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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 18 Sport | 28 Supreme Council Doha Bank and Countdown for of Health advises Reliance enter World Boxing precautions into strategic Championships ahead of Haj. alliance. begins in Qatar. SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 22 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6545 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Traffic chaos seen as schools reopen today SEC issues safety guidelines DOHA: Schools across Qatar guardian, address and name of are reopening today and may the supervisor. cause traffic jams on busy They should also be given routes. training on how to board the bus The Supreme Education while leaving the school. Around Council (SEC) has issued a cir- 1,900 buses have been allotted to cular to schools with directions Independent Schools, out of which about management of school 450 buses are new. transport and student safety. Reopening of schools will also The SEC, in a circular issued see additional burden to the city’s recently, has asked Independent traffic system. It also marks the schools to send SMS to the par- end of summer vacations which ents about opening and closing means more office-goers will be time of schools so that they can on the roads from this week. A Yemeni man walks amid debris following air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’a yesterday. pick students on time on the Commuters will have to brace first day. for traffic congestions as there It will be a short day for stu- will be more buses on the roads. dents of Independent Schools as The problem of traffic jams are UAE pounds Yemen; 10 Saudi troops killed the SEC has asked these schools likely to aggravate because of to end the first day at 11am. various diversions due to ongo- SANA’A: Saudi Arabia’s mili- not ease. “The mission of the coa- Dhabi, an honour guard stood by in our stand for justice”. The new academic year of ing constructions at many places. tary said yesterday that 10 lition forces is to restore peace as pallbearers carried the flag- The coalition also launched Independent schools begins from The traffic department will of its troops were killed in a and stability to Yemen,” daily draped coffins off a military air- almost-continuous airstrikes in today while Indian schools already deploy additional patrolling staff rebel missile strike in Marib a Al Riyadh quoted him as saying. craft. Huge crowds attended the Sana’a, demolishing at least one kicked off the new session from to manage heavy traffic. More day earlier in Yemen, even as “They will continue their military funerals as the “courage” and building. Shock waves from the April this year. than 60 patrolling vehicles, in UAE warplanes carried out air operations until their objectives “bravery” of the fallen were hailed explosions caused several small Around 300,000 students are collaboration with Lekhwiya strikes on rebels as Emiratis are achieved.” on social networks. buildings to collapse as well. enrolled in various schools in the and Al Fazaa, will be deployed mourned 45 of their soldiers. The UAE denounced the The British embassy said in a The air strikes targeted weap- country in the new academic year. at various intersections and It was the first public acknowl- “cowardly” attack, which it said tweet that its flags in Dubai and ons storage facilities and a police Of these 102,300 are enrolled in roundabouts to manage flow of edgement by the Saudis that they would not sap its commitment to Abu Dhabi had been lowered to department in Sana’a, which the 80 Independent schools and kin- vehicles. have ground troops in Yemen, the coalition’s mission to restore half mast as a mark of respect. rebels had turned into a military dergartens while the rest are in Unlike last year, there is no where they lead a coalition tar- exiled President Abdrabuh “A cowardly attack will not headquarters. private schools. crisis for admissions this year as geting Houthis and their allies. Mansur Hadi. The Iran-backed deter us, nor will it stop us The strikes knocked down a The SEC has also given direc- many new schools have started “Ten Saudi soldiers from Houthi rebels hailed the strike as from realising our goals,” vowed nearby house, killing four civil- tions to schools on the manage- operations in Qatar. the Arab coalition forces were “revenge” for six months of deadly Minister of State for Foreign ians and wounding three from ment of school buses. As per the The SEC has given licences martyred,” in the attack on the coalition air raids. Affairs Anwar Gargash. the same family. The Houthi- directions, a school bus must have to nine new private schools and weapons depot, Saudi military Friday’s losses were the heavi- Abu Dhabi Crown Prince controlled Interior Ministry said a supervisor. kindergartens this year, of which spokesman Brig Gen Ahmed est since the formation of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed 27 people have been killed by the Students availing transport four schools have been allowed to Assiri said. UAE in 1971, and as the bod- Al Nahyan, acting armed forces intensified airstrikes since Friday. must have a card with details have higher classes. He told Saudi online media that ies arrived home three days of chief, vowed that “these events AGENCIES such as contact number of a THE PENINSULA the war against the rebels would national mourning began. In Abu will only make us more steadfast See also page 7 HIA ranked sixth among Austria, Germany open borders MUNICH: Austria and fed and clothed. Munich police a Greek island in a boat from world’s top Germany threw open their bor- said Arabic-speaking interpreters Turkey, while new scuffles ders yesterday to thousands of were helping refugees with proce- broke out between thousands of 10 airports exhausted migrants from the dures at the emergency registra- migrants and police on another east, bussed to the frontier by tion centres. Greek island. DOHA: Hamad International a right-wing Hungarian gov- The Austrian and German Airport (HIA) has occupied ernment that had tried to stop reception contrasted with the dis- FINNISH PM OFFERS HOME the sixth place in the list of them but was overwhelmed by order prevalent in Hungary. “It As Europe continues to grapple 10 best airports in the world, the sheer numbers of people. was just such a horrible situation with refugee crisis, Finnish Prime according to the assessment Left to walk the last yards into in Hungary,” said Omar, arriving in Minister Juha Sipila offered to by the readers of Conde Nast Austria, rain-soaked migrants, Vienna with his family. host refugees at his country home. Traveller 2015, which was con- many of them refugees from After days of chaos, Hungary Speaking on state television the ducted in August this year. Syria’s civil war, were whisked deployed more than 100 buses centrist premier said the house, HIA said in a statement that by train and shuttle bus first overnight to take thousands of the which is situated over 500km Singapore’s Changi Airport to Vienna and then on by train migrants who had streamed there north of capital Helsinki in the has been ranked first, London’s to Munich and other cities in from southeast Europe to the Kempele area, was “not being Heathrow Airport-Terminal 5 Germany. Austrian frontier. Austria said it used much at the moment”. “I has been ranked second, followed By early evening, about 6,000 had agreed with Germany to allow hope this becomes some kind by Hong Kong International had arrived in Munich and 2,000 the migrants access, waiving the of people’s movement that will Airport in third place. more were expected on two asylum rules. Austria said 9,000 inspire many others to shoulder The list of the 10 best air- trains after midnight. Clapped people had crossed from Hungary. part of the burden in this refugee ports in the world is ranked and cheered as they disem- In Athens, a newborn boy was housing crisis,” he said. by the readers of Conde Nast A migrant carries his children at the railway station in Vienna yesterday. barked, new arrivals queued at found dead after his migrant AGENCIES Traveller and the criteria registration tents to be screened, parents reached the shores of See also page 10 under which the airports are selected are customer satis- faction, airport access, airport retail, security and safety, the statement said. Within less than a year of commencing operations, HIA Only 12,000 Qataris working in private sector: IMF has won several prestigious BY SATISH KANADY awards including three Skytrax nationals constitute a larger share of pri- followed by Bahrain and Oman. With a represent 4 percent in this sector. 2015 awards at the Skytrax vate employment than in the other GCC total of 16,56,000, Saudi has the biggest Recent trends point to a large number Airport Award Ceremony in DOHA: Qatar’s ratio of nationals to countries. Qatar’s share is strikingly low national presence in its private sector of nationals entering the labor force in recognition of its outstand- expats in private sector jobs is markedly and Kuwait’s is almost as low despite a workforce. coming years. At the same time, fiscal ing performance and services lower than other GCC nations. Saudi recent rise. The growth rates of expatri- However, between 2006 and 2014, the positions have been aggravated by the fall including the Best Airport in Arabia’s nationals have a larger share ates exceeded the nationals in three out of Qatari representation in the private sec- in the oil price by half, thus reducing the the Middle East award.