ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 30 May 2014 1 Sha’baan 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6081 Price: QR2 QE index gains 8.02pc in May Business | 13 1 43 DAYS TO GO www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Fatah, Hamas agree Four Asian workers die in road accident outside Al Wakra DOHA: At least four Asian received the bodies of at least was five and that some injured on new premier workers died in a road accident four victims. workers were admitted to the outside Al Wakra early morn- The source identified two of hospital. ing yesterday. the dead as Nizamuddin and Details of how the workers They were part of a group of Ataurrehman and said they were died and whether some died on Abbas picks Hamdallah in step towards reconciliation 14 who were headed in a van to Nepalese, in their late 20s. The the spot or in hospital, were not a construction site in Messaieed other victims were Pathans from available. JERUSALEM: The two main from Doha. Pakistan but the source said he Traffic police could not be Palestinian factions, Fatah and The vehicle turned turtle after didn’t know their names. contacted for comment. the Islamist movement Hamas, one of its front tyres burst, said They were all construction People who stayed with the appeared on the verge of form- people from the accommodation workers, understandably exca- victims said the tyre burst after ing a historic unity govern- in Najma area of Doha where the vators, according to the people the van had left Al Wakra and ment after seven years of bitter deceased lived. who lived with them in Najma. was heading towards Messaieed. rivalry as Palestinian President The accident took place They claimed that there were It turned over many times and Mahmoud Abbas named a new between 4.30am and 5am. 14 people, including the driver, the driver and a worker who sat prime minister agreed by both A source at the mortuary of in the van. They said some of near him were saved because sides yesterday. Hamad Medical Corporation them had visited the hospital they were wearing seat belts. The announcement brings told this daily that they had and found that the death toll THE PENINSULA Palestinians a substantial step closer to a final reconciliation between Abbas’s Fatah and Hamas, which set up separate governments in 2007 after Hamas MSCI index may took control of Gaza following a 4,853 apply for 645 sweeping win in legislative elec- push trading tions, that Fatah and the West refused to recognise. Al Furjan shops volume at QE A new unity government backed by Hamas — even a tech- DOHA: The Qatari bourse nocratic one — would be a popular DOHA: Some 4,853 people have winner fails to take the outlet on expects a huge surge in trad- move with Palestinians but poses applied for the allotment of 645 rent for some reason, the second ing value and volumes once the big challenges to any attempt to shops at Al Furjan shopping winner would be contacted. market is included in the MSCI revive a peace process with Israel centres located in 44 remote Similarly, if the second winner Emerging Market Index on and to Palestinian Authority’s for- areas of Qatar. refuses to take the shop, the offer June 2. eign aid donors, including the US, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right) tasks Prime Minister Rami The allotment is to be decided could be made to the third. But international wire agency EU and the UK. It could also bring Hamdallah to form a new government of technocrats in the coming five through online lottery on Sunday. The one who wins the allot- Reuters said yesterday surges in threats of punitive measures from weeks, at the Palestinian Authority’s headquarters in the West Bank town The lottery will be held in ment would have to sign a rent the UAE and Qatari markets may the government of Israeli Premier of Ramallah yesterday. the evening at the Ministry of contract with the ministry within not necessarily continue. Benjamin Netanyahu. Economy and Commerce, in two weeks. He must start opera- In a statement, Qatar Exchange Yesterday’s deadline for nam- asked him to form a government. yesterday, has been held up over the presence of the Minister tions within three months after (QE) said it was gearing up to ing the new government was In a brief ceremony with disagreements over the posts of and senior officials of Consumer signing the contract. handle huge trading volumes, set five weeks ago, after Fatah Hamdallah by his side, Abbas foreign and interior ministers and Protection Department (CPD) of Once an allottee begins opera- adding that it witnessed an excep- and Hamas agreed to reconcile declared: “This letter designates may now be announced next week. the ministry. tions, his bank guarantee letter tional trading session yesterday to under a unity administration Dr Rami Hamdallah to form a The five weeks of talks to secure The names of four winners for would be returned. No subletting mark the inclusion of the market and the promise of long-delayed new transitional government. I a new government followed the each shop will be drawn through is allowed. in the index and test its ability to elections. wish him luck in this difficult task announcement of a reconciliation the lottery and while the first Those allotted shops would handle increasing trading value Abbas appointed Hamdallah, which he will undertake.” deal as the last round of peace winner will be offered the shop have to return the premises to and volumes. prime minister in the West According to sources, talks between Palestinians and on rent, three will be listed as the ministry if they don’t want Trading value yesterday Bank, as chief minister in the announcement of the full gov- Israelis collapsed amid recrimi- standby. to run the outlets. reached a historic QR4.58bn new arrangement and said he had ernment, which was expected nations. THE GUARDIAN This is to ensure that if the first THE PENINSULA ($1.3bn) across 22,170 deals, with the volume soaring to 76.11m shares. Oil tanker on fire Never before in QE’s history had the trading value and volume reached so much, the statement said. Online plea for better The last time trading value reached at an all-time high of QR2.35bn was on June 9, 2008. That was almost half the trad- treatment of animals ing value witnessed in yesterday’s trading. The index of the market rose to 13,694.19 — also a record. at Souq Waqif Rashid Al Mansoori, CEO, QE, said in the statement that it was BY FAZEENA SALEEM will continue to keep the peti- a memorable day for Qatar and tion open online and continue to its stock exchange and all market DOHA: A petition signed by enlist supporters until action is participants. about 5,000 people for improv- taken.” “It is the beginning of a new ing the condition of animals at The petition is a long docu- era for our marketplace,” he said, the pet section of Souq Waqif ment with details described as data showed most buys were was handed over to officials as “disturbing behaviours and by foreign institutional investors. yesterday. practices being carried out at Their volumes reached 45m Copies of the petition, in a the souq over the past few years shares, with the trading value hit- book form comprising the origi- and, sadly, are still being prac- ting QR3.09bn. Local institutions nal plea, photos, letters and tised today”. booked profits. testimonials with supporting It separately highlights the Reuters said it is mostly passive photos from various sources, condition of turtles, tortoises, funds that were buying stocks in official comments from online iguanas, rabbits, chipmunks, Qatar and the UAE that are to be signatories and a full list of sig- sugar gliders, squirrels and ham- included in the index. natures, were handed over to sters, birds like African grey par- THE PENINSULA four officials, said the creator of rots, macaws, cockatoos, budgies, Smoke rising from a 998-tonne oil tanker off the coast of Hyogo prefecture, some 450km west of Tokyo. Japan’s the online petition, who sought cockatiels, canaries chicks and coastguard rushed to deal with an explosion and subsequent fire on the tanker, officials said. anonymity. ducklings and dogs and cats. Documents were directly pre- It says most animals are kept sented to Mohammed Mustafa Al in unsuitable cages and fed a Salem, head, old market private nutrient-deficient and wrong diet Dusty weather likely Old buses to be banned Sisi sweeps election engineering office, Souq Waqif, for the species. DOHA: The Weather Bureau has fore- DOHA: Buses plying between GCC states CAIRO: Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah Al and three officials of the Animal They are dehydrated due to cast dusty weather today, accompanied by should not be more than 10 years old, Sisi has scored a crushing presidential elec- Resources Department at the lack of access to fresh water and strong northwesterly winds. As a result, according an economic agreement by the tion triumph and consolidated the military’s Ministry of Environment — may be infected with diseases visibility could drop to three kilometres bloc, said the Ministry of Interior yester- grip, 11 months after the overthrow of the Farhoud Hadi Al Hajri, Director, and parasites, the petition added. and less at times at places. The dusty day. The decision will be effective from only president not drawn from its ranks.