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Bangladesh heist

MANILA: A Gulf Air flight carrying 219 people to Bahrainlanded safely in the Philippine capital Friday after turningback because of a heat-damaged engine, officials said. TheAirbus 330-200 ignited a grass fire at the edge of the run-way as it took off and smoke was seen inside the cabinafter the plane was airborne, said Ma. Fe Malte, an airporttraffic management officer. Gulf Air on Twitter said theflight “suffered from an engine failure” right after takeofffrom Manila at 1:05 p.m. It said the plane landed safely “andall passengers disembarked the aircraft.” It said engineerswere examining the aircraft now. Flight 155 had 207 pas-sengers and 12 crew members, and no injuries werereported, Malte said..— AP

MANILA: The Philippines said Saturday it would withindays send government missions to Saudi Arabia to helpthousands of jobless Filipinos left stranded across the king-dom after the plunge in oil prices.

The first batch of officials would fly to Saudi Arabia onWednesday “to provide immediate humanitarian, legal,and other consular assistance to the overseas Filipinoworkers stranded in work camps across Saudi Arabia,” a for-eign department statement said.

The immediate target is to bring aid to “those withoutfood and in dire need of medical care and other supportservices”, it added.

“A high level delegation of senior Philippine govern-ment officials will also be sent soonest to negotiate imme-diate and long-term solutions with counterparts in theSaudi government,” the statement said.

“The directive of (President Rodrigo Duterte) is to bringall of them home as soon as possible,” Labour SecretarySilvestre Bello told ABS-CBN television in an interview airedSaturday.

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stranded workers

Gulf Air flight lands

safely in Manila after

engine failure

MANILA : Filipino protesters display placards after placing flowers along a metal fence during a call on China to respect theirrights in the disputed South China Sea, in front of the Chinese consular office in Manila. The Philippines told its fishermen onAugust 3 to steer clear of a fishing ground in the disputed South China Sea to avoid harassment from Chinese authorities.The warning came despite a recent ruling by a UN-backed tribunal in favour of the Philippines, as it dismissed China’s terri-torial claims to large swathes of the waters.— AFP

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledgedabuses have occurred in his war on illegal drugs, which has leftmore than 400 people dead in a month and alarmed rightsactivists, but refused to back down from a shoot-to-kill orderfor drug suspects.

Duterte said in a speech late Thursday that most drug deal-ers and addicts slain in gunbattles with police had put up afight, but added that he was sure some were “salvaged,” a localslang for extrajudicial killings usually by law enforcers.

In the case of illegal killings, Duterte said the governmentwill investigate.

“They really fight back, I know that,” Duterte said in aspeech in southern Davao city, where he built a name as amayor for his extra tough approach to crime before becomingpresident. “I’m sure there are some who were salvaged, I amalso sure of that.”

Early Friday, he told reporters that he gave “shoot-to-kill”orders against drug dealers, including politicians involved inthe illicit trade.

“I’ll really have you killed. Look at what you’re doing to thePhilippines and I’ll forgive you?” Duterte told reporters, appar-

ently enraged after visiting a town police chief who was shotin the chest by a suspected drug dealer and rushed to a Davaohospital. “My order is shoot to kill you. I don’t care abouthuman rights, you better believe me,” he said.

Duterte’s centerpiece anti-crime drive, focused on an ambi-tious campaign promise to end the widespread drugs problemin six months, has left more than 400 drug suspects dead,many of them either in firefights with police or under suspectcircumstances. More than 4,400 have been arrested, policesaid. The unprecedented killings have scared more than half amillion drug users and dealers who gave themselves up topolice, officials said. An overwhelmed Duterte has said he wasconsidering setting aside areas in military camps nationwideto build rehabilitation centers for those who surrender.

A legal expert, Jose Manuel Diokno, said Duterte’s latestshoot-to-kill order is, at the least, legally questionable.

Adequate safeguards exist in the legal system, includingrequirements for court warrants for arrests, to protect the pub-lic and ensure law enforcers are not given “unbridled discre-tion” that can lead to abuses, Diokno said.

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KUWAIT: The FHKA-Filipino Heroes Kuwait Amazons held the 4th Feeding Outreach driveprogram at the Phil. Embassy wards/shelter, Hateen, Friday July 29, 2016. It was led by Pres.Arsenia Batojan Landao with the Admins/Officers and some members. Aside from sharing

food with the runaway housemaids, the group also handed some gifts, like toiletries andmany more. FHKA also arranged some short programs drawing laughter and smiles on theirfaces and comforts.

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The government’s Commission on HumanRights could seek to stop the anti-crime drivethrough a court petition, said Diokno, whoheads the Free Legal Assistance Group, whichprovides legal help to the poor.

Sen. Leila de Lima, who led the commissionpreviously, has sought a Senate investigationof the killings but has faced opposition fromDuterte’s political allies.

“ There must be a way other than thismethod that brings us to our collectivedescent into impunity, fear, and ultimately,utter and complete inhumanity. We cannotwage the war against drugs with blood,” deLima said in a Senate speech this week.

She said the dead included those who wereinnocent and “the proportion is rising.”

In recent days, eight suspected drug deal-ers were gunned down in separate clasheswith police in the provinces of Bulacan andRizal and in southern Dipolog city, police said,adding most of the suspects drew firearmsand opened fire when they sensed men whowere buying drugs from them were police-men in disguise.

Three town mayors and a former mayorlinked to drug syndicates surrendered Friday

to national police chief Director GeneralRonald de la Rosa, fearing they may begunned down by authorities.

The mayors, mostly from the southernprovince of Maguindanao, would be investi-gated, de la Rosa said.

“I will not hesitate to kill you ... don’t thinkthat you’re a governor or a mayor,” Dutertesaid, repeating the warning he made inDavao. “You’ll be the first to go before thecivilians.”—AP

President acknowledges abuses...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

MANILA : This file photo taken on March 11, 2016 shows the logo of the RCBC bank at theRCBC building in Manila’s financial district. The Philippines Central Bank on August 5, 2016handed the local bank a record 21 million USD fine after it was used by hackers to channelmillions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh into local casinos.—AFP

MANILA: The Philippines Central Bank onFriday handed a local bank a record $21 mil-lion fine after it was used by hackers to chan-nel millions of dollars stolen from Bangladeshinto local casinos. In February, unidentifiedcyber criminals shifted $81 million from theBangladesh central bank’s account with theUS Federal Reserve to a Manila branch of theRizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), fromwhere it was funnelled into local casinos.

The central bank said in a statement it hadapproved the record one billion pesos ($21million) fine after a “special examination” ofthe bank and its role in the audacious cyberheist. The fine was part of its “supervisoryenforcement action on RCBC”, the centralbank said in a statement.

The move shows the central bank’s “strongcommitment to ensure the stability of thecountry’s financial system through strong andeffective regulation,” it added. Bangladeshwelcomed the imposition of the fine.

“It’s positive,” Bangladeshi ambassador toManila John Gomes told a news conference.

RCBC said separately that it had made pro-visions for the fine and would pay it in two

instalments over a one-year period.The total was equivalent to more than 38

percent of the 2.6 billion pesos it earned in netprofits during the first half of 2016.

But it added: “The payment of the amountwill not affect the operations of RCBC, andcapital ratios will continue to be strong.”

The brazen cyber heist highlighted howthe Philippines’ banking loopholes and anti-money laundering laws have made theimpoverished and corruption-wearySoutheast Asian nation a dirty money destina-tion. Philippine law exempts casino transac-tions from scrutiny by the country’s anti-mon-ey laundering council without a case filed incourt. Filipino authorities now say they havetracked down all but $21 million of the loot,but have only recovered a fraction of it.

The Philippines’ Anti-Money LaunderingCouncil has filed a suit to gain control of thealleged stolen funds from RCBC, the casinos,and a Manila-based Chinese casino operator.

But the process is expected to take years,with Bangladesh voicing frustration at theslow pace of the return of surrenderedfunds. — AFP

Philippine bank handed record

fine for Bangladesh heist

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Labour rights monitors in the Philippines saidlast week some Filipinos have been forced tobeg or sift through garbage to survive aftergoing unpaid for months or after having beenlaid off from construction jobs. The Philippinegovernment estimates about 9,000 Filipinoworkers were affected, though the Manila-basedlabour rights group Migrante said as many as20,000 could be in distress.

They could not leave because they lackedproper permits or were still awaiting months ofback pay, Migrante added. Asian activists andofficials have said thousands of Indians andPakistanis are also stranded in Saudi Arabia fol-lowing the layoffs.

About 10 million Filipinos work abroad dueto low wages or lack of jobs in their own countryof about 100 million people. Oil-rich MiddleEastern countries have been a key destinationsince the 1970s.—AFP

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MANILA: Filipino-American track star EricCray wants to put on a good show in Rio deJaneiro, and make it to the finals of themen’s 400-meter hurdles in his very firststint in the Olympic Games.

Cray arrived from El Paso, Texas viaHouston on Friday morning, and rested justa few hours before joining the Philippinedelegation in the opening ceremony at theMaracana Stadium.

The Olongapo-born 27-year-old whogrew up in the United States holds therecord in the 400-meter hurdles in theSoutheast Asian Games after finishing witha time of 49.40-seconds last year inSingapore.

However, it is in the Olympics where Crayis hoping to make a good impression. Heraces on August 15, with the goal of reach-ing the finals on August 18.

“Hopefully, I get a good Rio showing so Ican make it to the finals,” said Cray. “I feelreal good.”

Cray admits that the feeling of compet-ing in the Olympics has yet to sink in, butjoining the opening ceremony helped himget into the groove.

“I wanted to let it sink in,” he said. “It stillhasn’t hit me.”

Though he traveled 17 hours from ElPaso, Cray is not anticipating any problemswith jetlag as there is just a three-hour dif-ference between Texas and Rio de Janeiro. Itis funny for Cray, however, to travel 17 hoursfor a race that won’t last fifty seconds.

“The trip was pretty long, and I’d be rac-ing like 50 or 49 seconds,” said Cray.

The fastest man in Southeast Asia is gladthat races will be held morning in Rio,because he trained at the same time in

Houston.“It’s a morning race, and it’s pretty good

because I’ve been practicing in the morn-ing,” said Cray, who adds that he “feel(s)great” coming into the packed MaracanaStadium.

He is looking forward to making themost of his Olympic experience, but surpris-ingly, not to seeing the world’s fastest man,Usain Bolt of Jamaica.

“I’ve seen him in a lot of meets,” Cray saidof Bolt. “I’ve been used to it, so it’s notgonna be too exciting for me. I’m not gonnabe too excited to see him.”

“But definitely, I want to see some NBAplayers,” he added. —ABS-CBN News

Southeast Asia’s fastest Cray

hopes for good showing in Rio

KUWAIT: The Global Zumba, conceptualizedand organized by The Gym Team waslaunched today by the group’s organizers andmentors. The event, slated in the month ofSeptember will feature workouts by local

Zumba trainers using different songs globally.Ten trainers are scheduled to lead the socalled masterclass clad in fitness modified out-fits from the countries they represent includ-ing traditional songs from the said countries.

The Gym Team Global Zumba Workout

set to raise health awareness

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KUWAIT: FBC 74th regular tourney went off to a running startwith several thrilling matches in the 1st week eliminationrounds. The tourney commenced with the line-up of talentednew & regular badminton players producing impressive resultsright from the first rounds. This tourney marks with the high-est number of registered new players for different levels. FBCstarted also the Mix Singles event category for levels A, B, C &

D (PM games) now on its 2nd regular tourney. A hearty &sumptuous birthday lunch treat from Mr. Arnel Pugoy andfrom FBC was enjoyed by all participants and a break timefrom their tiring & heated matches.

Likewise, FBC is pleased to invite all Women’s Volleyballenthusiasts to come & join our 4 weeks tournament, open for6 teams, 12-15 players each team. Deadline of submission of

entries is end of July, happening at Kuwait Disabled SportsClub, Hawally. Preparation is underway and is set to be anoth-er studded and thrilling event.

For inquiries, please contact Yonex-Arnel (51356985) orMichael (50938744) and Sheril 97783523) or call FBC hotline66420529 or personally come at the Kuwait Disabled SportsClub in Hawally.

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KUWAIT: Another fantastic Friday once again was witnesslast Friday as ‘ZPavanooQ8 Dance Fitness’ and the FilipinoBasketball League in Kuwait (PBLK) tournament continues. Theevent is being held every Friday at the Kuwait Disabled Club inHawally with gorgeous Master Zin Sarah Decara together withthe Lovely Coaches #Jhing Narbarte, #Mary Jhoi Varilla,

#khleyr Yuson and #Cathey Geladrino. The group continues toinspire and motivate all the members and organizers to liveand enjoy each day to the fullest and have a healthy life style.Many people, Men and Woman have spoken on how theseDance Fitness has given them more than a simple fitness out-let or a way to get in shape, but also as a way to gain self confi-

dence, gain appreciation and love for their bodies and evenfor those suffering depression and body insecurities as a wayto heal and enjoy life. For those interested to experience theFantastic Friday, please come to Hawally Disabled Club everyFriday from 8:30 to 10:00 am. #Kudos to the #Team especiallyto the Organizers and instructors!

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By Maximo Zeus Ducabo

KUWAIT: Playing another bye, Asian Air Safari maintain the toppost while the powerful All Star Strikers piloted by Abdul AzizAl Aslawi who scored 257 in Game 1, snatched the IndividualHigh Game from Tony Zuleta and Vernie Villaruel who previous-ly scored 253 in the fifth week of the elimination round of thePhilippine Bowling Association in Kuwait/118th PhilippineIndependence Team Tournament 2016 at the Cozmo BowlingCenter in Kheifan. SMD Lane Master maintain the eight posi-tion after dominating the game against Original Pin Killers;Swooping Eagles outplayed the NUSANTARA team and risefrom seventh to fifth position; Mangaf Strikers who postedtheir second win still nailed in the ninth position and LEAF whoplayed bye but slide to third spot from second position.

The behemoth Abdul Aziz Al-Aslawi who acted as gunner ofthe All Star Strikers scored 257, 163, 213 (633) to lead its victoryover another rated team Fiery Dragon 2931-2635. The win-loseresult gave advantage to both teams, All Stars rise from fourthto second position while the Fiery Dragons jumped from fifthto fourth place. In the first and third game of the series All StarStrikers posted over thousand points 1005 and 1042 to earnadditional 50 points aside from the 50 win points while FieryDragons scored its second game victory 966-759. All Starbowlers who supported Abdul Aziz were Lady Hanadi Mezail(544), Saleh Al Faraj (390), Yousef Ghadanfar (371), Ibrahim AlBusaf (297), Abdul Rahman Abdullah (289) and Ali Hikmat (177)while Dragon’s players were Mar Evangelista (545), Joel Tizon(509), Mandy Manalo (443), Eddie Pena, Jeanette Angeles,Edfen Evangelista and Moises Amahan.

Mangaf Strikers recorded their second victory out of fiveoutings and their prey was one of the giants of the tourna-ment, the Scavengers 2558-2487. In the first two games theMangaf bowlers controlled the games due to depleted line upof the Scavengers 850-784, 904-841 but in the third game theStrikers lost their stamina and lost the game 779-862. The 5-man team of the Mangaf Strikers were Tony Zuleta (487), MedzNicdao (481), Robert Opena (456)Adolfo Prena (385) and RonFavor (365) while Scavengers four courageous bowlers wereMohammad Yousef (549), Aji Varghese (475), Ali Ashkanani(447) and Omar Al Saqran (442). With the win-lose result thevictorious team still fastened in the ninth position whileScavengers slide from third to sixth place. Emphatic SMD LaneMaster endured their cliff hanger status when they suppressedthe Original Pin Killers 2787-2626 and skid to seventh fromsixth position. SMD top scorer was Ronnel Valencia with 190,232, 193 (615), supported by Ferdie Saliba (566), Mina Andaya(533), Kiko Andaya (461), Allen Morais and Myra Manalo whileOPK’s bowlers were Jess Tolentino (488), Ishaaq Al Waahid(480), Jhun Husmillo (405), Christopher Bush (357), FaridGabriel (357), Norlan Balasan (292) and Jelyn Colegio.

Swooping Eagles posted its third win against the on-offNUSANTARA 2758-2557 and moved up to fifth place while thelater remain the cellar dweller. Riz Roque piloted his team withhis 512 points followed by Jessica Balagat (492), Danny Solis(441), Alonzo Bush, John Caldwell and Jocelyn Borros while theloser’s players were Abdul Aziz Al Ali (460), Datuk Rozian (444),Abel Nitikusumo (439), Ahmad Fahmi (430) and BimaNitikusumo (407). The two teams that played byes were Asian

Air Safari with Gani dela Cruz (517), Lio Michael (514), VernirVillaruel (497), Ruben Cervantes (496) and Sonia Mathews (478)while the other team was LEAF and the top scorer was Joe

Presenta (523), Rocky Castil (499), Marjorie Mercado, CrisCarungay, Blanca Sambajon, Lito Mercado, Chuck Kishpaughand Imelda Daguio.

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Basketball,

ZPavanooQ8 Dance

Fitness’ continues

Asian Air Safari maintain lead,

All Star Strikers strikes again

For individual high scores:Category Name Individual High Gam Name Individual High AverageMen’s A Abdul Aziz Al Azlaw 257 Farid Gabriel 193. 09Men’s B Saleh Faraj 247 Saleh Faraj 183.07 Men’s C Hermie Saliba 211 Ruben Cervantes 84.00Ladies A Myra Manalo 224 Myra Manalo 3179.00Ladies B Laras Nitikusumo 212 Laras Nitikusumo 162.09

Team High Game (Scratch) Team High Series (Scratch)Asian Air Safari - 1010 Asian Air Safari - 3020

Weekly High Series 1. All Star Strikers - 2771 2. LEAF - 2805 3. Asian Air Safari - 2779 4. Fiery Dragons - 2764 5. All Star Strikers - 2806Fifth round results: 1. Asian Air Safari -14124; 2. All Star Strikers - 13785; 3. LEAF - 13766; 4. Fiery Dragons - 13481; 5.Swooping Eagles - 13409; 6. Scavangers - 13391; 7. Original Pin Killers - 13328; 8. SMD Lane Masters - 13193; 9. MangafStrikers - 12793; and 10. NUSANTARA - 12483.

Results for the Individual and Team best