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ISSUE NO: 17427 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net

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Lawmakers trade barbs in unruly Assembly session

Clashes over early retirement bill • MP slams municipal law over ‘quotas’

By B Izzak vide the Assembly with details about its cost and impact on the state budget. KUWAIT: MPs traded accusations yes- Khorshed exchanged harsh words with MP terday in tense Assembly session that end- Abdulkarim Al-Kandari and later with MP ed without any tangible output after law- Safa Al-Hashem, who accused the commit- makers decided to delay two key debates tee of acting on orders of the government for today. Following tense discussions and in a bid to block the passage of the law. exchanges, the Assembly decided to Another clash took place between debate a controversial bill on reducing the MP Hamdan Al-Azemi and committee retirement age for men and women and member Askar Al-Enezi. Azemi accused hold a second debate on the jailed lawmak- unnamed lawmakers of working against ers in today’s session. the interests of the Kuwaiti people, but The session witnessed at least two Enezi denied the accusation, saying the confrontations over the early retirement committee members cared for the bill that forced acting speaker Essa Al- Kuwaiti people as much as others. At Kandari to adjourn the session tem- one stage, acting speaker Kandari porarily. A large number of MPs protest- stopped the session due to the quarrels. ed against a decision by the financial and During the debate, new Finance economic affairs committee to withdraw Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf said he will pro- a draft law stipulating reducing the vide the Assembly with figures about the retirement age for Kuwaiti employees. government debt and the financial status of The committee’s chairman MP Salah the country after a month. This came after Khorshed explained that the action was to demands by MPs to know why the govern- allow an independent international ment plans to borrow more funds from the KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem (center) speaks as MPs Khalil Al-Saleh (left) and Khalil Abul (right) gesture during a raucous research house to study the issue and pro- Continued on Page 11 National Assembly session yesterday. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

said the air strikes targeted Syrian army and Hezbollah weapon depots. The Ankara changes strikes sparked “successive explosions Israeli air and fires, causing material damage” in embassy street the depots, where land-to-land missiles have been stored among other strikes, rockets weapons, the Observatory said. The name after spat Syrian army also said Israel launched hit Syria land-to-land missiles into Syria from ANKARA: Ankara yesterday renamed the the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, but street in the Turkish capital where the United DAMASCUS: The Israeli army it intercepted them. Arab Emirates’ embassy is located after an overnight carried out air strikes and Israel seized 1,200 sq km of the Ottoman governor, in a symbolic riposte to Abu fired rockets at targets in Syria, causing Golan Heights from Syria in the Six- Dhabi following weeks of tensions. UAE Foreign damage near a military position, the Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Syrian army said in a statement yester- a move never recognized by the inter- retweeted a post on Twitter last month which day. Israel’s army has carried out several national community. Syria and Israel accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip attacks on the Syrian army and its ally remain technically at war, and the Erdogan’s “ancestors of kidnapping people of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Jewish state fought a devastating war Madinah in the early 20th century”. The post by since the start of the conflict in Syria in against Hezbollah in 2006. In a user called “Ali Al-Iraqi” also claimed that 2011. The Israeli air force carried out December, Israeli fighter jets bombed Fahreddin Pasha - the Ottoman governor of strikes on the Qutayfeh area northeast areas near Damascus including a scien- Madinah from 1916 to 1919 - stole from the peo- ANKARA: A new street sign bearing the name of former Ottoman governor of of Damascus, causing the Syrian army tific research center and warehouses ple of the sacred Islamic pilgrimage city. Madinah Fahreddin Pasha marks the street that leads to the UAE embassy build- to retaliate and “hit one of its planes”, where weapons and ammunition of the Madinah, home to the Prophet’s Mosque, ing yesterday. — AFP the Syrian army said. Syrian air defenses regime and its allies were stocked, the which as the burial place of Prophet Muhammad intercepted one rocket, but several more Observatory said. In September, Israeli (PBUH) is the second holiest site in Islam, was ous” to the memory of Turkey’s Ottoman prede- Monday that 613 Street would be renamed hit “near a military position, causing strikes hit a weapons depot by then part of the Ottoman Empire and now a cessors. He later said the minister was “too spoilt “Fahreddin Pasha” while the nearby avenue material damage”, it added. Damascus airport, targeting a ware- major city in modern Saudi Arabia. Erdogan hit by oil and money”, in a reference to the UAE’s would be renamed “Madinah Defender” instead The Syrian Observatory for Human house belonging to Hezbollah, the mon- back at the Emirati minister, telling him to “know rapid growth in recent decades. of 609 Avenue. Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, itor said. — AFP your place” and that the claims were “slander- Ankara mayor Mustafa Tuna said late Continued on Page 11 Khamenei claims FBI: Encryption Iran foiled plot to ‘urgent public overthrow system safety issue’

BEIRUT: Iran has foiled attempts by its foreign enemies to NEW YORK: The inability of law enforcement authori- turn legitimate protests into an insurgency to overthrow the ties to access data from electronic devices due to pow- Islamic Republic, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said erful encryption is an “urgent public safety issue,” FBI yesterday. Comments on his Twitter feed and in Iranian media Director Christopher Wray said yesterday as he sought underscored the establishment’s confidence that it has extin- TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader to renew a contentious debate over privacy and securi- guished the unrest that spread to more than 80 cities in which Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a state- ty. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was unable to NEW YORK: FBI Director Christopher Wray at least 22 people died since late December. “Once again, the ment yesterday. — AFP access data from nearly 7,800 devices in the fiscal year speaks during a cyber-security conference nation tells the US, Britain, and those who seek to overthrow that ended Sept. 30 with technical tools despite pos- yesterday. — AFP the Islamic Republic of Iran from abroad that ‘you’ve failed, promising “great support from the United States at the sessing proper legal authority to pry them open, a and you will fail in the future, too.’” Khamenei tweeted. appropriate time!” The Iranian leader tweeted: “... this man growing figure that impacts every area of the agency’s untenable. The Revolutionary Guards, the military force loyal to who sits at the head of the White House - although, he seems work, Wray said during a speech at a cyber-security “We face an enormous and increasing number of Khamenei, said on Sunday security forces had put an end to to be a very unstable man - he must realize that these cases that rely heavily, if not exclusively, on electronic the unrest that it too said had been whipped up by foreign conference in New York. extreme and psychotic episodes won’t be left without a The FBI has been unable to access data in more than evidence,” Wray told an audience of FBI agents, inter- enemies. At least 1,000 people have been arrested in the response.” As well as Washington and London, Khamenei national law enforcement representatives and private biggest anti-government protests for nearly a decade, with half of the devices that it tried to unlock due to encryp- blamed the violence on Israel, exiled dissident group People’s tion, Wray added. “This is an urgent public safety issue,” sector cyber professionals. A solution requires “signifi- the judiciary saying ringleaders could face the death penalty. Mujahedin of Iran and “a wealthy government” in the Gulf, a cant innovation,” Wray said, “but I just do not buy the A judiciary official announced yesterday that a detainee in Wray added, while saying that a solution is “not so clear probable reference to Iran’s regional rival, Saudi Arabia. cut”. Technology companies and many digital security claim that it is impossible.” Arak, a town approximately 200 km south of Tehran, had In a rare public appearance, the head of Israeli intelligence experts have said that the FBI’s attempts to require that Wray’s remarks echoed those of his predecessor, died after committing suicide, according to Mizan, the web- agency Mossad said the protests were due to Iranian site of the Iranian judiciary. On Monday, a separate judiciary devices allow investigators a way to access a criminal James Comey, who before being fired by President President Hassan Rouhani’s failure to improve people’s eco- Donald Trump in May frequently spoke about the dan- official announced that a detainee had committed suicide in nomic or social circumstances, but he said they were unlikely suspect’s cellphone would harm internet security and Tehran’s Evin prison. empower malicious hackers. US lawmakers, meanwhile, gers of unbreakable encryption. Tech companies and to overthrow the establishment. “In Iran too, we have eyes many cyber security experts have said that any measure The reports have raised concerns among human rights and ears,” Yossi Cohen told a Finance Ministry conference in have expressed little interest in pursuing legislation to activists and some Iranian politicians that detainees may have require companies to create products whose contents ensuring that law enforcement authorities are able to Jerusalem. “One shouldn’t develop high hopes, though I access data from encrypted products would weaken been killed by security forces while in custody. “I warn the would be happy to see a meaningful revolution,” he added. are accessible to authorities who obtain a warrant. cyber security for everyone. president and security and judiciary officials to prevent the Khamenei has called the protests - which were initially Wray’s comments at the International Conference on occurrence of a second Kahrizak,” Mahmoud Sadeghi, a par- about the economy but soon turned political - “playing Cyber Security were his most extensive yet as FBI US officials have said that default encryption settings liamentarian, tweeted on Monday. The Kahrizak prison with fireworks”, but he said citizens had a right to air legit- director about the so-called Going Dark problem, which on cellphones and other devices hinder their ability to gained notoriety when a handful of detainees were killed and imate concerns, a rare concession by a leader who usually his agency and local law enforcement authorities for collect evidence needed to pursue criminals. The matter tortured at the site after unrest in 2009. voices clear support for security crackdowns. “These con- years have said bedevils countless investigations. Wray came to a head in 2016 when the Justice Department Khamenei said US President Donald Trump was grand- cerns must be addressed. We must listen, we must hear. took over as FBI chief in August. The FBI supports tried unsuccessfully to force Apple Inc to break into an standing when he tweeted support for protesters he said We must provide answers within our means,” Khamenei iPhone used by a gunman during a mass shooting in San were trying “to take back their corrupt government” and strong encryption and information security broadly, was quoted as saying — Reuters Wray said, but described the current status quo as Bernardino, California. — Reuters 2 Established 1961 Local Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Amir receives Chairman, board members of Kuwait Science Club New board assured of political leadership’s support

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Board Chairman His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with the newly- of Kuwait Science Club, Deputy Chairman, and board members. — KUNA formed board of Kuwait Science Club (KSC).

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah attended the meeting. port, saying that the Kuwaiti youth’s scientific innovations Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in a separate Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace The KSC delegation also met with His Highness the give impetus to national development. The head of proto- meeting. His Highness the Crown Prince also received Board Chairman of Kuwait Science Club (KSC) Talal Al- Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, cols of His Highness the Crown Prince’s Diwan Sheikh Defense Ministry Undersecretary Sheikh Ahmad Al- Kharafi, Deputy Chairman Ahmad Al-Manfouhi and board and offered him an explanation over the club’s recent Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah was present at the Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, as well as President of the members on the occasion of the formation of the new activities and future plans. His Highness the Crown Prince meeting. Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir and His Directorate General of Civil Aviation Sheikh Salman Sabah board. Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah assured the KSC officials of the political leadership’s sup- Highness the Crown Prince received His Highness Sheikh Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. — KUNA

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Jaber Al-Sabah meets with President of the Directorate His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah meets with His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad General of Civil Aviation Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- Jaber Al-Sabah meets with His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Humoud Al-Sabah. Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Speaker National Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the Government of Kuwait for hosting the 38th GCC welcomes GCC Assembly Summit, the 23rd Arabian Gulf Cup and the 11th meeting of heads of the GCC parliamentary appoints new parliaments and Shura councils. This came during the session in which they reviewed letters received by His councils’ heads MPs to its Highness the Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince. Among the letters committees reviewed by the parliament was one by KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly His Highness the Amir thanking the Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem welcomed yesterday Speaker and members of the National GCC parliamentary councils’ chiefs who KUWAIT: The National Assembly Assembly for their congratulations on attended part of the parliament’s ordinary appointed MP Nasser Al-Dosari as Kuwait’s membership in the UN session. Ghanem asserted the deep-rooted member of the parliamentary foreign Security Council for 2018 and 2019 and ties between the Gulf Cooperation Council affairs committee, replacing MP Ali Al- the new year. (GCC) countries in the social, geographical Deqbasi who has resigned from the The parliament also reviewed a cable and historical domains. He recalled the Iraqi committee. The assembly also appointed from His Highness the Amir thanking the invasion of Kuwait back in 1990, hailing the MP Talal Al-Jalal as member of the pub- heads and representatives of the GCC distinguished GCC countries’ remarkable lic utilities committee, replacing MP Shura and National Assemblies for their contribution in the liberation of Kuwait, which Mohammad Al-Hadiya, during its session congratulations and appreciation for reflects the unity of the Gulf region. yesterday. The assembly had accepted Kuwait’s hosting of the 11th conference The Gulf summit, as well as the 23rd the resignation of Al-Deqbasi and Al- for GCC heads of parliaments. The par- Arabian Gulf Cup that were held recently in Hadiya during its session on 19 liament also reviewed a letter from His Kuwait constituted a great opportunity to December. Separately, the parliament Highness the Crown Prince, in which he boost the unity among the GCC countries, turned down a request by the Public thanked speaker and members of the which would reflect positively on the security Prosecution to strip MP Safaa Al- National Assembly for their congratula- and stability of the region, he affirmed. KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem guides heads and Hashem of her parliamentary immunity, tions on the occasion of Kuwait’s mem- Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and members of delegations who participated in the 11th meeting of GCC legislative regarding case (No. 2017/3303) ‘munici- bership in the UN Security Council for Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al- councils on a tour of the National Assembly headquarters.—KUNA pal misdemeanor.’ The MPs discussed 2018 and 2019 and the new year. The Saleh welcomed the GCC parliamentary during the session a report by the leg- MPs praised the great role played by His councils’ chiefs, wishing that this meeting islative and legal affairs committee con- Highness the Amir in re-uniting Gulf would contribute to the reunification of the tance of the nationalization of jobs and ing the topics listed on the meeting’s agenda. cerning the case. states and all those who raised high the Gulf peoples. investment in human resources of GCC mem- They were briefed on measures taken to Meanwhile, parliament members name of Kuwait and drew attention to it Ghanem accompanied heads and members ber states. In their final communique, the con- enhance relations with foreign parliaments expressed their gratitude to His Highness being a peace-loving country and a hub of the delegations who participated in the ferees called for the implementation of and parliamentary unions, directing to contin- the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- for humanitarian work. — KUNA 11th meeting of GCC legislative councils in an nationalizing jobs at GCC states, calling on ue work so as to boost the outstanding ties, inspection tour of the National Assembly Kuwait’s National Assembly to implement, in according to the communique. headquarters. Ghanem briefed the visiting coordination with They asked the delegations on the new building of the mem- GCC secretariat, GCC secretariat, in bers of parliament and construction and mod- activities and coordination with ernization projects of the facility. events pertaining Kuwait’s National The 11th meeting of the heads of the Gulf to this topic. They GCC speakers Assembly, to fulfill legislative councils was held on Monday commended His mutual visits under patronage and presence of His Highness the Amir’s stress on job between GCC Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad speech in the member states’ Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Following the meeting, the opening session, nationalization parliaments and GCC speakers expressed gratitude to His affirming the the European Highness the Amir for sponsoring and attend- importance of its Parliament. GCC ing the event. In a letter to His Highness the contents. They said parliament speak- Amir, who holds the rotating presidency of the speech comes ers were also the GCC Summit, the top MPs thanked His to emphasize the significance of keenness on apprised of member states’ visions and Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad for the coordination and consultation with all differ- experiences on “threats of terrorism and ter- hospitality and his guidance and vision. They ent levels, with the aim of overcoming chal- rorist organizations, and means of counter- expressed sincere wishes that Kuwait lenges facing the joint Gulf march in light of ing them. They finally sent cables of thanks enjoyed progress and prosperity under the surrounding situations. His Highness the Amir and appreciations to His Highness the Amir leadership of His Highness the Amir. stressed in the speech that the collective and His Highness the Crown Prince for host- action is the way to face the Gulf challenges ing the meeting, warm reception and hospi- Human resources and maintain gains and accomplishments, the tality as well as good organization of the At the conclusion of the meeting, GCC speakers added. meeting, which contribute to making the KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem gestures dur- parliament speakers have affirmed the impor- They approved several resolutions regard- event a success. — KUNA ing yesterdayís session. — KUNA Established 1961 3 Local Wednesday, January 10, 2018 No plans for Kuwait to raise fuel prices again Officials monitor developments after GCC states hiked charges

By A Saleh Hiring citizens Secretary General of the Manpower and Government KUWAIT: Kuwait has no plans to follow in other GCC Restructuring Program (MGRP) Fauzi Al-Majdali hailed states’ footsteps and hike fuel prices again, a government the role played by the program in achieving national official said. A governmental subsidies committee has not goals and supporting the national economy through discussed increasing fuel prices as it continues to moni- supporting entrepreneurship, replacing expats with tor oil market developments and discuss the best ways to national labor and making the private sector attract deal with changes, said the official who spoke on the more nationals. condition of anonymity. Further, the official said that the Speaking after a meeting with the Kuwait Chamber of Cabinet reviewed the Commerce and decisions made in four Industry’s industrial Gulf Cooperation Council committee to discuss the (GCC) states to increase new ratios of hiring fuel prices, but did not nationals in entrepre- take similar steps. 17,000 private neurs’ projects, Majadli “The Cabinet only stressed that this will requested conducting sector jobs for provide 17,000 private needed studies to assess sector job opportunities the local situation to Kuwaitis for Kuwaiti youth. He make the right decision,” added that companies he said, pointing out that will have to pay extra reports were made by annual fees per work relevant oil officials about permit issued to non- next five years. deputy director for planning and design Nasser the reasons behind the Kuwaitis above the max- Majdali added that the project on national labor ratios Khoraibut said that the project includes 3,260 400- price hikes in UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia, which imum number allowed. and the justification of the sought increase had been dis- square-meter housing units, in addition to blocks for came after implementing value added tax (VAT) in UAE Majdali added that the national labor support act cussed with the manpower authority’s board of directors public services to meet the area’s demands and needs. and Saudi Arabia, noting that the increase was the sec- authorized the Cabinet to review the ratios and penalties headed by Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al- Meanwhile, the housing authority’s official spokesper- ond in the UAE and Oman, and the fourth in Qatar since every two years, and that since the last review was in Sabeeh. He added that the new decision focused on eco- son Ibrahim Al-Nashi said the Chinese contractor of the four Arab states boycotted it seven months back. 2014 to provide 10,000 job opportunities, MGRP pre- nomic activities that will attract nationals. second contract in the South Mutlaa project requested Notably, fuel prices have gone up by 127 percent in pared some amendments to decision number 1028/2014 11 infrastructure design adjustments, but the requests Saudi Arabia and 3.9-4.2 percent in the UAE following a with the aim of appointing more citizens in the private Housing projects were rejected because they would affect the entire city’s 20 percent increase in 2017. Oman increased fuel prices and non-governmental sectors. He added that a study The Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) grids. He added that several meetings were held with the by 2-7 percent and Qatar increased it by 2.8-3 percent. focused on achieving balance between demand and sup- announced completing the southern Abdullah Al- contractor to discuss the requests and that the discus- The last time Kuwait raised fuel prices was in ply related to national labor, assessing the demand Mubarak project infrastructure’s design and outline, and sion ended by mandating the contractor to stick to the September 2016. through the assessment of the educational system in the will start handing them over from Sunday. The authority’s original plans.

and make over Ministers KD 35 billion in revenues, which is unprecedented urged to in terms of solv- ing the problem ‘adopt’ Vision of Kuwaiti youth’s unem- 2035 projects ployment. He added that the Supreme Council By Meshaal Al-Enezi for Planning and Development Ali Al-Moussa KUWAIT: Former Municipal Council would highlight member Ali Al-Moussa has asked for a the best channels to put the 2035 vision follow up on the Kuwait new structural into practice in all fields including educa- plan dubbed ‘Kuwait Vision 2035,’ and tion, health, environment and various having future projects reviewed by an forms of competitiveness. international advisor. He also thanked Moussa stressed that the new vision First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister has many advantages, namely economic of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al- ones “which will help create sources of Ahmad Al-Sabah for adopting the 2035 income instead of solely relying on oil.” vision “which is expected to make a sub- He added that the vision also opens doors stantial shift in the country because of the for international trade development mega development projects it includes.” through signing a strategic partnership Moussa said that a primary study on agreement with China on building the Silk developing five of Kuwait’s islands Road. He urged various officials to pass showed that the project would create laws pertaining with the vision and adopt over 200,000 non-oil job opportunities its projects.

Kuwait, France discuss ties, regional affairs

KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah meets with the French Ambassador to the State of Kuwait Marie Masdupuy. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah held a meeting yesterday with the French Ambassador to the State of Kuwait Marie Masdupuy, discussing bilateral relations, regional and international issues. Assistant Foreign Minister for Deputy Premier’s Bureau Affairs, Ayham Al-Omar, attended the meeting. — KUNA

Kuwait University (KU) and the United Women Nations Development Program. The program is akin to a strategy for women’s empowerment and fits into the leadership nation’s sustained development goals, GSSCPD’s secretary general Dr Khaled program seeks Mehdi told the press. He hailed the program, which includes a series of political and economic train- to close ing courses organized by KU, as a con- crete step to limit gender disparity in the gender gap country. Meanwhile, the head of KU’s center for women’s studies Dr Lubna Al- Qadhi said that the program would allow KUWAIT: Kuwait’s General Secretariat women to develop their political of the Supreme Council for Planning and prowess. She also added that the pro- Development (GSSCPD) has enlisted gram gives trainees the opportunity to some 60 women to take part in its lead- examine their male counterparts’ various ership program, held in conjunction with practices and tendencies. — KUNA 4 Established 1961 Local Wednesday, January 10, 2018

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KUWAIT: The courtyard of Kuwait’s Grand Mosque. —KUNA Lack of local tourism options drives spending on short vacations abroad Report calls for immediate activation of local tourism

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis’ spending on short vacations abroad crises and the fall of oil prices. The report said that the in which Kuwait and other fiscal year, which had already reached KD 5 billion in January leads to draining their resources and savings, especially for spending of both Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis on short vaca- Gulf Cooperation Council 2017, the report noted. It is also significant in preventing the families with limited income, a tourism specialist said. tions abroad has been increasing regardless of the drop in oil (GCC) states started cutting parliament from passing a proposed bill on increasing fees of However, the lack of local prices, which highlights down expenditure after the government-provided public services, adds the report. recreational options forces the states’ failure to cut drop in oil prices. Meanwhile, Leaders Group’s research department has most families to look for down expenses through Notably, short vacations come up with many solutions, such as investing part of the alternatives abroad, said saving the endless abroad, such as those during sovereignty bonds issued by Kuwait, as well as a portion of the Nabila Al-Anjari, General amounts spent on those Eids, national holidays and amounts allotted for investment in the 2018 budget in enhanc- Manager of Leaders Group Leaders Group vacations. weekends, have been consum- ing and activating local touristic and recreational sectors. for Consulting and Further, the report ing more funds compared to The report added that recreational sectors would attract Development, representative offers steps to elaborated that citizens the long summer ones. Tourism various sects of Kuwaitis and expats, namely families, and of the World Tourism have spent huge amounts experts assessed the total cash would thus cut down the amounts they would spend on short Organization in Kuwait. cut spending of money abroad during outflows from Kuwait during vacations abroad. In addition, this could attract GCC families Anjari’s statements came the first quarter of 2017. It the 2013 Eid Al-Fitr holiday at and expat families living in other GCC states to Kuwait. The in Leaders Group’s monthly also quoted Central Bank KD 76.25 million. report warned that although oil prices have revived by the report released recently, and statistics showing that end of 2017 and exceeded $60 per barrel, international oil which includes suggestions Kuwaitis’ cash with- Problem and solutions Nabila Al-Anjari prices are always changing. And in order to avoid reliance on for a number of ‘immediate drawals abroad had Highlighting the amounts a single source of income, the government should encourage steps’ that can help rationalize spending on tourism abroad increased by 4.9 percent in 2016 compared to 2015. In addi- spent on foreign tourism is significant in many ways and is investments in other sectors including local tourism with the in a way that goes in line with recent years’ plans to cut tion, World Bank’s statistics showed that Kuwaitis have spent related to Kuwait’s issuance of international bonds worth $10 aim of immediate reduction of citizens’ spending on short down expenses in the aftermath of international economic over $12 billion on foreign tourism in 2014, which is the year billion by the end of March to cover deficits of the previous vacations abroad.

KRCS celebrates 52nd anniversary of humanitarian work

KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) celebrates its 52th anniversary today by seeking to be a pioneer in humanitarian field in Kuwait and the Arab World. KRCS Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer said yesterday the society since its foundation in 1966 granted Kuwait an international pio- Saleh Al-Suhaibani Dr Hilal Al-Sayer neering position in humanitarian domain exceeding all expectations thanks to the great support by His Highness Saudi Arabia. Barjas’ visit and meeting with President of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Saudi Red Crescent Authority Mohammed Al-Qasim aims Sayer added that the KRCS has been offering humani- to boost communications between red crescent societies tarian relief for people in need all over the world. KRCS in humanitarian and rescue missions, he said. relief supplies in 2017 cov- Suhaibani added that the ered countries such as Libya, organization is exerting great Palestine, Somalia, Yemen, efforts to create coordination Iraq, Syria, the Philippines between Arab red crescent and Sri Lanka as well as to Society paid and cross societies to provide the Rohingya minority, he immediate donations and aid said. On the local level, the school fees for to those in need in the Arab society paid the school fees World. Arab humanitarian for 5,000 children in need, 5,000 children work has expanded to cover Sayer noted. millions of people, with the Separately, the Arab Red continuous presence of donor Crescent and Red Cross countries, especially Saudi Organization’s Secretary Arabia and Kuwait, he said. General Saleh Al-Suhaibani The organization, established hailed Kuwait’s humanitarian role on both regional and in 1965, has the task of supporting development programs, RIYADH: Secretary General of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Maha Al- international levels. Suhaibani’s remarks were made yes- boost media in the humanitarian field, coordinate rescue Barjas meets with President of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority Mohammed Al- terday during the visit of KRCS Secretary General Maha operations between Arab societies and organize training Qasim.— KUNA Al-Barjas to the organization’s headquarters in Riyadh, courses in the field. —KUNA Established 1961 5 Local Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Maids’ trafficking network busted, 15 runaways detained

Hundreds arrested in week-long crackdown

By Hanan Al-Saadoun and Agencies The campaigns resulted in arresting 338 investigations. Police found the body, police detective. The victim’s friend told Property damage absconders and people wanted on various which was recovered by forensics. Fintas police that an imposter searched the Ahmadi prosecutor accused a 23- KUWAIT: Residency detectives recently criminal and civil claims, 571 in violation of Investigations are underway. victim, forced himself into his car and took year-old Kuwaiti of damaging state arrested a gang running a fake domestic residency laws, 85 vehicles were impound- his civil ID and mobile phone. The thief property, and several traffic citations helpers office that had been trading in ed while, 88 drug and liquor-related forced the victim out of the car in were issued against him. The man who absconding laborers and offering them cases, 91 theft and begging cases Qusoor before escaping. was in an abnormal condition collided work on daily basis in violation of the law. were filed. Separately, an Indian man told Abu with two patrol cars while driving, caus- Detectives raided the office and found 15 Hulaifa police that he was robbed ing the damage. laborers from various nationalities who E-passport centers of KD 20 and an iPhone 6 Plus in confessed to running away from their spon- The Interior Ministry’s Relations E-passport Mangaf. Traffic violations sors. Detectives also discovered that some and Security Media Department Ahmadi security director Brig of them had expired residency visas while said that work has resumed in vari- centers back Suspects arrested Abdullah Saffah sent a citizen to the others were already wanted on other cases. ous e-passport centers after resolv- Detectives arrested two youth; a Drug Control General Department for ing the temporary technical prob- to normal Kuwaiti and a bedoon, at a check- the possession of 56 tablets suspected Crackdown lem. The department added that the point for possession of sharp of being illicit. Also, his car was Various security directorates have centers will work in the mornings objects and drug paraphernalia. impounded after issuing 12 traffic cita- launched inspection campaigns under the and afternoons. Both suspects were interrogated tions including driving without a license, supervision of the Interior Ministry’s Acting regarding their links with forced escaping from police, hitting a pavement, Assistant Undersecretary for General Suicide Robbery robberies, and victims may be called in for having illegally tinted windows, speed- Security Affairs Maj Gen Ibrahim Al-Tarrah A Bangladeshi man committed suicide An Indian man was kidnapped and identification. One of the men was also ing, and not having a license plate on the from December 31, 2017 to January 6, 2018. at Naseem walking track, according to robbed by a person who impersonate a found wanted on a debt. back of his vehicle.

National Guard follows modern military Chief of Staff, tactics in training: Official US military official discuss bilateral ties

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Chief of Staff Lt Gen Mohammad Al-Khudher discussed yes- terday with the US Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation Brigadier General David P San Clemente and his accompa- nying delegation issues of reciprocal interests. The department of Moral Guidance and Public Relations in the Defense Ministry said in a statement that the two men discussed issues of recipro- cal concern chiefly in the military domain KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Chief of Staff Lt Gen Mohammad Al-Khudher meets with and ways of developing them. The meet- the US Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation Brigadier General David P ing was attended by a number of Defense San Clemente. — KUNA Ministry senior officials. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Kuwait National Guard (KNG) for officers, held at His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Undersecretary Lt Gen Hashem Al-Rifae said KNG is Al-Sabah military camp, attended by Rifae. Rifae following modern military strategies in training cours- hailed the fighting skills of the participating officers es to boost fighting skills of its members. KNG aims who performed a military exercise upon the conclu- to execute the terms of its Strategic Document 2020, sion of the course. The exercise, attended by senior themed ‘Security First’ to develop the military and military officials, included tactics for fighting terror- security sector, KNG said in a statement after the ism, regaining control of buildings and passing infor- conclusion of the 32nd foundational training course mation thoroughly. — KUNA

Juluwi, Deputy Director General for Aviation Safety 17% passenger and Air Transport Affairs. The number of departing passengers reached 6.8 million in 2017 compared to 5.8 million in 2016, increase at Juluwi said. He noted flights to and from Kuwait Airport in 2017 reached around 111,600 last year Kuwait Airport compared to around 104,100 in 2016. Commercial flights reached 106,300 in 2017 in contrast to 98,000 in 2016. Cargo-wise, total weight of air car- KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil go transported through the airport in 2017 was 241.6 Aviation (DGCA) announced yesterday an increase million kilograms, compared to 195.5 million kilo- of 17 percent in number of passengers using Kuwait grams in 2016. He added inbound freight traffic International Airport in 2017 as 13.7 million against reached 185.3 million kilograms in 2017 compared to 11.7 million in 2016. The number of passengers arriv- 161.4 million kilograms the previous year. Outbound ing at the airport reached 6.8 million in 2017 com- freight traffic reached 56.3 million kilograms in 2017 pared to 5.9 million in 2016, said Emad Faleh Al- compared to 34 million kilograms in 2016. — KUNA International WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018 Singapore uncovers large-scale oil heist

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AT SEA: Chinese firefighting vessel ‘DONGHAIJIU 117’ sprays water on the burning oil tanker Sanchi at sea off the coast of eastern China. — AFP East China Sea oil tanker burns for 3rd day

Search continues for 31 missing tanker crew

BEIJING: Strong winds, high waves and toxic gases are rying grain from the United States, about 160 nautical Monday in the water near the tanker, China’s transport Fishermen to the rescue hindering dozens of rescue boats struggling to locate miles (300 km) off China’s coast near Shanghai and the ministry said. It had been handed over to the civil affairs The CF Crystal suffered limited damage and the 21 missing sailors from a stricken oil tanker in the East mouth of the Yangtze River Delta. The Sanchi was carry- bureau. The crew of the Sanchi are all Iranian nationals crew members, all Chinese nationals, were rescued by a China Sea and to extinguish a fire that has burned for the ing 136,000 tons of condensate to South Korea, equiva- except for two Bangladeshi citizens. passing fishing trawler on Saturday night, according to a past three days on the ship. The poor conditions, with lent to about 1 million barrels and worth about $60 mil- report posted by state-owned Xinhua News to its Twitter rain and waves as high as 3 meters, frustrated efforts to lion. Chinese state media Tanker on the move account yesterday. “The fire was so fierce. It kept tame the fire and search for the 31 remaining tanker crew CCTV showed footage on Satellite imagery of exploding like bombs. So loud,” said Zhu Tingwen, a members, China’s Ministry of Transport said in a state- Monday of boats dousing the ship showed the blaze sailor on the fishing boat. The trawler from Zhejiang ment yesterday. The flames were forcing the South the flames with water as has weakened since the province scoured for survivors on the tanker, but could Korean Coast Guard’s search and rescue team to stay as plumes of thick dark Bad weather and weekend, although the not get close enough because of the fire, Xinhua said. far as 3 miles away from the tanker, two South Korean smoke continued to billow strong winds are drag- “Anyone will go for a rescue in this case,” said the fishing officials told Reuters. from the tanker. flames keep ging the tanker away boat captain Zheng Lei. “It just happened to be me.” The Chinese government said yesterday it had not The size of the oil spill from the Chinese coast, The freighter has been taken to a port near Shanghai found a “large-scale” oil leak, and the ultra light oil, from the ship and the rescuers away according to where investigators will start work on assessing the cause known as condensate, was burning off or evaporating so extent of the environmen- Greenpeace. Between of the disaster, the government said. China’s transport quickly it would leave little residue - less than 1 percent - tal harm were not known, from tanker Sunday and Monday, the ministry warned toxic gas from the tanker was harmful to within five hours of a spill. That reduces the chances of a but the disaster has the floating inferno travelled the rescue workers and that protective clothing and gas crude-style oil slick. Still, condensate is highly volatile potential to be the worst some 50 kilometers (31 testing equipment was being dispatched to the emer- when exposed to air and water and concerns were grow- since 1991 when 260,000 miles) south east, accord- gency teams. Trying to contain a spill of condensate, ing the tanker could explode and sink while a flotilla of 13 tons of oil leaked off the ing to Rashid Kang, cam- which is extremely low in density, highly toxic and much search and rescue vessels comb a 900-square-nautical- Angolan coast. “We can’t grasp the level of oil contami- paigner at Greenpeace East Asia. Another major concern more explosive than normal crude oil, may be difficult. mile (3,100 sq km) area for the crew. nation at this moment. The cargo is still on fire, so it is is damage to the region’s rich fish reserves. The Zhoushan “We’re not going to see a slick like with crude, but it’s The tanker Sanchi (IMO:9356608), run by Iran’s top hard to figure out if oil is being spilled,” Park Sung-dong, fishing ground where the crash occurred is known as one soluble, toxic and flammable, which is why we’re seeing oil shipping operator, National Iranian Tanker Co, collid- an official from South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and of the biggest in the East China Sea, particularly for the fire. A lot of it is burning off or evaporating,” said ed on Saturday with the CF Crystal (IMO:9497050), car- Fisheries said. The body of a crew member was found on mackerel and croaker, according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace’s Kang. — Reuters

Netanyahu’s son KPR Mills Limited - one of the under fire after Mothers urge largest manufacturers of yarn in the region, producing approximately Indian court to 90,000 metric tons of cotton annually ‘strip club’ tape - said the women were being fairly treated. Thangavelu Karrupasamy, a ‘free’ daughters manager at the mills, said the girls were JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin being paid minimum wages of 332 Netanyahu’s son has been caught on tape rupees ($5) per day and their medical seemingly drunk outside a strip club talking CHENNAI: Two mothers have needs were being taken care of. “Since about a key natural gas deal, leading to politi- approached a court in south India they joined only in September, they are cal fallout yesterday. The audio recording of seeking help to “free” their daughters entitled leave to go home only later this Yair Netanyahu, who has been the subject of from a spinning mill where they work, month, during Pongal (harvest festi- controversy in the past, led to further criticism raising questions on the freedom of val),” he said. “The police have come of his father’s handling of Israel’s natural gas movement of thousands of women and checked on the girls and we have industry at a time when he already faces two employed in the Indian textile and gar- asked the parents to come to the mill.” unrelated graft investigations. ment industry. Ellamal Raman, 17, and There are more than 1,500 mills in Netanyahu’s family denounced the broad- her cousin Bhuvaneshwari, 18, have not Tamil Nadu, the biggest hub for textile cast of the recording by Israel’s Channel 2 been allowed to leave the KPR Mill television late Monday as part of a witch- and manufacturers in India, employing JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his son Yair visit the Wailing Limited’s Karumathampatti premises in hunt, while Yair Netanyahu said he was obvi- up to 400,000 workers to turn cotton Wall in Jerusalem. The Israeli premier’s son has been caught on tape seemingly drunk outside Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu into yarn, fabric and clothes. ously joking in the audio said to be from a strip club talking about a key natural gas deal, leading to political fallout yesterday. —AFP state since September, according to A majority of the young workers 2015. Yair Netanyahu, now 26, can be heard their mothers. are drawn from poor families and are speaking with the son of Kobi Maimon, a In their petition to the court - heard housed in hostels within the factory or stakeholder in a company that owns a share Netanyahu faced a difficult political battle on protection arrangements for his children yesterday - the mothers said that the mill premises. The workers, mostly in Israel’s offshore Tamar gas field. Their con- over Israel’s natural gas arrangements, with decided upon by the security services”. The teenagers have developed severe rash- women, are confined to their hostels versation includes talk of strippers and pros- opponents saying they overly favour the Netanyahus in a statement said the broadcast es on their hands, have been bitten by after their shifts and are only allowed a titutes. “My dad arranged $20 billion for your companies involved. Labor party leader Avi of the recording was part of a “witch-hunt bed bugs and require treatment. “My weekly visit to the neighborhood mar- dad-you can give me 400 shekels ($116/97 Gabbay said the recording was a “new stain against the family that has reached an daughter has called home many times ket with escorts, campaigners say. euros),” he says. Yair Netanyahu issued a on the corrupt gas deal”. There was also crit- unprecedented low”. “Apparently, everything since, begging me to bring her back “Like most mills, this one also has high statement apologizing and saying he was only icism over Yair Netanyahu’s security arrange- is fair game to attack the Netanyahu govern- home,” Raman’s mother Chinnaponnu fenced walls and a lot of security,” said joking about the gas deal while “under the ments, with at least two lawmakers calling for ment and family, including using a secret and told the Thomson Reuters Foundation Raj Kumar, the lawyer representing influence of alcohol”. an investigation. A security guard employed illegal recording of young men drinking alco- by phone. “Last night she was crying the two mothers. “It is impossible for “These statements do not represent who I by the state purportedly accompanied Yair hol,” it said. The statement also said and saying she can’t do the work. She anyone to enter or leave the mill prem- am nor the values on which I was raised,” he Netanyahu to the strip club. Netanyahu had no relationship with Maimon has rashes on her hands and the mill ises without the permission of the said. “Regarding what I said about the gas and was not aware of Yair Netanyahu’s friend- won’t let them out.” management.” — Reuters deal, it was a joke. Anyone with a bit of com- ‘Everything is fair game’ ship with his son. It said the premier had met mon sense understands that right way.” Netanyahu’s office said it “is not consulted Maimon “once 10 years ago”. — AFP Established 1961 7 International Wednesday, January 10, 2018 In rare inter-Korean talks, North Korea pledges an ‘invaluable’ gift First official talks between the two Koreas in 2 years

SEOUL: The last North Korean to cross this heavily mili- Despite skepticism from allies in the United States and tarized border was shot by his own comrades, and barely Japan, officials in South Korea hope the talks lead to more escaped with his life. But when a hefty man proudly sport- than just friendly photo ops, including substantive improve- ing lapel pins with the beaming faces of late North Korean ments in relations between Seoul and Pyongyang. Just leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il led a delegation of before Seoul’s delegation drove into the demilitarized zone, about 20 North Korean officials over the tense border some 20 South Koreans were seen holding up a banner that dividing the two Koreas yesterday, they did so to praise read: “We wish the success of the high-ranking inter-Korean from both countries. talks”. One man was spot- The visit - part of the ted waving a flag with a first official talks between unified Korean peninsula. the two Koreas in two years - was in stark con- N Koreans in Lunching separately trast to the past year of The rare meeting come spiraling tensions, punc- Western-style after a year of ramped up tuated by the dramatic North Korean missile defection of a North suits cross the launches, its sixth and most Korean soldier in powerful nuclear test and November. It was just tense border an exchange of threats and meters away from where insults between North the diplomatic delega- Korean leader Kim Jong tions sipped cups of red Un and US President ginseng tea yesterday. Donald Trump, which Arriving in only Western-style business suits despite sub- raised fears of a fresh conflict on the Korean peninsula. zero weather and snow piled on the ground, the head of “There is so much focus on our high-ranking talks today, the North Korean delegation referenced the increased and considering the high hopes, we were thinking about tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. opening up these talks to the general public,” Ri suggest- “This winter has seen more snowstorms than ever, and ed. “I see many reporters here, how would you feel if we rivers and mountains across the country are frozen,” said just opened this up?” Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the North’s Committee for the Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said it would PANMUNJOM: South Korea’s Unification Minister Cho Myung-Gyun (left) shakes hands with Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland. “It would not be be better to stick to practice and brief reporters as often North Korean chief delegate Ri Son-Gwon during their last meeting at the border truce vil- an exaggeration to say that inter-Korean ties were even as possible. Cameras and microphones installed in the lage of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) yesterday. —AFP more frozen, but public yearning for improved relations meeting rooms usually enable government officials to was so strong that today’s precious event was brought monitor the meetings in real time. South Korean President The officials from the two Koreas sat before bottles of returned over the border to lunch at Tongilgak, the North’s about,” he quipped. “We came to this meeting with the Moon Jae-in is being kept up to date on all developments ‘Pyeongchang Water’ and red ginseng tea, provided by a building in the truce village of Panmunjom. The two Koreas thought of giving our brethren, who have high hopes for as they occur, according to a Blue House spokesman, but subsidiary of Lotte Group, a massive South Korean conglom- usually do not eat together during inter-Korean talks as these this dialogue, invaluable results as the first present of the he declined to confirm if Moon is monitoring the talks in erate that suffered major setbacks in China after it handed breaks are used as opportunities for officials to go over what year,” he continued in opening remarks, as his officials real-time. “It’s impossible for Moon to be glued to a screen over land for a controversial anti-missile system in South was discussed and also consult with other government opened brown paper folders. all day anyway. He’s got his own schedule.” Korea. After two meetings in the morning, Ri and his team authorities in Seoul and Pyongyang, respectively. — Reuters

streets. Bike sharing systems in the organization. “Bike sharing is a viable Panmunjom, India cities look southern city of Mysuru and the cen- option for Indian cities - we just need tral city of Bhopal, both launched last good quality bikes, dedicated lanes where Korean to bike sharing June, have met with a tremendous and a system that is efficient,” said response, officials say. Chandramauli Shukla, chief executive soldiers and About half a dozen more cities, of Bhopal Smart City Corporation. MUMBAI: A handful of Indian cities including Bengaluru, Pune and The corporation implements the negotiators meet are gearing up to launch bike-sharing Bhubaneswar, are now drawing up federally-funded Smart Cities pro- systems to ease traffic congestion and similar plans, according to the World gram to improve services like internet deadly air pollution, as urban popula- Resources Institute (WRI), a connectivity and public transport in SEOUL: Among a row of sky-blue huts tions surge and vehicles clog the Washington DC-based research 100 cities across India. —Reuters straddling the border between North and South Korea, soldiers from both sides face off against each other on the world’s last Cold War frontier. Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, where officials from North and South Korea met yesterday, is a traditional point of contact on the border but also a physical representation of the 1950- PANMUNJOM: South Korean soldiers stand guard at the 53 Korean War’s enduring effects. border truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone Millions of Koreans died in the conflict, (DMZ) yesterday. —AFP with the armistice signed at Panmunjom leaving the peninsula divided and the two Koreas technically still at war in recorded in 1967 when a senior jour- years, the site has turned into a major the absence of a formal peace treaty. nalist from the North’s state-run attraction for visiting foreigners. Despite its name, the DMZ sepa- Korean Central News Agency defect- Tourists to the southern side are given rating the two Koreas is one of the ed while covering military talks. And ample warning against actions that world’s most heavily fortified frontiers, there were fears of a full-scale con- could antagonize the North Korean sol- brimming with minefields and watch- flict in 1976, after a group of North diers before they cautiously begin cap- towers. Panmunjom is the only place Korean troops axed to death two turing snapshots of the division. in the DMZ where the two sides come American soldiers who were trimming “It’s very upsetting that a country is face to face, with the border marked a nearby tree. so divided,” said Julia Ahn, a 24-year- only by a low concrete divider. It has old student from New York, on a trip to witnessed a number of dramatic inci- Direct line Panmunjom. “It’s good information but dents. Most recently, a North Korean US presidents visiting South Korea very hard to swallow.” Yesterday’s dis- soldier dashed across the border in have often gone to DMZ as a symbolic cussions, the first between the Koreas in an extremely rare and dramatic demonstration of Washington’s commit- more than two years, were being held at defection in November, when his ment to defend Seoul. But bad weather the Peace House, on the southern side comrades fired at least 40 rounds in forced Donald Trump to call off a sur- of the neutral area-the North also has a an effort to kill him. prise trip there in November-after his talks venue on its side, Tongilgak. North There have been previous defec- office earlier labeled such visits a and South are so deeply divided that tions at Panmunjom, most notably in “cliche”. North Korean leader Kim there are no direct telephone communi- 1984 when a Russian student from Jong-Un made a rare trip to Panmunjom cations between them for ordinary citi- Moscow sprinted across the border in 2012, with state media carrying pic- zens-but both buildings are connected and triggered a 30-minute gun battle tures of him looking across the border to Seoul and Pyongyang so the discus- that left four people dead-although he at the South through a pair of binocu- sions can be closely monitored by offi- was unhurt. Another gun battle was lars amid heightened tensions. Over the cials in the two capitals.—AFP

soldiers attacked a work party trying to chop down a tree Seven decades of inside the Demilitarized Zone, leaving two US army offi- cers dead. Pyongyang launched perhaps its most auda- cious assassination attempt in Myanmar in 1983, when a tensions between bomb exploded in a Yangon mausoleum during a visit by South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. He survived but the two Koreas 21 people, including some government ministers, were killed. In 1987 a bomb on a Korean Air flight exploded over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board. SEOUL: North and South Korea held their first talks for Seoul accused Pyongyang, which denied involvement. two years yesterday, stirring hopes of a tentative rap- prochement between the bitterly divided neighbors. Direct confrontation Tensions soared last year as the North made rapid The North’s founding leader Kim Il-Sung died in progress on its banned nuclear weapons programs, while 1994, but under his son Kim Jong-Il it continued to US President Donald Trump engaged in an increasingly prod its southern neighbor. In 1996 a North Korean bellicose verbal scrap with Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong- submarine on a spying mission ran aground off the Un. Here are some key moments in the decades-long eastern South Korean port of Gangneung, sparking 45- standoff between the two Koreas: day manhunt that ended with 24 crew members and infiltrators killed. A clash between South Korean and War but no peace North Korean naval ships in 1999 left some 50 of the In June 1950 fighting broke out between the communist North’s soldiers dead. In March 2010 Seoul accused North and capitalist South, sparking a brutal war that Pyongyang of torpedoing one of its corvette warships, killed between two and four million people. Beijing backed killing 46 sailors. Pyongyang denied the charge. Pyongyang in the three-year conflict, while Washington November that year saw North Korea launch its first threw its support behind the South-alliances that have attack on a civilian-populated area since the war, firing largely endured. The Koreas have been locked in a dan- 170 artillery shells at Yeonpyeong. Four people were gerous dance ever since that conflict ended in 1953 with killed, including two civilians. an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty, leaving them technically at war. Going nuclear North Korea has steadfastly pursued its banned nuclear Sending in the assassins and ballistic missile programs since its first successful test of Pyongyang has tested the fragile ceasefire with numer- an atomic bomb in 2006, as it looks to build a rocket capa- ous attacks. The secretive nation sent a team of 31 com- ble of delivering a warhead to the US mainland. Its progress mandos to Seoul in a botched attempt to assassinate has accelerated under leader Kim Jong-Un, culminating in then-President Park Chung-Hee in 1968. All but two were its sixth and biggest nuclear test in September 2017. Kim killed. In the “axe murder incident” of 1976, North Korean has since declared the country a nuclear power. —AFP 8 Established 1961 International Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Legacy of President Wilson’s racism clouds rights office How do you condemn racism in a building named after racist? GENEVA: How do you condemn racism on behalf of the came to equality for blacks, adopting policies that intensified global community while sitting in a building named after a segregation in the federal government while staffing his cabi- racist? Some would argue it’s a challenge the United Nations net with white supremacists. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) needs to face “We cannot simply excuse Wilson’s racist politicking as a up to. The UN rights office is housed in a 225-room mansion feature of him being ‘a man of his time’,” Johns Hopkins built in the mid-1870s on the shores of Lake Geneva which, University historian NDB Connolly wrote in a letter to the since 1924, has been named the Palais Wilson, honoring the committee. Paula J Giddings, a historian at Smith College, said former United States presi- that due to Wilson’s dent, Woodrow Wilson. actions, racial separation A century after Wilson was “inscribed onto the negotiated a peace deal to A challenge very centre of the nation”. end World War One and set The panel ultimately up the League of Nations- to UN High decided to leave Wilson’s which was based in Geneva name on its institutions but and helped establish the Commissioner called for “transparency in Swiss city as a diplomatic recognizing Wilson’s fail- centre-his record on human ings and shortcomings”. rights, and particularly race, for Human has met fresh scrutiny. That Rights ‘A man with revision had been concen- many parts’ trated at Princeton Wilson is widely com- University-where Wilson memorated, notably on the was also president-but it has Avenue President Wilson in central Paris. And next to the not yet extended to Geneva, a place sometimes referred to as Palais Wilson in Geneva is the deluxe President Wilson Hotel. the capital of human rights. While Wilson’s legacy and But his connection to the UN rights office poses specific Geneva’s identity as the home of major international bodies complications, as much of OHCHR’s mandate involves are inextricably linked, some have suggested that it may be defending the rights of racial and ethnic minorities. worth rethinking his connection to the UN’s rights office, given his woeful actions regarding black Americans. “Wilson was a MacMillan said that some recognition of Wilson’s racist. I think there is no doubt about that”, acclaimed Oxford achievements in forging the multilateral system was impor- tant in Geneva, but suggested a body like the UN’s GENEVA: The headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) named Palais University historian Margaret MacMillan told AFP. “The fact Wilson, honoring the former United States president Woodrow Wilson are seen in Geneva. —AFP that (the Palais Wilson) houses the rights office... that I do think Conference on Disarmament, where the Wilson legacy is unfortunate. That is one of those accidents of history.” remains positive, would be more appropriate. In an interview with AFP last month, UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein yes, the attitudes on racism were reprehensible, certainly cial name change, however unlikely, would not be the UN’s ‘A man of his time?’ said he has “always favored a deeper understanding of his- seen in today’s light, but maybe not just limited to today. At decision. At Princeton, a black student group in 2015 raised con- torical narratives” and would welcome a broader discussion the time as well.” He added that input from Wilson experts But the rights office could advocate for a compromise cerns about the university’s prestigious school of internation- about Wilson’s link to the rights office headquarters. could “provide the right approach as to how and whether similar to that pursued at Princeton, where historic buildings al affairs bearing the president’s name. Princeton established “Clearly president Wilson is a man with many parts,” Zeid there should be any recognition or not.” Zeid also stressed or institutions retain their names alongside a public acknowl- a committee that studied submissions from historians, includ- said. “Were it not for him, it is unlikely there would have been that the Palais Wilson was named by Swiss authorities and edgement-such as a plaque-outlining Wilson’s undeniable ing evidence that Wilson was in fact a reactionary when it a League of Nations and the UN to follow,” he added. “And the building still belongs to the canton of Geneva, so an offi- prejudices. —AFP

News in brief US government sets Airline fires pilots deadline for 200,000 MUMBAI: An Indian airline said yesterday it had fired two pilots after reports they fought and both briefly left Salvadorans to leave the cockpit unmanned during a New Year’s Day flight from London to Mumbai. Jet Airways took the step after investigating allegations that a male pilot slapped his WASHINGTON: The US government has announced the female colleague during a heated argument when the end of a special protected status for about 200,000 plane was mid-air carrying 324 passengers. The quarrel Salvadoran immigrants, a move that threatens with depor- reportedly led the female pilot to leave the cockpit in tation tens of thousands of well-established families with tears and she had to be persuaded to go back in by cabin children born in the United States. Homeland Security crew. At one point the male pilot also left the cockpit, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the end of the “tem- leaving the controls briefly unattended, according to porary protected status” (TPS) granted to Salvadorans local media reports. “Consequent to the review of the already in the United States in 2001, when two major events... Jet Airways has terminated services of both the earthquakes rocked the Central American country. They cockpit crew with immediate effect,” Jet said in a state- were given 18 months to leave or be deported, which offi- ment. The two pilots were grounded last week over the cials said is enough time for a legislative solution to be altercation, which Jet had described as a “misunderstand- crafted by Congress to allow them to stay. ing” that was “quickly resolved amicably”. “Only Congress can legislate a permanent solution addressing the lack of an enduring lawful immigration sta- tus of those currently protected by TPS,” said the Snow traps tourists Department of Homeland Security. Part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration by President Donald Trump, the move comes after 59,000 longtime resident WASHINGTON: Immigrants and activists protest near the White House to demand that the Department of GENEVA: Heavy snowfall has trapped some 13,000 Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 195,000 Salvadorans. —AFP tourists at Zermatt, one of Switzerland’s most popular ski Haitians and 5,300 Nicaraguans were stripped of similar stations, the Alpine resort said yesterday. The snow has protections late last year, after having been allowed to set blocked all roads and the train leading to the resort in the deep roots inside the United States for decades. without the constant fear of deportation. Previous gov- administration “considers this decision to be a recogni- southern Swiss canton of Valais, which was also hit by Democrats in Congress are also fighting to protect the ernments rolled over the protected status with little tion of the contribution of our compatriots who hold some power outages, head of the station Janine Imesch right to stay inside the US of 690,000 young immigrants debate, but Trump has pursued a tougher “law and order” this migratory benefit, who are an important workforce said. There are currently “around 13,000 tourists at known as “Dreamers,” people who arrived in the country approach to the issue. For TPS beneficiaries, the decision in that country,” the presidency said. Ceren’s govern- Zermatt,” she said, while the station website warned that as children. Trump has said he will back a compromise on was a thunderbolt. “My life is here,” said Minda ment has grown closer to the United States, and was “arrivals and departures are not possible at the moment.” the Dreamers if Congress budgets $18 billion to build an Hernandez, a 48-year-old housekeeper from Long Island one of only eight countries at the United Nations to The main access road has been closed since early anti-immigrant wall along the border with Mexico. Canada who fled conflict in El Salvador 20 years ago-leaving a support the US move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Monday, while the train was halted Monday evening, she said it wanted to “make sure we’re ready” for an influx of one-year-old child behind. “This is where my home is, capital in December. said. Zermatt is home to some 5,500 inhabitants and has Salvadorans, in an effort to prevent the kind of massive where I pay my taxes. I am happy here-even if I work Without a change in the law, some 195,000 the capacity to accommodate 13,400 tourists spread flooding of the border that took place after the US ended myself to death.” Salvadorans will be forced to leave the country by across hotels and rental apartments. But the stranded protections for Haitians. Now she fears most for her 16-year-old son, who September 9, 2019, in what amounts to one of the Trump tourists will not be able to take advantage of the abun- was born in the United States. “There are so many administration’s most substantial moves yet to enforce its dant snow for the time being, due to the high risk of ava- ‘My life is here’ gangs and crime back there,” she said. “But how could I crackdown on illegal immigration. This impacts large com- lanches in the area. Many, if not most, of those shielded by TPS had origi- leave him here alone?” In San Salvador, President munities of deeply-rooted people in California, Texas and nally entered the country illegally or overstayed visas, but Salvador Sanchez Ceren avoided criticizing Washington around the US capital-more than 135,000 households- the program had effectively allowed them to settle down and focused on the 18-month grace period.Ceren’s according to the Center for Migration Studies. —AFP Christ statue procession

MANILA: Hundreds of thousands of devotees in the Philippines, many of them barefooted, joined a chaotic tweet and later name another lawmaker for procession yesterday that featured a black statue of UK PM’s cabinet the post. “No wonder Theresa May’s struggling to negotiate Brexit-she can’t Jesus Christ, one of the biggest annual festivals in the even organize a reshuffle,” tweeted oppo- predominantly Roman Catholic nation. The faithful gath- reshuffle thrown sition Labor MP Stephen Kinnock. ered in downtown Manila to follow a carriage bearing the Alistair Carmichael, an MP with the statue called the Black Nazarene, believed to have heal- into disarray pro-European Liberal Democrats, said: ing powers, in a parade that began at dawn and may last “Theresa May wanted to reassert her until evening or even longer. Some of them jostled and authority but has come out of this looking climbed onto the carriage as it was pushed and pulled by LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa weaker than ever.” Greening’s resignation dozens of men holding ropes, while the crowd waved May’s long-awaited government reshuffle later Monday is likely to be viewed as a towels and handkerchiefs in a sign of praise to the kneel- was thrown into disarray yesterday after a challenge to May’s authority, while media ing life-sized image that carried a cross on one shoulder. minister resigned rather than accept a new reports suggest the health secretary, Processions and other religious rites were also held else- post. Education Secretary Justine Greening Jeremy Hunt, also refused a request to where in the country of 105 million people to celebrate becomes the fourth minister to leave the move-and so stays on. For her part the feast. Citing police estimates, media said this year’s cabinet since November, after resisting a Greening said in a tweet that educational festivities may draw 17 million devotees nationwide, some request to move to the welfare and pen- issues like social mobility matter “more seeking healing for illnesses and forgiveness for sins and sions ministry. Most of May’s senior minis- than my ministerial career”, and vowed to others offering thanks for blessings. ters kept their jobs in Monday’s reshuffle, continue to work for young people as a including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, member of parliament. Brexit minister David Davis and finance US apologizes to Japan minister Philip Hammond. The prime minis- Brexit balance ter was prompted to carry out what her May’s room for maneuver is limited by office called a “refresh” of the government LONDON: British Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Justine TOKYO: The US has apologized to Japan over a the fragility of her minority government Greening arriving to attend a pre-budget cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street. —AFP recent series of accidents involving US military equip- after sacking her deputy Damian Green and the need to maintain the delicate ment that have sparked anger over American opera- last month in a row over pornography Cabinet balance of eurosceptic and pro- tions in the country, a ministry spokesman in Tokyo found on his computer in 2008. European ministers as major Brexit deci- challenging May’s strategy last year, as did McLoughlin, had been tipped for the sack said. US Secretary of Defense James Mattis apolo- His departure followed those of the sions loom. After starting the two-year fellow eurosceptic Liam Fox, the interna- after the disastrous snap election in which gized to Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera after defense and aid ministers in unrelated withdrawal process in March last year, tional trade minister. May lost her majority in the House of a string of accidents including the emergency landing scandals the month before, capping a Britain struck a deal in December on the Finance minister Hammond and interior Commons. of an American military helicopter in Okinawa on tough year for May after she lost her par- financial settlement with Brussels, as well minister Amber Rudd, who campaigned to He also drew fire after a protester inter- Monday. That came just two days after a similar inci- liamentary majority in a snap election in as on expatriate rights and the Irish border. stay in the EU, continue as before. rupted May’s speech to the party confer- dent on the southern Japanese island, where more than June. An interim deal on Brexit in Negotiations on a transition deal begin this Greening was offered the welfare ministry ence in October-an address that was also half the 47,000 American troops in Japan are sta- December however gave May new impe- month, while the toughest talks, on Britain’s “but declined to take it. The prime minister marred by a coughing fit and a collapsing tioned. “The minister said there was an apology from tus, and a long-anticipated reshuffle was future relationship with the European is disappointed but respects her decision set. It was one of several low points in a Secretary Mattis,” a Japanese defense ministry arranged. But it began in a farcical fashion Union including trade, are set to start in to leave the government”, the Downing turbulent year for the prime minister, who Street source said. The former spokesman said. when her Conservative party announced a March. Johnson, a leading Brexit supporter, took office in July 2016 after the referen- new chairman on Twitter, only to delete the kept his job at the foreign office, despite Conservative party chairman, Patrick dum on leaving the EU. —AFP Established 1961 9 International Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Singapore uncovers large oil heist at Shell biggest refinery 17 arrested in connection with oil theft; 11 charged

SINGAPORE: Eleven men were charged in a Singapore Grander scheme? court yesterday in connection with a large-scale oil theft at Yesterday’s cases could be just the first insight into a Shell’s biggest refinery, while police said they were investi- grander scheme. The charges seen so far allege three inci- gating six other men arrested in a weekend raid. Police in the dents of gasoil theft: on Nov. 21, 2017, of more than 2,322 island-state said yesterday they had detained 17 men, whose tons valued at S$1.277 million ($958,564.78); and on Jan. 5 ages ranged from 30 to 63, and seized millions of dollars in and 7 this year of a combined 2,062 tons of gasoil, valued at cash and a small tanker during their investigations into theft S$1.126 million. The Vietnamese nationals were charged with at the Pulau Bukom industrial site, which sits just south of receiving gasoil in the early evening hours of Jan. 7, at wharf Singapore’s main island. 5 at the heart of Shell’s operations on Bukom island, the doc- Oil refining and shipping uments show. have contributed significant- Meanwhile, police say ly to Singapore’s rising the other six men arrested wealth during the past remain under investiga- decades. But the case under- Southeast Asia tion. During raids on lines the challenges the Sunday, police said they industry faces in a region is seen as a seized S$3.05 million in that has become a hotspot cash and the 12,000- for illegal oil trading. The hotspot of deadweight-tonne tanker. investigation began after They have also frozen Shell contacted the authori- illegal oil trading suspects’ bank accounts. ties in August 2017, police Shell said yesterday it said in a news release. After anticipated “a short “extensive investigations and delay” in its supply opera- probes,” the Criminal tions at Bukom, its largest Investigation Department, Police Intelligence Department wholly owned refinery in the world in terms of crude distilla- and Police Coast Guard launched a series of simultaneous tion capacity. It declined to say the total amount of oil stolen. raids across Singapore, which led to the arrests. It is the second high-profile case of wrongdoing at compa- Nine Singaporeans were immediately charged in the nies in Singapore to hit headlines in recent weeks, after SINGAPORE: A general view shows the Shell petroleum refinery on Bukom Island in theft, of which eight were employees of the Singapore Keppel Corporation Ltd’s rig-building business agreed in Singapore. Singaporean authorities have arrested 17 men for allegedly stealing fuel from a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, court documents December to pay more than $422 million to resolve charges major Shell refinery, and have also seized an oil tanker and millions of dollars in cash. —AFP showed. Two Vietnamese nationals were charged with it bribed Brazilian officials. receiving stolen goods on a small tanker named Prime foreign investors in Singapore. Its oil refinery on Bukom island through armed robbery and piracy, saw sharp increases South (IMO: 9452804), the documents showed. Shell Oil trading hub can process 500,000 barrels per day. Illicit oil trading is wide- between 2011 and 2015. There has been a modest decline confirmed yesterday that eight of the 11 men charged Singapore is one of the world’s most important oil trading spread in Southeast Asia. In some cases, oil has been illegally since then, although the organization said in a quarterly were current or former employees at Shell Eastern hubs, with much of the Middle East’s crude oil passing through siphoned from storage tanks, but there have also been thefts at report that oil theft was still “of concern,” especially in the Petroleum (Pte) Ltd. Shipping data from Thomson Singapore before being delivered to the huge consumers in sea, including whole ships being seized for the oil cargo. South China Sea, off the east coast of Malaysia. The stolen Reuters Eikon showed the Prime South had been ship- China, Japan and South Korea. Singapore is also Southeast The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating fuel is generally sold across Southeast Asia, offloaded ping fuel between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Asia’s main refinery hub and the world’s biggest marine refuel- Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) directly into trucks or tanks at small harbors away from oil Singapore for the past 30 days. ing stop. Shell is one of the biggest and longest established says that siphoning of fuel and oil at sea in Asia, including terminals.— Reuters

Arson burns down News in brief kosher grocery on Hamas figure wounded GAZA: A senior figure in Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attack anniversary was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday with a gun- shot wound to the head, after what officials said was an accident. Hamas spokesman Fawzy Barhoum said in a PARIS: A suspected arson attack on a French kosher statement Imad Al-Alami, a former member of Hamas’s grocery store revived fears over anti-Semitism yesterday, highest political body, was wounded while “inspecting his three years to the day since an assault on a Jewish super- personal weapon in his home and is in critical condition”. A market by an Islamist gunman. Prosecutors said the store medical source said he had been rushed to a hospital in in the southern Paris suburb of Creteil caught fire in the Gaza City. There was no independent confirmation of early hours, days after it was vandalized with anti- details of the incident. Alami has for decades been a senior Semitic graffiti. “The damage is believed to be very member of Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip. Israel has severe,” Creteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau said. accused him of planning multiple attacks. He lived in exile A source close to the police probe said it was “too for more than 20 years but returned to Gaza in 2012. soon to discuss motives” though Beccuau said investiga- tors do not believe the fire was an accident. The store was completely gutted in the fire, with the shelves along ‘Monkey’ hoodie outrage the aisles-where the fire is believed to have been started- blackened and charred, an AFP reporter said. The Promo STOCKHOLM: Swedish clothing giant H&M yesterday & Destock store, whose owner is Muslim, was one of two said it had withdrawn from sale a green hoodie with the neighboring kosher shops in Creteil that were daubed inscription “coolest monkey in the jungle” after an ad fea- with swastikas last Wednesday. turing a black child triggered racism accusations. The com- The second store was also slightly damaged in the fire. pany apologized on its Twitter account and said it would Israel’s ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun called the VAL-DE-MARNE: Photo shows the Hyper Cacher supermarket adjacent to the Promo & Destock investigate the online shopping ad which sparked outrage fire a “shameful provocation” on the third anniversary of store, a French kosher grocery store that was destroyed in an arson attack which has revived fears among observers on social media. “We’ve not only the January 9, 2015 attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher over anti-Semitism. —AFP removed the image from our channels, but also the garment supermarket in eastern Paris. Jihadist gunman Amedy from our product offering,” the group said. “We under- Coulibaly killed three customers and an employee in an stand that many people are upset about the children’s attack that triggered deep concern over growing anti- fire,” he said. “It’s clear that they came for no other rea- Former prime minister Manuel Valls told Europe 1 son but to attack a kosher shop on the day of the com- radio that more needed to be done to tackle anti- hoodie.” NBA superstar LeBron James on Tuesday was the Semitism. That attack came two days after Coulibaly’s latest public figure to slam the brand. “@hm u got us all close friends Said and Cherif Kouachi gunned down 12 memorations.” Semitism, which he said had become “deeply root- A record 7,900 French Jews emigrated to Israel the ed” in France. “What has changed over the past wrong! And we ain’t going for it! Straight up!” James said in people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, an Instagram post which included a photo of the same ad, kicking off a wave of jihadist attacks in France. year of the Hyper Cacher attack, many of them citing three years is the awareness of this level of anti- increased fears over anti-Semitism. Though the exodus Semitism,” he said. but with a crown superimposed on the boy’s head, and the has since slowed, a string of anti-Semitic crimes have Valls said French society had failed to mobilize in text on the hooded sweater replaced by a crown. “Enough ‘Deep-rooted’ anti-Semitism about y’all and more of what I see when I look at this photo. Creteil counts some 23,000 Jews among its 90,000 continued to worry France’s large Jewish community. In support of Jews following attacks such as the 2012 2017, a Jewish woman was pushed to her death from a Islamist shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse in I see a Young King!! The ruler of the world, an untouchable residents, according to community leader Albert Elharrar Force that can never be denied!” the athlete said. who said Jewish groups believe the shops were deliber- third-floor window by a Muslim neighbor, while a Jewish which four people were killed, three of them children. ately targeted at the time of commemorations for the family was beaten, held hostage and robbed in what “These are crimes that must be prosecuted and con- 2015 attacks. “There’s a link between the graffiti and the rights groups said was a hate crime. demned, we need to do more,” he said.—AFP Seoul firm on ‘comfort women’

SEOUL: South Korea will not seek to renegotiate a deal with Japan on wartime sex slavery, it said yesterday, are evil,” Kim said in an apparent reference despite new President Moon Jae-In saying on the cam- to westerners. In a basement stall opposite Some N Korean paign trail he “could not accept” the agreement. The China’s customs administration, North issue of women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese Korean Meng Qingshu had no plans to troops during World War II is a hugely emotional one businesses defy stop selling dried walleye pollack for $10 a that has long marred ties between the South and its for- bag and sea cucumber for more than $100 mer colonial ruler. Ousted president Park Geun-Hye a bag. “We sell salty North Korean shutdown order sought to end the decades-long row with a 2015 agree- seafood,” she said. “It’s from the wild.” ment that included a Japanese apology and payment of Seafood imports from the North have been one billion yen ($8.8 million) to survivors. But under the DANDONG: Some North Korean busi- under sanctions since August, and Meng deal, Japan did not admit legal responsibility for the nesses in China had closed their doors yes- did not explain how the fish was imported. abuses, drawing anger from some survivors who refused terday but others remained open, despite The UN resolution shutting North to take the money. Ties between the two neighbors-both Beijing’s deadline to shut down under UN Korean joint ventures and cooperative of them US allies threatened by nuclear-armed North sanctions intended to strip the regime of entities does not set a firm date to close, Korea-remain tense over statues placed outside cash. Fed up with North Korea’s nuclear but it laid out a 120-day timetable from its and missile provocations, Beijing has passage in September. Despite its own Japanese diplomatic missions by South Korean activists backed a series of UN sanctions against its deadline, China appears to be taking a in memory of the victims. Cold War-era ally, which relies on China slower approach, experts say. “The ninth is for 90 percent of its foreign trade. But the a key day, the last day for businesses to halting progress in shutting down the busi- split up, and they should close,” said Lu Police search monastery nesses demonstrated the uneven enforce- Chao, director of the Border Study ment of a commerce ministry directive for Institute at the Liaoning Academy of Social MARSEILLE: Police searched a monastery in southern them to close by January 9. Sciences, a government think tank. Foreign France yesterday for a man suspected of killing his wife DANDONG: A Chinese security personnel repairs his bicycle near the A North Korean hotel in the northeast- ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China and four children who has been on the run since 2011. Broken Bridge - which once connected China and North Korea - at the ern city of Shenyang stopped taking reser- upholds its UN obligations and will “seri- Witnesses had reported recently spotting a man resem- vations yesterday. In Beijing a restaurant ously punish” those who violate sanctions. Chinese border city of Dandong yesterday. —AFP bling Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes at prayers at the reli- posted a handwritten note on its door gious site in Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the Var region. It reading “off for today”. But elsewhere in Hotel cash cow breakfast buffets. Guests could watch the to the North’s weapons program. In was in the medieval village, about 50 kilometers west of China’s frigid northeast, the hub of North The 14-floor Chilbosan hotel in the North’s state-owned television station in Dandong, Hongxiang’s 16th -floor office in the Riviera resort of Cannes, that one of France’s most Korean economic activities in the country, heart of Shenyang, capital of the north- their rooms. “Shenyang’s Chilbosan hotel is Fortune Tower, with a view across the Yalu wanted men had last been spotted nearly seven years ago. some restaurants, travel agencies and eastern province of Liaoning, has been a North Korea’s largest investment in China River to the North’s city of Sinuiju, was But a lengthy search of the monastery-home to a reclu- seafood stalls planned to stay open. key source of revenue for Pyongyang. But or abroad,” Lu said. “They invested $25- deserted yesterday. Near the border sive order of monks who take a vow of silence-failed to “Tourism is about connecting people, it’s a a woman who answered the phone at the $30 million.” Pyongyang operates the hotel bridge, a Hongxiang affiliate ran the grand yield any trace of the 57-year-old suspect, sources close human right,” said North Korean Kim front desk yesterday said they were not in a joint venture with Dandong Hongxiang Pyongyang Restaurant as a joint venture to the investigation said. Dupont de Ligonnes is the sub- Yongil at the office of North Korean taking new reservations for its 154 rooms. Industrial Machinery, a company that the with the North Korean People’s Insurance ject of an international arrest warrant in a case that trans- International Travel Agency in the Chinese “We are closed for the time being... since US says once accounted for a fifth of trade Association. Business records show the fixed France in 2011. The businessman from an aristocratic border city of Dandong, noting they had today,” she told AFP, adding that she did between China and the North. The US sanc- Insurance Association transferred its shares family is suspected of murdering his wife and their chil- received no notice to close. not know why. tioned the company and filed criminal to another company registered to an apart- dren, aged 13 to 20, in the western city of Nantes in April “Stopping people from freely visiting A day earlier, North Koreans with flag charges against its Dandong-based owner ment address in November, but its estab- that year before burying them under the terrace of their North Korea is a human rights issue. You pins on their chests had been tucking into Ma Xiaohong in 2016, accusing her of ties lishments were closed “temporarily”.—AFP elegant townhouse. 10 Established 1961 Analysis Wednesday, January 10, 2018

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Who will lead Britain’s central bank after Brexit?

By William Schomberg

ritain is expected to choose a new central bank chief this year to succeed Canadian Mark BCarney, who will step down in June 2019, three months after the country’s scheduled exit from the European Union. Following is a summary of possible contenders to run the Bank of England (BoE), which oversees the world’s sixth-biggest economy and Britain’s huge finance industry. No one has yet thrown their hat into the ring.

The outsider insider Widely tipped by analysts as Carney’s most likely successor, Bailey reached the role of deputy governor of the BoE with a focus on banks before becoming chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, a financial markets regulator. During his time at the BoE, The Koreas - warm smiles on cold frontier Bailey helped to steer Britain’s banks through the glob- al financial crisis, enhancing his reputation as a safe By Park Chan-Kyong pair of hands. However, heading the FCA - which roots out mis- orth and South Korean officials exchanged warm conduct in Britain’s large financial services sector - is greetings amid light flakes of snow on the world’s last fraught with risks. The head of the British parliament’s Cold War frontier the day, in contrast from previous influential Treasury Committee has criticized Bailey for N frosty gatherings. The delegates shook hands and even withholding parts of a report into alleged misconduct cracked a joke as they posed for photographers at the border by state-owned RBS during the financial crisis. Bailey truce village of Panmunjom, before starting talks focused on has cited privacy restrictions. the North’s participation at next month’s Winter Olympics in As FCA boss, Bailey sits on important panels at the the South. BoE that oversee banks. Although he has never been “We have to curry favor with them,” the North’s chief del- interest-rate setter, he once ran the BoE international egate Ri Son-Gwon quipped as he shook hands with his economic analysis team. Bailey acknowledged the Southern counterpart Cho Myoung-Gyon for a second time speculation about a move to the BoE in an interview at the request of photographers. The pair broke the ice with published this week. “You’ll be unsurprised to know small talk about meteorological conditions. “Despite the cold this question comes up reasonably often,” Bailey told weather, the people’s burning desire to see inter-Korean dia- Financial News. “But I’ve got a job and, I have to be logue and rapprochement are like streams flowing beneath honest with you, I have never spent my time thinking the ice,” said a poetic Ri. Ri, the head of the North’s about the one I want to do next.” Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, and his colleagues walked across the concrete blocks that delineate The deputies the Military Demarcation Line at Panmunjom. Broadbent and Ramsden are deputy governors for South Korean troops stood aside as they crunched over monetary policy and for markets and banking respec- the gravel that separates the zone’s emblematic blue huts. Ri tively, burnishing their credentials as potential succes- donned civilian clothes for the meeting-and, in keeping with PAJU: A general view shows a South Korean military guard post (bottom left) before the Imjin riv- sors to Carney. Broadbent, a former Goldman Sachs social norms in his country, a lapel badge depicting the er and skyline of North Korea, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South economist who once trained as a classical pianist, is North’s founding father Kim Il-Sung and his son and succes- Korea. Top officials from North and South Korea held their first official dialogue in more than two respected for his economic analysis but has less expe- sor Kim Jong-Il. Ri is said to be close to Kim Yong-Chul, years after months of high tensions over Pyongyang’s weapons ambitions.—AFP rience on banking oversight, which has become an another top North Korean military official and former director important part of the BoE governor’s role. of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the North’s spy Ramsden only joined the central bank in September the Seoul’s delegation-who wore a badge with the South Korea is exuding a lot of confidence,” said Koo Kab-Woo, a agency, who is blacklisted by South Korea’s unilateral sanc- Korean flag-demurred. The two five-strong delegations sat professor at the University of North Korean Studies in although he is no stranger to the Monetary Policy tions. In the past Ri has worn military uniform for talks. Committee having attended 92 of its meetings in his opposite each other at a long table in the Peace House, the Seoul.”I can’t say exactly where that confidence stems from He angrily stormed out of one meeting minutes after it talks venue on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone but it has so far been positive,” he said. It was a markedly dif- previous role as the Treasury’s chief economic advisor. began, denying any role by his country in the 2010 sinking of The two other BoE deputy governors, Jon Cunliffe and that splits the peninsula. ferent atmosphere to the last talks between the two Koreas in a South Korean warship with the loss of 46 lives. But yester- Cho, the South’s Unification Minister in charge of relations December 2015, observers said. The mood then was grim and Sam Woods, are less likely contenders. Woods focuses day he suggested the talks be fully opened to the media, “in mostly on bank regulation while Cunliffe - a former with the North, is a veteran cross-border negotiator who has tense before the encounter even got under way. Talks broke light of the great expectations and huge interest from here taken part in talks with the North since the 1990s, including down with the two sides failing even to agree on further British ambassador to the EU - would be aged 66 at and abroad in these talks”. Cho Myoung-Gyon, the leader of the start of the term which usually runs for eight years, their second and last summit in 2007. “It looks like North meetings.— AFP although Carney has chosen to step down after six.

Andy Haldane - free thinker Peter Jones, vice president of research for Ferguson Wellman The BoE’s chief economist, Haldane has developed a iPhone addiction Capital Management, which has about 350,000 Apple shares. reputation for floating unconventional ideas, including Social media companies, not hardware makers, are more the abolition of cash as a way to give central banks deserving of any addiction-related scrutiny, some said. Jordan more muscle over the economies they run. In 2012, he may be a virtue, not Waldrep, who invests in alcohol, tobacco and gambling stocks praised the anti-capitalist Occupy movement for sug- as manager of the USA Mutuals Vice Fund, said blaming Apple gesting new ways to fix the shortcomings of global a vice for investors for its customers’ addiction was analogous to blaming makers finance. Haldane has experience of both sides of the of cigarette packs instead of tobacco companies. “The social Bank, having served previously as executive director media, the cigarettes, are the addictive product,” he said. for financial stability, overseeing the risks to the econo- By Trevor Hunnicutt Waldrep’s Vice fund does not own Apple, but Waldrep said he my from the banking system. But he might be seen as would consider including social media companies. too much of a maverick to take the job of governor. pple Inc investors are shrugging off concerns raised by Kim Forrest, senior portfolio manager and vice president at two shareholders about kids getting hooked on Fort Pitt Capital Group, agreed that companies like Facebook, Outsiders? iPhones, saying that for now a little addiction might not Twitter Inc and Snap Inc might be more at risk than Apple if The announcement of Carney, the first non-British A be a bad thing for profits. Hedge fund JANA Partners LLC and investors and regulators push back on how much time people governor of the BoE in more than three centuries, was the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) spend on mobile devices. “Apple is just the delivery device,” a surprise. Should finance minister Philip Hammond pension fund said on Saturday that iPhone overuse could be said Forrest, who said Fort Pitt has limited Apple holdings. “It’s also opt for a less obvious candidate, one name that hurting children’s developing brains, an issue that may harm only compelling with software. Software is the dopamine has appeared in Britain’s media is that of Sharon White, the company’s long-term market value. releaser that keeps you coming back.” the head of a telecoms regulator and who previously But some investors said the habit-forming nature of gadg- Twitter declined to comment and Snap could not immedi- worked at the Treasury. The daughter of Jamaican ets and social media are one reason why companies like Apple, ately be reached. The letter from JANA and CalSTRS recom- immigrants, she has won wide praise for her high-pro- Google parent Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc added $630 mends Apple set up a committee of child-development experts file roles in the public sector. Another outside con- billion to their market value in 2017. “We invest in things that and make more new tools available to parents. In its statement, tender would be Adair Turner, a former chairman of a are addictive,” said Apple shareholder Ross Gerber, chief Apple did not directly respond to the investors’ demands but now defunct financial services regulator who was in the executive of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment said changes are in store for its parental controls. It did not running last time around. He continues to speak about Management. He also owns stock in coffee retailer Starbucks provide details. “We are constantly looking for ways to make the British economy and has warned of the risks from Corp, casino operator MGM Resorts International and alcohol our experiences better,” Apple said. “We have new features high debt levels. maker Constellation Brands Inc. “Addictive things are very and enhancements planned for the future, to add functionality profitable,” Gerber said. and make these tools even more robust.” Labor Party governor? Still, the investment community is increasingly holding The addiction issue gained notoriety when former Disney The prospect of the left-wing Labor Party taking companies to higher social standards, and there is some con- child star Selena Gomez said she canceled a 2016 world tour TEXAS: Photo shows the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus power in the next year or so is remote but investors are cern that market-leading tech companies could draw attention to go to therapy for depression and low self-esteem, feelings on display at the Apple store in Pasadena, mindful that Prime Minister Theresa May has only a from regulators much like alcohol, tobacco and gambling com- she linked to a social media addiction. Fears about smart- California. Paris prosecutors have launched a small majority in parliament after last year’s failed elec- panies have in the past. Alphabet and Facebook could not phone addiction have already kicked off regulatory backlash. probe of US tech giant Apple over suspected tion gamble and her Conservative Party is split over immediately be reached for comment on Monday. Facebook In December, the French education minister said mobile ‘planned obsolescence’ in some of its iPhone how to leave the European Union. Labor leader has said social media can be beneficial if used appropriately. In phones would be banned in schools, and draft legislation in models, a judicial source said. —AFP Jeremy Corbyn and his would-be finance minister John a statement to Reuters, Apple said it has offered a range of France would require children under 16 to seek parental McDonnell are socialists and have in the past pro- controls on iPhones since 2008 that allow parents to restrict approval to open a Facebook account. hurt investors if evidence later emerged that companies posed that the BoE should fund investment in infra- content, including apps, movies, websites, songs and books, as Even tech insiders are among the vocal critics of social intentionally built features that create dependency and had structure, a big change from its current focus on infla- well as cellular data, password settings and other features. media and its addictive potential. “Apple Watches, Google evidence that doing so was unsafe. For the time being, John tion. If they were to pick the next BoE governor, Ben “Effectively anything a child could download or access Phones, Facebook, Twitter - they’ve gotten so good at getting Carey, a portfolio manager at Amundi Pioneer Asset Seager-Scott, chief investment strategist at Tilney online can be easily blocked or restricted by a parent,” Apple us to go for another click, another dopamine hit,” said Tony Management in Boston, said concerns over the human Group, an investment firm, said they might consider said in the statement. Apple shares fell marginally on Monday. Fadell, a former Apple executive, on Twitter. John Streur, chief impacts from being glued to screens are not likely to cut former members of an economic advisory committee CalSTRS holds $1.9 billion in Apple stock, a sliver of the com- executive of Calvert Research and Management, an Apple into profits. The company holds Apple stock, but the funds which included US academic and Nobel Prize winner pany’s nearly $900 billion market value, while JANA declined shareholder that focuses on social responsibility, said it is Carey manages do not. “I doubt there will be any impact on Joseph Stiglitz and Ann Pettifor, a British economist to disclose the size of its smaller stake. “Before Apple speaks, I plausible that tech devices may some day be understood to the use of smartphones,” he said. “We’re already addicted who is an austerity critic.—Reuters think it’s too early to change the narrative” for investors, said hold risks we do not currently understand well. That would to them.”—Reuters Established 1961 11 News Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Palestinian protesters wave their national flag near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis yesterday as they demonstrate against calls for the closure of UNRWA by the Israeli prime minister and cuts in Palestinian aid by the American president. — AFP

results. But it has become something of a tradition. And the White House But the amendment provides no specifics about how the president’s Trump goes to the doc, but says that Trump, the oldest man ever to enter the Oval Office, will follow in mental health would be assessed. “We need this body in general, not just the footsteps of his predecessors. for this presidency but for every future presidency,” Raskin told AFP in In the 1980s, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, a lively debate an interview. “The framers of the 25th Amendment understood the perils the speculation won’t end erupted over whether his intellectual capacity was deteriorating. Several of having a president who is somehow incapacitated in the nuclear age,” years after he left office, Reagan announced that he was suffering from he explained. “I turn on the TV and radio, and people are arguing about WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is headed to the doctor: Later this week, Alzheimer’s disease. In 1994, former president Jimmy Carter himself raised whether the president has a neurological incapacity or whether he is the 71-year-old US president will undergo his first physical since taking the alarm bell about such situations, writing in the Journal of the American mentally fit,” Raskin said. “I don’t think mental health is a partisan issue... office at a military hospital just outside Washington. But his critics who have Medical Association about the “continuing danger” to the nation of a presi- What we really need is a process by which this could be examined if we openly questioned his mental health, as well as his supporters looking for dent becoming disabled, especially by “a neurologic illness”. But nothing arrive at a crisis.” proof the attacks are wrong, will be disappointed, as physicians are only has changed since then about presidential succession, or how presidential In a Republican-led Congress, Raskin’s draft has no chance of being looking at his weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. No psychiatric health is evaluated. approved. But it could fuel the larger debate. For now, some media outlets tests are planned on Friday at the Walter Reed National Military Medical have called on specialists to offer an analysis of the 45th president from a Center for Trump, who has described himself as a “very stable genius”. Draft law distance. They look at his tweetstorms, his sometimes surprising body lan- In 2015, Trump’s personal doctor Harold Bornstein insisted - in terms In April, Democratic lawmaker Jamie Raskin proposed a bill that would guage and his sporadic difficulty in speaking - offering myriad explana- seen as a bit too glowing - that the real estate mogul would be “the healthi- create a panel of 11 people - mainly psychiatrists and neurologists - who tions, all of them limited by the fact that they have not examined Trump. est individual ever elected to the presidency”. But questions persist. A new could be called upon to assess the president’s mental health. The draft had White House spokesman Hogan Gidley slammed journalists for what he tell-all book by Michael Wolff paints a portrait of a man whose closest at its core the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1967, called an “absolute dereliction of duty” in reporting opinions of “psychia- aides doubt his ability to govern. The president has no obligation to under- which says the vice president would become president “in case of the trists who have never sat down and talked to the president”. “It’s repug- go an annual physical, and even if he does, he is not required to reveal the removal of the president from office or of his death or resignation”. nant,” Gidley said Monday. — AFP

ing law, after the municipality has been without an elected marked by distrust in recent months. Ankara supports Lawmakers trade council for some time. But several lawmakers strongly criti- Ankara changes Qatar in the seven-month standoff with the UAE, Saudi cized the draft law and the government, insisting that the new Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt which cut all ties with the Gulf draft is even worse than the existing bill. Azemi said the pro- emirate on June 5. Those Gulf states claim that Qatar barbs in unruly... posed legislation aims at dividing the society by ensuring a embassy street... supports Islamist extremists and is too close to Shiite council member for each tribe, Shiites and others. It is Continued from Page 1 strengthening the quota system to maintain divisions, he said. Iran, Riyadh’s archrival. Ankara rejects the charges. Meanwhile, MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said he was told by Continued from Page 1 Turkey summoned the Emirati charge d’affaires in domestic and international markets to meet the budget the interior minister that the doctor of the central jail is per- Ankara last month - as the ambassador was temporarily deficit. MPs also raised the issue of Kuwaiti employment, with sonally looking after the MPs and activists who began a The decision, mooted last month, was approved by the absent - to complain about the social media posting. MP Abdulkarim Al-Kandari accusing government depart- hunger strike two days ago in protest against their “unfair” Ankara municipality assembly on Monday. “Henceforth, The Turkish leadership has been wary of criticizing ments of violating the law by employing expatriates and cov- trial. The Assembly also turned down a request by the public the mailing address of the embassy will be Madinah Saudi Arabia and its powerful Crown Prince ering this up under different methods. MP Azemi said all con- Defender Avenue, Fahreddin Pasha Street. Good luck with tracts go to companies owned by certain families, which fail prosecution to strip MP Hashem of her parliamentary immu- Mohammed bin Salman, a close ally of the UAE, in the to provide jobs to Kuwaitis. nity over a municipal misdemeanor case. The MPs discussed it,” Tuna said in a tweet. Turkish television early yesterday standoff. But pro-government media have been bitterly The Assembly session began debating a government- during the session a report by the legislative and legal affairs showed city workers switching the signs. critical of Riyadh’s policies, claiming they are part of a sponsored draft law for the municipality to replace the exist- committee concerning the case. Relations between the UAE and Turkey have been US-backed move to reshape the Middle East. — AFP

Established 1961 13 Sports Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Nadal beaten in Melbourne, Konta and Williams exit Sydney International

Spain’s Pablo Busta defeat Belgian David Goffin

MELBOURNE: Richard Gasquet of France hits a forehand return to Rafael Nadal of SYDNEY: Angelique Kerber of Germany hits a return to Venus Williams of the US in Spain during their men’s singles match at Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in their women’s singles second round match at the Sydney International tennis tourna- Melbourne yesterday. —AFP ment in Sydney yesterday. — AFP

MELBOURNE: World number one Rafael Nadal lost ‘BEST IN HISTORY’ as the pair stayed level-pegging. while trailing 4-1, but she could not push on as his first match of the year 6-4, 7-5 to Richard Gasquet Nadal is not playing any more matches at Kooyong, But the Frenchman finally broke for 6-5 and claimed Radwanska sealed victory in one hour, 49 minutes. at the Kooyong Classic yesterday, but said he was hap- but he is also scheduled to turn out for a Tie Break Tens victory with a smash winner on his first match point a Second seed Williams was beaten 5-7 6-3 6-1 by py after his troublesome knee held up “fine”. tournament at Melbourne Park today evening. Gasquet, game later. Separately, Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta Germany’s Angelique Kerber in under two hours. Nadal’s knee injury hampered the end of his 2017 who missed Kooyong last year through illness and defeated Belgian world number seven David Goffin 1-6, Kerber started the first set stronger and looked to season and forced him to skip last week’s Brisbane injury, was happy to get even an informal win over the 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. In the women’s competition, Germany’s have Williams on the ropes when she opened up a 5-3 International, but he was able to give it a workout at the Spaniard. Andrea Petkovic rallied to defeat Australian teenager lead and created two set points on the American’s serve non-tour event in Melbourne. Though he lost in straight “It’s always a pleasure to Destanee Aiava 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 before Williams rallied. The seven-times grand slam sets, the Spaniard said he would keep working hard play Rafa-I hope to beat him in windy conditions. champion survived the Kerber onslaught with an ace until the start of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park one day on the ATP before Earlier, defending champi- and a forehand winner and, with her confidence on Monday. “I”m very happy to be back in Australia,” retiring. He’s a friend of mine on Johanna Konta was bun- restored, took the first set. he said. “I had a heavy year in 2017 and I started my and it’s great to play him,” he dled out in the first round of But Kerber fought back strong as Williams struggled preparation later than usual. said. “I’m happy with how I’m very happy the Sydney International by with her service. The German levelled the match at a set “But I’ve arrived in plenty of time. It’s great to get I’m playing after a test Agnieszka Radwanska and apiece and raced into a 5-0 lead in the decider before the feeling once again of playing a match. “This was a against Rafa, who along with to be back in Venus Williams also lost in Williams rallied again, but the American succumbed to good test for me after some good training, that’s the Federer is the best in histo- her first match of the tourna- the inevitable on her fifth match point, sending a back- most important thing.” The 16-time Grand Slam winner ry.” Gasquet took the open- Australia ment yesterday. hand return wide. was far from his best in the exhibition encounter ing set, relying on a single Radwanska, overpowered Konta’s first-round loss continued some worrying against a player he has beaten 15-0 on the ATP Tour in break for 5-4 before serving in 82 minutes by Konta in last early season performances for the 26-year-old world a rivalry dating back to junior days. it out against an opponent year’s final, raced to a 6-3 7- number nine. She struggled last week in Brisbane Nadal, 31, heads the entry list for the Australian still trying to shake off the 5 victory over the Briton at before withdrawing from her quarter-final with a hip Open and said he will be ready to front up for the first rust of inactivity. The Frenchman found himself in more the Olympic Tennis Centre. Neither player was able to injury. round. “The knee is fine,” he said in answer to the of a battle in the second set despite going up a double dominate on service in the first set and Konta won just Radwanska, who was upset by American qualifier inevitable question. “I’m here. “If I was not feeling break for 3-0. two of her 11 second serve points as Radwanska con- Sachia Vickery in the Auckland quarter-finals last week, good I would not be here, so that’s good news. “I’ll train The deficit barely bothered Nadal, who showed verted three of her five break opportunities. meets American qualifier Catherine Bellis in the second hard over the next few days for the Australian Open, I some of his classic form in closing the gap to 3-3. Konta again had trouble holding serve in the second round in Sydney while Kerber faces Dominika will be ready.” Gasquet forced Nadal to save break points throughout set but showed signs of a fightback when she broke Cibulkova in the quarter-finals. — Agencies

Amir’s 7th International Five who could fire Shooting Grand Prix in Melbourne MELBOURNE: With injury clouds hanging over some By Abdellatif Shara’a of the top names in the game, here are five young men’s players who could take advantage by winning KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry, State their first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open: Minister of Youth Affairs Khalid Al-Roudhan will open HH the Amir’s 7th International Shooting Grand Prix on GRIGOR DIMITROV Saturday at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic The 26-year-old Bulgarian heads to Melbourne a Shooting Complex, as representative of HH the Amir. dizzy third in the rankings behind only Rafael Nadal President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations, and Roger Federer. Nicknamed “Baby Fed” early in Chairman of Higher Organizing Committee Eng Duaij his career for his Federer-style game, Dimitrov has Al-Otaibi said that 315 shooters will represent 39 struggled to live up to the comparison and was as low countries from the region, Asia, Europe and Latin as 40 in the world in mid-2016. But he bounced back America, besides Kuwait. He said there are several activities that go alone Kuwait Shooting, Honorable President of Asian and to enjoy the best season of his career in 2017, winning Eng Al-Otaibi was speaking during a press confer- with the tournament such as the Asian Youth training Kuwait Shooting Federations Sheikh Salman Sabah Al- four titles, including his first Masters crown in ence, attended by Deputy Chairman of the Board of camp for skeet shooting, in addition to two advanced Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Cincinnati. KSSC, and secretary General of Kuwait and Arab shotgun and rifle courses for referees, with accredited Al-Otaibi congratulated Kuwaitis for the lifting of Shooting Federations. ISF lecturer. suspension on soccer, and Kuwait’s success in hosting ALEXANDER ZVEREV A giant young German who is seen as a trailblazer of Al-Otaibi said HH the Amir International Grand Al-Otaibi appreciated the support of HH the Amir to “Khaleeji 23”, due to the tremendous efforts by the tennis’s widely touted ‘NextGen’. The 20-year-old Prix, is now one of the most important tournaments hold this tournament annually, and considered this political leadership. He said Kuwait Shooting succeed- support as the most important reason for Kuwait’s ed in lifting the unjustified suspension on it through heads into the year’s first Grand Slam ranked fourth, and on the International Shooting Federation’s agenda, is coming off five titles last year. Zverev is one of just shooting outstanding achievements in major events. court. He also congratulated Dr Humoud Fulaikh Al- and it includes all Olympic disciplines, and enjoys the four men to beat Federer in 2017 when he defeated the participations of the most talented shooters around Eng Al-Otaibi thanked all those who contributed to Shimmari for his appointment as Director General of Swiss great in the Montreal final. But Zverev has never the world. the establishment of this sport headed by founder of Public Authority for Sport. made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam, and he’s reached that stage only once, at Wimbledon in 2017.

amid it all Federer keeps going, winning all his matches chequered preparation after wrist surgery last year, DOMINIC THIEM Federer eyes fresh at the mixed-teams Hopman Cup in Perth this month while American world number eight Jack Sock hurt his The 23-year-old Austrian finished the 2017 season and seemingly injury-free. hip while playing in the Hopman Cup. The Australian with a title on clay in Rio de Janeiro and a year-end “I just have to pace myself all the way up to the Open is the second straight Grand Slam to be badly hit fifth ranking. Thiem claimed his first win over Novak ‘fairytale’ as tournament in Melbourne, and I’ll be ready,” he said by injury issues. The US Open was missing Wawrinka, Djokovic at the French Open quarter-finals on the after his Hopman Cup final victory with Switzerland Djokovic, Nishikori, Raonic and Murray, and after the way to reaching the semi-finals at Roland Garros for Slam rivals struggle team-mate Belinda Bencic. “I’m just excited going back early eliminations of Alexander Zverev, Marin Cilic, the second straight year. His boyhood idols were to Melbourne where I had my fairytale run last year. It Grigor Dimitrov and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, it was one of countrymen Stefan Koubek and Jurgen Melzer, while was crazy. “It’s great to be the defending champion. I the rare Grand Slams where big names didn’t dominate his favourite shot is the forehand and he prefers to MELBOURNE: The prospects of an unprecedented take it the right way. I won’t put extra pressure on the quarter-finals. If there is to be a winner outside the play on clay. 20th Grand Slam victory have strengthened for ageless myself, regardless of who’s going to play, or not play. top guns in Melbourne, those who look most likely are NICK KYRGIOS wonder Roger Federer as his main rivals flounder ahead “For me it’s just important to be in a good mindset, well Bulgarian Dimitrov, third in the rankings behind Nadal A volatile Australian whose potential has often of the Australian Open. The 36-year-old is coming off prepared, and ready to go. And I feel like I am ready.” and Federer, Germany’s Zverev and tempestuous been betrayed by his temperament. He brought last season to an early end when he surrendered to a an extraordinary 2017, when he won a fifth Australian Australian Nick Kyrgios. long-standing hip injury, but has started 2018 in top Open title and a record eighth at Wimbledon, and there KYRGIOS IN GOOD NICK Dimitrov, once nicknamed ‘Baby Fed’ for his playing form, winning the Brisbane International on Sunday, could be yet more glory with a depleted field of top Nadal, who lost to Federer in five sets in a vintage style, enjoyed the best season of his career in 2017, beating Dimitrov along the way. Kyrgios is aiming for contenders in Melbourne. Australian final last year, has opted to join Djokovic at winning four titles, including his first Masters crown in a fresh assault on his home Grand Slam, where he Andy Murray and Japan’s Kei Nishikori are already the Kooyong Classic exhibition event for some match Cincinnati. Zverev, 20, has been touted as the “next big threw away a two-sets lead to lose to Andreas Seppi out of the year’s opening Grand Slam with injuries, practice in the week before the Open. thing” for some years and is coming off five titles last in the second round last year. while 12-time major champion Novak Djokovic is trou- The Spaniard, who hasn’t played since the World season, yet he has never made it past the fourth round bled by an elbow complaint and hasn’t played for six Tour Finals in London, had a stellar 2017, winning his of a Grand Slam. ANDREY RUBLEV months. World number one Rafael Nadal withdrew 10th French Open, a third US Open crown and the Kyrgios will have his supporters, especially in The 20-year-old Russian captured his first ATP from his first tour event of 2018, in Brisbane, with con- year-ending world number one spot. Six-time Australia, after beating Dimitrov on the way to winning World Tour title as a lucky loser at Umag before he tinuing knee problems, and is seeking match practice in Australian Open champion Djokovic pulled out of his fourth ATP Tour title and first at home in the lead- became the youngest US Open quarter-finalist last a Melbourne exhibition event ahead of the January 15 events in Abu Dhabi and Doha with elbow soreness up Brisbane International. “Right now it’s all about year since Andy Roddick, beating Grigor Dimitrov start. The 2014 winner Stan Wawrinka, who hasn’t before heading to Melbourne, and hasn’t hit a ball in recovering and feeling the ball for the Oz Open. and David Goffin before going down to world number played since last year’s Wimbledon and subsequent anger since the problem forced him to quit Wimbledon Because obviously I’m playing well under pressure and one Rafael Nadal. Now ranked a career-high 32, the knee surgery, has had little warm-up work and is no in the quarter-finals in July. in pressure situations,” said Kyrgios, whose talent has run in New York solidified Rublev’s status as one of longer with his four-year coach Magnus Norman. Yet Big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic is another with a often been undermined by petulant outbursts.—AFP the top ‘NextGen’ ATP players in the world. —AFP 14 Established 1961 Sports Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Guptill bludgeons New Zealand to rain-affected victory New Zealand thrashed Pakistan by eight wickets

NELSON: Martin Guptill was at his belligerent best as SCOREBOARD New Zealand thrashed Pakistan by eight wickets in Nelson yesterday, although captain Kane Williamson admitted a rain delay had done the hosts a favour. NELSON, New Zealand: Completed scoreboard from the rain- shortened second one-day international between New Zealand and The second one-day international was evenly poised Pakistan at Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday: when rain forced the players from the field for more than two hours with New Zealand 64 for two after 14 Pakistan Azhar Ali lbw Southee 6 overs in reply to Pakistan’s 246 for nine. When play Imam-ul-Haq c Munro b Boult 2 resumed under the Duckworth-Lewis system New Babar Azam c Taylor b Ferguson 10 Zealand’s target was revised to 151 in 25 overs meaning Mohammad Hafeez c Guptill b Santner 60 they had 11 overs left to make 87. “Pakistan showed Shoaib Malik c Southee b Astle 27 some real resistance at the end and put some partner- Sarfraz Ahmed st Latham b Astle 3 ships together which would have been a tricky total on Shadab Khan c Latham b Ferguson 52 that surface,” Williamson said, adding the rain break Faheem Ashraf c Southee b Ferguson 7 “worked in our favour a little bit”. Hasan Ali c Astle b Southee 51 But the New Zealand skipper also hailed the “bril- Mohammad Amir not out 8 Rumman Raees not out 6 liant” partnership involving Guptill and Ross Taylor to Extras: (b1, w12, nb1) 14 get New Zealand home with seven balls to spare. Total: (for 9 wickets; 50 overs) 246 Guptill, 31 off 40 at the break, was 86 not out off 71 Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Imam-ul-Haq), 2-14 (Azhar Ali), 3-39 (Babar deliveries at the end. Taylor advanced from 14 in as Azam), 4-84 (Shoaib Malik), 5-108 (Sarfraz Ahmed), 6-127 many balls to 45 off 43. (Mohammad Hafeez), 7-141 (Faheem Ashraf), 8-211 (Hasan Ali), 9- “For Martin and Ross to come out after that rain 239 (Shadab Khan) break... and play so beautifully and to see Martin play Bowling: Southee 10-1-57-2 (3w), Boult 10-0-54-1 (1nb), Santner with freedom at his best was great to watch,” 10-1-34-1, Ferguson 10-0-39-3 (4w), Astle 7-0-50-2 (1w), Munro 3-0-11-0. Williamson said. “And (with) Ross a calming influence at the other end... it was a brilliant partnership to get us New Zealand (revised target 151 in 25 overs) across the line.” M. Guptill not out 86 It left Pakistan winless after two rain-affected C. Munro c Faheem b Amir 0 matches in New Zealand with both decided under the K. Williamson c Shadab Khan b Faheem 19 Duckworth-Lewis method. “We are very disappointed NELSON: New Zealand’s Martin Guptill bats during the second one-day international cricket match R. Taylor not out 45 with our batting,” said captain Sarfraz Ahmed. “The between New Zealand and Pakistan at Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday. — AFP Extras: (nb 1) 1 first 10 overs is very important and we lost too many Total: (for 2 wickets; 23.5 overs) 151 wickets in the first 10 overs. Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Munro), 2-47 (Williamson) “Our batting is not performing well but later on our Khan (52) and Hasan Ali (51) struck out with a 70-run for 19 to have New Zealand at 47 for two in the 10th Bowling: Amir 5-1-18-1, Rumman Raees 4.5-0-37-0 (1nb), Faheem partnership for the eighth wicket. over. However, the momentum changed when Taylor 5-0-30-1, Hasan 5-0-37-0, Shadab 4-0-29-0. lower order batted really well.” After Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat Mohammad Hafeez (60) held Pakistan still harboured hopes of levelling the series joined Guptill in the middle. New Zealand now lead the Result: New Zealand won by eight wickets the first half of the innings together as Pakistan strug- when they made early inroads into the New Zealand five-match series 2-0 ahead of game three in Dunedin Series: New Zealand lead 2-0 gled to 141 for seven in the 37th over before Shadab innings claiming Colin Munro for duck and Williamson on Saturday. —AFP

cost Sri Lanka a repeat tournament crown during the Sri Lanka cricket 2011 final against India. Ranatunga, now a government minister, alleged that unusual changes were made to the team before the final which Sri Lanka lost by six wick- England’s under-fire cleared of ets. Similar allegations of “unnatural match patterns” and queries over player selection were made by Bayliss to corruption: Board Wickremasinghe. The ICC announced the probe a day after SLC said that 40 contracted national team players had asked for step down COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket said yesterday the an immediate inquiry into “shocking” allegations by sport’s global governing body had found no evidence of Wickremasinghe. Sri Lanka cricket board president wrongdoing following allegations of match-fixing and Thilanga Sumathipala said it was “very unfair” for such after 2019 Ashes other forms of corruption. The board said the allegations to be made without any evidence, adding International Cricket Council had failed to uncover evi- the ICC had found no proof of foul play. SYDNEY: England coach Trevor Bayliss will dence of graft during an investigation into explosive Meanwhile, all-rounder Angelo Mathews has been step down after the next Ashes series in 2019, accusations levelled by former Sri Lankan players. appointed Sri Lanka’s limited-overs skipper six months he announced yesterday as the media slammed SLC chief executive Ashley de Silva said ICC anti- after relinquishing the captaincy across all three for- him over the 4-0 Test thrashing in Australia. corruption investigators visited the island in September mats. The 30-year-old stepped down as captain last Bayliss, who was appointed in 2015 to succeed and conducted a wide-ranging inquiry. “They do not year after Sri Lanka’s shock home defeat to Zimbabwe, the sacked Peter Moores, said it would be time put out statements after an inquiry, but if there is any- which he described as “one of the lowest points” of his for a fresh approach when his four-year con- thing adverse, they would inform us. To date, they have career. Dinesh Chandimal was named the new test cap- tract comes to an end. not told us of anything (against Sri Lankan players or tain, while Upul Tharanga was put in charge of the lim- “I’m contracted to September 2019 and that officials),” de Silva told reporters. ited overs side. Tharanga was then striped of the cap- will see me out,” the 55-year-old Australian There was no immediate comment from the ICC. The taincy after a string of defeats and replaced by Thisara Angelo Mathews council’s announcement in September that it had began Perera, who oversaw the team’s 2-1 loss in India last told the BBC. “I’ve always felt that it’s time for an inquiry followed corruption allegations by former month, on a temporary basis. “When I stepped down I a change around that four-year mark. A new skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and ex-player and national never thought of taking over the captaincy again,” job “on a long term basis” after he agreed to board voice and a different approach reinvigorates selector Pramodya Wickremasinghe. Mathews, who is expected to lead the side into the president Thilanga Sumathipala’s request to shoulder things.” SLC said its executive committee had directed play- 2019 World Cup in England and Wales, told reporters the responsibility. “We need stability running into the The broadcaster said Bayliss told England ers and staff to cooperate with the ICC’s probe. yesterday. “I took a few a few days to think about it, World Cup,” said Mathews, who will begin the new director of cricket Andrew Strauss of his plans Ranatunga, who captained the islanders during their and because of a few reasons I decided to accept it.” phase of his captaincy in a tri-series in Bangladesh that a year ago, but had only now made it public. 1996 World Cup win, has alleged that insider meddling Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said Mathews was given the also involves Zimbabwe later this month. — Agencies His contract takes him up to the end of the 2019 Ashes series, when Australia coach Darren Lehmann also plans to call it quits. Since former Sri Lanka coach Bayliss took role as a commentator has shown me we have a wealth of talent available to us in over from Moores, England’s Test results have Ponting named this format and a tri-series like this will been mixed, losing 18 and winning 15. His give us a great chance to establish a pat- announcement follows England’s chastening 4- Australia tern of play that works best for the play- 0 Ashes defeat, with Australia recording four ers.” The T20 series will involve matches comprehensive wins-including two innings assistant against New Zealand in Sydney victories and a 10-wicket triumph. (February 3) and Auckland (February 16) British media criticised Bayliss after and England in Hobart (February 7) and Monday’s loss in the fifth and final Test in coach for T20s Melbourne (February 10). —AFP Sydney, with the Daily Telegraph accusing him of being “laissez-faire”. Among England’s SYDNEY: Ricky Ponting will be an Ashes low-points, vice-captain Ben Stokes assistant coach during Australia’s was suspended before the tour pending an Twenty20 international series against investigation into a nightclub brawl, and wick- England and New Zealand next month, etkeeper Jonny Bairstow drew controversy Cricket Australia said yesterday. The for- when he greeted Australia’s Cameron Bancroft mer Australia captain will work under with a headbutt in a Perth Bar. head coach Darren Lehmann, while Troy “The laissez-faire approach of England Cooley and Matthew Mott will help out coach Trevor Bayliss has spelled disaster in during the series. Australia,” headlined the Daily Telegraph, They have been brought on board which added: “Bayliss presided over a wallop- Yusuf Pathan while regular support staff Graeme Hick, ing that would bring the guillotine rolling David Saker and Brad Haddin are in through the streets in other big team sports.” South Africa to assist in preparations for the board said it was satisfied with “England have little chance of improving if Australia’s four-Test tour from March. Pathan’s explanation that the substance India’s Pathan Lehmann has previously said he will they stick with Trevor Bayliss,” said the entered his body through medication not seek to renew his contract when his Evening Standard, while the Independent while taking a cough syrup and “not as a current deal expires at the end of 2019, asked: “What is the point of Trevor Bayliss?” suspended for performance-enhancing drug”. with Ponting seen as a potential succes- His decision will trigger speculation about a Pathan, who also bowls off-spin, sor. Ponting undertook the T20 role last successor as England’s management open played 57 one-day internationals and 22 failed dope test year when he worked with the Australia their review of the failed Ashes series. T20 games for India and has been an squad for the three-match series against Former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie, Indian Premier League regular. In 2014 Sri Lanka. He has extensive experience who was appointed as interim coach of Papua he hit the IPL’s fastest 50 off just 15 NEW DELHI: India yesterday suspend- of the shortest form of the game, cap- New Guinea in July, was seen as a strong can- balls. He is only the second Indian crick- ed former international all-rounder Yusuf taining his country in the first ever T20 didate when Bayliss got the job in 2015. eter to fail a dope test. In 2013 Delhi Pathan for five months for taking a international against New Zealand in England assistant coach Paul Farbrace could left-arm paceman Pradeep Sangwan banned stimulant. The ban on the 35- 2005, and then leading the side in the also be tapped to step up to the top job. was banned for 18 months. The BCCI year-old, who last represented India in first two editions of the ICC World Bayliss’ career with England began with a 3-2 strongly opposes tests by India’s 2012, was backdated so that it ends on Twenty20 in 2007 and 2009. National Anti-Doping Agency. It insists home Ashes victory in 2015, but they suffered January 14. The Board of Control for “I loved working with the squad last that as a member of the International their first ever Test defeat to Bangladesh in Cricket in India said the explosive bats- year against Sri Lanka and I can’t wait to Cricket Council-a signatory to the 2016 and were humbled 4-0 away by India a man was routinely tested during domes- be working alongside Darren, Troy and World Anti-Doping Agency-it already year ago. — AFP tic Twenty20 competition last year and a Matthew this time around,” Ponting said. has strict anti-doping rules. — AFP sample showed traces of Terbutaline. But “Watching the Big Bash League in my Ricky Ponting Established 1961 15 Sports Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Dembele finally able to get stuck in at Barcelona

‘Dembele is adapting perfectly to the club and he’s a great kid’

BARCELONA: Ousmane Dembele has endured a frus- and he’s a great kid. You have to have patience because trating start to life at Barcelona. Signed from Borussia he’s very young, but he’s going to make us better, he Dortmund in August for a club record fee of 147 million has tremendous qualities,” Alba told Gol TV. euros ($175.3 million), now surpassed by the 160 million “We’re talking about a spectacular player and little euros the Catalans spent on Philippe Coutinho, the by little his performances are going to get better. “He Frenchman was brought to Camp Nou to replace can strike a ball brilliantly with both feet, we don’t know Neymar. if he’s left or right-footed. And he’s so quick. We haven’t Left reeling after Paris St. Germain activated the done any tests but I think he’s quicker than me.” Brazilian’s 222 million euro buy-out clause, Barcelona spent more than half of that money on a player who VERSATILE could light up their attack in the same way Neymar did. Coach Ernesto Valverde picked Dembele on the However on Dembele’s right side of the attacking second start for the club, three midfielders in a 4-2-3- against Getafe on Sep. 16, 1 formation against Levante, he tore his hamstring. What a set-up he last used at followed was more than Athletic Bilbao. three months of recovery I have a long In the second half the work, until he was finally winger moved over to the able to make his return last way to go to get left flank, showing his versa- week against Celta Vigo in tility, with Andres Iniesta the Copa del Rey last-16 to my best level coming inside and Lionel first leg, as a substitute. Messi taking Dembele’s That was followed by his original spot. “I know that I first start since injury, in the have a long way to go to get 3-0 La Liga win over Levante on Sunday, playing well to my best level and I have to keep working for that,” without making a large individual impact until he was Dembele told Barca TV. “The hardest thing during this replaced in the 67th minute. Although fans are anxious time was maintaining the concentration to recover to see the winger perform at the level he managed at quickly, I need to have a lot of patience to integrate Dortmund, it may take some time for him to build up his myself into the team bit by bit.” With Barcelona nine form and fitness. points clear of the competition in La Liga, Dembele has BARCELONA: Barcelona’s French forward Ousmane Dembele (L) vies with Levante’s Spanish defender Antonio Barcelona team mate Jordi Alba is certain the 20- the chance to bed in without pressure and turn a trou- Luna during the Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Levante UD at the Camp Nou stadium in year-old will get back to his best and improve beyond bled start into a perfect finish, with the club hoping for Barcelona on January 7, 2018. — AFP that too. “(Dembele) is adapting perfectly to the club success on three fronts. — Reuters Zidane named French Sultan Qaboos coach of the year Mancini open to rewards PARIS: Real Madrid may have ended the year badly, but Zinedine Zidane has been named French coach of 2017 for Italy coaching job football team leading the club to a Liga and Champions League double. “I want to show that I can also be a good coach in tough circumstances,” Zidane said in an article published yester- MILAN: Zenit Saint-Petersburg coach Roberto for Gulf Cup day in France Football magazine, which gives the award. Mancini said yesterday he was open to taking over Real are going through a bad run. They are fourth in La the vacant job as Italy national football coach. Liga, 16 points behind leaders Barcelona, and they ended Mancini, 53, is being touted along with Chelsea MUSCAT: Sultan Qaboos issued orders yesterday 2017 with a crushing 3-0 defeat at home in the Clasico. On manager Antonio Conte and former Bayern Munich to pay out cash rewards and grant residential Sunday, they were held to a 2-2 draw at Celta Vigo. coach Carlo Ancelotti to take the reins of the lands to players of the National Football Team for “Today, yes, the danger is there, but I’m not going to demoralised four-time World Cup winners. winning the 23rd Gulf Cup held recently in change. I am aware that I have in front of me great players Giampiero Ventura was fired as coach last Kuwait. The official Oman News Agency (ONA) who listen to me. Playing football, I know how to do that. November days after Italy’s shock failure to reach said Sultan Qaboos made the gesture in apprecia- So things will sort themselves out in the end,” Zidane said. the World Cup final for the first time in 60 years. tion for the players’ “grand accomplishment which “Some people may think that everything is always easy Finding Ventura’s successor has been complicated for me, that I do everything from instinct, but that’s not instilled happiness in all Omanis and residents of because the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has true! Whether it is as a player or as a coach, I’ve always this dear homeland, and in recognition of their top to elect a president to replace Carlo Tavecchio who worked,” said Zidane. “I’m not protected by what I was also forced to resign. professional performance, which reflected the achieved as a player for this club. Zinedine Zidane is no “Before choosing a new coach it seems to me spirit of perseverance that distinguishes all Omani longer a Real player. That Zidane does not exist anymore. youth as they strive to realize honorable achieve- Now it is the coach Zinedine Zidane who must create a that we have to choose a new FIGC president,” for- ments in all international events.” career,” he concluded. His side will continue their defence mer Manchester City and Inter Milan boss Mancini Oman won against the UAE in the 23rd Gulf of the Champions League against a French team coached told Italian talk show “Tiki Taka”. “But I absolutely don’t rule out Italy, like the oth- Cup final that was held at Jaber Al-Ahmad by a Spaniard when Real take on Unai Emery’s Paris Saint- er coaches I think. When you’re a coach you can International Stadium. — KUNA Germain in the first knockout round on February 14 and Zinedine Zidane March 6. —AFP rule nothing out.” Former Chelsea, Real Madrid, Juventus and AC Milan boss Ancelotti-a three-time Champions League winner-had been Tavecchio’s choice. But the 56-year-old, free since his sacking by Bayern Munich last year, has said he would pre- Chinese FA will handle this serious- fer to stay in club management. Former Juventus China FA warns ly according to law and regulation.” boss Conte, 48, coached Italy from 2014 before Stressing that the 100 percent joining Chelsea in 2016, winning the Premier League clubs over surcharge was applicable in the in his first season. Conte revealed last year that he current winter transfer window and misses Italy and plans to return to his homeland in in the year ahead, the CFA warned: the near future. “Italy is my homeland, so once I Aubameyang “We will watch closely every club’s have had some good experiences, formative experi- transfer movement in the new sea- ences, important and life-changing experiences, I’ll son and increase scrutiny. be back. I don’t know when but that’s the aim,” he ‘bidding war’ “The Chinese FA will seriously said in September. investigate and will not tolerate any The FIGC on Monday agreed their budget for 2018 and have set aside 5 million euro ($5.6m) to SHANGHAI: China’s football asso- violation or any loophole-exploit- pay the new coach, despite a projected deficit of 9 ciation (CFA) warned yesterday ing behaviour.” The hard-hitting million euros for the year, according to press that it would punish teams who missive is the latest salvo in the reports. Three candidates have their hat in the ring flout its transfer rules, following Chinese government’s war on “irra- for FIGC presidency-former Italy and Roma star reports two clubs are battling to tional” overseas investments-a Damiano Tommasi, now head of the Italian Players’ sign striker Pierre-Emerick word also used in the CFA state- Union; Italian Professional League president Aubameyang. ment-as football authorities attempt Gabriele Gravina and FIGC vice-president Cosimo Chinese Super League (CSL) to rein in CSL clubs who have Sibilia. The election for president will take place on champions Guangzhou Evergrande shelled out record amounts for for- January 29. — AFP BRIGHTON: Brighton’s English defender Connor Goldson (L) vies with are reportedly prepared to pay at eign stars. Crystal Palace’s Scottish midfielder James McArthur during the least 70 million euros for the A year ago, Shanghai SIPG English FA Cup third round football match between Brighton and Hove Borussia Dortmund attacker, smashed the Asian transfer record Albion and Crystal Palace at the American Express Community trumping an offer by rivals Beijing to sign Chelsea’s attacking mid- Stadium in Brighton, southern England on Monday. — AFP Guoan. The CFA last year intro- fielder Oscar for 60 million euros. duced a 100 percent tax on incom- However, with the 100 percent levy Murray bundled in the winner with his ing foreign transfers in an effort to in place last summer, Tianjin Matches on TV Quanjian secured French striker Brighton beat knee following a free-kick to score his encourage Chinese clubs to invest (Local Timings) seventh goal this term. on local youth players, but media Anthony Modeste from Cologne on reports suggest both clubs are pre- a two-year loan deal, rather than Palace players protested to the offi- ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP Crystal Palace cials after the game that the ball had pared to either incur the penalty or buying him outright. find a way to circumvent it. Dortmund have dismissed the Chelsea v Arsenal 23:00 touched Murray’s arm after his knee, but beIN SPORTS HD 2 on VAR debut replays suggested the right decision had Evergrande denied they were Aubameyang transfer talk as spec- been made. pursuing Aubameyang-without ulation, but Chinese media has been filled for several days with multiple SPAIN COPA DEL REY Earlier, midfielder Dale Stephens gave explicitly naming him-but that was Deportivo Alaves v Formentera 21:30 BRIGHTON: Substitute Glenn Murray the hosts a 25th-minute lead by rifling a not before the CFA made plain its reports that a deal has been reached for him to move to Fabio beIN SPORTS grabbed Brighton and Hove Albion a 2-1 shot through Wayne Hennessey at the anger. The CFA too did not name Villarreal v Leganes 21:30 Cannavaro’s Evergrande after the FA Cup third-round victory over rivals Palace goalkeeper’s near post. Mali for- the striker but made a clear refer- beIN SPORTS Bundesliga season. Soon after the Crystal Palace on Monday as video ward Bakary Sako, making just his fourth ence to the 28-year-old and Real Madrid v Numancia 23:30 CFA statement, Evergrande hit out technology made its bow in England. It start of the season, hammered home a Evergrande and Guoan. beIN SPORTS was the first time the Video Assistant brilliant equaliser for Palace midway “The news of two clubs suspect- at “the purely fictitious” reports and Referee (VAR) system had been used in through the second period from long ed of engaging in a bidding war on threatened legal action. “We will, as FRENCH COUPE DE LA LIGUE English football for a one-off trial, but range to cap an excellent individual dis- a transfer has caused social con- we always have, strictly follow the Stade Rennais v Toulouse 20:45 was never needed to overturn any deci- play. But Murray came off the bench to cern,” it said in a statement, adding FA’s regulations on transfers,” the beIN SPORTS sion by referee Andre Marriner at the take Brighton through, and they will that it had asked them to explain. club said. “We reserve our legal Angers v Montpellier 23:05 Amex Stadium. There was some confu- travel to Championship side “In the next step of the investiga- right to pursue those responsible beIN SPORTS sion over the winning goal in the 87th Middlesbrough in the fourth round at the tion, if any violations are found, the for the inaccurate reports.” — AFP Amiens v Paris Saint-Germain 23:05 minute, though, as former Palace striker end of January. — AFP beIN SPORTS Established 1961 Sport

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SEOUL: Anti-North Korea activists stage a demonstration against the inter-Korean talks, in Seoul yesterday. North Korea said it was willing to send athletes and a high-level delegation to the forthcoming Winter Olympics in the South as the rivals held their first official talks in more than two years. — AFP N Korea to attend Olympics in rival South

Olympic organisers welcomed North’s participation in Pyeongchang

SEOUL: North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter southern side, just yards from where a defector ran across send a high-level delegation to the Games. was a “great step forward in the Olympic spirit”. Olympics in the South, the rivals said yesterday after their in a hail of bullets two months ago. Ri also told South Korean journalists that denuclearisa- Only two athletes from the North have so far qualified first formal talks in more than two years following high Looking businesslike, the South’s Unification minister tion was not on the table and not an issue for the two to for the Olympics, but hundreds of young female North tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. Cho Myoung-Gyon and the North’s chief delegate Ri Son- discuss. “The target of all our nuclear and hydrogen Korean cheerleaders have created a buzz at three previous The two sides also decided to hold military talks and to Gwon shook hands at the entrance to the building, and bombs and ICBMs and all other sophisticated weapons is international sporting events in the South. restore a military hotline closed since February 2016. again across the negotiating the US,” he said. “These According to South Korean reports any high-level del- Seoul and Olympic organisers have been keen for table. Ri wore a badge on his weapons are not aimed at our egation accompanying the team could include Kim’s Pyongyang - which boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in left lapel bearing an image of brethren.” There were “many younger sister Yo-Jong, who is a senior member of the rul- the South Korean capital-to take part in what they repeat- the country’s founding father problems” to settle between ing Workers’ Party. edly proclaimed a “peace Olympics” in Pyeongchang next Kim Il-Sung and his son and Great step the two sides, he added, month. But the North had given no indication it would do successor Kim Jong-Il, while warning of “unexpected BEYOND THE GAMES so until leader Kim Jong-Un’s New Year address last week, Cho sported one depicting forward in the obstacles” down the road. According to the Unification ministry official, Tuesday’s instead pursuing its banned weapons programmes in defi- the South Korean flag. Even so it was a radically meeting “laid the foundation for restoring the severed ance of United Nations sanctions, launching missiles capa- “Let’s present the people Olympic spirit different tone from the rheto- inter-Korean ties and normalising them”. ble of reaching the United States and detonating its sixth with a precious new year’s ric of recent months, which It came after Seoul responded to Kim’s New Year and most powerful nuclear test. gift,” said Ri. “There is a say- have seen the North’s leader speech with an offer of high-level dialogue, and last week “The North Korean side will dispatch a National ing that a journey taken by Kim and US President Donald a civilian hotline was restored after being suspended for Olympic Committee delegation, athletes, cheerleaders, art two lasts longer than the one Trump trade personal insults almost two years. performers’ squad, spectators, a taekwondo demonstration travelled alone.” The atmos- and threats of war. Olympic But Pyongyang has snubbed previous attempts by team and a press corps and the South will provide neces- phere was friendlier than at past meetings, and Cho told organisers welcomed the North’s participation in Seoul to set up further family reunions-one of the most sary amenities and facilities,” they said in a joint statement. Ri: “The people have a strong desire to see the North and Pyeongchang, just 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the emotive legacies of the Korean War-saying it will not do Yesterday’s talks were held in Panmunjom, the truce vil- South move toward peace and reconciliation.” DMZ, and a Unification ministry official said the Games so unless several of its citizens are returned by the lage in the Demilitarised Zone that splits the peninsula. The But there was no mention in the joint statement of a would be “a Peace Festival for all the people in the world”. South. It was unclear when the proposed military talks- North’s delegation walked over the Military Demarcation proposal by Seoul to resume reunions of families left International Olympic Committee president Thomas which would be the first of their kind since 2014 — Line marking the border to the Peace House venue on the divided by the Korean War, or of an offer by the North to Bach said Pyongyang’s decision to take part in the Games would be held.—AFP

New Orleans. Davis made 12 of 14 shots and Angeles (18-21) within a point. Timberwolves grabbed 10 rebounds in 27 minutes before being injured. There was no immediate prognosis. The WARRIORS 124, NUGGETS 114 Pelicans (20-19) play at Memphis. The Pistons Stephen Curry contributed 32 points and nine trounce Cavs (21-18) visit Brooklyn today. E-Twaun Moore assists and Golden State avenged their worst scored 23 points for the Pelicans and DeMarcus offensive showing this season by beating Denver, Cousins scored 15 of his 20 points in the fourth 124-114, in Oakland, Calif. Draymond Green had 23 MINNEAPOLIS: Taj Gibson contributed three quarter and finished with 10 rebounds. Jrue points and 10 assists and Klay Thompson scored baskets to a 20-4, game-opening run that sent Holiday scored 14 points and Rajon Rondo had 19 points as Golden State won its fifth straight Minnesota on its way to a wire-to-wire, 127-99 12 points and 15 assists. Tobias Harris led game and improved its NBA-best record to 33-8. thrashing of Cleveland in Minneapolis. Andrew Detroit with 25 points, Avery Bradley scored 24, The Warriors shot 56.5 percent from the field Wiggins finished with 25 points and Jimmy Butler Andre Drummond had 16 points and 14 despite being without forward Kevin Durant for 21 as the Timberwolves won a second straight to rebounds, Ish Smith scored 16 and Reggie the third straight game due to a calf injury. open a five-game homestand while snapping a six- Bullock and Dwight Buycks scored 10 each. game losing streak to Cleveland. LeBron James SPURS 107, KINGS 100 was held to 10 points, his lowest since October of CLIPPERS 108, HAWKS 107 LaMarcus Aldridge had 31 points and 12 2007, for the Cavaliers, who lost for the second C.J. Williams canned a 3-pointer with 9.1 sec- rebounds and Davis Bertans enjoyed a career time in three outings on a five-game trip. onds left as Los Angeles rallied to hand Atlanta night as San Antonio rallied to a 107-100 victory its latest loss, 108-107 in Los Angeles. It capped over host Sacramento. Bertans established career PELICANS 112, PISTONS 109 a rally from a 105-100 deficit that saw the Hawks highs of 28 points and six 3-pointers as San Anthony Davis scored a game-high 30 points playing percentages, opting to foul DeAndre Antonio recovered from a 13-point deficit. Bertans before being sidelined by an injured ankle in the Jordan on the Clippers’ next two possessions. was 11-of-15 shooting, including 6-of-9 from 3- third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans held But Jordan, a notoriously terrible foul shooter point range. Willie Cauley-Stein had 22 points and CHICAGO: Justin Holiday #7 of the Chicago Bulls passes to on to defeat the Detroit Pistons, 112-109, on who has improved to 60.6 percent this season, nine rebounds for the Kings, who lost for the sixth teammate Bobby Portis around Clint Capela #15 of the Houston Monday night in the Smoothie King Center in drained four straight free throws to pull Los time in the past eight games.—Reuters Rockets at the United Center on Monday in Chicago. — AFP Established 1961

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BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping (back right) and French President Emmanuel Macron (back left) react after the signing of agreements between the two countries in Beijing yesterday. — AFP In China, Macron pitches France Inc French president heads 50-member business delegation

BEIJING: President Emmanuel Macron for a joint-venture on consumer credit, an Prime Minister Theresa May swamped by But while the rhetoric has been strong, and Xi Jinping on Monday evening, said the two offered to open up France to Chinese invest- official said, and added that French nuclear Brexit, Macron has emerged as arguably the TV commentary suggests Macron and his countries would fall into a lose-lose situation if ment in exchange for greater access to China’s group Areva had “never been so close” to strongest voice in Europe. The trip to China is glamorous 64-year-old wife Brigitte have continued restrictions on foreign firms in China booming markets yesterday, warning during signing a contract to build a reprocessing well-timed to convey that message and been a big hit with the Chinese, the underlying prompted France and Europe to put a brake talks in Beijing that existing trade imbalances plant in China. “We have an access to success of state visits is best measured on Chinese investment in Europe. would lead to protectionism. markets which is unbalanced, unsatis- these days in business contracts. “Let’s open up both instead,” said Macron, On the second leg of a three-day state vis- fying,” Macron told members of the One of the most closely watched whose government has at the same time called it, the first of his eight-month-old presidency, French and Chinese business commu- France wants sectors is aerospace, with Airbus talks for greater scrutiny of Chinese investment in Macron is hoping greater openness from nity at a start-up incubator in Beijing. to sell 100 or more jetliners to China, Europe, particularly in sensitive sectors, con- China, coupled with lobbying from the 50- “If we don’t deal with this respon- more openness officials familiar with the talks said last cerned about protecting French interests and strong business delegation travelling with him, sibly, the first, natural, reaction will be week. Jack Ma, founder and executive security. Despite the relatively small number of will help narrow the 30-billion-euro ($36 bil- to close up on both sides.” In his short from China chairman of online retailer Alibaba, deals announced so far, officials were confident lion) trade deficit Paris runs with Beijing. time in office so far, 40-year-old gave Macron’s pitch for more open- of success. “We’re confident we’ll achieve more But despite bringing with him some of the Macron has managed to push through ness his backing on Tuesday, but than symbolic stuff,” a French official said, heaviest hitters in French business, finance reforms to France’s labor market and added both sides had a part to play. speaking on condition of anonymity. As well as and industry-including senior executives from seen a steady rise in business and “I think he’s right, China should aerospace, the agrifood sector is seen as key. At Airbus, BNP Paribas, AccorHotels, EDF and consumer confidence. Growth fore- open more, China is opening more,” he the start-up incubator, French engineering firm LVMH — there were no immediate announce- casts for 2018 have been upgraded. Macron has not been shy about promoting it, told reporters on the sidelines of a business Fives signed a deal with Chinese online retail ments of mega-deals. Instead, smaller con- In the absence of either German and British declaring after he arrived that “Europe is forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. giant JD.com, which will set up a logistics center tracts or commitments to go on talking were leadership, with Chancellor Angela Merkel back” and announcing that he would visit “France should open more, China should open in France to source French food and luxury signed. BNP Paris was set to announce plans bogged down in coalition negotiations and China every year of his five-year presidency. more,” he added. Macron, who met President products for sale online in China. — Reuters

AFP, and added: “The first quarter for this year Samsung tips record Q4 operating looks good for Samsung.” Samsung will reportedly roll out its new flag- ship smartphone, the Galaxy S9, next month, to profit of more than $14bn compete with rival Apple’s iPhone X. Analysts UK retailers lose sparkle say that the launch of the new model will boost SEOUL: South Korean telecom giant Samsung innocent. That came after a damaging recall in the mobile division, which faces fierce competi- Electronics expects to post a record operating 2016 of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 over explod- tion from Apple and Chinese manufacturers. over Christmas: Survey profit of more than $14 billion in the fourth quar- ing batteries, which cost Samsung billions of dol- Since the arrest of some of its top executives LONDON: British retailers faced a slowdown last weeks before Christmas in the hope of ter, it said yesterday, boosted by huge demand lars and dealt a blow to its global reputation. But last year, the wider Samsung Group-whose in sales over the crucial Christmas trading something to celebrate.” for its memory chips. The booming chip unit has the travails have not impacted demand for turnover is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea’s period, survey data showed yesterday, as Capital Economics analyst Finn helped the firm overcome a bribery scandal that Samsung Electronics’ products. Fourth-quarter gross domestic product-has dismantled its shoppers were squeezed by higher prices McLaughlin agreed that consumers simply saw its de facto head jailed and the embarrassing sales were projected to have jumped 23.8 per- Future Strategy Office, the coordinating body and stagnating wages. had less cash to buy goods and services. Galaxy Note 7 debacle. cent year-on-year to 66 trillion won, with full- that oversees major decisions such as acquisi- Retail sales rose 1.4 percent last month “December’s BRC retail sales monitor sug- Samsung estimated operating profits would sales estimated at 239.6 trillion won. tions or entering new business. The group from a year earlier, according to a survey gested that Christmas trading failed to pro- hit 15.1 trillion won ($14.1 billion) in October- The firm’s share price sank 3.11 percent to described the move as a “reform plan”, which from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and vide much relief to retailers with spending December, nearly double the 9.2 trillion won 2.52 million won in Seoul, with analysts raising would allow each unit-including Samsung financial group KPMG. That compared with growth broadly in line with its subdued aver- posted a year earlier. However, the figure was concerns about the impact of a stronger won and Electronics, its flagship subsidiary-to run more 1.7-percent expansion in December 2016. age over the past year,” McLaughlin said. below analyst forecasts, which averaged 16.1 tril- lower chip prices. independently in a transparent manner. “With inflation outpacing income growth, “The squeeze on real incomes has contin- lion won in a survey by Bloomberg News. Full- “The won-dollar exchange rate is worri- Samsung Electronics announced last October shoppers continued to see more of their ued to leave consumers with less room for the first major reshuffle in its top leadership since year operating profit was projected at 53.6 tril- some,” Lee Seung-Woo, an analyst at Eugene spending power absorbed by essential items, discretionary purchases.” Workers’ wages lion won-also a record. Investment and Securities, said in a report 2014, when the wider group’s chairman Lee Kun- including food, leaving less left over for buy- are still being eroded by Brexit-fuelled infla- Samsung was dealt a blow in August when before the announcement, according to Hee suffered a heart attack that left him bedridden. ing Christmas gifts,” said BRC Chief tion, recent official data showed. Average Lee Jae-Yong was jailed after being found guilty Bloomberg News. But Greg Roh, an analyst at The company replaced each of the three co-CEOs Executive Helen Dickinson. weekly earnings rose by 2.5 percent year-on- of bribery, perjury and other charges relating to HMC Investment Securities, said the figures who lead its semiconductor, mobile and TV units “That made this year’s festive period all year in the three-month period to October. payments made by Samsung to ousted president were “satisfactory” despite missing estimates. with younger executives, after its chief executive Park Geun-Hye’s secret confidante. Lee is “I think Samsung overspent on marketing Kwon Oh-Hyun stepped down saying the South’s the more nail-biting for non-food retailers, That lagged behind Britain’s annual inflation appealing his five-year sentence and says he is because it was the end of the year,” Roh told biggest firm was facing an “unprecedented crisis”. many of whom offered deep discounts in the rate of 3.1 percent. — AFP 18 Established 1961 Business Wednesday, January 10, 2018 GCC markets end year 2017 with a strong performance Global equities continued positive momentum

KUWAIT: Global equities continue their positive streak December compared to 60.1 in November on the back of November, largely due to communication equipment sales, for the year, with the MSCI All Country World Index up 1.5 new orders driven by domestic and international demand. which grew 33.9 percent for the year compared to 2.1 per- percent in December, bringing the full year performance to The Services PMI came in slightly higher at 56.6 com- cent in October. The Caixin Manufacturing PMI for 21.6 percent. In the US, the Federal Reserve raised interest pared to November’s reading of 56.2. Consumer December came in at 51.7, higher than November’s read- rates by 0.25 percent, as markets had anticipated, in their Confidence is expected to continue to improve in ing of 50.8, while the Services PMI increased from 51.9 to December meeting. President Trump has also officially permits fell 1.4 percent to 1.298m. Retails Sales is up 0.8 December, on a preliminary basis at 0.5 percent compared 53.9 in December. signed the tax reform law, in an effort to lower rates on percent month-on-month in November, exceeding expec- to November’s reading of 0.1 percent. The MSCI Emerging Market Index ended the month of corporate and household taxes, and is expected to result tations of 0.3 percent, as consumers were getting ready for European equities were positive, up 0.6 percent in December in the green 3.4 percent. The index also regis- in a $1.5 trillion tax cut. In Europe however, political the holidays. Gross Domestic Product in the third quarter December, recovering from the previous month’s loss, as tered gains of 34.4 percent for the year, proving to be the uncertainty continues to take center stage, as the pro- grew at 3.2 percent annualized, supported by strong busi- measured by the Stoxx Europe 600. For the year, the best performing global index. Chinese equities ended the independence parties won a majority in Catalonia’s ness spending, specifically nonresidential fixed investment. index is up 7.7 percent. In Japan, the trade surplus month in the red for the second consecutive month, down regional election and Italy passed its 2018 budget, allow- US equities were positive in December up 1.8 percent decreased to JPY 113B in November from JPY 285B in slightly 0.3 percent in December however full year per- ing for the dissolution of parliament and new elections. and 1.0 percent for the Dow Jones and S&P 500, respec- October as exports increased by 16.2 percent and imports formance the index is up 6.6 percent. Commodities ended December in the green with Gold and tively and full year are up 25.1 percent and 19.4 percent. slowed to 17.2 percent. The CPI increased in November by The GCC equity markets performed well in December Brent up 2.2 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively with full In the UK, manufacturing continues to witness above 0.7 percent month-on-month, however the annualized fig- with the MSCI GCC Countries Index ending the month year performance at 13.5 percent and 17.7 percent. OPEC average growth despite the Markit Manufacturing PMI ure remains well below the Bank of Japan’s 2 percent infla- up 3.3 percent and the year up 0.7 percent. The best continues to be compliant with the output curbs, realizing dropping to 56.3 in December compared to 58.2 in tion target. The Nikkei Manufacturing PMI came in at 54.2 performing index for the month was Qatar’s DSM Index, 121 percent of their pledged cuts in December. November. The Services PMI on the other hand came in in November higher than October’s figure of 53.6. Retail up 10.5 percent followed by Bahrain up 3.7 percent, In the US, the Markit Manufacturing Purchasing higher than expected at 54.2, compared to November’s Trade recovered in November up 2.2 percent, following Saudi Arabia up 3.2 percent, and Abu Dhabi and Kuwait Managers Index (PMI) came in at 55.1 for December, up reading of 53.8. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) October’s loss of 0.2 percent while Housing Starts up 2.7 percent and 0.7 percent respectively. For the sec- 1.2 points from the previous month while the Services PMI increased by 0.3 percent in November, putting the annual dropped 0.4 percent year-over-year in November. ond consecutive month, Dubai was the worst performing came in at 53.7, below November’s reading of 54.5 due to a inflation rate at 3.1 percent, its strongest since March 2012. Japanese equities ended the month and year up 0.2 GCC index, down 1.5 percent followed by Oman down drop in new orders, hiring and business optimism. Initial Retail Sales came in surprisingly strong in November, up percent and 19.1 percent respectively, as measured by the 0.2 percent. For the full year performance, Bahrain was Jobless Claims went up to 245,000 compared to the last 1.1 percent, indicating that the continuous drop in Nikkei 225. In domestic currency terms, Chinese exports the best performing index, registering gains of 9.1 per- reading of 238,000. Durable Goods Orders increased 1.3 Consumer Confidence, currently at -13, has yet to impact grew 10.3 percent in November from 6.1 percent in cent, followed by Kuwait up 5.6 percent and Saudi percent in November compared to the 0.4 percent household spending. The final reading for the Q3 GDP October, indicating stronger external demand in key mar- Arabia up 0.2 percent. The worst performing index in decrease in October, boosted by civilian aircraft orders, remained unchanged at 0.4 percent, with the annual rate kets, while imports slowed slightly to 15.6 percent from 2017 was Qatar down 18.3 percent, followed by Oman which rose 14.5 percent for the month to $12.5 billion. revised up to 1.7 percent. UK recovered from last month’s 15.9 percent. The trade surplus widened to CNY 263.6B in down 11.8 percent and Dubai and Abu Dhabi down 4.6 Housing Starts rose 3.3 percent to 1.297m in November, loss, up 4.9 percent in December, as measured by the November from CNY 254.5B in October. The CPI was flat percent and 3.3 percent respectively. Egypt’s EGX 30 driven by starts for single-family homes up 5.3 percent to FTSE 100 and is up 7.6 percent for the year. In Europe, in November yet increased by 1.7 percent for the year. ended the month and year in the green 3.0 percent and 930,000, the highest increase since 2007, while building the Markit Manufacturing PMI went up slightly to 60.6 in Retail Sales increased 10.2 percent year-on-year in 21.7 percent respectively.

Economic crisis Israeli embassy official leaving the coun- Trishaws continue try. But Yangon’s streets are unrecogniz- able from a few years ago. Myanmar has means tough to roll on Myanmar’s seen an explosion in vehicle numbers since a military-backed government clogged streets launched reforms in 2011 that opened the start to 2018 country to the outside world after YANGON: Surrounded by a trove of decades of isolation. for Venezuelans tools and spare parts, trishaw maker Aye Car import rules were relaxed and Zaw works on his latest model of the ped- traffic now moves infuriatingly slowly. Myanmar has tried to improve the con- al-powered three-wheeler, readying it for CARACAS: Luis Briceno built up a small bottle gestion by overhauling the bus system, the clogged roads of Myanmar’s biggest branding business over the last 25 years but in building flyovers, upgrading a circular city. Undeterred by the rapid transforma- the maelstrom of Venezuela’s economic crisis he railway line, and most recently, introduc- tion of Yangon’s streets from sedate thor- and many like him are facing closure. ing water taxis. But the streets remain “This New Year is criminal,” he said reflect- oughfares to car-choked arteries in just a jammed. few years, the 46-year-old revels in defy- ing the anguish of millions of Venezuelans facing Sixty-year-old Aung Ba is one of the acute shortages sparked by falling oil prices, ing the changing times with his traditional city’s 25,000 licensed trishaw drivers and form of transport. “I love the work very political unrest and corruption. Socialist has been pedalling Yangon’s streets for 30 President Nicolas Maduro last week decreed a much,” the craftsman tells AFP from a years, earning about 10,000 kyat ($7.5) workshop bursting with wheel rims, 40 percent increase in the minimum wage to try CARACAS: View of partially empty supermarket shelves in Caracas. Venezuela’s each day. The busier roads are more dan- to contain the crisis, after food protests broke government forced more than 200 establishments to lower prices in the middle of springs, piping and tools. gerous, but Aung Ba says there is still a “I am always finding ways to make out in several cities. But Briceno believes it will a hyperinflationary spiral. —AFP place for the three-wheelers. “It wouldn’t only complicate things for his and other small trishaws better and better.” He joined the be good to drive a car. businesses. “It seems criminal, because ask the his employees, but he now has to increase the and promote private enterprise. The government family business aged 16, learning the But riding a trishaw, I can find my way workers themselves if they want the government food voucher quotient, which represents 69 per- said the increases are necessary to counter the trade from his father, and now works with through as I want,” he says sitting beside to increase the minimum wage and they say no, cent of the total wage. His costs will rise, and so runaway inflation, which it has long insisted is his younger brother, Htay Zaw, to make his vehicle in the city’s northern because the next day everything increases.” around seven trishaws every month. Mayangon Township. Aye Zaw is also will costs all along the chain of production, he part of an “economic war” aimed at overthrow- Although he tries to avoid thinking about it, the The cheapest model costs 430,000 confident the iconic vehicle will not dis- said. The government says 13 million Venezuelan ing Maduro. kyats ($315) but customers who pay a lit- appear from Yangon’s streets just yet and 70-year-old businessman knows that the next workers earn the minimum wage or receive the tle more can opt for a flashier version would be happy for his son to take over few months will be crucial for his small firm, vouchers, out of a workforce of 19.5 million. ‘For 2018, we have nothing’ with steel trimmings. The brothers’ repu- the business. “I don’t want to force my which is already battling a shortage of supplies Ever-rising inflation means the basic income Falling oil prices-in a country where oil con- tation has even spread outside of son into making or not making trishaws,” and a hyperinflationary spiral that the govern- barely buys a basket of staples like kilo of meat, tributes 96 percent of state income-political Myanmar, with one creation snapped up he says. “But if he loves the trade then of ment said reached 2,616 percent by the end of 30 eggs, a kilo of sugar and a kilo of onions. unrest, and corruption have decimated the by an American tourist and another by an course he should do it.”—AFP December. “Every time you go shopping you buy less country’s economy under Maduro, leading to To make matters worse, two of his three and your budget is limited to food,” 50-year-old chronic food and medicine shortages. The remaining employees are planning to join the tourism employee David Ascanio told AFP as he Fedecamaras employers’ union says industry is lines of young emigrants fleeing the crisis. Not shopped in a Caracas market. On Saturday, the working at 30 percent of capacity due to state long ago, his firm used to employ 10. government forced more than 200 supermarkets controls and expropriations. in the capital to lower prices, causing huge lines Having once produced 70 percent of its food ‘Every time you buy less’ to form outside as Venezuelans jumped at the needs, the country with the world’s largest oil In the business district of the capital, 53- chance to stretch their meager incomes. reserves supplied barely 30 percent in 2017 and year-old housewife Raquel Benarroch said she Experts say wage increases are needed to that was because they could still rely on stores was saddened by the closure of scores of busi- cope with hyperinflation, but they are useless of fertilizers and seeds, said Aquiles Hopkins, the nesses that “will never open again.” “Before, we without other government measures, such as head of the country’s agribusiness sector saw the bottom of the abyss, now we see things reducing liquidity. Monetary liquidity increased Fedeagro. much blacker than that.” Despite Maduro’s 1,100 percent in 2017, according to the analysts “For 2018, we have nothing,” he warned. The announcement of a minimum wage increase, Rendivalores. IMF forecast a drop in GDP of 12 percent in most Venezuelans will still earn only about $7 a “The problem is not the pill that you take, but 2017 and 6.0 percent in 2018. The state as well YANGON: A trishaw driver sleeping on his cycle in the early evening in month in salary and food vouchers, based on the the one you are not taking,” said economist Luis as its oil company PDVSA have been declared Yangon.—AFP commonly used black market exchange rate. Vicente Leon, adding that the government in default due to delays on capital payments and Bricelo said he pays above minimum wage to needed to free up and rationalize the economy interest on debt. - AFP

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Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 242.280 Malaysian Ringgit 75.265 Chinese Yuan 0.044864 0.048464 Turkish lira 80.710 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.885 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036760 0.039510 Swiss Franc 312.400 Thai Bhat 10.280 Indian Rupee 0.004138 0.004779 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 238.630 Turkish Lira 80.265 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Japanese Yen 2.683 US Dollar Buying 301.500 Indian Rupees 4.26 Japanese Yen 0.002596 0.002776 Pakistani Rupees 2.737 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Korean Won 0.000274 0.000289 Srilankan Rupees 1.968 20 Gram 249.070 Malaysian Ringgit 0.071671 0.077671 Nepali Rupees 2.970 10 Gram 127.450 Nepalese Rupee 0.003016 0.003186 Singapore Dollar 227.860 5 Gram 64.570 CURRENCY BUY SELL Pakistan Rupee 0.002559 0.002849 Europe Hongkong Dollar 38.683 Philippine Peso 0.005952 0.006252 British Pound 0.405259 0.412759 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 Singapore Dollar 0.222585 0.232585 Philippine Peso 6.056 Czech Korune 0.006285 0.015585 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001734 0.002314 Thai Baht 9.323 Danish Krone 0.044942 0.049942 Euro 0. 358669 0.366169 Taiwan 0.010370 0.010550 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Georgian Lari 0.134621 0.134621 Thai Baht 0.009046 0.009596 Saudi Riyal 80.654 US Dollar 301.900 Hungarian 0.001139 0.001329 Canadian Dollar 241.565 Qatari Riyal 83.070 Norwegian Krone 0.033560 0.038760 Arab Sterling Pound 409.475 Omani Riyal 785.473 Romanian Leu 0.064650 0.081500 Bahraini Dinar 0.794943 0.803443 Bahraini Dinar 803.110 Euro 364.345 Egyptian Pound 0.014704 0.020422 Swiss Frank 295.590 Russian ruble 0.005300 0.005300 UAE Dirham 82.366 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Bahrain Dinar 801.265 Slovakia 0.009000 0.019000 Swedish Krona 0.032118 0.038118 Iraqi Dinar 0.000185 0.000245 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 82.585 Swiss Franc 0.303918 0.314918 Egyptian Pound - Cash 20.000 Qatari Riyals 83.410 Jordanian Dinar 0.421693 0.430693 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 16.992 Saudi Riyals 81.365 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.214 Jordanian Dinar 427.090 Australasia Lebanese Pound 0.000155 0.000255 Tunisian Dinar 123.700 Egyptian Pound 17.059 Australian Dollar 0.229772 0.241772 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022073 0.046073 Jordanian Dinar 426.420 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.969 New Zealand Dollar 0.210814 0.220314 Omani Riyal 0.778747 0.784427 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.015 Indian Rupees 4.742 Qatar Riyal 0.078731 0.083671 Pakistani Rupees 2.734 Syrian Lira 0.000 America Saudi Riyal 0.079513 0.080813 Bangladesh Taka 3.662 Canadian Dollar 0.238480 0.247480 Morocco Dirham 32.500 Syrian Pound 0.001281 0.001501 Philippines Pesso 6.078 US Dollars 0.298150 0.302570 Tunisian Dinar 0.117831 0.125831 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 17.965 US Dollars Mint 0.298650 0.302570 US Dollar Transfer 302.250 Japanese Yen 3.675 Turkish Lira 0.075810 0.086110 Euro 365.120 Syrian Pound 1.585 Asia UAE Dirhams 0.080866 0.082566 Nepalese Rupees 2.967 Sterling Pound 410.610 Bangladesh Taka 0.003284 0.003868 Yemeni Riyal 0.000982 0.001062 Established 1961 19 Business Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Turkish Airlines introduces new inflight toys to delight its youngest travelers Airline to ensure sustainable development and eco-friendly operations

KUWAIT: Turkish Airlines, with the world’s with the airline’s recognition of the possible set gives children this opportunity while simul- according to the sustainability rules set by the largest and most comprehensive network in harmful effects of plastic on both children and taneously introducing them to the concept of Forest Stewardship Council. terms of countries and international destina- the environment. Turkish Airlines is committed endangered species. Through play, Turkish By developing eco-friendly products and tions that reached, continues to find ways to to making certain that every aspect of its oper- Airlines, in conjunction with the World Wildlife packaging, Turkish Airlines will continue to enhance the travel experience for its customers ation is consistent with its goal of sustainable Fund of Turkey, hopes to instill an appreciation make innovations. within the context of its award-winning envi- development and eco-friendly operations. of animal protection among our children-those In this case, the global carrier has worked ronmental policies. The new toys, especially designed for who will inherit the world and will be responsi- with the toy industry to develop items that As from January 2018, the airline will com- Turkish Airlines, recognize the need to provide ble for its care. promote sustainability and better health while pletely revamp its selection of inflight toys now young travelers between three and 12 with The stuffed toys are created from cotton at the same time increasing wildlife awareness made from all-natural materials. This is in line additional entertainment while inflight. The toy and the wooden parts are manufactured for its youngest guests.

and Hong Kong will receive a hot meal, such as a British Airways invests in pizza wrap or a regional option, with a pot of pasta, Gulf Bank invites Kuwait to a chocolate brownie and a drink as well as a smokehouse BBQ crunch Graze movie-snack box. substantial new catering for A hot English breakfast will also be served on these join its Al-Danah millionaire longer flights that operate overnight. Customers on daylight flights from London will world traveller customers be offered a range of Magnum ice-creams, while draw event tomorrow! those on night flights will be offered a tuck-box KUWAIT: British Airways is announcing a multi- either a tasty sandwich or a more substantial pizza with options such as Dairy Milk Buttons, Twix, Kit- million pound investment in its World Traveller wrap, both served with additional snacks, depend- Kats and Mini Cheddars, which will also be avail- (long-haul economy cabin) catering, introducing an ing on the length of the flight.” able in the galley for them to help themselves to. exciting and expanded new menu, which provides “Our customers have also told us they want to The airline is also serving regional main meal more quantity and quality to both meals and great be able to save some items for later in the flight, so options around its network, such as chicken in snacking options throughout the flight. we’ve replaced the water cup with a bottle of spicy cheng du sauce on flights to and from to Options now include: Highland Spring on the first meal, and added Graze China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, kathrikai * Pretzels with the welcome drink snack boxes on our longest flights. We’re also milagu seeragam and channa dal on flights to and * Four-course meal with starter, entree, dessert, offering Magnum ice-creams on daylight flights from Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai and acchari cheese and biscuits, accompanied by a bread roll from London and a Tuck Box on inbound and veg and dal palak on flights to and from Bangalore and bottle of water overnight flights.” and Delhi. On flights to the Middle East (Abu * Second meal or substantial snack depending The airline’s customers will be welcomed with Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and on the length of the flight pretzels and a drink. Once they are settled in, they Saudi Arabia,) customers can enjoy chicken in spicy * Regional meal options served according to will be served a four-course meal such as a starter Arabic sauce. destination of couscous salad, followed by a main course of Regional breakfasts will also be served includ- KUWAIT: Gulf Bank will be holding its annual KD 3,000 cash with the exciting “Catch the * Magnum ice-creams chicken casserole with an ale sauce, colcannon ing Chicken Congee for Far Eastern routes and an Al-Danah account draw event for KD 1 million, Cash” money box game. The “Catch the Cash” * Tuck box with chocolates and crisps mash and seasonal vegetables, or a vegetarian Indian option featuring: Idli Shanna, Sambhar, the largest bank prize draw in the world, accord- game is open to all, but you must be present at * Hot breakfast on longer overnight flights tomato, farfalle and vegetable dish. Dessert will be upma and dosa. ing to Guinness World Records. The event will the event in the Avenues in order to be selected * Graze movie-snack box on longer flights a Pots & Co salted caramel and chocolate mousse, The popular meal options for customers with take place at 7 pm tomorrow (11 January) at The to participate. * Complimentary drinks from the bar followed by biscuits and cheese. The meal will be special dietary requirements will continue to be Avenues Mall in Kuwait. During the exciting Participation is free of charge; participants Previously customers travelling in the cabin accompanied by a bread roll and a bottle of available to book on ba.com/managemybooking evening, the bank will also be announcing win- need to just register at the registration desk, were served a complimentary snack, a three- Highland Spring water. more than 24 hours ahead of their flight departing. ners of the red account final draw where a lucky which will be located at Grand Avenue, and then course-meal or a light meal, depending on the time On the shorter daylight long-haul flights to des- winner will be receiving a Fiat 500c. Additionally, registered names will then be randomly selected. Travellers looking for a special treat can also and length of their flight as well as a complimentary tinations such as New York and Dubai, fliers will the main event will also offer the audience a Registration for “Catch the Cash” competition pre-order meals on flights from Heathrow up to 24- bar service of hot and cold drinks. The new cater- also receive a sandwich such as egg and cress with chance to win cash prizes by playing Gulf Bank’s will be opened from 5 pm to the start of the hours before their flight. Options include a ing arrives from January 17, and the menus that will a chocolate or Nutri-Grain bar. Those on longer fun “Catch the Cash” money box game! event at 7pm. Selected participants will then change every six months. daylight flights to destinations such as Cape Town Gourmet Dining meal for £18.00, Taste of Britain The pre-event will start at 5pm with chil- step inside Gulf Bank’s cash box and try to catch Carolina Martinoli, British Airways’ director of and Taste of the Far East for £16.00 and a Great dren’s activities, followed by the Al-Mass Band, as many flying notes as they can in 10 seconds, brand and customer experience, said: “Our cus- British Breakfast, a Healthy Choice meal or a which will be performing traditional Kuwaiti and these notes are then exchanged for real cash tomers tell us that when they’re taking a long-haul Vegetarian Kitchen option all for £15.00. songs and dances at 6 pm. Then the Al-Danah on the spot. flight, great food and beverages make a real differ- British Airways is investing £4.5 billion for cus- draw, hosted by Media personality Omar Al- Al-Danah is Gulf Bank’s flagship account ence to them. It’s a huge driver of customer satis- tomers over the next five years, covering the instal- Othman, will start at 7pm, during which Al- and account holders are eligible to win valuable faction so we want to make sure we deliver a great lation of the best quality WiFi and power in every Danah’s newest millionaire will be announced. cash prized through its daily and quarterly. To Red is an account specifically for high school, participate in the Al-Danah draws, customers experience. With this multi-million pound invest- seat, fitting 128 long-haul aircraft with new interiors and taking delivery of 72 new aircraft. The airline is college, and university students aged between 15 must have an Al-Danah account containing a ment we’ve focused on introducing more quantity and 25 years. Red prizes include an Apple minimum of KD 200 and the chances of winning and quality to the catering, delivering tasty meals also investing £600m specifically in Club World, including outstanding catering and luxurious White iPhone, iPad pro, Apple Watch, in addition to the increase corresponding to the amount deposit- and great snacking options throughout the flight. Fiat car. As with all Gulf Bank draws, it will be ed in their Al-Danah account. Gulf Bank’s red “Our new four-course main meal has been Company bedding - plus, from 2019, a new seat with direct aisle access. This year British Airways conducted in the presence of a representative does not require a minimum deposit. Eligible developed by our team of chefs to be full of flavor from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. customers have chance to enter the draw auto- will start services to six new routes including at 35,000ft and we’ve created regional options Gulf Bank is happy to announce that in addi- matically and on a monthly basis, upon transfer- depending on the route. The second meal option is Nashville and The Seychelles. tion to all the prizes and activities noted, it will ring their student allowances, in addition to be offering the audience a chance to win up to number of other benefits and advantages.

AUB launches ‘Your Investment is Worth Gold’ to reward Al-Khair deposit customers KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (AUB) announced the launch of the unmatched promotional cam- paign ‘Your Investment is Worth Gold’ to reward Al-Khair long-term deposit customers. This campaign offers the Bank’s customers the chance to enter a draw to win one of 10 valu- able gold prizes upon opening an Al-Khair long-term deposit for a period of one year or more. The campaign runs until 28th February 2018. The first prize of the draw is valued at 1 news the BoJ had trimmed its purchases of cent. The Dutch equivalent was also flat at 0.52 kilogram of gold, the 2nd prize at a half kilo- Eurozone yields long-dated Japanese government bonds, yields percent but was about 16 bps higher than its gram of gold and the 3rd prize at a quarter were flat to a touch lower across the eurozone. December low, while Austria has seen its 10- kilogram of gold. The 4th to 10th prizes are all Germany, the Netherlands and Austria sold year borrowing costs increase 18 bps over the valued at 100 grams of gold each. The draw will steady amid year’s over 3.5 billion euros of bonds between them, past month to 0.57 percent. take place and winners will be announced on receiving strong demand from investors. The In a continuation of a recent trend, Southern 20th March 2018. yield on all three countries’ debt has risen in European debt outperformed, and the gap The campaign provides customers with one Investment is Worth Gold’. Moreover, Al-Khair first wave of recent weeks as the European economy motors between Spanish and German bond yields was chance to enter the draw for every new KD deposits from AUB offer one of the best invest- ment opportunities that are Shari’ah compliant. on. High-grade bonds tend to underperform in at its tightest since September. Normally, an 10,000 deposited for a period of one year, 2 chances when maintained for 2 years and 3 Now customers can choose a longer tenor for benign conditions as investors switch to riskier improvement in economic conditions would high-grade supply chances when maintained for 3 years. higher profit return reaching a very competitive assets with better returns. But as a result of the cause investors to be cautious about buying On this occasion, AUB’s head of branches rate of 2.75 percent yearly for the 3 year sell-off, those bonds are now looking attractive, government bonds as it makes an early end to Amer Najem said, “We at AUB believe that our Wakala Fixed deposit. LONDON: Eurozone government bond yields analysts said. the European Central Bank’s bond-buying success is based on building profitable financial The deposit offers three investment terms resisted upward pressure from new supply and “The broader picture is yields are still low scheme more likely. But with inflation yet to relationships with our new and existing cus- (one year, two years and three years) with a a rise in US and Japanese peers yesterday, but we still need to be excited a bit on this show a sustained increase, investors would feel tomers as well as strong, long-term relation- minimum deposit of KD 10,000. Profits are underscoring the strong demand for European (upward) move in the last few weeks,” said ING reasonably safe buying debt. “To me, the cur- ships between the Bank and its customer base. deposited to customers’ accounts via monthly assets in the market. strategist Martin Van Vliet. rent Bund yield level makes sense given eco- We have allocated these valuable gold prizes payments. Furthermore, the Al-Khair long-term On a day when three euro zone countries The yield on the region’s benchmark, German nomic data looks rock solid. The only thing during the campaign to enhance the loyalty of deposit can be broken and customers can with- held their first auctions of 2018 and 10-year US 10-year debt, was flat at 0.43 percent yesterday, we’re all waiting for is signs of inflationary pres- our customers, and we are proud to start 2018 draw their funds before the maturity date, sub- Treasury yields hit their highest since March on well above the mid-December level of 0.30 per- sure,” said Van Vliet. — Reuters with this outstanding campaign ‘Your ject to relevant terms and conditions applied. 20 Established 1961 Business Wednesday, January 10, 2018 BOJ tweak buoys yen, stocks rally

LONDON: A tweak to the Bank of Japan’s could start to wind down its stimulus policy That was despite the biggest increase in 2000. Although high levels of earnings revi- long of 565,459 lots,” ING bank said. bond-buying program shunted the yen this year and saw the yen rise as much as half German industrial output since September sions are usually seen at the start or end of Asian trading saw its own milestones. higher yesterday, while gains from commod- a percent to 112.50 yen to the dollar. 2009 and suggested investors might be the economic/market cycle, they said “it is Japan’s Nikkei closed at its highest since ity stocks as oil hit its highest since 2015 “It shouldn’t be perceived as a monstrous becoming more cautious after a months-long still too early to call the end of this cycle”. November 1991, China chalked up an eighth helped world shares maintain their flying signal of the end of monetary easing but it rally that has pushed “long” euro positions to Commodity markets are one of potential day of gains and stocks in the Philippines start to the year. shows that even the tiniest announcement on record levels. “I don’t think right now levels factors in that. Oil prices jumped to their jumped 2 percent to a new all-time high. MSCI’s all-country world stocks index a quiet day can have a reaction,” said Societe substantially above $1.20 are justified,” highest since mid-2015 on Tuesday amid South Korea’s KOPSI was dragged down posted another record high as Europe’s main Generale’s global head of currency strategy Reichelt said. “I know the market is very OPEC-led production cuts and a dip in though by a 3.1 percent drop in Samsung’s markets shrugged off a tech wobble in Asia Kit Juckes. optimistic about the euro, but if you look at American drilling. shares after its profit guidance disappointed and instead cheered Christmas trading “And it shows that when they start turning the data and the central bank, the ECB Brent crude the international benchmark, some analysts who are also wary about updates, the oil gains and more forecast- their ship around from this policy, the yen is (European Central Bank) is still on an expan- jetted as high as $68.29 a barrel, its highest longevity of the boom in demand for the beating data from Germany. Wall Street was going to go miles.” Since it adopted its yield- sionary path.” since May 2015, with U.S. WTI crude doing firm’s memory chips. expected to inch to fresh peaks too when curve-control policy in 2016, the BOJ has the same as it rose to $61.91. Emerging market stocks were a touch trading resumes, though there will be plenty occasionally tweaked its buying, but some Wall Street upbeat Beyond equalling that 2015 high, which lower anyway having hit a 6-1/2 year high of cross-market cross-winds to tack through. market players seemed to take yesterday’s Wall Street’s expected tick higher later was a short intra-day spike, yesterday’s high this week. Angola’s kwanza currency was US Treasury yields-the biggest driver of move as a signal of possible intent. comes with the fourth-quarter earnings sea- was the strongest for WTI since December, braced for an expected devaluation, while global borrowing costs-had briefly touched a The dollar, meanwhile, was rising against son there just beginning and investors 2014, at the start of the oil market slump. Venezuela’s battered bonds were dealt nine-month high in Europe on the mix of most other major currencies including the unashamedly upbeat. Citi analysts say global “Speculators continued to increase their net another blow as a key market body recom- higher oil prices, good economic data and an euro, which having approached three-year earnings revisions have now been upgraded long in ICE Brent ... According to exchange mended that they should be traded on the unexpected move by the BOJ to trim its long- highs last week slipped to a 10-day low of for 14 weeks in a row, the best run of weekly data, speculators increased their position by presumption that they have as-good-as dated bond buys. That stoked speculation it $1.1941 . upgrades since their data series started in 4,175 lots to leave them with a record net defaulted. — Reuters Established 1961 21

Business Wednesday, January 10, 2018 ALSAYER reinforce strategic campaign against “Fake Parts” MNSS Toyota Genuine Spare Parts Division holds workshop

KUWAIT: To spread awareness about the serious ages that can be caused by it. We are pleased to work damages caused by using cheap quality spare parts, hand in hand serving consumers and our beloved coun- showcase activities by Al-Sayer against counterfeit tries interest.” Parts, Mohamed Naser Al-Sayer & Sons Co (MNSS) The main objective of the workshop was to educate Toyota Genuine Spare Parts Division, a subsidiary of the customs officers to differentiate between original Al-Sayer Holding held a workshop on counterfeit parts and fake parts thru the various tools offered by Toyota in collaboration with the General Administration of Motor Corporation in the manufacturing of genuine Customs at Salmi and Nuwiseeb land borders. parts. The event also featured an interactive question The events that took place on 21st & 26th Dec, were and answer session administered by Saied Al-Shurafa. attended by Mohamed Hilal Business Director Parts and Educating the high risk of using counterfeit parts Accessories, Desmond Lew Business Director Parts and Saeed Al-Shurafa said “The spread of counterfeit parts Group Logistics, Saied Al-Shurafa Deputy General has become a major concern for manufacturers, sellers Manager Parts and Accessories Sales, Mohammad and consumers alike. The perpetrators of these illegal Nasimi Senior Manager activities became After Sales Marketing, more professional, Oommen Philip Deputy they use packaging Manager Marketing materials and posters and Pricing, Xavier Committed to to conceal being Yesudas Manager Parts absolutely counterfeit, and Accessories Sales, deliver best or change it slightly Osama Al Shami Office so that the average Head Intellectual products and consumer can’t distin- Property Rights office guish it because of General Administration after sales service the difficulty of dis- ber causing damage to the engine and heavy repair Sayer is using hologram labels to identify and distinguish of Customs, Belal Al- covering these differ- costs. genuine parts for customers. Khamis Deputy ences in any pieces.” • Counterfeit brake discs and brake pads which This comes in line with the Group’s social responsibili- Manager of Customs “The wide spread increase the distance required to stop the car on break- ty promoting such customer awareness and offering valu- Nuwaiseeb border, of counterfeit parts is ing hence threatening consumer life and safety due to able information about modern day technology, safety Madloul Ziad Al-Shammari Asst. Supervisor Al-Salmi an ever worsening problem which threatens manufac- poor brake performance apart from damage to the brak- standards of products, and road safety as well. Al-Sayer border, Tarek Abu Mariam Senior Associate and turers, sellers and consumers alike. Counterfeit parts ing system, the vehicle and higher maintenance costs. is in direct cooperation and coordination with the appro- Mohamed Abdelhamed Associate from Al-Tamimi & Co pose great risks & danger to consumers and the overall • Counterfeit electrical parts delivering poor engine priate government control authorities and Customs law firm. community. Such cheap alternative products are made performance and risk to driver. Vehicles catching fire on authorities providing them with best control tools. Welcoming the guests Mohamed Hilal said, “We of materials of poor standards and specifications which the road is an example of the greatest risks and results of “We will continue to strengthen our marketing efforts thank the General Administration of Customs for giving cannot offer the required performance by the passage using counterfeit electrical parts, trading, promotion or towards educating the society about the danger of com- us this opportunity. Our gathering today is a continua- of time and which cannot withstand the tough weather using of which is a crime against consumers. promising on quality through purchasing counterfeit tion of our hard work to activate community partner- conditions,” said Mohammad Nasimi. Al-Sayer has been educating customer and overall parts. No Counterfeit is our aim and we will fully support ship with concerned government authorities, private • For example, counterfeit oil strain is made of cheap public awareness about counterfeit parts and their dam- you to protect the consumer and Kuwaiti market from sector institutions and experts to clarify and activate and low quality materials for lower costs which allow aging effects and life threatening risks over the past two this problem,” added Mohamed Nasimi. The events con- the importance of providing adequate protection for damaging materials to get into engine delivering poorer decades. These are aimed at educating customer and cluded with speeches by Tarek Abu Mariam and companies, with accredited trademarks, producing performance and shorter engine life as well as leakage enhancing his awareness of the existence and the danger Mohamed Abdelhamed representatives from Tamimi and goods and services for the health and safety of humans of oil on the engine leading to the combustion of the in using such counterfeits, and to encourage customers to Co Law Offices & Legal Consultants (Toyota representa- and environment against damages accompanying the vehicle. shun such products and go for only Toyota genuine parts tive) explaining intellectual property rights and the laws handling of counterfeited products and sensual dam- • Air filter allowing dust into the combustion cham- for safe driving and trouble free vehicle performance. Al- assigned to them. 22 Established 1961 Technology Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Tipping point: LG adds Google AI in next ‘smart home’ push

Google Assistant being integrated into LG products

LAS VEGAS: Consumer electronics titan LG on includes enabling appliances, cars, air conditioners Monday proclaimed this year a “tipping point” for and other “everyday” devices to adapt to users’ indi- smart homes, pushing hard into artificial intelligence vidual preferences as well as collaborate on tasks. and building Google Assistant into a smart speaker. LG “Our products will learn from users to provide intelli- Electronics is developing technology designed to gent services, not the other way around,” Park said. enable its appliances, televisions and other devices “You won’t have to study instruction manuals any adapt to users and collaborate to handle tasks. The AI more.” An on stage-demo of the cute, table-top smart platform is “open” to utilizing software made by other hub device called CLOi went awry though, with the companies, LG chief technology officer IP Park said voice-commanded device quickly ignoring the words during a press event on the eve of the official opening of an LG executive. “CLOi doesn’t like me of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. evidently,”quipped LG US marketing vice president “The world has become David VanderWaal. “Even just too complex for just robots have bad days.” any single company to Such moments are play- insist on a proprietary, fully referred to as “the closed solution,” Park said. curse of the live demo” in LG collaborators include Silicon Valley. LG is working Google and Alexa creator Even robots on more and smarter robots, Amazon, according to the showing off concept models South Korea-based con- have bad days crafted to serve as hotel sumer electronics titan. porters, deliver room service “2018 will be the tipping meals, or function as shop- point for the smart home ping carts complete with and, more important, for the check-out capabilities. smart connected lifestyle,” Panasonic announcements LAS VEGAS: LG service robots are seen during the LG press conference at the Mandalay Bay LG US marketing vice president David Vanderwaal on the eve of CES included that it is working with Convention Center during CES 2018. — AFP said. Google Assistant is being integrated into LG Amazon to build Alexa smart assistant into “infotain- products including televisions, headphones and smart ment” systems it sells to car makers. speakers, Park said. Panasonic planned to deliver Alexa voice command Fight for homes in the race, since their rival digital assistants are already “Our goal at Google is to help people get things capabilities in cars, with some available even without “The biggest theme is the fight for the connected on millions of smartphones and computers, according done in a natural, seamless way,” Google Assistant internet connectivity. The Alexa Onboard technology home between Google and Amazon,” Patrick Moorhead to Blau. “That is why Amazon is being so aggressive; vice president of engineering Scott Huffman said. integrated into Panasonic Skip Gen technology will of Moor Insights & Strategy said during a day of back- they need millions of more endpoints for Cortana in Interacting with computers by speaking has proven a bring voice functionality for in-car users, and for the to-back CES press briefings. “The notion that there is people’s hands,” Blau said. “The loser, if any, is Cortana hit, and the ability of virtual aids to converse with first time, offer certain select Alexa capabilities without this new layer that can replace apps and operating sys- because nobody is talking about them,” he added, people is expected to improve quickly, according to an Internet connection. “Alexa can help customers tems means the stakes are high.” If voice-commanded referring to Microsoft’s digital assistant. researchers from the Consumer Technology with thousands of things in the car - navigation, music, assistants become the new norm for interacting with But, Moorhead countered, Microsoft is likely playing Association behind the annual CES gathering. A LG audiobooks and more,” said Alexa automotive vice computers and the internet, being the virtual aide of to its strength by angling to be the dominant digital ThinQ speaker with Google Assistant will be available president Ned Curic. “This is a big step toward bring- choice could be a powerful and profitable position. assistant in workplaces and Cortana is already on some “in coming months,” according to Huffman. ing Alexa to customers wherever they might need her, “Competition is heating up for the smart assistant half a billion computers powered by Windows 10 soft- whether they’re at home or on-the-go.” Panasonic also ecosystem, and the question is who is going to be the ware. “The industry is making strides, but we are a long Robotic room service collaborates with Google to build Assistant smarts into smart assistant of choice in 2018,” Gartner analyst Brian way away from having everything in your house work LG’s vision for its artificial intelligence platform some of its products. Blau told AFP at CES. Apple and Google have big leads together,” Moorhead said. — AFP Apple urged to working tirelessly to make sure it stays study iPhone Intel chief says that way.”The Intel chief executive made his most high-profile public addiction in kids comments since the release of research their chip highlighting vulnerabilities affecting the chips powering most modern PCs NEW YORK: Two large shareholders urged flaw damage and many mobile devices. Apple to study whether iPhones are proving “The collaboration of so many com- addictive for children and that intensive use of panies (to mitigate the threat) is truly the smartphones may be bad for their mental contained remarkable,” Krzanich said. “Security health. “There is a growing body of evidence is job number one for Intel and our that, for at least some of the most frequent industry. The primary focus of our dis- young users, this may be having unintentional LAS VEGAS: Intel chief Brian Krzanich cussions (on this issue) is to keep our negative consequences” on their health, said said Monday the impact of a recently customers data safe.” Researchers at Jana Partners LLC and California State discovered vulnerability in computer Google showed how a hacker could Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs) in a chips has been limited due to “remark- exploit the flaw to get passwords, letter sent to Apple dated January 6 and able” collaboration by the tech indus- encryption codes and more, even made public Monday. try. Krzanich took the unusual step of though there have been no reports of The “growing societal unease” over the addressing the security issue as he any attacks using the vulnerability. intensive use of smartphones by children is delivered a keynote ahead of the open- Some analysts have warned that the LILLE: This file photo taken on November 15, 2014 shows shows an iPhone displayed in the new “at some point is likely to impact even Apple,” ing of the huge Consumer Electronics threat is unique because it is an issue Apple store. — AFP they warned. The two shareholders, which Show in Las Vegas, an industry event affecting hardware used in many com- between them own about $2 billion in Apple expected to draw some 180,000 peo- puting systems. Krzanich said updates shares, urged the company to develop addi- long term for all shareholders. Apple has not educational tasks has decreased. While it is ple from the sector. will be available for 90 percent of its tional means for parents to restrict the use of commented on the letter, but it provides not clear how many children use these As yet, Krzanich said, there is no products in the coming days and for mobile phones by their children. “We specifi- parental controls on iPhones that allow devices, surveys indicate more than one bil- information to suggest any loss of data the rest by the end of January, and cally ask that Apple form a committee of restricting access to certain apps and con- lion smartphones are being sold each year. from the so-called Meltdown and urged all computer users to update as experts and specialists to research and study tent. Although Apple was singled out in the The letter represents a new source of pres- Spectre flaws and he added, “We are quickly as possible. — AFP this issue and monitor ongoing developments letter, the question of technology and screen sure on Apple, after being forced to apologize in technology,” the letter said. time for children has long been debated. last month for slowing down the performance “Additionally, we encourage Apple to offer The investors cited a recent study by the of older iPhone models. Consumer groups parents more tools by enhancing mobile Center on Media and Child Health and the had accused the tech giant of slowing down has failed to protect employees, especial- device software to enable age-appropriate University of Alberta, according to which the older models to encourage purchase of Ex-Google ly white men, from workplace harassment setup options including limiting screen time, teachers observed that students are negative- newer models, but Apple said the move was related to their support of U.S. President setting up parental monitoring, etc.” The ly distracted by digital technologies in the meant to optimize performance of phones Donald Trump or conservative political investors said confronting this issue now classroom. In the study, three fourths of with older batteries and cut the price of engineer fired views. “Damore, Gudeman, and other would enhance the value of the firm in the teachers said students’ ability to focus on replacing the battery. — AFP class members were ostracized, belittled, over gender and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians memo sues and/or males,” the lawsuit said. Hyundai betting The lawsuit also accused Google of maintaining a secret blacklist of conser- on hydrogen SAN FRANCISCO: A former Google vative media personalities who are not engineer fired after he asserted in a allowed inside the company’s offices. The memo that biological causes were lawsuit requested an injunction barring fuel cell behind tech industry gender inequality Google from discriminating against indi- sued his former employer on Monday, viduals with conservative political views, saying he was discriminated against as a as well as for unspecified compensation. LAS VEGAS: Hyundai unveiled Monday a white man with conservative political Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle aimed views. James Damore last year caused an Pichai said when Damore was fired that at showcasing its newest technologies, uproar in Silicon Valley and beyond portions of his memo “violate our Code bucking the all-electric trend of most rival when he wrote the internal memo, which of Conduct and cross the line by advanc- automakers. The South Korean manufactur- later became public. Google said he had ing harmful gender stereotypes in our er used the 201 Consumer Electronics Show perpetuated gender stereotypes and workplace.” Gudeman was fired in to debut its Nexo, a sport utility vehicle fired him in August. December 2016 after a confrontation that uses voice commands, artificial intelli- In the months since, his firing has with a Muslim coworker on an internal gence and can be transformed into an become a popular cause among right- Google forum, according to the lawsuit. autonomous car. “We call this the next leaning US bloggers, and Damore hired a The coworker said on the forum that the future utility vehicles,” said Hyundai vice Republican Party official as his attorney. Federal Bureau of Investigation had tar- president Ki-Sang Lee. Damore and another white male former LAS VEGAS: Hyundai vice chairman Eui Sun Chung (R) and Aurora Innovation founder Chris geted him for being a Muslim, and he Hyundai said it plans to sell the Nexo in Google engineer, David Gudeman, filed expressed worry about his personal California later this year, in a bet on hydro- Urmson present the Nexo, a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle, at the International Consumer the lawsuit as a proposed class action in Electronics Show. — AFP safety, the lawsuit said. Gudeman gen even as many rivals turn to battery pow- Santa Clara County Superior Court in responded with skepticism, saying the er. The company said it resolved a number of California. The lawsuit alleges workplace coworker had provided “zero evidence” issues in developing the Nexo, including of energy efficiency in producing fuel. chairman Woong-chul Yang. To promote its discrimination and retaliation. Google, a for the claim and suggesting the FBI may starts in extreme cold weather and extend- “We all understand that technological efforts in self-driving technology, Hyundai unit of Alphabet Inc based in Mountain have had justification. A human resources ing the range to nearly 600 kilometers. challenges and innovations are a never-end- has formed a partnership with Silicon Valley View, California, said in a statement: “We employee later told Gudeman he had While a handful of companies have show- ing process that will continue until we real- startup Aurora Innovation, headed by former look forward to defending against Mr. accused his coworker of terrorism based cased fuel cell technology, obstacles include ize a mobile society of maximum conven- Google car executive Chris Urmson, who Damore’s lawsuit in court.” on religion, and that he was being fired as the lack of hydrogen stations and a low ratio ience, zero accidents and no emissions,” vice appeared at the media event. — AFP According to the lawsuit, the company a result, the lawsuit said. — Reuters Established 1961 23 Health Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Women who work nights face higher risk of cancer: Study ‘Serves as a risk factor for common cancers in women’

MIAMI: Women who regularly work the night shift ent definitions of long-term night shift work-with long-term night shift work. A subset of female in Europe and North America may face a 19 per- some of the papers describing it as “working dur- nurses was also highlighted in the study, which cent higher risk of cancer than those who work ing the night” and others saying “working at least showed “those who worked the night shift had an become incoherent. It would be like stand- during the day, said a study Monday. These height- three nights per month.” But the association was increased risk of breast (58 percent), gastroin- ing in the middle of a sandpit with no ened risks were not apparent among female night- stark. While overall long-term night shift work testinal (35 percent), and lung cancer (28 per- Bats’ brains shade.” The flying fox, Australia’s largest shift workers in Australia and Asia, said the meta- increased the risk of cancer by 19 percent, the risk cent) compared with those that did not work bat, is listed as a “vulnerable” species analysis in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, of certain cancers were even higher. Female night night shifts.” Ma noted it was possible that nurses boil in Australia nationally with its survival ranked as a “crit- Biomarkers and Prevention. might be more likely to undergo screening, ical priority” under local laws. Sydney “Our study indicates that night shift work since they work in the medical profession. recorded its hottest day since 1939 on serves as a risk factor for common cancers “Another possible explanation for the heatwave Sunday when the suburb of Penrith reached in women,” said study author Xuelei Ma, an increased cancer risk in this population may 47.3 Celsius. oncologist at the West China Medical relate to the job requirements of night shift SYDNEY: Hundreds of bats have died in New South Wales Wildlife Information, Center of Sichuan University in Chengdu, Increased the nursing, such as more intensive shifts.” sweltering conditions in Australia, with Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) China. “We were surprised to see the asso- When it came specifically to breast can- many dropping from their perches as the said the loss of bats to the brutal conditions ciation between night shift work and breast risk of cancer cer, the risk rose by 3.3 percent for every scorching temperatures “fried their brains”, could run into the thousands. Rescuers cancer risk only among women in North five years of night shift work, said the study. wildlife officials said yesterday. A record- were able to save the lives of more than a America and Europe,” he added. “It is possi- by 19 percent Previous research has shown that nighttime breaking heatwave saw the mercury rise to hundred of the animals, but many scattered ble that women in these locations have high- work can disrupt the body’s circadian 45 Celsius in Sydney’s western suburb of across the ground perished and others died er sex hormone levels, which have been pos- rhythms, causing hormonal and metabolic Campbelltown on Sunday where hundreds, still clinging to trees. “In extremely trying itively associated with hormone-related changes that may boost the risk of cancer, if not thousands, of the animals fell from conditions volunteers worked tirelessly to cancers such as breast cancer.” diabetes, obesity and depression. “The trees after succumbing to the heat. provide subcutaneous fluids to the pups The review incorporated 61 previously pub- shift workers saw a 41 percent increased risk of results of this research suggest the need for health “They basically boil,” Campbelltown that could be reached and many lives were lished studies on the topic, spanning 3.9 million skin cancer and a 32 percent higher risk of breast protection programs for long-term female night flying fox colony manager Kate Ryan told saved but sadly many were lost too,” participants from North America, Europe, cancer. shift workers,” said Ma. “Long-term night shift the local Camden Advertiser. “It affects WIRES said on Facebook. — AFP Australia, and Asia and more than 110,000 cancers. The risk of gastrointestinal cancer was 18 per- workers should have regular physical examinations their brain-their brain just fries and they One drawback to the study was that the differ- cent higher than in women who did not perform and cancer screenings.” — AFP

in embryos, they can become any other type of nals, the team said. They also implanted the Human muscle human cell. muscle fibers into adult mice, where it survived In this case, the iPSCs were coaxed into and functioned for at least three weeks, though becoming skeletal muscle cells, which grew into it was “not as strong” as natural tissue. The team tissue grown “functioning human skeletal muscle,” the team hopes their technique will allow scientists to reported in the science journal Nature grow “an endless amount” of functioning muscle Communications. in the lab on which to test drugs and gene treat- from stem cells “It’s taken years of trial and error, making ments for degenerative muscle diseases. educated guesses and taking baby steps to “The prospect of studying rare diseases is PARIS: Working human muscle has been grown finally produce functioning human muscle from especially exciting for us,” said researcher from stem cells in the lab in a breakthrough that pluripotent stem cells,” study co-author Lingjun Nenad Bursac. “When a child’s muscles are holds promise for sufferers of degenerative Rao said. The breakthrough was made possible already withering away from something like muscular diseases, scientists said yesterday. The by “unique cell culture conditions” in the lab, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it would not be team from Duke University in North Carolina and a special 3-D scaffold which allowed the ethical to take muscle samples from them and do said they were the first to achieve this feat using cells to grow “much faster and longer” than oth- further damage.” The achievement represents an adult skin or blood cells which were “repro- er teams had managed, he said in a statement advance on previous work by the same team, SYDNEY: This handout picture taken on January 8, 2018 and released by Help grammed” into a juvenile, versatile state. These issued by the university. which earlier reported the first functioning Save the Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown shows dead bats on the are called “induced pluripotent stem cells” or The tissue contracted and reacted to external human muscle tissue grown from cells obtained ground. — AFP iPSCs. Like naturally-occurring stem cells found stimuli such as electrical pulses or chemical sig- in muscle biopsies. — AFP Established 1961 24 T W h a t ’s O n Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Sheikha Dr Suad hosts chairman of Oman Shura council

n the sidelines of the GCC speakers’ meeting currently held in Kuwait, chairman of Oman’s Shura council, Sheikh Khalid Bin Hilal Al-Ma’ouli recently visited the White Palace where he met with Sheikha Dr Suad Mohammed Al-Sabah and her son Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah who congratulated him on the occasion of Oman’s national football team winning the 23rd Arabian Gulf Cup. Both sides discussed other Ocultural, social and economic issues. KNES celebrates Remembrance and Tolerance Day

n keeping with our school’s Philosophy and School Guiding Statement, KNES is home to both students and staff from different parts of the Primary Assembly reinforced what pupils learn during Citizenship and the Primary Department at Kuwait National English School held a world, who come from different cultural backgrounds, religious denomi- PSHE classes and focused on inculcating in pupils’ values such as respect, IRemembrance and Tolerance Day Assembly to raise pupil awareness nations, race groups and nationalities. Our pupils are taught to respect accepting differences amongst people and cultural diversities, anti-bully- on those who lost their lives in the First World War and in unrest around the cultures of all people, irrespective of their color or creed. We rein- ing, helping others by supporting charities, showing courtesy to the eld- the world on a daily basis as well as on the importance of Tolerance. force in our students that we all belong to one HUMAN FAMILY. Our erly and disabled in our community and assisting those in need. Established 1961 25 TV Wednesday, January 10, 2018

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CROSSWORD 1805 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Aries, as a new year opens your hidden side comes to the fore. You will Libra, your sensual side demands your attention; this could be connected to notice a strong interest in the unknown business of others, private matters, even your an internal or external power struggle you will likely become involved in. You may actually own sexual fantasies. Before deciding how you feel, look at where the truth has stopped find more questions than answers by looking in the secret shadows. People who know and emotions have begun. Observe closely and honestly for that is how you will learn to about your open door policy may seek your help or opinions regarding personal business. repair yours and the hurts of others. Occupy yourself with something whimsical and light Someone could approach you with an offensive manner because they don t agree with you a play or movie, a book or an article, maybe find that new pair of shoes. The stars are on an emotional level! Get rid of anything that has outlived its purpose and can no longer aligned for you to make things happen at home and work. You will become comfortable give you pleasure or serve you. You could feel more focused on your future than ever. with the new aspects of your chosen path. Your passions are high and an intimate time Experience a getaway tonight with someone you enjoy immensely. Find an interesting with your loved one can be sensational, aries. activity to complement the love that is in the air, libra.

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

Taurus, this is not a day for putting important tasks aside; fun times will Scorpio, you may find yourself having to deal with some primal needs: you have to wait as you tend to what you said you would tend to. You could find yourself left want to be in control of new projects, you desire sex on your own terms and you are behind by the group; your work comes first much to their chagrin! Being alone to focus focused on making the money you need to feel secure. You are curious about the motiva- will move you projects forward. Intimacy, control and wealth are a priority just now; just tions of others. You could feel a strong desire to be a better person, to stop doing the same the thought of these is stimulates something deep within you. You long to grasp the things over and over to sabotage yourself. Only you can fix you and you are resentful when unknown, the forbidden subjects in life. Be certain you are within you own person limits; anyone else tries to change or manipulate you. This could call for extra effort on your part; stepping out or away from them could be disastrous. Shouldn t you consider thisdiscov- seeing a problem is the first step toward repairing it. There are good energies around ering motivations and plans is at the fore. You will get to the bottom of something this whatever you set your mind to attaining. You could come across a potential investment. evening, taurus. Soak in a warm tub or get a massage tonight for sweet dreams, scorpio.

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

Gemini, strong tension will create an environment of betrayal when intimate, Sagittarius, you will have a chance to visit with a friend who asks for your most private secrets become exposed; there will be an opportunity to see help in a personal matter. Keeping your distance would be best but support through the muck, find the problem and take care of it. Free yourself of grudges and anger, for your friend is in order. Whatever the case, a situation that is easy to observe and absorb ACROSS mediant) note of a major or minor scale these serve to weigh the spirit down. New people, habits and energy will become avail- goes with your spirit throughout the day. Secrets of an embarrassing nature could surface 1. Ratio of the adjacent side to the in solmization. able; your mood is tender and sensitive. You prefer honest, forthright people with nothing concerning someone close to you. You will shine went you enter the room just before a hypotenuse. shady or needy about them; keep your notes and all the facts together. You could feel the meeting; your aura is a powerful burst of color today. You may feel restless and unable to 4. United States writer noted for his DOWN need to start over with a clean slate; this is a time when saying goodbye to habits will satisfy a yearning for something more in your life. Try not to be dissatisfied with your typographically eccentric poetry (1894- 1. Any of several plants of the genus come easy. Your leadership skills are strong and your ability to work with groups is at the blessing, for that is the best way to lose them. You will begin healing from a painful emo- tional break that was necessary to create positive energy, sagittarius. 1962). Camassia. fore. Gather this evening with a close knit group of loved ones, gemini. 12. Large brownish-green New Zealand 2. Lake in northwestern Russia near the parrot. border with Finland. 15. Used of a single unit or thing. 3. A car that is closed and that has front Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. A person who has been freed from and rear seats and two or four doors. slavery. 4. A fluorocarbon with chlorine. Cancer, you will take great pride and joy in your environment and the peo- Capricorn, communicating with large audiences or smaller groups will come 17. (often followed by `of') A large num- 5. In or relating to or obtained from ple in it. There will be a closer bond formed with someone you care for. easily today. Don t let naysayers or negative people put a damper on your ber or amount or extent. urine. Someone will admire a new purchase you make and indicate they want to follow your day. You re on your game and can t be stopped! Creating timetables and coordinating 18. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful 6. A state in New England. example. Your carnal needs will demand attention this month and allow you to feel free to events are a piece of cake and you make it look effortless even if it s not. Listen to the input merchants and bankers who ruled 7. A woman sahib. express yourself with abandon. You could feel a strong desire to be in charge, calling the of your co-workers. You will sift through the suggestions and unite the right ones for the Florence in the 15th century. 8. A green or yellow or brown mineral shots as you see fit, in a new venture, which could involve money and health. You are project. Trust your judgment and try not to second-guess your decisions. This evening, 20. The Fate who cuts the thread of life. consisting of a hydrated silicate. interested in gaining more knowledge about the mysteries of life. Be careful that your walk, run, play outdoors to prepare for a good night s sleep. Let your thoughts be on the 21. The residue that remains when some- 9. Resonance of protons to radiation in a thoughts could be muddled and as a result someone could lead you down the wrong positive outcomes you seek. Sometimes we have to experience clouds to appreciate the thing is burned. magnetic field. road; start the evening with meditation and prayer for better thinking, cancer. sunshine, capricorn. 10. (slang) A gangster's pistol. 22. Any culture medium that uses agar as 11. Snarled or stalled in complete confu- the gelling agent. sion. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 23. (computer science) A kind of com- 12. The basic unit of money in Zambia. puter architecture that has a large num- 13. Freedom from difficulty or hardship Aquarius, sexuality, material gain and dominance are what turn you on right ber of instructions hard coded into the Leo, all eyes are on you as the group seeks solutions to complicated situa- or effort. tions. You are in the perfect frame of mind for leading people to victory. now. You are interested in the unknown and forbidden; is someone flirting that shouldn t cpu chip. 14. A condition (mostly in boys) charac- beperhaps you re the one who is out of line; remember, you get what you give. You will get 25. Having a face or facing especially of a You could be faced with decisions that clash with your moral standards; think about this terized by behavioral and learning disor- long and hard, you will find a way. You will be enticed by your need for sexual satisfaction. to the bottom of a nagging problem and bring it to an end. Friends will need your help on a specified kind or number. ders. Private matters are attractive to you and could cause problems; remember that curiosity project and your ideas will be exactly what they need. A kind person is there for you today 27. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 19. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or killed the cat! You want to figure out what motivates people and why. You will be com- and lends a kind ear; your turn will come to listen to them when they need. Your aloof 29. A cartridge (usually with paper cas- culture. pelled to look at the past year so that you can regroup and change some plans you should mood will make it easier to reconfigure something when no one wants to cross you. You ing). 24. A federal agency that supervises car- not have made. It is through helping others that we gain much satisfaction and evolution; could discover a new treatment for an ailment. Someone makes known how much you 32. Unknown god. riers that transport goods and people this is at the top of your very long list just now, leo. unknowingly helped him or her, aquarius. 33. A series of things depending on each between states. other as if linked together. 26. A town and port in northwestern 34. (law) A comprehensive term for any Israel in the eastern Mediterranean. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) proceeding in a court of law whereby an 28. An associate degree in applied sci- individual seeks a legal remedy. ence. Virgo, you will notice, especially today, that your attitudes and goals have Pisces, an event could possibly solidify your home and hearth for life, you 37. Very generous. 30. United States tennis player who taken a very different turn. Most important to you now is letting people see you at your may know what this is now. If you begin to work yourself into a routine of 41. A small island. dominated men's tennis in the 1920s best and recognizing all that you have to offer. Your focus is on your outward appearance exercise now, as you get older the routine will come naturally; this is important. The stars 42. A state in midwestern United States. (1893-1953). and refined behavior; only the outer you counts; the inner will just have to wait. The things are aligned for the energy of self-examination and honesty. You may have great clarity 43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 31. Used of a single unit or thing. that provide entertainment and pleasure are important because you feel you ve gone with- about who you truly are and what motivates you; you could come away with quite a few juice. 35. A range of mountains (usually with out them for so long; be careful not to lose your true self in this phase of life. You have tak- surprises. Pent up frustrations may erupt according to your chart; some founded, others 44. To fix or set securely or deeply. jagged peaks and irregular outline). en on the choice to radiate vibrant and accomplished energy. Your success this month not so much. You could find yourself thrown into the role of diplomat when a sibling and a 47. A bar of sand. 36. Someone who earn wages in return could be impressive. You have become more assertive and determined regarding your parent lock horns; remember honesty is the best policy. You could discard no longer need- 50. A federal agency established to coor- for their labor. goals; you will not back down easily, virgo. ed items with ease as you get down to brass tacks and go green, pisces. dinate programs aimed at reducing pol- 38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. lution and protecting the environment. 39. Capable of being corrupted. 52. A radioactive gaseous element 40. (used only in combination) Having a Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution formed by the disintegration of radium. heart as specified. 53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the 45. The use of nuclear magnetic reso- nance of protons to produce proton den- meat trimmed off. sity images. 54. A Chadic language spoken in Chad. 46. Something causes misery or death. 57. A town in central Belgium. 48. A small quantity of liquid. 59. Included seven times in every 19 49. Surrounded by hostile forces. years. 51. A setting with precious stones so 60. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often closely set that no metal shows. with a pastry top. 55. Tropical American tree producing 63. A ductile gray metallic element of the cacao beans. lanthanide series. 56. Having few if any teeth. 64. The cry made by sheep. 58. Being ten more than one hundred 67. United States swimmer who in 1926 eighty. became the first woman to swim the 61. Any of several tall tropical palms English Channel (1903- ). native to southeastern Asia having egg- 72. A member of a Turkic people of shaped nuts. Uzbekistan and neighboring areas. 62. The cardinal number that is the sum 73. A chronic inflammatory collagen dis- of five and one. ease affecting connective tissue (skin or 65. United States tennis player who was joints). the first Black to win United States and 74. The condition of not containing or English singles championships (1943- being covered by a liquid (especially 1993). water). 66. Make amends for. 76. Lacking self-confidence. 68. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually 77. Cause to grow thin or weak. in favor of a person or cause). 80. A drug combination found in some 69. A member of an Algonquian people over-the-counter headache remedies living in central Canada. (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine). 70. Type genus of the Nepidae. 81. The seat within a bishop's diocese 71. United States writer (born in Poland) where his cathedral is located adv. who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). 82. Small family of usually tropical but- 75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. terflies. 78. Informal terms for a mother. 79. Being one more than one. 83. The syllable naming the sixth (sub-

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Headline Your nose knows more than you might imagine. Here’s how to keep it happy and healthy. Sub Headl By Leslie Garcia, NOSE FACTS The Dallas Morning News I During a normal day, we breathe nearly 25,000 times. hat helps I Many people inhale mainly through us smell Section of the lining one nostril at a time, alternating nos- of the nose magnified. tomatoes at a Olfactory bulb trils every one to three hours. farmers mar- This is under the front I About 80 percent of what we taste ket, taste the part of your brain, just is affected by what we smell. corny dogs at the state fair? above the nasal cavity. I When we’re hungry, our sense It sends signals to of smell becomes stronger. What reminds us to call the parts of your brain, I doctor when the air gets a bit which interpret what After a year, we can recall stuffiness-inducing? type of smell the odor smells with 65 percent accuracy. molecules are. By comparison, after only three Our nose. months, visual recall of photos It helps us breathe, it helps drops to 50 percent. Olfactory epithelium I We have about 5 million olfactory us smell, it helps us taste. Located on the roof of the receptor cells. Rats have 10 million, “It is important in terms of nasal cavity, this contains rabbits 20 million and bloodhounds receptors that are sensi- quality of life,” says Dr. close to 220 million. Thomas Hung, an otolaryn- tive to odor molecules that travel through the air. I We smell many more odors than gologist in private practice at Septum our brains register. Only when an Medical City Dallas. This cartilage wall aroma pleases, irritates or reminds “You’re miserable when dividing the nostrils us of something do we take notice. starts deep within I When we breathe, our noses warm you can’t breathe through Nasal cavity the skull. the inhaled air to our body tempera- your nose. It’s amazing how This air-filled space behind the ture and humidify it to 100 percent nose connects with the back of unpalatable food becomes saturation. The moistness and damp- your throat. Only the roof of ness help keep the air from damag- when you can’t smell.” your mouth separates the nasal ing our lungs. Makes us reach for a tis- cavity from the inside of your sue at the mere thought. Or mouth. I Nose jobs — excuse us, rhinoplas- at least have more respect for ties — hail from the Renaissance. The Catholic Church excommunicat- that protuberance — be it Sinuses ed the most celebrated surgeon be- ski-jump, upturned, bulbous These air-filled pockets help cause he was believed to be tam- lighten the weight of the pering with God’s work. or button — in the middle of otherwise heavy skull. They our faces. help filter, moisten and warm I Describing a smell is infinitely Read on and see why we the air we breathe before more difficult than describing a it gets to the lungs. sound or a scene. One reason: no longer look at a nose in The area of the brain that deals quite the same way. with odor competes with that used for language. I Anosmia is the inability to smell; phantosmia is smelling something that isn’t really there. I Last year, about 300,000 WHY DOES YOUR rhinoplasties were performed NOSE RUN? in the United States. Allergies and infections are the two most common causes. Viruses stimulate the nose to secrete more mucus, thus leading to the call for a tissue. With allergies, the allergen (be it cats, dust, etc.) stimulates hista- mines to be released from cells THE TRUTH lining the nasal cavity. ABOUT MUCUS Mucus glands are thus stimu- Mucus membranes produce between a pint lated, secreting more mucus. The and a quart of mucus a day. We don’t tend to SNORING FACTS histamine also causes blood ves- notice the amount (thank goodness) because About a fourth of adults are ha- sels to dilate, which could cause stomach acids dissolve it. But if a virus at- bitual snorers. Why? Being over- congestion, not running. tacks these tissues, the mucus loses much of weight can contribute to it. So can its water content (making it thicker), and it Throughout history, theories bulky throat tissue and poor muscle flows more slowly. of runny noses have included: tone in the nose and throat. But we’re in- IYour brain must be liquefying. Mucus changes color depending on terested in these nose-related reasons: This courtesy of the second-centu- what’s going on in your body. But contrary to I When your nose is blocked or stuffy, you ry Greek physician Galen, whose what you may have heard, green or yellow mu- need extra effort to pull air through it. This theory, at the time, made sense be- cus doesn’t necessarily mean you have a bacterial makes a vacuum in the throat, pulling together cause so many people died of infection. It could be viral. the throat’s floppy tissues. Voilà! colds. “The truth is that mucus turns colors because of an Snoring. IYou must be lacking sexual self- increase in leukocytes, which are responsible for I Deformities in the nasal septum, restraint. This was from a 1920s fighting infections,” Hung says. the wall separating your nostrils, can Baltimore physician, who said it That increase, and the byproducts of leukocytes, give cause an obstruction that leads to was the body’s form of punishment. mucus a green, yellow or brown color. snoring.

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NOSE HEALTHY We had a few delicate questions about noses. Here’s how Dr. for 15 minutes. If it’s still bleeding, perhaps go to the emergency Nasal irrigation is a simple way to Thomas Hung, a physician in private practice at Medical City room. People on blood thinners and those taking aspirin daily, minimize the effects of colds, allergies Dallas, answered them. where the clotting ability is diminished, can have a nosebleed for and other nasal conditions. hours. Nasal irrigation Q: What is it about the nose that interests you? Regular flushing of the nose with a A: The nose has an aesthetic quality. When we look at people, Q: What happens when we smell? salt-water solution, using a neti pot, one of the first things we’re attracted to is their nose. We’re sensi- A: The molecules of a certain scent make their way to the top left, was originally developed in India. tive to picking up the symmetry, so we focus on it. It gives the of the nose. They go straight up to where the nose meets the brain, face contour, character, yet also has a function in terms of breath- to the small perforations where the olfactory nerve endings sit. Directions: ing, as well as taste. The smell molecules trigger these to fire. Then the molecules go 1. Lean over sink, turn head to side. to the part of the brain responsible for smell in the frontal lobe, 2. Insert pot spout into one nostril; tip Q: Why do our noses run when we cry? where you recognize, ‘Oh! That’s a rose.’ Or, ‘That’s gasoline.’ pot so solution flows into one nostril, A: We have tear ducts in the corners of our eyes, close to the out the other; insert pot into other nos- nose, which drain tears from the eyes into the nose. Thus, when Q: How can we keep our noses healthy? tril and repeat. we cry, some tears spill over and run down our face, but tears A: For allergies, once you recognize you have them, especial- 3. Blow out through both nostrils to also drain into the nose, thus making our nose run. ly if they’re seasonal, get yourself on medications. clear nose. Antihistamines work best before exposure. It’s almost too late SOURCES: MERCK MANUAL, INTELIHEALTH, Q: What’s the best way to stop a nosebleed? once you get the runny nose. I generally recommend a regimen HEALTHEGOODS.COM, MCT A: Sit upright and pinch your nostrils shut for 15 minutes. No of nasal humidification, more frequently in the winter. ... It takes TOM SUMLIN/MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS SUMLIN/MCCLATCHY TOM peeking. Then let go. If your nose continues to bleed, pinch again a little getting used to, but once you do it, it feels pretty good.

SOURCES: SCI.RUTGERS.EDU; WWW.STJOHNS.ORG; WWW.ENTNET.ORG; DR. THOMAS HUNG; “THE NOSE: A PROFILE OF SEX, BEAUTY AND SURVIVAL” (ATRIA BOOKS; $24) Illustration by Michael Hogue, The Dallas Morning News 28 Established 1961 Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Lifestyle Gossip Black Eyed Peas release new track without Fergie lack Eyed Peas have released a new song with- viously said Fergie could rejoin the group in the future, if ond solo record ‘Double Dutchess’ in September - insist- B out Fergie. The ‘My Humps’ hitmakers - they decided to reunite in Virtual Reality (VR) form. The ed at the end of 2017, that she hasn’t officially quit the will.i.am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo - have dropped producer and ‘The Voice UK’ coach said: “There are infi- group, and that she would love to team up with her band- political track ‘Street Livin’ which focuses on nite possibilities for the world to create. “We could cre- mates on a new album. She said: “I’ve never left The gun violence and other issues in the US, for their first sin- ate virtual Black Eyed Peas. “You could go back to when Black Eyed Peas. We’ve never broken up officially, I gle since 2016’s ‘#Wheresthelove’ remix “featuring The we started the group in 1998 and experience that story, guess we’re just on a break. We’re family. They’re like my World”, a version of their hit song ‘Where is The Love?’. you could go back to when we first got signed in 1997 work family. That’s forever. “Honestly, I would have loved Alongside a link to the music video, they wrote on when we first got signed to Interscope. “What we were to be able to do my album in one tenth of the time, do a Twitter: “We have the POWER to make change together. thinking in 2003 when we put Fergie in the group, there’s Black Eyed Peas album in that same time, tour both, have Prison Industrial Complex. Immigration. Gun Violence. so much you can do.” It’s not yet known if ‘Street Livin’ is another child. There’s just not enough hours in the day.” Police Brutality. These issues are critical for our families, a one-off single or whether the band are in the studio friends, communities, and world. Stay Woke, Take Action preparing a follow-up to 2010’s ‘The Beginning’ LP. Now. #BEPStreetLivin (sic)” It comes after will.i.am pre- ‘London Bridge’ hitmaker Fergie - who released her sec- Timberlake album Lana Del Rey postpones will ‘disrupt order’ Kansas City gig ustin Timberlake’s long-time collaborator says J ‘Man of the Woods’ will “create a new world order”. The ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ hitmaker ana Del Rey has postponed her Kansas City debuted a totally different sound on lead single L concert after falling ill with flu. The ‘Born To ‘Filthy’, and Danja - who co-produced with the likes of Die’ hitmaker was due to perform at the Sprint The Neptunes and Timbaland - says Justin is ready to Center yesterday but took to Twitter overnight share with the world his roots as an artist, which vary to inform her 8.29 million followers that she won’t be between hip-hip and R&B to country music. Addressing recommencing the run until Thursday in Chicago, to give speculation that the 36-year-old star has gone complete- her time to recover. However, the ‘Video Games’ star has ly country on the album, Danja - whose real name is reassured her fans that promoters are doing all they can Floyd Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Hills - told Complex magazine: “I to “make up the date”. She wrote: “Kansas City, Missouri, don’t know who ever said he was making a country I’m so sorry to have to cancel the show tomorrow but album. You know, he’s always mixing a lot of different I’ve come down with the flu so I’ll be resuming the tour in things together. “It’s always funk, R&B, soul, hip-hop, Chicago. We will try and find a make up date - and country.” Sharing a description of the forthcoming refunds are available at point of purchase. (sic)” The 32- release, he said: “I like to think of ‘Filthy’ as the disruption was lined year-old singer is currently facing legal action over simi- between the world we’re living in and his world. “‘Filthy’ Bieber larities in her song ‘Get Free’ to Radiohead’s classic was just that kick in the door: “I’m here, let me erase ‘Creep’. At her Denver show on Sunday , Lana said that everything that you’ve been listening to. “”Let me disrupt up for Fifty Shades the track from her LP ‘Lust For Life’ could be removed the order, the world order and kind of create a new world from the record, but that it would not stop her benefiting order with this world that he grew up in.” On Monday from her personal attachment to the song. She told the Justin announced an arena tour in support of the record, Freed duet crowd: “I just want to say that I do have a particular song which will kick off at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on that Radiohead wants 100% of my publishing for, and March 13, before wrapping it up in his hometown of actually the only reason why I mention it is I wanted to Memphis on May 30. It will be his first full tour in four ifty Shades Freed’ producers originally let you know ... that regardless of what happens in court, years following the ‘20/20 Experience World Tour’. In a ‘F intended for Justin Bieber to sing with the sentiment I wrote in that song, which was my state- promo clip posted on social media, Justin explained that Rita Ora on ‘For You’. Bosses at ment song for the record, my personal manifesto, my he was inspired by the outside on the record, and that Universal Pictures were desperate to get motto manifesto. The ‘Video Games’ singer recently con- that will be reflected with his production. He said: “The the pop megastar on the track “with or without” firmed reports that the indie rock group are suing her for outdoors is the inspiration for a lot of these songs. That’s Rita, after securing Taylor Swift on the last movie, copyright infringement. She wrote: “I just want to let you the main idea. The tour will be able to bring the outside ‘Fifty Shades Darker’, with former One Direction to avoid a court battle. A source said previously: “Both know that regardless of what gets taken down off of teams are trying to thrash it out behind the scenes to in. “How can we bring that to life? I want people to see star Zayn Malik on ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’. everything, those sentiments that I wrote, I really am the inspiration for how it ended up sounding. I’ve never However, the ‘Sorry’ hitmaker was reportedly intent prevent it from going to court. “It’s understood that going to strive for them even if that song isn’t on future Radiohead’s team are hoping for the band to either seen that done before-bring the outside in.” The on not taking on extra jobs during his hiatus. An physical releases of the record.” Radiohead, fronted by ‘SexyBack’ singer recently revealed his record focuses on insider told the Daily Star newspaper: “Originally receive compensation or be credited on the list of song- Thom Yorke, believe there are too many similarities writers to receive royalties.” The track is currently credit- his wife Jessica Biel and their two-year-old son Silas, as Universal Pictures wanted Justin Bieber to sing a between ‘Creep’ and ‘Get Free’, but were said to be keen well as his roots in Memphis. song on the soundtrack, either with or without Rita. ed to Lana, Kieron Menzies and Rick Nowels. “He’s the biggest male pop star in the world and so that’s what they aimed for. “They had the world’s biggest female pop star in Taylor Swift do the last film, so they were keen for something a bit different Sam Rockwell loves doing darker films because Zayn Malik sang that with her and he comes from One Direction as well.” Zayn’s former bandmate Liam Payne ended up recording the am Rockwell always wanted to this amazing film director. He’s made three track with the ‘Your Song’ singer, which he was S do “darker stuff”. The 49-year- pretty good movies, and this is probably over the moon with. In a newsletter to his fans, the old actor has starred in a num- his best. “I’m not embarrassed to tell you ‘Strip That Down’ hitmaker wrote: “Buzzing to start ber of comedy rolls but admit- I’ve seen it more than once. I’m so proud the new year having a new single out with Rita Ora ted he also enjoys playing more serious of it. “It’s easy, working with Martin. I’ll be called For You! We had a lot of fun making this in roles and is set to portray George W Bush nervous to read in front of him for the first the studio so I hope you like it! It’s the lead track in Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic. time. “I work with coaches and do my from the new Fifty Shades Freed movie. It’s out Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, homework, so I’m usually pretty prepared. now so go give it a listen. (sic)” Meanwhile, lead Rockwell said: “I’ve always wanted to do Then he’ll make little adjustments like the star Jamie Dornan has recorded a cover of Sir Paul darker stuff, but I like to be silly too. hair. But it’s never, like, ‘you’re way off the McCartney’s hit ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ for the “Though comedy also takes it out of you. mark’. “He casts the right people, ulti- soundtrack. The 35-year-old actor stars as I mean, it’s not digging ditches, but men- mately.” Rockwell won the Supporting Christian Grey in the final installment of the ‘Fifty tally. “You do 16-hour days, with a dead- Actor award at the Golden Globes on Shades’ series which was based on the trio of nov- line. Working with Adam McKay and Sunday and has been nominated for a els by E.L. James, and it seems as though his star- playing George W Bush, with Christian BAFTA for his role as Jason Dixon in the ring role won’t be the only contribution he makes Bale as Dick Cheney... that’s responsibility, new movie and said he enjoys “rubbing to the movie. According to the official track listing - you know? You gotta have a beer at the shoulders” with other celebrities. He said: which was announced on the movie’s Instagram end of the week.” Rockwell is now star- “It’s fun. It’s nice to get props, but you can page on Monday - Jamie lends his voice to a rendi- ring alongside Frances McDormand and take the piss out of it all at the same time. tion of the song, which was first released by the Woody Harrelson in the new Martin “There are moments of enjoyment when former Beatles legend in 1970 for his album McDonagh movie ‘Three Billboards you’re rubbing shoulders with a mentor ‘McCartney’. The track was never released as a sin- Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, and he has like Gary Oldman. “That’s a kick. Tom gle, but a live version was recorded with Paul’s nothing but praise for the filmmaker. He Hanks, who I’ve worked with. Meryl post-Beatles band Wings for their live album said: “I put him [McDonagh] up there with Streep. Judi Dench.” ‘Wings Over America’, where it became a top 10 hit David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, Harold in America and reached number 28 in the UK. Pinter, Sam Shepard, Kenny Lonergan. “His writing is astounding. And now he’s

Wright identified with Plummer almost retired before Winston Churchill landing All The Money In The World role hristopher Plummer nearly recluse” the actor had to use his imagi- oe Wright found he identified of self-doubt.” ‘The Darkest Hour’ tells the C retired before landing the John nation. He said: “He was such a mysteri- J with Winston Churchill. The 45- story at the beginning of World War II as Paul Getty role in ‘All The ous recluse, there’s very little on him. So year-old filmmaker has helmed within days of becoming Prime Minister, Money In The World’. The 88- even if I’d had all the time in the world, I the new wartime movie ‘The Churchill must face one of his most turbu- year-old Hollywood legend replaced wouldn’t have picked up anything much. Darkest Hour’ - starring Gary Oldman as lent and defining moments of the conflict: Kevin Spacey in the Sir Ridley Scott There’s very little of it to be heard - just the Prime Minister - but when Wright first exploring a negotiated peace treaty with biopic after the ‘Seven’ actor was some poor recordings in a monotone. So started out making the film, he found that Nazi Germany, which could guarantee accused of a number of sexual assault I had to use my imagination. “But I think he had some similarities with Churchill. In Britain’s independence and that of the allegations, but Plummer admitted he we ended up getting a pretty close an interview with Time Out London mag- Commonwealth. As the Nazi forces roll was contemplating ending his career approximation of the character - without azine, Wright said: “It’s not like Churchill’s across Western Europe and the threat of before he got the call. Speaking to The wearing ridiculous prosthetics, or any- been a hero of mine, but I was sent this invasion of the UK, Churchill must resist Daily Telegraph newspaper, Plummer thing like that.” The film follows the kid- screenplay and was shocked to find attempts by his own political party and an said: “I want to keep working in my fifth napping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty myself identifying with him. “He was a initially skeptical King George VI, to act, until I drop dead. You know, things III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate man who had made a lot of mistakes, and stand firm against the dangers facing his were coming to an end, and I thought ‘I attempt by his devoted mother Gail then found himself in this position of country and not buckle to the Nazis. The suppose I’ve got to retire now’, even (Michelle Williams) to convince his bil- extraordinary responsibility. “He suffered film has received critical acclaim and though I didn’t want to. Then Ridley lionaire grandfather (Plummer) to pay an immense crisis of confidence, and then Oldman recently won the Golden Globe called me. When I read it, it was clear to the ransom. Recently Williams and Mark was able to turn that around and over- for Best Actor in a Motion Picture and has me that it was a classic role. I couldn’t Wahlberg, who stars as advisor and CIA come. Also the responsibility of parent- been nominated for a BAFTA in the wait to get my hands on it.” Unlike operative Fletcher Chase, revealed they hood and marriage, and being a man. In Leading Man category. — Bang Showbiz Spacey, Plummer revealed he didn’t have agreed to reshoot the scenes without this movie, Churchill [represents] an to wear any prosthetics for the role but being paid. aspect of me. And then I put more of because Getty was a “mysterious myself into the screenplay, those elements Established 1961 29 Lifestyle Fashion Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Models present creations from the Liam Hodges collection during a catwalk show on the second day of the Autumn/Winter 2018 London Fashion Week Men’s, in London. — AFP photos Outerwear and out there: London wraps up men’s fashion week

ender fluid clothes, dartboards and bright orange-here are some of the trends and high- Glights from Men’s Fashion Week in London, which wrapped up on Monday:

Young talent Organizational reasons kept big names away from this edition-Burberry presents its mixed male/female collec- tion in February-so the men’s event went back to its roots by promoting young designers. London is the “capital of creativity”, said Caroline Rush, the head of the British Fashion, which organizes the showcase. One example is MAN, an initiative by retailer Topman and non-profit Fashion East that helps develop new talent. This year it supported the London debut of gender fluid design duo Art School. Male and female models wore clothes designed to be worn by either, including a red pinstriped shift dress overlayed with a belted corset, the wearer’s hairy chest showing through.

Orange alert There is nothing like wearing bright colors on dull winter days, and What We Wear, the label founded by London rapper and singer/songwriter Tinie Tempah, had neon orange scarves, t-shirts and trousers inspired by high-visibility construction wear. At Christopher Raeburn, which prides itself on sustainable designs, orange was also a dominant theme in a collection that transformed air and sea rescue uniforms into modern streetwear, with long padded jackets, gloves and water- shimmering, colorful dress with an electrical extension proof boots. Hussein Chalayan used a palette of brown, cord for a necklace. It was the creation of Rottingdean yellow and black, while Oliver Spencer, who creates tai- Bazaar, a label by James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks, lored casual chic, used ochre and charcoal grey in his lat- two former students from London talent hub Central est collection modeled by a range of ages. Saint Martins, who are forging a reputation for provoca- tive style. Urban cowboy and dystopia After the carefully-coiffed metrosexual and the beard- Vivienne Westwood: fashion.com ed lumbersexual, is it time for the urban cowboy? It’s not Notably absent from this season’s Men’s fashion week impossible, if you believe Astrid Andersen-a young in London, the high-priestess of punk chose to display designer who matched sportswear with Stetson hats, her latest collection through a series of images and electric blue puffas and overclothes with tartan designs. videos posted online. “Don’t Get Killed” had a military Liam Hodges offered a more subdued look, which theme, with models sporting cartridge belts and khakis stayed true to his hip-hop and neo-punk roots while and posing on army beds, multicolored oil drums and mil- imagining a disturbing future, with “killer clown” smileys itary-style bunk beds. A long-time political campaigner, adorning oversized black jumpers. including against Brexit, the British designer also staged models holding European and British flags.—AFP Clothes you won’t wear An outfit resembling two dartboards, one worn on the head-the face a bullseye-and one on the body, over a

Designers of Art School, part of the MAN collection, join models wearing their creations during a catwalk show on the third day of the Autumn/Winter 2018 London Fashion Week Men’s. Forget Milan, Florence is cradle of Italian fashion

hink Italian fashion and you are likely to think of It was Tuscan businessman Giovanni Battista Giorgini Preserving ancient skills The modern-day city manages to defend its position as chic central, Milan. But “Made in Italy” actually who organized the first Italian fashion show, hosting a From the 12th to the 17th century, the city boasted 21 a fashion leader by preserving local craftmanship and T has its roots in Florence, where the hotly antici- gathering with US and Canadian buyers, journalists and such bodies protecting the interests of the rich and influ- working in partnership with its close neighbor Prato, the pated Pitti Uomo trade fair opens this week. The most distributors at his home in 1951 — largely in a challenge to ential in the art and crafts world, the most powerful of country’s leader in supplying fabrics to the ready-to-wear famous men here may be naked-from Michelangelo’s French fashion. Then relatively unknown labels such as which were known as the Arti Maggiori. The elite Arte di industry. David to the sea-god Neptune-but every year the Simonetta, Pucci, Fontana and Cuppucci went down a Calimala, the guild of cloth finishers and foreign cloth mer- Florence boasts historical gems such as the Antico Tuscan city becomes the capital of men’s fashion, storm and Giorgini replicated the shows the following year chants, was among them. It imported raw fabrics before Setificio Fiorentino, a silk factory founded in 1786 putting on four heady days of ready-to-wear shows. in a grand hotel, before they became a fixed feature at the transforming them into refined materials and exporting which still produces jacquard weaves and damasks by The event, which kicked off yesterday, is a must majestic Pitti Palace. them in a trade that drove the city’s economy. The Calimala hand on looms that once belonged to the city’s noblest for buyers, journalists and fashionistas-drawing It was under the Pitti’s glass chandeliers that the competed with other guilds-like the wool or silk mer- families. And the city’s traditional skills are protected some 36,000 last year-who gather to gawp, gossip biggest houses-Gucci, Schiaparelli, Ferragamo-showed off chants over who could finance the greatest architectural from the march of time thanks to fashion schools like and go mad over the latest trends at the city’s their creations until the 1980s, making “Made in Italy” a and artistic works in the city, from the bronze doors of the Polimoda, which ranks among the top 10 such insti- imposing Fortezza da Basso fortress. Some 1,200 byword for the highest quality and most sought-after Baptistery to the Cathedral’s famed dome. tutes in the world. —AFP brands are expected to present their autumn-winter fashion. “Florence’s relationship with fashion is rooted in “It was comparable to the key support private compa- collections at the 93rd edition under headliner Karl its economic, political and cultural history, dominated by nies, including many fashion houses, bring today to cultur- Lagerfeld, with old hands like Paul&Shark alongside powerful craft guilds,” says Angelo Cavicchi, president of al projects,” says Saverio Pacchioni, a member of the newcomers such as M1992 by Italian DJ Dorian the Pitti Discovery Foundation and the Florence Center for Associazione Partners Palazzo Strozzi, which persuades Stefano Tarantini. Italian Fashion. firms to promote the arts in Florence. 30 Established 1961 Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Lifestyle Features Rio counting down to carnival under party-pooper mayor

io’s annual carnival is seen as a money-making extravaganza for the city. But evangelical Mayor RMarcelo Crivella isn’t a fan and slashed funding for next month’s parade, forcing samba schools to cut their cloth accordingly. Before his bombshell announcement in June that he was halving the budget of some $7 million, newly-elected Crivella broke with tradition by not attending the opening of the event in what was widely seen as a snub to its wild party culture. Rio’s 13 elite sam- ba schools reacted by threatening to call a halt to the world’s most famous carnival. But the storm has since subsided, and one month to the day before the start of the party, the sewing machines are busily whirring in Samba City, a zone of warehouses and workshops where the magnificent floats and cos- tumes are made. “With or without money, I enjoy the car- nival” is the theme of one of the best known Samba schools, the Mangueira. It’s a school whose idea of “sin”- in a dig at former evangelical bishop Crivilla-is “not to enjoy the carnival.” “The subsidy cut forced us to adapt our resources to make a beautiful, grandiose carnival, though one that is accommodated to this new reality,” artistic director A member of a samba school waits for the start of a street parade at Copacabana People work on the costume for the Mangueira samba school at Cidade do Samba Leandro Vieira told AFP, even if he believes the mayor’s beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (City of Samba), where costumes and floats for Rioís Carnival are made, in Rio de motives to be religious rather than financial. Janeiro, Brazil. — AFP photos

‘Show will go on’ “We did not have the money to pay the subsidy in a shows that this conservative that preparations were running according to plan. Riotur “It’s been a difficult year” of preparation, said Fabio comprehensive way, my responsibility as the mayor is thinking can even go against financial logic.” in fact worked to get private funding for the samba Pavao, who helps manage the Portela school. “The huge and I cannot leave the hospitals without medicines schools to try to close the gap left by the budget cuts. schools need the support of the public authorities, and and I cannot leave the schoolchildren without snacks,” ‘Not a reveler’ The schools were grateful but regretted the extra funds with a mayor who likes carnival, everything is much easi- the 60-year-old mayor said, justifying the cuts as an The head of the city’s Riotur tourism office, Marcelo had not arrived sooner, as they had already been forced er.” The city’s top samba schools-the so called Special inevitable reflection of Brazil’s economic crisis. But carni- Alves, insisted there were no political or religious rea- to plan for a smaller parade. The big question is whether Group-compete at Rio’s Sambadromo arena with spec- val director Vieira said Crivella had other motivations. sons for cutting resources. “The mayor is not a reveler. Crivella will attend. “I hope he’s there, because it’s his tacular parades featuring lavishly decorated floats and “For the evangelical doctrine, the carnival is the festival of We should respect that. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t role to be there. And who knows, if he sees the parade he thousands of dancers dressed in sequined micro-cos- the devil,” said Viera. like carnival. It’s very different, he likes it so much that, in may even like it,” said Pavao. — AFP tumes. Many schools see Crivella’s subsidy cut as a dec- “An evangelical can think this way, but the mayor of a meeting, he even sang a samba that he recorded,” Alves laration of war on the event, which last year brought in Rio cannot. It’s a tradition that brings powerful income to told AFP. He added that not a day went by that Crivella-a close to a billion dollars in tourism revenue to the city. the city and that’s what scares me the most, because it renowned gospel singer didn’t call him for reassurance

A man works on the costume for the Portela samba school at Cidade do Leandro Vieira, 34, artistic director of the Mangueira samba school, draws a Members of a samba school perform during a street parade at Copacabana Samba (City of Samba), where costumes and floats for Rioís Carnival are costume inside their barrack at Cidade do Samba (City of Samba), where beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. made, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. costumes and floats for Rio’s Carnival are made, in Rio de Janeiro.

London play charts real-life drama of ‘Jungle’ migrant camp Fantasy film ‘The Shape of Water’ leads boy is found dead and smoke fills the air ahead of a camp was widely seen as a result of a controversial 2003 police raid: traumatic memories from France’s accord that effectively moved Britain’s border with France Bafta nominations A“Jungle” migrant camp are being recreated on a to the French side of the Channel, creating a magnet for London stage. More than a year since police swept migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa antasy film “The Shape of Water” gained 12 through the squalid camp near the port of Calais, clearing and Asia. nominations at this year’s Baftas, announced out an estimated 7,000 migrants, the ordeal is captured yesterday, leading the pack as the movie vividly in “The Jungle” playing to sell-out crowds at the Despair, music, laughter F awards season gets under way. Steeped in Cold War Young Vic theatre. The play is the creation of two writers The play’s scenes of despair are punctuated by music secrecy, the tale of a cleaner at a US government lab who set up their own theatre amid the chaos in Calais, with and laughter, as different nationalities try to live together and the Russians who are after her discovery-is in casts including migrant actors. and naive British volunteers turn up with breakfast cereal the running for awards including best film and spe- “We ended up wanting to chart the creation of that and good intentions. “We have tried to be as honest as cial visual effects. Guillermo del Toro is also nomi- society and then the destruction, or downfall, of that socie- possible about the role we played and the role that the vol- nated as best director for his film, which picked up ty,” playwright Joe Murphy told AFP. Murphy and fellow unteers played in Calais,” Robertson said. two gongs at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. writer Joe Robertson, both 27, set up the Good Chance “We’ve tried to be really critical at times of the impact But despite winning best original score and best Theatre in September 2015 at the heart of the Jungle, their individuals have when they try and help.” The play’s narra- Writers Joe Robertson (right) and Joe Murphy pose out- director at the Hollywood ceremony, “The Shape of actors performing under a second-hand geodesic dome tor is Ammar Haj Ahmad, himself a refugee from Syria, who side the Young Vic Theatre in central London. — AFP Water” failed to convert nominations to wins in five tent. Three of the migrants who acted in Calais are now did not pass through Calais and sees his role as creating other categories. Mirroring the Golden Globes’ performing in “The Jungle”, which lays bare the precarious empathy. “It’s my task to invite people to strip with me, to picks, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and dangerous times faced by those searching desperately really be vulnerable, whether we cry or we don’t cry, to the northern Porte de la Chapelle area, bringing the dome tent used in Calais to the French capital. “We will be a (Bafta) showered crime drama “Three Billboards for a passage to Britain. look people in the eye and say, ‘now you know’,” he said. Outside Ebbing Missouri” with nine nominations Episodes in which characters race off to try their luck- theatre that welcomes people of all backgrounds, who’ve been in the city and were born there and lived there all after the movie picked up four trophies on Sunday. seeking their “good chance” in Jungle lingo-on the roads ‘Dangerously explorative’ Matching such Bafta hopes was “Darkest Hour”, towards the port bring tears to patrons’ eyes. A total of 33 The desire to understand what happened across the their lives, and those that arrived there the day before,” Murphy said.—AFP about British wartime prime minister Winston migrants died in the Calais area in 2015 and 2016, mostly Channel is a main draw of the show, which closes on Churchill, also with nine nominations ahead of the being hit by vehicles as they tried to climb into lorries, or Tuesday, before the playwrights move on to their next February 18 ceremony. The three most-nominated by trains about to pass through the Channel Tunnel. The project. Later this month Good Chance Paris will open in movies all feature in the best film category, along with coming-of-age romance “Call Me by Your Name” and World War II film “Dunkirk”. The Academy also highlights British cinema talent, with ‘Jumanji’ bounds out of jungle 19th-century drama “Lady Macbeth” and “God’s Own Country”, about a farmer’s relationship with a migrant worker, nominated for the outstanding British film award. The category also includes satire “The to top N American box office Death of Stalin” as well as “Darkest Hour”, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” and the anima- ony’s family-oriented movie “Jumanji: Welcome to The space saga stars Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam tion “Paddington 2”. The Bafta ceremony will be held the Jungle” roared into first place this weekend in Driver and two members of the series’ original cast, Mark at London’s Royal Albert Hall, two weeks ahead of SNorth American theaters as horror film “Insidious” Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the late Carrie Fisher as the hotly anticipated Oscars on March 4. — AFP edged into second past a slipping “Star Wars” installment, Princess Leia. Fourth place went to Fox’s “The Greatest final data show. “Jumanji,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Showman,” a “good old-fashioned cornball PG musical” Johnson and funnymen Jack Black and Kevin Hart, netted (so says Variety.com) about larger-than-life circus impre- an impressive $37 million for the three-day weekend, sario P.T. Barnum. With the popular Hugh Jackman in the bringing its domestic total to $246 million in its third week lead role, the film took in $13.8 million in its third week, out, said website Exhibitor Relations. down only slightly from the previous week. And in fifth The film, following four teens who find themselves was another musical, “Pitch Perfect 3,” a Universal sequel inside the video game world of Jumanji, has grossed more that took in $10.3 million in its third week. The movie’s than $500 million worldwide and opens in the huge cast, led by Anna Kendrick, follows the continuing adven- Chinese market next weekend. In second place was tures of glee singers the Bellas. Universal’s newly released “Insidious: The Last Key,” with Rounding out the top 10 were: a take of $29.6 million. The horror film, the fourth install- “Ferdinand” ($7.7 million) ment in the “Insidious” franchise, stars Lin Shaye and “Molly’s Game” ($6.9 million) This file photo shows members of the cast, including in Angus Sampson and follows a parapsychologist investi- “Darkest Hour” ($6.1 million) This file photo shows a member of staff polishing front seat, Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson and in rear, gating a haunting in her childhood home. News for third- “Coco” ($5.4 million) BAFTA award winners masks ahead of the BAFTA Karen Gillan and Jack Black, arriving for the premiere place “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” was mixed: the latest in “All the Money in the World” ($3.6 million)—AFP British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert of the film `Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle` in the hugely popular series has now taken in $1.2 billion Hall in London. — AFP Hollywood, California. — AFP worldwide, but it continued to slow in North America, totaling $23.7 million in its fourth week. Established 1961 T 31 L i f e s t y l e Fe a t u r e s Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Iraqi children pose for a photo in a classroom in the battered city of Mosul. Iraqi children read books at school. Iraqi children walk to school in the battered city of Mosul. — AFP photos Teachers in Iraq’s Mosul learn to cope with traumatized pupils

n a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of and escape the stress, pressures and bad memories that Mosul the words “rediscovering how to smile” haunt them, he adds. Ooutline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving to heal their students’ mental scars after brutal ‘Executions, deaths, explosions’ Islamic State group rule. Dozens of Iraqi teachers-many It is not just the years of IS rule that haunt the waking battling trauma themselves-have gathered at a university, lives and sleeping hours of the children in Iraq’s second where instructor Nazem Shaker seeks to guide them in city. The ferocious nine months of urban combat that saw helping children still struggling to cope months after IS Iraqi troops force out the jihadists in July with the help of was driven from the devastated city. Shaker has drawn a airstrikes by a US-led coalition have left deep marks- both physical and mental. School headmaster Noamat Sultan encounters the destructive impact of the psycho- logical trauma daily. “One of our students was very aggressive and kept on picking fights with his class- mates,” he tells AFP. “We had a long discussion with him and discovered that his father and brother had been Relatives killed,

witnessing Iraqi children walk in the rubble as they head to school in the battered city of Mosul.

beheadings, by everything he has seen. “When I sit down in class I don’t have the will to study,” Mahmud says. “I think back to the time of IS and I remember those who were execut- destruction ed like my uncle. They threw people off buildings and and poverty forced us to watch.” ‘Didn’t say a word’ The 900 students at head teacher Sultan’s school are Ahmad Waadallah, a professor of psychology, leads a training to school teachers on killed recently in an explosion.” With the help of the boy’s able to study in just half of the building after fighting how best to handle students suffering from trauma at a university in the battered city older brother and more attention from teachers, he has reduced the rest to rubble. The few remaining classrooms of Mosul. gradually been coaxed back to himself. are seriously overcrowded, and benches meant for two “We have already managed to convince him not to pupils often have five or more crammed on them. Twelve- drop out of school,” said father-of-eight Sultan. Physical year-old Osama is not yet among them. He is still reeling “problem tree” on the board whose roots are a litany of education teacher Rasha Ryadh has seen the heavy toll from seeing an air strike send most of the other houses in anguish: “relatives killed”, “witnessing beheadings”, from the “psychological pressures caused by seeing exe- his street crashing down on top of his neighbors. “For “destruction” and “poverty”. He hopes that through a cutions, deaths, explosions and the loss of loved ones”, weeks he didn’t say a word,” says his mother Umm program of games, mime and sport, teachers will be bet- but is sure the students can recover. “They are ready to Osama. The boy still needs help to dress, wash and eat, ter able to help students reach the goals outlined in the respond positively to the rehabilitation programs and often seems lost inside himself. “Sometimes without top branches of his diagram, where “hope” and “opti- because they want to banish the thoughts and memories warning he’d leave the house and just wander around mism” join the aspiration to smile again. that drag them back to the period of Islamic State group aimlessly for hours,” his mother says. “Several times it “How to live together and eradicate violence,” he says rule,” she says. was hard to find him.” — AFP are key lessons that have to be passed on. The teachers Such is the case for 12-year-old schoolboy Ahmed must help show students how to reconstruct their lives Mahmud, who despite his youth says he is “exhausted”

From Reagan to Trump, and maybe Oprah for president? Speech Oprah, US celebrity politicians abound alk show queen Oprah Winfrey’s Actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood, star impassioned Golden Globes speech of “Hang ‘Em High” and director of sparks fevered speculation Ttriggered speculation about her “Million Dollar Baby,” has been involved political future. A 2020 presidential race in political issues for decades. From 1986 ould Oprah Winfrey run for president wishful thinking, Winfrey’s fame and wealth, rating compared to Trump’s then 41 percent job between Oprah and Donald Trump, him- to 1988, he served as mayor of Carmel- and beat Donald Trump? Hollywood, lib- extraordinary personal story overcoming pover- approval rating. self a TV titan, would be the celebrity- by-the-Sea, California. Cerals and fans are abuzz with speculation ty, child sexual abuse and pregnancy to build a Last September, Winfrey tweeted a New political battle of the millennium, made that the billionaire chat show queen is harboring $2.6 billion fortune and Oscar-nominated acting York Post editorial that trumpeted her as the for-and by-television. But they are by no The wrestler White House ambitions after an impassioned career, would stack up nicely in her favor. Democrats’ best hope of beating Trump in 2020. means the first American screen stars to Perhaps the most colorful television Golden Globes speech. Winfrey had barely her- “I slept on it and came to the conclusion that “Thanks for your VOTE of confidence!” she throw their hats in the political ring. Here personality to enter US politics is Jesse alded a “new day” following a sexual harass- the Oprah thing isn’t that crazy,” tweeted Dan wrote. “You need a star,” wrote the Post. “She are some notable standouts. “The Body” Ventura, a former Navy ment watershed, before calls snowballed for one Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to Barack can do it - in theory. The question is: Would she SEAL who became a popular bad-boy of America’s most famous women, a self-made Obama, the president whom Winfrey was cred- want to?” Raised in Nashville, Milwaukee and The Great Communicator wrestler in the World Wrestling tycoon born into poverty, to run for the highest ited with helping to elect in 2008. Mississippi, Winfrey was raped and sexually Prior to Trump, there was Ronald Federation, watched by millions in the office in the free world. Hollywood’s loathing of abused as a child and became pregnant aged 14, Reagan, the celebrity who achieved the 1970s and 80s. His joke candidacy for Trump and Democrats’ bafflement that a crass- ‘Float above Trump’ but miscarried the baby. After college, she went greatest success in politics. Reagan governor of Minnesota in 1998 gained talking reality star with no previous government Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News anchor into journalism before reigning for 25 years as earned notoriety as an actor in films like traction as he pushed a populist platform. experience could win the presidency have forced out in disgrace by sexual harassment queen of the US talk show, ushering in an era of “Knute Rockne, All American,” in which Seen as a precursor to Trump’s wild win fueled talk of well, why not another television allegations and an early champion of Trump, confessional television before becoming the first he starred as football player George “The in 2016, Minnesota voters sent a message star, only one with the “right” politics? hailed Winfrey as a formidable ticket. “How can black woman to own a television network, Gipper” Gipp. He identified first as a to business-as-usual politicians, narrowly Twitter ignited, New York home-ware com- any politician attack Oprah, a feminine icon, OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Democrat but switched parties in the electing the bombastic wrestler. pany Fishs Eddy sold out of a 2020 Oprah mug human rights hero, civil rights champion and At the start of the Golden Globes on Sunday, 1950s. Elected twice as president of the Today, professional wrestling has and Democrats championed her as preferable in beloved human being?” he wrote in The Hill. host Seth Meyers playfully encouraged her to Screen Actors Guild, the charismatic made it to the White House. Linda every way to Trump, who himself named “She would most likely float above President run against Trump. Becoming the first black Reagan became California’s Republican McMahon, the ex-chief executive of Winfrey as his first pick for vice president in an Trump’s bombast-coming across as positive and woman to accept the Cecil B. De Mille lifetime governor in 1967, and won a landslide WWE and a former Senate candidate interview 20 years ago. On board Air Force reasonable.” A March 2017 poll by Quinnipiac achievement award, her speech wove together presidential victory in 1980 against herself, now heads the Small Business One, Trump’s spokesman Hogan Gidley was University gave Winfrey a 52 percent favorable gender, poverty and race. “For too long, women Jimmy Carter. Administration under Trump. grilled about the speculation by reporters trav- have not been heard or believed if they dare elling with the president to Nashville, answering speak the truth to the power of those men,” she Other Hollywood stars Talk and reality show stars that his boss would “welcome the challenge, said to a standing ovation. “So I want all the Reagan paved the way for several Jerry Springer became host of a whether it be Oprah Winfrey or anybody else.” girls watching here now to know that a new day other silver-screened politicians, most tabloid-themed talk show in the 1990s, The only fly in the ointment? Winfrey’s denial of is on the horizon.” Would the electorate be notably Arnold Schwarzenegger. The for- after serving as mayor of Cincinnati for a any plan to seek office. “I don’t, I don’t,” she ready to put not just another television star but mer Mr Universe bodybuilder and star of year from 1977. Springer also mulled reportedly said backstage when asked if she another political outsider in the White House? the “Terminator” movies followed runs for US Senate in 2000 and 2004, planned to run. “There’ll be no running for office “There’s a feeling among many in the country Reagan’s path to political stardom by but did not formally enter the race. of any kind for me,” she told CBS last October. that prior political experience is actually a becoming governor of California in 2003. Reality TV star Sean Duffy, a cast-mem- But CNN quoted two anonymous “close deficit,” said Cindy Rosenthal, political science But Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, ber on MTV’s “The Real World: Boston,” friends” as saying Winfrey was “actively think- professor at the University of Oklahoma. But if meaning he could never serve as presi- is currently a Republican congressman ing” about a presidential run. Her longtime part- politics is a money person’s game, then the odds dent. Fred Thompson, who had roles in from Wisconsin. Sonny Bono and his ner also suggested that she could be persuaded. are still long. “There is money around for Oprah, “Die Hard 2” and “The Hunt for Red pop-star wife Cher scored a huge televi- “It’s up to the people,” Stedman Graham was Michelle Obama and George Clooney-but the October,” parlayed his celebrity into a sion hit with 1970s variety program “The quoted as telling The Los Angeles Times. “She odds suggest The Donald is going to be hard to political career, serving as a Republican Sonny & Cher Show.” Bono served three would absolutely do it.” “She launched a rocket beat,” said Rupert Adams, spokesman for global in the US Senate from 1994 to 2003. He years in the House of Representatives in tonight. I want her to run for president,” Meryl Oprah Winfrey poses with the Cecil B DeMille betting chain William Hill. — AFP ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008, the 1990s.—ÅFP Streep told The Washington Post. “I don’t think Award in the press room during The 75th and returned to acting. she had any intention (of declaring). But now Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly she doesn’t have a choice.” If the speculation is Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. — AFP Established 1961 Lifestyle

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People take a boat to see giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) - known as Yakare Yrupe in Guarani - which appear every three to four years in great numbers and size (more than a meter and a half in diameter), in the Paraguay River in Piquete Cue just north of Asuncion. Water lilies are seen every year but not in such quantities and size and locals treat them as a national treasure. — AFP

Show rescues photo comics Bizzare News Alton Towers’ new ride based ‘Downton Abbey’. The poll of 2,000 on Wicker Man film adults found 44 per cent now prefer to watch TV on demand and one in five follows more TV series than they did from dustbin of history five years ago. Steve Mitchell, head of TV product management at Samsung hat have Sophia Loren, John Cleese UK, said: “There has been a radical and Woody Allen got in common? change in how people watch TV and WThey all began their careers in the oft- their favorite programs. “Whether derided world of photo comics or photonovels. through boxsets or streaming, we all The genre, infamous for stilted storylines and have an opportunity to watch whatever sugary romantic melodramas, is finally getting its content we want at a time that’s con- day in the sun in a major museum retrospective venient.” in France. The lingering kisses and frozen horri- fied looks that were the bread and butter of Woman gets plane to herself photo comic stories now seem irredeemably after booking on wrong flight kitsch. But in strait-laced postwar Europe they A woman managed to get an entire were lapped up by millions even after the dawn flight to herself after accidentally being of television-sparking moral panic and condem- This file photo shows a figure of Satanik, a character from an Italian noir comic book, during a Alton Towers Resort have announced a booked on the wrong type of flight. nation by both the pope and communist leaders. press preview of the exhibition “Roman-Photo (Photo-Novel)” at the Museum of European and new ride set to open in spring. The Beth VerSteeg took a selfie showing Well into the 1960s one in three French peo- Mediterranean Civilizations (MUCEM - Musee des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranee) in Wicker Man is the UK’s first new the empty rows on her flight from ple were avid readers, according to the curators Marseille, southern France. — AFP photos wooden rollercoaster experience in 21 Rochester, New York, to Washington of the “Roman-Photo” exhibition at the Mucem years and includes a globally unique DC, the Mirror Online reported. The museum in Marseille, which claims to be the first of French communists, Christian intellectuals and Turkish version called Kilink that featured in twist with the ride standing at 57.57ft passenger got VIP treatment after she definitive look at a genre “that has rarely attract- some feminists also famously branded them several cult films, borrowing liberally from tall - the height of a six storey building. managed to book herself on a flight ed the attention of historians”. Indeed many of “infantile magazines that undermine morality and French and Italian pulp movies “Fantomas” and The new ride is set to dominate the that was intended for airline staff. Her the people who created photo comics were so break up families”. Eventually though even the “Kriminal”. But it was pornography that gave very centre of the theme park and will scornful of them that they left very little behind Church gave in and began using photonovels to photo comics their longest and most lucrative appear to burst into flames as the for posterity. recount the lives of the saints. afterlife in such bestselling top-shelf magazines wooden track races three separate Yet “photonovels were one of the biggest The genre soon spawned imitators in Britain as the Italian Fotosex. The British tabloid The times through the structure. Bradley pop cultural successes of the 20th century,” said and the US, where the satirical magazine Help! Sun still uses photo strips to illustrate its Dear Wynne, Creative Lead at Alton Towers co-curator Frederique Deschamps, “modern called on the budding comic and acting talents Deidre problem page, which inevitably turns on Resort, said: “We are delighted to fairy tales filled with cars, fridges, record players of Woody Allen, John Cleese and fellow Monty sexual dilemmas or titillating situations. And finally be announcing Wicker Man as and other objects that symbolise modernity, Python member Terry Gilliam. Photo comics also photo comics continue to be widely used for the latest ground-breaking thrill romance and desire.” From their birth in Italy in featured in National Lampoon as “photo fun- health education worldwide. attraction from Alton Towers Resort for 1947, photo comics reflected changing moral nies”, with Americans borrowing the Italian word Putting the exhibition together, however, was 2018. “Guests will be ‘chosen’ to take values and fed the slow rise of feminism with “fumetti” for the genre, meaning speech bubble not an easy task. Curator Deschamps said she part in a celebratory ‘rite of passage’ stories about touchy and taboo subjects like (literally “little puff of smoke”). began her interest in the genre after finding a as they race through the flaming “divorce, abortion and women’s rights at work”, stack of the French magazine Nous Deux (Us Wicker Man. “We hope visitors will be said her co-curator Marie-Charlotte Calafat. Sex and schlock horror Two) in a skip. As she dug deeper into the sub- blown away by Wicker Man’s breath- But as the 1960s wore on and TV became ject she discovered that the originals of most of taking scale whilst the primal essence ‘Opium of female masses’ increasingly dominant, sales began to wane, the massively selling magazines had also been of the wooden coaster and astonishing “They do not deserve their retrograde repu- pushing publishers to ape Hollywood and up the confined to the dustbin of history, leaving effects will leave them delighted, exhil- tation at all,” she added, “it’s the reverse actual- sex and shock factors. A large part of the researchers with little to go on. Without chanc- arated and eager to ride again.” ly.” Instead they were real barometers of the Marseille show is dedicated to Killing, a sadistic ing upon thousands of negatives of original pho- “aspirations of society with storylines where Italian photo comic character who stole from tos in the archives of the Mondadori publishing Game of Thrones voted women questioned their place,” Calafat insisted. other criminals and took particular pleasure house in Milan, she said they would not have most bingeable show So much so that even the reforming Pope John from torturing scantily-clad women. The French been able to stage the show. The exhibition runs ‘Game of Thrones’ has been voted the original flight had been cancelled and XXIII denounced them in 1959, prompting one version of the series, Satanik, was banned after at Mucem, Marseille, until April 23, 2018. — AFP number one TV series most likely to the passengers were moved to the liberal Catholic weekly to call them “the opium 19 issues in 1967, but the brutal anti-hero-who get bums on sofas. The award-winning crew-only aircraft - but Beth missed of the female masses”. A lobby group made up wore a skeleton costume-spawned a bootleg HBO show - which is based of George the announcement that the airline had R R Martin’s hit novels - made the likes put the holidaymakers on an earlier of Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke flight. On Reddit, Beth said: “One of the household names and has now been airport agents came over while I was hailed the most bingeable boxset, waiting and asked if that was the flight beating shows like ‘Breaking Bad’ and I was waiting for, then said, I knew this would happen. “When my flight was cancelled eight hours earlier a confused agent gave me and half the passengers a seat for the plane in the pic before another agent realized everyone could go on an earlier flight. “They made the announcement over the speaker but I’d already left to go back to my parent’s house nearby to wait.” Luckily, she was able to board the plane and despite being the only passenger on the hour-long A figure of Satanik, a character from an Italian noir comic flight, Beth didn’t ask for any food or drink.—Bang Showbiz Women standing in front of cover pages of the photo novel “Nous Deux” during a press book, during a press preview of the exhibition ‘Roman- preview of the exhibition “Roman-Photo (Photo-Novel)”. Photo (Photo-Novel)’.