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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 A large number of The Qatar Financial CHI Al Shaqab win guests from Qatar Centre witnessed a earns Australian and Turkey marked remarkable growth show-jumping legend the Qatar Turkey 2015 in the number of new Edwina €165,000 after Year of Culture. firms registered in 2014. Grand Prix victory. SUNDAY 8 MARCH 2015 • 17 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6363 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Woqod offers South Korean President attends cultural event discount to promote Shafaf QR100 price cut until May 31 DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod), They are called transparent the sole dealer of LPG cylinders because the customer can see in the country, has launched the level of gas in the cylinder to a new campaign to encourage decide when it has to be refilled, more people to switch from the official said. the metal cylinders to the light Ibrahim Jeham Al Kuwari, CEO weight Shafaf cylinders. of Woqod, said that new facility in Woqod is offering a discount Al Wajbah is the 24th fuel station of QR100 to those exchanging of Woqod in the country. the metal cylinders with Shafaf The company plans to build cylinders that actually cost 100 fuel stations by 2019 and 12 South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaking at a cultural event at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E QR365. According to the new new stations under construction Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari is also seen. See also page 2 SALIM MATRAMKOT exchange offer, the transpar- will be completed by the end of ent cylinders are available at this year or the beginning of QR265. next year. The new offer is part of a plan Another project to expand 10 to phase out the metal cylinders existing fuel station is about to CMC polls: Three in four years. The offer launched complete, he added. Hi-tech lab in Abu Samra to test on March 1 will be available until The company also intends to May 31, a senior Woqod official open vehicle inspection centres women among 83 has disclosed. — Fahes — at existing petrol sta- file nominations Speaking on the sidelines of the tions that have enough space for pesticides in fruits, vegetables opening of a new Woqod fuel sta- expansion. tion in Al Wajbah on Thursday, “We have opened the 24th DOHA: The Supreme Council through analyzing samples to Safety at the SCH, said the labo- DOHA: Eighty-three citizens Bul Qassim Al Shaabi, sales fuel station and the 25th will be of Health (SCH) has opened a get accurate and quick results ratory will work as a safety gate including three women have manager at Woqod, said that the opened in Jameelia, a remote loca- new state-of-the-art laboratory according to GCC specifications. to monitor the quality of fruit and filed nominations for forthcom- company was encouraging people tion, this week,” Al Sharq quoted at the Abu Samra border post SCH said that three hours are vegetables entering the country. ing Central Municipal Council to shift from metal cylinders to Al Kuwari as saying. for testing pesticide residues in enough to analyse the samples in the Najat Ali Abdul Malik, labo- (CMC) elections in the first Shafaf because they are more safe “We are trying to provide fuel fruits and vegetables. new lab. The facility comes as part ratories supervisor at the SCH, three days. and easy to handle. stations in all areas where they Dr Saleh bin Ali Al Merri, of a five-year national strategy to set said the new lab can test for more Nominations to the 29 constit- He said currently there are are needed. The company is work- assistant secretary general for up internationally-accredited labo- than 270 pesticide residues with uencies started on March 3 and about 600,000 metal cylinders in ing to build 76 stations in four to medical affairs at SCH, opened ratories in different ports of entry to an advanced level of accuracy of will continue until March 11. The the market while the number of five years,” he added. the facility in the presence of test imported food products. 0.01 part of a million. supervising committee for the Shafaf cylinders is only 150,000. He said Woqod will open sev- senior officials from the SCH, The plan is to make the Central She said there is a future plan elections has set up a hotline No. This explains the company’s new eral fuel stations in downtown Ministry of Interior and the Food Laboratory to a referral lab, to upgrade the lab to handle 400 2342555 to respond to election- campaign to promote Shafaf, Doha soon. The company has Ministry of Environment. with establishment of the new pesticide residues, in addition to related queries. which was launched in 2010. already got land from the govern- The SCH said that the lab is labs in different ports of entry. The establishing a unit for testing THE PENINSULA The official claimed that the ment for this purpose. equipped with the latest tech- 2013-2018 national strategy seeks meat and poultry products. More Shafaf cylinders are absolutely With opening the new facilities, nology that meets international to integrate laboratory services and such laboratories will be set up in safe and no incidents of leakage all areas in Doha will have Woqod standards. It can assess and unify their standards. all the ports of entry in future. Boko Haram or explosion have been reported fuel stations. calculate pesticide residues in Wasan Al Baker, director of THE PENINSULA until now. THE PENINSULA imported fruits and vegetables Environmental Heath and Food Picture on page 2 allies with IS LONDON: Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram Women Mentoring Walk pledged allegiance yesterday to Islamic State, according to an Hadi considers Aden audio clip posted online. The symbolic move highlights increased coordination between jihadi movements across north as Yemen’s ‘capital’ Africa and the Middle East and prompted an appeal from ADEN: Beleaguered President to their headquarters near Aden’s Nigeria’s government for greater Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who international airport and set up international help in tackling the fled to Aden after escaping from barricades, saying they fear an Boko Haram insurgency. Shia militia controlling Sana’a, assault by the Popular Resistance “We announce our allegiance to considers the southern port city Committees, loyal to Hadi. the Caliph ... and will hear and obey to be Yemen’s capital, an aide Several Gulf states have already in times of difficulty and prosper- said yesterday. moved their embassies to Aden ity, in hardship and ease,” read an But tensions were running after an exodus of foreign dip- English language translation of the high in Aden, as special forces lomats from Sana’a in February audio broadcast in Arabic that pur- suspected of links to the mili- over security concerns. ported to be from the Nigerian mil- tia known as Houthis readied Aden, the country’s second itant group. “We call upon Muslims defences against an anticipated largest city, was capital of a once everywhere to pledge allegiance to assault by Hadi loyalists. independent south Yemen. The the Caliph,” it read. The pledge of “Aden became the capital of Houthis named a “presidential allegiance was attributed to Boko Yemen as soon as the Houthis council” after Hadi and Prime Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. occupied Sana’a,” the aide quoted Minister Khalid Bahah tendered Four bomb blasts killed at The Qatari Businesswomen Association (QBWA) yesterday organised a Women Mentoring Walk to celebrate Hadi as saying in reference to their resignations in January in least 50 people in the Nigerian International Women’s Day at Aspire Park yesterday. Aisha Alfardan, Vice-Chairwoman of QBWA, and other their takeover of Sana’a several protest at what critics branded city of Maiduguri in the worst women took part. See also page 6 ABDUL BASIT months ago. an attempted coup. After flee- attacks there since Boko Haram Hadi also accused ex-presi- ing house arrest in Sana’a, Hadi militants tried to seize the town dent Ali Abdullah Saleh and the resurfaced in Aden where he earlier this year. REUTERS Houthis of links with Iran, and retracted his resignation. Bahah See also page 12 spoke of his escape from Sana’a remains trapped in the capital. and Houthi demands to integrate Hadi said he escaped his Sana’a IS razes Hatra city Mursi supporter executed in Egypt thousands of their militants into residence through a tunnel link- the army and police and secure ing it to the nearby house of one BAGHDAD/ERBIL: Islamic CAIRO: Egypt executed an president Mohamed Mursi. Most of the other death sentences top government posts. of his sons and travelled to Aden State militants have destroyed Islamist yesterday for a mur- Security sources have described are still under review in a complex His remarks about Aden reflect using back roads. The Houthis ancient remains of the der committed during riots in Ramadan as a radical Islamist system of legal appeals. his determination to hold out oppose a plan for a six-region 2,000-year-old city of Hatra in mid-2013, the first death sen- who is not officially a Brotherhood In one of the most dramatic against Houthi efforts to extend federation, which Hadi hopes northern Iraq, officials said yes- tence carried out against a sup- member. scenes of the upheaval following their influence but are purely to implement, saying it would terday, in their latest attack on porter of the banned Muslim Egyptian courts have sentenced Mursi’s fall captured on video, symbolic because moving the divide Yemen into rich and poor Iraqi antiquities which the UN Brotherhood under President hundreds of alleged Brotherhood Ramadan threw someone off a capital requires a change to the areas.