportions that it is the way forward lies in fortifying food, time found that poverty alone is not People in government likened the levels of no longer possible for the authorities particularly wheat. In fact, the meet- the problem; malnutrition has been malnutrition in northern Sindh to to ignore it. ing was told that this staple provides found even in households that can Scotland have those prevailing in sub-Saharan Last week, during an inter-provin- the most calories for Pakistanis, but afford sufficient food, simply because Africa. cial meeting in Islamabad chaired by that 60pc to 80pc of its nutrients are of people’s lack of awareness about a voted for change While this was due in part to the the health minister, Saira Afzal Tarar, lost during the milling process. proper diet and food nutrients. devastating floods that had occurred the director nutrition, Dr Baseer Fortification, then, is one answer Adding vital vitamins to staples is and they will a few months earlier, in March 2011 Khan Achakzai, pointed out that and the state needs to embark on the not enough; the citizenry also needs expect to see the World Bank found that as a result nutrition indicators had deteriorated project with speed. However, other to be told what vitamins and minerals of inflation the country’s poorest fami- over the past decade; according to means of addressing the crisis must are, and which foods contain what. changes. lies were spending 70pc or more of him, 43.7pc children below the age also be put into operation. DAWN Nicola Sturgeon SNP party leader TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 ARAB VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 The US umbrella and Operation Decisive Storm

especially Israel, and Iran being the new political support to Yemenis, prompting regional bully because of the weakness of US President Barack Obama to send the Arab side. clear messages to Iran and the Roosevelt This limitation made Israel and Iran, aircraft carrier to the Gulf of Aden. This and to some extent Turkey, and of course is another important achievement by the the United States, Russia, and Europe GCC countries led by Saudi Arabia. cancel the Arabs from the equation of I strongly believe that the most regional balances! important achievements of Operation It has also increased the vulnerability Decisive Storm are for the GCC to get of the Arab security system and made out of the mantle of American protec- it a victim of the ambitions of inter- tion for the first time, become independ- national decision-makers, especially in ent, and take military action without the Washington, and the regional bullying American umbrella. forces in Tel Aviv, Tehran and Ankara. The strategic relationship between the This has no doubt led to frustration Gulf countries became much stronger, and helplessness among Arabs who especially that it reached its peak during stood by idly as they watched the Iraqi the liberation of Kuwait. At the time, it occupation of Kuwait, Israel’s occupa- subsequently compelled the Council to tion of Beirut with numerous attacks on sign bilateral security cooperation agree- Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Tunisia and Sudan. ments with the United States and tens of DR ABDULLAH AL SHAYJI Also, Arabs have sadly followed Iran’s billions of dollars in contracts to provide occupation of Iraq and its influence over sophisticated weapon systems. peration Decisive Storm began Syria, Lebanon and finally Yemen with- This was followed by the signing of mil- in a way that surprised eve- out moving a limb. Iran filled the stra- itary and security agreements. Thus, the ryone and ended in the same tegic void and expanded its influence in idea has taken root that the Gulf Arabs Omanner leaving many questions Arab areas in order that the current and cannot wage a war, or even defend their unanswered. Major military operations former leaders of Iranian Revolutionary national security without American lead- have halted with finger on the trigger Guards can boast that their borders have A boy injured in the crossfire during fighting between the Popular Resistance Committees ership, approval and role. This is what I and the continuation of bombing but less reached the Mediterranean for the third and Houthis being rushed to hospital in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz yesterday. called years ago “imported security.” frequently than before. time in Iran’s history, seeking to restore However, Operation Decisive Storm Although Operation Decisive Storm the glories of the Persian Empire! destroyed the military, security, defensive passing a UN resolution, numbered 2216 changed this concept, which made the doesn’t seem to have achieved all its The extent of arrogance and hubris and offensive capabilities, command and under Chapter VII, which clings to the American side watch with admiration objectives yet — at the military level, it of some Iranian military, religious and control centres and ballistic missiles that Gulf initiative in Yemen, imposes sanc- and amazement for this strategic and has achieved a lot, but the political hori- political leaders reached to the point of were with the Houthis and their allies. tions on the leaders of the Houthis, and vocational change from their Gulf ally, zon is still a mystery. bragging about the fall of four Arab capi- Perhaps the most important shifts in Ali Abdullah Saleh, and bans the export especially since President Obama’s doc- However, the operation changed the tals under Iranian hegemony and its allies the last month were the confirmation of of arms to the Houthis. trine is based on background leadership, dynamics of the situation, balances and without any consideration for the Arab the active role and leadership of the GCC It also confirms the legitimacy of where strategic patience has to be car- alliances. It might have even given a start side that kept on getting walloped with- countries concerning the Arab security President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, sup- ried by its allies in the security affairs to to a new Arab and regional system to out doing anything. Of course, when you system, which has been a reality for years. ports the Operation Decisive Storm and contribute with cost and military tasks. restore the dysfunctional balance, avoid are weak, it flatters your opponents to This has been represented in the for- enforces a blockade on the Houthis by air, Did the GCC enter the stage of inde- the spectre of domination and confronta- exploit your weakness and to dare play- mation of an unprecedented military alli- sea and land. Interestingly, the Russians pendence and the formation of a strong tion, and most importantly, establish an ing in your backyard and threaten your ance with participation from supporting didn’t veto this UN resolution this time, regional balance, especially with Iran, Arab project that we have been expecting interests. This has become a reality. countries from Morocco to Pakistan. The which is a major blow to Iran. to form the nucleus of a Gulf Arab for a very long time with deep burning It is clear that Operation Decisive ten participating countries implemented Through Operation Restore Hope, project, leading to paving the way to sensation. Its existence, interaction and Storm has succeeded in achieving its military operations professionally. there is international recognition for get rid of the protective American dynamics are extremely vital. military objectives and continues to do More importantly, for the first time Saudi Arabia and the GCC States to mantle and umbrella or is that being Arabs have long suffered from the so even at a slower pace, under Operation the Operation was independent of the prevent arms from reaching the Houthis overoptimistic? loss of power balance and the inability Restore Hope that integrates military American ally. In addition, the Gulf alli- by enforcing air, sea, and land blockage, The writer is an academician and politi- to deter long-established opponents, personnel and politicians. The Storm has ance succeeded at the United Nations in and to provide humanitarian relief and cal analyst. After the storm has blown over The Houthi misadventure Operation was legitimised by inter- Gulf States differ and vary, but they national forces, which stood as an are cohesive in the face of dangers indirect warning to him since he has that threaten them. They are above exposes Iran’s designs disrupted the Lebanese government and beyond all their differences when for years. there is danger and threat to their second Gulf war. Gaddafi also did the same — The Operation proved that national security. in Zawiya, Ajdabiya, and Misrata. Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, are lead- Even Oman’s stance of not partici- In general, when military leaders put their ing and organising the events with- pating, highlighted the Operation’s hands on people’s homelands, they act in a out the need for the United States of importance and ability of picking the very ridiculous and misleading way that America, which has followed in this fruit and regaining stability after the reflects their love for pseudo-power and their case, as its administration was saying: storm came to an end. false victory. “If you cannot beat them, join them.” — The appearance of Pakistani and Understanding this dilemma will not be — The Storm demonstrated the Turkish players on the regional scene, insulated from understanding the reality of ability of Saudi Arabia to organise although being indirect, means that our societies and the Arab people, in the sense events, it reinforced the forefront of they will have a more pronounced role that repressive countries as a whole are based the Arab leadership in Riyadh repre- in any future developments. Their on an ideology that they live in the illusion of sented by Custodian of the Two Holy stand was closer to the Arab stand, the legitimacy of the authoritarian suppressor Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz being influenced by Saudi Arabia. over others. Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. It also — During the Storm, Iran found Everything that comes from the inspira- showed a unique coherence and calm- itself isolated diplomatically. It did tional leader has to be a victory, and all against ness when managing the Operation. not find an echo of its sectarian poli- him is a conspiracy by his enemies and traitors Also, Saudi young leaders were pre- cies, except through the speeches who want to demolish the state. BY DR SAAD BIN TEFLA sented, those who are capable of deal- of Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. This confused and sick way of thinking is AL AJMI ing with the momentous events and Perhaps the most important devel- BY DR ABDULHADI ALAJMI what ultimately led us to the falsification of developments. opments that have accompanied the facts and misinformation. — The Operation also reflected the Storm are the transmission of sec- This also creates fictitious victories e must express our joy cohesion of the Arab stand in the tarianism and ethnic tensions within fter the announcement that Operation which we see repeated in the Yemeni for the end of Operation Gulf, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco as Iran itself. Decisive Storm has formally ended, scene today. WDecisive Storm. Its end was an international diplomatic force. If The Arab mobilisation began for Athe Houthi militias rushed to try to As of today and after the official announce- imposed by Iran through the hands of it stays firm, it will achieve interna- Ahwaz that had been sleeping for improve their image, which has become very ment of the Operation’s end and the destruc- the Houthis means that calmness has tional will following the UN Security decades. Balochistan was encour- dark and ugly, in order to launch a misleading tion of most of Houthis’ and Saleh’s targets, returned on the Arab front between Council Resolution 2216, mirroring aged to ask for national and reli- media campaign of the Operation, promoting coalition aircraft are still completing their several burning sides backed by Iran. the legitimate demands of the Storm gious legitimate demands, and that in the end the Houthis, and in turn its mission and hitting sites, targets, and weap- As we realise that the Storm ended, for regaining legitimacy in Yemen and perhaps this is the beginning for major ally Iran, won the war. ons in the centre of the Yemeni cities where it does not mean that the war is over. deterring the Houthis’ coup. religious and sectarian ethnicities The truth is what these militias are doing is Saleh and the Houthis are stationed. Besides that Operation Decisive — The Storm also showed a big to ask for their rights; they may not considered a recognition of failure and defeat. This means, in my personal view, that the Storm does not need military experts let down of its allies by Iran, as all have welcomed the Iranian entity in It is not surprising to find the Houthis act consequences of the Operation are still ongoing to explain its results. Meanwhile, speeches that came from Iran were the long run, in the sense that Iran this way especially when they are backed by and that the Gulf is determined to complete it was a one-sided war where the nonsense. Nasrallah of Lebanon began to taste the same medicine the misleading media outlets run by the mul- what it started very strongly and decisively; coalition’s air forces destroyed and worked as Iran’s tongue, reflecting since it keeps on playing its sectar- lahs of Iran, promoting false media victories and that the end was left open. Probably, this weakened the fighting capabilities through his speech the large scale ian card to interfere in the Arab after having sensed how the Operation broke came to make room for more overheating and of the Houthis and the army of Ali loss that Iran sensed, and it is the region by pushing countries into their prejudice and fabricated power; it uncov- attrition for the forces of Saleh, the Houthis, Abdullah Saleh. one that invested for years in the chaos, so it can easily control their ered the Houthis, destroying at the same time and Iran. What is more important than “Ansarullah” group, which lost all decision like it happened in Lebanon, Iran’s legend. I do not know what I was thinking while being a war, are the consequences its military weight at the end of the Syria, and Iraq. Since the launch of Operation Decisive writing this article when the famous story and dimensions that exceed the direct Operation. — The end of the Storm does not Storm, led by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, from our Arab heritage, the story of Baraqesh, military results, here is a preliminary Iran did not let the Houthis down mean the end of the crisis, but what is Iran has been giving impressions of its power a name given to a female dog owned by an reading of the results of Operation as much as it only cares for its priori- of high importance are the outcomes in the media, demonstrating its authority and Arab family, came to my mind. Decisive Storm: ties and national interests. of the Operation, the return of legiti- military capabilities based on the phantom When enemies attacked their house at — The Storm restored hope in the When the Operation was launched, macy to Yemen and the stability of publicity that the Iranian army and the regime night, they didn’t know where the family was Arab ability to intervene for stopping Iran was sinking in nuclear talks, busy this afflicted country. rely on. hiding until Baraqesh started barking, so the any Arab country from sliding toward with its dream that the international It is important to work hard to Since those malicious media campaigns are enemies found them from the dog’s noise. They chaos and falling into the clutches of sanctions will be lifted. Iran would not restore hope of the Yemeni people spreading in most parts of the Arab world, got hold of the family and killed them with the sectarian strife as planned by the sacrifice these dreams and efforts for and to execute the Marshal Gulf the Houthis and those who follow Iran’s mul- dog; basically the dog told about the family, Houthis, with the help of the remains the sake of Abdul Malak Al Houthi plan called by the foreign minister of lahs have rushed to deliver the same speech, which consequently ended its life. From this of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s army. The and Ansarullah. Yemen few days ago in Kuwait, and marketing their defeat as a victory. story, came the famous proverb: snitches end rescue of the Arab coalition came in — The end of the Operation what the writer of this article called I am not surprised by the lack of intelli- up in ditches. response to the call of the legitimate Decisive Storm means that the illu- for as well, many years ago, but no gence of those who run and manage this type The adventure of the Houthis and their Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur sion to drag Saudi Arabia into the one listened. of media. We all see and hear about Assad’s provocation of the Gulf was the cause of Hadi. swamp of land fighting faded away. We should learn from the short- militias in Syria declaring every day their fake exposing the meagre size and role of Iran — The Operation aborted the It means depriving the dreamers of a comings of the past and embrace victories. and its fictitious and false reality in front attempt for cloning a new Hezbollah prolonged war, therefore, silencing all Yemen, never letting it down or being The same goes for Iraq, which has become of everyone. Iran let the Houthis face the in Yemen, making Iran and the false voices who said that the goal of subjected to Tehran’s interests. more like torn cantons over which tribal Storm alone, as it could neither send air- Houthis aware that it is impossible the war is only for destruction. It was The Yemen of today is part of the heads, militia leaders, religious groups, the craft nor military forces that it constantly for them to control and rule Yemen an accurate war that largely avoided Gulf system, like it or not. It is our government, and the Kurds are fighting for brags about. through the militia of “Ansarullah,” hitting civilian targets and causing responsibility to lead its people to control. There is also the egotistical Hezbollah So it was a natural response of the Iranian a pro-Iranian group. The Storm cre- civilian casualties, and focusing on reach a high level of stability to cre- in Lebanon. side to create this misleading and false media ated a new regional and international targeting the Houthi militia and the ate a future where all Yemenis can Thus, it was not surprising that the Houthis, campaign to promote Iran and its followers, as reality that refuses the militia’s kid- army of Saleh. coexist in a way that they see it as Saleh, and Iran (the defeated trio) will rush coverage of the outputs of Operation Decisive napping of the state’s order; and — The Storm showed how coherent suitable. after the announcement of the Operation’s Storm prior to restoring hope. this explains why Hassan Nasrallah and harmonic the Gulf is, it proved to The writer is an academician and end to claim victory in Yemen. The writer is a professor in the History was upset when he realised how this the world and to the region that the media figure. Saddam did the same after the end of the Department of Kuwait University. TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS Hollande calls Putin to host for end to US embargo Kerry today on Cuba trip

HAVANA: French President Francois Hollande called yes- for Sochi talks terday for an end to the US embargo on Cuba during a historic visit to the island, the Bid to resolve Ukraine tensions first by a Western leader since Washington and Havana moved MOSCOW: Russian President home. In a wide-ranging state- to restore ties. Vladimir Putin is expected ment, the Russian foreign min- Speaking on the half-century today to host US Secretary of istry said US companies wanted embargo at the start of his Cuba State John Kerry for crucial to do business in Russia despite trip, the first ever by a French talks in Sochi amid tensions Western sanctions and added that leader, Hollande said France will over Ukraine, during the top US the political chill should not affect do whatever possible to see that diplomat’s first visit to Russia human ties. “the measures that have so badly since the start of the crisis. “Even under pressure from the harmed Cuba’s development can Ties between Moscow and White House, American business finally be lifted, repealed”. Washington collapsed after is in no rush to leave our market,” Hollande said his trip came Russia seized Crimea and but- the foreign ministry said. “at a particularly important but tressed separatists in eastern “Boeing, Ford, John Deere, also uncertain time,” as both the Ukraine but after a year of raging Alcoa, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, United States and the European tensions signs are emerging that Mars, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Scotland’s First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon waves as she poses with newly- Union seek to restore diplomatic both Russia and the West may be ConocoPhillips and other compa- elected SNP MPs in central London yesterday relations with Cuba. France will ready to seek detente. nies that have invested significant do what it can to “see that opening Putin has refused to budge funds here would like to retain reaffirmed,” he said in a speech at on Ukraine but has signalled their position in Russia.” the University of Havana. his readiness to mend ties with Putin himself used similar Cameron unveils new cabinet Since announcing in December Washington and Brussels as rhetoric when he called for an that the United States and Cuba Russia chafes under the burden improvement in ties with Germany LONDON: British Prime Afterwards, his finance minis- the election left Britain’s opposi- would move to renew ties after of biting Western sanctions. during Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Minister David Cameron ter and de facto deputy George tion parties in disarray following more than half a century, US The US State Department said visit to Moscow on Sunday. unveiled his new cabinet yes- Osborne, who will oversee a fresh Friday’s resignations of Labour President Barack Obama has used yesterday that Kerry would meet “Entrepreneurs are pragmatic peo- terday after an unexpected round of austerity cuts after keep- leader Ed Miliband and Liberal his executive authority to relax with his Russian counterpart ple, that’s why they are not leaving election victory that gave his ing his job, said the meeting was Democrat chief Nick Clegg. several aspects of the embargo, Sergei Lavrov and Putin, who is the Russian market,” Putin said. Conservative party an outright a “massive moment of celebration The Labour party is split on its including restrictions on travel spending the week at his summer The Russian foreign ministry majority in parliament for the and congratulation for the prime future direction between centrists and sending money to the island. residence in Sochi. reeled off a litany of complaints first time in nearly 20 years. minister”. and leftists and was due to hold He has called on Congress to “This trip is part of our ongo- about US policies ranging from Cameron stressed continuity As well as keeping Osborne at initial talks on Monday ahead of a lift the full embargo, in place since ing effort to maintain direct lines abuse of Russian orphans by US in his leadership team, with most the Treasury, Phillip Hammond formal meeting on Wednesday of 1962, but with both houses under of communication with senior adoptive parents to Nato’s east- top jobs remaining unchanged. remains at the Foreign Office its national executive committee. Republican control, he faces an Russian officials and to ensure US ward expansion and the Ukraine Other parts of Britain’s post- and will work on renegotiating SNP lawmakers arrived for their uphill political battle. Cuba says views are clearly conveyed,” said crisis, a hot-button issue expected election landscape fell into place Britain’s relationship with Europe first day in parliament accom- the embargo, which it refers to as spokeswoman Marie Harf. to top the agenda. as the anti-EU UK Independence before a referendum on leaving panied by party leader Nicola “the blockade,” has cost it more It will be Kerry’s first visit to Last year’s popular uprising in Party rejected the resignation of the European Union (EU) by 2017. Sturgeon, who wants Cameron to than $100bn. Russia in two years. “We expect Ukraine that ousted a Kremlin- its leader Nigel Farage and new Theresa May, tipped with grant sweeping new powers for The French leader hit again that Secretary of State Kerry’s backed president sparked a dip- MPs arrived at parliament for Osborne and Johnson as a poten- Scotland. MPs will be formally on the theme of “openness” as visit to Russia will serve the nor- lomatic crisis and led Moscow to the first time. tial successor to Cameron when sworn in next Monday and Queen he bestowed France’s highest malisation of bilateral ties on wrest the peninsula of Crimea The newcomers included 53 he steps down by 2020, remains Elizabeth II will deliver her tradi- honor on the head of the Catholic which global stability depends to a from Kiev’s control and support first-time MPs from the pro- interior minister and Michael tional speech at the State Opening Church in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime large extent,” the Russian foreign Russian-speaking separatists in independence Scottish National Fallon stays at defence. of Parliament on May 27, which Ortega, a key figure in the island’s ministry said for its part. eastern Ukraine. Party’s contingent of 56 lawmak- London Mayor Boris Johnson, will outline the Conservatives’ growing rapprochement with the Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Kiev and the West accuse Putin’s ers, including 20-year-old Mhairi who has another year in the job, legislative proposals. West. “You continue to stand for Peskov sounded coy however, Kremlin of masterminding the Black, Britain’s youngest MP does not get a ministerial post but Cameron has promised to the opening of Cuba,” he said, refusing to immediately confirm conflict that has killed more than since 1667. will attend meetings of Cameron’s hold an EU membership refer- praising Ortega’s role in mediat- Putin’s meeting with Kerry. 6,100 people in just over a year, Cameron received a raptur- political inner circle. The endum within two-and-a-half ing with Cuba’s one-party com- Kerry’s high-stakes visit comes and have slapped several rounds ous reception from MPs from his Conservatives won 331 out of the years but commentators say munist government, including as Russia appears to have put of sanctions against Russia. An centre-right Conservative party 650 seats in the House of Commons the issue threatens to divide the during the US rapprochement the worst of the fallout from the informed source said that Russia when he met them in the House in Thursday’s election, which gave Conservatives and overshadow talks and negotiations for the Ukraine crisis behind it, with the expected Washington to play a of Commons, with repeated bang- Labour 232, the SNP 56 and the the rest of its programme for release of some 130 political pris- rouble rebounding somewhat and more high-profile role in resolving ing of tables and applause audible Liberal Democrats just eight. government. oners in 2010. Putin enjoying popular support at the Ukraine crisis. AFP from outside the meeting room. With the exception of the SNP, AFP AFP

Tornado wreaks havoc in Texas EU appeals for 51 US police officers UN backing on migrants slain last year: FBI WASHINGTON: More than black men which have triggered UNITED NATIONS: Europe 50 US police officers were slain unrest. FBI director James Comey appealed to the United Nations in the line of duty last year, referenced the “especially chal- Security Council yesterday to an 89 percent increase on the lenging relationship between law back its plan to stem the deadly number of fatalities in 2013, enforcement and the communi- flow of migrants across the statistics released by the FBI ties we serve” in a video message Mediterranean by dismantling showed yesterday. to announce the statistics. people-smuggling organizations A total of 51 officers were The statistics came after two and destroying their vessels, killed in 2014, including 46 who police officers were shot and killed though not by bombing. died from firearms, compared to during a traffic stop in Mississippi European Union leaders agreed 27 in 2013. Despite the increase, on Saturday. Four men have since last month to “identify, capture the number of fatalities in 2014 is been arrested over the slayings. and destroy vessels before they below the average for the period Of the 2014 death toll, firearms are used by traffickers,” but it is since 1980 when figures first were used in 46 of the 51 police kill- unclear how that may be achieved started being compiled by the ings. Four officers were killed with and the 28-nation bloc wants UN FBI. Between 1980 and 2014, an vehicles used as weapons and one authorisation for its operation. average of 64 police officers have was killed during a hand-to-hand “No one is thinking of bomb- died each year. confrontation. The deaths included ing. I’m talking about a naval The figures come against a back- 11 fatalities of officers killed while operation,” EU foreign policy chief drop of mounting nationwide ten- responding to disturbance calls, 10 Federica Mogherini said after sions between law enforcement and who died during traffic pursuits or briefing the Security Council. She A woman walks past a fallen tree while talking on the phone after a tornado touched down in Van, Texas, USA, the communities they police follow- stops and eight killed as a result of said European foreign ministers yesterday. Multiple storms moved across the state of Texas causing flash flooding and tornados. ing a series of deaths of unarmed ambushes. AFP would meet on May 18 to discuss and set details of the operation. European members of the Security Council — Britain, France, Lithuania and Spain — are draft- ing a resolution to approve the European operation under Chapter Sea-level rise accelerating, say scientists 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows the use of force, diplomats said. The resolution would authorize PARIS: Sea-level rise is accelerating, new study deals a blow to this scenario. rise between 1993 and mid-2014 is between the early decades of the 21st century, they the EU to intervene on the high not declining as some have hoped, sci- Both the IPCC estimate and the 2014 2.6 and 2.9 mm per year, with a margin of added. The IPCC projected that the global seas, in Libyan territorial waters entists said yesterday citing meltwa- paper were based on satellite observations error of plus or minus 0.4 mm. mean sea level would rise by between 40 and and coastal areas to seize vessels ter from Earth’s ice sheets as the likely of sea levels. But they were unable to take The bad news is that the first six years 63 cm by the end of this century, depending and the draft text is likely to be cir- cause. an important variable into account: some- of the satellite data — 1993 to 1999 — is the on how much heat-trapping carbon gases are culated to the 15-member council In 2013, the UN’s Intergovernmental thing called vertical land motion. period that is most affected by these cor- emitted. These figures do not include margin in the coming days, diplomats said. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the This is natural movement in the height of rections. For those six years, estimates have of error. At the top end of the range, the 63 Russia has said any plans to global mean sea level rose by 19 centimetres the Earth’s land surface, which can happen to be scaled down by 0.9-1.5 mm a year. cm could be as high as 82 cm. destroy boats used by smugglers (7.6 inches) from 1901-2010, an average 1.7 through subsidence, earthquakes or uplift. That mean in more recent years the Ocean rise has huge implications for would be “going too far.” But mm (0.06 of an inch) per year. For instance, parts of the northern hemi- rate of sea-level rise has actually increased the hundreds of millions of people who Mogherini has described her dis- This accelerated to 3.2 mm per year sphere are still rising after the end of the last rather than declined, according to the are coastal dwellers. Their cities could be cussions with council members as between 1993 and 2010, the IPCC said in Ice Age — the land was crushed by glacial paper, led by Christopher Watson of the threatened by ground erosion, flooding positive and said she was “quite its landmark Fifth Assessment Report. weight and even today is slowly “rebound- University of Tasmania, Australia. and storm surges, and their groundwater confident” a resolution could be But in 2014, another study raised a big ing,” thousands of years after the ice melted. The acceleration “is higher than the imperilled by saltwater intrusion. adopted. “The crucial thing for question. In the past decade, it said, sea- The new study, published in the journal observed twentieth-century acceleration But it is also one of the most vexed ques- the European Union is destroying level rise had been much lower than the Nature Climate Change, takes land move- but in reasonable agreement with an accel- tions in climate science, given the many the business model of the traffick- previous decade. ment into account, along with an impor- erating contribution from the Greenland uncertainties. Computer models have to ing and smuggling organizations, That raised hopes in some quarters that, tant statistical tweak—hourly data from a and West Antarctic ice sheets over this try to estimate how much of the rise is making sure that vessels cannot far from being an inexorably rising threat, network of tide gauges deployed around the period,” the team said. due to thermal expansion — warming of be used again,” Mogherini said. sea levels could fluctuate in response to world’s oceans. It is also consistent with the IPCC’s pro- the water — or to runoff from ice sheets, AFP some hidden but natural variability. The It finds that the overall rate of sea level jections for an additional 0.07 mm rise in glaciers or permafrost. AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 2,000 migrants rescued at sea in SE Asia Arrivals from Bangladesh, Myanmar

LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA: estimates of at least 400 people Nearly 2,000 boat people from aboard, a day after 573 people Myanmar and Bangladesh have described by one official as “sad, been rescued or swum to shore tired and distressed” came to in Malaysia and Indonesia, shore in Aceh. authorities said yesterday, At least 92 children were warning that yet more desper- among those brought ashore in ate migrants could be in peril Malaysia and Indonesia. at sea. The vessel discovered off The spate of arrivals comes Indonesia yesterday was still as Thailand, a key stop on a at sea, shadowed by the coun- Southeast Asian people-smug- try’s navy, said naval spokesman gling route, cracks down follow- Manahan Simorangkir. ing the discovery of mass graves He said the vessel was dam- that has laid bare the extent of aged but afloat and its captain the thriving trade. had fled. The navy was supplying Thousands of impoverished the ship with water and food but Muslim Rohingya — a minority the spokesman said there were unwanted by Myanmar’s govern- currently no plans to allow it to ment — and Bangladeshis brave a berth. perilous sea and land trafficking Aceh provincial search and route through Thailand and into rescue chief Budiawan, who like Malaysia, Indonesia and beyond many Indonesians goes by one Malaysian police distribute bread to illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar after they landed at Pantai Pasir Berdengung beach in Langkawi every year. name, told AFP authorities were island, in the northern state of Kedah, yesterday. Malaysian police said people- bracing for further arrivals. smugglers had dumped at least “We are on standby and ready looking thin, weak and haggard. tried to prevent traffickers from “the root” of the problem. typically after becoming lost or 1,018 hungry migrants in shallow to rescue them when we receive “We were given only very little continuing their business... so that “The issue is whether these running out of fuel. waters off the coast of the resort an alert,” Budiawan said. food and water. When I asked for has forced them to go somewhere people — who say they are from Those who struggled ashore island of Langkawi since Sunday. Abdul Rahim, a 25-year-old more I was beaten with sticks and else,” said Chris Lewa from The Myanmar — really come from in Aceh on Sunday had been en One boat was still stuck on a Bangladeshi who swam ashore metal rods,” he said, showing a Arakan Project, a Rohingya rights Myanmar,” Zaw Htay told AFP route from Thailand to Malaysia, breakwater offshore but the oth- Sunday on Langkawi, told AFP two-inch gash on his back. group, which believes thousands yesterday, adding that the gov- according to accounts by migrants ers are believed to have fled to sea. he endured a 28-day journey on a His ship had been bound from may be at sea. ernment did not “accept” the and officials there. “We know that there are more ship operated by Myanmar smug- Bangladesh for Malaysia but the Migrants are “just trying term Rohingya. They were falsely told they had boats out there that want to come glers and packed with hundreds passengers were not expecting to disembark before they die”, Rohingya have been targeted arrived in Malaysia — a relatively in,” Langkawi police chief Haritth of other people amid appalling to be ordered into the surf off she added. Buddhist-majority in outbreaks of sectarian vio- prosperous magnet for migrants Kam Abdullah told AFP, citing conditions. Langkawi. Activists and refugee Myanmar views its population of lence in Myanmar in recent for surrounding nations — and police intelligence. He was among about 300 groups say the Thai crackdown Rohingya, estimated at more than years, prompting many to flee. ordered to swim to shore. Indonesian authorities said Bangladeshi men who were being may be leaving many migrants a million, as illegal Bangladeshi The UN considers Rohingya to They included 83 women and 41 they intercepted a boat off the fed and tended to at a police stuck on overcrowded ships or at immigrants, with an official from be among the world’s most per- children, said Darsa, a local dis- coast of the northwestern prov- detention centre badminton risk of being dumped at sea by the Myanmar president’s office secuted minorities. Boatloads aster management agency official. ince of Aceh early yesterday with court, most of them shirtless and nervous smugglers. “Thailand has insisting that Bangladesh was at have arrived off Aceh in the past, AFP

South Korea urges North to Philippines plans to use disputed islands for tourism THITU ISLAND: The He said the military would help using the Filipino name for some into large naval and air bases that he added. As of now the island, stop submarine Philippines plans to turn some local officials put in place next of the Filipino-held islands. would allow China, which claims about 450 kilometres or a 26-hour disputed South China Sea year a ferry service. “It can be a good tourism most of the South China Sea, to boat ride from Palawan, is home islands into tourist sites to It would take tourists from effort,” the general told reporters. deploy forces to bolster its claim. to 356 civilians and a small mili- missile project promote peace as China builds Palawan island in the Philippines, Catapang said the project could Eugenio Bito-onon, the mayor tary detachment. But there are suspected military facilities on the nearest large land mass, to help improve the port and runway of the municipality of Kalayaan no tourist facilities apart from SEOUL: South Korea yester- nearby reclaimed reefs, Filipino those islands and reefs in the facilities of Thitu, known in the on Palawan which includes Thitu, its airstrip. “This would promote day urged North Korea to halt officials said yesterday. Spratly islands which are held by Philippines as Pagasa, amid what said the tourism project would Kalayaan for tourism and draw its “worrisome” development of Military chief of staff General Manila. the Philippines has described as be launched next year after the adventure and technological expe- a submarine-launched ballis- Gregorio Catapang announced the “What we want to happen is, massive reclamation and con- town council buys a 25-metre, ditions here,” Bito-onon added. tic missile, as one Seoul official plan as he flew to Thitu, the larg- from Palawan we can pass by Patag struction activity which began 10-million-peso ($224,000) steel- “For the past 20 years, a lot of warned Pyongyang could have est of nine outcrops garrisoned island, Lawak, Likas and then last year on nearby Subi Reef and hulled boat. The municipality also people have been dying to come a functional SLBM capability by Filipino forces in the Spratly Pagasa. We can go back via Panata, other Chinese-held features. plans to build lodging houses for here but cannot because of the within two years. archipelago, and overflew the Kota island and then Ayungin The Philippine military has said up to 30 tourists at a time and inadequate (infrastructure).” The North’s state media eight others. Shoal and back,” Catapang said, these structures could be turned offer them souvenir merchandise, AFP announced Saturday that a new SLBM had been tested under the personal supervision of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who described it as an “eye-opening success” that provided his mili- EU, US call for delay tary with a “world-level strategic weapon”. The exact nature of the test has yet to be independently con- in Burundi elections firmed, with some experts sug- gesting it was an ejection test BUJUMBURA: The European since late April, when the rul- — with the missile only travelling Union and United States called ing CNDD-FDD nominated a few hundred metres — rather for a delay to elections in President Pierre Nkurunziza to than a full flight test. Burundi yesterday after deadly stand for re-election, triggering However, South Korea’s defence protests triggered by the presi- daily protests. ministry said the test was “very dent’s bid for a third term. Belgium, The Netherlands and serious and worrisome” and could “We encourage the government Switzerland have suspended vital undermine regional stability. of Burundi to take measures to funding for the elections over the “We urge the North to imme- calm the situation, and the idea of violence. diately stop development of the a delay in the electoral timetable Belgium, the former colonial SLBM that threatens the secu- would be for us a good thing,” EU ruler, suspended aid to the elec- rity of the Korean peninsula Special Envoy Koen Vervaeke told toral process in Burundi, with- and northeast Asia,” ministry reporters. holding $2.2m of backing. The spokesman Kim Min-Seok told US ambassador Dawn Liberi first half of the package has reporters. read a similar statement. already been paid. A fully developed SLBM capa- Vervaeke, speaking on behalf The Netherlands and bility would take the North of the EU as well as Switzerland, Switzerland later followed suit. Korean nuclear threat to a new said that “the minimum condi- Nkurunziza, a former rebel level, allowing deployment far tions to go for the elections are leader from the Hutu majority beyond the Korean peninsula and not met — that is, the freedom who has been in power since 2005, the potential to retaliate in the of the media and to demonstrate has come under intense inter- event of a nuclear attack. A protester does a handstand in front of policemen during a protest against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision peacefully.” national pressure to withdraw The main strategic threat from to run for a third term, in Bujumbura, Burundi, yesterday. At least 19 people have been from next month’s election and such a weapon is the difficulty in killed and scores wounded stand down. AFP tracking a submerged, armed sub- marine, Kim said. South Korea’s initial assess- ment after the test — which was believed to have taken place Drug-resistant typhoid alarm Friday — was that the North PARIS: Drug-resistant typhoid has become an invisible epi- Malaysia PM claims party’s support is still in the “early phase” of demic in Africa, scientists said yesterday after an unprecedented development. probe into the disease. KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s pressure on him mounted over the long-ruling United Malays However, a defence official Writing in the journal Nature Genetics, the team sounded the embattled prime minister said allegations of fraud and embez- National Organisation (UMNO) speaking on condition of anonym- alarm after sequencing more than 1,800 samples of typhoid bacteria his party’s ruling council gave zlement at a debt-ridden, state- being ousted in future elections. ity later said the North could have from 63 countries. This revealed the rise of a multi-drug-resistant him its “undivided support” at a owned investment company that But some of Najib’s own cabinet a fully functioning submarine (MDR) strain called H58, which does not respond effectively to meeting yesterday, amid inten- he launched and still oversees. ministers over the weekend began armed with ballistic missiles in frontline antibiotics. H58 has recently acquired mutations that blunt sifying speculation over his Influential former premier echoing the calls for a thorough “two to three years.” newer drugs such as ciprofloxacin and azithromycin, they added. future in the wake of a financial Mahathir Mohamad has waged a probe into the scandal-tainted “And field deployment could H58 is “displacing” antibiotic-sensitive versions of the germ, the scandal. months-long campaign for Najib company, 1Malaysia Development take place within four or five study warned. AFP The comments by Najib Razak to step aside over the matter, say- Berhad (1MDB). years,” the official said. AFP followed a weekend in which ing it could eventually result in AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Pakistan told US about Osama’s hideout Osama Bin Laden was ISI’s prisoner; Saudi also knew about his hideout: Report

ISLAMABAD : The United States intelligence officer approached Jonathan Pakistanis to keep OBL as a prisoner. raid. Hersh said that President Barack got to Osama bin Laden (pictured), Bank, then the CIA’s station chief at the He said when the Americans contacted Obama did not consult the then army with Pakistan’s help, but disclosed the US embassy in Islamabad. He offered the Pakistani government and asked for or ISI chief, Generals Kayani and Pasha, operation in a manner that made the to tell the CIA where to find (Osama) OBL, the ISI insisted that he be killed and before releasing the cover story that he country look like a villain, according to bin Laden in return for the reward that his death should be announced a week shared with his nation in a live broadcast. Seymour M Hersh, an American inves- Washington had offered in 2001.” after the operation. The Americans were “The cover story trashed Pakistan. It tigative journalist and author. The former intelligence official, Hersh required to say that the Al Qaeda chief was very embarrassing for them,” said “They helped. They totally helped. said, was a military man who was now was found in a mountainous region in the Hersh. “Pakistan has a good army, not They helped a great deal,” said Hersh living in Washington and working for the Hindu Kush so that neither Pakistan nor a bad army, but the cover story made it when asked if he believed Pakistan helped CIA as a consultant. “I cannot tell you Afghanistan could be blamed for keeping look bad.” the US reach the Al Qaeda leader. more about him because it would not be him, Hersh said. The author said the ISI Hersh also said that Shakil Afridi, In a story published in the London appropriate.” wanted him dead because “they did not the physician now jailed in Peshawar for Review of Books yesterday, Hersh Hersh rejected the suggestion that want a witness”. his links to the CIA, was a CIA asset described the official US version of the Osama bin Laden was living in his own According to him, the Americans set but he did not know about the opera- so-called “Operation Neptune Spear” as hideout and was free to move around. up an observation post in Abbottabad tion. He was used as a cover to hide the a work of fiction, a fairy-tale. OBL was an ISI prisoner and never and later informed the ISI. Before the real story. continues and is now in a good shape.” He noted that the White House still moved except under their supervision, operation, the ISI set up a cell in Ghazi, The Americans, and the Pakistanis, In the story he wrote for London Review maintains the mission was an all-Ameri- he said. Hersh said the Saudi government Tarbela, where “one man from the SEALs wanted to protect Amir Aziz, a doctor of Books (LRB), Hersh says that when can affair, and that senior generals of the also knew about it and had advised the and two communicators” practised the and a major in the Pakistani army. The the former Pakistani intelligence official Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services ISI had moved Dr Aziz close to the com- walked into the US Embassy, Islamabad, Intelligence (ISI) were not told about the pound where they had kept OBL because with information about Bin Laden, the raid in advance. he was on his deathbed when found. CIA did not believe him. “This is false, as are many other ele- White House rebuts claim Hersh also said that former US Defence So the agency’s headquarters sent a ments of the Obama administration’s Secretary Robert Gates disagreed with polygraph team and the CIA began to account. The White House’s story might WASHINGTON: The White House is patently false,” he said. The raid on the cover-up story and wanted the US believe the Pakistani official only after have been written by Lewis Carroll (the yesterday flatly rejected claims Abbottabad caused public outcry in to respect the arrangement they had he passed the test. Although Hersh author of “Alice in the Wonderland).” that Pakistan was told in advance Pakistan and strained already uneasy made with Pakistan. “President Obama spoke to a number of people for the He argues that if Bin Laden would seek about a 2011 special operations raid relations between Washington and changed the game because he was run- story, including a former ISI chief, his a hideout he would not go for a resort that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Islamabad. ning for re-election,” he said. “The two- major source was a retired senior US town forty miles from Islamabad. bin Laden. Veteran US journalist It was also seen as a hallmark hour delay in the speech was caused by intelligence official who told him that Would OBL consider it “the safest Seymour Hersh claimed in a British achievement of Obama’s first term. an internal debate.” the Americans initially did not share place to live and command Al Qaeda’s publication that Pakistan’s security “Knowledge of this operation was con- Asked did his investigation show with the Pakistanis what they learned operations?” he asks. services not only knew about the raid, fined to a very small circle of senior US Pakistan as a villain or an ally, he said: from this retired Pakistani official. “The most blatant lie was that but had been holding bin Laden pris- officials,” insisted Price. “Total ally.” Initially, he said, “here was Here is how Hersh tells the story in Pakistan’s two most senior military lead- oner since 2006. “The President decided early on anger (in Washington) that they had the piece he wrote for LRB: ‘The fear ers (retired) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani That account was rejected by the not to inform any other government, OBL for years, but did not tell us. But was that if the existence of the source (who was chief of the army staff at the White House. “This was a US opera- including the Pakistani Government, we understand people have their interests was made known, the Pakistanis them- time), and Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, tion through and through,” said Edward which was not notified until after the and act to protect them.” selves would move Bin Laden to another director general of the ISI — were never Price, a White House National Security raid had occurred.” He added: “The Pakistanis were location. So only a very small number of informed of the US mission,” writes Council spokesman. Hersh, who rose to prominence by treated quite badly by the Americans.” people were read into the source and his Hersh. In an interview, Hersh said the “The notion that the operation” exposing atrocities during the Vietnam He said the cover- up story soured US story,’ the retired official said. ‘The CIA’s operation that ultimately led to OBL’s which killed the 9/11 mastermind, “was War, was writing in the London Review relations with the Pakistani military as it first goal was to check out the quality of death began with a walk-in. anything but a unilateral US mission of Books. AFP made it look bad. “We have a very strong the informant’s information.’ “In Aug 2010 a former senior Pakistani background relationship with them. It INTERNEWS

Afghan floods Ex-minister 19 of 31 abducted plans to form PPP faction Afghan Shias freed KARACHI: After falling out with the top leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), in prisoner swap Zulfiqar Mirza is weighing his options on crafting out another GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN: was paid... and no prisoners were faction from the Asif Zardari- Nineteen of 31 Shias abducted exchanged”, but two provincial led party with the support of in Afghanistan were released officials said some militants had other estranged leaders. yesterday in exchange for scores been freed. Asadullah Kakar, a “I am considering multiple of Uzbek militants in govern- member of Zabul’s provincial options,” the former home min- ment prisons, provincial officials council, said the Hazaras were ister of Sindh said, while speaking said, ending a two-month ordeal freed “in exchange for 22 Uzbek to the media on Monday. which marked a rare attack on militant fighters”. “I can carve out another [PPP] ethnic minorities. “These Uzbek militant fighters group or support other parties But President Ashraf Ghani were detained when they entered that are considered against the denied any prisoners were exchanged Afghan soil from the bordering Zardari-led PPP. I want to see to secure the release of the ethnic North Waziristan tribal area of Bilawal leading the party, and Hazaras who were seized in late Pakistan,” he said, adding that expel those who have encroached A man wades through water after heavy downpour triggered flash floods in Kunduz, Afghanistan, yesterday. February by masked gunmen from the remaining abductees would upon his position.” a bus in southern Zabul province. be freed by today. Thousand of homes have been destroyed in the flash floods in Kunduz. Mirza’s announcement comes Government efforts to secure The allegiances of the freed just days after once-prominent the Hazaras’ release have been militants were not immediately PPP leader Safdar Ali Abbasi shrouded in mystery as the clear and another official said along with wife Naheed Khan Taliban, waging a 13-year insur- fewer fighters were released. and other party leaders formally Sharif, army chief to visit Kabul today gency in Afghanistan, distanced Hasan Reza Yousufi, a provin- launched a new political party themselves from the incident. cial council member in the restive named Pakistan Peoples Party- ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Sharif, Special Assistant to the 30 November 2013. During the The high-profile abductions had southeastern province of Ghazni, Workers (PPP-W) to “save the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs visit, the Prime Minister will have fuelled suspicions that militants claimed “10 to 16 Taliban detainees legacy of PPP founder Zulfikar will visit Afghanistan today, Syed Tariq Fatemi, Foreign tete-a-tete with President Ashraf aligned with the Islamic State from Chechnya and Uzbekistan” Ali Bhutto and slain former at the invitation of Afghan Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry Ghani, who will also host a lunch group — an emerging threat in were part of the swap. Hazara chairperson Benazir Bhutto”. President Ashraf Ghani, the and other senior officials. for the Prime Minister. Afghanistan — were behind them. Muslims, the third-largest ethnic Abbasi and his wife were both Foreign Office reported. This will be the Prime Minister Other engagements of the “This is a happy and proud group in Afghanistan, are often considered very close to Benazir, The Prime Minister will be s second visit to Afghanistan and Prime Minister will include a moment. Nineteen of our compa- the target of sectarian violence but were sidelined under the new accompanied by Adviser on the first after the installation meeting with the Afghan Chief triots who had been taken hos- at the hands of Sunni Muslim leadership after she was assassi- National Security and Foreign of National Unity Government Executive, Dr Abdullah Abdullah tage are today the guests of the extremists in Pakistan, though nated on December 27, 2007. Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Chief of Army in Kabul. Earlier, the Prime and delegation-level talks with the government,” Ghani told report- such attacks have been relatively Mirza also claims to have the Staff (COAS) General Raheel Minister visited Afghanistan on Afghan side. INTERNEWS ers. He insisted that “no ransom rare in Afghanistan. AFP support of many likeminded sen- ior party leaders. Insiders said that a few former MPAs belonging to Sukkur, Tharparkar, Larkana and Dadu who were not awarded party tickets in the last general elections had called on him at his Pakistan honours envoys killed in copter crash Karachi house and extended their support. INTERNEWS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- relations, I am recommending terday handed one of its highest to the President to bestow our civilian awards to two foreign civil gallantry award, Sitara- Bomb kills 6 near ambassadors killed in a helicop- e-Pakistan, on Ambassador ter crash in a remote northern Larsen of Norway, Ambassador Afghan border valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan Lucenario of the Philippines, region. Madam Habibah binti Mahmud KHAR, PAKISTAN: A bomb Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Malaysia and Madam Heri explosion yesterday killed at announced the award at a memo- Listyawati of Indonesia,” Sharif least six people including a pro- rial ceremony held in Islamabad announced in a televised speech. government tribal elder in a on Tuesday, saying it would also “Let us bow our heads in prayer restive Pakistani region near be conferred to the wives of to the Almighty for the souls of the Afghan border, officials said. the Malaysian and Indonesian the departed. May their families The attack took place in the ambassadors, killed in the same have the strength to bear this village of Barkamar, part of the incident. irreparable loss. Let us also pray Bajaur tribal district where the Leif H Larsen, the Norwegian for the speedy recovery of all our military has been battling Taliban envoy, Domingo D Lucenario Jr friends, who are injured and are and other militants linked to Al of the Philippines and their fel- undergoing treatment,” Sharif Qaeda. “An improvised explosive low ambassadors’ wives were said. device planted along the roadside killed along with the helicopter’s The helicopter was one of three Residents light candles during a vigil for the victims of an army helicopter crash, in Lahore yesterday. went off as the vehicle of a local two pilots and a crew member carrying a delegation of ambassa- pro-government tribal elder, Malik while landing in Naltar valley dors on a three-day trip to Gilgit- foreign office said the crash was down in Islamabad, killing 130 Arnold Raphel. The Russian-built Muhammad Jan, passed by it, leav- on Friday. Baltistan, where they were set to due to a technical fault while people. In 1988, a plane crash Mi-17, used by air forces across ing him and five others dead,” sen- “In recognition of their serv- inspect projects and meet with landing. It was Pakistan’s worst killed Pakistan’s then military- the world, has had a patchy safety ior district official Fayyaz-ul-Haq ices, for their contribution prime minister Sharif. air crash since 2012, when a ruler General Zia-ul-Haq as well record in recent years. Sherpao said. AFP towards forging closer bilateral The military and Pakistan’s Boeing 737 passenger plane went as the US ambassador at the time, AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Srinagar shopkeepers detained Lok Sabha passes Jayalalithaa acquitted black money bill NEW DELHI: The Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets bill, Wild celebrations by supporters across the state providing for heavy penalties for stashing black money away CHENNAI: In a development assets. “The judgement signi- before May 20. However, the exact in foreign accounts, was passed bound to bring her back as fies that justice has won,” said date is not known with several by the Lok Sabha yesterday. Tamil Nadu’s chief minister, the Jayalalithaa, who stepped down dates floating around. Moving what is called the Black Karnataka High Court yester- as chief minister after her earlier DMK leader and former chief Money Bill for acceptance by the day acquitted AIADMK leader conviction. “It is not a victory for minister M Karunanidhi raised lower house, Finance Minister J Jayalalithaa in the dispropor- me but a victory for justice.” questions about the judgement. Arun Jaitley rejected the oppo- tionate assets case, triggering Within minutes of the judge- Bharatiya Janata Party MP sition’s demand of referring the wild celebrations by her sup- ment, AIADMK leaders, including Subramanian Swamy, who enjoys bill to the Standing Committee, porters all across the state. Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, frosty ties with the AIADMK saying delay in enacting the leg- “Justice has won,” the former rushed to Jayalalithaa’s residence. leader, threatened to appeal islation would provide oppor- Tamil Nadu chief minister gloated Outside and all over Chennai and against the verdict. tunity to offenders to transfer hours after a special bench in Tamil Nadu, boisterous celebra- None of this made any differ- unaccounted overseas wealth Bengaluru acquitted her in the tions erupted. ence to the mass of Jayalalithaa quickly to unknown destina- Rs66 crore case in which she was Political analyst Gnani supporters all across Tamil Nadu tions. “For the first time, unlaw- sentenced to four years in jail by Shankaran said the judgement who burst firecrackers, danced, ful, undisclosed income abroad a lower court. would place Jayalalithaa on a whistled, gave away sweets and has been taxed under this law at The charges were not “sustain- strong wicket ahead of the 2016 kept shouting “Long Live Amma”. a tax rate of 30 percent with an able”, Justice C R Kumaraswamy elections in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK cadres had been additional 30 percent penalty on said in the much-awaited verdict AIADMK may even go for a snap waiting with bated breath for it,” he added. in the case in which Jayalalithaa, election, he said. the court decision. A pleased 67, was also fined a whopping AIADMK sources said Jayalalithaa thanked everyone Girl athletes from Rs100 crore. The judge also Jayalalithaa was set to return who prayed for her acquittal. acquitted Jayalalithaa’s three co- as Tamil Nadu’s chief minis- Expressing her pain that 237 SAI ‘recovering’ convicts who too were sentenced ter. By law, she will have to get people committed suicide after to four years in jail and fined Rs10 elected to the assembly within the trial court’s verdict convicting ALAPPUZHA: The condition crore each. They included close six months after becoming the her, she said they too could have Government food and supply department shopkeepers shout slogans of the three Sports Authority aide Sasikala Natarajan. chief minister. been part of the celebrations now from a police vehicle after they were detained during a protest in Srinagar of India (SAI) girl athletes, who The lower court was told to The sources said that if they had shown the patience. yesterday. Police detained a dozen shopkeepers who were demanding attempted suicide last week, is release Jayalalithaa’s confiscated Jayalalithaa would be sworn in IANS improving and they are recov- the release of their salaries which have been pending for several months. ering well, said a doctor at the Medical College Hospital here. “All of them had normal food today but are still kept in the Traffic cop hits woman who medical intensive care unit. There have been incidents of didn’t pay bribe, sacked Modi’s popularity waning: Survey similar cases where the condition gets bad after showing initial NEW DELHI: A Delhi traffic policeman was yesterday sacked NEW DELHI: A whopping the people have demanded that the Sushma Swaraj led the union promise. Hence we do not wish to after he attacked a young mother of three with a brick when she 78 percent respondents have centre should withdraw the con- ministers in respect of perform- take any chance at all,” the doc- refused to pay a Rs200 bribe. The shocking incident of bribery demanded the NDA govern- troversial land acquisition bill,” said ance, with 56 percent saying her tor said. The three girls will be and police brutality was caught on camera and triggered outrage. ment withdraw its land acqui- an India TV release. performance was ‘good’, 31 per- put through a series of counsel- As the video went viral, Delhi Police first hurriedly suspended sition bill, said an opinion poll It said that 63 percent of the cent terming it ‘average’ and 13 ling sessions and once they suc- Head Constable Satish Chandra and then arrested him. By late released yesterday with nearly respondents conveyed that Modi percent rating her performance cessfully complete it, they will be evening, he was sacked from service. The incident occurred just half of the those surveyed saying government’s image at present as ‘poor’,” the release said. discharged, he added. after noon when 30-year-old Ramandeep Kaur was returning home that Prime Minister Narendra appears to be anti-poor and anti- She was followed by Home with her three daughters from Guru Harkrishan Public School after Modi’s popularity has declined farmer, while as many as 48 per- Minister Rajnath Singh, whose Veteran Cong leader attending a parents-teachers meeting. Kaur said that when she took and 63 percent saying that his cent of the respondents said that performance was rated good by 50 a turn on Golf Links Road, the policeman stopped her and accused image appears to be anti-poor Prime Minister Modi’s popularity percent of the respondents, aver- Nafeesath Beevi dead her of jumping a red light. “He asked me to pay Rs200. I told him to and anti-farmer. has declined in the last one year. age by 36 percent and poor by 14 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: give me a receipt but he said I will have to shell out more if I wanted A nationwide India TV-C Voter Giving region-wise break-up, percent, and Finance Minister Veteran Congress leader A a receipt. He said he would settle the matter if I paid him Rs200. opinion poll, telecast yesterday, the survey said 65 percent of Arun Jaitley (49, 28 percent and Nafeesath Beevi, who also “I refused and told him to issue me a challan which I will settle in said that External Affairs Minister respondents in north India, 52 23 percent respectively). As many served as the deputy Speaker court. I walked away. This angered him. He first kicked my scooty Sushma Swaraj leads the union percent in the west, 34 percent as 59 percent of the respondents of the Kerala Assembly, passed and when I objected, he picked up a brick and hurled it at me,” ministers in terms of performance. in the east, and 38 percent in the said they were satisfied with Modi’s away at a private hospital yes- Kaur said. The policeman also twisted her arm, causing a fracture. “In a severe dent to Prime Minister south felt that Modi’s popularity one-year rule, but 41 percent said terday. She was 91. Nafeesath IANS Narendra Modi government’s has declined. they are not, the survey said. Beevi is survived by three image, a whopping 78 percent of “External Affairs Minister IANS daughters and a son. IANS TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Air smiles: Chair from naturally grown trees Canadian gives birth aboard flight

TOKYO: A Canadian woman gave birth aboard a plane to Tokyo after going into labour over the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for Air Canada said yesterday, an event the baby’s father described as “completely unexpected”. The 23-year-old woman delivered a baby girl mid-air with the help of a doctor who volunteered after crew asked passengers for medical help. The plane was given priority to land at Narita Airport, just outside the Japanese capital, but by the time it taxied to a halt, it had one more passenger than it had started with. “I couldn’t imagine. This hap- Austrian artist Bernhard Schmid works on tree being grown into a chair shape (left) and places chairs which were naturally grown from trees in his garden in Lassnitzhoehe, Styria pened completely unexpect- province, Austria. Schmid creates chairs naturally grown from one single piece of either maple, hazelnut or hornbeam wood by letting the trees grow into their final design over edly,” the father, whose name some 20 years. No nails, screws or glue is used in the process. was not revealed, told Japanese television. “It turned out to be a beautiful baby girl,” he added, showing a snap of the little bun- dle taken on his smartphone. The Air Canada plane from Calgary bound for Narita Female rower readies for solo 9,600km odyssey landed 30 minutes ahead of schedule after being bumped NEW YORK: Sonya Baumstein trek. “It’s so tough,” Outen said. up the queue by air traffic lay in bed one sleepless night “You go to sleep and get blown in controllers. The new mum was and wept softly as she pondered the wrong direction. The weather seen emerging from the plane in her upcoming attempt to cross systems are relentless.” a wheelchair, while her partner the Pacific Ocean alone in a The exact date of the start of carried his daughter in his arms. rowboat. Baumstein’s expedition depends Mother and baby were “I was just thinking about the on the weather, but she is expect- taken to hospital, where they fact that I’m going to be leaving ing to push off from Choshi, remained overnight, but where everything that I love for a really Japan, on or around May 18. both are said to be doing well, long time,” Baumstein said of her Despite the risks, Baumstein the Air Canada spokesman planned 6,000-mile (9,600km) says she is more anxious than said. The flight crew smiled odyssey. “And I don’t know the scared. But the same cannot be and waved at press as they got consequences.” said about her father. “I’m com- off the plane. “Everyone was The 30-year-old from Port pletely fearful and I think it’s kind clapping their hands,” a woman Townsend, Washington, has of ridiculous,” Baumstein’s father, passenger told one television undertaken endurance feats in Darryl, said of the upcoming trip. programme. “She’s such a cute the past but her journey from “But it’s her goal. Everything in baby with big eyes.” Japan to San Francisco, expected life is about taking chances. If she “This is a happy thing,” to start around May 18, is her didn’t try it, for the rest of her life a male passenger said. Air most daunting adventure yet. she’d regret it,” he said. Canada allows women with The four- to six-month trip is Baumstein was the only woman a normal pregnancy and no an endeavour no woman has ever on a four-person team that rowed previous history of prema- accomplished solo. from Spain’s Canary Islands to ture labour to travel up to and Despite 16 attempts to row Sonya Baumstein stands in her 23-foot carbon and kevlar solo rowboat in Port Townsend, Washington. Barbados in 2011. The following including their 36th week. solo across the Pacific, only two year, she biked from Mexico to It was not known how far men have successfully completed food, 180 high-carbohydrate drink the trip. Her bathroom on board degree in non-profit management, Seattle and kayaked from Seattle into her pregnancy this woman the journey - Frenchmen Gerard supplements and a cache of olive will be a bucket. yet Cull said she has spent three to Juneau, Alaska. In 2013, she was when she boarded the d’Aboville in 1991 and Emmanuel oil that she will consume in hopes She has a team that will aid her years doing nothing but prepar- crossed the Bering Strait on a plane in Calgary. Coindre in 2005, according to of retaining as much weight as from land via satellite phone, she ing for the trip, which is funded stand-up paddleboard. In March, a Qatar Airways Ocean Rowing Society records. possible. The carbon and kevlar will be tracked by GPS, and will largely by commercial sponsors. She is making no predictions on plane was forced to make an “Once she leaves Japan, the boat weighs in at a light 300kg have an emergency beacon in case The only other woman to reaching San Francisco because emergency landing in Canada next person she’ll see will be in and will have on board an electric of trouble, but there will be no attempt to row from Japan to San “I only have 50 percent control after a woman unexpectedly San Francisco,” said Andrew Cull, water maker that desalinates sea- support vessel. She will be row- Francisco was a Briton named over what goes on out there”. “I’ve went into labour, delivering a the journey’s operation manager. water for drinking. ing up to 16 hours a day in a boat Sarah Outen. But she was blown learned from rowing over the baby boy hours after take-off. “Unless maybe someone in a fish- Baumstein, who was recruited without a motor or sail. northward and after 149 days years not to think too far ahead,” In January, a Jordanian woman ing vessel stops by to say ‘Hi’ in as a rower by the University of “Sonya’s not crazy,” said Cull. ended her 2013 journey in the said Baumstein. “That’s because gave birth to a baby girl mid- the middle of the ocean.” Wisconsin-Madison before a car “She’s driven. Maybe a little bit Aleutian Islands. I know there’s going to be some flight over the Atlantic while Baumstein will take off on her accident derailed her collegiate bullheaded. She gets an idea in That was her second attempt. A pain followed by some more pain. travelling to New York from custom-made 23-foot (7 metres), athletic career, expects to burn her head and will do anything tropical storm damaged her boat so I’m just hoping there’s going to be Amman. AFP 775-pound (350kg) boat with 1,200 to up 10,000 calories a day and necessary to get it done.” severely during her first try a year some happiness at the end of it.” pounds (544kg) of freeze-dried has gained 40 pounds (18kg) for Baumstein has a master’s earlier that she had to abandon the REUTERS

Next season will A gesturing Alien in California town Prince Harry ‘looking’ A structure of a gestur- be the last for ing Alien (left) seen in a parking lot in Baker, ‘American Idol’ California, of a busi- for love, wants kids ness selling Beef Jerky and other Jerky prod- WELLINGTON: Britain’s and William wanted to work along- LOS ANGELES: US television ucts. Besides Aliens, Prince Harry said yesterday side “normal people” and earn a liv- network Fox said yesterday that the town of Baker, that he wants to have children ing. “Both of us feel we need to it’s pulling the plug on “American on the road between and would like a partner to have a wage as well, to work with Idol,” the pop-music talent series Los Angeles and Las “share the pressure” of royal normal people to keep us sane and that produced such stars as Kelly Vegas, is known as duties, but is still waiting for keep us ticking along,” he said. Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. home to the world’s the right woman. “Surely in the future, from our “’American Idol’ will begin its 15th largest thermometer. The fifth in line to the throne point of view, if we want to make — and final — season this January on The 134-foot-tall struc- made the comments in New a big contribution and be taken Fox,” said the network in a statement Zealand where he is relaxing after seriously, we need to work along- as it unveiled its fall programming ture off Highway 15 was calling time on a decade-long mil- side other people.” line-up. built in 1991 to honour itary career, saying he felt “at a Visiting remote Stewart It promised “a season-long celebra- the highest temperature crossroads”. Island, New Zealand’s south- tory event” that will pay tribute to ever recorded, which He said the birth of brother ernmost settlement, Harry told past seasons of “amazingly talented was 134 degrees in William’s second child Princess schoolchildren about his love of contestants” and to the millions Death Valley National Charlotte last week had increased flying and why he always has of fans who watched the show and Park, north of Baker. his desire for a family of his own. to follow protocol when talking selected its winners. “Of course, I would love to have about his grandmother, Queen Returning as judges will be Jennifer kids right now, but there’s a proc- Elizabeth II. Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry ess that one has to go through,” he The prince was also asked to Connick Jr, the network said. Ryan told Britain’s Sky News. name the best thing about flying a Seacrest will host the show, as he has “Tours like this are great fun, helicopter, and revealed it was the since its inception. hopefully I’m doing alright by chance to get away from everyone. A spin-off from the British series myself. It would be great to have One child wanted to know what “Pop Idol”, “American Idol” premiered someone else next to me to share he called the Queen: “I call her in the summer of 2002 and quickly the pressure. But, you know, time granny,” he replied. “But I refer made its mark in US television history. will come and whatever happens, to her as the Queen because I’m More than a dozen winners, runners- happens I guess.” in the army and she’s my boss.” up and lesser finalists went on to estab- The 30-year-old, who split AFP lish credible recording careers, music from girlfriend Cressida Bonas industry journal Billboard said. last year, railed against being Besides Clarkson and Underwood, labelled “the party prince”. “I the list includes Adam Lambert, never wanted that,” he said, add- Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Barrino, ing that he was looking for a role Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken and Phillip where he could “give something Phillips. The American premiere of back” when he officially leaves the the current 14th season, which ends military next month. this Wednesday, pulled only 11.2 mil- The prince, who has won praise lion viewers. AFP in New Zealand for his down-to- earth manner, admitted both he Tuesday 12 May 2015 23 Rajab 1436 Volume 20 Number 6428 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Attiyah warns Opec against output cuts ‘The cartel has lost its role as the world’s swing producer’ KUWAIT CITY: Qatar’s vet- unless the main producers out- in June. The days of oil fetch- a barrel. Brent North Sea crude eran former Energy Minister side Opec join forces,” he said. ing $100 a barrel are over for for June reversed 29 cents to H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah said Opec should first the foreseeable future, he said, $65.10 per barrel nearing mid- Attiyah (pictured) warned reach a binding agreement with predicting that prices will settle day in London. Opec members yesterday non-Opec producers before cut- at between $60-70. The market traded mixed on against cutting oil output uni- ting production. Global oil prices dipped yes- Friday as traders weighed the laterally because the cartel “Otherwise they will lose terday as investors took their global oversupply and modest has lost its role as the world’s market share and others will cue from a rebounding dollar, demand. swing producer. enjoy high prices and produce awaited fresh US economic data Attiyah estimated at least “Opec should not do anything more,” Attiyah said. and digested another Chinese two million barrels of oversup- because it is not the swing pro- He said Opec and non-Opec interest rate cut. ply of crude in the market at ducer” of the past, Attiyah told producers were currently in US benchmark West Texas a time when several countries Al Sada opens reporters in Kuwait City. “They talks to strike a deal ahead of Intermediate (WTI) for June have built the largest stockpile cannot and will not cut (output) the organisation’s meeting early delivery slid 19 cents to $59.20 in over 30 years. AFP BCI Middle East Conference DOHA: Minister of Energy and Private Indian Industry H E Dr Mohammed Qatar Airways acquires Scotland hotel bin Saleh Al Sada (pictured) banker named opened the BCI Middle East DOHA: Qatar Airways has complementing our five-star hotel is within 15 minutes of the airport Conference in the presence of acquired the Novotel Edinburgh the Oryx Rotana in Doha and and 25 minutes of the city centre business continuity and profes- first BRICS head Park Hotel in Scotland, one Sheraton Skyline Hotel Heathrow, by tram. sionals from across the Middle of the best-located hotels for making it easy for passengers The hotel offers 170 high qual- East and beyond. travellers to Edinburgh and an who wish to spend some time in ity rooms and suites; five pur- In addressing the confer- excellent base for exploring the Edinburgh before travelling fur- pose-designed, fully equipped and ence, Dr Al Sada said, “Business rest of Scotland. The hotel will ther afield in Scotland.” flexible meeting rooms for up to Continuity Management, in continue to be managed and The Novotel Edinburgh Park, 170 people theatre style; an indoor today’s business environment is operated under the Novotel a four-star property located on pool, gym, and sauna; and food and all about building and improving brand by Accor which operates Lochside Avenue, adjacent to beverage offerings. business resilience; it is about more than 3,700 quality hotels the Edinburgh Business Park, The hotel will provide Qatar developing strategies and imple- worldwide. and conveniently located near to Airways’ guests from around the menting plans to enable a busi- The Novotel Edinburgh Park Edinburgh International Airport, world with end-to-end comfort ness to recover from disruptions marks the second hotel acquisi- has a direct tram link to both the when visiting Scotland for busi- in an effective and efficient man- tion by Qatar Airways outside airport as well as Edinburgh city ness or pleasure. This is consist- ner; it also focuses on ensuring of Qatar, where it owns the five- centre. The Hotel is on the door- ent with Qatar Airways premium that organisations are ultimately star Oryx Rotana Hotel in Doha step of Edinburgh Business Park, traveller experience and strategy able to meet their objectives. “ and runs the new airside Hamad widely acknowledged as Scotland’s of expanding into the hotel busi- He added that, “We in Qatar International Airport Hotel. The premier business park, which cur- ness, delivering quality and con- are blessed with security, sta- NEW DELHI: Indian private first acquisition, earlier this year, rently boasts 7,000 employees in venience to passengers travelling bility and prosperity under the banker KV Kamath (pictured) was the Sheraton Skyline Hotel blue chip companies, making the on its modern fleet. The purchase visionary leadership of the Emir was named as the first head of at Heathrow Airport in London. hotel the ideal stay for business of the Novotel Edinburgh Park is H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad a new development bank being Qatar Airways Group Chief travellers, and attendees at busi- part of that overall service offer- Al Thani, and the guidance of set up by the emerging BRICS Executive, Akbar Al Baker ness events and conferences, as ing and growth strategy, which is the Prime Minister and Interior nations, officials said. (pictured), said: “The Novotel well as tourists, due to its easy expected to include further hotels Minister H E Sheikh Abdulla bin The BRICS — Brazil, Russia, Edinburgh Park is an excellent access to the highway network, in key destinations. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani”. India, China and South Africa addition to our travel portfolio, tram and train stations. The hotel THE PENINSULA QNA — announced last year that they were forming the develop- ment bank to be headquartered in Shanghai. The move was seen as a major challenge to the Washington-based International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Greece makes progress but warns of cash crunch which some powers see as biased towards Western policy positions. Kamath, 67, is a veteran pri- BRUSSELS: Greece won lim- repayment schedule in coming vate banker who is credited with ited support from the eurozone weeks, owing another €1.5bn turning the ICICI Bank into one yesterday for the progress it has to the IMF in June and then of India’s largest private lenders made in difficult bailout talks another three billion euros to the during his 13 years as manag- but warned that Athens faced a European Central Bank (ECB) in ing director and CEO. He also cash crunch within two weeks July and August. spent several years working at without a deal. Athens has been squeezing the Asian Development Bank in Athens’s radical new govern- funds from the central and local southeast Asia and is currently ment scraped together enough governments to be able to meet its non-executive chairman of both cash to order the repayment to payments, but mayors are begin- ICICI and Indian software giant the IMF of €750m ($840m) and ning to resist. Europe’s stock mar- Infosys. The bank will provide avoid a default which could send kets lost ground earlier Monday $50bn for infrastructure projects it crashing out of the euro. as Greece failed to reach a deal and have $100bn in an emergency But eurozone finance minis- while the euro dropped to $1.1141 reserve fund, with each coun- ters meeting in Brussels kept from $1.1208 late in New York on try contributing $10bn. BRICS their tough line, saying Greece Friday. nations account for nearly $16 could not hope for any of the Led by Germany, the Europeans trillion in GDP and 40 percent of final €7.2bn tranche of its €240bn still expect a rigorous regime of the world’s population. AFP EU-IMF bailout until they make reforms from Athens including key reforms. cuts to pensions, but Tsipras’s “We welcomed the progress leftist government in power since Greece invited that has been achieved so far... January has so far refused to At the same time, we acknowl- deliver on the terms of the bailout. to join BRICS edged that more time and effort Eurogroup chief Jeroen are needed to bridge the gaps on Dijsselbloem insisted that a full ATHENS: Greece has been the remaining open issues,” the deal was needed for Greece to get invited to become a member Eurogroup statement said after its remaining bailout funds, but A former employee of the national Greek broadcaster ERT scales the gate of the broadcaster’s headquarters in of the development bank of talks in Brussels. raised the possibility of breaking the BRICS economies, includ- Greek Finance Minister Yanis up the reform programme into Athens yesterday, demanding jobs immediately. The Greek parliament voted on April 28 to reestablish ERT, abruptly ing Russia and China, which is Varoufakis — leading the charge steps and then making staggered closed in 2013 as part of austerity measures. seeking to become a counter- for the anti-austerity government disbursements. weight to the IMF, a govern- of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras But the eurozone needed “more ment source said. — admitted that Athens faced an detailed proposals” from Greece, Germany floats Greek referendum on reform The invitation came dur- imminent crisis. the Dutchman said, adding that ing a telephone conversation “The liquidity issue is a ter- there was “a lot of work behind BRUSSELS: Germany floated symbolic statement of progress anti-austerity platform, has called between Greek Prime Minister ribly urgent issue. It’s common the scenes in Athens that needs the idea of a Greek referendum won from the eurozone yester- for an “honourable compromise,” Alexis Tsipras and Russia’s knowledge, let’s not beat around to be done.” on the government’s policy, in day will help persuade the ECB to and the government reportedly Deputy Finance Minister Sergei the bush,” said the shaven-headed EU economic affairs com- a sign that Europe’s patience keep emergency funds flowing to plans a number of concessions to Storchak, the government source former economics professor, who missioner Pierre Moscovici said is running short. “Maybe this Greece’s banks. “The statement win over its creditors. said in a note to the media. has been at loggerheads with his that on issues like pensions and would be the right measure to is a clear sign that the process is These include a new VAT rate, Tsipras called the bank’s invi- international counterparts. “From the labour market, Greece had let the Greek people decide if it ongoing, and that’s something,” a along with a restriction on early tation “a happy surprise” and the perspective (of timing), we are to make “alternative proposals is ready to accept what is neces- European official said. “But will retirement and an unpopular prop- expressed interest, saying he talking about the next couple of for areas of programme that it sary,” German Finance Minister it be enough for the ECB? I don’t erty tax that would enable the gov- would “study the proposal in weeks.” rejects.” Varoufakis said he hoped Wolfgang Schaeuble said. know.” Tsipras, whose hard-left ernment to save billions of euros detail,” the statement said. AFP Greece faces a punishing debt for a deal in coming days. AFP Greece was hoping that the Syriza party swept to power on an as demanded by its creditors. AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Minister BoE holds launches The Business Year: interest rates Qatar 2015

DOHA: TBY (The Business Year) in partnership with at record low the Ministry of Economy and Commerce yesterday launched its latest edition on Qatar’s economy, The Business Year: Task is to keep inflation at 2 percent Qatar 2015. The publication consists of over LONDON: The Bank of England Economics research group. 150 interviews with top executives yesterday kept its key interest “And while we think that the and government officials, includ- rate at a record low 0.50 percent recovery is secure, the tough fiscal ing a special contribution from in the first monetary policy deci- squeeze that is now all but certain the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin sion since the Conservatives won to hit the economy and the sub- Hamad Al Thani, in which he Britain’s general election. dued outlook for inflation should discussed government plans, the The meeting was held on ensure that monetary policy is successful performance of Qatar’s Thursday and Friday but the tightened only gradually from economy, and Qatar’s role as glo- outcome by the independent BoE next year.” bal trade and diplomatic partner. was delayed due to last week’s vote At the same time, Britain is In his keynote address, that was won by Prime Minister battling the risk of deflation, due H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim David Cameron’s Conservative partly to the recent sharp slump Al Thani, Minister of Economy party. Borrowing costs are now in world oil prices. The Minister of Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani at the Cityscape Qatar exhibition. & Commerce, said, “the Ministry likely to stay on hold for the rest The 12-month Consumer Price of Economy and Commerce seek of the year, economists said, owing Index (CPI) inflation rate lan- to direct the Qatari economic to slowing economic growth and guished at zero in February and policies towards implementation the prospect of more austerity March — rather than turning neg- More than 20 countries participate that approach to reduce rely- from Cameron, who clinched an ative as some expected —meaning ing on hydrocarbons, as well as unexpected victory in the May 7 that Britain has avoided deflation by boosting private sector’s role, vote. “The BoE’s Monetary Policy for now. income resources diversity and Committee (MPC)... voted to The bank’s main task is to keep as Cityscape Qatar 2015 begins develop investment environ- maintain Bank Rate at 0.50 per- inflation close to a target of 2.0 ment. This approach led to a cent,” the British central bank said percent. “The BoE will ... likely DOHA: H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Development, showcase their the local and regional real estate qualitative improvement on pro- in a brief statement. retain the view that while defla- Jassim Al Thani, Minister of projects and engage in in-depth industry during the three day duction and competitive capa- The nine-member panel also tion remains possible in the near Economy and Commerce, yes- analysis and discussions around exhibition.” bilities for the national economy. agreed to maintain its quantita- term, consumer price inflation will terday inaugurated Cityscape current trends. Along with the local projects, Consequently, we witnessed tive easing economic stimulus at start trending up from the third Qatar — a three-day real estate Key local projects on display FCC Ficicgil Insaat Turzim is growth rates in all economic £375bn. Economists said the MPC quarter,” noted IHG Global Insight exhibition. More than 20 coun- during Cityscape Qatar include exhibiting their Serenity Villa, a sectors. Moreover, it highly con- had chosen to continue its wait- economist Howard Archer. tries from across the globe are Al Bandary’s Al Bandary Tower, luxury hilltop project located on tributed in enabling Qatar to and-see policy, particularly in light Minutes from the MPC gath- currently being represented located in the Doha Diplomatic the outskirts of Istanbul. gain very advanced ranks in sev- of an economic slowdown in the ering will be published in May at this year’s Cityscape Qatar, Area of Al Dafna, with the project Deep Marwaha, Group Director eral regional and international first quarter of 2015. 20, when markets will gain including companies from having 96 one to three luxurious of Cityscape, said: “Qatar real indexes”. Gross domestic product (GDP) greater insight into policymak- the United Arab Emirates, bedroom apartments with ocean estate landscape continues to Betul Cakaloglu, Regional expanded 0.3 percent between ers’ thinking. Turkey, Kuwait and the United views. United Developers had expand as the country prepares Director, speaking at the event, January and March. That dashed Cameron swept back to Kingdom. their Place Vendome on display, for the 2022 football World Cup spoke of the importance of The expectations of 0.5-percent power last week after an unex- The Minister visited a number with the number one mall located and moves forward with imple- Business Year’s research in Qatar; growth, after 0.6 percent in the pected election victory handed of stands including UDC’s The in the heart of Lusail City and menting the four pillars of the “It is another memorable day for final quarter of 2014. his Conservative party a narrow Pearl Qatar, United Developer’s being spread over four levels. It Qatar National Vision 2030.” The Business Year as we continue The election was also an majority in parliament for the first Place Vendome and Al Bandary will feature two five-star hotels, Day Two of Cityscape Qatar will our successful collaboration and endorsement of Cameron’s aus- time in almost two decades. Real Estate’s Al Bandary Tower. multiple serviced apartments, have an additional focus on retail, partnership with the Ministry. terity policies and will likely see The Conservatives capital- Cityscape Qatar is the sole a brand new expressway and a continuing the ongoing dialogue The Ministry has played a critical a continuation of cuts to public ised on their stewardship of the platform in the country that metro rail service, which will form through the Qatar Real Estate role in assisting our research so spending as he seeks to reduce a economy, which has staged a solid brings together the major indus- the basis of the infrastructural Summit and bringing exposure that it is of the highest standard. budget deficit of nearly £90bn. recovery since 2010 despite the try figures including, Al Bandary requirements to accommodate over this rapidly expanding sec- Qatar has moved from strength “Since the first estimate of Q1 first-quarter slowdown. Real Estate, United Development and transport local and interna- tor. Cityscape Qatar is open from to strength, demonstrating its GDP has cast some doubt over However, the Liberal Democrats Company (UDC) Qatar and tional visitors all year round. 11am to 9pm daily, showcases real strength domestically, region- the recovery’s health, the MPC is were ravaged at the ballot box, United Developers, as they, along Sean Kelly, Project Director at estate development opportunities ally, and internationally, and The likely to have voted unanimously hurt by the compromises they with other local and interna- United Developers, commented and the diversity of projects, and Business Year will continue to again at this month’s meeting to had to make in five years as jun- tional companies, including Dubai during Cityscape Qatar 2015: will bring together more than support the development of this keep interest rates on hold,” said ior coalition partners in Cameron’s Properties, FCC Ficicgil Insaat “We are aiming to showcase our 8,000 visitors over the coming burgeoning economy.” Samuel Tombs, analyst at Capital administration. AFP Turzim and Tebyan Real Estate project as well as the progress of three days. THE PENINSULA Tariq Abdulaziz Alsada, Communication and Public Relations Director in the Ministry of Economy and Commerce said: “The Business Year is a key annual publica- tion for readers as it contains Oman plans private placement for debut 200m rial sukuk interviews with the most important leaders and executives MUSCAT: Oman plans to sell in advanced stages of structuring Abdullah Al Salmi, executive pricing benchmark. Two sharia- budget plan this year envisages a in Qatar”. its first sovereign Islamic bond, and documentation. president of the Capital Market compliant banks, Al Izz Islamic deficit of 2.5 billion rials, equiva- The publication focuses on key an issue of 200m Omani rials Bank Muscat, the bank’s Islamic Authority, told Times of Oman that Bank and Bank Nizwa, obtained lent to about 8 percent of gross issues surrounding Qatar’s devel- ($520m) of sukuk, through banking window Meethaq, and the sukuk would have a face value licences in 2013, and there are domestic product. opment economically, socially, and a private placement and will Standard Chartered have been of 1 rial and the broad investor half a dozen Islamic windows of Central bank Executive politically. As GCC countries have launch subscriptions soon, an appointed to advise the govern- community would be able to buy conventional banks. The Islamic President Hamood Sangour Al become a more attractive loca- Omani official was quoted as ment on the issue, Times of Oman them once they were listed on the banks and windows account for Zadjali has said Oman will con- tion for investment and business, saying yesterday. quoted officials as saying. Muscat Securities Market. about 5 percent of the country’s sider in the second half of this Qatar’s role within the region has Tahir Salim Al Amry, director- “The sovereign sukuk issue will The officials did not give other total banking assets. year whether to issue an inter- increased significantly due to its general of treasury and accounts be through a private placement details of the sukuk issue such as Starting sukuk issuance would national bond for the first time stable political situation govern- at the Ministry of Finance and process and marketed primarily its tenor and structure. also give the Omani government a since 1997. ment and strong economy. head of the committee arranging to Islamic financial institutions, Sovereign sukuk issuance would valuable new instrument to raise It is not clear whether that The launch ceremony was fol- the issue, told the Times of Oman and sophisticated investors with boost Oman’s fledgling Islamic funds. The plunge in oil prices issue would be conventional or lowed by a panel discussion focus- that it had received in-principle a minimum subscription amount banking industry, giving it a badly since last year has put its finances Islamic. ing on ICT and the knowledge regulatory approval and was now of 500,000 rials,” Amry said. needed liquidity tool as well as a under heavy pressure; its state REUTERS economy. THE PENINSULA

EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement meet Ooredoo signs $500m revolving UK employers likely to credit facility slow down pay growth agreement LONDON: British employers seeing very modest improvements, expect to raise pay by a sub- if at all,” Gerwyn Davies, a labour DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday dued 1.8 percent in the coming market analyst at CIPD, said. announced the signing of a year, slowing from expecta- Wages were not going up more $500m Revolving Credit Facility tions for increases of 2.0 percent strongly due to a combination of Agreement, the company said in three months ago, according to low levels of people switching jobs; a statement yesterday. a quarterly survey of personnel migrants and welfare claimants The Agreement was exe- managers. joining the labour market; and cuted between Ooredoo as the In a report that underscores older workers staying in work for Borrower and Qatar National how Britain’s economic recovery longer, he said. Bank, Australia and New Zealand has yet to make a big difference “In addition, word has spread Banking Group Limited, Barclays in earnings for many workers, the that inflation is expected to Bank PLC, BNP Paribas Fortis Chartered Institute of Personnel remain very low this year so it’s SA/NV, The Bank of Tokyo- and Development’s (CIPD) said no surprise that many employers Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd, Citibank, pay growth was half the rate are hitting the pause button on N.A., London Branch, DBS Bank recorded in the spring of 2008, pay,” Davies said. Ltd, HSBC Bank Middle East before the financial crisis. Business investment was strong Limited, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., The survey’s net employment but spending on training was Societe Generale and Sumitomo balance — which measures the dif- falling, frustrating hopes for an Mitsui Banking Corporation, ference between the proportion of increase in productivity that is Dubai Branch as Lead Arrangers. employers who expect to increase needed to push up wages more Qatar National Bank will act as staff levels and those who expect quickly, CIPD said. the Facility Agent for the facility. to decrease levels in the second The Bank of England is watch- The tenor of the facility is five quarter of 2015 —increased to +25 ing pay growth closely as it consid- years and the facility will be used European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmstroem (left) and Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso from +24. ers when to start raising interest for general corporate purposes, Guajardo Villarreal deliver a joint press conference after their meeting at the EU Commission headquarters “The new government may be rates which have sat at a record the company said. in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday. The meeting was held to upgrade the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement. inheriting a strong labour market, low of 0.5 percent for more than THE PENINSULA but people’s pay packets are only six years. REUTERS TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

China vs U.S. crude oil imports China’s stock China’s crude oil imports hit record highs in the first months of the year, China overtakes US establishing the country as the world’s biggest buyer ahead of the United States. index futures 12 million barrels per day unseat S&P 10 as top crude buyer United States HONG KONG: Chinese stock 8 index futures have surpassed S&P 500 futures in turnover to become the world’s most traded April imports hit 7.4m bpd against US’s 7.2m bpd 6 equity futures as global inves- tors expanded their exposure China SINGAPORE: China over- ahead, it is clearly headed towards becomes progressively more 4 to one of Asia’s top-performing took the United States as the overtaking the United States as important to China relative to markets. world’s top importer of crude oil the world’s top crude importer on other countries that are import- Turnover in the CSI300 futures for the first time in April, and a permanent basis. ing less oil,” he added. 2 contract expiring on May 15 has its purchases are expected to China is already the world’s big- A 60 percent drop in glo- soared in recent weeks, in step remain strong despite a slowing gest energy consumer, with oil by bal oil prices between June 2014 0 with surging shares in China. Daily economy, with far-reaching con- far the largest traded energy mar- and January due to a supply glut 1996’97 ’98 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 volumes rose to 1.5 million con- sequences for global oil and com- ket. Overtaking the United States encouraged China to build stocks, Source: Thomson Reuters tracts on Friday, according to data, modities markets. means China is the top user of changing both trade flows and oil J P 11/05/2015 exceeding the 1.4 million “e-mini” The soaring imports came as a almost all commodities, including politics. S&P 500 contracts traded on that surprise as growth in the world’s coal, iron ore and most metals, Within a decade, oil produc- Russia or US shale producers. Vitol and Mercuria. Now, Chinese day. Analysts predict the CSI 300 second-largest economy was sput- with far-reaching implications for ers around the world have had to Saudi oil minister Ali Al Naimi traders are increasingly active. looks set to overtake futures con- tering and its oil demand was markets which continue to shift fundamentally adjust their trade was on a high profile visit to China Companies like Unipec or China tracts in other asset classes such expected to ease. However, low oil from West to East. routes as US imports fell from and other Asian countries in April Oil, the respective trading arms as USTreasuries, the most heav- prices and China’s series of interest “Being the world’s biggest crude over 10 million bpd 10 years ago when he announced near record of Chinese national oil companies ily traded futures contract in the rate cuts — including one over the importer should give China more to around 7 million bpd currently, Saudi oil production and said he Sinopec and PetroChina, have world for any asset type. weekend — in a bid to stoke growth buying power. China’s engagement just as China’s imports have risen was “very positive” about contin- entered oil markets on an unprec- Turnover in CSI300 stock index are factors boosting demand. in the Middle East will continue seven-fold. ued strong demand from China. edented scale. futures, launched in April 2010 China’s crude oil imports hit a to change, and it will no longer be The Saudi-led decision by the China’s nascent role as the With prices still relatively low, on the China Financial Futures record of almost 7.4 million barrels the minority player,” said Philip Organisation of the Petroleum world’s top crude buyer is also China’s demand is expected to rise. Exchange, have rocketed in recent a day (bpd) last month, putting it Andrews-Speed, head of energy Exporting Countries (Opec) in impacting trading. “They will definitely continue to weeks on a rally in mainland share ahead of the United States’ esti- security research at the National November 2014 not to cut produc- The crude market has been tra- buy more crude to fill up new stor- indexes . The equity benchmarks mated imports of 7.2 million bpd University of Singapore. tion despite the slide in oil prices ditionally dominated on the buy- age capacity, both strategic and are star performers in the Asia- for April, Reuters data show. “China becomes not only more has been largely motivated by an side by Western oil majors such as commercial,” said Seng Yick Tee, Pacific, with year-to-date returns While China may drop back important to Middle Eastern effort to defend market share ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, director of SIA Energy in Beijing. of more than 30 percent in dollar to second place in some months states, but the Middle East against outside competitors like Chevron or BP or merchants like REUTERS terms. The rush into Chinese equi- ties has led to requests for higher onshore investment quotas. Exchange traded futures such as China’s smartphone market contracts in Q1 the CSI300 provide exposure to an underlying index without the need to invest in the underlying constit- SINGAPORE: China’s smart- last year”, it said. Apple was the million units, down 53 percent from uents. They are popular with insti- phone market contracted in the top vendor in China during the last year, with the firm’s market tutional investors looking to access first quarter for the first time in quarter, selling 14.5 million units, share shrinking to 9.7 percent from Auto sales down in April emerging markets or equitise their six years with Apple becoming up more than 62 percent from last 19.9 percent as consumer prefer- investment portfolios. The recent the top vendor, researchers said year. It had a 14.7 percent market ences changed. “Smartphones are BEIJING: Auto sales in China, the world’s largest car market, launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong yesterdray. share. Apple’s rise from fourth becoming increasingly saturated in fell 0.5 percent year-on-year to 1.99 million vehicles in April, Stock Connect programme allow- International Data Corporation place in the first quarter of 2014 China,” said Kitty Fok, managing an industry group said. For the first four months of the year, ing two-way buying and selling (IDC) said figures from its mobile was driven by strong consumer director at IDC China. auto sales increased 2.8 percent on the same period last year has also spurred the cash equities phone tracker show that 98.8 mil- preference for the bigger screen “China is oftentimes thought to 8.14 million vehicles, according to the China Association of market, giving stock index futures lion smartphones were sold in of the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 of as an emerging market but Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). a boost. China in January-March, down 4.3 Plus, IDC added. the reality is that the vast major- The fall in April compared with a rise of 3.3 percent in March, “The success of the stock con- percent from the same period last The US phone maker was fol- ity of phones sold in China today CAAM figures showed. Slowing economic growth, limits by some nect program and the increased year. “This is the first time in six lowed by Chinese brand Xiaomi are smartphones, similar to other cities on vehicle numbers and a prolonged corruption crackdown market volatility means investors years that the China smartphone with a 13.7 market share. Another mature markets like the US, UK, affecting the luxury segment have all had an impact on sales in are looking for more products to market declined year-on-year as Chinese firm Huawei was in third Australia and Japan,” Fok said. China. “This year is relatively special... because we are under the access China markets perform- the market continues to mature,” place with 11.4 percent. “Just like these markets, con- new normal and the difficulties... were sharply reflected in the ance than exchange traded funds, IDC said in a statement. South Korean technology giant vincing existing users as well as auto industry,” Yao Jie, a vice secretary general of the CAAM, told and futures are feeding that rising Compared with the previous Samsung, which held the top spot feature phone users to upgrade to reporters at a briefing. demand,” said Andrew Sullivan, quarter, the market shrank 8.0 in the first quarter of 2014, fell to new smartphones will now be the Foreign brands have generally held up well despite China’s eco- managing director of sales trading percent “on the back of a large fourth place. Sales of Samsung key to future growth in the China nomic downturn, due to consumer perceptions of better quality. AFP at Haitong International Securities inventory buildup at the end of smartphones in China totalled 9.6 market.” AFP Group in Hong Kong. REUTERS

Malabar Gold enters Malaysia Saudi, Kuwait to shut joint oilfield for two weeks

DUBAI: A jointly operated companies. Chevron has said it has onshore oilfield between Saudi faced problems obtaining supplies Arabia and Kuwait will shut and work permits for its expatriate for two weeks of maintenance, staff, which could hurt production a Kuwaiti industry source said in the Neutral Zone. yesterday, a move apparently Industry sources say Kuwait aimed at giving the Gulf Opec was angry because it was not allies more time to solve a long- consulted when the Chevron standing dispute. concession to operate Wafra was Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan inaugurating the 133rd outlet of Malabar Gold & Diamonds at Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur, The scheduled closure of the renewed by Riyadh in 2009 until Malaysia, in the presence of Datuk Saravanan, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Youth & Sports; MP Ahammed, Chairman of the Malabar Group; Wafra onshore oilfield, operated 2039. But the row goes back fur- Shamlal Ahamed M P, Managing Director- International Operations; Abdul Salam K P, Group Executive Director; Uvaise K, Zonal Head, and by a Saudi Arabian division of ther to 2007, when a land dispute other directors of the company. US oil major Chevron, will start between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia tonight or tomorrow, the source led to a delay in Kuwait’s plans to said. The source declined to be build an oil refinery. Chevron has named because of the commercial had a lease on some of the land Moody’s assigns sensitivity of the matter. on Kuwait’s side which was ear- Moody’s upgrades QIIB’s issuer “It is planned maintenance marked for the new refinery. starting from tonight or tomor- “I think (the maintenance shut- A3/P-2 ratings row,” the source said, adding that down news) is just to show and production from the onshore fields tell people there is nothing wrong ratings, changes outlook to stable in the Neutral Zone between Saudi so they came out with a decision to Al Khaliji Arabia and Kuwait was about that this has been taken by the two 190,000 barrels per day. countries,” a Saudi industry source DOHA: Moody’s Investors DOHA: Moody’s Investors rapid financing growth and mar- diversification of QIIB’s balance Last month, Saudi Chevron said. “The purpose is to sit down Service yesterday assigned long Service yesterday upgraded gin pressures driving a modest sheet, with a notable increase in told its partner, Kuwait Gulf Oil and start resolving both issues at and short term local and foreign Qatar International Islamic decline in profitability. the proportion of both granular Company, that it planned to shut Wafra and Khafji.” currency deposit ratings of A3/ Bank’s (QIIB) long term and Moody’s rating action also takes retail assets (28 percent of total down Wafra after failing to resolve Another source in Saudi Arabia Prime-2 to Al Khalij Commercial short term issuer rating to A2/ into account QIIB’s improved and financings) and Qatari govern- various disputes with Kuwait, said: “It doesn’t look like there is a Bank (AKB) and a Baseline Credit Prime-1 from A3/Prime-2, and consistently strong asset quality ment related financings (13 per- mainly related to the right to oper- deal reached on Wafra as Chevron Assessment of ba1. The long-term changed baseline credit assess- performance. The bank’s Moody’s cent of total financings) — away ate, according to industry sources. can’t operate there or get material ratings carry a stable outlook. It ment (BCA) and adj. BCA adjusted non-performing financ- from construction and real estate, The Kuwaiti source dismissed or people in, so they are likely to is the first time Moody’s assigns to baa3 from ba1. The rating ing (NPF) ratio has declined to and (3) continued robust asset the idea that the disputes with shut it.” credit ratings to AKB. agency also changed the outlook around 1 percent as of December growth,” the agency said. Chevron were the reason for the The shutdown of Wafra, which AKB’s rating reflects Qatar’s on the bank’s long term ratings 2014, down from a peak of around A key driver of QIIB’s ratings is shutdown. has an output capacity of about strong macro profile, and the to stable. 4 percent as of December 2010. also the bank’s growing strength The Neutral Zone is the only 220,000 bpd of Arabian Heavy bank’s improved and solid asset Moody’s assigned a new These strong asset-quality in the granular Islamic retail place in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait crude, comes after the oil output quality, although declining capi- Counterparty Risk Assessment metrics compare favourably with segment. This is indicated by a where foreign oil firms have equity from another jointly operated field, talisation, and strong liquidity of A1 to QIIB. Moody’s rating the 1.6 percent Qatari system significant market share in the in fields, which are otherwise Khafji, was stopped in October to position. These strengths are action reflects QIIB’s improved average and 2.4 percent median retail segment of around 7 percent owned and operated by state oil comply with environmental regula- moderated by a very high reliance and consistently strong asset for global banks with baa3 BCAs. versus a 4 percent share of total companies. Crude output is divided tions. The move is unlikely to affect on market funding, high borrower quality performance and its solid “Going forward, we expect the system assets as of December equally between the two countries. oil supplies from Saudi Arabia, the and sector concentrations, and capitalisation, liquidity and fund- bank to sustain these strong met- 2014 (up from 6 percent and 3.5 It survived the nationalisation of world’s top oil exporter, because challenges stemming from rapid ing profile. rics, owing to (1) a strong operat- percent respectively in December the Saudi oil industry in the 1970s. of the kingdom’s significant crude growth. We also incorporate into These strengths are moder- ing environment despite lower oil 2009) This retail franchise sup- Since then, Saudi reserves of 264 output capacity, currently at 12.5 our ratings a very high likelihood ated by high borrower and sector price, the consequences of which ports the bank’s healthy margins billion barrels, about a fifth of the million barrels per day (bpd). of support from Qatari authorities concentrations, risk manage- are largely offset by govern- and provides a strong base of low world’s proven oil reserves, have In March, Saudi pumped 10.29 in case of need. THE PENINSULA ment challenges stemming from ment spending (2) the increased cost deposits. THE PENINSULA been off limits to international oil million bpd. REUTERS TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS $36bn rail project focus of Modi’s China visit India’s Prime Minister travels to Beijing on Thursday for a three-day visit with spotlight on economic ties

NEW DELHI: Beijing has from Chennai to Bengaluru, as border war the countries fought been slow, in part because of the Jiali, executive deputy director of stretch of the proposed 1,754 km been pushing India to acceler- China seeks to cash in on Modi’s in 1962. “Modi is abandoning the difficulties Modi has had in getting the China Reform Forum’s Centre high-speed corridor to Chennai ate work on a multi-billion dol- vision of modernising a creaking old approach to China,” said C political approval for easier land for Strategic Studies and an India running through the heart of lar rail link from New Delhi train system that 25 million people Raja Mohan, an influential Indian acquisition laws. expert. India. “China has been asking to Chennai ahead of Prime use daily. foreign policy analyst. Only a fifth of the necessary Japan and France are the other that they start work up to half- Minister Narendra Modi’s visit Progress on the economic front China’s ambassador to India, land has been acquired for a countries bidding for a share of way along the line even while the to China this week, as the Asian is more likely, officials said, as Le Yucheng, told CNN-IBN tel- $5bn industrial park in the west- modernising India’s rail system, feasibility study is going on,” the giants put economic ties before China eyes a greater share of evision that deals worth $10bn ern city of Pune that the two the world’s fourth largest, in which official said, adding that a memo- regional rivalries. India’s $2 trillion economy. Thanks were expected to be signed during sides announced last year, said a India is seeking investment of randum of understanding could be China, which is conducting a in part to a statistical revision, Modi’s three-day visit. He urged Chinese official. In Modi’s home $137bn over the next five years. signed during Modi’s visit. feasibility study into a $36bn bul- India is now the world’s fastest the Indian government to focus state of Gujarat, only 28 percent Indian Railways Minister China has offered to provide let train project from the capital in growing major economy, outstrip- on cutting red tape to ease invest- of the land has been purchased Suresh Prabhu said last week that India financing for building the the north to Chennai in the south, ping China. ment flows, the channel said in a for a proposed $1.8bn Chinese- India and China were finalising high-speed network. A notice on has asked for work to begin on a Modi, who arrives in China press release. built industrial park in Vadodara. agreements in the rail sector in China’s national railway bureau pilot project covering part of the on Thursday, appears happy During Xi’s visit to India last That is not likely to blunt China’s the run-up to Modi’s visit. website last month said a delega- route, officials said. to encourage such investment, year, China announced $20bn appetite for investments in India, Prabhu gave no details, but a tion visited India from April 25-29 The two sides have also agreed despite reservations among India’s in investments over five years, according to experts. “China’s railway official said India was con- at the invitation of India to talk to speed up implementation of a powerful security community including setting up two industrial attitude toward this investment sidering a Chinese proposal for a about accelerating the railway shorter high-speed rail corridor which has not forgotten a brief parks. Since then progress has is extremely positive,” said Ma pilot project on the Delhi-Agra cooperation document. REUTERS

G7 energy ministers meeting Volvo Cars picks South Carolina Fosun plans $1.2bn in HK to supply toughening US market share sale PARIS/DETROIT: Sweden’s Motors invest a combined $14.5bn Volvo Cars has chosen a site to revamp their line-ups. HONG KONG: China’s Fosun in South Carolina for a $500m Samuelsson acknowledged the International plans to raise as investment in its first US plant, tougher US market conditions, much as $1.2bn in a Hong Kong it said yesterday, targeting a while maintaining they would not share offering, tapping equity bigger share of the increasingly thwart Volvo’s plans. “We have a markets to rebuild its war chest competitive North American premium brand that is very dif- after a series of takeovers in premium market. ferent,” he said. recent months. The Chinese Work will begin this year on Mexico was also on Volvo’s ini- conglomerate founded by bil- the factory in Berkeley County, tial “long list”, he said, eventually lionaire Guo Guangchang plans with production due to start in whittled down to South Carolina to sell $1bn of new shares in an 2018 and quickly reach 100,000 and Georgia. Transport links indicative range of HK$19.48 to vehicles a year. The investment including harbour access were HK$20.32 a share, according to a is part of a drive by China’s Geely, 19.6 million light vehicles in 2020, among the decisive considerations term sheet of the deal. The share which bought Volvo Cars from according to WardsAuto forecasts that ultimately weighed in South sale may increase by $200m if Ford in 2010, to rebuild a brand — with most of the gain coming Carolina’s favour, according to the there is additional demand. that ran into trouble in the finan- from new plant investments. carmaker. Gou’s conglomerate is emerging cial crisis. “This is a clear sign of Germany’s Audi, BMW and “Logistics was one of the most as one of China’s most acquisitive commitment to the revival of our Mercedes-Benz are among lux- important factors” for a plant private-sector companies, picking US business,” Volvo Cars Chief ury carmakers that have recently that will import large numbers up a wide range of global assets Executive Hakan Samuelsson said announced new production capac- of parts and export some vehi- in the last two years. Fosun in embargoed comments made ity in the region. Under Geely’s cles, Samuelsson said, adding entered into nearly $8bn of deals before the announcement. ownership, Volvo has stepped up union representation was “not a in 2014 and in 2015, including an But the move coincides with model investments and added a relevant factor”. $1.8bn transaction last week to toughening competition in the pair of Chinese factories to its two According to an environmen- buy the 80 percent stake it does North American luxury car mar- older European plants. tal permit application filed for the not already own in US insurer ket. Rivals have been ramping up In the United States, where Berkeley County site, the new fac- Ironshore Inc. capacity, with many choosing its sales fell 8 percent to 56,000 tory will initially create 2,000 jobs. Fosun International has iden- Mexico for its lower wages, non- vehicles last year, the production Volvo declined to comment on tified insurance has a major unionized workforce and access investment is key to a medium- longer-term production goals growth area for the group, buy- to the United States and other term pledge to return to 100,000 but said it ultimately planned to German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (centre) and other officials ing last year the insurance arm export markets under a raft of annual deliveries. employ as many as 4,000 workers arrive for the inauguration of RWE Offshore-Windpark Nordsee Ost of Portuguese state bank Caixa free-trade deals. Volvo also faces tougher indige- — suggesting the initial 100,000 and TenneT converter platform HelWin alpha as part of G7 energy Geral de Depositos SA for $1.1bn. In total, North American pro- nous competition from the resur- vehicle output could approxi- ministers meeting, on HelWin alpha converter platform in the North It has also ventured into enter- duction capacity is set to rise more gent Lincoln and Cadillac brands, mately double if sales ambitions sea, 30 km from Helgoland, Germany, yesterday. tainment and tourism, acquir- than 10 percent over five years to as parents Ford and General are realised. REUTERS ing French holiday group Club Mediterranee and purchasing minority stakes in British travel group Thomas Cook and Cirque du Soleil. Trading of Fosun International shares was halted yesterday, according to a securi- Toshiba shares plunge on accounting probe ties filing, which didn’t disclose the reason for the suspension. The company is offering the TOKYO: Toshiba shares sales of 6.7 trillion yen in its latest won’t report revised fiscal-year problems —and who was respon- devices, including memory chips. new shares at a discount of up plunged yesterday after the fiscal year to March. results until at least next month. sible for them — were not yet Earlier this year, Toshiba said to 7 percent to Friday’s market Japanese conglomerate with- The vast engineering conglom- “This is unlikely to affect clear, she added. “The investiga- it was getting out the North close, looking to benefit from a drew its earnings forecast and erate, which makes everything Toshiba’s profitability but it tion include power systems, social American television business and rally that has more than doubled said it won’t pay a dividend, from batteries to nuclear reactors, damaged investors’ trust,” said infrastructure and community selling its brand in the market to the price of the company’s shares citing accounting problems on also warned it may revise past Mitsushige Akino, an executive solutions units,” the spokeswoman a Taiwanese manufacturer. The since the beginning of the year. a number of infrastructure earnings. Toshiba said it would officer at Ichiyoshi Investment said, referring to its energy, rail firm pointed to slowing TV sales Fosun International plans to projects. hire an outside team of experts Management in Tokyo. “The and air traffic control services, and for the decision to stop develop- use the proceeds from the share The company faced massive to look into the matter after fin- stock dropped mainly because of an urban infrastructure division. ment and sales of televisions in sale for general corporate pur- selling at the start of trading with ishing an internal investigation. the uncertainty since the actual Toshiba’s embarrassing roll- North America. poses that may include potential the stock tumbling to the day’s So far, the probe revealed that losses are not known. This sell- back comes after its nine-month Japan’s TV makers, also includ- takeovers of insurance businesses, limit low of 403.3 yen ($3.40), Toshiba underestimated the ing will probably continue until net profit surged 86 percent ing Sony and Panasonic, have according to the term sheet. down 16.55 percent. Shortly cost of “certain” infrastructure Toshiba clarifies the situation.” from a year earlier to 71.9bn suffered as razor-thin margins Citigroup, CMBI, Goldman after the Tokyo market closed projects along with other account- A Toshiba spokeswoman told yen, thanks to strong sales in and fierce overseas competition, Sachs, Hani Securities, Morgan on Friday, Toshiba announced it ing irregularities, it said in a AFP on Monday that “several the energy and infrastructure particularly from South Korean Stanley and UBS were hired as had cancelled its projection for statement without elaborating. construction projects have under- business, which includes nuclear and Taiwanese rivals, dented their joint bookrunners for the deal. a 120bn yen ($1bn) net profit on The company added that it stated costs”. The extent of the power plants, as well as electronic bottom line. AFP REUTERS

New Pilatus jet Sharp loses quarter of its market value on capital reduction reports

TOKYO: Sharp lost a quar- leader in screens for smartphones preferred shares and a capital ter of its market value yester- and tablets — also plans to use reduction but there has been no day following reports that the surplus money squeezed out of decision made,” the company said struggling Japanese electronics the capital reduction to wipe away in a statement. giant is planning a drastic capi- years of accumulated losses, the Sharp is to announce a mid- tal reduction to help wipe away reports said. term business plan on Thursday losses. The firm plunged as much The move, unusual for a firm along with its fiscal-year results. as 31 percent in Tokyo before that has not gone bankrupt, Reports said Sharp was also recovering some ground to trade comes as it struggles to move past expected to get financial assist- at 195 yen ($1.63), down 24.4 per- years of gaping losses, partly due ance from its bank lenders, such as cent, by the break. to bleeding in its television unit, swapping debt for preferred shares Weekend reports by the lead- which has been hammered by com- with no voting rights. ing Nikkei business daily and other petition from lower-cost rivals. “Investors may be afraid that Japanese media said Sharp plans to Responding to the media preferred shares, if converted reduce its capital by 99 percent to reports, Sharp said a capital reduc- into common shares, would just 100m yen, the upper limit for tion remains an option as part of dilute stakeholders’ rights,” said An aircraft of the new Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile type takes off for its maiden flight from the airfield in the category of small and mid-sized its wider restructuring. Toshihiko Matsuno, senior strate- Buochs, Switzerland, yesterday. The ‘PC-24 Super Versatile’ is the first business jet by the Swiss Pilatus companies with tax advantages. “As for our capital policy, we gist at SMBC Friend Securities. Aircraft Ltd. The twin engine jet is designed for up to 6 passengers plus two pilots. The Osaka-based company — a have been making various con- Matsuno added that Sharp has major supplier to Apple that is a siderations including issuance of yet to announce a clear plan. AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Crude oil bulls threatened Malaysia faces Fitch as shale patch revives

BY MOMING ZHOU

he rally in crude oil is reviving the US shale boom, threaten- judgement day soon ing speculators who are the most bullish on prices since July. Money managers increased their net-long position in West T BY LIAU Y-SING Texas Intermediate crude by 3.9 percent in the seven days ended May more volatile global sentiment, according to months to 117, CMA prices show. That com- 5, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. That’s Spiro Sovereign Strategy. pares with 161 in Indonesia and 88 for the a level last seen toward the start of last year’s price crash. Short itch Ratings said an oil rally that Ringgit sovereign bonds have gained 1.2 Philippines. Data this week may renew finan- positions declined to the lowest this year. Funds also boosted bullish helped make Malaysian bonds Asia’s percent in the past three months, compared cial concerns. The current- account surplus wagers on Brent crude to the highest since at least 2011. best performers over the past three with declines of 5.7 percent and 2 percent, was 6.1bn ringgit ($1.7bn) last quarter, the A 40 percent rebound in WTI since March has encouraged compa- Fmonths hasn’t allayed concerns over respectively for Indonesian and Philippine same as the previous three months and the nies including EOG Resources Inc to lay out plans to resume drilling. the nation’s deteriorating finances ahead of notes. While the currency has strengthened lowest since 2013. Growth in the quarter The shale boom had stalled amid a record decline in rigs seeking oil, a second-quarter review. 3.7 percent since reaching a six-year low in slowed to 5.4 percent from a year earlier, the and the government is predicting lower output this month. Any accel- Malaysia’s fundamental picture remains March as oil picked up, it’s still down 2.9 least since the end of 2013, a separate report eration in drilling will raise concern that the US supply glut could clouded by a shrinking current-account sur- percent in 2015, the region’s second-worst may show. worsen. “We could soon see a second surge of production growth,” plus and the build up of “contingent liabilities” performance after the rupiah. To head off political flak for 1MDB’s rising Stewart Glickman, an equity analyst at S&P Capital IQ in New York, for the government related to state invest- The government implemented a new 6 per- debt, which led to calls for Prime Minister said by phone May 7. “EOG is a rather conservative company so if ment company 1Malaysia Development Bhd, cent goods and services tax in April, after Najib Razak to step down, the company is they are willing to dip their toes back in the water, others will as well.” Andrew Colquhoun, Fitch’s head of Asia scrapping fuel subsidies to narrow the fiscal winding down operations and selling off some WTI futures gained $3.34 to $60.40 a barrel on the New York Pacific sovereign ratings, said. He warned in shortfall that’s plagued the country since 1998. assets. It flirted with default after missing Mercantile Exchange in the period covered by the CFTC report. The March that there was more than a 50 percent While the 2015 target was raised to 3.2 per- a loan repayment in November before set- contract rose 24 cents to $59.63 a barrel in electronic trading at 10 am chance of a credit downgrade. cent of gross domestic product from 3 percent, tling it in February, and the government pro- New York time. EOG, the biggest US shale oil producer, said May 5 “I don’t think the rating view will be driven that’s less than 2014’s 3.5 percent. “There’s vided a 950m ringgit credit facility in March. that it plans to increase drilling as soon as prices stabilize at about $65. by relatively small changes in the oil prices,” been some effort to consolidate the budget def- “Malaysia is by no means out of the woods,” Shale-oil explorer Pioneer Natural Resources Co said it’s prepar- said Colquhoun. “We’ve had a negative outlook icit,” said Colquhoun. “We acknowledge all of said Nicholas Spiro, London-based managing ing to deploy more rigs as early as July, while Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc, of the credit since the middle of 2013. The that. One area where we might have a slight director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy and a Devon Energy Corp. and Chesapeake Energy Corp last week raised view since then has been that the changes in difference in emphasis is that there’s been a former consultant at Medley Global Advisors their full-year production outlooks. Malaysia’s macroeconomic fundamentals have buildup of contingent liability and debt.” LLC. “Malaysia’s underlying economic, politi- Following the announcements, prices tumbled 3.3 percent on May left the credit more exposed to a potential As Fitch prepares to review Malaysia’s cal and governance weaknesses remain the 7, having reached this year’s high. Even as the number of rigs seeking shift in investor risk appetite.” A-rating, its fourth-lowest investment grade, same, and there’s no room for complacency, oil fell for a 22nd consecutive week as of May 8, there were some signs The government raised its 2015 fiscal deficit the cost to insure the nation’s bonds from not least with the Federal Reserve planning of improvement. Drillers returned one rig to the Permian Basin, the target and cut the growth estimate as crude default has declined to a more than two- to hike interest rates later this year.” nation’s biggest oil play, Baker Hughes Inc data show. That followed prices slumped to almost half what they were month low. Moody’s Investors Service and The relatively high foreign ownership of the addition of a rig a week earlier in the Williston Basin, where at their peak in June, cutting revenue for the Standard & Poor’s both affirmed assessments Malaysian bonds compared with regional North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation lies. “A lot of people piled net oil exporter. While Brent has recovered on their similar rankings in March and have counterparts may make the nation vulnerable in thinking that production is going to fall off dramatically,” John some of its losses in the past few months, outlooks of positive and stable respectively. to US tightening. Global funds own about 30 Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge easing pressure on the nation’s finances and Five-year credit-default swaps on percent of the government notes, compared fund that focuses on energy, said by phone May 8. “But the likelihood trade accounts, the jury is still out as to Malaysian debt have dropped 16 basis points, with 18 percent for Thailand, according to is that more production is going to come online, not less. Things are whether prices will continue rising amid the or 0.16 percentage point, in the past three central bank data. BLOOMBERG only going to get worse.” Oil output will decline from June through September before rebounding in the final quarter of this year, the Energy Information Administration forecasts. Production will average 9.23 million bar- rels a day this year, the highest since 1972, and rise to 9.31 million in 2016. Crude stockpiles slipped 3.88 million barrels in the seven days ended May 1 after expanding for 16 consecutive weeks to 490.9 mil- lion. That’s the highest level since 1930, based on monthly records. Inventories are more than 100 million barrels above the five-year average for this time of year. Oil prices increasing to $65 for an extended period may add an extra 500,000 barrels a day by the end of next year. The number of wells waiting to be hydraulically fractured, known as the fracklog, has increased as companies wait for costs to drop or prices to rise. Net-long positions in WTI rose by 10,032 to 268,163 futures and options in the week ended May 5. Short bets dropped 18 percent to 63,881, while long positions slipped 1.3 percent to 332,044. Speculators raised net-long positions in Brent, to 288,727 contracts in the week to May 5, according to data on Monday from ICE Futures Europe. It’s the highest level in data extending back to early 2011. The increase, driven by traders covering short positions rather than initiating new bets, creates the risk of a price slump, according to Saxo Bank. “Investors have been piling into the paper market, but the stories of unsold cargoes suggests the physical market isn’t so strong,” Ole Hansen, an analyst at Saxo, said. In other markets, net-short wagers on US natural gas fell 43 per- cent to 72,225. The measure includes an index of four contracts adjusted to futures equivalents. Nymex natural gas jumped 10 percent to $2.78 per million British thermal units during the report week. Bullish bets on gasoline fell 2.7 percent to 24,969. Futures climbed 3.1 percent to $2.0634 a gallon on the Nymex. The US average retail price of regular gasoline gained 0.1 cent to $2.659 a gallon on May 10, according to Heathrow, Florida-based AAA, the nation’s biggest motoring group. Bearish wagers on US ultra low sulfur diesel shrank by 38 percent to 8,426. The fuel rose 5.1 percent to $2.0145 a gallon. As US producers prepare to increase output, other countries keep pumping more oil. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries produced 31.3 million barrels a day in April, above the group’s quota of 30 million for an 11th month. Saudi Arabia led Opec in a decision in November to maintain production levels. The group’s next meeting is in June. “I don’t think Opec is going to do any kind of cut next month,” Tariq Zahir, a New York-based commodity fund manager at Tyche Capital Advisors, said. “Production here in the US will pick up. You could see significantly lower prices.” BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate BoJ proves to be ETF managers’ best friend BY YUJI NAKAMURA and profits at managers running the an economist at Daiwa Securities before tripling them in October. charges investors a management started an ETF linked to the JPX- YUKO TAKEO funds. Now, with inflation continu- Group Inc and a former official at Assets in the 17 funds the cen- fee on its ETFs that amounts to Nikkei Index 400 in December, two ing to fall short of the BoJ’s target, the central bank, said it’s fine for tral bank is permitted to buy have about 0.2 percent of assets. Based months after the central bank said t a conference last month analysts are expecting Governor bolstering investors’ sentiment more than doubled since Kuroda’s on that math, revenue from such it would buy funds tracking the in Tokyo celebrat- Haruhiko Kuroda to expand eas- and even pushing up share prices. first round of easing. Growth has fees probably climbed to a record measure. ing Japan’s exchange- ing and pump even more cash into “But that’s not their end goal,” been concentrated in those funds, 9.1bn yen in the year ended March. Other asset managers are Atraded funds, the biggest equities. “When you ask who we Noguchi said. “They’re ultimately which accounted for about 85 per- Nomura’s overall revenue in the expanding. Sumitomo Mitsui buyer was nowhere to be seen. “I should thank for this, in Japan it’s pursuing inflation. So the question cent of the industry’s $101bn of fiscal year ended March shrank Asset Management Co started its think they registered, but I’m not Prime Minister Abe and Governor is, how do the two connect? And assets in Japan as of February 10. by 12 percent from two years ago, own Nikkei 225 ETF in March, sure if they’re attending,” Kana Kuroda,” Hibiki Muneta, director it’s a little hard to find a straight- “After the BoJ started buying, while the asset-management unit while Diam Co did the same in Kawasaki, who works for the event of investment at Simplex Asset forward answer to that.” newspapers began writing about it recorded a gain of 34 percent. January. organiser S&P Dow Jones Indices, Management Co, which oversees With inflation barely eking out and suddenly people became aware Not all the industry’s growth is Analysts at Nomura predicted said from the floor of the Imperial about $2bn of ETFs, said to the a gain in March, 23 of 34 econo- of ETFs,” said Junichi Honda, head attributable to the BoJ. in March that the BOJ will double Hotel in the centre of the city. crowd at the conference on April mists surveyed expect the central of the ETF department at UBS ETFs on the central bank’s bal- ETF purchases to 6 trillion yen a She was referring to officials 2. “If it wasn’t for them, our assets bank to ease more by the end of Global Asset Management Co in ance sheet expanded by 4.1 tril- year in October. The boost could from the Bank of Japan (BoJ), wouldn’t be at this level.” October. Having stretched the Tokyo. “For those of us work- lion yen in the two years through be short-lived. In the same report, whose low profile belies its influ- Central banks venturing into stimulus programme so far that ing in the industry, it was a real February, accounting for 69 per- Nomura said it expects the BoJ to ence in a market where it owned markets to buy things like bonds the BoJ can already buy every new life-saver.” cent of inflows to the funds it can begin reducing the scale of buying 6 trillion yen ($50.1bn) of ETFs, isn’t unusual — the Federal bond issued by the government The biggest beneficiary has been buy. The rest can probably be sometime after October 2016. For about half of those trading in the Reserve and Bank of England each month, further expansion the money-management arm of attributed to institutional inves- Koei Imai, who oversees $23bn of country as of the most recent have both done so. Buying stocks means the central bank may have Nomura Holdings Inc. Assets in tors, said Jason Miller, head of ETFs at Nikko Asset Management bourse data. Passive investments via ETFs, however, is unique. The to focus on other securities. three funds that the BoJ is eligible BlackRock’s ETF unit in Japan. Co, this is no reason for concern. are the vehicle of choice for the BoJ started doing it in 2010 as a For ETF managers, Kuroda has to buy jumped to 5.4 trillion yen “Clearly, they’re having a sig- “In such a scenario, the Japanese central bank as it tries to stimu- catalyst to spur more trading and been a godsend. Originally limited at the end of March, up 123 per- nificant impact,” said Miller of economy should actually be doing late the economy without favoring promote “more risk-taking activ- to about 450bn yen when started cent from two years earlier. The the central bank. “But there’s still well and capital markets should be specific companies. ity in the overall economy,” the in October 2010, the BoJ’s program unit of Japan’s biggest brokerage considerable growth underneath robust,” said Imai. “Yes, there may The foray into the stock market bank said. was set to expire by around the was the world’s seventh-largest the BoJ buying program.” be impact on supply and demand, is sparking a boom which, helped Not everyone sees how ETF end of 2011. After several exten- ETF provider as of February, up Large lenders, insurers and but by the time they’re seriously by a near doubling of stock prices, buying will spur inflation, the sions, buying began to swell under from a ranking of ninth in 2013, regional banks have been pur- considering this, I’d think the has swelled ETF assets by 159 per- broad objective of Kuroda’s stim- Kuroda, who expanded purchases according to BlackRock Inc. Like chasing his Nikkei 225 Stock market will be doing exception- cent over two years and jacked up ulus measures. Maiko Noguchi, to 1 trillion yen a year in April 2013 other fund managers, Nomura Average fund, he said. BlackRock ally well.” BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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James hits buzzer-beater Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie crosses the finish line at as Cavs edge out Chicago the end of the Morrisons Great Manchester Jordan stars as Clippers down Rockets to take 3-1 lead Run on Sunday in Manchester. CHICAGO: LeBron James During an made a baseline jumper as time expired to lift the Cleveland interview Cavaliers to an 86-84 win over afterwards he the Chicago Bulls in game four announced of the NBA play-off quarter- his retirement finals on Sunday. Two-time finals MVP James caught an inbounds pass with 1.5 seconds left and drained a fadea- way shot from the left side with Jimmy Butler hounding him, to even the Eastern Conference Gebrselassie retires from series at two games apiece. Team-mates mobbed James after he drilled the shot from 21 feet following a pass from competitive running Matthew Dellavedova. In the Western Conference NORTH CAROLINA: Haile Run on Sunday. But it is not the contest, DeAndre Jordan tal- Gebrselassie, considered one of first time he has talked about lied 26 points and 17 rebounds as athletics’ greatest distance run- calling it quits. the Los Angeles Clippers put the ners, said he was retiring from Gebrselassie had tearfully Houston Rockets on the brink of competitive running. retired five years ago after knee elimination with a 128-95 win. The Ethiopian’s long-time problems forced him to drop out James finished with 25 points, manager at first said it was not of the New York City Marathon. 14 rebounds and eight assists the end of Gebrselassie’s career, But he returned to racing a few while center Timofey Mozgov but later issued a press release months later. contributed 15 points and nine saying the runner had retired Hermens admitted Gebrselassie rebounds in the win. from athletics. was training a lot less than before, Derrick Rose led the Bulls with “Running legend Haile “so may be kind of a farewell 31 points and four assists. Guard Gebrselassie announced his trip in the UK,” manager said of Butler scored 19 points, and retirement from competitive Gebrselassie’s upcoming race in center Joakim Noah tallied eight running at the Great Manchester Glasgow. points with 15 rebounds. Run today where he ran his last The soft-spoken Gebrselassie Cleveland trailed by as many as competitive race,” the statement achieved success both on the 11 points in the second half before said. track and the roads during his going on a 23-5 burst that made it Gebrselassie was quoted as say- long career. 80-73 with just over four minutes ing: “I am retiring from competi- Nearly unbeatable on the track left in the fourth. tive running, not from running. in his prime, he won his first of Guard JR Smith ignited the You cannot stop running, this is eight indoor and outdoor world rally with a trio of baskets from Cleveland Cavaliers’ forward LeBron James (left) celebrates with team-mates after scoring the game winning my life. And I am still enjoying championships at Stuttgart in beyond the arc early in the fourth points at the buzzer during the second half of game four of their NBA Eastern Conference semi-finals against my farewell tour like today in 1993 and went on to hold world quarter. the Chicago Bulls at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on Sunday. Manchester.” records from the 5,000 metres to James improvised on the game- His manager, Jos Hermens, the marathon. winning play, telling Blatt to get could not be reached to explain His Olympic medals came in him the ball and he would do the a three-pointer as time expired advance to the next round with the new statement. the 10,000 metres in successive rest. to win that contest for Chicago. a victory on Tuesday in Houston. “Yes, probably a kind of retire- Olympics, 1996 in Atlanta and NBA: Play-off “To be honest, the play that was Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said The opening 24 minutes were ment!” Hermens said in a text 2000 in Sydney. drawn up, I scratched it,” James back-to-back buzzer-beaters were sloppy and slow, with Jordan message alerting to the new Gebrselassie will now focus Results said. an indication of just how close the going to the foul line often. He statement. more on his businesses in Ethiopia Eastern Conference at Chicago “I told coach, ‘Just get me the two teams are. sunk just 10-of-28 free throws and Earlier, Hermens had texted: where he is involved in real estate ball. We’re either going to go into James also had to do more than the Clippers shot a disappointing “No, he’s not retiring; he will be projects, owns four hotels, a coffee Cleveland 86 Chicago 84 overtime, or I’m going to win it for usual Sunday with Kyrie Irving 24-of-44 from the line. in Glasgow in October. He’ll prob- plantation and is an automobile (Series tied 2-2) us.’ It was that simple.” hampered by a foot injury. Despite the poor free-throw ably never retire.” distributor, his management com- Western Conference at Los Angeles The shot marked the second Jordan finished six-of-seven shooting, the Clippers still led Gebrselassie, 42, had told BBC pany’s statement said. straight buzzer-beater in the from the field and 14-of-34 from 60-54 at halftime and pulled Sport he was retiring from com- “He will also remain a running Los Angeles Clippers 128 Houston 95 series. the foul line for the Clippers, who away with a 21-4 surge to begin petitive running after finishing ambassador and wants to stay (Los Angeles lead series 3-1) In game three, Rose banked in took a 3-1 series lead and can the third quarter. AFP 16th in the Great Manchester active in athletics.” REUTERS

New York Pineda excels to help NFL: Pryor Rangers’ left wing Chris signs with Kreider (left) Yankees crush Orioles scores a goal against NEW YORK: Right-hander very little else on Sunday after- Cincinnati Washington Michael Pineda struck out a noon while leading the Seattle Capitals’ career-high 16 hitters over Mariners to a win and series LOS ANGELES: The goalie Braden seven dominant innings and sweep over the Oakland A’s. Cincinnati Bengals signed quar- Holtby (right) the New York Yankees beat the Angels 3, Astros 1 terback Terrelle Pryor after his as defenceman Baltimore Orioles 6-2. Right-hander Garrett Richards tryout during rookie minicamp. Matt Niskanen Pineda (5-0) came within two and three relievers combined to Bengals offensive coordinator defends in the strikeouts of the team record set permit only one hit as the Los Hue Jackson was head coach of first period in by left-hander Ron Guidry in Angeles Angels defeated the the Oakland Raiders in 2011 when game six of the 1978, as he confounded Baltimore Houston Astros. AGENCIES Pryor was drafted. second round hitters with a mix of fastballs and The 6-foot-4, 233-pound Pryor, of their 2015 sliders. Baseball Results a fourth-year NFL player from Stanley Cup Mets 7, Phillies 4 NY Yankees 6 Baltimore 2 Ohio State, was a third-round Play-offs at Bartolo Colon became the Boston 6 Toronto 3 choice by Oakland in the 2011 Verizon Center major league leader in wins as the NFL Supplemental Draft. He C l e v e l a n d 8 M i n n e s o t a 2 on Sunday. New York Mets continued their played in 15 Raiders games (10 Texas 2 Tampa Bay 1 recent run of success against the starts) over the 2011-13 seasons, Philadelphia Phillies. W a s h i n g t o n 5 A t l a n t a 4 including 11 games and nine starts Colon, who turns 42 this N Y M e t s 7 P h i l a d e l p h i a 4 in 2013. month, improved to 6-1 by going Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 3 Pryor will battle backups AJ Rangers set up Caps decider six-plus innings, giving up four Milwaukee 3 Chicago Cubs 2 McCarron and Josh Johnson for runs on eight hits while striking Chicago White Sox 4 Cincinnati 3 a spot on the roster during the NEW YORK: For the NHL Play-offs 2nd his biggest stop on Washington out six and walking none as the LA Angels 3 Houston 1 summer months. third time in four years, the captain Alex Ovechkin, who has Mets (20-11) posted their sixth San Francisco 3 Miami 2 The Bengals also signed wide Washington Capitals and New Round Results failed to score in fourth straight straight series win against their Seattle 4 Oakland 3 receiver Mario Alford of West York Rangers will require a games in the series. 1 2 3 T National League East rival. LA Dodgers 9 Colorado 5 Virginia, the team’s seventh- Game Seven to decide who The Capitals had a two-minute Washington 0 1 2 3 Mariners 4, Athletics 3 Arizona 2 San Diego 1 round selection in the 2015 NFL moves on in the play-offs after power play in the final three min- Felix Hernandez gave up two Draft. the Rangers beat the Caps 4-3 NY Rangers 2 0 2 4 utes after Rangers winger James Kansas City 2 Detroit 1 home runs to the same player but The Atlanta Falcons signed on Sunday. (The best-of-seven series is level at 3-3) Sheppard took a delay of game tackle Matt Huffer and defensive Chris Kreider scored twice Anaheim 0 1 1 1 3 penalty for flipping the puck out back Jonathon Mincy and waived at the Verizon Center, and Rick of play. Calgary 1 1 0 0 2 New York defensive tackle Chris Brown, Nash and Dan Boyle tallied in But despite pulling goaltender Yankees’ cornerback Jordan Ozerities, and the third period, as the Rangers (Anaheim win the Braden Holtby for an extra skater starting wide receiver Joshua Stangby. staved off elimination for a second best-of-seven series by 4-1) the Capitals could not get a puck pitcher Meanwhile, Cleveland Browns straight game. past Lundqvist. Michael quarterback Johnny Manziel con- With the Eastern Conference The Rangers looked to have Meanwhile, the Anaheim Pineda tinues to work on his recovery semi-final series now tied at 3-3, put the game out of reach in the Ducks beat Calgary 3-2 in over- pitches and learning the new offense -- at the winner-take-all Game Seven third when Nash and Boyle game time on Sunday to reach the against the the same time impressing coaches will be played at the Madison them a 4-1 lead but the Capitals Western Conference final for the Baltimore with his effort. Square Garden in New York fought back. first time since their Stanley Cup Orioles during The Browns still think Manziel, tomorrow. Washington rookie Evgeny winning season in 2007. their first-round pick last year, The teams also needed Game Kuznetsov scored his fifth goal Ducks winger Corey Perry, who the third has a chance to emerge as the Sevens in 2012 and 2013, with the of the playoffs at 7:40 and winger left the game briefly in the sec- inning of their quarterback of the future. Rangers coming out on top both Joel Ward made it 4-3 less than ond period with a leg injury, swept baseball game New offensive coordinator John times. two minutes later to set up a home the Game Five winner in at Yankee DeFilippo praised Manziel’s off- Kreider scored twice in the thrilling finale. a goalmouth scramble 2:36 into Stadium on season work ethic with words first period before Jason Chimera Rangers netminder Henrik overtime to book Anaheim’s place Sunday. like “great,” “fantastic” and “awe- pulled one back for Washington in Lundqvist withstood a barrage of in the conference final against some.” AGENCIES the second. shots in the final nine minutes, Chicago. AGENCIES TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Fowler wins Players Championship The American produces stunning finish to defeat Garcia and Kisner in play-off

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, US PGA Tour Players Florida: American Rickie World Rankings Fowler produced a stunning 1. (1) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 12.69 Championship finish to claim the lucra- 2. (2) Jordan Spieth (US) 8.96 tive Players Championship in 3. (3) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 7.21 Scores a play-off at TPC Sawgrass 4. (4) Bubba Watson (US) 7.09 Scores from the US PGA Tour Players yesterday. 5. (5) Jim Furyk (US) 6.90 Championship at the par-72 course on The 26-year-old outlasted 2008 Rickie Fowler 6. (6) Justin Rose (Britain) 6.32 Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida champion Sergio Garcia and of the US holds 7. (10) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 6.31 Play-Off world number 123 Kevin Kisner the The Players 8. (7) Jason Day (Australia) 6.26 1 Rickie Fowler (US) after 4 in extra holes after finishing his Championship tro- 9. (13) Rickie Fowler (US) 6.13 2 Kevin Kisner (US) after 4 final six holes of regulation in phy after winning 10. (8) Dustin Johnson (US) 5.98 3 Sergio Garcia (Spain) after 3 six-under-par. the golf tournament Regular Rounds In a week where he was labelled in a play-off at the 11. (9) Adam Scott (Australia) 5.62 “overrated” in an anonymous 12. (11) Jimmy Walker (US) 5.22 -12 Rickie Fowler (US) 69 69 71 67 TPC Sawgrass player poll, Fowler clinched vic- 13. (12) J.B. Holmes (US) 5.05 Kevin Kisner (US) 73 67 67 69 Stadium Course in tory on the famous 17th island 14. (14) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 4.53 Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69 72 67 68 Ponte Vedra Beach, green with his third birdie on the 15. (15) Patrick Reed (US) 4.46 -11 Bill Haas (US) 72 67 68 70 hole in the day, taking home $1.8 Florida, USA, 16. (16) Matt Kuchar (US) 4.27 Ben Martin (US) 68 71 68 70 million. yesterday. 17. (17) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 4.24 -9 Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 70 71 69 69 Fowler faced a nervous wait 18. (18) Phil Mickelson (US) 4.08 Kevin Na (US) 67 69 72 71 after finishing eagle, birdie, birdie across the daunting last three 19. (19) Billy Horschel (US) 3.94 -8 John Senden (Australia) 73 70 67 70 holes in regulation to shoot a five- 20. (25) Bill Haas (US) 3.64 Rory McIlroy (Britain) 69 71 70 70 under 67 and post 12-under for 21. (22) Kevin Na (US) 3.62 Ryo Ishikawa (Japan) 71 69 69 71 the tournament. 22. (20) Brooks Koepka (US) 3.52 Jamie Donaldson (Britain) 70 72 71 67 Both Garcia (68) and Kisner 23. (26) Chris Kirk (US) 3.36 Brian Harman (US) 71 69 70 70 (69) had putts on the 18th green 24. (21) Victor Dubuisson (France) 3.36 -7 Zach Johnson (US) 71 68 71 71 that would ultimately have given a four-footer and win his second often, and I did that last year. putt from the fringe to join it but 25. (27) Zach Johnson (US) 3.32 David Toms (US) 73 71 68 69 them the tournament but the US PGA tour title. “I felt really “I wasn’t able to end up as the it failed to drop. Overnight leader 26. (23) Lee Westwood (Britain) 3.28 Billy Horschel (US) 68 72 69 72 Spaniard’s 19-foot effort missed good all week, it’s pretty fun, this last guy standing then but it feels Chris Kirk had a day to forget, and Kisner’s 10-foot attempt hung is special,” said the Fowler, whose good to be back in that position, shooting 75 to drop five shots off 27. (24) Louis Oosthuizen (S Africa) 3.27 Chris Kirk (US) 70 68 68 75 agonisingly on the lip. previous win came at the 2012 and I’m hoping to be back in the the pace. 28. (33) Jamie Donaldson (Britain) 3.23 -6 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 67 74 72 69 The trio then headed to a Wells Fargo Championship, also same position more often.” Fowler said the win would give 29. (28) Ryan Palmer (US) 3.20 Jerry Kelly (US) 71 65 72 74 three-hole aggregate playoff over after a playoff. Americans Ben Martin (70) him confidence at the remaining 30. (30) Ian Poulter (Britain) 3.14 Russell Knox (Britain) 72 70 72 68 holes 16-18 where Fowler and “I laughed at the poll, but, yeah, and Bill Haas (70) tied for three majors of the season having Pat Perez (US) 71 70 68 73 Kisner managed to birdie the 17th if there was any question, I think fourth at 11-under with South finished in the top five of all four we play all year, on a tough golf George McNeill (US) 73 70 69 70 to stay alive as Garcia managed this right here answers anything African Rory Sabbatini (69) and in 2014. course. “This will definitely give Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 72 69 73 68 only three pars. you need to know. American Kevin Na (71) sixth at “It’s only going to help move me me momentum going into the US When they returned to 17 in “I was always looked at as only nine-under. forward,” Fowler said. Open and makes me feel confident Derek Fathauer (US) 68 72 69 73 sudden death, Kisner missed a having one win on tour, and I Martin bogeyed the 18th to “I look at this event as basically about being in this situation and -5 Russell Henley (US) 70 70 72 71 12-foot birdie attempt to leave always felt that I needed to put fall out of the playoff and former like a major. It has the major feel, taking care of business.” Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 72 72 69 70 the door open for Fowler to drain myself in position to win more FedEx Cup champion Haas had a obviously one of the best fields REUTERS

Scotland Megarme renews sponsorship with DGC star Murray Ferrari looking for calls time on answers in testing international BARCELONA: Ferrari will be would use the test on Tuesday looking for answers in Formula and Wednesday at the Barcelona career One testing this week after circuit to determine how much of champions Mercedes were more the deficit could be attributed to GLASGOW: Scotland’s most- dominant than ever in Sunday’s the track characteristics and how capped prop Euan Murray, Spanish Grand Prix. much to the car. “At the moment who refuses to play on Sundays The race at the Circuit de the numbers that we have in due to his religious beliefs, has Catalunya marked the start of the terms of comparison are telling announced his retirement from European season and Ferrari had us that the solution is good. But international rugby just four hoped updates to their car might the reality is telling us that it’s months before the World Cup. put them closer. not good enough,” he explained. Murray, 34, has long been Instead, Mercedes took their “I said at the beginning of the regarded as one of Scotland’s third one-two in five starts with year that I don’t want to point top-class players but his decision Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel finish- the finger on aero, engine and all not to play on the Sabbath due to ing third and 45 seconds behind of this. Otherwise we are creating his stringent religious beliefs has race winner Nico Rosberg. the usual mess where everybody caused selection issues. “The gap with Mercedes is is freaking out left, right, up and And with his wife Sarah now there. Now we need to analyse down. “We need to calm down, expecting their third child, the all the data to understand,” team look at the numbers and to take Glasgow Warrior has decided to principal Maurizio Arrivabene a decision. I promise you that if step aside and allow Scotland told reporters. we are making a mistake we are head coach Vern Cotter time to “What is clear, because we are going to tell you,” said the Italian. make plans for his replacement. not blind, is the fact that in the Ferrari are firmly established “I am extremely proud and last sector we were losing half a as Mercedes’ closest rivals, with grateful to have represented the second. I am not escaping from Vettel winning in Malaysia to Alex Lee (right), General Manager of Doha Golf Club and Chris Myers,General Manager of Megarme shaking people of Scotland at rugby for the reality, it is there. deny them a clean sweep of victo- hands after finalising the 2015 Megarme Summer League Sponsorship at DGC. MEGARME has renewed their so long,” said Murray, who has “So we need to understand and ries and appearing on the podium appeared 66 times for his country, sponsorship for the 2015 Summer League at Doha Golf Club by continuing an agreement to sponsor 10 events find out how to improve the new four times so far. more than any other tighthead from June to September. There will be a number of fantastic prizes up for grabs for winners with individual package. But the new package is However Arrivabene said a prop. The retirement of the 2009 event winners winning a DGC voucher. Players will contest in a number of different formats with an order of better than the old one,” he added. championship challenge looked British and Irish Lion will give merit system ranking for players depending upon their performances. Arrivabene said the team too far away. AFP Cotter a major headache ahead of the World Cup, which starts in England on September 18 after this year’s miserable Six Nations campaign. “At his best Euan was a world- class tighthead prop. On behalf of Cavendish wins first stage in California the team and management, I wish Euan and his family all the very SACRAMENTO: Mark best,” said Cotter. Cavendish clinched the open- Tour of California Matthews Former Northampton, ing stage of the 2015 Tour of Sacramento: Results of the Tour of California Newcastle and Worcester forward California with a strong fin- after the completion of the first stage wins stage to Murray explained: “I have to be ishing kick to beat out Peter yesterday: with my family as much as pos- Sagan and Jean-Pierre Drucker 1. Mark Cavendish (GBR/Etixx) 4hr 43min 27secs consolidate lead sible before and after the birth. yesterday. 2. Peter Sagan (SVK/Tinkoff-Saxo) s.t. Australian “Clearly, with the Rugby World The Etixx rider fought off all 3. Jean-Pierre Drucker (LUX/BMC) s.t. rider Michael SESTRI LEVANTE, Italy: Cup looming, the national squad the challengers to take his 10th 4. John Murphy (USA/UnitedHealthcare) s.t. Matthews of the will be training and playing win of the season and pull on Orica-GreenEdge Australia’s Michael Matthews 5. Guillaume Boivin (CAN/Optum) s.t. throughout that period and I have the first leader’s jersey of the team celebrates burst from the pack to win a 6. Zico Waeytens (BEL/Giant-Alpecin) s.t. too much respect for the national race which is celebrating its 10th while crossing the bunch sprint to claim yester- jersey to put myself forward in anniversary. 7. Wouter Wippert (NED/Drapac) s.t. finish line to win day’s third stage of the Giro those circumstances. Andrew Talansky, of 8. Tyler Farrar (USA/MTN-Qhubeka) s.t. the third stage d’Italia and consolidate his lead “I’ve made this decision now Cannondale Garmin, was forced 9. Koen de Kort (NED/Giant-Alpecin) s.t. of the 98th Giro atop the overall standings. after much deliberation and to pull out of the race during the 10. Danny van Poppel (NED/Trek) s.t. d’Italia cycling Matthews picked up a 10-sec- lengthy discussions with team stage because of a virus. tour over 136km ond time bonus for the stage win management so that they can Cavendish got some help from Guillaume Boivin rounded out the to stretch his overall lead, which from Rapallo to plan ahead accordingly. teammate Mark Renshaw, who top five. The Tour of California he took possession of on Sunday Sestri Levante, “I’d like to take this opportu- recovered from an earlier crash was first held in 2006 and is one after he finished seventh on stage nity to thank all the excellent when he hit a pothole. With of the most important cycling Italy, yester- two. coaches, world-class medical staff, Renshaw providing the leadout, races in North America. This day, Matthews “What more can you ask for?” supportive fans, friends, and, most Cavendish shot off his wheel forc- year’s race comprises 13 host cit- retained the over- Matthews said after the race. of all, my family for helping to ing Slovakia’s Sagan to settle for ies and eight stages run over a all leader’s pink “I’m racing with the pink jersey make my career possible.” second. total distance of 1,165 kilometres jersey. on my back and at the end I win Murray - who scored two “We timed it just right,” (724 miles). The key stages for the stage. Scotland tries - added: “I will Cavendish said. “When I saw the overall are expected to be the “After the Team Time Trial retire with many great memories Sagan in the wind I knew I had stage six, 24-kilometre time trial win, today was another big target of victories, tours, and friends, it.” at Big Bear Lake and a gruelling for us. We reconned the stage last both in the playing squad and John Murphy, of the US, fin- climb to the Mount Baldy finish week so we knew what to expect, team management. AFP ished fourth while Canada’s line the next day. AFP and we pulled it off.” AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Warner, Henriques guide England coaching call for Strauss, Sunrisers to five-run win says new ECB boss

LONDON: The England and (the 2013 Ashes whitewash), he Maxwell fails again as Kings XI stay at bottom of table Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) has seen (former director) Paul new chairman Colin Graves Downton come and go and now insisted yesterday that the deci- Peter Moores, yet he is still cap- HYDERABAD: Leading sion on England’s new head tain. How does that work?” from the front, skipper David coach was one for Andrew Moores’ former assistant Warner struck a decent knock, Strauss. Paul Farbrace will take charge while his bowlers bowled eco- Former captain Strauss was on of England’s forthcoming series nomically, picking up wickets at Saturday named as English crick- with New Zealand and formerly regular intervals to beat Kings et’s new director and his first job served as an assistant to Gillespie XI Punjab by five runs in their will be to find a replacement for at Yorkshire. Indian Premier League (IPL) Peter Moores, who was sacked in England wicket-keeper Jonny encounter at the Rajiv Gandhi the wake of his appointment. Bairstow knows both men well International Stadium here Graves will start his role with and told the Guardian: “Both yesterday. the ECB on Thursday and there Gillespie and Farbrace have differ- With the win, Sunrisers move has been speculation that he is ent qualities. They’ve made huge two places up the points table keen to appoint Yorkshire’s title- improvements here, topped off from fifth position to third with winning coach Jason Gillespie to by us winning the Championship. 14 points from 12 games, having replace Moores. I’m sure whether they get the job won seven and lost five, whereas But Graves said the deci- or don’t, they’ll bring their good Kings XI stayed at the bottom of sion was not his to make. “It is qualities to English cricket.” the table struggling with just four Andrew Strauss who takes that AFP points from 12 games. call as he builds his team around Opting to bat first, Warner top- him,” Graves told The Times. scored with a 52-ball 81, hitting “We will not rush into any deci- Pietersen hits six boundaries and five sixes to sion overnight. lift Sunrisers to a modest 185/5. “The decision to sack Peter In reply, despite a late cameo by Moores was not a knee-jerk triple ton to David Miller (89 not out off 44 one and this will not be either. balls), the visitors fell short by Andrew will have an idea who he send reminder just 5 runs, thereby ending their has in mind and wants to talk to. LONDON: innings at 180/7 in 20 overs. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner hits a six against Kings XI Punjab during an IPL match at the Rajiv “It is his recommendation and Kevin Pietersen For the home side, Moises Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday. he will bring that to (chief execu- hit a superb career-best Henriques (3/16) and Bipul tive) Tom Harrison and then to unbeaten triple century for Sharma (2/13) were the pick of target, Kings XI got off to a good Vijay (24) in the very next over. got off to a flying start with open- me.” Surrey yesterday to offer a the bowlers. start scoring 37 off the first four Shikhar Dhawan held on to a ers Warner and Shikhar Dhawan Another former captain, Ian reminder of his talents ahead Chasing a challenging 186-run overs, but lost opener Murali smart, low catch off the bowling scoring 56 off first six overs. Botham, believes Australian of new England cricket direc- off spinner Bipul Sharma. But a bowling change by Kings Gillespie should be the man tor Andrew Strauss’ first Scoreboard His opening partner Manan XI captain George Bailey worked Strauss picks, with Joe Root news conference. Vohra (20) also got out trying wonders for the visitors, as spin- appointed captain at Alastair Pietersen, sacked by SUNRISERS HYDERABAD Kings XI Punjab to up the scoring rate. Incoming ner Glenn Maxwell broke the Cook’s expense. England last year but desper- DA Warner c Gurkeerat Singh b Hendricks ..81 M Vijay c Dhawan b Bipul Sharma ...... 24 batsman Glenn Maxwell con- opening stand in his very first ball Writing in the Daily Mirror, ate for a recall, finished the day S Dhawan st Saha b Maxwell ...... 24 M Vohra c Kumar b Bipul Sharma ...... 20 tinued his poor run in IPL 2015, of the seventh over England’s second-highest Test on 326, batting for over seven MC Henriques c A Singh b Gurkeerat Singh 28 WP Saha c Rahul b Henriques ...... 5 scoring just 11 off six deliveries, A clever Maxwell looped the wicket-taker said: “The shake up hours against Leicestershire at EJG Morgan c Vohra b Hendricks ...... 17 GJ Maxwell c Ojha b Boult ...... 11 before being caught behind off the ball up outside off seeing Dhawan that the England cricket team The Oval. NV Ojha run out (Bailey)...... 2 DA Miller (not out) ...... 89 bowling of Trent Boult. stepping out of the crease. The has long needed is under way and It was his 50th first-class KL Rahul (not out) ...... 17 GJ Bailey c Warner b Henriques ...... 6 But Miller had other plans in batsman was beaten in flight and the selection of Jason Gillespie as ton and his first county cham- KV Sharma (not out) ...... 11 Gurkeerat Singh c Morgan b Henriques ...... 3 mind. Right from the word go, his wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha coach would be a perfect fit. pionship hundred for nearly Extras (B 1, W 3, NB 1) ...... 5 AR Patel c Ojha b Kumar ...... 15 positive approach was reflected made no mistake whipping the “But he should not be the only two years. He has faced 373 Total (5 wkts; 20 overs) ...... 185 BE Hendricks (not out) ...... 0 in his bat. Scoring freely against bails off in a flash. new appointment in the dressing balls, and hit 34 boundaries Did not bat: Bipul Sharma, B Kumar, TA Boult, I Extras (LB 3, W 4) ...... 7 both pacers and spinners helped The wicket did not bother room, he should be taking charge and 14 sixes. Sharma Total (7 wkts; 20 overs) ...... 180 team score 100 in the 15th over. Warner as he kept on scoring alongside Joe Root. It is time for British media reported that Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-121, 3-140, 4-157, Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-47, 3-60, 4-65, 5-81, But with wickets falling at the freely, thus bringing up his half- Alastair Cook to move aside and Pietersen was later yester- 5-157 6-99, 7-158 other end it, the South African century in just 36 balls. take some of the responsibility for day scheduled to meet with Bowling: Sandeep Sharma 4-0-33-0 ; Anureet Bowling: B Kumar 4-0-34-1; TA Boult 4- was running out of partners. He was well supported in the the mistakes that have been made Strauss, who has had problems Singh 4-0-37-0; BE Hendricks 4-0-40-2 (1nb, 0-45-1 (1w); I Sharma 4-0-49-0 (1w); Bipul George Bailey (6), Gurkeerat other end by incoming batsman over the last 18 months. with the controversial right- 2w); Gurkeerat Singh 3-0-27-1; GJ Maxwell Sharma 2-0-13 -2; MC Henriques 4-0 -16-3 Singh (3), Axar Patel (15) all fell Moises Henriques (28). For Kings “He has seen off almost all hander, and ECB chief execu- 3-0-28-1 (1w); AR Patel 2-0-19-0. (2w); KV Sharma 2-0 -20-0 one after the other. XI, Beuran Hendricks (2/40) was the coaches and management tive Tom Harrison. REUTERS Earlier in the innings, Sunrisers the pick of the bowlers. IANS from the debacle Down Under

Lee inspires Murray now a real contender for Nadal’s crown Malaysia to LONDON: Andy Murray... 27-year-old could be the man to It’s spin and bounce bamboo- French Open champion! exploit the Spaniard’s troubles, zled Nadal to such an extend that narrow win That notion would have been even if Novak Djokovic is now the the Mallorcan only managed to dismissed out of hand in years favourite to win the title. win four points on it on Sunday. DONGGUAN, China: Lee gone by but he will journey to British bookmaker William Hill Murray will need to sustain Chong Wei’s return from a dop- Roland Garros later this month shortened Murray’s French Open his current level to have a chance ing ban gathered pace yesterday with many backing the Briton to odds from 12-1 to 8-1 after his 6-3 of winning an unlikely French as he overcame K. Srikanth to go all the way. 6-2 win over Nadal in Madrid, crown, but his belief is soar- inspire Malaysia’s narrow 3-2 Until last week he had never with Nadal at 9-4 and Djokovic ing ahead of this week’s Rome win over India at the Sudirman won a clay-court title. the 5-6 favourite. Masters. Cup. But, after claiming his first in Although Nadal’s slump Physically, Murray now looks The former world number Munich, he headed to Madrid has boosted recently-married as strong as at any stage since he one was put through his paces where he blazed through a tough Murray’s chances, his improved underwent back surgery in 2013. by Srikanth, currently ranked draw before crushing claycourt form on clay is just as relevant. “In the past I struggled physi- fourth, before he won the men’s king Rafa Nadal in the final. The attacking philosophy of his cally on the clay, but my team singles 21-16, 21-15 in 40 minutes. A year ago Murray managed coaching team, Amelie Mauresmo have been brave enough to make It turned out to be vital as the only six games in a semi-final and Jonas Bjorkman, is paying some pretty drastic changes and two nations were locked at 2-2 defeat by Nadal at the French dividends. I feel much better because of it,” before Chan Peng Soon and Goh Open as the Spaniard rolled on Murray now looks more pre- Murray said. Liu Ying’s decisive mixed doubles towards a ninth title at the clay- pared to be the aggressor early in “To win a Masters Series win over N. Sikki Reddy and court grand slam. rallies, which on slow clay helps on clay is a step in the right Arun Vishnu. He also reached the semis in him dictate points. direction.” In other results at the bien- 2011, so his record in the French Forcing opponents further back Murray, however, warned of nial mixed-teams tournament in capital is not shoddy, but by com- behind the baseline with early- writing off Nadal. “That court (in southern China, Germany upset mon consent the red dust was struck groundstrokes, Murray Paris) he’s only lost one match in Thailand 3-2, Taiwan beat Russia Britain’s Andy Murray holds the winner’s trophy after defeating Spain’s not a surface suited to Murray’s can pull the trigger on one of the his career...there was enough to 4-1 and Indonesia were 3-2 win- Rafael Nadal in the final of the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica (Magic game. best drop shots in tennis. suggest that with another couple ners over England. Box) Sports Complex in Madrid on Sunday night. Yet something has changed His serve, particularly his sec- of weeks preparation he can go all Lee, the two-time Olympic and with Nadal struggling, the ond delivery, is a revelation. the way.” REUTERS silver medallist, is playing his first event since receiving a backdated, eight-month ban for accidentally ingesting a banned Rankings slide leaves Nadal facing toughest test anti-inflammatory. After Sunday’s strong perform- LONDON: Rafa Nadal’s (pic- Nadal been lower than seventh. to be getting back on track with happening during these last years, ATP Rankings ance against South Korea’s Lee tured) slide down the ATP The Spaniard insisted after wins against Grigor Dimitrov and it’s very complicated to be 10 or Dong-Keun, the Malaysian star 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 13,845 points rankings means if he wins a losing to Murray that he was Tomas Berdych, he was stopped in one years without leaving the top found it tougher against Srikanth 2. Roger Federer (SUI) 8,645 record-extending 10th French beginning to feel the “old sensa- his tracks by Murray. four.” until a six-point burst put him 3. Andy Murray (GBR) 7,130 Open title early next month tions” again after struggling to Murray had never beaten Barring an early loss in Rome, ahead in game one. 4. Milos Raonic (CAN) 5,160 (+2) it would go down as one of the find his best form in Nadal on clay and Nadal should manage to stay in Srikanth, 21, came back fir- 5. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 5,140 (+2) greatest achievements of his the wake of the wrist was thrashed in last the top eight but the possibil- ing but he was denied by elastic illustrious career. injury and appendici- year’s French Open ity of a quarter-final meeting 6. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 5,040 (-1) defence from Lee, including some The Spaniard dropped three tis issues that under- semi-final, but on with Murray, Djokovic or world 7. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 4,990 (-3) tremendous work for 18-16 before places to seventh yesterday as a mined him last year. Sunday he won with number two Roger Federer looms. 8. David Ferrer (ESP) 4,310 he took the opener in 18 minutes. consequence of his 6-3, 6-2 drub- But the fear factor nonchalant ease. Unlike Wimbledon, where 9. Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 3,575 Lee was never behind in the bing at the hands of Britain’s that once inhibited “I will just stay ATP rankings can be adjusted to 10. Marin Cilic (CRO) 3,360 second game, although he was Andy Murray in the final of the opponents on the red with the good things reflect performances on grass, the 11. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 3,075 under pressure when Srikanth Madrid Masters the previous day. clay appears to have that happened this French Open sticks stringently to 12. Gilles Simon (FRA) 2,255 (+1) reached 11-13 with a sizzling back- And with another 600 points disappeared. week, and there are the rankings. 13. Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 2,245 (-1) hand winner played with his back to defend at this week Rome In Monte Carlo, a lot of them, more And while that does not look 14. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 2,090 to the net. Masters, the 28-year-old could he was soundly good than bad. I will good for Nadal, it will also worry 15. Gaël Monfils (FRA) 2,065 But Lee won the next three fall to his lowest ranking for 10 beaten by world try to recover the the likes of Djokovic and Murray, 16. Kevin Anderson (RSA) 1,925 (+1) points and when he leapt to years by the time play begins at number one Novak Djokovic. He good feelings in Rome,” Nadal who could find themselves com- 17. John Isner (USA) 1,855 (+1) hammer a towering smash winner Roland Garros on May 24. then lost to Italy’s unpredict- said. “Whatever will happen will ing face-to-face with the greatest 18. Tommy Robredo (ESP) 1,755 (+1) for 18-13, it was clear the 32-year- Not since April 2005, just before able Fabio Fognini in Barcelona be. It’s something that we have claycourt player of all time a little 19. Roberto Bautista (ESP) 1,715 (-3) old was on his way to victory. his maiden French title, has and in Madrid, after appearing to realise, all of us, that what’s earlier than expected. REUTERS 20. David Goffin (BEL) 1,705 (+1) AFP TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

China’s boys medley relay team celebrates after winning the gold medal during the First Asian Youth Athletics Championships at the Qatar Sports Club track in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: India’s boys medley relay team, comprising Nuzrat, Beant Singh, Chirag and Chandan Bauri celebrate, after clinching the silver medal yesterday. PICTURES: SALIM MATRAMKOT ‘Asia’s fastest boy’ bags second gold as junior show winds up Yu Sen Shen storms to 100m and 200m double as China dominate Doha competition

BY RIZWAN REHMAT

DOHA: Yu Sen Shen of Chinese Taipei yesterday gave credence to his title of ‘Asia’s fastest boy’ by winning the 200m finals on the fourth and last day of the First Asian Youth Athletics Championships where China topped the medals tally with ease. The 16-year-old, who won the 100m final on day one, yesterday clinched the issue in the 200m final with a time of 21.69 seconds, finishing ahead of China’s Wu Zhittao (22.01s) and Indonesia’s Ogsa Agfreansa (22.16s). The slender sprinter from Chinese Taipei kept among the leaders over the bend and pow- ered past everyone on the home straight to finish first. In the girls 200m, China’s Huang Jiaxin topped the final with a time of 24.67 seconds. Japan’s Sayaka Morita (25.16s) clinched the silver medal while Singapore’s Kugapriya Chandran (25.35s) grabbed the bronze. Iran’s Sajjad Hassan Zare on his way to winning the gold medal in the discus throw, at the Qatar Sports Club Overall, a total of 16 countries track in Doha yesterday. won a gold medal in the compe- tition, while 27 saw at least one closest to clearing with some very leaped 12.81m in the triple jump, level so you have to work hard.” Al of their athletes step onto the close jumps. the sixth best performance in the Hamad, who is also the President podium. In the discus throw, Iran’s world this year. of the Qatar Athletics Federation Athletics powerhouse China Sajjad Hassan Zare fell far from Just a few moments later (QAF), said. topped the rankings snatching his true potential, but his effort Kazakhstan prevailed in another “Athletes from 41 countries 15 gold, 11 silver and 5 bronze was adequate enough to award discipline, the girls pole vault with featured at our event. I want to medals. him gold. Anna Danilovskaya sailing over thank you all.” Second-placed Chinese Taipei The 17-year-old from the city 3.70m. THE PENINSULA picked up four gold medals and of Masha came up with a 53.06m The national anthem of 1 bronze. throw, well behind his 57.86m per- Thailand was also played for First Asian Youth Bahraini athletes surprised sonal best, but he was still in a the first time yesterday, follow- fans with good performances, fin- class of his own. ing Witthawat Thumcha’s hard- Athletics Championships ishing third on the medals table Zare regards Ehsan Haddadi, fought 400m hurdles victory. Medals Table with three gold medals and one the 2012 Olympic Games sil- Sri Lanka nearly doubled Gold Silver Bronze bronze. India — with two gold, six ver medallist and 2011 World their gold medals in the hur- China 15 11 5 silver and five bronze medals — Championships bronze medallist, dles but Darshana M S U Taipei 4 0 1 were fourth. as his role model. Kuamrabatagallalage had to settle Bahrain 3 0 1 Korea with two gold, three “It’s been only three years with a close second place. silver and three bronze medals since I started training. I have Also yesterday, China’s Zhou India 2 6 5 completed the top five nations in met Haddadi once. He came to Jungjing scored 5000 points in Korea 2 3 3 the event. see me training and advised me the heptathlon to claim gold and Kazakhstan 2 2 3 Qatar’s Fatima Othman Al Absi to improve my technique and Bahrain’s Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa Uzbekistan 2 0 2 (2m) finished with a bronze medal work on my speed, to become a made it look easy as he ran to a Kuwait 2 0 0 in the pole vault competition, champion like him,” said Zare, 1500m victory finishing in 4:19.95, Japan 1 5 3 which was won by Kazakhstan’s who had never competed outside the fifth best time in the world Anna Danilovskaya (3.70m). Iran before. for 2015. Sri Lanka 1 3 0 Indonesia’s Devi Ayufebriana “I have already qualified for the China won both medley relays, Hong Kong 1 2 0 (3.40m) clinched the silver. World Youth Championships in the boys finishing in 1:53.34 and Thailand 1 1 0 Qatar finished the competi- Cali. I know I can better my record the girls in 2:13.32. Qatar 1 0 1 tion with one gold and one bronze and fight for gold in Colombia. I Asian Athletics Association Iran 1 0 1 medal. dream of seeing myself winning (AAA) President Dahlan Al Kyrgizstan 1 0 0 Yesterday, the high jump final the Olympic gold medal one day,” Hamad told athletes competing Pakistan 1 0 0 was nothing short of epic. he added. in Doha: “Some of you have done Four athletes, Ding Shuo China’s Zhang Jun captured really well here. Some of you will Iraq 0 2 1 (China), Roshan Dammika the final day’s first medal in the go and compete at the World Indonesia 0 1 4 Ranatunga (Sri Lanka), Hussein morning session with a clear vic- Youth Athletics Championships.” Lebanon 0 1 1 Falah Hasan Al Ibraheemi (Iraq) tory in the 10K walk with a time He added: “It is not going to Singapore 0 1 1 and Tejaswin Shanker (India), of 44:00.87. be easy if you don’t fight. There North Korea 0 1 0 all cleared 2.12m, a world-class Sri Lanka’s Yamani Dulanjalee are more competitions and we are UAE 0 1 0 mark and a measure that would Mudiyanselage and Kazakhstan’s confident that our athletes from have qualified for the World Youth Mariya Ovchinikova saved the Asia will continue to fight and Saudi Arabia 0 0 3 Championships final two years best for last, offering their respec- improve.” Malaysia 0 0 2 ago in Donetsk. tive countries their first gold “During these four days we Vietnam 0 0 1 ‘Asia’s fastest boy’ Yu Sen Shen of Chinese Taipei in action at the Qatar When the bar was raised to the medals at the championships. have seen heroes of the future. We Yemen 0 0 1 Sports Club track in Doha yesterday. 2.15m mark though, all but Shuo The former won in the 400m have seen magnificent competi- Philippines 0 0 1 failed, with Ranatunga coming hurdles (1:01.27) and the latter tions. It is difficult to keep that TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 World Championships in Doha will help boxing in region: AIBA The Middle East is strong in boxing but we need some country to lead the show: Kim

BY RIZWAN REHMAT

DOHA: The 2015 World Boxing Championships, which will be held in Doha from October 8 to 18, will help develop the sport in the region, AIBA Executive Director Ho Kim said yesterday. The event is being held in the region for the very first time. “The AIBA World Boxing Championships has never come to the Middle East. We have come here because we believe we can aggressively develop the sport of boxing in the region,” Kim said in Doha yesterday. “We will also help the local organisers to develop boxers in Qatar. I think we will be able to have significant developmental LEFT: AIBA Executive Director programmes in the Middle East. Ho Kim (centre) and the That’s our aim,” he said. President of the Qatar Boxing “The reason to bring this Federation (QBF), Yusuf Ali event to this region is so that Al Kadim (right), at a news we can make boxing popular,” conference in Doha yesterday. Kim explained. “Syria, Iraq, Iran TOP: The official mascot and some Middle East countries for the 2015 World Boxing are strong in boxing. They have Championships, ‘Majid’. strong boxers but we needed some country to lead the show to con- “There’s going to be a test “We have decided to hold our continental championships are Kadhim said: “We are cur- “Previously, we would send solidate our efforts to develop the event which is a positive develop- event there. I feel this is the best over. We have to make sure that rently negotiating with Al Kass invites to countries so that they sport.” ment. We will send our staff and venue of the last four AIBA World all will be ready for the big show,” Sports Channel and BeIN Sports. could send in their bunch of box- “We want to develop the sport then we would be able to make Boxing Championships. It is an Kim said. We will reveal details when we ers. The rules have changed from — train boxers, officials and changes if needed. We will be able outstanding venue,” Kim added. The top AIBA official said the finalize a deal.” this year,” he said. coaches in this sport. You have to implement our plans if needed,” “The training facilities are event in Doha will be broadcast Kim said the Doha event “We are happy to be here for Aspire Academy here. The infra- Kim said. great. Ideal scenario for us is to around the world. will have an added charm: our first coordination visit. This structure is present here that Kim and his three-member have training facilities and the “The TV broadcast of the previ- the 2015 AIBA World is my second visit. I was here for can help develop the sport. When AIBA team have completed their fight rings under the same roof. ous world championship reached Championships have been con- the boxing competitions at the the boxing family comes here (in inspection of venues and training It is ideal for us. I think the boxer more than 150 countries. This firmed as an official qualifica- Doha 2006 Asian Games. I have October), we will be showcase our facilities. coaches will be very pleased to see championship will have a similar tion series for a berth at the Rio come back after nine years,” Kim talent and take the sport forward. “We have seen two venues all this. scale of coverage through TV,” Olympic Games. said. We will take this step by step but — The Lusail Stadium and the “We will be coming again, prob- Kim said. “The 2015 World Boxing “We are very impressed with this is the way to do it,” Kim said. Hamad Al Attiyah Multi-purpose ably three more times so that we “The championship will be Championships will be a qualifica- what we have seen so far.” The President of the Qatar Stadium. The first venue with can get a feel of what’s happen- broadcast in over 150 countries. tion event for Rio Olympic Games The official mascot for the 2015 Boxing Federation (QBF), Yusuf 15,000 seats is too big for us. We ing with preparations. We will be Since this championship will go in 2016. All boxers attending the World Boxing Championships, Ali Al Kadim, said Doha will host are very impressed with the sec- here in July and in September. We all over the world we will be talk- Doha event will have to come ‘Majid’, was also unveiled at a a test event for more than 100 ond venue (Hamad Al Attiyah may also undertake another visit ing to your TV broadcasters,” he through continental champion- press conference here yesterday. boxers from May 19 to 24. Stadium),” Kim said. at the end of August when all the said. ships,” Kim said. THE PENINSULA Spanish court to Guardiola dismisses Man City rumours BERLIN: Pep Guardiola yes- tweeted on Saturday that the Bavarian giants after win- terday dismissed out of hand Guardiola has made a verbal ning 14 trophies in four years as decide on legality rumours he will quit Bayern agreement to manage City next Barcelona coach. Munich with a year left on his season. But Guardiola reacted passion- contract to become Manchester Former Bayern, City and ately when asked if his goal is to City coach for next season. Germany midfielder, and Sky be the world’s best. of La Liga strike “Oh, boys. I have said 200m Sports expert, Dietmar Hamann “I’m not here to be the best times that I have a year left on said: “From my information they trainer in the world. That’s shit,” MADRID: A Spanish court system under which rights are my contract and will be here next are in the advanced stages of dis- insisted the Spaniard. could decide by tomorrow on marketed by individual clubs season. That’s it!,” said an exas- cussions and it is very possible “I’m happy here, because I want the legality of a strike pro- — unique among Europe’s top perated Guardiola ahead of their that he will already start there to help the club and my players. testing against a new TV leagues where collective bar- Champions League semi-final, next season.” “I did my best in Barcelona and rights law called by the play- gaining is used. second leg, against Barcelona Guardiola has reportedly been here too. For some people that is ers’ union (AFE) which is The legislation was signed having lost the first leg 3-0 away. offered 22m euros ($32.75m) a enough, but not for others. threatening the final two La off in cabinet at the end of There were fresh claims over year to help City usurp Chelsea “I am happy, when the relation- Liga match days and King’s last month and aims to create the weekend that Premier League at the top of the English league ship with my players is good. Cup final. a more level playing field by giants City are negotiating with and give them the success in the “I’ve won everything, but titles The AFE announced last sharing out cash more equita- Guardiola to bring the 44-year- Champions League that their aren’t so important for me. week that players would go on bly once it takes effect from the old to the Etihad Stadium to owners so crave. “I had exceptional players in Bayern Munich’s coach Pep strike indefinitely from May 2016-17 season. replace Manuel Pellegrini as head His Bayern contract expires Barcelona and it’s the same here. Guardiola attends a training 16 and the professional league Poorer teams, especially coach. in June 2016 and has already “I can only help, the players are session in Munich yesterday. (LFP), which represents the 42 those with big outstanding tax Broadcaster beIN Sports won five titles in two seasons at the key.” AFP clubs in the top two divisions, bills, have for years called for filed a petition to have the rights to be pooled to help them action declared illegal. make ends meet. The Spanish soccer fed- The status quo heav- Dramatic Marseille keep Euro hopes alive eration (RFEF) had earlier ily favours Real Madrid, the decided to halt all competition world’s wealthiest club by PARIS: Two late goals for the front foot from the off with Marseille’s from the same date, a income, and their Marseille kept their hopes of Portugal midfielder Moutinho move the LFP is also arch-rivals Barca. Champions League football next Ghanaian scoring after just 50 seconds. seeking to block. Although the new season alive with a 2-1 comeback forward This perfect start stunned The AFE and RFEF set-up would still be win over Monaco in Sunday’s Andre Ayew Marseille as it took them 25 are unhappy with a weighted towards the late Ligue 1 match. celebrates minutes to react through an new law mandating richest and most suc- It took the Principality side after scoring Alessandrini strike, slightly collective bargain- cessful clubs it would just one minute to take the lead a goal deflected by Aymen Abdennour, ing for domestic tel- be to a lesser extent. after Joao Moutinho pounced on against that didn’t worry ‘keeper Danijel evision rights and say The AFE supports a defensive mistake. Monaco Subasic. their interests have the idea of collec- But Marseille hit back with during a Monaco gained confidence and not been sufficiently tive bargaining but 10 minutes to go as Andre Ayew Ligue 1 Fabinho tested Steve Mandanda taken into account. is unhappy, among headed home his ninth goal match at the from a distance before Bernardo The AFE and LFP have been other things, with the share of of the season before Romain Velodrome Silva found the post, following summoned to make a court the cash pot set aside for sec- Alessandrini secured the three Stadium in a Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco appearance tomorrow, a league ond-division clubs. The RFEF points with just three minutes to Marseille run inside the box just before spokeswoman said yesterday, believes the law will rob it of play. yesterday. half-time. and Spanish media reported a some powers and is opposed to Since coming back from The second half, however, decision could come the same what it says are plans to use the international break at the changed everything as Marseille day or on Thursday. money from football to fund start of April, one-time lead- Marcelo Bielsa said. defensive formation with former fought back as Dimitri Payet and The penultimate round of La other sports. ers Marseille’s title hopes have “Our aim was to win this match Chelsea defender Ricardo Thauvin piled on the pressure. Liga matches is on Sunday and LFP President Javier Tebas evaporated and their Champions but I’ve seen the table and we’re Carvalho moving up in midfield But it was Ayew who levelled leaders Barcelona can make (pictured) said after an emer- League aspirations had nearly third. Now we just have to take alongside Geoffrey Kondogbia to with a powerful header following sure of a fifth title in seven gency general assembly on followed suit ahead of their first the points required to keep that replace captain Jeremy Toulalan, a good run by Payet on the left years with a win at last season’s Monday he was not optimistic home win since January. place,” Monaco’s Leonardo Jardim who is just back from injury and before the French international champions Atletico Madrid. the two sides’ positions could be The win sends Marseille back explained. started on the bench. delivered his 15th assist of the Barca are also through to reconciled. into fourth place, just two points “I feel we had a very good first Bielsa wanted his Marseille side season for Alessandrini. the Cup final at the end of the “I think it will be difficult to behind their opponents of the half, we had four good chances to to bombard the visitors early on It was Monaco’s first league loss month against Athletic Bilbao. reach an agreement because night. score more than one goal. Had and gave Romain Alessandrini the since a 1-0 defeat at Guingamp The new TV rights law, they are asking for the law to be “As long as the Champions we been more efficient, we’d have nod ahead of struggling Florian in early February, and they which is strongly backed by the modified,” Tebas told reporters. League qualification is still math- scored a second. We could have Thauvin while defender Rod remain third, two points ahead LFP, would replace the current REUTERS ematically possible, we’ll have won that game.” Fanni was also benched. of Marseille and Saint-Etienne. faith and hope,” Marseille coach Monaco had opted for a But Monaco were the ones on AFP Tuesday 12 May 2015 23 Rajab 1436 Volume 20 Number 6428 Sport Price: QR2 James dazzles Fowler wins as Cavs edge Players out Chicago Championship

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PARIS: Two late goals for Marseille kept their hopes of Champions League football next contrasting routes to semis season alive with a 2-1 comeback win over Monaco on Sunday night Ligue 1 match. It took the Principality side Emir Cup: QSL winners edge Umm Salal, Al Sadd trounce Al Khor 3-1 just one minute to take the lead after Joao Moutinho pounced on a defensive mistake. DOHA: Defending champions But Marseille hit back with Umm Salal goalkeeper Baba Al Sadd and Qatar Stars League 10 minutes to go as Andre Ayew Mallick fists away a goal (QSL) winners Lekhwiya reg- headed home his ninth goal istered contrasting wins to bound shot from a Lekhwiya of the season before Romain advance to the semi-finals of the player during the Emir Cup Alessandrini secured the three Emir Cup. semi-final match held at points with just three minutes to Yesterday, playing on their Lekhwiya Stadium yester- play. home ground Lekhwiya were day. Lekhwiya won 5-3 on Since coming back from made to toil by a determined penalties. the international break at the Umm Salal. PICTURES BY: BAHER AMIN start of April, one-time lead- Coach Michael Laudrup side ers Marseille’s title hopes have could not score in regulation time evaporated and their Champions but kept their cool in the penalty Emir Cup Results League aspirations had nearly shoot-out to emerge on top, con- Quarter-finals followed suit ahead of their first verting all the five spot kicks to Yesterday home win since January. register a 5-3 win. Al Sadd 3 Al Khor 1 The win sends Marseille back Umm Salal were not success- into fourth place, just two points Lekhwiya 5 Umm Salal 3 ful with the first one as former behind their opponents of the Qatar national team player Fabio Played on Sunday night. Cesar shot wide. The next three El Jaish 5 Al Rayyan 1 “As long as the Champions Umm Salal players Ahmed, Tamir Qatar Sports Club 4 Al Shahaniya 1 League qualification is still math- and Ismail scored but that was Semi-finals ematically possible, we’ll have not enough as Lekhwiya were on faith and hope,” Marseille coach target from the spot. On May 15 at Al Sadd Stadium Marcelo Bielsa said. For Lekhwiya, Sebastian Soria, Final on May 23 “Our aim was to win this match Jose Moreno, Karim Moudhhif, but I’ve seen the table and we’re Vladmir Weiss and Youssef third. Now we just have to take Msakni found the net. the points required to keep that With yesterday’s win Lekhwiya, place,” Monaco’s Leonardo Jardim who have already won the QSL explained. and Qatar Cup, kept them in the “I feel we had a very good first hunt for a triple. half, we had four good chances to Earlier, Al Sadd came from Al Khor’s Julio score more than one goal. Had behind to trounce Al Khor 3-1. we been more efficient, we’d have Cesar (left) and Al Julio Cesar put Al Khor in the scored a second. We could have Sadd’s Jung Soo lead in the 28th minute and they won that game.” held on to the lead till the end of vie for ball posses- Monaco had opted for a defen- the first half. sion during their sive formation with former On resumption, Al Sadd did Emir Cup match at Chelsea defender Ricardo not take much time to find the Lekhwiya Stadium Carvalho moving up in midfield equaliser. Jung Soo found the yesterday. Al Sadd alongside Geoffrey Kondogbia to target to make it one-all. Twenty won 3-1. RIGHT: replace captain Jeremy Toulalan, minutes later, Al Sadd took the Umm Salal’s who is just back from injury and lead with Haydos beating the Al Mohamad Sayed started on the bench. Khor keeper. Grafite put the issue (left) locked in an Bielsa wanted his Marseille side beyond doubt for Al Sadd with a aerial battle with to bombard the visitors early on goal in the 90th minute. Lekhwiya’s Dami and gave Romain Alessandrini the On Sunday, El Jaish trounced Terawari. nod ahead of struggling Florian Al Rayyan 5-1 and Qatar Sports Thauvin while defender Rod Club coasted to easy 4-1 win Fanni was also benched. over Al Shahaniya to make it to But Monaco were the ones on the semi-finals, both which will the front foot from the off with be played on May 15 at Al Sadd Portugal midfielder Moutinho Stadium. The final will be on May scoring after just 50 seconds. 23. THE PENINSULA AFP Bayern need Munich miracle to deny Barcelona

MUNICH, Germany: Pep attack. “The dream is still there Guardiola has promised embat- Champions League and we have 90 minutes. It won’t tled Bayern Munich will put up Fixtures from the Champions League semi- be easy, but I am a fighter.” a fight in today’s Champions final second leg matches. In contrast, Barca are in fine League semi-final, second-leg, Semifinal, second leg form having scored 19 goals in FC Bayern in their near-impossible bid to (All times in GMT) their last four games. Munich’s Spanish deny Barcelona an eighth final They are poised to win the Today head coach Pep appearance. Spanish league title after beat- Bayern Munich vs Barcelona (1845) Guardiola speaks Bayern are chasing a miracle ing David Moyes’s Real Sociedad Tomorrow at the Allianz Arena after their 2-0 on Saturday which left them during a press con- humbling 3-0 first-leg defeat at Real Madrid vs Juventus (1845) four points ahead of rivals Real ference in Munich, the Camp Nou last Wednesday is their longest since 1991. In Madrid. Germany, yester- when Lionel Messi capped a daz- Saturday’s latest defeat, Bayern Brazil star Neymar has now day. FC Bayern zling display with two goals. crashed 1-0 at home to neighbours scored in each of his last six Munich will face FC No team has ever over-turned Augsburg and had to play 77 min- matches to take his tally for the Barcelona in the a three-goal deficit in a European utes with ten-men after reserve season to 35, while Barca have UEFA Champions semi-final. goalkeeper Pepe Reina was sent now not conceded for seven League semi-final “We all know it’s going to be off. straight games. second leg match a mammoth task, but we’re not Having also lost 2-0 at But Barca coach Luis Enrique today. going to give up,” said Bayern for- Leverkusen the previous refuses to believe Bayern will bow ward Thomas Mueller. week before their drubbing in out of Europe without a fight. Bayern believe they can claim Barcelona, it is the first time “I saw it (the defeat against a historic win with Germany cap- Bayern have failed to score in Augsburg). They lost, but they tain Bastian Schweinsteiger sug- three consecutive games for 15 played 70 minutes with 10 men. gesting: “Sometimes unbelievable years. We will suffer a lot in Munich,” things happen in football and we But Bayern coach Guardiola, a said the Barca boss. as far away from our goal as with five goals in the opening 45 well we can perform in Munich,” hope we’re going to catch one of former Barcelona boss, insists his “They are a unique opponent, possible.” minutes. But in-form Barca are a said Bayern’s top-scorer Robert those days”. side must keep their dreams alive. who know what it is like to One ray of hope, as Bayern different proposition after Messi Lewandowski, who will again But their confidence has been “I am realistic, that is the turn around important matches goalkeeper Manuel Neuer put dazzled in the first leg with two play with a protective mask after dented by losing their last four only way you can win,” said the already this season. it, is the fact Guardiola’s side goals and an assist for Neymar’s fracturing his nose and cheekbone games since winning the German Spaniard, who has warned his side “We will never think that it is emphatically turned their 3-1 94th-minute goal. nearly two weeks ago. league for the 25th time a fort- they risk being routed unless they done, nor even that it looks very quarter-final, first-leg defeat at “We have to give our all. We “It’s not yet over and we’ll fight night ago and the losing streak contain Barcelona’s star-studded good for us. We need to defend Porto into a 6-1 rout in Munich have showed many times how to the end.” AFP