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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 4 June 2013 25 Rajab 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5720 Price: QR2 Qatari bourse Mourinho index adds back as 47.96 points Chelsea boss Business | 20 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives new Bangladesh envoy US targets Iran Firms to pay for with currency, auto sanctions WASHINGTON: The US yes- staff, families terday ratcheted up efforts to isolate Iran, targeting it with currency and auto-sector sanctions. President Barack Obama medical cover imposed sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct or facilitate significant transac- tions in the Iranian rial currency. Emir issues health insurance law In an executive order, he also approved sanctions against people BY MOBIN PANDIT employers have bought them who do business with Iran’s auto- health insurance. The rule will mobile sector, which the White DOHA: Qatar yesterday put in apply to RP renewals as well. House said was a major source of force the much-awaited health The insurance system must revenue for Tehran. insurance law which makes cover, as per the law, medical The US and Western powers it compulsory for employers services starting from the basics have imposed economic sanc- across all sectors to provide like preventive services such as tions to pressure Iran into halting medical cover to their foreign vaccinations, treatment of ail- what they say is a drive to build a workers and their families. ments, rehabilitation in the cases nuclear weapon. Tehran says its The law bars employers from where necessary, as well as regu- nuclear programme is for gener- making any deductions from lar medical check-ups. ating power and medical devices. the salaries of their workers for Mechanisms and details such The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received the new Bangladesh Ambassador, Sayyed Massoud REUTERS the instalments paid for medi- as what services are to be covered Mahmoud Khandoukar, who presented his credentials at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. cal insurance policies bought for by the medical insurance scheme, them or their family members. and how the law and its various Visitors, whether on tourist provisions are to be effectively or business visas, must also buy implemented are to be specified health insurance for the expected by executive regulations to be duration of their stay in the issued by the Minister of Health. Curbs likely on driving licences for expats country before visas are issued The Emir, H H Sheikh Hamad to them. bin Khalifa Al Thani issued the DOHA: It may not be easier Authority (Ashghal) was set up to Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al jams has identified 138 vulnerable Domestic workers are to be law (No 7 of 2013) regulating the any more for newly-arriving study the problem of traffic jams Thani. The Advisory Council had spots across Doha. provided with medical insurance health insurance system, reports foreign workers to acquire a and come out with permanent some of its internal services and According to the Ministry of by their sponsors. Qatar News Agency (QNA). Qatari driver’s licence as the solutions. public amenities committee mem- Interior, on the Doha roads daily, According to the law, no one The legislation puts the onus of authorities are mulling impos- Among the various aspects bers on this influential panel. there are about 876,000 cars on could stay in the country without implementing the insurance sys- ing restrictions to help ease studied by the committee was the The Council yesterday dis- average on week days, 700,000 being covered by a health insur- tem and closely monitoring it on increasing traffic chaos and policy of issuing driver’s licences cussed the recommendations of motorists, 1,553 school buses, and ance scheme. the Supreme Council of Health snarls on Doha roads. to expatriates. the panel and passed them unani- 153 public transport buses. The government will provide (SCH). The Ministry of Interior has The committee has called for a mously to be forwarded to the The road near the Ramada free medical cover to citizens, As the regulator, the SCH has been closely monitoring driving review of this policy. It has rec- State Cabinet. Hotel that leads to Salwa Road non-Qatari women married to been authorised to set up a share- schools and asking them to keep ommended a number of other As a permanent solution, it has has been identified as a major Qataris and the children of Qatari holding company (akin to a nodal under check their appetite to measures to control the traffic been suggested by the commit- bottleneck, as also the Corniche women married to non-Qataris. insurance agency) to make the enrol more and more learners. situation on the Doha roads. tee to decentralise commercial Road that witnesses a lot of snarls No employer, whether in the insurance system work. Already, foreign workers who Among its key recommenda- activities from Doha and build during peak hours due to some private, public, mixed or domes- This company will have pow- are here on temporary project tions is that only certain catego- multi-layered parking lots in the roundabouts still being there. tic sector, is to be spared by the ers to ink deals with other firms visas are not being issued driver’s ries of foreign workers arriving capital city. They are to be changed into traf- provisions of the law that became if that becomes necessary to dis- licences any more. in the country afresh should be All government ministries and fic lights intersections. effective from yesterday and is to charge its duties. A high-profile committee with issued driver’s licence. offices have similar work timings The rise in traffic snarls across be published in the official gazette. The SCH can form other com- members from the Ministry of The committee has held five and this is one of the reasons of Doha has been attributed to the No foreign worker or any of his panies as well if deemed necessary. Interior, Advisory Council, the meetings and among those who traffic snarls. exploding population of people dependents will be issued resi- THE PENINSULA Ministry of Municipal Affairs and have attended was the Minister A separate committee that and vehicles in the country. dence permit (RP) unless their Continued on page 5 Urban Planning and Public Works of State for Interior Affairs H E looked into the problem of traffic THE PENINSULA Footballers train ahead of key match Three priorities Erdogan defiant as of Qatari youth DOHA: Fair pay, owning a clashes re-erupt house and living in a democratic country are the top three prior- ISTANBUL: Clashes re- accuse him of trying to impose ities of Qatari youth, reveals the erupted in Turkish cities yes- Islamic reforms on the secular 5th Annual ASDA’A Burson- terday as Prime Minister Recep state. Riot police fired tear gas Marsteller Arab Youth Survey, Tayyip Erdogan shrugged to disperse thousands of protest- supported by Silatech. off mass protests against his ers massing near his Istanbul It says 84 percent cited fair Islamic-rooted government that office and the nearby stadium of pay as most important to them, have left at least one man dead. Besiktas football team as clashes followed by 61 percent describing Despite facing the fiercest chal- that have rocked scores of cities ‘owning their own home’ and ‘liv- lenge to his rule since he came entered a fourth night. ing in a democratic country’ (58 to office in 2002, with protes- Thousands gathered on Taksim percent) as very important. tors hurling stones and burning Square, the symbolic heart of About 22 percent said they cars, Erdogan left Turkey ear- the protests and said “Tayyip, expected to purchase their own lier yesterday on an official visit resign!”, waving red flags and ban- home by the time they were 31 to to Morocco, where he insisted ners and whistling. Erdogan has 40-year-old. the situation in his country was blamed the protests on “extrem- Some 13 percent believed they Qatar players during a training session at Al Sadd Stadium in Doha. Qatar take on visitors Iran in their 2014 FIFA “calming down”. ists” and “dissidents” among his will never be able to afford their World Cup qualifying match at the stadium today. Qatar and Iran are tied at seven points each but the visitors He rejected talk of a “Turkish opponents. REUTERS own home. have played one game less and Qatar must win to face Brazil for the Cup. Report on page 27 Spring” uprising by Turks who See also page 7 See also page 3 No coronavirus cases in Qatar New law soon to regulate education, tuition centres DOHA: Around 300 sus- pected cases of Middle East DOHA: A new law will soon be issued the Supreme Education Council (SEC), all another person without approval from the these centres have been banned from pro- Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to regulate the private education/tuition these centres have to obtain a licence from SEC. If any centre decides to close down, viding university services and facilitating — coronavirus have been centres in the country and ensure that the SEC and should furnish full details the SEC should be informed. admissions to foreign universities. found in Qatar, but tested they are competent to provide the prom- about credentials of their directors, train- The centres are not permitted to offer In a statement on its website, the SEC negative, the Director of the ised services. It will amend Law No 6 of ers and other staff. This is to ensure that college or university programmes accred- urged students and parents to check details Department of Public Health at 2000 governing such centres.