Election boycott call condemned - Gulf Daily News

VOL XXXVI NO. 53 (GGDN 024) SUNDAY, 12th MAY 2013 

SHAME 

THEM! 

MANAMA: Journalists who 

spread messages of hate should 

be publicly shamed, according 

to an international expert. 

The media should have freedom, but must 

only tell the truth and give both sides of the 

story, stressed former Canadian prime minister 

Jean Chrétien. 

“I think media that spread hatred should be 

denounced and shamed publicly,” he told the GDN. 

Election boycott 

call condemned 

MANAMA: Bahrain will not 

tolerate attempts by anyone to 

derail forthcoming parliamentary 

elections by fomenting 

violence or spreading chaos, 

a top government minister 

warned last night. 

Such incitement, reminiscent 

of the February 2011 

unrest, will be met with the 

force of law, Justice, Islamic 

Affairs and Endowments 

Minister Shaikh Khalid bin 

Ali Al Khalifa said. 

He made the remarks following 

a recent statement by Al 

Wefaq National Islamic Society 

secretary-general Shaikh Ali 

Salman during an event at a 

Samaheej mosque in which he 

openly announced a demonstration 

with the aim of crippling 

the elections, which are scheduled 

to be held next year. 

He said political pluralism 

and sustained development can 

only be achieved through fair 

competition rather than instigation 

to violence and adoption 

of terrorism and intimidation 

tactics that were used 

during the 2011 by-elections. 

“There is no place for anyone 

whose main target is to 

obstruct the nation-building 

process.” 

By BASMA MOHAMMED 

Mr Chrétien was speaking on the sidelines 

of a Press conference at the conclusion of the 

31st annual plenary meeting at the Ritz-Carlton 

Bahrain, Hotel and Spa yesterday. 

The three-day event, organised by the 

InterAction Council, was held under the patronage 

of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin 

Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy 

Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier. 

Mr Chrétien, who is also the council’s co-chairman, 

said Bahrain is playing a 

key role in efforts to create a 

nuclear-free Middle East. 

“The progress is slow but 

it is possible and we could 

have no-nuclear zones in many 

regions including the Middle 

East, South America and 

Africa,” Mr Chrétien said. 

The meeting reviewed the 

present state of the world, the 

water-energy-food nexus, religious 

divide and nuclear non- 

proliferation, he said. 

It concluded with 44 recommendations 

on each theme, 

which will be distributed to 

world leaders and policy-makers. 

Some of the recommendations 

include encouraging 

governments to seek multilateral 

and sustained co-operation, 

ceasing construction and 

expansion of new settlements 

in Palestinian territories and 

East Jerusalem by Israel, urging 

Iran to fully implement its 

Safeguards Agreement and its 

other obligations. 

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MANAMA: Health authorities were yesterday urged 

to take immediate pre-emptive measures to avert a 

potential outbreak of Sars-like coronavirus in Bahrain. 

“Forty-three per cent of the coronavirus-related death 

cases in the world have been reported in neighbouring 

Saudi Arabia,” Foreign Affairs, Defence and National 

Security Committee member and MP Sawsan Taqawi 

said. She called on the Health Ministry to outline 

detailed contingency plans to contain potential outbreak 

in Bahrain and allay people’s fears. She urged 

the ministry to set up health checkpoints at different 

entry points to avert any coronavirus infections among 

travellers arriving in Bahrain. 

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n Budget stalemate warning 

MANAMA: A Shura Council member yesterday 

warned about the fallout of continuing stalemate 

over the 2013-2014 budget on the national 

economy. “Development 

projects risk being crippled 

for lack of funds if the 

tug-of-war between the 

government and parliament 

continues,” Hala Ramzi 

Fayiz Quris said. She urged 

the government and parliament 

to be flexible for the 

law on the budget to be 

passed. She paid tribute to 

His Royal Highness Prime 

Minister Prince Khalifa bin 

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n Young dancers perform at a show at the Cultural Hall near Bahrain National Museum yesterday. 

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nHealth alert to block virus 

Salman Al Khalifa and His Royal Highness 

Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown 

Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and 

First Deputy Premier, for allocating anti-inflation 

allowances. 

n Al Asala pulls out of NUA 

MANAMA: Al Asala Islamic Society yesterday 

announced that it has withdrawn from the National 

Unity Assembly (NUA). It blamed “differences 

in stances which contravene national interests”. 

However, it will continue to take part in National 

Dialogue sessions.

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Contingency 

plans urged 

as new virus 

alert grows 

ManaMa: Health authorities 

were yesterday urged 

to take immediate preemptive 

measures to avert 

a potential outbreak of Sarslike 

coronavirus in Bahrain. 

Parliament’s foreign affairs, 

defence and national security 

committee member Sawsan 

Taqawi called on the health 

ministry to outline contingency 

plans to contain potential outbreak 

in Bahrain. 

“We have not noticed any 

serious pre-emptive measures 

undertaken by the ministry to 

confront the dangerous viral 

disease,” she said. 

She stressed the need to raise awareness to 

contain any outbreak. 

Ms Taqaqi said parliament is ready to back any 

increase in the budget for the Health Ministry. 

The ministry had already issued a statement 

denying any infection in Bahrain. 

Ms Taqawi urged the ministry to address the 

public’s queries regarding the diagnosis and the 

availability of required medication. 

Three suspected cases of the virus have been 

discovered in northern France, health authorities 

said there after confirming the country’s 

first case of the deadly respiratory infection this 

week. 

Along with the French cases, the World Health 

n French Health Minister Marisol Touraine leaves a hospital 

in Lille, where the patient with a confirmed case of the virus 

is being treated. The 65-year-old man who fell ill on returning 

from Dubai is in a stable but serious condition 

Organisation (WHO) has registered 23 cases in 

Saudi Arabia, two in Jordan, two in Qatar, one in 

the UAE and two in Britain. 

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have invited 

experts to help it deal with a large outbreak of 

the virus in the eastern Saudi city of Al Hofuf, 

and a Canadian infectious diseases specialist is 

among them. 

Toronto Sars expert Dr Allison McGeer 

arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, travelling 

at the request of the kingdom’s government, 

a source revealed. 

The outbreak, which involves at least 13 cases, 

has ratcheted up worry about the coronavirus, 

the WHO acknowledged in an update on the 

virus, which is from the same family as the virus.

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Rallies 

review 

is urged n 

By Sandeep Singh gRewal 

BAHRAIN’S political 

factions have united in 

their opposition against 

plans to make organisers 

of public demonstrations 

pay deposits of up to 

BD20,000. 

MPs last week voted unanimously 

in favour of the proposal, 

which aims to prevent 

rallies from turning violent. 

They want to amend the 

gatherings, rallies and demonstrations 

law to ensure 

organisers pay the Interior 

Ministry a deposit ranging 

from BD1 to BD20,000, 

depending on the size of the 

protest and location. 

It would be refunded if the 

event passed without acts of 

vandalism or sabotage. 

According to figures complied 

by independent human 

rights activist Salman Nasser, 

117 opposition protests were 

held in the first four months 

of the year, out of which 62 

turned violent. 

But the National Unity 

Assembly (NUA) and Al 

Wefaq National Islamic 

Society both voiced concerns 

about the proposal, which they 

say could inadvertently lead to a 

surge in illegal rallies and curtail 

freedom of expression. 

“From the point of view of 

a political society, we certainly 

are against these changes as it 

further restricts freedom of association,” 

said a NUA spokesman. 

“The majority of nongovernmental 

organisation 

(NGOs) cannot afford to pay a 

deposit of up to BD20,000 to 

hold a rally to highlight their 

cause.” 

The spokesman said MPs and 

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n Police jeeps being 

attacked with Molotov 

cocktails after a protest 

the concerned bodies could opt 

for other measures such as a 

three strikes policy to try and 

eliminate street violence. 

“If violations by organisers of 

protests or demonstrations happen 

more than three times, then 

let the authorities put a ban on 

their future activities,” he said. 

“This is a fair system and 

organisers will be extra careful 

to ensure the protests go 

ahead peacefully without any 

violence.” 

The spokesman said putting a 

price tag on freedom of expression 

was a backward step. 

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Thousands attended an NUA demonstration to condemn street violence last February 

“You cannot put a price to 

hold a protest. It is similar to 

blackmailing someone,” he 

claimed. 

“We are already going 

through a phase where illegal 

rallies are taking place resulting 

in damage to public property, 

arson and other violence. 

“If they further restrict the 

right to protest, everyone who 

cannot deposit money will protest 

illegally.” 

Similar views were echoed 

by former Al Wefaq MP 

Sayed Hadi Al Mousawi, 

who was keen to point out 

the amendments were still a 

long way from being made into 

law. 

“This is against the Bahraini 

constitution, which guarantees 

freedom of association with the 

only condition that it has to be in 

a peaceful manner. 

“But with this proposal, there 

is a price based on which demonstrations 

will get approval.” 

Mr Al Mousawi said 

Al Wefaq had been 

constantly accused of 

instigating violence, 

but claimed it always 

asked its supporters to 

be peaceful. 

“It makes no sense 

or even logic for 

Interior Ministry to ask 

for refundable deposit 

from organisers to 

stage protests. 

“Why should the public pay 

them and for what…practicing 

their basic right?” 

Mr Al Mousawi said only 

the courts should calculate how 

much compensation should be 

paid for acts of sabotage and 

who should be held accountable. 

He also warned Bahrain 

would be going against several 

international conventions if the 

proposal became law. 

Founder and president of 

the newly formed Mabade’a 

Society for Human Rights 

Abdulla Doseri was also 

against the proposal, which 

will first have to be studied 

by the Cabinet and National 

Assembly before being 

passed to His Majesty King 

Hamad for ratification. 

“We understand there have 

been several violent 

protests that 

have resulted in 

damage to property, 

road blockades 

and tyres 

burning,” he said. 

“But we are 

sending wrong 

signals to the 

n Mr Al Mousawi 

international 

community by 

controlling the right to public 

demonstrations and we urge 

lawmakers to review this proposal. 

“If there are any violations 

then it should be dealt according 

to the law. 

“Imposing conditions of 

depositing huge sums of money 

to organise any authorised rally 

or protest is unacceptable and 

not the right way.” 

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n More than 50 individuals and organisations were honoured during a ceremony at Gudaibiya in the Capital Governorate. The event, held under the patronage 

of Capital Governor Shaikh Hisham bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa, awarded individuals, private companies and government bodies who volunteered in helping the 

governorate organise various events. Shaikh Hisham presented certificates and plaques to those being honoured. Above, the volunteers following the award 

ceremony. 

Bahrain hits back 

at claims over FTA 

BAHRAIN has hit back at accusations 

it could have breached its Free Trade 

Agreement (FTA) with the US. 

The Executive Office of the President claims 

to have evidence the government may have 

failed to meet its obligations to protect the 

rights of workers as part of the landmark deal. 

Among the allegations against Bahrain is that 

it has not remedied shortcomings in its justice 

system governing freedom of association. 

The US also accused Bahrain of failing to 

prevent or discourage employers from retaliating 

against organisers, supporters and participants 

of a nationwide strike in March 2011. 

In a strongly-worded letter, it says Bahrain 

could have breached the terms of the FTA, “by 

not striving to ensure that its law provide for 

labour standards consistent with internationally 

recognised labour rights and not striving to 

improve those standards”. 

Signed by US acting trade representative 

Demetrios Marantis and acting Labour 

Secretary Seth Harris, it said the conclusions 

had been reached following an “extensive 

examination” of Bahrain that lasted more than 

a year. 

“Based on this examination and review of 

matters of law and fact, the government of 

Bahrain appears to be failing to meet its obligations 

under article 15.1.1, by not striving 

to ensure that freedom of association and the 

elimination of discrimination in employment 

and occupation are recognised and protected 

by its laws,” says the letter, sent to the Labour 

Ministry and Industry and Commerce Ministry. 

But Labour Ministry assistant under-secretary 

for labour affairs Dr Mohammed Al Ansari 

hit back, saying the US government’s information 

about Bahrain was out of date. 

“The meeting they want us to set up is nothing 

to worry about. In fact we are actually 

By Ahmed Al OmAri 

thanking them as it will give us the opportunity 

to show them new data and showcase all 

the work we have done to resolve the labour 

issues,” he said. 

“The information that they are working on is 

very old – from 2011 – so this meeting will give 

us in Bahrain to show them that the problems 

we have had regarding labour issues are 98pc 

solved. 

“This meeting will also give us the opportunity 

to discuss how to deal with the remaining 

2pc which will be about the dismissed workers.” 

Mr Al Ansari said there was an International 

Labour Organisation case pending over similar 

labour disputes, but said meetings had been 

scheduled for October to deal with those issues. 

Implications 

Harinder Singh Lamba, a member of the 

US-Bahrain FTA negotiating committee, does 

not believe the historic deal, which came into 

force in 2004, is under threat. 

“This has been going on for a while and it 

is related to those people that were dismissed 

during 2011,” said the MRS Fashions executive 

director. 

“This only happened because unions 

approached the US asking them to revoke the 

FTA. This should not affect anything during 

the current FTA but it may have implications 

for the future FTA, which will take all this in 

mind.” 

The former vice-chairman of the Bahrain 

Chamber of Commerce and Industry textile 

committee added that Bahrain will need to start 

working on renewing the FTA soon as it is due 

to expire within three years. 

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n Culture Minister Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa yesterday received Nobel Peace 

laureate and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and stressed the importance of promoting 

the culture of peace. She hailed the role of Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Development. 



Artists set to 

highlight new 

mall identity 

TEN Bahraini artists will take 

part in a workshop highlighting 

a new brand identity of Bahrain 

City Centre. 

The participants, from the 

Bahrain Art Society, will create 

artwork on blank C-shaped 

canvas, incorporating recycled 

materials such as textiles, mirrors, 

mosaic and paint into their 

designs. 

They will be partnered with 

children from the Bahrain 

Talented Kids’ Society, who 

will lend their creativity to the 

project. 

The event, entitled the Art of 

C, will feature 10 unique pieces 

of artwork displayed throughout 

the mall until May 18. 

Bahrain City Centre senior 

mall manager Duaij Khalifa Al 

Rumaihi said shoppers are also 

invited to watch the artists at 

work. 

“We are excited to welcome 

Bahraini artists and children 

from the community into the 

mall to design an imaginative 

piece of art to celebrate our 

new C identity,” he said. 

“The initiative invites shoppers 

to watch artists at work 

and we are pleased to support 

the local art community 

and showcase their wonderful 

talents.”

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Sunday, 12th May 2013 

n A dinner in honour of former Malaysian prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was held yesterday at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel, Residence and 

Spa. The event was hosted by Malaysian Ambassador Dato Ahmad Shahizan Abd Samad. Mr Badawi is in Bahrain to take part in the InterAction Council’s 31st 

annual plenary meeting. Above, Mr Badawi, third from right, and Mr Abd Samad, second from right, with guests. Transparency vow – Page 24 

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JOURNALISTS who spread 

messages of hate should be 

publicly shamed, according 

to an international expert. 

The media should be allowed 

to work with freedom, but must 

only tell the truth and give 

both sides of the story, stressed 

former Canadian Prime 

Minister Jean Chrétien. “I think 

media that spread hatred should 

be denounced and shamed publicly,” 

he told the GDN. 

“I believe the Press should 

have freedom but need to tell 

the truth and be fair and give 

both sides of the story as they 

are advocates for people.” 

Mr Chrétien was speaking 

on the sidelines of a Press conference 

to conclude the 31st 

annual plenary meeting held at 

the Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel 

and Spa yesterday. 

The three-day event, organised 

by the InterAction Council, 

was held under the patronage 

of His Royal Highness 

Prince Salman bin Hamad Al 

Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy 

Supreme Commander and First 

Deputy Premier. 

Mr Chrétien, who is also the 

council co-chairman, said the 

meeting reviewed the present 

state of the world, the waterenergy-food 

nexus, religious 

divide and nuclear non-proliferation. 

It concluded with 44 recommendations 

on each theme, 

which will be distributed to 

world leaders and policy makers. 

Some of the recommendations 

include encouraging governments 

to seek multilateral and 

sustained co-operation, ceasing 

construction of new settlements 

in Palestinian territories and 

East Jerusalem by Israel, urging 

Iran to fully implement its 

Safeguards Agreement and its 

other obligations. 

Others include enhancing 

public education campaigns to 

raise awareness about water 

scarcity and need for conservation, 

developing policies and 

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creating incentives to encourage 

private sector interest. 

Additionally, the council suggested 

future meetings among 

countries in the Middle East to 

create a nuclear-free zone. 

“This issue is very important 

as the goal for us is to have a 

world without nuclear weapons,” 

said Mr Chrétien. 

“The progress is slow but 

possible and could have no 

nuclear zones in many regions 

including the Middle East, 

South America and Africa.” 

Meanwhile, former Cypriot 

president George Vassiliou 

said nuclear power would 

always create tension. 

“One country would want to 

feel secure and gain such power, 

but then others will also want it 

and it will go on,” he said. 

Security 

“Countries such as North 

Korea need to not feel afraid, 

but solving such issue takes 

time and is done gradually.” 

Around 20 former heads of 

states, leading academics and 

policy makers took part in the 

event, including International 

Atomic Energy Agency director-general 

Yukiya Amano, 

Saudi Arabia Supreme 

Economic Council secretarygeneral 

Dr Majid Al Moneef, 

Global Strategy Forum chairman 

Lord Michael Lothian and 

religious scholar and best-selling 

author Dr Reza Aslan. 

The council meets in a different 

country every year and 

last came to the Middle East 

in May 2009, in Saudi Arabia. 

For 31 years, the council 

has been at the forefront of 

many prominent issues, most 

notably the 1997 drafting of 

the Universal Declaration of 

Human Responsibilities, the 

2010 Hiroshima Declaration 

and the 2012 report, The Global 

Water Crisis. 

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n BICI member 

to attend probe 

A SENIOR member of 

the Bahrain Independent 

Commission of Inquiry (BICI) is 

due to give evidence during the 

latest session of a British parliamentary 

inquiry into the UK’s 

relations with Saudi Arabia and 

Bahrain. Former UN special 

rapporteur on human rights 

Sir Nigel Rodley will speak to 

senior MPs during Tuesday’s 

event, at Portcullis House in 

Westminster, London. 

Opposition activist Maryam Al 

Khawaja, the Denmark-based 

spokeswoman for the nowdefunct 

Bahrain Centre for 

Human Rights, will also give 

evidence along with Amnesty 

International Middle East and 

North Africa director Phil 

Luthor and UK Human Rights 

Watch director David Mepham. 

Several prominent British figures 

who have lived and worked 

in the Gulf previously submitted 

extensive written testimonials 

as evidence to the House of 

Commons inquiry. They include 

former ambassadors, retired 

military figures, businessmen, 

existing and former residents 

and human rights activists. 

Several senior British MPs last 

month travelled to Saudi Arabia 

and Bahrain to meet prominent 

expatriates and opposition figures 

as part of the inquiry. 

The delegation, from the House 

of Commons Foreign Affairs 

Select Committee, flew into 

Manama as part of attempts to 

gather the facts on the ground. 

It included former Liberals 

Democrats leader Sir Menzies 

Campbell, Labour party MPs 

Ann Clwyd and Mike Gapes 

and Conservative MPs Sir John 

Stanley and Rory Stewart. 

n Blaze put out 

FIREMEN were called to put 

out a blaze at a restaurant in 

Muharraq yesterday. Smoke 

filled the first floor of the 

Lahore Restaurant at around 

11.52am after the blaze reportedly 

started due to a short circuit 

in its air conditioning system. 

No customers were in the 

building at the time and Civil 

Defence teams were able to 

prevent fire from spreading to 

the restaurant’s ground floor. 

An employee at the restaurant 

told the GDN the fire was contained 

to the air conditioning 

unit. “We are still in business 

and no one was injured,” said 

the employee, who wished to 

remain unanimous. 

n Ties discussed 

MINISTER of State for Foreign 

Affairs Ghanim Al Buainain 

yesterday received non-resident 

Australian Ambassador Neil 

Hawkins and discussed bilateral 

co-operation. Embassy adviser 

Jay Rodger attended. 

n Society chief guest 

THE chief guest at the induction 

ceremony of the newly 

elected executive committee of 

the Syro Malabar Society Dr 

Babu Ramachandran works as 

a physician for the American 

Mission Hospital and not 

the Shifa Al Jazeera Medical 

Centre as incorrectly reported 

in Friday’s GDN. 

n Water supply cut 

WATER supply will be cut off 

today from 7pm until midnight 

to residential blocks 901, 903, 

905, 907, 909, 911, 913, 914, 

915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 921, 

923, 925, 927, 929, 931, 933, 

934, 935, 937, 939 and 941 for 

routine maintenance work at 

East Riffa substation.

New restrictions on 

subsidised chicken 


By Ahmed Al OmAri 

CUSTOMERS are facing 

new restrictions on buying 

subsidised chicken due to 

inconsistent supplies. 

Butchers at three major 

supermarket chains confirmed 

stocks were being 

rationed to between two to 

five chickens per person in 

cases of severe shortages. 

It comes as demand for 

Delmon Poultry chickens 

has rocketed due the rising 

prices of Saudi chicken and 

varying levels of supply. 

Although there are no specific 

shortages of chicken in 

the market, people have to 

pay 250 to 500 fils a kilo 

extra when the subsidised 

meat runs out. 

“The sales are controlled when the supply 

gets low, but these days supply has 

been okay,” said an Al Jazeera supermarket 

butcher. “There are times when the 

supply we receive is limited for example 

if we only get 50 chicken then we will 

institute the policy. 

“But if we get 200 chickens then people 

can buy as much as they want.” 

The butcher explained the restrictions 

on Delmon Poultry chicken was to ensure 

everyone had the chance to buy some. 

n Chickens being readied for public sale at the Delmon Poultry 

“We have to be fair to all the customers 

as this chicken comes daily,” he said. 

Two other supermarket chains, with a 

total of seven branches around the country, 

confirmed they were also rationing 

chicken when supplies ran low. 

Delmon Poultry supplies around 20 per 

cent of Bahrain’s demand for chicken. 

Assistant general manager Khalil Ebrahim 

Al Derazi said the company was already 

operating at maximum capacity, but was 

ready to expand with government support. 

n The Delmon Poultry hatchery 

“We cull and distribute an average of 

31,000 birds a day and those chains that 

buy the chickens sell out daily,” he said. 

“We are actually producing chicken at 

the maximum capacity that the factory 

can handle. 

“The main issue in supply is with the 

farmers as we rely on the farmers to bring 

us the chickens for slaughter.” 

Delmon Poultry operates a slaughter 

house and hatchery, which distributes an 

average 185,000 chicks a week to farmers. 

They are raised and sold 

back to the factory when they 

have matured. 

Mr Al Derazi said the company 

was ready to grow, but 

required more land and government 

subsidies to accommodate 

any increase in production. 

“People like fresh chicken 

that is slaughtered that day and 

the price of our chicken is the 

lowest in the market so it sells 

out fast,” he said. 

“We are able to expand but 

the main issue is land as there 

is no space for our hatcheries 

to expand and if we do expand 

it we will need to upgrade the 

factory to deal with the higher 

numbers of birds coming in. 

“Also if we are producing 

more chicken and all the chicken 

is subsidised then the government 

will have to increase 

the subsidies on the chicken as 

the numbers will increase.” 

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n Indian Ahsan Butt has won a trip to a European country. The Diamond Celebrations 2013 was conducted by Malabar Gold and 

Diamonds and a raffle draw was held at its outlet in Gold City, Manama. Above, company officials with customers at the draw. 



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China is silent 

no longer... 

By jonathan power 

China is a sitting duck. not that long ago, 

as far as most of the rest of the world 

was concerned, it was almost a closed, 

mysterious, society. now it is wide open. The 

bad is there for all to see. Last year the New York 

Times published an in-depth investigative series 

of long articles on the secret wealth of the family 

of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. it proved that it is 

possible to peel off the layers and look beneath. 

China’s new-found relative openness has 

allowed an open season on the shooting range. 

The targets are legion – corruption, nepotism, 

nationalism, maladministration, growing 

inequality, environmental degradation, overassertive 

foreign policy and the military build-up. 

Western critics enjoy popping off at them. 

Much of what the critics say is true. But 

much is exaggerated. and much is ignored, in 

particular what is positive. 

China’s attitude to global governance – the 

collective management of common problems at 

international level – is a good place to start. in 

the time of Mao Tse-tung, excluded from the Un 

by the US veto, it had nothing to lose by playing 

the wild card. 

after President Richard nixon’s opening to 

China, including the admission of China to the 

Un in 1971, China moved from opponent of 

global governance to playing a passive position 

while it learned the rules of the road. Since 

2000 it has become more activist, confident and 

outspoken. 

Global finance is a good example. in 2009 

China began to push for a major reform of the 

international monetary system and suggested 

that the US dollar be phased out as the world’s 

principal reserve currency in favour of a basket 

of currencies including its own – perhaps a 

sensible idea. Meanwhile, it won approval for an 

increase in its voting rights in the international 

Monetary Fund. in its role as a responsible 

influence on international financial affairs it 

won the appointment of a Chinese as the World 

Bank’s chief economist and another as deputy 

head of the iMF. 

Over the last 30 years China has signed 

up as a member of most inter-governmental 

organisations as well as over a thousand of the 

big nGOs. 

China has become a “socialised” member of 

the international community. it is now a signatory 

of over 300 multilateral treaties. 

These days China is one of the world’s 

strongest advocates of the Un. it is the least 

frequent user of the veto among the “Big Five” 

on the Security Council. it makes an effort not to 

appear out of step with the consensus and would 

rather abstain than vote against a resolution. 

in 2011 China joined the rest of the Security 

Council in imposing an arms embargo on Libya. 

(however, it felt it had its fingers burnt when the 

West interpreted votes in the Security Council as 

authorising the use of force – hence its reticence 

on voting for an arms embargo against Syria.) 

it has gone on to be tough on iran, voting to 

restrict the international activities of iranian 

banks and it has increasingly loudly condemned 

the confrontational behaviour of north Korea. 

China has affixed its signature to all the 

international treaties concerned with nuclear 

non-proliferation and arms control, including 

the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty which the 

US, once its great proponent, has not ratified. 

Breaking ranks with both the US and Russia, it 

has proclaimed a nuclear weapons no First Use 

pledge. 

according to David Shambaugh in his book, 

China goes Global, China in the Security Council 

has voted identically with the US 930/0 of the 

time. 

he notes that China has become a significant 

contributor to Un peacekeeping. Over the last 20 

years with very little publicity in the world’s Press 

it has contributed 20,000 soldiers. at present 

China is the largest contributor of the “Big Five”. 

Publicly it has also accepted the controversial 

“Responsibility to Protect” principle passed by 

the Security Council in 2006 which can be used 

to override the precious state sovereignty that 

China has earnestly protected. 

it still has a propensity on occasion to behave 

in the old way – it has dealt extensively with 

some of the world’s more unsavoury regimes and 

has been caught violating the Un sanctions it has 

voted for – as with the iranian banks. But overall 

it is moving forward into positive territory, an 

understated story in the world outside China. 

GCC union definitely 

Sir, 

The dynamics of present-day Middle east 

politics poses a big security threat to GCC 

countries. At the centre of the conundrum is 

the Iranian nuclear programme, its alleged 

sectarian agenda and hegemonic interest. 

The need to unite the GCC as a block remains 

an urgent task; to ward off the threats. GCC 

countries need to learn a lesson from what 

is currently happening in Syria, Iraq and 

Lebanon. 

The GCC countries share common cultural, 

geographic and historical denominators and 

are a formidable regional economic power 

houses. Galvanising the entire population 

around a single block is challenging but it 

has become the need of the hour amid the 

security threats the region currently faces. 

The appetite of the hegemonic pursuit of 

Iran has increased after the fall of Saddam 

husssein in Iraq following its invasion by the 

USA and allied forces. The displacement of 

power that ensued gave Iran a new impetus 

to aggrandise its military strength, and 

influenced, if not controlled, Iraq’s political 

and military capabilities. The active involvement 

in the ongoing war and the support it 

provided to the Assad regime in Syria, speaks 

volumes about Iran’s intentions and strategic 

interests. The promiscuous intervention 

adventures Iran is exercising, will negatively 

affect the present political, military and 

economic status quo 

Published letters are of the Middle east in 

not necessarily the general and the GCC in 

views of the Editor. 

particular. 

Readers wishing to 

There are established 

make a complaint 

pieces of evidence indi- 

through the GDN 

should provide full decating 

Iranian involvetails 

of the complaint ment in the protests 

together with their that are taking place 

contact telephone in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait 

numbers. and Bahrain. Iran’s stra- 

TODAY is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day 

of 2013. There are 233 days left in the 

year. highlights in history on this date: 

1535 – Britain and Scotland sign peace 

treaty. 

1536 – Sir Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton 

and other alleged paramours of 

england’s Queen Anne Boleyn go on 

trial for treason. 

1608 – Protestant Union of German 

Princes opposing Catholic bloc is 

formed at Anhausen. 

1689 – Britain and holland join the 

holy Roman emperor, Spain and Sweden 

in League of Augsburg to keep 

French from Spanish throne. The socalled 

Grand Alliance wages a nine-year, 

world-wide war against France. 

1881 – Bey of Tunis accepts French protectorate. 

1888 – Britain establishes protectorate 

over North Borneo and Brunei. 

1897 – Turks defeat Greeks in Thessaly 

and major powers intervene in war. 

1915 – Forces of South Africa’s Louis 

Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German 

Southwest Africa. 

1926 – Josef Pilsudski stages coup in 

Poland. 

1932 – The body of the kidnapped son 

of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found 

in a wooded area of hopewell, New Jersey. 

1937 – Britain’s King George VI is 

crowned at Westminster Abbey. 

1938 – Germany recognises emperor 

of Manchukuo; Japanese warships capture 

Chinese island of Amoy. 

1943 – Battle of North Africa ends in the 

Second World War with German surrender 

of Cap Bon in Tunisia. 

1949 – Soviets lift the blockade of West 

Berlin after eleven months, but the Allied 

airlift continues for another few 

months to build up stockpiles. 

1962 – South African General Law 

tegic interest in Bahrain is partly due 

to Bahrain’s geopolitical weight in 

the region and its potential to serve 

as a springboard to other GCC countries. 

It is here that the GCC need to 

act collectively to deter, if not to stop, 

Iranian influence. 

The proposal of a Gulf union has 

been and continues to be one of the 

top priorities of Bahrain. his Royal 

highness Prime Minister Prince 

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has 

stressed the need for the unification 

of the GCC on many occasions. 

he said “GCC union could thwart 

internal and external dangers, safeguard 

achievements and ensure security 

and stability” (GDN, May 7). 

Unity commences at national level. 

People of one nation should resist 

from being victims of foreign elements 

that try to divide them along 

sectarian lines or tribal differences. 

The common adage has it that ‘together 

we stand, divided we fall’. The 

national unity is a pre-requisite to 

regional unity. Through strengthening 

our social cohesion, we are doing 

our responsibility: Laying a solid 

foundation of prosperity, security 

and national identity for the next 

generation. 

Let’s say yes to the Gulf union today, 

not tomorrow and request the 

leaders to work towards making it a 

reality. 

Duri 

Wake-up call? 

Oh yes! Three young women and a child 

escape many years of incarceration 

after being kidnapped in Ohio by three 

brothers. CNN, Fox, Sky, BBC, you name it, 

Amendment Bill imposes death penalty 

for sabotage. 

1965 – West Germany establishes diplomatic 

relations with Israel, and Arab 

states break off relations with Bonn 

government. 

1978 – The US Commerce Department 

announces hurricanes will no longer be 

named exclusively after women. 

1980 – The first nonstop crossing of 

North America in a hot air balloon is 

made. 

1982 – In Fatima, Portugal, security 

guards overpower a Spanish priest 

armed with a bayonet as he tries to 

reach Pope John Paul II. 

1985 – Amy eilberg becomes the first 

female rabbi in the conservative Jewish 

movement. 

1992 – The last european Community 

observers flee Bosnia; four suspects 

are arrested in the beating of trucker 

Reginald Denny at the start of the Los 

Angeles riots. 

1993 – Police arrest Franco Nobili, chairman 

of IRI, Italy’s huge state industrial 

conglomerate and its largest employer, 

on corruption charges. he is later acquitted. 

1994 – Palestinian police arrive in the 

West Bank and prepare to take over 

Jericho, the seat of Palestinian self-rule. 

1995 – The UN instructs its peacekeepers 

in Bosnia to shoot to kill to protect 

themselves a day after a sniper shoots 

a French soldier in the head in Sarajevo. 

1996 – A rusty freighter teeming with 

thousands of sick and hungry Liberian 

refugees is finally allowed to limp into 

a Ghanaian port after a harrowing week 

at sea. 

1997 – The leaders of India and Pakistan 

meet for the first time in four years 

in Male, The Maldives, and agree on 

measures to ease the tension between 

their long-feuding countries. 

1998 – War crimes investigators discover 

mass graves near Srebrenica, thought 

to contain the remains of some of the 

7,000 Bosnian Muslim men massacred 

by Serbs in 1995. 

1999 – With 327 sorties, NATO carries 

out its busiest day of attacks yet against 

Yugoslavia, and President Slobodan Milosevic 

for the first time acknowledges 

military casualties. 

2000 – Ignoring international pleas 

to end their two-year border conflict, 

ethiopia and eritrea return to open war 

with fighting reported on three fronts. 

2001 – estonia emerges as the surprise 

winner – for the first time – of eurovision, 

europe’s popular annual song 

contest. 

2002 – Former US president Jimmy 

Carter travels to Cuba’s for talks with 

president Fidel Castro and the nation’s 

leading dissidents. he is the first former 

or sitting US president to visit Cuba 

since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. 

2003 – Two suicide bomb attacks kill at 

least 75 people and injured hundreds of 

others in the rebellious southern republic 

of Chechnya. 

2004 – The International Obesity Task 

Force, in the first global assessment 

of child obesity says, one of every 10 

school children in the world is overweight, 

and about 45 million have an 

increased risk of developing diabetes, 

heart disease and other illnesses before 

the age of 20. 

2005 - Russia’s security chief accuses US 

and other foreign intelligence services 

of using non-governmental organisations 

that promote democracy to spy 

on Russia and bring about political upheaval 

in former Soviet republics. 

2006 - Up to 200 people are killed in 

Nigeria when petrol gushing from a 

ruptured pipeline explodes as villagers 

scavenge for fuel, setting off an inferno. 

blanket coverage and for sure, we will hear 

the sordid, no doubt sexual abuse in fine 

detail. The despicable criminals will go to 

jail for a very long time, meanwhile being 

deservedly shamed by scathing publicity. 

2007 - Riots and gun battles break out 

in Karachi, Pakistan, after opposition 

protests against president Gen Pervez 

Musharraf’s decision to suspend the 

country’s chief justice. At least 41 people 

are killed in the weekend clashes. 

2008 - A 7.9-magnitude earthquake 

hits Sichuan province in central China, 

killing more than 28,000 people and 

burying more than 10,600 people. 

2009 - Retired US auto worker John 

Demjanjuk listens silently as a German 

judge reads a 21-page warrant accusing 

him of acting as an accessory to the 

murder of 29,000 people at a Nazi death 

camp. 

2010 - Britain ushers in its first coalition 

government since World War II as a pair 

of rivals-turned-partners pledge to set 

aside their deep policy differences and 

tackle the country’s disastrous budget 

deficit. 

2011 - A German court convicts retired 

US autoworker John Demjanjuk of taking 

part in the murder of tens of thousands 

of Jews as a Nazi death camp 

guard, breaking legal ground that could 

pave the way for the prosecution of 

many low-level cogs in hitler’s machinery 

of destruction. 

2012 - At least 100,000 Spaniards angered 

by grim economic prospects and 

the political handling of the international 

financial crisis turn out for street 

demonstrations in the country’s cities, 

marking the one-year anniversary of a 

movement that inspired similar pressure 

groups in other countries. 

A MOTHER never realises that her 

children are no longer children – 

Holbrook Jackson, British critic 

and historian (1874-1948).

the best way forward 

Remarkably, there is so little mention in the 

Arabic broadcast media, because the psyche 

is that this just does not happen in Islamic 

countries. 

In Bahrain, a maid or a worker can be 

‘kidnapped’ and locked, denied any form of 

contact with the outside world for up for 

eight years and probably more, yet walk 

away scot- free with no disclosure, not even 

as much as a mention of their initials in the 

Press. Likewise, a lunatic doctor can brutally 

abuse a helpless baby and nothing happens. 

Oh yes! Some can and ‘always’ do get clean 

away with near murder so often. 

Thugs openly trying to defy anything of 

authority; the rape of young boys; abuse 

of labourers and housemaids; favouritism 

which denies a lifeline to the meek and so 

on. Yet we let criminals free without as much 

as a peep. For example; everyone has forgotten 

the dhow disaster and the man is not 

only free, but has never been even slightly 

coerced to pay with a gram of conscience. 

How would the person who locked up 

his maid for eight years like to be plastered 

all over CNN, Fox, Sky 

or the BBC? It can be 

arranged my friend, 

all we need is a name 

and a few well-placed 

emails or posts. 

It is endless really. 

More greed and corruption 

allows the 

arrest of poor, simple 

people who are innocently 

trying to 

make a living, throwing 

them in jail without 

charge or trial, until 

some scumbag sponsor 

shows up. Most 

don’t and most just 

pocket the BD700 visa 

fees, going right out 

to get another naive 

victim, to repeat 

the process all 

over again with 

blessings. This is 

not a rare practice, 

it is going 

on day after day 

and arrogance 

allows many to 

see nothing wrong with it. 

When are we going to wake up and stop 

this? We call ourselves an Islamic state, but 

we know this is only a ‘get out of jail free 

‘betakkah’. 

Meanwhile, these devils steal life and 

materials, thoroughly destroying the dignity 

of the undeserving. There are so many committing 

heinous crimes; complicity in any 

language or creed. 

Mariam 

Our foggy future 

I 

n FBI agents and other 

law enforcement officers 

stand outside kidnapping 

suspect Ariel Castro’s 

home in Cleveland 

WAS pleasantly surprised to hear about a 

young Bahraini woman who had written 

a novel. Naturally, Arabic being the main 

A majestic sight... 

IT’S 10 past five and a golden globe has emerged in the evening sky, colouring 

the usual blue with a reddish orange, spreading through the scattered 

clouds like water colour from a brush tip. 

It shone with a tired light yet peaceful and elegant as it always is. The 

skyscrapers and their artificial lights all dimmed from the skyline as the 

majestic sphere floated in mid-air, gradually moving towards the horizon 

for a well-deserved rest from the day’s work. Came from the east yellow and 

small, travelled across the skies glittering white and hot and finally reached 

the west with warmth and endless might. 

Very much sincere to all that’s surrounding it, the source of light and of 

life, shining with all its might all day long from dusk to dawn until a million 

years pass, till it dies. 

Rahul 

language of the country and its people, I was 

both intrigued and excited to get a copy of 

my own and see how the writer had managed 

to illustrate a fictional story about our 

society and how she would translate this 

story for the English-speaking world. 

The book received high acclaim from 

Bahraini media outlets; both print and broadcast, 

‘avid’ readers and their ‘book clubs’. 

Literature bridges the gap between nations 

and makes the world a closer-knit 

society as we read about each other’s stories, 

communicate our similarities, and celebrate 

our differences. 

Unfortunately this book does none of 

those. 

Being a fanatic for good English in the 

English language books I read, the typo on 

page one should have been a sign to stop 

reading, but it was a good way to brace myself 

for what was coming. 

Illegible phrases made up of ‘big words’ 

haphazardly thrown together, spelling mistakes 

and plain grammatical errors awaited 

me on every page. I couldn’t believe that a 

book endorsed by high-ranking government 

officials, celebrated by the Press and apparently 

flying off the shelves would turn out to 

be nothing but a disappointment. 

The novel seemed like a long string of instant 

“Whatsaap” messages. 

It is obvious that this “work” has not been 

edited in any professional capacity; the language 

is incorrect, there are no references for 

the local Arabic or Farsi words used and the 

formatting is all wrong for a ‘novel’. Bear in 

mind I am only commenting here on grammar, 

spelling and text. Everyone has their 

own opinion on 

what constitutes 

a “good story”. 

I was very 

excited and 

ready to support 

another 

Bahraini talent 

who this time 

would present us 

in a novel written in English for the Englishspeaking 

world. This book did the complete 

opposite and only served as a slap in the face 

of every Bahraini who prides in this nation 

being built on stringent laws and professional 

standards. 

On what merits did this book deserve to 

receive such acclaim and high praise? Are 

we to understand that every attempt, good 

or (in this case very) bad, by any Bahraini 

will be accepted, celebrated and sold officially 

in bookshops for profit?! Are we now 

opening the door for anyone who wants to 

go ahead and create a word document, and 

not bother with spell-checking, to self publish 

and self print? 

Is this the way we 

want to present our 

country to the rest of 

the world at such a 

crucial time? Does this 

“author” deserve your 

esteem for literature? 

How far will we go 

to indulge someone in 

their delusions just because 

they are Bahraini? 

Is it okay to lower your 

standards just because 

our country is going 

through a rough patch? 

Call yourself a blogger, 

write whatever you 

want online, but just 

don’t print it, bind it, and 

call it a book. 

Lamenting Literature 

Gulf Daily News Sunday, 12th May 2013 9 

Taurus April 21st - May 21st 

Communication may be a gift today that when put to 

work, can take you far. Break away from routine assignments 

and delight in doing something different. There 

may be a desire to spend, but keeping spending low 

can give you a greater sense of security. You could be 

pondering the pros and cons of a relationship, particularly 

if it’s related to a financial decision. 

Gemini May 22nd - June 21st 

You may be in a meditative mood and happy to dream 

and relax the day away. However, routine can come calling 

around the family, friends or even your pets. Opt for 

bold moves nevertheless, and be inventive. It pays to 

try something new. Find a suitable channel for feelings 

of restlessness. Get busy planning long-range improvements. 

Cancer June 22nd - July 23rd 

Find ways to generate harmony in your ongoing partnership. 

Spiritual pursuits may help you enjoy this day 

together. Peaceful actions and kind thoughts for others 

may bring you the greatest happiness, when put into 

practice over the day. The potential for a social evening 

ahead could encourage feelings of happiness, especially 

if someone you like seems interested. 

Leo July 24th - August 23rd 

You have plenty of reasoning power today which helps 

you to get your point across. The spirit of co-operation 

enables you to get things done. But if you insist on always 

coming first, you may find that your popularity 

wanes. You may have to make a small sacrifice to keep 

a relationship on an even keel. Tonight has a social tone 

and plenty of energy. 

Virgo August 24th - September 23rd 

Try not to analyse a situation too much. If you pick 

something apart, you can take a while to get it back together 

again. A little common sense can go a long way. 

Career-wise, co-operating with key folk and being willing 

to compromise, may help you make big strides forward. 

Be curious and inquisitive, as doing so may open 

an unexpected door. 

Libra September 24th - October 23rd 

The more flexible you can be, the happier this day may 

turn out, especially when it comes to shared financial 

resources. Money and business deals can seem alive 

and progressive. Look to the future with optimism. It 

may be time for some serious fun and good company, 

so find something to celebrate tonight, even if you have 

to invent it Libra! 

Scorpio October 24th - November 22nd 

Money prospects seem generally good, especially when 

it comes to shared assets and joint accounts. It might be 

a good day to do some shopping, particularly if you’re 

going off the beaten track. An unusual bargain may 

strike your eye and could make a well considered investment. 

Romance and partnership matters seem upbeat. A 

partner or caring friend may be particularly supportive. 

Sagittarius November 23rd - December 21st 

A break from routine may be just what you need, as is a 

chance to go and do something just for fun. The wheel 

of fortune may benefit you today, particularly where 

partnerships of any kind are concerned. Negotiating 

deals, whether for business or personal satisfaction, 

should work out well for you. Work off any indulgences 

with hearty exercise. 

Capricorn December 22nd - January 20th 

Discussions, phone calls and get-togethers may give 

you a lot to think about - perhaps too much. Your social 

life is accented, and increased popularity may further 

your goals or at least give you a boost. If things have 

become stale in your love life, now is the time to try to 

enliven things. Use any leisure time to do something 

with cultural or intellectual appeal. 

Aquarius January 21st - February 19th 

You may want to stick close to home for part of today, 

when a desire to kick back and do nothing much takes 

over. Read the papers or delve into the latest novel. It’s 

also a pleasant day to experiment with DIY or some 

new recipes for a meal or dessert. Later, the social buzz 

may draw you out of yourself and encourage an encounter. 

This could have a love interest. 

Pisces February 20th - March 20th 

If you’re in the mood for a party or a get-together, look 

to invite folks over today. Fun loving types can be perfect 

and stir you into planning some unique entertainment. 

Career and partnership potentials can also be 

stimulated through social interaction. There may be 

financial benefits from this, especially if you are skilled 

at talking about what you do. 

Aries March 21st - April 20th 

You can boost personal income and add to your possessions 

today. It’s also possible you could hear some 

good financial news that you’ll find most welcome. 

Close relatives may want to communicate. The cosmos 

can bring opportunities to reach out and make fresh 

connections. However, it would be good to factor in 

some leisure time amidst the day’s busyness.

10 

FRED BASSET 

GARFIELD 

UP AND RUNNING 

Gulf Daily News Sunday, 12th May 2013 

what’s 

in Bahrain 

on 

SpECIal EVENtS 

Exhibition opening ‘Darwish - An Altar 

of Poetry’ by artist Firyal Al Adhamy, 

Bu Zaboon House, Muharraq, 7pm. 

Call 36762899 or 39402302 for more 

information. 

Solo debut exhibition ‘Khalas, and 

then…’ by Yudi Noor, al Riwaq art 

Space, adliya, 10am-9pm. E-mail info@ 

alriwaqartspace.com or call 17717441 

for more information. 

Exhibition ‘RE’ presenting the works of 

Louise Greenfield, Loraine Todd, Jody 

Peck and Giuse Maggi, The Waterline 

art gallery, West Atrium, Harbour Mall, 

Bahrain Financial Harbour, 10am-7pm. 

Visit www.reexhibition.wordpress. 

com or call 17102600 for more 

information. 

the Extraordinary ordinary exhibition, 

la Fontaine Centre of Contemporary 

art, 9am-6.30pm. Visit www. 

lafontaineartcentre.net, www. 

springofculture.org or call 17230123 

or 39900630 for more information. 

DaNCE 

Ballet advanced adult and private 

class, Ballare School of Performing 

Arts, Saar, 9.30am- 10.30am; 

stretch and flexibility, 

10.30am-11.30am; acrobatics 

beginners and I D T A 

ballet prep, 3.30pm- 

4.15pm; IDTA ballet 

grade 1, street d a n c e 

beginners (ages 

6-10 years), break 

dancing (ages 

5-10 years), 4.30pm- 

5.30pm; acrobatics 

advanced, IDTA 

modern jazz grade 3/5, 

break dancing (ages 10+ years), 

5.30pm-6.30pm; contemporary 

advanced, stretch and flexibility, 

break dancing (ages 16+ years), 6.30pm- 

7.30pm; Piano lessons. Call 17300021 for 

information. 

Bahrain Ballet Centre, Budaiya, 

Beginners ballet, 3pm-3.45pm, 

primary ballet, 3.45pm-4.30pm, grade 

one ballet, 4.30pm-5.30pm, grade 

two ballet, 5.30pm-6.30pm, grade 

five ballet, 6.30pm-8pm. piano classes 

held at Budaiya and Marina Club. Call 

17693232 for more information. 

Classes for all ages, Victoria Dance, Hamala 

and Um Al Hassan - ballet, tap, modern 

jazz, hip hop, break dance, contemporary, 

stretch, combat, bokwa, river dance, 

singing, guitar, piano, musical theatre, 

dance fusion. Call 39876215 for more 

information. 

Ballet class, life in Music school, Sanad, 

4pm. Call 17625583 or 36798866. 

Tourist and Leisure Attractions 

Sightseeing and city tours in Bahrain, Aradous tours, 8am-8pm. E-mail Aradous.tours@gmail. 

com or call 17234417 or 36788001 for more information. 

Full and half-day sightseeing tours of Bahrain, Farhat International tours and travels, 

Manama, 9am-5pm. Call 36313142 or 17216411. 

Lost Paradise of Dilmun (LPOD) Water Park, next to Al Areen, 10am-6pm. BD16 for guests over 

1.2 meters in height, and BD7 for guests under 1.2 meters in height. Call 17845100 for more 

information. 

Dolphin watch trips and boat trips, al Dar Island beach resort, off Sitra Coast, 9am-3pm. 

Call 17704600. 

Sightseeing tours of Bahrain in different languages, Bahraini German International Services, 

8am-8pm. Call 17742282 or 36742999 for location. 

Al Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve, 9am-4pm. Call 17845444. 

ahmad al Fateh Mosque (Grand Mosque) visit programme, every 30 minutes from 9am- 

3.30pm. Visits are put on hold during prayer times. No prior appointments needed 

unless big groups or special arrangements are required. Call Farahat al Kindy on 

17727773, 39734440 or fax 17729695. 

Al Jasra Handicrafts Centre, Al Jasra, 8am-2pm. Call 17611900. 

National Industries Exhibition, Industry and Commerce Ministry building, Seef, 7.30am- 

1.30pm. Call 17564170 or 17564171. 

Bahrain National Museum, Manama, 8am-2pm. Call 17298777. 

Full and half-day tours of Bahrain, 8am onwards. Call 36654246 or 77080111. 

Dance classes, Harmony Music 

Gate, creative movement (3-5 

years) 3.30pm-4.30pm, street 

dance advance (10- 

17 years), 4.30pm- 

5.30pm. Hip-hop, 

jazz,contemporary, 

m u s i c a l 

instruments 

classes, karate 

classes and art 

classes, 9am-7pm. Call 

13622112 or 36464360 for more 

information. 

CultuRE, aRtS aND CRaFtS 

BSB academy of performing arts, 

Hamala, individual classes in piano, 

violin, viola, cello, guitar, bass, 

voice, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, 

trumpet, trombone and French horn 

and group classes in music theory, 

voice, speech and drama, afro-arabic 

drumming and exploring instruments 

course. Group classes - little voices, 

laMDa speech and drama, exploring 

instruments, mini music makers, 

junior percussion, drum circle, 

vocalzone, twinkle toes and musical 

mayhem. Visit www.facebook.com/ 

academyofperformingartsBSB or 

call 17610943 or 17610973 for more 

information. 

Origami classes for children aged seven 

and above, 9am-1pm and 4pm-6pm. Call 

38321523 for location in Hoora. 

albareh art Gallery, adliya, 10am-8pm. Call 

17717707. 

Group and individual art and design classes for 

adults at artist Marianne Pasman’s private 

gallery, Saar.Call 39922642 for appointments. 

paint your own pottery, Studio Ceramics, 

off Budaiya Highway, 9.30am-6pm. Call 

17599026. 

Oil painting, pastels, acrylic and water colour 

classes, Ella Art Gallery, Adliya, 9am-1.30pm 

and 3pm-7pm. Call 17292815 or 39073299. 

learn Hindustani classical and light music 

from qualified singer. Call 36401744 for 

more information. 

SpoRtS, FItNESS aND wEll-BEING 

Thalassotherapy treatments, Thalassa Sea and 

Spa at Sofitel Bahrain, Zallaq, pressotherapy 

and aqua bike.Call 17636391 for reservations 

or more information on Thalassa sea and spa 

packages. 

Kombatt predator, latin Dance Studio, 

oxygen Gym, Budaiya, 11.30am and 8pm, 

latin booty workout, 7pm. Call 33889821 

or e-mail latin.dance.studio@hotmail.com 

for more information. 

Tribal Fitness group and personal training, 

Bahrain wide. Call Craig on 39473710. 

Royal Country Club Fitness Classes, high 

and low impact aerobics (mixed – free 

for members), 9am; tae bo (mixed), 

6pm; zumba (women only), 7pm. Junior 

classes – royal rascals play group (0-3 

years), 10am, monkeynastix (3-4 years), 

3.15pm; bricks 4 kidz (10-13 years), 

4pm; monkeynastix (5-8 years), 4.15pm; 

mixed martial arts (3-15 years, mixed), 

5pm. personal training and private 

swimming lessons are available by prior 

appointment. Call 17751264 to register 

for a class. 

Fitness Classes, Step Up gym, Muharraq, 

men’s timings 7am-9am. 12noon-1am, 

women’s timing 9am-6pm, Women’s 

aerobics, 9.30am-10.30am and 4.30pm- 

5.30pm,belly dance class,3.30pm-4.30pm 

(only Monday and Wednesday). Call 

17343348. 

the first Cross Fit gym in Bahrain, 

Extreme Fitness EXFIt, Barbar, 

4.30pm, 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm 

and 8.30pm. Call 39533130 for more 

information. 

Fitness classes, World Beat Fitness Centre, 

Janabiya, ashtanga yoga (booking required) 

and nia, 8.30am, fundamental yoga, 9.30am, 

belly dancing (beginners),10.30am,capoeira, 

4pm, karate kids (beginners), 4.30pm, karate 

kids (advanced), 5.30pm, karate adults and 

belly dancing advanced, 6.30pm, Bollywood 

fitness, pilates and zumba, 7.30pm. Call 

17612576 to register. 

personalised fitness programmes, group 

exercise classes, yoga, zumba, personal 

training, Fitness First Bahrain. Call 

Bahrain world trade Centre on 17131499 

and oasis Centre, East Riffa (women only) 

on 17620005 for membership and more 

information. 

Fitness classes, Oxygen Gym, Budaiya, hour 

of power (mixed), 6.30am-7.30am; calories 

crusher (women only), 8.30am-9.30am; 

power yoga (women only), 9.30am-10.30am; 

O2 rave (women only), 10am-11am; kombatt 

(women only), 11am-12noon; psycho circuit 

(women only), 12noon-1pm; pilates (women 

only), 4pm-5pm; zumba (women only), 5pm- 

6pm; taekwondo (children’s class), 6pm-7pm; 

Latin booty (women only), 7pm-8pm; Latin 

mix (mixed), 8pm-9pm. Call 17616165 in 

advance to book. 

adult fitness class, Sparta (Sports and arts 

academy of St Christopher’s School), Saar. 

E-mail SpartaDirector@st-chris.net or call 


Karate Classes, Karate do Academy, 

Futureshape,Garden City, Budaiya,beginners 

4.45pm, coloured belts, 5.30pm, advanced 

belts, 6.45pm. Training with resident black 

belt sixth Dan Sensei Amr Mouawad. Visit 

www.bkabahrain.com or call 17591237 or 


tennis training, 5.30pm. E-mail 

tennisinbahrain@gmail.com for location. 

Cupping, Joz Spa, Juffair, 10am-11pm, Spa, 

10am-11pm. Call 17369133. 

Quick 

Quiz 

1 Which Rudyard 

Kipling story collection 

includes The Cat 

That Walked By 

Himself and How The 

Camel Got Hits 

Hump? 

2 Who is Canada’s 

head of state? 

3 Which iconic 1960 

BBC building has 

closed its doors for 

the last time, having 

been sold for redevelopment? 

4 Which East Midlands 

city has held an 

annual Goose Fair 

since the 13th century? 

5 Vaughan Williams’s 

The Lark Ascending 

was written for which 

solo instrument 

accompanied by 

piano or orchestra? 

5 Violin ANSWER 

4 Nottingham 

3 BBC Television Centre 

2 Elizabeth II 

S 

1 Just So stories 

Bellacura Beauty lounge and Salon, Juffair, 

9am-9pm. Call 17364955 or 36614814. 

Herbal massage, Yas Body Care, Riffa, 11am- 

11pm. Call 17491958 or 39776882. 

Classes, Ramee Group of Hotels – exercise 

classes, Ramee suites 3, Hoora, Yoga, 

Kriya Yog, Yog Nidra and Shatkrama for 

chronic ailments as obesity, arthritis, Bp, 

cholesterol and stress free lifestyle, 7.30 

pm-8.30 pm (women only), 6.30am-9am, 

6.45pm-7.30pm (mixed) and swimming 

training classes, 6.30am-9am, 6.45pm- 

8.30pm, call Manoj on 34375102; 

swimming training classes, Ramee Baisan 

International Hotel, Hoora, 7.30am- 

8.50am, 3pm-4.20pm and 8pm-9.20pm, 

call Shree Bishak on 35383770; exercise 

classes, Ramee International Hotel, Juffair, 

power yoga, aerobics, pilates, circuit 

training, pranayama and meditation class, 

6.30pm-7.30pm and swimming training 

classes, 5pm-6.20pm and 7.30pm-8.50pm, 

call Bijan on 36270302 or e-mail rjh@ 

rameehotelsbahrain.com. 

Training and treatment in Yoga,Reiki and Pranic 

healing, Bayoga, Juffair, 6am-10am and 4pm- 

8pm. Call 17725027. 

pilates private classes for women, Saar, 

9am to 6pm. all classes are scheduled 

by appointment only. Call 39611396 for 


Co-active coaching for organisations,transition, 

parenting, stress, study and work ethics, rebranding 

yourself,fulfilment and networking. 

Psychometric profiling and university 

applications (interviews/selection/personal 

statements/essays) available in addition to 

study skills, presentation and networking 

skills and academic writing workshops. 

TAKE A BREAK ... 

Sudoku 

Yesterday’s 

solution 

How to plaY Fill 

the grid so that 

every row, every 

column and 

every 3X3 box 

contains the digits 

1-9. there’s no 

maths involved. 

You solve the 

puzzle with reasoning 

and logic 

DAILY SMILE! 

'When I'm in peril, I'll let you know.' 

LEvEL: HIIII 

Fully qualified and experienced staff. Call 

38442727 or 17590137 or e-mail clare@ 

beckett-mcinroy.com. 

life and Motivational Coach, offering 

psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy plus 

psychometric tests, Sanad, 1pm-9pm. Call 


Asian traditional massages and beauty 

treatment, specialising in couple’s treatment, 

Sherry Spa, Beauty and Massage Centre, Al 

Mabrukah Building, Juffair, 10am-10pm. Call 

17824070. 

therapeutic massage, hand and foot 

reflexology. Call 39015776 for location in 

East Riffa. 

Sharon’s fitness boot camp classes, The Studio, 

Hamala, morning classes (women only), 

evening classes (women and mixed). Private 

group training also offered.Call 66385537 for 


women’s fitness training classes, Yahoo 

Health Club, Middle East Hotel, Manama, 

10am, 2pm and 7pm. al Namal Building, 

5am-11.30pm. Call 39079142 or 

17251777. 

Pilates,La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, 

9am-6.30pm. Visit www.lafontaineartcentre. 

net, e-mail info@lafontaineartcentre.net or 

call 17230123 for more information. 

Bosu with Stott pilates instructor trainer 

and yoga teacher Roberta trzebinski, 

Studio RCt, orchid’s Dream, Sanabis, 

8.45am, Bosu, 6pm. Call 39445816. 

Pool and snooker coaching with European 

Billiard and Snooker Association master

coach, 12.30pm-midnight. Call 39778367 for 

location. 

acupuncture, Medical Tuina (massage), 

reflexology, Cupping, guasha, The 

Chinese Medical Clinic, Bahrain Wellness 

resort, Janabiya, 9am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. 

Call 17795823, 1779 5961 or 39728383. 

Women’s fitness programme, Curves Women’s 

Fitness Centre, Budaiya, 7.30am-1pm and 

3pm-7.30pm. Call 17691496. 

yoga classes for men and women, Marina 

Club, Manama, 6.30pm-8pm, yoga classes 

only for women, aseel saloon, riffa, 

12noon-1pm. Call aruna on 39052254. 

Aqua aerobics, yoga, step, sculpt, spinning, 

pilates, bums and tums, belly dance classes, 

Bodyline, Saar, 7.30am-9pm. Call 17793932. 

iyengar yoga training with a qualified 

experienced iyengar yoga Teacher. Call 

39596026 or e-mail patricia.a.moss@ 

gmail.com 

Aerobics, Pineapple Spa, Manama, 8pm-9pm. 

Call 17712000. 

squash coaching by Hussain al Thawadi. Call 

36309124. 

Aerobics, Ezfit Sports Complex, Budaiya, 

10.30am-11.30am, 4.30pm-5.30pm, 6.30pm- 

7.30pm. Call or 17692378. 

indoor football coaching for five and sixyear-olds 

with coach adil, ezfit sports 

Complex, Budaiya, 4pm, for 10 to 12-yearolds, 

5pm-6pm. Call 36682135. 

Tai chi Corniche beach class, Bahrain Tai Chi and 

Wushu Centre, Juffair, 8.30am, ladies tai chi, 

10.30am, little Kung Fu, 4.30pm, Kung Fu Kids, 

5.30pm, Junior Kung Fu, 6.30pm, Wushu, 8pm. 

Call 36437931. 

Health Club, dessange, adliya, 6am-10pm, 

spa, 9am-9pm, salon 9am-10pm. Call 

17713999. 

Drop in meditation classes, Bahrain Meditation 

Centre, Adliya, 5pm, 8pm. Call 17712545. 

Therapeutic and relaxation massage, indian 

ayurvedic Medical Centre, Mahooz, 8am- 

11pm, free consultation, 8am-1pm and 

4pm-9pm. Call 17722060 or 17720780. 

Exercises and relaxation classes for pregnant 

mothers, International Hospital of Bahrain, 

6.30pm-7.30pm. Call 17598290. 

Professional qualified and experienced 

personal life training for children, 

teenagers and adults, life-Fit Personal 

Training, Budaiya, 6am onwards. Call 

33001261. 

Cryptic aCross 

4 The eighth musical interval? (6) 

7 Displayed, but proven bad (5,3) 

8 Deal with a letter as a diplomatic document 

(6) 

10 Steer clear of a woman who’s a bit rude (5) 

13 A sound team will be all over the place! (4) 

14 Something afoot at the fishmonger’s? (4) 

15 To provide money, give a chap a note (4) 

16 Become secure? (3) 

17 A dietary constituent to prohibit out right? (4) 

19 Being cold, the young fellow dressed (4) 

21 Non-paying boarders (9) 

23 On the way, mother is liable to hold things up 

(4) 

24 In which to store “17 Across”? (4) 

26 When there’s a holdup, it’s sticky (3) 

27 Friend given a portion of fish in the end (4) 

29 A meaty piece of church music (4) 

32 Cheese with maybe a bluebottle on for a 

moment (4) 

33 Possibly a bit of crochet work? (5) 

34 Capone’s out of the way for ever! (6) 

35 Margin for error in map-making? (8) 

36 The old “one-two”? Pretty young, actually (6) 

doWn 

1 A female’s a trophy, in a sense (5) 

2 There’s a lot to be said for being ethical (5) 

3 It can react jerkily (4) 

4 Not infrequently, a wrong note comes out 

loud! (5) 

use this area for your thoughts, doodles, and to 

work out the crossword clues 

Clubs and Societies 

Aqua fitness, British Club, Umm Al Hassam, 8.30am-9.15am (for 

members and guests), library, 12noon-7pm (for members 

only), circuits, 6pm-7pm (for members and guests) and 

scrabble, 7.30pm (for members and guests). Call 17728245 for 


The american Women’s association (aWa) is a nonprofitable 

organisation with an active member base 

consisting of a variety of nationalities. Visit www. 

awabahrain.org for more information on becoming a 

member and being part of a vibrant group of women. 

The Association Francophone de Bahrain (AFBH) is a nonprofitable 

organisation consisting of members of all 

nationalities, whose common interest is use and practice of 

the French language through a large number of morning 

and evening activities. Visit www.afbh.net or call 33403763 to 

become a member or for more information. 

rotary Club of Manama - meeting and luncheon, The gulf 

Hotel, 12.45pm-1.15pm. e-mail secretaryrotarymanama@ 

gmail.com for more information. 

Indian Club Toastmasters meeting, every first and alternating 

Sundays thereafter, Indian Club, Gudaibiya, 7.30pm. Call 


little bundles and terrific tots, My gym Children’s Fitness 

Personality and Ability assessments for success 

in work and life. Call 39407129 between 

6pm-9pm for location in Saar. 

Co-active executive, leadership and 

organisational coaching as well as career 

and transition coaching evoking powerful 

and sustained transformation, 9am-8pm. 

Call 36199980 for timings. 

Strong self-defence, body fitness training and 

personal training for all ages, 7pm-8pm. Call 

39595723 or 36065222. 

Personal Performance coaching, special 

techniques to guide you in the right 

direction to co-create the life you desire. 

Call 36696666 for directions. 

Life and executive coaching - enhance your 

personal and professional effectiveness; 

increase your productivity and life fulfilment. 

Call 38889796 for more information. 

Bamboo massage, free demonstration. Call 


Ladies and mixed yoga classes, and yoga 

therapy by trained Indian instructor, near 

Bahrain School, Old Juffair. Call 36139134, 

38804369. 

yoga for fitness and weight loss, Tulsi Tree, 

umm al Hassam, behind Copper Chimney 

restaurant. e-mail tulsitree12@gmail.com 

Today's best guide to leisure, 

activities, clubs and events... 

or call 39646876 

for more 

information. 

5 In mathematics, it refers to a number (4) 

6 Given one’s pet treatment? (6) 

9 The place for a revolutionary motor (6) 

11 Swear to give a cry of pain with a heavier 

heart (3) 

12 Financial matters best managed by the 

departmental head (5) 

13 With justification, figure to get fit (7) 

15 It’s kept in Delaware, but broken in Wall Street 

(3) 

16 Talk that may have leaked out (3) 

18 Jack and Roy going round in a whirl? (6) 

20 Execute badly (5) 

21 The missile man (3) 

22 Method of getting the distance (3) 

23 Plant the lot and cut the grass around (6) 

25 Favouring just three selected letters (3) 

28 Thread one can possibly sell out of (5) 

30 Nonsense that can sound just about OK (5) 

31 Name one’s favourite royal (5) 

32 The co-operative thing to play (4) 

33 Singular thing to eat with a cold joint (4) 

yesTerday’s CryPTiC soluTion 

aCross: 1 Matt-Ed, 7 Egg-plant, 8 P-is-a, 10 

Ma-ile-d, 11 Argosy, 14 Pet, 16 Tunes, 17 Rust, 19 

F-O-ray, 21 MA-son, 22 T-ired, 23 Fo-es, 26 K-E-V-in, 

28 Pin, 29 I-Ron-ic, 30 Bun-yan, 31 Ape-X, 32 Lec-tures, 

33 Hatred. 

doWn: 1 Mur-mur, 2 Toilet, 3 Dead, 4 Sp-art-an, 5 

Mac-on, 6 Stays, 8 Pips, 9 Set, 12 Guy, 13 Serve, 15 

Loser, 18 Up-p-er, 19 FA-r, 20 Road, 21 Mini-mum, 

22 Tin, 23 Fi-nest, 24 Ony-X, 25 Sin-bad, 26 Ki-l-ls, 

27 Vo-I-ce, 28 Pup, 30 BAs-h. 

yesTerday’s QuiCK soluTion 

aCross: 1 Gossip, 7 Reporter, 8 Mope, 10 

Leeway, 11 Regale, 14 New, 16 Melon, 17 

Scud, 19 Merit, 21 Panic, 22 Ceded, 23 Pile, 

26 Shoal, 28 Hot, 29 Hectic, 30 Potent, 31 

Edam, 32 Charades, 33 Troupe. 

doWn: 1 Grills, 2 Showed, 3 Prey, 4 

Polemic, 5 Steal, 6 Green, 8 Menu, 9 Paw, 

12 Get, 13 Local, 15 Tenet, 18 Cache, 19 

Mad, 20 Rid, 21 Pelican, 22 Cat, 23 Potato, 

24 Item, 25 Entire, 26 Shack, 27 Ocean, 28 

Hod, 30 Pest. 

Centre, seef, 3.30pm-4.15pm, mighty mites, 4pm-5pm, 

free play, 5pm-6pm. Call 17566566. 

Cooking and culinary classes for all cuisines for students, 

housewives and housemaids, Bahrain Institute of Hospitality 

& Retail, Barbar 8am-2pm. Call 17698726 or 36405506. 

Cinematic dance lessons, Kerala Catholic association, 

segaiya, 7.30pm. Call KCa general secretary roy C antony 

on 39681102 or KCa assistant general secretary Varghese 

Joseph on 39300835 for more information. 

Keyboard, guitar, tabla, drums, violin, light and Carnatic music, 

drawing and painting, clay modelling, cinematic and classical 

dance, karate, yoga and chess classes, Kalabhavan music 

and arts training centre, Adliya, 4pm-8pm. Call 17717271 or 

17717017. 

Party Party drop-off playgroup for one to four-year-olds, 

saar garden, 8am-4pm. Call 36153158. 

Brain Body Dynamics, Budaiya, 9am-5pm. Call 17592661 or 

39246544 for information. 

Jewellery-making workshops, 8 Mansions, Country Mall, 

Budaiya, 10.30am-11.30am and 4.30pm-5.30pm. Call 

39040056 or 17594575. 

Therapeutic, 

relaxation and 

rejuvenation 

massages, 

herbal facial, 

panchakarma 

procedures, 

consultation with 

Ayurveda physicians and 

Ayurvedic medicines, Vaidyaratnam 

Ayurvedic Health Centre, Riffa, 9am-1pm and 

4pm-9pm. Call 17228877 or 39912777 for 


Classes in karate, kali, arnis, Filipino martial 

arts and aikido by internationally-ranked 

instructors, Kyudokan Bahrain, near 

andalus garden, Manama, 6.30pm- 

10.30pm. Visit facebook.com/Kyudokan. 

Bahrain, kyudokan-bahrain.webs.com 

or call 33912592 or 36768718 for more 

information. 

Karate Classes for boys and girls over six years 

old, Telugu Kala Samithi premises in Adliya, 

6pm-7.15pm. Call 39049976. 

Karate, judo, kung fu, wrestling and 18 

different kinds of freestyle martial arts, 

taught by fifth dan black belt instructor, 

Pakistan Club, Manama. Children - 7pm- 

8.30pm, adults - 8.30pm-10pm. special 

self-defence classes for women. Call 

33960492, 39262904 or 36679513 for 


Dragon Kung-Fu training, the old Indian 

email: gdnnews@batelco.com.bh 

Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, American Mission Hospital, 

6.30pm-8pm. Call 39434200, 17530020. 

Whist drive and lucky dip, Karnataka social Club, 9pm. 

Baby Gems Mums and Tots group for infants up to two and a 

half years old, Little Gems Pre-School, Barbar, 8.15am-9.45am. 

Call 17694356. 

ladies Mah Jong, dilmun Club, saar, 10am, power circuit 

fitness class, 8.30am. Call 17690926. 

Bahrain Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

(BSPCA) sanctuary, Askar, 9am-5pm. Those interested in 

adopting pets, walking dogs or volunteering, Call 17591231. 

Rescued animals will be accepted 24-hours-a-day. 

Tony the dogfather and CsBPa relocated animal rescue 

centre in saar. Call 39629889 or 33363352 for more 

information on rescuing, sponsoring, adopting, walking, 

volunteering or donations. 

Party Bridge Club, male/female, partners/singles. Contact 

Graham.Nugent@MANDEV.co 

Chess classes, group and personal training, by international 

chess master. Call 33266677 for directions and 

information. 

physical academy, 

Manama, 7.30pm- 

10pm. Call 

39756307 

for more 

information. 

instant stress 

reduction 

techniques to 

overcome work 

pressure from home 

or office at a rapid speed, 

gudaibiya, 6pm to 10pm. Call 


The physiotherapy centre offers home services 

and physio centre, with latest techniques 

treatment, 9am-12.30pm and 4pm-8pm. Call 

17722012 for appointments. 

self-hypnotism sessions for positive 

thinking and improving creativity and 

prosperity. Call 33206641 for more 

information. 

Executive speech coaching - get laughs, 

applause and your message across, 4pm- 

8pm. Book free 20 minutes coaching session. 

Visit 3DSpeaking.com or call 37777784 for 


CHurCH serViCes 

english language congregation worship 

service, national evangelical Church, 

Manama, 7pm. Call 17242578. 

Courses 

Private tutoring psychology and sociology (all 

levels), Sanad, 1-9pm. Call 36488688 for more 

information. 

Cognitive training for struggling learners, 

adHd/add, dyslexia, autism, dyscalculia, 

dysgraphia, career adults, college 

students, senior adults and those with 

traumatic brain injury, neural Mind spark, 

seef. Visit www.neuralmindspark.com or 

call 36652314 for more information. 

English Language courses for juniors, Bait Al 

Taleem English Language Institute, A’ali 

4pm-6pm, seniors, 6pm-8pm. Call 17643199 

or 17643197. 

Morning and evening spanish classes, 

intensive courses, workshops, shaikh 

ebrahim Bin Mohammed al Khalifa Centre 

for Culture and research, Muharraq. Call 

38396273. 

Courses in Arabic for Reading, Writing and 

Math, Al Ba7ith Institute, Sehla and Juffair, 

Saturday to Thursday, 10am-7pm. Call Sehla 

branch on 17400227 and Juffair branch on 

17811227. 

english, arabic, French, spanish, italian, 

german, Farsi, Japanese and Chinese 

classes, Berlitz language Centre, adliya, 

8am-8pm. Call 17827847 or 17694233. 

Learn Arabic in 48 hours with a private tutor. 

Call 34186689 or visit www.ispeakarabictoo. 

com for more information. 

Chatterboxes english language enrichment 

classes for three to seven-year-olds, 

Budaiya Pre-school, 4pm-5pm. Call 

17791491. 

Quick 

aCross 

4 Military students (6), 7 Sensible (8), 8 Religious festival (6), 10 Move (5), 13 Every (4), 

14 Indian dress (4), 15 Woman’s name (4), 16 Auction item (3), 17 Rave (4), 19 Russian 

ruler (4), 21 Authenticated (9), 23 Board game (4), 24 Diplomacy (4), 26 Female deer (3), 

27 Cereal grain (4), 29 Second-hand (4), 32 Foundation (4), 33 Backbone (5), 34 

Emphasis (6), 35 Paint finish (8), 36 Believe (6). 

doWn 

1 Scum (5), 2 Step (5), 3 Plunder (4), 4 Wash (5), 5 Rush (4), 6 Quake (6), 9 Vinegar acid 

(6), 11 Witch (3), 12 Sacked, informally (5), 13 Qualify (7), 15 Insect (3), 16 Boy (3), 18 

Smells (6), 20 Establish (3,2), 21 Snooker stick (3), 22 Obese (3), 23 Linger (6), 25 

Domestic fowl (3), 28 Thing of value (5), 30 Locations (5), 31 Traded (5), 32 Contort (4), 

33 Average (2-2). 


General English language courses, TOEFL, 

SAT, GRE, GMAT preparation, adults and 

young learners conversation classes, 

American Cultural and Educational 

Centre, Juffair, 8am-9pm. Call 17729997. 

english, Maths, latin, Creative Writing 

up to gCse and as level, uK Common 

entrance 11+ 13+ exam preparation 

for individuals and groups by graduate 

tutors at oxford or Cambridge 

university level, idris Tuition, Budaiya. 

Personal statements for school and 

university entrance, exam technique 

and interview practice. Call 33771234. 

English classes, Lingo-Ease, Al Nasir Garden, 

Budaiya, 9.45am, Gulf Arabic conversation 

for adults, 9.15am, English for young 

learners level 1, 3.10pm, teens lower 

intermediates, 4.50pm. Call 17590895 or 

39102997. 

english language communication skills 

classes for adults, e-mail writing, 

business writing workshops, The 

Conversation Centre, seef. Call 

39067062 for timings. 

The British Council, Khamis, 8.30am-7.30pm. 

Call 17261555. 

Certified Professional Practitioner 

courses with international institute 

for Personal and Professional 

Transformations, including diplomas 

in Clinical Hypnotherapy and 

Psychotherapy, Counselling, nlP, 

CBT, eFT and Meridian Therapies, 

Biofeedback, Breathing Therapy. 

accelerated learning for adults and 

Children. Call 39667623. 

French Tutor for all levels and TCF, TEF, 

and DELF. Teaching French as a Foreign 

Language. Call 38329388. 

english Courses (grades K-12) reading, 

Writing, Math, saT, arabic Courses 

reading, Writing, Math (K-12), arabic 

Conversation for adults, sylvan 

learning, locations in sehla and 

Juffair, 10am-7pm. Call sehla on 

17400227 and Juffair on 17811227. 

Tajweed and Islamic Studies classes 

for girls and ladies, Dar Alarqum for 

Quranic Studies for Non Arabs, Saar. 

E-mail alarqum@batelco.com.bh or 

call 17794236 or 33909571 for more 

information. 

islamic studies courses including 

aqeeda, Hadeeth, Tafseer, Fiqh, dar 

alarqum for Quranic studies for non 

arabs, saar, 9.30am-11.30am. Course 

books written by dr Bilal Philips. Call 

17794236 or 33909571 for registration 

and purchasing the text books. 

Study Excellence programme for school 

children. Call DS Dev on 38800265. 

Target 

How many words of four letters 

or more can you make 

from the letters show here? In 

making a word, each letter 

may be used once only, Each 

must contain the centre letter 

and there must be at least 

one nine-letter word. No plurals 

or verb forms ending in “s” 

no words with initial capitals 

and no words with a hyphen 

or apostrophe permitted. 

The first word of a phrase is 

allowed (e.g. inkjet in inkjet 

printer) 

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Good 27 ; very good 40 ; excellent 

54 (or more). Solution 

tomorrow. 

yesTerday’s 

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call called candle CandleliT 

cane caned cant canted cedilla 

cell cent citadel cite cited 

clad clan clean cleat client 

dace dance decant deltaic 

dialect dice edict enact iced 

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Bahrain 

CINECO (CITY): 

20 SCREENS 

1) The Big Wedding (15) (Comedy) 

Starring: Robert De Niro, Diane 

Keaton and Katherine Heigl 

Shows at noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 

8pm, 10pm and midnight 

Shows at (VIP II) 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 

5pm, 7pm, 9pm and 11pm 

2) Welcome To The Punch (15) 

(Action/ Thriller) 

Starring: James McAvoy, Mark 

Strong and Andrea Riseborough 

Shows at 11.15am, 1.15pm, 

3.15pm, 5.15pm, 7.15pm, 9.15pm 

and 11.15pm 

3) Iron Man 3 (PG 13) (Action/ 

Adventure) 

Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Guy 

Pearce and Gwyneth Paltrow 


6pm, 7pm, 9pm, 10pm and midnight 

Shows at (3D) 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 

8pm and 11pm 

Shows at (VIP I) 11.30am, 2.30pm, 

5.30pm, 8.30pm and 11.30pm 

4) Disconnect (18) (Thriller) 

Starring: Jason Bateman, 

Alexander Skarsgard and Paula 

Patton 

Shows at 12.30pm, 2.45pm, 5pm, 

7.15pm, 9.30pm and 11.45pm 

5) The Call (15) (Thriller) 

Starring: Halle Berry, Evie 

Thompson and Abigail Breslin 


3.45pm, 5.45pm, 7.45pm, 9.45pm 

and 11.45pm 

6) Java Heat (15+) (Action/Thriller) 

Starring: Kellan Lutz, Verdi 

Solaiman and Mickey Rourke 

Shows at 10.30am, 12.45pm, 3pm, 

5.15pm, 7.30pm, 9.45pm and midnight 

7) Rise Of The Zombies (18) 

(Horror/ Thriller) 

Starring: Mariel Hemingway, 

Ethan Suplee and Levar Burton 


3.30pm, 5.30pm, 7.30pm, 9.30pm 

and 11.30pm 

8) Pain & Gain (15) (Action/ Crime/ 

Comedy) 

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne 

Johnson and Rebel Wilson 

Shows at 11am, 1.30pm, 4pm, 

6.30pm, 9pm and 11.30pm 

9) The Croods (PG) (Animation/ 

Comedy/ Adventure) 

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ryan 

Reynolds and Emma Stone 

Shows at noon, 2pm and 4pm 

Shows at (3D) 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 

5pm, 7pm, 9pm and 11pm 

10) Sameer Abu Elneel (PG 13) 

(Comedy) 

Starring: Ahmed Mekki, Nicole 

Saba and Edward 

Shows at 12.15pm, 2.30pm, 

4.45pm, 7pm, 9.15pm and 

11.30pm 

11) G.I.Joe: Retaliation (15) (Action/ 

Thriller) 

Starring: Channing Tatum, 

Dwayne Johnson and Ray Park 

Shows at (3D) 11.45am, 2pm, 

4.15pm, 6.30pm, 8.45pm and 

11pm 

12) Oblivion (15) (Action/ Thriller) 

Starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan 

Freeman and Andrea 

Riseborough 


4.15pm, 6.45pm, 9.15pm and 

11.45pm 

13) Scary Movie 5 (18) (Comedy) 

Starring: Simon Rex, Ashley 

Daily 

recipe 

A typically English recipe sometimes 

called pikelets in northern England, 

though real pikelets are thinner and 

irregular in shape. These can be 

served with jam, cream cheese or 

cooked breakfast and should be 

toasted first. Makes 18. 

Ingredients 

2 teaspoons dried yeast 

1 teaspoon sugar 

250ml hand-hot water 

300gm strong white flour 

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 

1 teaspoon salt 

175ml hand-hot milk 

Method 

1) To make the batter: stir the yeast 

and sugar into the water. Leave to 

stand for five minutes. 

2) Mix in half the flour and beat well. 

AT THE CINEMA 

Tisdale and Charlie Sheen 

Shows at 12.30pm, 4.15pm, 8pm 

and 11.45pm 

14) Fire With Fire (15) (Action/ 

Thriller) 

Starring: Josh Duhamel, Bruce 

Willis and Rosario Dawson 

Shows at 10.30am, 2.15pm, 6pm 

and 9.45pm 

15) Ala Gosety (PG 13) (Comedy) 

Starring: Ahmed Helmi, Ghada 

Adel and Hassan Hosni 

Shows at 6pm, 8.15pm and 

10.30pm 

16) Olympus Has Fallen (15) 


Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron 

Eckhart and Morgan Freeman 


3.45pm, 6.15pm, 8.45pm and 

11.15pm 

17) A Haunted House (15+) 

(Comedy) 

Starring: Marlon Wayans, Essence 

Atkins and Nick Swardson 


8.15pm and midnight 

18) Evil Dead (18+) (Horror/ Thriller) 

Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh 

Fernandez and Jessica Lucas 


6.15pm and 10pm 

SEEF (II) (EAST SIDE): 

10 Screens 


Adventure) 




5.45pm, 8.45pm and 11.45pm 

Shows at (3D) 10.45am, 1.45pm, 

4.45pm, 7.45pm and 10.45pm 

2) Disconnect (18) (Thriller) 

Starring: Jason Bateman, 

Alexander Skarsgard and Paula 

Patton 



3) The Call (15) (Thriller) 

Starring: Halle Berry, Evie 

Thompson and Abigail Breslin 


8pm, 10pm and midnight 

4) Java Heat (15+) (Action/Thriller) 

Starring: Kellan Lutz, Verdi 

Solaiman and Mickey Rourke 

Shows at 12.30pm, 2.45pm, 5pm, 

7.15pm, 9.30pm and 11.45pm 

5) Pain & Gain (15) (Action/ Crime/ 

Comedy) 

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne 

Johnson and Rebel Wilson 


4.15pm, 6.45pm, 9.15pm and 

11.45pm 





Shows at (3D) 11.15am, 1.15pm, 

3.15pm, 5.15pm, 7.15pm, 9.15pm 

and 11.15pm 

7) Sameer Abu Elneel (PG 13) 

(Comedy) 

Starring: Ahmed Mekki, Nicole 

Saba, Menna Shalabi and Edward 

Shows at noon, 2.15pm, 4.30pm, 

6.45pm, 9pm and 11.15pm 

8) Aashiqui-2 (15) (Hindi/ 

Romantic) 

Set aside in a warm place until light 

and frothy – about 30 minutes. 

3) Gradually stir in the remaining 

ingredients, beating until smooth. 

Add more milk if necessary to make 

a pouring batter. 

4) Warm a griddle or large frying pan 

and lightly grease it with a little oil, 

rub any excess off with kitchen 

paper. 

5) Grease crumpet rings (or plain 

metal cutters 7.5cm in diameter). 

6) Place the greased rings on the 

griddle and pour two tablespoons of 

the batter into each ring. 

7) Cook until set and holes have 

burst on top. 

8) Remove the rings and turn the 

crumpets over to lightly brown the 

other side. 

9) Cool on a wire rack and toast to 

serve. 

n Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgard and Paula Patton star in the thriller 

Disconnect… now showing 

Starring: Aditya Roy Kapur, 

Shraddha Kapoor and Shaad 

Randhawa 

Shows at 1pm, 6pm and 11pm 

9) Gippy (PG 13) (Hindi/ Comedy/ 

Drama) 

Starring: Taaha Shah, Riya Vij and 

Diya Dutta 

Shows at 10.45am, 3.45pm and 

8.45pm 

10) Shootout At Wadala (15+) 

(Hindi/ Action/ Crime) 

Starring: John Abraham, Ronit Roy, 

Bipasha Basu and Anil Kapoor 


6.45pm and 9.45pm 

SEEF (I) (WEST SIDE): 

SAAR CINEPLEX 

4 Screens 





3.30pm, 5.30pm, 7.30pm and 

9.30pm 





Shows at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 7pm 

and 9pm 


Adventure) 

6 Screens 





3.45pm, 5.45pm, 7.45pm, 9.45pm 

and 11.45pm 





Shows at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 

7pm, 9pm and 11pm 

3) Rise Of The Zombies (18) 

(Horror/ Thriller) 

Starring: Mariel Hemingway, 

Starring: Robert Downey 

hotlines 

Jr., Guy Pearce and 

Gwyneth Paltrow 

For enquiries 

Shows at 12.30pm, about 

3.15pm, 6pm and Bahrain Cinema 

8.45pm 

Company’s theatres 

4) The Call (15) 17864666 

(Thriller) 

Dana Complex: 

Starring: Halle Berry, Evie 17558558 

Thompson and Abigail 

Breslin 


3.15pm, 5.15pm, 7.15pm and 

9.15pm 

AL JAZEERA CINEPLEX 

2 Screens 

Ethan Suplee and Levar Burton 


3.30pm, 5.30pm, 7.30pm, 9.30pm 

and 11.30pm 

4) Go Goa Gone (Hindi/ Action/ 

Comdey) 

Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Khunal 

Khemu and Vir Das 


4.45pm, 7pm, 9.15pm and 

11.30pm 

5) Ethir Neechal (Tamil) 

Starring: Sivakarthikeyan, Priya 

Ananand and Nandita 


5.30pm, 8.30pm and 11.30pm 

6) Greeku Veerudu (Telugu) 

Starring: Nagarjuna, Nayan Thara 





Shows at 8pm and 10pm 


Adventure) 



Shows at 3.15pm, 6pm and 

8.45pm 





Shows at 4pm and 6pm 

AWAL CINEMA 

and Meera Chopra 


5.15pm, 8.15pm and 11.15pm 

1) Go Goa Gone (Hindi/ Action/ 

Comdey) 


Crumpets 


Shows at noon, 3pm, 6pm and 

9pm 

AL HAMRA CINEMA 

1) Immanuel (Malayalam) 

Starring: Mammootty, Balachandra 

Menon and Salim Kumar 

Shows at noon, 3pm, 6pm and 

9pm 

• For Bahrain Cinema online booking 

tickets: cinema.o.com.bh 

DANA CINEPLEX 

12 Screens 

• All shows after midnight only on 

Thursdays, Fridays and holidays 

1) Evil Dead (Horror/ Sci-Fi/ Thriller 

Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh 

Fernandez and Jessica Lucas 

Shows at 10.45m, 12.45pm, 

2.45pm, 4.45pm, 6.45pm, 8.45pm 

and 10.45pm 

2) Hassal Khair (Arabic/ Comedy/ 

Drama) 

Starring: Saad El Sugayar, Kamar 

and Karim Mahmood Abdulaziz 

Shows at noon, 2.15pm, 4.30pm, 

6.45pm, 9pm and 11.15pm 

3) Mohamma Fi - Film Adim 

(Arabic/ Comedy) 

Starring: Fifi Abdo and Eduard 


7.15pm and 11.15pm 

3) Vehicle 19 (15) (Thriller) 

Starring: Paul Walker, Naima 

McLean and Gys De Villiers 

Shows at 1.15pm, 5.15pm and 

9.15pm 

4) The Croods (Animation/ 

Adventure/ Comedy) 



Shows at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 

7pm, 9pm, 11pm and 1am 

5) The Croods 3D (Animation/ 

Adventure/ Comedy) 




2.30pm, 4.30pm, 6.30pm, 8.30pm 

and 10.30pm 

6) Detective Dee (Mystery 

of the Phantom Flame) 

3D (Action/ Adventure/ 

Crime) 

Starring: Tony Leung Ka 

Fai, Chao Deng and 

Carina Lau 

Shows at 6.30pm, 9pm 

and 11.30pm 

6) Zambezia 3D 

(Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy) 

Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Jeremy 

Suarez and Abigail Breslin 


2.30pm and 4.30pm 

7) Ice Age 4: Continental Drift 2D 

(Family/ Comedy/ Action) 

Starring: Ray Romano, John 

Leguizamo and Denis Leary 


2.30pm, 4.30pm and 6.30pm 

7) The Hobbit: An Unexpected 

Journey (PG 13) (Fantasy/ 

Adventure) 

Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian 

McKellen and Richard Armitage 

Shows at 8.30pm and 11.45pm 

8) A Good Day To Die Hard (15) 

(Action/ Adventure) 

Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney 

and Mary Elizabeth Winstead 


2.45pm, 4.45pm, 6.45pm, 8.45pm, 

10.45pm and 12.45am 

9) Go Goa Gone 3D (Hindi/ Action/ 

Comdey) 



Shows at 10.30am, 1pm, 3.30pm, 

6pm, 8.30pm, 11pm and 1.15am 

10) Identity Thief (15+) (Crime/ 

Comedy) 

Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa 

McCarthy and John Cho 



11) Olympus Has Fallen (Action/ 

Thriller) 

Starring: Gerad Butler, Aaron 

Eckhart and Morgan Freeman 



12) Love And Honor 3D (Drama/ 

Romance/ War) 

Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Teresa 

Palmer and Aimee Teegarden 

Shows at 8.30pm, 10.30pm and 

12.30am 

12) Hotel Transylvania (Animation/ 

Comedy/ Family) 

Starring: Ahmed Sandler, Kevin 

James, Andy Samberg and Selena 

Gomez 


2.30pm, 4.30pm and 6.30pm 

Weather Report 

TODAY: Fine becoming partly cloudy 

at times later 

Warning: Nil 

Wind: Variable 3 to 8kt becoming 

northerly to northeasterly 10 to 15kt at 

times later 

Warning: Nil 

Sea State: 1 to 3ft 

Sunrise: 4.54am Sunset: 6.13pm 

Moonrise: 6.32am Moonset: 8.21pm 

Temperature: Max 37˚C Min 27˚C 

Humidity: Max 70% Min 25% 

Mina Salman tides: High at 6.57am 

and low at 1.03pm 

Actual values recorded yesterday: 

Temperature: Max 37˚C Min 28˚C 

Humidity: Max 53% Min 18% 

Gulf temperatures: Kuwait 38˚C 

Riyadh 39˚C Doha 33˚C Abu Dhabi 

37˚C Muscat 30˚C 

*Met. Office: 17321175/74, 17323073 

Weatherline: 17236236 or visit www. 

bahrainweather.gov.bh 

Min Max 

Amsterdam 8 16 R 

Athens 15 21 R 

Atlanta 14 26 Cl 

Baghdad 23 37 C 

Basra 24 38 C 

Bangkok 28 37 Cl 

Barcelona 17 20 Cl 

Beijing 8 31 C 

Beirut 18 28 Cl 

Berlin 11 19 R 

Bogota 9 18 R 

Boston 13 21 R 

Cairo 20 33 Cl 

Calgary 3 17 C 

Caracas 24 31 Cl 

Chicago 7 10 R 

Dhahran 22 37 C 

Dhaka 28 34 C 

Dublin 7 14 R 

Frankfurt 11 17 R 

Geneva 10 15 R 

Guatemala 17 26 R 

Hanoi 24 31 Cl 

Havana 21 34 C 

Helsinki 10 19 Cl 

Hong Kong 25 29 R 

Islamabad 23 38 R 

Istanbul 14 19 Cl 

Jakarta 25 32 C 

Johannesburg 14 20 C 

Kabul 13 26 Cl 

Kuala Lumpur 26 34 Cl 

La Paz -1 18 C 

Lima 18 26 Cl 

Lisbon 12 22 C 

London 9 18 R 

Los Angeles 15 24 C 

Manila 24 36 R 

Mecca 29 42 C 

Melbourne 11 25 C 

Mexico City 17 28 Cl 

Miami 22 31 R 

Montreal 11 20 R 

Moscow 12 27 Cl 

Nairobi 15 25 Cl 

New Delhi 25 40 C 

New York 15 26 C 

Osaka 13 22 R 

Oslo 6 12 R 

Panama 25 32 Cl 

Paris 10 14 R 

Perth 12 19 R 

Prague 10 14 R 

Rio de Janeiro 19 27 C 

Rome 15 22 R 

San Francisco 11 16 Cl 

San Jose 19 29 R 

San Salvador 21 31 R 

Seoul 11 16 R 

Singapore 24 31 R 

Sofia 8 26 C 

Stockholm 11 19 R 

Sydney 12 20 C 

Taipei 24 29 R 

Tokyo 16 26 R 

Turin 14 19 R 

Toronto 10 14 R 

Valletta 15 24 C 

Vancouver 10 19 Cl 

Vienna 14 24 R 

Washington 14 28 R 

Zurich 9 13 R 

CODE: Cl=cloudy, C=clear, 

R=rain, S=snow 

Chemists 

24-hour chemists: 

Jaffer Pharmacy: 18, Tarfah bin Al Abid 

Avenue, Manama 319. Tel: 17291039. 

Awal Pharmacy: 30, Shaikh Ali bin 

Khalifa Avenue, East Riffa 901. Tel: 

17772023. Al Muwasaa Pharmacy: 38, 

Shaikh Mohammed bin Salman Avenue, 

Muharraq 205. Tel: 17335666. Al Maraya 

Pharmacy: 379 Amman Avenue, Tubli 

705. Tel: 17784029. Al Rahma Pharmacy: 

12 Souk Abu Dhar Alghafari, Isa Town 

814. Tel: 17687117. National Pharmacy: 

Blg. 2058, Road 4563, Sanad 745. Tel: 

17620208. Nasser Pharmacy: 63-B, 

Qadisiya Avenue, Manama 332. Tel: 

17740900. Hamad Town Pharmacy: 225 

Souk Waqf, Hamad Town 1203. Tel: 

17410114. Majeed Jaffar Pharmacy: 

Building 233, Avenue 57, Muharraq 203. 

Tel: 17331168. Al Hilal Pharmacy: Shop 

No. 649B, Road 1511, Muharraq. Tel: 

17341700. 

Vet Services 24-hours 39481208. 

PRayeR times 

Noon (Dhohr) 11.34am, Afternoon (Asr) 

3.03pm, Sunset (Maghrib) 

6.16pm, Nightfall (Ishaa) 7.46pm and 

Dawn (Fajr) 3.28am tomorrow. 

Today is the 2 day of Rajab, 1434, in the 

Islamic calendar. 

*Provided by the Islamic Affairs Ministry.




The column everyone is reading – on Sundays and Tuesdays..! 

verywhere in the Western world there 

is increasing pressure on users to E pay for everything, from government 

services to reading newspapers online. 

Buy cheap airline tickets and then watch 

the charges and taxes accrue. Just take 

a look at your monthly bank bill to see all 

those facilitation charges add up. 

See how restaurants try to offset costs by 

the ubiquitous “service charge”, which of 

course never goes to the wait-staff (they 

expect the customer to slug up a tip on top 

of the restaurant “tap”). 

But not so for many folks in Bahrain! 

Food, fuel, utilities, pharmaceuticals, housing, 

education, healthcare and government 

funding support all come cheaper to the 

public than their actual cost. 

It is like being a lush in La-La Land. 

But the thing that must irk most of all is that 

so many people expect it to be so, as a 

right, without an ounce of appreciation of 

how good their lot here really is. 

It is something that constantly surprises 

foreigners 

spending 

time in 

Bahrain, 

partaking in 

some of the 

benefits as 

well! 

It is only when 

they go 

home that 

they realise 

the full 

extent of the assistance we get. 

Yet the tyre burning, destruction and 

vandalism goes on, never admonished 

by those in the business of politically and 

clerically promoting a new island order 

– albeit from the caboose of the train to 

ruination. 

So maybe it is worth Bahraini authorities 

taking a look at plans by the UK Justice 

Secretary Chris Grayling to make criminals 

contribute to the cost of their own 

prosecution. 

Get a 

conviction 

and the 

abuser pays. 

Damages to 

property are 

also paid for. 

The 

presumption 

of innocence 

remains 

sacrosanct, 

but there must be incentive not to abuse 

that provision when the evidence is 

compelling. 

Some 1.5 million people in the UK go through 

the criminal justice system every year, 

most pleading “not guilty” and forcing the 

state to make its case. 

But that leaves 60m people who are not a 

burden on the legal purse, who have to 

keep coughing up by way of taxes. 

The UK has an annual legal aid bill of £1 

by W.W. 

Bahrain ‘free of 

fake medicines’ 

BAHRAIN is free of counterfeit 

medicine due to its rigid monitoring 

and control of imported products, 

a top official claimed yesterday. 

However, it should not lower its 

guard against “gangs” that are always 

looking to find new ways of introducing 

fake products, said National 

Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) 

chief executive officer Dr Bahaa Eldin 

Fateha. 

“We assure people that no counterfeit 

medicine is present in Bahrain,” he 

told the GDN. 

“This is due to the rigid monitoring 

and control of medicine coming 

By BaSma mohammed 

to the country and is also due to 

partnerships with bodies concerned 

to deal with such issues, including an 

excellent partnership with the Customs 

Directorate. 

“But we have to be alert against 

gangs that produce fake medicines with 

no respect for human health and life 

and try to find ways to introduce such 

products in the market.” 

Dr Fateha was speaking on the sidelines 

of the Drug Safety and Counterfeit 

Medicines Meeting, which was held at 

the Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel and 

Spa. 

The event, under the patronage of 

Health Minister Sadiq Al Shehabi, was 

organised by the NHRA and sponsored 

by the French regulatory body Servier. 

It featured around 130 experts in the 

field from various countries, including 

the US, the UK, the UAE and Bahrain. 

Dr Fateha stressed one of the main 

objectives of the NHRA since its establishment 

by royal decree in 2009 was 

not to allow a single tablet, ampule or 

bottle of medicine of suspicious origin 

into the country. 

“This was one of our main objectives 

and we will continue with it,” he said. 

“This conference is all about being 

ready to act should that threat resurface.” 

One of the NHRA’s key goals is to 

prevent medicine bought online from 

entering the country and only allow 

those imported with an unequivocal 

prescription. 

Meanwhile, Health Minister Sadiq 

Al Shehabi said Bahrain’s annual 

budget for medicine is around BD40 

million. 

“The ministry has taken precautions 

to ensure all medicine entering the 

country is safe and effective,” he said. 

“Strict regulations to monitor and 

test medicines are present, where random 

samples are taken to be tested to 

ensure it is not fake and is effective. 

“I can assure that medicines available 

in Bahrain is the safest.” 

basma@gdn.com.bh 

n Indian resident Choondapurakal Appukuttan Venu is leaving Bahrain after 33 years. The 56-year-old is retiring from his position as an electrical technician at 

the Al Moayyed Interiors Company to return home to his native state of Kerala. He previously worked for the World Décor Company for 26 years. A prominent 

member of the Samskara Thrissur Club, he was given a farewell party at the association in Umm Al Hassam, where president Menothparambil Ramakrishnan 

Sugathan presented him with a memento. Above, Mr Sugathan, second from the left, presents the momento to Mr Venu. 

billion per year so why shouldn’t convicted 

criminals contribute to the costs of their 

own prosecution? 

After all, they committed the crime! 

It is all about accepting responsibility 

for actions and while the state should 

always be a generous provider for 

the unfortunate, why should the state 

automatically be expected to meet 

the extensive costs, for example, of 

medical bills for a toddler taken to a 

demonstration by its parents and injured? 

Shouldn’t they contribute? 

Maybe criminals will be more inclined to plea 

bargain and accept some complicity if they 

know they – or their mum and dad – are 

going to have to meet some of the court 

costs if they automatically plead not guilty 

as they do now, but are found to be guilty. 

Now there is one appeal after the next, while 

the state foots the bill and the lawyers 

grow prosperous. 

Libertarianism is great, but let’s cut the 

abuse. 

n Solidarity 

vow by Egypt 

EgypTIAN Shura Council 

chairman Dr Ahmed Fahmi 

said any threat to Bahrain is 

a threat to Egypt and Arab 

national security. “Egypt 

will never allow any Iranian 

attempts to infiltrate the gulf 

and Bahrain in particular,” 

he stated as yesterday he met 

parliament chairman Dr Khalifa 

Al Dhahrani in the presence 

of a Bahraini parliamentary 

delegation. Any relations 

between Egypt and other parties 

will never be at the expense of 

its relations with gCC countries 

whose security and stability are a 

red line that must not be crossed, 

he pointed out, stressing Egypt’s 

efforts to achieve Arab solidarity 

and regain its role in the region. 

Dr Al Dhahrani paid tribute to 

Egypt for its honourable stance 

in support of Bahrain and hailed 

deep-rooted historic relations 

bonding the two countries and 

peoples. He urged more media 

communication to get updated on 

the flagrant Iranian interference 

in Bahrain’s internal affairs. 

He stressed the importance of 

promoting Egyptian investments 

in Bahrain and boosting the 

volume of trade exchanges. 

n Investment push 

Bahrain’s ambassador to 

the Us huda nonoo hosted 

members of the Washington 

international Club and 

updated them on investment 

opportunities in the kingdom. 

Cultural adviser aisha Murad 

also briefed them on Bahrain’s 

culture and traditions. 

n Heritage expo 

BAHRAINI students enrolled 

in Jordanian universities took 

part in the second heritage 

and cultural exhibition. Arab 

and foreign students also take 

part in the exhibition, hosted 

by Jordanian Al Hashemite 

University. The Bahraini 

students designed a pavilion 

showcasing the kingdom’s 

centuries-old civilization, 

historical monuments and 

modern milestones. 

The pavilion also featured 

books and booklets. Traditional 

Bahraini delight (halwa) was 

distributed to the guests. The 

students also designed a threedimensional 

miniature depicting 

the iconic Bab Al Bahrain. 

The exhibition was held 

under the patronage of the Al 

Hashemite University president. 

Cultural attaches accredited 

to Amman attended. Bahrain 

Embassy cultural attaché yusuf 

Abdulaziz Al Alawi presented 

the university president with a 

commemorative shield.

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n A dance show ranging from 

ballet to contemporary and hiphop 

concluded at the Cultural 

Hall near Bahrain National 

Museum yesterday. A total of 

270 dancers from the Ballare 

School of Performing Art, aged 

between three and 18, took part 

in the show which was staged 

over two days. Worlds Apart, 

the Beginning of a Journey, 

was choreographed by school 

teachers Louise Chapman, 

Shannon Kennedy and Ben 

Nichols and directed by Halla 

Al Zayani. Above, one of the 

dances staged at the show. 

Left, Maya Zainalabedin, right, 

leading the dance group. Right, 

a ballet performance at the 

show. Pictures: K P Joseph 

Email: gdnnews@gdn.com.bh


New chance to 

train your pet 

MORE than 50 dogs are taking part in 

a unique training programme which 

teaches them behavioural skills 

including walking without leash. 

It was launched by the Delmon 

Boarding Kennels earlier this year with 

the hope of helping dog owners get their 

pets to be more obedient. 

Volunteer and programme co-ordinator 

Tracy Whelan told the GDN many 

new dog owners do not know how to 

teach their dogs basic skills. 

“The programme is the brainchild 

of Delmon Boarding Kennels owner 

Pauline Richards, who did dog training 

for many years,” she said. 

“But she decided on the programme 

to develop a way from basic commands 

such as sit to have more complex ones. 

“It is one of the first structured dog 

training programmes in Bahrain.” 

The programme consists of four stages, 

each lasting around six weeks, with 

the first teaching handler and dog how 

to do basic obedience such as sit and 

heal and moves to more complex commands 

such as walking around a corner 

to co-ordinate both parts of the body 

and send away – where a dog is sent to 

a place by the owner. 

The programme plans to also teach 

competitive obedience in a later stage, 

where dogs compete on their ability to do 

a skill and the quality of implementation. 

“The plan is to have this stage in the 

future and perhaps hold a competition 

for those dogs to examine their obedience 

and level of communication with 

Safety tips for swimmers 

their owners,” said Ms Whelan. 

“Currently, each stage will have the 

dogs and owners tested to be able to 

pass on to the next stage. 

“Those who pass are awarded a certificate 

and a rosette.” 

Twenty-seven dogs have already 

passed the first stage, 16 are in the 

second stage and another nine are still 

undergoing the first stage. 

Anyone interested can call 17694066 

or email newsletter@delmonkennels. 

com. 



n Action from one of the 

matches. Left, Ritz-Carlton 

director of human resources 

Ricardo Del Rio opens the 

tournament 

Charity cricket 

tournament set 

to raise $5,000 

FIFTEEN teams are taking 

part in a charity cricket tournament, 

which opened at the 

Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel 

and Spa yesterday. 

They represent 14 hotels in 

Bahrain. 

Organisers said they hope 

to raise $5,000 (BD1,885) to 

support Bahrain Mobility 

International. 

“We are holding this event 

for the second consecutive 

year,” said an organiser, 

Awais Rafiq. 

“We also have the support 

of sponsors who helped this 

event happen.” 

The event will run until 

May 24, with around 54 

games that conclude the final 

game on the last day at 8pm. 

A stall selling food, including 

burgers and biryani, will 

be available throughout the 

event. 

n A week-long campaign to promote swimmers’ safety has been launched at Al Jazair Beach in the Southern Governorate and the dry dock beach in Muharraq. The Coastguard Directorate is 

organising the event in co-operation with the Border Guards. Booklets and leaflets promoting safety tips were distributed. Coastguards also displayed their equipment – rapid boats and maritime 

safety instruments. Bapco, GPIC and Asry contributed to the event.

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Ra RaRe e stamps 

go on show 

AN exhibition of 

stamps, coins and 

documents will open 

today at the Cultural 

Hall, near Bahrain 

National Museum. 

The event, being 

held under the patronage 

of Supreme 

Council for Islamic 

Affairs (SCIA) president 

Shaikh Abdulla 

bin Khalid Al Khalifa, 

has been organised by 

the Bahrain Philatelic 

Society. 

Under the theme 

Stamp for Orphan’s 

Love, the exhibition 

will showcase unique 

stamps, coins and 

documents illustrating 

Bahrain’s history. 

It will run daily until 

UP, UP 

AND AWAY 

Friday from 9am to 

1pm and from 4pm to 

9pm. 

The event will also 

feature an auction on 

Thursday at 8.30pm 

at the Cultural Hall, 

with proceeds going 

to support orphans in 

Bahrain. 

People are encouraged 

to take part by 

donating antiques or 

stamps to support the 

cause. 

Anyone wishing 

to donate or participate 

can call Bahrain 

Philatelic Society vice 

president Mohammed 

Janahi on 33400403. 

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n A charity race was held at Amwaj Islands to raise awareness about controlling high blood 

pressure. It was conducted by Batelco’s hearts and minds committee in collaboration with 

the Health Ministry and Muharraq Governorate. It featured a friendly cycle race for young 

people, which was sponsored by the Bahrain Bicycle Association. Above, young participants 

line up for the race. Below, committee members and participants at the event. 

n Bahrain’s cultural attaché in Britain organised a trip for 25 students enrolled at British 

universities to the Karting track. Students’ affairs co-ordinator Mohammed Al Wazara took part 

in the trip during which students enjoyed test-driving the karting cars.

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n A week-long Indian food festival was launched at the Sofitel Bahrain Zallaq Thalassa Sea and Spa yesterday. Indian Ambassador Dr Mohan Kumar opened the event in the presence of 

diplomats, officials and special guests. Running until Friday, the festival will feature a buffet dinner every night showcasing different dishes of Indian cuisine with chefs flown in specially 

from India to participate. For bookings call 17636363. Above, Dr Kumar, second from right, with his wife Mala, right, and other guests. Right, US Ambassador Thomas Krajeski visits a table. 

n Takaful International announced the winners of its best employees 

award for first quarter of the year during a ceremony at its headquarters 

in Seef District. Human resource department supervisor Zainab Al 

Qattan and call centre officer Hussain Al Saboori received awards for 

their achievement by chief executive Younis Al Sayed. Above, Ms Al 

Qattan receives her award from Mr Al Sayed. 

n Finance Minister and Minister in charge of Oil and Gas Affairs Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa received 

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company deputy chairman Yousuf Al Zamil, managing director Anwar Bin Salama and 

president Abdulrahman Jawahery. They briefed him on the company’s operations and achievements during the last 

year. Future plans of the company were also discussed. The meeting was attended by National Oil and Gas Authority 

secretary-general Dr Ahmed Al Sharyan and Oil and Gas Holding Company chief executive Shaikh Mohammed bin 

Khalifa Al Khalifa. Above, during the meeting, from left, are Mr Jawahery, Mr Al Zamil, Shaikh Ahmed and Mr Bin Salama. 

n Fans of Hindi cinema, the most prolific movie industry in the world, could get a glimpse of its history at a poster exhibition. The expo was opened by Mala Kumar, wife of Indian Ambassador Dr 

Mohan Kumar, at the Ramli Mall, A’Ali. The show was curated by Abboo Mohamed of Posterstuff. The event celebrates 100 years of Hindi cinema. Above, Ms Kumar opens the exhibition, watched 

by LuLu Hypermarket regional manager Mohammed Kaleem, commercial manager Abdul Sathar, Ramli Mall manager Praveen Y, Mr Mohamed and guests. Right, Ms Kumar tours the expo. 

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WORLD 

Egypt foils embassy attack plot 

CAIRO: Egyptian security forces thwarted an 

Al Qaeda-linked group’s plan to carry out a 

suicide attack on a foreign embassy and captured 

several militants, the interior minister 

said yesterday. 

Mohamed Ibrahim, speaking in a televised 

news conference, declined to say which 

embassy had been targeted. He named three 

suspected members of the cell now under 

arrest. 

“The Interior Ministry was able to direct 

a qualitative blow to a terrorist cell that 

was planning suicide operations against vital, 

important and foreign facilities in the country,” 

he said. 

One of the captured militants had travelled 

to Pakistan and Iran to receive training 

and was a member of Al Qaeda in Algeria, 

Ibrahim said. 

An Algerian Al Qaeda leader claimed 

responsibility for a January siege of an 

Algerian gas plant in which 37 foreign hos- 

Bomb horror 

l43 killed in car blasts in Turkey near Syria border 

ISTANBUL: Twin car bombs killed 

43 people and wounded many more 

in a Turkish town near the Syrian 

border yesterday and the government 

said it suspected Syrian 

involvement. 

The bombing increased fears that 

Syria’s civil war was spilling over to 

neighbouring states. 

The bombs ripped into crowded 

streets near Reyhanli’s shopping district 

in the early afternoon, scattering 

concrete blocks and smashing cars in 

the town in Turkey’s southern Hatay 

province, home to thousands of Syrian 

refugees. 

tages were killed. 

Security in Egypt has deteriorated since a 

2011 uprising that deposed president Hosni 

Mubarak, whose three-decade rule was 

marked by fierce crackdowns on militant 

Islamists. 

Armed Islamist groups have expanded into 

the Sinai Peninsula in the wake of the revolt, 

but militancy has been less apparent in the 

Nile Delta, where the overwhelming majority 

of the population is concentrated. 

The interior ministry has been widely criticised 

for failing to restore security and for 

heavy-handed tactics in dealing with protests 

against the elected Muslim Brotherhood-led 

government. 

In August, 16 Egyptian border guards were 

killed by militant attacks in Sinai. 

Last month, Egypt postponed the trial of 

26 alleged Islamist militants including two 

former military officers for planning attacks 

against the state. 

Restaurants and cafes were destroyed 

and body parts were strewn across the 

streets. 

President Bashar Al Assad’s administration 

was the “usual suspect” in the 

attacks, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister 

Bulent Arinc said. 

Another deputy prime minister, 

Besir Atalay, was quoted as saying 

initial findings suggested the attackers 

came from inside Turkey, but had links 

to Syria’s intelligence agency. 

There was no immediate claim of 

responsibility. Nor was there any comment 

from Damascus. 

The US strongly condemned the 

attacks and vowed support in identify- 

Ibrahim said that group – known as the Nasr 

City cell – were connected to the militants 

whose arrest was announced yesterday but did 

not give details. 

Meanwhile, Egypt’s army chief said the 

army is not the answer to the country’s political 

problems and urged Egyptians to find a 

way to get along in comments that appeared 

to rule out any military intervention in the 

country’s political standoff. 

General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, in comments 

reported online by the state-run Al Ahram 

newspaper, called for “a framework for consensus”. 

“The alternative is extremely dangerous,” 

he said. 

President Mohamed Mursi’s most extreme 

critics have been urging the army to remove 

the Islamist head of state elected last June, 

demanding the type of intervention that led to 

Hosni Mubarak’s removal from power at the 

peak of an uprising in 2011. 

ing those responsible, while Nato secretary-general 

Anders Fogh Rasmussen 

and French Foreign Minister Laurent 

Fabius voiced “full solidarity” with 

Turkey. 

The bombings were the bloodiest 

incident on Turkish soil since Syria’s 

conflict began more than two years 

ago. 

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tayyip 

Erdogan warned the death toll could 

rise. Officials said more than 100 people 

were injured, many critically. 

Erdogan said the bombings might 

have been related to Turkey’s own 

peace process with Kurdish militants 

of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), 

n The site of one of the explosions in 

Reyhanli, near the border with Syria 

who began a withdrawal this week to 

end a three-decade conflict. 

Turkey is sheltering more than 

300,000 Syrians, most of them in 

camps along the 900-km frontier, and 

is struggling to keep up with the influx. 

Protests erupted in Reyhanli after 

the blasts, with some locals blaming 

Syrians there for bringing violence 

over the frontier and smashing their car 

windows, while others railed against 

Turkey’s foreign policy, chanting for 

Erdogan to resign. 

The main opposition Syrian National 

Coalition said the attacks were a failed 

attempt to “destroy the brotherhood” 

between Syrians and Turks. 

n A supporter of Mubarak 

reacts to court news outside 

the police academy in Cairo, 

where Mubarak’s trial is 

taking place 

New evidence 

sought to be 

presented in 

Mubarak trial 

CAIRO: The retrial of former 

Egyptian president Hosni 

Mubarak resumed yesterday, 

with prosecutors requesting 

to present new evidence 

from a fact-finding commission’s 

report that claims the 

ex-leader had full knowledge 

of the extent of the violence 

used against protesters. 

The new evidence could 

weigh heavily in the case, 

which saw one of the Middle 

East’s most powerful autocrats 

and his longtime interior minister 

in charge of police tried 

and sent to prison, only to have 

their sentences overturned. 

The former president, who 

ruled over Egypt for nearly 30 

years, is being accused of collusion 

in the killing of nearly 

900 protesters in the first days 

of the January 2011 revolt that 

unseated him. He is the first 

Arab leader to be tried by his 

own people. 

Charges 

At the hearing, Mubarak 

wore a white jumpsuit and a 

pair of brown-tinted sunglasses. 

He sat upright on a hospital 

gurney in the defendants’ 

courtroom cage as he listened 

to a list of charges against him. 

The case may hinge on the 

report by the fact-finding commission, 

which worked for six 

months collecting hundreds of 

hours of video and testimony. 

The commission was created 

by Mubarak’s successor, 

Mohammed Mursi, who made 

a campaign promise to bring 

former officials to justice. 

It was not immediately clear 

what new evidence from the 

fact-finding report the prosecution 

wants to present at the 

retrial. Additionally, the judge 

has discretion to decide what 

evidence to accept. 

Mubarak and his interior 

minister, Habib El Adly, had 

been convicted and sentenced 

to life in prison for failing to 

prevent the killings of protesters. 

The verdict sparked mass 

protests because it did not stipulate 

who was responsible for 

the killing of protesters.

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WORLD 

Sharif declares 

victory in polls 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s 

Nawaz Sharif declared victory 

in a jubilant speech to 

supporters as results from 

yesterday’s election showed 

a clear lead for his party, 

making it almost certain that 

he will become prime minister 

of the country for a third 

time. 

The election, in which 86 

million people were eligible to 

vote, will bring the first transition 

between civilian governments 

in a country that has been 

ruled by the military for more 

than half of its turbulent history. 

Despite pre-election violence 

and attacks yesterday that killed 

at least 17 people, millions 

turned out to cast a ballot. 

“Results are still coming in, 

n Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) celebrate in front of a party office in Lahore as results of the general 

election come in. Right, election workers count ballots after polls closed in Peshawar yesterday. 

but this much is confirmed: 

we’re the single largest party so 

far,” he declared to hoots of joy 

from the crowd. 

With the count continuing 

into the night, Sharif’s Pakistan 

Muslim League - Nawaz (PML- 

N) was leading in 119 of the 272 

National Assembly seats that 

were contested. 

Sharif’s lead means he is 

almost certain to become prime 

minister again, a triumphant 

return for a political leader who 

was ousted in a military coup in 

1999, jailed and later exiled. 

It remains to be seen, however, 

if his PML-N will have 

enough lawmakers to rule on its 

own or be forced to seek coalition 

allies, which could make it 

difficult to push reforms desperately 

needed to revive a nearfailed 

economy. 

It is now clear that a darkhorse 

challenge by the party of 

former cricket star Imran Khan 

did not have the momentum 

needed to trip up Sharif. 

Khan’s Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) 

looked set to squeak into sec- 

Amnesty announced for workers 

RIYADH: Saudi interior and labour ministries have announced an 

amnesty on fines, and exemption from penalties for all expatriates 

who violated residency and labour regulations before April 

6. 

They will be allowed to correct their status and stay in the 

kingdom for work without facing any penalties, said a statement 

by the ministries. 

New contenders in Ira 

TEHRAN: A pair of powerful 

and divisive figures registered 

yesterday to run in Iran’s 

presidential election, jolting 

the political landscape ahead of 

next month’s vote to pick a successor 

to President Mahmoud 

Ahmadinejad. 

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 

a former president who still 

wields enormous influence, and 

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a 

close confident of Ahmadinejad, 

submitted their official paperwork 

just before yesterday’s 

deadline. Each has a good shot at 

winning the vote, raising a tough 

ond place thanks to support 

from urban youths, who rallied 

behind his calls for an end to 

corruption and a halt to US 

drone strikes against suspected 

militants on Pakistani soil. 

The PPP led the government 

for the past five years with 124 

lawmakers in parliament. Eight 

hours after polling stations 

closed yesterday it was ahead in 

the count for just 34 seats. 

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s 

Taliban, which is close to Al 

Qaeda, has killed more than 

125 people in election-related 

violence since April. 

More bloodshed marred election 

day. A bomb attack on the 

office of the Awami National 

Party in Karachi killed 11 people 

and wounded about 40. 

But despite the violence and 

the searing heat, many went to 

the polls excited about the prospect 

of change. 

challenge to conservative candidates 

loyal to Supreme Leader 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 

The race to choose a successor 

to Ahmadinejad, who under 

term-limit rules cannot seek a 

third mandate, culminates with 

the June 14 vote. 

Rafsanjani now stands as the 

main hope for reformists, who 

were crushed and left leaderless 

after a government crackdown 

on mass street protests following 

Ahmadinejad’s disputed 

2009 election victory. A win 

by Rasfanjani, who is seen as a 

centrist candidate and previously 

n Russian Indian model Alesia 

a fashion show at the Rajastha 

Elven Sharma showcases a cr 

Kaur Dhillon showcases a 

served as president in the late 

eighties, could open the way for 

an easing of tensions with the 

outside world and distance Iran 

from Ahmadinejad’s bombastic 

style and hardline policies. 

Mashaei, on the other hand, 

would mark a continuation of 

Ahmadinejad-era policies. 

“I’ll consider it my obligation 

to continue the path of 

Ahmadinejad’s government,” 

Mashaei said. 

Mashaei has long been 

Ahmadinejad’s close confidant, 

and the president’s son 

is married to Mashaei’s daugh-

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n Fashion Week 2013 in Jaipur yesterday. Right, Indian actress 

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n polls 

ter. Television footage showed 

Ahmadinejad accompanying 

Mashaei as he submitted 

his papers.“Mashaei means 

Ahmadinejad, and Ahmadinejad 

means Mashaei,” Ahmadinejad 

was quoted as saying. 

All candidates must be 

approved by the election overseers, 

known as the Guardian 

Council, to make it onto the 

ballot, and Mashaei’s role in a 

messy power struggle in recent 

years between Ahmadinejad and 

the Islamic establishment could 

lead to him being knocked out 

the race. 

Saudi changes 

air force chief 

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s king 

has replaced the commander of 

the kingdom’s air force. 

Crown Prince Salman 

received Lt-Gen Mohammed bin 

Abdullah Al Ayesh the day after 

King Abdullah issued a decree 

referring him to retirement. 

The prince also received his 

replacement as commander, 

Lt-Gen Fayyad bin Hamed bin 

Raqad. No reasons were given 

for the changes. 

Last month, the monarch 

relieved deputy defence minister 

Prince Khaled bin Sultan, who 

headed Arab coalition forces 

during the US-led Gulf War. 

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Exxon and Qatari firm 

in LNG export accord 

NEW YORK: Exxon Mobil 

and Qatar Petroleum have 

announced an agreement 

to ship liquefied natural 

gas (LNG) to Britain from 

their proposed export plant 

in the US, offering another 

supply stream to the country 

as domestic output 

dwindles. 

Under the deal, the companies 

would send up to 15.6 

million tonnes of LNG each 

year to their South Hook 

terminal in Wales from the 

Golden Pass plant in Texas, 

pending US government 

approval to build the plant 

and export LNG. 

The announcement comes 

at the end of a torrid winter 

in Britain which saw natural 

gas stocks fall to dangerously 

low levels, causing major price 

increases and calls for a more 

robust supply system. 

Britain has a number of LNG 

import terminals, but a lack of 

firm, long term supply deals 

makes it vulnerable to sudden 

shortages when shippers in the 

Middle East divert cargoes to 

higher paying markets in Asia, 

especially in winter. 

The South Hook terminal 

was underused during winter 

despite higher demand. 

Meanwhile, a drilling boom 

in the US has pushed production 

to record highs and pulled 

prices to decade lows, prompting 

a string of export project 

proposals. 

Golden Pass was originally 

built in 2010 to import LNG, 

but like a number of other terminals 

is now filing to export 

after sitting idle for nearly three 

years. 

Export approval relies largely 

on the outcome of a political 

debate in the United States 

about exporting its abundant 

resources overseas that opponents 

say would push fuel costs 

higher at home. 

Bahrain to host 

energy forum 

MANAMA: Bahrain will 

host the Energy Management 

Conference and Exhibition 

2013 from December 9 to 

11 at the Gulf Hotel, it was 

announced. 

The event is under the patronage 

of Finance Minister and the 

Minister in Charge of Oil and 

Gas Affairs Shaikh Ahmed bin 

Mohammed Al Khalifa. 

It will have the participation 

of National Oil and Gas 

Authority, Bahrain Society of 

Engineers and the Arabian Gulf 

University, Aramco, Finance 

Ministry and Tamkeen. 

n Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Hassan Fakhro yesterday confirmed the government’s interest in following up 

economic activities in Bahrain, expressing satisfaction over the surge in business in shopping malls and major markets. This 

came during an inspection visit to Seef Mall, Bahrain City Centre, Carrefour and Kempinski Hotel. 

Mumtalakat 

in new push 

to bolster 

transparency 

MANAMA: Bahrain Mumtalakat 

Holding Company, 

the investment arm of the 

kingdom, hosted a dinner for 

former heads of states and 

governments attending the 

31st annual plenary meeting 

of the InterAction Council in 

the kingdom. 

“This initiative is a continuity 

of the legal and regulatory 

reforms to create a free, open 

and transparent environment 

that will enable business 

in Bahrain to grow,” said 

Mumtalakat 

c h i e f 

executive 

Mahmood Al 

Kooheji. 

“ T h e 

InterAction 

Council has 

brought 

together 

governmentleaders, 

national n Mr Al Kooheji 

decisionmakers, 

international organisation 

heads and influential 

individuals from around the 

world since 1983, providing 

a tremendous platform 

to address global issues,” he 

said. 

Mr Al Kooheji said the 

council’s three priority areas 

are perfectly aligned with 

Bahrain’s global aspirations, 

which are peace and security, 

world economic revitalisation 

and universal ethical standards. 

“Mumtalakat is delighted 

to host this esteemed delegation 

at Capital Club Bahrain 

in addition to a number of 

boards members and chief 

executives of Mumtalakat’s 

portfolio companies in order 

to exchange experiences, discuss 

economic changes and 

developments on a global 

scale. 

“We would like to wish 

them a successful meeting 

and certainly the results of 

which will be reflected on 

the prosperity of the international 

community,” he 

said. 

Sharp boosting Samsung supplies 

TOKYO: Sharp Corporation, Japan’s 

leading maker of liquid crystal displays 

(LCDs), will rely on expanding supplies 

of small panels to Samsung Electronics 

Company while still shipping screens 

to rival Apple, in a bid to raise factory 

output levels and remain viable, sources 

said. 

In a midterm business plan it aims to 

release on Tuesday when it announces 

its latest earnings results, Sharp will 

set a goal of raising annual operating 

profit to $1.5 billion by March 2016 on 

revenue of $30bn. 

Japan’s TV pioneer avoided failure 

last year with a $4bn bailout from 

lenders including Mizuho Financial 

Group and Mitsubishi Financial Group. 

Sharp will borrow another 150bn yen 

($1.47bn) to help it repay a 200bn yen 

convertible bond due in September, 

sources said. 

Those banks will dispatch personnel 

to take up senior management positions 

at Sharp, including a financial officer, 

which will also reduce its number of 

directors by 12 people, the sources said. 

Sharp in October had to mortgage its 

offices and factories in Japan, including 

the one that makes screens for the Apple 

iPad and iPhone. It also had to agree 

to trim its workforce by 10,000 people 

and seek buyers for overseas assets 

including TV assembly plants in China, 

Malaysia and Mexico. 

Deepening its ties with Apple’s 

South Korean competitor, Samsung 

Electronics, comes as growth at Apple 

slackens and orders for screens slow. 

Analysts project profit growth at the 

smartphone pioneer to average less than 

5 per cent for the next decade compared 

with an average of 60pc over the past 

five years. 

Sharp, which at the start of the year 

was forced to curtail production of 9.7inch 

screens for Apple’s iPad, began 

limited panel fabrication for Apple’s 

next iPhone, with mass production slated 

to start in June, the sources said. 

Samsung Electronics in March said 

it would inject $103 million into Sharp 

in return for a 3pc stake in the Japanese 

company in a deal that secured it sup- 

plies of small LCD screens. Sharp, however, 

rejected a proposal by Samsung to 

buy its copier and printer business. 

Sharp raised additional cash by agreeing 

in December to sell an equity stake 

to mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, for 

$120 million. The two companies also 

agreed to cooperate in developing new 

screens based on Sharp’s low power 

consumption IGZO panel technology. 

The Japanese company will also try to 

expand sales of household appliances in 

Southeast Asia. 

Sharp will likely report a 500bn 

yen net loss for the year ended March 

31, sources earlier said, worse than 

the 450bn yen deficit it forecast in 

November.


n Dr Fakhro with BCCI officials 

NBB expands branch network 

MANAMA: National Bank of 

Bahrain (NBB) has opened its 

26th branch in the kingdom. 

The new branch at Bukowarah in 

Riffa area further reinforces NBB’s 

position as the bank with the largest 

branch network in Bahrain. 

“The opening of this new NBB 

branch marks an important chapter in 

the continuing progress of the bank 

as a leading provider of banking 

services in the kingdom,” said chief 

Cleveland Clinic 

Abu Dhabi 

executive Abdul Razak Al Qassim. 

“As the oldest local bank, this 

opening reiterates our strong commitment 

to customers in ensuring 

that they have a more convenient 

and pleasurable banking experience 

with NBB. 

“NBB has always endeavoured 

to take banking services to where 

our customers are located,” he 

said. 

“This new branch at Bukowarah 

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and is an integral part of our strategy 

which aims to increase the 

bank’s footprint.” 

Mr Al Qassim said NBB’s 

policy has always been based on 

the commitment to provide the 

best and most convenient banking 

services and facilities all over the 

kingdom. 

“Consequently, the bank has 

undertaken many changes and 

improvements in its premises and 

branches over the past few years. 

“The new NBB branch at 

Bukowarah will serve a wider 

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Healthcare 

Training centre 

to be set up 

at Beit Al Tijjar 

MANAMA: A training centre 

is to be set up at Beit Al Tijjar 

in co-operation with Bahrain 

Polytechnic. 

Bahrain Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry 

chairman Dr Essam Fakhro 

yesterday discussed progress 

with the polytechnic’s board 

of trustees’ chairman Shaikh 

Hisham bin Abdulaziz Al 

Khalifa. 

BCCI treasurer Othman 

Sharif Al Rayyes and board 

members Jawad Al Hawaj 

and Khalid Al Amin attended 

the meeting. 

BCCI chief executive 

Nabeel bin Abdulrahman 

Al Mahmoud and Bahrain 

Polytechnic chief executive 

officer Dr Mohammed Al 

Assiri were also present. 

Dr Fakhro stressed the 

need for academic syllabi to 

be in tune with Bahrain’s 

future economic development 

orientations, expressing the 

hope that the planned centre 

would promote human 

resources. 

King Khalid Medical City 

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


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CHINA (Yuan) 0.061100 0.0611 

DENMARK 0.0687 - 

EGYPT (Pound) 0.0538 0.0549 

EUROPEAN UNION (Euro) 0.4980 0.4599 

HONG KONG (Dollar) 0.04980 0.04940 

INDIA (Rupee) 0.00708 0.00701 

INDONESIA (Rupiah) 0.00004026 0.00039410 

IRAN (Tuman) 0.00021957 - 

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JAPAN (Yen) 0.003870 0.003800 

JORDAN (Dinar) 0.5353 0.5350 

KOREA (Won) 0.00039184 

KUWAIT (Dinar) 1.3300 1.332 

MALAYSIA (Ringgit) 0.128300 0.1283 

NEW ZEALAND (Dollar) 0.3179 0.3169 

NORWAY (Krone) 0.0671 - 

N.Yemen - - 

NEPAL (Rupee) 0.00457 0.00439 

OMAN (Riyal) 0.98000 0.98300 

PAKISTAN (Rupee) 0.00398 0.00385 

PHILIPPINES (Peso) 0.00953 0.00920 

QATAR (Riyal) 0.10379 0.10374 

SAUDI ARABIA (Riyal) 0.10062 0.10065 

SINGAPORE 0.3083 0.3073 

SOUTH AFRICA (Rand) 0.04360 0.04350 

SRI LANKA (Rupee) 0.00330 0.00299 

SWEDEN (Krona) 0.0601 - 

SWITZERLAND (Franc) 0.4028 0.3998 

SYRIA (Pound) 0.004360 

TAIWAN (Dollar) 0.013300 - 

THAILAND (Baht) 0.012990 0.012890 

TURKEY (Lira) 0.2170 - 

UK (Sterling) 0.5885 0.5860 

UAE (Dirham) 0.102800 0.102800 

USA (Dollar) 0.37800 0.37800 

For firm rates or for currencies not listed above please call Bahrain 

Financing Company. Telephone: 17228888. 

Gulf Interbank Rates 

1 US$ 1 UK Stg 1 SFR 100 Yen 

BAHRAIN 0.3770 0.5874 0.4043 0.3824 

KUWAIT 0.2855 28.1503 0.3062 0.2896 

OMAN 0.3849 0.3589 0.4128 0.3904 

QATAR 3.6420 3.3962 3.9056 3.6937 

UAE 3.6730 3.4251 3.9389 3.7252 

SAUDI 3.7500 3.4969 4.0214 3.8032 

GOLD 

Gold bars Selling 

Rates are in Bahrain Dinars 

8gm coin 22k 140.500 

8gm coin 21k 133.500 

1gm (24 carat) 21.000 

2.5gm 48.500 

5gm 93.000 

10gm 182.750 

20gm 356.000 

50gm 889.000 

100gm 1,773.500 

1 ounce 553.000 

1 tola 210.500 

5 tola 1,033.000 

10 tola 2,063.500 

1kg 17,619.500 

1kg silver 327.500 

1/2kg silver 165.000 

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NEW YORK: With the Dow and the S&P 500 

setting another string of record closing highs 

this week, the old Wall Street adage “Sell in 

May and Go Away” is starting to look weak. 

Closing out the second week of May, the 

Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 2.3 per cent 

for the month. 

For the year, the benchmark S&P 500 is up 

a stunning 14.6pc. 

Some analysts say that when the market 

starts off this strong, it tends to keep the 

upward momentum going until the end of the 

year. 

“Instead of ‘Sell in May and Go Away,’ we 

may be setting up for a surprise May rally,” 

said Schaeffer’s Investment Research senior 

technical analyst Ryan Detrick. 

“What’s encouraging is that small-cap 

stocks have been outperforming the market 

recently. It’s a sign that the market is going for 

even the riskiest sectors.” 

Both the Dow Industrials and the S&P 500 

topped major milestones for the first time in 

early May, with the Dow Jones industrial average 

surpassing 15,000 and the S&P 500 breaking 

through the 1,600 mark. Since then, the 

indexes have been steadily holding above the 

landmark levels. The Nasdaq Composite Index 

has climbed to the highest closing levels in 

12-1/2 years. 

In a sign of the rally’s breadth, the Russell 

2000 index of mid- and small-cap stocks also 

hit all-time highs recently. 

Technical analysts say the next level to 

watch would be 1,660 on the S&P 500. 

“The main question is whether the bulls can 

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Surprise May rally on cards? 

maintain the 1,600 level on the S&P 500 for The S&P financial sector index is up about 

another week,” said PrinceRidge Group techni- 2pc for the month, while the S&P information 

cal analyst Ari Wald. 

technology sector is up about 3pc. 

“If it does, the next level is 1,660. But with For some perspective, the tech sector has a 

markets already this high, it won’t be easy.” way to go, when compared with defensive sec- 

Despite lingering concerns about a technical tors like utilities. The S&P utility sector index 

pullback, the market’s strong performance so is up more than 13pc for the year, while the 

far this year has also increased the chances of S&P info tech sector index is up less than 8pc. 

equities rallying throughout the year, according The American consumer will get Wall 

to some analysts. 

Street’s attention next week when a raft of 

“With the market up so much, can it contin- economic data and retailers’ earnings could 

ue to make gains over the next seven months shed some light on whether they shopped for 

through year end? At least based on history, it more than just the bare necessities. 

has a better chance of continuing higher during Retail sales for April will be released tomor- 

strong years than when it is not up significantrow by the US Commerce Department. 

ly,” Bespoke Investment Group 

“It (retail sales) will be a chance 

analysts wrote in a note to cli- 

to look at the real picture after 

ents. 

weak numbers last month on 

Bespoke noted that this year WEEK AHEAD sequestration and other (external) 

is only the 11th-best start to a 

factors,” said ING US Investment 

year since 1991, 1991, when the index gained another Management market strategist Karyn 

9.7pc for the rest of the year. 

Cavanaugh. 

If 2013 plays out like that – with another “The market is driven by good fundamentals 

9.7pc gain in store for the S&P 500 - the broad from corporate earnings, but it’s really the 

index would finish the year up a whopping consumers that take up 70 percent of our 

24.3pc. 

economy. They are a real game changer.” 

Among recent gainers, sectors closely tied to Other economic data on tap includes April 

economic growth such as technology and import and export prices on Tuesday, followed 

financial stocks have been catching up after on Wednesday by the US Producer Price Index 

lagging for most of the year. 

for April, the Empire State Index for May, 

“We are seeing the once beaten-down stocks industrial production and capacity utilisation 

making a comeback,” Wald said. 

for April, and the National Association of 

“It’s been sort of a rotation of leadership that Home Builders Index for May. 

has been taking place for a month or so. It will On Thursday, the economic agenda includes 

be interesting to see if this can last” into next the US Consumer Price index for April, housing 

week. 

starts for April, weekly jobless claims and the 

Philadelphia Fed’s survey for May. 

Wall Street will get a look at consumer 

sentiment on Friday, when the 

Thomson Reuters/University of 

Michigan Surveys of Consumers will 

release its preliminary reading for 

May. 

On the earnings front, a number of 

retailers are scheduled to report 

results, including Macy’s on 

Wednesday. Results from JC Penney 

Company, Nordstrom, Kohl’s 

Corporation and Wal-Mart are 

expected on Thursday. 

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G7 agrees to speed 

up banking reforms 

AYLESBURY, England: Group of 

Seven (G7) finance officials yesterday 

agreed to press on with measures to 

deal with failing banks and gave a 

green light to Japan’s efforts to galvanise 

its economy. 

British finance minister George Osborne 

said the finance ministers and central bankers 

meeting outside London focused on 

unfinished banking reforms. 

The emergency rescue of Cyprus in 

March acted as a reminder of the need to 

finish an overhaul of the banking sector, 

five years after the world financial crisis 

began. 

“It is important to complete swiftly 

MTI renews 

Indian Oil 

contract 

MANAMA: Indian Oil, one 

of the sub-continents largest 

corporations, has retained the 

services of Bahrain-based MTI 

Consulting to carry out a study 

of the fast emerging Myanmar 

and Indonesian markets. 

“One of our strategic pursuits 

is to develop exports, given 

our international capabilities in 

the lube business,” said Indian 

Oil managing director Subodh 

Dakwale. 

“We see emerging markets 

in the Mekong valley and South 

East Asia as prime prospects. 

We look forward to the benefits 

of working with MTI who have 

impressive credentials across emerging markets” 

MTI Consulting has worked on assignments 

across emerging markets in Asian, Middle East 

and African regions, which includes projects 

carried for multi-national and regional companies 

in Algeria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, 

our work to ensure 

that no banks are too 

big to fail,” Osborne 

said after hosting a 

two-day meeting in 

a stately home 65km 

outside London. 

“We must put 

regimes in place ... 

to deal with failing 

banks and to protect 

taxpayers and to do 

so in a globally consistent 

manner,” he said. 

n Osborne 

Germany has previously come under 

pressure to give more support to a banking 

union in the euro zone. The plan could 

Egypt, Indonesia, Jordon, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, 

Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and 

Syria. 

Indian Oil Corporation is one of India’s largest 

companies by sales $85.55 billion and a profit 

of $825 million for the year 2011-12. 

Bank plans backing for 

small Europe businesses 

ISTANBUL: The European 

Bank for Reconstruction and 

Development (EBRD) is considering 

ways to help small 

businesses in emerging Europe, 

including through direct lending, 

as the region suffers lacklustre 

growth, its president said 

yesterday. 

The European Central Bank 

and the International Monetary 

Fund have also expressed concern 

about the reluctance of 

banks to lend, so delaying a 

longed-for recovery in Europe. 

EBRD president Suma 

Chakrabarti said following the 

bank’s annual meeting that it 

was a question of: “How to 

do more (for small and medium-sized 

enterprises) in a way 

n Mr Dakwale with MTI Consulting chief executive Hilmy Cader 

that maximises job impact and 

growth. What’s the right balance 

... do we go through the 

banks more or do we do a more 

direct approach?” 

The bank slashed its 2013 

growth forecast on Friday 

for its emerging Europe and 

North Africa region by almost 

a percentage point, to 2.2 per 

cent. 

The European Investment 

Bank, whose president took 

part in panel discussions at the 

EBRD meeting, has also said 

it plans to lend more to small 

business. 

Banks across Europe have 

plenty of cash but are reluctant 

to lend it because of caution 

following the global financial 

crisis, along with increased 

regulation. 

“Liquidity of the banking 

sector is in good shape in principle 

but the credit channels 

do not work in full capacity 

because of the lack of demand 

with good quality from credible 

borrowers,” Russian deputy 

finance minister Sergei 

Storchak said at the meeting. 

Direct lending has risen to 

fill the bank lending gap, but 

this can also carry greater risks, 

Chakrabarti said, as lenders 

need to be very familiar with 

their countries and sectors. 

Non-performing loans are 

also a growing concern, the 

Bank’s chief economist Erik 

Berglof said. 

help strengthen the single currency area, 

but Berlin worries it may pay too much 

for future bank bailouts if it signs up to a 

scheme to wind up failing banks. 

As at previous international meetings, 

Japan escaped any censure for printing 

money on a scale that has pushed the yen 

sharply lower. 

Osborne said the G7 – the US, Germany, 

Japan, Britain, Italy, France and Canada – 

reaffirmed that fiscal and monetary policy 

should be aimed at domestic concerns, not 

currency manipulation. 

“We will not target exchange rates,” 

Osborne said at the end of the meeting at 

the 17th-century Hartwell House. “I would 

say that the statement by the G7 of earlier 

this year was a successful statement 

and one that has been 

held to.” 

Some countries are concerned 

Tokyo is engineering an 

export-led recovery that could 

hinder other regions’ ability to 

grow. 

The yen hit a four-year low 

against the dollar on Friday, 

beyond the psychologically 

important 100 yen mark, driven 

in part by Japanese investors 

shifting into foreign bonds, a 

move that had been expected 

since the Bank of Japan 

unveiled a massive stimulus 

plan. 

But having urged Tokyo for 

years to do something to revive 

its economy, other world powers 

are not in a strong position 

to complain now that it is 

doing so. Then there is the fact 

that central banks such as the 

Federal Reserve and Bank of 

England have printed money in 

the way the Bank of Japan is. 

Debate has also heated up 

about the need for governments 

to ease up on austerity, something 

Germany, Britain and 

Canada view as a mistake but 

Washington, Paris and Rome 

are in favour of. 

Osborne said there was less 

disagreement about whether 

governments should focus on 

debt-cutting or growth-boosting 

measures than is commonly 

assumed. 

“Everyone is clear that there 

needs to be credible mediumterm 

fiscal consolidation ... We 

also agreed that there needs to 

be flexibility,” he said. 

Several officials from visiting 

delegations questioned why 

Britain had called the meeting 

so soon after the International 

Monetary Fund discussions 

in Washington but Bank of 

England governor Mervyn 

King said the informal nature 

of the discussions had paid 

dividends. 

“Freed from burden to agree 

a communique, the principals 

engaged more with each than I 

can recall before and as a result 

genuinely made real progress 

in taking forward some of the 

question and issues that are facing 

the G7,” he said. 



Prepaid debit 

cards – a weak 

link to security 

NEW YORK: A brazen gang 

of cyber criminals, who stole 

$45 million from bank ATMs 

in 27 countries, exposes an 

Achilles heel in the global 

financial industry: prepaid 

debit cards. 

Cyber security experts and 

industry analysts say the burgeoning 

use of prepaid debit 

cards for everything from gift 

certificates to disaster relief 

handouts is making it easier 

for hackers to withdraw large 

amounts of money before 

detection. 

Prepaid cards have fewer 

controls on them than on 

regular credit and debit 

cards issued by banks. Each 

prepaid card issued is like 

a blank slate: anonymous, 

new, and lacking 

any credit 

history or individualbehaviour 

pattern 

against which 

bankers and 

payment processors 

can 

measure activity 

to look for 

red flags. 

They are 

also easier to 

hack. Raising 

a withdrawal 

limit on a 

prepaid card 

involves hacking 

into a system 

at a thirdparty 

payment 

processor, a 

company that 

is generally 

smaller than 

a bank and, if 

based outside 

the US, potentiallysubject 

to looser 

cyber security 

standards. 

“It’s usually 

prepaid 

debit cards. 

That’s the card of choice in 

this. The bad guys know the 

system and they have been 

able to exploit it,” said Joe 

Petro, a managing director at 

Promontory Financial Group, 

who worked for 20 years as 

the head of fraud prevention 

and investigations for 

Citigroup. “The vulnerability 

stems from third-party processors, 

who may not have 

the same level of security 

systems that banks are able 

to have,” he added. 

In a globally co-ordinated 

campaign, hackers broke 

into two unidentified payment 

processing companies 

that handled the prepaid 

debit cards for two Middle 

Eastern banks, US prosecutors 

said. 

Once inside the computer 

networks, they increased 

the available balance and 

withdrawal limits on prepaid 

MasterCard debit cards 

issued by Bank of Muscat 

of Oman and National Bank 

of Ras Al Khaimah PSC of 

the UAE. 

The criminal ring’s opera- 

E-payment 

safety vow 

MANAMA: The Bahrain 

Association of Banks (BAB) 

yesterday announced that it 

encourages its members whether 

as issuers, acquirers or processors 

to implement best practices 

for detecting and preventing 

e-payment fraud. 

The BAB made the statement 

in the wake of the disclosure of 

a massive bank fraud carried out 

against Bank Muscat in Oman 

and the National Bank of Ras Al 

Khaimah. 

The fraud involved computer 

hackers breaking into a 

MasterCard operation and 

increasing credit levels on cards 

and then using fake cards to withdraw 

money from ATM machines 

in 27 different countries. To that 

end BAB are holding a workshop 

this Thursday at the Gulf Hotel in 

co-operation with Alaric entitled 

“Fraud Trends in the Financial 

Sector” to which all its members 

are invited. 

tives then fanned out around 

the world and used fraudulent 

prepaid cards to withdraw 

money from thousands 

of ATMs. The global scope 

and speed of the theft was 

unprecedented. In the case 

of Bank of Muscat, $40m was 

stolen in just over 10 hours. 

Experts said the use of 

prepaid debit cards, instead 

of credit cards, was not 

accidental. Credit cards 

are attached to individuals 

whose spending habits over 

time give banks and credit 

card companies clear patterns 

they can use when 

trying to identify unusual or 

illicit activity. 

A thief moving from ATM 

to ATM with a personal credit 

card would 

likely quickly 

raise alarms, 

because 

his or her 

behaviour 

would look 

out of place 

compared 

with the 

credit card 

user’s normal 

activity. 

“ T h e 

banks are 

using stateof-the 

art 

defences, 

but the more 

sophisticated 

actors 

are able to 

breach their 

networks,” 

said Shawn 

H e n r y , 

former head 

of cyber 

crime investigations 

at 

the FBI, now 

president of 

professional 

services at 

security firm 

CrowdStrike. 

While the $45m swindle is 

one of the largest ever, security 

experts say banks deal 

with similar, albeit smaller, 

thefts regularly. 

By 2013, the amount of 

money that was placed onto 

reloadable prepaid cards 

reached about $201.9 billion 

from $28.6bn in 2009, 

according to a report by 

Mercator Advisory Group. 

For more than a decade, 

banks have been required 

by US law to ensure their 

electronic systems and those 

used by their outside contractors 

meet certain safety 

requirement. US banks using 

payment processors must 

have a contractual agreement 

that states the payment 

processor is meeting 

the same security standards 

the bank does. 

The problem, said an 

expert, is that US-based 

banks, don’t always find it 

easy to ensure that what is 

agreed in the contract with 

an overseas payment processor 

is really being implemented.

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18.00 Insane Coasters Wars 

18.30 Insane Coasters Wars 



21.00 Out Of Country 

21.30 Armed & Ready 

22.00 Middle Kingdom Ride 

22.30 Piha Rescue 


00.05 Write On; 00.15 Britain Today; 00.30 Music 

Review; 01.00 Newsdesk; 01.30 Health Matters; 

01.45 Sports Roundup; 02.00 News; 02.05 Science 

View; 02.10 Performance; 02.15 Pop Short; 02.30 In 

Praise Of God; 03.00 Newsdesk; 03.30 Westway 

Access; 03.45 Britain Today; 04.00 Newsdesk; 04.30 

Pick Of The World; 05.00 Newsday; 05.30 Meridian 

Feature. 

VOICE OF AMERICA 

03.00 Preview; 05.01 World News; 07.06 World 

News in Depth; 09.10 Regional News; 11.14 U.S. 

News; 13.18 Sports;15.22 U.S. Feature; 17.28 

Station Break; 19.30 Preview; 21.31 World News; 

23.36 Encounter; 01.45 Science / Medicine / 

Environment; 01.49 Business News; 01.53 Features; 

01.58 Station Break. 

104.2 YOUR FM 

06.00-09.00 (Morning Drive) Show with Hemang 

and Nyssha; 10.00-12.00 (Mid-Day Masala) show 

with Moushmi; 12.00-16.00 (Kerala Kauseway) 

show with Appunni and Aiswarya; 16.00-20.00 

(Chillax Evenings) show with Ahad and Moushmi; 

20.00-22.00 (Time Machine) show with Yashpal. 


07.00 WWE Bottom Line 

08.00 WWE Experience 

09.00 WWE This Week 

09.30 Mobil 1 The Grid 

10.00 Live Prague Marathon 

13.00 European Le Mans 

Series 

14.00 NHL 

16.00 WWE SmackDown 

18.00 UFC TUF Prelims 

20.00 UFC TUF Finale 

23.00 NHL 

01.00 UAE National Race Day 

Series 

02.00 European Le Mans 

Series 

03.00 UIM Powerboat 

Champs 

03.30 UIM Aquabike Champs 

04.00 US Bass Fishing 

05.00 NHL 

00.00 It’s A Woman’s World 

01.00 People Of The Sea 


03.00 Dangerous Grounds 

04.00 Inside Luxury Travel - 

Varun Sharma 


06.05 How Machines Work 

06.35 How Machines Work 

07.00 Wheeler Dealers 

07.50 Wheeler Dealers:Trading 

Up 

08.45 Fifth Gear 

09.40 Gold Rush - Season 3 

Specials 

10.30 Jungle Gold 

11.25 One Car Too Far 

12.20 How It’s Made 





14.35 Auction Kings 





16.55 Border Security 





19.10 Soul Food Family 

20.05 Magic Of Science 

20.35 Magic Of Science 

21.00 You Have Been Warned 

21.55 Strip The City 

22.50 Countdown To Collision 








06.00 [V] Special 


08.00 VCD 








16.00 VCD 














06.35 Cesar Millan’s Leader of 

the Pack - When Harry 

Met Cesar 

07.30 Dog Whisperer - Bull- 

Whipped 

08.25 Unlikely Animal Friends - 

Dogs Gone Wild 

09.20 Best of Hard Time - 

Predator and Prey 

10.15 Breakout - Tunnel Break 

11.10 Hooked - Fish Gone Wild 

12.05 Mudcats - Big Fish Big 

Bucks 

13.00 Cesar Millan’s Leader of 

the Pack - When Harry 

Met Cesar 

14.00 Dog Whisperer - Bull- 

Whipped 

15.00 Mega Food - The World’s 

Biggest Cruise Ship 

16.00 Malaysia From Below 

17.00 That Shouldn’t Fly 

18.00 UFOs:The Untold Stories 

- UFOs:The Untold 

Stories 

19.00 Is It Real? (1 hour) - UFOs 





23.00 UFOs:The Untold Stories 

- UFOs:The Untold 

Stories 

00.00 Is It Real? (1 hour) - UFOs 

01.00 Locked Up Abroad - 

Teenage Drug Smuggler 





04.45 Predator CSI - Zombie 

Alligators 

05.40 The Living Edens - Manu: 

Peru Hidden Rainforest 

06.00 Kid Vs Kat 

06.20 Kick Buttowski 

06.45 Pokemon Dp: Sinnoh 

League Victors 

07.10 Iron Man: Armoured 

Adventures 

07.35 Phineas & Ferb 


08.25 Suite Life On Deck S3 

08.50 Pair Of Kings 


09.40 Rekkit Rabbit 

10.05 Zeke & Luther 


10.55 I’m In The Band 

11.20 The Super Hero Squad 

Show 

11.45 The Suite Life Of Zack & 

Cody 

12.10 Kid Vs Kat 

12.35 American Dragon 

13.00 Pokemon Movie: 

Zoroark Master Of 

Illusions (Cema) 


15.00 Pair Of Kings 



16.15 Rekkit Rabbit 


17.05 The Suite Life Of Zack & 

Cody 

17.30 Pokemon Dp: Sinnoh 

League Victors 




19.10 The Avengers: Earths 

Mightiest Heroes 

19.35 The Avengers: Earths 

Mightiest Heroes 

20.00 New Spiderman 



21.15 Aaron Stone 

21.40 American Dragon 


22.20 I’m In The Band

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17299110 

17293131 

E-mail: classifieds@tradearabia.net 

Classified 

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Lineage: 

300 fils per word 

per day (Minimum 

10 words) 

Announcements 

CLEARANCE 

SALE 

UP TO 80% 

DISCOUNT 

On 

Pronovias 

Bridal 

Dresses from 

BD 150.000 

Ladies Designer’s Collection 

At 

SAMAR HAVEN 

FASHION 

Alisar Building 

Opp. Modern Dental 

Laboratory, Behind Ashraf. 

Bldg-763, Block-318, Road – 

1809 Hoora 

Tel - 17532073 

Timing – 10.00am – 2.00pm 

& 4.00pm – 8.00pm 

Fax: 17293400 

Display B&W: 

BD7/- per single 

column 

(Minimum 3cms) 

Display Colour: 

BD13/- per single 

column centimetre 

(Minimum 30cms) 

Series discount: 

Four for the price 

of Three, consecutive 

(unchanged) 

Deadlines: 

Lineage 11am 

Display 9am 

Cancellations 1pm 

Working Hours: 

Sunday to Thursday 

8am - 6pm 

Saturday 8am-2pm 

MICROSOFT OFFICE, 

Computer Applications, C 

Programming, C++, JAVA, 

Oracle @ GLOBAL INSTI- 

TUTE Tel. 33909404 

IGCSE (O Level - AS Level) 

preparatory classes at 

Storage 

GLOBAL INSTITUTE 

Contact 39032824 

. 

Machinery 

Beauty 

Satellite 

Cars 

ARABIC CONVERSA- 

TION summer school- Get 

early discount then get talking! 

Tel: 17590895, 

39102297 

POWER GENERATORS 

rental, repair, parts, buying 

& selling, new/ used, from 

2- 2500KVA, Power Land. 

Tel. 17140088, 39467745 

JOZ BEAUTY SALON & 

SPA, for all latest hair, 

Beauty & Spa Services, 

Juffair villa- 17369133, 

Awali- 17756449, Dragon 

DREAMBOX 800SE HD 

hitech wireless internet. 

Fixing/ repairing all satellites- 

single/ central. Tel. 

33166445. 

Resort Amwaj- 16031120 40 RUSSIAN Channels 

TROUBLE SLEEPING, BD120/-; 35 Chinese 

feeling drowsy the following BD75/-; 20 Bengali BD55/-; 

day? Exercise at The Filipino BD75/- Tel. 

Country Club, Nautilus 39031857 

gyms, open 24 hours. Visit 50 INDIAN Channels (no BMW 535i, 2011, white, 

Computers 

Leisure Class 

us. Nadia, Tel. 17593593 

for appointment to see the 

club 

monthly charge) movies, 

news, music, sports, news 

BD65/- Tel. 39031857 

34000kms, single owner. 

Call: 36448224 

BMW 740LI 2006, excel- 

Education 

DATA RECOVERY Specialists 

for Laptops, desktops, 

servers, cameras. Tel. 

TECHNOSERV 39609876 

HIP-HOP, Street Jazz, Ballet, 

Tap, Modern classes 

held in Marina Club, 

Budaiya & Riffa Golf Club. 

BAHRAIN BALLET CEN- 

TRE Tel. 17693232 

lent condition & fully 

loaded, 153000kms, full 

insurance, BD7500/- Tel. 

33514655 

BMW X5 3.0 Si, M-Design 

2010, 58200km, black top 

condition, warranty until 

6/2015, insurance, 

For Sale 

Car-Hire 

BD14750/- Tel. 39601560 

CHERY TIGGO 2.0L Auto- 

ICM UK Diplomas: HRM, 

BMA, Advertising, Marketing, 

IT. Contact Dr. Jojo 35592496 

gulfacademy@gmail.com 

CIPD QUALIFICATIONS 

Level (7). Victory Training 

Institute is honoured to offer 

for the first time in Bahrain 

& GCC the CIPD Qualifications 

(HRM/ HRD) level (7). 

The programme is supported 

financially by Tamkeen 

(TPCS) and MOL/ Specific 

Council (Levy). For more 

Change of Name 

I, WARIS ALI BURAKT ALI 

holding Pakistani Passport 

No.B5861894, CPR 

No.550108955 will now be 

known as Waris Barkat 

Aladad 

Music 

BAHRAIN MUSIC INSTI- 

TUTE- Morning + evening 

classes, all ages, attractive 

fees. Tel. 17721999. 

Pets 

DOGFATHER FOR professional 

grooming, all proceeds 

go to rescued animals. 

Tel: Tony 39629889 

SAAR KENNELS - Dog/ 

cat boarding, dog grooming. 

Call Frieda 17792064 

Business 

Opportunities 

RESTAURANT FOR Sale 

in The Lagoon, Amwaj with 

complete furniture and 

kitchen equipment. Call 

17104740. 

COLLECTOR’S ITEMS 

only for sale. Contact 

39140653 to view. Exhibition 

Road, next to Semiramis 

Hotel. 

BUYING & SELLING office/ 

household furniture, bedroom, 

sofas, fridges, cookers/ 

W/machines, ACs. ARABIAN 

GULF AUCTION W.L.L, 

Tel. 17273726, 33322278, 

arabiangulfauction@gmail 

.com 

SCHOOL FURNITURE, 

Office furniture, sofas, 

beds, cupboards & chairs. 

MANAMA AUCTIONS Tel. 

17274067, 17402441 

OFFICE & HOME furniture, 

ACs, freezer, W/machine, 

fridges, cooker, pool table, 

etc, GULF AUCTIONS 

W.L.L. Tel. 17727011, email: 

gulfauctions@gmail.com 

DOHA AL-MUFTAH CAR 

RENTAL, Dana Mall. New 

cars and 4x2 / 4x4 Toyota 

Pick-ups available. Email: 

rac@rentacarbahrain.com; 

www.rentacarbahrain.com 

Tel. 66331234, 17179190, 

66339190 

ELITE CAR RENTAL. 

Exhibition Tel. 17311883, 

Adliya Tel. 17714484. 

Juffair Tel. 17728202, 

Airport Tel. 17329299. 

Riffa 17770147, 

www.elitehiring.com 

TOORANCO RENT-A- 

CAR, Juffair. Latest 

models, D/cabin pick-up, 

door-to-door delivery Tel. 

17728998, 17727771; 

www.tooranco.com 

WE RENT-A-CAR: Available 

2013 model vehicles, 

sedan, 4x4, Previa, Lexus 

LS460. Long & short term 

lease. For details please 

contact. Tel. 17001214, 

17242181 

TRANSGULF CAR 

matic, 139HP, SUV, 2012, 

5914kms, white, full option, 

sunroof, 5 seater, manufacturer 

warranty till May 

2015, excellent condition. 

BD3900/- Te: 36320668 

CITROEN C4 Aircross, 2.0L 

SUV 2013, 3,332kms, 

4WD, Made in Japan, 

Brown, 5 seater, manufacturer 

warranty till December 


BD8500/- Tel: 39527484 

CITROEN DS3 1.6 Automatic, 

coupe, 2011, 

3,242kms, black, ABS, 

cruise control, manufacture 

warranty till October 2014, 

excellent condition. 

BD4500/- Tel: 39527484 


160HP, hatchback, 

2013, 1,100kms, white, 

ABS, 5 seater, manufacturer 

warranty till October 


BD6500/- Tel: 39527484 


160HP, Hatchback, 

2013, 1,136kms, full option, 

information call: 1740-4104 

ABU DHABI business 

RENTAL, best rate, best gray, 5 seater, manufactur- 

or email info@vtdi.net. Pro- 

setup, sponsorship, 

cars. 24 hours service. Tel: er warranty till March 2016, 

gramme start date: May 26, 

petroleum registration & 

17329303, 39737400 excellent condition. 

2013. Hurry & book your 

seat now! 

Dine-out 

departments approvals. 

Contact Ms. Jeeba Rijil 

Wanted 

DINARCAR RENTAL 

offers daily, monthly and 

BD8600/- Tel: 39527484 

LEXUS LS460L 2012, 

GRAPHIC DESIGNING, 

Web Designing, AutoCAD, 

3DMax, MAYA @ GLOBAL 

INSTITUTE, Contact 

33909404, irfan@global 

bahrain.com 

STUDY COMPUTER Hard- 

SAHAR RESTAURANT, 

Dinner Buffet (20 dishes) 

BD2/- Sunday, Monday, 

Tuesday (except holidays). 

Tel. 17725117, 36045111. 

EVERY MONDAY Try 

+971561933299, 

investment@plusuae.com, 

www.plusUAE.com 

BRANDNEW First Class 

Restaurant in Gudaibiya for 

sale. Tel: 39256742, 

33045860 

PLOTTER/ COPIER with 

scanner for sale. Description: 

Print from A3-A0 size. 

Make: OCE. Model: 940. 

Year: 2006. Interest party 

may contact on mobile no: 

long term, 2013 models. 

Tel. 36044344, 36044545. 

URBAN RENT-A-CAR at 

Seef Mall offers daily, 

monthly & long term car 

rentals, open 6 days a 

week. Tel: 37744473 

BMW 535i 2012; 740LI 

2011; X6 2010. Tel. 

17596626, 39457995 www 

.bahrainautoservices.com 

MERCEDES BENZ 308, 

Sprinter Van, 2005 model, 

46,000kms. Tel. 35348598 

ware, Advanced Network- SHADA RESTAURANT’S GDN Classifieds, the best 36090940, 39463872 Buying/selling Household NISSAN ALTIMA 2006, 

ing, Cisco CCNA (Prepara- special Thai/ Chinese buf- media to promote your Busi- Buying/selling used cars. items. Advertise in the red, 78,000kms, BD2600/tion) 

courses @ GLOBAL fet Lunch & Dinner ness. For details call Advertise in the GDN Clas- GDN Classifieds. Tel Tel. 36856824, serious 

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NISSAN TIIDA 2008, brown, 

fully automatic, excellent 

condition. Tel: 36977569 

PREVIA 2006, Lexus 2008 

single owner, for sale. Contact 

33415155 

RANGE ROVER 2010, 

63000km. Dodge Charger 

3.6L 2012 22000km. 

Escalade 2012 38000km. 

Cayenne 2008, 70000km. 

Panamera 4S 2010 30000km. 

Contact 17700773, 36666448 

RAV4 2012, 8200kms, 

agent maintained, excellent 

condition, BD8200/negotiable. 

Tel. 39666965 

SUBARU XV 2.0L, 150HP, 

2012, 2,904kms, 4WD, red 

pearl, 5 seater, manufacturer 

warranty till March 2015, 

excellent condition. 

BD6900/- Tel: 36320668 

V O L K S W A G E N 

TOUAREG, 2013, black, 

300kms. Contact: 39449898 

FOR SALE Vehicles by 

closing tender. Zayani 

OTIS, near AUB Bank, 

Sitra. Tel. 17738716 

GOOD CONDITION used 

cars like Pathfinder, GMC, 

Accord, Altima, Yaris, Tiida, 

for sale. Contact: Budget 

Car Rental (used car division) 

Tel. 39156482, 

39333107, 39400347. 

GULFSEA CARS W.L.L. 

Branded & used; sale/ 

exchange, loan available 

Tel. 17245674, 38329414, 

www.gulfseacarswll.com 

NEW NISSAN Sentra SL 

2013, Lancer 2013, 

Renault Duster 2014. Tel. 

17596626, 39457995 www 

.bahrainautoservices.com 

Services 

PEST CONTROL & Antitermite 

treatment - member 

NPMA (USA). NEW TECH 

36900435, 17246710 

VERMINEX Pest Control 

Professionals in Bahrain for 

32 years- the safest, government 

approved products 

used. Tel. 17280188 

www.verminexbahrain.com 

HOME CARE, General 

cleaning, carpet/ sofa shampooing 

& Housekeeping. 

Call: 17562400, 36994899 

REMOVAL SERVICES: 

Household, office furniture 

packing, moving, general 

cleaning, shampooing & 

pest control. AL-JAMEEL 

Tel: 36524300, 17292034 

MIC PEST CONTROL for 

cockroaches & bed bugs, 

guaranteed. Carpet/ Sofa 

cleaning. Tel. 39425995 

ALTAWFEEK CLEANING. 

Carpet, Upholstery shampooing, 

Floor Cleaning, 

Removals, Emptying Septic 

Tanks, Drainage Block Clearing, 

High Pressure Jetting, 

Skip/ Trash Disposal Services 

Tel. Toll-free: 80001130. 

ALTAWFEEK REMOVALS: 

Household, Office furniture. 

Free quotations. Experienced, 

professional packers 

Tel. Toll-free: 80001130. 

MARBLE RESTORATION: 

Grinding, leveling, filling & 

crystal finish polishing. NEW 

TECH 17246710, 36803399 

REMOVAL SERVICE - 

Household, Office Furniture 

packing Call NEW TECH 

Tel. 36900436, 17246710 

For 1st Class Service Call:17299110 / 17293131 

Now Online: www.gulf-daily-news.com 

24HRS CLEANING & Pest 

Control, Carpet Shampooing, 

Sofa, Cleaning, Marble 

Polishing Tel. 39697995, 

39239098 

PERFECT CLEANING, 

carpet/ sofa/ curtain shampooing 

specialist, tile/ marble 

polishing, maintenance, 

painting, waterproofing. 

Tel. 39622171, 33717930 

MRC PEST CONTROL 

destroys all pests. NPCA 

member, International 

standard. Tel. 17827128 

BASMA CLEANING specialising 

in sofas, carpets, 

rugs Tel. 17729172 

AL FATEH PEST CON- 

TROL. All kinds of Pest Control 

+ Anti termite treatment. 

Call 17830078, 36097327 

Al FATEH MEP & General 

cleaning services, all kinds 

of Mechanical, Electrical 

solution. Tel: 17830078, 

36097302 

ALOBAIDILY TOWERS 

Document Clearance. All 

kinds of documents, companies/ 

individual. Tel. 

36424239 Fax: 13682876 

MARB CLEANING & PEST 

CONTROL- flats, villas, 

offices. Daily/ monythly/ yearly 

contracts. Tel . 33554787. 

REMOVAL SERVICES 

Household/ office furniture 

packing, moving & general 

cleaning. ELITE PALACE 

Tel. 39728060, 36655213 

JOZ CLEANING & MAINTE- 

NANCE. General cleaning, 

glass cleaning, carpet shampooing 

and marble polishing. 

Tel. 17223423, 39290632. 

EXPRESS CLEANING, 

carpet/ sofa shampooing. 

Marble/ tiles polishing. 

General cleaning. Tel. 

36694406, 39178552 

JAHIZ CLEANING Services 

provides maids per 

hour, transport provided. 

Tel: 17456344, 33330663, 

35390902 

BAHRAIN PEST CON- 

TROL. The Bugsluggers! 

Your pests deserve the best. 

Simon Barton. Tel. 17713408. 

Cargo 

PAN GULF LOGISTICS Co. 

WLL. For all your import/ 

export by sea/ air/ road/ LCL 

cargo/ packing & removals/ 

transports/ warehousing/ 

cargo to Sri Lanka (CMB/ 

Kandy/ Ampara). Contact: 

36097301, 36097304, 

36026411, 17813008 

DYNAMIC FREIGHT- International 

moving & freight 

forwarding, air/ sea/ road. 

For free estimation/ consultation 

Tel. 39672230, 

17295858 Patrick. 

WRITER RELOCATIONS 

your partner for packing, 

international & domestic relocation, 

commercial movement, 

storage, art handling. 

Tel: 39957123, 39958481 

HOMEPAC INTERNA- 

TIONAL local, GCC, 24hrs 

removals, dismantling, 

packing & fixing. Tel. 

17710250, 39488645, 

Qatar: +974-44181800, 

Dubai: +9714-2399883, 

Riyadh: +966-14721122, 

bahrain@homepac.com 

AL MULLA CARGO/ 

LOGISTICS Offers best 

rates worldwide air/ sea 

freight, import, export, 

packing, local & international 

removals, door-todoor. 

New office Tel. 

17811700 Fax: 17811707. 

FASTTRACK CARGO: 

Unbelievable price to India 

(sea & air), best service- 

GCC, supply boxes & packing 

materials. Tel. 

33028881, 33128881, 

bhfasttrack@gmail.com 

FIRSTFREIGHT INTERNA- 

TIONAL WLL for air/ sea/ 

land import, export, packing, 

removals, door to door, 374 

offices worldwide. Contact 

David 39642636, 

17217523, Biju 39875636 

CHOICE PACKERS & 

MOVERS. Professional 

packing, local & worldwide 

relocation, GCC transport, 

storage. Tel. 38352001 

BLUE NILE CARGO & 

PACKING local & Worldwide 

removals. Tel: 

17406044, 39334628 

Email: ashraf@bnc-bh.com 

ALLIED PICKFORDS for 

your move. Professional 

Packing/ Shipping of household 

effects/ vehicles by sea/ 

air worldwide. Special 

groupage rates to the UK. Airconditioned 

storage facility. 

Contact us today for a survey 

and good advice. Tel. 

17735355, 17731752, email: 

info@alliedpickfords.com.bh 

Notice 

Accommodation 

SHARING FLAT with 

Filipino family, inclusive 

electricity, Zinj near Kirby. 

Tel. 66332969 

SF ROOM inclusive 

electricity, Zinj near Kirby 

with Filipino. Tel. 36991138. 

Property Wanted 

ATTENTION LAND- 

LORDS! required apartments 

/ villas/ commercial 

space for rent or sale, list 

your properties with us as 

we have a huge client base. 

Tel: 39964645 

Property for Sale 

FLAT, AMWAJ Zawiya-3, 

1BR, 2 bathrooms, hall, 

BD83,000/- Tel. 39617070, 

33899555 

DREAM TOWER-1 luxury 

2BR apartment for sale, 

167sqm, high quality furniture, 

facilities included, 

rooftop pool, gym, sauna, 

BD85,000/-, negotiable, 

Tel. 34504327 - Sarah 

AMWAJ ZAWIA-3 brand 

new 2BR, 127sqm, balcony 

with facilities, BD85,000/-, 

negotiable, Tel. 34504327 - 

Sarah 

AMWAJ TALA Island, 1BR 

apartment for sale, 89sqm, 

BD65,000/-negotiable, Tel. 

34504327 - Sarah 

GDN Classifieds, the best 

media to advertise your 

business services. For 

more information on our 

series discounts and special 

monthly rates call 

17299110/ 17293131. 

Property for Rent 

ARAD FLAT, 2BR, 2 bathrooms, 

BD250/-; 1BR FF 

BD320/-, with seaview. Tel. 

33969612, 

PORTA REEF, 2BR, SF 

and FF apartments, 

BD600/- BD800/-. Tel: 

36715684 Coryn@CBRE 

www.bahrainproperty 

rentals.com 

OFFICES (Municipality 

address) BD100/- inclusive, 

at Maz Business Centre, 

Amwaj. Tel. 16030646, 

39990226 

NEW ZINJ 3BR SF villa, 

garden, garage, maid’s 

room, SF, BD550/- Tel. 

39640128 

SAAR, 4BR single storey 

compound villa, private 

green garden, BD850/inclusvie. 

Tel. 36623764 

HAMALA BREATHTAK- 

ING villas, modern interiors, 

big private pool, garden, 

attractive rent. Tel. 

33242525 

ADLIYA, JUFFAIR, Hoora, 

Mahooz, Umm Alhassam, 

1/2BR, SF, FF, UF, BD300/- 

-BD1000/-. Tel: 39468339 

SITRA, SALMABAD, 

Hidd, Riffa, Alba, Muharraq, 

Labour/ company & 

staff accommodation 50- 

1000 people. Tel: 

39468339 

MUHARRAQ, STAFF and 

Labour accommodation 

130 people, fully furnished 

inclusive BD4000/- Tel. 

33924229 

LABOUR ACCOMMODA- 

TION, Ras Ruman BD700/- 

, Salmaniya 2BR flat, 

BD230/-. Tel. 38365544. 

THE ADDRESS TOWER. 

Fully fitted Offices at Seef 

128sqm to 148sqm for rent 

from BD800/-. Please Call: 

17587997 or 39661331 for 

further details. 

TOWN QUIRKY 4BR lovely 

mature townhouse, pool, 

garaging, near shops, 

BD700/- SF. Mark 

36067011, PROJECTS & 

PROPERTIES Tel. 

17725772 


ONLY BD850/- Spacious 

3BR executive duplex 

C.AC semi furnished seaview 

apartment, facilities. 

Tel. 39457468 

IRIS BUSINESS CENTRE, 

Juffair at Business Bay 

17th floor offers fully 

equipped offices with all 

amenities, long & short 

term with registration of 

business activity, BD350/onwards. 

Tel. 17369478, 

39777526, 36898914, 

ali@iriswll.com 

www.carltonestate.com, 

Avare towers, Zawia 1/2 

luxury FF 2BR apartment, 

excellent facilities starting 

BD600/-. Call Marie 

36504411, 17292827, 

marie@carltonestate.com 

MAHOOZ 1/2/3BR FF 

BD250/-, BD400/-, BD500/- 

, Juffair 3BR SF, pool, 

BD400/-. Tel. 33485623 

BEST SELECTION of 

compounds, apartments, 

all areas. Contact: Laurence 

(English, French, 

Spanish speaker), Tel: 

36267380, laurence@ 

lbarealestate.com 

FOR RENT/ Sale, FF 2BR, 

BD500/-, unfurnished 

BD350/- near City Centre. 

Tel. 36686979 

UMM AL HASSAM: 2/3BR 

fully furnished flats BD380/onwards. 

Semi furnished 

BD230/- Tel. 39454968 

AMWAJ TALA 2BR apartment, 

best facilities + views, 

Sale BD120,000/-; Rent 

BD750/-. Tel. 39449229 

MANAMA NEAR Al Shifa 

2BR, 1 bathroom, SF, BD250/inclusive. 

Tel: 34457721, 

33005308, 34527481 

STAFF ACCOMMODA- 

TION FF, available for 100 

persons in Muharraq. Tel. 

39603703 

ADLIYA, HOORA, 1/2/3BR 

FF, BD325/- -BD450/- - 

BD550/- + facilities, villa 4BR 

BD1000/- Tel. 33405563 

BUDAIYA 2 x 3 bedroom 

villas in small secure green 

compound, swimming pool, 

tennis court. BD500/- inclusive. 

Purple Properties 

39629209, 39990939 

FURNISHED FULL Floor 

flat, swimming pool, balcony, 

good location Juffair. 

Tel 36661673, 33313733. 

www.apartmentsinbahrain 

.com 

1/2/3BR, DELUXE apartment, 

BD300/- BD400/- 

BD500/- Tel. 33313733, 

36661673. www.apart 

mentsinbahrain.com 

PARTY AREA, private 

swimming pool, barbeque, 

good location. Tel. 

33313733, 36555427. 

www.apartmentsinbahrain 

.com 

COMMERCIAL/ RESI- 

DENTIAL building Seef 

Area, 10 flats near Credi- 

Max. Tel: Owner: 

39655512, 33073115 

MEDITERRANEAN 

VILLA, Budaiya, 5BR, 

small compound, peaceful, 

pool, garden, sea, BD800/inclusive 

Tel. 33848884, 

www.latifgarden.com 

MAHOOZ: COMMERCIAL 

Villa 4BR SF BD800/- 

BD1250/- Adliya: Showroom 

BD1250/- BD5000/- 

Adliya/ Hoora/ Mahooz: 

Office 2/3BR BD300/- 

BD550/- Tel. 39456091, 

17293553. 

ADLIYA, MAHOOZ, compound 

villa, SF, FF, 

BD650/- -BD750/-, private 

pool, BD1000/- Tel. 

35543175 

6BR BEACH villa, private 

pool, garden, Amwaj for 

rent, BD2000/- DELMON 

ESTATE Tel. 36406688 

Lisa 

WAREHOUSE, OFFICE, 

land, villas, apartment, 

rent/ sale, Bahrain. Tel: 

39044943, 33837110. 

www.samsproperties.com 

2BR FF, modern brandnew 

furniture pool, gym, internet, 

Gudaibiya BD400/inclusive. 

Nanda 

36414399, 39605709

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Property for Rent 

Continued 

JASRA VILLA near Saudi 

Causeway, 3BR + maid’s 

room, 5 bathrooms, C.AC, 

pool, SF, BD800/- inclusive. 

Tel. 39603532 

ADLIYA, JUFFAIR, 

Mahooz, Zinj, 2, 3 & 4BR 

villas, semi & fully furnished 

with facilities from BD800/- 

, Tel. 34504327 - Sarah 

JUFFAIR LUXURY Apollo 

fully furnished 2/3BR flats. 

Tel. 39451452 

AMWAJ TALA Island, 2BR 

apartment, furnished, balcony 

with lovely views, 

BD575/-, exclusive Tel 

34504327 - Sarah 

NORTH SEHLA 2-storey 

3BR modern villa, secure 

compound, quiet environment, 

full maintenance, 

2min. to major highway 

(leading to causeway). 

BD800/- best value in town. 

Hurry! Tel. 39461414; 

sehla-villas.webs.com 

AMWAJ TALA Island, 

lovely 2BR apartment, FF, 

with seaview BD780/inclusive. 

Call owner 

39671007 

FLOATING CITY Amwaj 

3BR villa + maids room, 

fully furnished, lovely views 

with boat mooring 

BD1200/-, inclusive Tel. 

34504327 - Sarah 

BARBAR 3BR spacious 

villa, semi furnished, 3 

bathrooms, big hall, car 

park, maid’s room, garden 

and central AC. Tel. 

39452419 

Classified 

JUFFAIR DELUXE 2BR 

Duplex apartment, with 

facilities, semi furnished 

BD500/-, fully furnished 

BD600/-, inclusive, Tel. 

34504327 - Sarah 

AMWAJ BEAUTIFUL 2BR 

modern apartment, internet, 

satellite, pool, gym 

BD450/-. Tel. 36790090. 

TALA ISLAND, Amwaj, 1BR 

Apartment, fully furnished, 

large terrace, BD475/-, Tel. 

34504327 - Sarah 

SEEF 2BR flats, 2 bathrooms, 

near Dana Mall, FF, 

BD300/- inclusive. Tel: 

36137666, 33449006 

SALE- Meena7, 2BR flat, 3 

bathrooms, excellent facilities, 

100sqm, BD68,000. 

Tel: 33774747 / 35578600 

AMWAJ LUXURIOUS 

apartment 2BR, FF, pool, 

gym BD475/- inclusive. Tel. 

33020203 

SAAR COMPOUND & 

Mahooz villas; 3/4/5BR 

BD700/- - BD1200/-. 

Adliya, Hoora flats; 2/3BR 

BD350/-. Tel. 34003252 

FOR RENT villas, flats, 

stores and staff accommodation 

in good locations. 

Contact: 39692211 

SHOPS IN Sitra Industrial 

Area, 60sq.m. BD260/negotiable. 

Tel. 39165405 

OFFICES FOR rent in 

Salmabad Industrial Area, 

BD120/- Tel. 39165405 

LABOUR CAMP for rent on 

Sehla Highway, 13 flats, 50 

rooms, AC, bed, separate 

bathrooms, kitchen, big 

open yard. Tel: 39663546. 

AMWAJ LUXURY villa/ flat 

1-5 bedrooms BD450/- to 

BD2000/- seaview. Call 

77005076 

MAHOOZ, JUFFAIR, Saar, 

Seef 1-4 bedrooms flats/ 

villas BD350/- to BD1600/- 

Tel. 36541000 

LABOUR ACCOMMODA- 

TION, new project with all 

facilties, secured location. 

Tel. 39690307 

STUDIO FLATS, FF near 

King Hamad Hospital, 

Busaiteen. Contact: 

77144144, 38803252 

WAREHOUSE WITH mezzanine 

for rent, 717sq.m. 

@ Ras Zuwaid, Alba. Tel. 

17714639, 39434448 

JUFFAIR NEAR Aljazeera, 

1BR, very spacious, fully 

furnished apartments, dedicated 

parking, with all 

common facilities, BD490/monthly. 

Call LANDMARK 

BAHRAIN 17564600, 

Soma: 36465050 or email; 

info@landmarkbahrain.com 

TUBLI 5BR double storey 

villa + garden, very spacious 

BD1200/- inclusive. 

Tel. 77083888, 33445594 

COMMERCIAL VILLA, 

Mahooz 3BR BD800/-. Call 

77083888, 33445594 

SERENE-3 JUFFAIR near 

Aljazeera, 2BR, 2.5 bathrooms, 

furnished apartments. 

Close to all amenities, 

24 hour maintenance, 

BD399/-, inclusive of all the 

taxes. Call LANDMARK 

BAHRAIN, Soma:36465050 

SAAR, NEAR St.Christopher’s 

School, brandnew 

semi furnished 4BR double 

storied private villa with 

established garden, swimming 

pool and carpark, 

BD1350/- monthly. Call 

LANDMARK BAHRAIN 

17564600, Soma: 36465050 

or email; info@landmark 

bahrain.com 

MUHARRAQ NEAR Gulf 

Mart Hala 2BR, bathrooms, 

hall, SF, security. Tel: 

33637833 

9 STUDIO flats for rent in 

Hidd. Call: 39270494, 

33074281 

UMM AL HASSAM, 

Muharraq & Manama flat 

for rent. Contact 17789394, 

39454874 

TWO BEDROOM flat, near 

Last Chance, Manama, 

BD230/-. Tel. 39454474 

MAGAZINE SALESPER- 

SON. Experienced magazine 

advertisement salesperson 

needed for 

Bahrain’s biggest magazine 

group, impressive 

package. Email: maxmedia 

jobs@maxmediaco.com 

EAST RIFFA staff accommodation 

9 flats, 2BR, 2 

bathrooms, AC, curtain 

BD2500/- Call 37766750 

UMM AL-HASSAM near 

Kims Hospital, furnished 

1BR. Tel. 39683030, 

36942849 

AVAILABLE FOR rent, 

labour camp, warehouse, 

garage, offices, Salmabad. 

Contact: 39611161 

JUFFAIR NEAR Mariott, 

fully furnished 2BR, facilities, 

inclusive, BD400/- Tel. 

39609975 

JUFFAIR ORCHID Tower, 

luxury FF 2BR apartment, 

facilities, BD650/- Tel. 

33980525 

UNFURNISHED FLAT, 

2BR, 2 bathrooms, hall, 

BD230/-, Umm Al Hassam 

Tel. 39623999 

Situations Wanted 

NEPALI HOUSEMAID with 

2yrs & 3 months experience 

is available & ready to 

change sponsorship. Interested 

people may contact 

Tel. +973-39189075 

B.E. ELECTRICAL Engineer 

seeking suitable 

opportunity in Bahrain. Tel: 

39982994 

Situations Vacant 

EXPERIENCED FEMALE 

Secretary and Office 

Administrator fluent in English 

& Arabic with computer 

knowledge. Minimum 5 

years experience. Send CV 

to email: info@oilworld 

services.com 

URGENTLY REQUIRED 

for a reputed salon: Receptionist, 

Hairdresser and 

Asistant Hairdresser, Nail 

Technician, Masseuse, 

Beauty Therapist, Supervisor 

and Barbers. If interested 

then send CV to 

jozhrrecruit@gmail.com or 

call on 17369877 

CANADA, USA Legal 

Manpower, Managershotel/ 

construction, Engineers, 

Architects, Accountants, 

Cashiers, Doctors, 

Nurses, Cooks, Chefs, AC 

Technicians, Electricians, 

Plumbers, Security 

Guards, Drivers, Crane 

Operators, Waiters, Housekeeping. 

Free recruitment. 

Tel. 17740525, 33132169; 

www.m98world.com 

AL-IMAM MOHAMMAD 

BIN SAUD KINDER- 

GARTEN AT East Riffa 

requires qualified Female 

Teachers for English language. 

Email: 

kg.jobs13@gmail.com 

INTERIOR DESIGN 

Painter required. Email: 

enmaa3102@gmail.com 

Mobile: 39095926 

WELL KNOWN Fast food 

chain requires (1) Outlet 

Supervisors (2) Waitresses 

(3) Storekeeper (4) Call 

Center Agents (5) Baristas. 

Send CV to: mrs.nav@ 

hotmail.com 


Accountant, bachelors 

degree with MBA. Email 

CV: cresproperties@ 

gmail.com 

CHEF, WAITRESSES & 

Housekeeping required for 

Restaurant & Coffee Shop. 

Sponsorship available. Tel: 

39829722 

AN INTERNATIONAL 

School with British Curriculum 

needs Teachers all 

subjects. Please send your 

CV to 

daliaawad78@yahoo.com 

LOOKING FOR Chartered 

Accountant for a Holding 

Company. Email: m-kayed 

@hotmail.com 

OFFICE SECRETARY 

required with 4 years 

expeirence with real estate/ 

lawyer office. Email: 

jobs@lazimworld.com 

EXPERIENCED COOK 

for family urgently needed, 

English speaking, expert 

in western & eastern dishes. 

Please send your CV 

to Fax: +97317732444 

or email: hr.recruitment@ 

deekobahrain.com

EXPERIENCED SALES- 

MAN & Estimator required 

for Box Manufacturing 

Company. Email CV: 

resumemay2013@gmail 

.com 

EXPERIENCED TAILOR 

required with excellent 

embroidery skills. Sponsorship 

available. Tel. 

38818881 

PART-TIME BODY- 

GUARD strong required for 

company. Tel. 39698843 


preferred Arabic speaker 

professional Salesman and 

Saleslady to work in shopping 

mall. Email: 

sales@bahrain.me 

SECRETARY REQUIRED, 

Sponsorship available. 

Contact: 33335442 


Female Sales Executive for 

Deluxe Four Star Hotel. 

Apply in confidence, email 

at: fourstarhotel199@ 

gmail.com 

17299110 / 17293131 

www.gulf-daily-news.com 

LOOKING FOR Full-time 

English speaking Staff. 

Salary BD200/-. Call 

36449866 between 10am- 

3pm 

EXPERIENCED WAITER 

required for a restaurant, 

with fluent spoken English. 

Sponsorship available. Call 

39160650 after 10.30am 

REQUIRED URGENTLY 

for a restaurant; Waitresses 

and Assistant Chef. Sponsorship 

and accommodation 

provided. Email CV to: 

gadeervideo@yahoo.com 

REQUIRED EXPERI- 

ENCED Sales Representative 

(Bahrainis only), experience 

and good knowledge 

of Alumininum products. 

Please send your CV to: 

hrd@arcal.biz 

RESTAURANT, CAFE & 

Bakery requires Chef, Assistant 

Chef, Manager, Waitress, 

Driver, Cashiers & 

Cleaners. Email: hr@ 

asser-alenmaa.com or Tel. 

17179323 

RECEPTIONIST REQUI- 

RED for apartment building, 

Juffair. CV to email: 

asifalcom1@gmail.com 

HOUSEBOY AND House 

Cook required for Bahraini 

family, sponsorship available, 

candidate in Bahrain 

is preferable. Contact: 

37764495 

CHINESE RESTAURANT 

requires Restaurant Manager, 

Waiter, Waitress and 

part-time Marketing Manager. 

Email: favouritgroup 

@yahoo.com 

GENTS SPA requires all 

round Hairdressers & 

Receptionist (male). Call 

39399929, Email: villahomo 

@gmail.com 

A NEW Advertising Agency 

is urgently looking to hire 

part time sales persons on 

commission base. If interested, 

please send CV’s 

along with recent photo to: 

alashmal.guide@gmail 

.com or Fax: 17596674 

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Situations Vacant 

Continued 

MOH LICENSED Pharmacist 

and Optometrist 

required for specialized 

hospital for immediate hiring. 

Email CV to hehcareers 

@gmail.com 


Gents Hairdresser, experienced 

in facial, pedicure, 

manicure for gents salon. 

Sponsorship available. Tel. 

39400750. 

REQUIRED SECURITY 

Guards (male, female) 

healthy and physically fit, 

spoken English a must. For 

applications send CV to 

bahrainrecruit25@gmail 

.com Tel: 36888901 

CHEF WITH Italian food 

experience urgently 

required. Tel. 39498288 

PLUMBER, ELECTRI- 

CIAN & Sandwich Maker 

required, sponsorship 

available. Tel. 39458296, 

36300716 

SURVEYOR ENGINEERS 

required, with 4 years experience. 

Email: hashimhpc 

@gmail.com 

ELECTRIAL WIRING 

Technician required, with 

EDD license. Email: 

hashimhpc@gmail.com, 

Tel. 39279042 

DRIVER WANTED for family 

in Sehla, visa available. 

Tel. 39620511 

VAN SALESMAN required 

with heavy duty license for 

Food Stuff (chips & biscuit), 

with 1 year experience. 

Send CV: 

jeroldoliver@yahoo.com, 

Fax: 17006536 

AC TECHNICIAN required 

urgently, with minimum of 4 

years experience, sponsorship 

& accommodation 

available. Email: 

hr.world@hotmail.com 

EXPERIENCED DRIVER 

required for Computer 

Shop. Email: ashraf_keloth 

2002@yahoo.com 

Classified 

SENIOR STRUCTURAL 

Design Engineers, Architects, 

Quantity Surveyors 

and Project Managers 

required for consultancy 

firm. Email: 

ydacvs@gmail.com 

SALESMAN/ SALESLA- 

DY for decoration materials, 

driving license 

required. Email: 

eltazj@hotmail.com 

FINISHING CARPEN- 

TERS required urgently. 

Tel. 39461018. Fax: 

17294524 


Nurses to work in a private 

hospital. Those with MOH 

License & NOC can apply: 

hr@bmc-bahrain.com Tel. 

17003040. 

HOUSE COOK required for 

Bahraini family in Riffa, 2 

months only. Tel. 

39681899. 

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BAHRAIN sPoRt 

Batelco win 

12 Hours 

Paris race 

n Batelco karters, from left, Azzam, Mattar and 

Varutti celebrate on the podium 

BAHRAIN karting champions Batelco 

claimed the top prize in world endurance leisure karting 

yesterday when they powered to victory in the 

SWS Grand Finals 12 Hours race at the Circuit du 

RKC in Paris. 

With regular team manager Ali Abbas absent, strategy 

duties fell to Ramez Azzam who was also doing driving 

stints along with Alban Varutti and Mohamed Mattar. 

The trio signalled their intent early on by claiming pole 

position in qualifying. 

A total of 33 teams entered the race and a mere one second 

separated the top 22 teams. 

All teams qualified to participate in the SWS Grand Finals 

through the SWS series held in their respective countries. 

Batelco were one of a few from the Gulf, with others 

including the Dubai Falcons, CG Racing 1 and CG Racing 

2. 

Conditions varied during the course of the 12 hours of 

racing. The race was flagged off on Friday night with temperatures 

as low as eight degrees and at dawn a rain shower 

added to the challenge for competitors. 

Closest 

With an hour to run, Varutti was sent out for Batelco’s 

penultimate stint with a 20-second lead over their closest 

rivals and he proceeded to edge away. 

With five minutes to go, Varutti handed the Batelco kart 

to Mattar who crossed the line to take a famous victory for 

the Bahraini squad, with a full lap advantage over second 

place Time Attack and third-placed CER Racing – both 

French teams who count the RKC venue as their home 

track. 

“The race went like clock-work. We made a few mistakes 

but kept up a very strong and consistent pace,” said Azzam. 

“It was close, but we had done our homework. It is great 

to win here in France against top quality opposition. Big 

thanks to Batelco for their support and of course the guys 

for their huge effort.” 

Dubai Falcons qualified fifth but a series of misfortunes 

and penalties hampered their progress. They crossed the line 

in seventh. 

Racing in the Grand Finals for the first time were CG 

Racing with two teams, one led by Rami Azzam and the 

other made up of Choueiri Group staff. 

Conditions were opposite to what they had previously 

experienced and the exercise was very much a steep learning 

curve for the outfit. CG Racing 1 finished 20th and CG 

Racing 2 were 26th. 

n General Organisation for Youth and Sports (Goys) 

president Hisham Al Jowder received at his office Al 

Najma Club officials headed by first vice-president 

Mohammed Ali Abul. During the meeting, Al Jowder 

praised the prominent role of the club in enriching the 

march of the youth and sports movement in the kingdom 

through supporting sports activities, and wished the 

board of directors success in their present and future 

endeavors. Al Jowder stressed the willingness of Goys to 

provide all forms of support to Al Najma as well as other 

national clubs in order to continue to play their roles 

in embracing the youth movement. Above, Al Jowder, 

second from right, and Askar, right, with other officials.

Email: gdnsport@batelco.com.bh BAHRAIN spoRt 

n Bahrain’s Shaikh Khalifa bin Abdulla Al Khalifa was yesterday re-elected president of the Arab 

Sailing Federation (ASF) in an election held during the ASF general assembly at the Regency 

InterContinental Hotel, hosted by Bahrain. Shaikh Khlifa, who is also the Bahrain Maritime 

Sports Association president, will be heading the Arab union until the next elections in 2017. 

Above, Shaikh Khalifa, seated second from right, with other officials after the meeting. 

THE Bahrain Football Association (BFA) yesterday 

formed its organising committee for the 

upcoming qualifying tournament for the 2014 

AFC Women’s Asian Cup, which will be held 

in the kingdom. 

Bahrain are in Group ‘C’ of the qualifiers, which will be 

played in the country from May 22 to 26. 

The other teams in Bahrain’s division that will be flying 

in to compete are Vietnam, Hong Kong and Kyrgyzstan. 

Matches will be held at the National Stadium in Riffa. 

The organising committee was formed in a meeting held 

yesterday at the BFA headquarters in Riffa. It will be headed 

by BFA acting vice-president Ali Ahmed Al Buainain and 

BFA women’s committee head Shaikha Hessa bint Khalid 

Al Khalifa. 

Bahrain are one of 16 teams from across the continent to 

be aiming to qualify for the 2014 AFC Women’s Asian Cup. 

There are four qualifying groups in all, and only the group 

winners will book a ticket to the continental showcase. 

Group ‘A’, to be played in Amman, features Uzbekistan, 

Lebanon, Kuwait and hosts Jordan. Group ‘B’, to be held 

in Dhaka, includes Thailand, Iran, the Philippines, and 

hosts Bangladesh. Group ‘D’, to be played in the West 

Bank, comprises Myanmar, Chinese-Taipei, India and hosts 

Palestine. 

In Group ‘C’, Bahrain take on Vietnam in their first fixture 

on opening night, to be followed by a match with Hong 

Kong on May 24. They then play their final game against 

Kyrgyzstan on May 26. 


n Bahrain’s Shaikh Ali bin Mohammed Al Khalifa was yesterday elected president of the Arab 

Volleyball Organisation (AVO) for a third successive time during the AVO general assembly, 

which took place yesterday at the Regency InterContinental Hotel’s Riffa Ballroom. The meeting 

was inaugurated by Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) general secretary Shaikh Ahmed bin 

Hamad Al Khalifa. A number of prominent regional volleyball officials who have served the 

organisation for more than 20 years were honoured. They received first degree medals from the 

AVO. Above, Shaikh Ahmed, left, honours an official, watched by Shaikh Ali. 

Gritty Muharraq 

on course for title 

By pAtRICK sALoMoN 

MUHARRAQ 

took an important 

step towards 

reclaiming the 

title in the Bahrain 

Premier League following a 

2-1 victory over Al Hidd last 

night at the Shaikh Khalifa 

Sports City Stadium in Isa 

Town. 

Bahraini defender Ali Ghaleb 

and Nigerian forward Uche Agba 

scored a goal apiece for the victors, 

both of which came in the 

opening 45 minutes. Brazilian 

striker Wagner Avrino pulled 

one back for Hidd midway 

through the second-half, but it 

proved to be a lone consolation. 

With the result, Muharraq 

claimed their 12th win in 15 

matches as they improved to 38 

points. They have also now stretched 

their winning streak in the league to an 

impressive 10 matches, but have only a 

narrow three-point lead from their closest 

challengers Busaiteen with just three 

games left to play. 

Hidd suffered their fourth loss. They 

have 10 wins and remain third on the 

table with 31 points. 

Both teams were determined to make 

n Muharraq’s Hussain 

Ali tries to dribble 

past a couple of Hidd 

defenders. Picture by 

AHMED AL OJAIMY 

Shaikha Hessa to head 

women’s soccer panel 

a good start to yesterday’s match, with 

the crucial three points up for grabs. 

Threaten 

Hidd were the first to threaten 

their opponents’ goal, when Nigerian 

Abdulhafiz Abdulsalam hit a powerful 

shot from long range that was masterfully 

saved by Muharraq goalkeeper 

Sayed Mohammed Jaffar. 

Muharraq looked to answer, and they 

managed to do one better by scoring the 

game’s opening goal on the 25th minute 

when Ghaleb pounced on a Mahmood 

Abdulrahman corner kick to send the 

ball home. 

Minutes later, Avrino almost netted 

in an equaliser but his shot went just 

over the crossbar. Agba made Hidd 

pay for their miss, as he later doubled 

Muharraq’s advantage with his 

own strike two minutes from 

half-time to give the recently 

crowned King’s Cup champions 

the comfortable two-goal advantage 

heading into the break. 

After the re-start, Hidd 

pressed hard to level the scores 

and shots from Ebrahim Habib 

and Abdulsalam were brilliantly 

stopped by the in-form 

Jaffar. 

Avrino, though, would finally 

get the better of the Bahrain 

international, scoring from a fine 

solo effort in the 69th minute 

despite the challenges of the 

Muharraq defence. 

That was as close as Hidd 

would get, however, and 

Muharraq did well to hold on for 

the victory late on. 

Muharraq are gunning for 

their record 34th Bahrain league 

championship overall, and are 

looking to win back the crown they last 

claimed in 2011. 

Agba’s goal put him at the top of the 

league’s list of goal scorers, with 11 

now to his name. Avrino is also amongst 

the leaders with eight goals. 

In yesterday’s other game played at 

the Muharraq Club Stadium in Arad, Al 

Najma claimed their sixth win following 

a 1-0 victory over Al Malkiya. 

n At the meeting are Al Buainain, left, Shaikha Hessa, right, and BFA PR manager Mohammed Qassim 

The 2014 AFC Women’s Asian Cup will feature eight 

teams. Four teams have already gained entry and they are 

defending champions Australia, Japan, China and South 

Korea. It will also serve as a continental qualifying tournament 

for the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup. 

Bahrain have been training for the competition under 

Jordanian coach Maher Abu Hantash, who was signed last 

February. 

n Bahrain to host 

key GCC meetings 

BAHRAIN will this week host 

a series of significant regional 

meetings in an attempt to promote 

joint coordination among people 

of the GCC in the youth and sports 

sectors. 

The event commences on 

Wednesday with a co-ordination 

and follow-up committee meeting, 

to be followed by a consultative 

meeting of the executive office of 

the presidents of the GCC national 

Olympic committees on Thursday. 

On Friday, the 77th meeting of the 

executive office will take place. 

The undersecretaries of GCC 

youth and sports ministers will 

then attend their 30th meeting on 

Saturday. 

It will be followed by the 

27th meeting of the Olympic 

committees presidents and on 

May 20 the GCC youth and sports 

ministers meeting takes place. 

Supreme Council for Youth and 

Sports chairman and Bahrain 

Olympic Committee (BOC) 

president Shaikh Nasser bin 

Hamad Al Khalifa is heading the 

Bahrain delegation. 

Other high-ranking officials set 

to attend are Supreme Council for 

Youth and Sports general secretary 

Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al 

Khalifa, BOC general secretary 

Shaikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al 

Khalifa, General Organisation 

for Youth and Sports president 

Hisham Al Jowder, and BOC 

sports advisor Jalil Assad. 

n Manama march on 

MANAMA maintained their 

winning ways in the Zain 

Bahrain Basketball League last 

night with a convincing 80-62 

victory over Al Hala at Zain 

Arena in Um Al Hassam. 

Former NBA player Pape Sow 

from Senegal and Bahraini 

guard Mohammed Hussain 

scored 17 points apiece to lead 

five Manama players into double 

figures. 

American import Carl Galloway 

led Hala with 17 points. 

The result earned Manama their 

league-best 18th victory in 20 

games as they strengthened their 

hold of first place. 

Hala suffered their fifth defeat 

but have 15 wins to show for 

their efforts. 

They remain in third place in 

the standings. 

In yesterday’s other game, Al 

Hidd defeated Al Najma 79-69. 

Hidd claimed their eighth win 

while Najma suffered their 17th 

loss. 

League action continues tonight 

with defending champions 

Muharraq taking on Samaheej 

at 6pm, to be followed at 7.45pm 

by Al Ahli facing Sitra.


BAHRAIN spoRt 

Email: gdnsport@batelco.com.bh 

BDF team second 

in jumping event 

n Shaikh Nasser with Queen Elizabeth. Right, Al Khatri in action. Top, His Majesty King Hamad, Queen Elizabeth and other Royal Family members. 

THERE was further success for Bahrain 

at the Royal Windsor Horse Show yesterday 

as Khalid Al Khatri led the 

Bahrain Defence Forces team to second 

place in the Services Team Jumping 

event. 

The Bahrainis produced an almost 

immaculate display in the opening qualifying 

round yesterday morning and, but 

for a three-point time fault, would have 

entered the decisive second round with 

a clean slate. 

With experienced campaigner Shaikh 

Hassan bin Rashid Al Khalifa forced to 

withdraw from the jumping competitions 

due to an injury to his horse, Al 

Khatri took over the leadership of the 

team and he was duly nominated to go 

PANJIM 

Footballers won 

the Bahrain Goans 

Inter-Village 

Seven-A-Side 

Football Tournament. 

The victors defeated Guirim 

5-2 in the penultimate round of 

matches played at Al Nojoom 

grounds in Gudaibiya over the 

weekend. 

They clinched the league 

title with 37 points from 15 

matches and with a round to 

spare. 

Neil Rodrigues, Cyril 

Barretto, Gerald Abranches, 

Rio Fernandes and team 

captain Angus Arokiaswamy 

scored for Panjim while Sam 

Jose scored both the goals for 

forward as the Bahraini representative 

in the final. 

Al Khatri produced another magnificent 

clear round in the final but 

with Rachel Horton Barr of the West 

Midlands Police Team A, the only team 

to go without fault in the opening round, 

also going clear, the result was a formality. 

The West Midlands team, winning 

this competition for the first time, was 

presented with the Challenge Cup and 

the Queen’s Plate by Queen Elizabeth 

herself during the official presentation 

ceremony in the main Castle Arena. 

The presentation of the runners-up 

rosettes to Al Khatri sparked a huge 

cheer from the healthy Bahraini contin- 

Panjim triumph 

Guirim. 

Elsewhere, Tivim thrashed 

Majorda Amigos 4-0 to secure 

second place with 30 points. 

Shanon Dias scored a brace, 

while Boney Remedios and 

Bruno Fernandes added one 

each to help Tivim climb up 

the table from third. 

In other matches, Assagao 

defeated Nuvem 3-1. Desmond 

Gama and Savio Fernandes (2) 

scored for Assagao. Melroy 

Rebello was on target for 

Nuvem. 

Fatorda and Betalbatim 

played a goalless draw in the 

last match of the week. 

The battle for third place is 

on with Nuvem, Guirim and 

Assagao in contention. Nuvem 

and Guirim have 26 points 

each with Assagao on 23. 

The final placings will be 

gent among the crowd of around 3,000. 

Yesterday’s result capped off a superb 

week for the team, and for Al Khatri in 

particular, after he claimed third spot 

in the Land Rover Grades B and C 

Handicap Jumping event on Basheer on 

Wednesday. 

Rewarded 

Also yesterday, Bahrain’s 

Abdulrahman Al Saad and Jaffer Mirza 

were rewarded for their fifth and ninth 

place finishes on Danon Jabeen and 

Ben Hur Kung Fu respectively, in the 

inaugural Windsor Horse Show CEI2 

Endurance Race. 

There has been a heavy Bahraini presence 

throughout the five-day run of this, 

n Members of the victorious Panjim team 

decided after the last round of 

matches on Friday. All players 

of the league are invited 

the 70th edition of the Royal Windsor 

Horse Show, with daily displays of 

Bahraini Arab horses and an extensive 

‘Kingdom of Bahrain’ stand among the 

highlights. 

Started in 1943 as a means of raising 

money for Britain’s efforts in World 

War II, the show, of which Queen 

Elizabeth is the official patron, now 

attracts over 3,000 horses and 70,000 

spectators from all over the world. 

Among other highlights of the this 

year’s festival have been displays of the 

Musical Ride of the Household Cavalry, 

the Musical Drive of the Kings Troop 

RHA, the DAKS Pony Club Mounted 

Games and the Shetland Pony Grand 

National. 

to attend the prize distribution 

scheduled to be held following 

the games on Friday. 

n Mersal ... leader 

Mersal moves 

to the top in 

Zain bowling 

V E T E R A N 

Bahraini bowler 

Aref Mersal moved 

to pole position 

in the inaugural 

Zain Bahrain Open Bowling 

Tournament following the second 

day of qualifying, being 

held at the Bapco Club lanes 

in Awali. 

Mersal managed to play three 

good series, including totals of 

730, 696 and 630 to accumulate 

an average of 230. He will have 

the opportunity to raise it over 

the coming days as he aims for 

a finish amongst the top three, 

which will earn him a bye in 

the quarter-finals, according to 

tournament rules. 

Also on day two, Ali Al 

Qaseer managed to score 702, 

691 and 661 to move to second 

position with a 228 average. 

Average 

The top two were followed 

by Abdulla Abdulkarim with 

a 226 average, and youngster 

Ahmed Al Awadhi with a 214 

per-game count. Al Awadhi 

also scored the highest game so 

far of 276. 

A total of 25 bowlers have 

participated so far in this tournament, 

which is expected to 

reach 75 by the end. 

The tournament is being held 

under the patronage of Zain 

Bahrain cooperate communications 

manager Samya Hussain. 

The qualification rounds will 

be held until May 23, and the 

finals take place on May 24 

and 25. 

The champion will receive 

BD750 from the total prize 

fund of BD3,000. 

In the ladies and youth divisions, 

the top three bowlers will 

be declared winners after the 

preliminary round. 

Afghanistan rout 

UAE for ACC title 

AFGHANISTAN routed 

UAE by 10 wickets 

and with 233 balls to 

spare to win the Asian 

Cricket Council under-19 Elite 

Cup in an anti-climatic final in 

Kuala Lumpur yesterday. 

Batting first, UAE were bunedled 

out for 57 in 27.2 overs and 

Afghanistan raced to the target 

without losing a wicket in just 

11.1 overs. 

In the match to decide third and 

fourth places, hosts Malaysia beat 

Nepal by six wickets while Kuwait 

beat Saudi Arabia by 25 runs to 

finish fifth. 

Bahrain, sponsored by Alba, 

had finished seventh on Friday 

with a victory over Hong 

Kong. Hashmatullah Shaidi of 

Afghanistan was player of the final 

while Dan D’Souza of the UAE 

was the player of the tournament.


PONTE VEDRA BEACH, 

Florida: Saturday is called moving 

day on the PGA Tour and 

if early indications bear out, a 

shootout could be in store as Sergio 

Garcia and Tiger Woods set out for the 

third round at the Players Championship 

golf. 

Garcia, the 2008 champion, held a 

one-shot lead over world number one 

Tiger Woods, who won in 2001, in 

what is generally referred to as golf’s 

fifth major. 

Woods has had the better of their long 

rivalry dating back to 1999. Of the 19 

times they have been grouped together 

on the PGA Tour, the American has 

shot the lower score 12 times and tied 

world sport 

Hyderabad and Mumbai cruise to easy victories 

MOHALI: Parthiv Patel’s 47-ball 

61 and Darren Sammy’s fourwicket 

haul helped the Sunrisers 

Hyderabad crush Kings XI Punjab 

by 30 runs in their IPL 6 match in Mohali. 

Chasing a 151-run target, Punjab seemed 

to lose the plot against Hyderabad as they 

kept losing wickets at regular intervals. 

After losing a flurry of wickets early 

on, Punjab were given some respite by 

Rajagopal Sathish (25) who blasted Amit 

Mishra for a couple of sixes and a boundary 

off consecutive deliveries. 

Sammy proved too hot for Punjab to 

handle as he struck of the first two deliveries 

of his first over to dent Punjab’s run chase 

and then proved instrumental in breaking a 

growing 44-run partnership between Adam 

Gilchrist (26) and Shaun Marsh (18). 

Earlier, a late batting surge by Patel 

helped Hyderabad set a 151-run target. 

Parthiv (61, 5 fours, 2 sixes) slammed 

a half-century at a time when Hyderabad 

needed it the most. 

Earlier in the day, Mumbai Indians inched 

closer to earning a playoff berth as they rode 

on a disciplined bowling performance to eke 

out a five-wicket win over Pune Warriors. 

Mitchell Johnson led the way with figures 

of two for eight of his four overs before 

skipper Rohit Sharma’s patient 37 off 41 

balls guided Mumbai to victory with seven 

balls to spare. 

Impressive 

Speedsters Lasith Malinga and Abu 

Nechim Ahmed, too, came up with impressive 

performances picking up two wickets 

each. 

Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh also 

impressed with a spell of one for 14, which 

included the wicket of Yuvraj Singh, who 

was the lone bright spot for the Warriors 

with a 29-ball 33. 

Chasing a modest total, Mumbai were off 

to a disastrous start, losing opener Dwayne 

Smith of the first delivery, the batsman’s 

off-stump knocked over by Ashok Dinda. 

Sachin Tendulkar helped himself to a 

few boundaries before Ajantha Mendis had 

the veteran batsman caught at long-on by 

Manish Pandey. It was the ‘carrom’ ball and 

Tendulkar tried to play it over the bowler’s 

head. 

And when Dinesh Karthik slog-swept 

a Yuvraj delivery straight to the waiting 

hands of long-off fielder Pandey, it seemed 

Mumbai were intent on making a heavy 

weather of the chase. 

Sharma, however, was composed at the 

other end. 

With Mumbai needing 13 off the last 

three overs, their latest million-dollar signing, 

Glenn Maxwell, playing in his first 

match, hit Dinda for a four and six to lead 

them to victory. 

Mercedes pair 

lock front row 

BARCELONA: Germany’s 

Nico Rosberg handed Mercedes their 

third pole position in succession yesterday 

with team mate Lewis Hamilton 

sealing a front row lockout at the 

Spanish Formula One Grand Prix. 

The pole was Rosberg’s second in a row 

after Hamilton, the 2008 world champion, 

took pole in China last month. 

Red Bull’s triple world champion and 

series leader Sebastian Vettel qualified 

third with Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen, currently 

second overall and 10 points behind 

the German, alongside on the second row 

for Lotus. 

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, the local 

favourite at his home race, will start fifth. 

“I had a really good lap in the end... 

it’s always a good motivation, especially 

for the team. Front row. Fantastic. But of 

course we have to be a bit cautious because 

of what we saw in Bahrain,” said Rosberg, 

who finished ninth in that race. 

“So it’s nice, but to be enjoyed with 

caution.” 

Mercedes last swept the front row in 

China last season, a race won by Rosberg 

while then team mate Michael Schumacher 

failed to finish. 

Yesterday was the first time since 1955, 

when Argentina’s Juan Manuel Fangio 

and Britain’s Stirling Moss were racing 

for the ‘Silver Arrows’, that a Mercedes 

works team had chalked up three poles 

in a row. 

n Tiger Woods lines up a putt on the 

first green 

The German manufacturer left Formula 

One as a works team in 1955, however, 

and only returned in 2010 after buying the 

title-winning Brawn GP. 

“Am I confident for tomorrow? Not 

entirely,” said team principal Ross Brawn. 

“I could see from fuel work, that we’re not 

on top of it as much as we are in qualifying 

but we’ve done a lot of work on that. Can 

we win? I don’t know.” 

Strong 

The statistics suggests Mercedes have a 

strong chance, given that only once in the 

last 22 years has a driver won in Barcelona 

without starting on the front row - and that 

was Schumacher in 1996 from third. 

Hamilton, denied pole in Spain with 

McLaren last year due to a fuel irregularity, 

was fastest in the first two phases of qualifying 

but Rosberg made sure of the pole 

n Mercedes’ 

Rosberg in 

action during 

yesterday’s 

qualifying 

with a time of one minute 20.718 seconds. 

Hamilton’s best was 1.20.972. 

There was despondency at Hamilton’s 

former team McLaren, struggling to extract 

performance from their car, with 2009 

world champion Jenson Button failing to 

make the final stage of qualifying for the 

first time this year. 

Meanwhile Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and 

Sauber’s Mexican rookie Esteban Gutierrez 

were handed three-place grid penalties for 

impeding rivals in qualifying. 

The sanction was the second for 

Gutierrez in five races. 

The 21-year-old took a five-place penalty 

to last month’s Bahrain Grand Prix after 

crashing into the back of Adrian Sutil’s 

Force India in China. 

Massa, who had qualified sixth was punished 

for holding up Red Bull’s Australian 

Mark Webber. 

Garcia and Tiger set for a shootout 

the Spaniard on four occasions. 

Eighteen players were within five 

strokes of the lead at the end of the second 

round, including world number two 

Rory McIlroy, Masters champion Adam 

Scott and defender Matt Kuchar. 

Hiccup 

Lee Westwood, who began the day on 

nine-under, had an early hiccup when 

his tee shot at the first settled next to 

a tree on the left side of the fairway. 

Hampered by his restricted stance, he 

struck the tree with his club and whiffed 

on the ball. 

Joining the fray were some of yesterday’s 

early starters, who showed that 

the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass 

IPL STANDINGS 

P W L Pts NNR 

Chennai SK 13 10 3 20 +0.687 

Mumbai I 13 9 4 18 +0.648 

Rajasthan R 13 9 4 18 +0.445 

RC Bangalore 13 8 5 16 +0.540 

S Hyderabad 13 8 5 16 -0.092 

KXI Punjab 13 5 8 10 -0.018 

Kolkata KR 13 5 8 10 -0.071 

Delhi D 13 3 10 6 -0.737 

Pune WI 14 2 12 4 -1.314 

TODAY’S MATCHES 

Kolkata KR vs RC Bangalore 

(Starting at 1.30pm) 

Rajasthan R vs Chennai SK 

(Starting at 5.30pm) 

LIVE ON CRICONE 

GRID POSITION 

1 N Rosberg M e r c e d e s 

2 L Hamilton M e r c e d e s 

3 S Vettel Re d Bu l l 

4 K Raikkonen L o t u s 

5 F Alonso F e r r a r i 

6 R Grosjean L o t u s 

7 M Webber Re d Bu l l 

8 S Perez M c L a r e n 

9 F Massa F e r r a r i 

10 P Di Resta Force India 

11 D Ricciardo Toro Rosso 

12 J-E Vergne Toro Rosso 

13 A Sutil Force India 

14 J Button M c L a r e n 

15 N Huelkenberg S a u b e r 

16 V Bottas Williams 

17 P Maldonado Williams 

18 G van der Garde Caterham 

19 E Gutierrez S a u b e r 

20 J Bianchi Marussia 

21 M Chilton Marussia 

22 C Pic Caterham 

Today’s race starts at 3pm 

Bahrain time 

Live on Abu Dhabi Sport 

was still ripe for scoring. 

Jeff Maggert put his name just under 

Woods by going six-under through his 

first 10 holes to reach nine under par for 

the championship, two strokes off the 

pace set by Garcia. 

Australian Marc Leishman burst up 

the leaderboard with three birdies in his 

first four holes to reach nine-under. 

Briton David Lynn used four birdies 

in his first seven holes to climb to eight 

under par. 

Early hints that it could be a good 

day for scoring came from a pair of 

South Africans as Louis Oosthuizen, the 

2010 British Open winner, and Branden 

Grace both fired five-under-par rounds 

of 67. 


Zimbabwe pip 

Bangladesh in 

first T20 clash 

B U L A W A Y O : 

Zimbabwe held off a 

late Bangladesh fightback 

to win the first 

Twenty20 international by six 

runs in Bulawayo yesterday. 

Set 169 for victory, 

Bangladesh looked to be cruising 

at 120 for one before three 

wickets in five balls set them 

back. They still managed to 

make a tight game of it, though, 

needing 10 runs off the final 

over. 

After Zimbabwe won the 

toss, their opener Hamilton 

Masakadza blasted 59 from 

48 balls and skipper Brendan 

Taylor added 40 from 25 deliveries 

to give the hosts a solid 

score. 

Malcolm Waller showed 

good power-hitting at the end 

to finish on 26 not out from 

14 balls as the home batsmen 

found the boundary with regularity. 

All the Bangladesh bowlers 

suffered except Shakib Al 

Hasan, whose four overs went 

for just 20 and took the wickets 

of Masakadza and Taylor. 

Shamsur Rahman (53) 

and Shakib Al Hasan (65) 

added 118 in just 85 balls for 

Bangladesh’s second wicket 

but the visitors lost four batsmen 

for the addition of just 

10 runs. 

Prosper Utseya did the damage, 

removing both the halfcenturions 

within three balls 

to turn the match in his side’s 

favour. 

Excellent hitting from 

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur 

Rahim (28 from 14 balls) kept 

his side in the game, but when 

he fell to Tinashe Panyangara 

off the first ball of the final 

over, Zimbabwe were able to 

close out the win. 

The second and final 

Twenty20 international will be 

played at the same venue today. 

SCOREBOARD 

Zimbabwe 

H Masakadza c S Gazi b Shakib 

59 

V Sibanda c S Islam b S Gazi 0 

B Taylor c T Iqbal b Shakib 40 

S. Williams st M Rahim b 

Mahmudullah 6 

S Raza c Shakib b S Islam 14 

M Waller not out 26 

T Mutombodzi not out 12 

Extras (4b, 2lb, 5wd) 11 

Total (5 wkts, 20 overs) 168 

Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-75, 3-92, 

4-120, 5-142. 

Bowling: S Gazi 4-0-28-1, S 

Islam 3-0-29-1, A Razzak 4-0-35- 

0, Shakib 4-0-20-2, S Islam 1-0- 

15-0, Mahmudullah 4-0-35-1. 

Bangladesh 

T Iqbal b Vitori 2 

S Rahman c Taylor b Utseya 53 

Shakib c Waller b Utseya 65 

M Rahim c Williams b 

Panyangara 28 

N Hossain run out 0 

Mahmudullah run out 2 

Z Rahman c Sibanda b 

Panyangara 2 

S Gazi not out 2 

A Razzak lbw b Panyangara 2 

Extras (1b, 1lb, 3wd, 1nb) 6 

Total (8 wkts, 20 overs) 162 

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-120, 

3-124, 4-126, 5-130, 6-143, 

7-158, 8-162. 

Bowling: Vitori 4-0-24-1, 

Chatara 3-0-30-0, Utseya 

4-0-34-2, Panyangara 4-0- 

32-3, Mutombodzi 4-0-33-0, 

Masakadza 1-0-7-0.


world sport 

Chelsea win with 

lampard double 

n Lampard celebrates after scoring 

Chelsea’s first goal 


ENGlIsH lEAGUE sCottIsH lEAGUE otHEr lEAGUEs world rEsUlts 

Premier League 

Aston Villa 1 Chelsea 2 

(Benteke 14) (Lampard 61,88) 

P W D L F A Pts 

Man United 36 27 4 5 79 37 85 

Man City 36 22 9 5 62 31 75 

Chelsea 37 21 9 7 73 38 72 

Arsenal 36 19 10 7 67 36 67 

Tottenham 36 19 9 8 63 45 66 

Everton 36 15 15 6 52 38 60 

Liverpool 36 14 13 9 67 42 55 

West Brom 36 14 6 16 48 48 48 

Swansea City 36 11 13 12 46 46 46 

West Ham 36 11 10 15 41 49 43 

Stoke City 36 9 14 13 32 42 41 

Fulham 36 10 10 16 46 57 40 

Aston Villa 37 10 10 17 45 67 40 

Southampton 36 9 12 15 47 58 39 

Sunderland 36 9 11 16 40 52 38 

Norwich City 36 8 14 14 34 56 38 

Newcastle 36 10 8 18 43 66 38 

Wigan 36 9 8 19 44 67 35 

**Reading 36 6 10 20 41 67 28 

**QPR 36 4 13 19 29 57 25 

Today’s matches 

(starting 5pm Bahrain time unless stated otherwise) 

Stoke City v Tottenham (Starting at 3.30pm) 

Everton v West Ham United 

Fulham v Liverpool 

Norwich City v West Bromwich Albion 

Queens Park Rangers v Newcastle United 

Sunderland v Southampton 

Man United v Swansea City (Starting 6pm) 

LONDON: Frank Lampard broke Chelsea’s 

all-time scoring record with two goals as the 

European champions all but secured a top-four 

finish in the English Premier League with a 

2-1 win in an incident-packed game at Aston 

Villa yesterday. 

Christian Benteke put Villa in front in the first-half with his 

19th league goal of the season and Chelsea looked in real trouble 

when midfielder Ramires was sent off for a second caution just 

before half-time. 

The Londoners looked flat and lethargic but the turning-point 

came in the 58th minute when Benteke was dismissed for a 

second booking. 

Lampard equalised with a crisp left-foot shot two minutes 

later and the England midfielder went past Bobby Tambling’s 

record of 202 Chelsea goals when he slid in for the winner in 

the 88th minute. 

“People have been talking about the record a lot and it’s great 

to get it finally especially in an important game,” an emotional 

Lampard told Sky Sports television. 

“But I didn’t want to celebrate too much because Bobby has 

been ill lately and I wanted to be respectful to a great man.” 

Visiting captain John Terry was carried off on a stretcher in 

Bayern lift Bundesliga title 

BERLIN: Champions Bayern Munich lifted 

their 22nd Bundesliga trophy yesterday after 

a comfortable 3-0 win over Augsburg as 

they prepare for the all-German Champions 

League final against Borussia Dortmund in 

two weeks. 

In front of German football chiefs, 22 former Bayern 

greats and Bavarian political royalty, the champions left 

it late, scoring three goals in the second-half through 

Thomas Mueller, Xherdan Shaqiri and Luiz Gustavo. 

It was a 28th win in 33 league games - with one 

league match left - for sensational Bayern, who weeks 

ago secured their 23rd German league title and 22nd 

since the introduction of the Bundesliga half a century 

ago. 


Champions Group 

Celtic 4 St Johnstone 0 

Inverness CT 1 Dundee United 2 


Celtic 37 23 7 7 88 35 76 

Motherwell 36 17 9 10 65 49 60 

Inverness CT 37 13 15 9 64 59 54 

St Johnstone 37 13 14 10 43 44 53 

Ross County 36 12 14 10 46 46 50 

Dundee Utd 37 11 14 12 51 58 47 

Relegation Group 

Dundee 2 Kilmarnock 3 

St. Mirren 0 Aberdeen 0 


Aberdeen 37 11 14 12 40 42 47 

Kilmarnock 36 11 12 13 50 47 45 

Hearts 36 11 10 15 38 46 43 

Hibernian 35 10 12 13 43 50 42 

St Mirren 37 8 14 15 44 59 38 

**Dundee 37 7 9 21 28 65 30 

Division One play-off semi-finals, second-leg: 

Alloa 2 Brechin 3 

Alloa win 4-3 on aggregate 

Dunfermline 6 Forfar 1 

(After extra-time) 

Dunfermline win 7-4 on aggregate 

Division Two play-off semi-finals, second-leg: 

East Fife 2 Berwick Rangers 1 

(after extra-time) 

East Fife win 3-2 on aggregate 

Peterhead 3 Queen’s Park 1 

Peterhead win 4-1 on aggregate 

the 72nd minute with his left leg in a brace after being hurt in a 

collision in Villa’s penalty area. 

Interim manager Rafael Benitez said Terry had twisted his 

ankle and the defender would need a scan to determine the full 

extent of the injury. 

Chelsea occupy third position with 72 points and one game 

to go, five points ahead of Arsenal and six clear of Tottenham 

Hotspur who both have two matches left. Villa’s defeat meant 

they are still not certain of avoiding relegation. 

Paul Lambert’s team are 13th in the table on 40 points, five 

ahead of Wigan Athletic who are in the third and final relegation 

place with two matches remaining. 

Hammered 

Villa’s young side, hammered 8-0 by Chelsea at Stamford 

Bridge in December, seemed hell bent on avenging that defeat 

early on and it came as no surprise when Benteke ran beyond 

Gary Cahill before calmly beating keeper Petr Cech in the 14th 

minute. 

Benteke celebrated by lifting his shirt and revealing a tee-shirt 

emblazoned with ‘Petrov 19’, saluting former Villa captain 

Stiliyan Petrov who announced his retirement in the week after 

being diagnosed with leukaemia last year. 

Petrov, 33, whose illness is in 

remission, was given a standing 

n Bayern coach Jupp 

Heynckes with the trophy 

French Liga 

Ajaccio 0 ES Troyes AC 1 

Girondins Bordeaux 3 AS Nancy 2 

Olympique Marseille 2 Toulouse 1 

Bastia 3 Montpellier HSC 1 

Stade Brest 0 Sochaux 2 

Valenciennes 4 Stade Rennes 1 

German Bundesliga 

Bayer Leverkusen 3 Hanover 96 1 

Bayern Munich 3 FC Augsburg 0 

Fortuna Dusseldorf 1 Nuremberg 2 

Mainz 2 Borussia M 4 

Greuther Fuerth 1 Freiburg 2 

Hoffenheim 1 Hamburg SV 4 

Schalke 04 1 VfB Stuttgart 2 

VfL Wolfsburg 3 Borussia Dortmund 3 

Werder Bremen 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 

Italian Serie A 

Catania 1 Pescara 0 

Juventus 1 Cagliari 1 

Portuguese championship 

Academica 1 FC Pacos 1 

Maritimo 1 Vitoria Guimaraes 0 

Estoril 2 Beira Mar 1 

Moreirense 2 Vitoria Setubal 1 

Rio Ave 2 Gil Vicente 1 

Braga 1 Nacional Madeira 3 

Sporting 1 SC Olhanense 0 

Russian championship 

Dynamo Moscow 1 FK Krasnodar 1 

FC Volga NN 1 Alania Vladikavkaz 0 

Spanish La Liga 

Athletic Bilbao 2 Mallorca 1 

Osasuna 1 Getafe 0 

Valladolid 1 Deportivo 0 

ovation when he and his family 

went on a lap of honour at the end 

of the game. 

The day belonged to Lampard 

who equalised Benteke’s first-half 

strike by burying a left-foot shot in 

the corner of the net on the hour. 

The 34-year-old Chelsea vicecaptain 

headed over when well 

placed in the 77th minute but he 

made no mistake from close range 

11 minutes later. 

A smiling Lampard was 

engulfed by his team mates at the 

final whistle before he climbed on 

the shoulders of Cech to applaud 

a raucous group of his supporters. 

Celtic collect 

league trophy 

after big win 

GLASGOW: Celtic 

celebrated lifting 

the Scottish 


trophy in style as 

they eased to a 4-0 win over 

St Johnstone at Parkhead yesterday. 

Joe Ledley had the Hoops in 

front with barely a minute on 

the clock and Charlie Mulgrew 

added a second direct from a 

free-kick in the 36th minute. 

St Johnstone hadn’t previously 

tasted defeat against 

Celtic in the league this season, 

having come from behind in 

their three previous meetings to 

win one and draw two. 

However, they never looked 

like maintaining their unbeaten 

record against the Hoops and 

James Forrest made it 3-0 with 

a fine strike in the 52nd minute 

before Frazer Wright scored 

an own-goal in stoppage time. 

Sealed 

It sealed Celtic’s 12th win in 

a row at home in the league, a 

run of form that helped propel 

Neil Lennon’s side to their second 

successive league title. 

There was further good 

news for the Hoops as captain 

Scott Brown returned from a 

three-month injury absence 

to collect the SPL championship 

trophy following what is 

their final home game of the 

season before next weekend’s 

finale away to Dundee United 

and then the Scottish Cup final 

against Hibernian. 

“It is a very significant day 

when you pick the championship 

trophy up. I put out a 

strong team in preparation for 

the Cup final and I thought we 

were fantastic,” Lennon said. 

“There was a flow and energy 

to us and there was a freshness 

about the team and that 

was the pleasing aspect of the 

day and then obviously there 

was the celebration afterwards. 

BASEBALL 

Major League games on Friday: 

WASHINGTON 7 Chicago Cubs 3 

DETROIT 10 Cleveland 4 

BOSTON 5 Toronto 0 

CINCINNATI 4 Milwaukee 3 

Pittsburgh 7 NY METS 3 

TAMPA BAY 6 San Diego 3 

LA Angels 7 CHICAGO WS 5 

NY Yankees 11 KANSAS CITY 6 

Baltimore 9 MINNESOTA 6 

(10 innings) 

Texas 4 HOUSTON 2 

ST LOUIS 3 Colorado 0 

ARIZONA 3 Philadelphia 2 

SEATTLE 6 Oakland 3 

Miami 5 LA DODGERS 4 

SAN FRANCISCO 8 Atlanta 2 

BASKETBALL 

Second round of the NBA playoffs: 

Eastern Conference 

Miami 104 Chicago 94 

(Miami lead series 2-1) 

Western Conference 

San Antonio 102 Golden State 92 

(San Antonio lead series 2-1) 

ICE HOCKEY 

NHL play-offs quarter-final games on Friday: 

DETROIT 4 Anaheim 3 

(The best-of-seven series is level at 3-3) 

LOS ANGELES 2 St Louis 1 

(Los Angeles win the best-of-seven series by 4-2) 

WASHINGTON 2 NY Rangers 1 

(Washington lead the best-of-seven series by 3-2) 

BOSTON 1 Toronto 2 

(Boston lead the best-of-seven series by 3-2) 

* denotes champions; ** denotes relegated 09 12 24 25 26 43 03


world sport 

sharapova sets 

up serena clash 

n Sharapova reacts after winning a point 

against Ivanovic 

MADRID: Serena 

Williams’ tactic of 

staying in her hotel 

room and being 

“boring” appears 

to be paying off after the 

world number one swept past 

Sara Errani yesterday to set 

up a Madrid Open final today 

against rival Maria Sharapova. 

Chasing a 50th career title at 

the clay event in the Spanish capital, 

defending champion Williams 

was far too strong for Italian seventh 

seed Errani on the Manolo 

Santana show court, winning 7-5, 

6-2 before Sharapova made short 

work of 16th seed Ana Ivanovic 

of Serbia to win their semi-final 

6-4, 6-3. 

The Russian second seed and 

world number two, 26, will replace 

31-year-old American Williams at 

the top of the rankings if she gets 

the better of her in today’s title 

match. 

Williams, whose interests away 

from tennis include fashion and 

acting, said she had been avoiding 

“too many extra-curricular 

activities” to concentrate on match 

preparation. 

“I usually just stay in my room 

really and be the most boring person 

you can ever imagine,” she 

told a news conference. “That’s 

kind of the way I get focused.” 

Proposition 

Sharapova will be a different 

proposition to Errani as the 

French Open champion, who beat 

the Italian in last year’s Roland 

Garros final, is among the players 

on the Tour who can come close to 

matching Williams for power. 

However, she has only beaten 

the American twice in 14 attempts, 

and never on clay, and both those 

victories came almost a decade 

ago. 

“I look forward to it,” Williams 

said. 

“I feel like this whole tourna- 

ment I’ve only played clay court 

players from my first round to 

now. 

“Everyone was also smaller 

than me. So I think tomorrow will 

be a really good match. Different 

game. More power obviously, but 

still a lot of the consistency.” 

Sharapova said she needed to be 

more consistent if she was to have 

any hope of beating Williams. 

They last played in Miami this 

year when Sharapova won the first 

set before going down 4-6, 6-3, 

6-0. 

“I thought I played really well, 

at a good level, in Miami for the 

first set and a half but that’s not 

enough,” she said. 

“Obviously the goal is to keep 

that level for the whole match and 

to take my opportunities. 

“I haven’t had a win against her 

in a long time. But the great thing 

is that I’m setting myself up in a 

position where I can try to change 

that around.” 


n England recall 

Swann and Bresnan 

LONDON: Graeme Swann and Tim Bresnan 

were both recalled by England in a 12-man 

squad announced yesterday for next week’s first 

Test against New Zealand at Lord’s following 

their respective recoveries from elbow surgery. 

Squad: Alastair Cook (captain), James 

Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Tim 

Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Nick Compton, Steven 

Finn, Matt Prior, Joe Root, Graeme Swann, 

Jonathan Trott. 

n Southee suffers foot injury 

LONDON: New Zealand paceman Tim 

Southee will take no further part in the 

tourists’ ongoing warm-up match against the 

England Lions at Leicester because of a foot 

injury, a team statement issued yesterday 

said. 

However, a team spokesman said New 

Zealand coach Mike Hesson was confident 

the 24-year-old would be available for 

selection for the first Test against England at 

Lord’s starting on Thursday. 

n Domingo replaces Kirsten 

JOHANNESBURG: Russell Domingo has been 

handed the huge task of taking over from World 

Cup winner Gary Kirsten as the new coach of 

South Africa’s cricket team. 

Domingo was promoted from his position 

as assistant less than 24 hours after Kirsten 

announced he would not be taking up an offer 

to renew his contract when it ends in August, 

sending shockwaves through South African 

sport. 

Domingo, 38, will be given a two-year 

contract from August 1 and while stressing the 

importance of continuity, acknowledged that the 

challenge of replacing Kirsten was like taking 

over from Alex Ferguson as the manager of 

Manchester United.


Kiwis shine in front of record rugby crowd 

LONDON: HSBC Sevens World 

Series champions New Zealand 

were the only side to win all 

three of their matches in front of 

a record crowd on the first day of the 2013 

Marriott London Sevens yesterday. 

Playing in front of a new world record 

one-day crowd for Rugby Sevens of 71,898 

at Twickenham, hosts England gave home 

fans plenty to cheer early on beating Fiji 

and Samoa before losing to Argentina in 

the final match of the day. 

England now face South Africa in the 

Cup quarter-finals in today’s second day 

with New Zealand up against Argentina. 

In the other quarter-finals, Kenya will line 

up against Fiji, while Australia will play 

the US. 

Eleven-time series champions New 

Zealand beat Canada 24-7 in their opening 

match having trailed 7-0, and also came 

from 17-0 behind to defeat Kenya 31-17 

with Kurt Baker and David Raikuna scoring 

twice each. 

WIGAN STUN CITY 

TO CLAIM FA CUP 

LONDON: Wigan Athletic 

claimed one of the greatest 

FA Cup final upsets of all 

time when a 90th minute 

header from substitute Ben 

Watson gave them a 1-0 win over 

highly-fancied Manchester City at 

Wembley Stadium last night. 

Wigan, still threatened with relegation 

from the Premier League, played the better 

football throughout and deserved to win 

against a largely listless City side who had 

defender Pablo Zabaleta sent off for a second 

yellow card in the 84th minute. 

It was Wigan’s first FA Cup final in 

their 81-year history and they won it when 

Watson, who had only been on the field for 

nine minutes and had broken his leg earlier 

this season, powered an unstoppable header 

past goalkeeper Joe Hart from a Shaun 

Maloney corner. 

Wigan’s win was the biggest upset since 

Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the 1988 final 

and represented a personal triumph for their 

n Wigan players celebrate after winning the FA Cup 

FA CUP FINAL 

Man City 0 Wigan 1 

(Watson 90+1) 

chairman Dave Whelan who broke his leg 

playing for Blackburn Rovers in the 1960 

FA Cup final. 

“We didn’t win by luck - from start to finish 

it was an incredible performance,” said 

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez. “The 

FA Cup is such a special tournament, and 

everyone deserves to feel proud today. 

An emotional Whelan added: “Fantastic. 

I had the dream but I didn’t publish it. I 

thought we would get to the final and win 

1-0 and it is repayment for me breaking my 

leg in 1960.” 

Wigan now face two Premier League 

matches to save themselves from relegation, 

but will become the first team to win the FA 

Cup and go down in the same season if they 

fail to stay up. 

“We’ve got two big games in front of us 

and we wanted to conserve energy, but it 

was difficult,” Martinez told the BBC. 

“Everyone wrote us off before the game, 

but we were following a dream. You cannot 

describe the feeling at the moment. My 

players faced adversity and played with a 

smile. I am so proud of them.” 

Disappointed 

City manager Roberto Mancini added: 

“I’m disappointed. We conceded a goal in 

the last seconds in a game where we didn’t 

play very well but we didn’t deserve to lose. 

“We had two or three incredible chances 

but in the end we didn’t play like we usually 

do...” 

City, FA Cup winners in 2011 and 

Premier League champions last season, 

were the overwhelming favourites to win 

the famous trophy for the sixth time but 

were largely outplayed against the underdogs 

who put their erratic league form 

behind them. 

City had the first attempt at goal when 

Yaya Toure brought a low diving save 

from Joel Robles following a Carlos Tevez 

free-kick in the fourth minute, but Wigan 

unexpectedly took control of the game 

with the Manchester side playing into their 

hands. 

Instead of using their width, City 

attempted to build attacks though the 

middle and made little progress against 

Wigan’s back three of Paul Scharner, 

Antolin Alcaraz and Emmerson Boyce 

blocking their progress. 

Instead, Wigan played the ball wide with 

the excellent Callum McManaman on the 

right and Roger Espinoza on the left creating 

space and opportunities. 

Indeed, if McManaman had shown 

slightly more composure in the ninth minute 

he could have put Wigan ahead. 

In the clear after an exchange of passes 

with Arouna Kone, he attempted to cut 

inside but dwelled too long on the ball 

before sweeping a curling shot wide of 

Hart’s right hand post. 

Nadal to clash with Wawrinka for Madrid title 

MADRID: Rafa Nadal is 

one win away from a fifth 

title since his return from 

injury after the Spanish 

world number five thumped 

compatriot Pablo Andujar 6-0 6-4 yesterday 

to set up a Madrid Open final 

against Stanislas Wawrinka. 

With his customary strapping on the 

troublesome left knee that sidelined him 

for seven months until February, Nadal 

was in scintillating form as he raced 

through the first set on the sun-drenched 

clay of Manolo Santana centre court. 

Andujar, a tournament wildcard 

ranked 113 in the world, put up more 

of a fight in the second set but home 

favourite Nadal secured a fourth break 

in the ninth game and served out to 

move a step closer to his third title at 

the Masters event in the Spanish capital. 

Dreamed 

“The results could not have been 

better,” he said in a courtside interview 

with Spanish television broadcaster La 

Sexta. 

“Five months ago I could not have 

dreamed of everything that has happened 

during these past few months,” 

added the 26-year-old. “It’s almost a 

dream to be back in another final at 

home here in Madrid.” 

Wawrinka, the 15th seed, upset sixthseeded 

Czech Tomas Berdych, runnerup 

last year to Wawrinka’s Swiss compatriot 

Roger Federer, in Saturday’s 

second semi-final. 

It will be Nadal’s seventh final 

appearance in seven tournaments since 

he returned, while Wawrinka arrived in 

Madrid fresh from his victory against 

David Ferrer in the final in Estoril last 

weekend, the 28-year-old’s first title 

since 2011. 

He has never beaten Nadal in eight 

attempts and lost to the Spaniard in the 

quarter-finals of the 2012 Monte Carlo 

Masters in their last meeting. 

Nadal, the French Open champion, 

extended his spectacular winning streak 

in semi-finals on his favoured clay, his 

last defeat coming a decade ago when 

he fell to compatriot Carlos Moya in 

Umag. 

Saturday’s success against Andujar, 

who was appearing in his first Masters 

semi-final, was Nadal’s 46th last-four 

victory on the red dust in a row. 

The Majorcan is third on the list of 

clay title winners in the professional 

era with 39, trailing fellow left-handers 

Guillermo Vilas (45) and Thomas 

Muster (40). 

n Dowsett claims 

Tour of Italy stage 

SALTARA, Italy: Briton Alex Dowsett 

stole the limelight from compatriot 

and former teammate Bradley 

Wiggins in the Tour of Italy’s eighth 

stage time trial yesterday with Italian 

Vincenzo Nibali inheriting the leader’s 

pink jersey. 

This 54.8-kilometre race against the 

clock was seen as an ideal opportunity 

for Wiggins, the Olympic time trial 

gold medallist, to make up time after 

a tough opening week for the Team 

Sky leader. 

But Wiggins, who hit the deck on a 

rain-drenched hairpin on Friday, had 

another setback when his front tyre 

punctured 17 minutes into his run, 

delaying him by a stage-winning 

20sec as he changed bikes. 

n Tomic pulls out 

MADRID: Australian Bernard 

Tomic, whose father and coach 

John is due to appear in a Madrid 

court on Tuesday to answer a 

charge of causing criminal injury, 

has pulled out of this week’s Rome 

Masters, the ATP said yesterday. 

John Tomic has been suspended 

from ATP events after he was 

involved in an altercation with his 

son’s practice partner in a Madrid 

street last weekend. 

Tomic told a Madrid court on 

Monday he had acted in selfdefence 

when he butted practice 

coach Thomas Drouet in face, 

breaking his nose, and the pair 

were ordered to appear at another 

hearing on Tuesday. 

n Allardyce signs new deal 

LONDON: West Ham manager Sam 

Allardyce has ended uncertainty about 

his future by signing a new two-year 

contract with the Premier League club. 

The 58-year-old Allardyce has been in 

charge at Upton Park since 2011 and 

led West Ham back into the Premier 

League, where the team is assured a 

second successive season. 

West Ham co-owner David Gold 

announced on his Twitter account that 

Allardyce had a signed a new deal, 

which was later verified by the club. 

n Marseille keep PSG waiting 

PARIS: Marseille ensured Paris 

Saint-Germain will have to wait 

another 24 hours before securing 

the Ligue 1 crown after keeping 

their remote title hopes alive 

with a 2-1 victory over Toulouse 

yesterday. 

Andre Ayew returned from 

suspension to score twice at the 

Stade Velodrome, while Eden Ben 

Basat struck a late consolation as 

Marseille cut PSG’s lead at the 

summit to four points with the 

league leaders in action at Lyon 

today. 

“It wasn’t an easy victory against a 

very good opponent this evening,” 

said Marseille boss Elie Baup. 

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