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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 17 May 2013 7 Rajab 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5702 Price: QR2 QE index up Spot-fixing 69.02 points again last week hits IPL Business | 14 Sport | 19 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Wedding expo opens Domestic helps GCC concerned advised to benefit from over rise in Iyara facility DOHA: Qatari sociologist use of Twitter Amina Al Hail has advised housemaids and other domestic workers to benefit from a law that allows them to work with Saudi scholar says users would lose another employer on a tempo- rary basis, if the original spon- this world and the world hereafter sor fails to give them a job. In such situations, they can DOHA: Increasing use of “sisterly” neighbouring countries work with another sponsor for a Twitter and other social media like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. limited period, with permission forums by their citizens has Some have even been sentenced (Iyara) of the original sponsor, Al authorities in some GCC coun- to jail for up to 10 years. Bahrain, Hail told a seminar on domestic tries worried, prompting them after the uprising, has begun to helps and runaway workers held to mull ways to impose restric- control social media, arresting a by Al Arab daily. tions, media reports suggest. number of tweeters and accusing “Domestic helps also can take The countries getting nervous them of threatening the country’s Iyara to work temporarily with and thinking of tightening screws security by attacking the ruler, A model presents some of the latest wedding gowns at the 6th International Wedding Exhibition which opened other employers if they do not on social media users include Saudi even as Article 26 of the country’s at the Doha Exhibition Centre yesterday. Report on page 3. SALIM MATRAMKOT have any work at the house of Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab constitution guarantees freedom their original sponsor,” she said. Emirates and Kuwait, according of expression. Some tweeters If they know about the rule, to several regional news websites are in jail in Bahrain accused of they may not abscond but look for and newspapers. Bahrain, which is mounting resistance against the another employer to work legally facing an uprising, the UAE and government, guiding their follow- with them, she added. Kuwait have even arrested and ers and organising protests. Al Hail cautioned against jailed several tweeters — some for Khalid bin Rasheed tweeted Rules relaxed for Qataris to accommodating single workers as long as 10 years. that in Bahrain what is essentially in residential areas dominated Kuwait-based newspaper Al a political conflict has taken the by families. Rai (which means opinion in shape of a sectarian rift. “Some single workers were Arabic) reported that the govern- Another tweeter, Dr Ayed Al teach at Independent schools caught assaulting housemaids ment recently decided to award Manna, said sectarian violence in in neighbouring houses. Some a $250m contract to a foreign Iraq will not solve the country’s DOHA: Qataris can now take statement, elaborating the new as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, labour camps have been used for firm to closely monitor tweeters problems. Those fuelling the con- up teaching jobs in Independent strategy, the daily said. Sudan, Syria and Oman, said the immoral activities and to make in the country. The government flict — a veiled reference to the schools even if they don’t have The SEC, in collaboration with daily. and sell illicit liquor.” in Kuwait is concerned that it GCC states and Iran — should not previous experience in the Qatar University, has developed a Independent school operators Some sponsors are also respon- might go the Bahrain way since think that they would be safe, he profession. special programme to train citi- will visit these countries to find sible for increasing the phenom- the country has a fairly large Shia said. Many GCC countries have They have also been exempted zens for teaching jobs. the most qualified hands to raise enon of runway domestic workers population, a regional news web- become concerned about political from the requirements related to The schools can appoint fresh the quality and standards of edu- as they deny them weekly day-off site, gulfissues.net, reported. activism by their citizens using the minimum and maximum age Qatari graduates as teachers who cation in the country. and wages. It is not uncommon in Kuwait social media, especially after the that apply to teachers from other will then be trained under the The SEC last year announced “I know at least one case in for some social media users to fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime nationalities. new programme. a major hike in the salaries of which the sponsor refused to pay target the royal family for criti- in Egypt. The relaxation in the rules is If qualified Qatari teachers are Qatari Independent school teach- his driver because he was provid- cism — something that was unim- The UAE, in particular, has intended to attract more citizens not available in certain speciali- ers to attract more citizens to the ing him free accommodation and aginable before the Arab Spring. been tracking social media to to teaching profession as part of sations, the schools are allowed profession. food,” said Al Hail. Many social media users in identify voices of dissent in Qatar’s job nationalisation policy, to directly recruit teachers from Teaching is still being consid- Director of the Search and the country have been taken into the aftermath of the Egyptian a local Arabic daily reported abroad. ered a relatively low-paid profes- Follow Up Department Brigadier custody and interrogated, and revolution. yesterday. A recruitment programme has sion in Qatar, especially when it Nasser Al Sayed also addressed charges have been filed against THE PENINSULA The Supreme Education been developed to hire qualified comes to private schools. the seminar. some for insulting the ruler and Continued on page 2 Council (SEC) has issued a teachers from countries such THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA QA Dreamliners Texas tornadoes kill six Healthcare facilities up by 120pc DOHA: Healthcare facilities in Qatar saw an increase of 120 per- cent over the past three years (since 2010), according to the 2012 back on UK route annual report of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH). The number of practitioners also surged, with a 25 percent increase last year DOHA: Qatar Airways has resumed Boeing 787 in health professionals seeking a licence. The health sector is set Dreamliner services between Doha and London for further expansion, with the opening of nine new hospitals and Heathrow after it returned to service on the 18 primary health centres over the next few years. Two branches Doha-Dubai route early this month. of the Medical Commission will also be set up soon, the Minister Landing at London Heathrow at 11.19am local of Health H E Abdullah bin Khaled Al Qahtani said in his prel- time yesterday, flight QR075 was the airline’s ude to the report. Last year, Hamad Medical Corporation and SCH first Boeing 787 to resume flights to the British announced plans to add 836 hospital beds by 2015. Other projects capital. It returned to Doha a few hours later as include establishment of a national committee for early detection flight QR076, one of the airline’s five daily services of diseases, preparation of a road map for emergency services and between the UK and Qatar. a nutrition programme and introduction of physical education in The first of the five Boeing 787 returned to serv- basic education. Qatar is working on new laws on psychiatric health ice on the Doha-Dubai route on May 1. The airline and food safety and a new unit for air quality monitoring. A study will be gradually phasing in Boeing 787 flights over is underway on pollutants causing cancer and new guidelines are the next few weeks on long-haul routes such as being prepared for occupational health. Munich, Frankfurt and Zurich. CEO Akbar Al Baker said: “The Doha–Heathrow route is one of our most popular international serv- Doha Tower bags another award ices. I have always hailed the Dreamliner as the DOHA: The 46-storey ‘Doha Tower’ at Corniche has won yet state-of-the-art aircraft destined to change the another award for its outstanding looks and unique features. It way people travel. We look forward to deploying the bagged ‘The GCC Building Project of the Year’ award at the recentl Dreamliner on other key routes over the coming A trailer blown into a home on Lindsay Lane in Cleburne rests on a car after a tornado touch ‘MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2013’, a press statement said weeks.” THE PENINSULA down in Cleburne, Texas, yesterday. Six people were killed and seven missing after 10 tor- yesterday. In June 2012, the tower was named the ‘Best Tall Building nadoes ripped through north-central Texas. Full report on page 8 in Middle East and Africa’ by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Full report page 13 US blacklists 4 Syrian ministers No morning visits to hospitals for Kuwait expats WASHINGTON: The US yesterday blacklisted the leader of the militant Al Nusra Front fighting the Syrian regime, as well as four KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is to bar expats City, will only receive Kuwaiti patients in the hospitals”. Kuwait provides free medical serv- top Syrian government officials, including the defence minister. Al from visiting public hospitals in mornings, morning from June 1. Expats will be able to ices to citizens but expats must pay an annual Nusra’s chief Abu Mohammed Al Jawlani was designated a glo- local media said yesterday, in a decision receive treatment in evenings, said the deci- fee of $175 each besides reduced charges for bal terrorist by the US State Department, which said he had been activists labelled as “racist”.