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winter’s
arrival
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dialogue
to end
extremism
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some people
mosquito
magnets?
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NEW-LOOK
CABINET IN
THE OFFING
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T
he Cabinet is all set to wear
a new look with some major
changes.
A reliable source told DT News
that the changes would include the
replacement of quite a few ministers
and a change in the portfolios of
some of them.
“Several ministries such as
Defence, Education, Industry and
Commerce, Health and Shura
Council and Parliament Affairs will
be soon headed by new ministers.
It will be soon announced by His
Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa,” the source said yesterday.
He also said that the Culture
Ministry would be made an authority,
“while another major change will
be dissolving the State Ministry of
Telecommunication Affairs.”
Our sister newspaper Al Ayam, on
Thursday, reported that after
appointing the new members of
the Shura Council, “His Majesty
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa will
inaugurate, on December 14, the first
session of the fourth legislative term,
which will continue until 2018.”
Full story on Page 3
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Dr. Al Kaabi
A hand
of help
Manama
unicipal Affairs and Urban
Planning Minister Dr.
Juma Al Kaabi has issued an
edict, slashing the municipal fees
of 470 Bahraini tenant families.
In another edict issued
yesterday, the minister also
exempted 32 Bahraini citizens
from paying taxes.
In a release, the minister
stated that the initiative was
taken after studying their social
conditions.
Dr. Al Kaabi noted that the
two edicts were in line with the
directives of the leadership to
enhance the living conditions of
the citizens.
The new edicts add to the
other ones exempting lowincome citizens from paying fees
or dropping their old debts.
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Massive turnout expected
Manama
resident
of
the
Legislation and Legal
Opinion
Commission
and Director General of
the Elections Abdulla Al
Buainain yesterday said
that he expected a massive
turnout of voters in the
run-offs today.
Speaking to Bahrain TV,
he said there are 34 electoral
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Mr. Al Buainain
constituencies
and
21
municipal ones, where runoffs would be held.
Voicing his confidence in
the awareness of Bahraini
voters and their keenness to
cast their ballots and choose
their parliamentary and
municipal representatives,
Mr. Al Buainain said that 49
polling centres were ready to
receive the voters.
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Oil plunges to new multiyear lows
New York
Global oil prices plunged yesterday to new multi-year lows
after the OPEC oil-producing
cartel decided to maintain
crude output in an oversupplied market. US benchmark
West Texas Intermediate for
delivery in January closed at
$66.15 a barrel on the New York
Mercantile Exchange, down
$7.54 from the closing price
on Wednesday. It was the lowest WTI close since September
2009. The NYMEX was closed on
Thursday for a holiday. As the
New York market closed in an
abbreviated session yesterday,
in London, Brent oil for January
delivery sank below $70 for the
first time in four and a half years,
to $69.78 a barrel. Brent settled
at $70.15 a barrel, down $2.43
from Thursday’s close.
Rain tRumpets
winteR’s aRRival
Saturday, November 29 , 2014
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Israel wounds Italian
activist
Nablus
A pro-Palestinian Italian
activist was shot and seriously
wounded by Israeli gunfire
during yesterday’s clash in
the northern West Bank, medics and his movement said.
Palestinian security sources
said Patrick Corsi, a 30-year-old
member of the International
Solidarity Movement, was shot
during the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum, west of
Nablus. Eyewitnesses said Corsi,
who had participated in last
week’s protest as well, had been
documenting the event with a
camera.
Protesters force closure
of mall near Ferguson
St. Louis
US protesters forced a
crowded St Louis mall to close
yesterday marching through
the complex demanding a
boycott to post-Thanksgiving
shopping and justice for an
unarmed black teenager killed
by police. Scores of demonstrators, including young children,
shouted “No justice, no peace,”
and “Stop shopping and join
the movement” at the St Louis
Galleria Mall. Around 100 people lay on the floor for several minutes to symbolize the
more than four hours that
18-year-old Michael Brown
lay in the road after being
shot dead by a white police
officer in the St Louis suburb
of Ferguson. A grand jury on
Monday said it would not
indict the officer who killed
Brown, sparking arson and
looting in Ferguson.
The showers
also triggered
water
clogging in
many areas
including
Manama, Saar,
Gudaibiya and
Sitra, forcing
the watersucking trucks
to get into
action.
arking the beginning of
winter, the Kingdom
received light to moderate
showers yesterday.
The showers created a
festive mood across the
Kingdom, giving chance to
many to enjoy the weekend
by getting wet.
It brought nostalgic
memories to expatriates from
South Asia, which experiences
a strong monsoon season,
stretching for at least three
months a year.
Speaking to DT News,
25-year-old Amjad Hussain,
a Pakistani national, said,
“Though the showers weren’t
heavy unlike the ones we’ve
in Pakistan, I began feeling
homesick.”
The showers also triggered
water clogging in many areas
including Manama, Saar,
Gudaibiya and Sitra, forcing
the water-sucking trucks to
get into action.
According to the sources
attached to Meteorological
Department, the showers
would continue today as well.
They added that the weather
would remain cool and
cloudy for the next three days
with temperature ranging
between 17 and 23 Degree
Celsius.
The Ministry of Interior
(MoI) has warned the
seafarers to be cautious of
the high winds. The ministry
added that seafarers would
receive latest updates on the
weather through its Twitter
account.
The General Directorate
of Traffic also called upon
the road users to be cautious
during the rains. One accident occurred
when two cars rammed into
each other on Hidd Bridge.
However, no injuries were
reported.
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Cabinet to see
major Changes
Saturday, November 29, 2014
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l State Ministry for Information Affairs likely to be merged with Information Affairs Authority
l Culture Ministry likely to be made an authority
l State Ministry of Telecommunication Affairs likely to be dissolved
l Number of deputies in the Cabinet and several governmental authorities likely to be reduced
Noora Alzabie/ DTNN
W
ith the nation electing
its new Parliament, the
Cabinet is set to see major
changes, it was revealed
yesterday. A reliable source affirmed
to DT News, “the new changes
will include the replacement
of quite a few ministers and a
change in portfolios of some
ministers.”
“Several ministries such as
Defence, Education, Industry
and Commerce, Health and
Shura Council and Parliament
Affairs will be soon headed
by new ministers. It will be
soon announced by His
Majesty King Hamad bin Isa
Al Khalifa,” the source said
yesterday.
Explaining further, he
said, the State Ministry for
Information Affairs would
be merged with Information
Affairs Authority (IAA),
which is currently headed by
Ali Al Rumaihi.”
The source also confirmed
that the Culture Ministry would
be made an authority, “while
another major change will be
dissolving the State Ministry of
Telecommunication Affairs.”
“The number of deputies
in the Cabinet and several
governmental authorities will
be reduced,” added the source.
Our sister newspaper Al
Defence, Education, Industry and
Commerce, Health, Shura Council
and Parliament Affairs ministries
are likely to be headed by new
ministers.
Ayam, on
Thursday,
reported
that
after
appointing
the
new
members of the Shura
Council, “His Majesty
the King will inaugurate,
on December 14, the
first session of the fourth
legislative term, which will
continue until 2018.”
Quoting
informed
official sources, the report
explained,
“the
next
Cabinet session, taking
place tomorrow, will be
the final one of the third
legislative term.”
However, it was also
mentioned that the new
council of ministers would
be decided after extensive
discussions.
The previous ministerial
changes were made in 2010,
during the end of the second
legislative term.
It included assigning a
fourth deputy prime minister
and separating Electricity
from Works Ministry.
The year 2013 also saw
the appointment of Crown
Prince and Deputy Supreme
Commander HRH Prince
Salman bin Hamad Al
Khalifa as the First Deputy
Prime Minister.
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Girl assault
Three years for
assaulTING GIrl
DT News Network
Manama
A
n Asian man, who kissed an
11-year-old girl on her lips, was
sentenced to three years in prison by the
High Criminal Court.
It was claimed that the defendant,
31, was working in a cafeteria where the
victim was a regular customer.
The incident happened when the latter
went to purchase sandwiches from the
outlet, where nobody was
there except the man.
The case was reported to
the police by the girl’s mother,
who pointed out that her
child burst into tears after the
convicted man kissed her lips. “My daughter (the girl) called me and
she was weeping. She said that the man
kissed her on the lips after holding her
tightly,” the mother told prosecutors.
It was claimed that the defendant had
attempted to prevent the child
from divulging what he had
done to her by offering her
money after she broke into
tears.
However, all his efforts were
in vain because the child immediately ran
to her mother and reported what the man
had done to her.
Judges at the High Criminal Court have
also ordered for the man’s immediate
expulsion once he completes his jail time. Robbers jailed
for five years
a
DT News Network
Manama
T
he High Criminal Court
sentenced two Asian men
to five years in jail after they
were found guilty in connection
with a robbery case.
The duo reportedly robbed a
local restaurant owner and ran
off with his money.
According to the victim, he
encountered four men, while
he was walking in the street
and without a warning, they
cornered and threatened him
at knife-point and ran off with
the income of his restaurant
for that day, which amounted
to BD300.
“While I was walking outside, carrying the
money with me, they (the four men) approached
me. Without any notice, one of them drew a
knife from his pocket, while the others took me
by surprise by grabbing the money before fleeing
the scene,” the victim said in his statement
before the Public Prosecution.
“I shouted for help and people came to my
rescue,” he added.
The man in custody was reportedly caught by
passers-by while he was trying to flee.
Meanwhile, the second defendant was
captured after the victim spotted him in a nearby
area, after filing a criminal complaint at the
police station.
The other two men who are implicated in the
theft case, however, are still at large.
Judges at the High Criminal Court have given
the first defendant an additional month in jail for
illegal residency offence.
Both of the men were ordered to be deported,
once they completed their jail sentences. While I was walking
outside, carrying the
money with me, they (the
four men) approached
me. Without any notice,
one of them drew a knife
from his pocket, while
the others took me by
surprise by grabbing the
money before fleeing the
scene,” victim to
prosecutor
The 31-year-old defendant, who was working
in a cafeteria where the victim was a regular
customer, took advantage of the situation when
they were alone and kissed the girl despite her
resistance. He also offered some money to her
so that she would keep quiet but she told her
mother, who reported the incident to police.
Girls’ school attacked by vandals
DT News Network
Manama
A
school was attacked by
vandals in the Northern
Governorate
yesterday,
according to the Education
Ministry.
The ministry stated that
the Karranah Elementary
Girls’ School was the latest
educational institution to be
“attacked by vandals” this
year.
“Vandals threw petrol
bombs at the school, causing
several damages,” The
ministry said in its statement.
The ministry’s Public
Relations
and
Media
Directorate
confirmed Part of the wall of the school that was damaged during the attack.
that the concerned security
authorities were informed
attacks
on
educational attacked during the past three
about the incident.
institutions, saying, “Three school years. Attacks included
The ministry’s directorate hundred
seventy-three arson, break entry, thefts and
denounced the continuous academic establishments were other assaults.”
The Education
Ministry stated
that the Karranah
Elementary Girls’
School was the latest
educational institution
to be “attacked by
vandals” this year,
adding that the
concerned authorities
were informed about
the incident.
Verdict due in
murder case
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DT News Network
Manama
S
ix appellants convicted in
connection with a bomb
that killed a policeman and
injured two others will learn
their fate on December 30.
The six Bahrainis were
among 14 defendants who
were sentenced to life
behind bars for murdering
police officer Yasir Khan
Uranj.
However, the eight other
men are still at large and were
sentenced in absentia.
They were all found guilty
of murder, attempted
murder,
detonating
an
explosive
device,
possessing
explosives,
rioting
and
putting
people’s lives in danger by
the High Criminal Court
on December 22, 2013. The
blast,
which
happened in July 2012 near
Wadiyan graveyard in Sitra,
killed Mr. Uranj and injured+
two of his colleagues. The bomb went off after
police were dispatched to the
area to confront around 400
rioters, who set tyres alight
and assaulted officers with
Molotov cocktails and metal
rods as they tried to clear
the road. A medical examiner’s
report states that traces of
nitrocellulose, an explosive
material also known as
guncotton, were found on
the shrapnel pulled from the
victim.
The six Bahraini appellants will
learn their fate on December 30
when the Court hands down its
verdict, after they were earlier
found guilty of murdering police
officer Yasir Khan Uranj and
injuring some of his colleagues.
Cop attacker’s jail term reduced
DT News Network
Manama
T
he
High
Criminal
Appeals Court has
reduced the jail time of a
man convicted of physically
assaulting an on duty police
officer.
The defendant was earlier
handed down a one-year
imprisonment, but he saw
his jail time slashed to six
months on appeal.
The
defendant
was
reportedly involved in a brawl
inside a bar on February 2,
2014.
He reportedly quarrelled
with another man, before
police arrived at the scene to
stop the situation from getting
worse.
The defendant was claimed to have
knocked down one of the police
officers, while they were trying to
arrest him in a bid to escape. But,
he was busted before he could
escape the place. One officer
sustained minor injuries as a result
of the struggle.
The defendant was claimed
to have knocked one of the
police officers down while they
were trying to arrest him in a
bid to escape.
But, he was busted before he
could flee the place.
One officer sustained
minor injuries as a result of
the struggle. However, the
defendant’s lawyer firmly
denied that the defendant’s
behaviour was intentional,
affirming that he was drunk
and wasn’t aware of his
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Minister of State for Human Rights Affairs Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman received the outgoing Algerian Ambassador Nejib Snoussi yesterday. During the meeting, the minister affirmed
the long-standing solid ties between the two countries in all fields. The Algerian Ambassador
thanked the minister for the meeting, expressing hope that Algerian-Bahraini relations will
develop further.
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Foreign media
blamed For bias
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Mohammed Zafran / DTNN
C
andidates and journalists
in
the
Kingdom
came down heavily on the
international media for
presenting biased reports,
which “absolutely don’t
portray the reality”.
They said that the foreign
media was totally behind
the anti-national protesters,
when the Kingdom was
witnessing a significant
democratic stride.
Speaking to DT News,
winning
Parliamentary
candidate Isa Al Kooheji said
that the “cooked-up reports”
wouldn’t adversely affect the
image of the Kingdom.
“With
the
electoral
success, we know that our
democracy is on the right
track. Unfortunately, we’ve
a certain group boycotting
the elections but that won’t
hinder
the
Kingdom’s
democratic progress. It’s
high time we start focussing
on tackling the issues from
within,” he added.
Meanwhile, Abdulazeez
Zaman, a candidate for
the municipal elections
urged Bahrainis to ignore
reports fabricated by the
international media. “The
foreign media doesn’t have
proper sources or judges to
provide an accurate coverage
for their readers. Thanks to
Mr. Al Ghayeb
the elections, we Bahrainis
are proud of Bahrain.”
Putting it in a journalistic
perspective, Hawar Society
Mr. Al Kooheji
Deputy Chairman and Senior
Journalist Rashed Al Ghayeb
said that the foreign media
was trying to implement
Mr. Zaman
a particular agenda in the
Kingdom.
“Since 2011, these people
have been trying to divide
the country on sectarian
lines without seeing what
was actually happening in
Bahrain,” he added.
Three Indians
get out-passes
DT News Network
T
hree Indian nationals
who
were
allegedly
exploited by a Bahrainbased contracting company,
received out-passes for
travelling
back
home
during the Open House
held yesterday at the Indian
Embassy.
According
to
the
complainants- Suresh, Anuraj
and Sampath, the company
has not been paying salaries
and allowances for the past
two years.
The trio along with six
others had earlier approached
the embassy to file their
complaints and subsequently
they were asked to file a case
against the company.
“Six of them withdrew the
case citing that didn’t want
allowances, while we stood
strong and legally fought for
our rights,” Suresh told DT
News.
He added that the company
authorities didn’t bother to
return their passports despite
the court order.
“Since the embassy has
allocated out-passes, they can
leave immediately. However, for
Dr. Kumar along with Indian Embassy First Secretary Ram Singh.
Suresh, Anuraj and Sampath
receiving pending allowances
they will have to produce
their documents from the
Immigration Centre and this is a
time-consuming process,” a legal
expert told DT News.
However, Mr. Suresh has
asked the embassy to speed
up his journey back, for he
suffers from various diseases.
During the Open House,
Indian Ambassador Dr.
Mohan Kumar also urged the
Indians in Bahrain to register
the birth of their children
without fail. The envoy
made the statement while
discussing the plight faced
by the stateless children who
have neither citizenship nor
passport.
Poll serves
needy too!
Flex boards turn into shelters
Elayath Pragit
Parameswaran/ DTNN
pragit@dt.bh
W
ith the massive use of
billboards, the municipal
and parliamentary elections
2014 turned into a carnival.
For few days, many of these
flex boards even became a
landmark in few areas.
But the haunting question
is, where do these billboards
go after the elections? You may
be delighted to know that few
of these vertical standing flex
boards, which display smiling
candidates requesting the votes
of Bahrainis, go horizontal to
serve as tents for poor.
“Every candidate who
contested the 2014 municipal
and parliamentary elections in
the Kingdom, irrespective of
his/her victory or failure serves
the poor in an unknown way by
becoming a source of shelter,”
said an owner of a leading
advertising agency. According to him, his
employees remove all the
hoardings from the roadsides
after the elections.
“We collect and compile all
our flex materials and load it in
a container. We usually export
these materials to a few poor
nations where the people use
them for shelter. And we don’t
earn any single profit out of it,”
said an employee attached to
Pics by santosh RajendRan
File photos for representative purpose only
You may be delighted to know
that few of these vertical standing
flex boards, which display smiling
candidates requesting the votes of
Bahrainis, go horizontal to serve as
tents for poor
another advertisement agency.
However,
few
others
asserted that they simply dump
the hoardings in an abandoned
place in Bahrain. “As there is no
recycling unit, we are forced to
dump these flex boards after the
use. Generally, after dumping,
we used to cover it with mud
and over period of time more
mud accumulates over it,” said
an advertising agency owner.
According to the experts,
almost all hoardings contain
flex which are made of
polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
The environmentalists’ study
says that the material is not
bio-degradable and if burnt,
the fumes are carcinogenic.
Moreover the PVC leaches into
the soil and pollutes it.
“As there is no recycling unit,
these boards can be given to the
children for colouring activities.
Perhaps, these flexes can also be
turned into shopping bags as
done in few foreign countries,”
pointed out environmentalist,
Rehan Ahmed.
He also added that these
candidates should pay a small
amount for the removal as well
as recycling of these hoardings. 7
Thinking
green
Rehan Ahmed
Post eleCtIon WAste
MAnAGeMent
T
he 2014 parliamentary and municipal elections will be
ending today with a record number of candidates standing
in the elections and a huge turnout of voters. Publicity was
the main factor in the elections whereby candidates and their
organisations were publicising their names and constituencies
all along the roads and vacant plots to woo the prospective
voters.
The country is given a pleasant look with colourful banners
sprung up at all nook and corners of the country showing
smiling faces of the candidates. Banners of different colours,
sizes, shapes and forms were made and used which have added
more vibrancy and attraction to the surroundings. Handbills
have been made and lavishly distributed to attract the voters
and spread the candidate’s manifesto and charter of action.
Many candidates have booked or rented various sites within
their constituencies to organise their campaigns and to hold
one-to-one meeting with voters at sites, buildings and tents.
While the media companies, printers, banner makers had a
roaring business with hundreds of labours getting temporary
employment and part time work in making and fixing the
banners and distribute publicity material.
These campaigning and publicity activities have an impact
on the local environment and may affect our fragile resources
as it consumed material and that many of such items will go
as waste filling up our limited land resources and ending up in
Askar landfill site.
The billboards, signs or banners from vinyl material can be
recycled. Vinyl has been declared as “the worst plastic for the
environment”, after a two-year investigation by Greenpeace.
The environmental group says that additives in PVC pose
imminent risk to humans, especially children and they are
concerned about the amount of Dioxins released during the
lifecycle of PVC.
Most of the banners are printed on a type of vinyl that is
recyclable, but unfortunately, since they aren’t labeled, it’s
difficult to actually get them recycled. Thus, it can be sent
to local recyclers to makes bags. In many western countries,
companies have recycled their store banners into green
shopping bags. Various companies have had their banners
made into wallets, zipper bags, and more. Since a banner is
basically just strong plastic with a woven mesh inside, it’s easy
to sew. From banners, tote or messenger bags can be made.
After the elections, it becomes the municipality duty to
remove such wastes that are generated due to the elections and
related festivities. Here are some useful suggestions that can
make the post-election waste management as ‘green’ avoiding
the adverse impacts on the environment.
l Banners can be used as tarps. Vinyl banners are typically
stronger than store-bought tarps, and they already have
grommets along the top and bottom – perfect for covering the
waste trucks and trailers.
l Banners can be reused for fun art project and as colouring
tool for kids where they can try their creativity and artistic
skills by just flipping over the existing banner.
l Street boards and banners can be reused by taking away
the wood or metal frame, using or selling them to recyclers and
reusing the plastics and cloth.
l Sand bags, concrete blocks, angles, iron rods and banner/
billboard supports can be reused for other campaigns and
clients.
l Ropes used for tying the banners need to be separated,
taken out and reused.
Let us be environmentally responsive and keep our waste
out of the landfills.
The author is the head of Waste Disposal Unit, Supreme
Council for Environment, Bahrain (Email: rahmed@sce.gov.bh)
(The views and opinions expressed in this article are those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy or
position of this newspaper.)
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The price of war
Dear sir,
I could not describe what I
was feeling, while reading the
report in DT News yesterday
titled ‘Post War, Gazans battle
winter.’
One thing I am certain though –
it broke my heart to see what is
happening to the Palestinians
at Gaza right now.
Three months have passed
after an Egyptian-brokered
ceasefire ended a bloody
50-day war between Israel and
the Hamas militants but the
effects are still hounding those
people who were just caught in
this bloody and senseless war.
More than 100,000 Gazans
were left homeless and are still
waiting for the “reconstruction
programme” promised by the
government, which until now,
has not seen the light of day.
To make matters worse, the
fierce winter storm has started
in the region this week, which
complicates the situation for
the Gazans.
Without any wall to protect
them from the fierce cold or
roof on their heads, what
Pitt and
Jolie
-
the Gazans are experiencing
right now is hell on earth!
And the misery of the people of
Gaza does not end there.
Without a home and regular
food supply to give them
warmth during the onset of
winter, most are left nursing
a deep hatred against their
cursed foe –Israel.
What bothers me the most is
the picture of little children and
old and sick people, without
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any food or blanket to cover
them during wintertime.
So this is the price of war.
Innocent people are being
sacrificed for the selfish and
evil interests of those powerhungry countries.
I hope and pray that the
suffering of the people of Gaza
would come to an end and that
they would get the justice they
deserve.
Hamdiyah Abdulla
There’s no perfect
relationship!
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Dear sir,
There is no perfect
relationship
between a man and
a woman.
No matter who
you are, or what
your status in life
is, whether you are
rich and famous,
or just the ordinary
man in the street,
chances are, you
are bound to have
those ‘nasty little
fights’ with your partner,
boyfriend/girlfriend or
spouse.
This was what the
report about Angelina
Jolie and her husband
Brad Pitt seemed to be
saying in the Celebs
section in DT News
yesterday.
The couple was seen fighting
on a hotel balcony in Los
Angeles and Brad reportedly
walked out of the room and
left a distraught Angelina,
who turned to cigarettes for
comfort.
So it is clear that even the most
perfect couple does not have a
perfect relationship!
People can do their best to
pretend that they have this
wonderful relationship with
their partner but sooner or
later, the truth would come
out.
Just reading the lives of
celebrities and other highprofiled people, who ended
up with a broken relationship
is enough to convince me
that the term ‘perfect
relationship’ does not exist in
this world!
Of course, we could do our best
to have a good relationship
with the one we loved.
But, we must also accept the
fact that as human beings,
our nature allows us to react
in almost a negative or even
hostile way when it comes
to our loved ones, especially
when there is a threat in our
relationship with them.
They say that one must
overcome ‘jealousy’ which is
the main reason why couples
and partners fight.
Well, we can debate on this
issue for a long time.
But suffice it to say that to have
a relationship with someone
you love is still the best thing
that could ever happen to a
person.
Isabella
MIDDLE EAST 9
POPE FOR DIALOGUE
TO END EXTREMISM
Ankara
ope Francis yesterday called
for dialogue between faiths
to end the Islamist extremism
plaguing the Middle East as he
visited Turkey for his first visit
to the overwhelmingly Muslim
but officially secular state.
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip
Erdogan,
who
welcomed Pope Francis as the
first foreign dignitary to his
controversial new presidential
palace outside Ankara, for his
part issued a strong warning
about rising Islamophobia in
the world.
The visit of the pope is seen as
a crucial test of Francis’ ability
to build bridges between faiths
amid the rampage by Islamic
State (IS) jihadists in Iraq
and Syria and concerns over
the persecution of Christian
minorities in the Middle East.
“Sadly, to date, we are still
witnessing grave conflicts. In
Syria and Iraq, particularly,
terrorist violence shows no
P
Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Pope Francis following
their joint Press conference at Turkey’s Presidential Palace
yesterday.
signs of abating,” the pope said
after talks with Erdogan.
“Inter-religious and intercultural dialogue can make an
important contribution... so
that there will be an end to
all forms of fundamentalism
and terrorism,” the leader of
the world’s Roman Catholics
added.
Speaking
in
an
overwhelmingly
Muslim
country which has a tiny but
culturally significant Christian
minority, the pope pointedly
said all faiths should share the
same rights.
“It is essential that all citizens
- Muslim, Jewish and Christian
- both in the provision and
practice of the law, enjoy the
same rights and respect the
same duties.”
Turkey’s own Christian
community is tiny - just
80,000 in a country of some
Air raids claim more
than 500 in 40 days
Beirut
ore than 500 civilians
have been killed in
a “world record” 2,000 air
strikes across Syria by regime
forces over the past 40 days,
a monitoring group said
yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said the regime
could be “listed in the Guinness
Book of World Records for...
carrying out some 2,000 air
strikes against its people in the
past 40 days”.
The group, which relies on
a broad network of activists
M
and medics on the ground for
its information, said the raids
have killed at least 527 civilians
and wounded 2,000 others.
On Wednesday alone, raids
on the Islamic State jihadist
group’s self-declared “capital”
of Raqa killed 95 people, “the
vast majority civilians”, the
Britain-based Observatory’s
head Rami Abdel Rahman told
AFP.
The Syrian air force first
launched air strikes against
rebel-held areas in July 2012
when the government lost
control of swathes of Aleppo
city.
It has since pounded areas
across the country on a
daily basis, often with crude
“barrel bombs” dropped from
helicopters.
“In the past 40 days alone,
there have been strikes
against parts of 12 of Syria’s
14 provinces,” said Abdel
Rahman.
“Millions of people have
fled their homes because of the
strikes, becoming internally
displaced or refugees in
neighbouring countries,” he
said.
A Syrian man reacts following reported airstrikes by government forces in the Syrian city of
Raqa, a stronghold of the Islamic State, on Thursday.
75 million Muslims - but also
extremely mixed, consisting of
Armenians, Greek Orthodox,
Franco-Levantines,
Syriac
Orthodox and Chaldeans.
Erdogan has long been
accused by opponents of
seeking to erode Turkey’s
secular foundations with
creeping Islamisation. But he
also presents himself as a friend
of the country’s extremely
small but varied non-Muslim
minorities.
He chose the occasion
to make a characteristically
strong-worded warning against
growing Islamophobia in the
world, which he warned risked
further dividing Muslims and
Christians.
“Islamophobia is rising
seriously and rapidly. We
must work together against the
threats weighing on our planet
- intolerance, racism and
discrimination,” said Erdogan.
The security of the pope
- who looked tired and at
times distant during the visit
- is paramount for the Turkish
authorities.
The streets of Ankara
appeared deserted of wellwishers as his motorcade
whizzed through, in stark
contrast to the close contact
with crowds that have been
such a feature of the past trips.
Some 2,700 police supervised
his visit in Ankara, a number
that will rise to 7,000 for the
last two days of the trip in
Istanbul.
There had been calls on the
Pope not to meet Erdogan at
his vast presidential palace
which has 1,000 rooms, costing
no less than $615 million (500
million euros) to build and seen
by critics as an authoritarian
extravagance.
The pope was welcomed
with an honour guard before
the doors to the gigantic
edifice swung open and
he walked inside with the
president.
Iranian commander
led Iraq anti-jihadist
drive, says Hezbollah
Beirut
ebanon’s Shia movement
Hezbollah said yesterday
that an Iranian elite unit
commander led the anti-jihadist
counter-attack in Iraq after the
Islamic State group made major
advances in June.
Major General Qassem
Suleimani landed in Baghdad
on June 10, hours after the IS
overran the Iraqi city of Mosul,
“leading a group of Lebanese
and Iranian military experts”,
according to the pro-Tehran
Shiite group’s Al-Manar website.
It said Suleimani, who heads
Iran’s elite Quds Force, had
together with the Iraqi military
and Shiite militias worked out
a strategy “to secure Baghdad
and its surroundings”, when the
jihadists appeared unstoppable.
“The first order he gave was to
secure the road linking Baghdad
to Samarra (to the north),
and he successfully expelled
the IS jihadists who had been
occupying sections of this vital
artery,” it said.
“He had a direct role in battles
on this road, and has been
present in all the major anti-IS
L
battles in the western province of
Anbar,” according to Al-Manar.
It said Suleimani also took
part in fighting in “the Kurdish
regions of Diyala (in the east),
the oil-rich province of Kirkuk
and in the recent battle to
reclaim Baiji refinery”.
There was no immediate
confirmation of the report from
officials in Baghdad.
A secretive figure, Suleimani
is seldom mentioned in Iranian
media. He has cultivated a
reputation as one of the most
influential security operatives in
the Middle East. In 2008, the
United States accused him of
training Shia militias waging
attacks against Western troops
in Iraq.
A senior Iranian justice official
has also said that Suleimani was
present during fighting near
Arbil alongside Kurdish forces
in early August. Media in Iran
regularly report the deaths of
Iranian “volunteers” in Syria and
Iraq in fighting against jihadists.
Iranian authorities claim the
combatants are there of their
own accord to protect Shia holy
sites.
Shia rebels
push on
towards
South Yemen
Sanaa
emen’s Shia Ansarullah
militia is advancing
in Taez province towards
the main southern city of
Aden as it seeks to expand
its influence after taking
the capital, officials said
yesterday.
Overnight, a 16-vehicle
convoy of militiamen
entered an eastern suburb
of Taez, the country’s third
city, and deployed near its
airport and a local radio
station, the local officials
said.
Ansarullah militiamen,
also called Huthis, have
captured many communities
in western and central
Yemen since taking Sanaa
on September 21.
However, they had not
entered Taez, a city of
around half a million people
some 250 kilometres (155
miles) southwest of Sanaa,
under an accord struck with
local authorities.
“This agreement no
longer stands because the
local authorities have not
honoured their commitment
to arrest 14 extremists in
Taez province,” a source
close to Ansarullah told
AFP.
The group’s deployment
in the eponymous city’s
Al-Janad suburb follows
“their capture this week
of Al-Qaeda”, a region of
neighbouring Ibb province,
an official in the area said.
“Supporters
of
ex-president Ali Abdullah
Saleh helped the Huthis get
into Al-Janad,” he added.
The suburb houses a
barracks of the Republican
Guard, a unit in which
several officers remained
loyal to Saleh’s eldest son
who commanded the elite
corps.
Y
Overnight, a
16-vehicle convoy of militiamen
entered an eastern
suburb of Taez,
the country’s third
city, and deployed
near its airport
and a local radio
station, the local
officials said.
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Horrible Bosses 2 (18+)
(Comedy) New
Jason Bateman, Charlie Day,
Jason Sudeikis
Daily At: 11.30 Am + 2.00 +
4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 Pm + 12.00
Mn + (1.00 Am Thurs/Fri)
Daily At (ViP i): 11.00 Am +
1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 +
11.30 Pm
2 Penguins Of Madagascar
(Pg) (Animation/Comedy/
Adventure) New
Tom Mcgrath, Chris Miller,
Christopher Knights
Daily At (3D): 11.15 Am + 1.15
+ 3.15 + 5.15 + 7.15 + 9.15 +
11.15 Pm
3 Wahed Saaidy (15+)
(Comedy) New
Mohammed Ramadan, Randa
Buhairi, Nermin Maher, inas Al
Najjar
Daily At: 11.00 Am + 1.00 +
3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + 9.00 +
11.00 Pm + (1.00 Am Thurs/
Fri)
4 Northmen: A Viking Saga
(15+) (Action/Adventure)
New
James Norton, Ryan Kwanten,
Charlie Murphy
Daily At: 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 +
7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 Pm
5 Mindscape (Pg-15) (Thriller/
Horror) New
Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga,
Brian Cox
Daily At: 11.30 Am + 1.30 +
3.30 + 5.30 + 7.30 + 9.30 +
11.30 Pm
6 Falcon Rising (15+) (Action/
Thriller) New
Michael Jai White, Neal
Mcdonough, Laila Ali
Daily At: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 +
7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 Pm
7 The Hunger games:
Mockingjay Part-1 (Pg-15)
(Adventure/Action)
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh
Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Daily At: 10.30 Am + 1.00 +
3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 Pm + 12.00
Mn + (1.00 Am Thurs/Fri)
Daily At (ViP ii): 12.30 + 3.15 +
6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 Pm
8 Dumb And Dumber To (15+)
(Comedy)
Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie
Holden
Daily At: 10.30 Am + 12.45 +
3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 Pm
+ 12.00 Mn + (1.00 Am Thurs/
Fri)
9 Intersteller (Pg-13)
(Adventure/Action/ScienceFiction)
Mathew Mc Conaughey,
Anne Hathaway, Jessica
Chastain
Daily At: 10.30 Am +1.45 +
5.00 + 8.15 + 11.30 Pm +
(12.45 Mn Thurs/Fri)
10 Big Hero 6 (Pg) (Animation/
Action/Comedy/Adventure)
Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie
Chung
Daily At (3D): 11.30 Am + 1.45
+ 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45
Pm
11 John Wick (15+) (Action/
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Thriller)
Keanu Reeves, Michael
Nyquist, Alfie Allen
Daily At: 11.45 Am + 2.00 +
4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 Pm
The Babadook (15+)
(Horror/Thriller)
Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall,
Noah Wiseman
Daily At: 11.15 Am + 1.15 +
6.30 + 11.45 Pm
Fury (15+) (Action/War)
Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Logan
Lerman
Daily At: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 +
9.00 + 11.45 Pm
The Equalizer (Pg-15)
(Action/Thriller/Crime)
Denzel Washington, Marton
Csokas, Chloe Grace
Daily At: 11.15 Am + 1.45 +
4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 Pm
The Signal (Pg-15) (Thriller)
Brenton Thwaites, Olivia
Cooke, Larence Fishburne
Daily At: 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00
Pm
Boxtrolls (Pg) (Animation/
Comedy/Adventure)
Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris,
Nick Frost
Daily At (3D): 12.15 + 2.15 +
4.15 + 6.15 Pm
gone girl (15+) (Thriller)
Ben Affleck, Roamund Pike,
Neil Patrick Haris
Daily At: 8.15 + 11.15 Pm
Ouija (15+) (Horror/Thriller)
Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren
Kagasoff
Daily At: 11.30 Am + 1.30 +
6.45 Pm + 12.00 Mn
The Maze Runner (Pg-15)
(Action/Adventure/Thriller)
Dylan O’brien, Kaya
Scodelario, Will Poulter
Daily At: 2.15 + 6.45 + 11.15
Pm
Happy New Year (Pg-15)
(Hindi/Action/Comedy)
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika
Padukone, Abhishek
Bachchan
Daily At: 3.15 + 8.30 Pm
Al Jazeera 2 (15+) (Arabic/
Action/Thriller)
Ahmad Al Saah, Hind Sabry,
Khalid Salih, Khalid Alsawee
Daily At: 3.30 + 8.45 Pm
Soni-A- Fi Misr (Pg)
(Comedy)
Ahmed Helmy, Yasmin Rais,
Dalal Abdulaziz
Daily At: 12.00 + 4.30 + 9.00 Pm
Beauty And The Beast (Pg15) (Romantic/Thriller)
Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux,
Andre Dussollier
Daily At: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45
Pm
SEEF (II)
1
(Comedy) New
Jason Sudeikis
Daily At: (1.00 Am Thurs/Fri)
2 Penguins Of Madagascar
Adventure) New
Christopher Knights
Daily At: 11.00 Am + 1.00 +
3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + 9.00 +
11.00 Pm
3 Wahed Saaidy (15+)
(Comedy) New
Mohammed Ramadan, Randa
Buhairi, Nermin Maher, inas Al
Najjar
Daily At: 11.45 Am + 1.45 +
3.45 + 5.45 + 7.45 + 9.45 +
11.45 Pm + (1.00 Am Thurs/
Fri)
4 Northmen: A Viking Saga
(15+) (Action/Adventure)
New
James Norton, Ryan Kwanten,
Charlie Murphy
Daily At: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 +
7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 Pm
5 Let The Bullet Flys (15+)
(Action/Comedy) New
Yun-Fat Chow, Wen Jiang, You
Ge
Daily At: 2.30 + 7.00 + 11.30
Pm
6 The Right Kind Of Wrong
(Pg-15) (Comedy/Romantic)
New
Ryan Kwanten, Sara Canning,
Ryan Mcpartlin
Daily At: 11.15 Am + 1.15 +
3.15 + 5.15 + 7.15 + 9.15 +
11.15 Pm
7 Rec 2 (18+) (Horror/Thriller)
New
Jonathand Mellor, Manuela
Velasco, Oscar Zafra
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5.00 + 9.30 Pm
8 The Hunger games:
(Adventure/Action)
Daily At: (1.00 Am Thurs/Fri)
9 John Wick (15+) (Action/
Thriller)
Keanu Reeves, Michael
Nyquist, Alfie Allen
Daily At: 11.00 Am + 4.15 +
9.30 Pm
10 Big Hero 6 (Pg) (Animation/
Chung
Daily At : 11.45 Am + 2.00 +
4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 Pm
11 Happy New Year (Pg-15)
(Hindi/Action/Comedy)
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika
Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan
Daily At: 1.00 + 6.15 + 11.30 Pm
5
2
3
4
(Comedy) New
Jason Sudeikis
Daily At: 10.30 Am + 12.45 +
3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 Pm +
12.00 Mn
The Hunger games:
(Adventure/Action)
Daily At: 11.15 Am + 1.45 +
4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 Pm
Dumb And Dumber To (15+)
(Comedy)
Holden
Daily At: 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 +
7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 Pm
Intersteller (Pg-13)
(Adventure/Action/
Science-Fiction)
Mathew Mc Conaughey,
Anne Hathaway, Jessica
Chastain
Daily At: 10.45 Am + 2.00 +
5.15 + 8.30 + 11.45 Pm
SAAR CINEPLEX
1
2
3
4
(Comedy) New
Jason Sudeikis
Daily At: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 +
7.00 + 9.15 + (11.30 Pm Thurs/
Fri)
Penguins Of Madagascar
Adventure) New
Christopher Knights
Daily At: 11.00 Am + 1.00 +
3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 Pm
The Hunger games:
(Adventure/Action)
Daily At: 12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30
+ 8.00 + 9.00 + (10.30 Pm +
11.30 Pm Thurs/Fri)
Dumb And Dumber To (15+)
(Comedy)
Holden
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3
AL JAZEERA CINEPLEX 3
SEEF (I)
1
Pm Thurs/Fri)
Big Hero 6 (Pg) (Animation/
Chung
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1
2
3
(Comedy) New
Jason Sudeikis
Daily At: 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 +
9.45 Pm + (12.00 Mn Thurs/
Fri)
Penguins Of Madagascar
Adventure) New
Christopher Knights
Daily At: 3.30 + 5.30 + 7.30 Pm
The Hunger games:
(Adventure/Action)
Daily At: 9.30 Pm + (12.00 Mn
Thurs/Fri)
4
4
5
6
AWAL CINEMA
1
2
Ungli (15+) (Hindi/Action/
Thriller/Crime) New
Emraan Hashmi, Kangana
Ranaut, Sanjay Dutt
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Vellimoonga (Malayalam)
Biju Menon, Asif Ali, Nikki
Galrani
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7
8
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1
2
Ithihasa (Malayalam) New
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Vellimoonga (Malayalam)
Biju Menon, Asif Ali, Nikki
Galrani
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DANA CINEMA
1
2
The Drop ( Crime /Drama )
Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace,
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21:00, 23:00, 01:00
Kamel Al Awsaf ( Arabic /
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Amer Monib, Hala Shieha, Ola
9
10
10
11
11
12
Ghanem
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21:45, 00:00
Pudsey The Dog: The Movie (
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David Walliams, Pudsey, izzy
Meikle-Small
10:30, 12:15, 14:00, 15:45, 17:30
Bang Bang ( Hindi / Action /
Thriller )
Katrina Kaif, Hrithik Roshan,
Ron Smoorenburg
19:30, 22:30
Reaper ( Crime / Horror / SciFi / Thriller )
Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones, Jake
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10:30, 14:45, 19:00, 23:15
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01:15
Penguins Of Madagascar –
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Adventure )
Christopher Knights
10:30, 12:15, 14:00, 15:45, 17:30,
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El Hobb Keda ( Arabic /
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Hamada Helal, Dorrah, Mennah
Arafah
11:30, 13:45, 16:00, 18:15, 20:30,
22:45
Penguins Of Madagascar –
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Adventure )
Christopher Knights
11:00, 12:45, 14:30, 16:15, 18:00,
19:45, 21:30, 23:15
gone girl ( Drama / Mysterry
/ Thriller )
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike,
Neil Patrick Harris
10:30,13:15,16:00,18:45,21:30,00:30
How To Train Your Dragon
2 – 2D ( Animation/Action/
Adventure )
Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig,
America Ferrera
10:30, 12:30, 14:30, 16:30, 18:30
gone girl ( Drama / Mystery /
Thriller )
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike,
Neil Patrick Harris
20:30, 23:15
Finding Fanny ( Comedy /
Romance )
Deepika Padukone, Arjun
Kapoor
10:30, 14:45, 19:00, 23:15
Roar ( Hindi / Action / Thriller )
Nora Fatehi, Achint Kaur, Aaran
Chaudhary
12:30, 16:45, 21:00, 01:00
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chemicals deep underground
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economies in the region continue to stagnate.
The report measures available
data on economic freedom in 22
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level of economic freedom are
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tions:
Algeria,
Bahrain,
Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
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Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Tunisia, and UAE. The rankings
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data. The full data sets are available at www.freetheworld.com.
The report, which has been
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based in part or in whole on the
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annual
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countries.
OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri attends a Press conference in Vienna (file photo).
bons trapped between layers
of shale rock. Even if the US
shale production can still hold
out with crude around 60 dollars a barrel, Dembik said that
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suade all the research under
way in shale in Russia and
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BCICAI organises
International conference
Subramanian, merger and
DT News Network
ahrain Chapter of The In- acquisition specialist Sanjay
stitute of Chartered Ac- Chakravarthy and fraud invescountants of India(BCICAI) tigation specialist Chetan Daorganised an international lal. The experts spoke on the
conference yesterday under the strategies that will help bolster
title ‘Together Towards Tomor- the growth of organisations and
row’. It was held at Diplomat economies. 375 finance profesRadisson Blu Hotel under the sionals from around the middle
patronage of Minister of Indus- east attended the event to distry and Commerce Dr. Hassan cuss issues relating to the global
Fakhro. Speakers at the event economic conditions.
Speaking to DT News BCICincluded Infosys ex-chief financial officer and board member AI Chairman Meenakshi SunVenkatraman
Balakrishnan, daram said that the current
motivational speaker Satish volatile global economic conditions poses the greatest of chalMandora,
Emirates
chief Bay.
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view of NBD
the Bahrain
financial officer Suryanaran lenges for organisations. “The
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economic turbulence hasalways
existed, it is not something
new. For organisations, it is not
about avoiding the economic
issues, it is about being prepared for it and having a sound
strategy.” he said.
Charted Accountants play
an important role in organisations as they are long term
planners, he said. “Chartered
accountants always need to
plan for the long term future,
which is not an easy thing to
do because others in the organisation will most likely
focus only on short term results. Therefore chartered ac-
MANAGEMENT
THOUGHTS
Second from left, Mr. Sundaram, fourth from left, Accountants Association President Abbas Al Radhi and other
officials during the inauguration.
countants need to manage the
finances according to what is
best for the long term growth
rather than for short term
profit and convince others in
the organisation about implementing strategies which
focus on the long term.”
Training is expensive to impart as well as to receive.
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together”
The conference which will
conclude today will take place
from 8:45am till 5:00pm at the
same venue.
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BUSINESS
MALAYSIA AIRLINES
LOSSES WIDEN 54 PC
Kuala Lumpur
risis-stricken
Malaysia Airlines said yesterday
its third-quarter
loss widened 54
percent in the wake
of two devastating
air disasters that
have sent its business into a tailspin
and prompted a
government rescue. The company’s net loss for the
three months ending September 30 reached 575.6
million ringgit ($170 million),
expanding from a 373.2 million
ringgit deficit in the same period
last year. The result marks the seventh straight quarterly loss for Ma-
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CURRENCIES
EXCHANGE RATE
COUNTRY
COUNTRY/CURRENCIES
SELL CASH
SELL
SELL DRAFT
REMITTANCE
US DOLLARS
2.6483
2.6455
BRITISH POUND
1.6667
1.6770
EURO
2.0951
2.1061
INDIAN RUPEE
160.5136
161.2903
PHILIPPINE PESO
116.0093
118.9061
BANGLADESH TAKA
194.8558
205.9308
PAKISTAN RUPEE
257.8509
268.8678
SRI LANKAN RUPEE
311.6187
347.8007
SWISS FRANC
2.5019
2.5208
CANADIAN DOLLAR
2.9412
2.9762
QATAR RIYAL
9.6348
9.6395
UAE DIRHAMS
9.7276
9.7276
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
3.0506
3.0788
CHINESE YUAN
15.7480
15.7480
EGYPTIAN POUND
18.7970
18.7970
HONG KONG DOLLAR
20.0723
20.2347
INDONESIAN RUPIAH
29,638.4114 31,635.5584
KUWAITI DINAR
0.7686
0.7686
JAPANESE YEN
298.5075
304.8780
JORDANIAN DINAR
1.8636
1.8692
LEBANESE POUND
3,816.3569
3,816.3569
MALAYSIAN RINGGIT
8.6806
8.7260
MOROCCAN DIRHAMS
20.8768
22.2222
NEPALESE RUPEE
247.5143
258.8521
NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR
3.3356
3.3467
OMANI RIYAL
1.0204
1.0173
SINGAPORE DOLLAR
3.4060
3.4176
SAUDI RIYAL
9.9384
9.9354
SOUTH AFRICAN RAND
27.6243
27.7008
SYRIAN POUND
420.1681
418.4100
THAI BAHT
85.3242
85.6164
TURKISH LIRA
5.6513
-YEMENI RIYAL
542.0348
542.0348
GULF
INTERBANK RATES
1US$
1UK Stg
1SFR
Bahrain
BAHRAIN
0.3770
0.5909
0.3891
0.3207
KUWAIT
Kuwait
0.2855
33.5605
0.2946
0.2429
QATAR
Qatar
0.3849
0.3730
0.3972
0.3274
3.6420
3.5291
3.7585
3.0983
OMAN
Oman
UAE
100 Yen
UAE
3.6730
3.5591
3.7905
3.1246
Saudi
3.7500
3.6338
3.8700
3.1901
SAUDI
laysia Airlines, which already had
struggled to stay competitive even
before the mysterious loss of flight
MH370 and the July 18 shooting
down over Ukraine of flight MH17.
The result
marks the
seventh straight
quarterly loss.
MH370 disappeared with 239
people aboard, while all 298 passengers aboard MH17 were killed.
In a filing to Malaysia’s stock exchange, the airline blamed “the
double impact of the MH370 and
MH17 incidents and the continued
intensified (industry) competition”
for a worsening performance that
also saw operating revenue fall 12
percent to 3.3 billion ringgit. “Malaysia Airlines continues to struggle despite efforts to reduce the
financial bleeding,” it said.
The company’s crisis has
prompted a Malaysian government
bailout. State investment fund
Khazanah Nasional, which owns
around 70 percent of the carrier,
in August announced plans to acquire the remaining shares, de-list
the airline, and try to resuscitate
it. The company would slash 6,000
jobs -- 30 percent of it’s workforce
-- trim its route network, and replace its CEO, Khazanah said,
and it will pump 6 billion ringgit
into the carrier, hoping to bring
it back to profitability. The carrier
US tyre tycoon mocks
‘Communist’ France
Maurice Taylor.
Paris
A
US tyre tycoon yesterday ridiculed
French laws and trade unions that he
said had prevented him from investing in
a stricken factory, saying France should
become “Communist.” Maurice Taylor,
chief executive of Titan International, had
initially expressed interest in taking over
the loss-making Goodyear tyre plant in
Amiens, northern France. But he pulled
out of the deal and explained why to
France Info radio. “You can’t buy Goodyear. Under your law, we have to take a
minimum of 662 or 672 employees. You
can’t do that. The most you could take is
333 ... there’s no business for that plant
now,” said Taylor.
“I tried to tell them all that before but
you guys have got to wake up over there
and tell the unions, ‘Hey if they’re so
smart, they should buy the factory’. “It’s
stupid. It’s the dumbest thing in the world.
France should just become Communist
and then when it goes all bad like Russia did, then maybe you’d have a chance,”
added Taylor. Goodyear announced in
January last year that it was closing the
factory, which employs 1,173 people, after
years of negotiations with unions failed to
come up with a solution to save jobs.
Unions launched a series of legal proceedings against the company, but to no
avail. Taylor, known as “The Grizz” for
his tough talk, has made waves before
for his comments on France. In 2013,
he wrote a letter to the French industrial
renewal minister calling French workers
lazy and overpaid after years of negotiations by Titan to take over the plant had
failed. “They get one hour for breaks and
lunch, talk for three and work for three. I
told this to the French union workers to
their faces. They told me that’s the French
way!” wrote Taylor. The minister at the
time, Arnaud Montebourg, hit back, telling Taylor: “Your extremist insults display
a perfect ignorance of what our country
is about.”
“Be assured that you can count on
me to inspect your tyre imports with a
redoubled zeal,” he added. The closure
of the Amiens plant has aroused passionate debate, culminating in January
when workers held two executives hostage for 30 hours in a case of so-called
“bossnapping.”(AFP)
has controversially been kept aloft
for years by transfusions of public
money while posting huge losses,
with analysts blaming poor management, unwise business decisions, and government meddling.
MH370 inexplicably diverted
from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing
course in March. Malaysia’s government believes it went down in
the Indian Ocean, but no trace has
been found. The government and
airline came under fierce global
criticism over their failure to account for the jumbo jet, a slowfooted response and accusations of
secrecy. Western leaders say MH17
was shot down by pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine. An investigation
is ongoing. Malaysia Airlines previously had a solid safety record.
(AFP)
China hikes gasoline,
diesel consumption tax
Beijing
hina yesterday announced
a tax increase on gasoline
and diesel fuel consumption in
the first such hike since 2009,
state media reported, amid a
steep decline in crude oil prices.
The measure, which takes effect
on Saturday, was announced by
the Ministry of Finance and the
State Administration of Taxation, the official Xinhua news
agency said. China’s consumption tax on gasoline will go
up from the current one yuan
($0.16) per litre to 1.12 yuan and
on diesel from 0.8 yuan per litre
to 0.94 yuan, the report said.
The overall impact of the
move on drivers will be limited
as the tax rise comes as crude
oil prices have fallen. In a separate report, Xinhua said that
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China, the world’s largest net
oil importer, imports nearly 60
percent of its oil needs. Global
oil prices plummeted to fouryear lows on Friday following a
decision by the 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)to hold
output.
OPEC decided Thursday to
maintain its output ceiling at 30
million barrels per day, where it
has stood for three years, sending prices plunging in an oversupplied market. China in 1994
introduced a consumption tax
on consumer goods with a high
energy cost and high pollution
to influence production and
consumption in an environmentally-friendly direction as well as
to promote sustainable economic growth, Xinhua said.(AFP)
Pro-independence Scottish
newspaper proves a hit
London
cotland’s first pro-independence daily newspaper is to
become a permanent fixture
after a successful pilot week in
which it sold 100,000 copies on
a single day, its publishers said
yesterday. The National, a 32page tabloid costing 50 pence
($0.80, 65 euro cents), was
launched on Monday and sold
out its 60,000 print run. Puslishers Newsquest made the move
after their weekly, the Sunday
Herald, saw a surge in sales after becoming the only Scottish
paper to favour independence in
the run-up to the September 18
referendum. Scottish residents
S
voted by 55 percent to 45 percent (two million to 1.6 million)
to remain part of the United
Kingdom.
The editorial in Friday’s copy
said: “Our first edition sold out.
We printed 100,000 copies the
following day, and sales stayed at
a high level. “They have slipped
slightly since -- as sales inevitably do after a launch edition. But
they remain beyond our wildest dreams and are bolstered by
more than 11,000 digital subscriptions. “It’s been an incredible -- if challenging -- week.” The
masthead describes the tabloid
as “the newspaper that supports
an independent Scotland”.(AFP)
JAPAN ABENOMICS
DATA LACKLUSTRE
Hiroshi HIYAMA
Tokyo
J
apan released a string of
lacklustre economic data
yesterday, with inflation hitting its lowest level in a year,
dealing another blow to Tokyo’s attempts to conquer
years of falling prices and tepid growth. The figures come
after Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe called a snap election
for next month and delayed
a sales tax hike after a previous levy increase hammered
spending and pushed the
world’s number three economy into recession. Japanese
consumer inflation came in at
2.9 pc in October compared
with a year earlier, official
data showed, matching market forecasts but slowing from
3.0 pc in September.
Prices mainly rose largely
because Tokyo raised the sales
tax from 5.0 pc to 8.0 pc on
April 1. Adjusted for the hike,
Separate
figures showed
the country’s
unemployment
rate slipped to
3.5 pc.
nationwide core inflation rate
came in at 0.9 pc, against 1.0
pc in the previous month and
its lowest level since October
2013. The weak reading makes
the Bank of Japan’s 2.0 percent
inflation target -- which it initially aimed to hit next year -look increasingly out of reach.
The BoJ shocked markets last
month by saying it would expand its asset-buying stimulus
programme to about 80 trillion yen ($676 billion) annually, as part of Tokyo’s bid to
overcome deflation and kickstart the economy.
“Even despite the BoJ’s surprise move, we maintain our
view that there is a very long
way to go before achieving the
+2.0 percent target,” Credit
Agricole said. The yen weakened further after the reading
with the dollar at 118.21 yen
against 117.74 yen in London
on Thursday. Also yesterday,
figures showed factory production in October edged up
a better-than-expected 0.2 pc
on-month, the second straight
increase, as exports improved.
“It is a positive set of data that
hints at hopes for future re-
A salesclerk (3rd right) of a bag shop shouts at shoppers strolling on the street.
A salesclerk (right) of a kimono shop tries to hand a leaflet to a passer-by.
BUSINESS
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covery in production,” SMBC
Nikko Securities said in a
note.
Separate figures showed the
country’s unemployment rate
slipped to 3.5 pc from 3.6 pc,
while retail sales rose 1.4 pc in
October. However, household
spending fell 4.0 pc on-year,
the seventh successive decline.
“Although real GDP growth
continued to be negative into
July-September and Japan was
in technical recession, demand for labour among firms
is still robust likely thanks to
the waning impact of (the)
consumption tax hike,” said
Marcel Thieliant from Capital
Economics. But “despite the
tight labour market, inflation
continues to moderate... Price
pressure should moderate
further in the near-term, as
the recent plunge in crude oil
prices has yet to be reflected
in the cost of energy imports,”
he added.
April’s tax rise -- designed
to help pay down one of the
world’s largest public debt
mountains -- delivered a body
blow to Abe’s efforts to rev up
growth, just as the long-laggard economy appeared to be
turning a corner.
In response, Abe put off
another hike due in late 2015
and called a snap election for
next month that he described
as a referendum on his policies, although observers said
it was a strategic move to
fend off party rivals ahead of
a leadership vote next year.
Abe’s growth blitz -- dubbed
Abenomics -- was launched in
2012 and calls for big government spending as well as massive monetary easing and an
overhaul of the highly regulated economy.
The cornerstone is the BoJ’s
inflation target, which aimed
to reverse years of falling
prices that gave consumers an
incentive to hold off spending
in the knowledge that goods
would be cheaper in the future. That created a deflationary spiral that held back wage
growth and new hiring as
firms capped their expansion
plans.
Preliminary GDP data this
month showed Japan’s economy shrank 0.4 percent, or at
an annualised rate of 1.6 pc,
in the July-September quarter.
That was well below market
expectations for a 0.5 pc expansion, and followed a 1.9 pc
contraction in the April-June
quarter -- or 7.3 pc at an annualised rate.(AFP)
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BUSINESS
MARKET MAYHEM
US ‘Black Friday’ hits Britain
Robin Millard
London
P
olice blasted stores for
bringing “Black Friday”
to Britain, with the US sales
event descending into chaotic
fist fights as frenzied consumers battled to grab discounted
goods. In scenes of pandemonium around the country,
The sales event
takes place
each year in the
United States the
day after their
Thanksgiving
holiday.
common civility went out the
window as yelling customers
punched it out in a bid to secure reduced-price televisions
and coffee makers. Police in
Manchester said three people
had been arrested as the sales
spiralled “out of control” after
stores in the city in northwest
England opened at midnight.
“The events of last night were
totally predictable and I am
disappointed that stores did not
have sufficient security staff on
duty,” said Greater Manchester
Police Chief Constable Peter
Fahy.
“This created situations
where we had to deal with
crushing, disorder and disputes between customers.”
His deputy Ian Hopkins said
they had to close several outlets of Tesco, Britain’s biggest
retailer. “People have been
trampling on each other and
it’s been akin to a mini-riot
in some of the stores,” he said.
“A lady had her wrist broken,
a member of the public in a
wheelchair had a TV dropped
on them and a security guard
in one of the stores has been
punched.” They urged stores
to learn the lessons for next
year and work with the police
to reduce the risks of disorder.
A Tesco source said: “We will
work with them following this
event to make any improvements for next year.”
Jamie Hook was buying
food at the Stretford Tesco in
Manchester late on Thursday
when “the screaming started”.
“I looked at the massive crowd
to see people climbing over
shelves and displays, staff running for cover, fights breaking
out, stock flying through air,
people breaking through carrying televisions -- and this
was before the sale had even
started,” he said, according
to the BBC.”The lady on the
till I was at was in tears, terrified.” Shaun Thompson, 21,
said he saw a female member
of staff in the store with what
appeared to be a black eye. “It
Cyprus airline bidding in trouble
Nicosia
ypriot President Nicos
Anastasiades
yesterday
called for an investigation into
the Cyprus Airways bidding
process saying he will resign
if found he influenced the
process in any way. The move
comes after press allegations
accused his ex-law firm of representing bidder Ryanair in the
state sale of Cyprus Airways.
Leaked documents, published
by Phileleftheros daily, indicated that the government was
allegedly pursuing negotiations
with Ryanair despite it offering
far less than rejected interested
parties. Although Anastasiades
severed ties with the law firm -which bares his name -- when
he became president in 2013,
his two daughters are employed
there and hold a 50 percent
stake.
Angered over reports implicating him, Anastasiades
urged the attorney general and
auditor general to investigate
the matter. “I want to declare if
the investigations ascertain any
type of intervention whatsoever, by myself or my former law
office in the decisions taken,
I will resign from presidential
office,” Anastasiades said in a
statement. On Thursday the
law firm Nicos Chr Anastasiades & Partners said it had no
connection with Ryanair but it
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had initially agreed to represent
the low budget carrier. But on
September 30 it withdrew its
services “over concerns of conflict of interest” because of the
indirect link with Anastasiades,
it said.
Ireland’s budget airline Ryanair and Greece’s Aegean were
whittled down from an initial
14 suitors when expressions
of interest for Cyprus Airways
were launched in July. The interested parties are reportedly
concerned about a European
Commission investigation to
determine if the Cypriot government breached EU state aid
rules through its support for the
airline. Officials have said there
is a danger the airline could be
forced to close if the EC decides
Cyprus broke the rules by giving it with a 31-million-euro
capital increase and 73-millioneuro rescue loan. The Cyprus
Airways board was working on
a back-up plan which reportedly would see the carrier reduced
to three aircraft and its staff cut
to 230 from the current 560.
The Cypriot government
owns 93 percent of Cyprus
Airways and wants to offload
the airline. The east Mediterranean island’s national carrier
has been selling off assets, including three time slots at London’s Heathrow airport, so it
can keep flying. With a reduced
fleet of six aircraft, the airline
is struggling to survive against
intense competition on its most
popular routes to Greece and
London. Cyprus Airways has
also axed staff and scrapped
routes, but this has failed to
stem losses. The airline posted
a net loss of 55.8 million euros
for 2012, more than double the
net loss of 23.88 million a year
earlier.(AFP)
just went mad. People were
shouting their heads off and
a few minutes after that it exploded,” he said. “People were
ripping covers off the shelves,
they were fighting with each
other, fighting over TVs. “I
have never seen anything like
it in my life. It was quite scary.”
Footage from an ASDA supermarket in Wembley, north-
west London, showed security
staff struggling to contain a
crowd of shoppers grappling
for cut-price televisions. The
sales event takes place each
year in the United States the
day after their Thanksgiving
holiday. The imported event is
expected to be one of Britain’s
busiest shopping days this
year.(AFP)
BIZ
Luxembourg ‘had
no choice’ on tax
Brussels
ew European Commission chief Jean-Claude
Juncker yesterday defended
his country Luxembourg’s
controversial tax deals with
global firms, saying it had
no choice if it wanted to stay
competitive. Juncker survived a no confidence vote
in the European Parliament
on Thursday over revelations
by the “Luxleaks” journalistic investigation this month
showed the tax breaks passed
when he was prime minister
of the tiny duchy. “We had to
diversify our economy, we
had no other choice,” Juncker
said in an interview with several European newspapers
including Belgium’s Le Soir.
Asked what he would do if
confronted with the same
situation, he replied that he
would have “done the same
thing.” “But I would have
paid more attention to these
‘tax rulings’, I would have
changed the law so that the
finance ministry was informed,” he said. Juncker has
previously said that the deals
were done by Luxembourg
tax authorities and had nothing to do with the government, in which he held the
post of finance minister as
well as premier.
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‘No compromise’
in landmark WTO
deal
Malaysia’s Petronas Q2 I
profit slides
Kuala Lumpur
alaysian state energy firm
Petronas said yesterday
its third quarter net profit fell
12.3 percent due to slumping
oil prices and loss on foreign
exchange, warning of further
difficulties ahead. Petronas, the
source of about half of Malaysia’s budget revenue, said net
profit for the three months ending September stood at 15.07
billion ringgit ($4.50 billion),
down from 17.19 billion for the
same quarter last year. Revenue
for the quarter was down 1.3
percent to 80.37 billion ringgit
from 81.41 billion ringgit in the
same period last year, the company said. The dip came as oil
prices took a dive coupled with
M
an “unfavourable” US dollar exchange rate against the ringgit
even though output increased,
mainly from Iraq and Malaysian
fields, Petronas said. Malaysia’s
only Fortune 500 company
said fourth quarter earnings
were expected to be “considerably lower” amid a further
decline in oil prices. Chief Executive Shamsul Azhar Abbas
was quoted by Dow Jones news
wire as saying that Petronas is
reviewing its spending plan and
may cut up to 20 percent of its
capital expenditure next year.
A global oil glut has sent prices
slumping to four-year lows. The
OPEC cartel has refused to cut
production with analysts warning of further falls to come.
BITES
New Delhi
ndia said yesterday that
food security for its millions of poor had been
safeguarded in a landmark
global trade reform deal adopted by the World Trade
Organisation. New Delhi
and Washington struck
an agreement earlier this
month on protecting India’s huge food stockpiles
from punitive measures,
paving the way for the historic customs deal to be adopted Thursday in Geneva
after months of deadlock.
“We have accomplished
this without any concessions, compromise or new
conditions,”
Commerce
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told parliament. The
Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the first major
deal since the WTO’s birth
nearly two decades ago, will
make it easier for goods to
move across borders and
will ease customs red tape.
Economists have estimated
the measures could help
create $1.0 trillion in economic activity and 21 million jobs worldwide. India
had said it would sign the
treaty only after agreement
on the contentious food
security issue was reached
at the WTO -- linking it to
the issue of chronic poverty
in the country of 1.2 billion
people.
BUSINESS
BRAZIL ECONOMY
EXITS RECESSION
Q3 growth 0.1pc
Brasília
razil’s economy grew 0.1
percent in the third quarter compared with the second,
crawling timidly out of recession, the government said
yesterday. The manufacturing
sector in particular, which had
been hard hit by an economic
slowdown, began to grow in
B
It is welcome
news for leftist
President Dilma
Rousseff.
the third quarter, said the Brazilian Institute of Geography
and Statistics. The services sector has also started to expand,
it added. However, compared
with the same quarter last
year, GDP was still down 0.2
pc in the third quarter. Brazil’s
economy is the world’s seventh
largest.
It contracted for two consecutive quarters in the first
half of the year, officially entering recession. The return
to growth in the third quar-
ter, though underwhelming,
is welcome news for leftist
President Dilma Rousseff, who
narrowly won re-election last
month after presiding over
four years of sluggish growth.
Rousseff, who is deeply unpopular in the financial world,
shook up her economic team
Thursday in a bid to revive
market confidence. She named
Joaquim Levy, a bank executive nicknamed “Scissorhands”
for his steely budgetary management, as her finance minister. Levy vowed to rein in the
government’s books and set a
primary surplus target of 1.2
pc of GDP next year.
As of September, Brazil had
managed to save just 0.6pc of
GDP this year. Central bank
chief Alexandre Tombini,
who kept his post through the
shake-up, vowed to tackle inflation that is stubbornly hovering above the official target
ceiling of 6.5 pc. Rousseff, 66,
has struggled to rekindle the
economic magic of her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva, who presided
over strong growth during
his eight-year administration
The new ministers of Finance Joaquim Levy (left) and Planning, Nelson Barbosa (right) give a Press conference
at Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
-- peaking at 7.5 percent in
2010, the year Rousseff was
elected to succeed him. Under Rousseff, Brazil has posted growth of 2.7 pc in 2011,
1.0 pc in 2012 and 2.5 pc last
year. This year, the central
bank is forecasting growth
of just 0.7 pc, it said in September, slashing its previous
India Q2 growth slows to 5.3pc
Penelope Macrae
New Delhi
I
ndia said yesterday that the
economy grew 5.3 percent
from July-September year-onyear, significantly slower than
the previous three months,
stirring hopes of interest rate
cuts to boost investment. The
performance was a little better
than market forecasts of 5.1-pc
expansion in the second quarter of the financial year, but
still a sizeable downturn from
5.7-percent growth in the previous three months. The data
was released days before the
hawkish Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has held its
benchmark lending rate at a
steep eight percent since last
January, meets for its regular
monetary policy review.
The latest figures “build on
the growing case for rate cuts”,
said Shilan Shah, analyst at research house Capital Economics. “There is increasing slack in
the economy, consumer price
inflation has slowed further
than most expected, and the
current account has narrowed
sharply over the past year,” said
Shah. Jumpstarting growth is
key for India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led
his right-wing Bharatiya Janata
Party to a massive electoral win
in May on promises to revive
Asia’s third-largest economy.
India has been mired in its
worst slowdown in two decades.
Growth was 4.7 percent in the
last financial year -- around half
of the near double-digit levels
seen a few years ago -- hit by
high interest rates to curb inflation, a lacklustre global economy and a fall in foreign investment amid corruption scandals
which embroiled the previous
Congress government. The central bank has forecast growth of
5.5 percent this year, slightly below the government’s target of
5.8 percent. These figures may
seem high by the standards of
developed nations, but economists say India needs at least
eight-to-nine percent growth
to create jobs for a ballooning
youth population.
A breakdown of the latest
growth figures showed activity
slowed in most sectors over the
quarter. Notably, growth in the
manufacturing sector softened
forecast of 1.6 pc.The International Monetary Fund also
cut its 2014 growth forecast
for Brazil, from 1.3 pc to 0.3
pc. (AFPW)
Ireland to repay
IMF loans early
Dublin
reland will repay early 9.0
billion euros ($11.22 billion) of its International
Monetary Fund bailout loans
by the end of the year on the
back of a solid recovery, the
finance ministry said yesterday. The repayments represent roughly 40 percent of the
original 22.5 billion euros in
loans received from the IMF
when Ireland entered an EUIMF bailout in late 2010. The
amounts had been due to be
returned by July 2018. “This
transaction alone will save
750-million-euros over the
lifetime of the IMF loans and
further enhances the sustainability of our national debt,”
Finance Minister Michael
Noonan said. Dublin required
approval from the European
Union and its bilateral loan
partners -- Sweden, Denmark
and Britain -- to proceed with
the plan. “It is essential that
we improve our debt sustainability in order to break the
boom and bust cycle of the
past and the lowering of our
debt servicing costs is a significant part of achieving this.
I
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
to just 0.1 percent year-on-year,
down from 3.5 pc expansion in
the previous three months. The
figures also showed a sharp slowdown in investment and net exports. Economic growth is likely
to remain sluggish in the nearterm with industrial production
still moribund, analysts added.
Most economists expect the
RBI, which has vowed to “break
the back” of chronic inflation, to
hold interest rates steady until the
of the next financial year in April.
But some expect the bank to begin lowering rates as early as the
policy meeting on Tuesday.
“There’s a good chance policy will be loosened in the RBI’s
policy review,” said Capital Economics’ Shah. He forecast a
quarter-point cut in the so-called
repo rate at which the RBI lends
money to commercial banks, and
a quarter-point reduction in the
reverse repo rate at which the
RBI borrows from commercial
banks. (AFP)
BIZ
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BITES
Germany
approves
balanced budget
Berlin
ermany signed off
yesterday on its 2015
draft budget which foresees a balanced bottom
line for the country’s public
finances for the first time
since 1969. Lawmakers in
the Bundestag lower house
of parliament voted overwhelmingly to approve the
budget blueprint for next
year which will entail no
new debt, a first in 46 years.
The move was a campaign
pledge by conservative
Chancellor Angela Merkel
in last year’s general election. Finance Minister
Wolfgang Schaeuble said on
public radio Deutschlandfunk that Germany was living up to its responsibility
for future generations and
contributing to sustainable
growth. He later said during
a debate in parliament that
agreeing on balanced budgets with no new debt was
also a “commitment for the
future”. Opposition parties
and some economists have
criticised Berlin’s drive to
achieve the 2015 balanced
budget, claiming it makes
no economic sense and
has a restraining effect on
growth and investment.
G
French PM defends
budget 2015
Copenhagen
rance’s budget is “the
best balance to combine
fiscal rigour and economic
stimulus”, French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls said
yesterday as the EU extended a deadline for the
country to meet deficit requirements. During a press
conference in Copenhagen,
Valls said he thought he
could convince the European Commission not to
sanction Paris for its excessive deficit. Earlier in the
day in Brussels the European Commission postponed
its verdict on the budgets of
France, Italy and Belgium
until March. “The European
Commission has duly recorded this morning in its
notification our fiscal rigour
and our will to implement
the necessary reforms to
improve the functioning
of our country,” Valls said.
“It (the Commission) expects to be able to make a
sharper assessment of our
budget next March. In four
months, we will have the
necessary data, especially
on the implementation of
the budget and the economic situation,” he added.
“We have no doubt that the
European Commission will
consider our budget for
2015, and more widely our
trajectory until 2017.
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A musical extravaganza
Brand Box organised live musical concert, ‘Desert
Temptation 3 – Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy’ in Indian
school yesterday. Musical maestros Shanker
Mahadevan, Eshaan Quereshi and Loy Mendonca,
performed with their full troupe of 15 people for
the first time in Bahrain.
Pics by Muhamed Thasleem
The King
Ministry
Various
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TRIP DOWN THE
MEMORY LANE
WITH CRAFTOUR
gdom opened the CRAFTOUR Exhibition 2014 on November 27, as part of the activities of celebrating Manama, as the capital of Asian tourism in 2014, the Kingdom of Bahrain, under the patronage of the
y of Culture. The exhibition aims to focus on the role of the tourism industry in reviving and enriching local handicrafts through encouraging entrepreneurs in several communities.
countries are participating in this rare event, which will come to an end tonight. This is your last chance to take a historical trip down the memory lane…
Pics by N.R.F.
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Crowe
Crowe ‘in
shock’ after
Phil Hughes’s
death
Sydney
ctor Russell Crowe has
paid tribute to Australian
cricketer Phil Hughes, who
died after suffering a serious
injury while playing.
Hughes passed away at a
hospital here two days after
suffering a serious head injury
during a match and his death
has sparked an outpouring of
grief among cricket fans across
the world.
The “Gladiator” star, who
lives here and owns a Sydney
rugby club, has said on his
official Twitter page that she
was shocked upon hearing of
Hughes’s death, contactmusic.
com.
“Just heard. In shock. My
deep condolences to the family
of Phillip Hughes,” the 50-yearold tweeted on Thursday.
One Direction singer
Harry Styles, singer Billy Ray
Cyrus, actor and model Tyson
Beckford, former cricketer
Shane Warne and actors Kevin
Connolly and Teresa Palmer,
were among others who paid
tribute to Phil Hughes.
A
Lisa
Ce leb s
Hurley gets cosy
with new beau
Depp finds meeting
expectations after
‘Pirates’ tough
A
Mumbai
ndo-Canadian actress Lisa Ray,
who has been endorsing luxury
travel brand InsightVacations,
says she pitches India as a
“Full on” destination for
foreign tourists to visit.
“It is my primary
passion to promote
the image of India and
encourage foreigners to
visit here. While it’s hard to
encompass the complexity
of modern India in a single
phrase, I’ve been using the
refrain ‘Full on’ to describe
the engaging experience
I
Hurley
Los
Angeles
ngelina
Jolie, who
recently gave a hint that
she might give up acting
as she loves to work behind
the camera, has said that
she is not giving up acting
entirely.
The 37-year-old actress
Lisa Ray
likes to
promote
India
A
of India for travellers,” the
42-year-old, who likes to call
herself a “global Indian”, said
in a statement.
During her recent visit to
Australia, which coincided
with the visit of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Lisa stayed
in the same suite where US
President Barack Obama once
resided.
Lisa feels “honoured” that she
was in the same suite and said
“the suite is the most stunning
one in the Intercontinental in
Sydney with a view of the Opera
House from every window”.
Los Angeles
fter a string of
flop films like
“Transcendence” and
“The Lone Ranger”,
actor Johnny Depp
says it is difficult to
live up to the success
of his “Pirates of the
Depp
Caribbean”
film
franchise.
The actor, who portrayed the character of
Captain Jack Sparrow, opened up about his
career in an interview with Details magazine,
reports usmagazine.com.
“It’s like being a dog at the track. They
expect you to live up to some race you
happened to be in and won accidentally.
From that first second, you’re
nothing more than a commodity.
They have expectations of
another ‘Pirates’.
It’s great if
something
works. Boy, that’s
killer. But God, to
have that as your design... it’s ugly, I
think,” the actor said.
A
London
ctress-model Elizabeth Hurley was spotted kissing her new
interest Evgeny Lebedev at a dinner party here.
The 49-year-old managed to bag herself
a dashing new man Lebedev,
a
Russian-born
businessman
while the duo
attended
the Louis
Dundas
Centre dinner
Evgeny
held here at
Mandarin Oriental on
Wednesday,
reports
mirror.co.uk.
Donning a floorlength blue dress with a
plunging neckline, the
mother-of-one bared
eye-catching cleavage
for the evening.
Lebedev, who is
14 years younger
than Hurley, even
seemed to be
tilting her back
for a film-style
smooch.
Jolie might not
be giving up
acting entirely
said during London premiere of her
movie ‘Unbroken’ that it was not a
big dramatic decision but she will
do a few less movies but she
preferred being behind the
camera, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The ‘Maleficent’ star asserted
that she hopes that it will be
a natural transition.
Jolie
Lawrence
Aniston’s fiance
makes her happy
with surprises
Dormer backs
Lawrence over
nude photo leaks
Los Angeles
ctress Jennifer Aniston says her fiance Justin Theroux
loves to surprise her by “flying out of the closet”.
Traditionally, lovers surprise their fiancee with flowers
but, Theroux has found this unique way to impress the
45-year-old actress, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Speaking on TV show “The Talk”,
Aniston said: “He’s my creative
crush because he’s just brilliant
at everything he does.
He’s a wonderful
actor. He’s a
brilliant
comedy
writer
and he’s
also a
beautiful
artist and a director.
He does everything really
well, it drives me crazy.
And he’s a beautiful human
being.
“He makes me laugh
constantly. He loves to surprise
me. He loves to scare me. He
hides in closets for 20 (minutes). It
literally happened last night. We were
shutting down the house. I might get
distracted cleaning up whatever and I
don’t come right away, then I’ll get to
the bedroom and he’ll come flying out
of the closet.”
A
Los Angeles
ctress Jennifer Lawrence’s “The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay-Part 1” co-star Natalie Dormer
has said the incident involving the leak out
of the former’s nude photographs, as
“horrific”.
The 32-year-old has spoken of the
Internet havoc in Nylon magazine’s
December 2014/January 2015
double issue, reports eonline.
com.
“What Jen went through
recently was just horrific.
And I don’t think there’s
any level of fame that
can justify that kind of
invasion into privacy,
not to mention laws
being broken. I mean,
people just need to get
a grip if they think that’s
even halfway acceptable,”
she said.
Earlier in an interview with
Vanity Fair, Lawrence called the
leak a “sex crime” and a “sexual
violation”.
“Anybody who looked at those
pictures, you’re perpetuating a
sexual offense. You should cower
with shame,” the Oscar winner
added.
Dorner
A
Theroux and Aniston
Cate proud of
Watson’s
UN speech
Los Angeles
ctress Cate Blanchett says
she’s so extremely proud of
Emma Watson’s speech on gender
equality at the United
Nations.
“I was so
very
proud
of Emma
Watson’s
speech at
the UN.
It was
A
brilliant,
such
a n
Cate
incredible use of Watson
her airspace, and
really passionate. It was fantastic,”
Blanchett said about Watson in
the latest issue of Porter magazine,
reports eonline.com.
Watson, who was appointed
as the new UN Women
Goodwill Ambassador
earlier in September,
delivered an emotional
speech at the United
Nations headquarters
Saturday to help launch
the ‘HeForShe’ gender
equality campaign.
Emily says Meryl
‘owes’ her ‘big time’
Los Angeles
mily Blunt has revealed that Meryl Streep “owes”
her “big time” as she saved her life.
The 31-year-old actress, who stars in the upcoming
big-screen adaptation of ‘Into the Woods’ with Streep,
said that they were rehearsing a scene where the
65-year-old actress playing the witch was supposed
to jump onto the table with a cape and everything,
Us Magazine reported.
Blunt added that Streep’s foot got caught in
her cape and people around just started to watch
her slowly topple head-first toward the concrete
floor.
The British star, who welcomed daughter Hazel
this past February, continued that director Rob
Marshall and James Corden froze and didn’t move
but she, who was then pregnant, caught her.
John Krasinski’s wife added that she thinks
at some point she should play the Queen of
Versailles and Streep, who owes her,
can be her lowly dressmaker.
E
Emily
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Ripley’s
LAUGH @ LIFE
by John Graziano
Now he fits!
A
man who got so fat he couldn’t
fit on the London Underground
has shed an incredible 16st in just 10
months.
At the beginning of 2014 Andy
Butler, 33, weighed 28st and was so
worried his enormous frame would
get him stuck in a rush hour crush
he’d get up to travel to work three
hours early - to make sure he could
fit on the London underground.
Having conquered bulimia in his
twenties, the pharmaceutical worker
would starve himself of treats before
gorging on them - and watched his
weight balloon to dangerous levels.
But after he contemplated
ordering a taxi to take him on a
100 metre journey last Christmas,
he realised things had gone too
far. On January 1, 2014, he bought
£150 worth of healthy food, started
walking every day and ten months
later has lost a whopping 16st.
YOUR STARS TODAY
ARIES:
20th March 20th April
Emotions may cloud
your thoughts as things
start to heat up in a heavy way,
Aries. In an effort to keep
things light and energetic,
you may be missing the
core of the situation.
LEO:
20th
July - 20th
Aug
Be careful of being
hypocritical, Leo.
You may not want to
disappoint people you
meet, so you end up
stretching the truth to
suit what they want to
hear. You may catch
yourself a minute later
telling someone else
the opposite in order
to protect his or
her estimation
of you.
TAURUS :
20th April - 20th May
Magical events may occur today
in the most unlikely places, Taurus.
Perhaps you’re expecting to see someone in
a certain environment. Even if you don’t
see him or her there, you will end up
meeting at a special event in an
entirely different place.
VIRGO : 20th
Aug - 20th Sept
You could even find
that you’re paralyzed
in the sense that you
begin to question your
current actions or ones
you plan to take in the
future.
SAGITTARIUS :
20th Nov - 20th Dec
Try not to overanalyze your
actions, Sagittarius. If you continue
to pick apart every aspect, you will end up
getting nowhere. This principle applies
to your emotions, too.
GEMINI :
20th May - 20th June
If you find that you aren’t necessarily
thinking like the rest of the group, don’t
panic, Gemini. In fact, this is probably a
good thing. By going along with the crowd,
you may be expected to act a certain
way in some situations.
LIBRA:
20th Sep - 20th Oct
You may have to make an
important decision today, Libra.
It has come to the point where
someone draws a line in the sand and
challenges you to cross it. The conflict
today is between your head and your
gut. Don’t limit your choices to
two. There are always
compromises.
CAPRICORN:
20th Dec - 20th Jan
Your actions
may go against your
rational thinking, but this
isn’t necessarily a bad thing,
Capricorn. Thoughts and feelings
are apt to aggressively clash
today, but that doesn’t mean
you have to be a victim
of the resulting
demolition.
CANCER:
20th June - 20th
July
Your words may fall
sharply on someone’s
ears today, so be aware
of the impact you can have,
Cancer. However, this doesn’t
mean that you need to
dilute your message with
lies in order to avoid
the true topic of
conversation.
SCORPIO :
20th Oct - 20th
Nov
As you take another
step upward today,
Scorpio, you may realize
that there’s a large part of the
mountain you hadn’t accounted
for before. Perhaps this steep
portion of the climb wasn’t
visible from below when
you started the trip.
AQUARIUS:
20th Jan - 20th
Feb
You may have the perfect
plan all laid out, Aquarius. You’ve
communicated to the right people,
you’ve traveled to the appropriate spots
to gather data, and you have all your
resources in line. Don’t let this
block you from your
dreams.
PISCES:
20th Feb - 20th
Mar
What you think may
happen today is apt
to be the opposite of
what actually happens,
Pisces. It could be
that you have a strong
mental picture of
how things should
proceed, but end
up taking a
completely
different
action.
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CROSSWORD
Across
1- Had in mind; 6- Light ___; 11- Roadie’s burden; 14Defense covering; 15- Rich cake; 16- Cry ___ River;
17- Concert venue; 18- One who arrives tardy; 20- AOL
alternative; 21- Fellow; 23- Minimal; 24- Little bits; 26Thicket; 28- Gasoline; 30- Thick-skinned charger; 31- One
on slopes; 32- Buy alternative; 33- Actress Joanne; 36Meets with; 37- Alpaca’s cousin; 38- “Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes” author; 39- NFL scores; 40- Freedom from war;
41- Temporary stop; 42- Person of exceptional holiness;
43- One who belongs to a group; 44- Dirty rat; 47- Unit
of weight in gemstones; 48- Syrian president; 49- Sworn
thing; 50- D-Day craft; 53- Having long antennae; 56- Shed
___; 58- Bar order; 59- Au contraire!; 60- Dated; 61- ___
Rosenkavalier; 62- Boarded; 63- Actress Spacek;
Yesterday’s solution
Down
1- Polite address; 2- Makes a boo-boo; 3- Courtesies; 4The French word for “no”; 5- Farm vehicle; 6- World book;
7- Work up lather; 8- This was produced by Van Gogh, for
example; 9- Mineral suffix; 10- Lean back; 11- Capital of
Jordan; 12- 1980s attorney general; 13- Social gathering;
19- Vintner’s prefix; 22- Actor Linden; 25- Raw materials;
26- Disgrace; 27- Galileo’s birthplace; 28- Attention-getter;
29- Barely managed, with “out”; 30- Hit back, perhaps;
32- Grassy plain; 33- Certainly; 34- “Titanic” heroine; 35Manipulator; 37- Hula hoops?; 38- Buddhist monk; 40Something added unnecessarily; 41- Possibly; 42- Glitch;
43- Floor covering; 44- Cobb, e.g.; 45- ___ Mio; 46- Moore’s
TV boss; 47- Ecclesiastical rule; 49- Estimator’s phrase;
51- Impudence; 52- Deuce topper; 54- Dove sound; 55Baseball’s Mel; 57- Mai ___;
BEETLE BAILEY
S U D O KU
R
IN HISTORY
Why are some people
Hoy en la Historia
November 29, 1954
Ellis Island, through which over
20 million immigrants passed into
the United States from 1892, was
closed. The restored building was
reopened as a museum in 1990
1394: The Korean king Yi Seong-gye
moved his capital from Kaesŏng to
Hanyang, now known as Seoul
1814: The Times of London became
the first newspaper to be printed
with steam power, replacing the
much slower hand presses
1972: Pong, the first commercially
successful video game, was launched
2004: China signed an agreement
with the 10 ASEAN nations, creating
the world’s largest free trade zone
Picture: Associated Press
© GRAPHIC NEWS
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mosquito magnets ?
t’s
an
unfortunate
fact that some
people seem to
be
mosquito
magnets
while
others are rarely
bitten. The two
most important
reasons
a
mosquito
is
attracted to you
have to do with
sight and smell.
Their first mode of
search for humans
is through vision.
Only
female
mosquitoes that are looking
to lay eggs bite. This is because
they need the nutrients in
blood to lay their eggs.
Once the mosquito keys
in on a promising visual
target, it then picks up on
smell. The main attractor is
your rate of carbon dioxide
How to play:
Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column
down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.
Yesterday’s solution
production with every
exhale you take.
Those
with
higher
metabolic rates produce more
carbon dioxide, as do larger
people and pregnant women.
Though carbon dioxide puts
a person on the mosquito’s
radar, there are other reasons
such as sweat, dark clothing,
perfume and scented lotions
and higher body temperature,
that the mosquito is attracted
with. Research has also
shown that consuming
alcohol will make you a more
likely target for a mosquito
because ethanol in alcoholic
drinks is secreted in sweat,
and attracts mosquitoes.
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Ukraine Hungry
Police swoop on 80 airports in global ticket fraud crackdown
TICKET CREDIT
CARD FRAUD
Jan Hennop
The Hague
P
olice have arrested 118
people in an unprecedented
globally-coordinated swoop on
plane ticket credit card fraud, a
billion-dollar organised crime
industry, officials said yesterday. Operation Global Airport Action at 80 airports in
45 countries was coordinated
from Europol’s headquarters
in The Hague, Interpol in Singapore and Latin American
agency Ameripol in Bogota.
Police teams at airports from
London to Manila arrested suspects who had used fraudulent
credit card details to buy plane
tickets as they queued to board
or as they landed at their destination, said Europol chief Rob
Wainwright. “It’s a billion-dollar a year problem for the airline industry... and the volume
of traffic is huge,” Wainwright
told AFP during the two-day
operation on Wednesday and
Thursday.
“In addition, millions of innocent citizens are affected
through the misuse of their
credit card data,” he added. “We
had to design a global operation to put us into any kind of
position to stop the guys from
boarding the flights or indeed
to apprehend them on arrival.”
Inside Europol’s fortress-like
headquarters, experts from
credit card companies, includ-
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Bogota
Colombian court has issued the country’s first conviction under a racial harassment law after a local official
likened black and indigenous people to a “cancer,” prosecutors said yesterday. Councilman Fernando Antonio Delgado
made the inflammatory remarks during an August 2012
meeting and was the first person to be convicted under a
2011 anti-discrimination law, according to prosecutors.
“Black people, displaced people and indigenous people are
a cancer affecting national and global governance,” the official, from the town of Marsella in the western Risaralda
department, had said. Colombia is home to a diverse mix of
ethnic groups, but Afro-Colombians and indigenous people
have long suffered significant discrimination. Delgado now
faces possible jail time of 12-36 months, though this could
be set even higher because he is a public official. He may also
be stripped of his office. Various community members welcomed the ruling. Jorge Enrique Machado, a representative
for local indigenous people, said it “refutes the arguments of
those who were saying this was only an opinion.”
A
‘VIP’ Madonna wins new
Malawi president’s praise
ing Visa and American Express,
as well as airline representatives
and police analysts worked
closely together. Europol gave
AFP rare access to their European Cybercrime Centre EC3
during the operation.
“We never realised how
big the problem with fraud in
the airlines was until we approached the airlines and asked
for their cooperation,” Marcin
Skowronek, one of the crime
centre’s investigators, told AFP.
Behind him, a giant screen
tracks flights across Europe,
some of them carrying suspect
passengers heading for arrest
after Europol passes on their
details to national police. “We
have a team of around 20 officers standing by at (London)
Heathrow as we speak,” said
Skowronek. Another screen
shows arrest updates. “Miami
(to) London Heathrow, American Airlines, 1 PAX (passenger)
arrested, 11,000 euros fraud,”
reads one message.
Europol said in total more
than 281 suspicious transactions
were reported over the two days.
Following their arrest, fraudsters’
real identities are checked against
Europol’s own crime databases.
“We’ve had lots of hits today,”
said a Europol analyst who
asked not to be named for security reasons, adding that many
of those arrested are also want-
of law, it launches the process
for parliament to examine the
issue. The next step would involve a parliamentary committee, which would have to
approve the proposed change
before it goes to parliament for
a final vote. Saarela said however that there was “no doubt”
that it would go through. Finland’s Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, who supported the
initiative, described it as an
example of people power. “It’s a
sign of civic activism and indicates that Finnish law is heading in the same direction as
the rest of the Nordics and the
Western world on this sensitive
and difficult question,” he told
YLE.
Although the proposal was
rejected twice by the parliament’s legal committee, an
Lilongwe
op diva Madonna met Malawi’s new president yesterday
after her VIP status was restored in the country where
she adopted two children but then fell foul of the former
government. President Peter Mutharika hailed Madonna for
her charity work in the poor southern African nation, saying “my government has always been grateful for the passion
Madonna has for this country.” It was Madonna’s first visit
in more than a year after she was stripped of her VIP status
by former president Joyce Banda amid controversy over the
cancellation of her plans for an academy for girls. “Her VIP
status has been restored,” presidential press secretary Frederick Ndala told AFP. Mutharika said the singer’s passion was
directed “especially towards addressing poverty and hardships endured by Malawi’s orphans and vulnerable children
through her charity Raising Malawi”. Madonna has adopted
two children -— Mercy James and David Banda -- from the
country, which officially has more than a million orphans
and vulnerable children. “During our discussion, Madonna
displayed much commitment in helping to build more classrooms in schools across Malawi,” said Mutharika, who described himself as “a fan of her music”. He thanked her for
honouring her promise to bring her two adopted children
along for the week-long visit.
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Terminal Two at Heathrow Airport west of London.
ed for other crimes. “In many
cases, the credit card fraud is
linked to other serious crimes
like drug smuggling, illegal immigration and human trafficking for sex exploitation.” Europol director Wainwright said
the operation, unprecedented
in scale, took four months to
put together and so could not
be mounted continuously.
“This is a fantastic example of
the police working with private
industry to protect the consumer,” he said. “It shows the value
of this kind of operation led by
international police organisations... that really can crack
down on all aspects of modern
organised crime.”(AFP)
Finland towards legalising gay marriage
Helsinki
inland voted yesterday to
consider a new law to legalise same-sex marriage in a
victory for campaigners who
gathered thousands of signatures to force parliament to
examine the issue. The Finnish parliament approved the
“citizens’ initiative” proposal
by 105 votes to 92, paving the
way for a gender neutral marriage law in the country -- the
last in the Nordic region to still
outlaw gay marriage. Anna
Saarela, who led the campaign,
told AFP that she felt “pure
joy” after the vote. “Finland is
the last Nordic country where
homosexual couples are not allowed to marry. It’s a question
of human rights,” she said.
While the vote will not automatically result in a change
Colombia issues first
conviction for racist remarks
Cop at centre of Ferguson
case to leave force
Washington
he Missouri police officer who killed an unarmed black
teen sparking months of protests in the city of Ferguson
will never return to policing, his lawyer said. Darren Wilson is currently in discussions with the Ferguson, Missouri
police department on the terms and conditions of his departure, attorney Neil Bruntrager said this week. “There’s no
way in the world he can go back to being a police officer,” the
lawyer said. “It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,”
Bruntrager said of Wilson’s departure. Wilson shot and killed
18-year-old Michael Brown in August claiming he acted in
self-defence. The shooting set off days of racially-charged
protests that erupted again this week after a grand jury on
Monday announced that Wilson would not be charged over
the fatal shooting. Bruntrager told CNN that Wilson, who
has said his conscience is clear, could simply not go back to
work given the outrage over the case. “The first day he would
be back on the street something terrible would happen to
him or to someone that would be working with him,” he told
CNN. “The last thing he wants is to put other police officers
at risk,” the attorney added.
T
Supporters celebrate outside the Finnish Parliament.
intense campaign in recent
weeks helped increase support to bring Finland in line
with nearly a dozen European
countries. But some lawmakers were still deeply opposed.
“This is a catastrophe for Finland,” said Pentti Oinonen, a
member of parliament for the
nationalist The Finns party,
which opposed the change.
(AFP)
police
hate speech
leaflets
BombKenya
blasts
hitprobe
mosque
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UKRAINE HUNGRY
Cut-off pensioners slowly starving in rebel-held Ukraine
Donetsk
ina Nikiforovna, a pensioner in the rebel-held
city of Donetsk in eastern
Ukraine, took up begging recently. “I never thought I’d live
long enough to know such
shame,” she says, but she needs
pills for her heart condition
and after several months without receiving her pension, she
saw no alternative. Hundreds of
thousands of pensioners in the
pro-Russian east of Ukraine,
already caught up in seven
months of conflict between
government and rebel forces,
have lost their only source of
income. This month, the government in Kiev officially cut
off rebel-held areas from all financial support, including welfare payments and pensions.
Then they stopped postal and
banking services.
“With this decision, the
Ukrainian authorities have
made a difficult situation even
worse,” said Evgeny Shibalov,
a charity volunteer that helps
distribute aid to people in the
region. Most of the 650,000
pensioners in these areas have
not received any money from
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the government since August.
But the new rules mean they
must now produce papers saying they have left the rebel zone
and live in a government-controlled area. That has quickly
bred a rash of corrupt middle
men offering fake residency
documents. The going rate is
around 500 hryvnias (25 euros,
$31) -- a sizeable chunk out of
a monthly pension of just 1,670
hryvnias.
“It’s already been over a
month since I went to Kramatorsk to try to get the documents for my pension. And
now, I have to queue again in
the cold and I’m not sure anything will come of it,” said Ekaterina Savenko, 70. She was one
of around a hundred people
queueing outside Donetsk railway station on a recent morning, hoping to get hold of a
ticket and then reach somewhere where she could buy papers proving she was internally
displaced. Newly confirmed
prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk places the blame for this
“humanitarian
catastrophe”
squarely at the Kremlin’s door
-- saying Russia has fomented
Donetsk disconnected.
and supported the separatist
uprising in the east.
But that is little consolation to the thousands who are
housebound or lack the money
to travel outside rebel areas.
“Just in Donetsk, there are
nearly 30,000 people who can’t
move or get any help from their
families. Many are lacking the
most essential medicines. They
find themselves today on the
edge of survival,” said Shibalov,
the charity worker. The government says no one has died
of hunger on its watch, but it
has no figures for what is happening in rebel areas. Up to
now, most have scraped by with
the help of neighbours and hu-
Namibians cast ballots in Africa’s first e-vote
Windhoek
amibians voted yesterday in a general election
billed as Africa’s first e-vote,
with the ruling party expected
to retain power it has held since
since independence. As the
sun set over the capital Windhoek, long queues could still
be found at several polling stations around the capital. Voters
waited patiently, shielding their
heads from the last rays of the
desert sun with newspapers,
hats and umbrellas. Police said
there were no reports of violence. The first results are expected to trickle in sometime
in the early hours of Saturday
morning, with final results
coming as soon as 1900 GMT
on Saturday.
Polling began at 0500 GMT
across the country, with voters
standing in long lines before
daybreak including some firsttime “born free” voters -- those
born after Namibia gained independence from South Africa
in 1990. “It’s a rich country with
poor people, so I hope there is
more balance,” said 43-year-old
Elias while waiting to cast his
vote. The ruling South West
Africa People’s Organisation
-- better known as SWAPO
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manitarian aid. It is no longer
rare to see groups of old people
egging outside supermarkets
and pharmacies. “They are
letting us die. No one is able
to tell us when all this will be
over and how much longer
we must live with this hunger,” said 76-year-old Tatiana
Solovyeva in the town of Ma-
MH17 remains arrive
in Netherlands
Eindhoven, Netherlands
ix more coffins carrying
body parts of victims from
downed Malaysia Airlines flight
MH17 arrived in the Netherlands from Ukraine yesterday,
with nine victims of the July
disaster still unidentified. A
Dutch Air Force C-130 transport plane arrived at an airfield
in the southern city of Eindhoven after leaving Kharkiv in
eastern Ukraine. The coffins
were loaded into six hearses at
a ceremony attended by Dutch
Prime Minister Mark Rutte,
before heading for a forensic
S
A polling station supervisor checks the ID card of Namibian opposition party Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
(DTA) president McHenry Venaani after casting his vote.
-- was forged from the embers
of the anti-colonial and antiapartheid struggle and has won
every election in the 24 years
since Namibia’s independence.
Ahead of election day, foreign
minister and senior SWAPO
party official Netumbo NandiNdaitwah told AFP victory was
inevitable this time around as
well.
“SWAPO is going to win.
There is no ‘if ’, SWAPO is going
to win,” she said. Stations were
due to close at 1900 GMT after
14 hours of voting. Around 1.2
million Namibians are eligible
to cast their ballots at nearly
4,000 electronic voting places
across the vast desert nation.
AFP.
kiyivka, just outside Donetsk.
“I don’t have any family, I
live only on my pension, but
now I don’t have it anymore.
“I asked for help from my
neighbours, some miners.
But now they are not getting
their salaries either. How can
we go on living like this?” she
said. (AFP)
research facility in Hilversum
where the process of identifying
the victims is taking place. The
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777
was blown out of the sky on July
17 over Ukrainian rebel-held
territory, killing all 298 people
on board, including 193 Dutch
citizens. The Dutch-led probe
team has so far identified 289 of
the victims and is set to transport the wreckage of the plane
by road to the Netherlands for
further investigation. But nine
victims remained unidentified
as recovery work at the crash
site shut down for the winter.
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Sarkozy tipped to win party’s vote
BOMB BLASTS HIT
MOSQUE IN KANO
At least 35 people died - official
Kano
D
ozens of people are feared
dead after three bomb
blasts near one of the biggest
mosques in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, in an attack
Amir had urged
northerners to
take up arms
against Boko
Haram
that bore the hallmarks of Islamist militants Boko Haram.
Witnesses said heavy smoke
could be seen billowing into
the sky from a long distance
away while rescue operations
were under way at the bomb
site, with the injured and dead
being taken away from the
scene.
“Two bombs exploded, one
after the other, in the premises
of the grand mosque seconds
after the prayers had started,”
Aminu Abdullahi told Agence
France-Presse. He said a third
bomb went off nearby.
At least 35 people died, a
deputy police commissioner
told reporters.
Hajara Tukur, who lives
nearby, said the police began
firing weapons in the chaos that
followed the blasts, as worshippers began running for safety.
The mosque is next to the
palace of the emir of Kano, the
second highest Islamic authority in Africa’s most populous
country, although the Amir
himself, Lamido Sanusi, was
not present.
Preaching at the grand
mosque last week, the Amir
urged northerners to take up
arms against Boko Haram, and
cast doubt on the military’s
ability to protect civilians and
end the insurgency.
Nigeria is home to more than
80 million Muslims, most of
whom live in the north.
Sanusi, who was named emir
earlier this year, is a prominent
figure in his own right, having
previously served as the chief
of Nigeria’s central bank, where
he spoke out against government fraud.
People gather at the site of a bomb attack in Kano, Nigeria.
Rank of Kim Jong-un’s sister revealed China bans wordplay to control pun
F
Beijing
rom online discussions to
adverts, Chinese culture is
full of puns. But the country’s
print and broadcast watchdog
has ruled that there is nothing
funny about them.
It has banned wordplay on
the grounds that it breaches the
law on standard spoken and
written Chinese, makes promoting cultural heritage harder
and may mislead the public –
especially children. The casual
alteration of idioms risks nothing less than “cultural and linguistic chaos”, it warns.
Chinese is perfectly suited
to puns because it has so many
homophones. Popular sayings
and even customs, as well as
jokes, rely on wordplay.
But the order from the State
Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television says: “Radio and tele-
vision authorities at all levels
must tighten up their regulations and crack down on the
irregular and inaccurate use of
the Chinese language, especially the misuse of idioms.”
Programmes and adverts
should strictly comply with the
standard spelling and use of
characters, words, phrases and
idioms – and avoid changing
the characters, phrasing and
meanings, the order said.
Moscow
ussia yesterday successfully tested its new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental missile, designed
to carry nuclear warheads,
the defense ministry said in a
statement.
It said the nuclear submarine Alexander Nevsky fired
the missile from under wa-
ter in the Barents Sea and it
landed on a military training
ground in Russia’s far eastern
peninsula of Kamchatka, as
planned The 12-metre-long
(39.4 feet) weapon is intended
to become the cornerstone of
Russia’s nuclear forces.
The last test was successfully carried out in September after the development of
Bulava, or Mace, had been
delayed by numerous failed
launches.
President Vladimir Putin
said after the previous test
that Russia must maintain its
nuclear deterrent to counter
growing security threats. Ties
between Moscow and the West
have hit new lows over the
crisis in Ukraine.
Madrid
en African migrants managed to scale the border
fence between Morocco and
the Spanish enclave of Melilla
in broad daylight yesterday, a
day after 500 tried to storm the
barrier.
There have been more than
60 attempts on the seven-
metre high fence around the
tiny Spanish outpost this year,
mostly at night, according to
officials.
“Around 16 migrants tried to
get over the fence in the northern zone and 10 succeeded,” a
spokeswoman for Melilla’s prefect said, before they were taken
to an immigration centre.
Around 500 migrants, organised into small groups, tried to
approach the heavily-guarded
frontier on Thursday but were
pushed back by Moroccan
police.
As many as 15,000 migrants
have tried to get into the Spanish enclave since the beginning
of the year.
Russia test fires submarine missile
R
Kim Jong-Un visits the Sinchon Museum of United States War Atrocities in a photograph released this
week.
Soul
N
orth Korea revealed the
official title of Kim Jongun’s younger sister, who is
widely tipped to become a
close and influential aide to
the young leader.
Kim Yo-jong, believed to be
26, made her first public appearance during the funeral
of her father and longtime
ruler Kim Jong-il in December
2011. Since then she has occasionally been seen accompa-
nying her brother to political
events and on his “field guidance trips”, but without any
specific title attached to her
name.
That changed when the
North’s official KCNA news
agency listed her as a “vice department director” in the central committee of the ruling
Workers’ party.
She was accompanying her
brother on a trip to a cartoon
film studio founded by their
grandfather and the North’s
founding president, Kim Ilsung. During the visit, Kim
Jong-un urged animators to
produce works that are “true
to the intention of the party”.
The Kim family has ruled
the reclusive, impoverished
state for more than six decades
with an iron fist and a pervasive personality cult. North
Korea watchers have speculated that Kim Yo-jong may end
up playing the same leadership
supporting role as her powerful aunt, Kim Kyong-hui.
Migrants scale Spain’s fence
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WORLD
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SARKOZY TIPPED TO
WIN PARTY’S VOTE
He intends to lead France in 2017
Paris
O
n the front pages in newspaper kiosks near the opposition UMP party headquarters, there is a strange sense of
deja vu. Ten years ago – on 28
November 2004 – a desperately ambitious politician by
the name of Nicolas Sarkozy sat
in a fine leather chair behind a
big desk and took control of the
then ruling centre-right party.
Nobody believed the permanently agitated “Super Sarko”,
who dreamed constantly of being president – and not, as he
famously claimed, “only when
I’m shaving each morning” –
would sit still for long. They
Nicolas Sarkozy.
were right. Within three years
he was in the Elysée Palace.
Yesterday, a decade on and
just two and a half years after
he suffered a bruising defeat at
He intends to
lead France in
2017
the hands of François Hollande,
Sarkozy is tipped to win the
leadership vote of the UMP’s
268,000 card-carrying members and to slide once more
into the same seat. Again, there
is little doubt he intends to use
it to make another bid to lead
France in 2017.
There are three candidates in
tomorrow’s election. But in the
modern glass and white vinyl
foyer of the party HQ on Friday it was an image of Sarkozy,
in profile, gazing statesmanlike
into the distance under the slogan “La France Forte” (Strong
France) – a poster from his
ill-fated 2012 presidential campaign – that greeted visitors.
Opinion polls give Sarkozy,
59, a convincing victory, with
more than 60 per cent of votes
against 31pc for former minister Bruno Le Maire, 45, and 5%
for outsider Hervé Mariton, 56.
Mass animal sacrifice goes ahead
Kathmandu
illions of devotees attended a mass animal sacrifice
in Nepal yesterday, despite efforts by animal rights activists
to end the practice.
The organisers of the Gadhimai festival, which is held
in Bariyarpur, near the border
with India, claimed about five
million worshippers came to
sacrifice tens of thousands of
animals, including buffaloes,
goats and birds, as an act of
gratitude to the Hindu goddess.
However, in a sign that the
campaign to end the practice
M
may have had some impact,
the number of buffaloes killed
dropped to about 5,000, half
the number slaughtered when
the festival was last held five
years ago.
“The numbers went down
because the Indian court
banned the ferrying of animals
from India to Nepal,” said Ram
Chandra Shah, chair of the
Gadhimai temple management
committee. “The animal rights
activism has had some effect.”
However, he said that although
the numbers sacrificed have decreased, the worshippers are as
enthusiastic as ever. “More people are still coming from India
and Nepal, so the final numbers
will be very high,” said Shah.
Thousands of buses, tractors
and carts packed with families
cradling goats and birds for
the sacrifice blocked the small
dusty road leading to the Gadhimai temple. Huge crowds
massed around the temple
to receive a blessing, while a
constant stream of pleas from
desperate parents who had lost
their children blared out from
the public address system.
For most festivalgoers the
UK tells EU to curb migrant welfare
London
rime Minister David Cameron could campaign for
Britain to leave the European
Union if it stops him restricting EU migrants’ access to
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David Cameron
his country’s welfare system,
he hinted yesterday, but said
he was confident it wouldn’t
come to that.
In a speech designed to
breathe new life into his cam-
paign to be re-elected in May,
Cameron set out a blueprint
for restricting EU migrants’
access to welfare benefits but
stopped short of proposing
quotas on numbers or demanding Britain be allowed to
halt inflows if it felt too many
people were coming.
Cameron’s aides have floated such ideas in the press in
recent months, but have seen
them decisively shot down by
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel who has made clear
she won’t allow the EU’s freedom of movement of worker
rules to be diluted.
Instead, he said he wanted
employed EU migrants to
wait four years before being
allowed to access welfare ben-
event is a special family occasion; a chance to thank the goddess, but also to shop for knickknacks, enjoy the fairground
rides and share a picnic.
The climax of the day is the
killing of thousands of buffaloes in a huge compound surrounded by a high wall. Hundreds of men, especially chosen
for the task, walk among the
animals, holding long curved
machetes above their heads,
and then decapitate the buffaloes with a blow to the back of
the neck.
efits, and for unemployed EU
migrants not to be eligible for
any help.
Cameron said his plans
would need EU treaty change,
a step other EU leaders have
baulked at, but it wasn’t immediately clear why treaty
change would be needed. The
speech drew a distinctly calm
reaction from EU powers
who were relieved Britain had
shelved plans to tinker with
freedom of movement.
With polls showing immigration is voters’ top concern,
Cameron is under pressure to
get tough on the issue. Many
of his Conservative lawmakers fear the rise in popularity
of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which
this month won its second
seat in parliament, threatens
their re-election chances.
The number of buffaloes killed at Gadhimai festival fell to about 5,000.
Japan military chief urges
early pact with China
Tokyo
apan’s highest-ranking military officer yesterday urged
an early start to a “crisis management” mechanism with
China amid conflicting claims
to a group of tiny East China
Sea islands.
Relations between China and
Japan, the world’s second- and
third-largest economies, have
also been strained by the legacy
of Japan’s wartime occupation
of its larger Asian neighbour.
Patrol ships and fighter
jets from both countries have
shadowed each other regularly
near the uninhabited islands,
prompting fears an accidental collision or other incident
could escalate into a larger
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conflict.
Chinese President Xi Jinping
and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe agreed this month
to start work on maritime crisis
management. Such talks have
been halted since Japan nationalised three of the disputed islands in September 2012.
“It would allow communication between people at the
scene. That’s significant,” Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, chief
of the Japanese Self-Defence
Forces’ Joint Staff, said.
“The communication mechanism covers both the navies
and air forces. Enabling such
communication would be a
great step forward in avoiding
an unexpected situation.
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requires experienced Personnel for QA/ QC, PRODUCTION,
OPERATOR and OTHER POSITIONS. Email CV: apply@
tmsbahrain.com and bahrainblockfactory@gmail.com
...................................................
Required For a Grade A construction company: 1. CIVIL
ENGINEER- Diploma with 8
to 10 years Buildings Experience, should have valid Bahrain
Driver’s License, knowledge of
AutoCAD preferred. 2. CIVIL
FOREMAN experienced in road
projects. Please send your CV
to khalid@akjcont.net
...................................................
Urgently Required SITE ENGINEER for high rise building
project with 5 - 10 years experience. Please send CV to Email:
nasser.towers14@gmail.com
...................................................
Urgently Required FEMALE
BEAUTICIAN for ladies Salon.
Preference given to candidates
experienced in hair treatment,
hair cutting & facial. Visa available. Send CV with latest photograph to salonad.14@gmail.
com
...................................................
Interior Design Company offers
two positions: (1) ARCHITECT/
INTERIOR DRAFTSMAN expert in AutoCAD, SketchUp, and
Revit. Minimum 6 years experience. (2) VISUALIZER expert
in photorealistic 3D renderings.
Email CV to bahdintjob@gmail.
com
...................................................
Alsaleh Manpower agency looking for: NAIL TECHNICIAN,
SPA THERAPIST, BARBERS,
HAIRSTYLIST, ACCOUNTANT
AND SALESLADIES. Candidates with minimum 2 years
GCC experience, send CVs to:
alsalehrecruitment@gmail.com
...................................................
Restaurant is urgently looking for SECURITY OFFICERS,
Valet Parkers and Receptionist
(Bahrainis only). Email us your
CV at management@tradervics.
com.bh
...................................................
NUTRITIONIST Required with
Bachelors’ qualification and 5
years experience for a well reputed centre. Email CV: dietcenter96@gmail.com
...................................................
PROJECT MANAGER, CIVIL
ENGINEER, QUANTITY SURVEYORS urgently required for
Grade ‘A’ Contracting Company. Email: constjobs12@gmail.
com
...................................................
Experienced DRIVER required
for family. Salary BD125/- +
visa + accommodation. Tel.
39464542,
email:
dawnmoon2002@yahoo.com
...................................................
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
AND HEAVY / LIGHT DUTY
DRIVERS for reputed mineral
water company. Young, presentable with good communication skills & valid driving license
may forward their CV to job.
man@batelco.com.bh
...................................................
Urgently Required for reputed
Auto Service Centre: (1) PET-
BUSINESS FOR SALE
An established children’s
rides business – 140
coin operated machines
currently
contracted
to 11 locations across
the kingdom with great
potential for expansion.
A
low
maintenance
investment
with
little
overheads.
Interested
parties should contact
hrm@bflc.com.bh or
call 17292973 for more
information.
ROL MECHANIC. (2) AUTO
ELECTRICIAN. (3) DENTER/
PAINTER. Must have experience in German, Japan &
American cars. (4) BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
OFFICER.
Salary negotiable. Sponsorship
available. Email: autoservicesjobs@gmail.com
...................................................
Altoufic Recruitment Company
needs urgently for Qatar SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (Indian Nationality) with
perfect Salary / Email: altoufic@
live.com
...................................................
Reputed Company is looking
for experienced SALESMAN,
& Bahraini Receptionist. Send
resume to hr2@cihbahrain.com
...................................................
Urgently required TEACHER
ASSISTANCE for nursery, visa
available, transport, salary BD
140. send email: lkpschool@
yahoo.com
...................................................
Pizza Chain urgently needs
Staff for local transfer: ITALIAN
FOOD CHEFS, COOKS, BAKERS, PIZZA MAKERS, DELIVERYMEN (motorbike/ car).
Send your CV and information
on info.digin@gmail.com
...................................................
Freelance
REAL
ESTATE
AGENTS required for a property
management company on commission basis. Those who have
good knowledge of Bahrain real
estate market send resume to:
info@primepropetiesbh.com
...................................................
An Industrial Company is looking for WORKSHOP MANAGER with minimum 10 years
GCC experience (Electrical/ Mechanical Engineer). Good salary
+ company accommodation for
right candidates. Send your CV
to emib@batelco.com.bh
FLAT FOR RENT
EAST RIFFA a brand new
commercial offices for rent, 2
bedroom 2 bathroom, prices
start from BD 250 - BD 260 - BD
270. Contact: 3345 1108
..................................................
GAFUL flat for rent, 2 bedroom
1 bathroom 1 kitchen hall with
AC. Rent: BD 250. Contact:
39711001
..................................................
JUFFAIR fully furnished 2
bedroom, 2 bathroom flat for
rent with all faculties, pool,
gym, covered parking (24 hrs)
security
and
maintenance
monthly. Rent 500 all inclusive.
Contact: 3388 7055
..................................................
RIFFA 2 bed room 2 bath
room flat for rent near lulu
hypermarket, family only. Rent:
BD 200. Contact: 6633 3304
..................................................
MUHARRAQ 1 room semi
furnished flat for rent, all inclusive
electricity
+
municipality.
Walking distance of Muharraq
central market, and Muhharraq
souq. Call : 39970707
..................................................
BUDAIYA HIGHWAY semi
furnished villa for rent, 3
bedroom 3 bath room, car
parking store house, maid’s
room, pool, washing machine,
air
conditioning,
garden,
exclusive
of
municipality,
electricity and water. For
viewing call: 33887055
..................................................
JUFFAIR fully furnished flat for
rent. 3 bedroom 2 bathroom
open kitchen car parking
gym, swimming pool, 24
hours security. Rent BD600. 2
bedroom BD 550. Contact: 3559
0664
..................................................
TUBLI furnished studio flat for
rent, pool, gym, sauna, steam,
internet. Rent: BD 260/ month.
Contact: 36630266
..................................................
SEEF fully furnished Studio
flat for rent. Rent BD 250 all
inclusive, good location. Please
contact 33313733
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DINE OUT
TERIYAKI BEEF &
LETTUCE CUPS
PREPARATION
1.
INGREDIENTS:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
350gtrimmedsirloinsteaks
2tbspteriyakisaucemarinade,(weused
Kikkomanteriyakimarinade)
1⁄2cucumber
2tbspcoriander,roughlychopped
juice1⁄2lime
6LittleGemlettucesleaves
1redchilli,deseededandthinlysliced
1⁄2redonion,thinlysliced
MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS,
2002 model for sale. engine
Size 3001-4000CC. Price BD
2,000. Contact: 33150489
...................................................
HONDA ACCORD, 2010 model
for sale. KM 73452, engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 5,299.
Contact: 38808449
...................................................
NISSAN SUNNY, 2004 model
for sale. KM 105000, engine
1,650. Contact: 34129197
...................................................
NISSAN XTERRA, 2010 model
3001-4000CC. Price BD 5,700.
Contact: 33054520
...................................................
FORD FOCUS, 2006 model for
sale. KM 135000, engine Size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,300.
Contact: 36065004
...................................................
CADILLAC ESCALADE, 2008
modle for sale. KM 22000, engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
5,200. Contact: 33182795
...................................................
MASERATI Quattroporte, 2005
model for sale. KM 19000, engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
6,995. Contact: 33355790
...................................................
MERCEDES-BENZ
S-Class,
2006 model for sale. KM 70000,
engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
Putthesteakbetweentwosheetsofcling
film and beat with a rolling pin until half
itsoriginalthickness.Thinlyslicethesteak,
then mix with the teriyaki marinade in a
bowl.Leavetomarinatefor5-10mins.
2.
Roughlydicethecucumberandmixwith
the chopped coriander and lime juice.
Seasonwithalittlesalt.
3.
Heat a frying pan until very hot, then fry
the steak slices for 1½-2½ mins for rare
to medium, turning the slices halfway
through.
4.
Pilethecucumbermixtureintothelettuce
leaves, then top with the seared teriyaki
beef,chilliandredonion.
8,900. Contact: 33355790
...................................................
NISSAN SUNNY, 2003 model
1,400. Contact: 38181284
...................................................
GMC ACADIA, 2008 model for
3001-4000CC. Price BD 5,500.
Contact: 35580622
...................................................
NISSAN ALTIMA, 2012 model
2001-3000CC. Price BD 5,000.
Contact: 39541177
...................................................
for sale. Engine Size 20013000CC. Price BD 1,500. Contact: 34064033
...................................................
LEXUS ES-SERIES, 2008 model for sale. Engine Size30014000CC . Price BD 8,000. Contact: 36611106
...................................................
2001-3000CC. Price BD 4,800.
Contact: 39541177
...................................................
KIA CARNIVAL, 2004 model for
2001-3000CC. Price BD 1,000.
Contact: 33718885
...................................................
HYUNDAI GALLOPER, 2002
model for sale. KM 220000, engine Size 3001-4000CC. Price
BD 1,300. Contact: 37737756
...................................................
HONDA CR-V, 1998 model
...................................................
JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE,
2000 model for sale. KM 150000,
engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
950. Contact: 34556227
...................................................
for sale. KM 137000, Engine
2,500. Contact: 33833390
...................................................
CITROEN C4, 2006 model for
sale. Engine Size 1000-2000
CC. Price BD 650. Contact:
39144218
...................................................
MITSUBISHI LANCER, 2009
BD 2,500. Contact: 33055827
...................................................
NISSAN ARMADA, 2004 model
Size 4000+CC. Price BD 4,500.
Contact: 39977886
...................................................
AUDI A1, 2011 model for sale.
KM 42000, engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 6,500. Contact: 38383409
Reservations: + 973 17728699
...................................................
TOYOTA COROLLA, 2010
BD 3,700. Contact: 36605926
...................................................
MAZDA 3, 2008 model for sale.
KM 100000, engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 2,500. Contact: 35104654
...................................................
CHEVROLET TAHOE, 2008
model for sale. KM 68400, engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
7,400. Contact: 39912301
...................................................
1000-2000CC. Price BD 950.
Contact: 35392897
...................................................
BD 2,200. Contact: 35004377
...................................................
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,150.
Contact: 35392897
...................................................
BMW 3-SERIES, 2008 model
2001-3000CC. Price BD 7,200.
Contact: 39265885
...................................................
CHRYSLER 300M/300C, 2003
model for sale. Engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 1,100.
Contact: 33558876
...................................................
...................................................
MAZDA CX-9, 2008 model for
3001-4000CC. Price BD 4,800.
Contact: 36991412
...................................................
TOYOTA SOLARA, 2006 model for sale. Engine Size 20013000CC. Price BD 4,200. Contact: 38333612
...................................................
LEXUS for sale, 1994 model
for sale, engine Size 30014000CC. Price: BD 900 Contact: 39787787
...................................................
NISSAN PATHFINDER, 2003
model for sale, engine Size
2001-3000 CC. Price BD 2,250.
Contact: 35392897
...................................................
HONDA ACCORD, 2007 model for sale. KM 112000, price
BD 3,400. Engine Size 20013000CC. Contact: 33936825
...................................................
model for sale, engine Size
2001-3000CC. Price BD 1,900.
Contact: 32229226
...................................................
for sale. KM 92000, Engine Size
2001-3000CC. Price BD 4,500.
Contact: 36485501
...................................................
...................................................
TOYOTA COROLLA, 2001
model for sale. KM 190000, Engine Size 1000-2000CC. Price
BD 1,750. Contact: 39754346
...................................................
TOYOTA ECHO, 2004 model
1,450. Contact: 39435292
...................................................
KIA SPORTAGE, 2006 model
...................................................
4,800. Contact: 33467388
...................................................
for sale. KM 95000, Engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 4,200.
Contact: 39826557
...................................................
Size 4000+CC. Price BD 5,800.
Contact: 33741525
...................................................
LEXUS IS-SERIES, 2006 model for sale. Engine Size 20013000CC. Price BD 5,300. Contact: 36611106
...................................................
FORD GT, 2006 model for sale.
Engine Size 3001-4000CC.
Price BD 4,300. Contact:
33056210
...................................................
HONDA CIVIC, 2002 model
for sale. Engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 1,350. Contact: 33855420.
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Reaching the right audience
AFC CONTENT WITH
2015 PREPARATIONS
28
SPORTS
DT News Network
sian Football Confederation (AFC) President
Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim
Al Khalifa said he was pleased
with the efforts of all parties in
order to provide the ideal conditions to hold the next Asian
Cup in Australia next year.
The announcement came
yesterday as Shaikh Salman
inaugurated the 2015 Sydney
Asian Cup Organising Committee meeting in Manila,
Philippines. The meeting was
chaired by Prince Abdulla Sultan Ahmed Shah, vice-president of the AFC and committee chairman, in the presence
of AFC general secretary Dato
Alex Soosay and other com-
A
mittee members.
Shaikh Salman stressed that
all parties of the AFC should
share the responsibility of
making this upcoming event
an all-round success, and
noted the achievements ac-
Shaikh Salman
inaugurates the
2015 Sydney Asian
Cup Organising
Committee meeting
complished by the organising
committees of the previous
editions of the Asian Cup.
The AFC President affirmed
the keenness of the AFC Ex-
ecutive Committee to harness
all its abilities to step up its
preparations to hold the next
edition of the Asian Cup and
present a perfect tournament
at all levels.
Prince Abdulla extended his
appreciation to the AFC President for his continued support
to the organising committee,
which has contributed to the
committee achieving their
objectives.
Meanwhile, Shaikh Salman
inaugurated the Competitions, Disciplines and Auditing Committees meetings,
during which he commended
their significant roles in boosting football on the continent.
Buoyant Barca target Valencia scalp
Kieran Canning
Madrid
Shaikh Salman speaks at the Discipline Committee meeting.
Hajweri in big win
A
Lionel
Messi-inspired
Barcelona
vanquished
some early season doubts with
back-to-back thrashings of
Sevilla and APOEL Nicosia in
the past week thanks to two
hat-tricks from the Argentine
as he became the all-time leading scorer in both La Liga and
the Champions League.
Luis Enrique’s men are expected to face a tougher test
tomorrow, though, when they
travel to a Valencia side that
are unbeaten at home so far
this season.
Messi’s treble in Nicosia on
Tuesday overshadowed Luis
Suarez’s first goal for the club
in a comfortable 4-0 win as the
Catalans remained on the tails
of Paris Saint-Germain for top
spot in Group F.
Enrique was delighted with
his side’s display in the Cypriot
capital, claiming this was the
Barca side he “wanted to see
for the rest of the season.”
The former Spanish international will also have the
luxury of recalling Claudio
Bravo, Sergio Busquets and
Neymar to his starting line-up
as they were rested in midweek
in preparation for the trip to
Mestalla.
Valencia’s title aspirations
have faltered in recent weeks
as they were beaten 2-1 by local rivals Levante last weekend and held to a 0-0 draw by
Athletic Bilbao last time out at
home.
Alvaro Negredo was finally
fit enough to make his full
debut for the club at Levante.
The former Manchester City
striker looked decidedly rusty
having not completed 90 min-
Adnan Butt.
DT News Network
ajweri defeated Lankan
Warriors by 92 runs in the
BFC Corporate Professional
League organised by Cricket
Bahrain Association (CBA)
and supported by Cebarco.
Batting first, Hajweri scored
H
The sublime form of Messi has powered Barcelona.
utes since March, but he believes Barca can be exposed on
Sunday.
Fixtures (all times GMT)
Today
Getafe v Athletic Bilbao (15:00)
Espanyol v Levante (17:00)
Malaga v Real Madrid (19:00)
Celta Vigo v Eibar (21:00)
Tomorrow
Atletico Madrid v Deportivo la
Coruna (11:00)
Sevilla v Granada (16:00)
Cordoba v Villarreal (18:00)
Valencia v Barcelona (20:00)
“Barcelona will be confident
because they had a great win
last week, but we are playing
at home and need the three
points,” he told Valencia’s
website.
“We know how difficult a
game it will be, even if Barcelona aren’t at their best level.
They won’t make things easy
for us, but at home we have
played well, we feel comfortable and hopefully we can get
the three points we want.”
Real Madrid will have the
chance to stretch their lead
over Barca at the top of the table to five points when they go
for a club record 16th consecutive win in all competitions at
Malaga today.
Playmaker Isco has played
a pivotal part in that run, filling a number of positions during the absence of Gareth Bale
through injury and now in a
central midfield role as Luka
Modric is sidelined.
And the 22-year-old can expect a hero’s welcome on his
return to La Rosaleda after
guiding Malaga to the quarter-finals of the Champions
League in 2012/13 before sealing a 30 million euro move to
the European champions.
179 with Noman (39) and Imran (35) being the main scorers
with Aravind picking up three
wickets, while Lanka Warriors
in reply were dismissed for just
92 with Usman and Siraj both
claiming a couple of wickets
each.
BCC crushed Public Security
by 150 runs in the Professional
League after scoring a massive
294 with Adnan Butt (118) top
scoring and in reply, Public Security could only manage 144
with Babar Ali taking three
wickets.
BCC A were impressive
nine-wicket winners against
Imperial CC after the latter
scored 138 with Shahid Khan
(37) top scoring and Sarfraz Ali
snapping up a couple of wickets, then BCC A reached the
target losing just one wicket
thanks to a fine knock by Rana
Kashif.
Public Security Yellow also
had a big win in defeating Cebarco by 133 after scoring 199
with Mohsin Zaib (67) and
Mubashir Khan (57) being the
main scorers as Iqbal picked up
three wickets.
Cebarco were then dismissed
for just 66 as Mohammed Mohd Azeem finished with
three wickets.
Other scores: Auqab CC
100/1 (Shafiq 23, Gigan 3 wkts)
bt DHL 99
(Yasser Zafar (28, Khubaib
3 wkts) by one wicket. Avis
Young
Challengers 219 (Shahzad
Khan 59, Umair Hameed &
Abdulrab 2 wkts each)
bt ABM Climax 166 (Ishfaq
55, Ashfaq) by 53 runs. Khan
CC 184/6 (Imran
Arshad 59) bt Asian Lions
132 all out (Irfan & Shahi 3
wkts each) by
52 runs.
Danehill Brook wins feature race
DT News Network
utsider Danehill Brook
trained by Kumail Al Jalil
Al Mallah, owned by Sami Saloom and ridden by Kieren Fox
won by a neck in the fourth
race meeting of the season in
the feature race for the Arabian
Horse Equestrian Services Cup
for imported 2nd/3rd class 4
year olds and upwards over
1,000 metres straight worth
BD2,500 and organised by the
Rashid Equestrian and Horse
Racing Club in Sakhir.
Second place went to Royal
Steps trained by Al Nasseriyeh,
trained by Allan Smith and ridden by Brett Doyle by a neck
from second favourite Municipal owned by Late A Rasool
K Darwish Stable, trained by
O
Abdulla Haji in third with Target Acquired owned by Hadi
Ebrahim Al Afoo, trained by
Mohammed Hassan and ridden by Sandro Gessa in fourth.
In the sixth race, third favourite Harash owned by Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla
bin Isa Al Khalifa trained by
James Naylor and ridden by
Gerald Avranche clinched the
Integrated Water Systems Cup
for 2nd/3rd class locally bred
4 years old and upwards over
1,600 metres worth BD3,000
by three quarters of a length
from Brightsideoflife owned
by Al Nasseriyeh, trained by
A Smith and ridden by Kieren
Fox in second place, with Farange ridden by Tristan Normand in third and two length
ahead of favourite Barracuda
ridden by Marciolis Jaures in
fourth.
In the fifth race, the favourite Rabdaan 1556 owned by
Al Roudha, trained by Fawzi
Nass and ridden by Hussain
Makki came in first in the Arabian Horse Equestrian Services Cup for 2nd/3rd class Arabian Horses over 1,200 metres
straight worth BD2,500 by five
length ahead of Al Hamdanieh
1453 owned by Al Roudha,
trained by F Nass and ridden
by M Juares in second.
In third place a head behind
was Al Rabda 1558 ridden by
K Fox and six lengths further
behind was Al Jellaby 1434
ridden by Sandro Gessa was
fourth.
Season-opening endurance race today
TEST OF ENDURANCE
Bangkok
ndia’s Anirban Lahiri retained his lead on day
two of Thailand’s King’s Cup
with a five-under-par 67 as
compatriot S.S.P Chowrasia,
who had been joint leader,
slipped down the table. Fivetime Asia Tour winner Lahiri couldn’t quite match his
previous days’ form when
I
T
Dacca
M
ushfiqur Rahim and
Mahmudullah
each
struck a fifty to set up a 21run win for Bangladesh over
Zimbabwe in the fourth oneday international in Dhaka
yesterday. Rahim made a
fluent 77 while Mahmudullah remained unbeaten on
tance of 120km.
The qualifying race will run
for a distance of 80km and
starts at 7.15am.
Shaikh Nasser, leader of the
Royal Endurance Team, urged
his team to achieve outstanding
results in the race and win the
top positions, saying that the
stages of the race is a real opportunity for the riders to see
the horses’ capabilities early in
the season.
He expressed full confidence of his own team members who will compete in the
race, according to the vast
experience gained from participating in various competitions and events, noting that
the Royal Team is always considered as a firm favourite in
Martin Parry
Sydney
S
Michael Clarke (L) and Cricket Australia doctor Peter Brukner (right)
leave the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) where the Australian team
has gathered following the death of Phillip Hughes.
is they are grieving, and they’ve
lost someone that is incredibly close to them,” Cricket
Australia
chief
executive
James Sutherland told a media
conference.
“I think there is enough that
we understand about grieving
processes to know that it’s really
important to give people time,
and people will respond in different ways to what they’re going through.
“Six or seven days is not a
endurance races. The leader
of Al Ruood team Shaikh Daej
bin Salman Al Khalifa expects
the race to be strong and exciting, based on the various
number of participants from
different local riders and stables, and he considered this
race as a preparation for all
horses and riders for the rest
of the season.
long time, but right now with
where we all are, it seems like a
million miles away,” he added,
referring to the opening Test in
Brisbane which is due to start
next Thursday.
There are growing fears that
the game will be called off with
the players in no fit state. It remains unclear when Hughes’
funeral will take place.
Four of those named in the
Test squad -- David Warner,
Brad Haddin, Shane Watson
and Nathan Lyon -- were on the
field when Hughes collapsed
after being hit at the base of the
skull by a Sean Abbott delivery.
Captain Michael Clarke was
a close friend of the stylish lefthander and was at his bedside
almost continuously, supporting the player’s family.
India’s tour game against
a Cricket Australia XI due to
start in Adelaide today has already been cancelled.
Sao Paulo
razil football legend Pele,
who has been hospitalised for three days suffering
from a urinary infection,
reached out to his fans via social media on Thursday to say
he’s “doing fine.” The Albert
Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo
said earlier that his condition had “improved” and that
B
V
their main gunner Kookie
Cuerpo lost the ball from a
Gelacio’s defensive stop.
Other results: Inter-Kulay
Division: Emsa-Builders bt
Swak Team 49-41, Zenjex
bt Sumo Restaurant 7149, Takusa bt Geant 61-55,
Verminex bt Sampaguita
Rice, 85-57, Dessert War-
riors w/o B-Meg Llamado,
Ehsan Optics bt TNT/New
Cabalen 49-40, Ameeri Store
bt Thursday Club 75-34,
Tuklaw Vipers bt Ballers, 5844. Commercial Division:
Metrobank-Nafex bt RCSI
69-46. +40 Division: Dahil
Hindi Pa Laos bt Bahrain
Thursday Club 64-48.
the 74-year-old -- widely regarded as the greatest player
of all time -- was receiving
renal treatment. But contrary
to the hospital’s assertion that
he was in intensive care, Pele
-- whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento
-- said he had simply been
moved to another room for
increased privacy.
Bayern aim to
learn from City
Ryland James
Berlin
P
ep Guardiola wants Bayern
Munich to learn from their
mid-week Champions League
defeat at Manchester City to
help strengthen their iron grip
on the Bundesliga at Hertha
Berlin today.
Bayern have a seven-point
lead at the top of the table, but
are licking the wounds from
their first defeat in 22 games
on Tuesday although they had
already made the last 16 in Europe as group winners.
“It’s good that it’s happened
and maybe there’s a lesson in it
for us,” said Guardiola.
“If it happens in the Round
of 16 or the quarter-finals,
LBC-Tamaraws ease past Fil-Am
ketball League 40th Season
1st Conference at the Muharraq Club Gym in Arad.
The combination of Nass
Brothers, which included
a grand total of 35 points
made it hard for the last
conference
Commercial
Division’s Finalist. Fil-Am
a chance to tie the gap but
his career best 82 as the duo
helped Bangladesh recover
from 32-4 to post a commendable 256-8. Shakib Al
Hasan, Jubair Hossain and
Rubel Hossain then claimed
two wickets each to restrict
Zimbabwe to 235-8 and give
Bangladesh a 4-0 lead in the
five-match series.
Pele says he’s ‘doing fine’
Examination of the horses participating in the race is being done by veterinary doctors.
Australia-India test on ice
DT News Network
eteran Elmer Gelacio
made a crucial steal and
Jonathan Nass converted
two freethrows as LBC-Tamaraws upset Fil-Am, 55-49 in
the latest matches of the Filipino Club Basketball Group
(FCBG) 1st Batelco Cup Bas-
he stormed off the starting
blocks with an impressive
seven-under-par 65. But it
was enough to keep him two
shots ahead of Australia’s
Andrew Dolt and Thailand’s
Jakraphan
Premsirigorn
in the $500,000 event with
a 12-under-par 132 at the
Singha Park Khon Kaen Golf
Club.
Bangladesh make it 4-0
The race
comprises five
stages
hattered Australian players
comforted each other yesterday as they considered how
to move forward after the death
of Phillip Hughes, with a decision on next week’s Test with
India on ice.
The cricket world was
plunged into mourning when
the talented left-hander died on
Thursday after being knocked
unconscious by a ball in a domestic Sheffield Shield game in
Sydney this week, sparking an
outpouring of sympathy and
support.
The entire Test team was
summoned to the Sydney
Cricket Ground and emotions
were raw.
“I suppose the starting point
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Anirban Lahiri retains lead
DT News Network
he Season-Opening Endurance Race is all set to
begin this morning with more
than 85 riders from different
local stables battling over a distance for 120km and 80km in
qualifying.
It will be held under the
patronage of Bahrain Royal
Equestrian and Endurance
Federation (BREEF) Honorary
President HH Shaikh Nasser
bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
BREEF President Shaikh
Faisal bin Rashid Al Khalifa
attended the medical inspection for the horses, where he
stressed the importance of
success of the season and in
providing all different forms of
support and assistance for all
riders in endurance racing in
Bahrain.
He praised the regulatory
actions that accompanied the
veterinary examination of the
horses participating in the race.
BREEF confirmed the race
starts at 7am and consists of five
stages, with the first and second
30km each and the third, fourth
and fifth 20km each for a dis-
SPORTS
Pep Guardiola
you’re out, so we have to learn
from this.”
Defender Jerome Boateng
has insisted Bayern will bounce
back in his home city of Berlin.
Mid-table Hertha have
shown little to cast doubt on
that having only won four of
their last 10 games.
Bayern have good memories of the Olympic Stadium as
their 3-1 win there in March
saw them claim last season’s
title with a record seven games
to spare.
Germany captain Bastian
Schweinsteiger is set to be
named on the bench again
having made brief appearances against Hoffenheim last
weekend.
IPT LEAGUE
TAKES OFF
30
SPORTS
O’Sullivan likely to pull out
London
onnie O’Sullivan played
through the pain barrier
to start his UK Championship campaign with a 6-2 win
over Daniel Wells. O’Sullivan
suffered a broken left ankle
while out running this week
and the five-time world
champion, who wore soft
shoes and a protective brace
against Wells, is uncertain if
he will be able to stay in the
tournament at York’s Barbican Centre. The 38-year-old’s
second-round match against
Peter Lines is scheduled for
tomorrow, but he could withdraw if he feels no improvements by then.
London
ottenham were forced to
apologise after their 1-0
win over Partizan Belgrade in
the Europa League was halted
for around 10 minutes after
a series of pitch invasions at
White Hart Lane yesterday.
The Group C tie in north London was interrupted on three
separate occasions in the first
half by individual pitch invaders before referee Yevhen
Aranovskiy decided to take
the players off for their own
safety in the 41st minute.
R
Ivanovic says ‘hard to imagine’ faster future for tennis Pitch invasions hold up match
Manila
A
na Ivanovic demolished
Daniela Hantuchova in an
impressive International Premier Tennis League debut yesterday, but said it was “hard to
imagine” the game evolving to
adopt the much faster format.
The Serbian world number
five routinely broke her fellow
T
14-year-old ousts Advani
“Concerning his
coaching team, I
believe he knows
the best. And I
mean with having
a woman coach,
I don’t see any
problem there”- Cilic
baseliner Hantuchova’s serve
in a 6-0 win that was over in
a whirlwind 15 minutes, as the
tournament got underway in
Manila.
“I think it will be hard to
imagine” the fast-paced, television-friendly IPTL format
replacing tennis as it is played
in the men’s and women’s tours
now, Ivanovic told a news conference later.
“As for rules it’s very hard
because we’ve been playing by
certain rules for a long, long
time.”
The IPTL, which will also
have stops in Singapore, New
Delhi and Dubai next month,
has a team format with ties
consisting of five one-set
matches, with no advantages.
The first to six games wins.
A 20-second shot-clock
between points guarantees
New Delhi
hina’s 14-year-old Yan
Bingtao yesterday scripted a sensational upset as
he sent 12-time world title
holder Pankaj Advani packing with a 6-4 victory in the
quarter-finals of the Seaways IBSF World Snooker
C
Keane leaves Aston Villa
London
ormer Manchester United
captain Roy Keane has left
his role as assistant manager
of Aston Villa with immediate effect, he announced in
a statement released by the
club yesterday. The 43-yearold is also currently employed
as the assistant to Republic
of Ireland manager Martin
F
Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova high five during a
doubles match against Kristina Mladenovic and Nenad
Zimonjic, Manila Mavericks v UAE Royals.
on Marin Cilic, who defeated
world number six Andy Murray, called it “the most important” feature of the IPTL.
World number two Maria Sharapova, boosted by
the partisan crowd in the
16,000-capacity Mall of Asia
Arena, rallied from 2-5 down
to beat Kristina Mladenovic,
6-5.
However, her and Murray’s
Manila Mavericks eventually
went down 4-1 to Cilic and
Mladenovic’s UAE Royals.
Ivanovic’s team-mate Gael
Monfils, who eventually won
against Lleyton Hewitt 6-1,
was penalised and went behind 0-15 in the fifth game of
the singles match because he
could not serve fast enough.
Rory McIlroy plays out of a bunker on day two at Australian Open in
The Australian Golf Course yesterday.
knows he needs to be patient
and is convinced there is a low
score out on the course for him.
“Oh, definitely, I had six
birdies and an eagle today, you
eliminate the bad stuff and you
turn that into a low score,” he
told reporters.
“I’ll try and limit the mistakes over the weekend and try
and go a bit lower. I actually felt
like I played much better than
yesterday, I don’t quite feel the
score reflected that.Admitting
the wind had fooled him a few
times and that he had struggled
with his wedge shots, McIlroy
took reassurance from the fact
that no other player had broken
clear of the field.
quick play, and at 5-5, players
go into a timed shoot-out in
which they must accumulate
the most points before time
is up.
Players receiving a serve can
also call a “happiness power
point” once per set, meaning the next point will count
double.
Reigning US Open champi-
McIlroy rues after rollercoaster round
Sydney
W
orld number one Rory
McIlroy said all he needed to do was cut the “bad stuff ”
out of his game for a really low
score at the Australian Open
after managing to par only five
holes in a rollercoaster second
round yesterday.
The Northern Irishman hit
an eagle, six birdles and six
bogeys for a second successive
two-under-par 69 at The Australian Golf Course to finish the
day a shot behind leader Greg
Chalmers on four-under.
Having hunted down Adam
Scott on the final day at Royal
Sydney last year to lift the
Stonehaven Cup, McIlroy
Championship.
In a manner of speaking,
the 29-year-old Advani, who
came into the tournament as
holder of 12 World titles and
a hot favourite, virtually gifted the match to the Chinese
prodigy who bounced back
after trailing 0-2.
O’Neill and he explained that
juggling the two roles was
proving too difficult. “Ultimately, my roles with Villa
and Ireland and combining
my commitment to these
have become too much,” said
Keane, who was employed
by Villa in July to provide
assistance to manager Paul
Lambert.
Astana team suspended: official
Milan
he second division Continental team Astana has
been suspended from competition and its manager, Dmitri
Sedoun, has been sacked following a third positive doping case, the Kazakhstan Cycling Federation announced
yesterday. “The managing
T
board of Kazakhstan Cycling
Federation has decided to
suspend the activity of the
Astana Continental Team
while an internal investigation into doping cases is carried out,” said a statement by
the Kazakhstan Federation,
which runs and manages the
team.
Vietnam down Philippines
Hanoi
o-hosts Vietnam claimed
top spot in Group A and
advanced to the semi-finals
of the AFF Suzuki Cup with
a 3-1 win over the Philippines
at My Dinh Stadium on yesterday. A first-half strike by
Ngo Hoang Thinh and goals
by Vu Minh Tuan and Pham
Thanh Luong after the interval
meant that both teams went
through to the last four. Indonesia, who trounced Laos 5-1
despite being down to 10 men
C
for the majority of the game
at Hang Day Stadium, were
eliminated. Vietnam will now
face the runners-up of Group
B in the semi-finals with the
first leg on December 7, while
the Philippines will take on
the winners of the other section beginning on December
6. Thailand have already secured one of the two semifinal berths in Group B, while
the other spot will either be
taken by Singapore, Malaysia
or Laos.
SPORTS
ARSENAL, LIVERPOOL
SEEK TO HALT DRIFT
31
Gunners 15 points behind leaders Chelsea
Tom Williams
London
A
rsenal and Liverpool will
each attempt to arrest
damaging sequences of results
when they return to Premier
League action this weekend
following mid-week exertions
in the Champions League.
The two teams have fallen
out of title contention over
recent weeks, with Arsenal
Third-place City
arrive at St Mary’s
today
now 15 points behind leaders
Chelsea following consecutive losses and Liverpool three
points further back after three
straight defeats.
Arsenal’s poor form has seen
manager Arsene Wenger’s 18year stewardship called into
question as rarely before, amid
concerns that a climate of tolerated under-achievement has
infiltrated the club.
However, Wednesday’s 2-0
victory over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions
League saw Arsenal reach the
last 16 for the 15th consecutive season, boosting morale
ahead of today’s trip to West
Bromwich Albion.
“We have to show character and that is what makes
me really happy for the next
few games, because we have
to sharpen up in the Premier
League as well,” said Arsenal’s German centre-back Per
Mertesacker.
Liverpool host Stoke City
today having slumped to 12th
place in the table after successive defeats by Newcastle
United, Chelsea and Crystal
Palace.
They also received a setback
in the Champions League,
conceding an 88th-minute
equaliser to draw 2-2 at Ludogorets Razgrad, but can still
secure a place in the knockout phase by beating Basel at
home next month.
Third-place City arrive at St
Mary’s tomorrow, buoyed by a
stunning 3-2 victory over Bayern Munich on Tuesday that
breathed fresh life into their
Champions League campaign.
Fixtures
Today (1500 GMT unless otherwise stated):
Burnley v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Stoke City
Manchester United v Hull City
Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City
Sunderland v Chelsea (1730 GMT),
Swansea City v Crystal Palace
West Ham United v Newcastle United
West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal (1245 GMT)
Tomorrow:
Southampton v Manchester City (1330 GMT)
Tottenham Hotspur v Everton (1600 GMT)
United, meanwhile, have
crept into fourth place, five
points behind City, after their
smash-and-grab victory at Arsenal last weekend.
Louis van Gaal’s side host
Hull City today, when victory would enable the 20-time
Arsenal players in a team training session at the London Colney training ground north of London.
champions to register a third
consecutive league victory for
the first time since December
2013.
Newcastle, who trail United
on goal difference, visit West
Ham United, who are a point
further back in sixth place after losing 2-1 at Everton last
weekend.
There is a basement battle
at the foot of the table, with
bottom club Queens Park
Rangers hosting third-bottom
Leicester City, while secondbottom Burnley will be seeking a third straight win when
they entertain Villa.
Female Wolff named Williams test driver Rodriguez and Di Maria
London
emale racing driver Susie
Wolff has been appointed
as the official test pilot for Williams, the Formula One team
announced yesterday.
Wolff, who was previously
Williams’ development driver,
succeeds Felipe Nasr, who will
drive for Sauber in the 2015
season.
“This is another step in the
right direction for me,” said
Wolff, who this year became the
first woman to drive at a grand
prix weekend for two decades
by taking part in first practice
in Britain and Germany.
“I am delighted Williams are
F
Susie Wolff.
Falcao, Rojo in line for returns
Pete Oliver
Manchester
R
adamel Falcao and Marcos Rojo could both return
from injury for Manchester
United’s home game against
Hull City today, manager Louis
van Gaal revealed yesterday.
Argentina defender Rojo has
been absent since dislocating
a shoulder in United’s derby
loss to Manchester City earlier
this month, while on-loan Monaco striker Falcao has missed
the last four games with a calf
injury.
But both are now back in full
training and Van Gaal says that
they could make the squad for
the visit of Steve Bruce’s side.
“I live day by day at this moment, but maybe Falcao will
come back into the 18 and maybe Rojo will come back into the
18,” Van Gaal said.
Centre-back Jonny Evans
could also return to United’s
squad after being absent since
September with a foot injury.
But United’s injury concerns
have not fully cleared up, with
Van Gaal confirming that leftback Luke Shaw will be out
“for the next few weeks” after
damaging ankle ligaments during last Saturday’s 2-1 win at
Arsenal.
Meanwhile, Daley Blind has
been given time off to start his
recovery from the knee injury
he sustained during the last international break, which is set
recognising my progression,
hard work, and it is performance that counts.
“Williams is at a very exciting
stage in its history and we are
moving into 2015 with fantastic momentum. I’m proud to be
part of the team.”
Wolff, 31, is scheduled to
take part in two first practice
sessions at races that are yet
to be determined and two test
days, as well as carrying out extensive simulator testing.
Meanwhile, should either
Felipe Massa or Valtteri Bottas
have to sit out a race for any
reason, the Scot would be expected to deputise.
to keep the midfielder out until
well into the new year.
United have recovered from
their worst start to a season in
28 years to move up to fourth
place in the Premier League.
But Van Gaal warned that
his side’s campaign will only
be considered a success if
they have secured Champions
League football by the end of it.
“I don’t want to mention
that (injuries) as a manager,
because I want to speak about
the fit players,” Van Gaal told
a press conference at United’s
Carrington training base in
Manchester.
on World XI short-list
A
Paris
short-list of 15 midfielders from whom three will
be selected for a World XI was
released by football’s World
governing body FIFA yesterday.
The World XI team, which is
voted for by tens of thousands
of players worldwide, is to be
presented at the FIFA Ballon
d’Or award ceremony on January 12.
All of those on the list were
stars of the 2014 World Cup
including top scorer James
Rodriguez of Colombia, plus
Angel Di Maria of beaten final-
ists Argentina and Bastian Schweinsteiger of the champions
Germany.
Midfielders short-list:
Xabi Alonso, Angel Di Maria, Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Toni
Kroos (Ger/Real Madrid), Luka
Modric (Cro/Real Madrid),
Mesut Ozil (Ger/Arsenal), Andrea Pirlo (Ita/Juventus), Paul
Pogba (Fra/Juventus), James
Rodriguez (Col/Real Madrid),
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Ger/
Bayern Munich), Yaya Toure
(ICoast/Manchester City), Arturo Vidal (Chi/Juventus).
Marcos Rojo was injured during the Manchester derby earlier this month.
P31 Arsenal, Liverpool seek to halt drift
SPORTS
MCCULLUM BLITZ
MAULS PAKISTAN
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Fastest century by a New Zealand batsman
Shahid Hashmi
Sharjah
O
pener Brendon McCullum smashed
the fastest century by a New Zealand
batsman to give his team an upper hand
in the third and final Test against Pakistan in Sharjah yesterday.
The Kiwi skipper completed his tenth
hundred off 78 balls and went on to reach
145-ball 153 when bad light ended play
seven overs earlier with New Zealand
249-1, a strong position with just 102
runs away from Pakistan’s first innings
total of 351.
Kane Williamson matched his skipper’s aggression and was unbeaten on 76,
putting an impressive 198 for the unfinished second wicket stand which gave
New Zealand a strong position to level
the series which they trail 1-0.
Pakistan won the first Test while the
second ended in a draw. But McCullum’s rapidfire knock was
overshadowed by the gloomy atmosphere
as Pakistan and New Zealand observed a
minute’s silence before the start and wore
black armbands to join in the mourning for young Australian batsman Phillip Hughes who died on Thursday from
serious head injuries after being hit by a
bouncer.
The New Zealand team also did not
celebrate any dismissal. The teams abandoned Thursday’s second day’s play as a mark of respect for the
talented Australian.
McCullum stole the show, hitting eight
sixes -- four off left-arm spinner Zulfiqar
Babar -- and 17 boundaries as New Zealand rattled the total in just 45 overs.
In the penultimate over before tea he
hit four boundaries in one paceman Mohammad Talha over before two quick
singles completed his hundred.
This was the fastest hundred ever by a
New Zealand batsman, beating the 81ball hundred Ross Taylor made against
Australia at Hamilton in 2010.
Tom Latham was the only wicket to
fall, caught behind off Rahat Ali for 13.
Earlier off-spinner Mark Craig took a
career best 7-94 as Pakistan lost their last
seven wickets for 70 runs to get bowled
out for 351 after resuming at 281-3,
squandering a strong position on a flat
Sharjah stadium pitch.
Opener Mohammad Hafeez hit a career best 197 before he miscued a pull off
leg-spinner Ish Sodhi and was caught at
deep square-leg.
The Kiwi skipper
completed his ton
off 78 balls
Scoreboard
Pakistan 1st innings (overnight 281-3)
Mohammad Hafeez c Boult b Sodhi 197
Azhar Ali c Taylor b Craig 39
Misbah-ul Haq c Watling b Southee 38
Total: (all out; 125.4 overs) 351
New Zealand 1st innings
T. Latham c Ahmed b Rahat B. McCullum not out K. Williamson not out Extras: (lb2, nb3, w2) Total: (for one wkt; 45 over) 13
153
76
7
249
Brendon McCullum hits a six as Pakistani wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed (right) and teammate Younis Khan look on
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