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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 12 July 2013 3 Ramadan 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5758 Price: QR2 QE extends Kittel rally, index up edges past 47.80 points Cavendish Business | 13 Sport | 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives sheikhs and citizens Iran, Syria bid High demand for UN rights panel slammed for quality UNITED NATIONS: The US and Israel yesterday slammed a bid by Iran and Syria to get seats on the UN Human Rights Council. print services Acting US Ambassador to the UN, Rosemary DiCarlo, called the campaigns “highly inappropri- Xerox upbeat on Qatar market ate” because of their records on human rights. Israel’s UN envoy DOHA: There is high demand “Through our current agents, Ron Prosor said it was “a new for technical services in the with whom we are currently world record for lunacy.” printing industry in Qatar, a working on short-term basis, we Iran and Syria are among seven senior official from Xerox says. wish to expand our activity in countries vying for four Asia- Qatar is considered one of the different parts of Qatar. We have Pacific seats on the Geneva-based most dynamic markets in the particularly planned to expand UN Human Rights Council, dip- region, where Xerox is keen to our business in printing services lomats said. expand its business, John Paul MPS, which is a leading trend in They will be in competition Teti, Xerox Middle East and the printing industry,” Teti said. with China, Jordan, Maldives, Africa’s Production Technology He said that there was huge Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. A vote Director, told Al Sharq recently. demand for services provided by on the council seats will be held at “Our company is committed Xerox here. the UN General Assembly in New to expanding business in Qatar. “We consider our presence in The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received at Al Wajbah Palace sheikhs and citizens York later this year. AGENCIES We continuously try to help our this country to be very strong and marking the fasting month of Ramadan. agents improve their performance the trademark is highly respected in relation to documentation in as we see positive feedback from the country,” Teti said. our agents who always appreci- Xerox is a multinational docu- ate our role.” Within the Mena ment management corporation region, an encouraging trend that deals in a range of colour and was seen from organisations Six die after vehicle runs over them black-and-white printers, photo- that were quick to adapt to new copiers, digital production print- technologies in business. Qatar, ing presses and related consulting in particular, has emerged as one DOHA: At least six people — all of them injuries at the hospital, the daily reported. said. The four-wheeler came from their right services and supplies. of the keenest countries on the construction workers, understandably from According to sources in Al Daayeen Police side and ran over them. Although stationery shops technological front. “Qatari mar- Nepal and India — died after a speeding in whose jurisdiction the area falls, two other It appeared that the driver had lost control across the country provide print- ket is one of the most developed four-wheel-drive vehicle ran over them in workers were injured but their injuries were of the vehicle. ing facilities for the vast major- and dynamic, where quality and Lusail City yesterday. not serious. The nationalities of the deceased could not ity of people, Xerox has managed technical services in business are Five of the workers died on the spot and The workers had finished their duty and be ascertained. to create a name for its brand highly in demand,” Teti said. the sixth one succumbed to injuries while on were waiting for their company transport However, according to Varthamanam, one of in printing facilities in Qatar in Xerox is most popular among the way to emergency medical care, accord- when the accident occurred. them was an Indian from the southern state recent years. students in Qatar, who have to ing to police. Al Daayeen Police sources told The of Kerala, while the remaining were from Speaking about expansion often submit assignments in Local vernacular newspaper Varthamanam, Peninsula late last evening that the mishap Nepal. plans, Teti said that the company colour. “Although the prices at however, said that seven people had died. occurred at 1pm. Community sources said the Indian was 30 aimed to target Managed Print Xerox are higher than a regular Quoting sources from the labour camp They said that some of the workers were and unmarried and working in Lusail City as Services (MPS), which involves stationery shop in Qatar, their where the workers had been staying, the daily lying in the shade along the main road, relax- an electrician. managing hard copy devices such print services are much better said four of them died on the spot, while two ing after work. He had arrived in Qatar just three months as copiers, printers, fax machines than any other printing facility,” perished on their way to hospital. “They were lying in a subway when the ago. and multifunction devices. said a student. THE PENINSULA The seventh one succumbed to four-wheeler suddenly emerged,” the sources THE PENINSULA Red Sea Egypt wheat Saudi targeting Iran, Israel stock dwindling CAIRO: Egypt’s interim rulers with missiles: Jane’s Review welcomed yesterday remarks from the US State Department LONDON: Saudi Arabia appears to be being fired, the Daily Telegraph said in a describing the rule of toppled targeting regional rivals Iran and Israel report on the base. The facility has two leader Mohammed Mursi as with ballistic missiles from a previously launch pads, one on a bearing of 301 degrees undemocratic, read in Cairo as undisclosed desert base, a British-based aimed at Israel and the other at 10 degrees a signal that the US will not cut defence analysis group said yesterday. pointing towards Iran, the Jane’s said. off its $1.5bn in annual aid. Satellite images show launch pads with “We cannot be certain that the missiles A former minister from the some markings pointed towards potential are pointed specifically at Tel Aviv and ousted government said that Iranian targets and others towards possible Tehran themselves, but if they were to be Egypt had less than two months’ locations in Israel, IHS Jane’s Intelligence launched, you would expect them to be tar- supply left of imported wheat, Review said. geting major cities,” Munks said. revealing a far worse shortage If confirmed, the base deep in the Saudi “We do not want to make too many infer- than previously disclosed. desert would be the third missile base iden- ences about the Saudi strategy, but clearly Meanwhile, Mursi’s supporters tified in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia does not enjoy good relations and opponents have called rallies “Our assessment suggests that this base with either Iran or Israel.” for the first Friday of Ramadan is either partly or fully operational, with Saudi Arabia has repeatedly voiced fears today, amid soaring tensions. the launch pads pointing in the directions about the nuclear threat posed by Shia- Full report on page 4 of Israel and Iran respectively,” said Robert dominated Iran, and denounced Israel’s An image made by an astronaut aboard International Space Station and released by Nasa Munks, Deputy Editor of the Review. It atomic capacity. Munks said a missile base India win Tri-nation yesterday provides a panoramic view of most of the Red Sea. The northernmost end, could also function as a training and stor- like the apparently new Saudi one would the Gulf of Suez, is at the top centre. The Nile River snakes its way northward through age complex, it said. also help Riyadh if it sought to acquire series in a thriller the Sahara Desert on the left and a dust plume surges out over the sea, reaching most The launch pads are designed for Saudi’s nuclear weapons, as its former intelligence of the way to Saudi Arabia. lorry-launched DF-3 missiles, which are not chief Prince Turki Al Faisal suggested in PORT OF SPAIN: Indian cap- self-guiding and need to be aligned before 2011. AFP tain M S Dhoni smashed 16 off the first four balls of the final over to win the Tri-nation cricket series with a thrilling one wicket victory over Sri Lanka yester- Civic body gives firm deadline to maintain abattoir day. After bowling out Sri Lanka for 201, India were facing defeat DOHA: Al Khor Municipality has ultimatum to Widam to renovate it and and run the abattoir properly, there do not meet our standards we exchange the at 167 for eight but, needing 15 severely criticised Widam Food improve services,” said a senior official are other companies the facility can be information with our neighbouring states.” to win off the final over, Dhoni Company, formerly Mawashi, accusing it from the municipality. entrusted with. He and senior officials Mohamed Saleh Al Marri, from Al smashed Shaminda Eranga for a of not properly managing the abattoir in Eisa Hassan Al Mohannadi, from the from some other municipalities were at Wakrah Municipality, said that they have six and a four and won the game the area. food monitoring section of the municipality, the Ramadan tent of Al Sharq newspaper. set up a hotline for consumers to lodge with another six with two balls The municipality has given the com- said that the condition of the abattoir is He was chatting informally with the news- complaints against eateries and retail out- to spare.

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