ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 27 QRCS unveils Qatari banks Pedro sparkles QR8.2m post flat as Chelsea project for loan growth earn 3-2 win in Philippines. in July. Premier League. MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2015 • 9 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6532 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Al Shaqab wins Darley Prix Morny Ministry plans Firms warned 55 new parks DOHA: The Ministry of on healthcare Municipality and Urban Planning is considering set- ting up 55 new parks across Qatar. Mohammed Ali Al Khoury, at labour camps Director, Public Parks Department, said a plan to estab- lish 55 parks is under study to Ministry plans punitive measures meet public needs, local Arabic daily Al Raya reports. DOHA: The Ministry of Labour complying with the above provi- He said two new parks will and Social Affairs is getting sions of the labor law may find it be opened in Umm Salal and Al tough with companies and may hard to conduct their transactions Wakrah in a few months. force them to comply with the with the labour ministry and get Development of parks will provisions of the labour law on their licences renewed. continue, he said, adding that making medical facilities avail- Companies need to get their 15 public parks were opened last able to workers in camps. commercial licence renewed peri- year. The labour law specifies that odically and must deal with the Al Khoury said the department based on the number of workers labour ministry on a regular basis is working with the Supreme (over 500), companies must have to get worker visas, among other Council of Information and on its payroll a doctor. Firms with things. Communication Technology to 100 to 500 workers must employ Companies have also been offer free Internet service at all a full-time qualified nurse to take asked to periodically provide, parks and the shortage of lights care of medical emergencies in through an application on the and children’s games in parks will their lodgings. Companies with website of the ministry or in CDs, also be resolved. workers from five to 25 must all the necessary details regarding President of Qatar Olympic Committee H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani with Al Shaqab Racing’s Shalaa THE PENINSULA have first aid materials and basic their employees. and rider Frankie Dettori after winning the Darley Prix Morny at Maisons-Laffitte, Paris, yesterday. medicines at their lodgings, as per These details must include the law. workers’ names as they appear However, Al Sharq, quoting in their ID cards, their salary the ministry sources, said that and annual allowances or perks companies with more than 100 in Qatari currency, their quali- workers will be required to have fications and the exact nature of a tie-up with a doctor. their work. Gulf stocks nosedive on oil woes Companies with up to 100 A company should save the file workers and less must employ on the ministry’s website citing its DUBAI: Stock prices in Gulf petrochemicals industry lost 7.94 daily limit. The Abu Dhabi to new lows during trade Friday, a nurse full-time and must have permanent commercial registra- states nosedived yesterday in a percent, while the real estate Securities Exchange plunged five with New York’s light sweet crude first aid materials with stocks of tion (CR) number as the title, or massive market sell-off sparked sector tumbled 9.50 percent. In percent, while Qatar Exchange, plunging to $40.04 per barrel, the basic medicines ready at their save the details in a CD and cite by descending oil prices, with Dubai, the leading DFM Index the second largest in the Gulf, lost lowest level since March 2009. labor lodgings to take care of its CR number. the Saudi and Dubai bourses slumped 6.96 percent to close at almost 5.3 percent. World stock markets were also emergencies. Companies not providing these leading the slide. 3,451.48 points. The Kuwait Stock Exchange hammered with heavy losses on The labour law covers all pri- details to the ministry could face The Tadawul All-Shares Index Real estate developer Emaar shed 2.36 percent, while Muscat Friday, as China’s economic woes vate sector companies that must a ban and may also be fined as in Riyadh, the Gulf’s leading mar- Properties lost 8.31 percent while Securities Market and Bahrain triggered European and Wall fulfill the above conditions but so per the provisions of Article 144 ket, shed 549.51 points or 6.86 builder Arabtec Construction, lost 2.94 percent and 0.37 percent Street equity sell-offs and stirred far the provisions are not strictly of the Labour law (number 14 of percent to close at 7,463.32 points. another market leader, dropped respectively. The falls across the up fears for global growth. enforced. It is likely companies not 2004). THE PENINSULA The kingdom’s all-important 9.6 percent, nearing its 10-percent region come after oil prices slid AFP Crash at Swiss air show UAE confirms Bolt retains title presence of troops in Aden ABU DHABI: The UAE, a longtime Western ally and a key partner in the Saudi-led coali- tion that in March launched air strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, has officially confirmed that its troops were on the ground in Aden. The coalition has provided mili- tary equipment to loyalist forces and reportedly sent troops, with Saudi media reporting that some 1,500 soldiers, most from the UAE, had entered Aden. This was confirmed by the offi- cial WA M news agency after the UAE troops rescued a British hos- tage held for more than 18 months by Al Qaeda in Yemen. “This action by the UAE forces in Aden is renewed evidence of the UAE’s unchanging policy towards terrorism in all of its forms,” the Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Swiss police officers inspect the wreckage of a plane involved in a collision with a second plane during an air statement said. men’s 100m final during the Beijing 2015 IAAF World Championships show in Dittingen, near Basel, northern Switzerland, yesterday. Backed by the coalition, pro- at the National Stadium in Beijing yesterday. Report on page 28 government forces retook Aden in mid-July and in recent weeks have been pressing a major offen- sive against the rebels. Migrants crisis threatens EU’s As well as Aden, the coalition UK, Iran reopen embassies troops have recaptured four other southern provinces and in recent soul, says Italian minister TEHRAN: Britain’s foreign be Britain’s top diplomat in is fully implemented by all sides,” days have fought fierce battles for secretary reopened his coun- Tehran. Hammond said. control of Yemen’s third-largest PRESEVO, SERBIA: Thousands of migrants, mostly Syrian refu- try’s embassy in Tehran yes- Iran’s embassy in London also “Through this embassy’s city, Taez. The conflict has killed gees, travelled through Macedonia and Serbia yesterday towards terday in a long-awaited step reopened yesterday. The two efforts we will support British more 4,500 people since March, western Europe, as Italy’s foreign minister said the escalating crisis signalling better relations four nations are expected to appoint trade and investment, once according to the United Nations. threatened the bloc’s “soul”. years after a mob stormed the ambassadors within months. sanctions are lifted. That will Kidnapping has long been rife in More than 7,000 men, woman and children crossed into southern compound, forcing its closure. Hammond, the first British for- bring benefits for Britain and Yemen, with hostages often used Serbia from Macedonia overnight Saturday to Sunday alone, the UN’s Philip Hammond’s two-day trip eign secretary to visit Iran since the Iranian people.” as bargaining chips between rival refugee agency (UNHCR) said, with many more still expected to arrive. comes five weeks after Britain and Jack Straw in 2003, described “We have seen our relation- groups. Earlier this month French The mass movement came after Macedonian police on Saturday five other world powers struck a the violence that shuttered the ship steadily improve, step by hostage Isabelle Prime arrived finally re-opened the border with Greece after three days of trying to deal with Iran to end a 13-year Tehran mission as “a low point” step,” Hammond said, mentioning in Oman following her release in hold back streams of migrants. dispute over the Islamic republic’s but said a new journey was Prime Minister David Cameron’s Yemen after nearly six months of Macedonia had on Thursday declared a state of emergency and nuclear programme. beginning. meeting with Rouhani in New captivity. Last year British teacher sealed off its border to halt the influx, leaving thousands stranded He led a ceremony shortly “Over the coming months, York last autumn, the first at that Mike Harvey was released after in no-man’s land. After a tense standoff on the border, hundreds of after noon in the embassy gar- we will work to ensure that the level between the countries since being held for five months in Yemen stranded refugees, many carrying small children, forced their way den with Ajay Sharma, the nuclear agreement is a success, the 1979 Islamic revolution. AFP following negotiations. AFP through barbed wire fences in dramatic scenes on Saturday as police new charge d’affaires who will including by making sure that it See also page 6 See also page 6 hurled stun grenades.