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Sports Complex for Workers Opens ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 11 February 2014 11 Rabial II 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5972 Price: QR2 Low trading Cycling: key challenge Boonen wins for QE: Expert second stage Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sports complex for Premier receives Albanian FM workers opens Minister inaugurates 245,000sqm facility in Al Khor DOHA: The first phase of the ceremony and took part in various Workers will be charged a nominal workers sports complex in Al sports activities. fee for using the facilities. This is a Khor Industrial Area opened Speaking on the occasion, Al not-for-profit project but this fee yesterday. The project aims to Subai said Al Khor, Dakhira is intended to meet the operational provide sports and entertain- and the surrounding areas have and organisational costs, to make ment facilities to about 160,000 around 160,000 workers and this the project run by itself,” said Al expatriate workers based in Al project will serve them. Subai. “As workers are our part- Khor and the surrounding areas. Built in 245,000sqm area, the ners, this project is the minimum The sprawling complex is one of project includes four cricket we can provide them,” he added. a number of entertainment cities grounds, four basketball courts and The official said the second The Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, met yesterday and complexes for labourers being three volleyball courts. The floodlit phase of the project will include the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania, Ditmar Bocati. They reviewed bilateral relations and constructed in different parts of grounds are suitable for use during installation of five big cinema matters of common interest. the country. night as well. A nominal fee will be screens, beside other facilities The project has been executed imposed on the workers for using including waiting rooms. by Barwa in collaboration with the sports facilities. Employees of the Qatar the Ministry of Municipality and The complex also has some Foundation will also use the facili- Yemen to be six-region federation Urban Planning, Qatar Foundation 35 outlets providing various ties periodically. “There will be a and the Supreme Committee for other services including money schedule for this so that the facili- Delivery and Legacy. exchanges, Internet cafes, tel- ties will not be overcrowded,” he SANA’A: Yemen’s president Yemen’s main parties, state news divide could set the stage for the dis- The Minister of Labour and ephone shops, barber shops, res- added. and main parties agreed yes- agency Saba said. Hadi formed gruntled south to secede. Southern Social Affairs H E Abdullah Saleh taurants, cafeterias and offices of In a related initiative Barwa had terday to transform the unrest- the committee in late January at parts of Yemen formed an independ- Mubarak Al Khulaifi opened the Ministry of Labour and Social earlier launched Barwa Al Baraha riven country into a six-region the end of a “national dialogue” to ent state from the end of British the facility in the presence of Affairs, toilets, a big supermarket in the Doha Industrial Area, an federation as part of a political decide on the number of regions, colonial rule in 1967 until union with Engineer Abdallah Abdul Aziz and a mosque. integrated city for labourers com- transition. and to insert it into the text of the north in 1990. Al Subai, Executive Chairman Al Subai said the first phase of prising residential complexes and “The final approval” on cre- a new constitution, to be drafted The six agreed regions include of Barwa Group, and other dig- the project was accomplished in a other amenities. It also has a huge ating a “federal state of six and voted on within a year. four in the north, comprising nitaries. After the opening, the very short period, in just 111 days. truck parking facility, which was regions” came at a meeting of a Yemen’s parties had been divided Azal, Saba, Janad and Tahama, Minister toured the facilities at “This project came at the right opened recently. committee, headed by President on whether to split the future feder- and two in the south, Aden and the complex. A number of work- time to provide the much-required THE PENINSULA Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and ation into two or six regions. Sanaa Hadramawt. ers also turned up for the opening services to workers of the area. Picture on page 5 including representatives of feared that a straight north-south AFP UAE to rope in Qatar all set to mark Iran develops drones for new generation govt services biggest Sport Day of centrifuges DUBAI: The United Arab DOHA: Qatar marks its third Corniche. The walk will start at TEHRAN: Iran has developed Emirates says it plans to use and biggest National Sport Day 9am at the Orry statue and con- a new generation of centrifuges unmanned aerial drones to (NSD) celebration today with a tinue to Sheraton Park. From which are 15 times more power- deliver official documents and plethora of events geared toward 7am till 5pm, the Corniche will ful than those currently being packages to its citizens as part the promotion of sport culture, also see the Al Shawahef tra- used to enrich uranium, its of efforts to upgrade govern- health and wellness among citi- ditional rowing championship atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi ment services. zens and expatriates alike. wherein 10 teams will compete said yesterday. “The UAE will try to deliver After the long preparations, for prizes which total to QR4m. “We unveiled a new generation its government services through government and private entities Since it opened on Thursday, of centrifuges that surprised the drones. This is the first project of are coming together today to host the QOC Sport Zone, the main Westerners ... This new machine its kind in the world,” Mohammed events to raise awareness among hub of NSD, has witnessed is 15 times more powerful than Al Gergawi, a Minister of Cabinet employees and their families on thousands of visitors partak- the previous generation,” he said, Affairs, said yesterday as he dis- the importance of staying fit and ing in free sport clinics and quoted by the state broadcaster played a prototype developed for healthy through sports. health awareness campaigns. on its website, iribnews.ir. the government. The event counter at the Registration for the Be Fit com- He said the development was The battery-operated vehicle, National Sport Day website says petition will also be held today not in violation of a November 24 about half a metre across, resem- there are 251 National Sport Day, at the sport zone which is open agreement between Iran and six bles a butterfly with a top com- 280 community and 85 profes- from 8am to 10pm. world powers that has imposed partment that can carry small sional events during the week- Yesterday, Aspire Zone’s NSD curbs on Tehran’s nuclear drive. parcels. Coloured white and long celebrations. They comprise celebration opened in a unique “We successfully argued that enblazoned with the UAE flag, it sport competitions, clinics and and creative way as 50 Qatari this was allowed within the is propelled by four rotors. demos; health awareness cam- athletes and senior public offi- research and development arti- Local engineer Abdulrahman paigns and free health check-ups cials pedalled using energy gen- cle in the agreement,” Salehi Alserkal, who designed the project, among others. erating stationary bikes to light added. said fingerprint and eye-recogni- The events are held at main up the façade of the Torch Doha Iran currently has nearly 19,000 tion security systems would be venues including Qatar Olympic Hotel. Today, Aspire Zone would centrifuges, including 10,000 of used to protect the drones and Committee (QOC) Sport Zone, be busy with lots of sports and the so-called first generation their cargo. Gergawi said the the Corniche, Aspire, The Pearl sports-related activities organised being used to enrich uranium. drones would be tested for durabil- Qatar, Souq Waqif and Katara by Aspire Zone Foundation along AFP ity and efficiency in Dubai for six as well as in parks, malls, sports with 23 companies. months, before being introduced clubs, stadiums, ministries, fed- At Katara, 83 fun and engag- across the UAE within a year. erations and schools. ing sport and health awareness A CELEBRATION1 OF Services would initially include More than 50 top public figures pedal power-generating stationary bikes As in the previous editions of events are taking place spread delivery of identity cards, driving to illuminate the Torch Doha Hotel yesterday, marking the start of Aspire the annual public holiday, thou- around the Cultural Village. licences and other permits. sands are expected to join the THE PENINSULA Zone Foundation’s National Sport Day celebrations. (SHAIVAL DALAL) REUTERS Sport Walk morning on the Continued on page 3 US plans drone strike on American Al Qaeda suspect TODAY’S WASHINGTON: An American The CIA drones watching him policy says American suspected But one US official said the officials said the Pentagon did EDITION OF citizen who is a member of Al cannot strike, because he’s a US terrorists overseas can only be Defense Department was divided ultimately decide to recommend Qaeda is actively planning citizen and the Justice Department killed by the military, not the CIA, over whether the man is danger- lethal action. THE PENINSULA attacks against Americans must build a case against him, a creating a policy conundrum for ous enough to merit the poten- The officials said the suspected INCLUDES overseas, US officials say, and task it hasn’t completed.
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