ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 24 November 2013 20 Moharram 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5893 Price: QR2 Milaha wins big at Payback time Seatrade Middle in Ashes, says East awards Australian press Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 More mobile Emir meets Saudi King radars to curb speeding Highway patrol from next year DOHA: The Traffic intersections, Al Kharji said the Department is planning to smart traffic control system at introduce “mobile” radars on many new intersections is inte- a wide scale to snare speed- grated with a technique to alert ing vehicles, in addition to the motorists before the traffic lights surveillance cameras already turn red. installed on major roads and On the new patrolling team, highways, a senior official of the Al Kharji said they will pro- department has said. mote safety on highways by The Department, for the first monitoring the speed limit, time in the country, will also keeping space between vehicles deploy a specially trained patrol- and handling emergencies like ling team to monitor highways accidents. across the country. The patrolling team received The first batch of the Highway theoretical and practical lessons Patrol Police comprising 50 offic- on controlling traffic on high- ers graduated on Thursday. The ways, safe parking and stopping The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and the new force is expected to start on highways as well as dealing Emir of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, at the Saudi King’s palace in Riyadh last evening. work next year. with the public. Speaking to the media on the The new initiative is the sidelines of the graduation cere- result of a collaboration between mony, Brigadier Mohammed Saad the Ministry of Interior and Al Kharji said that there is a plan RasGas. to install cameras on patrolling The training programme Egypt, Turkey expel ambassadors vehicles to detect speeding cars. was implemented by the glo- These cameras can take pictures bally-renowned Northwestern CAIRO: Egypt said yesterday it He spoke shortly after Turkey “unacceptable coup” by the army. security forces stormed into pro- of the erring vehicles even when University, Chicago. was expelling Turkey’s ambas- had retaliated to the Egyptian Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mursi camps on August 14, killing the patrolling team is on the The team has also received sador and accused Ankara of move by declaring the Egyptian which has been staging protests hundreds. move, he added. specialised training in implement- backing organisations bent on ambassador, currently out of the calling for his reinstatement, In some of the worst civil- Most key roads and highways ing traffic laws on tailgating, use undermining the country — country, persona non grata. has close ties with Erdogan’s AK ian violence in decades, security in Qatar have speed radars but of mobile phones while driving, an apparent reference to the Egyptian foreign Ministry Party. forces crushed protests by Mursi’s surprise raids using cameras speeding, use of seat belts etc. Muslim Brotherhood of ousted spokesman Badr Abdelatty Turkish President Abdullah supporters. mounted on vehicles are not com- The officers are equipped with Egyptian president Mohammed made no specific allegations Gul speaking on state-run TRT Militant Islamists, who have mon in the country. advanced skills in investigating Mursi. against Turkey in announcing television before Erdogan, was been attacking Egyptian forces The mobile radars are appar- road accidents, interrogation Turkish Prime Minister Recep the ambassador’s expulsion, but more measured in his remarks. in the Sinai peninsula, stepped ently intended to monitor areas of drivers and preservation of Tayyip Erdogan, himself a sup- said: “(Ankara is) ... attempt- “I hope our relations will again up their assaults in or near major where there is a lack of perma- evidence. porter of an Islamist-led gov- ing to influence public opinion get back on track,” he said. cities. nent surveillance cameras and The new patrolling team will ernment forced from power by against Egyptian interests, sup- Both countries will remain Relations deteriorated between spot motorists who would try to use both radar and lidar (a device generals in 1997, issued a blunt ported meetings of organisations represented in each other’s capi- Egypt and countries that criti- cheat the radars by pressing on used to monitor speed using laser) rebuff to Egypt’s army-backed that seek to create instability in tals by embassies headed by a cised Mursi’s ouster and the the gas as soon as they come out to control speeding. The officers rulers, declaring on live television: the country.” charge d’affaires, effectively a government crackdown on the of the ‘surveillance area’. were also trained to manually “I will never respect those who Turkey has emerged as one of number two. Both had recalled Brotherhood where thousands Asked if there is a plan to intro- control the flow of traffic, if the come to power through military the fiercest international critics their ambassadors in August have been arrested. duce digital countdown system at need arose. THE PENINSULA coups.” of Mursi’s removal, calling it an for consultation after Egyptian REUTERS Fired up Tunisia signs $500m loan Falling land prices expected deal with Qatar to slow down rise in rents TUNIS: Tunisia has signed a $500m loan agreement with DOHA: The fall in land prices projects have reached the con- from the ripples of the global Qatar to help bolster its cur- in Qatar since May this year struction phase, much of the land financial crisis. After the cri- rency reserves, the official is expected to slow down the is already secured. This could lead sis, real estate prices picked up TAP news agency reported rate of increase in rents, a QNB to an easing of real estate prices. steadily, rising 109pc from July yesterday. Group analysis has said. The Group has analysed data on 2009 to May 2013. The deal, signed on Wednesday, According to the QNB Group, land transactions in Qatar, based However, from May to stipulates that the loan will be the fundamental driver of real on weekly statistics published by September this year, the index paid back over a five-year period, estate prices is the cost of land. If the Ministry of Justice, which showed a drop in prices of 6.2pc. the agency said. land prices rise, the price of villas, indicates that the cost of land has Accordingly, QNB Group expects Tunisia has been struggling apartments and other property is fallen in the last five months — rents to increase at a slower to achieve economic recovery also likely to go up. from May to September. rate. since the 2011 uprising that top- The QNB Group, while ana- This is likely to ease upward Rents are also a key component pled veteran strongman Zine El lysing the Real Estate Price pressures on rents, enhanc- of domestic inflation, accounting Abidine Ben Ali. AFP Index of the Qatar Central Bank ing the competitiveness of the for 32.2pc of the consumer price (QCB), said that the rise in the Qatari economy and relieving index (CPI) basket. land prices up to May 2013 was concerns that the real estate Most of the remaining CPI No-smoking zone mainly due to the acquisition of sector is again experiencing an components are determined by land for major projects that are asset-price bubble like the one international prices. Rents in in Souq Waqif being implemented in Qatar, par- in 2007-08. Qatar fell consistently from the ticularly land for the Doha metro, According to the Real Estate beginning of 2009 until the second DOHA: All restaurants and caf- large shopping malls and mixed- Price Index of the QCB, real half of 2012, but since then they eterias in Souq Waqif have been use real estate development, like estate prices spiked in 2008, have risen. asked to allocate 50 percent of Msheireb and Lusail. Since these before taking a beating in 2009 THE PENINSULA their open space exclusively for non-smokers. A circular issued by the Souq Waqif administra- tion has also banned smoking Sheesha in closed areas at such outlets, according to Al Sharq. New Dubai police chief Katara traditional mart All eateries have been asked to earmark 50 percent of their tables DUBAI: Major General Khamis Mattar Al DOHA: Katara plans to build a traditional market for non-smokers and warned that Stuntman Joe Toedtling during his Guinness World Record ‘Longest Mazeina has been appointed as the General on the high ground, popularly called hilly areas. violation of the new rule will lead Duration Full Body Burn (without oxygen supply)’ in Salzburg, Austria, Commander of Dubai Police, Gulf News reported The new market will include about 35 shops, an to a suspension of the licence of yesterday. The duration was 5 hours 41 minutes and 40 seconds. yesterday. Al Mazeina succeeds Dahi Khalfan Arabic daily reported yesterday. The initiative is the outlet for three months. Tamim. Maj Gen Al Mazeina was the deputy com- part of the new five-year strategy of Katara dis- THE PENINSULA mander of Dubai Police. THE PENINSULA closed earlier this year. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Road accident major killer of youngsters HMC expert warns youth drivers DOHA: Trauma is the most Nel Balquin, a Filipino per- common cause of death and disa- sonal trainer and bodybuilder bility among Qatar’s young adult who spent eight months recover- population and Qatar has one of ing at HGH after sustaining mul- the highest traffic death rates tiple injuries when he was struck in the region, said Dr Hassan by a vehicle while crossing the Al Thani, Senior Consultant road, said doctors at the Trauma at Hamad General Hospital’s Centre saved his life.