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Page 01 April 15.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 20 Sport | 27 Qatar Qatar’s global West Indies International investments bounce back Court appoints reach $4.9bn to dismiss 4 new judges. in 2014. England for 399. WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015 • 26 Jumada II 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6401 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM opens first HIA to charge Outlets, offices QR45 a day for yuan clearing long-term parking hub in region DOHA: Vehicles parking at must close for the long-term parking area at the Hamad International BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Airport (HIA) will be charged a fee of QR2 per hour, Al Sharq DOHA: A Chinese currency reported. Fee for a full day has Friday prayers clearance and settlement cen- been fixed at QR45, said the tre was opened here yesterday daily. which will enable businesses The HIA recently announced in Qatar and the Middle East its decision to impose a fee for QR10,000 fine for violation to conduct trade with China long-term parking at the airport, directly in Renminbi (RMB) without giving details. DOHA: All outlets, including and Commerce will soon issue replacing the US dollar or any cafes and restaurants, offices, an extensive list of those out- other third currency. industrial units and clinics, lets that will require license The RMB clearing centre will Massive poultry will have to remain closed from it. save a lot of money for traders as for 90 minutes during Friday The license will be issued for a they will no longer be required project planned prayers. year and it will be renewable. For to buy dollars or other interna- A law passed by the Emir H renewals one would need to apply tional currency and pay com- DOHA: Qatar yesterday H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al 30 days in advance. missions to intermediaries for announced the launch of a mas- Thani yesterday makes the clo- Punishments for operating converting them into RNB. sive poultry project with the sure that would begin from the a business without license will The first Renminbi (RMB) participation of the private sec- first call for Friday prayers (azan) attract fines up to QR50,000 and clearing centre in the Middle tor and said this was the first mandatory. jail term of a year or either of the East region was inaugurated by step towards involving private The legislation (Law No. two. the Prime Minister and Interior Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin players in the nation’s ambitious 5 of 2015) is to be published Vending activities will be Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Khalifa Al Thani inaugurating the Renminbi (RMB) clearing centre in Doha food security programme. in the official gazette after allowed but for select activities bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. yesterday. It is the first such facility in the region. See also page 4 which it will be effective, and agricultural produce are Continued on page 4 THE PENINSULA reports QNA. excluded from these rules. The law says that violators are to be fined QR10,000. RULES FOR VENDORS The law also permits some No vendor will, though, be small home-based businesses allowed near educational insti- and rules for such businesses tutions or hospitals or places 219 private clinic licences issued in 2014 will be issued separately by where the police declare out of the Minister of Economy and bounds. DOHA: Private health care facilities in the Medical Commission (MC) facilities for 2014. The number of hospital beds will grow to Commerce. Vendors will pin up on their Qatar grew by 46 percent last year com- conducting the mandatory health check up for 4,701from 2,100 in 2014. The SCH is building The law makes it legally bind- chest identity cards provided by pared to the previous year, which repre- newly recruited expatriate workers. Facilities seven MC facilities, six of which will be inte- ing on all businesses, includ- the ministry and they must at all sents the highest growth over the past four for single male workers (SML) are also being grated with SML health centers and hospitals. ing shops, cafes, restaurants, times carry the licence. years, says the 2014 annual report of the expanded. The SCH is building five SML health cent- hotels, clinics, hospitals, ven- And they will not be allowed to Supreme Council of Health (SCH) released The lowest health expenditure was reported ers, and the PHCC is building 20 community dors, clubs, and industrial units, sell crackers or near shops selling yesterday. among expatriate blue-collar workers due to and other health centers. These will increase among others, to be licensed by the same items they are offering The SCH licensed 219 private sector facili- the availability of free care and increasing access to tailored primary care services for the Ministry of Economy and for sale. ties in 2014, 46 percent more compared to 2013 facilities catering to this segment, said the people in remote areas. Commerce. Above all, no newspaper will be and 58 percent more than in 2012. The annual report. The SCH has outsourced the opera- One third of new SCH, PHCC and HMC This license will be irrespective allowed to carry advertisement of increase was the largest since 2011. tion of five SML facilities to the private sec- facilities will be situated outside of Doha where of the fact that some other state a business without seeing a copy To meet the immediate demand for more tor by 2014. By 2016, the SCH and PHCC will a quarter of the population lives. The SCH is agency or agencies have also pro- of the licence issued to it by the healthcare facilities, the SCH, Primary be outsourcing the operation of over 10 other building three state-of-the-art hospitals for vided the license to an entity to ministry, says the law which has Healthcare Corporation (PHCC) and the facilities, said the report. By 2022, the number single workers attached to SML health centers. operate. 34 articles. Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) have of public hospitals, health centers and MC Continued on page 5 The Ministry of Economy THE PENINSULA undertaken 118 projects. The SCH is expanding facilities will almost double to 66, from 35 in THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME UN fund helps 2,000 trafficking victims a year Terrorists, criminals strengthening their links, says UNODC chief DOHA: The UN Trust Fund The fund was established for Victims of Trafficking in through the UN General Persons, especially Women and Assembly’s 2010 Global Plan of Children, helps victims reclaim Action to Combat Trafficking in their dignity and lives, the Persons and is administered by audience heard during a high- UNODC. level session on the margins of It provides humanitarian, the third day of the 13th UN legal and financial aid to victims Congress on Crime Prevention through governmental, inter-gov- and Criminal Justice yesterday. ernmental and non-governmental Yury Fedotov, Executive organisations. Director, UN Office on Drugs Since it became operational and Crime (UNODC), said the in November 2010, the fund has fund was helping today’s victims received over $2m in paid con- become tomorrow’s survivors. tributions from 19 countries “Some 2,000 victims annually and more than 30 private-sector FROM LEFT: Barrister Paul Adepelumi, Executive Director, African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development; Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Chairperson, benefitted from direct assistance, donors. including provision of shelter, Eleven projects in Albania, Board of Trustees, UNVTF; Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC; Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons; basic health services, vocational Cambodia, Costa Rica, the Czech and Sunita Damuwar, President, Shakti Samuha Board, attending a session on ‘UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Trafficking in Persons: Achievements and training and schooling, as well as Republic, France, Kenya, Israel, Challenges Five Years On’ on the sidelines of the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday. psychosocial, legal and economic Moldova, Nepal, Nigeria and the SALIM MATRAMKOT support,” he said. US received nearly $750,000 in Fedotov used his speech to the fund’s first call for projects. Fedotov said. terrorists and criminals was “an justice in support of effective, fair, Columbia Law School, New York bring home appalling experi- A new project will provide He said criminals were the evolving threat, with ever-chang- humane and accountable criminal were panel members. ences of trafficking survivors, nearly $1m for 17 projects. weak link due to the likelihood ing modi operandi. We need to justice systems: experiences and Other sessions included ‘United whose names had been changed Meanwhile, Fedotov told a they would be detected. be swift, innovative and ready to lessons learned in meeting the Nations Rule of Law Assistance to protect their identity. They high-level special event on terror- On terrorism financing, he said learn”. unique needs of women and chil- in Conflict-and Post-Conflict include girls such as Skye, traf- ism financing that said the links groups often funnelled money Another session focused on dren, in particular the treatment Settings: The Global Focal Point ficked to India when she was 13. between terrorists and criminals via countries with poor counter- the work of two NGOs assisting and social reintegration of offend- Arrangement, UN Office on She escaped and returned home have strengthened over the last financing laws and expertise. victims of trafficking in persons ers, trafficking in persons and Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in Nepal and filed a case against decade.
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