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[email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 Turtles tops inside again, beats COMMUNITY • Stallions cricket team end UK Guardians tour with victory at box office P | 4 P | 8-9 RECIPE CONTEST • Send in your best recipe and win a dinner voucher for two A giant 63m blue whale shark statue towers P | 6 over the world’s largest aquarium, on a Chinese WHEELS island being promoted as a testing ground • Look, no hands! Test driving a for reforms aimed at Google car encouraging domestic consumption as the P | 7 driver of economic growth. HEALTH • SoulCycle pushes you to your limits P | 11 TECHNOLOGY • Removing personal data from sites like Facebook, Google P | 12 LURING TOURISTS WITH LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly used Arabic words GIANT AQUARIUM and their meanings P | 13 2 PLUS | TUESDAY 19 AUGUST 2014 COVER STORY China fishes for growth with world’s largest aquarium by Tom Hancock water — certified as the world’s largest by Guinness World Records when it opened giant 63-metre blue whale shark in March — held back by a cinema-screen- statue towers over the world’s sized window bathing spectators in blue largest aquarium, on a Chinese light. A island being promoted as a test- A rainbow of sea creatures from tiny yel- ing ground for reforms aimed at encourag- low croakers, blue sailfish and lumbering ing domestic consumption as the driver of sharks drifted past. economic growth. “It’s huge,” 11 year-old Wu Junfeng Hengqin island is just across the Pearl exclaimed, as his mother looked on, clutch- River from Shenzhen, the boom town on ing their 300 yuan ($50) tickets.