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Erring eateries to be named from tomorrow

DOHA: Beginning tomorrow, the various ministries authorised to catch and punish eateries and outlets selling foodstuff found violating health and safety rules, will have to publish the names of these outlets on their websites. The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Health have the authority to catch and punish eateries and foodstuff stores found violating health and safety rules. The minis- tries can order closure of the outlets for a cer- tain period. Earlier, they were not permitted to make the names of the erring outlets public, but now they can — on their websites, as per amendments introduced to the relevant law. The amended law (Number 4 of 2014) was passed recently. Saudi MERS death toll now 87: Ministry RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday announced two more deaths from MERS coronavirus, taking the country’s toll to 87, a day after the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz visited the Red Sea city and commercial hub of Jeddah to reas- sure a worried public. A health ministry bulletin on the Internet said a total of 299 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome had been detected in the kingdom since MERS first appeared in September 2012. Public concern has been fuelled by the reported resignation last week of at least four doctors at Jeddah’s King Fahd Hospital after they refused to treat MERS patients for fear of infection. AWAITING Palestinian PM offers to make way for unity govt RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah offered his resignation yesterday, the official news agency WAFA CHANGE said, a move which may pave the way for a unity government agreed between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas. Israel on Thursday suspended peace talks with the Palestinians, saying it could not nego- tiate with an administration that embraces a THE ISSUE militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction. The reconciliation pact agreed between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party on Wednesday Talk that the sponsorship system didn’t want his name in print, said. the exit permit system should not be scrapped as envisions agreeing upon a government of inde- is all set to be changed, if not The State Cabinet has set up a committee it guarantees social and economic stability and pendent technocrats within five weeks and hold- to look into the sponsorship issue and propose security in a country where locals constitute just ing elections six months later. scrapped, is gaining ground. changes as international pressure to simplify 15 percent of the population. See also page 8 Reliable sources say that under the sponsorship and exit permit rules for foreign “What we need is a state agency that could workers has been mounting since Qatar won the allow a foreign worker to travel overseas if his MH370 search likely to new system the job contract foreign right to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup. sponsor is either not available or is reluctant to workers ink with their employers According to trade and industry circles, the issue the permit,” Zaman said in a column pub- take years: US official is to be given significance as that committee has sounded them out as the sponsor- lished in a local Arabic daily recently. ship system directly concerns the private sector, But the system has come in for scathing criti- SYDNEY/PERTH: The search for missing would likely regulate the relationship which employs some 90 percent of the foreign cism from international organisations and they Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to between the two. workforce. want it scrapped. drag on for years, a senior US defence offi- The private sector strongly resists any changes According to businessmen, though, that cial said yesterday, as an underwater search to the system, particularly exit permit rules, argu- wouldn’t be doing justice as expatriates run many for any trace of the plane’s wreckage off west iving an example, a Qatari businessman ing that their interests need to be protected by Qatari businesses and can run away with cash. Australia appeared to have failed. who claims to have some idea about the state as 85 percent of the country’s population “This is particularly true of businesses owned by The official, who declined to be identified the changes expected in the sponsor- comprises foreigners, and most businesses are Qatari women,” said a businessman, requesting because he is not authorised to comment on Gship rules said: “If a worker would want run by them. anonymity. the search effort, said two weeks of scouring the release after serving his employer for a year or As for allowing foreign workers to change jobs, Among the GCC states, Saudi Arabia and Qatar Indian Ocean floor with a US Navy submersible two and would like to take up a job elsewhere in the businessman said this should be freely permit- are the only countries that require expatriates to drone had turned up nothing. the country, then that should be mentioned in his ted in the case of ordinary workers but conditions get an exit permit, so they are under increasing He said the search for the jetliner, which van- job contract”. must apply to professionals. pressure to end the system. ished on March 8 with 239 people on board, PAGEAt present, employment6 contracts serve the It is not clear if the exit permit system, which is Qatar is especially keen to reform both the would now enter a much harder phase of scour- limited purpose of verifying the salary and perks part of sponsorship rules, is set to be removed or sponsorship and exit permit systems as it prepares ing broader areas of the ocean near where the of employees in the event of a dispute between will remain in force with alterations. to host the Fifa World Cup in 2022. plane is believed to have crashed. workers and their sponsors, the businessman, who According to prominent lawyer Yusuf Al Zaman, See also pages 2 & 4 THE PENINSULA & AGENCIES

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Expatriates excited about planned reforms, while citizens express concerns over likely impact

BY SATISH KANADY Changing the sponsorship law would ultimately A country like Qatar, benefit Qatar, McGheehan said. “We can’t say abolish umours that the government will make an ‘kafala’ (sponsorship) system overnight; it’s impossible. where foreigners important announcement next month on It’s a deep-rooted system. What we need is the state amendments to Qatar’s sponsorship law to take a step forward.” make up more than Rhave kindled hope as well as caused worry “We would like to see a time frame for whatever 85 percent of the among different sections of the country’s population. reforms are put in place. We understand the reform The over 1.8 million expatriate workers in Qatar will be an incremental process. We want things to move population, needs expect the amendments to brighten their prospects. step by step. Start with the easy things, like the exit to take precautions However, the private sector and a section of citizens permit system, which is doable, practical. And there is are worrying whether the country would compro- no reason why it would impact the commercial com- to ensure its socio- mise with their respective interests to please the munity,” said McGheehan. economic security. international community. THE PENINSULA The Foreign Minister, H E Dr Khalid bin - Qatari lawyer Yousef Ahmed Al Zaman Mohamed Al Attiyah, during a recent visit to Germany, said that Qatar was taking steps to “improve the living conditions of foreign workers”. Last October, the chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), Dr Ali bin Simaikh Al Merri, stated that the government was about Sponsorship rules in GCC states to receive the recommendations of a special com- mittee set up by the State Cabinet to study the sponsorship issue. 1) Is there an exit permit system? 4) What is the annual visa renewal fee? 9) Are employers allowed to keep passport as per If the rumours turn out to be true, the new the law? Qatar: Annual work visa renewal fee is QR1,000. sponsorship law or labour law will make it easier Qatar: Qatar has exit permit rules in place. Saudi Arabia: SR1,000 (QR970.70) is the visa renewal fee Qatar: The law doesn’t allow the sponsor to for many expatriates to switch jobs. The much- Saudi Arabia: Yes, Saudi Arabia has an exit-reentry for one year. As part of the government’s keep a foreign worker’s passport but criticised exit permit will also be scrapped. Skilled visa system. Saudi is also the only Gulf plan to make employment of expats many sponsors violate the law and keep workers and professionals will no longer be required country which charges 200 Saudi riyals for expensive for companies, it has introduced workers’ passports with them. to obtain a no-objection certificate from their the exit-reentry permit, which is applicable a SR2,400 (QR2329.60 ) expat fee for two Saudi Arabia: An employer keeps the passport of expat employer to take up a new job, provided they get to every passport, including the family years. worker as a custom, not by law. Expats clearance from a competent government body or members of expatriates. Kuwait: The annual visa renewal fee is 10 Kuwaiti having investor licence can keep their the Ministry of Labour. Kuwait: Kuwait does not have an exit permit Dinar (QR129.50) passports with them. Media reports about imminent reforms in the system. UAE: 1,500 AED (QR1,487 ) Kuwait: According to the law, employers are not sponsorship law have lifted the spirits of expatriates. UAE: There is no exit permit system in the UAE. Oman: OMR 220 (QR2,082) is the visa renewal allowed to keep passports of employees In contrast, the private sector, which hosts nearly Oman: There is no exit permit system. Only fee for private sector employees, and the but most of them do so. 90 percent of the country’s expatriate labour force, when an expatriate resigns and leaves visa is renewed every two years. UAE: Employers are not supposed to keep is worried. the country, he has to go through a Bahrain: Visa renewal period is two years and the passports according to the law, but in “We will have no problem if the government procedure to get a clearance and the renewal fee is BD 200 (QR1,936). most cases they keep the passport. makes amendments in the existing sponsorship law special emigration counter at the airport 5) What is the fine for delay in renewal of work visa? Oman: Employees generally keep the passports and exit permits rules so long as Qatari private will check if the person is having any of employees. businesses are protected”, said Remy Rowhani, CEO liabilities. Qatar: The grace period for renewing work visa is Bahrain: As per law, it is not allowed for companies and Director General of Qatar Chamber (QC), the Bahrain: There is no exit permit system. 90 days, after which QR10 is the fine per to keep passports. oldest and largest representative body of industries day of delay. 10) Are changes in the sponsorship system likely 2) Is an expatriate allowed to change jobs? Saudi Arabia: If the resident permit is not renewed and businesses in the country. soon? Rowhani said that QC was working closely with without any genuine reason, one has to the committee set up by the government to study Qatar: A foreign worker can change jobs after pay double the fee, ie SR2,000 (QR1,941); Qatar: Soon, some key changes are expected in possible amendments in the sponsorship law. a year provided his sponsor gives him a if it happens a second time, the fine is the sponsorship rules. “We don’t know what exactly is in store. We have no-objection letter. doubled. Saudi Arabia: The Shura Council discussed the matter serious concerns on reports about the exit permit Saudi Arabia: It is not allowed, except if the company Kuwait: There is no grace period and the renewal with the labour minister. Some changes system being scrapped. In most companies it is or the employer is in the red zone of should start two weeks before expiry. have been made in the system. The new expatriate professionals who take care of the daily the Nitaqat system (meaning when the UAE: There are fines for delay in renewal. labour law does not mention sponsor cash flow. We must know about their travel plans number of Saudi nationals working with Oman: There is a grace period of one month and and it talks about employer. Instead of in advance. No exit permit means these people can the company is below the prescribed limit). OMR 20 (QR189) fine per month for each sponsorship transfer, it talks about service leave the country any time without our knowledge. In such cases, the expat worker can look month of overstay. transfer. There is huge risk involved in it”, said another top for jobs in green zone companies without Bahrain: There is a fine of two dinars for each month Kuwait: There have been reports that the Qatari business leader. “We are not against lift- the permission of his former sponsor. In of delay and a maximum of six dinars government may bring in some changes ing the exit permit rules, but there must be some order to apply for transfer of sponsorship (QR58). There is a grace period of one in the sponsorship system. month. UAE: Changes are likely in the near future. checks and balances”, he told The Peninsula. with the permission of the existing Oman: There is no talk of any immediate change Qatar’s sponsorship law has come under attack employer, he has to work with the former 6) Do you think it’s easy to change the profession to the sponsorship system. from international rights groups mainly on two employer for at least two years. in the visa? Bahrain: Not immediately. counts — its restrictions on expatriates changing Kuwait: Expats are not allowed to change jobs. If they want to change jobs, they are Qatar: It is not easy to change the profession jobs, and the requirement of an exit permit to leave in one’s work visa. One must apply with the country. required to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from their employers. necessary documents to the Ministry of A country like Qatar, where foreigners make up Labour and Social Welfare through one’s more than 85 percent of the population, needs to UAE: To change jobs, usually a time gap of six months is in place. But this period varies, company. take precautions to ensure its socio-economic secu- and in some cases it can be one year also. Saudi Arabia: It is not easy. According to the law, those rity, said prominent Qatari lawyer Yousef Ahmed Sponsor’s NOC is required to change jobs. working with a company or an individual Al Zaman. Oman: Yes, an NOC is needed to change jobs, employer with less than 100 workers are The current law is meant to serve this purpose, but it’s not difficult to get. allowed to change professions with the he said. The criticism by international rights watch- Bahrain: S/he is allowed to change jobs after the labour minister’s permission. dogs is based mainly on the acts of some erring mandatory notice period. The transfer Kuwait: Changing profession in the visa is not easy. companies. What the country needs to do is to bring process is only available while the foreign UAE: Changing the profession in the visa in the them into line rather than go for an overall change employee’s permit/visa is still valid for at UAE is considered much easier compared in the law, he added. least three months and after completion to other GCC countries. “I would suggest the government loosen up the of the mandatory notice period. Sponsor’s Oman: Changing the profession in the visa is not sponsorship law rather than go for an overall change NOC is not required for changing jobs, considered very difficult. in the existing system. Many people believe that but it needs to be cleared by the Labour Bahrain: It’s rather easy if the foreign worker is Bahrain has totally changed its old sponsorship law. Market Regulatory Authority. If applying changing it under the existing sponsor, or That’s not true. The old system is very much there. for job transfer without the consent of the else needs to be cleared by the LMRA. What it did in 2009 was to just relax the existing employer, the employee needs to have 7) What is the minimum required monthly salary for law. Qatar can act on the same lines”, he said. completed at least 12 months of service a person to get family visa? Another section of Qataris believes that the prob- with the same employer before a new Qatar: The minimum salary slab for a foreign lem is that international rights bodies do not dif- employer can apply for his/her transfer. ferentiate between migration to the GCC region and worker to get his family here keeps migration to the West. The ultimate aim of many changing. It is not QR7, 500 a month. migrant workers in Western countries is to become 3) If an expat resigns and leaves the country, is he Saudi Arabia: He should have a university or professional citizens of the host country. However, the typical allowed to come back immediately if he gets an degree, and a monthly salary of not less migrant worker heading to the GCC states only offer from another company? than SR3,000(QR 2,912). Kuwait: hopes to earn as much as possible before returning The minimum monthly salary to be eligible for family visa is 450 Kuwaiti Dinars home. In Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United (QR5,827) Arab Emirates, foreigners represent the vast major- Qatar: In the absence of NOC from his employer, UAE: The gross salary must be a minimum of ity of each country’s total population. Unrestricted the worker can return to Qatar to take up 10,000 AED (QR9,912). movement of the large expatriate populations in another job only two years after quitting Oman: OMR600 (QR5,680) is the minimum these countries may pose a serious threat to these the previous job and leaving the country. required monthly salary for a person to countries’ Arab-Islamic identity, they argue. Saudi Arabia: Normally he/she is allowed to come back get family visa. Qatar, the host of the 2022 Fifa World Cup, is immediately if the former employer has Bahrain: Above BD250 (QR2,420) facing tremendous pressure from the international not put any conditions. community, especially human rights watchdogs and Kuwait: It depends on relations between the person 8) What is the maximum period of time an expat is Fifa, for amendments in its laws to protect the and the employer, and the period varies allowed to spend outside the country? according to the contract, from company interests of foreign workers. Qatar: An expatriate with a work visa can spend to company, but the minimum period is six During a recent visit to Qatar, a team from New six months outside the country. However, months. York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged a family member of an expatriate can UAE: You can come back but it depends on the Qatari leadership to disclose details of the spend a year provided a fine of QR500 is your relations with the employer. Also, proposed reforms and set a time frame for their paid to the immigration department. rules in this case vary from one category implementation. Saudi Arabia: An expat can stay outside the Kingdom for to the other. For example, those working in The human rights watchdog expects the reforms up to one year in special cases, normally financial sector need to get an NOC from would start with some basic things like changes in it’s six months. the financial regulator. Also one cannot the exit permit system. Kuwait: An expat is allowed to spend 100 days join the Competitor Company. “We hope Qatar would take the lead for reforms…. outside Kuwait. Oman: Yes, he is allowed to come back. We are optimistic because of our working relation- UAE: Six months. Bahrain: S/he can come at any time, there is no Oman: An expat is allowed to spend six months. ship. We hope ultimately the reform is going to time restriction. be visible. Some basic reforms will lay the foun- Bahrain: Up to one year, with the permission of the dation for substantial reforms,” HRW’s Middle employer. East Consultant, Nicholas McGheehan, told The Peninsula. Home APRIL 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Sheikha Moza visits Osaka University Hospital

H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser yesterday visited Osaka University Hospital in Japan and held a meeting with the President of Osaka University, Dr Toshio Hirano. They discussed potential collaboration between Qatar and the University, as well as student exchanges. MAHER ATTAR

Bedaya Center organises Emir receives 241 Indians died in Qatar call from US entrepreneurship course Vice-President last year, says embassy DOHA: The Bedaya Center for most suitable social media web- Entrepreneurship and SME sites to do this. Mohammed also DOHA: The Emir H H Development, in cooperation addressed a number of key issues Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad 80 in prison and 174 in deportation centre with social media expert and such as the necessity of mar- Al Thani yesterday received trainer, Ammar Mohammed, keting oneself online in today‘s a phone call from US Vice DOHA: The Embassy of India Kareem Abdulla, President of Deportation Centre so far during organised a two-day course last world, how to handle people with President Joe Biden. They in Qatar received 3,558 com- the Indian Community Benevolent April 2014. week in Katara. differing points of view and how reviewed bilateral relations plaints from Indian nationals Forum (ICBF), functioning under ICBF in association with the Aiming to offer entrepreneurs to gauge the extent of one’s influ- and issues of mutual con- in 2013 compared to 3,385 com- the aegis of the Embassy for the Indian schools in Qatar, organised and businesses a deeper under- ence on social media websites. cern, particularly develop- plaints in 2012. The Labour and welfare of Indian workers, also the first ICBF Hajikka Memorial standing of how to promote Mohammed also pointed out ments in the region. Community Welfare Section attended the Open House. Essay Competition on 19 April themselves on key social media how to raise the number of one’s of the embassy received 1,176 An Embassy team visited 2014, as a tribute to the exem- websites, the Bedaya Center followers and the importance complaints from January till the Central Prison and the plary community services of late course presented a comprehen- of developing a 30-day plan for Turkish finance 24 April 2014, it said in a press Deportation Centre during this M V Abdul Khader, popularly sive strategy of how to make an online self-marketing. release issued yesterday. week to enquire about the wel- known as Hajika. effective online imprint by identi- This was the second time the minister meets The embassy registered 241 fare of detainees from India. The A total of 130 students from 8 fying business goals and planning course was held in Qatar to walk deaths in 2013 compared to 237 total number of Indian nation- schools participated in the com- a campaign accordingly to lever- business people through the proc- Qatari envoy in 2012 while the total number of als in the Central Prison and the petition which was conducted at age social media websites. ess of promoting themselves via deaths registered so far this year Deportation Centre currently is MES Indian School. The winners The course featured the steps the most popular social websites ANKARA: Turkish is 89. 80 and 174, respectively. of the essay competition were needed with excellent ideas such as Twitter, Instagram, and Minister of Finance Mehmet The embassy organised its On the basis of requests awarded certificates and prizes by thrown in, to guide attendees Facebook. Simsek yesterday held talks monthly open house yesterday in received from the Qatari author- Sanjiv Arora at a function organ- through the process of effectively “The special thing about the with Qatar’s Ambassador which ambassador Sanjiv Arora ities for travel documents for ised at MES Indian School. publicising themselves online course was the three-month Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi. and other officials met all the com- detainees in the Deportation ICBF continues to help Indian by disseminating their ideas action plan aiming to monitor They discussed bilateral plainants, discussed their problems Centre, the embassy issued 15 workers through its welfare and spreading their influence. people’s interaction, the level of relations and means of boost- and assured them that the embassy Emergency Certificates (ECs) measures. They have been pro- Ammar Mohammed tackled the their influence, and the nature ing and developing them on would actively follow up their cases in April, 2014. The embassy’s viding air tickets, medical help basic principles that could help of the content they provide via all fronts. with the authorities concerned in follow up facilitated the return and financial assistance to those businesses market themselves, social media,” added Mohammed. QNA government of Qatar. of 34 Indian nationals from the in need. THE PENINSULA and the best ways to identify the THE PENINSULA Sidra to promote QatART products attract visitors

DOHA: Colourful tipi tents, medical researchers unique greeting cards and artful trinkets were some of DOHA: Sidra Medical and the products of skillful hands Research Center is taking of artists and artisans which the lead in helping colleagues attracted visitors to the second in Qatar and from across the Katara QatART Handmade region see their research pub- Market yesterday at the lished in leading international Katara Art Studios courtyard. science journals as only 1.5 per- QatART, a community of cent of scientific papers pub- expatriates engaged in various lished every year originate from types of arts and crafts, is now the Middle East. carving its own niche in the mar- “Sidra wanted to link the tre- ket for creating unique products mendous scientific expertise bred which are all handmade. in the Middle East with the inter- All members of this recently national research community established organisation create and offer support to scientists their own products from scratch in Qatar and the region to see here in Qatar not import and re- their research shared with col- sell products, which sets them leagues from around the world. apart from other groups. Collaboration is a key success fac- “At the moment we have 51 tor for any scientific endeavor and members from all around the research publications are a vehi- world. We are all making hand- cle for that,” said Sidra’s Chief made products from art, jewelry, Research Officer Dr Francesco home décor, homemade food, Marincola. clothes and crafts,” QatART The Sidra has partnered with An expert speaking at the Sidra founder Dominika Bozic told BioMed Central, a leading Peninsula. Symposia Series in Doha recently. open access journal publisher QatART was established only with over 260 titles, for a Sidra in October last year to fill the Symposia Series event on ‘Trends to share and discuss this with the need to set up a market for the in Biomedical Research and delegates.” products of creative minds and Scholarly Publishing’. “Developing a knowledge-based hands of its members. Deborah Kahn, Executive Vice economy is rooted in research “It’s a nice community because QatART founder Dominika Bozic with her creations. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH President at BioMed Central and Sidra, along with peers like at the same time we are build- said:“Sidra and BioMed Central Weill Cornell Medical College ing friendships among members share the aims of making excel- in Qatar, Qatar Biomedical who hail from various parts of handmade market. The market known market in Qatar because Workshops are also held for lent research visible and acces- Research Institute and the new the world such as USA, Latin is planned to be held monthly but so far there is no handmade mar- the members to acquire and hone sible to all scientists, and we open source journal QScience, as America, Europe, Asia, Africa with the onset of summer it will ket in Qatar. There are other their skills in different aspects are delighted to be hosting this well as BMC colleagues across the and Australia,” she said. temporarily halt and return back bazaars which sell handmade such as marketing their prod- joint symposium with Sidra. Our world, aim to help support the The group has collaborated by September or October. products but are also importing ucts. QatART is also active in Editors have a wealth of expertise burgeoning research endeavors with Katara Art Studios which “It is our main goal to organise them. The products that we have social media in promoting the in science and medicine, as well of Arabic scientists,” said Sidra’s provide them with free space our own market. We want this to here are all handmade by us in group’s activities. as scientific research publishing Dr Marincola. where they can organise the be permanent and become a well Qatar,” she added. THE PENINSULA and we’re glad of the opportunity THE PENINSULA APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

‘Dome of the Rock’ on display Protect our interests, say businessmen on sponsorship reforms

BY MOHAMMED SHOEB exit permit system would pose a threat to the country’s social DOHA: Qatar’s private sector stability. will have no issues if the gov- “I don’t think that is true. If ernment makes amendments that has any essence of truth the to the sponsorship law so long government will never allow the as its interests, especially the law to change, because the inter- interests of Qatari private ests of the people and the business businesses, are protected, say community are the first priority businessmen. of the government,” he said. However, they are not at one Abdul Rahman Al Ansari, a on the matter. Some suggest that prominent Qatari businessman, if changes in the law are inevitable they should be imple- mented in a phased manner, and that too with great caution and without compro- mising the socio-eco- nomic stability of the country. They argue that the sponsorship or ‘kafala’ system is very important in the region as almost A replica of ‘Dome of the Rock’ made from mother of pearl on display at the traditional handcraft exhibition at the Palestinian Heritage Week all economic activity at Katara Building 3. The festival runs until Tuesday and also features Dabke dance performance, folk songs and a fashion show. is based on it. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH “Whatever the amendments or changes coming up with respect to the existing sponsorship Qatar-made documentary released law, I am sure that the government will seriously consider Abdul Rahman Al Ansari the interests of pri- Bader has grabbed many awards since 2012 vate sector busi- nesses”, said Remy Rowhani, CEO and DOHA: Award-winning Director General Qatar-made documentary of Qatar Chamber ‘Bader’ was officially released (QC), Qatar’s oldest at the Hamad Bin Khalifa and largest private University Student Center sector representa- Cinema. tive body. The film’s directors Latifa Al Rowhani was quick Darwish, Maaria Assami and to add that unless Sara Al Saadi organised the there was a proper event which featured a screen- system in place to ing followed by a panel discus- protect the interests sion on Film and Education. of the local private It was attended by Dr Hend business commu- Al Muftah, Director at the nity, QC would find Childhood Cultural Center, it extremely diffi- Afrah Al Reyashi, Head of cult to cope with the Social Science, Supreme situation. Council of Education, Dr “I hope that what- Batoul Khalifa, Mental Health ever will be the Professor, Qatar University, amendments in the Saad Burshaid, Theatre Dept law, they will be in Remy Rowhani Manager, Ministry of Culture the interests of both, and Dr Khalid Al Hroub, the business and expatriate com- said: “Changes in the sponsor- Professor in Residence, Liberal Bader tells the story of a young boy who overcomes the struggles he faces through the recitation of poetry. munities,” he said. ship law should be carried out in Arts Program, Northwestern On the perception that QC, as a phased manner. It takes time to University Qatar. the representative body of Qatar’s create the atmosphere to change “Bader has a very strong Institute (DFI) said: and wish them all the best for Festival 2012, Jury Award in business community, lobbies a law that has existed for nearly story that we believe is worth “We are very proud of the their bright film career ahead.” Short Documentary Competition against any reforms in the spon- four decades.” telling and we are very excited directors of Bader and all the Bader tells the story of a young at Emirates Film Competition sorship law, Rowhani quipped: “This region in general and to share his story with the local talents who are building boy who overcomes the struggles and Special Mention in Student “It’s a perception among some Qatar in particular are unique community. We look forward to the local film scene. The great he faces through the recitation Short Film Competition at sections of the expatriate com- with respect to demography, size hearing what everyone thinks attraction that Bader had of poetry. The film hopes to cre- the Gulf Film Festival. It also munity. Qatar Chamber’s funda- of the economy etc.... Here eve- of the film and we hope it will through this event and prior ate a positive discussion about screened as part of DFI’s spe- mental commitment is to protect rything is related to the sponsor- start a positive discussion screenings is another example the themes it explores around cial market presentation at the the interests of Qatar’s business ship law. So things should be seen regarding the themes raised of the importance of supporting young people and education. Clermont Ferrand International community…. As an industry body in perspective. It cannot be done in it,” said the directors. our local filmmakers to provide Since it was made in 2012, the Short Film Festival in 2013 and it is our duty to ensure that the overnight. The interests of the Fatma Al Remaihi, Director audiences in Qatar with local film has won awards including the Cannes Film Festival Short interests of the business commu- local community and businesses of Ajyal Youth Film Festival & content. We look forward to Best Film in Made in Qatar sec- Film Corner. nity are well-protected.” need to be taken into account Programmes at the Doha Film supporting their future projects tion at the Doha Tribeca Film THE PENINSULA Elaborating on the business before amending the law,” said community’s reservations on Al Ansari. scrapping the exit permit system, He said there were many he said: “The problem is that if activities for which the sponsor’s someone is under my sponsorship permission was unnecessary. and he has signatory powers, such Why should an expat be asked Car catches fire after crash as the right to sign cheques etc, to produce the sponsor’s consent he can do that and leave the coun- to apply for a driver’s licence, he try, and I will not be able to have asked. a say in it. After he is gone, the “It has also been noticed that concerned bank will come to me some companies, especially banks, and ask me to repay the millions find employees of some companies of riyals he has taken away.” (sponsors) more creditworthy “Scrapping the exit permit sys- while others are assumed to be tem may create big problems for less so,” he said. us. This was our major concern “I am not against the pro- in the beginning. However, what posed changes. All I am saying is I understand is that the minis- we need to compare the number try is looking into alternatives of nationals and the expatriate and will put in place terms and population in Qatar before enact- conditions to protect the inter- ing or amending any law. Look at ests of private sector businesses,” the size of Asian communities Rowhani added. in Qatar. Are they not support- “There are a lot of suggestions, ing and promoting the interests ideas and proposals coming from of their respective countries by different sections of the society, repatriating their earnings?” some of which have appeared in Al Ansari, who is CEO of the local media. For instance, Qatar Industrial Manufacturing someone has suggested that if a Company, said: “We are not inter- foreign employee has served for a ested in keeping the passports of certain length of time, he or she foreign workers and signing exit should be allowed to change the permits.Those who are critical sponsor or get exemption from and exerting pressure on Qatar the exit permit rule. So long as for changes in the law in ques- it does not hamper the interests tion should ponder and evaluate of local businesses, we have no Qatar’s unique position. They issue,” he said. need to understand the ground Rowhani does not agree with realities in the right perspective.” the argument that ending the THE PENINSULA A car caught fire after it was hit by another car near Gharrafa commercial street yesterday. No casualties were reported. APRIL 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

Qassim Rahmatullah

Crafted by hand

The Katara Art Studios courtyard yesterday showcased a wide variety of arts and crafts, all handmade by members of the newly established QatART community, composed of expatriates from all parts of the world. The second Katara QatART Handmade Market had on offer jewellery, accessories, clothes, paintings, illustrations, craft kits, home decor, home-made food and party supplies. QatART is the first organisation of expatriates who create handmade products to suit the demands of Qatar’s diverse community. APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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S President Barack Obama started his week-long tour of Asia by conducting policy discussions with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, emphasising the Usignificance of the ties between the two nations. The visit provided an opportunity to the president to send a clear Chelsea Clinton’s pregnancy message to China that Washington would stand by its ally in any emergency. It also provided an opportunity to Tokyo to feel reassured about Washington’s commitment to its security. gives birth to new conspiracies Obama’s visit is extremely significant for a simple reason: it comes at a time of heightened tensions due to a territorial BY HADLEY FREEMAN dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands, saw not the happy miracle of life but “I don’t know, David. Did the birth of mere campaigning. Newsmax’s Steve your three children make you worse at also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China. “Our treaty XCITING news from the Malzberg kicked off proceedings nicely your job?” snapped Erin Gloria Ryan commitment to Japan’s security is absolute, and Article 5 (of American political scene: with the statement: “When I say [the at Jezebel.com. Sadly, Gregory has yet the Japan-US Security Treaty) covers all territories under birtherism is back! No, not pregnancy is] staged I have to believe to respond. “Perhaps it’s sexist even to Japan’s administration, including the Senkaku Islands,” Obama Ebirtherism as in the nonsen- she’s pregnant, if she says she’s preg- ask the question,” began an editorial in declared at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Abe sical conspiracy theory about Barack nant.” That’s generous of you, Steve! the Christian Science Monitor, promis- Obama actually being born in Kenya, Pray, continue: “But what great tim- ingly. “If we had to guess, we’d say that after their summit meeting on Thursday. For Obama, this bold once so popular among political geniuses ing! God answered Hillary Clinton’s Hillary Clinton will be a tad less inter- statement served two objectives: first, to dispel the image of including Donald Trump. Please – that prayers and she’s going to have the prop ested in running for president now that weakness associated with his diplomacy, and second, to dispel kind of birtherism is so 2008 (and 2009. of being a new grandma while she runs she’s about to be a grandmother.” Yes, any misunderstanding about Washington’s commitment to And 2010. And 2011. And 2012 …) I’m for president.” you know what those old ladies are like: Japan’s security. Obama said the US position on the disputed talking about the all new, all shiny 2014 Yes, the prop of one’s 34-year- one hint of a grandchild and they’re too islands has been consistent, as Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel birtherism: Clinton birtherism! old married daughter having a baby! busy knitting booties to bother worrying Chelsea Clinton, as you may have Whoever heard of such a crazy sce- about world affairs. had previously conveyed a similar message to Japan. But heard, is expecting a baby with her nario? Those scheming Clintons really Who knew being a grandmother was coming directly from the president, the remark has a far more husband, Marc Mezvinsky. What’s that will do anything to get ahead. Bill may such an all-encompassing job; one that significant impact. you say? “Awwwww”? “Bless the happy well, in his day, have played a role in prevented a woman from doing anything Obama’s tour of the region couple”? Well, I’m afraid you’re just not various women’s sex lives, but who knew else? As it happens, the Sunday Times Obama is should help to reduce tensions in trying hard enough because, over in he could command his own daughter reminded readers of this fact when, in the region. Some members of the the US, the noise to conceive? Others echoed Malzberg’s a front page headline, it described the sending a that greeted this sentiment, with much talk of Hillary distinguished Margaret Archer, head Association of Southeast Asian happy announce- Clinton deliberately “softening her of the Pontifical Academy of Social strong message Nations are involved in maritime ment was the image” and “adding compassion” to her Sciences, simply as “Grandmother, rows with China over the South sound of a mil- persona via the medium of her unborn 71”. Whether stories about, say, David to China by China Sea, which is destroying The news that lion axes being grandchild. People who actually seem Attenborough will now be headlined in peace which is vital for economic ground. to believe this span the political spec- the Times “Grandfather, 88” have not asserting that Hillary Clinton First came trum, ranging from conservative writer yet been confirmed. But then, women progress. Philippines also has the US defence is to become the inevitable Michael Goldfarb, who tweeted: “Just in must always be defined by their fertility, serious territorial disputes with weirdy-weirdos time for HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] or even their children’s fertility, whereas treaty with China, and Manila too is depending a grandmother who are so inca- to have a baby on stage with her when men are, of course, defined by their jobs. on Washington for its security as has prompted pable of thinking she announces she’s running, right?”, Just as old-school birtherism – Japan applies Beijing is too powerful. Obama’s about anything to New York Times columnist Andrew “Barack Obama was actually born in open support for Tokyo is also questions about other than wom- Ross Sorkin, who said on MSNBC: “Can Kenya!” – was really just code for “Holy to the disputed en’s reproductive we talk about the human drama that is hell, we can’t possibly have a black man apparently meant as a message to islands also. her ability to run organs for more Grandma Clinton? I’m not suggesting as president!”, so the current birther- some members of the Association than two sec- that anyone’s having a baby for elec- ism – “Hillary can’t possibly be a grand- of Southeast Asian Nations which for presidency. onds that they tion purposes, but …” Gotta love that mother and run for office!” – is really have problems with China. The United States intends to It’s breathtaking managed to turn “but”! And what is this “human drama just code for “Holy hell, we can’t pos- intervene if Beijing invades disputed islets or takes similar sexism. Clinton’s birth … Grandma Clinton”? Is it a new HBO sibly have a woman as president, and actions. announcement series? Because I’ve been looking for a an OLD one to boot!” Mitt Romney, to into a debate new one since Breaking Bad finished. take one random and deeply obvious What the region needs is peace, not confrontation. Beijing, about abortion: But by far the biggest debate is this: example, is the proud grandfather of as the superpower in the region, has a responsibility to refrain “It’s no secret that the Clintons support can Hillary Clinton run for president 23 grandchildren, two of whom were from actions that will create tension. Its neighbours have been abortion,” intoned an editorial in the AND be a grandmother? Oh, women – born while he was on the campaign trail, forced to turn to US as they feel insecure and also because Christian Post sorrowfully. “But when always wanting to have it all, aren’t they? and not once was this raised as a poten- some of China’s tactics have been interpreted as threatening. it’s their own grandchild, it appears the Well-known US TV journalists have tial disadvantage. Many presidents have Clintons see things differently. No talk expressed disbelief that the two roles been grandfathers in office, although it’s The chances of a military confrontation are very slim, but the of a non-person foetus, only of a child.” could possibly be combined: “President actually quite hard to figure out how atmosphere of tension is equally dangerous. Yes, the sheer hypocrisy! Imagine, want- or grandmother?” asked Charlie Rose, many because, guess what? No one ever At Thursday’s press conference, Obama referred to a ing to give women access to abortion, who somehow manages to combine gave a good God damn, so no one kept situation in which large countries, like the US or China or but not actually wanting to abort every being a prominent interviewer while track. Funnily enough, Jeb Bush, who Russia, feel as if whenever they think it’s expedient they can single pregnancy? Seriously, my brain also being an occasional ass. On NBC, may well be Clinton’s opponent in 2016, take actions that disadvantage smaller countries. That’s both a is bursting trying to compute this non- David Gregory fretted over whether is also a grandfather, but that has yet to sensical contradiction. Clinton’s impending grandmotherhood be raised as an issue against him. truth and a message. Next came the new birthers who will “factor into” her decision to run. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Unified Palestinian body vital for peace the day

OES the Israeli government Abbas has been prepared to talk to water between it and a Fatah move- would be possible. Yet who, outside really believe in the right of the Israelis. And the Americans, led by ment grown stale and corrupt with its the wretched oppressed Palestinians a Palestinian state to exist? the ever-attentive Secretary of State dominance of the Palestinians? Hamas and the wider Arab world, recognises DThere are plenty of Israeli John Kerry, have sought to foster the may have thundered against the exist- the reality that Israel has actually extremists, not least among illegal process every step of the way. ence of Israel. But while Israel has always denied the right of Palestinian Given the absence settlers in the occupied West Bank How come then that when the pretended that it favors an independ- independence? and East Jerusalem who absolutely Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority ent Palestinian state, its actions have So what therefore is the difference of progress, we have deny it. Fixated with the Zionist dream in the West Bank seeks another recon- demonstrated this to be an outright lie. between Hamas and Israel on state- of an Eretz - Greater -Israel, they want ciliation with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, The illegal settler program is steadily hood ? Why is it that Hamas can be to think about — to occupy an extensive landmass the Israelis protest vigorously and their colonising the Occupied Territories, ostracized, while Israel suffers no con- from which all Arabs, including those outcry is echoed by Washington, taking the best land, seizing the most sequences at all for holding the self- and not just think now holding Israeli citizenship, will be because the historic political position strategic positions and grabbing same view? about, but act on expelled. of Hamas is that it denies the existence access to an ever-greater proportion Then there is the issue that Hamas Yet although there is clear evidence of the Israeli state? of the ground water resources. Some is branded a terrorist organization, — the option of new that most Israelis reject existence of Does it really matter that the Hamas would argue that the point has already responsible for bombings and attacks sanctions on Russia. Palestinian state, the Palestinian lead- political position is largely rhetoric, been passed where the creation of an inside Israel. Angela Merkel ership under President Mahmoud designed originally to put clear blue economically viable Palestinian state ARAB NEWS German Chancellor APRIL 26, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY War on ‘Islamism’ fuels hatred, violence

election-winning Brotherhood as a mor- Reprising the theme tal threat and have designated it a ter- rorist organisation. that guided him So to appease Riyadh, finalise multi- billion pound arms contracts and align Britain with the emerging Egyptian- and George Bush Saudi-Israeli axis, Cameron has tossed them a bone. If he really wanted to know through the deceit about the Brotherhood he could have asked its envoy at the lunch he held for him last May at Chequers, before their and carnage of the elected president was overthrown in Cairo’s blood-drenched coup. ‘war on terror’, Alternatively, William Hague could have had a chat with the Brotherhood members of the Syrian rebel coalition the former prime Britain backs with cash and equipment, and the US supports with arms. But minister took his that might have caused embarrassment to Whitehall officials who insist that crusade against young British Muslims going to fight in Syria represent the greatest threat to the country’s security. ‘Islamism’ on to a Which helps to explain the incoherence of Blair’s outpourings. Western policy in new plane. the Middle East now verges on the sur- real. Britain, the US and their friends are in practice lined up with Islamist (and Al BY SEUMAS MILNE Tony Blair speaks at Bloomberg in London on Wednesday. Qaeda) Syrian rebel forces while claiming they only back “moderates” – but deny he neocons are back. That the rebels any decisive edge and support toxic blend of messianic Quite why the views of a man whose But all the signs are that the anony- Commission chairman and another neo- the suppression of Islamists across the warmongering abroad and military interventions in the Muslim mous dossier setting out the Salafist con ideologue, has meanwhile declared region. Muslims from Britain who vol- McCarthyite witch-hunting world have been so widely discredited, takeover plan is a hoax linked to an “Islamist extremism” the “most deadly” unteer to fight or send funds to Syria, in at home – which gave us who has been funded by the Kazakhstan employment tribunal case. A head problem facing charities and promised effective alliance with their government, TIraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the dictator and is regarded by up to a third teacher the dossier claimed the plotters tough measures to crack down on it, how- are then arrested and charged with ter- London bombings – is coursing through of the British public as a war criminal, had ousted in fact left 20 years ago. The ever it might be defined. rorism offences in Britain. Britons who our public life again. Yesterday the liberal should be treated with such attention by only individual named in the dossier isn’t Then the Muslim mayor of Tower went to fight in Libya in 2011, on the interventionists’ hero, Tony Blair, was the media isn’t immediately obvious. But a Salafist. Even the West Midlands chief Hamlets, the former Labour councillor other hand, were allowed to come and once more demanding military action one reason is that they chime with those constable described Clarke’s appointment Lutfur Rahman – often described as go as they pleased. against the “threat of radical Islam.” of a powerful section of the political and as “desperately unfortunate.” “extremist-linked” in the media – has It is beyond hypocritical and cynical, Reprising the theme that guided him security establishment. But there are now four official inquir- been the target of a new media onslaught. but is part of a pattern of manipulation, and George Bush through the deceit and In Britain, the campaign against ies. Inspectors have gone round schools No wrongdoing has been uncovered, support for tyranny and military inter- carnage of the “war on terror,” the former Islamist “extremism” is once again in asking teachers whether they are homo- including by the police. The communities vention in the Middle East over a century. prime minister took his crusade against full flow. In fact, it is open season on phobes and telling others their school will minister, Eric Pickles, has nevertheless That record has been the central factor “Islamism” on to a new plane. The west the Muslim community. For the past fail inspection because they’re not teach- sent in inspectors. in the rise of Islamist movements and the should, he demanded, make common cause few weeks reports have multiplied about ing “anti-terrorism,” while Gove’s media That follows David Cameron’s far more jihadist backlash since 2001. This week’s with Russia and China to support those an alleged “Islamic plot,” code-named allies have been fed inflammatory titbits ominous announcement of an “investiga- US missile attacks in Yemen, which left with a “modern” view against the tide of Operation Trojan Horse, to take control to justify the campaign. tion” into the Muslim Brotherhood and dozens dead, will generate more of it. political Islam. But he also demanded mili- of 25 state schools in Birmingham and Locals insist the reality is that its links with “violent extremism” both Meanwhile, in Britain and other tary intervention against Syria – backed run them on strict religious principles. Muslims, both liberal and conservative, in Britain and abroad, with the possibil- countries preparing for next month’s by Russia – along with more “active meas- The education secretary, Michael Gove, have been getting more involved in their ity of banning it as a terrorist organi- Euro elections, denunciations of Islamic ures” to help the armed opposition, which a long-time neoconservative supporter children’s schools to raise standards, not sation. The motivation for this inquiry “extremism” and nonexistent plots, along is dominated by Islamists and jihadists. It’s of Blair’s wars and Islamist witchfinder “Islamise” them. But the result of the into the most influential political organi- with dog-whistle talk about Christianity, a crazy combination with an openly anti- general, responded by sending in an army uproar has been to poison community sation in the Muslim world was made are the small change of the contest with democratic core: the Middle East peace of inspectors to hunt down extremists relations and deter ordinary Muslims transparently clear by the appointment right-wing populists. But the fear and envoy also warmly endorsed the Egyptian and appointing Peter Clarke, the former from taking part in civic life for fear of of Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, hatred they feed will be with us for many dictatorship, along with the repressive head of Scotland Yard counter-terrorism, being branded “extremist.” Sir John Jenkins, to head it. The Saudi years to come. autocracies of the Gulf. to investigate. William Shawcross, the Charity and Egyptian regimes both regard the THE GUARDIAN Bad ideology mars Marquez’s legacy Kochs’ attacks on solar power could hurt GOP Garcia Marquez went so far as Heberto Padilla to defend death sentences Castro handed out to politically hetero- BY CARTER ESKEW did not have half dox Cuban officials — one of whom had been personally close to the he Republican Party’s biggest sugar daddies, the Koch broth- writer — after a 1989 show trial. ers, are a mixed bag for the GOP: They bring money but lots of the talent Gabriel One can imagine many motiva- baggage. Their downside isn’t only that they are a convenient tions for this shabby behaviour, Tfoil for Democratic turnout but also that they could exacerbate Garcia Marquez some more comprehensible than tensions within the Republican Party. others. A youthful dabbler in For years, the party has maintained an uneasy and unlikely alli- Communist Party activity in the ance among big business, social conservatives and anti-government had. Still, some 1950s, Garcia Marquez belonged libertarians. to a generation of Latin American If you looked at these three groups on a Venn diagram, you would of us admire him intellectuals for whom anti-impe- often find little overlap except in years when they have a shared enemy: rialism was an ideological given, as Barack Obama, for example. Enter the Koch brothers and their agenda, well as a badge of sophistication; which is transparently self-interested. more. perhaps he never outgrew that. In an effort to respond to Democratic donor Tom Steyer’s state- “Friendship” with men like Fidel ment that he is different from the Kochs because he isn’t looking for BY CHARLES LANE Castro is hard to escape — though, a quo for his quid, a Koch spokesman disputed this characterization People write a wall with sketch of late Colombian novelist, short-story writer, given the benefits he reaped from of selfishness, pointing out that the brothers have long opposed tax tatesmen eulogized Nobel screenwriter and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez near the Ramblas in that relationship, tangible and subsidies for oil and gas interests, an example where their mouths Prize-winning novelist Barcelona on Wednesday on Saint George’s day. otherwise, it’s doubtful Garcia oppose their money. But, of course, the Kochs don’t spend money on Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Marquez ever contemplated a campaigns designed to kill oil and gas drilling depreciation allow- Swho died at age 87 on suffocating Cuba less than a Thereafter, the Colombian break with Fidel, even secretly. ances. Instead, they are spending it to kill one of the most promising April 17. “The world has lost one decade after Fidel Castro’s 1959 gradually rose in Havana’s esti- Whatever their causes, Garcia forms of alternative energy: solar. It is this anti-solar campaign that of its greatest visionary writers revolution. mation, ultimately emerging as a Marquez’s Cuba apologetics will may awaken part of the Republican coalition and turn it against the — and one of my favourites from Then instructions changed: The de facto member of Castro’s inner forever mar his legacy. True liter- brothers and their agents. the time I was young,” President Castro regime began a campaign circle. Fidel would shower “Gabo” ary greatness is a function of not Solar panels throughout red states of the South and Southwest have Barack Obama said; he called the against Padilla and like-minded with perks, including a mansion, only narrative skill and linguistic become this century’s version of the satellite dish. In the late 1970s, author of “One Hundred Years intellectuals that culminated in and established a film institute creativity, which Garcia Marquez rural and, later, suburban households who couldn’t get cable TV or of Solitude” “a representative March 1971, when state security in Cuba under Garcia Marquez’s possessed in abundance, but also were tired of paying its monopoly prices set up satellite dishes instead. and voice for the people of the agents arrested Padilla, seized his personal direction. moral courage, which he lacked. This was about more than the thrill of getting television where it had Americas.” Juan Manuel Santos, manuscripts and subjected him to The novelist, in turn, lent Against the multiple evils, social been too fuzzy or expensive before: This was an act of freedom. You president of Garcia Marquez’s a month of brutal interrogation. his celebrity and eloquence to and political, that plagued his were beating a system that was rigged against you. native country, hailed him as “the The poet emerged to denounce the regime’s propaganda mill, native region, he bore witness too Today, another way to beat the system is to take on big utilities and greatest Colombian of all time.” himself before fellow writers for describing the Cuban dictator in selectively. their monopoly prices by putting some solar panels on your roof or in The obituary of Garcia Marquez having “been unfair and ungrate- 1990 as a “man of austere habits Castro finally let Heberto your yard. Your energy bills go down, and the utility company buys that I would most like to read will ful to Fidel, for which I will never and insatiable dreams, with an Padilla leave Cuba for the United the extra power you generate. never be written. That is because tire of repenting.” He implicated old-fashioned formal education, States in 1980. In his 1989 mem- No wonder anti-establishment conservatives (and liberals, for that its author would have been the colleagues and even his wife as careful words and fine manners, oir, “Self-Portrait of the Other,” matter) love their solar panels. They are a deeply powerful and personal Cuban poet Heberto Padilla — counter revolutionaries. and incapable of conceiving any the poet noted that he sought badge of defiance and independence. Now the Koch brothers want to who passed away 14 years ago. Intellectuals around the world, idea that isn’t extraordinary.” Garcia Marquez’s aid for an exit take it all away. They are funding a multistate campaign to kill solar No one was better qualified to led by Garcia Marquez’s fellow To rationalise this cosy rela- visa but that the writer tried to panels by imposing a monthly fee on their usage. The argument is that assess the weird blend of literary star of the Latin American liter- tionship, Garcia Marquez offered dissuade him from going, saying solar-panel users are freeloading on the power grid. brilliance and political rotten- ary “boom,” Mario Vargas Llosa, himself as an ostensible go- that Cuba’s enemies might use There may be some limited merit to that argument, but it is laugh- ness that characterised Garcia condemned this Stalinesque spec- between when Castro occasion- his departure for propaganda able coming from the Koch brothers and the large, carbon-based utili- Marquez’s long career. tacle. Many cultural figures who ally released dissidents to appease purposes. ties. The grid has been a neglected stepchild of the energy business In 1968, just as “One Hundred had backed the Cuban revolution the West. Apart from that book, Padilla for generations. Now some freedom-lovers started a trend that could Years of Solitude” was propelling soured on it because of the Padilla What Gabo never did was raise produced little. He bounced from reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and oil, crown jewels in the Garcia Marquez to fame, Padilla affair. his voice, or lift a finger, on behalf one college job to another before Koch business empire. published a collection of poems For Garcia Marquez, however, of Cubans’ right to express them- dying, a broken man, in Auburn, Republicans are now fooling around with people who are only situ- titled “Out of the Game.” Cuba’s it was a different kind of turning selves freely in the first place. Ala. He was 68. ationally for freedom — freedom when it’s good for their business. But cultural authorities initially per- point. When asked to sign his fel- Far from being “a representa- In truth, Heberto Padilla did the message for the young family trying to save money or the guy with mitted and even praised Padilla’s low writers’ open letter to Castro tive and voice for the people of not have half the talent Gabriel 20 acres who is tired of getting jacked around or the small farmer book, despite its between-the- expressing “shame and anger” the Americas,” he served as a de Garcia Marquez had. Still, some barely getting by is clear: We will crush your dream. lines protest against the official about the treatment of Padilla, facto spokesman for one of their of us admire him more. This is not an association Republicans should covet. thought control that was already Garcia Marquez refused. oppressors. WP-BLOOMBERG WP-BLOOMBERG APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East PLO set for crunch talks on scuttled peace push Pause needed in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue: Obama

JERUSALEM: The Palestine resuming the talks. newspaper Maariv, “no guidelines Liberation Organisation was The Palestinians retaliated by have been issued to the forces on preparing yesterday for week- applying to adhere to 15 interna- the ground regarding a change in end crisis talks to mull its tional treaties and then Abbas, the existing security coordination options after Israel torpedoed who heads the Palestinian policy with the PA.” the US-sponsored peace talks Authority (PA) and Fatah, listed US analysts insist that the in response to a Fatah-Hamas conditions for extending the talks peace process has life in it yet. reconciliation deal. beyond the April 29 deadline. “Now is not the time to declare With the peace process that US Abbas said he would agree to an anything dead—now is the time Secretary of State John Kerry has extension if Israel freezes settlement to understand fundamentally fought long and hard for appar- construction in the occupied West why this didn’t work,” said Aaron ently back to square one just days Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, David Miller, a diplomat who before an April 29 deadline, both frees the prisoners and begins dis- worked for six secretaries of state sides were considering their next cussions on the future borders of a on the process. move. promised Palestinian state. “It’s never dead. It’s like rock Israeli Prime Minister Israel dismissed these and roll, it will never die,” the Benjamin Netanyahu set the tone, conditions. Woodrow Wilson International telling the BBC that Palestinian At the same time, the Islamist Center analyst said. President Mahmud Abbas could Palestinian movement Hamas Israeli columnist Nahum “have peace with Israel or a pact and the Fatah-led PLO agreed to Barnea noted in Yediot Aharonot: with Hamas (but) he can’t have establish a “national consensus” “As of Wednesday, the deci- A member of the Israeli security forces aims his weapon towards Palestinians during clashes in the centre of the both.” government under Abbas within sion whether to pack up the West Bank town of Hebron yesterday. “As long as I’m prime minister weeks. American peace team or continue of Israel, I will never negotiate The reconciliation deal infuri- to maintain it on a small flame, with a Palestinian government ated Israel whose security cabinet in Washington and in Jerusalem, HRW urges Israel to stop shooting that is backed by Hamas terror- said Thursday it would “not nego- was not made. In the meantime, ists that are calling for our liqui- tiate with a Palestinian govern- no one is packing his bags.” dation,” he added. ment backed by Hamas.” The Gaza Strip—ruled by JERUSALEM: Israel must living in the densely inhabited terrorism from the Strip”. US President Barack Obama, It also vowed unspecified Hamas while Abbas’s writ is con- stop shooting at Palestinian Gaza Strip use land near the fence “The statement ridicules whose administration dragged the “measures” in response. fined to the West Bank—has been civilians in the Gaza Strip, with Israel for agriculture, collect- human rights. This week alone two sides back to the negotiating The PLO leadership is to con- besieged by Israel since 2006. Human Rights Watch said yes- ing rubble, scrap metal, and other we’ve had numerous attacks table last July after a three-year vene on Saturday in the West The coastal enclave is in a terday, noting four have been reusable materials, and recreation.” emerging from the immediate hiatus, called the Palestinian Bank city of Ramallah for a dire humanitarian and eco- killed near the border fence “Month after month, Israeli perimeter of the fence,” he said. unity deal “unhelpful.” debate on the peace process and nomic situation, which pushed since the beginning of 2014. forces have wounded and killed “They don’t magically arrive Speaking in Seoul, Obama its options, with Abbas due to it towards signing the deal with A report by the New York- unarmed Palestinians who did there,” Lerner said of the acknowledged the need for a make a key speech on Sunday. PLO, despite refusing to recog- based watchdog cited UN data nothing but cross an invis- perpetrators. “pause,” but vowed he would not Israel’s chief negotiator Tzipi nise Israel and advocating armed which also said more than 60 ible, shifting line that Israel has He also referred to “terror tun- give up on Kerry’s peace push. Livni stressed Thursday night struggle against it. “Hamas is in civilians were wounded by Israeli drawn inside Gaza’s perimeter,” nels” from Gaza and projectiles Kerry himself urged both sides that Israel was not “closing the distress. It is more flexible than gunfire near the perimeter fence said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s fired at southern Israel. to “compromise,” maintaining door” on the peace process and ever before,” Barnea wrote. of the Palestinian enclave ruled by Middle East director. The military spokesman said that “we will never give up our that punitive sanctions would not Delegates from Hamas will the Islamist Hamas. Lieutenant Colonel Peter “the 100-metre (yard) limit” from hope or our commitment for the be severe or seek to collapse the attend the weekend PLO meet- It focused on seven incidents Lerner, a spokesman for the the border fence, which was agreed possibilities of peace.” PA. ing, when not only will the unity between January 2 and March Israeli army, did not challenge upon under the terms reached The two sides have been on a Security coordination is one deal be discussed but also support 1, in which the four were killed the facts but slammed the report after an eight-day confronta- collision course since March when aspect of Israeli ties with the PA for Abbas’s move to further inter- and five others wounded, “none which he said “completely ignored tion between Israel and Hamas Israel refused to release a final that could be impaired by new nationalise the Palestinian quest of whom posed a threat to the the reality of the state of conflict militants in November 2012, was batch of Palestinian prisoners measures. for recognised statehood. soldiers or others”. we have with Gaza, the perimeter “known and widespread”. in line with the original deal on But according to Israeli AFP HRW noted that “Palestinians with which is a springboard for AFP Woman killed in clashes between Israel to teach Holocaust Brotherhood, to kindergarten students

security forces JERUSALEM: Israel is were faced with the questions launching a new programme and difficulties of pupils ahead CAIRO: A supporter of Egypt’s to extend instruction on the of Holocaust Memorial Day, outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Holocaust to children in kin- marked with ceremonies and a was killed yesterday in clashes dergarten, despite some pub- siren heard nationwide. with the security forces in lic criticism that they are too Educators will now have the Fayoum province, south of Cairo, young to understand. tools to teach the sensitive topic medical sources said. “For the first time, there is a in a more professional manner, The woman, Reda Dahish, died comprehensive educational pro- the statement said, noting that after being hit by birdshot in her gramme for Holocaust instruc- the Holocaust would only be pre- stomach. Six other people were tion to all age groups, from sented to pre-schoolers on the injured, the sources said. kindergarten to high school,” said memorial day and the day before. A witness saw Brotherhood sup- a joint statement yesterday from “Ahead of the siren, the porters throwing rocks and fire- the education ministry and Yad children will be told that the works at security forces who fired Vashem Holocaust memorial. Holocaust Memorial day is one teargas and used birdshot against “The programme is designated in which we remember people the protesters. for all age groups, and adapted who went through a difficult Egypt has faced a surge in vio- to their emotional and cognitive period many years ago (before lence after the army overthrew abilities to deal with the topic and the children and their parents President Mohamed Mursi in July its meaning,” the statement said. were born). The geographic following mass protests against The new programme, to be distance of the events will also him a year after he was elected. implemented in public edu- be emphasised,” the statement Since Mursi was ousted the gov- cational institutions from read. ernment has launched a campaign September, was announced just Simulations and plays illustrat- against the Brotherhood, which it ahead of Holocaust Memorial ing the events and creating iden- has branded a terrorist organisation, Day, which begins Sunday night. tity with them will be avoided, the arresting thousands of its members Until now, only high school- statement noted. including Mursi. Hundreds have ers have been methodologically But some took to the social been killed in clashes. taught the subject. media to mock the initiative. REUTERS But teachers of all age groups AFP

Protest in Manama

A Bahraini protester throws a tear gas canister back at riot police during clashes following a protest condemn- ing the death of Ahmed Al Mosajen and Ali Abbas, in Al Maqsha, west of Manama, yesterday. Ahmed and Ali were killed on April 19, when their car exploded in a village in Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said. APRIL 26, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Iranians deliver 28 killed in attacks on Iraq political rally Rowhani’s first Series of explosions at Shia organisation’s rally wounds 40; ISIL’s role suspected political defeat TEHRAN: Eight months after BAGHDAD: A series of explo- with the Al Qaeda offshoot called communities in hopes of provok- stadium’s main gate and deto- Iraq against terrorism. Some of taking office, Iranian President sions killed 28 people and the Islamic State of Iraq and the ing a full-fledged civil war. nated, unleashing a massive ball Asaib’s members are in Syria Hassan Rowhani has suffered wounded more than 40 at a Levant (ISIL), rejoiced at the Asaib’s main leader Sheik Qais of fire. defending the shrine of Sayyida his first major political defeat, Shia political organisation’s attack but did not claim it. Khazaali had just delivered a Army and police shot in the air Zainab in Damascus. with the public overwhelmingly rally in Iraq yesterday, police “A knight from the state of speech accusing some politicians and a final explosion shook the Pictures of its slain fighters brushing aside appeals to forgo and medical sources said. Islamic knights has detonated of aiding terrorism and vowed ground. Asaib members comman- from Syria can be seen around direct government aid. The militant group, Asaib Ahl his explosive vest near the Asaib his movement was ready for any deered cars to rush the injured to Baghdad and Shi’a cities across The 455,000-rial ($14,) Haq (League of the Righteous), podium while they were parad- action by ISIL. hospital. A wounded man limped the south. monthly handout scheme, ini- was presenting its candidates for ing... killing dozens including “To all ISIL..., we are ready. We away, stained in blood, while peo- Khazaali was an aide to Shia tiated in December 2010 by elections on April 30 at the rally commanders,” it said. are prepared,” he said. “We are ple hunted for missing friends or cleric Muqtada Sadr and led his Rowhani’s predecessor Mahmoud in eastern Baghdad. Three bombs The attack came as ten- the defenders of this country. You relatives. own faction of fighters, who broke Ahmadinejad, is part of broader exploded in succession as people sions ran high in Iraq before its will never reach us.” Asaib, which has formed its away from Sadr’s Mahdi Army economic reforms aimed at over- were leaving, reporters at the national election and the Iraqi He added: “If ISIL is the sick- own party, Al Sadiqoon (the militia. At the height of sectarian hauling the country’s massive scene said. security forces locked in a four- ness, we are the medicine.” truth seekers), is accused by some violence in 2006 and 2007, some of subsidy system. A roadside bomb blew up near month battle with ISIL in west- As people started to leave the Sunnis and Shiias of carrying out the worst attacks on Sunnis were The reform — which phases out the main gate, followed by a sui- ern Anbar province. stadium, the first bomb exploded. killings and driving families from blamed on Asaib. parts of remaining subsidies on cide car bomb after a few minutes It appeared to be the work of Grey smoke rose in the air and their homes. The group also carried out energy, utility bills and basic food and then a final explosion. ISIL aimed at baiting the group people ran or scrambled for cover. Khazaali denies the allegations attacks on the US military. costs — is forecast in this year’s A Twitter account, associated to strike Sunni neighbourhoods or The a white mini-van raced to the but says his movement defends REUTERS budget to save the cash-starved government $18 billion. Encouraged by economists as a way of regulating Iran’s economy, Raid on Aleppo which is stretched thin with debil- itating sanctions and mismanage- ment, the plan’s second phase is Turkish judge slams expected to begin this week. But the Rowhani administra- tion for weeks ran an aggressive Erdogan’s remarks media campaign seeking to per- suade the most affluent of Iran’s 77-million population, and some ANKARA: In a defiant chal- That ban was seen by Erdogan’s of the middle class, to waive the lenge to Turkey’s prime minister, critics as an attempt to halt a cash payments. the head of the Constitutional string of audio leaks purportedly Enlisting celebrities, sports- Court complained yesterday of revealing corruption in the gov- men, politicians and even reli- political criticism which he said ernment. Erdogan has branded gious figures, it argued that the had traumatised and divided the audio clips, which he says are money should instead be spent the judiciary. “fabricated”, as part of a cam- on infrastructure, manufacturing, Hasim Kilic’s uncompromising paign waged by Gulen and his fol- public transport and health care. speech, made in the presence of lowers in the judiciary to wreck But on Wednesday it was a grim-looking Prime Minister the government. announced that 73 million peo- Tayyip Erdogan, will exacerbate Gulen, a former ally of ple — 95 percent — had asked to the tense relationship between Erdogan’s ruling Islamist-rooted receive the money, amounting to the government and judiciary, AK Party, denies these claims. a near $1bn monthly bill. creating a further headache for Critics say the prime minister is The low rate of dropouts was Erdogan as he weighs a run for destroying judicial independence mocked in conservative circles, the presidency. and media freedoms in Turkey in and even moderates and reform- Erdogan has said swathes of a bid to cover up corruption in ists expressed criticism. Turkey’s lawyers and police are his inner circle. He rejects that Emergency responders rescue a man buried under rubble after a building collapsed following a barrel-bomb REUTERS under the sway of his arch-foe, accusation. attack in Aleppo, yesterday. US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag Gulen. He has clashed with judges struck back at the judge with an over a series of rulings. accusation that Kilic was act- “To say that the Constitutional ing like a political party and his Court acts with a political agenda speech had been heavy on polem- South Sudan court frees four leaders or to blame it for not being patri- ics but light on legal ideas. otic is shallow criticism,” chief “The remarks made by the head judge Kilic told a ceremony broad- of the constitutional court show JUBA: South Sudan yester- adding: “Even if we hang them out (of war),” he said in a speech. In a speech thanking his sup- cast live on local TV channels. that Turkey has a new opposi- day released four top lead- they cannot compensate those “Let’s all work together.” porters, he vowed to work to end “It is striking that a constitu- tion,” Bozdag told reporters. ers accused of rebellion and who were killed.” Tthe four men were greeted by the vicious conflict. “We have to tional ruling has been criticised “Apparently the main opposi- treason, dropping charges for The court order said the men cheering supporters who lifted return South Sudan to peace and excessively with political wor- tion party and other opposition attempting to overthrow the were released “in order to pro- them up on to their shoulders stability,” Amum said, adding he ries,” he said, in a reference to parties have failed...and our con- government in a move aimed at mote peace and reconciliation into the crowd. would work with both the gov- Erdogan’s comment this month stitutional court head seems to ending a four-month-old civil among our people”, while Kiir “We were imprisoned without ernment and rebels “to end this that he did not respect the court’s be intent on filling this gap,” he war. urged people to respect those any reason,” said freed detainee senseless war that is killing our lifting of a government-imposed added. President Salva Kiir said their released. Pagan Amum, the former secre- people.” ban on Twitter. REUTERS release was the “price of peace”, “This is the only way of getting tary general of the ruling party. AFP Gul approves law Iran announces stiff petrol price hike widening secret TEHRAN: Iran announced petrol price hikes to 10,000 rials per litre, equivalent to a 43 per- service’s powers as high as 75 percent to take immediate effect cent increase. And under the government’s newly yesterday, in a long-awaited attempt to regu- announced measures the price of semi-subsidised ISTANBUL: Turkey’s presi- late energy prices in the country’s flatlining, diesel will increase from 1,500 rials to 2,500 rials, dent approved a law yester- sanctions-hit economy. a 60 percent hike, Irna said. day boosting the powers of the The increases, which took effect at midnight, The government’s goal is to eventually liberal- secret service, in a move crit- are part of the second phase of government ise all energy prices and reduce energy consump- ics of Prime Minister Tayyip plans to remove all energy subsidies. The cost tion, which far surpasses the global average. Erdogan see as a bid to tighten of electricity and domestic gas went up by 25 President Hassan Rouhani has admitted that his control in the country in percent earlier this year as part of the same the price hikes will increase living costs, at least the face of a challenge to his programme. in the short term, although the country’s official authority. Iranians are entitled to purchase 60 litres of inflation rate has fallen steadily since he took The law, sent to President petrol each month at a reduced price. The official power last August. Abdullah Gul earlier this week IRNA news agency said cut price petrol would Iranians are subject to a market rate of 32,000 by a parliament dominated by increase from 4,000 rials (12 US cents) per litre rials per dollar, pricing the US currency higher Erdogan’s AK Party, gives the to 7,000 rials, (22 cents), using the market rate than the official Central Bank rate of 25,500 rials, secret service more scope for for the dollar. effectively cheapening the rial in domestic terms. foreign operations and eaves- Normal priced petrol will jump from 7,000 rials AFP dropping, while offering top agents greater immunity from prosecution. The secret service is run by Basij parade Hakan Fidan, one of the closest con- fidantes of Erdogan, who is locked in a feud with Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally based in the United States whose network of fol- lowers wields influence in Turkey’s police and judiciary. Erdogan accuses Gulen’s net- work of orchestrating a plot to unseat him, tapping thousands of phones, including his own, over years and using leaked recordings to unleash corruption allegations against his inner circle in the run- up to a series of elections. Gulen denies involvement. Secret service chief Fidan was himself the subject of an inquiry in February 2012 seen by the prime minister’s circle as a chal- lenge to his authority by a Gulen- influenced judiciary. Erdogan’s response to the corruption inquiry has raised concern in Western capitals, including Brussels, which fears the EU-candidate nation is mov- Members of the Basij militia attend a parade in Tehran yesterday. Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia ing further away from European established in 1979 by order of the Islamic Revolution’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini. norms. REUTERS APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com International US prepares more sanctions on Russia Separatists seize international mediators MOSCOW/KIEV: The United stronghold, an official on the presi- They began military exercises States said yesterday it was dential staff said. on Thursday and Ukraine said prepared to impose further tar- One of its military helicopters they had approached to within 1 geted sanctions on Russia over was hit by rocket fire and exploded kilometre of its border and that its actions in Ukraine and that while on the ground at an airport it would treat any incursion as an European leaders had agreed near the city. invasion. to coordinate on steps to make Pro-Western leaders in Kiev, Ukraine’s acting president Moscow pay. who took power in February accused Moscow of supporting The crisis escalated when after Moscow-ally President “terrorism at the state level” armed pro-Russian separatists in Viktor Yanukovich fled following against his country for backing the eastern city of Slaviansk seized mass protests against him, say the rebels, who it blames for the a bus carrying international medi- the rebels are being directed by politician’s murder. ators. A separatist leader said the Moscow. Russian troops seized Interior minister Arsen Avakov mediators were believed to have a Crimea after Yanukovich fled. insisted every care was being Valery Bolotov (centre), the pro-Russian self-declared governor of the Lugansk region, speaks to supporters in Kiev “spy” amongst them. The stand-off has led to heavy taken to avoid non-combatant The White House said US capital flight from Russia, prompt- casualties, after Moscow warned front of the occupied Security Service building in Lugansk yesterday. President Barack Obama and ing credit rating agency Standard it may act if Kiev used the army European allies all felt that Russia & Poor’s to cut the country’s against civilians. have to react. “Because of the lack Washington of distorting it with up to Ukraine’s border. had escalated tension in eastern ratings yesterday. That forced The White House statement of progress we will have to con- “one-sided demands”. However, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Ukraine, where pro-Moscow sepa- Russia’s central bank to raise its came after Obama pressed four template further sanctions,” she Russia’s Defence Ministry said it Arseny Yatseniuk said Russia ratists have refused to leave official key interest rate to reverse a drop European leaders on the need for said before the call. was ready for “unbiased and con- wanted to start World War Three buildings they have occupied. in the rouble. more robust action against Russia. France said only that sanctions structive” talks with the United by occupying the country and cre- But it gave no details of what Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Europe is reluctant to impose had been discussed and the leaders States to stabilise the situation. ating a conflict that would spread the sanctions might be, or when Lavrov, accused authorities in tough sanctions due to its reliance had called for a “speedy reaction” Obama accuses Moscow of to the rest of Europe. it planned to enact them. Kiev of waging “war on their own on Russian gas and trade ties with to the crisis from leading indus- sending agents to coordinate the Seven people were injured over- Ukraine sent troops to try to people”. Moscow. trial nations, while Italy said they unrest in the east, as it did before night at a pro-Ukrainian check- dislodge the separatists from “This is a bloody crime, and Britain agreed the current sanc- had agreed on the situation. seizing Ukraine’s Crimea region point near the Black Sea port of Slaviansk on Thursday, killing up those who pushed the army to do tions would need to be extended “The leaders underscored that in February. Odessa when an explosive device to five rebels in what it said was that will pay, I am sure, and will given what it said was Russia’s Russia could still choose a peace- US Secretary of State John blew up, police said yesterday. a response to the kidnapping and face justice,” Lavrov said. refusal to support an international ful resolution to the crisis, includ- Kerry said Russia was using prop- Residents have built several torture of a politician found dead The Kremlin says it has the peace agreement that it signed up ing by implementing the Geneva aganda to hide what it was trying such checkpoints near the town on Saturday. right to defend Russian speakers to last week under which all sides accord,” the White House state- to do in eastern Ukraine — desta- aimed at stopping pro-Rus- Special forces launched a second anywhere if they are under threat agreed to work to disarm illegal ment said. bilise the region and undermine sian separatists entering from phase of their operation yester- and has deployed extra troops on groups. Lavrov said Moscow was com- next month’s Ukrainian presi- Moldova’s breakaway territory of day by mounting a full blockade the border with Ukraine, which German Chancellor Angela mitted to implementing the dential elections — and decried its Transdniestria. of Slaviansk, the rebels’ military Nato says number up to 40,000. Merkel said the leaders would Geneva agreement but accused “threatening movement” of troops REUTERS Canada top court kills Senate reform plan Four die as new fighting OTTAWA: Canada’s Supreme and the Senate, whose members full well there was no consen- that Parliament cannot unilater- breaks out in CAR Court ruled yesterday that are named by prime ministers sus among the provinces and no ally achieve most of the proposed Parliament cannot enact major over the years and which rarely desire to reopen the Constitution. changes to the Senate, which BANGUI: Heavy weapons fire at least 13 people with gunshot reforms to the Senate on its blocks House legislation. “The Supreme Court has said require the consent of at least broke out overnight in Muslim wounds from the same neigh- own, effectively killing off Before pushing through leg- we’re essentially stuck with the seven provinces representing, in suburbs of Bangui, the capital bourhoods. Two people killed by Conservative Prime Minister islation that the top court status quo for the time being the aggregate, at least half of the of the Central African Republic, gunshot wounds were also brought Stephen Harper’s efforts to might later strike down, the and... significant reform and abo- population of all the provinces.” and health workers reported at in, they said. make the unelected upper house Conservatives had asked the top lition are off the table,” he said It added: “Abolition of the least four dead in the new out- Colonel Gilles Jaron, a French more democratic. court to pronounce ahead of time at a business event in Kitchener, Senate would fundamentally break of violence. military spokesman, said that The court said Harper’s Plan B what power Parliament has to Ontario. change Canada’s constitu- Only isolated incidents of fight- French troops were fired on — to abolish the Senate if reform make changes. “I think it’s a decision that the tional structure, including its ing have been reported in the capi- at a junction near the Muslim proved impossible — must win the The court severely diminished vast majority of Canadians will be procedures for amending the tal this month and many French neighbourhoods. approval of the legislatures of all the prospect of Senate reform by very disappointed with, but obvi- Constitution, and can only be and African Union forces have “French troops retaliated and 10 provinces. requiring constitutional amend- ously we’ll respect that decision.” done with unanimous federal- fanned out into the surround- launched a manoeuvre to enter Parliament has two chambers, ments. In reaction, Harper threw In its unanimous decision, the provincial consensus.” ing countryside in an attempt a house and search it,” he said. the elected House of Commons in the towel, saying people knew court declared: “We conclude REUTERS to curb inter-communal clashes “When they got there, the people elsewhere. firing at them had fled.” Most of the Muslims who once Early yesterday, angry residents lived in Bangui, in the south of the brought the body of a Central former French colony, have now African soldier killed overnight fled towards the northern border before the prime minister’s office, Suspected mad cow disease case in Brazil Oslo turns back with Chad, creating a de facto where hundreds had gathered in partition. pouring rain to protest the ongo- BRASILIA: Brazil, one of the March 19 due to old age. It did not concern among Brazilian exporters. But in a break from the relative ing violence. world’s biggest beef export- have any symptoms of the disease. “The news comes at a bad time,” on Dalai Lama calm in Bangui, a witness heard The mutilated body of the sol- ers, is probing a suspected case “These are the main character- Jose Augusto, the president of heavy weapons fire overnight and dier’s wife was also brought to the of “atypical” mad cow disease istics of an atypical case of BSE Brazil’s foreign trade association, to woo China sporadic shooting in the mostly hospital, according to a witness. detected in the country, authori- that occurs sporadically and spon- was quoted as saying by the O Muslim suburbs of PK-5 and PK-3. It was not immediately clear who ties said yesterday. taneously, unrelated to eating con- Globo daily. OSLO: Norway said yesterday Health officials at the Bangui was responsible for the killings. The Agriculture Ministry said taminated food,” the ministry said. “Meat prices are rising on the that its government would not hospital said they had treated REUTERS in a statement that the alleged Products made from the cow international market, which would meet the Dalai Lama during his case of bovine spongiform enceph- did not enter the human or animal help offset the low prices of other visit to Oslo in May, in a contro- alopathy (BSE) was found during food chain, it added. raw materials,” he added. “And versial decision aimed at warm- a routine inspection of a slaugh- All animals that had contact that doesn’t take into account that ing up icy relations with China. Bolivia sacks hundreds of soldiers terhouse in the state of Mato with the cow were identified and international partners could be “The government today decided Grosso. isolated. driven to suspend their Brazilian that no representatives from the LA PAZ: Bolivia sacked 702 members of the military on Thursday It was traced to a single, 12-year- Word of a possible mad imports.” Norwegian authorities would meet in a quick, firm response to a march by non-commissioned officers old grazing cow slaughtered on cow case has sparked AFP the Dalai Lama when he is visit- protesting alleged discrimination against indigenous members. ing Norway,” Foreign Minister The military acted after about 2,000 sergeants from all services Boerge Brende told Norwegian turned out for the protest in uniform, singing marching songs as they newswire NTB. paraded through downtown La Paz. South Africa campaign When asked for the reason of The protest was set off by the sacking of 13 non-commissioned the decision, he said it was due to officers on Monday for refusing to obey orders and for mutiny. “the absolutely extraordinary situ- But the strikers’ grievances extend to treatment of the mainly ation between China and Norway” Aymara and Quechua non-commissioned officers by higher-ups. which have not had “any real polit- ical contact” for several years. Court rejects ex-cop’s extradition Political relations between Beijing and Oslo plunged to a low MADRID: A top Spanish court yesterday ruled against extra- after Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo diting a former policeman to Argentina, where a judge wants to was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize try him for alleged torture during the Franco dictatorship. in 2010. The National Court, the top criminal court in the country, said Chinese leaders froze high-level Jesus Munecas’s alleged crimes occurred too long ago. contacts with Norwegian coun- The court also justified the decision on the grounds that Munecas terparts, and Oslo’s attempts to has no link to Argentina. normalise political relations have The former policeman, 75, was the subject of an extradition request since proven fruitless, as China by an Argentine judge under the principle of universal jurisdiction, wants to set an example to deter which allows certain human rights abuses to be pursued and tried other countries. elsewhere if the country in which they occurred does not investigate. Norway’s decision came after the Chinese government issued Ecuador expels 20 Pentagon staff a new warning this week that Beijing is “firmly opposed to other QUITO: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has ordered 20 countries providing a platform for Pentagon officers and staff to leave the country, a US embassy the Dalai Lama’s activities that official said yesterday. Correa ordered the US Department aim at dividing China”. of Defence personnel out of the country on April 7, said Jeffrey Beijing considers Tibet an inte- Weinshenker, a spokesman at the US embassy in Quito. gral part of its territory and sees The Pentagon staff have until the end of April to leave the country. the Dalai Lama as a separatist. In a statement, Weinshenker said the United States respects The Tibetan spiritual leader is Ecuador’s right as a “sovereign” nation to expel the US military staff, Jacob Zuma (centre), President of South Africa and the ruling African National Congress, waves to a cheering expected in Norway from May 7 but regrets that the move “will severely limit our bilateral cooperation crowd as he conducts a door-to-door electoral campaign in Duduza, in the East Rand, yesterday. The ANC to 9, having been invited by pro- on issues related to security.” is expected to win the May 7 election easily. Tibetan groups. REUTERS AFP APRIL 26, 2014 Asia / Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Obama leaves Tokyo, proceeds to Seoul US ‘pivot’ effort to contain rising Asian power: Beijing

TOKYO: US President Barack said in their statement that they some of the contents of the joint Obama wrapped up a state were committed to taking “bold statement. visit to Japan yesterday dur- steps” to reach a two-way deal, “We urge the United States ing which he assured America’s which would inject momentum and Japan to abandon their Cold ally that Washington would into a delayed 12-nation Trans- War mentality, and respect the come to its defence, but failed to Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade concerns and interests of other clinch a trade deal key to both pact. countries in the region, and avoid his “pivot” to Asia and Prime “There are still details to be further interference with regional Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic worked out. There is still much peace and stability,” he told a daily reforms. work to be done ... We believe news briefing. Obama and Prime Minister we do have a breakthrough in The allies also said they wanted Shinzo Abe had been seeking to our bilateral negotiations,” said to build productive ties with China display the alliance was strong the senior official accompanying but expressed concern about its Air in the face of a rising China, but Obama to South Korea. Defence Identification Zone cover- their success in putting recent Obama on Thursday assured ing the disputed isles, announced strains behind them was partly Japan that Washington was com- last year, as well as activities fan- marred by a failure to reach a mitted to coming to its defence, ning tensions in the South China deal seen as crucial to a broader including of tiny isles at the heart Sea, where other Asian countries US President Barack Obama bids farewell to Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in Tokyo yesterday. regional trade pact. of a row with China, but denied have rows with Beijing. “Our two That failure delayed a joint he had drawn any new “red line” countries oppose any attempt to statement on security and eco- and urged peaceful dialogue over assert territorial or maritime nomic ties until shortly before the the dispute. claims through the use of intimida- US leader left for Seoul, the next Yesterday’s joint statement tion, coercion or force,” the state- US, S Korea vow firm response vs North stop on his week-long, four-nation echoed those comments and put ment said. Asian tour. in writing a long-held US stance The diplomatic challenge for Obama and Abe had ordered that the uninhabited islands in Obama during his week-long, SEOUL: North Korea repre- continued work at the nuclear Obama said he hoped China their top aides to make a final the East China Sea are covered regional tour is to convince Asian sents a threat not just to Asia test site in North Korea, although would use its influence to rein push to reach a trade agree- by a security treaty that obliges partners that Washington is seri- but to the United States, US experts analysing the data say in its North Korean ally. Beijing ment after the leaders met on Washington to defend Japan. ous about its promised strategic President Barack Obama said that preparations do not appear called again yesterday for a Thursday, but Economy Minister Those comments drew a swift pivot, without harming US ties yesterday, as he and South to have progressed far enough for resumption of stalled talks Akira Amari told reporters that rebuke from Beijing, which also with China, the world’s second- Korea’s President Park Geun- an imminent test. between North Korea, itself, the gaps remained despite recent claims sovereignty over the biggest economy. Beijing has hye warned they would respond “When North Korea is threat- United States, South Korea and progress. Japanese-controlled islands, painted the “pivot” as effort to firmly to any “provocations.” ening further provocations and Russia. Park said the process - “This time we can’t say there’s known as the Senkaku in Japan contain the rising Asian power. In March, the North warned it publicly discussing the possi- known as the six-party talks - a basic agreement,” Amari told and the Diaoyu in China. Japanese Abe, who returned to office in would not rule out a “new form” bility of a further nuclear test, would be rendered “useless” by a reporters after a second day of and Chinese patrol ships have 2012 pledging to boost Japan’s of nuclear test to boost its nuclear President Obama’s visit to South fourth nuclear test. almost around-the-clock talks been playing cat-and-mouse near security stance and tighten ties deterrent, after the UN Security Korea will send a firm message Military experts say the North failed to settle differences over the isles, and Washington is wary with the United States, hailed the Council condemned Pyongyang’s that North Korea’s provocations would lose any conventional war farm products and cars. “Overall, of being drawn into any clash. joint statement as “historic” and launch of a mid-range ballistic will not be tolerated,” Park told a with South Korea and the United the gaps are steadily narrowing.” Chinese Foreign Ministry said a “key milestone” had been missile into the sea east of the joint press conference. States and is seeking to develop Seeking to put a positive spin spokesman Qin Gang said China reached in the trade talks. peninsula. The two presidents were speak- nuclear weapons as a deterrent. on the trade front, the two sides had “serious concerns” about REUTERS Recent satellite data shows ing after a summit in Seoul. REUTERS

Intoxicated man triggers plane Thailand’s govt wants more troops in Bangkok over crisis hijack alert BANGKOK: Thailand’s gov- anti-government groups if Prime done for personal and party politi- interests. Both sides can whip up and Yingluck’s government and JAKARTA: A drunk pas- ernment is to ask the army to Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is cal reasons. If found guilty, she large crowds on the streets and they have vowed to resist any bid senger triggered a hijack scare deploy more troops in the capi- ousted in May as a result of legal may have to step down. both sides have armed activists to force Yingluck from office, by yesterday when he tried to tal, Bangkok, as fears mount cases brought against her. Yingluck’s ousting would be in their ranks. either the anti-government pro- break into the cockpit of a that the country’s lengthy Yingluck, who has faced six the latest twist in nearly a dec- “There are important legal testers or the courts. “We are plane flying from Brisbane to political crisis could move into a months of street protests aimed ade of confrontation between her cases coming up next month and worried there will be violence and the Indonesian holiday island more violent phase. at forcing her out, has been brother, ousted premier Thaksin the red shirts will rally,” said clashes between the protesters of Bali, transport officials said. Surapong Tovichakchaikul, a charged with abuse of power for Shinawatra, and the Bangkok- Surapong, who heads the Centre and the red shirts, which is why A Virgin Australia Airlines deputy prime minister, voiced con- her transfer of National Security based royalist establishment, who for the Administration of Peace we must increase the presence of official said there had not been cern yesterday about the poten- Council chief Thawil Pliensri in see Thaksin, a populist former tel- and Order. The “red shirts” are troops to protect security,” he told an attempt to hijack the air- tial for clashes between pro- and 2011, which opponents say was ecoms tycoon, as a threat to their supporters of the Shinawatras reporters. REUTERS craft but a “flight emergency” when a 28-year-old male pas- senger banged on the door of Filipinos rally against US the cockpit trying to get in an hour before it was due to land. “He was trying to enter the cockpit, banging the door but he did not enter the cockpit,” Heru Sudjatmiko, airport man- ager for Virgin Australia in Bali, told Indonesia’s Metro TV. Crew members seized the passenger, who authorities identified as Matt Christopher Lockley from Australia, and handcuffed him. China bans rare species for food BEIJING: China will jail people who eat rare animals for 10 years or more under a new interpretation of the criminal law, state media reported, as the government seeks to close a legal loophole and better protect the natu- ral environment. Filipino activists yesterday stage a protest rally against the upcoming visit of US President Barack Obama. China lists 420 species as rare or endangered, including the panda, golden monkeys, Asian black bears and pango- lins, some or all of which are Singaporeans launch anti-Filipino rally threatened by illegal hunting, environmental destruction and the consumption of animal SINGAPORE: An abusive and Facebook pages heaped Singaporeans living in Britain?” parts, including for supposedly campaign by Singaporeans racial abuse on Filipinos and A spokeswoman for organis- medicinal reasons. opposing a planned Philippine attacked the choice of venue, ers Pilipino Independence Day Consumption of rare ani- independence celebration has saying it should be held in the Council Singapore (PIDCS) mals has risen as the country shone a light on anti-foreigner Philippine embassy grounds referred to a previous state- has become richer, with some sentiment in the city-state, instead. ment which said they were people believing spending thou- home to large numbers of Prime Minister Lee Hsien “heartened, grateful, and sands of yuan on eating them guest workers accused of tak- Loong, who attended a happy to receive support from gives a certain social cache. ing jobs from locals and caus- “Singapore Day” celebration Singaporeans.” She declined to “Eating rare animals is not ing overcrowding. in London on March 29, con- comment on whether the event only bad social conduct but The Philippines marks its demned the “thuggish behav- would go ahead as planned on also a main reason why illegal 116th year of independence on iour” of people who harassed June 8. Police say they have not hunting has not been stopped” June 12 and a group of Filipino the organisers of the Philippine yet received a permit applica- Lang Sheng, deputy head of residents in Singapore is plan- event, calling them a “disgrace tion for it. parliament’s Legislative Affairs ning an event on June 8 at a to Singapore.” Blaming “a few The Philippine embassy in Commission said, the official shopping complex along busy trolls” for the online attacks, Singapore was alarmed and Xinhua news agency reported Orchard Road. he wrote on his Facebook page: moved to post an advisory on late on Thursday. It became a hotly debated “How would we have felt if its website urging Filipino resi- AGENCIES topic after commentators on British netizens had spammed dents in Singapore to exercise anonymously-run local websites our website, and abused caution. AFP APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Flash floods kill 100 in Afghanistan Thousands left homeless, scores missing after two days of torrential rain submerges Afghan provinces

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Flash expected to rise. “We have a con- contenders, was quick to call for floods in northern Afghanistan firmed toll of 33 people dead and help for the flood victims. after two days of torrential rain 2,152 houses destroyed, several “With great regret, we have have killed around 100 people, districts have been badly affected,” been informed that heavy flood- officials said yesterday, with he said. ing has caused casualties and scores more missing as heli- “Rain is still continuing, which destroyed properties in some copters searched for stranded is hampering relief efforts.” northern provinces,” said a state- villagers. In Sar-e Pul, another northern ment from his campaign. Local officials said that 43 peo- province, the flooding killed at “We extend our deepest sym- ple died in Jowzjan province, 33 in least six people with more than a pathies to the people affected and Faryab province and six in Sar-e dozen still missing, said Governor demand urgent action by the gov- Pul province. Abdul Jabar Haqbeen. ernment and relief organisations The floodwaters swept through Local officials reported short- to help the affected people.” villages and fields, engulfing thou- ages of drinking water, food and Two weeks ago, a landslide trig- sands of homes and leaving many medicine, as the central govern- gered by heavy rains and a small people seeking safety on the roofs ment’s disaster management earthquake swept through two of their mud-brick houses. agency said it was assessing emer- villages in the northern province “We have been able to recover gency needs. of Takhar, killing four people and 43 bodies,” Jowzjan provincial The floodwaters destroyed destroying around 100 houses. police chief Faqir Mohammad farmland and also killed livestock In the last major flooding in Jowzjani said. across the remote region. Afghanistan, 40 people died in “Rescue helicopters have evacu- Flooding often occurs during August in flash floods in east- ated some 200 people, but many the spring rainy season in north- ern and southeastern provinces people are still trapped on roofs ern Afghanistan, with flimsy mud and some districts of the capital of their homes and some are also houses offering little protection Kabul. missing.” against rising water levels. Neighbouring Pakistan suffered Faryab governor Afghanistan is set to release the worst floods in its history in Mohammadullah Batash said the preliminary presidential elec- 2010 when almost 1,800 people death toll in the province, which tion results yesterday, and died and 21 million people were Afghan authorities distribute relief goods to flood affected people, in Sheberghan, Afghanistan yesterday. borders Turkmenistan, was Ashraf Ghani, one of the leading affected. AFP

1.6m malaria Gunmen kill 7 family Expats on edge in US doctor’s death cases reported in Islamabad members in Islamabad KABUL: A new Taliban tactic, facility in Afghan capital said. with western diplomats, a guest- a series of random incidents or “Perhaps he was just a crazy house used by a US anti-landmine ISLAMABAD: Malaria is a sign of increasing xenophobia? individual, had some personal charity and a Swedish radio jour- the second most prevalent PESHAWAR: Unidentified enmity but police suspected the The latest killing of foreigners grievances or religious reasons, nalist shot in daylight on a busy and devastating disease of gunmen killed seven members incident was the result of an in Afghanistan has raised trou- but it is very difficult to explain. street Pakistan, as approximately of a family in a predawn attack “internal family dispute”. bling questions as US-led troops This was a good doctor who didn’t The attack on the Taverna 60 percent of the population yesterday in Pakistan’s troubled “We are investigating it but leave the country. deserve to die. Afghanistan has du Liban restaurant in January living in some areas where northwest, where killing on apparently it looks like an inci- Twice in the last month, rogue actually been quite safe for for- was among the most shocking as the disease is endemic, offi- personal vendettas is common, dent of internal family dispute,” policemen have opened fire on eign doctors and nurses, so it was gunmen mowed down diners and cial sources said yesterday. police said. Mohammad said, adding that foreign civilians in unprovoked such a strange attack.” staff, killing 21 people including 13 The number of confirmed The dead included two broth- “The village has no past history attacks that join a growing list Taliban militants, engaged foreigners enjoying an evening out malaria cases reported in ers, a sister, her nine-year-old son of militancy.” of assaults deliberately target- in a bloody insurgency against at a low-key social venue. Pakistan during the last five and three cousins, police said. Five Police said the assailants armed ing international workers. On the US-led foreign intervention Earlier this month a police years is higher than in previ- other members of the family were with assault rifles opened fire at Thursday, a police officer on duty in Afghanistan, did not claim commander killed an Associated ous years and it was mainly wounded and taken for medical the 12 members of the family who outside the CURE International responsibility for the shooting, Press (AP) photographer and because of the low coverage treatment at a local hospital. were travelling in a coach to see hospital in Kabul shot dead three and the motive remains unclear. badly injured a journalist as they of effective interventions to “Five of the family members off one of the family at Peshawar Americans including a doctor, in “The simple truth is there are covered election preparations in control the disease and vector died on spot and two in the hos- airport. an attack that left many expa- a lot of people with guns in this the eastern province of Khost. surveillance. pital,” Fazal Mohammad, a local “The attackers managed to flee triates fearing that nowhere in country -- including the police -- That shooting followed an Around 1.6 million cases, police official in the village of Yar in the dark,” said Mohammad Afghanistan is now safe. and that creates a major risk in attack on the luxury Serena including 300,000 confirmed Hussain where the attack took Sajjad Khan, a senior police officer “What can you do when an itself,” said Nannini, who vowed hotel in Kabul which left four cases at public sector health- place said. in Swabi district which includes individual policeman starts that Emergency’s work helping foreigners and one local reporter care facilities, are reported Yar Hussain is some 120 kilo- Yar Hussain, adding that police shooting like that?” Emanuele war victims would not be affected. and his family among nine dead in Pakistan every year. In metres northeast of Peshawar, the had launched a search operation Nannini, coordinator at the The range of targets hit this when four gunmen evaded secu- the Eastern Mediterranean region’s main city. but no one had been arrested yet. Italian-run Emergency hospi- year include Kabul’s most pres- rity checks and ran amok in the Region, Pakistan is among The family said they had no AFP tal, another respected medical tigious hotel, a restaurant popular restaurant. AFP seven countries with high malaria transmission, accord- ing to Head of Community Medicine at CMH Lahore Medical College Professor Dr Ashraf Chaudhry. New infections on the rise ISLAMABAD: As 90 per- cent of people living with infections belong to up to twelve major cities across Pakistan, the country must develop strong city-based health programmed in order to achieve the 6th Millennium Development Goal, according to JVR Prasada Rao, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Asia and Pacific. Rao said that at least 2 to 3 percent of Pakistan’s GDP needed to be allocated to the health sector in order to improve current social indi- cators; at the moment, 0.9 percent of Pakistan’s GDP is allocated to the health sector. In an interview yesterday Security officials hold weapons as they secure the site of an explosion in Karachi yesterday. Rao said that Pakistan is the fourth largest country in the region affected by transmitta- ble diseases, it was of signifi- cance for the United Nations Four killed in Karachi bombing from a global perspective. Nawaz and US ISLAMABAD: At least four “It seems that the bombing government and Taliban to end people were killed in Karachi missed the target as the IED years of fighting which has killed envoy hold talks City yesterday when a road- went off minutes after the bus tens of thousands of people. side bomb aimed at a bus had passed through the scene,” The tentative discussions ISLAMABAD: Pakistani carrying Shias worshippers he said. have yielded no result and the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif exploded, police said. “People in the bus suffered militants ended a 40-day cease- met yesterday with James “We suspect that a bus com- minor injuries and the wind- fire last week. Dobbins, US special envoy for ing from a Shia mosque was the screen and windows were shat- On Thursday a police officer Pakistan and Afghanistan, likely target,” provincial police tered due to the impact.” known for his tough stance who is currently on a visit to chief Iqbal Mehmood said in Pakistan has been grappling against the Taliban was killed Islamabad. remarks broadcast by Pakistani with a tide of sectarian violence, in a suicide bombing in Karachi. The two sides discussed television channels. with Sunni Muslim Taliban “The attacks have spiked bilateral relations between the Deputy Inspector General militants frequently attacking after the end of the ceasefire. two countries and exchanged Khalique Shaikh said the bomb Shias they see as infidels who The entire country is under views on regional and interna- went off just after the bus drove deserve to die. threat,” the regional informa- tional issues of mutual concern, past and that all those who No one claimed responsibil- tion minister, Sharjeel Memon, official Pakistani sources said. were killed were civilians who ity for the attack, which took said in televised remarks. AGENCIES happened to be nearby. place after talks between the REUTERS APRIL 26, 2014 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Raja, Kanimozhi and 17 others Rajiv murder chargesheeted NEW DELHI: A chargesheet convicts not to was filed in a court here yester- day against 19 accused, includ- ing former telecom minister A. Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi over money laundering in the be free for now 2G spectrum allocation case. The Enforcement Directorate filed the chargesheet before the Central Bureau of Investigation Case referred to Constitution bench (CBI) Special Judge O P Saini, who fixed April 30 as the next NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: bench. These included whether date of hearing. The Supreme Court yesterday after commutation of the death The chargesheet named Raja, said that the seven conspirators sentence into life imprisonment Kanimozhi, Dayalu Ammal (wife in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assas- either by the president, gover- of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi) sination will not be released nor or the court, the govern- Swan telecom promoters Shahid for now, a ruling that left the ment can go further to grant Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, mother of one of the convicts them remission of sentences directors of Kusegaon Fruits and disappointed. and free them. Vegetables Pvt Ltd Asif Balwa and The apex court referred to the While framing this question, Rajiv Agarwal, Bollywood pro- constitution bench the larger the court referred to the conflict- ducer Karim Morani, Kalaignar question whether the government ing positions taken by the central TV director Sharad Kumar and can free a convict whose death and the Tamil Nadu governments P Amirthan. sentence has been commuted to on this issue. The companies named are life term. Citing this point, Chief Justice Swan Telecom Pvt. Ltd., Kusegaon A bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam said: “The issue of Realty Pvt. Ltd., Cineyug Media Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi such a nature has been raised for and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., and Justice N V Ramana said that the first time in this court, which Kalaignar TV Pvt. Ltd., Dynamix “all the interim orders granted has wide ramification in deter- Empty chairs are seen as Congress Party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi (on the stage) addresses an election rally Realty, Eversmile Construction earlier will continue” till a final mining the scope of application of in Hyderabad yesterday. Company Private Limited, decision is taken by the constitu- power of remission by the execu- Conwood Construction and tion bench. tive — both the centre and the Developers (P) Ltd., DB Realty The court ruling came on the state.” Ltd. Nihar Construction Pvt. Ltd. plea of the central government The court also said that the Rahul Gandhi promises to The accused have been booked which challenged the Tamil constitution bench will also under various sections dealing Nadu government’s decision to address which is the appropri- with the Prevention of Money free the seven convicts whose ate government — state or the Laundering Act. death sentences were commuted centre, or both — to exercise this strengthen brand Hyderabad by the apex court into life terms power to suspend or remit sen- on grounds of inordinate delay in tences under relevant section of Three killed after deciding their mercy petitions. the Code of Criminal Procedure HYDERABAD: Congress vice from Delhi to Kolkata, Delhi to This city belongs to all. It’s a city Disappointed over the delay (Cr.P.C). president Rahul Gandhi yes- Mumbai, Mumbai to Bangalore of love and brotherhood and it can Kashmir election in the release of her son A G The court framed six more terday promised to further and Bangalore to Chennai. progress only with love and broth- Perarivalan convicted in the questions to be adjudicated, which strengthen brand Hyderabad Gandhi said Telangana, which erhood,” he said. attack: Police Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, included whether life imprison- by making it the number one will become a new state on June He claimed that Congress gov- Arputhammal hoped the legal ment means imprisonment for information technology city in 2, should dream big. “I don’t wear ernment did a lot for Hyderabad SRINAGAR: Three men were process would not take more than the rest of the convict’s life or the country and also developing a watch. I want to wear made in during last few years. It started killed in a shootout with Indian three months. whether a convict undergoing life it as a hardware hub. Telangana watch,” he said amid Hyderabad Metro Rail project security forces in Kashmir yes- Arputhammal told reporters imprisonment has a right to claim Addressing an election meeting cheers from the crowd at L B at a cost of Rs140 bn, built multi terday, the day after a local in Chennai that she had been remission. here, he said the Congress would Stadium in the heart of the city. modal transport system for election official died in an making arrangements to receive Coupled with this, the consti- take brand Hyderabad all over the He said 4,000 MW power plant Hyderabad and Secunderabad at attack in the restive northern Perarivalan alais Arivu from the tution bench was asked to decide world. He said that the proposed would be set up in Telangana a cost of Rs.625 crore, set up Rs7 region, where Muslims are in a Vellore Jail but was now at loss of whether there could be a special IT Investment Region (ITIR) in while the backward districts bn Indian Institute of Technology majority. words to express herself. category wherein after commu- Hyderabad will provide jobs to would get tax holiday for 10 years. (IIT) and upgraded the airport. It was not clear whether the She said the apex court’s deci- tation of death penalty, such a 700,000 youth. He also promised two lakh jobs in Meanwhile, the union cabinet men who were killed had carried sion was unexpected but she convict is put beyond the appli- “Hyderabad is a software cen- private sector and one lakh jobs yesterday recommended dissolu- out Thursday’s attack in South would continue her fight against cability of remission of sentence tre and we want Telangana and in public sector every year for the tion of Andhra Pradesh assembly Kashmir, in which one poll official the death sentence. and would remain behind bars in Hyderabad to become centre of next five years. and extension of president’s rule died and five others were injured, Former prime minister Rajiv excess of a life term of 14 years. hardware,” he said. Charging the Telangana in the state, official sources said. but the clash took place in the Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 “All the issues raised in the Gandhi said his dream after Rashtra Samithi (TRS) of doing They said the decision to rec- same area. “Three militants were at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu given case are of utmost critical five years is to see clothes, watch, politics of anger in Hyderabad by ommend dissolution of the state killed in a fierce gun battle in during an election rally. concern for the whole of the coun- shoes and other goods carry whipping up regional feelings, the assembly and extension of presi- South Kashmir’s Shopian district Extending its order restrain- try, as the decision on these issues made in Telangana and made in Congress leader assured security dent’s rule was taken by the cabi- where a poll official was killed last ing the state government from will determine the procedure for Hyderabad labels. and protection to all residents of net following the report of state evening ... “ South Kashmir police releasing these convicts, the apex awarding sentences in the crimi- He said the UPA government Hyderabad. Governor E S L Narasimhan over chief Vijay Kumar said. court framed several questions to nal justice system,” the court said. developed infrastructure for dedi- “This city is built by all people the prevailing situation in the AGENCIES be addressed by the constitution IANS cated manufacturing corridors who came from different regions. state. IANS

PM’s brother Unable to vote Mumbaikars to file petition in court joins BJP in NEW DELHI: Angry vot- on the electoral lists. “I went to the world’s largest-ever election how many people were affected. card issued by the poll panel is Amritsar ers in India’s financial capital the booth and they could not find in which its 815 million registered Media said thousands were una- not enough to vote in India and of Mumbai turned to lawyers my name ... it was disappointing, voters will complete the polls over ble to vote, but it was not pos- it is mandatory for voters to have AMRITSAR: In a move and social media yesterday to we’ve all been building up to this,” 10 stages on May 12. Results are sible to independently confirm their names on the electoral list likely to embarrass the vent anger at election authori- said Mumbai resident Govindraj due on May 16. the numbers. A Mumbai-based of their constituency. Congress, Prime Minister ties, a day after thousands were Ethiraj, adding that up to 20 people H S Brahma, one of India’s law firm planning to file a public Similar problems surfaced in Manmohan Singh’s half- reportedly unable to cast ballots at his polling station had the same election commissioners, acknowl- interest litigation in court next Pune, a city in the western state brother, Daljeet Singh due to irregularities in the vot- problem. Ethiraj said he had voted edged that lack of coordination week said it had received about of Maharashtra that went to polls Kohli, yesterday joined the ing lists. at the booth in the last three elec- between authorities had led to 5,000 queries and 250 people had on April 17. BJP in the presence of its Mumbai voters were among tions without any problem. some lapses and he promised to signed up to the litigation. Electronic voting machines and prime ministerial candidate the 180 million people who were The problem also affected fix the problem before local elec- “A citizen has been deprived of heightened security have ended Narendra Modi. registered to vote in the sixth some well-known Mumbai resi- tions due later this year. his right to vote and consequently abuses that plagued polling until Kohli, a businessman based phase of India’s mammoth gen- dents including Deepak Parekh, “We’ll rectify them, whatever has the right for redressal,” said the 1990s. Despite the problems here, joined the Bharatiya eral election on Thursday, but chairman of HDFC, one of India’s mistake we have seen. We really Mohan Jayakar, a senior part- with voter lists, India’s elections Janata Party (BJP) when many were unable to cast ballots biggest mortgage lenders, he told regret (it),” Brahma said. ner at the law firm, Jayakar and are largely seen as free and fair. Modi came here to address a when their names were not found media. India is halfway through Brahma said he did not know Partners. Having an identification REUTERS rally in favour of senior party leader Arun Jaitley, who is contesting from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat. At the rally held here, Kohli shared the dais with Three fire incidents Modi and other senior BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal leaders. “Today, Prime Minister in Delhi, eight hurt Manmohan Singh’s brother Daljeet Singh has joined NEW DELHI: At least eight The eight people who received the BJP. This will further people were injured and over a minor injuries were admitted to strengthen us. We are not a 1,000 hutments reduced to ashes various hospitals. membership party. We form after a fire broke out in a slum Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung blood relations,” Modi said cluster in south Delhi’s Vasant visited the spot and directed offi- while welcoming Kohli into Kunj area last morning, an offi- cials to set up medical camps the BJP fold. cial said. Two more incidents of and provide drinking water and Kohli was also welcomed fire were reported in the city food to the affected people, an into the BJP by Jaitley but there were no casualties. official statement said. He also and Punjab Chief Minister The fire in the slum cluster was announced ex-gratia payment for Parkash Singh Badal. reported at 8.30 am and 35 fire those affected. The BJP and the Akali Dal tenders were rushed to the spot, In another incident, fire broke are ruling partners in Punjab, a fire service official said. out in a dry-cleaning shop in cen- as well as the constituents “The fire was brought under tral Delhi’s Bengali Market early of the BJP-led National control in almost two hours,” A.K. morning. The fire soon spread to Democratic Alliance. Sharma, director of Delhi Fire other shops and by the time the Kohli had remained apo- Service, said. flames were doused, a total nine litical even after his elder According to Delhi Police, the shops were damaged. brother Manmohan Singh bursting of about 30 LPG cylin- According to the fire depart- became prime minister in ders added fuel to the fire. ment, the blaze was first noticed 2004 and got a second term A resident reacts as others stand among homes after a fire broke out in a makeshift settlement in New Delhi “At least 30 LPG cylinders burst at 4 am and extinguished by in 2009. IANS yesterday. More than 600 homes were destroyed in the blaze. The cause of the fire is not yet known, fire department which hindered rescue work,” said around 6 am with the help of 15 officials said. Atul Garg (south in-charge). fire tenders. IANS APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

First Dubai IPO British govt blocks RBS bonus plan in five years Bank planned to pay bonuses worth double salary; government policy a muddle, says Labour sees surge

LONDON: Britain has blocked overseas rivals, particularly those was not performing well enough “We want banks to be run for action to block the EU cap on of interest plans by state-controlled Royal in the United States. to justify higher bonuses. the shareholders and not for the bonuses. Bank of Scotland to pay bonuses The European Union has intro- “RBS is heading in the right staff. It’s a difficult balance but “He is spending taxpayer’s money DUBAI: The first initial public worth double an employee’s duced a rule, which will apply to direction, but it has not yet it’s certainly not right at the on a legal fight in Brussels against offer of shares on Dubai’s main fixed salary, adding to the pres- awards handed out from early completed its restructuring and moment,” a major institutional the bonus cap and yet imposing the stock market for five years was sure on banks to rein in pay. 2015, that bankers’ bonuses can remains a majority publicly-owned shareholder in Barclays and RBS minimum cap at RBS,” said Cathy 36 times subscribed, a sign of Banks across Europe have be no higher than fixed pay, or bank. So an increase to the bonus said yesterday on condition of Jamieson, Labour’s spokeswoman massive interest in equities come under fire from the public, twice that level with shareholder cap cannot be justified and the gov- anonymity. for financial affairs. among retail investors as the shareholders and politicians for approval. ernment made clear it would not “Think what a miserable experi- Sources familiar with the emirate’s economy booms. extravagantly rewarding staff at a Britain has launched a legal have supported such a proposal,” a ence being a bank shareholder has matter said that UK Financial Investors subscribed Dh10bn time of austerity that was brought challenge against the rule, saying finance ministry spokesman said. been over the last few years whereas Investments (UKFI), which man- ($2.7bn) to the fixed offer of 275 on in part by the reckless lending it could make banks riskier if they With the prospect of losing a vote the staff have made out like bandits. ages the government’s stake in million shares in Marka, which of some financial groups. respond by increasing employees’ on its bonus proposal at its annual Maybe the climate is such at the RBS, had initially been supportive were priced at Dh1 each, Jamal British Business Secretary base salaries, which cannot be shareholder meeting in June, RBS moment that people are prepared to of the RBS proposal but that the Al Hai, chairman of the com- Vince Cable this week wrote to clawed back later if the future of said it was withdrawing it. wear a bit more political interven- finance ministry chose not to back pany’s founders committee, said banks and other big companies the bank is under threat. On Thursday, more than a third tion,” the shareholder added. its recommendation. in a statement yesterday. The warning them to cut out exces- However the UK government, of Barclays’ investors declined to Britain’s opposition Labour The finance ministry said that, excess money will be returned to sive rewards or face tighter rules. which owns an 81-percent stake back its pay policy, showing it is Party said yesterday the govern- unlike with RBS, it would support investors. He said banks needed to address in the Royal Bank of Scotland not just state-backed companies ment had got itself in a “terri- a proposal by state-backed Lloyds IPOs dried up in Dubai when “dangerous levels” of pay. (RBS) after bailing it out at the whose shareholders are unhappy ble muddle” over banker pay Banking Group to pay bonuses its financial crisis erupted five Banks, however, argue they height of the financial crisis, said at what they see as rewards for and called on Finance Minister worth up to 200 percent of fixed pay. years ago, and since then restric- need to compete for talent with yesterday the loss-making bank failure. George Osborne to drop his legal REUTERS tive listing requirements have encouraged several United Arab Emirates companies to list in London rather than at home. Electro-motorcycle But the Dubai economy is now healthy again, and the Dubai GE in talks to buy Alstom Financial Market’s (DFM) main index is up 51 percent year- to-date, making it the world’s strongest major market. Marka’s power turbine division IPO may pave the way for more IPOs in coming months. PARIS: US industrial products about a $13bn full takeover bid Marka is a “cash shell” which giant General Electric is in talks for Alstom. does not have any current opera- to buy the global power turbines GE, with a market capitalisa- tions; it says it will spend proceeds of division of struggling French tion of $265bn, is about 23 times the IPO on opening over 100 fashion engineering group Alstom, bigger than Alstom, valued at retail outlets, restaurants and cafes according to two sources famil- around $11.5bn. in the UAE and across the Gulf Arab iar with the discussions. A deal to sell a power division region in the next five years. Earlier yesterday, Alstom Chief beset by weak demand, low mar- The IPO raised 55 percent of the Executive Patrick Kron confirmed gins and industry oversupply to company’s capital and the rest was to union representatives that GE calls into question Alstom’s contributed by 151 founders, includ- there were talks about an “indus- existing plans to sell non-core ing some of the UAE’s most promi- trial deal,” but did not name GE. assets and a stake in its trans- nent businessmen. Bankers have said The sources said a deal could port arm to fill a hole in its bal- Marka aims to list its shares on the be announced in the coming days ance sheet. DFM around the first week of June. after a board meeting yesterday Kron told union representa- Last month the smaller of afternoon. Both sources said it tives on Friday that there was no Dubai’s two stock exchanges, was Alstom, which makes power guarantee a deal would go through NASDAQ Dubai, saw its first IPO turbines and railway equip- but he hoped to have answers for since the financial crisis, a $175m ment, which had made the initial them “in the coming days”, union offer by Emirates REIT which approach, and that Alstom’s main sources said. An employee of Johammer e-mobility company works on a J1.200 electro-motorcycle at their headquarters in was 3.5 times oversubscribed. shareholder, French conglomer- The head of Alstom’s transport Bad Leonfelden, Austria, yesterday. The Johammer J1.200 is the first electro-motorcycle in the world offering REUTERS ate Bouygues with 29 percent, arm told Reuters in February the a 200km driving range on one full charge, according to the company. was backing the deal. group was looking to list the unit Alstom, Bouygues and General separately as early as June if a Electric declined to comment. trade buyer couldn’t be found any French Economy Minister sooner. De facto, if a deal with GE Arnaud Montebourg promised in an left Alstom with just its transport Australia’s tobacco law to be tested at WTO interview with Le Monde newspaper arm, a listing would no longer be to protect the national interest and needed. “We will see what tomor- to study “other solutions and sce- row brings,” Kron reportedly told GENEVA: An Australian law addiction and disease. in small standardised fonts. “By banning all design elements narios” for Alstom, one of the coun- unionists. “I have to ensure a future forcing cigarette companies Opponents of the law, who say The five countries challenging from tobacco packaging, plain try’s top private-sector employers. for each of the group’s units.” to sell their products in plain it is heavy-handed and an invita- it say the legislation is a barrier packaging precludes our produc- He said he planned a meeting Alstom was bailed out by the packets is about to be tested in tion to counterfeiters, had hoped to trade and restricts intellectual ers from differentiating their pre- with GE management and had French state in 2004 and relies court, diplomats at the World other countries would hold off property. mium products from competitors already met Kron on Thursday. heavily on orders from national rail Trade Organisation said yes- from following Australia’s exam- “My country fully shares in the marketplace.” Alstom employs 18,000 people operator SNCF and utility EDF. terday, ending more than two ple pending a WTO verdict, but Australia’s health objectives. After two years of slow-going in France, about 20 percent of its The group announced 1,300 job years of procedural delay. Britain, Ireland and New Zealand However, its plain packaging procedure, Australia and its five global workforce. cuts last year and put assets up for Cuba, Ukraine, Indonesia, have already begun drafting simi- measure is failing to have the challengers have agreed the Trading in Alstom shares sale to raise cash, including a stake Honduras and Dominican lar legislation. desired health effects of reducing conditions that will allow the was suspended pending a state- in its transport business, which Republic have brought the action Since late 2012, tobacco prod- smoking prevalence and remains case to get under way within ment from the company. The makes France’s prized high-speed against Australia, the first coun- ucts in Australia can only be sold detrimental to our premium weeks and for a ruling to be shares closed up 10.9 percent TGV trains. It also floated the pos- try to ban the colourful logos used in drab olive-coloured packets tobacco industry,” Katrina Naut, made potentially as soon as on Thursday after Bloomberg sibility of an IPO of the business. to sell tobacco brands around the that look more like military or the Dominican Republic’s foreign November. reported that GE was in talks REUTERS world, a law aimed at reducing prison issue, with brands printed trade chief, said in a statement. REUTERS

E-Fan takes to the skies UK installs first grid-scale battery

LONDON: Britain’s most administered by the government’s Italy and China all have ambitious ambitious smart grid project is Office of Gas and Electricity electricity storage plans. being built on a housing estate Markets. Remote island communities, in Leighton Buzzard, a rapidly Once it is fully operational, where the alternative is running growing commuter town north Leighton Buzzard will have the expensive diesel generators, are of London. capacity to discharge up to 10 also prime candidates for schemes UK Power Networks (UKPN), megawatt-hours (MWh) of which integrate solar and wind which owns and operates electric- power into the local distribution with battery farms. ity cables and lines across south- network at a rate of up to 6MW, Britain’s Scottish and Southern east England, is installing a giant enough for 6,000 homes. Energy has developed a scheme in battery farm that will supply elec- The aim is to test the technical the Shetland Islands off the north tricity to local users at peak times. and financial feasibility of using coast of Scotland to discharge 3 Around 240 tonnes of lithium- storage to reinforce the power MW every day to help offset the ion batteries are being installed grid and help meet peak loads as evening peak. in a specially designed build- an alternative to the conventional Other island communities in ing raised two metres above the approach of installing more sub- the Azores, the Caribbean and the ground to protect it from flooding stations and overhead power lines. Pacific have also been identified as by the nearby river. And the bat- Many analysts have written off promising locations for integrated tery room will be air-conditioned electricity storage as expensive battery-and-renewables projects to keep the batteries comfortable and impractical. But interest in to cut blackouts and reduce reli- at a steady 23 degrees Celsius to storage is growing rapidly. ance on diesel. extend their working life. California has instructed Unlike physical commodities The demonstration project, utilities to install or procure such as oil, gas and coal, elec- French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg (right) reacts next to French pilot Didier Esteyne (left) after the which is scheduled to begin 1,300MW of storage capacity by tricity cannot readily be stored, first public flight of an E-Fan aircraft during the e-Aircraft Day at the Bordeaux Merignac airport, southwestern operating in September, is 2020 as part of the state’s plans according to the traditional text- France, yesterday. The all-electric plane E-Fan was developed by Airbus Group. jointly funded by UKPN and the to increase renewable generation book account. Low Carbon Networks Fund, and reduce emissions. Germany, REUTERS APRIL 26, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Maruti Suzuki Russia raises eyes post-poll bounce as rates to curb profits dive NEW DELHI: Top Indian car- maker Maruti Suzuki yesterday reported a 35.5-percent drop in inflation quarterly net profit, but said it hoped for a turnaround in the auto market once a new govern- S&P cuts rating to one notch above junk ment takes office next month. Maruti, controlled by Japan’s MOSCOW: Russia unexpectedly due to the weakening rouble and Suzuki Motor Corp, has been raised interest rates for the sec- the a rise in inflation expectations. reeling from a downturn in India’s ond time in two months yesterday It said it did not intend to lower once-booming car market as an and suffered its first credit rating rates in the coming months. economy growing at under five cut in five years, highlighting the S&P kept its outlook negative percent for a second straight year impact of the Ukraine crisis on and stressed the impact of capital deters customers. the teetering economy. flight. Foreign investors withdraw Maruti reported profit for The central bank raised its $63.7 billion from Russia in the the quarter to March slid to key rate by 50 basis points to 7.5 first three months of the year. Rs8bn ($132m) from Rs12.4bn in percent to prevent a weakening “The tense geopolitical situa- the year-earlier period, on sales rouble fuelling inflation. tion between Russia and Ukraine which tumbled 9.5 percent to Hours earlier, Standard & could see additional significant Rs118bn. “We are hoping post- the Poor’s cut Russia’s credit rat- outflows of both foreign and election of the new government, ing to just one notch above junk domestic capital from the Russian there will be an improvement in status and warned more could economy and hence further sentiment and the car market follow if tighter sanctions were undermine already weakening will revive,” Maruti Chairman R imposed and capital flight, which growth prospects,” it said. C Bhargava told reporters. saw $64bn haemorrhage from the The World Bank has esti- Voting in India’s marathon gen- country in the first quarter, was mated capital flight may reach a eral election winds up on May 12 not stemmed. record $150bn this year. Economy The new 2015 Ford Mustang GT on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York. with results due four days later. “The central bank is indi- Minister Alexei Ulyukayev dis- The opposition Hindu nation- rectly trying to defend the rou- missed the downgrade, saying, alist Bharatiya Janata Party is ble against the backdrop of credit “Partially, it is kind of a politically Ford profit driven down by tipped to form the next govern- ratings downgrade and the West’s motivated decision.” But analysts ment under Narendra Modi, chief tough rhetoric about the possi- said other rating agencies were minister of the prosperous western bility of new sanctions against likely to follow suit, and Russia’s state of Gujarat, who is running on Russia,” said Dmitry Polevoy, an already battered financial mar- North America warranty costs a platform of economic recovery. analyst at ING Bank in Moscow. kets fell further yesterday. Analysts agreed political sta- Both moves highlighted the The rouble briefly firmed after DETROIT: Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Alan Mulally, 68, extending its revolving credit facil- bility after several years of impact on Russia’s weakening the rate hike but gave up all its posted a lower-than-expected told analysts on a conference call ity. Shanks said the underlying scandal-fuelled crises and policy economy of the tense standoff gains and was last down 0.7 per- first-quarter profit yesterday that there was no change to plans business remains strong. uncertainty could be key to reviv- with the West over Ukraine. cent on the day at 36.02 to the as the No. 2 U S automaker for him to remain at the com- “The run rate is very healthy ing car-buying sentiment. President Vladimir Putin dollar. The MICEX stock index saw $400m in higher warranty pany through the end of the year. and we feel that we’re moving for- “If you get a stable govern- acknowledged this week that fell 1 percent. “Russia is going costs in North America, send- Earlier this week, a source said ward very nicely in terms of what ment at the centre, it could sanctions imposed in response to backwards as reflected by devel- ing shares down 3.4 percent. that Ford will soon name Chief we expect for the year and setting do a lot to boost sentiment,” Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s opments in relations with Ukraine The company also saw incen- Operating Officer Mark Fields as us up for stronger growth and Deepesh Rathore, director of New Crimea region last month are and the West,” said Timothy Ash, tives in North America rise in the Mulally’s successor. stronger profitability in 2015 and Delhi-based Emerging Markets already hurting the Russian econ- analyst at Standard Bank. quarter due to heavy competition While Ford adjusts its warranty beyond,” he told reporters at the Automotive Advisors, said. omy, thought not critically. “(This is)... bad for growth (long and an aging lineup of vehicles it reserves every quarter, Chief company’s Detroit headquarters. But he added any recovery The West has threatened term and short term), bad for invest- will address with the launch of 16 Financial Officer Bob Shanks said Net income fell 39 percent to would not be dramatic, forecast- tougher sanctions, with US ment, bad for capital flows, and new models in the region this year. the total was larger in the first $989m, or 24 cents a share, from ing overall growth for the year Secretary of State John Kerry bad for broader political, economic Fitch Ratings analyst Stephen quarter because the company has $1.61bn, or 40 cents a share, in the would be broadly flat. India’s car warning Russia on Thursday that reform and institutional reform. Brown called 2014 a transition seen more field service actions, year-earlier period. The quarter sales have fallen for two years in it would be making “an expen- The central bank said the year for Ford and said earnings such as safety recalls and address- included the $400m in additional a row after posting double-digit sive mistake” if it did not change probability of inflation exceed- will improve in the second half. ing customer complaints, over the costs for warranty reserves in growth in earlier years. course over the Ukraine crisis. ing its 2014 target of 5 percent “They’ve got a few challenges last two years. North America for vehicles from as Maruti said lower sales, higher Yesterday’s hike came less than had increased significantly and out there, but ... the company The company affirmed its fore- early as the 2001 model year, and promotional expenses and a dealers’ two months after the central bank the decision to raise rates would has a lot of new products com- cast for pretax profit for 2014, $100m in costs related to higher compensation package had “impacted raised rate by an emergency 150bps ensure that inflation stays now ing online this year. They haven’t a year in which it is launching a freight and other items due to the the company’s bottom line” during in early March. It said the move below 6 percent this year. seen the benefits (of the new record 23 new vehicles globally. harsh winter in North America. the fourth financial quarter. was due to accelerating inflation REUTERS vehicles) on dealer lots yet.” Ford It also said it is amending and REUTERS AFP

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Honda full-year profit surges 56pc to $5.6bn Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.50 1.07% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.63 2.13% Aa2 AA TOKYO: Japanese automaker said it booked a net profit of 574 A sharp decline in the yen has premier’s hand-picked team at Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 114.13 2.58% Aa2 AA Honda said yesterday its fiscal billion yen, up 56.4 percent from boosted profits at major Japanese the Bank of Japan helping push Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 108.88 3.19% Aa2 AA year net profit soared to $5.6bn, a year earlier, while revenue rose exporters, including Honda rivals down the currency. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.75 4.63% Aa2 AA thanks to brisk overseas sales about 20 percent to 11.84 trillion Toyota and Nissan which will The weaker yen boosts Japanese Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 119.75 5.02% Aa2 AA and a weaker yen. yen. report their earnings next month. manufacturers’ bottom lines by Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 110.88 5.02% Aa2 AA The country’s number three The company forecast a profit Toyota, the world’s largest making them more competitive Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.44 0.68% Aa2 AA vehicle producer also got a boost of 595bn yen for the current year automaker, has tipped a record overseas and inflating repatriated as consumers at home rushed to March 2015. annual profit after more than overseas profits. Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 112.00 2.88% Aa2 AA out to buy big-ticket items such Results for the January-March doubling its nine-month earnings Automakers have also benefited Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 102.38 0.67% A1 A- as cars and refrigerators before quarter were especially strong, to $15bn thanks to the yen’s sharp as sales recover in China. They Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.80% A1 A- Japan’s first sales tax increase in with net profit more than dou- decline and surging sedan sales. slumped in late 2012 and into QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 1.04% NR NR 17 years on April 1. bling to 170.5bn yen from a year Nissan, Japan’s number two last year as a Tokyo-Beijing dip- QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.25 1.00% Aa3 A+ The rate rise is widely seen as earlier, Honda said. automaker, said earlier that its lomatic row sparked a consumer QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.50 1.73% Aa3 A+ crucial to bringing down Japan’s The maker of the Accord and nine-month net profit jumped 18 boycott of Japanese brands in the Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.25 1.97% A2 A- eye-watering national debt, but Civic sedans said its rosy full-year percent to about $2.68bn. world’s biggest vehicle market. it has also fuelled fears of a drop- performance was “due primarily to Japanese industry benefited Diplomatic relations remain Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.75 1.40% A2 A- off in consumer spending this increased revenue in automobile from the big-spending and easy- tense, but Japanese manufac- Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 124.50 2.71% A2 A- year just as Japan’s economy is and motorcycle business opera- money policies of Prime Minister turers have reported sales are Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 107.50 3.50% A2 A- recovering. tions as well as favourable foreign Shinzo Abe, with huge mon- returning to pre-dispute levels. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 104.38 4.51% A2 A- For the year to March, Honda currency translation effects”. etary easing measures from the AFP Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 102.13 0.39% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.63 2.97% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.75 3.75% Aa3 A German business confidence rebounds Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.00 3.89% Aa3 A SOVEREIGNS ANA boosts Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.00 2.04% Aa2 AA profit forecast Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.63 1.30% NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 108.00 2.14% NR NR by 20 percent Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.38 3.33% NR NR TOKYO: The operator of Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.75 3.72% NR NR Japan’s All Nippon Airways Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.63 0.36% Aa2 AA (ANA) yesterday boosted its Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 115.00 2.75% NR BBB net profit forecast for the past Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 108.50 3.88% NR BBB fiscal year by 20 percent, citing Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 102.50 5.26% Caa1 B- a pick-up in its international business. Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 106.38 3.38% NR BBB- ANA Holdings said it expects Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 105.88 3.47% NR BBB- net earnings of 18bn yen ($175m)

*Periodic Distribution Amount in the year to March 31, up from IMPORTANT NOTE: an earlier 15bn yen estimate. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which The company, which will is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services report its earnings next month, Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary also lifted its revenue expecta- data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not tions to 1.60 trillion yen from a take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds previous forecast of 1.58 trillion can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant yen. liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not Japanese firms have also ben- a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. efited as sales recover in China, after slumping in late 2012 and into last year as a Tokyo-Beijing diplomatic row sparked a con- An image showing shoppers using a long stairway to climb past different floors at MyZeil shopping centre in sumer boycott of Japanese brands Frankfurt, Germany, yesterday. German business confidence rebounded in April as the pick-up in Europe’s in the key market. biggest economy resulted in executives shrugging off concerns about Western tensions with Russia. AFP APRIL 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds ON SATURDAY 16

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BQPMMPQSPQ!RBUBSOFURB APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Sunrisers edge past Daredevils Kevin Pietersen fails on return from injury

DUBAI: An unbeaten 128-run partnership between Aaron Finch and David Warner led the Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first win in the Indian Premier League when they beat the Delhi Daredevils by four runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium here yesterday. Electing to bat, the Sunrisers put up a challenging total of 184/1 and then restricted Daredevils to 180/4. With 20 runs required off Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s last over, the Delhi outfit could only man- age 15 in an exciting finish and to end up with their third loss out of four matches this season. The Sunrisers got off to a good start with skipper Shikhar Dhawan (33) and Man of the Match Finch hitting a 56-run opening wicket partnership before Dhawan was caught by his coun- terpart Kevin Pietersen at fine leg. Dhawan played well hitting five boundaries and a six in his 22-ball knock. Left-handed Warner joined Finch at the crease and the two Australians combined in a fabu- lous second-wicket partnership Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Dale Steyn celebrates with team captain Shikhar which lasted till the last ball of Dhawan during their IPL match against Delhi Daredevils in Dubai their innings. The top order duo yesterday. scored at a run rate of 9.36 in the last 13.4 overs to propel their side to a challenging total. Finch played the anchor’s role, Scoreboard making an unbeaten 88 off 53 SUNRISDERS HYDERABAD M Vijay c Steyn b Sammy ...... 52 balls at a strike rate of 166.03. His S Dhawan c Pietersen b Nadeem ...... 33 K P Pietersen c Sammy b Steyn ...... 16 knock included eight boundaries A J Finch (not out) ...... 88 K D Karthik c Rahul b Steyn ...... 15 and four towering sixes. He was D A Warner (not out) ...... 58 J P Duminy (not out) ...... 20 well supported by Warner, who Extras (LB-3, W-2) ...... 5 M K Tiwary (not out) ...... 23 scored 58 not out, hitting three Total (for 1 wkt in 20 overs) ...... 184 Extras (LB-3, W-2, NB-1) ...... 6 fours and sixes each. Fall of wicket: 1-56. Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 180 None of the Daredevils bowlers Bowling: S Nadeem 4-0-24-1 (1w); Moham- Fall of wickets: 1-99, 2-103, 3-135, 4-135. had anything to boast about with med Shami 4-0-36-0 (1w); W D Parnell 4-0- Bowling: B Kumar 4-0-40-0 (1w); D W Steyn all but one going for more than 38-0; J D Unadkat 4-0-43-0; J P Duminy 2-0- 4-0-33-2; Y Venugopal Rao 1-0-9-0; K V Shar- nine runs per over. Only spin- 19-0; L R Shukla 2-0-21-0. ma 4-0-23-1 (1w); D J G Sammy 3-0-34-1; A ner Shahbaz Nadeem had figures DELHI DAREDEVILS Mishra 4-0-38-0 (1nb); worth showing off with 4-0-24- Q de Kock c Finch b Sharma ...... 48 Player-of-the-Match: Aaron Finch (SRH). 1, picking up the only wicket of Dhawan in the seventh over. In reply, the Daredevils took off really well with Quinton de Kock (48) and Murali Vijay (52) giving the team the much needed start. Chennai’s Initially the South African was the aggressor, scoring six bounda- Brendon ries and a six, but Vijay too joined McCullum the party with seven boundaries pulls during and a lofty six. his knock The openers hit a 99-run open- of 71 not ing wicket stand before both per- out against ished within a span of four runs Mumbai and six balls, bringing in skipper Indians Pietersen (16) and wicketkeeper in Dubai batsman Dinesh Karthik (15) who yesterday. also fail to spark. REUTERS Chennai hammer hapless Mumbai

DUBAI: A brilliant all-round Scoreboard display helped Chennai Super MUMBAI INDIANS Sharma 4-0-14-4; S K Raina 3-0-32-0; R A Kings thump defending cham- M E K Hussey b Hilfenhaus ...... 1 Jadeja 1-0-14-0. pions Mumbai Indians by seven A P Tare c Raina b Sharma ...... 23 CHENNAI SUPERKINGS wickets yesterday. C J Anderson (run out-Ashwin) ...... 39 D R Smith c Anderson b Ojha ...... 29 This was CSK’s third win in R G Sharma c Smith b Hilfenhaus ...... 50 B B McCullum (not out) ...... 71 the seventh edition of Indian K A Pollard b Sharma ...... 12 S K Raina st Gautam b Harbhajan ...... 1 Premier League. On the other A T Rayudu c Raina b Sharma ...... 1 F du Plessis st Gautam b Harbhajan ...... 20 hand Mumbai’s poor run contin- C M Gautam (not out) ...... 7 M S Dhoni (not out) ...... 14 ued as they are still in search of Harbhajan Singh c McCullum b Sharma ...... 0 Extras (LB-4, W-2, NB-1) ...... 7 their first win in this year’s IPL. Z Khan (not out) ...... 7 Total (for 3 wkts in 19 overs) ...... 142 This was their third consecutive Extras (B-1) ...... 1 Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-61, 3-114. loss this season. Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 141 Bowling: P P Ojha 4-1-25-1; Z Khan 4-0-31- Brendon McCullum smashed Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-25, 3-109, 4-123, 0; S L Malinga 4-0-22-0 (1nb, 1w); C J Ander- a belligerent unbeaten 71 after 5-125, 6-127, 7-127. son 2-0-23-0; Harbhajan Singh 4-0-27-2 (1w); Mohit Sharma’s heroics with the Bowling: I C Pandey 4-0-21-0; B W Hilfen- K A Pollard 1-0-10-0. ball to guide Chennai home. haus 4-0-39-2; R Ashwin 4-0-20-0; M M Player-of-the-Match: M M Sharma (Chennai). AGENCIES New selection committee

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket Akram’s appointment in the cricket academy in Lahore. chiefs yesterday appointed a selection committee means his Pakistan have not had a chief six-member selection commit- two-year tenure as the team’s selector since Iqbal Qasim stepped tee -- the biggest in its history bowling coach has ended after down after completing his tenure - to choose the team to start a only two months. in July last year. That started a hectic season leading up to next That suggests Waqar Younis’s sequence of appointments, sack- year’s World Cup. likely appointment as head coach, ings and refusals, leaving selection Former captain Moin Khan as the legendary paceman could to be run on ad-hoc basis. will head the committee, two fill in bowling coaching duties Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka members larger than usual, the himself. in July-August followed by series Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Pakistan last week advertised against Australia, New Zealand announced. the posts of head coach, fielding, and Zimbabwe -- all likely in “Former Test players Saleem batting and spin bowling coaches. United Arab Emirates. Yousuf, Shoaib Mohammad, Ijaz A three-man committee will They will also tour New Ahmed, Wajahatullah Wasti and scrutinise applications after the Zealand for a short one-day series Mohammad Akram will be mem- May 5 deadline. before featuring in the World Cup bers of the committee,” said a Akram has also been appointed to be jointly hosted by Australia PCB release. head coach of the PCB’s national and New Zealand. REUTERS Sport APRIL 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY Al Attiyah, Abu Issa seal convincing wins at Sealine We made only one small mistake. I am so happy, says Al Attiyah

SEALINE: Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, Spain’s Joan Barreda and Qatar’s Mohammed Motorcycling: Abu Issa confirmed victories in the car, motorcycle and quad Marquez on a categories at the Sealine Cross- Country Rally yesterday. three-timer as Final stage victories fell to Brazil’s Reinaldo Varela, Honda’s Helder Rodrigues and Abu Issa, MotoGP returns although the Rodrigues stage time remains provisional. to Argentina Al Attiyah and French co- driver Matthieu Baumel’s winning TERMAS DE RIO HONDA, margin was 1hr 16min 56sec. ARGENTINA: Argentina The Qatari duly confirmed his Qatar’s Nasser stages its first motorcycling second victory in the progressive Saleh Al Attiyah Grand Prix for 15 years tomor- Sealine event in three years. and Mohamed Abu row with Marc Marquez (pic- He moves into contention for Issa are seen with tured) out to maintain his a second FIA World Cup success QMMF President perfect start to the defence of and will now represent the X-raid Nasser Khalifa bin his MotoGP world title. team at next month’s Pharoahs Al Attiyah at the The 21-year-old Spaniard had Rally in Egypt. prize distribution barely graduated from riding “This was a very tough race and tricycles the last time Argentina ceremony following I am so happy to win at home,” staged a leg of the world the fifth and said Al Attiyah. championship. “I am also very pleased for final stage of the That 1999 race was won by Matthieu. This was a big test Sealine Cross- American star Kenny Roberts for him and we made only one Country Rally. Jr with a certain Valentino small mistake all week. That was Rossi claiming third in the 250cc a superb job with such difficult division. navigation. I tried not to damage Rossi, who won the mid-divi- the car and drive safely, but also sion title that season, returns to quickly. The Mini was perfect.” Argentina having gone on to accu- FIA World Cup leader Vladimir year ago in Sardinia since KTM to recoup that loss and prevent his second successive event pro- mulate seven world crowns in the Vasilyev and last year’s winning won a World Championship race. the host nation’s Abu Issa from vided that he could maintain his FIA World Cup for 500cc/MotoGP category. co-driver Konstantin Zhiltsov We have been improving all the taking a hard-earned quad title composure and not make a navi- Marquez has one MotoGP managed to overhaul Poland’s time and Paolo’s (Goncalves) win by a comfortable margin. gational mistake. Cross-Country championship wrapped up and is Adam Malysz (Toyota) to claim in Abu Dhabi and my win here is “A great feeling to win here and Barreda needed to catch and well on his way to adding a sec- second position in a second Mini fantastic. I was disappointed after brilliant to cross the last dunes stay with Coma to earn Honda Rallies ond, if early results are anything All4 Racing. Malysz fell behind the Dakar, but this is special.” where I normally come and play,” another scalp. to go by. team-mate Marek Dabrowski as Coma held on to seal second said Abu Issa. Thirteen bikes and two quads Positions after round 4 He took the season-opener in well and slipped to fourth over the position, a mere 1min 23sec “My strategy was to follow started the special. (unofficial) Qatar one month after break- closing kilometres. behind Barreda, and the unoffi- Rafal this morning and catch him Predictably, the leading five rid- 1. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS) 135 ing his leg, fighting off Rossi in Barreda played the Honda cial fastest time on the final stage and I did that. But, then I punc- ers pulled clear of the rest of the pts a thrilling wheel-to-wheel finish. motorcycle tactics to perfec- moved Rodrigues into an unof- tured and had to stop and then field from the outset and Barreda Next up came the Grand Prix tion to catch KTM’s Marc Coma ficial final podium place. had to catch him again. had managed to catch and pass 2. Marek Dabrowski (POL) 70 of the Americas with Marquez on the stage and race with the “You know I push as hard as I The final 362.97km selective Coma by the first checkpoint and pts describing his stroll to victory defending champion to the fin- could, but the starting order did section headed due west across overturned the overnight deficit. 3. Adam Malysz (POL) 66 pts from pole in Austin as “boring”. ish to claim a second successive not work in our favour at all,” said the south of Qatar to the western The new rally leader was now 4. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU) 60 pts Now the youngest ever MotoGP FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Coma. “I lost some vital time on coast and then down the coast- in the group of five leading rid- world champion arrives in Championship win for Team HRC the first day and this is a short line before cutting across Saudi ers and one navigational mistake 4. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah Argentina hungry for his third Rally. race and there is no way to make border country to finish close to would be catastrophic. (QAT) 60 pts straight win of 2014. “This is really good,” said a up that time. I am still happy with Sealine. There were three passage Faria had endured a miserable 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE) 48 “We will be looking to continue delighted Barreda. my performance.” controls at 150.18km, 201.37km Sealine outing, but the KTM rider pts with the same momentum from “We are all now, as a team, at Thirty-four minutes lost on day and 292.88km. was running second fastest at the first two races of the season,” 7. Reinaldo Varela (BRA) 46 pts a high level. The bikes, the riders three after navigational delays Paolo Goncalves opened the PC1. Abu Issa caught Sonik and the Honda ace said. and the mechanics are all work- cost Poland’s Rafal Sonik dearly road for the motorcycle riders the pair passed PC1 together, as 8. Boris Gadasin (RUS) 27 pts “Argentina will be a new track ing together and it is nearly one and he was never going to be able and still had a chance of winning the Qatari closed in on the quad 9. Yayha Al-Helai (ARE) 24 pts for most of us...... I’m looking for- title. ward to visiting a new circuit and 10. Martin Kaczmarski (POL) Barreda’s lead was pegged back it will be nice for the fans.” 22 pts to 1min 45sec through PC2, but His Honda teammate, Dani the Honda rider maintained the FIM Cross-Country Pedrosa, a distant second in Texas advantage heading down Qatar’s Rallies World a fortnight ago, has been gather- west coast towards the third Championship – posi- ing information on the circuit. checkpoint. tions after round 2 “I don’t know much about the Varela was in good form from (unofficial) new track, I’ve tried to do some the start and passed PC1 2min homework with maps and videos 49sec faster than a cautious Bikes and find out as much as I could Mohamed Al-Attiyah in the car section, before arriving but it’s hard to Abu Issa of 1. Joan Barreda-Bort (ESP) 35 but Malysz had already dropped pts know without having been there Qatar after over seven minutes to Vasilyev on the bike,” he said. celebrates and looked set to lose out on sec- 2. Marc Coma (ESP) 34 pts The 2010 and 2012 cham- winning the ond overall. Krzysztof Holowczyc 3. Paolo Goncalves (PRT) 31 pts pion Jorge Lorenzo arrives in fifth and dropped further time with navi- Argentina intent on drawing a 4. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) 26 pts final stage at gational problems. line on a frustrating start to the the Sealine Varela maintained his pace 5. Helder Rodrigues (PRT) 24 2014 campaign. Cross- through PC2 to keep the unoffi- pts A crash in Qatar and a lowly Country Rally cial stage lead and Vasilyev con- 6. Mohammed Al-Balooshi 10th in Austin after a jump start yesterday. tinued to edge clear of Malysz in (ARE) 20 pts earned him a ride through pen- his quest for second position. Quads alty blamed on mosquitoes has Barreda shadowed Coma left him trailing leader Marquez through the third and final PC, 1. Rafal Sonik (POL) 37 pts by 44 points. as the leading quintet of riders 2. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) “When I arrive to the grid, I made their way to the finish. Pole 35 pts have too many mosquitoes on my Martin Kaczmarski retired his visor so I decided to take out the 3. Sergey Karyakin (RUS) 17 pts Mini from sixth overall with a tear off,” he said. broken wheel after 175km. 4. Camelia Liparoti (ITA) 13 “I never do this and at this THE PENINSULA pts, etc moment, I get confused and when I see the red light I thought it was the start of the race....” 2014 Sealine Cross-Country Rally – positions after SS5 (362.97km) “Obviously it’s not the begin- Cars 2. Ruben Faria (PRT) KTM 4hr 19min 05sec 5. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) ning of the season I had dreamed 1. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) 3. Joan Barreda (ESP) Honda CRF 450 4hr 21min 54sec Toyota Hilux 19hr 17min 21sec of,” admitted Lorenzo. Toyota Hilux 3hr 37min 27sec 4. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 4hr 23min 58sec 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) “But I’m quite confident that we can revert the situation. 2. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel 5. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) KTM 450 4hr 28min 02sec Hummer H3 20hr 30min 42sec (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 41min 58sec 7. Andrey Cherednikov (KAZ)/Dmitro Tsyro (KAZ) “It’s not easy to swallow what 6. Paolo Goncalves (PRT) Honda CRF 450 4hr 29min happened at Austin but I always 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) 56sec Toyota 21hr 20min 20sec unne try to get the positive thing even Mini All4 Racing 3hr 48min 23sec Quads Bikes if we are in trouble.” 1. Joan Barreda (ESP) Honda CRF 450 20hr 28min 46sec 4. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) 11. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Honda TRX 680 4hr He turns up refreshed after a Hummer H3 4hr 00min 57sec 53min 56sec 2. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 20hr 30min 09sec working break. 5. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Toyota 12. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 4hr 56min 58sec 3. Helder Rodrigues (PRT) Honda CRF 450 20hr 30min “I’ll arrive with plenty of energy Hilux 4hr 04min 18sec Overall 36sec* after resting and training hard in 6. Andrey Cherednikov (KAZ)/Dmitro Tsyro (KAZ) Cars 4. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) KTM 450 20hr 36min 05sec Mexico.” Toyota 4hr 15min 47sec Marquez is not the only rider 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel 4. Paolo Goncalves (PRT) Honda CRF 450 20hr 38min 7. Adam Malysz (POL)/Rafal Marton (POL) Toyota Hilux (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 17hr 22min 51sec 16sec this weekend searching for a hat- trick with Australian Jack Miller 4hr 16min 47sec 2. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) 6. Mohammed Al-Balooshi (ARE) KTM 450 23hr 41min also on a three-timer in Moto3. 8. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Andreas Schulz (GER) Mini All4 Racing 18hr 39min 47sec 22sec After Argentina the world Mini All4 Racing 4hr 20min 24sec 3. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Toyota Quads Bikes championship moves to Europe Hilux 18hr 59min 47sec 7. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Honda TRX 680 24hr with Jerez staging the fourth leg 1. Helder Rodrigues (PRT) Honda CRF 450 4hr 17min 4. Adam Malysz (POL)/Rafal Marton (POL) Toyota 44min 56sec of the season on May 4. 59sec* Hilux 19hr 02min 51sec 8. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 25hr 17min 12sec REUTERS APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Proud Giggs In-form Lekhwiya ready to wants United to play with passion and tackle El Jaish threat tempo MANCHESTER: Ryan Giggs Qatar Cup: Eric Gerets feeling rejuvenated after two wins last week (pictured) described manag- ing Manchester United as the proudest moment of his extraor- DOHA: Lekhwiya will be rely- dinary career and said he wants ing on their winning form to the team to play with passion, counter the threat of football tempo and imagination. rivals El Jaish in the Qatar Cup Giggs was final today. put in tempo- The newly-crowned Qatar rary charge Stars League (QSL) champions of United beat Iranian side Tractorsazi after the club Tabriz in their AFC Champions sacked David League clash last Wednesday. Moyes on The 2-1 win last week was Tuesday, end- posted after Lekhwiya beat Al ing his dismal Sailiya in a penalty shoot out in 10 months at the semi-final of Qatar Cup. Old Trafford. Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets “I want the players to play with said his side was delighted with passion, speed, tempo, be brave, their recent winning form. imagination,” Giggs told his first “After qualifying for the final news conference as manager yes- and finishing in the champions terday. “All the things I expect of league with a win in Iran, we are a Manchester United player. happy playing this game now, we “Work hard but most of all are ready,” Gerets said. enjoy it,” he added. “As a player, “El Jaish unfortunately didn’t if I know I am enjoying the game qualify for the round of 16 in I can express myself a lot more. the AFC Champions league (as) That’s what I will be doing with in the last few seconds (rivals) the team tomorrow.” Bunyodkor scored a crucial goal,” Giggs, 40, thanked Moyes for Gerets said to add psychological Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets Lekhwiya’s Ismail Mahmoud El Jaish’s Ali Sanad El Jaish’s Lasaad Shebbi giving him the chance to coach. pressure on El Jaish. “I would like to just say how “It is bad luck for them and the proud I am to be managing for the loss will focus their minds on this beginning but with 45 min- good final. The fans should enjoy remaining four games the club I tournament a bit more now that utes already under his belt in such a game, Lekhwiya are very Lekhwiya’s Bougherra have supported all my life,” Giggs they are out of that competition,” the AFC Champions League, good opponents and I am glad we said. the Belgian added. he should be ready if needed. are playing such a strong team in “It’s a proud moment for me Lekhwiya’s mercurial Ismail (Striker) Sebastian Soria is also the final,” he added. and one I’ll enjoy...It’s probably the Mahmoud said ahead of today’s still injured,” Gerets said. El Jaish player Ali Sanad Al eyes Qatar Cup glory proudest moment of my career,” final, “After the good result in Ismail Mahmoud, the Lekhwiya Nuaymi said: “This is the first DOHA: Lekhwiya skipper Madjid Bougherra, formerly of SPL side added the 40-year-old veteran the AFC we switched our focus winger, said coach Gerets had time we have reached this final, Rangers, is hoping to guide his team to Qatar Cup win in the final who has an unrivalled record in to this final match in the Qatar planned well for the final to be the defeat (in the AFC Champions against El Jaish today. 23 years at Old Trafford. Cup. Our game against Tractor played at Lekhwiya Stadium League game) was a great frus- Central defender Bougherra gave QSL Online a few minutes before The most decorated British was preparation for this final. The today. tration for all of the team and training to talk about his and Lekhwiya’s preparations ahead of the footballer in history, with a record final match is very important, we “During the preparation I was hopefully this final will give us a first ever Qatar Cup final. 962 United appearances, said he have all the determination and ready because of the coach’s good chance to redeem ourselves. This Excerpts from a chat with Bougherra: wanted to put a smile back on the keenness to do well and show a advice and plans for the team. match will be different to a nor- Question: How does it feel to be in the first ever Qatar Cup? It faces of the fans for the remain- good spectacle for the fans.”-- That is why I played a good game. mal QSL fixture.” must be a very important match for you. der of the campaign. Gerets was, however, quick to I also had a lot of confidence and I When asked if the heart break- Bougherra: Yes this match is very important for us and a pleasure United are seventh in the acknowledge the strength of El decided to play with discipline and ing exit in the AFC champions to be the first team with El Jaish to be in the final of the first Qatar Premier League and out of conten- Jaish in front of the goal. do what the coach had instructed League match would have an Cup because it’s a new Cup and we want to be the first to win this tion for next season’s Champions “We beat them in the QSL me to do,” Mahmoud said. effect on the teams morale ahead new and special tournament. Around town I have seen a big push to League after a depressing run championships this season but it El Jaish assistant coach of the final, Shebbi said: “We will advertise it and I am sure it will be a nice spectacle and it will have a under Moyes, who was appointed is always difficult to beat them, Lasaad Shebbi, who had stepped not be affected. Teams always good atmosphere, I’m very pleased. last July to replace the retiring because they are extremely well in for absent head coach Nabil exit but can still do well in other Question: Your Champions League campaign didn’t go as Alex Ferguson. organised, perhaps the most Maâloul, said his side is up against competitions. We know we have planned shall we say, so does that mean there is now more focus Moyes appointed Giggs, a stal- organised in the QSL this season,” a tough side. to win local competitions and we on this Cup for both teams? wart under Ferguson and winner Gerets said. “This cup final comes after will try again next year to win the Bougherra: Yes we are now more focused on this Cup because we of 13 Premier League titles, as “So we have to try and create our unsuccessful campaign in champions league.” want redeem ourselves after the AFC Champions League exit and if player-coach when he took over the same kind of organisation as the champions league and as When asked about their oppo- we win this Cup, we can get some more confidence and it will be like from his fellow Scot. them and we need to have a very Lekhwiya are out of the com- nents, Shebbi said: “As you know a present to the team to forget the bad performances in the AFC Speaking in the same room that strong discipline otherwise we petition too, this means extra they are the champs, and champs Champions League. Ferguson used to brief the media, will not win,” he warned. importance will now be placed always have much strength, Question: When you prepare for a Cup final, is it different from Giggs said the players were look- “I don’t know if I will put on both teams to win this cup,” regarding their weak points I normal preparation? ing sharp and training had gone Vladimir Weiss on from the Shebbi said. “So it will be a very don’t want to talk about this. I Bougherra: Its more about mental preparation - the training is the well ahead of the match against will wait for the game; if we find same but mentally you need to be excited when you go onto the pitch, Norwich City at Old Trafford The Qatar them we will exploit them then you need to give 200 percent, a Cup final is a very different animal. today. Cup trophy and there.” You need to give absolutely everything in the 90 minutes, its only one “It’s going to be my philosophy, during its Shebbi was asked if he thought game so you shouldn’t come off the pitch with any regrets. You need Manchester United’s philosophy unveiling his side was favourites, the assist- to play at your highest possible level, if you don’t give it your all then because I have been here for all ant coach quickly quashed such you will probably lose. my career,” said the Welshman at Katara claims. Question: It has been a long but successful season for Lekhwiya. of his approach. in Doha “I don’t think there is a true How do you keep yourself motivated, personally speaking? Giggs sounded confident and yesterday. favourite in this game but I would Bougherra: Personally now, it has been seven years that I contest at ease in front of the media, a Lekhwiya like to thank all those who say for titles and I have this aim always in my mind, it’s in my blood, I am a marked contrast to Moyes in and El Jaish and believe this.” competitor, I want to win everything. From daily training to the actual recent weeks, and even enjoyed will battle for The final match kicks-off at matches, to the Cup finals - so this is part of my natural mentality. the odd moment of humour. Qatar Cup 7pm. In terms of the team, Lekhwiya is now a big team, everybody knows Referred to initially as David glory today. THE PENINSULA this, we are a big team in Qatar but we also want to be a big team in by a member of the Manchester Asia so this motivates us every season. To be a big team you need to United press team, he joked that Lekhwiya win everything, it doesn’t matter what competition it is and this is the he had already made sure of his skipper mentality/philosophy of the team. long-term future. Madjid Question: Sometimes in Cup finals there are some surprises “I’ve just given myself a five- Bougherra. as the team that is expected to win doesn’t or a normally quiet year contract,” laughed the mid- player becomes the hero of the night. Have you ever noticed this fielder, who said he would still be phenomenon? involved as a player. “I am using Bougherra: Yes, yes I agree. This is the charm of the Cup; you my power while I can.” can see many things that you don’t normally see in a regular game. Speaking earlier to Manchester So some players do everything because they know if they win then United Television, Giggs revealed their name will be written in the pages of football history and they that his first call on being will always have the Cup final win in their memory. Nobody can take appointed had been to Ferguson, that away from you. to seek advice about just what he Question: So perhaps you can be a player to make an impact faced in the unfamiliar role of this Saturday? boss. Bougherra: Yeah I hope so. It will be very difficult but yes “I wanted advice and wanted to I hope so. I scored the other night in the AFC Champions know what to expect. Who better League, I had to wait a long time for the opportunity but to ring?,” he said of a manager they gave it to me and I really enjoyed that penalty goal. who ran the club with an iron fist That match reminded me of the UK because the weather was for 26 years. Giggs told report- crazy, it was rainy and cold and I really enjoy those conditions ers he wanted to see goals, tack- because as you know the weather in Qatar is very hot. les and above all the passion that Question: So do you believe that the weather conditions should come with being a player can affect the quality of the Cup final? for one of the world’s great clubs. Bougherra: Obviously the weather can have an impact on “It’s just been a bit of a whirl- the quality of the game, for me personally I prefer the cold. wind week for me,” said the former Humid and hot conditions are always more difficult. When Wales international, who said he you are playing in the cold, you have to run around a bit but remained undecided whether it then your body warms up and then you feel fine. The body would be wearing a tracksuit or reacts better when it’s cold than when it’s hot. When its hot a suit on the touchline. players get fatigued easily, they can’t sprint as much, they lose “It’s been different, it’s been concentration a lot easier, they lose a lot of fluids and this chaotic. I’m just getting a little affects their focus. Also the pace of the game is different and taste, it’s my fourth day in the job out here it’s a little slower, more tactical because you can’t and you can never imagine what run for 90 minutes like in Europe. It’s a different style but you have to do and the things it I like it also, a good player can adapt to different styles and entails becoming a Manchester external factors. THE PENINSULA United manager.” REUTERS Sport APRIL 26, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Bucharest ATP Results BUCHAREST: Results from the Bucharest ATP tourna- ment yesterday (x denotes seeding): Quarter-finals: Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x1) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky Players and (UKR) 6-3, 6-4; Gael Monfils team officials (FRA x3) bt Paul-Henri of Al Gharafa Mathieu (FRA) 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), are seen 6-2; Lukas Rosol (CZE) bt Gilles with Qatar Simon (FRA x4) 7-6 (7/2), 6-2; Basketball Robin Haase (NED) bt Denis Federation Istomin (UZB) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. (QBF) Marrakech WTA officials after the Emir Results Cup final MARRAKECH, Morocco: yesterday. Results from the fifth day of Al Gharafa the Marrakech WTA Grand beat El Jaish Prix tournament yesterday (x in the final at denotes seeding): Al Gharafa Quarter-finals: Daniela Indoor Hall. Hantuchova (SVK x1) bt Shuai Peng (CHN x6) - walkover; Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Yvonne Meusburger (AUT x3) 6-4, 6-4; Maria Teresa Torro (ESP) bt Polona Hercog (SLO) 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/5); Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP x5) bt Shahar Peer (ISR) 6-3, 6-1 Barcelona Open ATP Results BARCELONA: Results from the ATP Barcelona Open yes- terday (x denotes seeding): Quarter-finals: Nicolas Gutsy Al Gharafa edge past Almagro (ESP x 6) bt Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) 6-4; Ernests Gulbis (LAT x9) bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-1, 6-4; Kei Nishikori (JPN x4) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x12) 6-1, 6-3 El Jaish to win Emir Cup NBA Play-off Results Qusay Al Khalaf’s spirited squad bags third major trophy this season Eastern Conference At Atlanta DOHA: Despite trailing for Atlanta 98 Indiana 85 most of the title clash, Al (Atlanta leads series 2-1) Gharafa yesterday relied on a Western Conference feisty show late in the fourth At Memphis quarter against El Jaish to win Memphis 98 Oklahoma City 95 the Emir Cup title. (Memphis leads series 2-1) Playing on home venue, Al At Oakland Gharafa won 89-87 for what was LA Clippers 98 Golden State 96 their third major trophy in the (Los Angeles leads series 2-1) 2013-14 season. Earlier this sea- son, Al Gharafa won the National NHL play-offs League title followed by the Qatar Cup trophy. Results Coached by Qusay Al Khalaf, Al 1 2 3 OT T Gharafa trailed El Jaish for most part of the final but yet managed Boston 0 1 1 1 3 to find that extra effort to nail Detroit 1 1 0 0 2 their third major triumph this (Boston lead the best-of-seven season. series by 3-1) Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) President Sheikh Saoud Baseball Results bin Abuldrahman Al Thani pre- Cleveland 5 Kansas City 1 sented medals and trophy to Al Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 1 Gharafa players at Al Gharafa Detroit 7 Chicago White Sox 4 Indoor Hall. The final was also NY Mets 4 St Louis 1 watched by Turgay Demirel, chief of Turkish Basketball federation. Minnesota 9 Tampa Bay 7 El Jaish, coached by Serbia’s Arizona 5 Chicago Cubs 2 Dragoslav Milovanovic, hit the San Diego 4 Washington 3 ground running, reeling off easy Baltimore 11 Toronto 4 Al Gharafa players and points against Al Gharafa. backkroom staff join club NY Yankees 14 Boston 5 The second period ended with Oakland 10 Houston 1 El Jaish leading 49-36 in the tense officials (top right and Philadelphia 7 LA Dodgers 3 final. The third period ended with left) to celebrate winning El Jaish holding on to their lead the 2014 Emir Cup title China Open Second 64-58 before Al Gharafa turned yesterday. Playing on the tide in the last quarter. home venue, Al Gharafa Round Scores For Al Gharafa, Eugene Ward won 89-87 for their third HONG KONG: Leading sec- scored 21 points while Downey major trophy in the 2013- ond-round scores yesterday in Devan and Taggart Shawn scored 14 season. the $3.2m Volvo China Open at 19 each for El Jaish. In the semi- Genzon Golf Club: finals, Al Gharafa beat Al Sadd Par 72 while El Jaish had the better of Al Rayyan to reach yesterday’s 130 Alexander Levy (FRA) title clash. THE PENINSULA 68-62 134 Adrian Otaegui (ESP) 68-66 135 Alvaro Quiros (ESP) 67-68 136 Raphael Jacquelin (FRA) 69-67 Ahlam Salem 137 Mikko Ilonen (FIN) 69-68, Mubarak Al Mana, Richie Ramsay (SCO) President of the 69-68 Qatar Women’s 138 Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) Sport Committee, 70-68, Simon Dyson (ENG) with officials and 67-71 players ahead of 139 Robert-Jan Derksen Qatar’s friendly (NED) 70-69, Andy against Jordan at Sullivan (ENG) 71-68, Women’s Sports Chris Doak (SCO) 71-68, Club in Doha Scott Jamieson (SCO) yesterday. RIGHT: 71-68, Tyrrell Hatton A Qatar player goes (ENG) 68-71 past Jordan rivals Selected others: during the same 141 Henrik Stenson (SWE) friendly game. 71-70 PICTURES: KAMMUTTY 143 Ian Poulter (ENG) 69-74 VP 144 Jason Dufner (USA) 73-71 147 Guan Tianlang (CHN) 71-76 APRIL 26, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Break Time

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ATHENS 23/16 Chance of rain 22/15 Chance of storm WASHINGTON 24/10 Chance of showers 20/09 Partly cloudy is size of red blood cell SYDNEY 25/17 Chance of rain 21/14 Partly cloudy LONDON: It looks much like any other colleagues at IBM’s research laboratory in the LONDON 16/10 Thunderstorm 15/11 Chance of storm cover of the children’s magazine National suburb of Ruschlikon in Zurich, Switzerland. PARIS 15/09 Rain 17/09 Chance of rain Geographic Kids. Cuddly animals: check. The needle, attached to a bendy silicon strip ISTANBUL 19/12 Chance of rain 22/13 Partly cloudy Free Sea Turtle poster: check. Story about that scans across the sample surface, is electri- rescued hippos: check. Only the lack of cally heated so that when it is brought close MANILA 33/25 Chance of storm 35/24 Partly cloudy colour and the slight graininess make you to the specially developed plastic, the material DHAKA 40/27 Clear 40/27 Partly cloudy suspect it might be something other than evaporates. In this way the researchers can DELHI 39/26 Clear 39/25 Partly cloudy the real thing. In fact the reason for these remove blobs of material just five nanometres ISLAMABAD 32/18 Chance of storm 35/20 Partly cloudy imperfections is that this magazine cover (millionths of a millimetre) across, paring away is so small that a single human red blood the surface pixel by pixel like a milling machine. cell would cover most of it. It measures just By reducing the heat, the tip can be used 11 by 14 thousandths of a millimetre, and is to take a snapshot of the carved structure it invisible to the naked eye. has produced. Surrounded by plastic in a val- Yesterday, at the US National Science and ley, the tip radiates away more heat than if Spain launches radar hunt Engineering Festival in Washington DC, the it hovers above a peak, and so this heat flow Guinness Book of Records confirmed that this traces the surface contours. The IBM team is the smallest magazine cover in the world. It first reported the method in 2010. for Quixote writer Cervantes has been carved out of a lump of plastic using IBM has licensed the technology to a start- a silicon needle 100,000 times sharper than up company in Zurich called SwissLitho, MADRID: Scientists the sharpest pencil tip. The contrast of the founded in 2012 by former IBM scientists will start scanning from image reflects the topography of the surface: Philip Paul and Felix Holzner. The company Monday with a radar the the higher it is, the lighter it appears. has developed it into a commercial machine floor of a Madrid convent The National Geographic Kids cover was called the NanoFrazor, costing around where they hope to find created by physicists after the magazine ran a EUR500,000. McGill University in Montreal, the body of Spanish writer readers’ poll to discover their favourite image. Canada, has bought the first one. Miguel de Cervantes (pic- Although the researchers expect the tech- “It’s a cool tool,” says McGill physicist Peter tured), author of “Don nique will be used mainly as a research tool nanopatterning methods to write the entire Grutter. Aside from the ability to make tiny Quixote”. for universities, novelty applications like this Bible on a crucifix for especially devout cus- structures for electronics, he says part of the They said yesterday might prove popular too. tomers, and even to engrave tiny patterns on attraction is that, unlike other nanopatterning they were ready to begin It could be used to add security tags to the surface of chocolate that scatter light to methods, it is very easy to find where you are searching in the Convent artworks, passports and personalised Swiss create different colours. on a surface and take images of large areas or of Trinitarians to identify watches that would be virtually impossible The technique was developed over the past go back and overlay a second pattern. the writer, who died in pov- to forge. Some companies have already used five years by physicist Armin Knoll and his GUARDIAN NEWS erty despite creating one of the landmarks of Western literature. Cervantes is recorded as having died on April 22, Bollywood called to arms against climate change 1616 and been buried a day later in the church of the TAMPA, US: Bollywood’s glit- global clout, but had never before red-brick convent, but the terati on Thursday heard an held the event in the United precise spot is now unknown. appeal to use their star power States, even though the country “We have marked out an area to search. It seems logical that if he to fight climate change as they has become Indian cinema’s larg- was indeed buried there, it was below the floor of the church,” said opened their first awards cer- est overseas market. Francisco Etxeberria, a forensic anthropologist. emony in the United States. Priyanka Chopra, a leading “The radar cannot tell you whether it is the body of the writer, but Bringing a somber note in Bollywood actress and former it can indicate the place of burial,” said the expert leading the first the midst of Bollywood’s trade- Miss World, said that the awards phase of the search, Luis Avial. mark festive dancing, Rajendra were an opportunity to show the “The geo-radar can tell us that location... then comes the delicate Pachauri, the Indian scientist United States “what a celebra- work” by archaeologists and forensic scientists to exhume the body who leads the Nobel Prize- tion our culture is, what a cel- and identify it, he told a news conference. winning UN climate panel, took ebration our cinema is, how our Etxeberria said the searchers would also scan parts of the walls and the stage in Tampa, Florida, to cinema transcends borders.” the sacristy, in the floor of which there is a padlocked door thought to urge stars to channel their influ- Tampa, which has a history lead down to a crypt. ence for the planet. of holding major events, pushed The work of scanning, exhuming and analysing any remains found “We are all residents of space- to bring the Bollywood awards, is due to last months, he added. ship Earth and anything we do whose organizers threw a dance Another expert involved in the search, historian Fernando de Pardo, — anything that happens on that party in a park on Wednesday put the estimated cost of the project at about 100,000 euros ($138,000) spaceship —has implications for evening in hopes of reaching out overall. If Cervantes’s remains are identified there, it is planned that everybody else,” said Pachauri, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra speaks during a press conference at to the public. he “remain buried in the church, but with a plaque that says he is who was invited to Bollywood’s the Hilton Downtown Hotel on the second day of the 15th International Mayor Bob Buckhorn voiced there”, de Pardo added. annual awards extravaganza as Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Tampa, Florida, yesterday. hope that Tampa would become Born near Madrid in 1547, Cervantes has been dubbed the father of a special guest. a household name for Bollywood the modern novel for “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La “What I would like to urge all lovers and an Indian investment Mancha”, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. the stars who are here is to see said that average sea levels have the coastal state was “particu- destination. He insisted that his The convent is still inhabited by nuns and has been designated that they associate themselves risen 19 centimeters (seven and larly vulnerable.” city — which has historic roots part of Madrid’s cultural herit- with the larger problems that a half inches) over the past cen- The International Indian Film in the American South — has age since 1921, complicating any humanity, and all living spe- tury and could rise as high as 98 Academy awards will take place embraced the awards and Indian effort to excavate in blind pursuit cies of the world, face,” he told centimeters by the end of the Saturday at the 66,000-capacity culture. of Cervantes’ remains. Bollywood celebrities assembled century without action. stadium of American football’s “When I walk down the street “Finding the tomb of Cervantes in a heavily air conditioned hotel Pachauri said that he spoke Tampa Bay Buccaneers after and hear somebody with an would mean paying a very impor- ballroom. before the Bollywood ceremony several days of events including Alabama accent say ‘namaskar,’ tant debt to the Prince of Letters Pachauri, chairman of the to Florida Governor Rick Scott, a forum with Indian investors. I know we’ve come a mighty long in Spain,” Jose Francisco Garcia, Intergovernmental Panel on a Republican who has expressed The award organizers each way,” said Buckhorn, folding his Madrid city hall’s director of cul- Climate Change, which recently doubt about the science on cli- year choose a site outside India hands in a traditional Bollywood tural heritage, said last month. issued its latest stark warning, mate change, and told him that in hopes of showing Bollywood’s greeting. AFP AFP