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Dont do it again!
Perak assemblymen warned against
showing DISRESPECT to sultan
REUTERSPIX
BY P. CHANDRA SAGARAN
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
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DEFIANT STAND... An old solitary house sits defiantly in the midst of upscale development
in Nanning, China. The house owner reportedly did not reach a satisfactory compensation agreement
with local authorities so he is staying put in the middle of the housing complex driveway.
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UPHILL TASK FOR BN IN PERMATANG PAUH P02
POH: Do it again and you will

face the sultans wrath!
This warning was conveyed
to Peraks elected representatives
who were not properly attired when
the state legislative assembly was
opened on March 31 by Sultan Nazrin
Muizzuddin Shah.
Dewan Negara Perak secretary
Toh Amar Di Raja Datuk Ayob
Hashim said in a statement yesterday
the sultan will take stern action
against those involved if such
incidents recur.
The decision was reached on
Saturday at the 163rd meeting of the
Dewan Negara Perak chaired by
Sultan Nazrin.
Ayob was referring to the black
attire worn by 26 Pakatan Rakyat
legislators on March 31.
The action of the elected

representatives had breached one of
the principles of the Rukun Negara
courtesy and morality, Ayob
said.
They violated customs which
shows an ill-mannered attitude
towards the royal institution, he
added.
All other Barisan Nasional (BN)
legislators attended the March 31
event in ceremonial dress.
The sultan coming in full regalia
to officiate at the event for the first
time since he ascended the throne is
a testimony of the honour accorded
to the institution of the people as
symbolised by the state assembly,
said Ayob.
Members of the assembly are
reminded that in the state of Perak,
the sultan has consented that
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Ready to hoist BN flag

> But it will be uphill battle
to capture Permatang Pauh,
says DPM
MASRY CHE ANI/

THESUN
Muhyiddin
having
a light
moment
with
traders
at the
Seberang
Jaya wet
market
during his
working
visit to
Penang.
BY AARON NGUI
BUKIT MERTAJAM: Barisan Nasional (BN)

and Umno are ready to hoist the BN flag in
Permatang Pauh.
Speaking to a 300-strong crowd at the
Umno building here, Deputy Prime
Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said he
is hoping that BN will gain victory just as
how it did in Teluk Intan, Perak, and
Pengkalan Kubor, Kelantan.
Nothing is impossible in politics where
anything can happen, he said.
However, he said BN faced an uphill
battle for the Permatang Pauh seat,
considered a PKR stronghold, but pointed
out the coalition managed to reduce the
PKR majority during the 2013 general
election.
Success will be based on determination,
diligence and dedication, he added.
The Permatang Pauh seat fell vacant
when Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim failed to
obtain a royal pardon over a sodomy
conviction last month. Anwar won the seat
with a 11,721-vote majority in 2013 over Dr

Mazlan Ismail of BN compared to Datin
Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail who
defended the seat in 2008 with a 13,398-vote
majority over Datuk Pirdaus Ismail from
BN.
Muhyiddin also announced the
appointment of Home Minister and Umno
vice-president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid
Hamidi to assist in the Permatang Pauh byelection and Defence Minister and party
vice-president Datuk Seri Hishamuddin

Hussein to oversee the Rompin by-election.
The Rompin parliamentary seat fell
vacant following the death of incumbent
Tan Sri Jamaluddin Jarjis in a helicopter
crash on April 4.
On the candidate for the Permatang
Pauh by-election, Muhyiddin said a
decision will be made soon on the names
submitted to the leadership for
consideration.
Two occasions considered special in Perak

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annually there will be two occasions
categorised as special and to be honoured
as a full ceremonious dress day, referred to
as Hari Kalung.
Firstly, the birthday celebration of the
State Ruler where the ceremony is held in
the Balairung Seri Istana Iskandariah and

secondly, the opening ceremony of the
state legislative assembly held at
Legislative Assembly Hall, he said.
The March 31 incident earned the
displeasure of Sultan Nazrin, who refused
to attend the photography session with the
legislators and luncheon which is a
tradition at every opening ceremony.

Several NGOs and groups also staged
protests against Pakatan for showing
disrespect to the sultan.
Some even called on the sultan to strip
all Pakatan elected representatives of
awards and medals that were bestowed on
them.
Liow: More
Chinese
needed in
civil service
BY ADRIAN PHUNG
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA president Datuk

Seri Liow Tiong Lai will recommend to the
government an affirmative action plan to
increase the participation of Chinese in the
civil service.
In the 1980s, the Chinese community
accounted for more than 20% of the
members in the civil service, but now it is
less than 10% at the federal level and less
than 1% at the state level.
This figure is rather alarming, and
hence, it is important for us to find ways to
increase the participation of the Chinese
community in the public service to restore
the racial make-up of the civil service, he
told reporters after opening the 11th
Malaysia Plan workshop at the MCA
headquarters here yesterday.
He added this was important as it
would help reflect the multi-ethnic
Malaysian society and the need to have
diversity in ideas and culture in the public
sector.
As Malaysia is a multi-ethnic society, it
is important for us to include the views
from all races and different backgrounds
in the public sector as it will be a great
assistance in the nation-building efforts.
Asked on the reason for the drop in the
number of Chinese in the public service,
Liow said it was mainly due to the
response from the community towards
government service and not because of the
quota system.
Dr M denies his spat with PM causing a split

BY HAIKAL JALIL
PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir

Mohamad has denied that his tirade
against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Abdul Razak could cause a split in Umno.
In a recent meet-up session with
bloggers, the former prime minister said
Umno has long been broken.
Umno dah pecah dah (Umno is
already broken). The Umno that I left
before was quite powerful, he said in a
video excerpt of the meeting posted in a
blog on Saturday.
The Umno now is about money. The
leaders are loyal because they obtained
contracts. Those who hold positions
receive money, he said.
He reiterated his stand that Najib
must step down if Barisan Nasional
wanted to retain its grip in the next
general election.
Asked if Najib has failed as leader of
the Malays, Mahathir was seen nodding
in the video.
I am a Malay, although there are
those who said I am not. Let them be. But
legally I am a Malay. I have struggled for
this, he said.
If I feel you have done something
wrong, I have the right to say that it is
wrong, he added.
I believe he (Najib) is going to cause
Umno to lose in the next election.
Believe me, he said.
Speaking on the murder case of
Altantuya Shaariibuu, Mahathir denied
that he was politicising the issue.
He instead said he was merely trying
to help his former bodyguard Sirul Azhar
Umar who is facing the gallows.
He was a policeman. A policeman
does not kill people unless those people
attack him or there are people who asked
him to do it, he said.
Mahathir also spoke on the debtridden 1Malaysia Development Berhad
(1MDB), asking for the setting up of a
totally independent commission.
Kedah leaders keep mum

GEORGE TOWN: Kedah leaders have
opted for silence after Bukit Lada
assemblyman Datuk Ahmad Lebai Sudin
reportedly asked Mentri Besar Datuk Seri
Mukhriz Mahathir to resign if he did not
openly state his support for Prime
Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.
He had said this in an interview after a
meeting yesterday with Mukhriz, state
Umno leaders, MPs and state
assemblymen and had claimed the
meeting was supposed to state their
support for Najib.
Ahmad Lebai claimed that Mukhriz had
said he would wait for investigations into
1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)
before stating his stand.
Kedah Education, Transport and
Works Committee chairman Datuk Tajul
Urus Mat Zain said he was not present at
the meeting.
I cannot comment because I did not

attend the meeting, he said when
contacted about the matter yesterday.
His colleague, Youth and Sports, Arts,
Culture, Heritage and NGO Affairs
Committee chairman Datuk Aminuddi
Omar also echoed the similar sentiment,
saying he will not make any comment as
he has yet to receive anything concrete on
the matter.
Deputy Domestic Trade, Co-operatives
and Consumerism Minister and Kedah
Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Datuk
Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah could not be
reached for comment.
Ahmad Lebai could not also be reached
for comment.
theSun, however, learned that Mukhriz
will be scheduling a meeting soon to
discuss the matter before making an
announcement. by Aaron Ngui
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KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Simpanan

Nasional (BSN) has come out to say
that it had never paid twice to any
Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysias (BR1M)
recipients at its bank, but admitted
that multiple payments had
occurred due to the absence of
links between banks which will
enable updating of payment
records to a common database on a
real-time basis.
BSN said inevitably, this had
resulted in multiple payments by
banks and more notably in the case
of BSN going by the numbers as
revealed in the 2014 AuditorGenerals (AG) Report.
The AGs report revealed that
thousands of aid recipients cashed
out their BR1M vouchers more than
once, costing Putrajaya over RM3
million between 2012 and 2014.
As of December 2014, 1,555 of the
2012 BR1M recipients, 1,850 of the
2013 BR1M recipients, and 1,401 of
the 2014 BR1M recipients who made
repeated claims have yet to repay
the Finance Ministry, the report
added.
The report showed that the most
number of repeated claims
occurred when recipients cashed
out the vouchers at BSN, compared
with two other centres Maybank
and CIMB Bank.
Unfortunately, this could give
rise to the impression that there
were more recipients being paid
more than once by BSN and this, as
a matter of fact, is wrong, BSN said
in a statement.
BSN deputy chief executive
(retail banking) Datuk Yunos Abd
Ghani said the recipients were only
paid once by BSN while the other
payments were made by another
bank, resulting in multiple
payments to these recipients.
Contrary to the statement that
banks would carry the listings of
recipients to make payments, BSN
said since 2013, it had implemented
an online and real-time system to
manage BR1M payments. It said
verification of recipients identity
was done through biometric and
MyKad authentication.
Payments were only made after
clearance had been obtained online
and payment records updated
within seconds. For the record,
there was not even a single
recipient in BSN database that was
paid twice by BSN for the year 2012
to 2014, said Yunos.
The updating of the common
database on a weekly basis has
created a window of opportunity
for unscrupulous recipients to cash
BR1M vouchers at two or more
banks.
Banks were not involved in the
distribution of vouchers and, as far
as BSN is concerned, all payments
had been made against genuine
serialised vouchers with security
features in place.
Ire over middlemen for

foreign worker visa
VISA FLOW CHART
Before
After
COMPANY
COMPANY
> Move results in higher

costs of hiring them
BY R. NADESWARAN
SECURITY CHECK
RM105
ONE STOP CENTRE

RM100
LANDING VISA
RM105
MALAYSIA
EMBASSY RM15
MALAYSIA
EMBASSY RM15
AGENT
IN SOURCE
COUNTRY
AGENT
IN SOURCE
COUNTRY
WORKERS
KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry has

appointed middlemen in foreign countries to
process visa applications of workers coming
to Malaysia.
This has resulted in higher costs of
recruiting foreign workers and has drawn
protests from worker groups in source
countries, especially Indonesia and Nepal.
Previously, foreign workers or their agents
could submit their applications directly to the
foreign missions and pay RM15 for processing.
However, a new ruling, which came into
force last November, requires applicants of
the foreign landing visa (VLN) to submit their
forms to a one stop centre (OSC). On top of
that, another company has been appointed to
carry out immigration security clearance
(ISC) checks.
According to documents sighted by
theSun, the ISC company is allowed to charge
RM105 or its equivalent.
The company is supposed to identify
applicants who have been blacklisted from
ASHRAF SHAMSUL/THE SUN
BSN denies
double
BR1M
payment
The girl guides at the 99 years of guiding celebration at Tasik Perdana Kuala
Lumpur yesterday.
Use Tasik Perdana for co-curricular

activities, says Ahmad Phesal
BY SONG BOON MUN
KUALA LUMPUR: Those residing in Kuala

Lumpur are encouraged to use Tasik
Perdana for co-curricular activities which
can help children appreciate and value the
historical recreational park.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is
prepared to help when these types of
activities are organised, mayor Datuk Seri
Ahmad Phesal Talib said after officiating at
the Girl Guides Association, Federal
Territory of Kuala Lumpur branch 99 years

of guiding. Some 3,000 girl guides from 169
schools in Kuala Lumpur attended the event.
The association also hosted the Brisk
Walk with the Kuala Lumpur Mayor on 99
Years of Guiding in Kuala Lumpur which
was flagged off by Ahmad Phesal.
In line with the slogan Guiding is Fun in
Kuala Lumpur, the association has played a
pivotal role in shaping and grooming young
girls in Kuala Lumpur into mature,
disciplined and accomplished women
leaders, he said.
Non-traditional threats can jeopardise national security

KUALA LUMPUR: The Asean community,
especially Malaysians, must understand
that non-traditional security threats, if not
effectively tackled, can jeopardise national
security and sovereignty.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
geostrategist Dr Azmi Hassan said it was
important for people in this region to
understand what was meant by non-
traditional security threat as they were

unaware that it was rampant in their societies.
Non-traditional security threats are
something which are rarely given attention
by society, but if it happens, it can threaten
the nation or the surrounding areas, and
even create conflicts between nations.
In the Asean context, such as in human
trafficking, it is not a problem of national
security, but it can threaten the

sovereignty and relations between two
countries, he told Bernama in an
interview recently.
Azmi said the intrusions in Lahad Datu,
Sabah in 2013 were examples how nontraditional security threats became bloody
incidents which threatened a nations
security and sovereignty.
entering the country.

Payment to OSC has been fixed at RM100
and charge for VLN services has been set at
RM105.
These additional expenses would have to
be borne by the employer. It is not known
how these companies were appointed.
The companies have set up offices in
various Asian countries where workers are
sourced from.
The ministrys letter, signed by its
secretary-general Datuk Seri Mohamed
Khalid Shariff, was addressed to the Foreign
Ministry and the Immigration Department.
Employers had been kept in the dark about
this development until protests were held at
two of the foreign missions.
He justified the new system and service
charge by claiming it would enable a smooth
flow in processing visa applications.
The implementation of these new
procedures does not incur any costs to the
government as the employers will bear all
expenses.
The fees imposed are justified as they
cover the operational costs incurred by the
companies, said Mohamed Khalid.
However, local industry players are
questioning the need for such centres and
high costs when foreign missions have been
doing this without any hassle in the past.
The Master Builders Association of
Malaysia has described the arrangement as
unnecessary and costly.
Previously, said its spokesman, the
embassy in Jakarta issues the landing visa
within a week and workers are immediately
flown to Malaysia.
Now, with three other costly layers, the
time taken to issue visas is extended. For
many contractors, who undertake preconstruction work like land-clearing, time is
the essence of its business as deadlines have
to be met, he said.
Previously, employers had to pay a levy of
RM1,250 and a processing fee of RM200 and
RM15 at the time the application is submitted
at the foreign mission.
With the introduction of three more
centres, the cost has gone up from RM1,465
to RM1,775.
With Indonesia sending about 150,000
workers annually, it will cost a whopping
RM457 million, which has to be borne either by
the employers or in some cases, the workers,
which is deducted from their salaries.
What are their roles? asks the
spokesman.
In some towns in Indonesia, they have a
one-man office and just receive the
applications and forward them to the
embassy. In the case of visa applications, the
company just keys in particulars of the
applicants into a computer and forwards it to
the embassy. So, yet again, employers are
burdened with additional costs and red tape.
This, he argued, is a clerical job which
entails no special skills or technology.
Meanwhile, Indonesian employment
agency operators have threatened to stop
sending workers to Malaysia. The umbrella
body of over 500 employment agencies
Asosiasi Perusahaan Jasa Tenaga Kerja
Indonesia (Apjati) has written to the
Indonesian Parliament and its human
resources and foreign ministries, urging an
immediate halt to sending workers to
Malaysia. Apjati president Ayub Basalamah
was quoted as saying that it was an
exploitation of Indonesian citizens.
What is worse is that, in addition to
paying the processing fees, we have to
provide details of our workers to a private
company instead of to the Malaysian
embassy, he said.
KIT SIANG: HUDUD

PLOT MAY RUIN
NATION: PAGE 06
04

Shahidan: Disaster SOP needs no revamp

KUALA PERLIS: The disaster standard
operating procedure (SOP) currently being
used is sufficient and does not need to be
revamped, said Minister in the Prime
Ministers Department, Datuk Seri Shahidan
Kassim.
He added only several aspects such as
New gadgets see

rise in cyber crime
MALACCA: The emergence of various types
of gadgets and other amazing digital
communication tools is feared to give rise to
wider occurence of cyber criminal activities,
said Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
(UTeM) vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr
Shahrin Sahib.
The National Professor Councils deputy
head of Information and Technology Cluster
said the increasing number of gadgets
introduced would increase cyber criminals
including hackers taking advantage of the
weak security systems.
Threats of cyber crime these days are not
confined to fraud, forgery, extortion, sedition
and defamation but also include hacking,
virus spreading and attacks on key national
institutions such as banks, businesses and
government agencies.
The development and availability of
gadgets are welcomed nowadays as it shows
information technology is expanding but it
must be emphasized that security systems
should be strengthened to combat cyber
crimes, he said in an email to Bernama.
He suggested an integrated and
comprehensive security system be
established by every organisation by having
an information security policy.
The mechanism should integrate all
existing cyber security elements including
firewall, network devices and intrusion
tracking systems to detect and in turn
prevent the occurrence of computer systems
invasion activities, he said.
He said UTeM was willing to share its
technology and information expertise with
all parties, particularly in the fight against
cyber crimes.
equipment and coordination needed to be

improved especially when facing sudden and
simultaneous disasters.
What is important is that the frontliners
led by the district officer must always be
prepared.
Not every disaster must burden the
National Security Council as it is only the

secretariat, he told reporters after launching
the Disaster Operations Association of
Malaysia (PGBM) here yesterday.
Shahidan, who is also National Disaster
Committee chairman, said from now,
disaster-simulated training by government
agencies must be jointly held with the

relevant non-governmental organisations.
On the PGBM, Shahidan, who is its
advisor, said the association, which was
formed on March 30, has 1,500 members in
Kedah, Perlis, Selangor, Johor and Kelantan.
Bernama
Tough to monitor social

media, says minister
> Enormous manpower
required after latest
amendments to Sedition Act
BY TIMOTHY ACHARIAM
KUALA LUMPUR: It will be very difficult

to monitor social media in light of the
latest amendments to the Sedition Act
1948.
Communications and Multimedia
Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery
Cheek said manpower to monitor
everything that happens online will be too
enormous to handle.
Social media has a big and wide scope,
we have a short period of time to monitor
it and it would take enormous manpower
to monitor everything that goes on, he
said at the launch of the PasarnitaToms

bazaar here yesterday.
Putrajaya tabled changes to the Sedition
(Amendment) Bill 2015 last week that
included substituting the offence of
importing seditious publications with the
offence of propagating seditious
publications.
This includes disseminating seditious
speech on social media.
The communications ministry has been
tasked to monitor these avenues such as
Facebook and Twittter for any
dissemination or creation of seditious
speech.
We cant possibly monitor everything.
We have a 100,000-strong police force in
this country but they cant guarantee there
will be no crime. Its the same with us but
we will act based on complaints and police
reports we receive, he added.
Shabery explained that the most

important thing is that the Sedition Act is
used to protect everyone from abuse on
social media; he said that this issue is also
felt widely around the world, even in
developed countries like Australia, Britain,
and America.
We will align all our policies when we
amend the Communications and
Multimedia Act. I will guarantee that these
amendments to the Act will be done by
engaging the stakeholders and all affected
parties before we table our amendments in
Parliament, he said.
He said this new approach to the
Sedition Act is much needed for the
nation. He added that discussions will take
place soon, but for now his ministry is
trying to concentrate on reducing telco
charges, specifically broadband charges
around the country.
B R I E F S
ZULFADHLI ZAKI/THE SUN
MONGOLIAN WOMAN
FALLS TO HER DEATH
PETALING JAYA: A 29-year-old
Mongolian woman died after falling
from the sixth floor balcony of a
condominium in Taman Maluri,
Cheras, yesterday. KL CID chief SAC
Zainuddin Ahmad said the womans
body was found lying on the ground
floor of the parking area in the vicinity
of the condominium in the 11.26am
incident. The victim, Deldee
Otgontuya lived in the flat with three
other Mongolian women who have
been detained to facilitate
investigations into the case.
JOHOR PKR MANS

STATEMENT RECORDED
JOHOR BARU: Police have recorded
a statement from Johor Parti Keadilan
Rakyat (PKR) deputy president Jimmy
Puah Wee Tse on the #Kita lawan#
event held at City Square here on
April 5. When contacted, he said,
after the event which was held
between 4pm to 5.30pm, he and his
assistant Danny Tan Peng Chye were
asked by the police to go to the
Johor Baru (south) police station.
Jimmy, who is the state assemblyman
for Bukit Batu, said police informed
them that they were being
investigated under Section 9(1) of the
Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.
CHECK FACTS ON SOCIAL

MEDIA, SAYS POLICE
ALOR STAR: Kedah police have
asked the public not to believe
everything they read on social media
without checking with them. Kedah
police chief Datuk Zamri Yahya cited a
case where a girl in Sungai Petani was
hurt in the face after she was struck
by a knife recently when her parents
quarreled was not true. The incident
happened in Thailand and went viral
as having occurred in Sungai Petani. It
causes confusion, restlessness and
anger among the public. People must
check the authencity of the news with
the police and the local print and
electronic media. Bernama
COLOUR BLIND... It's a
Sunday, yet this motorist seems

to be in a hurry as he runs the
traffic light outside the SetiaCity
Shopping Mall yesterday.
ITS
RED
MEANS
STOP!
NOT
COOL
TO RUN THE
RED LIGHT
A Community Campaign
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GEORGE TOWN: The Penang

Free School (PFS) will hold a
commemorative dinner in
honour of the 150th anniversary
of its Board of Prefects (BOP).
The dinner, expected to
draw up to 300 people, will
take place at 7.30pm on May 30,
at the PFS Hall. Tickets are
priced at RM150 per head, and
is open to former students and
their spouses.
Initiated in 1865, the PFS
BOP is an institution steeped in
tradition. Unique in the
nations education system, its
students are given wide
powers to run the school and
develop leadership skills.
For reservations, please call
Pauline Tan at 04-226 9290 or
email her at paulinetanpcofa@
gmail.com. Reservations close
on May 1.
Hudud plot may ruin

nation: Kit Siang
> DAP veteran says move by BN also has
potential to destroy both coalitions
BY HAIKAL JALIL
PETALING JAYA: DAP veteran

politician Lim Kit Siang (pix) has
called on Umno to put a stop to its
hudud plot as it could result in
the disintegration of Malaysia.
The Gelang Patah MP said the
plan by several Umno unitygovernment (UG) plotters in
supporting PASs hudud plan has
caused dissatisfaction among
Malaysians who have argued the
Islamic law is unconstitutional.
Calling the plot a double-edged

sword, Lim urged Prime Minister
and Umno president Datuk Seri
Najib Abdul Razak to halt
endorsement of hudud.
While Najib may rejoice that
the hudud plot of the Umno UG
conspirators has succeeded in
causing grave damage to Pakatan
Rakyat, he should be wary of its
threat not only to Barisan Nasional
(BN) but the Malaysian federation
as well, he said.
In fact, the hudud plot has the
potential to not only destroy both
coalitions, BN and Pakatan,

but also the nation or bring
about a realignment of
political forces in the
country, he said in his
blog on Saturday.
Lim said there were
evident warning signs
shown by several quarters
over the controversial
issue of hudud implementation in
Kelantan, which could pave the
way for such disintegration.
For instance, Lim said, the
Kuching Ministers Fellowship had
recently criticised Kelantans
hudud enactment as violating the
secular foundation upon which
Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak had
formed Malaysia.
Similarly, the Sabah
Council of Churches said
last month that Kelantans
plans to enforce hudud in
the state amounts to a
betrayal of Sabahs trust
when it agreed to form
Malaysia with Malaya and
Sarawak, Lim added.
He also supported a call by East
Malaysians for the government to
convene a Malaysia summit to
deliberate on a new federal
constitutional arrangement.
I will attend such a summit if it
is convened to discuss a thorough
renegotiation of the Federal
Constitution, he said.
New cancer treatment

trials by UKM
BY LEE CHOON FAI
KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) is
currently conducting clinical
trials on a revolutionary cancer
treatment that is capable of
achieving complete regression
with patients suffering from
stage four cancer.
About 40,000 Malaysians
are diagnosed with cancer each
year while 21,700 die from
cancer-related circumstances,
most commonly organ failure,
and the treatment shows great
promise for these patients,
especially when conventional
treatments have proven
ineffective.
The treatment was
discovered by Dr Hasumi
Kenichiro in 2005, and is now
known as Hasumi ImmunoTherapeutic Vaccine (HITV),
and works by adjusting and
upgrading the patients own
immune system to target cancer
cells.
Over 500 patients with late
stage cancer treated with HITV
in Hasumis clinic in Tokyo
have shown high complete
response and partial response
rate.
However, the treatment
cannot be considered as a cure
as it could only be done if
cancerous tumours can be
identified and it is meant to

complement rather than
replace conventional treatment.
It is not our goal to
compete, but unite with other
established therapies, and to
find the best approach to
benefit cancer patients,
Hasumi said in his speech at the
Kuala Lumpur Convention
Centre.
He was talking at The Role
of Immuno-Therapy in Cancer
Treatment seminar where
Mahameru International
Medical Centre director Dr Beh
Chor Khim was one of the
panellists.
Beh compared HITV to a
military precision strike as it
attacks the cancerous cells
without affecting the
surrounding cells, unlike
chemotherapy which affects all
cells.
UKM professor of surgery
and consultancy Dr Norlia
Abdullah said those who are
interested in trying immunotherapy as an alternative to
conventional treatments can
now apply at the UKM Medical
Centre for clinical trials.
Norlia said applicants will be
screened to see if the treatment
suits the patient, and those who
are not suitable will be
recommended to undergo other
treatments that better suit
them.
ASYRAF RASID/THESUN
PFS 150th
anniversary
FRIENDLY FIRE ... A girl super soaks a boy at the
Chetawan Temple in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, yesterday as

they celebrate Songkran, the Thai traditional New Year that is
also known as the Water Festival.
NEWS
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07
Hindus protest
price hikes
> They complain about higher costs to celebrate New Year
BY CHOONG BOON SIEW
PENANG: Hindus nationwide are up in arms

over the increase in prices of essential
goods, including items needed to celebrate
the Tamil New Year, which falls on
Tuesday.
Leading the protest, the Penang Hindu
Association (PHA) urged the Domestic
Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism
Ministry to take action against errant
traders.
Its deputy president, P. Murugiah, said a
survey done recently showed an increase in
the prices of green peas (broken), red peas,
black peas (white broken), cashew nuts,
almonds, Ghee QBB, curry powder,
pappadam and raisins.

He claimed that the prices of goods
such as 800g of ghee (clarified butter)
increased from RM29 to RM37, almonds
from RM36 to RM46 per kg, cashew nuts
from RM28 to RM35 per kilo, fish and
chicken curry powder from RM13.60 to
RM14 per kg, raisins from RM10 to RM12
per kg, green peas RM6.40 to RM7.40 per
kg, and black peas from RM5 to RM5.50 per
kg.
The price hike of these items used for
the Tamil New Year, varied between 3%
and 27% and with an addition 6% for GST,
he said in a statement yesterday.
The association urged the ministry to
act against the importers, wholesalers and
retailers of these basic essential items.
Confusion over service charge

PRESS DIGEST
BY KONG SEE HOH
TO collect service charge or not seems to be

the dilemma of operators in the services
industry now.
While the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives
and Consumerism Ministry wants them to
stop collecting service charge, the national
union representing workers in the services
industry threatens to take legal action
against those who do so, Sin Chew Daily
reported yesterday.
National Union of Hotel, Bar and
Restaurant Workers secretary-general
Rusli Affandi said the union, which
represents some 12,000 employees, will sue
employers governed by collective
agreements if they stop imposing the 10%
service charge on patrons.
He stressed that employers must collect
service charge as it forms part of union
members wages. Those who dont are
breaching the collective agreement, he said.
Rusli had disclosed that some 100,000
people are engaged in the services industry
but only about of 12,000 of them are union

members.
He said although their basic salaries are
between RM350 and RM1,200 per month
they take home an additional RM800 to
RM1,500 from service charge from
customers.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Association of
Hotel (MAH) president Samuel Cheah
Swee Hee urged the ministry to hold an
emergency meeting with the stakeholders
in the services industry to resolve the
pressing issue.
He told Sin Chew that the ministry
should immediately stop all enforcement
action against hotels, pubs and restaurants
to end the spat between the services
industry operators and union, and seek a
solution to the issue, including making the
imposition of service charge in the services
industry a legal provision.
This is not the time to argue who is right
or wrong or who should sue who. All of us
should stay calm, sit down and negotiate a
solution.
The new rule (on service charge)
arbitrarily announced by the ministry is not a
law. Not everyone follows it.
IM ALL
EARS ... A
ZULFADHLI ZAKI/THESUN
curious critter is
piqued by all the
activities going on
at the Pet Fiesta
Expo Malaysia
2015. The expo,
with over 170
booths on pet food
and grooming
products, also
featured a kidfriendly small
animal playground,
pet performances
and fashion shows.
Ahmad Maslan raps economic saboteurs

MUADZAM SHAH: Traders who took
advantage of the Goods and Sales Tax
(GST) to raise prices of goods are economic
saboteurs, said Deputy Finance Minister
Datuk Ahmad Maslan
He said this was because the implementation of the new tax since April 1, should
allow the people to enjoy a drop in prices.
However, they are sabotaging the
economy. Some goods are even GST-free
but they are arbitrarily imposing the tax
which causes the prices of goods to go up.
It is unacceptable if they say they dont

understand GST as we have explained for a
year and seven months on television, radio
and newspapers, he said.
Ahmad said this to reporters after
attending an information function on
current issues at the Rompin Umno Office,
here, yesterday.
In this regard, Ahmad said traders
should adopt a good business ethic or risk
losing customers, and be penalised under
the law. Bernama
08

> Getting them to play a

pivotal role in fostering
unity in the state
BY ZAIM ZAMANI
PETALING JAYA: The Selangor

government will focus on youth
development projects as the state has a
youth population of 40%.
The Selangor Youth Development,
Sports, Culture and Entrepreneurial
Development Committee chairman
Amirudin Shari said this would enable
them to play a crucial role in the
development of the state.
The youths can play a pivotal role in
fostering unity among all races.

They can also contribute effectively
towards the states social and economic
development, he said at the launch of the
Selangor Youth Policy (Dasar Belia
Selangor).
He said an officer from the Social
Science Research Institute of Universiti
Putra Malaysia will be engaged to provide
input on how to tap the potential of youths
for the states progress and development.
Meanwhile, a new youth marriage
incentive website was also launched with
the appointment of a new local youth
mover (PeBT).
Amirudin said those in need of marriage
incentive from the state government can
apply online by visiting their website at
www.i-kahwin.selangor.gov.my.
Perak taps forest potential

LUMUT: The Perak government, in
collaboration with the Forestry
Department, is committed to sustainable
forest management.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry
Abdul Kadir said as at Feb 28, 2015, up to
48.6% of the total land area in Perak or
1.02 million hectares are forest land.
We have preserved most of the
forests in the state even in Pulau Pangkor;
some hills can also be developed as

tourist attractions, he said.
He disclosed this after launching the
state-level International Day of Forests
2015 and Jungle Adventure at Arena
Square, Pasir Bogak here yesterday.
Zambry said he also wanted an
endurance sports development plan to be
implemented in Pulau Pangkor as one of
the latest tourism products.
ZULFADHLI ZAKI/THE SUN
Selangor focus
on youth
Local celebrity Azwan Ali (centre) takes a selfie with participants of the Unisel charity
run at Shah Alam square.
Unisel charity run for orphans

SHAH ALAM: It was a joyful moment for
Universiti Selangor (Unisel) students to see
participants of a charity run lead a group of
orphans to the finishing line.
Some 1,000 Unisel students, marathon
enthusiasts and 150 orphans took part in the
run held at Dataran Kemerdekaan here
yesterday. It was flagged off by Unisel vicechancellor Professor Dr Anuar Ahmad.
The event was organised by 22 Unisel
final-year diploma of communications and
media students to raise awareness among
youngsters of the plight of those who are in
need.
We managed to raise RM4,000 to be

distributed to three orphanages in Selangor,
said programme assistant director Muhamad
Hisham Hafez.
Raising funds is only part of the objective.
We want to give the orphans the opportunity
to experience life beyond their shelters, he
added.
Muhamad Hisham hopes the event would
help encourage more students and the public
to assist people in need.Unisel students also
organised the Walk of Hope in 2012 and Cycle
for Syria in 2013 to raise funds for
humanitarian aid. by Haikal Jalil
NEWS
WITHOUT BORDERS
09
Obama meets Castro

in historic talks
> Differences still remain,
says US president
PANAMA CITY: President Barack Obama
met Cuban President Raul Castro on
Saturday in the highest-level talks between
the two countries in nearly 60 years, and
the two men agreed to push ahead on
improving relations after decades of
hostility.
Describing their private meeting as
historic, Obama said the two countries
can now end the antagonism of the Cold
War era, although he said he would
continue to pressure the communist-led
country on democracy and human rights.
Obviously there are still going to be
deep and significant differences between
our two governments, Obama told Castro
as they met in Panama, where they both
attended a summit of leaders from across
the Americas.
Obama said he believed both sides
could raise concerns about the others
policies yet still work together to boost
commercial, travel and diplomatic ties.
The Cold War is over. Cuba is not a
threat to the United States, Obama later
told reporters, pointing out that at 53, he
was not even born when Castro and his
brother Fidel seized power in the 1959
Cuban revolution.
The meeting followed a landmark
agreement in December, when Obama and
Castro announced they would move to
normalise relations, including seeking to
Pope sparks
row with
genocide remark
REUTERSPIX
Obama
shakes
hands
with
Castro as
they hold
a bilateral
meeting
during the
Summit
of the
Americas
in Panama
City on
Saturday.
restore diplomatic ties that were broken
off by Washington in 1961.
Obama said he decided to overturn
longstanding US policy on Cuba because
the old approach of open hostility and
economic sanctions had failed to force
through major changes on the Caribbean
island and it was time to try something
new.
Since then, he has relaxed some
restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba,
although a longstanding economic
embargo remains in place.
At their 80-minute meeting on
Saturday, almost unimaginable until
recently, Obama and Castro sat side by
side in polished, wooden chairs in a small
conference room. The mood was

described by Obama aides as cordial but
businesslike.
Both men wore dark suits and each
nodded and smiled as the other spoke.
Obama towered over Castro when they
stood up to shake hands in front of
reporters before starting their meeting.
Castro said he would continue to take
steps towards normalising relations, and
was open to discussing human rights and
other issues.
So we are willing to discuss everything,
but we need to be patient, very patient.
Some things we will agree on; others
we will disagree, said the 83-year-old
leader. Reuters
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis sparked a

diplomatic row yesterday by calling the
massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100
years ago the first genocide of the 20th
century, prompting Turkey to accuse him
of inciting hatred.
Muslim Turkey accepts that many
Christian Armenians died in clashes with
Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when
Armenia was part of the empire ruled from
Istanbul, but denies hundreds of thousands
were killed and that this amounted to
genocide.
At an Armenian rite Mass in St Peters
Basilica to mark the 100th anniversary of the
mass killings, Francis became the first head
of the Roman Catholic Church to publicly
pronounce the word genocide to describe
them.
Turkey was swift to protest.
The popes statements, which are far
from historical and judicial facts, cannot be
accepted, Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu said on his Twitter account.
The foreign ministry summoned the
Vatican ambassador in Ankara and said
Franciss remarks had caused a problem
of trust in relations with the Holy See.
Pope John Paul II and Armenian
Apostolic Church Supreme Patriarch
Kerekin II called the massacre the first
genocide of the 20th century in 2001, but
that was in a joint written statement.
Francis, who has disregarded many
aspects of protocol since becoming
pope two years ago, uttered the phrase
during a private meeting at the Vatican
with an Armenian delegation in 2013,
prompting a strong protest from Ankara.
Reuters
10

Yazidis gang-raped in
public by IS fighters
BAGHDAD: Yazidi women released by the
Islamic State (IS) last week were gang-raped
in public by fighters and tortured by their
captors, according to distressing accounts of
their ordeals.
Hundreds of women and children were
abducted from the town of Sinjar, in northern
Iraq, and held hostage by IS for over eight
months.
Some were sold to fighters as sex slaves or
given as prizes. Many were beaten.
More than 200 were released by fighters in
Himera, near Kirkurk, early last week.
They have told harrowing tales of the
physical and sexual abuse they suffered at the
hands of their captors.
Ziyad Shammo Khalaf, who works with

the Yazda organisation to support Yazidi
victims, said children were separated from
their mothers and distributed among houses
in Mosul and Tal Afar.
If you come and sit with the girls you will
find different stories from girl to girl. A lot of
them have been sold to IS fighters, they have
been raped in public, and by more than two or
three people at a time, he told the
International Business Times.
They were tortured, beaten and subjected
to any type of violence.
Other Yazidi survivors have also given
disturbing accounts of their treatment by IS,
with one women describing how militants
were forcing hostages to give their blood for
transfusions.
The atrocities endured by Yazidi sex slaves
was exposed more fully in an 87-page report
released by Amnesty International in

November 2014, who found girls and women
were repeatedly raped and sold as sex slaves.
The report found that even children were
being sold to IS fighters or given as gifts.
IS considers Yazidis heretical and
published an article in its propaganda
magazine Dabiq attempting to justify the
practice of selling them using theological
rulings.
However, experts say the practice has
caused friction among the ranks of the
extremist group.
Sajad Jiyad, Research Fellow and Associate
Member at the Iraqi Institute for Economic
Reform, told The Independent that many
supporters had been in denial about the
trafficking of kidnapped Yazidi women until
the Dabiq article was published. The
Independent
US CAPITOL LOCKDOWN
AFTER SHOTS FIRED
WASHINGTON: Shots fired
outside the US Capitol building
Saturday prompted police to lock
down the building as they probed a
suspicious package apparently
linked to the shooter. US Capitol
Police said the suspected shooter
was neutralised by a self-inflicted
gunshot wound. The suspicious
package was apparently a suitcase
near the shooter, according to
NBC news. dpa
BENEFITS DENIED TO
ANTI-VACCINE PARENTS
SYDNEY: Australians who refuse
to vaccinate their children will no
longer receive child care subsidies
and family tax benefits, Prime
Minister Tony Abbott announced
yesterday. The choice made by
families not to immunise their
children is not supported by public
policy or medical research nor
should such action be supported
by taxpayers in the form of child
care payments, Abbott said. dpa
REUTERSPIX
> Disturbing stories emerge

after 200 freed last week
B R I E F S
Jong-un learned to drive at

three, says teaching manual
SEOUL: Children in North
Korea are reportedly to be
taught that Kim Jong-un learned
to drive at the age of three, as
part of a new school subject
entirely dedicated to his life and
revolutionary works.
Teachers will be expected to
teach the outlandish claim as
fact, according to a new
teachers manual reported via
the UPI agency in South Koreas
TV Chosun.
Among other elements of
Kims history to be taught is
the episode when, aged nine, he
apparently raced the chief
executive of a foreign yacht
company who was visiting
North Korea at the time.
According to the teachers
manual, Kim won the race
despite the odds.
The indoctrination of such
absurd statements into the
future citizens of North Korea
represents a level of propaganda

beyond the everyday stories that
fill the regime-controlled news
outlets, usually involving Kim
visiting a broad range of sites
requiring varied expertise and
offering his own field guidance.
It chimes closely with stories
that were told of his father, Kim
Jong-il, before his death.
State media used to report
that the Dear Leader bowled a
perfect 300 in his first match at
Pyongyang Lanes, and that he
scored five holes in one and 38
under par in his first game of golf.
Lee Seok-young, the South
Korean director of Radio Free
Chosun which regularly covers
North Korea, told UPI the
teachers manual raises worrying
questions as to how teachers are
possibly expected to deliver such
incredible statements to
students in a school setting.
The Independent
A KINGS BLESSING ... Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah holds the arm of his son Prince Abdul Malik
to bless Maliks new wife Dayangku Raabiatul Adawiyyah Pengiran Haji Bolkiah during the bersanding or
enthronement ceremony at their wedding in the Nurul Iman Palace in Bandar Seri Begawan yesterday.
China to blacklist its bad tourists

BEIJING: China will blacklist badly
behaved Chinese tourists to try to
save national face at home and
abroad, state media said on Saturday.
Disrupting public transport,
damaging private or public
property, disrespecting local
customs, sabotaging historical
exhibits or engaging in gambling or
pornographic activities will be
offences for inclusion on a national
database, the China National
Tourism Administration said.
Offenders will be blacklisted for
two years, according to the
administrations regulations that
became effective this week, the
Xinhua news agency reported.
The regulations came amid
growing global attention to the
behaviour of Chinese tourists,
including a recent spate of travellers
opening emergency exits on planes.
A two-minute rant by Thai model

Duangjai Phichitamphon about the
unruly behaviour of Chinese tourists
at a South Korean airport went viral
last month, sparking heated online
debate and condemnation by the
media in Thailand.
The Tourism Administration did
not specify what punishments could
result from inclusion on the
blacklist, but Xinhua reported that
tourism authorities could report
offenders to security, customs and
transport authorities and the central
banks credit department.
We will share these records
with other sectors, such as airlines
and hotels, Li Jinzao, the
administrations director, said.
Liu Simin, who is with the Beijing
Tourism Society, said the blacklist
was seen more as a deterrent than
punishment.
It is more about making the

tourists aware of their actions as
there are not many specific
punishment measures, so in this
sense, the record is more like a
shame list, which could force
tourists to behave accordingly.
Meanwhile, a politician said
Beijing is to impose a limit on the
number of mainland Chinese
visitors to Hong Kong after a series
of protests against the influx from
over the border.
Tourists from mainland China
often pay short visits to the city to
snap up daily necessities from baby
formula to nappies.
Too many people are coming
through the unlimited entry permits.
(Imposing a limit) is a step
forward, Michael Tien, a member
of the National Peoples Congress,
told reporters. Agencies
11
Another bid to crack

highest glass ceiling
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton was set
today to take another stab at cracking what
she calls the highest and hardest glass
ceiling when she starts a long-awaited
second run for the White House as the
prohibitive Democratic front-runner.
Clintons campaign for the November
2016 election will emphasise her plans to
address economic inequality and will tout
the historic nature of her bid to become
the first woman US president, aides say.
But after decades in the public eye as
the wife of former president Bill Clinton, a
US senator and secretary of state, she
could face a challenge in showing a more
down-to-earth side while connecting with
ordinary voters.
Clinton will also have to quell a
controversy over her work use of a private
e-mail account while secretary of state,
which Republicans have said is a sign of
her penchant for secrecy.
Clinton has said she used the single email account for convenience and should
have used government e-mail, but violated
no rules.
Clinton, who lost a heavyweight
Democratic nominating battle to Barack
Obama in 2008, will announce her
campaign on video and social media, a
Democrat familiar with her plans said.
She will travel later in the week to Iowa,
REUTERSPIX
> Clintons emphasis will

be on economic equality in
2016 White House run
Bangladesh
hangs politician
for massacre
Supporters take part in a Ready for Hillary rally in Manhattan on Saturday.

which holds the first nominating contest
in early 2016.
In a memo made public on Saturday,
Clintons campaign manager Robby Mook
told staff while the goal was for Clinton to
win the presidency, the campaign was not
about her but everyday Americans.
We are humble: we take nothing for
granted, we are never afraid to lose, we
always out-compete and fight for every
vote we can win. We know this campaign
will be won on the ground, in states, he
said in the campaign memo, titled We Are
Hillary for America.
Many Democrats have eagerly awaited

the announcement since the day in June
2008 when Clinton pulled out of her
primary battle against Obama with an
expression of regret that she could not
crack that highest and hardest glass
ceiling this time.
On Saturday at the Americas summit in
Panama City, Obama said at a news
conference that Clinton would make an
excellent president.
A Reuters-Ipos tracking poll shows
Clinton backed by more than 60% of
Democrats. Reuters
DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities on Saturday

hanged a top politician for overseeing a
massacre during the nations 1971
independence war against Pakistan.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman has been
executed at 10.30pm (12.30am yesterday in
Malaysia), law and justice minister Anisul
Huq said.
Specially trained convicts took him to a
makeshift gallows set up near his prison cell
and hanged him using a rope, in line with
Bangladeshi jail procedure.
He was declared dead by a magistrate and
a government doctor.
Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior
figure in the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was
convicted of abduction, torture and mass
murder as one of the leaders of a pro-Pakistan
militia that killed thousands of people.
An ambulance carrying Kamaruzzamans
body left the jail for his home village in
northern Bangladesh more than an hour after
the execution, jailor Farman Ali told reporters,
adding that the vehicle was escorted by a
convoy of elite security officers.
The Jamaat party condemned the
governments pre-planned murder of writer,
journalist and scholar Kamaruzzaman and
called a nationwide strike for today in protest
at the hanging.
Hundreds of secular supporters burst into
cheers and made victory signs as news of the
hanging was announced in central Dhaka,
where they gathered to celebrate the death of
a man they called a war butcher.
Bangladesh went ahead with the execution
despite last-minute pleas by the United
Nations, the European Union and human
rights organisations to halt the hanging. AFP
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Why so many GST anomalies?

T
HE mechanic is popular in
the area. The cars of the
neighbourhood are under
his care. And theres a
reason for his repeat clientele.
After hes done with your car, he
presents the itemised billing and a
plastic bag containing the parts he
has changed.
The last line in the bill is
classified under labour cost
which varies on the amount of time
he or his co-workers spent on your
car. If he called it service charge,
would anyone bat an eyelid?
So, when the waiter at a five-star
hotel presents the bill for the meal
complete with the service tax and
GST, would you refuse to pay for
the service?
This is the crux of the issue that
politicians and civil servants are
falling over themselves and yet
unable to provide plausible
explanations for their antics which
have now become a comedy of
errors.
Lets get to basics. There is no
law preventing anyone from
imposing a fee for his or her

services. And this comes
with a caveat the person
who pays for the service or
goods must be aware of
such charges.
So, if you are presented
with a food menu with the words
All prices subject to 6% GST and
10% service charge, you take
cognizance that such a fee exists. If
you dont agree, you walk away to
another outlet.
This forms the basis on which
price tagging laws have been
promulgated to enable the
customer to know what he is
paying for no hidden charges
whatsoever.
So, what is this hullabaloo about
having to display collective
agreements between workers and
employers before outlets can
charge service tax?
The public wants to learn and
acquire knowledge. Please
enlighten us as to which statute or
regulation requires outlets to make
such displays? To put it on record, I
have perused all the laws which the
minister and his civil servants have
been referring to the Profiteering
Act, the Supply of Goods Act, the
Price Control Act and even the
Trade Descriptions Act.
There is not a single clause

which makes it mandatory for such
agreements to be displayed. And it
has been common practice for
hotels to levy a service charge,
which is distributed to employees
on a scale based on points.
And thats perhaps why these
outlets have defied the so-called
directive and continue to impose
the service charge. What action can
be taken for such rightful defiance?
Nothing, zero, zilch, kosong!
The Malaysian Association of
Hotels says only 7% have collective
agreements with the respective
unions. So, is the government
saying: These 7% can collect the
charges and the remaining must
not levy the charges?
Its president Cheah Swee Hee
hit the nail on the head when he
said that the way ahead is to sit
down and talk to stakeholders.
Why was this not done before some
people shot their mouths off?
Rightly, he said: It is not only
the practice here but the world
over. Allowing only unionised
hotels to get this benefit is a double
standard.
But a moot yet important point:
The majority of the population
does not wine and dine at such upmarket outlets. They eat out at
stalls or restaurants. Why address

an issue which only caters for the
well-heeled and affluent?
Again, the consumer must be
given a choice if he wants to eat at
some posh place or the mamak stall
down the road. No one is putting a
gun to anyones head and
compelling him or her to an outlet
which has all kinds of charges.
The price of ice kosong is now
50 sen and Chinese tea 80 sen. Has
anyone raised an issue? Honestly,
nothing can be done even if tap
water is priced at RM10 as long as
there is a price list or menu.
From Day One, there had been
little or no discussion on GST with
stakeholders. Judging from the
health ministers remarks, it is
obvious that even government
departments and agencies were not
consulted.
Datuk S. Subramaniam has
requested the Customs
Department to broaden its list of
GST-exempt medication saying
that most medications used in
normal treatments should be
exempted including cancer
medication and treatment as an
example.
He stated that when the list was
provided, it contained over seven
thousand types of medicines.
Stating that Customs Department

is still reviewing the list and has yet
to respond, Subramaniam
reiterated that the exemption list
ought to be widened.
So, who was consulted when the
list of goods were picked? It is
ironical that tinned sardines are
subjected to GST and fresh lobsters
exempted.
On the issue of GST, it would
not be wrong to say that the
Customs Department goofed. In
most countries, three areas
household goods, health and
education are not touched. Even
when touched, consideration is
given to goods or services which
would affect the ordinary person.
The inevitable question is: Why
was not there a consultation
process? Why are there so many
anomalies and doubts?
There is a thick line between
ignorance and stupidity. However,
some bungling civil servants have
intertwined both at the expense of
the rakyat.
R. Nadeswaran says that
the anomalies in the collection
of GST must be sorted before
the authorities venture
into other areas. Comments:
citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
No stopping Iranian genii with lifting of sanctions

BY ERIC S. MARGOLIS
THE deal reached in Lausanne,

Switzerland by Iran and five powers,
led by the US, appears to be about
nuclear capability. In fact, the real
issue was not nuclear weapons, which
Iran does not now possess, but Irans
potential geopolitical power.
Iran, a nation of 80.8 million, has
been bottled up like the proverbial
genii by US-led sanctions ever since
the 1979 Islamic Revolution deposed
Shah Pahlavis corrupt royalist regime. The Shah had been groomed
to be the chief US enforcer in the
Gulf.
More than a dozen American efforts to overthrow the Islamic government in Tehran have failed. Washington resorted to sabotage and
economic warfare, sought to throttle
Irans primary exports, oil and gas,
to derail its banking system, and
prevent imports of everything from
machinery to vitamins.
The US and Israel have used the

extremist group Peoples Mujahidin
to murder Iranian officials and scientists.
There is no doubt that this western
economic siege drove Iran to make
major concessions over its nuclear
energy programme, a source of great
national pride and prestige that
broke what Grand Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei called the backwardness
imposed by the western powers on
the Muslim world to keep it weak
and subservient.
Like Cuba, another state that long
defied Washington, Iran eventually
found the price of its independence
and self-interest too high to bear. As
with Saddams Iraq, US-led sanctions
caused its military to rust away and
its oil exports to fall painfully.
Israels anguished alarms over
Irans supposed nuclear threat
were not even believed by its own
crack intelligence services or those
of the United States, but the relentless drumbeat of hate Iran propaganda convinced many in North
America and even better-informed
Europe that Iran is a menace.
What Israel really feared was not
Irans non-existent nuclear threat but
its support for the beleaguered
Palestinians.
Iran became the last Middle East
nation giving strong backing to the
creation of a Palestinian state. The
Arab states opposing Israel have
been silenced: Syria, Libya and Iraq
crushed by war and torn asunder,
Egypt and Jordan bought off with
huge bribes. The Saudis have secretly allied themselves to Israel. So
only Iran was left to champion Palestine.
That is why Israel made such a
determined effort to push the US into
war with Iran. With the feeble Arab
states largely demolished or gelded,
Israels hold on the Occupied West
Bank and Golan would be unchallenged.
But for the US, the geostrategic
calculus is somewhat different. The
Iranian revolution of 1979 profoundly challenged Americas Middle
East imperium.
Washingtons Middle East political-strategic architecture was built

on feudal and brutal military regimes.
Ever since 1945, the deal was that
the feudal oil states supplied oil at
bargain basement prices in exchange
for US military and political protection. In addition, the Arab oil monarchies undertook to buy huge
amounts of American arms that none
of them knew how to effectively use.
The most recent deal amounts to
US$46 billion of US weapons for the
Saudis.
Washingtons Middle East Raj
forms one of the enduring pillars of
American global power. Though
America consumes less and less
Middle East oil each year, its control
of the flow of oil from Arabia to Europe, Japan, China and the other
parts of the Asian
economy gives it huge
strategic leverage. Japan and Germany both
vividly remember they
lost WWII because of
lack of oil.
The 1979 Iranian
Revolution
gravely
threatened this sweetheart arrangement. Iran demanded that its Arab
neighbours follow Islams calls to
share wealth, avoid ostentation, live
modestly, and care for the needy in
short, the very opposite of the flamboyant Saudis and Gulf Arabs.
Iran set the example by funding
extensive social programmes and
education. Of course, Irans challenge to share the wealth was
anathema to the oil monarchs and
their American patrons. By 1980, an
undeclared conflict was under way
across the Muslim world between the
Saudis and Iran one that still rages
today as we see most recently in the
expanding Yemen war.
US policy has been to keep the
Iranians isolated and contained,
rather as Europes reactionary powers did with revolutionary France at
the end of the 18th century. While
the reason given by Washington was
Irans alleged nuclear threat, the
sanctions regime was really aimed
at fatally weakening Irans economy
and provoking the overthrow of the

Islamic government and its replacement by tame Beverly Hills Iranian
exiles.
Unfortunately for US imperial
policymakers, the dangerous chaos
they created in Iraq and Syria, and
the rise of IS, necessitated working
with Iran to keep a lid on this boiling
pot. That means easing sanctions on
Tehran and allowing its economy to
start coming back to life.
Hence the Lausanne deal. But
Tehran does not trust Washington
to adhere to the pact. Grand Ayatollah Khamenei asserted there would
be no deal unless sanctions against
Iran were lifted immediately. To
many Iranians it seemed clear that
Washington had no intention of
lifting key sanctions, only slowly
lessening relatively unimportant ones.
Washington faces a
major dilemma over the
isolation of Iran. If sanctions are substantially
lifted, Iran will increase
oil and gas exports and
begin rebuilding its industrial base and obsolete military
forces. Europe, Russia, China and
India are all eager to resume doing
business with Iran.
But lifting sanctions will make Iran
stronger and even more of a political
threat to Americas Middle East
satraps who want the Persian genii
bottled up. Claims that Egypt, Saudi
Arabia and the UAE fear a nuclear
arm race are spurious. Save Egypt
and Jordan, all are next door to Iran.
Nuclear weapons have no use in such
close quarters. Egyptians lack food,
never mind nuclear arms.
Israel and its partisans, who have
successfully bought over much of the
US Congress, remain determined to
scupper the nuclear deal. There are
so many potential slips between cup
and lip that reaching an effective,
lasting deal will be very difficult. Iran
is not wrong to be sceptical.
Eric S. Margolis is an internationally syndicated columnist. Comments: letters@thesundaily.com
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Housing developers and deposits

No problem you
ask for your money
back. It is then that
you crash into a
BY GURDIAL SINGH NIJAR
barrier.
Whatever you do
ODAY I narrate a
even beg or plead
personal story. It relates these (few) developers will not
to housing developers
return the money. They will
and their selling
give every possible reason to
antics. It needs to be told so
avoid a refund. They will ask
that you will be on guard when
you to put your money as a
you face a similar situation. I am deposit for another house in
not indicting all developers of
their other project. Or that they
course.
have suffered a loss even
First, the developer
though the same house has
announces the launch of a
been now sold to someone else.
project over a weekend. The
You can sue for your money
roads to the launch site are well
but if lack of money prevented
signposted with fancy boards
you from making the purchase
and bunting. A lavish spread
how can you possibly afford a
awaits you at the site
lawyer? And how will you
complete with a professionallymatch the deep pockets of these
designed show house.
fat cats and their legal officers?
An elaborate model of the
After a while you let the
entire location is placed at the
matter rest in utter despair. You
centre. Replete with ecoare left to little else than telling
forested areas, exquisite
your sad story to your friends
landscaping, a fancy club house, and others.
ponds and pools galore.
In my case I even knew the
Its a contrived carnival
top echelon owner of this
atmosphere to lure you into
development company a
making possibly the biggest
former college mate. We dont
financial commitment in your
cheat people of their money, he
life.
declared glibly when first told
Officers from a coterie of
of my plight in not getting the
banks sit alongside the
refund from his company. But
developers representatives. To
after almost three years of
show you how incredibly easy
phone calls and several stories
it is to make a purchase and
of how it was his employees
how little it will eat into your
and not he who was refusing
budget. There are profuse
the refund the reality dawned
promises getting the loan
on how much more difficult it
approved? After a quick
must be for others less wellcalculation of your income an
connected to get a refund.
assurance: no problem, lah!
What is the legal position
The developers rep then
then? First, there is a difference
assures you if any problem in
between paying this money for
getting the loan the money can
a residential property and a
sure refund.
commercial property, even an
And then the infamous
inexpensive shop lot.
only few lots left better
It is illegal for a developer to
confirm now pointing to the
collect any money before
red sold dots on the plan. A
signing a sale and purchase
sense of daring overcomes you.
agreement (SPA) in respect of a
You abandon your hum and
residential property. It can be
hah as you are gently nudged
labelled by any name deposit,
into signing a document headed earnest money, option to
Option to Purchase.
purchase, advance, stakeholder
Fast forward to some time
sum or whatever other name
ahead you cant get the loan;
the developers fertile
or you realise that the property
imagination creates. The
is not affordable. What then?
developer cannot take this
LAW SPEAK
LETTERS
letters@thesundaily.com
Drop charges against critics

RECENTLY, the Sedition Act
has been amended to address
concerns that have been raised
about its operation, and
particularly, Home Minister
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid
Hamidi was at pains to state
that the law will not be used to
oppress the voices of dissent
against the government.
Specifically the Act was
amended so that it is no longer
an offence to incite hatred,
contempt or disaffection
against the government.
On the other hand, a number
of opposition and legal figures
have alleged that the
government has been recently
using the Act for that exact
purpose and examples could
support this claim such as
Muslim preacher Abu Bakar
Baikalani Abu Hassan being
investigated for criticising the
BN government and praising
the Penang Voluntary Patrol
Unit, DAP national vicechairman Teresa Kok charged

for her mild and light-hearted
Chinese New Year video and
Afwan Anang jailed last year for
making anti-BN remarks.
In a show of good faith it
would be a magnanimous
gesture by the authorities if
charges could be withdrawn
against persons who are alleged
to have made comments solely
directed at the government.
Although not required in law as
the allegations pre-date the
amendment to the legislation,
but given the extreme
controversy that this law has
generally caused in most
spheres of politics in the last
year, it would help cool tempers
and calm many nerves, and win
further respect for the
government.
Simon Wood
Petaling Jaya
money until the purchaser has signed

the SPA. If he does so, he commits an
offence under the Housing
Development (Control and
Licensing) Regulation 1989. The
developer commits a criminal
offence punishable with a fine up to
RM20,000 or jail up to five years or
both.
Further all monies collected must
be refunded in full and without any
deduction. As long ago as 1981 the
Privy Council (then our highest
court) brought to book a developer in
Johor Baru. The law, said the court,
was there to protect house buyers;
and developers would be punished
for flouting it (Daiman Development
Sdn Bhd v Mathew Lui Chin Teck).
Then the lawyers got into the act.
They started collecting the monies
on the developers behalf as
stakeholders. And they called it an
option fee. A genuine stakeholder
holds money (or anything else)

pending the fulfilment of an event
such as approval from some
authority. The court struck down this
forensic devious device in a 2013
decision: Wan Ming Sun v Planet
Uno Sdn Bhd. It was illegal, the court
declared.
But then there are lawyers who
continue to flout this provision. And
despite a clear Bar Council warning
against this practice. Should not the
Bar Council turbo-boost its
enforcement machinery; and at least
alert the authorities to prosecute the
lawyer(s) under the housing
regulations? Surely the knowledge is
in the legal fraternitys public
domain.
What of those who buy a
commercial shop lot and end up in
the same predicament? There is no
similar protection in this case. The
only recourse is to argue that the
contract has not come into existence

because the precondition of signing
the SPA has not materialised. This is
a lot harder as the developer will
argue that the basic terms set out in
the sheet that he got the purchaser to
sign are clear (property, price and
such like). And without doubt, the
unethical developers will likely get
their favourite obeisant legal eagle to
include a clause that says that the
money will not be refunded if the
SPA is not signed.
Should not the government
consider enacting a law similar to
that for residential properties to
protect the buyers of commercial
property especially now that the
volume of the sale of small shop lots
has grown so large?
Gurdial is professor at the
Law Faculty, University of Malaya.
Comments: letters@thesundaily.com
14
MEDIA & MARKETING

Get moving with Coca-Cola!

> Launch of Move Malaysia campaign to promote physical activity
OCA-COLA joined hands

with the Olympic Council
of Malaysia (OCM)
recently to officiate its new
decree, to encourage Malaysians to
practise a healthy and active
lifestyle.
In their battle against obesity in
Malaysia, Coca Cola and the OCM
launched Move Malaysia, a
campaign comprising three
components Exercise
Prescription with Healthcare &
Fitness Experts, Allied Health
Community known as Exercise is
Medicine (EIM), and an academic
outreach that combines exercise
and community engagement
through programmes like Sport for
All and Movement is Happiness. All
three were designed to highlight
issues that include poor diet,
lifestyle inactivity and integrate an
element of exercise for therapy or
prevention of chronic disease.
The campaign launch in Kuala
Lumpur was attended by OCM
president Tunku Tan Sri Imran
Tuanku Jaafar, Move Malaysia
president Tan Sri Dr M Jegathesan,
along with The Coca-Cola
Company general manager
(Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei
Region) Gill McLaren.
MOVING MALAYSIANS
Spurred by American College of
Sports Medicine, EIM stresses on
the importance of physical activity
and exercise to promote healthy
living and prevent disease.
Healthcare providers such as
physicians are equipped with the
necessary skills and knowledge to
counsel patients in practising an
active lifestyle and inculcate
exercise as part of their daily routine
to prevent the spread of global
(From left): McLaren, Imran and Jegathesan at the Move Malaysia

campaign launch initiated by Coca-Cola and OCM.
disease and as a form of treatment.
Jegathesan said, We would like
to eventually see the healthcare
and fitness community advocating
physical activity and creating a
broad awareness that exercise is,
indeed, medicine and can make a
real difference in the lifestyle
choices and as a prevention
treatment to chronic diseases for
their patients.
A study conducted by the
World Health Organisation
(WHO) indicates that physical
inactivity is the fourth leading
cause of death after high blood
pressure, tobacco use and high
blood glucose, and accounts for 3.3
million deaths per year globally.
Out of the global burden of
diseases, physical inactivity
contributes to:
X 6% of coronary heart disease;
X 7% of Type II Diabetes; and
X 10% of breast and colon cancer
cases.
HTC campaign bags gold

at MOB-EX
PHD MALAYSIA (and no, PHD
does not stand for Pizza Hut
Delivery in this case) recently
won gold in Best Mobile
Advertising Solution for its
innovative HTC Hijack campaign
at the 2015 MOB-EX Awards. It
collaborated with InMobi in
promoting the launch of the HTC
One Max, highlighting the phones
HTC Sense operating system.
PHD Malaysia is part of PHD
Worldwide, globally known in the
area of communications planning
and buying across broadcast,
print, digital, mobile, social and
emerging media platforms. Its
philosophy: Finding a Better Way.
A fast-growing media and
communications agency that has
won many awards, PHD operates
from over 80 offices across the
globe, through its 3,000 over staff.
In 2013, PHD was named Global
Media Agency of the Year at the
Crystal Awards. It also received
Agency of the Year accolades in
the UK, New Zealand, Indonesia,
Singapore, India, Shanghai,
Taiwan, Australia, Canada, Hong
Kong, Sweden and Malaysia, and
won eight Cannes Lions awards.
The PHD network is under the
Omnicom Media Group umbrella,
which is a division of Omnicom
Group Inc.
On its win at the recent MOBEX Awards, PHD Malaysia
general manager Jimmy Lim said:
This win validates our move into

the mobile marketing space since
early 2014. We will continue our
thought leadership on mobile in
2015 as more users are spending
larger amounts of time engaged
with mobile devices than ever
before. It is the first and last screen
any consumer would be exposed
to everyday. We can expect this
trend to continue even further this
year, so brands can gain first
mover advantage in the mobile
space before it becomes an equal
playing field. We have seen this
with social media before and the
sceptics eventually had so much
catching up when they realised
social media wasnt going to go
away! Any business needs a
mobile marketing strategy, for the
same reason they need digital
marketing mobile is the final
frontier for marketers.
The MOB-EX Awards is
among the most prestigious
awards that celebrates mobile
excellence in the Southeast
Asian mobile marketing industry.
To view the award-winning
HTC Hijack video, log on to
http://vimeo.com/100305665
For more information, visit
www.phdmedia.com
Coca-Cola was the first founding

corporate partner of EIM. The
global partnership is fully
dedicated to encouraging doctors
and healthcare providers prescribe
exercise as medical treatment.
Additionally, grant funding,
foundational support and
promotional help to the initiative
will be provided. Over 34 countries
are now part of the global
movement to spread awareness
that being active can save lives.
As at the launch, 90 health
professionals and 85 fitness
professionals in Malaysia were
already trained in EIM, led by the
Academy of Family Physicians of
Malaysia.
Move Malaysia is also engaged
with lecturers from UKM, Perdana
University, as well as lecturers
from other universities, to pilot the
research and education component
under EIM.
GET INVOLVED
The last component, Sports for All,
provides a basis for the
collaborative efforts of the local
community sports organisations to
combat sedentary lifestyles by
promoting exercise among
Malaysians.
Workshops and seminars have
been conducted for the event
organisers to explore and share
views on coordinating events with
NGOs, universities, business
owners and sports enthusiasts. A
complementary initiative by CocaCola, Movement is Happiness
serves to include daily movement
as a way to achieve emotional
wellbeing and happiness through
fun ways.
Coca-Cola is committed to
encouraging activity and we want
to create opportunities for people
to easily see how activity can be
integrated into daily life through
fun and play such as taking the kids
to play in the park or kicking a ball
around with our friends, which is
what our Movement is Happiness
initiative is all about, said
McLaren.
Some of the benefits of regular
physical activities include:
X reduces mortality and the risk of
recurrent breast cancer by
approximately 50%;
X lowers risk of colon cancer by
60%;
X lowers risk of stroke by 27%; and
X reduces depression as
effectively as behavioural
therapy.
OCM is a partner of Move
Malaysia. This initiative is parallel
to the International Olympic
Councils (IOC) effort in 2013,
where it promoted sporting
activities to all age groups as part of
ones lifestyle in order to be
healthier citizens.
From the IOCs informative
book Get Moving! The IOCs Guide

to Managing Sports for All
Programmes, OCM began working
with the Academy of Family
Physicians of Malaysia to train
doctors in giving exercise
prescription and training more
fitness professionals under the
concept.
The deed gained a US$250,000
grant from The Coca-Cola
Company.
Some of the more critical issues
that need to be highlighted today in
Malaysia include inactivity, obesity
and diabetes.
More than ever before, it is
important that the government,
businesses and civil societies
cooperate under Move Malaysia
towards building effective
partnerships and solutions.
OCMs collaboration in Move
Malaysia has brought the national
and state sports associations
together, working with sports
enthusiasts, retired sportsmen and
sportswomen, to play a bigger role
in producing future athletes.
Together, lets get moving to
lead healthier lifestyles, if not for
ourselves, for our loved ones.
Spotlight at The Mines

THOSE living
around The Mines
in Sri Kembangan
can now easily
unleash their inner
domestic gods or
goddesses as
Spotlight recently opened its third
flagship store at The Mines
Shopping Mall.
Art and craft lovers are sure to
be spoilt for choice with the array
of over 100,000 heavenly selections
in home furnishings, bedding,
interior dcorations, dress and
fashion fabrics, craft, hobby and
party essentials, all at attractive
prices.
It is the largest store yet,
boasting a 31,000sf retail space,
fully accommodated with alluring
products to entice customers.

Known as a one-stop hub, the
colourful concept will surely coax
shoppers to stay much longer than
required. Especially since it is a
haven for those planning a party,
redecorating their home interior or
pursuing new hobbies, as there is
something for everyone.
Spotlight Retail Group
communications manager Eva Daly
said, Malaysians have shown great
enthusiasm and overwhelming
support for Spotlight, facilitating
rapid expansion in the country.
Hence, we are
excited to embark on
the next chapter, to
bring this shopping
convenience to yet
another
neighbourhood. We
want more shoppers to be
constantly surprised with new
discoveries as they immerse
themselves in every aisle, section
and corner of the retail space.
Shoppers will definitely have
more than what they bargain for
along the endless aisles offering
fabrics, decorative touches, craft
supplies and such. Starting off as a
fabric stall 41 years ago at the
famous Queen Victoria Market in
Melbourne, Spotlight has no plans
to slow down!
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APRIL 13, 2015
BURSA MALAYSIA TRADE STATISTICS - 10/4/2015

Participation
Bought
Sold
Net
RM m
RM m
RM m
54.6
Institutions
968.4
999.5
-31.1
20.0
Retail
347.2
373.4
-26.2
25.4
Foreign
487.2
429.9
57.3
1802.8
1802.8
0.0
100.0
Preliminary stats (excluding trade amendments). For final data, please refer to www.bursamalaysia.com
Source: Bursa Malaysia
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EPF in talks to divest

some UK assets
> Time ripe to sell some early investments
which are now reaching maturity, says CEO
BY EVA YEONG
sunbiz@thesundaily.com
KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees

Provident Fund (EPF) is looking to
divest one or two of its assets in the UK
and is already in talks with several
parties for potential disposals, said its
CEO Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan (pix).
He said the time is ripe to sell some
of its early investments which are now
reaching maturity.
Its probably a good time
for us to start looking at the
potential disposal of one or
two assets and essentially
reaping the benefits of the
massive yield compressions
that have happened in the
UK as a result of QE and the
fact that weve also been
earning a lot of rental on
these assets over time, he
told reporters at a briefing
on its 2014 Annual Report
last Friday.
He said EPF is in the
midst of negotiations on
some of the potential disposals which
will be done on a tender basis.
EPF is invested in over 30 countries
with the US, the UK and Australia being
the top three countries. Its investments
in the UK make up 9.4% of the total
foreign investments and it has an office
in London.
Shahril said a significant proportion
of its overall real estate holdings is in
the UK as the opportunities to build a
high value portfolio with great
yields were significant when it
first started investing in the
UK. Currently however, the
amount of liquidity flowing
into that market today is
driving yields down.
Its not in our interest to
expand
significantly
further in that market.
What we have been doing
instead is to expand in a lot
of other areas, primarily in
logistics, long-term
infrastructure related real
estate and weve been doing
significantly more in these
areas in places like Europe
and Australia. We also just
started out in Japan.
The key goal of EPF has
always been to try and find
value for the long term in
these types of assets and similarly adopt
the kind of strategies weve done in the
UK whereby we try to get in first before
a significant amount of interest or
liquidity goes into those markets and try
to close out as quickly as possible yields
in those areas before too many other
investors come in, he said.

Shahril said there will be minimal
changes to its investment strategy this
year.
From the numbers in 2014, we were
fairly overweight on equities which did
very well for us. For 2015 we are still
likely to be overweight on equities given
the poor outlook for fixed income
yields at this point in time but
even then, we do individually
select the types of assets we
want to invest in, he said.
EPF is aiming for a small
increase in its foreign assets,
from 23% last year to 24% this
year. In 2013, foreign assets
made up 20% of its total assets.
This year was meant to be an
incremental year anyway which is a
good thing as well given the volatility in
exchange rates it would have been quite
difficult for us to try and make that same
kind of leap from 20% to 23%. We have
still been acquiring what we feel are
good value assets overseas even from
the start of this year and we will
continue to look, said Shahril.
Locally, EPF expects to submit and
obtain the development order for the
development of Bukit Bintang City
Centre this year and start construction
nexy year. The project is a joint venture
with UDA Holdings Bhd and Eco World
Development Group Bhd.
On its RM1.47 billion takeover of
Kian Joo Can Factory Bhd, Shahril said
it is still proceeding and has to obtain
approval from Bursa Malaysia.
Fund seeks ways to safeguard interests
KL MARKET SUMMARY
APRIL 10, 2015
INDICES
FBMEMAS
FBMKLCI
INDUSTRIAL
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
CONSTRUCTION
TRADING SERVICES
FINANCE
PROPERTIES
PLANTATIONS
MINING
FBMSHA
FBMACE
TECHNOLOGY
CHANGE
12,662.46
1,844.31
3,401.12
606.65
136.99
302.93
244.65
16,325.86
1,322.98
7,794.55
559.29
13,215.61
7,124.30
22.15
-24.79
-5.08
+12.25
+2.20
+0.28
+0.11
-0.11
-94.58
+1.95
-23.11
-8.11
-2.56
-17.17
-0.07
TURNOVER
VALUE
1.855 billion
RM1.802 billion
Bullish trading likely

SHARES on Bursa Malaysia are poised to trade
higher this week, boosted by positive corporate sentiment and improvement in risk appetite.
Affin Hwang Investment Bank vice-president/head
of retail research Datuk Dr Nazri Khan Adam Khan said
the FBM KLCI will remain buoyant amid a new round
of recharged bullish momentum.
The FBM KLCI will stay above 1,830 points and
support level of 1,800, before retesting the next resistance levels at 1,850 and 1,880, he said. Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees

Provident Fund (EPF) said last Friday it
is looking at ways on how it can
safeguard its interests as a shareholder
in corporate exercises, a red flag which
was raised in the now-failed merger of
CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, RHB
Capital Bhd and Malaysia Building
Society Bhd.
I think that is something that has not
been resolved satisfactorily, in our
opinion. We feel that we are prejudiced
by the fact of our size in the Malaysian
market. It is something we are looking
at, how we are going to address this.
We dont want to be in a position
whereby we cannot protect the interests
of our members if there is a
consolidation proposal in the market
and just because of our size and our
position in these companies, we are not
able to vote or take a decision in these
things.
Thats something that we are
looking at. I think in some senses we are
quite thankful that the last transaction
didnt go through because we would not
have been able to vote if that had gone
through, its CEO Datuk Shahril Ridza
Ridzuan said at a briefing on its 2014

Annual Report.
Bursa Malaysia ruled that EPF was a
related party as it had shareholdings in
all three companies, and disallowed the
fund from voting on the merger.
Shahril said the matter raises the
issue of EPFs rights as a shareholder,
given the fact that it is a significant
shareholder of potentially every single
merger or consolidation target in the
banking sector in Malaysia.
The EPF report showed that total
annual contributions amounted to
RM57.17 billion last year, against a total
annual amount withdrawn of RM33.78
billion, resulting in a net inflow of
RM23.39 billion.
Shahril said the robust performance
was a direct consequence of its
diversification policy, which saw it
channelling more funds into
international assets and across a wider
range of asset classes.
The past year was marked by
uneven growth of the global economy,
which had led to a challenging
investment environment. Despite this,
we performed better than in the
previous year as our total investment

assets grew to RM636.53 billion at yearend, he told reporters.
The growth of our investment
assets averages between 10% and 11%
annually, outstripping the growth of the
local capital market, he added.
EPF declared a 6.75% dividend for
2014, the highest since 2000. The total
dividend credited into members
accounts was an all-time high of RM36.66
billion, representing a 17.5% increase over
the RM31.2 billion payout in 2013.
As at Dec 31, 2014, EPFs members
increased to 14,192,832 of which
6,659,036 were active members while
total employers contributing to the EPF
increased to 530,166.
As for the potential conflict of
interest in relation to Battersea Project
Holding Co Ltd chairman Tan Sri Liew
Kee Sins decision to acquire projects in
London, Shahril said there is nothing
legally wrong with board members
holding shares in other companies.
It is just a matter of whether there is
proper disclosure and transparency at
their own board level when it comes to
dealings as well. By Eva Yeong
Suspend directive, hold dialogue on service charge: ACCCIM

PETALING JAYA: The Associated
Chinese Chambers of Commerce
and Industry of Malaysia
(ACCCIM) has called for the
suspension of a directive to
disallow the collection of service
charge by non-collective agreement
signing restaurants and hotel
operators, pending a consultative
dialogue among stakeholders.
The business group stated that
the government directive had only
served to confuse consumers and
had not been well thought through.

The Ministry of Domestic
Trade, Cooperatives and
Consumerism recently issued a
directive on the service charge
imposed by restaurant and hotel
operators that the 10% levy must be
stipulated in the collective
agreement between employers and
employees before businesses can
impose it. In addition, the outlet
must display the certificate on its
premises so that consumers will
know they will have to pay service

charge, otherwise the business
operator will be charged under
Price Control and Anti-Profiteering
Act 2011.
ACCCIM said this hastily
announced directive caused
confusion and chaos among the
public, which resulted in unhappy
consumers and refusal to pay
service charge.
This has greatly affected the
operation of the businesses and
thus put them in dilemma, it said.

Businesses and the market
need time to adapt to the new tax
regime. The government should
not hastily announce any new
policy or implementation. Also,
GST expounded by various
government departments should
be consistent in order to avoid
confusion in the market, it said in a
statement released on Saturday.
ACCCIM said there is no single
piece of legislation to regulate the
collection of service charge in the

country and urged relevant
stakeholders to have a consultative
dialogue to explore and discuss the
need for the implementation of
service charge.
It added that before any decision
or clear guideline is made, the
government should suspend the
directive to ensure that the F&B
industry and hotel operators, and
the incomes of the employees in
these sectors are not affected.
16
SUNBIZ
Be dedicated, patient
and persistent
Selangor
Properties
focuses on
organic growth
BY EE ANN NEE
This week, SunBiz taps Titijaya Land

Bhd deputy group managing director
Lim Poh Yit for his views on
ascending the corporate ladder
SUCCESS: THE
INSIGHT STORY
1) How has your life experience made you
the leader you are today?
During my corporate career, going through
economic cycles and witnessing the growth
and development of the nation have
presented some lessons for me to learn and
become a dynamic leader.
2) How has your previous employment
experience aided your current position?
My career started with Titijaya, and this will
be my first and last job.
3) What have the highlights and challenges
been during your tenure at Titijaya?
The challenges would have to be weathering
through the economic and business
environment in 2009.
The highlight would be seeing my
company develop and being successfully
listed on Bursa Malaysia. Since then, our group
has experienced a steady compounded growth
rate since our listing.
4) What advice can you offer to budding
entrepreneurs/youths who want to start
their career/own business?
Perseverance. I believe that you can achieve
your objective/goals once you are dedicated,

patient and persistent.
5) How do you maintain work/life balance?
Work and life will find its equation
when you love and have passion
for your work.
6) What do you want to
accomplish in the next five
years?
Continue to drive the rapid
growth of the group.
7) Best piece of advice you
ever got during your career?
Be patient. They say patience is a
virtue.
8) Most admired business
leader? Why?
Steve Jobs. His innovation
has changed the world.
9) How do you stay
abreast with issues
affecting your
industry?
I make it a point to
always meet with
industry peers and
Rehda (Real Estate
and Housing
Developers
Association) to
keep myself
updated on the
industry.
10) What was
your biggest failure and how did you learn

from it?
My biggest failure is my fear to fail. Now,
what I learn, is to do my best towards
achieving my goals and leave the rest to God.
11) What was the most outlandish
business proposal you have ever
heard of?
Virgin Galactic.
12) What man-made innovation
confounds you? Why?
ICT. Rapid information dissemination
has changed the world. People are
very well informed in many ways,
and it has and will continue to
change lifestyle, culture etc.
13) The biggest challenge
youve faced?
My biggest challenge is
cultivating a great
corporate culture.
14) Malaysias greatest
brand?
Petronas.
15) Blue or red ocean
strategy? Or neither? Why?
Blue and red. One has to
open new market and
continue to compete in the
current market.
16) A must-read for every
business owner/manager is
..?
Good to Great by Jim Collins.
Prudential records healthy rise in new premiums

KUALA LUMPUR: Prudential Assurance
Malaysia Bhd reported an 8% increase in its
new business annual premium equivalent
(NBAPE) for the financial year ended Dec 31,
2014 at RM1.12 billion compared with RM1.04
billion in 2013.
Prudential Assurance Malaysia CEO
Philip Seah attributed the healthy growth
rate to its strong product mix and record
numbers in new agent recruits. The NBAPE
includes takaful sales.
Providing innovative financial solutions
to meet our customers ever changing needs
have always been at the forefront of what we

do. Last year we enhanced our best-selling
female protection plan, PRUlady to
incorporate new features that cater to the
evolving needs of women today. We also
introduced a new product, PRUcancer plan
to help as many Malaysians as possible in
closing their health protection gap, he said
in a statement.
Prudential Assurance Malaysia registered
a record 31% growth in the number of new
agents recruited in 2014. With an agency
force that has grown to over 16,000-strong,
recruitment is key to its sales growth.

The agency force continues to be our
main distribution channel though our
bancassurance channel is also growing
rapidly, Seah said.
Prudential saw the number of new agents
shoot to an all-time high, with 53% of the total
new recruits were Gen-Y.
This is very much in line with our
aspiration to build a young, well-educated
and professional full time agency force to
reach out and cater to an increasingly
sophisticated consumer base, Seah said.
sunbiz@thesundaily.com
KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor Properties

Bhd is focusing on organic growth and
plans to launch two property projects
in the Klang Valley with an estimated
total gross development value (GDV)
of RM825 million in this calendar year.
COO Chong Koon San said the first
project includes 38 units of semidetached homes priced above RM1.8
million and 24 units of bungalows priced
above RM2 million in Bukit Permata,
Gombak, with a GDV of RM125 million.
The Bukit Permata project is
expected to start middle of this year.
Were in the midst of getting relevant
approvals, he told reporters after the
groups AGM here last Friday.
The second project is a high-end
105-unit condominium in Damansara
Heights with an estimated GDV of
RM700 million that is targeted to
launch in December.
The group has a landbank of 264
acres in Damansara Heights, Hulu
Langat, Selayang and Gombak that can
keep it busy for the next 10 years. It has
increased efforts to source for sizeable
land, notably in the Klang Valley, which
is suitable for township development.
The group expects a slight
improvement in its financial results
for the year ending Oct 31, 2015 (FY15)
compared with FY14 when it
registered a net profit of RM198.6
million and revenue of RM101 million.
Chong said the group is focusing on
organic growth and its recurring
income is steady.
However, he said property
development is the one that would spur
growth. If we have a launch of
property and have good take-up rates,
that would spur the additional growth.
Director of finance Lee Tart
Choong said there will be slight
improvement in the groups financial
performance for FY14 because of the
refurbished shops in Jalan Batai, on
which it spent some RM3 million.
The residential housing project in
Selayang Mulia is still in the planning
stage and is expected to be launched
after 2015. It is estimated to have a
GDV is RM395 million comprising
1,724 units of two- to three-storey link
houses, medium-cost apartments and
low-cost apartments.
17
18
SUNBIZ
NORMAN HIU/ THESUN
EXCHANGE RATES
Foreign currency
1 US DOLLAR
1 AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
1 BRUNEI DOLLAR
1 CANADIAN DOLLAR
1 EURO
1 NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR
1 SINGAPORE DOLLAR
1 STERLING POUND
1 SWISS FRANC
100 UAE DIRHAM
100 BANGLADESH TAKA
100 CHINESE RENMINBI
100 HONGKONG DOLLAR
100 INDIAN RUPEE
100 INDONESIAN RUPIAH
100 JAPANESE YEN
100 PAKISTAN RUPEE
100 PHILIPPINE PESO
100 QATAR RIYAL
100 SAUDI RIYAL
100 SOUTH AFRICA RAND
100 THAI BAHT
Shell Malaysia chairman Iain Lo and Ministry

of International Trade & Industry secretarygeneral Datuk Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria at
a press conference after the official opening
of its Menara Shell offices in Kuala Lumpur
on Thursday.
BERNAMAPIX
International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed

announcing detailed guidelines on four new tax incentives for investors
and companies, to boost Malaysias competitiveness, at Mida Sentral in
Kuala Lumpur last Monday.
Bursa Malaysia CEO

Datuk Tajuddin Atan
(third from right)
with local celebrities
who participated in
the share investment
programme Celeb.
Tradr on the
Bursamarketplace
(BursaMKTPLC)
website posing with
the limited edition
T-shirt at Galeri
Bursa Malaysia last
Thursday.
Bank sell Bank buy Bank buy

TT/OD
TT
OD
3.6870
3.5920
3.5820
2.8460
2.7680
2.7520
2.7150
2.6420
2.6340
2.9290
2.8560
2.8440
3.9330
3.8350
3.8150
2.8080
2.7110
2.6950
2.7145
2.6420
2.6340
5.4100
5.3020
5.2820
3.7660
3.6860
3.6710
101.6100 96.5700 96.3700
4.7970
4.5450
4.3450
59.3000 57.1000
0.0000
48.1600 45.7600 45.5600
6.0200
5.6600
5.4600
0.0296
0.0268
0.0218
3.0640
2.9770
2.9670
3.6800
3.4600
3.2600
8.4100
7.9400
7.7400
102.4600 97.4700 97.2700
99.5500 94.5000 94.3000
31.7100 29.2500 29.0500
12.0900 10.2700
9.8700
Source: Malayan Banking Berhad/Bernama
From left: Tune Studio CEO Adib Khalid, Tune Insurance CEO Daniel Su, Tune Hotels CEO Mark Lankester, Tune Talk CEO
Jason Lo, Tune Hotels COO Frank Trampert, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Tune Group group CEO Tan Hong Kheng, Datuk
Kamarudin Meranun, Tune Group director Lim Kian Onn, Tune Insurance Malaysia CEO Junior Cho, Air Asia X CEO Ben
Ismail, EDUC8 CEO Joyce Lai, AirAsia Big CEO Alice Goh and Tune Money CEO Amar Abrol during the launch of Wisma
Tune at Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, last Monday.
APRIL 10, 2015
IPI output growth

slows in February
PETALING JAYA: Malaysias industrial production
index (IPI), which tracks industrial activities, grew at
a slower pace of 5.2% year-on-year in February
compared to 7% in January.
IPI growth during the month was led by the
mining sector (9.2%), followed by manufacturing
sector (4.0%) and electricity output (1.9%).
Within the mining sub-sector, the extraction of
crude oil and natural gas output expanded by 9.2%
during the month.
In the manufacturing sector, electrical &
electronics (E&E) output increased by 8.4% while
petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products
output expanded 4.1%.
However, on a month-on-month basis, all subsectors contracted during the month including mining
(-9.5%), manufacturing (-6.5%) and electricity (-9.5%).
Alliance Research chief economist Manokaran
Mottain said February IPI performance came in line with
the Bloomberg consensus estimate of a 5.1% growth.
While February was a shorter working month
due to the Chinese New Year festive, weak demand
also probably contributed to the slower IPI
expansion, he said in a report last Friday.
Manokaran noted that recent exports data had
been on a downward trend, reflecting signs of
decelerating global demand.
In February, exports contracted 9.7% year-on-year
(January -0.6%), dragged down by weak commodities
exports and lower shipment of E&E goods.
We remain cautious on the near term prospects
of manufactured goods output. E&E products in
particular, accounted for around 35% of total exports,
while the weak global manufacturing PMI data is
pointing towards bearish external trade activities,
he said.
He pointed out that the US manufacturing ISM
eased for the fifth consecutive month to 51.5 in March
while the Chinese manufacturing outlook remains
tentative as its PMI borders around the 50-point
threshold that separates contraction from expansion.
WARRANTS WATCH
HSI call warrants hit 30% upside limit

THE Hong Kong Stock Exchange took a long
break for the Good Friday, Easter and Ching
Ming holidays and resumed trading on
Wednesday (April 8) with a bang, causing
the Hang Seng Index (HSI) to surge 961
points (+3.8%) to close at 26,237. The HSI
continued its strong run on Thursday, adding
2.7%, touching a seven-year high intraday at
27,923. It ended the week 7.9% higher at
27,272.
The strong HSI pushed many of the call
warrants over HSI to hit the Bursa-enforced 30
sen or 30% static limit, which limited most call
warrants over the HSI to a 30 sen upside from
last traded price if the warrant is below RM1,
or 30% upside if the warrant is above RM1.
With the Hong Kong market moving so
quickly to the upside, all of the activity in the
HSI was focused on the put warrants, with
investors betting that the market will pull

back. Put warrant HSI-H4 came up top with
more than 29m units exchanging hands.
Put warrants move in an inverse direction
as the underlying, declining in value as the
underlying goes up. For HSI-H4, the warrant
fell 91% for the week to end at RM0.015 as the
HSI closed 7.9% higher at 27,272.
Trading over the FBM KLCI was less
volatile as the local index started the week
strong, rising to a high of 1,856.51 on Tuesday
before losing momentum to close at 1,844.31
last Friday, representing a week on week gain
of 0.5%.
Investors were seen trading both put and
call warrants over the FBM KLCI with put
warrant FBM KLCI-HI and call warrant FBM
KLCI-CO being the top two warrants over FBM
KLCI. The turnover of FBM KLCI-HI and FBM
Warrant
Name
FBMKLCI-HI
HSI-CL
HSI-HB
HSI-HC
FBMKLCI-CO
Closing Bid
Price (RM)
0.610
1.21
0.450
0.28
0.665
Total Turnover
Price
(RM mil)
change* (%)
10.4
5.2
3.8
3.2
3.0
0.8
45.8
-15.1
-3.4
-2.2
*price change calculated using bid price
KLCI-CO was RM10.4 million and RM3.0

million respectively for the week. Warrants
over the FBM KLCI contributed 34.4% of the
weeks turnover of RM22.5 million.
Index warrants enable investors to take a
broad view on the index without the risk
associated with picking a single stock. The
effective gearing in these warrants provide
investors with a leveraged exposure over the
underlying index.
Issuer
Exercise
Level/Price
Macquarie
Macquarie
Macquarie
Macquarie
Macquarie
1,880
25,500
24,400
23,400
1,780
Expiry
Date
Effective
Gearing (x)
30 Sept 2015
29 June 2015
28 Aug 2015
28 Aug 2015
30 Sept 2015
7.9
8.7
8.3
9.7
8.7
Source: Bloomberg, malaysiawarrants.com.my
To read more about index warrants, visit

malaysiawarrants.com.my.
Provided for Malaysian residents
information only. It is not an offer or
recommendation to trade and is
not research material. Past
performance is not indicative of
future performance. You should
make your own assessment and
seek professional advice.
ENTERTAINMENT
19
BY CHAN SOO WAH
VER 1,000 devoted

fans of Jacky
Cheung came to
welcome the Hong
Kong superstar singersongwriter who was in
Kuala Lumpur to promote
his brand new album, Wake
Up Dreaming.
As one of the four Hong
Kong gods of songs, a
title bestowed upon him
by his fans and peers,
Cheung celebrated his 30th
anniversary in the music
industry last year with the
release of this latest album.
Wake Up Dreaming
is also his first Mandarin
album in seven years since
his last Mando-pop album,
Black & White, in 2004.
Co-produced by Andrew
Tuason and Cheung
himself, Wake Up
Dreaming was recorded at
Abbey Road Studios in
August last year.
Cheung was the first
Mando-pop singer to record
an album at this famous
London studio.
The album features the
single The Rest of Time,
which was released digitally
without any promotion at
the end of last October, and
yet, managed to shoot to the
top of the digital charts.
Wake Up Dreaming
sold over 10,000 copies on
its first day of release in
China last December and
became the most popular
album of 2014 despite its late
release.
The album also achieved
gold status (5,000 copies
sold) in Malaysia within
weeks of its release, proving
that Cheung still retains his
popularity here.
At the charming 53-yearolds one and only
autograph session out of
Hong Kong, fans far and
wide including from our
neighbouring countries
came to meet the legend
himself.
While Cheung appeared
slightly nervous on being
greeted by a mass of
screaming fans, he slowly
warmed up and even shared
many jokes with the emcees
and the crowd.
Speaking of his album,
Cheung said he had wanted
to produce it 10 years ago
but hesitated as he wasnt
sure if he could produce a
quality album.
Instead, he spent the last
JUKE BOX
A dream come true

> Hong Kongs god of songs Jacky Cheung is back with a new
Mando-pop album that took him10 years to produce
decade letting the idea brew

in his head, and when he
finally did it, Cheung said he
learnt three things from the
experience, as both singer
and producer for the album.
First, I learned that I
needed vocal training.
Second, that you cannot
force it if you cant do it. If
theres a song that just
doesnt sound right, no
matter how much you try,
dont force it and dont
waste your time.
Third, that there is no
difference releasing this
album 10 years earlier or
later as the result will still be
the same! he added
cheekily, drawing laughter
from the crowd.
The singer also said that
he set out to do what he
wanted with this album;
thats why he didnt rush the
project.
Back in those days, we
had to come up with an
album under a tight
deadline. Most of the time,
we did not have the chance
to redo songs that we
considered not good enough
because of the strict
deadline.
Now, I am just glad that
I can do that, and thats how
I want with my albums.
Lamenting on the bane of
music piracy, Cheung said:
It is rather difficult to
release albums nowadays.
I understand that it is
easier to click download
than run out to the store to
get an album. But I would
suggest that if you prefer to
download, to please use
legal sites to purchase the
music.
Cheung also hinted on
the possibility of a concert
tour when asked if he would
be staging any to celebrate
his 30 years in the music
industry.
There will certainly be a
concert in the future and I
will certainly bring it to
Malaysia. However, it will
not be a 30th anniversary as
it has already passed!
The singer, who is also
an award-winning actor, has
been putting his acting on
the back burner since the
Universal Music Malaysia managing director Loan Cheong

presenting Cheung with a plaque marking the singers latest
album achieving gold status.
early 2000s to concentrate
on his music career.
His last feature role was
in 2010 (Crossing Hennessy).
However, fans can now
expect to see him on the big
screen for Helios, an
upcoming crime thriller
directed by Longman Leung
and Sunny Luk.
Cheung plays a physics
professor at the University
of Hong Kong.
When asked if his role in
his new film is challenging,
Cheung said: Yes, it is very
challenging to pretend to be
an intelligent person and be
convincing about it!
On his long and
outstanding career, Cheung
said: I think Im very lucky
somehow, I am able to
stay relevant all these years.
So, I am very grateful
and I have to thank my
supportive fans for that!
REVIEWS BY S. INDRA SATHIABALAN
Smoke + Mirrors
X Imagine Dragons
X Universal Music
THE THING I love most about this
band is that it embraces various
musical genres and cannot be
pigeon-holed.
This album also features the
popular radio-friendly I Bet My Life. Other
tracks that should do well

are the rock-centric It
Comes Back to You,
Trouble and Summer.
The tracks here may not
be as diverse in genre as
Imagine Dragons previous
effort but the boys still
deliver a good collection of songs.
Nick Jonas
X Nick Jonas
X Universal Music
OF THE three Jonas brothers, I
would say that Nick is clearly the
most talented and he proves it
with this debut solo album that
displays many facets of himself as
a musician.
If you liked Jealous, you

will also enjoy Push, Numb
(featuring Angel Haze), I
Want You and Avalanche
(with Demi Lovato).
Nicks
showmanship
quality comes across in his
singing here and his
transition into a solo star is a success.
Love song for Jay Z

R&B QUEEN Beyonce
(below) has quietly
released a love song
dedicated
to
her
husband, hip-hop mogul
Jay Z, available only
on his new streaming
service Tidal.
Songstress Queen Bey
posted a 15-second
preview of the acoustic
ballad Die with You on
her Facebook page
recently in celebration of
the couples seven-year
wedding anniversary.
I dont have a reason
to be if I cant be with
you, Beyonce sings
softly as she plays the
piano,
wearing
a
backwards cap, blond
pigtails and appearing
make-up free.
Cause Darling I wake
up just to sleep with you
/ I open my eyes so I
can see with you /
and I live so I can
die with you,
she sings in the
home-video
style clip.
T h e
camera
m o v e s
around her
as she
croons,
before
turning on
the filmer: the
lucky man himself,
husband Jay Z.
The rebranded Tidal

streaming service was
launched in March by Jay
Z, backed by major music
heavyweights including
Madonna, Kanye West
and the masked electronic
duo Daft Punk, who will
all be equity partners in
the new Tidal that will
offer exclusive content.
The site also features
exclusive music videos
from R&B singers Rihanna
and Alicia Keys and
rockers
The
White
Stripes.
Beyonce posted the
song unexpectedly on
social media, much like
the surprise release of her
eponymous album last
year that quickly became
a top-seller around the
world. AFP-Relaxnews
20
GOOD VIBES
theSun ON MONDAY | ARPIL 13 2015
Have urn will travel

> Even the cremated remains of the dearly departed
can go on the move in unexpected ways
WAS facing a problem. I

had to take a bag of
cremated remains on a
flight, but officials in my
town had passed a law banning
the export of human remains
without a permit.
Put it in a talcum powder
container, said one reader.
Label it as self-raising
flour, said another.
A creative one suggested I
spread it between 62 ashtrays
and pretend to be a used
ashtray collector.
Then, there was the
friend who told me to hide
the white-ish powder on my
person in a Ziploc bag labelled
Dangerous Illegal Drugs.
At first, I thought she was
working against my best
interests, but she explained
that the Universes sense
of irony would protect me,
which actually makes perfect
sense, as long as your mind is
scarily warped.
But all the ideas were
rejected as too disrespectful
of my cargo.
Ashes have power. A
reader in the UK forwarded a
news report about a woman
who received so many mobile
phone bills for her deceased
husband that she slammed the
urn holding his ashes onto the
phone companys front desk,
uttering words to the effect:
Here he is, why dont you ask
him yourself?
Officials finally accepted
that he could not still be
making calls.
She was lucky. My own
telecoms provider would
have said: Your relative is
liable for all charges until he
sends us a signed termination
form, and by the way, Heaven
to Earth calls attract a 85%
roaming data surcharge. Mwa
ha ha ha ha. (Thats how they
end all communications.)
My correspondent in
mainland China commented
with a news report about a
Be Light ...
BY BRIDGET
MENEZES
Love for spiritual introversion,

solitude and silence compliment our
life in a beautiful way.
A holiday to find
the inner self
professional urn kidnapper.

Mr Xu of Hunan Province
would abduct urns and phone
owners with a threat: Unless
you pay me cash, you will
never see your loved one alive
again, I mean, still dead.
Despite the relative
weakness of this argument, he
earned a small fortune before
being caught last year.
From my man in Japan
came news that people have
been leaving the ashes of
their grandparents on trains,
where most end up in the lost
property office at the main
Tokyo station.
Wheres Grandfather,
Watanabe-san?
Damn! He was under my

arm a moment ago.
Station staff complain
that they are paid to babysit
umbrellas, not a congregation
of dead people, staring at
them from a shelf.
Anyway, lucky for me, I
am far too much of a deeplymoral, highly-principled
citizen to ever break any laws
at all, unless youre talking big
bucks.
So I decided against trying
any of the smuggling schemes,
and managed to persuade
officials to fast-track me my
very own human remains
export licence.
I can now officially fly
with cremated ashes, corpses,

the Walking Dead, etc. If the
manager of the Rolling Stones
wants someone to babysit
Keith Richards on a plane, Im
your man.
Having solved my problem,
I think Ill go and do some
exercise with pies.
They do weigh 340
grammes each; thats weight I
am lifting each time I put one
in my mouth, so thats gotta
count, right?
I HAVE just returned from Mount Abu

in Rajasthan, India, feeling refreshed and
energised. Years ago, I used to go for
such exotic trips and upon my return, I
would need a few days to destress.
When I got a calling to consider leading
a holistic life, I couldnt believe it, thinking
I was the last person for such a calling.
But I decided to accept and give it a try.
Amazingly, I was transformed in two weeks,
and I have never looked back since.
A holiday entails travelling to an exotic
destination to stimulate our body into
relaxation while a retreat usually means
travelling to an ordinary and simple location
to meditate and reflect, so that mind and
spirit can relax properly.
While many will return from their holiday
often weary and drained by the hectic
itinerary and in need of rest, those who
return from a retreat are more likely to have
renewed energy, and filled with new
perspectives about themselves and the
meaning of life itself as well as a new
enthusiasm that comes from a reprioritisation
of whats really important in life.
On a traditional holiday, rest comes with
sleeping, whereas in an authentic spiritual
retreat, rest comes with awakening!
While one returns from a holiday laden
with photos, memories and souvenirs,
the other returns from a retreat feeling
much lighter after clearing old memories,
habits and lifelong patterns of thinking and
behaving.
The holiday experience fades with little
lasting value whereas the retreat experience
expands when used on a day-to-day basis.
Thats because the holiday destination
was some far-off location, whereas the
ultimate retreat concerns the very centre
of the self which is always available in the
present.
Holidays become memories of then
while retreats are accessible now!
Nury Vittachi is an Asia-based

frequent traveller. Send ideas
and comments to lifestyle.
nury@thesundaily.com.
Bridget Menezes is the author of Second

Edition of Self-Empowerment and
Spiritual Counsellor. Readers can email
her at lifestyle.bridget@thesundaily.com.
LIFESTYLE
Tear-free onions
Tips for maintaining a regular exercise plan
THE SOBBING
of a chef as he
chops onions
in the kitchen
could be a
thing of the
past, thanks to
one Japanese
company,
which says it has
produced a tear-free vegetable.
Scientists say they have managed to
disable the production of a powerful
subtance an onion releases as the knife slices
into it, cutting down on the pungent fumes
that bring tears to the eyes.
House Foods Group said, in a press
release, that it bombarded the brown bulb
with irradiating ions in a process that
drastically reduces the level of a certain
enzyme that is key to this process.
A spokesman said no decision had yet
been made on whether they would
commercialise their tear-free onions.
The companys researchers won the Ig
Nobel Prize an award handed out to
honour achievements organisers consider
unintentionally funny in 2013 for their
discovery of the biochemical process behind
how onions make people blubber. AFPRelaxnews
ANYONE can get into better

shape through exercise, but
good advice can make it a lot
easier.
Here are some tips from two
experts Dr Roland Krzentowski,
president of Mon Stade, a sports
and medical centre in Paris, and
Dr Philippe Sosner, a cardiologist
at the same centre.
Is it necessary to get a complete
check-up before starting an
exercise programme?
First of all, its worth pointing out
that a sedentary lifestyle comes
with a much higher mortality risk
than exercise does.
If the intention is simply to
start moving, without the goal of
pushing your limits, it is not
necessary to see a doctor.
However, if someone wants
to engage in competitive sports,
the approval of a health
professional is often required.
Also, anyone with pre-existing
health conditions, and namely
heart conditions, is advised to
consult a doctor before starting
or resuming exercise.
first three months following a

decision to start working out.
To be of any benefit, the
activity has to be one the person
truly enjoys. If there is no fun
involved, its hard to stay
disciplined.
Also, all sport can be adapted
to each individuals level of
ability.
When starting out, it is useful
to have the support of a coach, a
team or a friend. Social ties are
often essential to the success of
any exercise plan.
How often should one practise
a new sport?
It depends on the goal and the
sport in question. When it comes
to walking, swimming and biking
for leisure, it is possible to practise
as little as one session per week.
If the goal is improvement
over time, with running for
example, we recommend going
for a schedule of three sessions
per week, without exerting oneself
at maximum capacity, of course.
To avoid injury, it is essential
to stay hydrated by drinking

regularly and to divide workouts
into three phases: warm-up,
exercise, and finally cool-down
and stretching.
It is also important to contract
the core muscles (abs, lower back)
to maintain good posture during
physical effort.
What is the best way to stay
motivated?
According to a study, the risk of
giving up is the highest during the
Are diet changes necessary?

If the desire to start exercising
stems from a desire to lose weight,
keep in mind that it is necessary
to eat and store energy to engage
in physical activity!
Changing everything at once
is difficult.
We advise the people we
work with not to focus on their
weight, since we have realised that
eating habits change progressively
on their own when one starts
exercising regularly. AFPRelaxnews
TECH TODAY
21
Maxify-ing growth
BY CHAN SOO WAH
ANON Marketing
(Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
recently introduced a
new brand of
multifunctional and singlefunction office printers called
Maxify, which are designed to
multiply business productivity
and offer cost savings for SoHos
(small office/home office).
Canon Marketing president
and CEO Wataru Nishioka
said: Canons Pixma and
imageClass brands have been
the cornerstone of creativity
and innovation in the printer
market globally for many
years
Now, with Maxify, we
are confident we can further
penetrate the market by
meeting the specific printing
needs of businesses in the
public and private sectors.
The three models in the
new range are the Maxify
MB5370 and MB5070
multifunctional printers as
well as the single function
Maxify iB4070.
Canon Marketing
Consumer System Products
Division assistant director
Jeffrey Kung said: With
these Maxify printer models,
businesses can enjoy highvolume colour printing
at a low cost and benefit
from advanced security
features, network and cloud
connectivity features.
In addition, these models
come with a three-year on-site
warranty.
Kung said the concept of
Maxify multiplying business
growth is attributed to the
fact that the printer line-up
complements both high and
moderate printing demands.
With the Maxify MB5370
and iB4070s built-in dual 250sheet paper cassettes, users
can print up to 500 pages
with ease, forgoing
the need to outsource
high volume print
jobs ever again.
Alternatively, for
those with moderate
printing needs, the
Maxify MB5070 can
get the job done with
its single 250-sheet
cassette.
The Maxify range
also enhances cost
> Canon has launched a new range of printers designed to help

multiply the productivity of small office and home office businesses
NORMAN HIU/
THESUN
(from left)
Kung and
Nishioka with
the three
printers in the
new Maxify
range.
(below)
The Maxify
iB4070 (left)
and MB5070
printers.
savings with its XL highyield ink cartridges for a high
volume printing capacity of
2,500 pages for documents
in black and 1,500 pages for
colour.
Alternatively, there is an
option for the standard yield
ink capacities packaged with
the printers of up to 1,000
pages for black and 700 pages
in colour, said Kung.
Moreover, Canons new
dual resistant high density ink
(DRHD) offers print durability
with excellent water and
marker resistant properties on
plain paper.
Amendments can be made
immediately on freshlyprinted documents without
fear of ink smudges; even
common water spill mishaps
will not pose a
problem.
Colour prints also exhibit
photo-realistic quality prints
for business proposals even on
a plain office-grade paper.
The built-in twin scanner
sensors ensures double-sided
documents can be scanned
in a single paper pass. This
is available in the Maxify
MB5370 which is Canons first
desktop inkjet printer with this
feature.
Both the MB5370 and
MB5070 models also cater to
file sharing within the office.
The Scan to Network feature
saves copies into a desired
shared folder within the office
network coverage.
Quicker access to important
documents even when on the
move is assured with Maxifys
Scan to
Email feature.
With WiFi connectivity,
users may even print and scan
effortlessly from their mobile
device via the Maxify Printing
Solutions (MPS) app, which is
compatible with both iOS and
Android OS platforms.
The Maxify Cloud Link
service also allows printing
from and scanning to a cloud
storage provider such as
Google Drive, Dropbox and
Evernote as well as Apple
AirPrint and Google Cloud
Print.
Setting Restrictions restrict
unauthorised access to the
printer and documents, an
important feature when
the device is shared among
multiple users.
Administrators may
include passwords to
secure their device
and retain their
standard printer
settings.
The Maxify
MB5370 is priced at
RM1,108; MB5070
at RM908 and
iB4070 at RM518,
respectively.
These printers
are now available
at selected Canon
authorised outlets.
TECH BRIEFS
DIRT CAN AFFECT BATTERY
IF YOUR smartphone battery constantly goes
dead, or the device freezes while playing
music, then the cause of the problem may
be as simple as dirt, according to German
computer magazine ct.
A dirty USB port can mean that

insufficient power reaches the phone
during charging. Try cleaning the socket
with a compressed air spray. If that doesnt
work, try using a different charging cable
and adaptor.
Dirt or debris that gets into the
headphone socket can be carefully picked
out with a tweezers or paper clip. This
usually restores contact with the jack.
PREVENTING DIZZINESS
DIZZINESS and even nausea are not
uncommon symptoms for people
using virtual reality glasses or playing
computer games that hyper-realistically
simulate life. The cure, said a group of
US researchers, is a virtual nose.
Feelings of disorientation crop up
during virtual experiences because using
the technology forces a persons eyes to
process images and movements for which
the body cannot properly adjust. The
problem even has a name: simulator
sickness.
But the researchers at Purdue University
in Indiana believe that by placing an image
of a nose on the screen, they can give
people a point on which to focus.
OPEN TO PUBLIC DOMAIN

USERS of Yahoos Flickr photo-sharing
service can now give their images publicdomain or creative-commons status,
making them available for anyone to
publish, reports Flickr product manager
Rajiv Vaidyanathan in his blog.
Using the public domain or CCO
licences means photographers give up
their copyright and licensing protections,
allowing third parties to re-use the images
for their own creative purposes. Flickr has
already made its own images available via
creative commons licensing since 2014.
360-DEGREE VIDEOS
ITS now possible to upload 360-degree
videos to video-sharing platform
YouTube. The videos can then be
watched with YouTubes Android app
or with a YouTube player extension on
Googles Chrome browser.
To change the perspective from which
youre watching, just tilt your Android
smartphone or tablet back and forth. On
a desktop, use your mouse to change the
perspective. Work is still under way on
making the function available for iOS and
other platforms. dpa
Facebook Messenger on the Web
Speeding up to 5G standard
FACEBOOK has just launched

a web version of its famous
Messenger app. This allows
the social network to promote
its new features across all type
of screens and devices.
Once your e-mail and
password are correctly entered
on the Messenger website, you
can easily message your friends
and make phone or videoconference calls, all using exactly
the same interface as on the
mobile app.
Messenger, which Facebook
claims to have more than 600
million users, thus follows in the
footsteps of WhatsApp, another
popular instant messaging service
acquired by Facebook which, since
January, is also available from your
web browser.
With this web version, Facebook
Messenger aims to rival not only
WhatsApp but also Skype and Viber.
The idea is mainly to be able to
integrate new features very quickly,
no matter the platform used to
connect to Messenger.
Facebook is now experimenting,
YOU might think your 4G

mobile device is cutting edge,
but industry insiders already
have their eyes set on the next
standard: 5G.
Enthusiasts promise all kinds
of new options: using your mobile
to pick up a phone call to a landline, or using a tablet to finish a
live show you started watching
on a TV.
The customer will be able to
seamlessly transition between
different communications
methods, says Christian
Fischer, who works on
the 5G topic for
D e u t s c h e
Telekom.
Mobile
networks
a n d
in the US only at the moment, a new

feature that allows users to exchange
money with their contacts directly
through Messenger.
Facebook also recently launched
a new platform allowing outside
developers to create apps that can
seamlessly integrate with Messenger,
whether for inserting gifs or videos
for example, or to promote contact
between brands and their clients for
greater responsiveness.
To connect to Messenger from
your web browser, go to messenger.
com/login. AFP-Relaxnews
landline systems are expected to

be ready for it by 2020.
Mobile phone users will be
able to expect speeds of multiple
gigabits per second when surfing,
says Peter Merz, head of radio
systems at Nokia Networks.
Thats a big upgrade from
today, where most operators
offer speeds of up to 150
megabits per second.
Reaction times will also be
upgraded to take place in a
millisecond. Right now, the best
operators can only provide
speeds between 30 and
100 milliseconds.
Essentially, Ill
have no more
waiting time, says
Fischer.
And, not only will
customers like it,
such speed is key for
future mobile phone
business models.
5G will be a new
era
for
wireless
communications, not just
in terms of people
communicating with one another,

but also with devices and
machines, says Merz.
One example would be selfdriving cars, a technology many
enthusiasts see getting closer.
The future should also see one
single communications standard,
the internet protocol (IP).
There will, of course, be efforts
to expand the system of cables
connecting everything, but the
real focus will be on making the
network more intelligent.
Software will recognise choke
points in the network and route
packages through less congested
areas.
Enthusiasts also see a future
where there are a lot more spots
to connect from whether from
a lamppost or inside a home
bringing everyone on the network
more closely together. Were
expecting a 10-fold increase in
transmitters, says Merz.
But he said he sees only a slight
decrease in battery lives and the
amount of radiation transmitted
by the technology. dpa
22
FASHION & BEAUTY EDITOR: Peter Yap E-MAIL: peteryap@thesundaily.com
STYLE
New generation
(Clockwise from
left)
Rita Ora for
Roberto Cavalli.
> Rita Ora reveals all from her 24 tattoos to

what she likes to wear when no-ones looking
BY LINDA SHARKEY
Tom Ford and

Rita Ora, who
wore an outfit by
the designer.
ITA ORA is more than just a

one trick pony, having
spread her talents across
the worlds of fashion,
music and acting, but in an
exclusive interview with The
Independent conducted recently,
the pop star has revealed she likes
designing just as much as she likes
singing.
Last March 25, the I Will Never
Let You Down singer was unveiled
as Coca-Colas new icon at the
opening of a pop-up bar in Soho,
London, to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the drinks iconic
contour bottle.
There, wearing a bespoke red
dress by Sorapol, complete with
Sophia Webster heels decorated
with Coca-Cola bottles, Ora
revealed she wouldnt be able to
choose just one vocation if she had
to.
I like designing as much as I like
singing I think instead of one or
the other, why cant I evolve as an
all-round artist.
You dont have to choose if you
can do both. Its just about making
sure you do it well, she told The
Independent.
I like to give myself out a lot
because I like to work. I really
do.
The Kosovo-born singer
believes that the combination of
fashion and music is powerful as
its ever been and its just a matter
of time before it all measures into
one.
You see pop stars and
musicians facing campaigns
nowadays. Myself included.
We all have to work together,
she added.
Ora, who revealed she has
about 24 tattoos, is the face of
Roberto Cavallis autumn/winter
2014 campaign, in which she
channelled her favourite icon,
Marilyn Monroe, with signature
platinum blonde curls.
She then launched a
collaboration with Adidas, fronted
by her too.
She also made a cameo in the
highly-anticipated Fifty Shades of
Grey film and has been confirmed
for the sequel.
Ora has developed a signature
style during her time in the
spotlight including crucially on
the red carpet.
Ora opens a
Coca-Cola popup bar in London
to celebrate the
100th anniversary
of the iconic
bottle.
Ora performs
Grateful onstage
during the
Academy Awards
2015.
(left)
She has
developed
a signature
style.
Earlier this year she
performed at the Oscars for
which she wore a
custom-made
monochrome
dress by Vera
Wang.
Her
trademark
blonde
waves and
red lips
have proved
her fashion
prowess, and now
thanks to her
collection for the
sportswear giant
Adidas last year, she has
added fashion designer
to her ever expanding skill
set.
And while some believe it
can be dangerous to get into so
many different areas, she explains
thats how the world works
today.
I thinks were in a new
generation We have to catch up
with the Internet, and if we dont do
it, someone else will, she
explained.
I like supporting things that I
love. If I get something approached
to me [like Coca-Cola], Ill be like
yeah, I love Coca-Cola and Ive
been drinking it since God knows
when.
Everything I put my name on is
for a reason.
Supporting
this argument,
the 24-year-old
artist gets in the spell
of social media, just
after models and
Instagirls Karlie Kloss and Gigi
Hadid revealed the amount of
pressure that comes
from the followers count.
Its just automatically a bit
more
competitive
these days.
Now you can
see what the other
person is doing and
youll know youre
like we have to act
now.
Before you really
wouldnt know what the
other artists were doing
until the other week or so.
Things get boring
quickly so you just have to
keep reinventing yourself. You
got to keep the train moving, you
know.
With fellow pop-star Rihanna
becoming the first black star to
front a Dior campaign and the
fashion world increasingly
embracing diversity in terms of
skin-colour and size, Ora thinks
its great that fashion is taking its
own seat at the steering wheel... Its
such an amazing world and its only
getting bigger.
Oras style, which she describes
as unexpected, spontaneous and
raunchy, varies quite often.

Wed often see her swap her
bold red lips for a nude shade, and
her long platinum locks for a pixie
cut.
But shes told The Independent
that the look she likes the most is
when Im in my own pyjamas...
Just kidding, but, yeah, when Im
kind of comfortable at home is the
look no one choose.
Although shes a big fan of Tom
Ford at the moment, the Londonraised musician is supportive of
home-grown designers, especially
those that keep it young, such as
Ashley Williams and Henry
Holland. The Independent
Back to school
ANTONIO Banderas is the latest
celebrity to pursue a fashion career,
as hes moved to London to study
at Central Saint Martins, the design
school whose alumni include Alex-
Fresh twist
FOR his first collection with ZALORA,
Hipster by Zery Zamry aims to link
tradition with the modern day by
offering stylish men all over Malaysia
a new range of updated traditional
attire with a modern twist. Mod-
ernisation of traditional wear is evident in many ways in this collection.

The traditional collar styles Teluk
Belanga and Cekak Musang are
given a fresh take by excluding the
pesak.
Hipster by Zery Zamry.
Antonio Banderas is set to

become a fashion designer.
ander McQueen, Stella McCartney

and John Galliano.
Following his split from former
wife Melanie Griffin last summer,
the 54-year-old Spanish actor revealed his new life plans on ITVs
Loose Women show. Its something that has been on my mind for
a long time and probably one of
the best schools in the world is
here...and so I am going to start
studying with them, he
said.
It makes me feel
actually very young to
put the elbows on the
table again and try to understand another reality, he
added. But The Mask of Zorro actor
wont leave his career on the side.
Of course I wont stop my professional life, Ill continue acting, directing, but this is a new thing, he
said. The Independent
BEAUTY
23
New bodyguard
ITHIN the context of today's

dramatic increase in
pollution in Asia, Clarins
has launched a new
protective skincare against UV rays and
pollution to fight all consequences of
> Shield yourself from harmful UV rays and the city pollution
these factors (oxidative stress,
dehydration, etc) on the skin by
effectively combining the benefits of
plant extracts and science.
Thanks to a specific combination of
filters formulated by Clarins Research
specially designed to ensure high-level
and broad spectrum protection against
UVA and UVB, the skin is highly
protected against the sun's radiation in
the city, the appearance of dark spots,
darkening of the complexion and
premature ageing.
Now formulated with a powerful
concentration of plant extracts, Clarins
UV Plus Anti-Pollution SPF 50/PA++++
Day Screen offers global daytime
multi-protection for the face, to
effectively preserve the skin from the
harmful effects of UV rays and pollution.
These plant extracts not only act on
the skin surface but also deep down to
reinforce the skin's protection and thus
maintain youthful-looking, refined and
fair skin.
An innovation from Clarins Research,
the addition of organic Alpine sanicle
extract in the formula of UV Plus AntiPollution marks a
major advance in the
protection of skin
against the dual
aggressions of UV and
pollution.
For the first
SPECIALLY formulated for gives the skin a very natural, fresh
time, Clarins has
Asian skin, the texture of this look and restores luminosity to dull
reinforced the
day screen is designed for life complexions.
protective action of
and beauty in the city and is BABY BLUE
UV Plus AntiFor a flawless complexion, this blue
available in three shades.
shade is perfect for minimising the
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free radicals generated
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Three shades
Top fragrance
THE FiFi Awards, an annual event
sponsored by The Fragrance
Foundation France that took place
in Paris recently, honoured the best
perfumes to hit the country's
shelves in 2014.
The 23rd edition of these awards
assembled no fewer than 470 industry professionals and journalists
to enjoy the traditional gala dinner
and discover the new winners of

the FiFi Awards. Sixteen prizes
were awarded this year, including
a new one, the FiFi d'Or (which
awards the best ensemble of bottle, scent and campaign).
Three perfumes stood out at
this special event. They were Valentino Uomo by Valentino, which
won the FiFi d'Or for men, and the
Q&A
CLARINS Group managing director
Dr Olivier Courtin-Clarins
enlightens us on how to achieve
beautiful skin.
What should a woman look for in
a sunscreen?
It depends on which region you are
in. For example in Asia, women do
not like to have any increased level
of tanning. So it's important to find a
product that gives sun protection
throughout the day for both UVA
and UVB rays. Choose your sun
protection with SPF50 and PA++++
and you should get this type of
product from a reputable brand.
Any good habits to develop to
achieve good looking skin?
It is important for you to clean your
skin in a non-aggressive way. And
use a light scrub once or twice a
week. That's the absolute minimum.
Cleansing devices are very
popular these days.
If they are non-aggressive, why not?
Skin is a very sensitive organ and
when it is attacked, it always reacts.
So I always advise women to take
proper care of their skin.
Should one use a moisturiser with
SPF or without?
Personally I prefer women to use a
moisturiser without sun protection
then apply a day screen with SPF50.
I understand that some women
prefer to buy a single product with
SPF than buy a separate sun
protection product. But they will not
get the same degree of protection of
a SPF50 day screen.
Grey trending
award for best bottle design (men);

Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent,
which won the awards for best
women's fragrance and best advertising communication for
women; and L'Homme Idal by
Guerlain, which won the FiFi Public Award for best men's perfume
and best advertising communication (men). AFP Relaxnews
Complete List of Winners at the 2015 FiFi Awards

X Award for best
X Best men's
fragrance by a
fragrance in
niche brand:
selective distribuCorsica Furiosa
tion (Public):
by Parfum
L'Homme Idal by
d'Empire
Guerlain
X Award for best
X Best women's
fragrance by a
fragrance in
luxury brand:
selective distribuCuir d'Ange by
tion (Public): La
Herms
Petite Robe Noire
X Best men's
Eau de Parfum
perfume from a
Couture by
brand-owned
Guerlain
retail channel
X Award for the
(Public): Mer &
best advertising
Valentino Uomo by
Mistral by
communication in
Italian fashion house
L'Occitane
selective distribuValentino won three
X Best women's
tion (men):
awards at the FiFi
perfume from a
L'Homme Idal by
Awards ceremony.
brand-owned
Guerlain
retail channel
X Award for the
(Public): Quelques notes
best advertising campaign in
d'amour by Yves Rocher
selective distribution
X Best men's fragrance in mass
(women): Black Opium by
distribution (Public): Jeans
Yves Saint Laurent
Brut by Daniel Hechter
X Award for the best bottle
X Best women's fragrance in
design in selective distribumass distribution (Public):
tion (men): Valentino Uomo
Double Je by Eau Jeune
by Valentino
Dr Olivier
Courtin-Clarins.
X Award for the best bottle

design in selective distribution (women): La Panthre by
Cartier
X Award for the best fragrance in selective distribution (men): Valentino Uomo
by Valentino
X Award for the best fragrance in selective distribution (women): Black Opium
by Yves Saint Laurent
X FiFi d'Or (men): Valentino
Uomo by Valentino
X FiFi d'Or (women): My
Burberry by Burberry
L'Homme
Idal by
Guerlain.
VINTAGE never goes out of style,

and it seems the latest way for a
woman to make a fashion statement
is with silver grey hair.
Social media users all over the
world have been showing off pictures
of their steely locks via the hashtag
#grannyhair, in a trend kickstarted
by starlets such as Kelly Osbourne,
known for her purple rinse, and
Rihanna. A few generations up, stars
like Dame Judi Dench and Jamie Lee
Curtis have long been proving that
it isnt just men who can play at being
silver foxes.
The movement has come out in
force on Twitter and on Instagram,
with young and old alike going for
grey.
Although the trend has obvious
advantages for those with naturally
grey locks, it is possible to dye your
hair to achieve the look. However,
the process requires serious bleaching, so its a good idea to invest in
Dare
to go
grey.
heavy duty conditioning treatments

to try to protect it as much as possible both during and after the
transformation.
Artificially silver hair loses colour
quickly, but there are a few products
that can keep it looking vibrant. For
instance, LOral Professionnel Serie
Expert Silver Shampoo for Grey or
White Hair and Clairol Professional
Shimmer Lights Conditioner. AFP
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impulsive, many say you are. Now
and during the coming week,
however, you really will need to think and act
swiftly. While youre more than capable of
dealing with the necessary decisions, others will
worry. The solution? Tell them your plans only
after theyre organised.
April 20 May 20
ITS annoying when having
explored every option and
worked hard to organise plans,
you find they wont work. However, within days,
changes in circumstances would demand you
rethink almost everything. On the plus side,
despite those changes, the facts you gathered
recently will still prove helpful.
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cause serious problems, and not just for the
person but for you as well.
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week since it took place, youre
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feelings triggered by the eclipsed Full Moon.
This influenced everybody, but accented the
structure of your life, so raised numerous
questions. While some have been resolved,
others need more time.
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your ruler the Sun and both Pluto,
planet of power struggles, and
the unpredictable Uranus cant be rushed. While
these took place in the early days of April, they
challenged your habitual approach to certain
arrangements. Youre still figuring out how to
make the necessary changes.
Aug 23 Sept 22
YOURE exhausted having spent
the past few days undoing what
seemed straightforward plans
and exploring intriguing but completely
unexpected new options. Even these look like
not lasting long. This means you have to ensure
everything youre currently organising is flexible
enough to ride out yet more changes.
Sept 23 Oct 22
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understanding the needs of those
closest, and doing whatever can be done to
lend a hand to them. Still, recently, the
requirements of others have meant putting them
first and sidelining your own needs. Now, at
last, things are settled enough that you and your
priorities can come first.
Oct 23 Nov 21
ALTHOUGH the pivotal Scorpio
Full Moon isnt until early May,
many of the questions youre
currently asking will provide increasingly
significant insights. Knowing that, invest serious
time in seeking out all the facts. The more you
learn now, the better prepared youll be to make
pivotal decisions then.
Nov 22 Dec 21
THERES no denying that your
lifes brimming with exciting
ideas and potentially-rewarding
offers. Yet, things arent moving as swiftly as
youd hoped or theyre more complex than you
imagined possible. Although you dont feel like
being patient, its the best approach. Within a
week or so, youll learn why.
TV3
Playing hard to
live longer
V
IGOROUS exercise the
kind that makes you
sweat, get red in the face
and breathe hard may
be better than moderate exercise
when it comes to living longer,
researchers said recently.
The study by Australian
researchers is based on more
than 200,000 adults over age 45,
and is published in the Journal of
the American Medical
Association (JAMA) Internal
Medicine.
The study participants were
followed for more than six years.
Those who did jogging,
aerobics or competitive tennis
vigorous exercise for 30% of
their weekly workouts had a
mortality rate that was 9% to 13%
lower than those who did
moderate exercise, like
swimming, social tennis, or
household chores.
The benefits of vigorous
activity applied to men and
women of all ages, and were
independent of the total amount
of time spent being active, said
lead author Klaus Gebel from
James Cook Universitys Centre
for Chronic Disease Prevention.
The results indicate that
whether or not you are obese,
and whether or not you have
heart disease or diabetes, if you
can manage some vigorous
activity, it could offer significant
Flying McCoy
> Heart-pumping and lung-bursting exercises

can help prolong our lifespan in the long run
benefits for longevity.
Currently, the World Health
Organisation urges adults to do
at least 150 minutes of moderate
activity or 75 minutes of vigorous
activity per week.
But the current research
suggests that given the choice,
people should opt for some
higher intensity exercise if they
can, and if their doctor agrees,
the study authors said.
Our research indicates that
even small amounts of vigorous
activity could help reduce your
risk of early death, Gebel said.
For those with medical
conditions, for older people in
general, and for those who have
never done any vigorous activity
or exercise before, its always
important to talk to a doctor
first.
A separate study published in
the journal Circulation, a
publication of the American
Heart Association, found that
sudden cardiac death during
sports activities is rare among
middle aged people who are
physically fit.
Researchers reviewed more
than 1,200 cases of sudden cardiac
arrest when the heart stops
beating due to an electrical
disturbance in the organ that stops
vital blood flow in men and
women aged 35 to 65.
Only 5% of the cases involved
occurred during exercise such as
running, basketball or biking.
In two-thirds of the cases,
patients had a previously
documented cardiovascular
disease or symptoms before the
sudden cardiac arrest.
Our study findings reinforce
the idea of the high-benefit, lowrisk nature of exercise in middle
age and emphasise the importance
of education to maximise safety,
particularly as the population ages
and more baby boomers
increasingly take part in sports
activities to prolong their lives,
said senior author Sumeet Chugh,
who is the associate director for
genomic cardiology at the CedarsSinai Heart Institute in Los
Angeles, California. AFP
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off certain tasks because their
nature was so unclear, you didnt know where
to begin. This weeks planetary setup first
suggests that events are forcing you to take
action no matter what, and second, that you
realise youll learn whatever you need to know
as you proceed.
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have had to deal with a steady
endless diet of family and domestic obligations.
While some were a delight, others were pure
duty that needed doing. Still, now that youre
able to think about other matters, you can begin
planning certain activities that once seemed
only a distant dream.
Feb 18 March 19
FOR ages, youve intended to
turn plans for improvements on
the domestic front into action.
While youre hoping the moment has come,
your time is best invested in untangling confusion
involving your resources, that is, your ideas,
energy and money. Once these are clearer,
everything else will fall into place.
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Frustrated Spieth
> Texan stumbles but stays in front at Masters
ORDAN SPIETH stumbled under

Woods, a 14-time major
the weight of leading the Masters,
champion, and world No. 1 Rory
but salvaged par with a clutch
McIlroy, seeking his third major win
closing 10-foot putt to set a 54-hole
in a row to complete a career Grand
record and maintain a four-stroke
Slam, lurk 10 shots back, but they
lead.
would need to eclipse the greatest
The 21-year-old Texans dramatic
last-day comeback in Masters
finish to a two-under 70 third round
history, Jack Burkes 1956 rally of
yesterday at Augusta National gave
eight strokes, to win.
him a 54-hole Masters record of 16Its about setting a goal and
under 200 and partly eased the sting
being patient with the opportunities
of a double bogey at 17.
that are going to come my way,
It was really big. It was huge. It
Spieth said.
was one of the bigger putts Ive ever
After his 2014 near miss, Spieth is
hit, Spieth said. I was very
hungry to don a green jacket.
frustrated.
Last year definitely left a bad
Speith, who settled for second last
taste in my mouth, Spieth said.
year in his Masters debut after
Ive been looking to get back,
leading on the front nine on Sunday,
looking at trying to get some
Jordan Spieth hits from a sand trap and onto the 10th
made four birdies in five holes to
revenge. Ive got a long way to go
green during third round play of the Masters golf
reach 18-under and led by six with
still.
tournament at the Augusta National Golf Course in
two holes to play.
Spieth said the 24-hour wait
Augusta, Georgia yesterday. REUTERSPIX
But a poor tee shot led to his
between the second and third
setback at 17 and an approach well
rounds added to his tensions.
They are going to bring their game and
right of the green at 18 forced an aggressive
A little anxious, but I actually felt more
Ive got to have a relatively stress-free round
chip that Spieth admitted would likely fail
comfortable than I thought I would. Its just
going, I mean give myself some tap-in pars
four times out of five. It was huge just to see
so hard, Spieth said. Thats a long time to
and not have to make so many putts, Spieth
one go in after the disappointment there on
sit on a lead like that. Out on the course it felt
said.
17, where I probably should have just hit 3a little bit different.
I had to make a lot of putts. I cant rely on
wood off the tee, Spieth said.
And maybe got a little anxious at times.
the putter that much to save me with two
Spieth, who set a 36-hole Masters record
But all-in-all kept it together with the putter.
major champions right behind.
of 14-under 130, lost only one stroke off his
Would have liked to have finished the
Spieth made seven birdies yesterday and
halfway lead, but finds 2013 US Open winner
round a little bit better, but also could have
has made a Masters record 22 birdies in 54
Justin Rose alongside him in the final pairing
been worse.
holes, one more than the old mark of Tiger
after a closing run of five birdies in six holes
Spieth could become only the fifth wireWoods from his 2005 victory. Spieth also
and five-time major winner Phil Mickelson
to-wire winner in Masters history, joining
eclipsed the old 54-hole low score of 201
only five shots back after matching Rose with shared by Woods in 1997 and Ray Floyd in
Craig Wood in 1941, Arnold Palmer in 1960,
a 67 Saturday.
Jack Nicklaus in 1972 and Floyd in 1976. AFP
1976.
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Tiger Woods hits his drive off the eighth tee during third round play
of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Course
in Augusta, Georgia yesterday. REUTERSPIX
AHEAD OF THE GAME
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Nico fumes
> Hamiltons China win leaves Rosberg angry
L
Fist pumps and roars as
Tiger turns back clock
THE ferocious fist pump was back and the
roars echoed around Augusta National once
again for Tiger Woods, who turned back the
clock during his first nine in the third round
of the Masters yesterday.
Woods, returning from a two-month hiatus from competition, and a two-year absence
from Augusta due to back surgery last year,
was his old self in a rousing, four-under-par
charge in his first nine holes that took him to
six-under.
The 39-year-old American was hitting
pin-seeking approach shots that gave him
tap-ins for birdies, and chipped up close for
other chances to the delight of his huge
gallery.
The four-times Masters winner ran off
three successive birdies from the second hole
in a charge reminiscent of the heyday of the
14-times major champion. He had four birdies without a bogey on the front side.
Im starting to get my feel back, my
distance control on my shots, said Woods,
who had two more birdies and two bogeys
on the back nine to post 68 for a 210 total,
10 shots off the pace.
I missed a couple of shorties on six and
seven, and I had my chances to make this a
really special round today, said Woods, who
bogeyed the last after hitting into trees on
the right off the tee.

If I made a couple more putts the score
realistically should have been six or seven
(under par) today.
Woods was paired with Sergio Garcia of
Spain, with whom he has had an icy relationship over the years.
The two had very little interaction, and
the focus fell on Woods as Garcia posted a
modest 71 to stand three-under for the
tournament.
Woods had some adventures on the back
nine, escaping potential danger at the parfive 13th after pulling his drive way left.
The errant shot moved former US Ryder
Cup captain Paul Azinger to call it, one of
the most shocking tee shots I have ever seen,
on the BBC broadcast.
The former world No. 1 cursed his poor
tee shot, but got a good lie on pine straw,
punched out to the middle of the fairway and
made birdie.
Woods refused to give up hope of another green jacket.
You just never know. Thats the thing
about this golf course, he said.
We dont know what the committee is
going to do if theyre going to give us some
accessible, easy eagle pins or tuck them and
make this golf course difficult. Reuters
... but Norman feels sorry for him

FORMER world No. 1 Greg
Norman has said he feels
sorry for Tiger Woods
position as a fallen idol but
believes the Americans
travails showed even the
greatest individuals would
have their weaknesses
exposed.
In an interview
published by News Ltd
media, Norman also said
golf needed to do more in
the anti-doping fight and
expressed doubt that the
games re-introduction at
next years Rio Olympics
might do much for the
sport.
Norman, who swapped
the world No. 1 ranking
with Woods several times
in the late 1990s, suggested
the 14-times major
champion went off the
rails after the death of his
father Earl in 2006, and had
lacked a firm hand to guide
him.
You do need somebody
to slap you across the face,

and realign you, said the
60-year-old Australian.
You dont need your
minders to say Its OK, do
whatever you want to do,
we will cover up for you.
Unfortunately it shows
you no matter how great an
individual you become, our
weaknesses get exposed.
Following revelations of
extra-marital affairs in
2009, Woods has suffered a
string of injuries and is
currently competing at the
US Masters ranked 111th in
the world, his lowest
ranking in over 20 years.
I do feel sorry for Tiger,
where hes sitting at the
moment.
I hate seeing someone
who, at the pinnacle, can
fall off and look so
disgustingly bad, Norman
said.
I dont know Tiger, but
he is a public figure, and
you have to accept that. But
do it in the right way, do the

right things.
Norman said he hoped
he might one day get
involved with the World
Anti-Doping Agency and
that golf needed more
blood testing to root out
potential cheats.
And have an open
policy. If someone gets
caught, release it to the
public, he said.
If you are going to
protect the game, forget
about the institution. I dont
care if its a name player,
someone mildly famous or
an unknown, everyone has
to be treated the same.
Golf returns to the
Olympics at Rio next year
for the first time since the
1904 St Louis Games.
Norman said players
would buy into the
tournament but was
worried about how it would
be perceived and televised.
Reuters
LEADERBOARD
LEADING THIRD ROUND SCORES OF THE MASTERS:
200: Jordan Spieth (USA) 64-66-70; 204:

Justin Rose (Eng) 67-70-67; 205: Phil Mickelson (USA) 70-68-67; 206: Charley Hoffman
(USA) 67-68-71; 210: Kevin Streelman (USA)
70-70-70, Kevin Na (USA) 74-66-70, Tiger
Woods (USA) 73-69-68, Rory McIlroy (NIR)
71-71-68, Dustin Johnson (USA) 70-67-73;
211: Paul Casey (Eng) 69-68-74, Hideki Matsuyama (Jap) 71-70-70; 212: Jonas Blixt (Swe)
72-70-70, Zach Johnson (USA) 72-72-68, Bill
Haas (USA) 69-71-72, Jason Day (Aus) 67-7471, Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 72-69-71, Ian
Poulter (Eng) 73-72-67; 213: Sergio Garca
(ESP) 68-74-71, Ryan Moore (USA) 74-66-73,

Hunter Mahan (USA) 75-70-68; 214: Russell
Henley (USA) 68-74-72, Charl Schwartzel (RSA)
71-70-73, Ernie Els (RSA) 67-72-75, Angel
Cabrera (Arg) 72-69-73;
215: Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 75-70-70, Adam
Scott (Aus) 72-69-74, Bubba Watson (USA)
71-71-73, Cameron Tringale (USA) 71-75-69,
Rickie Fowler (USA) 73-72-70; 216: Webb
Simpson (USA) 69-75-72, Patrick Reed (USA)
70-72-74, Brooks Koepka (USA) 74-71-71,
Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73-73-70, Noh Seung-Yul
(Kor) 70-74-72, Lee Westwood (Eng) 73-7370.
EWIS HAMILTON roared to victory at

the Chinese Grand Prix but sparked a
furious blast from Mercedes team-mate
Nico Rosberg as their long-running feud
reignited yesterday.
The Briton made it two wins out of three
races this year after the cars came home
behind the safety car, with Rosberg second
and Ferraris Sebastian Vettel finishing in
third.
Rosberg, who reacted angrily to his nearmiss in qualifying by snapping at mechanics,
at one point demanded over the radio that
Hamilton speed up as Vettel closed in behind
him.
I wasnt controlling his race, I was
controlling my own race, shrugged
Hamilton, when asked about orders to pick
up his pace. I had no real threat from Nico
through the whole race.
An infuriated Rosberg shot back: Its
interesting to hear from you, Lewis, that you
were just thinking about yourself.
Driving slower than was really necessary
at the beginning of stints opened up the
opportunity for Sebastian to try to jump me,
added the German, still hopping mad.
World champion Hamilton extended his
record number of wins in China to four, but
Major moments in the feud between Formula Ones Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, who clashed again
at the Chinese Grand Prix yesterday:
X As teenagers, Hamilton and Rosberg
fought out a friendly rivalry when they both
drove for Mercedes in the 2000 Formula
A karting championship. Hamilton finished
ahead of Rosberg at the top of the final
standings.
X After reuniting at Mercedes in Formula
One, cracks appear last year at Bahrain,
where Rosberg complains about an overtaking manoeuvre following Hamiltons win.
X Sniping turns hostile at the Monaco Grand
Prix, where Rosberg secures pole after
locking up on his last qualifying lap. The
resulting yellow flags prevent a fuming
victory was overshadowed by his latest spat

with Rosberg.
Its not my job to look after Nicos race,
insisted Hamilton, when offered the chance
to respond to Rosbergs accusation.
My job is to manage the car and bring the
car home as healthy and as fast as possible.
And thats what I did.
Hamilton was cruising almost five
seconds ahead of Rosberg until Max
Verstappens Torro Rosso stopped on the pit
straight two laps from the end, bringing out
the safety car.
Starting from pole, Hamilton darted
aggressively into turn one and immediately
began to take control.
Twenty laps in, Rosberg tetchily told his
team: Tell Lewis to speed up.
Hamilton, who had been protecting his
tyres, obliged and quickly established a
comfortable gap over Rosberg that would
prove impossible to close.
Williams drivers Felipe Massa and
Valtteri Bottas finished fifth and sixth
respectively, with Romain Grosjeans Lotus
seventh and Saubers Felipe Nasr eighth.
Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo and Marcus
Ericsson in the other Sauber rounded out the
top 10. AFP
Hamilton from improving on his lap time.

X Rosberg is left equally incensed at the
Hungarian Grand Prix after Hamilton ignores team orders to let him past.
X The German is accused of deliberately
colliding with Hamilton when he drives into
him and punctures a tyre early in the Belgian
Grand Prix. He is later disciplined by
Mercedes.
X At last months Malaysian Grand Prix,
Rosberg denies suggestions he deliberately slowed Hamilton by getting in his way
in qualifying.
X Rosberg accuses Hamilton of slowing him
down and putting him at risk of being
overtaken after the Briton leads a Mercedes
one-two at the Chinese Grand Prix in
Shanghai. AFP
Mercedes Petronas F1 driver Lewis Hamilton is sprayed champagne

by second runner-up Sebastian Vettel at the podium. after winning the
Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yesterday REUTERSPIX
CHINA GRAND PRIX RESULTS & STANDINGS

1. Lewis Hamilton (GB/Mercedes) 305.066 km in 1hr 39min
42.008 sec, 2. Nico Rosberg
(Ger/Mercedes) at 0.714, 3.
Sebastian Vettel (Ger/Ferrari)
at 2.988, 4. Kimi Raikkonen
(FiN/Ferrari) at 3.835, 5. Felipe
Massa (Bra/Williams) at 8.544,
6. Valtteri Bottas (Fin/Williams)
at 9.885, 7. Romain Grosjean
(Fra/Lotus) at 19.008; 8. Felipe
Nasr (Bra/Sauber AG) at
22.625, 9. Daniel Ricciardo
(Aus/Red Bull) at 32.117, 10.
Marcus Ericsson (Swe/Sauber
AG) at 1 lap, 11. Sergio Perez
(Mex/Force India) at 1 lap, 12.
Fernando Alonso (ESP/

McLaren) at 1 lap, 13. Jenson
Button (GB/McLaren) at 1 lap,
14. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/Toro
Rosso) at 1 lap, 15. Will Stevens
(GBR/Marussia) at 2 laps, 16.
Roberto Merhi (ESP/Marussia)
at 2 laps, 17. Max Verstappen
(Ned/Toro Rosso) at 4 laps.
(Fin) 18.0, 7. Felipe Nasr (Bra)

14.0, 8. Daniel Ricciardo (Aus)
11.0, 9. Romain Grosjean (Fra)
6.0, 10. Nico Hulkenberg (Ger)
6.0, 11. Max Verstappen (Ned)
6.0, 12. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP)
6.0, 13. Marcus Ericsson (Swe)
5.0, 14. Daniil Kvyat (Rus) 2.0,
15. Sergio Perez (Mex) 1.0
Drivers Points (Top 5)

1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR)
68.0pts, 2. Sebastian Vettel
(Ger) 55.0, 3. Nico Rosberg
(Ger) 51.0, 4. Felipe Massa
(Bra) 30.0, 5. Kimi Raikkonen
(Fin) 24.0, 6. Valtteri Bottas
Constructors Points
1. Mercedes 119.0pts, 2. Ferrari 79.0, 3. Williams 48.0, 4.
Sauber AG 19.0, 5. Red Bull
13.0, 6. Toro Rosso 12.0, 7.
Force India 7.0, 8. Lotus 6.0
AFP
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LA LIGA champions Atletico Madrid may target
Evertons 18-goal forward Romelu Lukaku, 21, if
they lose Mario Mandzukic, 28, to Wolfsburg.
CHELSEA are set to complete the 4.7m transfer
of Brazilian midfielder Nathan, 19, next week from
Atletico Paranaense, with the teenager heading to
London for a medical.
MANCHESTER UNITED believe they have
beaten Liverpool to PSV Eindhovens Dutch
winger Memphis Depay, 21, who has an asking
price of 25m.
THE Old Trafford club have also been put on alert
that Bayern Munich could be willing to offload
striker Robert Lewandowski, 26 and midfielder
Bastian Schweinsteiger, 30.
AND United have opened talks with Paris St-Germain about a deal to sign striker Edinson Cavani,
28.
UNITED are also tracking FC Twentes Dutch
winger Bilal Ould-Chikh, 17, dubbed the new
Arjen Robben in his homeland.
MANCHESTER CITY midfielder James Milner, 29,
intends to wait until the end of the season before
making a final decision on his future at the Etihad
Stadium.
LIVERPOOL forward Raheem Sterling, 20, has been
photographed smoking a shisha pipe during a night
out with friends.
REDS midfielder Lucas Leiva, 28, believes his
teammate Sterling is handling the issues around
his future well.
FORMER Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella, 60,
has been given 48 hours to choose between
Manchester City and Sao Paulo.
QPR midfielder Sandro, 26, has defended former
manager Harry Redknapp, saying he is not at fault
for the clubs struggles near the foot of the Premier
League.
CRYSTAL PALACES Yannick Bolasie was in celebratory mood after his first Premier League hattrick
helped his side to victory over Sunderland. He
tweeted: Great win today great to get three goals
they dont come around often lol. On to the
next.
ANOTHER goalscorer, Southampton midfielder
James Ward-Prowse, celebrated his strike which
helped them to victory against Hull City. That goal
was coming!!! Buzzing today with the goal and
especially the result, he tweeted.
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Magpies on Reds radar

> In-form Coutinho gunning for Newcastle
IVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers

believes that Philippe Coutinhos
outstanding recent performances mean
he is rightly being considered as a candidate
for the Premier Leagues end-of-season prizes.
Chelsea captain John Terry revealed on
social media this week that he is voting for the
Brazilian playmaker as his Player of the
Season in the Professional Footballers
Association (PFA) awards.
Hes a young player thats come into
country and adapted incredibly well to the
style of football in the Premier League, said
Rodgers.
Hes very strong in his mind, hes got an
incredible technique, hes up there with
worlds best in terms of his technique. And
still his best years are way ahead of him.
Hes such a humble boy. He wants to train
and loves his football every day. John (Terry)
is probably looking at his performance level,
which since hes been here has been
outstanding and is only going to get better.
After keeping their eyes on the prize in the
FA Cup, Liverpool resume their fading pursuit
of a place in the Premier Leagues top four
today when they welcome Newcastle United
to Anfield.
The Reds will be without striker Mario
Balotelli, midfielder Adam Lallana and centre-
back Mamadou Sakho, who has been ruled out

for up to four weeks with a hamstring injury.
But midfielder-turned-defender Emre Can
has completed his suspension and winger
Jordon Ibe will return to the squad after six
weeks out with a knee injury.
Newcastle manager John Carver has
claimed only two victories in 13 attempts since
being placed in charge following Alan
Pardews departure to Crystal Palace and his
side went into the weekend nine points above
the drop zone.
We have to look over our shoulders,
Carver admitted. Everyone knows the
benchmark for safety in the Premier League is
40 points and weve got 35, so were by no
means mathematically safe.
Skipper Fabricio Coloccini serves the last
of a three-match suspension, while 11-goal top
scorer Papiss Cisse sits out the fourth of a
seven-game ban for spitting at Manchester
United defender Jonny Evans.
Daryl Janmaat is expected to recover from
a calf problem that hampered the Dutch rightback during the 1-0 defeat by northeast derby
rivals Sunderland last weekend.
Rolando Aarons (hamstring) and Siem de
Jong (lung), meanwhile, are not yet under
consideration for a place in the squad despite
having returned to full training. AFP
Coutinho
Hooper boosts Norwichs promotion bid

NORWICH left it late to keep their Championship promotion challenge on track as Gary
Hoopers stoppage-time strike sealed a vital
2-1 win against Bolton yesterday.
Alex Neils team were in danger of slipping
out of the automatic promotion places after
Bolton striker Adam Le Fondre cancelled out
Graham Dorrans opener at the Macron Stadium.
But former Celtic forward Hooper came off
the bench to score a potentially priceless goal
three minutes into additional time.
Hoopers heroics ensured Norwich remain
second, ahead of third placed Watford on goal
difference and one point behind leaders
Bournemouth, as the battle to reach the Premier League heads into the last four matches
of the season.
Dorrans had given the Canaries the lead as
his freekick deflected off Josh Vela in the ninth
minute, but Le Fondre equalised in the 18th
minute.
That set the stage for Hooper, who lobbed
keeper Adam Bogdan to spark wild Norwich

celebrations, much to the frustration of his
former Celtic manager Neil Lennon, who is
now in charge at Bolton.
The one think you know about Gary
Hooper is if you give him the ball in and around
the box, he is a danger and it was a fantastic
finish, Neil said.
We need to try and win every remaining
game, so Im going to throw caution to the
wind and go for it.
Watford are hot on Norwichs heels after a
2-0 victory at second bottom Millwall, which
left the hosts in danger of relegation to League
One.
Slavisa Jokanovics side went ahead through
Matej Vydras superb 26th minute volley and
Adlene Guedioura slotted in the second goal
in the 56th minute.
Middlesbrough are also in the automatic
promotion hunt after a 2-0 win over struggling
Rotherham at the Riverside Stadium.
Second half goals by Lee Tomlin and Patrick
Bamford, who also missed a late penalty,

proved enough for Aitor Karankas men, who
are one point behind Norwich and Watford.
Former Tottenham striker Darren Bent
pounced in stoppage-time to rescue a 1-1 draw
for fifth placed Derby against fellow playoff
contenders Brentford at the iPro Stadium.
Christophe Berras late header pushed
Ipswich back into the playoff places after a 3-2
victory over relegated Blackpool.
Wolves playoff hopes suffered a blow as
they lost 2-1 at local rivals Birmingham.
Aron Gunnarsson grabbed the winner as
Cardiffs impressive away form continued with
a 2-1 victory at Elland Road, a success achieved
despite the complete absence of away supporters following a row over ticket restrictions
for the Welsh club.
Elsewhere, Sheffield Wednesday drew 1-1
with Charlton and Reading, who play in an FA
Cup semifinal against Arsenal next weekend,
settled for a 0-0 draw against Blackburn.
AFP
Pellegrini: We threw our season into the garbage

MANUEL PELLEGRINI (caricature) has
accused his Manchester City players of
throwing their season in the garbage
over the past three months and added that
his squad, which is the oldest in the
Premier League, needed an overhaul in the
summer.
The Chilean said he could take the
pressure of the media clamour for his
dismissal after what he admitted was a
poor season. It has not been a good
season, definitely not a good season, he
said.
In the last three months we threw it in
the garbage, (thats) all we did. But I think
for the fans it is important to finish as near
to the top of the table as we can.
For me the pressure is always the
same, he added.
The pressure is to win the challenge I
have with this club and with this moment.

Maybe last year the pressure was to win
the Premier League and we won two titles
(including the League Cup).
I know that in this career you
must live in the moment.
The past is not so important;
it is about the present. The
pressure for a manager of a big
team is always the same.
This year you (the media)
want to sack Wenger, after that
Van Gaal, after that the manager
of Liverpool, after that you sack
me and then you sack the Everton
manager all except the team that
is at the top of the table.
You go to Spain and they
sack Luis Enrique and Carlo
Ancelotti. So what pressure are
you talking about?

Unless there is a dramatic shift,
Pellegrini is expected still to be at the club
in the summer, when the priority for a
team who have scored 28 fewer
goals than at the same stage of last
season is to sign a striker.
There will be a lot of work to
do, there is a lot of work to do
every year, he said.
Maybe this is not the target we
have set ourselves for this season
but we continued past the group in
the Champions League and we were
unlucky to play against Barcelona.
I dont think we are at the same
level as Barcelona but I assure you we
are going to come closer in the next
couple of years. The
Independent
Van Gaal is like the devil claims Maradona

OUTSPOKEN Argentine Diego
Maradona has compared Manchester United boss Louis van
Gaal to the devil over his management of Radamel Falcao this
season.
The Colombian, on loan at
Old Trafford from Monaco, has
netted just four Premier League
goals since moving to England
eight months ago, and hasnt

started a game for the Red
Devils since February.
Speaking at a press conference in the Colombian capital of
Bogota to promote a charity
match, former World Cup winner
Maradona insisted that Falcao
had not been given a fair chance
at the club, remarking that Van
Gaal is not a nice guy. (He) is

closer to the devil than anything.
His time was cut short after
the injury and he has to adapt to
the move, added the Argentine
in reference to the serious knee
problem that kept the striker out
of Colombias impressive 2014
World Cup campaign.
Van Gaal has the opportunity

to sign Falcao permanently for
just
over
43million
(RM230.55m) this summer but,
while the forward remains on
the Old Trafford bench and
continues to be blighted by
niggling injuries, such a move
seems unlikely. The Independent
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Real Madrid forward Javier

Hernandez (right) vies with Eibar
midfielder Derek Boateng during the
Spanish league match at the Santiago
Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on
yesterday. AFPPIX
Real close gap

> Barca faulter as Sevilla rally for 2-2 draw
ARCELONAS lead at the top of La

Liga was cut to two points yesterday
as they squandered a two-goal
advantage to draw 2-2 at Sevilla while Real
Madrid powered their way to a 3-0 home
win over Eibar.
Neymar set up Argentine Lionel Messi
for Barcas first goal and the Brazilian then
converted an inch-perfect freekick after 31
minutes but a determined Sevilla, who are
now unbeaten in 32 home games, never
gave up.
Ever Banega struck a 30-metre drive
into the corner that Claudio Bravo failed to
keep out in the 38th minute and, after
chances at both ends, substitute Kevin
Gameiro grabbed the equaliser six minutes
from time.
We were the better side but in the
second half they pushed more and the
game was more even, Barca midfielder
Sergio Busquets told reporters.
Whether it is just or not, its what
happened and we have to accept it.
Elsewhere, Santi Mina hit four goals
and Joaquin Larrivey scored twice as Celta
Vigo crushed Rayo Vallecano 6-1 while
Thomas Parteys double helped Almeria
sweep past Granada 3-0.
Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot
streak with the opening goal as secondplaced Real won while Antoine
Griezmann came to the rescue of Atletico
Madrid, who are third, with his second of
the game after 78 minutes earning the
champions a 2-2 draw at Malaga.
Ronaldo struck a freekick from distance
and the ball moved deceptively in the air
to catch out keeper Xabier Irureta and put
Real 1-0 up after 21 minutes at the

Bernabeu.
The World Player of the Years form
dropped after Christmas, coinciding with
Real losing top spot, but he has now
bounced back with eight goals from four
games.
Real were missing several regular
starters against Eibar, who posed little
threat, and Javier Hernandez nodded
home the second after 31 minutes.
Jese Rodriguez completed the scoring
from the edge of the area seven minutes
from the end.
Barca now have 75 points, two more
than Real with seven games to go, while
Atletico are on 66.
It was a good result for us particularly
with the players missing, said Real
fullback Alvaro Arbeloa.
We played with those who havent had
that many minutes so far this season but
they responded well and it showed the
strength that we have in the squad.
Without a La Liga goal in almost two
months, the pressure was growing on
Neymar but he responded well and it
appeared as though Barca would walk
away with a victory.
Neymar found Messi and he curled the
ball into the corner of the net after 14
minutes before striking a freekick himself
that nestled in the top corner.
Banega then started to come more into
the game in midfield and Sevilla began
stretching Barca with their movement in
attack.
After going close with a previous effort,
Banega pulled a goal back with a shot that
Bravo will feel he should have parried.

The game was wide open in the second half and
Luis Suarez had an off-day as he failed to make the
most of a couple of clear chances.
The Barca striker was made to pay dearly when
Gameiro scored following a Sevilla counter-attack.
Atletico were gifted the opening goal as Malaga
keeper Carlos Kameni flapped at a long throw by
Jesus Gamez and it was left for Griezmann to simply
knock the ball over the line from close range.
Malaga caused little threat in a cagey first half
but were given a helping hand by Fernando Torres
who inadvertently headed a corner into his own net
before the break.
Things opened up in the second half and Samu
delicately chipped the ball over keeper Jan Oblak
with 19 minutes left, only to see Griezmann
respond with a clinical finish. Reuters
Barcelona paid for errors Luis Enrique

BARCELONA coach Luis Enrique lamented
the defensive errors made by his side as they
blew a two goal lead to draw 2-2 away at
Sevilla yesterday.
I thought in the first-half we were much
the better team, we played very good football, controlled the game and caused them
a lot of problems, said Luis Enrique.
It was a shame that in the few minutes
we lost control we conceded the goal that
opened the game up.
The second-half was much more even,

both teams had their chances but neither
was superior. We committed an error and
we have paid for it.
The point is what it is, we are still leaders
and there is a week less to go, said midfielder Andres Iniesta.
We have to analyse what we did wrong
and keep improving. We dont need to blow
things out of proportion because of this
draw.
It is a difficult place to come and we

played well for a large part of the game,
but they took their chances.
Barcas focus now turns to a Champions
League quarterfinal meeting with Paris SaintGermain tomorrow.
We always need to be positive and have
the confidence that everything will be fine,
added Iniesta.
We cant have any doubts in ourselves.
AFP
Unpaid, bankrupt Parma stun high-flying Juve

JOSE MAURI struck on the hour
mark as crisis-hit Parma
stunned Juventus 1-0 to hand the
champions only their second
defeat of the Serie A season,
while Cagliaris relegation woes
deepened with a 2-0 defeat at
Genoa.
Days before hosting Monaco
in the first leg of their
Champions League quarterfinal,
Juventus coach Massimiliano
Allegri rested a number of
regulars for the trip to a packed
out Enrico Tardini stadium.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon,
striker Carlos Tevez and
defender Andrea Barzagli were
all left on the bench ahead of
tomorrows last eight clash in
Turin, although it was a decision
Allegri could go on to regret.
As well as not being paid all
season and entering
administration last month after
being declared bankrupt, Parma
had also only taken two points
from their last seven league
outings against the Turin giants.
But Roberto Donadonis men
were impervious to their recent
setbacks, and historical
statistics, as they set about
defying the defending
champions in a bid to show their
relegation fight is far from over.
Juventus spurned several half
chances in a balanced opening
half and had little response in

the second after Ishak Belfodil
cut back from the byeline for
Mauri to fire past a flailing
Marco Storari and into the top of
the net.
Juves only other defeat was
away to Genoa at the start of the
season. Although their second
reverse is unlikely to stop their
charge towards a fourth
consecutive scudetto, it could
give faint hope to Roma, who sit
second at 14 points before their
trip to Torino on Sunday.
Former AC Milan midfielder
Donadoni has endured an
emotional rollercoaster as
coach of stricken Parma this
season.
And although the Duchy
Men face a huge battle to beat
the drop Parma are 10 points
from safety at the bottom of the
table no one could deny the 51year-old coach a deserved
victory punch at full-time.
The lads showed great pride
tonight, Donadoni said. We
might be last in the table but
after everything thats happened
the squad has shown that they
can rise above it.
Allegri admitted to Jtv that
Juve had made too many
errors in the second half and
added: We need points to
secure this championship and
Juventus' Giorgio Chiellini (left) fights for the

ball with Parma's Pedro Mendes during their
Italian Serie A match at Tardini Stadium in
Parma yesterday
yesterday.. REUTERSPIX
its not been won yet. But were
calm and now our focus is on
Monaco.
Its a quarterfinal that will
be decided over 180 minutes like
all the other last eight ties. No
anxiety or euphoria. Everyone
says were favourites but
football games are decided on
the pitch.
At Genoa, MBaye Niang
continued his revival following
his January loan move from AC
Milan by breaking the deadlock
minutes at the Luigi Ferraris
stadium, with Iago Falque
sealing the points with Genoas
second goal minutes later.
Elsewhere, Inter Milan
returned to winning ways in
style, building on Mauro Icardis

fortuitous opener on 11 minutes
to beat hosts Verona 3-0 thanks
to a Rodrigo Palacio strike on 48
minutes and an own goal from
Vangelis Moras in added-on
time after Inter keeper Samir
Handanovic saved a Luca Toni
spotkick.
Inter had been winless since
the end of February and their
first win in six league games has
given faint hope to their push for
a place in the Europa League
next season.
Roberto Mancinis men
remain in 10th place, six points
behind fifth-placed Sampdoria
ahead of their trip to AC Milan
on Sunday. AFP
Lewandowski
double helps
Bayern brush off
injury woes
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI scored twice as
injury-hit Bayern Munich romped to a 3-0 league
win over Eintracht Frankfurt yesterday ahead
of their Champions League quarterfinal at
Porto.
Despite having only four fit players on the
bench, Bayern dominated at Munichs Allianz
Arena and are three wins from claiming a third
straight German league title.
Lewandowski, the Bundesligas top-scorer
last season, now has 16 goals for the season
and is third in the current rankings.
Frankfurt were missing the leagues top
scorer with Alexander Meier, who has 19 goals
in 26 matches, out with a knee injury.
Im very proud, we dominated and played
well, said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who
has described their injury list as critical.
I hope no one else gets injured now against
Porto.
Second-placed Wolfsburg remain ten points
behind Bayern and on course for the Champions League next season after their 2-0
win at 10-man Hamburg.
Goals either side of halftime by
defensive midfielder Josuha
Guilavogui and right winger
Daniel Caligiuri sealed Wolves
win.
Gladbach picked up their
fourth straight league win with
an impressive 3-1 victory over
Borussia Dortmund.
Tenth-placed
Dortmund
went behind after just 29 seconds as Patrick Herrmanns
shot was blocked by Borussias Roman Weidenfeller,
but Sweden left-ack
Oscar Wendt slammed
home the parry.
Brazilian
forward
Raffel addded their
second on 32 minutes
before Norways Havard Nordveit fired home
when left unmarked at the far post with 67
minutes gone before Ilkay Gundogan pulled a
late goal back for Dortmund.
Gladbach deserved the victory, a start like
that is the worst case scenario, said Dortmund
coach Jurgen Klopp.
Then we had to get back in the game
against an opponent who are extremely good
at counter-attacking. AFP
PSG punish Bastia to

retain League Cup
HOLDERS Paris Saint-Germain lifted the first
silverware of the French season with a comprehensive 4-0 win over 10-men Bastia in the
League Cup final yesterday.
In a repeat of the 1995 final, a first half brace
by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, completed by Edinson
Cavanis second half double, kept Ligue 1 leaders PSG in the hunt for an unprecedented
quadruple.
Laurent Blancs side face Barcelona in the
Champions League quarterfinal first leg on
Wednesday and tackle Auxerre next month in
the French Cup final.
It took Blancs men just 21 minutes to find
the back of the net after Bastia defender Sebastien Squillaci was harshly sent off for taking
Ezequiel Lavezzi down inside the box, with
Ibrahimovic converting from the spot.
The Swedish forward scored his 10th goal
in just five games a few minutes before halftime,
controlling Mathieu Peybernes poor headed
clearance before lashing a shot inside the bottom corner.
Cavani added a third with a superb header,
finding himself at the end of Serge Auriers
cross.
The Uruguay striker grabbed his 20th goal
of the season and put the final nail in the Corsican sides coffin in injury time thanks to a
brilliantly-timed pass by Ibrahimovic that sent
him through on goal.
Against a team currently sitting in 14th, five
points above the relegation zone, PSG secured
their fifth win in the competition after lifting the
trophy in 1995, 1998, 2008 and 2014. AFP
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Gunners need perfect run

> Wenger says Chelsea still title favourites after Arsenal close gap to four points
RSENE WENGER has said his Arsenal side

need a perfect run to have any chance of
catching Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Yesterdays 1-0 win away to Burnley made it
eight league wins in a row for the Gunners for
the first time since the Invincibles season of
2003/04.
Chelsea are four points in front with two
games in hand ahead of their match away to
relegation-threatened Queens Park Rangers
later and the title is now theirs to lose.
But London rivals Arsenal have emerged as
their closest challenges due to a superb run of
form.
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Moor: Nothing has changed, we need a
perfect run and we need a non-perfect run
from them (Chelsea) but we cant master
that, we can only master our own position.
We want to keep winning because we
have to look behind us as well at
Manchester United and Manchester City,
the veteran French boss added.
I think we have won 15 of last 17 so we
are consistent.
When you look at the number of
players we had out for months at the start
of the season, we got our squad back since
January and that makes a difference.
Lets focus on the next game and give
absolutely everything to finish in a strong
way.
Aaron Ramseys ninth club goal of the
season was enough to give Arsenal
maximum points against a determined
Burnley team, who missed the chance to

move out of the relegation zone.
Burnley have taken points off
Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham
Hotspur this season with performances
full of spirit and they made Arsenal work
hard for the victory, without seriously
threatening to equalise.
Wenger said: Im pleased with the
performance because it was a fighting
performance and many people question us
on that side.
I was surprised by the quality of
Burnley and it will be a shame if they go
down because they have done fantastically
well, they are organised, they press well
and show great solidarity, they are very fit
and I understand now why they took
points from the big teams.
You have to fight and be combative
until the end and we couldnt score the
second goal, but the defence played very

well today and got us the three points.
Second-bottom Burnley have won just
five league matches this season and
remain two points away from safety.
We had our moments but you have got
to take them and thats what weve found
all season, said Burnley manager Sean
Dyche.
I thought in the second half we went
right on the front foot after them but you
have got to take your chances.
We think the team can perform and
win games and with respect to the teams
were going to play now, theyre not as
strong and powerful.
We want to be effective enough to win
them and I think we have to learn from
everything weve done and package it all
together and make it happen over the next
six games, Dyche added. AFP
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United annihilate City

> Man City blown away by Man United fightback, Chelsea extend lead
ANCHESTER UNITED dealt

Manchester Citys
Champions League
qualification hopes another blow by
storming back from behind to trounce
their derby rivals 4-2 in the Premier
League yesterday.
In an earlier game, Chelsea
increased their lead at the top of the
Premier League with a 1-0 win at QPR
thanks to Cesc Fabregass late goal, as
Jose Mourinhos side went seven
points clear of second-placed Arsenal

with seven games to play.
Victory left Chelsea seven points
in front of second-placed Arsenal,
with QPR remaining in the relegation
zone.
It is one step closer (to the title),
Our situation is good. We need 11
points, Mourinho told Sky Sports.
Sergio Aguero gave City an eighthminute lead at a blustery Old
Trafford, but United hit
back through Ashley Young,

Marouane Fellaini, Juan Mata and
Chris Smalling to register a sixth
successive league win.
Aguero claimed another goal at the
death his 100th in Citys colours but
it was too late to prevent United
ending a sequence of four consecutive
defeats against their neighbours.
The win gave United a four-point
cushion over City in third place the
last automatic Champions League
Marouane Fellaini scores Manchester Uniteds second

goal against Joe Hart during their English Premier
League match at Old Trafford yesterday. REUTERSPIX
RESULTS & STANDINGS

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester United 4 (Young 14, Fellaini 27,
Mata 67, Smalling 73) Manchester City 2
(Aguero 8, 89), QPR 0 Chelsea 1 (Fabregas
88), Burnley 0 Arsenal 1 (Ramsey 12), Southampton 2 (Ward-Prowse 56-pen, Pelle 81) Hull
0, Sunderland 1 (Wickham 90) Crystal Palace
4 (Murray 48, Bolasie 51, 53, 62), Swansea 1
(Shelvey 69-pen) Everton 1 (Lennon 41), Tottenham 0 Aston Villa 1 (Benteke 35), West
Brom 2 (Fletcher 8, Gardner 26) Leicester 3
(Nugent 20, Huth 80, Vardy 90+1), West Ham
1 (Cresswell 7) Stoke 1 (Arnautovic 90+5).
Chelsea
Arsenal
Man Utd
Man City
Shampton
Liverpool
Tottenham
Swansea
West Ham
Stoke
Palace
Everton
Newcastle
West Brom
Aston Villa
Sunderland
Hull
QPR
Burnley
Leicester
P
31
32
32
32
32
31
32
32
32
32
32
32
31
32
33
32
32
33
32
31
W D
22 7
20 6
19 8
18 7
17 5
16 6
16 6
13 8
11 10
12 7
11 9
9 11
9 8
8 9
8 8
5 14
6 10
7 5
5 11
6 7
L
2
6
5
7
10
9
10
11
11
13
12
12
14
15
17
13
16
21
16
18
F
64
63
59
65
44
45
50
38
42
36
42
40
33
30
24
25
29
38
26
32
A
26
32
30
34
22
36
46
40
40
40
43
43
49
46
45
48
45
59
50
51
Pts
73
66
65
61
56
54
54
47
43
43
42
38
35
33
32
29
28
26
26
25
LA LIGA
Getafe 1 (Castro 64) Villarreal 1 (Uche 52-pen),
Espanyol 1 (Sergio Garcia 40) Athletic Bilbao
0, Real Madrid 3 (Ronaldo 21, Hernandez 30,
Jese 82) Eibar 0, Malaga 2 (Torres 37-og,
Samuel 70) Atletico Madrid 2 (Griezmann 24,
77), Sevilla 2 (Banega 38, Gameiro 83) Barcelona 2 (Messi 14, Neymar 30), Almeria 3
(Thomas 45, 87, Espinosa 60) Granada 0, Celta
Vigo 6 (Larrivey 6, 37, Mina 21, 40, 50, 56)
Rayo Vallecano 1 (Manucho 1).
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Atletico
Valencia
Sevilla
Villarreal
Malaga
Espanyol
Bilbao
P
31
31
31
30
31
31
31
31
31
W
24
24
20
18
19
14
13
11
11
D
3
1
6
8
5
9
7
8
7
L
4
6
5
4
7
8
11
12
13
F
87
92
59
53
57
44
34
37
28
A
19
27
25
23
36
30
35
38
37
Pts
75
73
66
62
62
51
46
41
40
Celta Vigo
Vallecano
Sociedad
Getafe
Eibar
Levante
Elche
Almeria
Deportivo
Granada
Cordoba
31
31
30
31
31
30
30
31
30
31
30
10 9
12 2
9 10
10 6
8 7
7 7
7 7
7 7
6 9
4 12
3 10
12
17
11
15
16
16
16
17
15
15
17
36
36
34
28
28
28
24
25
25
20
21
34
59
40
41
43
55
54
50
47
56
49
39
38
37
36
31
28
28
28
27
24
19
BUNDESLIGA
Bayern Munich 3 (Lewandowski 15, 66, Mueller 82) Eintracht 0, Schalke 04 0 Freiburg 0,
Moenchengladbach 3 (Wendt 1, Raffael 32,
Nordveit 67) Borussia Dortmund 1 (Gundogan 77), Mainz 2 (Koo 78-pen, 90+1-pen)
Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Son 15, Kiessling 60,
Calhanoglu 73), Paderborn 2 (Kachunga 48,
Lakic 60) Augsburg 1 (Hojbjerg 52), Hamburg
0 Wolfsburg 2 (Guilavogui 10, Caligiuri 73).
Bayern
Wolfsburg
Mgladbach
Leverkusen
Schalke
Augsburg
Hoffenheim
Eintracht
Bremen
Dortmund
Hertha
Mainz
Cologne
Freiburg
Hanover
Paderborn
Hamburg
Stuttgart
P
28
28
28
28
28
28
27
28
27
28
28
28
27
28
28
28
28
27
W D
22 4
18 6
15 8
14 9
11 8
12 3
10 7
9 8
9 8
9 6
9 6
6 13
7 9
6 11
7 8
6 9
6 7
5 8
L
2
4
5
5
9
13
10
11
10
13
13
9
11
11
13
13
15
14
F
74
62
44
52
37
34
41
51
41
35
34
37
26
27
32
25
16
28
A
13
30
22
31
31
36
42
57
54
37
45
39
33
36
45
53
43
49
Pts
70
60
53
51
41
39
37
35
35
33
33
31
30
29
29
27
25
23
SERIE A
Cesena 0 Chievo 1 (Pellissier 82), Atalanta 2
(Denis 42, 63-pen) Sassuolo 1 (Berardi 59),
Lazio 4 (Mauri 4, Klose 31, Candreva 44, Anderson53) Empoli 0, Napoli 3 (Mertens 23,
Hamsik 71, Callejon 89) Fiorentina 0, Torino
1 (Lopez 64) Roma 1 (Florenzi 57-pen), Udinese
1 (Di Natale 81) Palermo 3 (Lazaar 15, Rigoni
21, Chochev 66), Genoa 2 (Niang 52, Falque
55) Cagliari 0, Parma 1 (Mauri 60) Juventus
0, Verona 0 Inter Milan 3 (Icardi 11, Palacio
48, Moras 90+2-og).
Juventus
Lazio
P W D L F A Pts
30 21 7 2 57 15 70
30 18 4 8 58 28 58
qualifying spot and took them back

to within a point of Arsenal ahead of
next weekends home game with
leaders Chelsea.
City have now lost six of their last
eight games in all competitions and
manager Manuel Pellegrini is likely to
face renewed questioning about his
ability to revive the team he steered to
the title a year ago.
David de Gea had to save at his
near post after Martin Demicheliss
pass set Jesus Navas scampering
through and with United appearing
bewildered, it came as no surprise
when City made the breakthrough.
James Milners pass down the
inside-left channel found David Silva,
who squared for Aguero to tap in his
sixth goal in seven league games
against his teams cross-town foes.
A back-pass to De Gea from Phil
Jones in the 14th minute drew a
barrage of boos from the home fans,
but it was to prove the precursor to
the equaliser.
The Spaniards hoof downfield
found its way, via Fellaini, to Ander
Herrera on the left and his cross was
turned in at the second attempt by
Young, after Gael Clichy had made an
initial block.
Young and Fellaini have been
symbols of Uniteds recent resurgence
and they combined for the 27th-
Roma
30 15 12 3 41 22 57
Napoli
30 14 8 8 50 37 50
Fiorentina
30 13 10 7 43 34 49
Sampdoria
29 12 12 5 37 30 48
Torino
30 11 10 9 35 32 43
Milan
29 10 11 8 43 36 41
Genoa
29 10 11 8 40 34 41
Inter
30 10 11 9 46 37 41
Palermo
30 9 11 10 42 44 38
Sassuolo
30 8 11 11 36 45 35
Chievo
30 9 8 13 22 31 35
Udinese
30 8 10 12 33 41 34
Empoli
30 6 15 9 30 36 33
Verona
30 8 9 13 36 53 33
Atalanta
30 6 11 13 26 41 29
Cesena
30 4 10 16 28 53 22
Cagliari
30 4 9 17 35 58 21
Parma
29 5 4 20 24 54 16
Note: Parma deducted three-point penalty
for non-payment of salaries.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Birmingham 2 Wolves 1, Bolton 1 Norwich 2,
Derby 1 Brentford 1, Ipswich 3 Blackpool 2,
Leeds 1 Cardiff 2, Middlesbrough 2 Rotherham
0, Millwall 0 Watford 2, Nottingham Forest 0
Huddersfield 1, Reading 0 Blackburn 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1 Charlton 1.
Bournemouth
Norwich
Watford
Midbrough
Derby
Ipswich
Brentford
Wolves
Forest
Blackburn
Charlton
Cardiff
Wednesday
Birmingham
Leeds
Huddersfield
Bolton
Reading
Brighton
Fulham
Rotherham
Wigan
Millwall
R - Blackpool
P
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
41
42
42
42
41
42
42
42
41
42
42
42
42
41
42
W D
23 11
23 10
24 7
23 9
20 12
20 11
21 8
20 11
15 13
15 13
13 17
14 13
13 16
13 14
14 10
13 12
13 10
12 11
10 15
12 9
10 13
8 12
8 12
4 13
L
8
9
11
10
10
11
13
11
14
13
12
15
13
14
18
17
19
18
17
21
19
22
21
25
F
89
81
84
62
74
64
71
63
65
54
51
51
38
49
47
52
51
44
43
54
42
37
35
34
A
43
44
48
32
46
48
56
51
59
50
54
55
44
61
56
69
60
63
50
75
64
57
67
83
Pts
80
79
79
78
72
71
71
71
58
58
56
55
55
53
52
51
49
47
45
45
43
36
36
25
LIGUE 1
Reims 0 Nice 1, Rennes 1 Guingamp 0, Lens
0 Lorient 0, Toulouse 1 Montpellier 0, Evian 0
Lille 1, Saint-Etienne 1 Nantes 0.
minute goal that put the hosts ahead.

Daley Blind reached the byline on
the left and cut the ball back for
Young, whose trademark in-swinging
cross was nodded in at the far post by
the unmistakeable frizzy-haired head
of Fellaini.
It was a brilliant response from
Van Gaals men and Citys frustration
almost cost them dearly when captain
Vincent Kompany flew in on Blind, for
which he escaped with a booking.
Kompany had been a doubt for the
game with a hamstring injury and he
gave way at half-time, with Eliaquim
Mangala coming on.
Joe Hart parried a free-kick from
England colleague Wayne Rooney
and then saved from Carrick in the
penalty-area stramash that ensued,
but the home side would not be
deterred.
They extended their lead mid-way
through the second half, with Mata
running onto Rooneys pass and
tucking the ball between Harts legs
despite replays showing he had been
offside.
Smalling meted out further
punishment in the 73rd minute when
he headed in a Youngs free-kick and
after Carrick had gone off injured,
Aguero reduced the damage by
bundling in a cross from Pablo
Zabaleta. AFP
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BUKIT MERTAJAM: Barisan Nasional (BN)

with a 11,721-vote majority in 2013 over Dr

vice-president Datuk Seri Hishamuddin

Two occasions considered special in Perak

the Balairung Seri Istana Iskandariah and

tradition at every opening ceremony.

KUALA LUMPUR: MCA president Datuk

Dr M denies his spat with PM causing a split

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir

Kedah leaders keep mum

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KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Simpanan

Ire over middlemen for

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry has

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Use Tasik Perdana for co-curricular

KUALA LUMPUR: Those residing in Kuala

Territory of Kuala Lumpur branch 99 years

Non-traditional threats can jeopardise national security

traditional security threat as they were

security, but it can threaten the

entering the country.

KIT SIANG: HUDUD

NEWS WITHOUT BORDERS

Shahidan: Disaster SOP needs no revamp

New gadgets see

equipment and coordination needed to be

National Security Council as it is only the

agencies must be jointly held with the

Tough to monitor social

KUALA LUMPUR: It will be very difficult

said at the launch of the PasarnitaToms

Shabery explained that the most

JOHOR PKR MANS

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COLOUR BLIND... It's a

Sunday, yet this motorist seems

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GEORGE TOWN: The Penang

Hudud plot may ruin

PETALING JAYA: DAP veteran

Calling the plot a double-edged

coalitions, BN and Pakatan,

New cancer treatment

KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti

identified and it is meant to

FRIENDLY FIRE ... A girl super soaks a boy at the

Chetawan Temple in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, yesterday as

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PENANG: Hindus nationwide are up in arms