ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 3 May 2013 23 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5688 Price: QR2 Shell CEO Raina’s ton to retire helps Chennai early to victory Business | 14 Sport | 19 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 16 expats for Heir Apparent witnesses military exercise every Qatari in workplace Data shows women working more DOHA: Qatar’s job market con- tinues to be heavily dominated Nationalisation by foreign workers, and there are as many as 16 expatriates drive in the for every Qatari in the work- place, official figures for the first private sector quarter (Q1) of this year show. Data also suggest that women generally put in more hours a bearing little fruit day in the workplace than men. The number of hours women as ratio of citizens worked in a week averaged 52 in Q1; the figure for men was 49. goes down. The situation in the construction sector was different as the aver- workforce in Q1 this year. age weekly work hours ranged The QSA data also show that The Heir Apparent and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Qatari Armed Forces H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani watching the Eagles Resolve between 52 and 56. unemployment was not restricted 2013 Military Exercise, in Al Qalayel area, yesterday. Also, the state’s job nationali- to the Qatari community. While sation drive in the private sector there were 1,357 people in the com- seems to be bearing little fruit munity looking for a job for the first as the ratio of citizens in private time, this number in the expatriate Obama under pressure over Gitmo force-feeding employment climbed down to a communities was higher at 2,958 in meagre 0.88 percent in 2012. Q1 this year. Women aged between Data released by the national 15 and 34 years accounted for the WASHINGTON: Controversy Earlier this week, Barack drone strikes, accused the Obama It said: “According to the World statistics agency for Q1 of 2013 largest share of those looking for over the Guantanamo Bay Obama vowed to make good on a administration of over-reliance Medical Assembly’s Declaration of say there were a total of 1.46 mil- jobs in both the communities — detention camp has intensi- broken promise, made during the on the attacks because it realises Malta, in cases involving people on lion workers in the country, of Qataris and expatriates. fied as United Nations experts 2008 presidential race, to get rid imprisoning them in Guantanamo hunger strikes, the duty of medi- which 86,000 were citizens and There were a total of 80,763 condemned the force-feeding of of the prison in Cuba. is too problematic. cal personnel to act ethically and the vast majority (1.38 million) students in the country last hunger-striking inmates by the It currently holds 166 detain- Released in response to the the principle of respect for indi- were non-Qatari. March-end, of whom 37,673 were US, and a former White House ees despite more than half having deteriorating situation in the viduals’ autonomy, among other The population of the country Qatari. In both, the Qatari and lawyer claimed that drone been cleared for release. Among camp, the UN experts’ declara- principles, must be respected. crossed the 1.9 million mark by expatriate communities, female strikes are being used an alter- them is Shaker Aamer, a British tion points out that force-feeding “Under these principles, it is the end of the first quarter of this students outnumbered their native to detaining Al Qaeda citizen, who has been held for hunger strikers is against inter- unjustifiable to engage in forced year to reach a record 1.93 mil- male counterparts. Interestingly, suspects. more than 11 years. national medical standards. feeding of individuals contrary lion (1,938,110, to be exact). Qatar arguably for the first time, the With more than 100 inmates Obama is likely to need the The declaration, released to their informed and volun- Statistics Authority (QSA), while national statistics office has refusing food, four senior UN Republicans’ support to close the through UN’s Office of the High tary refusal of such a meas- releasing the labour force fig- released the number of house- human rights experts and the base and rehouse the prisoners, Commissioner for Human Rights, ure. Moreover, hunger strikers ures, said that women accounted wives in the country, who totalled Inter-American Commission because they control the House also condemned the policy of should be protected from all for barely 11.9 percent of the nearly 111,000 by the end of the on Human Rights called for an of Representatives. indefinite detention as “a flagrant forms of coercion, even more so workforce. first quarter. Of them, 26,664 end to the indefinite detention The UN move came as John violation of international human when this is done through force Younger people (those aged were Qataris and 84,102 were of Guantanamo’s inmates and Bellinger, who worked for rights law which in itself consti- and in some cases through phys- between 15 and 44 years) had a expatriates. for their prosecution, transfer or President Bush and drew up the tutes a form of cruel, inhuman, ical violence. lion’s share (80.13 percent) in the THE PENINSULA immediate release. first White House policy on lethal and degrading treatment”. THE GUARDIAN Qatari investor close to taking Sars-like virus kills 5 in Saudi Arabia stake in SolarWorld: Report RIYADH: Five Saudis have was first detected in mid-2012 contact with the infected people... World Health Organisation would died of a new Sars-like virus and is a cousin of Severe Acute and has taken samples from them not comment on why so many of DUESSELDORF, GERMANY: Debt-laden SolarWorld is close to during the past few days and Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), to examine if they are infected.” the cases have occurred in the securing financial backing from a Qatari investor, its chief execu- two more are being treated which triggered a scare 10 years However, the ministry gave no Saudi kingdom. tive said yesterday, the second major move in a week in its efforts in an intensive care unit, the ago when it erupted in east Asia, figures for how many people have “We have received a formal to get back on its feet. health ministry said. leaping to humans from animal been examined to see if they have notification from the Saudis about “We will publish the size of the potential stake at the extraordinary In a statement cited by the hosts. the lethal disease. these cases,” spokesman Glenn general meeting,” Frank Asbeck said yesterday, declining to name the SPA, the ministry said that all the hCoV-EMC stands for human Sixteen people have now died Thomas said. investor. One source familiar with the process said that Qatar Solar deaths as well as the infections coronavirus-Erasmus Medical from 23 cases detected in Saudi When asked if the WHO is Technologies (QSTec), a previous joint venture between SolarWorld occurred in the Ahsaa province Centre, after the Dutch health Arabia, Jordan, Germany and planning to issue a travel warning and the Qatar Foundation, was willing to take a minority stake in what in the oil-rich eastern region of institution that identified it. Britain. Riyadh has accounted for for Saudi Arabia, he said this was was once Germany’s largest solar company. the kingdom. The health ministry said it is most of the deaths, with 11 people “unlikely” since “there has been SolarWorld holds 29 percent of QSTec, and the Qatar Foundation 70 Known as novel coronavi- taking “all precautionary meas- including the five new fatalities. no change in the risk assessment.” percent. The remaining 1 percent is owned by the Qatar Development rus or hCoV-EMC, the virus ures for persons who have been in In Geneva, a spokesman for the AFP Bank. QSTec was not immediately available for comment. REUTERS Sheikh Salman wins FIFA executive seat KUALA LUMPUR: Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa was US rethinking on arming elected on to FIFA’s executive committee after beating Qatari Hassan Al Thawadi in yesterday’s vote in Malaysia. The 34-year-old Qatari lawyer lost 28-18 in a head-to-head vote Syria rebels, says Hagel with the Bahraini, who also was elected Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president in an earlier ballot yesterday. WASHINGTON: The United voiced concerns that weapons “It’s not a blow at all,” Al Thawadi told reporters. States is rethinking its opposi- could fall into the hands anti- See also page 21 tion to a rm i ng the Sy ria n rebels, American Islamic extremists and US Defence Secretary Chuck that arming opposition groups Hagel said yesterday, as pres- may do little to end the conflict. Peace deal will go to referendum: Israel sure builds for a US response to “You look at and rethink all Syria’s suspected use of chemi- options. It doesn’t mean you do or JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said cal weapons in its civil war. you will” choose them, Hagel said. yesterday he would put any peace deal reached with the Palestinians Hagel stressed that no decision “These are options that must to a referendum, in a meeting with the Swiss foreign minister. by US President Barack Obama be considered with partners, with “If we get to a peace agreement with the Palestinians, I’d like to bring had been made and did not signal the international community: it to a referendum.