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Page 01 March 07.Indd www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 23 SPORT | 31 QDB and Maersk India clinch Oil in deal to Asia Cup develop SMEs T20 title MONDAY 7 MARCH 2016 • 27 Jumada I 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6728 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir begins Turkmenistan visit Emir congratulates Woqod to open Ghana President DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday a cable of congratulations to Presi- maintenance dent of the Republic of Ghana John Dramani Mahama on the occasion of his country’s Independence Day. centres for cars QSTP adds 91 per the plan then it will start with patents to market Specialised centres, at least three facilities by the end of this year. DOHA: Qatar Science and Tech- in collaboration with These facilities will be sepa- nology Park (QSTP) through its leading big players rate entities located along Woqod member companies has con- petrol stations wherever they can tributed 91 patents to the global such as Toyota, be accommodated. These brand- technology market, a senior offi- Nissan and Mercedes, dedicated service centres will be cial has said. providing full services of all leading QSTP’s Managing Director will start by the end cars manufacturers, including Ford, Hamad Al Kuwari said: “QSTP of this year. GMC and all major Japanese brands. serves as the hub for applied The investment cost of each research, innovation, and centres is expected to vary from entrepreneurship to reach com- company to company depending on mercialisation of viable technology By Mohammad Shoeb the size of the facility. But the esti- projects in Qatar. We are thrilled to The Peninsula mated cost of an ideal service centre announce that, through our mem- would be over QR50m. ber-companies, who have so far The names and locations of these contributed 91 patents to the glo- proposed centres have not been dis- bal technology market. I would like Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani getting off the plane at the Saparmurat Turkmenbashi DOHA: Qatar Fuel Company closed, but according, to Al Kuwari, to use this opportunity to extend (Woqod) has announced the opening they will be a carrying the names of International Airport in Ashgabat yesterday. The Emir is on a two-day state visit to Turkmenistan. He my gratitude to our esteemed of several specialised car mainte- Woqod as well as the name of a par- was welcomed upon arrival, along with the accompanying delegation, by Turkmenistan’s Deputy Prime member-companies who have nance service facilities inside Doha ticular car brand. Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, Qatar’s Ambassador Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Suwaidi and been working diligently to make in collaboration with some leading “We are working to further tight- Turkmenistan’s envoy to Qatar Charyev Orazmuhammet Atajanovich. these unparalleled developments car dealers. ening agreements with more car possible.” “We are going to develop stan- dealers. Japanese car dealers such as dalone full car maintenance service Toyota, Nissan and others are more facilities at Woqod petrol stations aggressive for establishing such cen- wherever space is available,”, Ibra- tres”, he added. him Jaham Al Kuwari, CEO of Woqod “As these centres will be built in told The Peninsula yesterday on the different parts of Doha for leading Many arrested for helping maids escape sidelines of the company’s Annual car dealers, the car owners, instead General Meeting. of going to industrial area, will get “The total number of centres full maintenance services with great The Peninsula employed them, says a senior Minis- Director of Search and Follow-Up against them and those complaints have not been decided yet. We are comfort and ease.” try of Interior official. Department (S&FD) of the Ministry were verified. going to start with three big players The company is in the final stage During inspection drives, many of Interior, Al Sayed said some 5,440 Replying to questions about illegal such as Toyota, Nissan and Mercedes. of giving the full study to its Board foreign workers were caught last year companies and 3,460 individual visa trade, he said the crime has been These facilities will be a joint venture of Directors for their approval. Once DOHA: Law-enforcement agencies who were found violating Law No. 4 sponsors were blacklisted in 2015 for on a decline. In 2013, for instance, 184 project between Woqod and the spe- the plan is approved, the develop- have arrested many people involved of 2009 regulating entry, exit and stay violating the provisions of Law No 4 of companies were caught which were cific car dealers,” Al Kuwari added. ment work will soon start at various in luring housemaids to escape their of foreign workers in Qatar. 2009. They will not be allowed to hire accused of involvement in visa- The design of these centres are locations. sponsors. Many workers were repatriated fresh workers anymore as punish- related rackets. currently undergoing a lot of devel- Some 112 maids were prompted home last year for different crimes, ment, he said in remarks to Al Sharq. opments. But if everything goes as → Continued on page 2 to run away from the households that said Brigadier Nasser Al Sayed. Their workers had lodged complaints → Continued on page 4 IS truck bomb Sheikha Mayassa Five health centres to be in Baghdad opens auction set up in western region kills 60 house at Katara DOHA: H E Sheikha Al Mayassa The Peninsula Al Sada, director of the Western bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Region at the Primary Health Reuters Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Care Corporation (PHCC). Museums, yesterday opened Five new health centers will Dar Al Bahi auction house at DOHA: With a rapid increase in be set up in the region in the next HILLA, IRAQ: A truck bomb at an Katara Cultural Village, featur- the number of people using pri- few years which will add to the Iraqi checkpoint south of Bagh- ing several priceless paintings mary healthcare services, a major existing seven centers, Al Sada dad killed at least 60 people and and art works on Islamic and ori- expansion in the facilities is on told Qatar News Agency (QNA). wounded more than 70 yester- ental art. the anvil in the Western region Of these, two new health cen- day, medical and security officials These items will be auc- of the country that comprises a tres will open in Al Wajbah and said, and Islamic State (IS) claimed tioned first time in Qatar in large geographical area. Muaither by the end of this year or responsibility for the blast. April. Sheikha Al Mayassa later The new appointment system the beginning of next year. The suicide attack, involving toured the facility accompanied through the Wayyak telephone A new health center in Al an explosive-laden fuel tanker, is by Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin service has helped organise the Waab will also open next year the second deadliest this year after Hamad Al Thani, CEO of Qatar functioning of health centres and while new health centers are one on February 28 that killed 78 H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Media Corporation and Dr Kha- improve performance. planned in Bani Hajar and Ain people in Sadr City, a Shia district Qatar Museums, at the Dar Al Bahi auction house at Katara Cultural Village, lid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, director However, about 30% of the Khalid in future. of Baghdad. This was also claimed yesterday. general of Katara. patients who have appointments by the ultra-hardline Sunni group fail to turn up, said Dr Hiyam Ali → Continued on page 4 that controls vast swathes of terri- tory in Iraq and in Syria. The escalation in IS bombings suggests that Iraqi government forces are being stretched thin after their recent gains against the Over 1,500 chefs to participate in Gout de France group in the western and northern provinces. Responsibility for the bombing By Sidi Mohamed Announcing details about the and The French Ministry of foreign to French embassies from around said replying to a question from this in Hilla, 117km south of Baghdad, The Peninsula event, the French Ambassador to Affairs,” the ambassador said. He was the world”. newspaper. In the words of the famous was claimed in a posting on the Qatar, Eric Chevallier, said yes- addressing a press conference at his The French Embassy in Doha is Chef Alain Ducasse: “French cuisine website of the Amaq news agency, terday that more than 1,500 chefs residence and present were several also contributing to the “Good France” is the interpreter of a cuisine that has which supports Islamic State. from across the five continents celebrated chefs representing some event along with eight restaurants evolved towards lightness in harmony “A martyr’s operation with a D0HA: The second edition of the will be participating in the event, eight famous restaurants. here, in which tribute will be paid to with its environment, and the com- truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins Goût de France ( Good France) will and providing 1500 “French –style Over 100,000 people and one French cuisine which is vibrant, mon point of this event is generosity, checkpoint at the entrance of the be held on March 21 to promote the dinners”. representatives from 1,300 restau- open and innovative, he added. sharing and the love for what is beau- city of Hilla, killing and wound- French cuisine. The event is being “This is part of a global event rants from across the world had In 2010, the Unesco had considered tiful and testes good”. ing dozens,” the statement on the held inspired by the success of the organised at the initiative of the taken part in the last edition of the the French cuisine as an international Amaq website said.
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