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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Double-digit Messi, Neymar growth on target in lifts QFCA Barca win Business | 17 Sport | 26 Sunday 5 October 2014 • 11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6209 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Traffic woes prompt many to buy online Online stores doing brisk business BY FAZEENA SALEEM sellers have a wide range of designer clothes available. I’m DOHA: Traffic congestion very happy to buy my Eid dress and chaos on the city roads from an online store.” combined with huge rush at Online traders in Doha deliver malls and hypermarkets have items within a day of receiving prompted many people to opt orders and claim that the demand for online shopping this Eid Al from customers has increased Adha. compared to last year. Among the most favourite “We have more designer wear items of purchase were, of course, and exclusive patterns, and as The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday performed the Eid prayer at Al branded clothes, but several soon as a customer makes the Wajba prayer ground. H H Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Thani took part in the prayer along with sheikhs, ministers, ambassadors and citizens. women chose to rely on online order we deliver within 24 hours See also page 2 bookings even for henna. free of charge,” said Rukshana “It was easy to place the order Yunus Saiyed, from Rukshana’s online and get items delivered Collection, which sells ladies wear. right at your doorstep within “The number of people who buy a short time,” an Asian woman clothes online has increased and Colourful Eid events wow crowds told this newspaper. A number of three days before Eid we were online traders have been smart very busy,” she added. Saiyed also DOHA: Thousands of faithful diplomatic missions, officers of Among the shows and activi- throng to the Cultural Village enough to choose social media said that they have a strong cus- yesterday gathered at nearly 300 the Armed Forces and police, ties that enthralled audiences in starting today as ‘Dreams On Ice’ as a marketing tool for clothing tomer database with more than mosques and prayer grounds heads of national institutions and the malls included Dora’s Ballet circus and acrobatic show opens. brands and to attract customers 21,000 followers on Facebook. across the country for the early citizens. Adventures, face painting, free- In addition the educational and for things like henna designs. Some others who shopped from morning prayers at 5.42am, Festive mood could be felt all style football, traditional Arda entertaining ‘Angry Birds’ exhibi- “It was the first time I bought online stores outside Qatar also marking the start of the four- over Qatar as people thronged dance, Fritters show, Shaun the tion will soon open adjacent to the clothes online for Eid. It’s easy say that it’s convenient. “It takes day Eid Al Adha celebrations. popular venues to spend the first Sheep, Tannoura dance, Oriental circus show venue. and safe, because the seller is in around seven days to get items The historic Eid Prayer Ground day of Eid with relatives and Parade, Adventure Time, Steve The West End Park and Al Doha and you don’t even need to delivered in Doha, after an order located at Msheireb Downtown friends sharing with them the Kaos, Bubblez and Balloonz show, Khor Sports Club saw hundreds pay before delivery,” said Razani is placed. Yet it’s easy and will get Doha, which opened to the public spirit of the joyous occasion. Dan Druff Circus show, Mr. in attendance for ‘Eid Al Adha Ismee, a young expatriate woman. unique designs,” said a frequent after many years, saw hundreds The malls pulsated with life Potato Head, speed painting show Fest 2014’, an entertainment “I just saw the dress on the online shopper. of people including members of as performers presented col- and Sweets for Kids show. and cultural event for expatri- Facebook page of the seller, and Several others choose to select various expatriate communities. ourful shows as part of the ‘Eid Hundreds of people also ates organised by the Ministry placed the order by calling the their henna design and fix an The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Celebrations in Qatar’ pro- headed to Katara to witness of Interior. number that was mentioned,” she appointment online as it saves bin Hamad Al Thani and the gramme organised by Qatar the Big Bang show capped by Games and cultural per- added. Online stores display big- time. “If we walk into a salon and Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad Tourism Authority. City Centre a 15-minute spectacular fire- formances were held for single ger collections of products, luring select the design it will take more bin Khalifa Al Thani received Doha, Lagoona, Hyatt Plaza, works display, something that workers and families of Indian, customers to buy more. time especially during the Eid yesterday morning at Al Wajba Landmark, The Mall and Al was missed by many last Eid Al Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Another online shopper who season. We go through designs Palace Eid Al Adha well-wishers Khor Mall offered shows and Fitr when Katara cancelled all Lankan, Nepalese and Indonesian had bought a collection of clothes online and fix a time, so it’s done including their Excellencies the activities many of which have its events in solidarity with the communities. said, “It’s easier than going to a quickly,” said an Asian expatriate Sheikhs, the Ministers, Advisory been brought to Qatar for the Palestinians suffering in Gaza. THE PENINSULA shopping mall as these online woman. THE PENINSULA Council members, heads of first time. More people are expected to Continued on page 4 Biden says sorry Man killed in accident to Erdogan; DOHA: A man driving a saloon car died on the spot when his vehicle rammed into a trailer on the Airport-Al Wakra Road late Briton beheaded on Friday evening. Eyewitnesses said the impact of the collision was so bad that the car was completely destroyed. It being the WASHINGTON: United States eve of Eid Al Adha on Friday evening, there was a lot of rush on Vice-President Joe Biden yes- the roads everywhere. Ambulances and the traffic police were terday apologised to Turkish rushed to the spot. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over comments suggesting that Ankara and other regional pow- 600 complain of indigestion ers had financed and armed jihadist organisations in Syria. DOHA: This Eid Al Adha was no different for the staff of the Erdogan reacted furiously emergency unit of Hamad General Hospital (HGH), as a majority of earlier at comments made by some 600 people who visited it yesterday complained of indigestion Biden at Harvard University on and stomach upsets due to eating lots of meat and sweets. Thursday, in which Biden criti- Doctors at the emergency unit of HGH said many of those who cised allies in Turkey and the came complaining of stomach upsets and other woes were diabetics, Arab world for supporting Sunni elderly people or heart patients. “It seems they just crossed their militant groups in Syria such as limits and forgot those were forbidden food for them,” an emergency the Islamic State (IS) group and health care consultant at HGH told Al Sharq. Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra. Pilgrims throw pebbles at pillars during the ‘Jamarat’ ritual in Mina yesterday. Some complained of nausea as well, said Dr Assad Suleman. Being A statement from Biden’s the first day of Eid Al Adha yesterday, for many it was impolite to office said the deputy US leader say no if they visited a neighbour, friend or relative and were offered had called Erdogan to “clarify” Over 2 million stone devil at Mina sweets or a meat preparation or both. his remarks. “The vice-president Most of the complainants were provided treatment and were apologised for any implication allowed to leave, he said. Some were kept under observation for that Turkey or other allies and MINA: More than two million town were blocked as the crowds believed to have given his final a while. One death was reported during the day due to heart fail- partners in the region had inten- faithful ritually stoned the devil dressed in white flowed into the sermon 14 centuries ago. ure. The deceased was a 52-year-old man. Five injury cases were tionally supplied or facilitated the yesterday in the last major rite area to toss pebbles at one of With the end of Haj approach- reported, four of them minor in road accidents. One injury was growth of ISIL or other violent of Haj in Saudi Arabia, while three walls representing Satan. ing, men shaved their heads before reported in a quarrel. extremists in Syria,” a summary fellow believers around the The pilgrims will stone two other taking off their ihram clothes, leav- of the phone call said. world celebrated Eid Al Adha, sites today and tomorrow as the ing locks scattered on the ground. Meanwhile, Kurdish fighters the feast of sacrifice. Haj concludes. Women cut off small strands of 12,500 sheep offered at subsidised rates supported by US-led air strikes The failthful included almost They collected the stones at their hair. In conjunction with the DOHA: Syrian and Jordanian sheep are quite popular with citizens held back IS militants attack- 1.4 million from abroad, accord- Muzdalifah on the way to Mina, stoning, the faithful offer sacrifices and being quite expensive, the government is providing some 12,500 ing a Syrian border town.

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