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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 6 Business | 17 Sport | 28 QTA: Number Qatar’s crude Qatar ready of tourists up production to for fresh start 10 percent in rebound this as road to first five months. year, says report. Russia begins. THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 • 24 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6458 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Call to counter anti-2022 campaign GCC information ministers decide to set up legal panel to study media laws DOHA: Information ministers media organisations in member- from the GCC states have called states to counter the propaganda on the media in the region to of extremist ideologies which counter all those who question target the GCC youth and send Qatar’s right to host the 2022 a positive message to the people FIFA World Cup. so that such ideologies do not The GCC countries have prosper. expressed full solidarity with This decision taken by the infor- Ali bin Hamad Qatar and encouraged their mation ministers will need to be media to continue to counter followed up by all media commit- Al Attiyah dies campaigns against Qatar whether tees of member states, including in the region or overseas. the GCC Media Federation. In this DOHA: Ali bin Hamad bin In recommendations they issued regard the role of all media organi- Abdullah Al Attiyah died here at their 23rd meeting, held here, sations including that of radio, TV, yesterday, aged 86. Funeral the GCC information ministers print, and wire agencies will be prayers will be performed today said that among the simplest duties made amply clear, reports QNA. at Old Al-Rayyan Mosque. of the media in member states, is The ministers also decided to Condolences can be offered at to highlight the cultural and eco- set up a technical committee of the house of the deceased in Al nomic gains of Qatar’s 2022 bid legal experts to study media laws Sailiya area. win and its positive impact on the being framed in GCC member May the Almighty Allah have youth in GCC states. states so that a unified set of mercy upon him, make paradise The ministers agreed that GCC media guidelines could be his abode and grand his relatives Qatar, in coordination with the developed and these guidelines solace and fortitude. QNA GCC General Secretariat, should will cover all media organisations, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with GCC Information develop a strategy for joint media including the online media. Ministers in Doha yesterday. Strong winds likely initiatives to counter such cam- With regard to foreign TV paigns and stress the right of channels that are trying to malign “We will continue to counter such it can take more initiatives to fight intensified, according to Manama’s DOHA: The Meteorology the GCC states, as represented the image of GCC states against campaigns,” the minister said. the propaganda of vested interests proposal. Such a uniform media Department has forecast by Qatar, to organise this impor- Arab and international laws, the Bahrain proposed at the meeting against GCC member-states. In policy is a must for GCC states, strong winds tomorrow and on tant event. ministers said they were having a to make a joint GCC platform to emergency situations, coordination the ministers noted. Saturday. An increase in humid- The ministers have asked all negative impact on GCC societies. make the media more effective so among member-states should be THE PENINSULA ity levels is expected today, espe- cially in the evening making the weather misty and hazy in some places. Maximum temperature during this period is expected to vary between 39 and 42 degrees Expat gets three years jail, fine over bribe 54pc marriages ‘endogamous’ Celsius in Doha and could be higher in some other places. DOHA: A criminal court has A tip-off was given to the The engineer was caught red- DOHA: Some 54 percent of marriages taking place in Qatar are THE PENINSULA sentenced an Arab expatri- police about the engineer putting handed and questioned and the endogamous (within relatives or particular ethnic groups) and most ate internal design engineer to a demand for a ‘gift’ for award- matter was referred to court with such marriages are among paternal cousins, which leads to heredi- TODAY’S EDITION three years in jail and fined him ing some work to a carpentry at the audios and videos as evidence. tary diseases among their offspring, suggests a study. INCLUDES A 32-PAGE SPECIAL QR10,000 ($2,746) for demand- Katara. The police sought for- Taking a serious view of the Dr Taufiq bin Imran, from Weill Cornell Medical College, presenting ing and accepting a bribe of mal approval from the Public crime, the court sentenced him a paper at a seminar on the adverse impact of endogamy in the Qatari SUPPLEMENT ON QR20,000 from a carpentry Prosecution to investigate the to three years in prison and fined community, said that marriages among first cousins were a common for awarding it some work at matter and if found to be true, use him and ruled that he be deported feature in the GCC region and the Middle East as a whole. The seminar PHILIPPINES Katara Cultural Village where audio and video devices to capture after serving the jail sentence. was conducted by Qatar University. Many sociologists, medical experts INDEPENDENCE DAY he was employed. the bribe-giving and taking. THE PENINSULA and others also presented papers at the event. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Traffic chaos after major road closure Congestion on C-Ring Road DOHA: Closure of the busy Road from Rawdat Al Khail two-lane road between Al intersection to Najma intersec- Nuaija intersection on D-Ring tion (near Al Mana towers). Road (near the Mall) and All roads leading to the Nuaija Mansoura intersection near intersection on D-Ring Road Najma from Tuesday night and the Mansoura Intersection has caused heavy traffic snarls on C-Ring Road also witnessed on the surrounding roads and heavy traffic until late evening intersections. yesterday. This road has been closed for “I am stuck on the D-Ring one-and-a-half months as part road. Traffic is at a standstill Traffic at the Al Nuaija intersection near The Mall. The stretch of road from this junction to the Al Mansoura intersection near Gulf Cinema has been of expansion works, Ashghal had near the Mall (Nuaija) intersec- closed to convert the roundabout near Woqod Petrol Station into a signalised intersection. (QASSIM RAHMATULLAH) said. The two-lane road will be tion,” an expatriate heading to expanded into a three-lane one Al Salata from Old Airport area in both directions and the small told this daily at around 10.30pm Al Khail intersection to reach airport. It took more than a hour linking C-Ring and D-Ring roads road near the Commercial Bank roundabout near Woqod petrol yesterday. Najma, Mansoura and neighbour- to reach the airport from my yesterday made the situation to reach D-Ring Road. But to my station will be converted into a With closure of this key section ing areas. house in New Salata area. All the worse, said some motorists. surprise, entry to that road was signalised intersection. of the Najma Street, as it is offi- Many people who didn’t know roads leading from Gulf Cinema “I was coming from Najma closed using concrete barricades,” Being a key road in the central cially known, motorists heading about the closure, despite an intersection to the Al Mana towards Lulu Hypermarket at said another expatriate. part of Doha, connecting the D- from E-Ring Road and the Old announcement by Ashghal, were intersection witnessed the heavi- around 5pm and found the road “Then I had to go all the way Ring and C-Ring roads, the clo- Airport area towards C-Ring caught unawares in the heavy est traffic jams,” said an Indian to the Mall intersection closed. to Al Mana intersection and then sure has led to chaotic traffic on Road must either rely on inter- traffic yesterday. expatriate yesterday. Then I took a left turn at the Gulf take a right to finally reach the the surrounding roads, especially nal roads or drive all the way to “I was held up on C-Ring Road Closure of at least one major Cinema signal towards Al Mana D-Ring Road,” he added. on a major stretch of the C-Ring Najma intersection or Rawdat this morning while going to the entry point to the interior roads signal hoping to take the interior THE PENINSULA Ooredoo launches exclusive cloud computing platform from Microsoft DOHA: Ooredoo and Microsoft first-of-its-kind cloud-hosting platform Al Thani said: “Ooredoo strives to sup- With the new upgrade, Ooredoo’s breakthrough solutions aligns closely Qatar yesterday announced a signifi- will enable businesses to deploy the lat- port the growth of the knowledge-based QDC5 Smart Data Centre is being sup- with Microsoft’s own National Plan and cant upgrade at Ooredoo’s next gen- est generation of solutions quickly and economy and to enable the nation’s busi- ported by the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud vision. 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