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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Mena IPOs The WOW Signal raise $2.4bn in tops Darley Prix H1 this year Morny racing Business | 17 Sport | 27 Monday 25 August 2014 • 29 Shawwal 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6168 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Premier meets Malaysian FM New sponsorship Car agencies law soon: Official DOHA: Qatar’s new spon- sorship law is likely to be issued either this year or next year, according to a face ministry senior official at the Ministry of Interior. This is the first time an official source is disclosing the probable time on the issuance crackdown of the much-awaited sponsor- ship law. In an interview to an Poor after-sale service complaints Arabic daily, Brigadier Nasser Mohammed Al Sayed, Director, DOHA: Amid mounting com- the purchase agreement in terms Research and Follow-up plaints against poor after-sale of warranty and quality after-sale Department at the ministry, services by certain companies service. Customers’ complaints said the issuance of the law can and shops, mainly car deal- include undue delay in after-sale be expected in 2014 or 2015. ers, the Ministry of Economy service, using counterfeit spare “There are legislative chal- and Commerce made surprise parts, arbitrary prices and limited lenges we have to address inspections at the service cen- number of service centres. ahead of issuing the law. tres of car agencies and regis- Customers also complained that The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met After holding discussions tered seven cases against the in addition to charging ‘arbitrary Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman and discussed means of enhancing relations. at various levels, including erring firms. service charge’, agencies have Qatar Chamber and Advisory The Consumer Protection a tendency to keep customers Council, the proposal has to Department (CPD), under the waiting for several weeks before undergo strict legal process,” ministry, slapped charges against delivering the vehicle after serv- he said. the agencies for undue delay in ice. Shortage of service centres is “This is a very important providing after-sale service to another problem. Even big compa- Councillors seek development law that is going to change the their customers. The ministry’s nies do not have sufficient number existing employer-employee decision follows complaints against of service stations, which are relationship in the country. car agencies from customers. located in the far-away Industrial of free plots given to citizens We do not want to issue it in a CPD has been under pressure Area, customers complained. hurry to find loopholes in the with complaints pouring in from “Very few after-sale service law tomorrow,” he added. consumers against car agencies, for centres are providing services as DOHA: Members of the Central nationals for their benefit. dumping sites and parking lots for THE PENINSULA not providing after-sale service or per the law, Al Arab quoted an Municipal Council (CMC) have Unfortunately, beneficiaries heavy vehicles, something that is carrying out repairs in time. aggrieved Qatari citizen as saying. complained that most unused have failed to use their plots and annoying residents. Tired of hearing complaints, the Mohammed Al Ansari, a law- land plots in the capital are fast instead abandoned them. As a “The government gave away department had set up monitor- yer said, “Existing rules regard- becoming waste dumping sites, result, these plots have become a plots in the 1980s but these have Rains likely today ing cells at some service centres ing after-sale service should be gathering places for stray ani- haven for pests, waste and stray not been used for almost 30 years of leading automobile dealers early amended to facilitate a better mals and parking lots for heavy animals in the middle of residen- now. We want these plots to be DOHA: The Meteorology this year. bonding between customers and vehicles, which are all damag- tial areas. taken away from their owners and Department has forecast Fed up with poor service offered companies. The new rule must ing the city’s image. “This is all despite the fact that given to those who can use them.” chances of rain and, maybe, by shops and business establish- ensure interests of customers and Vacant plots are also a major there are many more nationals Al Azibaha said residents thundery at times in some parts ments, a section of Qatari cus- companies are protected.” concern of residents as heaps of who are still waiting for land and were tired of seeing unused plots of the country today. tomers has called for amending Said Fahad Al Marri, a citi- waste emit a bad stench, making staying in rented apartments, – private or public — in their The day will be relatively hot the law to ensure their rights are zen, said, “After-sale service is their lives miserable, they said. paying about QR8,000 a month. neighbourhoods. and humid and partly cloudy dur- protected. They demanded strict the right of consumer. It should Councillors demanded that the “That is why we are demanding Mohammed Al Ateeq Al ing the day. The wind will blow action against those who fail to be protected. The problem with owners put such plots to use by that whoever gets plots they must Dousari, Councillor from the northeasterly to southeasterly at adhere to the law, the Arabic daily Qatar’s automobile market is that developing them or authorities develop them,” he said. Khalifa area, said the Ministry of 5 to 15 knots inshore and 12 to Al Arab said yesterday. it is monopolised. We do not have allocate them to those who can Councillor Mohammed Ali Municipality and Urban Planning 24 knots offshore. The minimum The biggest criticism is against more than one dealer who sells the develop and use them. Al Azibaha, who represents has put a law in place that makes temperature will be around 32 car agencies and dealers, who same brand. The monopoly must According to Councillor Muaither, said there were about it mandatory for the beneficiaries degrees Celsius and maximum 40. according to customers, are at be broken and there should be open Mubarak Farish, who repre- 100 free plots in his area which to use their free plots. Al Ruwais will be the coolest the forefront in flouting the law. competition to protect customers’ sents Gharafa, the government have not been developed by their THE PENINSULA place with maximum temperature Most have a tendency to violate rights. THE PENINSULA had given these plots for free to owners yet and are becoming Continued on page 4 37 degrees. THE PENINSULA Iran downs Israeli US scribe freed in Syria stealth drone at nuclear facility after Qatar’s mediation DOHA: An American journal- Turkey, from where he planned TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary ist kidnapped nearly two years to enter Syria in October 2012, Guards claimed yesterday that ago has been freed in Syria and Aljazeera said on its website an Israeli stealth drone had handed over to UN representa- Footage of the American was been brought down above the tives, after Qatar mediation. released on June 30, showing a Natanz uranium enrichment Qatar’s initiative to free Peter dishevelled Curtis with long hair site. Theo Curtis follows directives and beard, but appearing to be in The semi-official Fars news from the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim good health. agency said elite forces had bin Hamad Al Thani. Speaking in a video obtained by intercepted and brought down Based on the directives and Aljazeera, Curtis read from a pre- an unmanned aircraft belonging humanitarian grounds, Qatar pared script, saying his name and to “the Zionist regime”. succeeded in releasing Curtis, profession and that he was a jour- The incident was announced kidnapped in Syria in 2012, the nalist from Boston, Massachusetts. in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said in a state- On his treatment, Curtis said he guards, but it was not clear when ment yesterday. “had everything” he needed and it happened. “On directives of H H the Emir, “everything has been perfect, food, “This mischievous act once the competent bodies in Qatar clothing, even friends now”. again reveals the adventurist exerted efforts to release the jour- US Secretary of State John nature of the Zionist regime [of nalist, out of its belief in the prin- Kerry said he was relieved Curtis Palestinians gather outside a shopping centre, hit overnight by an Israeli air strike yesterday in the southern Gaza Israel] and added another black ciples of humanity and keenness was returning home, before laying Strip town of Rafah. page to this fake and warmonger- on the lives of individuals and their blame on Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate, ing regime’s file which is full of right to freedom and dignity… The Al Nusra Front, for the kidnap- crimes,” said the statement. journalist was handed over to the ping. He said the US was using The state news agency ISNA UN peacekeeping mission,” QNA “every diplomatic, intelligence, and Netanyahu warns Gaza residents said the aircraft was “of the said. military tool” available to release stealth, radar-evasive type and Curtis was freed yesterday, other Americans held hostage. GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes the same family, medics said, as Netanyahu repeated his warning intended to penetrate the off- after being abducted in Antakya, THE PENINSULA pounded Gaza yesterday, killing the day’s death toll reached at of harsh retribution for the death limits nuclear area in Natanz ... at least 16 people, after Prime least 16, including six children.

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