www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 22 Vodafone Qatar to set World 9-Ball Pool foreign investment begins in Doha with threshold at 49% qualifying rounds TUESDAY 26 JULY 2016 • 21 SHAWWAL 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6869 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar RAF spent QR376.5m Emir attends Arab Summit in first half of 2016 QR74.9m in the first half of this year. tough financial conditions because Foreign projects cost QR301m, they lost their jobs or other reasons. Expenditures on local up 30 percent. Donations also rose Some QR19m was spent to pro- projects jumped by 17 percent to QR326.6m in the vide help to the poor and needy first six months of this year from families and individuals, including by 74 percent to QR279.9m in the corresponding citizens and expatriates. QR74.9m from period last year. More than QR9m was given to QR43.1m in the first The figures were provided by help poor people — individuals and RAF officials in a ceremony held families — to help them lead a dig- half of 2015 yesterday to release a six-month nity life. The help included monthly report on RAF’s achievements in home expenditures like rent, ration, Qatar and abroad. RAF gave spe- school fees and others. More than cial focus on local projects to help QR7m was spent to provide pre- the needy people. More than half a marital counselling to Qatari youth By Sanaullah Ataullah million (QR660,414) was spent dur- to educate them about social life so The Peninsula ing the first six months of this year they could lead a happy married life. to provide air tickets to low-income Money spent to help in the workers so they could travel to their release of detained loan defaulters countries. Cases included emergency increased from QR1.2m in the first DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdul- situations when they were not enti- half of last year to QR11.6m in the lah Foundation for Humanitarian tled for tickets from their companies. first of this year. Services (RAF) spent QR376.5m on More than QR3.1m was used to pay “RAF is going to complete eight charity projects in Qatar and out- medical bills of those who could not years. During this span of time, it has side during the first half of this year. afford. made remarkable improvements in The expenditures increased 37 RAF also doled out over QR12m the quality and quantity of its serv- percent from QR274.2m in the first this year, up 50 percent compared ices,” said Sheikh Dr. Khalid bin half of 2015. to last year on education projects, Thani Al Thani, Chairman, RAF. The expenditures on local including school and college fees “We expanded our charity activ- projects jumped by 74 percent from on requests of parents of students ities in the country and launched QR43.1m in the first half of 2015 to who could not bear the costs due to projects to benefit a large number of people — citizens and expatriates,” said Ayed Dabsan Al Qahtani, Gen- eral Manager and Chairman, Board of Trustees, RAF. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, along with other Arab leaders, taking part in the opening “RAF will make more part- nerships with public and private session of the 27th session of Arab League Council at the summit level in Nouakchott, Mauritania. institutions and companies to imple- ment community projects, especially those to ensure stability of families QNA The Emir’s delegation and of Foreign Affairs and Coopera- and social lives of citizens,” said those of several other Arab coun- tion Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izidbih, Al Qahtani. “RAF also has inter- tries and guests attended the Interior Minister Ahmedou Ould- national partners working under opening session of the summit held Abdallah, Minister of Energy Salem the United Nations Human Rights NOUAKCHOTT: Emir H H Sheikh under the theme ‘Summit of Hope’. Ould Al Bashir, Qatari Ambassa- Council (UNHRC) to work in sec- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- Earlier, the Emir arrived at dor to Mauritania Abdulrahman tors, including humanitarian aid, day took part, along with leaders Nouakchott International Airport. bin Ali Al Kubaisi, Mauritania’s health, development, education, of Arab countries, in the opening The Emir and his dele- Ambassador to Qatar Sidi Ould family, maternity and childhood to session of the meetings of the 27th gation were welcomed by Mohamed Laghdaf and members Sheikh Dr. Khalid bin Thani Al Thani (centre), Chairman, RAF, and combat poorly worldwide.” session of Arab League Council at Mauritanian Prime Minister Yahya of the Qatari Embassy. other officials during RAF press conference at Ezdan Towers yesterday. the summit level, in Nouakchott, Ould Hademine, Minister of Jus- Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula → Continued on page 2 capital of Mauritania. tice Ibrahim Ould Dada, Minister → Continued on page 2 HMC urges people to Window to Qatar’s heritage Emir condoles with Saudi King DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a protect themselves cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia follow- ing the death of Princess Noora bint Msa’aed bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a from summer heat cable of condolences to King Salman. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar cable to King Salman, reports QNA. The Peninsula four years are at a higher risk of heat stroke and exhaustion when they go out in the hot weather as they can- not perspire actively like adults. DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation “If you park your car in the sun Dr. Al Kawari to address (HMC) has reminded people, espe- for around 10 minutes, the tem- cially children, to continue to take perature inside can rise by up to precautions and safeguard them- 10 degrees Celsius. It gets higher as selves against heat exhaustion and time passes by. Berlin symposium today stroke throughout the hottest sum- “If a child is left in a vehicle, he/ mer months. she can easily develop heat exhaus- Dr. Khalid Al Ansari, Director, tion and that can result in heat QNA in supporting Unesco in these criti- Paediatric Emergency Services, stroke, which can be life-threat- cal areas. Ivory Coast is on Unesco’s HMC, advised that since most ening,” Dr. Al Ansari said. 58-member Executive Board and schools are closed and children are “If parents need to do something entitled to vote in Unesco elections. interested in playing outdoors, most outside their vehicles, they should PARIS: H E Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Dr. Al Kawari will take part of their activities should be limited always take their children with Al Kawari, Cultural Adviser at the today in an international sympo- to air-conditioned or shaded areas. them. If there are adults attending Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate sium on ‘Cultural Diplomacy in the He stressed that children should to children, it’s okay, provided that for the Unesco director-general’s Arab World’ in Berlin, Germany, not be left by themselves in cars the AC is turned on,” he said, add- post, yesterday met Ivory Coast’s and will present a paper entitled ‘A parked in the sun as doing so poses ing “leaving children unattended Minister of Culture and Francoph- Diplomatic Culture in A New Inter- one of the greatest risks of heat with the AC on in the car is equally onie Maurice Bandaman. national Approach’ in the opening stroke. dangerous”. Dr. Al Kawari presented his session of the symposium organised “Some parents tend to leave “Carbon-monoxide from the election programme and vision for by the Institute for Cultural Diplo- their children unattended in vehi- car exhaust can come out through the development of the UN organisa- macy. He has been invited by the cles parked in the sun without the AC vents and whoever is in the The ‘Qatar Heritage and Modernity’ exhibition has opened at tion. The meeting also dealt with the institute within the framework of his realising that the time required for vehicle can suffocate from carbon- Katara Building No. 18. It features historical landmarks and importance of Africa and the need election campaign. During his visit anyone to get heat exhaustion or monoxide poisoning,” Dr. Al Ansari to support programmes relevant to to Germany, Dr. Al Kawari will also heritage sites captured by Qatari photographers on lens. stroke in the car is much lesser than warned. → Report on page 16 Unesco, particularly in the areas of meet high-level personalities from if the person is sitting outside in the education and heritage. many countries taking part in the sun,” he said, adding children under → Continued on page 3 Bandaman praised Qatar’s role symposium and German officials. 02 TUESDAY 26 JULY 2016 HOME Emir stresses joint Arab action to meet people’s aspirations Continued from page 1 supporting and enhancing joint Arab action to achieve the aspirations of The Emir made the following our peoples. I ask the Almighty Allah statement: “I am pleased upon arrival to help us all for the good of our peo- in Nouakchott to take part in the 27th ples and pride of our nation.” Summit of Arab League, to extend The Emir left Mauritania in the my sincere greetings and the greet- afternoon. ings of the Qatari people to my dear The Emir and his delegation were brother H E President of the Islamic seen off at Nouakchott International Republic of Mauritania, Mohamed Airport by Mauritanian Prime Minis- Ould Abdel Aziz, and the brotherly ter Yahya Ould Hademine and Qatari people of Mauritania, wishing them Ambassador to Mauritania Abdulrah- continuous progress and prosperity.