ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER ARTIC acquires Boscolo Aleph Hotel in Rome Business | 17 Tuesday 23 December 2014 • 1 Rabial I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6288 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Napoli win Italian Super Cup Oman to start Rising prices issuing GCC driving licences DOHA: Oman will start imple- push Qataris to menting the proposed unified driving licence for GCC states from January 1 next year, the Times of Oman has reported. shop in Saudi Citing a circular issued by the Royal Oman Police, the daily said that the move was based on a decision in this regard taken Issue hotly debated on social media by the interior ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council countries. DOHA: Rising prices are a he wanted to open a vegetable The new licences would carry burning social issue and being shop in Qatar since profit margins the GCC logo, said the circular. hotly debated in the living are high as Qataris don’t bother rooms of Qatari families as well about prices. Shura nod for as on the local social media. “Increasing salaries or making How an increasing number of the CPD active to fight inflation law to change Qataris are making frequent vis- is not the solution. The solution is its to towns in Saudi Arabia on to collectively escape to Al Hessa fiscal year weekends to buy household items and other towns in eastern Saudi because prices are high in Qatar, Arabia,” wrote one man. DOHA: The Advisory Council is a subject of mockery by some Among the items Qataris buy The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani presents the yesterday unanimously approved social media commentators. in the neighbouring country are Italian Super Cup Trophy to Napoli Captain Marek Hamsik after his team beat Juventus FC in the title match a draft public finance law that, “People leave their countries to home furniture, furnishings, car at Al Sadd Club’s Jassim bin Hamad Stadium last evening. See also pages 27 & 28 once implemented, would see escape war, famine and instabil- spare parts and things for brides. the state’s fiscal year run from ity, but we are leaving our country The problem in Qatar, accord- January to December, following (to visit towns in a neighbouring ing to some social media partici- the Gregorian calendar, instead country) due to the ‘fire’ of price pants, is that the market is not of April to March, as at present. rise,” said a commentator who monitored by consumer rights Pakistan to The aim of the change is to gave his name as Nasser Al Ali. watchdog officials closely and laws Al Jazeera suspends ensure that Qatar maintains its “A handful of traders are holding are not strictly enforced. “When execute 500 top ratings by international rat- people to ransom,” he said. the cat is away the mice are at ing agencies and its financial year The Consumer Protection play,” wrote one. terror convicts its Egypt channel corresponds to those of major Department (CPD) (under Earlier, the justification given economies. the Ministry of Economy and for price rise in Qatar was global ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans DOHA: Al Jazeera Mubasher The new service, named Al Commerce) has come in for criti- inflation, but now when commod- to execute around 500 militants Misr (AJMM), broadcasting Jazeera Mubasher Al-‘Amma Essebsi is new cism by a number of tweeters. ity prices are falling worldwide the in coming weeks, officials said live from Egypt, has temporar- (General) is set to coalesce both “It (the CPD) must instead be rate of inflation still remains high. yesterday, after the government ily ceased service, the channel experiments into one. It will be Tunisia president renamed as Traders’ Protection Some commentators attributed lifted a moratorium on the said yesterday. broadcast on the frequencies of Department,” said a commentator, the price rise to what they said death penalty in terror cases. The channel will resume opera- both AJM and AJMM. TUNIS: Veteran Tunisian poli- poking fun at the state consumer were skyrocketing rents of shops, “Interior ministry has finalised tion when the necessary permits It will report live on events all tician Beji Caid Essebsi yester- rights watchdog. which average between QR20,000 the cases of 500 convicts who have are issued by Egyptian authorities over the globe simultaneously day won the country’s first free “Don’t look at our luxury cars and QR40,000 a month. exhausted all the appeals, their for its return to Cairo. with round-the-clock analy- presidential election. Essebsi and palatial homes,” another com- “Demolition of old buildings is mercy petitions have been turned Meanwhile, Al Jazeera Media sis. The output will rely much beat rival Moncef Marzouki with mentator wrote. “These are all still going on,” said the commen- down by the president and their Network said that it is launching on viewer suggestions rather 55.68 percent of the vote against thanks to debt.” tator. Prices are lower in Saudi executions will take place in com- a new Arabic-language TV serv- than the traditional pattern of a 44.32 percent in Sunday’s run- Yet another man said that he Arabia because shop rents are low, ing weeks,” a senior government ice based on the successful expe- fixed transmission grid, said the off ballot. once met a vegetable trader from he added, Arabic daily Al Watan official said. AFP rience of Al Jazeera Mubasher network. See also page 7 an Arab country and he said that reported. THE PENINSULA See also page 11 (AJM) and AJMM. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA & AFP TUESDAY 23 DECEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Premier meets French official Deputy PM receives Algerian envoy Aljazeera to stop using satellites Badr-4 and Badr-5 from January 1 DOHA: Aljazeera Media Network said yesterday that it will perma- nently terminate broadcasting via satellites Badr-4 and Badr-5 starting from January 1 next year. New chan- nel bundles will be broadcast through satellite Es’hailSat 1. The move is part of the network’s The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin efforts to provide its viewers in the Middle East and North Africa region The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud yesterday met outgoing Algerian Ambassador Abdel with the best coverage with latest tech- Thani yesterday met Maurice Leroy, Head, French-Qatari Friendship Society, and his Fattah Ziani and reviewed relations in all fields. Al Mahmoud wished Ziani success in delegation. nologies in uninterrupted satellite TV his future assignments. broadcasting, said a statement. Aljazeera channels have seen deliber- ate jamming in the wake of its coverage of the Arab uprisings. Ibrahim Nassar, Manager, RF & Katara to launch Dhad Teleport Engineering, Aljazeera, said: GCC ‘must invest in “Aljazeera has investigated and con- sidered the intentional jamming of its magazine tomorrow signal in recent years. The jamming is part of an orchestrated and multifac- DOHA: Katara will tomorrow Khalid Al Sayyed, General eted campaign to block the network’s launch Dhad, a monthly maga- Supervisor, Dhad events, said the signal and Internet websites from its zine for children and adults. competitions will be under the human resources’ viewers.” The event at Katara Drama theme ‘Spreading Arabic language Es’hailSat covers the same geo- Theatre will also see the launch of is the responsibility of all’. DOHA: Amid a 50 percent departments. Research by OSC more cost-effective than across graphic area as Arabsat and provides two Arabic writing competitions — The illustrated story contest reduction in oil prices, the GCC suggests that world-class HR the board funding of entrepre- viewers with secure and uninterrupted illustrated story and lyric poetry will include words and photos and countries might be tempted to departments would yield an neurial projects. transmission with more powerful abili- contests — and the annual Dhad aims to make the reading of Arabic cut non-critical investment extra $14bn in GCC-listed com- Third, embrace organisa- ties to hold off signal interference Week. language attractive to readers, he such as spending on human pany profits per year. tional models that work. Family attempts. Dr Khalid Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, said. Entries should present an resource (HR) development, According to OSC’s ‘HRM in firms, which account for 75 per- Nassar said the move to Es’hailSat General Manager, Katara, said original idea on teaching Arabic. but they must continue to the GCC’ report, a world-class cent of the GCC’s private sector does not require viewers to adjust the launch of Dhad events is in It should use standard Arabic lan- invest in HR to achieve sus- HR team adds 12 percent to a economy, are critical for growth their satellite dish location or satellite line with Katara’s aim to highlight guage complying with grammatical tainable development, accord- firm’s profit or effectiveness. and represent a proven advan- receiver. All it takes is to set the receiver Arabic culture and identity. rules. Photos and graphics should ing to a statement released by More effective HR departments tage for the GCC. Nearly 50 to Es’hailSat 1 with Txp Frequency: He said it is important for be attractive, clear, and match with Oxford Strategic Consulting will also help GCC professionals percent of these firms operate 11604; Polarization: Horizontal; FEC: Katara to promote Arabic lan- the aims and religious and social (OSC), an Oxford and GCC- contribute to the achievement in more than five sectors, which 3/4; Symbol Rate: 27500.