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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 The SEC launched Shareholders of Qatar Qatar Total Open ‘Qatar-e-Nature’ Islamic Bank gave the begins today. Defending contest to raise nod to the bank to raise champion Simona environment awareness up to QR5bn through a Halep of Romania among schoolchildren. capital boosting Sukuk. withdraws due to injury. MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2015 • 4 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6350 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar Sports Park in Japan Turkish troops Qatar Chamber enter Syria to free soldiers urges govt to ANKARA: Turkish forces swept into Syria overnight to rescue about 40 soldiers who had been surrounded for months by Islamic State militants while check rents guarding the tomb of a revered Turkish figure. The Syrian government Rents taking toll on small businesses described the operation as an act of “flagrant aggression” and said DOHA: The Qatar Chamber that the state is building a logistics it would hold Ankara responsible has called on the government to zone, which is a welcome move. But for its repercussions. The action, urgently intervene and check spi- the most effective way the govern- which involved tanks, drones and ralling commercial rents. ment can help the private sector reconnaissance planes as well as The Chamber has warned that grapple with the challenges it is fac- several hundred ground troops, commercial rents are spinning out ing due to rising commercial rents was the first incursion by Turkish of control and taking a serious toll is provide them land. troops into Syria since the start on small businesses. The businesses “That’s the only way we can of the civil war there nearly four are passing on the burden to the check the spiralling commercial years ago. REUTERS end-user so the ultimate sufferer rents,” said Al Obaidly. And reduced is the hapless consumer. commercial rents would mean The rents are now ruling at falling inflation rate which would back-breaking levels of QR400 to eventually benefit society at large— Cold and dusty QR500 ($137.3) per square metre. limited-income expatriate families These were the rates at which as well as nationals. H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the site of the Qatar Sports Park in wind to continue properties were actually available Talking about the central mar- Shirakawa City, one of the most affected regions in the earthquake and floods that hit Japan in 2011. See also page 2 for sale in Doha before the onset of kets, he said new central markets DOHA: The cold, dusty and the current economic boom. (one for vegetables and fruits, the windy weather is forecast to “Rents of QR400/QR500 per sqm other for fish and seafood and the continue today, although the mean that to take a 100-metre com- third for meat and livestock), should dust hanging in the air might mercial space on rent one must pay be made after careful studies. The settle a bit as the night falls. a monthly rent of QR50,000. This new markets should be established Yemen’s Hadi ‘resumes’ duties The night is forecast to be quite is mind-boggling,” said a director of out of the city limits of Doha. The cold today with mercury levels the Chamber. fish market should be opened in the ADEN: Yemeni President Houthis, have installed a “presi- “His priority is to normalise the falling to 9 to 13 degrees C at Mohamed bin Ahmed Al Obaidly coastal area, while the meat and Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi led dential” council aimed at replac- security situation in Aden in order places after midnight. said the Ministry of Economy and livestock market should be set up a meeting of governors in the ing Hadi, who after his escape to receive foreign delegates who Day temperatures were likely Commerce, which boasts a con- near the New Doha Port. southern city of Aden yesterday declared all their measures “null have requested appointments to to be up to 18 to 22 degrees C, sumer rights watchdog, has set up Similarly, the vegetable mar- as he resumed some of his duties and illegitimate”. meet him,” he said. with Al Ruwais and Dukhan wit- a committee that monitors the cen- ket should be opened in an area after escaping house arrest in Yesterday, he received the gov- As the meeting began, sources nessing a colder day (18 degrees tral markets. The watchdog — the closer to farmlands. He lauded Sana’a. ernors of various southern Yemeni close to Hadi said that one of his C). In Doha, the maximum tem- Consumer Protection Department the Ministry and said it is closely The Western-backed leader fled provinces, Aden governor Abdulaziz relatives, Nasser Ahmed Mansour perature forecast is 22 degrees C, (CPD) —must also track commer- interacting with the private sector to Aden on Saturday after sneaking bin Habtoor said. Hadi, was abducted by Houthis on while the minimum 13 degrees. cial rents and make sure they are and taking their views on issues out of his residence in the capital, “The president will keep up his Saturday as he tried to leave Sana’a Abu Samra is expected to have within justifiable limits. related to industry. The idea is to where he was being held by a Shia political efforts to lead from Aden,” to join his uncle. Aden is jointly con- the coldest night of the current Al Obaidly told reporters after a help widen the role of the private militia group that has seized control bin Habtoor told reporters after the trolled by troops loyal to Hadi and chilly spell. The minimum tem- meeting of the agricultural commit- sector in the national economy, said of the city. meeting, which was also attended an allied local militia known as the perature forecast for the place is tee of the Chamber which he heads, Al Obaidly. THE PENINSULA The militiamen, known as by army and security chiefs. Popular Committees. AFP 9 degrees C. THE PENINSULA HBKU launches 24,000 scrap vehicles Juris Doctor law programme to be dismantled soon DOHA: The waste man- He told Al Sharq that the BY FAZEENA SALEEM agement department of the ministry is setting up a fully Ministry of Municipality and automated recycling plant near DOHA: A new Law school at Urban Planning has awarded Al Khor, and plans are afoot to Qatar Foundation’s Hamad bin contracts to local companies expand the recycling capacity of Khalifa University (HBKU) yes- to dismantle 24,000 scrap the plant to 5,500 tonnes per day terday announced the launch of automobiles and provide the from the present 2,300 tonnes Juris Doctor (JD) postgradu- metals thus extracted to local due to rising population. ate degree programme, which steel-maker. He said the new plant would will be the research university’s These were abandoned vehi- be operational by the end of inaugural law programme and cles that were lying in the junk 2016. first of its kind in the region. yards of the ministry, according According to the head of The three-year programme, to a senior official. the Ministry’s waste recycling being launched through a partner- Similarly, some 15 companies plant., construction waste is ship with Northwestern University had been contracted to cut into also recycled at his plant and School of Law in the US, will enrol small pieces at least two million the quality residues (after the 20 students this year, officials said scarp automotive tyres and the recycling) are used as landfill during a press conference held at pieces have been exported. materials. the Education City yesterday. “Other companies also have He said the plant generates Students are required to hold opportunities in this area if 30 megawatt of electricity using an undergraduate degree in any they wish to bag contracts,” said the waste, of which 6 megawatt discipline with a strong academic Safar Mubarak Al Shafi, head is used by the plant and the record for admission. of the Ministry of Municipality remaining 24 megawatt is given Continued on page 2 and Urban Planning’s waste to the state. THE PENINSULA recycling plant. THE PENINSULA Qatari defies blindness, unveils website BY MOHAMMED OSMAN advantage of the online advertising newspapers. It was really hard in market which is growing world- the beginning. I started with sim- DOHA: A Qatari youth has chal- wide in general and in the GCC ple designs and simple online pro- lenged his blindness to launch his states in particular,” Al Kuwari grammes,” Said Al Kuwari. own website through hard work told this daily yesterday. Hard work and dedication paid and self-determination. He said developing a website was dividends. “Now I feel comfortable Saleh Al Kuwari, a secondary not an easy task for him, with no and I am able to manage the por- school graduate, is now manag- formal training in this field. tal,” he added. ing the al-jaras.net dedicated for Using Braille Sense, an elec- The website has three main sec- online advertisement for selling tronic note taker specially designed tions — one for vehicles, one for and buying of cars and real estate for the blind and visually impaired, real estate properties and an addi- properties. The portal offers buy- he managed to access and read sev- tional section for advertising job ers and sellers free advertisement eral websites and newspapers. vacancies. for properties on sale or for hire. “I worked two years searching Continued on page 6 “I launched the website to take different websites and reading THE PENINSULA MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Leaders greet FM unveils sports park in Japan Greek president on his election SHIRAKAWA-SHI, JAPAN: 150,000 people, including aspiring and Japanese people are aware centre for families seeking shel- of Shirakawa Marathon.

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