ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Shows lined up QDB unveils Hingis, Mirza for Eid Al Adha new equity fund clinch US 2015 Festival for start-ups Open women’s by QTA. and SMEs. doubles trophy. MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 30 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6553 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Crackdown 10 Gulf banks on illegal apply for crèches on the cards Qatar licence DOHA: The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has hinted that a crackdown on illegal Move to generate jobs, buoy real estate crèches may soon be launched. The Ministry said it is keeping DOHA: At least eight to 10 part of their expansion strategy. a close watch of local newspapers banks from the GCC countries The GCC’s top leadership had and shopping centre notice boards have applied for licence to oper- decided at their summits earlier to see if advertisements for child- ate in Qatar and they are likely to permit banks from member- care facilities run from homes to get approval before the end of states to operate in one another’s illegally are displayed. “We are this year. territory to boost regional eco- concerned to find that many such Some of the banks are seek- nomic cooperation. advertisements are appearing in ing the Qatar Financial Centre The goal is part of a broader newspapers and public places,” (QFC) route to enter Qatar while strategy to establish a full-fledged the Ministry said. others want to operate outside of common regional market and a In an advertisement inserted in it. Since QCB is the pivotal licens- regional currency. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Syrian and Afghan refugees fall into the sea; a refugee raises a child into the air; a a local Arabic daily, the Ministry ing authority, all the banks have Qatar is providing licence to Syrian refugee holding a baby in a lifetube, and a refugee shouts as he swims towards the shore after their dinghy said yesterday it was concerned made their applications to the GCC banks on the condition that deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, yesterday. to find some ads saying they banking regulator. they would introduce innovative were ready to receive children at Once approval is granted, they and non-conventional products homes. “Please be informed that are expected to meet the neces- and services to help improve the running a childcare facility from sary requirements, complete the local market. 34 refugees drown off Greece a home is illegal. Any crèche run paperwork and begin their opera- This aside, the banks will con- without a valid licence is illegal tions by early next year — some- tribute to Qatar’s economy in ATHENS: Thirty-four refugees, Farmakonisi, close to Turkey’s said 68 people were rescued from and liable to be severely pun- time by the first quarter. other ways as well — by buying almost half of them babies and coast. the water and another 30 sur- ished,” the Ministry said. Al Sharq reported yesterday or leasing out property to set up children, drowned when their Tens of thousands of mainly vivors from the same boat were The Ministry has a social quoting unnamed sources from branches and generating jobs. boat sank off a Greek island Syrian refugees have braved found on Farmakonisi. affairs wing which has a section QCB that the banks aspiring to “After getting approval, the yesterday, almost certainly the rough seas this year to make On Lesbos, an island which called the Family Development be here are from Saudi Arabia, banks will, naturally, be looking largest death toll in those waters the short but precarious journey has borne the brunt of Greece’s Department. This department is the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and for locations to open branches since the migrant crisis began, from Turkey to Greece’s eastern migrant intake, witnesses saw 10 the licensing authority for nurs- Oman. and staffers to man those the coastguard said. islands, mainly in flimsy and over- dinghies arriving within 90 min- eries, also known as crèches or The top applicants include branches,” said Al Sharq. Four babies, six boys and five crowded inflatable dinghies. utes yesterday. childcare facilities. The nurser- First Gulf Bank from the UAE, The demand for banking in girls died when the wooden ves- Details of the nationalities and One inflatable carrying about ies that can keep in their care and Bank Muscat from Oman, Qatar and the rest of the GCC sel carrying them overturned, ages of the victims were not imme- 70 refugees, including many chil- children up to four years of age in addition to some Saudi and has been going up. So the decision 5km east of the small island of diately available. The coastguard dren, burst about 100 metres from are different from kindergartens Kuwaiti banks. for local banks to expand their the shore. Locals pulled infants which are licensed by the Supreme Qatar’s decision to allow GCC activities within the region comes and toddlers - including a two- Education Council. Some nurser- banks to open branches in its ter- at the right time. Germany reimposes border controls month old baby cradled by his ies can also be playschools. ritory is part of a GCC-wide pol- Sources said that before father - ashore on rubber rings. Qatar issued a law early last icy to bolster regional economic approval is provided to the GCC BERLIN/BRUSSELS: Germany re-imposed border controls yes- The vast majority of refugees year (Law No. 1 of 2014) making cooperation in all fields. banks to operate on Qatar’s soil, terday after Europe’s most powerful nation acknowledged it could reaching Greece quickly head it illegal for nurseries to be oper- The decision is based on recip- their share in the GCC markets scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day. north to other countries, with ated from homes or from other rocal arrangements. Many Qatari and their financial status will be Berlin announced that the temporary measure would be taken first Germany the most favoured facilities without proper licence. banks have also applied to set up studied carefully. on the southern frontier with Austria. Full report on page 7 destination. Continued on page 3 operations in other GCC states as THE PENINSULA REUTERS THE PENINSULA Nasser Al Attiyah in action Russia building airstrip in More flights to Philippines Syria’s Latakia from next month BY SACHIN KUMAR BEIRUT: Russia is building an allotment of six new frequencies to the airstrip in the Syrian regime’s airlines in the Philippines. Similarly six stronghold Latakia province, and DOHA: Frequency of flights between new frequencies has been allotted to Qatar has brought hundreds of techni- the Philippines and Qatar will rise sub- Airways. Out of total existing eight fre- cians and military advisers to stantially from October this year, giving quencies in the Philippines, six are with the site, a monitor said yesterday. a reason to cheer to Filipino expatriates. Philippine Airlines while two frequencies The claim comes as Washington As per the recent agreement between are with CEB- a low cost carrier. accuses Moscow of a military Qatar and the Philippines, flight frequencies “CEB was granted increased air rights to build-up in Syria, where Russia will increase from eight per week to 14 from Qatar. From our current twice weekly opera- has backed President Bashar Al October. In aviation sector, one frequency tions to and from Doha, CEB can operate Assad’s regime against an upris- means one round trip from a destination. as many as 7 frequencies weekly, starting ing of more than four years. “According to the new agreement, car- October 2015 (winter schedule),” said Alex “Russian forces are building a riers from Qatar and the Philippines will Reyes. Qatar Airways will be adding six long runway capable of accom- be able to do up to 14 frequencies in a week extra flights per week between Doha and modating large aircraft near the on Manila-Doha route,” Alex Reyes, Cebu Manila starting from 26 October this year. Hmaymeen military airport in Pacific (CEB) General Manager, Long Haul Increase of flights between the two coun- Latakia province,” the Britain- Division told The Peninsula. tries is a good news for about 200,000 Filipino based Syrian Observatory for Cebu Pacific is the country’s biggest expatriates in Qatar. They expect more Human Rights said. budget carrier and is operating twice flights allow to expatriates to fly frequently The monitor, which relies on weekly flights between Manila and Doha. to home country as low cost carriers from a network of civilian, military Nasser Al Attiyah of Qatar leaps over a brow during the final day of the Rally of Australia Currently CEB is operating carriers hav- the Philippines will increase flights. and medical sources inside Syria, World Rally Championship (WRC) event in Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales north ing 436 seats which are all economy class. Continued on page 3 said “the Russians are preventing The new agreement has enabled THE PENINSULA coast, yesterday. Syrians, whether military or civil- ian, from entering the area where they are building the runway”. “In recent weeks, military air- planes arrived in Hmaymeen carrying military equipment and hundreds of Russian military Yemen govt shuns talks, begins major military push advisers and technicians,” the group said. Observatory director AL ABER: Yemen’s exiled government had said on Friday that it would join Ould Cheikh Ahmed, had announced that pushed the rebels out of Aden and four Rami Abdel Rahman said sources backed out of UN-brokered peace talks UN-mediated talks this week in Oman.