Established 1961 11 News Tuesday, February 20, 2018 ing nine-hole golf course and access to a club that will Trump Jr to wine include an indoor pool, spa and fitness center. India is already the Trump Organization’s biggest international on the council’s website. Listed as an international market, with developments in four major cities - Mumbai, Saudi Arabia to fashion week alongside Paris and Milan, the twice- and dine luxury... Pune, Gurgaon and Kolkata. All are being built with local yearly Arab Fashion Week offers exclusively see- partners, with the Trump Organization giving permission Continued from Page 1 now-buy-now collections and pre-collections. to use its brand and taking a share of the profits. host first Arab The line-up for the Riyadh event has not been According to media reports, the estimated cost of devel- member told AFP on condition of anonymity. “The oping these projects is $1.5 billion. revealed yet and it remains unclear whether it will meeting is a token of gratitude to the clients for showing limited to modest designs in accordance with the The Trump family earned $3 million in royalties in 2016 Fashion Week tremendous faith in the upcoming project,” said the from ventures in India, according to a New York Times strict dress code observed in Saudi Arabia. The Gulf Tribeca employee. report. Trump Junior and his brother now head the compa- DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is set to host in March its first kingdom, which has some of the world’s tightest The 47-storey towers will comprise 250 homes and are ny after their father stood down when he became presi- ever Arab Fashion Week, the Arab Fashion Council restrictions on women, requires them to wear, by expected to be completed by 2023, with prices ranging dent amid concerns over a conflict of interest. Although announced yesterday, overturning decades of dra- law, a loose-fitting abaya robe to shroud their bodies from 55-110 million rupees ($850,000-$1.7 million). the US embassy says he is in Delhi on an unofficial visit, conian policies on arts and entertainment. Crown in public. Earlier this month, a senior Saudi cleric Adverts in Indian newspapers yesterday promised Trump Junior is due to speak on Indo-Pacific relations at a Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful heir to said Saudi women should not be “forced to wear prospective buyers their neighbors would include a business conference on Friday at which Prime Minister the Saudi throne, has been leading a drive to reform abayas”. “renowned industrialist”, “art maestro” and “famous Indian Narendra Modi will be the keynote speaker. the country’s dependence on oil, including expand- The comment was made by Sheikh Abdullah Al- cricketer” - although it was not clear whether this was The luxury property in Gurgaon is being developed by ing the private sector and empowering women. The Mutlak, a member of the Council of Scholars - the based on the identity of the existing buyers. “‘Trump is Indian firms Tribeca and M3M, with construction expect- Dubai-based Arab Fashion Council said on its web- kingdom’s highest religious body. The government here. Are you invited?’ read the full-page advert in yester- ed to start towards the end of the year. India’s residential site that fashion week would be held in Riyadh from has not said whether it will change the law. But day’s Times of India. property market has struggled in recent years, hit by a March 26 to March 31, with a second edition already Prince Mohammed has introduced over the past The development is in the modern satellite city of glut in urban centers combined with the impact of a 2016 Gurgaon, where many major companies now have their scheduled for October. months a series of reforms in favor of women. In move to tackle tax evasion with a ban on high-value ban- headquarters. Prospective buyers are promised an adjoin- Arab Fashion Week will take place at Riyadh’s January, Saudi women were allowed for the first time knotes. — AFP eco-friendly Apex Centre, a white honeycomb-like ever to enter a football stadium to watch a game and venue designed by the late celebrated Iraqi-British the kingdom is also opening several sectors of the After the body of a Filipino was discovered in a architect Zaha Hadid. In December, the Arab Fashion workplace to women. Duterte accepts freezer in a Kuwait apartment, Duterte arranged free Council announced the opening of a regional office Saudi Arabia has also announced an end to a flights for workers wishing to leave - an evacuation that in Riyadh and named Saudi Princess Noura Bint longstanding ban on women driving, which is to take Kuwait said was an unnecessary escalation of a diplo- Faisal Al-Saud as its honorary president. effect in June. In the past, Arab Fashion Week have Amir’s invite... matic rift. The Philippines suspended sending workers been hosted so far exclusively by Gulf fashion capi- “The first Arab Fashion Week in Riyadh will be Continued from Page 1 to Kuwait in January after reports that abuse by more than a world-class event, it is a catalyst tal Dubai and have included runway darlings employers had driven several to suicide. Marchesa and Tony Ward. Dubai will continue to through which we believe the fashion sector will lead He said that there were contacts between the two Meanwhile, an official delegation from the Philippine other economic sectors such as tourism, hospitality, host its own parallel Arab Fashion Week, with the foreign ministry is due to arrive in Kuwait today to hold sixth edition slotted for May 9 to May 12. — AFP countries to prevent the escalation of the issue through travel, and trade,” Princess Noura said in a statement the Philippines ambassador in Kuwait and the Kuwaiti talks with Kuwaiti officials regarding the standoff, ambassador in Manila. Jarallah said that as a result, the informed sources said. The delegation is expected to two nations agreed not to use the media to escalate the discuss the situation of the Filipino workers in general problem and that they should resort to diplomatic dia- and the proposed labor agreement in particular, and logue to resolve it. pave the way for the official visit by Duterte to Kuwait. terday morning. Turkey warns Syria Surveillance planes buzzed overhead before carrying out raids on a pair of Eastern Ghouta towns, AFP’s corre- spondents in the enclave said. Residents walking outside in over backing YPG... the nearby town of Hammuriyeh could be seen rushing inside in a panic as soon as they heard the sound of air- Continued from Page 1 planes. Alaa al-Din, a 23-year-old Syrian in Hammuriyeh, said civilians were afraid of a potential government offen- Damascus previously denounced Ankara’s “aggression” sive. “Ghouta’s fate is unknown. We’ve got nothing but in Afrin but had never explicitly said it would intervene God’s mercy and hiding out in our basements,” he told AFP before yesterday. Syria’s Kurds have gradually implement- yesterday. “There’s no alternative.” ed a self-rule model across much of the country’s north, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said talks including Afrin, since 2012. Kurdish fighters and govern- have been taking place for the evacuation of HTS, which ment troops have since largely steered clear of each other, controls small pockets of Eastern Ghouta. “The collapse of though there have been short-lived clashes in the cities of the negotiations will signal the start of an assault,” Rami Hasakeh and Qamishli. Last week, YPG chief Sipan Hamo Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Observatory, told reporters his forces would have “no problem” with said. According to the Observatory, the regime began dis- Damascus intervening to help repel Turkey’s assault. patching military reinforcements to Eastern Ghouta on Feb A few hours after the SANA report, Erdogan spoke on 5, the same day it launched a fierce five-day bombing the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and they campaign on the region. discussed the “latest developments in Syria, especially in The war monitor said yesterday morning’s air strikes on Afrin and Idlib”, a Turkish presidential source said. Turkish Al-Shayfuniyeh left people wounded and caused material media quoted Erdogan as telling Putin that any support damage. Regime troops fired more than 260 rockets on from Damascus to the YPG in Afrin “will have conse- towns across Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, it said. The rock- RIYADH: Saudi women attend the AFC Champions League group stage football match between Saudi Arabia’s quences” for the regime. The issue of establishing new ets, as well as artillery fire and some air strikes, killed at Al Hilal and UAE’s Al Ain at King Saud University Stadium on Feb 13, 2018. — AFP observation posts in Idlib was discussed, the source said. least 17 civilians across the enclave on Sunday, according Turkey, Russia and regime supporter Iran agreed last to the Observatory. “In just a few hours, all of Eastern year to create “de-escalation” zones in four areas including Ghouta was sprayed with rockets,” Alaa al-Din recalled. Idlib, where six observation posts have already been set up Eastern Ghouta is held by two main Islamist factions, ing absconding cases against their employees. “In both by Turkish forces to monitor any fighting. The northwestern Jaish al-Islam and Faylaq al-Rahman, both of which denied PAM launches cases, the employee has to know what procedures were province is nearly completely under the control of anti- being in talks with the regime.