ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Firms line up to be listed on Qatar bourse Business | 17 Wednesday 15 October 2014 • 21 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6219 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar beat Australia in friendly Rising home Aquatic centre rents push to boost fish up cost stocks planned of living DOHA: The cost of living con- tinues to go up in the country thanks mainly to spiralling QR230m facility by 2015-end house rents. Rents keep jumping unchecked, DOHA: Qatar is setting up environment is not affected pushing yearly consumer inflation a QR230m ($63.16m) aquatic and is rather protected and up to 3.6 percent in September research centre as a first step improved. this year. to increase its fast-depleting According to the Minister, the Rents, clubbed with fuel and surpluses of fish stocks. proposed research centre will also energy in the consumer price The research centre, which help protect other marine lives in index (CPI) basket, went up will comprise massive fish and the area like the sea turtle. 8.1 percent year-on-year in prawn hatcheries, is expected to He said Qatar has the larg- September. be ready by 2015-end. est reserves of whale sharks in Releasing the figures, the From these hatcheries at the world after Mexico and the Ministry of Development Planning least eight tonnes of fingerlings largest reserves of Dugong in the and Statistics said yesterday the will be released every year into world after Australia. rent hike mainly pertained to the sea to help supplant the In the hatcheries of the residential accommodation. country’s harvestable surplus research centre some 2.4 million Rent, energy and fuel account of fisheries. fish eggs will be hatched into larva for 32 percent of household Similarly, six tonnes of baby during four seasons in a year. expenses. Yearly statistics until prawns will be released from The larva will then be bred September reflect that none of these hatcheries into the Qatari into two million fingerlings of two the commodities and services that waters each year to help check grammes each. They will then be are part of the CPI basket became the depleting harvestable stocks bred into 1.5 million fingerlings of cheaper. of prawns. 10 grammes each. Australian player Tim Cahill (centre) vies for ball with Qatar’s Almahdi Ali (right) and Ibrahim Majed during a After rents, it were home appli- The Minister of Environment, Finally, a total of eight tonnes friendly match which took place at Lekhwiya Stadium yesterday. Qatar won 1-0. See also page 28 ances, furniture and textiles that H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al of fish fingerlings will be released became more costly, their prices BAHER AMIN Humaidi, laid the foundation into the sea from the hatcheries. going up by 5.2 percent. stone for the Aquatic Research Similarly, prawns will also Transport and communications Centre in Ras Al Matbakh near go through different stages of became 2.7 percent more expen- Al Khor yesterday. breeding and finally, six tons of sive while the rates of garments The proposed centre will be baby prawns will be released into and footwear rose by a similar spread over an area of 110,000 the sea every year from these percentage. square metres, the Minister said hatcheries. Jazeera scribe gets 15 years in jail Even food, whose prices have at the stone-laying ceremony. This will help optimise harvest- been going down the world over, He said that Qatar’s popula- able fish and prawn stocks in the DOHA: A criminal court in “A lot of people asked me to “I have been accused for things became expensive here, albeit by tion had been increasing fast due Qatari sea. Cairo yesterday sentenced in respond to the sentence. I would which I never saw or did,” he just one percent. Food is clubbed to heavy influx of foreign work- The fingerlings will be of all absentia Ahmed Mansour, a like to say to all people that I will added. with beverages and tobacco in the ers for development projects species of fish that are popular in presenter on Al Jazeera Arabic not comment on a corrupt deci- Al Jazeera denied the charge CPI basket. and that was the reason why its Qatar, including Hamour, Assafi, to 15 years in jail on charges of sion issued by a corrupt judiciary against Mansour, which it said, The price rise in the case of harvestable fisheries stocks were Assham and Assubaithi, among torturing a lawyer in Tahrir and criminal regime,” he wrote followed the sentencing of sev- health care and recreation was depleting fast. others. Square during the January 25 on his Facebook page yesterday. eral other Al Jazeera journal- minimal — under one percent. The Aquatic Research Centre Similarly, all types of prawns uprising in 2011. He denied the charges say- ists, including Baher Mohamed, Prices have been stable is being set up with the objective will be bred in the hatcheries for Mansour, who is based in Qatar, ing there was no single evidence Peter Greste and Mohamed month-on-month in September of helping check that depletion being released into the sea, said described the sentence a “corrupt against him and he was not at Fahmy, in June. when compared to August, the and increase fish production the Minister. decision” issued by a “corrupt Tahrir Square at the time and THE PENINSULA Ministry’s figures show. in a way that Qatar’s marine THE PENINSULA judiciary”. place mentioned in the charge. Continued on page 6 THE PENINSULA Syria conflict American shot Qataris ‘most stylish’ in region dead in Riyadh DOHA: New data released by Some 32,000 Qataris used the shoppers to ensure they know in RIYADH: A former employee Heathrow Airport’s Personal service last year, spending an advance about the newest items of a US defence contractor shot Shopping service reveal that average QR7,134 (£1,200) per before they arrive at Heathrow,” dead one American colleague Qataris are the most style- visit. Jaber said. and wounded another at a pet- aware nationality in the region Dana Jaber, a style expert for With a team of personal shop- rol station in the Saudi capital and more likely to utilise the Personal Shopping service, said: pers, all of whom have under- yesterday, officials said. expertise of the airport’s pro- “Our Qatari customers have dis- gone two-year training and The alleged shooter, Abdulaziz fessional stylists than any other cerning tastes when it comes to speak over 38 languages, style Fahad Abdulaziz Alrashid, 24, group in the Middle East. fashion and in our experience, experts help over 55,600 custom- “worked at the same company as Over 39 percent of those from they tend to be among the earli- ers each year. the victims, and was dismissed the region that use Personal est adopters of latest trends. The service offers male and from his job due to drug related Shopping service are Qataris, “Heathrow offers some of the female experts to ensure custom- issues,” Riyadh’s embassy in compared to 25 percent from best British brands available and ers can select the stylist they feel Washington said. A US diplomat the UAE, 13 percent from Saudi they take full advantage. “Many most comfortable with. ruled out terrorism as a possible Arabia, 10 percent from Bahrain of our Qatari customers request THE PENINSULA motive. Vinnell Arabia provides and one percent from Kuwait. regular emails from our personal Continued on page 4 training for the Saudi Arabian National Guard. AFP Australia’s Flanagan wins Man Booker Houthis seize strategic Turkey bombs Kurd rebels LONDON: Australian author port city in Yemen ISTANBUL/SURUC: War against Islamic Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened Road to the Deep North, set dur- SANA’A: Yemeni Shia rebels seized a strategic yesterday to unravel the delicate peace in ing the building of the Thailand- port city yesterday to widen their fast-expanding neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish air Burma “Death Railway” in zone of control. The Houthi Shia rebels met little force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over World War Two, won Britain’s resistance as they overran Hudeida, taking control Ankara’s refusal to help protect their kin in prestigious £50,000 ($79,530) of Yemen’s second most important seaport. Syria. Man Booker literature prize Military sources confirmed that Houthi militants Turkey’s banned PKK Kurdish militant group yesterday. were seen deployed across main roads in the city of accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old cease- Flanagan, 53, is ranked among more than two million residents. Witnesses said the fire with the air strikes. “For the first time in Australia’s finest novelists. In The militants had set up checkpoints at the city’s main nearly two years, an air operation was carried Narrow Road to the Deep North, entrances. The takeover came just weeks after the out against our forces by the occupying Turkish Flanagan takes up the story of Allied A large explosion allegedly hitting a Syrian army military outpost in Huthis, almost unopposed, swept into Sana’a. Republic army,” the PKK said. prisoners of war used as forced Maarat Al Numan in Idlib province. The explosion was caused by With political crisis mounting, tens of thousands “These attacks against two guerrilla bases at labour by the Japanese to build the rebel fighters belonging to Ahrar Al Sham brigade of the Islamic Front of supporters of the separatist Southern Movement Daglica violated the ceasefire,” the PKK said, refer- notorious railway line.