www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 21 Aramco boosting Supercoach Mourinhourinho market share as it becomes Manchesterester prepares for listing United boss SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 • 21 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6810 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir sends Metal cylinders message to to be phased out Mauritania QNA by mid-2017 DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a written message to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the in order to phase out all metal gas Islamic Republic of Mauritania, on cylinders and replace them with bilateral relations. Qatar Fuel (Woqod) Shafaf. The message was handed over started marketing Woqod has already replaced by Qatar’s Ambassador to Maurita- one-third of the total metal gas cyl- nia Abdulrahman bin Ali Al Ajaj Al Shafaf cylinders in inders with Shafaf in the last three Kubaisi, during a meeting with the 2010, along with years. Mauritanian President yesterday. Due to Woqod’s aggressive cam- During the meeting, they the launch of an paign on the advantages of using reviewed bilateral relations and awareness campaign Shafaf cylinders, there had been ways of boosting them. rise in demand in the local market in order to phase recently. out all metal gas Among the benefits of Shafaf are US President Barack Obama hugs an atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Campaign against cylinders and it is safer and explosion proof com- pared to metal gas cylinder. Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, yesterday. cars displaying replace them with In addition it is easier to carry as Shafaf. it weighs 5kg when empty compared sale stickers to metal cylinders which weigh 12kg. Because it is transparent, it is easy Obama makes historic Hiroshima visit to monitor the remaining gas and The Peninsula determine when to purchase. The Peninsula Shafaf cylinders are availa- ble in 12kg and 6kg variants. The AFP to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a and embraced one elderly man who sales of 12kg transparent cyl- terrible force unleashed in the not- appeared overcome with emotion. DOHA: The Public Traffic Depart- inders last year rose by over 44 so-distant past. We come to mourn He also chatted with a smiling ment is gearing up to launch a DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod), the percent to about 1.9 million com- the dead,” he said. Sunao Tsuboi, 91, who had earlier campaign against car owners main retailer of energy products pared to previous year. HIROSHIMA, JAPAN: Barack Obama Obama, accompanied by Jap- said he wanted to tell the US presi- displaying sale notices at public including cooking gas cylinders in The sales of 6kg units increased paid moving tribute to victims of anese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dent how grateful he was for his visit. places, because it is against the the country, is planning to phase out by 21.6 percent to 45,000 cylinders, the first atomic bomb yesterday and offered a floral wreath in front of the The trip comes more than seven traffic law and its amendments. all metal gas cylinders with Shafaf, compared to 37,000 for 2014. called for a world free of nuclear cenotaph before pausing in momen- decades after the Enola Gay bomber Displaying stickers about the a transparent plastic gas cylinder, Woqod offered QR100 compen- weapons, during a historic and emo- tary contemplation, closing his eyes dropped its deadly atomic payload, sale of the vehicles and leaving before the middle of next year, says sation to attract more consumers to tional visit to Hiroshima. and lowering his head. dubbed “Little Boy”, over the western them in public places like grounds, Woqod Chief Executive Officer Ibra- replace their metal cylinders with In a ceremony loaded with symbol- The site lies in the shadow of a Japanese city. The bombing claimed parking slots or by the roadside will him Jaham Al Kuwari. Shafaf from March 1 to May 31 last ism, the first sitting US president to visit domed building, whose skeleton the lives of 140,000 people, some of be fined, in addition to legal proce- Al Kuwari’s statement came year. the city met survivors of the fearsome has been left standing in silent tes- whom died immediately in a ball of dures against the owner, Al Sharq in reply to a proposal by Cen- Last year witnessed a fair attack that marked one of the final, ter- tament to those who perished. Abe searing heat, while many succumbed reports. Traffic patrols will moni- tral Municipality Council member growth in LPG sales exceeding 9.6 rifying chapters of World War II. followed by offering his own wreath to injuries or radiation-related ill- tor cars with sale stickers parked in Fatima Ahmed Al Kuwari to replace percent compared to 2014, with total “71 years ago, death fell from the and a brief, silent bow. nesses in the weeks, months and undesignated places for sale. metal gas cylinders with Shafaf sales rising to 122,165 tonnes (includ- sky and the world was changed,” After both men had spo- years afterwards. A second nuclear According to the traffic law, cylinders. ing LPG sales in bulk) compared to Obama said of a bomb that “dem- ken, Obama, whose predecessor bomb was dropped on the city of automobile showrooms and auc- Woqod started marketing Sha- 111,497 tonnes during the previous onstrated that mankind possessed Harry Truman made the decision Nagasaki three days later. tioneers need special permission faf cylinders in 2010, along with the year, according to Woqod”s annual the means to destroy itself”. to launch the world’s first nuclear to display cars in open grounds launch of an awareness campaign report. “Why did we come to this place, strike, greeted ageing survivors → See also page 5 & 9 and roadsides for sale. 100,000 Syrians trapped near Turkey Duterte officially wins Philippines presidency AFP AP BEIRUT: At least 100,000 people were trapped Friday along Syria’s border with Turkey after the Islamic State (IS) group swept through rebel territory in Aleppo province, rights groups and MANILA: Philippine lawmakers com- activists said. pleted the official vote count from May 9 The shock IS advance on two rebel-held elections yesterday and announced that towns came as the militant group is facing an Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (pictured), won offensive further east in its own heartland of the presidency by an overwhelming mar- Raqa province. gin, while Rep. Leni Robredo triumphed as IS fighters cut a key road between the rebel vice president. towns of Azaz, close to the Turkish border, and Duterte, the tough-talking mayor of nearby Marea, journalist Maamoun Khateeb southern Davao city, received more than said from Azaz. 16.6 million votes, 6.6 million more than “This is a disaster,” Khateeb said, adding his closest rival, former Interior Secretary victory would be contested by Marcos, that some 15,000 people were now besieged Mar Roxas, who was backed by outgoing who has raised suggestions of election in Marea. President Benigno Aquino III. irregularities. The militant onslaught threatens tens of About 81 percent of more than 54 mil- “It was a very divisive and difficult thousands of internally displaced Syrians liv- lion eligible voters cast ballots for a successor election,” Robredo said in a TV interview. ing in informal camps near the border, closed to Aquino and thousands of other national, “We need to rebuild as one country and by Turkey for several months. congressional and local officials whose terms President Duterte really needs all our help.” “We are terribly concerned... about the end on June 30, according to lawmakers and Robredo, a lawyer who has helped estimated 100,000 people trapped between official figures released by Congress. Duterte the poor with free legal services, said the Turkish border and active front lines,” said had led by a wide margin in an earlier unof- she learned of her victory while she was Pablo Marco, regional operations manager for ficial count, and most of his rivals have with her daughters at a cemetery to mark People inspect the damage after an explosion occurred outside a mosque in the rebel- Doctors Without Borders (MSF). conceded defeat. The vice presidential the 58th birthday of her late husband, a MSF said it was evacuating patients and controlled city of Idlib, Syria, yesterday. race, however, was closely fought. reformist politician who perished in a 2012 staff from a hospital it supports in Salamah, a Robredo, who was also backed by plane crash. Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III, who nearby town, just three kilometres (two miles) Aquino, received more than 14.4 million helped oversee the vote count, said Con- from the front line. IS has tried to advance on both towns for bomb attacks on an opposition-controlled east- votes, according to the official count, just gress will officially proclaim Duterte and “There is nowhere for people to flee to as months. ern district of Aleppo city, the civil defence 263,000 more than Sen. Ferdinand Mar- Robredo as winners on Monday. the fighting gets closer,” Marco said. In a statement on Friday, the jihadist group — known as the White Helmets —- said. cos Jr., the son of a dictator ousted in a 1986 Duterte, who has stayed mostly in Gerry Simpson from Human Rights Watch said it launched a “surprise attack” and seized Air strikes also killed nine people in the “people power” revolt sparked by wide- Davao city since the elections, did not said the number of Syrians trapped along the a series of villages near Azaz. town of Hreitan and four in Kfar Hamra. spread human rights abuses and corruption.