ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 26 April 2013 16 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5681 Price: QR2 Al Sada honours Dhoni guides HSE Excellence Super Kings Award winners to victory Business | 13 Sport | 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Obama, Bush meet Invest in young Macedonia and leadership, says Al Thawadi Bosnia to send BY RIZWAN REHMAT DOHA: Chief architect of Qatar’s success- ful 2022 World Cup bid has urged Asian maids to Qatar football decision-makers and stakeholders to invest in young leadership that could take the game forward in the world’s most populous continent. Workers to come from more countries Hassan Al Thawadi, 34, has made the rallying call just days before he goes head- DOHA: Two European coun- the above counties from next to-head against Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman tries, namely Bosnia and week, he added. bin Ibrahim Al Khalifah, 43, for a post on Macedonia, will now send Al Rayis said the number of the FIFA Executive Committee. The AFC’s housemaids to Qatar, senior workers and housemaids being Extraordinary Congress will vote on May 2, Labour and Interior Ministry brought from these countries 2013, to decide who wins coveted FIFA seat. officials announced yesterday. would depend on demand and “Yes, the world of football has evolved and Bosnia and Macedonia are supply. moved forward. It is time we evolved too and among the five new countries, In response to questions from had young leadership from Asia,” Al Thawadi which include Bangladesh, this newspaper, he said the said when asked if AFC — the game’s ruling Cambodia and Vietnam, from job contracts would depend on body in Asia — would be ready to vote for the where maids are to be recruited. bilateral agreements inked with Qatari in the May 2 elections. “We have to move Other countries already send- these countries, but generally with the (changing) world. That goes without ing maids here will continue to the maids’ monthly wages would US President Barack Obama with former president George W Bush at the dedication ceremony of saying. It is vital that Asia changed also,” he said do so. Skilled workers will also be range between $200 and $250. the George W Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, yesterday. Obama stood shoulder-to-shoulder during a conference called to reveal his plans recruited from the five countries “We have a clear-cut work con- with Bush in what could serve as a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle against terrorism, for the Asian continent. THE PENINSULA whose names were announced tract format for housemaids and Continued on page 2/See also page 19 from the September 11 attacks to the Boston Marathon bombings. Full report on page 8 yesterday. there are no disagreements over A delegation from the Ministry its clauses.” of Interior and the Ministry of Talks are going on with other Labour visited the above coun- GCC countries to have a common tries to formalise agreements for format for employment contracts the import of domestic and skilled for housemaids for the whole workers. region, said Al Rayis. “We will be Lab to check quality of beauty products This was announced by making an announcement when Brigadier-General Mohammed the format is finalised.” DOHA: With public complaints laboratory is to be set up at Doha Mohamed Saif Al Kuwari, director Samra. “Our specialist teams work Ahmed Al Atiq, Assistant Al Rayis was reacting when about substandard beauty Port as well. of the Laboratories and Standards at these centres 24 hours to moni- Director of Immigration and asked if the maids’ present products and cosmetics being This aside, plans are afoot to Department of the Environment tor the quality of imported goods.” Passports Department at the employment contracts would not brought into the country on establish a laboratory to test medi- Ministry. The department’s approval is interior ministry, at a news be in conflict with a GCC-wide the rise, Qatar plans to open a cal equipment being brought into He told Al Sharq in an inter- required for any imported item to conference. format that was being developed. laboratory soon to monitor the the country for use in hospitals. view published yesterday that his enter the local market. “We visited these countries and There have long been com- quality of these products. All these laboratories are to department was also working to “We have in the recent past we agreed with them to provide plaints that local manpower agen- The plan is part of an ambitious become operational by the end of obtain ISO 9001 certification. stopped many products from us with skilled workers as well.” cies are charging families wanting and long-thought-out project to the year, a senior official of the He said tests conducted at a lab- entering the local market and Fawaz Al Rayis, Director of maids exorbitant recruitment set up a string of laboratories to Ministry of Environment has said. oratory established by his depart- withdrawn several as they did not Recruitment at the Ministry of fees. There are also complaints check for, among other things, dis- Then, there are plans to com- ment to check radiation levels in meet the standards and specifica- Labour, who was present at the that many maids run away after eases in fish, cattle and plants, and plete the expansion of laboratories the country’s environment, includ- tions set by Qatar,” said Al Kuwari. news conference, said they held serving a family for less than the indirect impact on foodstuff of that check the quality of children’s ing sea and soil, had shown nega- The withdrawn items included meetings with manpower agencies three months. insecticides used on plants. toys and electrical appliances. tive results. “Qatar’s environment cement, children’s toys, sweets, in Qatar and explained to them It is hoped that with new man- The laboratory that will moni- These labs opened last year. is totally free of radiation,” the melamine materials, kitchenware, recruitment procedures in the power export markets opening up, tor the quality of cattle is to be set “The proposed laboratories official said. electrical appliances, shampoos, country. local manpower agencies would up at Abu Samra, where Qatar’s will help both the government He said his department had exhaust fans and automobile tyres, Manpower agencies in Qatar reduce their fees. customs check post is located on and the private sector in their centres at the Doha International said the official. can apply to recruit workers from THE PENINSULA the borders with Saudi Arabia. A quality control efforts,” said Dr Airport, Doha Port and Abu THE PENINSULA Arson in Bahrain town Syria likely used chemical weapons: US WASHINGTON: The United States said yesterday for the first time MANAMA: A group of ter- cars and two motorbikes. The that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel forces, but rorists set fire early yester- Central Police director-general emphasized spy agencies were still not 100 percent sure of the assess- day morning to a number of said that another car had been ment. US intelligence services had been investigating reports that cars parked near a building on damaged in the terror arson. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s forces had used chemical arms — Services Avenue in Tubli, the The building was also dam- a move Washington has said would cross a “red line,” triggering possi- Bahrain News Agency (BNA) aged due to heat and billowing ble military action. A senior White House official said “all options are said. smoke. on the table” should use of the weapons be confirmed, but a US defence Police patrols and civil defence Special security and forensic official stressed that a military intervention was not imminent and engines were dispatched to the teams were dispatched to the signaled spy agencies had differing opinions. See also page 4 area as soon as the arson was scene of the blaze for an inquiry. reported to the operations room Police are now tracking down the Boston suspects planned bombs in NY at 03.40am. terrorists to bring them to justice WASHINGTON: Cars on fire in Tubli, Bahrain, yesterday. The firemen managed to put to face charges. The two men accused of carrying out last week’s out the blaze which gutted four BNA bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday. The brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s original intent when they hijacked a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night was to drive to New York with bombs and detonate them in Times Square, but their plan fell apart when they became Al Mazrouah vegetable market being closed embroiled in a shootout with police. See also page 8 BY SANAULLAH Kuwait PM hints at scrapping media bill yard near Umm Salal. “A study is existing market to accommodate break the monopoly of middlemen going on to open such markets at the additional farms.” in the Central Market. Since Al KUWAIT: Kuwait’s prime minister has offered to drop a proposed DOHA: The massive Al two more locations, in Al Shamal Farmers producing large quan- Mazrouah opened on December media law widely criticised by private newspaper editors as an Mazrouah yard, which was and Al Wakra,” said Dr Faleh tities of vegetables demanded 27 last year, 170,000 boxes of veg- assault on freedom of speech that fuelled political tensions in state. opened near Umm Salal for bin Nasser Al Thani, Director of more similar markets since one etables have been sold at an aver- The “Unified Media Law”, which would steeply increase fines on retailing and wholesaling locally the Agricultural Research and facility was not enough to sell age of 3,200 boxes a day, according journalists deemed to have insulted senior ruling family members produced fresh vegetables, is Development Department at the their products.