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Document 6600034

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Issue No. 6464
Sunday, November 9, 2014
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contesting against each other in the number
of flex boards, banners, flyers and giveaways
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Passport
must for
voting
Manama
itizens have been urged to
bring their valid passports
so as to cast their ballots in the
upcoming Parliamentary and
municipal elections.
“The passport is the essential
identity document for voting,
along with the ID card,” said
Legislation and Legal Opinion
Chief, Parliamentary Elections
Executive Director Abdulla Al
Buainain.
In a statement issued yesterday,
he urged voters to make sure
their passports are not invalid or
cancelled. Voters who lost their
passports have been urged to
report to the General Directorate
of Passports to get issued with
an official identity document
in order to be able to cast their
ballots on November 22.
“This
procedure
has
been coordinated with the
Directorate of Passports so as to
make it easier for voters to take
part in the elections and cast
their ballots in polling stations
and general voting centres,” he
said, pointing out that holders of
valid passports can report directly
to polling centres to exercise their
constitutional right.
C
2
MOI OFFERS
CONDOLENCES
Inmate’s death
Yemen’s Saleh rejects UN
sanctions
Sanaa
Yemen’s former president Ali
Abdullah Saleh rejected yesterday UN Security Council
sanctions imposed on him
for obstructing peace, and his
party walked out of the newly
formed cabinet.
The UN sanctions, including a
visa ban and asset freezing, are
“rejected,” Saleh told members of his General People’s
Congress, a day after the
US-proposed measures were
adopted.
The GPC, meanwhile, said it
was not consulted in forming
the long-awaited cabinet, and
urged party nominees to turn
down their assigned ministries.
The GPC is also the party of
current President Abdrabuh
Mansur Hadi, so it remains to
be seen how party members
will react.
Earlier the GPC’s central committee dismissed Hadi from
his posts as vice president and
secretary general of the party,
accusing him of soliciting the
UN sanctions against Saleh and
two Shia rebel commanders.
Manama
nterior Minister Lt. General
Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla
Al Khalifa yesterday offered
sincere
condolences
to
the family members of the
inmate who was allegedly
killed at the Reformation and
Rehabilitation Centre.
Shaikh Rashid stated that
the death of the man, thought
to have been at the hands of
three of Ministry personnel,
was an unjustified and
unacceptable act, stressing
that the act was completely
against the policies of the
Interior Ministry which
respects and protects human
rights.
I
The minister said that the case
was an individual and isolated act
that does not reflect the conduct
of the Public Security personnel who have consistently shown
restraint and professionalism
under the most difficult situations.
He said that the case was
an individual and isolated
act that does not reflect
the conduct of the Public
Security personnel who have
consistently shown restraint
and professionalism under
the most difficult situations.
The minister pointed
out that the Legal Affairs
Department
at
the
Interior Ministry had
been assigned to study
the policies and practices
of the Reformation and
Shaikh Rashid
Rehabilitation Centre and
submit recommendations
that ensure that such acts
cannot be repeated.
He affirmed that legal
procedures are being taken
and that the case is being
investigated by the Public
Prosecution after it was
notified by the Interior
Ministry.
Meanwhile, Acting Head
of Special Investigation
Unit (SIU), Ibrahim Al
Kuwari stated yesterday
that investigations were still
in progress in connection
with the Reform and
Rehabilitation
Centre’s
inmate death incident.
Mr. Al Kuwari said that
investigations have taken a
new course and charges have
been pressed against two
suspects in conformity with
the Article 208 of the Penal
Code.
Apart from questioning
two officers at the Reform
and Rehabilitation Centre,
SIU also heard the statement
of the doctor who issued the
inmate’s death report, he
added.
Artesian Wells Project
inaugurated in Somalia
DT News Network
Manama
F
ollowing directives from
His Majesty King Hamad
bin Isa Al Khalifa, and under
the patronage of Supreme
Council for Youth and Sport
Chairman, Bahrain Olympic
Committee President and
Royal Charity Organisation
(RCO) Chairman HH Shaikh
Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa,
RCO Secretary General Dr.
Mustafa Al Sayed inaugurated
the Artesian Water Walls
Projects
in
Somalia,
implemented by RCO in
collaboration with the Islamic
Relief Worldwide (IRWWW).
In a statement issued to
Media, Shaikh Nasser stated
that the project was part of the
humanitarian aid provided by
the Kingdom to the brotherly
Somali people upon directives
from HM the King, who is
RCO’s Honorary President.
He pointed out that
RCO is keen to contribute
to
the
reconstruction
efforts in Somalia, and
direct the donations of the
leadership and the citizens
in development projects that
benefit all segments of the
Somali people, noting that
RCO has dug 10 artesian wells
that serve more than 102,000
people across Somalia.
Speaking from Mogadishu,
RCO Secretary General Dr.
Mustafa Al-Sayed explained
that the project has installed
10 wells, 300-metre deep each,
which will pump water to about
25 villages through a network
of pipes, noting that the
regions surrounding the wells
have become vital as Somali
citizens use the water in their
daily lives, water their livestock
and irrigate their land.
Expressing pride in the
project that restored lives
to more than 25 villages,
he pointed out that Somali
people valued highly the kind
humanitarian initiatives of
HM the King and the Bahraini
Dr. Mustafa Al Sayed
government and people.
For his part, Adviser
to the Somali President
Dr. Taher Ghili extended
sincere
thanks
and
appreciation to the Bahraini
leadership
and
people
for their kind initiatives
towards the Somali people
by implementing sustainable
development projects apart
from affirming the Somali
citizens’ appreciation of the
Kingdom’s efforts.
Jackpot for
ad agencies
Election campaign
Mr. Krajeski
Concerted
efforts to
combat
terror
funding
DT News Network
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H
ighlighting that Islamic
State (IS) presents more
complicated terrorist financing
challenge, the US Ambassador
Thomas Krajeski has stated that
the anti-IS coalition is leading a
three-pronged effort to combat
the financial foundation of IS.
In a press release issued on the
sidelines of an international
conference organised by
Bahrain to identify and adopt
measures to counter financing
of terrorist organisations,
he added that the first effort
should be cutting off revenue
streams of IS, including
identifying those who enable
the terrorist organisation to
sell stolen oil.
Fostering
a
growing
international norm against
paying ransom to terrorist
organisations and blocking
the external sources of fund
are the other measures to
be taken to stop the flow of
fund towards IS, Mr. Krajeski
stated.
“Although external funding
is not currently as significant
a source of revenue as the
other sources, it remains an
important faucet,” the US
ambassador said.
Lauding
Bahrain’s
leadership in bringing the
coalition together to discuss
areas of cooperation on this
critical issue, he added that
experts from the US will
join coalition participants
from around the world,
along with partners in the
global financial system and
the Financial Action Task
Force on Money Laundering
(FATF), at the conference
to explore new measures for
countering finances of IS.
3
Flex boards are one of the effective methods of campaign explored by candidates across the Kingdom.
Fatima Bastaki / DTNN
A
s the election campaign
gathers
steam,
advertisement firms are
striking gold with demand
for billboards, banners and
stands reaching the peak.
Many candidates are
contesting each other not
only in the run towards
Parliament or Municipal
Councils but also in the
number of flex boards and
banners.
With 700 billboards
across
the
Kingdom,
advertising firm Golden
City claims that they have
outnumbered others in the
campaign scenario.
Speaking to DT News,
Ahmed Nizar, an employee
with one of Bahrain’s
leading advertising firms,
said that his company
received maximum orders
from candidates contesting
from Hamad Town and
Many
candidates are
contesting each
other not only in
the run towards
Parliament
or Municipal
Councils but
also in the
number of flex
boards and
banners.
Riffa.
Highlighting the rise in
earnings, Alvin Alexander,
who works for Biyas Media,
said, “In Bahrain, election
season is the best season for
advertisement companies.
We’ve already installed 300
boards across the Kingdom.
In Riffa alone, we have
installed about 180 boards.”
Biyas Media Managing
Director Binyas Basheer
also shares a similar view.
“Since the last week of
October, our orders have
spiralled like anything.
There are maximum orders
for banners and stands.”
The increasing demand
has also pushed the price
charts up. Kingdom of
Trophy Trading Manager
Mohammed Najeeb said,
“More demand has led to an
increase in our charges. For
instance, a billboard cost
BD120 before the election
season, now it is above
BD150.”
Apart from billboards
and posters, candidates are
as well canvassing voters
through brochures, flyers,
T-shirts and giveaway cups.
Sayed Jameel, representative
of advertising agency 2C
said, “We are adding value
to the campaign process
by being creative and
innovative.
“With every election, I
think, we are capturing new
terrains by introducing
new campaign techniques
and tools. We are attaining
a bigger role, graduating
from a mere advertiser
to a strategic advisor,” he
added.
4
ROBBERY VERDICT
ON NOVEMBER 27
It’s time for justice
DT News Network
Manama
T
he court will pronounce
its verdict in the trial
of two Asians accused of
robbing a restaurant owner
on November 27.
The duo is accused of
robbing BD300 from the
victim after encountering
him with two other
unknown persons in a
public place. “The incident
occurred while I was
walking. I felt there was
someone trying to catch me
from behind. I turned my
neck to look back and I saw
four men following me,”
the victim told the public
prosecution.
They told him to hand
over all the valuables he
possessed. When he refused,
the second defendant drew
a knife from his pocket, the
court files stated.
“I confronted him (the
second defendant) and
They told him to
hand over all the
valuables he possessed. When he
refused, the second defendant
drew a knife from
his pocket, the
court files stated.
I grabbed the knife, but
unfortunately the other
men took advantage of the
situation and snatched the
money and fled,” the victim
added.
The first defendant was
captured by the victim
himself, while the second
defendant fled the spot
when the victim screamed
for help. Later, he was
arrested by the police. The
other two defendants are
still at large.
A file photo for representative purpose only.
Court upholds
imprisonment
DT News Network
Manama
T
he High Criminal
Appeals Court has
upheld the three-monthimprisonment sentence
pronounced
earlier
against a man for stealing
a car.
Two
other
men
implicated in the same
case had earlier received
similar punishment by
the High Criminal Court
for their role in the theft.
It was claimed that
the trio broke into the
car by shattering its rear
window and later they
drove it away with the
use of a duplicate key.
The vehicle was found
abandoned later in a
remote area. During
It was claimed that the trio
broke into the car by shattering its rear window and
later they drove it away with
the use of a duplicate key.
inspection, police found
consumed
sunflower
seeds scattered in the
car. The identity of the
accused were determined
following a DNA-based
testing conducted on
the sunflower seeds. The
men, including twin
brothers were charged
with stealing the car and
breaking its window. 5
FRAUDSTER GETS
FIVE YEARS IN JAIL
ID card misuse
DT News Network
Manama
Taking advantage of the opportunity,
the defendant headed to a telecommunication company and used the victim’s
identity card to buy a new mobile phone
under a monthly instalment scheme. T
he High Criminal Court
has sentenced an Asian
to five years in jail for
committing fraud.
The defendant allegedly
used his friend's identity
card to purchase a mobile
phone without the latter's
permission. It was claimed
that the victim - also an
Asian- gave his identity
card to the defendant after
the latter promised to help
him to get a job. Taking advantage of
the
opportunity,
the
defendant
headed
to
a
telecommunication
company and used the
friend’s identity card to
buy a new mobile phone
under a monthly instalment
scheme. "He gave back the
identity card to me and
I was waiting for a good
news. But, instead, one of
my friends alerted me when
I told him that I gave my
card to him," the victim said
in his statement given to the
public prosecution.
Wallet theft lands duo in prison
DT News Network
Manama
T
wo persons have been
jailed for six months for
stealing a wallet from a car.
The victim initially didn't
report the incident as the
stolen items were of meagre
value.
However, he later filed a
complaint against them after
he discovered the arrest of
the duo in connection with a
different case.
The duo was captured
along with a third person
while they were travelling in
a car suspiciously.
The latter, however, was not
involved in the wallet theft.
The defendants reportedly
used a duplicate key to unlock
the victim's car. The duo was
captured along
with a third
person while
they were
travelling on a
car suspiciously
BSB on way
to world class
Manama
he British School of Bahrain is on a
very healthy upward curve.
Following A level results where
43 per cent of results were at A*
or A grade, the leadership of the
s chool is tr a n s fo r m i n g t he l e a r n i n g
s o th a t it is s h ot t hr o u g h w i t h e n q u i r y
based l ea r n ing, p r o b l e m s o l v i n g a n d
interactive teaching and learning
meth od ologies .
Parents and students have commented
on the positive climate for learning
and the leadership team is ambitious
for the school to enjoy ever greater
T
numbers of students securing places at
top universities round the world.
With success in TIMSS 2011, top A
level results, excellence in MUN, World
Scholars’ Cup and Duke of Edinburgh
Award, the school is set to become truly
world class over the next year as it brings
in the IB Diploma Programme alongside
the A level and BTEC programmes on
offer in Sixth Form.
To find out more, and to get a feel for
the constructive energy that abounds at
the BSB, come to the BSB Open Evening
on Wednesday, November 12, starting
at 5:30pm.
"I was told that he (the
defendant) is a fraudster
and he purchased many
mobile phones and cell
numbers using the same
trick," he added.
The victim came to know
about the fraud after he
was advised to visit the
local telecommunication
A representative photo.
companies to inquire if any
purchases were made under
his name. Prosecutors
said that the defendant
sold the phone for BD220
and pocketed the money.
Judges have ordered for
his immediate deportation
once he completes his jail
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Israeli aggression
ACTIVIST CRITICISES
SELECTIVE SILENCE
Mohammed Zafran
T
he crisis in the Middle East
could escalate very quickly
if Israel keeps disrespecting Al
Aqsa Mosque, opined Nassar
Al Fadhala, a leading activist for
Palestine and Ex-Parliamentarian.
The activist’s statement
attains significance in light of
Israeli forces closing Al Aqsa
Mosque, Islam’s third holiest
site, for a day last week. The
act had drawn severe criticism
from the Arab world.
Adding fuel to the fire, Israeli
Housing Minister Uri Ariel had
said that Israel would eventually
replace Al-Aqsa Mosque with a
Jewish temple. Speaking to DT News, Mr. Al
Fadhala said that many extremist
Mr. Al Fadhala
groups including ISIS was aiming
to reach Jerusalem and any
threat to Al Aqsa mosque would
motivate extremists to engage in
violence.
“I don’t believe that the
extremist groupings including
ISIS are fighting for the Islamic
cause. They are in efforts to
Al Aqsa Mosque
acquire land and oil under the
name of Islam. Their strategy is
very simple - use Islamic causes
for more violence. For instance,
they easily gain legitimacy by
telling their followers that they
are fighting to liberate Al Aqsa
Mosque. These aggressions will
help them in radicalising people.
Israel’s barbaric acts are breeding
hate and contempt, which could
explode to astounding levels,” he
explained.
Quoting the Kingdom’s
Minister of State for Information
Affairs and official Government
spokesperson Sameera Rajab,
Mr. Al Fadhala said that ISIS
had been recruiting scores
of Bahrainis. “It’s high time
we control the fanning of
sectarianism in the country
by bringing back Bahraini
nationals fighting abroad,” he
asserted.
Condemning the global
Media for its selective silence
following the Israeli aggression,
he lamented, “The West is
maintaining a silence on this
sensitive issue. They are just
covering up for the Israelis. By
doing so, they are hiding crimes
against humanity.”
BAC to
close
Car Park C
DT News Network
T
he
Bahrain Airport
Company
(BAC)
yesterday
announced
the closure of Bahrain
International
Airport’s
Car Park C as part of the
preparation to the airport
modernisation programme
that will commence early next
year.
Car Park C entrances
will be closed starting from
November 15th, 2014, while
all passenger cars should
exit Car Park C the latest by
December 15th, 2014, said a
statement issued by the BAC.
Commenting
on
the
closure, Chief Executive
Officer of BAC Facility
Management Udo Soicke
said, “To compensate for the
closure of Car Park C, we
will ensure that Car Parks B,
D, and E ready to provide an
alternative long-term parking
solution.”
7
Yasser Arafat
The hero who won
PalesTinian hearTs
Sarah Benhaida
Ramallah
F
or decades, Yasser Arafat
was the incarnation
of the Palestinian fight for
independence. Ten years
after his death, he remains
a national hero for a still
stateless people.
When he died on
November 11, 2004, he was
the president of a moribund
Palestinian Authority, an
interim body set up in 1994
which was to have handed
power to a permanent
government by 1999.
His successor Mahmud
Abbas has managed to obtain
the UN rank of observer
state, but on the ground the
Palestinians still await their
own state some 66 years after
Israel was established.
“It was Arafat who was
the first to take the painful
decision to recognise the
1967 lines and abandon
78 per cent of historic
Palestine and open the way
to coexistence,” said Xavier
Abu Eid, spokesman for
the Palestine Liberation
Organisation (PLO), which
signed the 1993 Oslo peace
accords with Israel.
But when the interim
Internal
squabbling
A
s leader of Fatah, which Arafat
founded in the late 1950s,
Abbas also faces internal battles.
“Arafat embodied a secular
nationalism that has lost a
lot of ground as a result of the
Islamisation of the Palestinian
question,” Bitar said.
From the occupied West Bank
to Gaza, the same refrain can be
heard: “There would never have
been any Palestinian division
under Arafat.”
Palestinians are unanimous
in their belief he would not
have allowed the quasi civil war
between Fatah and Hamas in 2007,
which saw the Islamist movement
ousting their rivals from Gaza and
the establishment of two separate
administrations.
In fact, said Brown: “Even
Hamas is respectful of his
memory.”
The Islamist movement also
recognises him as some kind of
father figure, although not to the
extent that it has permitted an
annual public memorial to be held
in Gaza.
Always dressed in his trademark
fatigues and traditional keffiyeh
headscarf, Arafat “was certainly
leader of Fatah but he was also a
national symbol,” said Brown.
Arafat’s death still remains a
mystery with some research
indicating he may have been
poisoned by polonium, a theory
which is accepted by much of the
Palestinian street.
(AFP)
“He was a
revolutionary
but not a
statesman,
he was born
for action and
communication,
not for strategic
thinking”
Yasser Arafat
period ended without a
permanent agreement in
1999 and the US-led Camp
David peace talks collapsed
a year later, things went
from bad to worse with
the outbreak of the second
intifada, or Palestinian
uprising (2000-2005).
As
the
situation
deteriorated, Israel depicted
Arafat himself as the
main obstacle to peace,
suggesting a new era
was at hand when he
died.
“In
2004,
Israel said
the main
obstacle to peace was gone,
and said it would work with
the new elected president,”
Abu Eid said.
“But a few months later,
they withdrew from Gaza,
a unilateral decision taken
without any coordination
with Mahmud Abbas,” he
said of Israel’s withdrawal of
all troops and settlers
from the Gaza Strip
in August 2005.
(AFP)
A member of the Israeli security forces fires tear gas in front
of a graffiti of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on
Israel’s controversial separation-barrier during clashes with
Palestinian demonstrators at the Israeli Qalandia checkpoint
between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on
November 7, 2014, following a protest against Israel’s restrictions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Personal
charisma
A
lthough Abbas took over as head of both the
PLO and the Palestinian Authority, and leader
of the Fatah movement -- such organisations
are “much less imposing” than they used to be
under Arafat, said Nathan Brown, non-resident
senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington.
Popularly known as Abu Ammar, Arafat
“exercised a personal charisma but he didn’t
know how to delegate, to build institutions or
plan for the future,” said Karim Bitar of the Parisbased Institute for International and Strategic
Relations.
“He was a revolutionary but not a statesman,
he was born for action and communication, not
for strategic thinking,” he told AFP.
“Exiled to Tunis, he wanted to come back to
Palestine so he made huge concessions without
getting any guarantees over a halt to settlement
(building) or an end of the occupation,” Bitar
said.
“He only got promises which were never
fulfilled.”
Palestinians are still condemning Israeli
settlement building and trying to secure a
timetable for the creation of a state within the
1967 lines.
8
Speak
@bna_en
“
Four Islamic
terrorists planned
to kill Queen
Elizabeth
II
this weekend - but British
police foiled the plot
“
@nypost
“
@WSJ
N e a r l y
5,000 people have died
from the Ebola
virus disease in
three West African countries:
North Korea
releases
detained
US
nationals Kenneth
Bae and Matthew Todd
Miller, US officials say
@bbcnews_ticker
“
Nuclear
weapons...
produc[ed]
reluctance to
get the conflict
started at all.” - Kissinger
discussing Cold War at
CFR
“
@CFR_org
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@ForeignPolicy
The United
States has
misinterpreted the end of
Communism
for a quarter of a century
New dads
now face
the same calculus
that
women have
been making for decades: family vs. career
“
@nytimes
A
dying
w o m a n
was granted
her last wish
after
her
beloved horse visited her
in hospital
“
@Independent
Drug gang
members
have
confessed to killing 43 students after police found
human remains.
@TheSunNewspaper
“
Civilian,
military
backbone of
US
nuclear
weapons system showing cracks; no
clear repair plan
@AP
Readers’ VIEW
Beware of dangers
of self-medication
Dear sir,
It is reported that a
number of people have
been admitted to hospitals
in Bahrain after taking
overdose of paracetamol.
Popping pills without a
doctor’s prescription, even
if the ailment is minor, could
have serious repercussions.
We’ve often heard of people
who ‘self-medicate’ and
generally this is a term
that is used with negative
connotations. Partly the
reason for this is that the
things people choose to
self-medicate for and their
chosen ‘medications’ are
not fully advisable. For
instance the most common
form of self-medicating is to
self-medicate for depression
and this never leads down a
healthy route.
One of the most common
forms of self-medication – this
essentially is a misnomer and
rarely has anything to do with
actual medication. Instead
it often just means trying to
take drugs of various kinds in
order to numb the symptoms
– often by numbing the
thoughts.
For
instance
people can ‘self-medicate’ for
depression through the use
of alcohol and will thus drink
to ‘forget’ or just in order to
numb the thoughts and the
emotions associated with
their depression. This works
because alcohol will shut
down the higher order brain
functions thereby causing
a lack of rumination and
thought.
In short turning to alcohol as
a form of self-medication can
result in your making seriously
damaging decisions that hurt
you and those you love, it
can result in poor judgments
that damage your career and
your relationships and the
actual physical changes that
occur as a result of alcohol
consumption will do more
harm than good anyway.
Other ways to self-medicate
for depression can include the
use of drugs and these might
be either pharmaceutical
or recreational. Using
pharmaceutical drugs to treat
depression without the advice
of a doctor might seem like
a slightly safer route to go
down, but it can still very
much cause problems. Some
antidepressants such as forms
of GABA are available over the
counter or online and these
can have mood enhancing
effects. However there are
also many different forms
of these medications and
the vast range means it can
be hard to choose the right
medication for your specific
condition. What doesn’t help
is the fact that most of these
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negative effects and not all of
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analgesics (painkillers) in
order to self-medicate for pain
and this is considered normal.
If you can use a paracetamol
in order to help yourself cope
with a headache or back
ache then this is a good idea
and will have relatively few
consequences if any.
At the same time though it is
still important to use caution
and this means making sure
to speak to your doctor about
your use of medication and
not to overdo it. Paracetamol
like anything needs to be
taken in moderation and can
cause death if you overdose
too radically. Likewise over
use can also cause problems –
lowering your pain threshold
for instance, or in the case of
ibuprofen causing damage to
the stomach lining and liver.
Another reason not to use
painkillers too readily is that
completely eradicating pain
is a bad idea in itself – pain
has evolved for a reason and
serves and important purpose
in the body. If you have a
back ache for instance and
you medicate to the point of
not noticing it, then you will
be less careful and less aware
of which movements can
cause injury – and this may of
course result in your setting
back your recovery.
Meanwhile the use of
something like aspirin for
bleeding or with low blood
pressure would be a problem
as aspiring works by thinning
the blood – this would then
lower blood pressure further
and prevent the formation
of scabs. Likewise other
medications for pain can
again have interactions with
other medication. So yes, selfmedicate with paracetamol
and other painkillers if you are
experiencing acute pain, but
do so with moderation and
speak to your doctor first. And
for all the same reasons listed
above, don’t try to medicate
for pain with drugs or alcohol
as it will cause other damage
to your body and result in
other negative consequences.
James Joseph
MIDDLE EAST
Soaring tensions
ARAB-ISRAELI
SHOT DEAD
Not only, but also
Arthur Macdonald
A HARD RAINS
GONNA TO FALL?
W
Palestinian youths use sledgehammers to break parts from a concrete segment of the controversial Israeli separation wall in the West Bank village.
Jerusalem
ecurity forces yesterday
shot dead a young ArabIsraeli during a confrontation
triggered by the attempted
arrest of a relative, police said.
The dawn killing in Kfar
Kana in northern Israel comes
against a backdrop of soaring
Israeli-Palestinian tensions
in annexed east Jerusalem
where there have been neardaily clashes in flashpoint
neighbourhoods.
The 22-year-old intervened
in the arrest of one of his
relatives, threatening the
officers with a knife, according
to a police statement.
After firing warning shots,
the police shot him and he
died on the way to hospital,
it said.
S
EU calls for Palestinian state
The top EU diplomat appealed yesterday for the
establishment of a Palestinian state as the killing of a young
Arab-Israeli by police fanned tensions following violent
clashes in Jerusalem.
Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s new foreign
affairs chief, said the world “cannot afford” another war in
the Gaza Strip.
“We need a Palestinian state -- that is the ultimate goal and
this is the position of all the European Union,” Mogherini
said during a trip to Gaza, devastated by its third conflict in
six years.
Dozens of angry youths set
up barricades and set fire to
tyres yesterday on the outskirts
of the village, said the police.
Security forces dispersed
the
crowds
and
sent
reinforcements.
Dozens killed
in Yemen
Sanaa
l-Qaeda
claimed
its
militants
killed
“dozens” of rebels in Yemen
on yesterday, hours after
the formation of a new
government intended to take
the strife-torn country out of
crisis.
The cabinet was formed
shortly before the UN Security
Council slapped sanctions
against influential former
president Ali Abdullah Saleh
and two rebel commanders
for threatening peace.
And in apparent retaliation
on yesterday, Saleh’s General
People’s Congress party
sacked from its leadership
Yemeni President Abdrabuh
A
Mansur Hadi, following
accusations he solicited the
sanctions.
In the latest violence,
Al-Qaeda claimed twin
attacks that it said killed
“dozens” of Huthis in the
central region of Rada.
The new government
was formed as part of a
UN-brokered peace deal
under which the Huthis are
supposed to withdraw from
the capital Sanaa, which
they seized control of in
September.
Though the Huthis, who are
also known as Ansarullah, are
not directly represented in the
new government, six of their
members are considered close
Arab Israelis, who account
for about 20 per cent of
Israel’s population, are the
descendants of Palestinian
Arabs who remained on their
land when the Jewish state was
established in 1948. (AFP)
In the latest violence, Al-Qaeda
claimed twin
attacks that it
said killed “dozens” of Huthis
in the central
region of Rada
to the insurgents.
Washington, which sees
Hadi as a key ally in the fight
against Al-Qaeda, welcomed
the new cabinet and encouraged
the impoverished Arab nation
to overcome partisan politics
after the weeks of turmoil.
The US National Security
Council called on all
political actors “to continue
to cooperate in the new
government,” according to
spokeswoman
Bernadette
Meehan. (AFP)
9
e live in interesting times – or not!
I am personally getting a bit worried
about politics.
I sat up the other night watching the US midterm elections and was deeply disappointed with
the results.
As an old fashioned Scottish lefty I tend to
lean with the Democrats rather than the Grand
Old Party.
But it was not so much the fact that the
Republicans have taken control of both the Senate
and the House of Representatives that worried me
all that much.
It was the leading Republicans who were
celebrating their victories that really concerned
me.
There was some old buffer who had just
triumphed yet again for the Senate whose victory
speech claimed: Let’s take back the country.
Now this guy could give me a few years and is
quite clearly totally addled.
But I can’t get over the idea that a majority of
people in whatever backwater state he represents
thought someone had taken over America.
The last time the country across the pond
was invaded it was by British troops in the late
1770s. Even then it was not really an invasion
given that it was technically still part of the British
Empire.
Since the War of Independence no one has
invaded the US and the closest they have had to
an attack from overseas came from the Japanese
in 1941, and even then the Japs just dropped a
few bombs on an outlying US controlled island
in the Pacific.
But the guy who will probably lead the
Republicans in the Senate next year seemed to
think someone has taken his country over.
The only thing that was more frightening than
this was a woman who successfully campaigned
on the issue that she gained her political know
how castrating pigs when she was a teenager.
She won!
It makes you wonder if Sarah Palin is now
regarded as a wimpish liberal by the Republican
electors.
Perhaps the republican guy has a point. It
would appear that the US electorate recently
arrived from another planet.
But we do not really have to worry about this
for the next two years.
The fact that Congress in now dominated by
people who probably whittle bits of wood or
dream of castrating Democrats during debates
probably makes no difference.
The US president has already made it clear that
he will not sign any bills they pass which he does
not like.
And while the change in the balance of power
has seen Barack Obama described as a lame duck
president he still has the right to veto anything the
backwoodsmen come up with.
More importantly, in spite of a resurgence
in the Republican vote, most pollsters are still
confident that the next president will be Hilary
Clinton.
Strange people the yanks – unless you look at
the Brits.
If you read the British press these days you
would believe that in Scotland, Labour is about
to be swept away by a surge in nationalist support
while in the UK the people’s party is about to sack
its leader six months before the general election.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Certainly in the north the nationalists, in
the wake of their defeat in the independence
referendum, are peaking in the polls.
But they are glowing like the dying embers of a
fire on bonfire night.
By the time the snow melts in the spring
everything will return to normal and a slightly
pinkish red flag will be flying in Scotland rather
than some Tartan banner.
Down south the English nationalists who want
to leave the European Union will become an
addendum in history as their ideas sweep the
Tories from power and Ed Miliband, currently
the least popular leader of a British political
party, will be discussing curtain material for
Number 10 with his wife.
He will probably get his way with a reddish
tint.
What are my views on the Bahrain elections?
Well there I am stumped.
At times it is difficult to work out what people
actually want in the UK because the two main
parties continue to move closer to each other in
every issue other than Europe.
In the US the gun lobbying anti big government
brigade give republicans the problem that when
we get to real power no one is going back to the
days of Reagan, who was only semi compos mentis
in his second term or Bush the younger who spent
eight years still addled from his drinking, drugs
and draft dodging days.
But for the life of me I have not got a clue what
any candidate has ever stood for in an election in
Bahrain.
Until the Kingdom wakes up to the fact
that without taxation there can be no real
representation that is likely to remain the status
quo.
In real politics the electorates occasionally act
like they have just arrived from the planet Zarg.
But when push comes to shove in the real
world they think about economics and wiser
council prevails.
That is why real power in the US, no matter
what happened the other week, will remain in the
hands of the Democrats in the big election in two
years time.
That is why the British Empire loyalist brigade
will beach the Tories with their anti European
economic illiteracy.
That is why, and I look forward to this, come
May the Scottish Nationalists will begin the long
long overdue slide into the abyss of political and
economic irrelevance.
Am a wrong in this?
We shall see.
We live in interesting times.
(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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Middle east
In BrIef
Obama doubles US troops
in Iraq
Washington
The US President Barack
Obama has unveiled plans to
send 1,500 additional troops
to Iraq to help Baghdad government forces strike back at
Islamic State jihadists, roughly doubling the number of
US soldiers in the country.
The move marked a deepening US commitment in the
open-ended war against the
IS group, three months since
American aircraft launched
air strikes against the extremists.
The move extends the US
training and advising mission to new areas as Iraqi and
Kurdish forces prime themselves to recapture ground
lost to the IS group, including in the volatile Anbar
province in the west.
Qaeda ‘tried’ to kill US
envoy to Yemen
Sanaa
Al-Qaeda said yesterday it
had tried to assassinate the
US ambassador to Yemen
with two bombs that were
discovered minutes before
they were due to explode.
The explosives were
planted on Thursday outside the house of President
Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, the
media arm of Al-Qaeda’s
Yemen branch said in a statement posted on Twitter. They
were intended to be detonated when Ambassador
Matthew Tueller left following a roughly hour-long visit
to the house in the Yemeni
capital Sanaa, it said.
Air rAids hit
syriA oil field
Battling extremism
Beirut
S-led air strikes hit jihadist
positions in the north and
east of Syria, including an oil
field, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said yesterday.
The raids against the Islamic
State (IS) group came as the
jihadists shelled a camp for
people displaced from the
flashpoint Syrian town of
Kobane, killing two civilians,
said the monitoring group.
“Four explosions were heard
during the night in Deir Ezzor
province (eastern Syria), caused
by US-Arab air strikes in the
area of the Tanak oil field and
an IS checkpoint... killing two
people,” said the Observatory.
The
Britain-based
monitoring group, which relies
on a network of sources on the
ground for its reports, said it was
unclear whether the casualties
were jihadists or civilians.
IS controls most oil fields
in Deir Ezzor province, which
borders Iraq.
The US-led coalition, which
launched strikes against jihadist
positions in Syria in September,
also hit IS militants in Kobane.
Syrian Kurdish forces backed
by rebels and Iraqi peshmerga
fighters have been battling to
expel IS from the town, most of
whose residents have fled.
U
A Syrian rebel fighting group climbs down the side of a mountain on the Syrian side of the
Qalamun hills close to the Lebanese borders yesterday.
IS shelling yesterday killed
two civilians and wounded
four others, including a child,
at a camp for people forced
by violence from Kobane to
the west of the town, said the
Observatory.
Separately, the monitor said
fighting on Thursday night in
a majority Druze region near
Lebanon killed 31 combatants
loyal to Syria’s President
Bashar al-Assad and 14 rebels,
including Al-Qaeda militants, in
an updated toll.
A Lebanese security source
told AFP that 11 rebel fighters
wounded in the latest clashes
that had been prevented by
Lebanese soldiers from crossing
the mountainous border area to
seek medical treatment.
Later, the Lebanese army
allowed a medical team to travel
to the border area in order to
treat the wounded there.
The US-led
coalition, which
launched strikes
against jihadist
positions in Syria
in September, also
hit IS militants in
Kobane
Turkish resort
city bars
unauthorised
refugees
Istanbul
he popular Turkish resort
of Antalya has barred
unauthorised refugees from
conflict-torn Syria in a bid
to prevent a possible refugee
wave, local media reported
yesterday. The city asked to be
exempted from a government
decree that grants all Syrian
refugees a number of rights
such as access to education and
health care, as well as work
permits. Police chief Cemil Tonbul said
the Mediterranean resort faced a
“major refugee influx” following
the decree and added that city
authorities would ask refugees,
who failed to register themselves,
to leave in two weeks. “We aren’t accepting any
Syrian refugees unless they
come here through legal
means,” Tonbul was quoted as
saying by Hurriyet newspaper. “For those who refuse to
leave, we will either expel them
from the city of or send them to
the nearest refugee camp.” Antalya is the country’s
primary tourist destination,
attracting about seven million
foreigners each year. It has also become a hub for
illegal immigrants who aspire
to reach Europe. Turkey has maintained an
“open door” policy for all those
fleeing Syria’s civil war and
there are now over 1.5 million
Syrian refugees living in the
country.
T
Art of Living sends relief materials to Iraq
Sri Sri will be visiting
the relief camps
where IAHV will also
hold a conference
titled, “Protecting
Women and
Bringing Stability
and Peace,” in the
Kurdish capital
of Erbil on November 20.
Bangalore (India)
he International Association
for Human Values, a sister
concern of The Art of living
along with few NGOs in Iraq
has collected 110 tonnes of
food supplies to be delivered
to Yazidi refugees on Sinjar
T
mountains. So far the volunteers of the
organisation have air lifted
one and a half tonnes of relief
material to be distributed in the
relief camps.
The Art of living founder,
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had
earlier called on governments
of Europe, America and
India to save thousands of
Yazidis trapped in the Sinjar
Mountains In Iraq. “America
has heeded to our call of help
and yesterday they obliged with
two helicopters to airlift one
and a half tonnes of food grains.
We still have several tonnes
of food grains waiting to be
lifted to the people trapped in
the Sinjar mountains,”shared
Sri Sri.
Sri Sri will be visiting the
relief camps where IAHV
will also hold a conference
titled, “Protecting Women and
Bringing Stability and Peace,”
in the Kurdish capital of Erbil
on November 20.
The Art of Living has
been engaged in spreading
the message of peace and
non-violence in Iraq. Since
September 2003 when Art of
Living began trauma relief
initiatives, around 10,000
people from Iraq have
found relief from the stresselimination
breathing
techniques.
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environmental standards. They
visited the state of the art and
officials received the guests at first in the Middle East carbon
the industrial complex in Sitra. dioxide recovery plant, which
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. helps in reducing harmful
Jawahery said the visit is testi- emissions as a result of factory
mony to the close ties between operations and went around
Bahrain and China. He said the the Academy of Learning and
fact that China and Bahrain Leadership and e-learning
shared very close ties links was which the GPIC has set up to
proved when His Majesty King train students from universities
Hamad visited China last year and academic institutions.
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Economic freedom is based
on the cornerstones of personal choice, voluntary exchange,
freedom to compete, and security of private property.
Research shows that individuals living in countries with
high levels of economic freedom enjoy higher levels of
prosperity, greater individual
freedoms, and longer life
spans.
The report is based on data
from 2010 (the most recent
year available) but also examines more recent data to mark
out trends for individual
nations. This is crucial since
the key question in future years
will be whether the changes
underway result in greater economic freedom or whether
economies in the region continue to stagnate.
The report measures available
data on economic freedom in 22
nations of the League of Arab
States, but due to data limitations, calculations of the overall
level of economic freedom are
only available for 16 jurisdic-
tions:
Algeria,
Bahrain,
Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Tunisia, and UAE. The rankings
are entirely based on third-party
data. The full data sets are available at www.freetheworld.com.
come on the invitation of the
Shura Council Chairman Ali
bin Saleh Al Saleh to discuss
developments in the region
and enhance the bilateral cooperation between the two
countries. Bahrain had in April
hosted a forum to strengthen
Bahraini-Chinese relations. Dr.
Jawahery had also taken part in
that event and had presented
working paper during His Maj-
The report, which has been
presented since 2005, is one of a
number of regional reports
based in part or in whole on the
Fraser
Institute's
annual
Economic Freedom of the
World Report, which ranks the
economic freedom levels of 144
countries.
Visiting delegation with Dr. Jawahery
Mr. Qingli, later planted
a tree to commemorate his
visit and as a contribution to
support environmental orientation. The Chinese delegation’s visit to Bahrain has
esty King Hamad’s visit to China in which he discussed the
outstanding relationship that
linked the company with their
counterparts in China.
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GCC Power 2014 opens tomorrow
Manama
inister for Electricity
and Water Affairs Dr.
Abdul-Hussain Mirza will
patronise the opening ceremony of “GCC Power 2014”
tomorrow. Organised by the
GCC Regional Committee
for Electric Systems (GCC
CIGRE), the conference will
be held between 10th and
12th November. It will attract more than 350 highlevel industry attendees. The
conference aims at giving
participants the opportunity
M
An aerial view of the Bahrain Bay.
Dr. Mirza
MANAGEMENT
THOUGHTS
to learn more about the latest developments in the electricity and energy industry,
in addition to encouraging
collaboration between international commissions, enhancing scientific research
efforts among GCC power
authorities. 60 scientific papers will be discussed during
the three-day event, taking
into consideration variation
and focusing on vital subjects
that tackle the power sector
ongoing and future matters
in the Gulf region, and how
to sustain the growth of this
significant sector through
coming up with fruitful
recommendations.
Attendees will have the
chance to witness the 19th
exhibition
for
electrical
equipment which will be held
during the three-day GCC
Power 2014, gathering more
than 45 exhibitors, showcasing the latest technologies
and power solutions around
the globe, inauguration being at 1045am in the basement. The list of GCC Power
Training isyou
expensive
to impart
“Whatever
are, be a good
one.” as well as to receive.
2014 sponsors combines a
large number of high-profile
power companies, namely: ABB – Diamond sponsor; ALSTOM, HYOSUNG
CORPORATION, Siemens,
Gulf Cable, SEL Middle East
as Gold sponsors; ALBA –
Silver sponsor; Nynas AB
Middle East, Fuji Electric
-Middle East Branch, Qualitrol, Schneider Electric FZE,
Earth Environmental Services as Bronze sponsors; OMICRON Electronics Middle
East – Honorary sponsor.
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BUSINESS
Company reported a 7pc increase in quarterly revenue to $12.39bn
DISNEY’S REVENUE UP
cord performance,” said chief
executive Robert Iger in a statement. The five Marvel movies
that Disney has released since
2009 after buying the brand
have averaged $1bn in worldwide box office sales, he added.
Washington
S entertainment giant Walt
Disney’s fourth quarter
revenue beat market expectations thanks to its recent blockbuster movies. The company
reported a 7per cent increase in
quarterly revenue to $12.39bn
(£7.8bn), above expectations
of $12.36bn. Hit films Guardians of the Galaxy released in
July and Maleficent starring
Angelina Jolie drove its studio
unit growth by almost 18pc.
Disney said it would release another anticipated hit Toy Story
4 in 2017. “Our results for fiscal 2014 were the highest in the
company’s history, marking our
fourth consecutive year of re-
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Revenue at its popular parks
and resorts also rose 7pc on increased attendance and higher
ticket prices for admissions.
But operating income at the
company’s cable networks business fell 1pc in the same period
due sports giant ESPN having to pay higher contract fees
for National Football League
(NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) games.
Mexico defends decision to
scrap Chinese train deal
Nine MH17 crash
victims unidentified
Amsterdam
ine of the 298 victims
of July’s MH17 crash in
eastern Ukraine are still unaccounted for, Dutch Foreign
Minister Bert Koenders has
said. He was speaking after a
ceremony in Kharkiv as another five coffins with remains
were flown to the Netherlands.
The Boeing 777 Malaysian
Airlines was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
when it crashed in territory
held by pro-Russian rebels.
The majority of the victims 193 - were Dutch. Both rebels
and their supporters in Russia
have denied shooting the aircraft down. Investigators have
struggled to gain access to the
site as clashes continue nearby
between Ukrainian government forces and the separatists. Mr Koenders said experts
had already come “a long way”
with the identification process
and would do everything they
could to find more remains.”
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254.1451
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SAUDI
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (centre), Cyprus’ President Nicos
Anastasiades (left) with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Cairo
gypt, Greece and Cyprus
urged Turkey yesterday to
end oil surveys in the island’s
offshore waters, as its president
slammed Ankara for hindering
peace talks through “provocative actions”. Last month Cyprus suspended participation
in UN-led peace talks with
Turkey amid tensions over Ankara’s determination to search
for oil and gas in the same area
where the internationally recognised Nicosia government
has licensed exploratory drilling in its exclusive economic
zone.
Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah Al-Sisi, his Cyprus counterpart Nicos Anastasiades and
Greek Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras urged Turkey to end
these activities in a joint statement dubbed the “Cairo Declaration” after talks yesterday.
The statement urged “Turkey
to cease all seismic survey operations underway within the
maritime zones of Cyprus and
refrain from similar activity in
the future”.
At a news conference with
E
Mexico City
exico defended its abrupt decision to scrap a bullet train deal
with a Chinese-led consortium and
seek new bids after the opposition
questioned the legality of the process.
President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled
the $3.75 billion tender late Thursday,
just three days after the sole bidder, a
group headed by the China Railway
Construction Corp., won the contract
to build Latin America’s first highspeed rail. Pena Nieto will likely have
to personally explain his decision to
Chinese President Xi Jinping when he
flies to China on Sunday for an AsiaPacific summit and a state visit. The
Chinese-Mexican consortium faced no
opposition when it was picked Monday
to build the 210-kilometer (130-mile)
line between Mexico City and the central manufacturing hub of Queretaro.
Companies had been given just 60
days to present an offer even though
some had asked for more time. Sixteen
firms had initially shown interest -- including industry giants Mitsubishi of
Japan, Alstom of France, Bombardier
of Canada and Siemens of Germany --
M
but ultimately stayed out of the contest.
Transport Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said the government would likely
reopen the bidding in late November
and give companies six months to submit an offer.
“Hopefully there will be more participants this time,” Ruiz Esparza told
Radio Formula, insisting that the Chinese group had made an “extraordinary
offer” and would likely submit a new
bid. The newspaper Reforma reported
that the Mexican companies in the consortium are close to Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),
while senators voiced concerns about
the way the contract was awarded during a hearing with Ruiz Esparza on
Thursday.
Senator Javier Lozano told the minister that his conservative National Action Party had “serious doubts, questions, worries about the legality and
transparency of this bidding process.”
The transport minister told local media
everything had taken place within the
law but that the government decided
to restart the bidding to avoid “any
doubts.”(AFP)
Sisi and Samaras, Anastasiades
lashed out at Ankara. “Turkey’s
provocative actions do not just
compromise the peace talks,
but also affect security in the
eastern Mediterranean region,”
he said. Samaras also called
Turkey’s exploration in Cypriot
waters “completely unacceptable”. A Turkish survey vessel last month encroached on
Cyprus’s exclusive economic
zone off its south coast, Nicosia charged. Ankara had given
notice that a Turkish seismic
vessel would carry out a survey
until December 30 in the same
area where an Italian-Korean
energy consortium is operating.
Turkish troops invaded and
occupied the northern third
of Cyprus in 1974 in response
to an Athens-engineered coup
aimed at uniting it with Greece,
and the peace talks are aimed at
reunifying the island. Ankara
opposes the Cyprus government’s exploitation of offshore
energy reserves before agreement is reached on solving
the decades-long division of
the east Mediterranean island.
(AFP)
BUSINESS
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US RESISTANCE,
APEC CAUTIOUS
China-backed free-trade zone
Dan Martin
Beijing
A
Pacific Rim summit yesterday voiced cautious
support for a vast free-trade
zone proposal being pushed by
China in the face of reported
resistance from the United
States, which is promoting
its own regional trade pact.
China’s promotion of the Free
Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
(FTAAP) idea -- and the narrative of Sino-US trade rivalry
on the issue -- has loomed as a
major agenda item at the diplomatic gathering in Beijing.
A joint statement by foreign
ministers of the 21-member
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum called
for steps to be taken to “translate the FTAAP from a vision
to reality”.
But it agreed to launch a
“strategic study” on FTAAP,
avoiding China’s calls for a “feasibility study” on the concept.
The wording of next week’s final summit communique has
been toned down in a compromise by Beijing after the
United States objected to use
of the term, according to a report by the Hong Kong’s South
China Morning Post (SCMP).
It quoted a US official saying
Washington objected “because
when you use the word feasibility study, it’s used in trade talks
as implying the launch of a negotiation towards a free-trade
agreement.”
The ministers’ statement also
made no mention of a 2025
target date for realising the
FTAAP, which had been floated earlier. The same language is
expected in the joint commu-
nique Tuesday at the end of a
two-day summit of top leaders
hosted by Chinese host President Xi Jinping and including
US President Barack Obama
plus his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin. The FTAAP
will be mentioned only in an
annex to the communique, and
not the main statement, the
SCMP said.
Beijing is hosting APEC -which accounts for 40 percent
of the world’s population, almost half its trade, and more
than half its GDP -- for the first
time since 2001, and is using
the gathering to underline its
growing global economic clout.
China is now the world’s second-largest economy following
the United States, and is increasingly pushing for a greater
say over the global trade and
economic architecture.
Kingfisher shares face suspension
Mr. Mallya (centre)
New Delhi
hares of India’s grounded
Kingfisher Airlines face suspension, stock exchanges have
announced, hammering another nail in the coffin of the carrier founded by self-crowned
“King of Good Times” tycoon
Vijay Mallya. The heavily indebted airline, once India’s sec-
S
ond-largest by passenger share,
has never turned a profit since
its launch in 2005. The company has defaulted on payments
to banks, airports and leasing firms and employees, and
owners of its planes have taken
many of them back. The shares
will be suspended at the start of
next month unless Kingfisher
declares long-overdue financial
results, stock market authorities said.
Trading in shares of Mallya Group Company UB Engineering will also be suspended.
“Trading in the securities of the
companies would be suspended
with effect from December 1,
2014,” the Bombay Stock Exchange said in a website notice
yesterday.” The suspension will
continue till such time the company complies (with financial
reporting requirements),” the
exchange said.
The National Stock Exchange
made a similar announcement.
Kingfisher said in August it
would “take steps” to publish its
results for last year and for the
first financial quarter to June,
but added operating with “skeletal staff ” made balance-sheet
preparation tough.(AFP)
JPMorgan cuts retail banking jobs
J
New York
PMorgan Chase will cut
3,000 more jobs than previously planned this year in
its retail banking businesses,
bringing the total to 11,000, a
senior executive said yesterday.
The US banking giant had announced in February it would
trim its retail banking unit by
about 8,000 by the end of the
year. But Gordon Smith, chief
executive of Chase Consumer
& Community Banking, told
a Boston conference that the
company was moving more
swiftly in downsizing. In the
non-mortgage consumer banking business, where about 2,000
jobs had been planned for elimination, Smith said the company was on track to exit the year
with 4,000 fewer people. The
mortgage business will see an
additional 1,000 jobs cut, for a
total of roughly 7,000, he said.
The staff reductions at the largest US bank by assets are part of
a cost-cutting program aimed
at reducing spending by $2 billion in the mortgage business
and by 1.0 percent for the rest
of the retail banking operations.
China’s President Xi Jinping (centre) speaks to other leaders attending the Dialogue On
Strengthening Connectivity Partnership at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.
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14 Sunday, November 9, 2014
The environment, recycling
and smart cities
Suad Alhalwachi
[email protected]
is
The most difficult thing st
the decision to act, the re
is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
KNOW INDIA PROJECT
I
was involved with the smart city conference
in which few students came to our office
to discuss what makes a smart city as they
had to do a project to win amongst the
various participants of the conference. I am
actually intrigued with the relentlessness of
the organizers of that conference and how
they kept the youth occupied and share ideas
to make our world a better place to live it. Of
course the consensus in that conference was
smart city is synonym to a clean city, the one
that cares about the future generation and the
world that we live in. The students were then
grouped into many groups to discuss what is
next. Top executives including myself were
asked to listen to the groups and give them
some advice to see if that idea can be put into
practice.
Basically the consensus of what makes a Smart
City is to help humanity, its People, its Kids, and
the Education system by educating them on Energy
Conservation in order to protect the Environment
The students agreed that we can create an
Application (since everyone holds a smart phone
these days) of some sort of a Game to be played
by school kids by using Echo currencies. The
game will be developed by obtaining CSR Money
from various companies especially those that are
damaging the environment.
The people will have the Awareness by having
a Public Wifi everywhere including parking places
and by attracting the youth to play the game, start
from the roads.
The game will later on be developed into a proper
Course and the teachers will be encouraged to use
that game in the classroom. And what starts in
the primary schools will go on to become an interschool and inter-universities competition.
This is a very ambitious plan, obviously the
students that were at the conference were all from a
high socio economic background which gave them
the freedom to think outside the box.
I was thinking about this fact since the conference
happened in April, so when I went to Bahrain I
was looking to see what is happening there about
protecting the environment when one artist invited
me to a talk on recycling.
This talk was an eye opener, the artist is relentless
on gathering items that are abandoned like bottles,
tyres, broken doors, windows, tables, items that
have no value but can be used somehow, and she
managed to create works of art that is sold for
large sums of money. She also gathered a lot of her
materials by asking the kids who are out of school
to provide her with the recycled materials and once
her art is sold, she would pay those kids a reward.
This reward made those kids bring her more items
from many places. So basically she killed few birds
with one stone.
Noof Alrefai is one of the art geniuses in Bahrain,
she is a lawyer, born to a father who is an artist
and lied all her life in Bahrain, she cares about her
community and refuses to believe that things cannot
be repaired. She is working now with the united
nations to do a park from recycled materials, as she
started one on a smaller scale in the center that she
rents her studio in. Some of the pictures can be seen
here from her art and the garden.
Year 2 students at the British School of Bahrain toured India to
learn more on the country’s cultural mosaic including its cuisine,
textiles, arts, crafts, stories, dance, music, games and geography.
The tour is being conducted as part of the project, in which students are asked to create their own Indian museum.
Marching ahead
Student scouts of New Vision School performing a parade before the morning
assembly.
In efforts to know more on flora and fauna, students of the Eastern School Kindergarten celebrated the plants and animals day.
MEANINGFUL TIPS
TO STRESS-FREE LIFE
Tenth standard students of The Asian School had counselling sessions conducted by Dr. Bhramara of Royal
Bahrain Hospital and Rev. Fr. Gasper Fernandes of the Sacred Heart Church. It was an enlightening session,
which highly impressed the students. While Dr. Bhramara’s session emphasised “stress-free learning”, Fr.
Gasper Fernandes enthralled students with his talk on “The Meaning of Life”.
Bringing an inner transformation
A
n enlightening and enriching session was conducted
for the students of The New Indian School for classes
X-XII. Eminent spiritual Gurus Santosh M. and Santosh
Subramaniam of the Chinmaya Mission addressed the
students. Director and Principal, Dr. V. Gopalan welcomed
the gathering. Emphasis was laid on bringing about an inner
transformation of students in order to transform the world
beyond them.
One needs to pause and ponder; educate one’s own
emotions; appreciate others; overcome their fears and
evolve as emotionally stable human beings and take the
first step towards making the world a better place. The
students enthusiastically participated in the session. There
was an overwhelming response amongst the audience.
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His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa paid a visit to the Kingdom’s southern region yesterday. HM the King was informed
about the efforts of the Supreme Council for Environment, led by His Majesty’s Personal Representative HH Shaikh Abdulla bin
Hamad Al Khalifa. His Majesty also reviewed the progress of the Houbara Conservation Project aimed at providing breeding
habitats for the Houbara birds in the Southern Governorate and protect them from overhunting and poaching. While feeding a
Hubara bird, King Hamad hailed the success of the project.
Industry and Commerce Minister Dr. Hassan Fakhro paid a field visit to Art Rotana Hotel in Amwaj Island yesterday. During his visit, the minister was received by businessmen Khaled Al Sharif, Saud Kanoo a
General Manager Joe Batshon. The minister pointed out the efforts taken by the Government in order to promote the Kingdom of Bahrain as an appropriate destination.
A Chinese delegation headed by Zhang Qingli, Vice-Chairman and Secretary General of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference visited the Gulf Petrochemical Industri
Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery, members of the Executive Management, the chairman and deputy chairman of the Labour Union and senior officials received the guests at the industrial complex in Sitra. Speaking
visit was a testimony to the close ties between Bahrain and China.
and Jamil Al Matrook along with hotel
ies Company (GPIC). Company President
g on the occasion, Dr. Jawahery said the
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S u p r e m e
Council
for
Youth and Sport
Chairman and
Bahrain Olympic
Committee
President
HH
Shaikh Nasser
bin Hamad Al
Khalifa bagged
the third spot in
the International
Championship
Dubai Triathlon.
(Above) Glimpses
of the event.
Mogadishu
Mayor
Hassan
Mohamed
Hussein hosted a dinner
banquet in honour of
the Secretary General
of the Royal Charity
Organisation
and
his
accompanying
delegation yesterday.
Mogadishu
Mayor
lauded His Majesty King
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s
initiatives in support of
the Somali people, and
commended the efforts
of RCO Board of Trustees
Chairman HH Shaikh
Nasser bin Hamad Al
Khalifa in implementing
development projects
in Somalia, noting that
the Kingdom has played
a pioneering role in
development projects
in Somalia for over 20
years.
Indian Community Relief Fund (ICRF) will hold the sixth edition of the annual art carnival titled ‘Spectra 2014’ at The Indian School in Bahrain on Friday. The event
is expected to see the participation of as many as 1200 students from various schools in Bahrain. The annual event aims at unearthing artistic talent among the
youths. The winning entries and other outstanding creations will feature in the wall calendars and desk-top calendars for the yar 2015. (Above) Indian Embassy
First Secretary Ram Singh, ICRF Chairman Bhagawan Asarpota and other officials attending the Press conference yesterday.
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Robin Williams’ death officially declared suicide
Lily
Los Angeles
he coroner in Marin County,
California has officially ruled
actor Robin Williams’ death a
suicide by asphyxia due to hanging.
No alcohol or illegal drugs
were involved, according to the
T
statement released on Friday,
reports variety.com.
Williams was found dead on
August 11 at his home in the
Northern California town of
Tiburon. According to the autopsy
report, prescription drugs for
Parkinson’s disease, anxiety and
depression were found at normal
levels. The late actor’s family
revealed shortly after his death that
Williams had been suffering from
all three conditions.
“It is our hope in the wake
Lily thanks
husband for
support after
stillbirth
Kareena doubts
she’ll ever cut her
tresses for role
Mumbai
ill she, won’t she? KareenaKapoor has
her doubts if she’ll ever agree to go for a
short haircut for a movie role as she loves her
locks too much. In fact, she wants to grow
them longer now.
“I don’t know if I would chop my hair
for any role, no matter how fascinating it
will be. I love my hair...and by cutting
them, I will lose my hair brand
endorsement,” Kareena told IANS.
She said she’s growing her hair.
“In my career graph, I had
mid-length hair, but now I
want to have long tresses,”
said the actress.
W
London
inger Lily Allen has praised her husband Sam Cooper for
helping her cope with the death of her still-born son.
The 29-year-old star, who struggled to deal with her
stillbirth back in November, 2010, has thanked her partner
for his support in an interview on “The Jonathan Ross
Show”, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“I think it’s difficult for anybody regardless of what
world they live in and actually what I took home
from that experience was ... even though it
was the most unfortunate thing that can ever
happen to a person, I was very fortunate in the
sense that I have a loving partner to go home
to and share that experience with,” she said
about her stillbirth.
The Sheezus star, who has two daughters,
says that the tragic ordeal has taught her to
count her blessings.
“There are many women - (there are) 17
stillbirths in the UK every day - that go home
and they don’t have that support, they have to
go home and deal with that on their own, so I am
kind of in a bit of a... count-my-blessings scenario,”
she added.
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Keith loves
watching
Kidman dance
Los Angeles
ctress Nicole Kidman says she danced
for her husband Keith Urban
at home and he loved it.
“Last night. I was watching
Dancing with the Stars, and I got
up and danced to an old Captain
& Tennille song, Love Will Keep
Us Together. Keith was like,
“‘Gosh, please continue
to do that till the
day we die!’,” the
actress told people.
com when asked
about the last time she
danced.
The couple tied
t h e
knot in 2006 and have
two children - Sunday and Faith together.
The 47-year-old
beauty also said that
the last time she was
embarrassed was when
she was shooting for
Genius with Colin
Firth and Jude Law.
A
Keith and Kidman
of Robin’s tragic passing, that
others will find the strength to
seek the care and support they
need to treat whatever battles
they are facing so they may feel
less afraid,” his wife Susan said
at the time.
Robin
Kareena
Hugh Jackman
Clarkson wants Hugh Jackman
to ‘squeeze’
onstage
daughter cute Losbleeds
Angeles
Hugh Jackman
face off
accidentally injured his
Actor
Los Angeles
inger
Kelly
Clarkson yet
again shared a
picture of her baby
daughter,
River
Rose, and said she
wants to “squeeze her Kelly and River
little cute face off”.
Taking to social media on numerous
occasions since River Rose’s birth June 12,
Clarkson has shared plenty of photos of her
first child with her fans.
She yet again posted a particularly “cute
snap of the chubby-cheeked baby” on Friday
all wrapped up in her winter woolens as she
snuggled up in her capsule.
“Seriously, I want to squeeze her little cute face
off!” the 32-year-old singer captioned the image.
River, who is almost five months old now,
gazes adoringly into the camera with her huge
dark eyes. She is seen wearing a bright pink
beanie pulled down low over her eyebrows.
The cap featured a smiley face and brown
pom-pom teddy bear ears.
S
finger with a knife while cutting
a lemon onstage and bled for
an hour during a preview
performance of his Broadway
show The River.
The
46-year-old’s
representative
confirmed
that he did injure himself on
Wednesday and the wound
continued to bleed for an
hour. In spite of this, Jackman
finished his performance.
The actor was later checked
by medics but didn’t need
stitches, reports eonline.com.
After the show, he signed
autographs for his fans outside
the theater.
“Hugh managed to improvise
so well that when he got
offstage, someone asked him
if he’s going to do that every
night, He replied: ‘Hopefully
not, I’ve only got five fingers on
each hand’,” said a source.
Ce leb s
Heidi
Heidi
offers
Bynes
a place
to stay
Deepika: I have never
said I don’t want to
work with Salman
Bynes
Los Angeles
inger Heidi Montag offered Amanda Bynes
a place to stay after photos of the troubled
actress sleeping at the Beverly Center in Los
Angeles were released.
Earlier in the day, Bynes tweeted that she
wasn’t given money for a hotel from her
parents, so she has been staying with friends
and fell asleep on the mall couch, reports
nypost.com.
“I was not given money for a hotel so I have
been staying with friends and I didn’t get enough
sleep last night so I fell asleep on a couch,” she
posted. Montag posted on micro-blogging site
Twitter on Friday, offering Bynes a place to stay:
“@amandabynes you are more then welcome to
crash in our guest house in Santa Barbara if you
need somewhere to stay! DM me!” she tweeted.
S
Matthew to
receive star
on Hollywood
Walk of Fame
Los Angeles
scar-winning actor Matthew
McConaughey is set to
receive a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
The 45-year-old Dallas Buyers
Club
actor’s
name
will
be added to
the
celebrity
sidewalk
on
November 17.
The
news
was confirmed
by the Walk Matthew
of
Fame’s McConaughey
Producer and
Vice President
of Media Relations Ana Martinez
via her Twitter account.
“Matthew McConaughey to
be honoured with star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame on
November 17,” Matinez posted.
McConaughey can currently
be seen in Christopher Nolan’s
Interstellar and is said to be in line
to star in Gary Ross’s Free State
of Jones.
He also recently hinted that
he will return to the realm of
romantic comedies.
O
JWoww and Roger
JWoww sets her
wedding date
Los Angeles
V personality JWoww and her beau Roger
Mathews, who have a three-month-old
daughter together, have decided to tie the knot
next July on the same day they had their first
ever date.
They got engaged over two years ago.
“Me and Roger always made the joke
because he makes fun of all our anniversaries
- from the first date to the engagement - so I
always told him we should pick one of those
days as our wedding day so maybe next July 26
or the following,” HollywoodLife.com quoted
JWoww as saying.
“I always loved our first date anniversary so
I would like to get married on that day,” she
added.
T
Mumbai
he’s worked with Shah Rukh
Khan thrice, but Deepika
Padukone is yet to share the
same frame with Salman
Khan. She says she’s never
said no to a project starring
the Dabangg star, and that
destiny will decide when they’ll
work together.
Rumour mills were abuzz that
Deepika had refused to work in Salmanstarrer Kick, which was offered to her.
Rubbishing this, she said: “Who am I to
refuse anyone? I don’t have the power or the
position to do so. I have never said I don’t want to
work with Salman Khan. In fact, I want to work with him.
But I think each film is as per destiny.
“If it is meant to happen, it will happen no matter how
hard you work on your dates. It will happen only if it has to.”
S
Khloe attempts
‘closure’ on Lamar
Odom’s birthday
Los Angeles
eality TV star Khloe
Kardashian reached out
to her former husband Lamar
Odom on his 35th birthday
recently, with a piece on
closure.
Khloe had filed for
divorce from the basketball
player in December 2014
amid rumours that he
had cheated on her with
multiple women and
was suffering from drug
addiction.
Odom has so far refused
to sign the divorce papers,
but Khloe, on his birthday
on Thursday, took to her
Instagram page to post an
emotional quote.
She posted a screenshot of a
poem called Closure.
It read: “Closure: Like time
suspended, a wound unmended
- you and I. We had no ending,
said no good-bye. For all my
life, I’ll wonder why.”
Khloe is also said to have
called the Odom to wish him a
happy birthday.
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Khole
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Deepika
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Sunday, November 9 , 2014
by John Graziano
BETTER
English
Difference between impersonate
and mimic
B
oth words can be used to mean
to imitate, but ‘impersonate’ is
considered to be the formal of the two.
When you mimic or impersonate
someone, you are attempting to copy
the mannerisms of the individual;
for example, you may attempt to
talk like the person does, walk the
way he does, etc. Usually, when
you mimic someone, your aim is to
make people laugh. Unlike ‘mimic’,
the word ‘impersonate’ can have a
negative connotation. It can suggest
that you are doing something illegal;
when you impersonate someone,
you are committing fraud. You are
pretending to be someone that you
are not.
YOUR STARS TODAY
ARIES:
20th March 20th April
The mood may
be oppressive today,
Aries. After meeting the
challenges of the past several
days, you’re now in need of
some well-deserved peace and
quiet! Alas, the authorities
are unwilling to give it
to you.
LEO:
20th
July - 20th
Aug
It may be that you’ve
been a bit too stubborn
lately. You’ve been doing
whatever you want,
giving no consideration
to financial constraints.
Now it’s urgent that
you take care of
any unresolved
monetary
issues.
TAURUS :
20th April - 20th May
This isn’t a day for sensitive
people like you, Taurus. In fact,
the one who shouts the loudest
and bangs on the table the hardest is likely
to come out the winner today. The air of
violence will also have an effect on you.
It would be wise to try to stay away
from commotion if you
can.
VIRGO :
20th Aug - 20th
Sept
Old demons could
come back to haunt
you, renewing doubts
and creating fears about
a lack of freedom. Ignore
these demons at all costs!
If you give in to them,
you’re likely to lose a
lot of ground.
SAGITTARIUS :
20th Nov - 20th Dec
If you’re waiting for someone
to come and fill all of your needs,
emotional ones in particular, you
may have to wait a very long time! You’re
responsible for fulfilling your own
needs, Sagittarius.
GEMINI :
20th May - 20th June
Some differences of opinion concerning
your love life are likely to come up today,
Gemini. For example, you may find your
beloved taking more liberties than you allow
yourself. Take your irritation as a sign that this
particular relationship could use some
freshening up.
LIBRA:
20th Sep - 20th Oct
Today is going to be a great
day for you, Libra. You aren’t one
to embrace rules, constraints, or
restrictions of any kind, preferring
instead to reside in a fantasy world
where no limitations apply.
CAPRICORN:
20th Dec - 20th
Jan
Are you holding onto an
issue from a period in your
life that still bothers you? This
would be a good moment to
ask yourself the question.
Ask it, then answer it and
put it to rest once
and for all!
CANCER:
20th June - 20th
July
This day isn’t likely
to be the highlight of
your week, Cancer. You may
be aware of constraints at
work or home. You’re quite
likely to hanker for an
appropriate reward
for your labor.
SCORPIO :
20th Oct - 20th
Nov
It’s important that
you abandon the myth
that you don’t have any gifts
or talents, Scorpio. Consider
thinking about your talents
in the same way you
think about your
body.
AQUARIUS:
20th Jan - 20th
Feb
Don’t spend beyond
your means today, Aquarius! If
you happen to be in a crowd of
enthusiastic shoppers, it could be
disastrous for your finances if
you get caught up in the
frenzy.
PISCES:
20th Feb - 20th
Mar
Minor tensions
could arise today,
Pisces. People close
to you, perhaps your
mate or parents,
seem to be trying to
force you to adopt
a behavior that
you aren’t at
all willing to
follow.
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CROSSWORD
Across
1- Pays attention to; 6- Prejudice; 10- Copycat; 14- Atoll unit;
15- Anecdotal knowledge; 16- Put your hands together;
17- Barrel part; 18- Was indebted to; 19- Division of a
school year; 20- Navigators Islands, today; 21- Resident of
Saskatoon or Edmonton; 23- Mischievous child; 25- Actress
Alicia; 26- Ground; 29- Meadows; 32- Babble; 37- Blood
letters; 38- Mongrel dog; 39- Wedgelike tool; 40- In spite of;
43- Japanese robe; 44- ___ kleine Nachtmusik; 45- 1950 film
noir classic; 46- Coeur d’___; 47- Baylor’s city; 48- Actress
Deborah; 49- Nipper’s co.; 51- Yale student; 53- Private; 58Actress Graff; 62- Othello villain; 63- Structure for storing
grain; 64- Singer John; 65- I’ve Got ___ in Kalamazoo; 66Small children; 67- Dogma; 68- Ancient Persian; 69- Med
school subj.; 70- Ph.D. hurdles;
Yesterday’s solution
Down
1- Sibilate; 2- This, in Tijuana; 3- Jack of “Rio Lobo”; 4Totally lacking; 5- Water vapor; 6- Voting group; 7- Caucus
state; 8- Places of contest; 9- Four-door; 10- Play opener; 11This can be guilty or not guilty; 12- Acquire through merit;
13- LP speed; 22- Nymph of Greek myth; 24- Disney dog;
26- Sri ___; 27- Bubbling; 28- Words of denial; 30- Biblical
verb ending; 31- Lost; 33- Free; 34- Line in a play directed
to the audience; 35- Male voice; 36- “Enigma Variations”
composer; 38- Pit-workers; 39- Slender boat; 41- Took
the gold; 42- Personal quirk; 47- Curse; 48- Bear of a test;
50- ___ Rica; 52- Mislead; 53- Leaf of a book; 54- Crikey!;
55- Part; 56- Neighbor of Sask.; 57- Missing; 59- 2002
erupter; 60- Christmas song; 61- Tolkien tree creatures; 62Descartes’s conclusion;
BEETLE BAILEY
IN HISTORY
S U D O KU
R
LAUGH @ LIFE
Chinese firm hires
demolition man
A
Hoy en la Historia
November 9, 1989
Jubilant Berliners celebrated
the fall of the Berlin Wall as the
East German government threw
open its border to West Berlin and
West Germany
1799: A 33-year-old Corsican general,
Napoleon Bonaparte, seized power in
France in a coup d’etat
1967: The first Saturn V rocket was
successfully launched from Florida
1967: Rolling Stone magazine, the first
national rock and roll periodical in the
United States, published its first issue
with John Lennon on the front cover
2011: Italy’s cost of borrowing
reached a record high, with interest
rates on 10-year loans rising to 7%
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© GRAPHIC NEWS
demolition company
has decided that the
best way to tear down
buildings is one brick at
a time - even when that
building is a 45 metre
high chimney.
The firm, which knocks
down buildings in the city
of Taiyuan in north China,
believes - so long as you
are not in a rush - it is
more economical to have
a single man hammering
out the bricks one by one
than it is to shell out for
explosives.
Company boss Chung
Lei explained that he is
able to offer the firm’s
demolition services at a
knock-down price as his
methods are so cheap.
He said: ‘If you are
looking at demolishing
anything here you need
to spend a fortune for the
explosives and the license
to use them, as well as
demolition experts and all
sorts of insurances against
making any mistakes.
‘In contrast you can also
do it with one man and a
hammer, it takes longer,
but if there is no rush then
you save a fortune.
Lei says that he has a
dozen workers knocking
down buildings across the
city in Shanxi Province
and business is booming.
He added: ‘In the latest
job the staff tackled a
stack of 45 metre high
chimneys was able to
offer
a
knockdown
price compared to other
demolition firms that offer
to do it with explosives.
‘The chimneys were no
longer in use and needed
to be removed, but the
other buildings around
still in use could not be
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
damaged.
‘For an explosives
expert that’s a specialist
job and it means a lot of
money, for me I just need
to get another couple
of lads and had them a
hammer and a rope, and
come back in a month to
collect the cash.’
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Big Talk
INDIA’S GROWTH
SAGA TO CONTINUE
Tahir Haneef/ DTNN
C
EO
of
PineBridge
Investments, Siddhartha
Singh is upbeat about the
current investment climate in
India. During a recent visit
to Bahrain, Mr. Singh gave
an insight into the investment
opportunities in India.
Here are the excerpts of an
interview he had given to DT
News.
How do you see Oil price
and its future prospects?
PineBridge’s India equity
team believes that oil should
be at a lower level than that
was seen earlier since US has
become self-sufficient in oil
and global slowdown had its
impact. We believe oil will
remain in this range, that is
between $80-$100.
Do you think India will
face any problem due to
the oil-price slide?
I don’t think so. India
is an importer of
commodities. So any
price decline should help
India.
Unlike other markets,
India is driven by its own
strength.
Consumption,
infrastructure and other
factors are on an upswing.
Instead of worrying about
Macro factors, you can come
to India and pick companies.
Pick those companies that
have made good profits in the
last many years.
India is now a stock pickers’
market, irrespective of what
Macro numbers suggest.
There are companies that can
give phenomenal return.
Does legendary Peter
Lynch love the present
Indian market?
Yes. Definitely.
All the big fund managers
have already invested in
India. Today foreigners own
around 20 pc to 25 pc of
Indian listed companies.
What are the sectors that
are currently undervalued in
India?
India is now facing an
interesting situation. There
are certain sectors in India
that were not open earlier
for
competition.
India
has diverse sectors that are
driving growth. Banking,
construction and Pharma are
good growth themes.
India has two very
important catalysts.
a. Stable government and
a very good Central Bank
Governor.
b. India is now exactly
opposite to the world in terms
of monetary policy. When
many countries are printing
money, India is having a tight
monetary policy with interest
around 8 per cent.
On that second point, what
advantage does India have?
As the oil price goes
down, the government
of India will have a
lot of money to invest
in
infrastructure,
social services and other
essentials. That will be
a big boost and a lot of
India doesn’t need big-bang
reforms; we only need to
instill confidence. Corporate
sector needs to get assurance
from the government
that they are pro-business,
open to reforms.
money will come into the
system.
In the future, as the interest
rates come down, we will
see the corporate Capex
increasing.
India has high interest
rate because inflation is
high and inflation is high
as there are supply-side
constraints in the economy.
How do you think that
scenario will change?
My simple hypothesis is
that India doesn’t need bigbang reforms; we only need to
instill confidence. Corporate
sector needs to get assurance
from the government that
they are pro-business, open
to reforms.
Are you getting signals
from Corporate sector
that they are gaining
confidence?
Yes. Yes. They are. It’s
after 30 years that India is
having a government, which
is not a coalition. The most
important point from their
perspective is this.
Manufacturing
got
opened up in 1991 and if
you look at the companies
that are surviving in the
manufacturing space today,
they are all world class.
Now, similar to the 1991
manufacturing, India is now
opening its service sector.
A lot of the current servicesector companies that are
not competent enough will
face extinction. And, many
others will become world
class. Hence, you need an
investment manager who can
understand the difference
and can pick companies that
will survive after five years.
For example, the coal
sector in India is opening up.
Earlier it had public sector
participants. But, now the
government has invited bids
from all parts of the world
for an e-auction. So, it is
an example of how public
sector firms are going to
face competition in India.
If the companies are not
competent, they will perish.
Which sectors, do you
think, are bullish?
IT,
Pharmaceuticals,
Industrials, Materials.
But I don’t mean all
companies in these
sectors; we have to
pick and choose the
right companies.
Mr. Singh
What
about
the
consumption story?
I have absolutely no doubt
about whether one billion
people will consume or not!
But, the fact is many of those
stocks have become expensive.
What are your selection
criteria?
My selection criteria are
simple, it’s no rocket science.
The company should have
beautiful business franchise.
That is, it should have good
market share, it should have
a good brand and operation.
The second important
point for me is the quality of
the company management.
The third important point
is valuation.
If any company matches
all these three criteria, I buy
that company.
Do you have any
quantitative screener?
We are pure, pure, pure
fundamental-guys. We are
bottom-up stock pickers. We
only focus on companies’
fundamentals. We study
annual statements, talk to
the management and talk to
the competitors.
Is your fund open only to
Indians?
Our fund is allowed to
raise investment only from
foreigners and non-resident
Indians.
So, what I want to say
is “invest in India.” Stay
invested for more than
three years. Don’t look
at India from a one-year
perspective and also don’t
approach it through a
macro perspective.
Look for a fund manager
who has years of experience
in the Indian market and
who has weathered both bear
and bull market and has a
long track record.
Kenya police
probe
hate speech leaflets
Election
mauling
‘FOX HUNT’
WORLD
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Asia-Pacific ministers pledge to step up graft fight
Beijing
hina secured backing from
Asia-Pacific ministers yesterday to deepen anti-graft efforts, in a move that dovetails
with a high-profile Communist
Party “fox hunt” for corrupt officials who have fled abroad. The
anti-corruption proposal is said
to have been pushed by China
and backed by the United States
at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) gathering
in Beijing, which culminates in
a two-day summit of leaders
from 21 member-economies
starting tomorrow. But it remained unclear how effective
C
APEC ministers
pledged to step
up nascent antigraft efforts
with a regional
commitment
the move would be, amid apprehension in some countries
over returning suspects to
China due to fears they could
be subject to abuse and denied
legal due process.
China in July launched its
so-called “Fox Hunt” -- a campaign to bring back corrupt officials or their family members
who have moved abroad, taking ill-gotten gains with them.
Since taking office last year,
President Xi Jinping has made
the graft fight a central theme
of his administration as public
anger swells over widespread
T
Athens
4.8 magnitude earthquake struck about 140 kilometres
west of Athens provoking some light damage to buildings but no reports of injuries according to officials. The
quake, considered weak by Greece’s earthquake observatory,
hit at 1712 GMT and was epicentered about five km off the
coast of the town of Aigio in the Gulf of Corinth. A church
and an abandoned building in Aigio were damaged, according to initial reports from the Greek media. There were no
immediate indications of any injuries. Aigio was the epicentre of a Richter Scale magnitude 6 earthquake in 1995, which
killed over 20 people and caused major damage to buildings.
Earthquakes are frequent in Greece and just in January several thousand people found themselves homeless on the island of Cephalonia in the Ionian Islands after a 5.8 magnitude
quake.
A
New York cuts speed limit to save lives
New York
ew York reduced speed limits on most roads from 30
to 25 miles per hour other day in an effort to cut down
the number of traffic accidents, transport officials said. Some
zones, particularly around schools, will have a lower limit
still, while major arteries will retain the previous speed restriction of 30 miles (48 kilometers) per hour, the Department of Transportation said. The old limit had been in place
since 1964. The move, which came into effect immediately,
was part of the city’s bid to “eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries,” it said. “By getting New York drivers to slow
down, we will prevent crashes, protect New Yorkers from injury and save lives.” About a quarter of all traffic accidents in
New York are caused by speeding, the traffic department said.
The new law is part of the Vision Zero action plan introduced
by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to slash the number of road
accidents. Traffic fatalities in New York have fallen drastically
in recent decades, from 701 in 1990. But some 4,000 people
are seriously injured and more than 250 people are still killed
in traffic accidents in America’s largest city each year, according to Vision Zero.
N
China’s Premier Li Keqiang (right) talks to Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a signing
ceremony on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.
corruption. A report attributed
to China’s central bank and
leaked three years ago said that
as many as 18,000 corrupt officials had left the country over
between the 1990s and 2008,
taking as much as $123 billion
with them.
In a statement, APEC ministers pledged to step up nascent anti-graft efforts with a
regional commitment to “deny
safe haven to those engaged in
corruption, including through
extradition”. But they stressed
that such moves would be “subject to domestic laws and poli-
cies” and needed to be carried
out “in accordance with fundamental legal principles of each
economy”. “We, APEC member
economies, recognise that corruption impedes economic sustainability and development,
threatens social security and
fairness, undermines the rule
of law, and erodes government
accountability, as well as public
trust,” the statement said.
It pledged to establish an
office for the day-to-day running of the APEC Network of
Anti-Corruption Authorities
and Law Enforcement Agen-
cies (ACT-NET), a body coordinating
anti-corruption
efforts that was launched by
Chinese and US officials in
August. The office will “assist
in detecting, investigating and
prosecuting corruption, bribery, money laundering, and illicit trade” and seek cooperation on tracking cases across
borders. China has recently
announced stepped-up efforts
to extradite former officials
suspected of corruption from
countries including Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
(AFP)
Twitter to set up shop in Hong Kong
San Francisco
witter plans to set up shop
in Hong Kong early next
year, focusing on ad sales instead of the one-to-many messaging service banned in China. The San Francisco-based
service that has served as a
platform for dissent and free
speech wants to tap into booming growth in Greater China by
selling ads to businesses such
as exporters. US Internet titans
Google and Facebook already
have similar strategies in place.
“We are not entering China,
we’re still blocked there,” Twitter told AFP on Friday. “With
half of all Internet, mobile and
social media users worldwide
in Asia today, we see many opportunities across the region.”
Through the new office, Twit-
4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Greece
ter will target Hong Kong and
Taiwan advertising markets
while establishing partnerships
and promoting its new Fabric platform for developers to
weave the service into applications made for smartphones or
tablets.
Twitter has offices in Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney.
Earlier this year, the company
announced it will open an office
in Jakarta. “Just like Indonesia,
Greater China is an important
market for us to tap into for
our next phase of growth across
Asia Pacific,” Twitter said. The
company referred to the AsianPacific area as “the growth engine for the company.” Twitter has been under pressure
to ramp up use of the service
along with revenue. Earnings
Lawmakers urge criminal probe
of airbag maker Takata
Washington
wo US senators other day called for a criminal investigation of Japanese airbag maker Takata, as the New York
Times reported it covered up a potentially lethal fault in its
airbags. “Reports that Takata concealed and destroyed test
results revealing fatal air bag defects, along with other evidence that the company was aware of these deadly problems,
clearly require a criminal investigation by the Department of
Justice,” said Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and
Ed Markey. “If the reports are true, the company must be held
accountable for the horrific deaths and injuries that its wrongdoing caused,” they said.
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Cash raised online to replace
destroyed cars
Brussels
nline crowd funding raised enough money for a Belgian electrician to be able to replace his car that was
destroyed the day before in a mass anti-austerity protest in
Brussels. E-marketing specialist Bruno Dillen launched the
fundraising campaign after Belgian news organisations published photos showing an orange Peugot 106 turned upside
down and set on fire. Abdeslam “Gharrafi is an electrician
who needs his car to work. Let’s raise enough money so that
Abdeslam and his family can continue to contribute to society,” Dillen said on crowdfunding site gofundme.com. “We
cannot allow a minority to destroy lives,” he added in his appeal for 2,000 euros. But the response was overwhelming and
more than 15,000 euros ($18,500) had already been raised in
eight hours from more than 1,000 contributors, the website
said. The most surprised was Abdeslam himself. “I did not
know at all. No. What’s more, frankly I still don’t believe it,”
he told the newspaper La Derniere.
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Hurricane Gonzalo
approaches bermuda
figures showed that the number
of people using Twitter monthly
climbed 23 percent to 284 million in the third quarter of this
year. More than three quarters
of Twitter users reside outside
the United States. Total revenue in the quarter more than
doubled to $361 million, but
the United States accounted for
about two-thirds of the money
brought in, according to Twitter.
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WORLD
Mexico horrified
Obama heads to Asia fresh from poll drubbing
ELECTION MAULING
Washington
Jerome Cartillier
Still smarting from his election night mauling, President Barack Obama heads
this weekend to China seeking to reassure Asian nations
of America’s commitment to
its much-vaunted pivot to the
region. Assailed on all sides
by global crises, from Islamic
militants in Iraq and Syria to
the conflict in Ukraine and the
Global allies are
now anxiously
watching to see
if Obama will be
able to carry out
any of his foreign
agenda.
spread of Ebola, Obama will
aim to dispel fears that Washington’s attention is increasingly diverted away from Asian
issues. As well as attending a
two-day summit of Asian and
Pacific leaders which opens
Monday in Beijing, Obama will
also hold separate talks with
Chinese President Xi Jinping
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
He will then travel to Myanmar
to attend the East Asia Summit
on the sidelines of a meeting of
Association of Southeast Asian
A
gainst the backdrop of an
apparent Atlantic bluefin
tuna recovery, fishing nations
gather in Genoa, Italy, next
week to set new limits, closely
watched by environmental
groups and scientists. In 2013,
the bluefin tuna spawning stock
in the east Atlantic and Mediterranean surged to 585,000
tonnes -- nearly double the levels of the 1950s, according to
International Commission for
the Conservation of Atlantic
Tunas (ICCAT) -- though actual counts are hard to do. The
stock had been decimated by
fishing boats to a low 150,000
tonnes in the mid-2000s.
“There are positive signs of the
stock recovering, but it is not
yet at 100 percent,” said Sylvain
Bonhommeau, a researcher at
the French ocean institute Ifremer and a member of ICCAT’s
scientific committee.
At its 2012 meeting, the commission had decided to raise
catch limits to 13,500 tonnes
annually for fish taken in the
New York
rgentina told a New York judge that its court-forced bond
default has spurred a raft of new lawsuits against the country, threatening to further tie it up in litigation. In a letter to
Judge Thomas Griesa, whose ruling blocking the country from
making a debt payment forced it into default in July, Buenos
Aires complained that the result has been 25 new lawsuits
from creditors. The “practical effect” of Greisa’s injunctions on
the country servicing its debt to its main creditors, Argentina
said, “has become clear since they went into effect this past
June. They did not ‘end’ the litigation.” “The injunctions have
had only a negative effect: they have created more litigation.”
Griesa had ruled that the country could not make a $539 million interest payment to holders of its restructured bonds on
June 30, unless it first pays off a group of “holdouts” who refused to take part in its 2005 and 2010 debt restructuring.
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Danish ship fuel firm files for bankruptcy
Copenhagen
ne of Denmark’s largest companies, ship fuel supplier
OW Bunker yesterday filed for bankruptcy after saying
it had discovered a $125 million (100 million euros) fraud at
its subsidiary in Singapore. “Since the credit facility was closed
down on Wednesday, the underlying business has eroded significantly,” chairman Niels Henrik Jensen said in a statement.
“Without the provisions of new, significant credit facilities in
the immediate future, it is not possible to save the remaining
business... We are therefore left with no option but to file for
bankruptcy,” he added. The company also said two employees
at Singapore-based Dynamic Oil Trading had been reported
to the police following Wednesday’s announcement that the
group had uncovered fraud there costing it around $125 million. On Thursday it warned that the losses could push it into
bankruptcy after failing to reach an agreement with banks that
would keep it afloat.
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Obama
Nations (ASEAN) in the capital Naypyidaw, before heading for G20 talks in Brisbane,
Australia.
“This is going to be a tough trip
for the president,” predicted Ernest Bower, a senior Asia advisor
with the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS). “I
think when Southeast Asia looks
at this trip and him coming,
they’re wondering, you know,
who is Barack Obama now after
the midterm elections?” Bower
said. “They’ll be trying to discern
whether he has the commitment
and political capability, political
capital to follow through on earlier commitments.”
Obama’s Democrats lost
heavily to Republicans in Tuesday’s midterm elections, as his
political rivals took the driver’s seat in Congress, wresting back control of the Senate
and holding onto the House of
Representatives.
Global allies are now anxiously watching to see if Obama
will be able to carry out any of
his foreign agenda, or whether he will be hamstrung by a
combative Congress with very
different ideas on America’s future direction. Just days before
his arrival, China’s state-run
media decried Obama’s leadership. “Obama always utters,
‘Yes, we can,’ which led to the
high expectations people had
for him,” wrote the Global
Times, which has close ties
to China’s ruling Communist
Party.
“But he has done an insipid
job, offering nearly nothing to
his supporters... US society has
grown tired of his banality.” But
this trip will be a chance for
Obama to re-engage with Asia
after he was forced to skip the
2013 talks, held in Bali, due to
a looming budget crisis.(AFP)
Fishing countries to discuss bluefin quotas
Paris
Argentina sees 25 new lawsuits
in forced default
Mediterranean and east Atlantic for 2013 and 2014, up from
12,900 tonnes. At a seven-day
gathering starting Monday,
the commission’s 48 members
(47 nations and the European
Union) will put forward their
quota demands. France, one of
Europe’s biggest fishing nations,
wants a 18,500-tonne limit for
2015, and 23,500 tonnes for the
year thereafter. In the 1990s, a
quota of about 50,000 tonnes
per year saw the much-prized
but threatened species known
to scientists as Thunnus thynnus stretched to the limit.
The ICCAT quota for 2008
was 28,500 tonnes, followed
by 22,000 tonnes in 2009, and
12,900 in 2011. “It is going to
be very tough,” said Amanda
Nickson of Pew Environment,
which opposes a higher limit,
said of next week’s gathering.
“The latest stock assessment
seems to indicate things are
improving. In part this is good
news... however the scientists
said they don’t know how much
of an increase there is and they
Hazaras protest against girl’s brutal
murder
Quetta
undreds of Pakistanis from the Hazara ethnic group
staged a protest yesterday against the murder of a sixyear-old girl, found dumped near a garbage heap after apparently being subjected to rape attempts. Sahar Batool, who was
from the minority Hazara group, was found dead last week in
Quetta, capital of the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan. Hazaras are mostly Shiite Muslims and have borne the
brunt of the wave of sectarian violence that has swept Baluchistan in recent years, mostly perpetrated by Sunni Muslim extremist groups. Around 500 protesters gathered outside the office of Baluchistan’s police chief and staged a sit-in for around
an hour, demanding the immediate arrests of the girl’s killers.
The protesters, including women and children, shouted slogans denouncing the killing of Hazaras in suicide and bomb
attacks as well as individual assaults. The little girl’s body bore
bruises and she had been strangled with a rope, according to
police officials and her family.
H
Pope critic loses key Vatican post
Vatican City
he Vatican yesterday removed the former archbishop of St.
Louis, Raymond Leo Burke, from a key post following his
criticism of the pope. Burke, who is the seniormost American
prelate in the Vatican, said in an interview earlier that many
Catholics felt that the “Church was like a ship without a rudder.” Burke was stripped of the headship of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority
in the church, and instead named as patron of the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta, an honorific post. Burke was replaced
as cardinal prefect of the tribunal by Dominique Memberti,
a Frenchman, a Vatican statement said. Britain’s Archbishop
Paul Richard Gallagher replaced Memberti as Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State, equivalent to
the Vatican’s foreign minister. He was previously Apostolic
Nuncio to Australia. Burke ruffled feathers in December 2013
by questioning Pope Francis’s liberalising attitude towards towards divorce, remarriage and homosexuality.
T
Bluefin tuna on display
can’t agree on how much higher
the quota could be,” she told
AFP.
“There is severe industry
pressure now, with the industry saying there is more fish
we should be allowed a higher
quota. And so the test this year
for the governments of ICCAT
is: are they going to continue
to follow the science and al-
low this recovery to happen,
or are they going to risk sliding
back to the bad days and raise
the quota too soon?”, Nickson
said. Greenpeace’s Francois
Chartier underlined that the
“stock is busy recovering, but
hasn’t recovered yet”. Not only
have stricter quotas helped, but
also naval patrols to enforce the
limits. (AFP)
Hurricane Gonzalo
approaches bermuda
Kenya police probe hate speech leaflets
Suspected massacre of 43 students
MEXICO HORRIFIED
U
M
Parents of the
victims refuse
to accept they
are dead until
DNA tests
confirm.
N.Korea releases detained
Americans
Teachers, students and relatives of the 43 missing students at a Press conference.
the government has repeatedly
fed them lies.
“It appears that the federal
government, with great irresponsibility, is interested in
closing this matter because it’s
all based in testimony. There
is nothing definitive,” Meliton
Ortega, uncle of a missing student, told AFP. Some parents
said the announcement was
aimed at allowing Pena Nieto
to leave Sunday on a major trip
to China and Australia, which
has been shortened due to the
crisis. “They want Pena Nieto
to go on this trip,” said Felipe
de la Cruz, a spokesman for the
families. Three suspected Guerreros Unidos gang members
told investigators that local police handed them the students
between the southern towns of
Iguala and Cocula.
In taped confessions, the suspects said they bundled the 43
in the back of two trucks, took
them to a nearby landfill, killed
them and used fuel, wood, tires
and plastic to burn their bodies
for 14 hours. The students had
traveled to the city of Iguala to
raise funds but hijacked four
buses to return home, a com-
mon practice among the young
men from a school known as
a bastion of left-wing activism. Authorities say the city’s
mayor, worried that they would
interrupt a speech by his wife,
ordered the police to confront them. The officers shot
at several buses, leaving three
students and three bystanders dead. Authorities have arrested 74 people, including the
ousted mayor, Jose Luis Abarca,
his wife Maria de los Angeles
Pineda, 36 police officers and
several Guerreros Unidos operatives.(AFP)
Catalan leader warns against disrupting vote
Barcelona
atalan leader Artur Mas
said yesterday that any
steps taken by Spain’s central
government to disrupt a symbolic vote on independence in
the wealthy region would be “a
direct attack on democracy”.
Spain’s Constitutional Court
this week ordered the Catalan government to suspend
Sunday’s vote but Catalonia’s
nationalist government has
vowed to press ahead with the
ballot, which will be organised by volunteers without an
official electoral roll. “I don’t
know what they will do, it does
not depend on us, but if they
have a minimum of common
sense I think any action out
of the ordinary (to prevent the
vote) would be a direct attack
on democracy and a direct attack on fundamental rights,”
Mas said during an interview
with public television. Madrid
has not specified what legal
consequences Catalan leaders,
poll workers and voters might
Uganda draws up new anti-gay
law
Kampala
ganda’s ruling party has drawn up new anti-gay legislation and could push it through parliament before the end
of the year, rights activists said yesterday. The move comes
nearly a year after Ugandan MPs passed a bill that would have
seen gays face up to life in prison, only to see the bill struck
down by the constitutional court on a technicality. According to a leaked copy of the new draft bill, MPs have instead
focussed on outlawing the “promotion” of homosexuality -something that activists said made it far more repressive and
wide-reaching. “People don’t realise that the ‘promotion’ part
of it will affect everybody,” prominent gay rights activist Frank
Mugisha told AFP. “If newspapers report about homosexuality
it could be seen as promotion. My Twitter account could be
seen as promotion.
Mexico
exico was confronted
yesterday with possibly
one of the grisliest massacres
in years of drug violence af-
ter gang suspects confessed to
incinerating the bodies of 43
missing students and dumping
them in a river. The disappearance of the students six weeks
ago has gripped and revulsed
Mexico. Gang-linked police
attacked the young men in the
southern state of Guerrero on
September 26, in violence that
left six other people dead. The
confessions may have brought a
tragic end to the mystery, which
has sparked international outrage and triggered protests in
the biggest crisis of President
Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration. But at the young men’s
Ayotzinapa
teacher-training
college, exhausted parents of
the victims refuse to accept
they are dead until DNA tests
confirm their identities, saying
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25
C
Washington
he US State Department yesterday announced the release
of two Americans who had been held by the government
of North Korea. “The Department of State welcomes the release of US citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller
from the DPRK, where they have been held for two years and
seven months, respectively,” it said in a statement. The State
Department said the two Americans were freed with the help
of US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who
traveled to North Korea and “engaged on behalf of the United
States in discussions with DPRK authorities about the release
of two citizens,” the statement said. A senior State Department
official added Saturday that there was “no quid pro quo” for
North Korea freeing the two Americans. Their release comes
just two weeks after Pyongyang freed American Jeffrey Fowle,
56, who was imprisoned in April after apparently leaving a
Bible in a nightclub bathroom.
T
Boko Haram said to seize another
town
Niger
slamist extremist group Boko Haram has seized control of
a Nigerian town near the Niger border, leading soldiers to
flee and adding to its expanding reach in the region, an official said yesterday. The insurgents were said to have taken
control of Malam Fatori in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state
after fighting on Wednesday and Thursday, a senior official in
the Niger town of Diffa near Nigeria told AFP on condition of
anonymity. The fighting killed dozens and wounded about 30
people in the a commercial hub known for fishing and farming, the Anfani radio station in Diffa reported. “The town of
Malam Fatori was taken by Boko Haram after violent fighting
with the Nigerian army overnight Wednesday to Thursday,”
said the official in Diffa, where thousands of refugees from the
conflict have fled to. According to the official, 315 Nigerian
soldiers fled over the border to Diffa.
I
Guantanamo closure ‘unrealistic’
Guantanamo
he commander of the US military prison at Guantanamo
Bay believes there is little chance of the controversial facility being closed in the next two years, leaving Barack Obama
struggling to achieve his goal of shuttering the jail before he
leaves office. Camp commander colonel David Heath told reporters he thought it was “unrealistic” to expect the prison to
close during his two-year posting which ends in mid-2016. The
closure of the prison, set up to hold detainees from President
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 “War on Terror,” was a prominent
part of Obama’s election campaign in 2008. Yet attempts to realize his ambition have been thwarted by domestic and international obstacles, leaving the fate of the jail and its prisoners in
limbo.On Wednesday, Heath oversaw the first prisoner release
since taking over as camp commander on June 24, with Kuwaiti
national Fawzi al-Odah repatriated after 13 years behind bars.
T
Basque demonstrators supporting Catalonia independence hold up their regional flag during a rally in
front of the Catalan government headquarters in Barcelona.
face although the central government representative in Cat-
alonia has warned the Catalan
officials that they cannot use
public resources to carry out
the ballot.(AFP)
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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: [email protected]
...................................................
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:
[email protected]
...................................................
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.
[email protected]
...................................................
Urgently Required for reputed
Auto Service Centre: (1) PETROL MECHANIC. (2) AUTO
ELECTRICIAN. (3) DENTER/
PAINTER. Must have experience in German, Japan &
American cars. (4) BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
OFFICER.
Salary negotiable. Sponsorship
available. Email: [email protected]
...................................................
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 [email protected]
...................................................
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 [email protected]
...................................................
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:
[email protected]
...................................................
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 [email protected]
...................................................
RESTAURANT SUPERVISOR,
MOTORCYCLE
DELIVERY
BOY, WAITRESSES & CASHIERS required. Experience
in Casual Dining is preferable.
Candidates may apply to email:
[email protected]
...................................................
Urgently Required LAND SURVEYOR AND CIVIL FOREMAN
with minimum 3 years’ experience & valid Bahrain driving
license. Send CVs to [email protected]
...................................................
SALESMAN Required for a major shipping company with a re-
warding salary and lots of other
benefits. Please send your CV
to the following address: HR@
Melaha.net
...................................................
Required FACTORY MANAGER with more than 10 years
of experience in a similar position for a leading factory in the
industrial kitchens industry in
Sitra, Bahrain. Email: fabiana@
expertiserecruitment.com
...................................................
Looking for a person with previous experience in RETAIL
SALES AND CUSTOMER
SERVICE for our specialised shop selling art, craft and
equestrian equipment. Arabic
an advantage. Email: thingstd@
batelco.com.bh
...................................................
ELECTRICAL TECHNICIANS
and ELECTRICIANS with experience required for Contracting
Company. Email: [email protected]
...................................................
JUICE MAKER urgently required. Candidates must have
minimum two years experience
as juice maker, good English
language and able to understand Arabic. Send your CV to:
[email protected]
...................................................
Urgently Required COOKS, ASSISTANT CHEF, WAITERS,
PIZZA MAKER, JUICE MAKER
& CLEANER for restaurant in
Riffa. Send your CV to: [email protected]
...................................................
Required FEMALE PERSONAL
TRAINERS for fitness and aerobics professionals women with
experience and qualified. Interested candidates mail their CV
to: [email protected]
...................................................
Urgently Required FEMALE
DENTAL ASSISTANT & RECEPTIONIST for Dental centre
in Tubli. Send CV to: [email protected]
...................................................
FEMALE OFFICE ASSISTANT
and ACCOUNTANT required.
Interested candidates mail their
CV to: [email protected]
...................................................
Required ELECTRICAL TECHNICIANS AND ELECTRICIANS
with experience for a contracting company. Email: [email protected],
...................................................
Urgently required an ART
WORKER for printing company,
send CV to: [email protected]
FLAT FOR RENT
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
..................................................
JUFFIR 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
..................................................
RIFFA Flats for rent in Shaikh
Ebrahim Bin Ali Avenue,
consists of 1hall, 2 rooms, 2
bathrooms, 1 kitchen, located
on ground floor in a commercial
building near the new Ministry
of Housing units.
Mobile:
33536880
...................................................
HOORA 2 bedrooms flat for
rent with 1 bathroom, Hall and
kitchen. Exclusive EWA, semi
furnished with lift Near Alsheba
market Opposite Gosi complex.
Contact: 33361813
..................................................
TUBLI FF 5 bedroom villa for
rent with 6 bathroom, 2 kitchen,
swimming pool, 2 garage. Rent
BD 1100. Contact: 3311 5538
...................................................
DINE OUT
PREPARATION
1.
CORNED BEEF HASH
WITH POACHED EGGS
3.
4.
5.
6.
INGREDIENTS:
For the corned beef hash
•
4 potatoes, diced into
cubes
•
3tbspoliveoil
•
1onion,finelydiced
•
1garlicclove,crushed
•
340g/12oz corned beef,
tinned
•
Salt and freshly ground
blackpepper,totaste
•
1tbspvinegar
•
1-2free-rangeeggs(per
person)
•
Tomato ketchup, to
serve
2.
7.
For the cornbread
•
300g/10½ozplainflour
•
315g/11ozcornmeal
•
200g/7ozicingsugar
•
1tbspbakingpowder
•
1free-rangeegg
•
250ml/9flozmilk
•
200g/7ozbutter,melted
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE,
2000 model for sale. KM 150000,
engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
950. Contact: 34556227
...................................................
HONDA ACCORD, 2005 model
for sale. KM 137000, Engine
Size 2001-3000CC. Price BD
2,500. Contact: 33833390
...................................................
CITROEN C4, 2006 model for
sale. Engine Size 1000-2000
CC. Price BD 650. Contact:
39144218
...................................................
MITSUBISHI LANCER, 2009
model for sale. KM 127000, engine Size 1000-2000CC. Price
BD 2,500. Contact: 33055827
...................................................
NISSAN ARMADA, 2004 model
for sale. KM 173000, engine
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
...................................................
TOYOTA COROLLA, 2010
BD 3,700. Contact: 36605926
...................................................
MAZDA 3, 2008 model for sale.
KM 100000, engine Size 10002000CC. Price BD 2,500. Con-
For the corned beef hash, place the potatoes into a
saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and
simmeruntiljusttender.Drainandsetaside.
Heat a frying pan until hot. Add one tablespoon of the
olive oil, the onion and garlic and fry for two to three
minutes.
Addthepotatoesandfryforafurtherminute.
Crumbleinthecornedbeefandmixtogether.
Spoonthemixtureintoasoupdishthenplaceunderthe
grillforthreetofourminutes,untilcrusty.
Bringapanofwatertotheboil,addthevinegarandwhirl
thewateraround.
Crackaneggintoaladle.Pourtheeggintothepanand
simmer for two minutes, until ready. Remove from the
pananddrain.
Removethehashfromthegrillandtopwiththeegg.
Top with a squeeze of ketchup and serve with hot,
butteredcornbread.
Forthecornbread,mixtogethertheflour,cornmeal,icing
sugarandbakingpowder.
Makeawellinthecentreofthedryingredientsandadd
themilkandegg.Mixtogetherfromthecentreoutwards,
incorporatingthedryingredientsintothewetgradually
tocreateadough-likepaste.Addthemeltedbutterlast.
Placeinahotbakingtin.Placeinahotovenforabout15
minutesuntilgoldenbrown.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly.Turn out,
cutintoslicesandservewiththecornedbeefhash.
tact: 35104654
...................................................
CHEVROLET TAHOE, 2008
model for sale. KM 68400, engine Size 4000+CC. Price BD
7,400. Contact: 39912301
...................................................
FORD FOCUS, 2004 model for
sale. KM 173000, engine Size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 950.
Contact: 35392897
...................................................
BD 2,200. Contact: 35004377
...................................................
FORD FOCUS, 2004 model for
1000-2000CC. Price BD 1,150.
Contact: 35392897
...................................................
BMW 3-SERIES, 2008 model
for sale. KM 96000, engine Size
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
...................................................
NISSAN ALTIMA, 2008 model
for sale. Engine Size 20013000CC. Price BD 2,800. Contact: 36100026
...................................................
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
...................................................
Fine Dining
Redefined
Reservations: + 973 17728699
...................................................
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
...................................................
3001-4000CC. Price BD 4,200.
Contact: 39826557
...................................................
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.
...................................................
BD 2,950. Contact: 39423886
...................................................
CADILLAC SRX, 2004 model
4000+CC. Price BD 3,500. Contact: 33114486
...................................................
NISSAN PATHFINDER, 2002
model for sale. Engine Size
3001-4000CC. Price BD 2,500.
Contact: 33878520
...................................................
...................................................
TOYOTA FORTUNER, 2013
BD 8,400. Contact: 34443543
...................................................
HONDA CIVIC, 2006 model for
sale. KM 99000, Engine Size
1000-2000CC. Price BD 2,400.
Contact: 33597896
...................................................
MITSUBISHI GALANT, 2004
BD 1,200. Contact: 39478699
...................................................
VOLKSWAGEN JETTA, 2012
BD 5,900. Contact: 39909915
...................................................
TOYOTA YARIS, 2010 model
1000-2000CC. Price BD 2,850.
Contact: 33515641
...................................................
BD 2,850. Contact: 39645418
...................................................
Contact: 39791119
...................................................
TOYOTA TUNDRA, 2007 model for sale. KM 120000, engine
Contact: 33961611
...................................................
LEXUS RX-SERIES, 2004 model for sale. KM 139000, Engine
4,950. Contact: 33266886
...................................................
TOYOTA YARIS, 2006 model
1,950. Contact: 33364055
...................................................
TOYOTA CAMRY, 2007 modelf or sale. Engine Size 20013000CC. Price BD 3,400. Contact: 39070755
...................................................
NISSAN ARMADA, 2007 model
Contact: 39216745
...................................................
BD 2,800. Contact: 39172532
38444695
17579869
17256470
[email protected]
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Reaching the right audience
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KHOLIK LIFTS TITLE
SPORTS
Shaikh
Nasser
bags
third spot
DT News Network
upreme Council for Youth
and Sport Chairman and
Bahrain Olympic Committee
President HH Shaikh Nasser
bin Hamad Al Khalifa has
climbed one step to secure the
third position in the International Championship Dubai
Triathlon.
Initially Shaikh Nasser had finished the competition fourth,
but the technical committee
after reviewing the results had
bestowed him with the third
place.
S
Aidan Payne/ DTNN
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nseeded Indonesian Firman Abdul Kholik came
from a game down to beat favourite and second seed Anand
Pawar of India 20-22, 21-13,
21-13 in the final of the men’s
singles last night at the conclusion of the five-day Indian Club
Centenary Li-Ning Bahrain
International Challenge 2014
at the club’s Sanskar Hall in its
Gudaibiya premises.
This was a world ranking
points event sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
(BWF) and Badminton Asia
Confederation (BAC) in co-operation with the Bahrain Badminton and Squash Federation
(BBSF).
In the opening game, Parwar raced into an 8-2 lead before Kholik started a comeback
from 10-12 down and took the
lead for the first time at 14-13.
It was a case of exchanging
points between the players until at 20-20 when Pawar won
the two decisive ones to go a
game up.
The second game started well
for Kholik who began with a
3-0 advantage and further increased his lead after a couple
of mishits by his opponent to
power his way to a 10-4 lead.
Though Pawar won back five
points to reduce the deficit to
9-10, the Indonesian leveled
the match at a game all with
seven unanswered points with
the score 14-13 in his favour at
the time.
In game three, Pawar at one
stage led 8-4 after winning four
unanswered points and held
the lead at 13-9, before Kholik
won a sensational 12 points unanswered to wrap up the game
and clinch the title.
In the women’s singles final,
top seed Puthenpurayil C Thulasi again made it hard for herself with another three-game
match after coming from a
game down to defeat unseeded
Indonesia’s Ruselli Hartawan
18-21, 23-21, 21-15.
The men’s doubles winners
were unseeded Yohanes Sugiarto and Afiat Wirawan who
Ahmed Al Dossary win
DT News Network
hmed Al Dossary won
the Qualifying Endurance Race over 80km held
yesterday at the Bahrain International Endurance Village
in Zallaq. The event was the
opening round of the national
endurance racing season, and
it was held in the presence of
Supreme Council for Youth
and Sports Chairman, Bahrain
Olympic Committee President
and Bahrain Royal Equestrian
and Endurance Federation
(BREEF) Honorary President
HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad
Al Khalifa, who followed all the
three stages of the race. Rashid
Al Rowaie came second overall,
while Shaikh Mohammed bin
Mubarak Al Khalifa finished in
third place. On the first stage
covering a distance of 30km,
Al Ruwaie (one hour 12 minutes 26 seconds, average speed
24kph), followed by Shaikh
A
Shaikh Nasser
Mohammed
(1:13.12)
on
Happy from Al Zaeem Stables
in second, while Al Dossary
(1:13.52) on Khamon from Al
Zaeem Stables was third. The second stage also over
30km saw Shaikh Mohammed
(1:14.06, 24kph) come in first,
with Al Rowaie (1:15.11) second with Al Dossary (1:14.10)
third. The third and final stage
of the race was over 20km with
Al Dossary (41 minutes 3 seconds, average speed 25kph)
coming in first, with Al Rowaie
(41:29) coming in second, followed by Shaikh Mohammed
(41:50) in third. On this occasion, Shaikh Nasser stated the
opening endurance ride of the
season was very strong in all
stages with the participation of
Bahrain’s finest riders, including the entry of many young
riders to confirm that endurance riding in the kingdom is
capable of producing fine riders
to continue the development
of the sport. Al Dossary explained that taking the win in
the season’s opening race makes
him proud, especially since all
the other stables and riders
were seeking to win as well. He
praised the significant role of
each member of his team management in helping him claim
his win.
Ashwini Ponnappa with tournament organisers.
won in straight games 23-21,
21-15 against compatriots and
third seeds Fran Kurniawan
and Agripinna P R Putra.
In the women’s doubles final,
Russia’s Ekanerina Bolotova
and Evgeniya Kosetskaya upset
compatriots and top seeds Anastasia Chervyakova and Nina
Vislova to win comfortably by
21-6, 21-15.
The mixed doubles went to
top Russian seeds Vitalij Durkin and Nina Vislova who overcame unseeded Indonesians
T
reflects the significant development which the BOC has
reached in line with the backing
of Supreme Council for Youth
and Sports chairman and committee president Shaikh Nasser
bin Hamad Al Khalifa, besides
the continued follow-up from supreme council general secretary
and BOC vice-president Shaikh
Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
Meanwhile, Kuwaiti Shaikh
Ahmed Al Fahad Al Sabah was
congratulated on his election as
President of the Association of
National Olympic Committees
(ANOC) by both Askar and BOC
sports advisor Abduljalil Asad. countries competed for the
prize money of $15,000 which
has been increased from $5,000
last year with with the largest
numbers of participants from
Indonesia, India and Bahrain.
The finals were attended by
Guest of honour and top Indian star female shuttler, Ashwini Ponnappa, who along
with representatives from the
BBSF, sponsors and the organising committee were on
hand to present trophies to
the winners.
Shaikh Hamad maintains winning ways
DT News Network
haikh Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa continued his
strong start to the new BIC
2,000cc Challenge season
after claiming a fine double
in round two on Friday at
Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir. Having won both races in the
season-opener last month,
Shaikh
Hamad
returned
to the track and enjoyed a
near-perfect weekend in his
white Honda Civic hatchback. Shaikh Hamad won the first
race from pole position and
and then was awarded the win
in race two after the sprint
was red-flagged on the 12th
lap. The session was stopped
due to excessive oil spilled out
on the track. Hussain Karimi
and Abdulaziz Ashkanani
joined Shaikh Hamad on the
podium for both races, with
Karimi in second and Ashka-
S
Shaikh Ahmed re-elected ANOC chief
DT News Network
he Kingdom of Bahrain was
one of six nations to receive a
special award for winning its firstever medal at the Olympics during
the inaugural ANOC awards gala
in Bangkok, Thailand. The award
was granted after Bahrain’s Maryam Jamal won the women’s 1,500m
bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic
Games in London. International
Olympic Committee president
Thomas Bach presented the award
to Bahrain Olympic Committee
(BOC) general secretary Abdulrahman Askar, who expressed
pride for this honouring gesture.
Askar added that the award
Fran Kurniawan and Komala
Dewi 21-8, 21-10.
The event was part of the
Indian Club celebrating its
centenary year in 2014/2015
and is part of the 100 days
of celebration programme
which includes cultural, sporting and festive activities and
competitions.
Around 115 players including many internationally
ranked stars from Europe, the
GCC, the Indian sub-continent
and South-East Asia from 15
Abdulrahman Askar and Abduljalil Asad
congratulate Shaikh Ahmed Al Fahad.
An action from the race.
nani third each time. Commenting on his fine
performance, Shaikh Hamad
expressed his delight with
how things turned out. “I’m
very happy to get the two wins
tonight and the more points
the better. I’ve always wanted
to start the season collecting a
good number, so this time I’m
really happy and honoured to
be doing it.” Shaikh Hamad
began by topping the prac-
tice timesheet with a best lap
of one minute 20.305 seconds
around BIC’s 2.55-kilometre
Inner Track. He then secured
pole with a best lap of 1:19.745. In the first 15-lap race Shaikh
Hamad (20:19.686) claimed
the chequered flag followed
by Karimi (+7.788s) behind
driving a yellow Honda CRX
in second place, while Ashkanani +8.229s) in a black Honda S2000 was third.
Toyota racing head to Bahrain
DT News Network
lenty is at stake at the FIA
WEC Six Hours of Bahrain this weekend at Bahrain
International Circuit (BIC)
in Sakhir as the seventh and
penultimate round of the
2014 FIA World Endurance
Championship (WEC), teams
and drivers will be jostling
for position as the points become more valuable than ever.
The highly anticipated race
weekend this Friday and
Saturday sees Toyota Racing clinch an impressive
one-two finish in the WEC’s
previous round in China last
week and head Bahrain as the
favourites to claim this year’s
Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1)
P
Manufacturers’ World Championship. They top the standings with 226 points, but are
not far ahead of defending
champions Audi Team Sport
Joest (197), while LMP1 debutants, Porsche, (133) are in
third place. Toyota are looking to claim
their first-ever WEC manufacturers’ world title and will need
a good showing in Bahrain,
possibly similar to their finish
in China, to keep their bid on
course. Meanwhile, the pairing of former Bahrain resident
Sebastien Buemi and Toyota
teammate Anthony Davidson
are in prime position to secure
the World Endurance Drivers
Prototype Championship. SPORTS
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MAN UNITED VICTORY
Mata finds key to Palace for rusty Manchester United
Manchester
ubstitute Juan Mata eased
the tension at Old Trafford with the only goal as an
injury-hit Manchester United
edged Crystal Palace 1-0 in the
Premier League yesterday. The
Spaniard scored with a slightly
deflected shot four minutes
after coming on in the second
half to give Louis van Gaal’s
team a first victory in four attempts. Van Gaal had again
been forced to make changes to
his team and it showed in a display that was often disjointed.
With Chris Smalling suspended after his red card at Manchester City and with Marcos
Rojo having joined Rafael, Phil
Jones and Jonny Evans on the
sidelines, the hosts were again
forced to field a makeshift back
four. Antonio Valencia, usually a winger, started at rightback, while the inexperienced
S
Angel Di Maria (right) runs with the ball under pressure from Crystal Palace’s Marouane Chamakh
(centre) and James McArthur (left).
Rosberg snatches late pole
Sao Paulo
ico Rosberg secured pole
position for today’s Brazilian Grand Prix and his 10th
this season by the narrowest
of margins yesterday when he
outpaced world championship
leader and Mercedes team-mate
Lewis Hamilton. In a tense and
dramatic qualifying session,
both men broke the Interlagos
lap record several times as Rosberg finally topped the times
with a best lap in one minute
and 10.023 seconds. This was
just 0.033 seconds faster than
Hamilton’s best lap and enabled
him to complete a clean sweep,
having topped the times in all
three practice sessions. It was
the 14th pole position of his career. The previous best qualifying lap at Interlagos was set by
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello
who clocked 1:10.646 in 2004
for Ferrari. Rosberg’s success
earned him the Pole Position
Trophy as best qualifier of the
season and earned Mercedes
their record-equalling 18th
pole of the year, drawing level
with Red Bull. It was also the
team’s seventh consecutive
N
Nico Rosberg takes part in the third free practice.
clean sweep of the front row
this season.
Hamilton had done his best
to outpace his title rival, but
knew too that with a lead of 24
points in the championship he
can afford to finish second on
Sunday and in the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi, where
double points will be scored,
to take his second world title.
“That was good and I am happy
to be on pole,” said Rosberg.
“It is the best place to start the
race, but I have to do better
than I did last week in Austin
Mueller claims hat-trick
Berlin
efending champions Bayern Munich opened a
seven-point lead at the top of
the Bundesliga yesterday as
Thomas Mueller netted a hattrick in their 4-0 romp at Eintracht Frankfurt. With main
rivals VfL Wolfsburg and Gladbach playing Sunday, Pep Guardiola’s Bayern claimed their
eighth win in 11 league games
to pull clear of the chasing
pack against Thomas Schaaf ’s
D
Eintracht. Having been rested
for Wednesday’s 2-0 home win
over Roma, which confirmed
Bayern’s place in the Champions League last 16 as group
winners, Mueller opened the
scoring from a Franck Ribery
pass at the second attempt on
23 minutes. The 25-year-old
then boosted his tally with
two goals in three minutes
after converting another Ribery pass after the Frenchman
sprinted through the defence
last week and convert this into
a win.” Hamilton said: “Congratulations to Nico. He drove
a really great lap and it was a
truly thrilling session –- just
what qualifying is all about. Every time I went out I had to go
faster and improve and so did
Nico. I hope everyone enjoyed
watching that.” Brazilian Felipe
Massa was third fastest for Williams and greeted by a standing ovation from the fanatical
Interlagos crowd. His Williams
team-mate Valtteri Bottas was
fourth quickest. (AFP)
with Poland striker Robert Lewandowski also queueing up
to score on 64 minutes. Mueller bagged his third to leave
him with nine goals in all
competitions and the league’s
joint top scorer when he finished off a move from a quick
Ribery throw-in to claim his
sixth Bundesliga goal. Xherdan
Shaqiri grabbed the fourth on
86 minutes after fellow secondhalf replacement Arjen Robben had pulled the Frankfurt
defence to pieces to leave the
Swiss winger to tap into an
empty net.(AFP)
Londres
ston Villa goalkeeper Brad
Guzan produced a string
of fine saves as his side held
in-form West Ham United to
a 0-0 draw at Upton Park yesterday. The point was sufficient
to take West Ham back into the
Premier League’s top four at the
expense of Arsenal, who visit
Swansea City today, but one
would have been three had it not
been for the reflexes of Guzan.
Andy Carroll made his first
West Ham appearance of the
campaign as a late substitute
after tearing ankle ligaments in
pre-season, but even he could
not beat Guzan, who foiled the
burly striker in injury time. The
draw ended a run of six consecutive defeats for Paul Lambert’s Villa -- the club’s worst
run since 1964 -- and left them
two points above the relegation zone. West Ham had won
three games in a row prior to
last weekend’s 2-2 draw at Stoke
City and they began the game
in purposeful fashion, with
Mark Noble heading over from
a corner.
A
Paddy McNair partnered Daley
Blind, who normally plays in
midfield, in central defence.
Michael Carrick had filled in
at centre-back in last weekend’s
derby, but he played in midfield
against Palace on his first start
of the season following an ankle
injury.
Carrick saw plenty of the ball
in the early stages against a Palace team who had clearly come
with a plan to frustrate their
hosts. Left-back Luke Shaw was
Manchester
United- 1
Crystal Palace- 0
allowed to carry the ball to the
edge of the box before unleashing a shot that Julian Speroni
did well to save before Wayne
Rooney curled high over the
bar after probing work from
Angel di Maria. United’s start
to the season, taking 10 points
from their opening 13 matches,
has been their worst since 1986,
when Ron Atkinson was sacked
and replaced by Alex Ferguson.
Van Gaal admitted to feeling
“lousy” about that record on
Friday and warned that it could
take three years –- the duration of his contract -- for him
to restore United as a genuine
force in England and in Europe.
Confidence at Old Trafford is
far from its peak and Neil Warnock’s visitors almost took advantage of their hosts’ vulnerability five minutes before the
break.
Lack of communication between McNair and Blind meant
that Joel Ward’s long ball from
the back was allowed to find its
way to Fraizer Campbell inside
the United area. (AFP)
Villa hold West Ham
Aston Villa’s Gabriel Agbonlahor (2nd left) has an unsuccessful shot
as West Ham United’s Welsh defender James Collins (right) closes in.
Gabriel Agbonlahor shot
over at the other end after drifting past James Collins, but the home side were
quickly back on the attack and
there was a flurry of activity
around the visitors’ goal midway through the first half.
Guzan thwarted Collins and
Noble and produced a onehanded save to deny the in-
form Stewart Downing, while
fit-again top scorer Diafra
Sakho headed wide after the
American international came to
punch a cross and missed. Guzan’s opposite number, Adrian,
was obliged to touch an effort
from Andreas Weimann over
the bar, but West Ham ended
the half on top, with Downing
slicing off-target. (AFP)
Thomas Mueller (left) tries to score past
Frankfurt’s goalkeeper Felix Wiedwald.
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Suarez inspires Barcelona revival at Almeria
BARCA AHEAD
Australia edge win to
extend Wales misery
Cardiff
ustralia edged Wales
33-28 to extend Wales’s
losing streak to southern
hemisphere teams to 21 at
Cardiff ’s Millennium Stadium yesterday. The Wallabies’
victory stretched their own
winning streak over Wales
to 10 matches since 2009
and the result was the ninth
successive time the winning
margin was in single digits.
In a World Cup pool dress
rehearsal, it really was a game
of two halves, with the teams
going in at half-time locked
at 21-21 having each scored
three converted tries, virtually unheard of in professional rugby. Australian fly-half
Bernard Foley finished with a
A
personal tally of 18 points as
he booted three second-half
penalties and a nonchalantlytaken drop-goal to Wales’
converted penalty try. While
the opening 40 minutes made
for an entertaining match,
it certainly was not one for
the purists, both sides offering wave after wave of attack while the defence was at
best run-of-the-mill, at worst
completely porous, notably
down Wales’ right flank. An
electrifying start saw Rhys
Webb open the scoring in just
the second minute, a perfect
beginning for a Welsh side
whose last victory over a
SANZAR side came in a 2118 win against the Wallabies
in 2008.
ANOC boss urges USA to bid
Ximo Navarro (left) vies for the ball with Neymar da Silva.
Madrid
wo assists from Luis Suarez
inspired Barcelona to come
from behind and snap a twogame losing streak in La Liga
with a 2-1 win at Almeria yesterday. Suarez had started the
game on the bench alongside
Neymar as Barca boss Luis Enrique made five changes from
the side that defeated Ajax 2-0
in midweek. However, both
men were called into action at
half-time after Thievy Bifouma
had fired Almeria into the lead
eight minutes before the break.
Suarez squared for Neymar
to level the scores 18 minutes
from time and his cross then
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teed up Jordi Alba to seal the Messi’s effort from close range.
Martinez had to be at his best
three points nine minutes later.
Victory takes Barca a point to stop Barca taking the lead
just before the
ahead of Real
half hour mark
Madrid at the
Barcelona- 2
as he scrambled
top of La Liga,
Almeria- 1
to keep out Ivan
but Los BlanRakitic’s downcos can reclaim
top spot when they host Rayo ward header and from the reVallecano later yesterday. En- bound Messi nodded onto the
rique’s decision to make a host crossbar. However, the visitors
of changes handed Pedro Ro- were caught out eight minutes
driguez and Munir El Haddadi before half-time as Messi lost
a start alongside Lionel Messi possession deep inside the Alin attack. But they did little to meria half and with one pass
justify their selection, although Barca were undone as Jonathan
Munir did force Ruben Mar- Soriano released Thievy and he
tinez into a low save after the raced past Bartra before calmly
Almeria ‘keeper had blocked slotting past Bravo. Enrique
had seen enough in the first 45
minutes and swiftly introduced
Suarez and Neymar for Munir
and Pedro at the break. It took
15 minutes for the substitutes
to make an impact as Suarez
acrobatically volleyed against
the bar at the back post from
a corner. Suarez was the creator when Barca did eventually
level as he turned his marker
just inside the area and squared
for Neymar to turn the ball
home via a deflection off Ximo
Navarro. The Uruguayan was
inches away from his first Barca
goal moments later as he spun
and sent a low shot just beyond
Martinez’s far post. (AFP)
McDowell, Poulter angry at ‘ridiculous’ pace
Graeme McDowell reacts at the 4th hole.
Shanghai
raeme McDowell lashed
the snail-like pace of play
yesterday at the WGC-HSBC
Champions as “ridiculous”
after a third round of oneunder-par 71 reduced his lead
G
to a single shot. McDowell has
led for all three days of the
$8.5 million Shanghai event
known as “Asia’s Major”, but he
and playing partner Ian Poulter were angered by having to
spend more than five and a half
hours on the course in cold and
damp conditions. “Ridiculous,”
McDowell told after finishing
in near-darkness, having teed
off at 10.50am. Play ended in
the gloom at 4.30pm, just a few
minutes before sunset. “We got
to the fourth tee, the par three,
and there was already a group
on it,” McDowell lamented. “We’ve got threeballs, a lot of
people out there and a couple
of driveable par fours and a
couple of two-shot par fives.
Just a slow golf course. A long
day,” said McDowell, the 2010
US Open champion.
Ryder Cup star Poulter was
less diplomatic in his assessment of the day after a levelpar 72 left him four behind
McDowell. “There’s no excuses. We need to be pressing and
making sure people are keeping up to pace,” Poulter told. “Five and a half hours is too
long to play golf. End of story.”
American Rickie Fowler, who
finished in the top five in all
four majors this year, was bewildered as to why the round
took an hour longer than the
first two days. “Yeah, it was too
long,” Fowler told AFP. “I’m
not sure what it was. The first
two days didn’t take as long.
We didn’t have as many waits.
“Today was a bit cooler and
the rough did play tough with
the rain and the moisture. I
guess it just shows you what a
little bit of weather conditions
can do.” The two major tours,
the US PGA Tour and the European Tour, do have regulations governing slow play and
can impose penalties, but it
rarely happens. The US PGA
Tour last handed out a onestroke penalty for slow play
to 14-year-old amateur Guan
Tianlang of China at the 2013
US Masters. It was the first
such penalty on the Tour for
18 years. (AFP)
Bangkok
he head of the world’s national Olympic committees urged the United States
to bid for the 2024 Summer
Games yesterday, saying it
would have a “good chance”
of winning. In a clear and potentially significant endorsement, the influential Sheikh
Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah
said it was time for the United
States to return to prominence
in the Olympic movement.
The world’s biggest economy
has not hosted a Summer
Olympics since 1996, and
it was burned by a bribery
scandal over its successful
bid to hold the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Los Angeles and Washington have both put their hands
up to bid for 2024, with Bos-
T
ton and San Francisco also
possible contenders. Sheikh
Ahmad, the newly re-elected
president of the Association
of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) was speaking as the body wrapped up
its general assembly in Bangkok and looked ahead to next
year’s meeting in Washington.
New York and Chicago made
unsuccessful bids to host the
2012 and 2016 Olympics, respectively, and with Tokyo already picked for 2020, 2024 is
the earliest the United States
can hold a Summer Games. Olympic bids are announced
nine years before the target Games, meaning that an
American city would have to
step forward by next year. The
host city for 2024 will not be
decided until 2017. (AFP)
Favourites fall at Cup of China
Shanghai
ussia’s Maxim Kovtun
was among three winners to capture their first ISU
Grand Prix titles at the Cup of
China in Shanghai yesterday.
In the women’s field, Russia’s Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
leap-frogged teammate Julia
Lipnitskaia to win her first
ISU Grand Prix title in three
years. France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron came from behind in the
ice dance to continue their
winning season that started last month at the Skate
Canada Autumn Classic. In pairs, it was a clean
sweep of the podium for
the host country with national
champions
Peng
Cheng and Zhang Hao taking the title. After finishing
R
second at last year’s event,
Kovtun held on to his short
program lead to finish with
a winning score of 243.34.
However, his victory was
overshadowed when last
year’s winner Yan Han of
China and world champion
Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan collided during their warm-up
skate. While both were immediately shaken up, they
continued on with their free
skate. But their performances
suffered noticeably with several falls by each skater. Yan
tumbled to seventh from his
third place short program.
Hanyu managed to hold onto
second place, finishing with a
total score of 237.55. He will
receive additional medical
attention when he returns to
Japan today.
ROSSI ON POLE
Valencia Grand Prix
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Gangjee stays on top
New Delhi
ahil Gangjee kept other
contenders at bay with
a birdie on the last hole to
hold a one-shot lead after the
third round of the $300,000
Panasonic Open at the Delhi
Golf Club yesterday. The Indian was unable to extend
his overnight two-stroke lead
as he shot a one-under-par
71 in the Asian Tour event
co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India.
Gangjee’s overall 11-underpar 205 put him just one
stroke ahead of defending
champion Wade Ormsby of
Australia, Bangladeshi Sid-
R
dikur Rahman, Indian teenager Shubhankar Sharma
and Mithun Perera of Sri
Lanka. Panuphol Pittayarat
of Thailand, who came up
with a 69, was one shot behind on 207, setting the stage
for an exciting finish today.
Gangjee, whose lone victory
on the Asian Tour came in
2004, rubbished suggestions
he came under pressure after leading over the first two
days. “I did not hit the shots
and that’s what I did not like
about the entire day,” the
36-year-old said. “But overall, I hung in there, so tomorrow should be a lot better.”
Di Natale reveals Kop love
Valentino Rossi celebrates the
pole.
Valentino Rossi wheelies.
Valence
amaha rider Valentino
Rossi took advantage of
world champion Marc Marquez’s misfortune to claim
his 50th career MotoGP pole
position for today’s Valencia
Grand Prix. Marquez is hoping to make history with a
record 13th win of the season
with victory on home soil after equalling Australian rider
Mick Doohan’s mark of 12
Y
victories in 17 races from 1997
after winning in Malaysia last
time out. However, his hopes
were dented as he crashed after registering just one lap in
qualifying yesterday to finish
down in fifth on the grid. Rossi’s time of 1min 30.843sec denied Italian compatriot Andres
Iannone his first MotoGP pole
with Marquez’s Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa completing
the first row of the grid. “I am
very, very happy. It is a surprise
even for me,” said Rossi. “Qualifying was a lot better for me
than the practice sessions and
it is set up to go well tomorrow.
“In the last lap I improved a lot
to get the time, but when I saw
on the TV I was in first it was
really a big surprise.”
Two-time world champion
Jorge Lorenzo’s hopes of leapfrogging teammate Rossi into
second in the world champi-
onship standings were also hit
as he starts down in fourth.
And despite Marquez’s mishap
he and Pedrosa are still wellplaced to deliver Honda backto-back constructors titles. Iannone was also content with his
starting place on the grid, despite being just over a tenth of a
second away from his first pole
position in the premier class.
“Despite the disappointment
of almost getting the first pole
I am happy with second position,” said the Ducati rider. “I
am very happy, I didn’t expect
to get pole but I tried to be
there or thereabouts and for
me second position is good.”
(AFP)
“I am very, very
happy. It is a
surprise even
for me”- Valentino Rossi
Czechs lead Germany in Fed Cup final
Prague
etra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova gave the Czech Republic a 2-0 lead over Germany
in the Fed Cup final in Prague
yesterday after winning their
opening rubbers in straight sets.
Kvitova, the Czech number one
player and world number four,
overcame Germany’s number
two Andrea Petkovic 6-2, 6-4 in
an hour and 17 minutes. Safarova then needed an hour and
28 minutes to beat Germany’s
Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-4.
The Czechs, who won the
trophy in 2011 and 2012, are
within a point of making it
three in four years. Germany
last won the Fed Cup in 1992.
On the superfast hardcourt of
Prague’s O2 Arena, Wimbledon
champion Kvitova leaned on
her serve and aggressive play
in the first set. The 24-year-old
P
Petra Kvitova returns a ball to Andrea Petkovic.
Czech first broke Petkovic’s
serve in game two after the
German world number 14 produced two double faults, then
snatched another break for a
5-1 lead.
Serving for the set, Kvitova
lost concentration, squandered
a set point and let the 27-year-
old German break her serve,
before breaking back for 6-2.
In the second set, both players allowed a break apiece,
then held on to their serves
until game 10, in which Kvitova snatched a break point and
converted it as Petkovic fired
long from Kvitova’s backhand
slice. Petkovic admitted she was
“obviously more nervous in Fed
Cup than in normal matches”
but paid a tribute to Kvitova for
her performance.
In a clash of two left-handers,
Safarova, the world number 17,
and 10th-ranked Kerber had a
break each in the first set until
the 27-year-old Safarova earned
two break points in game 10.
She converted the second spectacularly to win the set as the
26-year-old German blasted
the ball into a corner, yelled in
celebration and was penalised
for hindrance as a diving Safarova miraculously returned
the ball. Both had two breaks
in the second set before Safarova took a 5-4 lead and earned
three match points, converting
the last one to finish a rubber in
which she had 32 unforced errors against Kerber’s 23. (AFP)
Milan
dinese veteran striker
Antonio Di Natale revealed he would have loved to
play for Liverpool as he bids
to write another page in his
impressive personal history
in Italy’s top flight. Di Natale,
one of Serie A’s most successful ever strikers, will take his
league goals tally to 200 if he
scores away to Palermo on
what will be his 400th league
appearance today. Had he
followed through with a decision to retire at the end of
last season, the 37-year-old
U
Napolitan’s 200-goal dream
would have died along with
his faint hopes of a final
World Cup appearance with
Italy in Brazil last summer.
Instead, Di Natale -- who
scored 11 goals in 42 appearances for the Azzurri -- has
turned his attention to at least
matching the 205-goal tally
of Italian great Roberto Baggio. Having spent his entire
career in Italy with only two
clubs, Empoli and Udinese,
Di Natale admits a spell at
Liverpool was among his few
regrets.
McCullum wants better rankings
Abou Dhabi
ew Zealand captain
Brendon
McCullum
yesterday targeted an improvement in his side’s Test
rankings going into the series
against Pakistan starting in
Abu Dhabi today. New Zealand, currently ranked seventh among 10 Test playing
nations, can climb the ladder
if they win the three-match
series, a target McCullum sets
his sights on.”If we perform
well against Pakistan then we
can look back on the last 18
months of pretty solid work
and we are aware that we
are a team who need to keep
performing day in, day out
because we are well down the
ladder in the rankings and we
N
are not happy with that,” McCullum said yesterday. “We
want to keep improving and
we work incredibly hard and
this is a great opportunity to
do so.” A 1-0 victory in the
three-Test series for New
Zealand would lift them to
sixth position with Pakistan,
currently third, dropping
to fifth position. A 2-0 win
would push them into fifth
with Pakistan slipping to
sixth.
McCullum admitted Pakistan are tough opponents.
“I think obviously Pakistan
were excellent in their most
recent series against Australia and thoroughly deserved
their win,” said McCullum of
Pakistan’s 2-0 over Australia.
Haimona inspires Italy
comeback against Samoa
Ascoli Piceno
ew Zealand-born flyhalf Kelly Haimona
kicked 14 points to inspire
Italy to a hard-fought 24-13
victory over Samoa as the
Azzurri ended a nine-match
string of defeats in Ascoli yesterday. Haimona was making his full Azzurri debut
after being called up for the
November tests two weeks
ago alongside Fijian Samuela
Vunisa. And the Zebre fly-
N
half proved a useful addition
to Jacques Brunel’s stuttering side as they look to put
a disastrous Six Nations and
summer tour of the South
Pacific behind them. Italy
will face Argentina and South
Africa later this month and
Brunel’s men, whose last victory was a 37-31 win over Fiji
last November, will take some
heart from a performance
that nevertheless took time to
come together.
P31 ROSSI ON POLE
32
CHELSEA
UNBEATEN
Diego Costa strike leaves Liverpool reeling
Londres
iego Costa scored his 10th
goal of the campaign as
Premier League leaders Chelsea continued their unbeaten
start to the season by winning
2-1 at Liverpool yesterday.
Bidding to avenge their costly
2-0 loss in last season’s corresponding fixture in April,
scene of captain Steven Gerrard’s infamous slip, Liverpool
took an early lead through
Emre Can’s deflected shot.
But Gary Cahill equalised
almost immediately for Jose
Mourinho’s Chelsea before
Costa slammed home 23 min-
D
utes from time to silence An- his team go ahead in the ninth
field and provisionally increase minute. Can had a shot deflecthis side’s lead at the summit to ed over by John Terry in the
seven points. Runners-up to first minute, but Chelsea did
Manchester City last season, not heed the warning and when
he took aim
L ive r p o ol
from simihave now
Chelsea- 2
lar range
lost three
moments
successive
Liverpool1
later, the
games in
ball cannall competitions and trail Chelsea by a oned off Cahill and into the net.
huge 15 points. Liverpool man- But within five minutes Chelager Brendan Rodgers restored sea were level, after a goal that
a host of the first-team players required the aid of goal-line
controversially rested for the technology.
Simon Mignolet parried
midweek loss to Real Madrid in
the Champions League and saw from Terry at a corner and al-
though the Liverpool goalkeeper got his body fully behind
Cahill’s follow-up, Hawk-Eye
replays showed that the Belgian had carried the ball over
the line. While Chelsea finished
the first half strongly, they were
indebted to goalkeeper Thibaut
Courtois for getting down
sharply to thwart Philippe
Coutinho and Raheem Sterling
either side of half-time. Having
been embroiled in a physical
tussle with Martin Skrtel for
much of the game, Costa provided a reminder of his predatory instincts to settle the game
in the 67th minute.
SPORTS
Diego Costa
After eluding Coutinho on
the Chelsea left, Cesar Azpilicueta saw his cross pushed out
by Mignolet, but Costa was in
the right place to rattle a half-
volley into the net from close
range. Liverpool had a late penalty appeal turned down when
a shot from Gerrard hit Cahill
on the arm. (AFP)
Liverpool’s Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho (centre) plays the ball under
the eye of Chelsea’s Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic (2 right) and Chelsea’s
Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas (right).
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