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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Sudanese minister Plan to amend Key downtown laws to woo investment DOHA: A number of laws city areas to related to trade, commerce, industry and investment being overhauled with a view to improving business environ- ment in the country and attract- go commercial ing more foreign investment. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has Clearance for multi-storey buildings instructed the government to sim- plify laws to make doing business DOHA: Urban Planning week from June 1 to 5, 2014. and making investments easier, authorities have given clearance Al Nijada area located behind Undersecretary at the Ministry for development of multi-storey the Bank Street where Souq of Economy and Commerce, H E buildings in some key down- Nijada once existed will be per- Sultan bin Rashid Al Khater said town areas of the city. mitted to have buildings with on the sidelines of a conference The Gold Souq area, located ground plus five floors. here. opposite Grand Hamad Avenue This will also be a mixed-use He said radical changes were popularly known as the Bank area with the usage of the build- being made to at least two dozen Street, has been declared a purely ings being residential, commer- laws with the above objective in commercial district in new urban cial and administrative, local The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Sudanese Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed mind.