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Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 24 Qatar-Cyprus ink First-ever gas carrier Al Mansouri tops MoU on air from Qatar arrives field on first day of transport in Poland cycling championship The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER 2015 • 1 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6642 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Harrods Village opens in Katara Emir receives call 634,000 workers to from Saudi Deputy Crown Prince DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh benefit as 13,500 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received a phone call from Deputy Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sec- ond Deputy Premier and Min- firms join WPS ister of Defence Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. They reviewed the fraternal ties between the two countries 30 inspectors trained to monitor system and ways of enhancing them in addition to developments on the DOHA: Some 13,500 companies are part for skilled expatriate workforce and pro- regional and international fronts. of the Wage Protection System (WPS) tecting the rights of expatriate workers, whereby all of their low-income workers as also of business owners, is one of the QNA are paid their salaries through banking main objectives of the labour section of channels. the Ministry. The WPS which was implemented on Another and more important role of Libya factions November 2 this year to help protect the Ministry is to look for and create job workers’ rights and reform the labour opportunities for Qataris in the private Minister of Transport H E Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti. Minister of State for Defence Affairs set target date market, is currently benefitting some sector and make sure that their participa- H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) Chief Executive 634,000 workers. tion in the sector is up to the mark. Officer H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Thani and other dignitaries during to sign UN deal At least 30 inspectors have been trained The Ministry’s aim is to realise its mis- the opening of Harrods Village in Katara yesterday. The village will be open for 45 days. to monitor the WPS whose aim is to make sion to support and build the labour mar- See also page 3 ABDUL BASIT private companies pay their low-paid ket by making use of a productive national TUNIS: Libya’s rival factions workers salaries on time. These details workforce and skilled workforce from have agreed to December 16 as a are part of a report the Ministry of Labour overseas, and deliver high quality services target date for signing a United and Social Affairs has released on the in the field of social welfare targeting all Nations-backed national unity occasion of the National Day. categories of the community. World powers lead frenetic government agreement, the UN According to the report, the Ministry is The Ministry has helped 1,189 Qatari envoy said yesterday. planning to diversify labour recruitment job-seekers get employment in private The UN has been negotiat- sources to ensure that more skilled work- companies, and has completed at least 65 ing for a year to get Libya’s two ers are hired and their ratio to the overall percent of a study analysing the current final push for climate deal rival governments and armed labour force in the country is at least a and future situations of the labor market factions to end a conflict that quarter (25 percent). regarding the employment of nationals in LE BOURGET, France: World powers chance to avert disastrous climate change: has plunged the North African It is interesting to note that in the first private companies. led a frenetic final push yesterday to seal a increasingly severe drought, floods and state into chaos four years after half of this year (January to June, 2015) The Ministry has also achieved 28 per- UN accord aimed at averting catastrophic storms, as well as rising seas that would rebellion ousted Muammar workers were recruited from as many as cent of its programme to create work envi- climate change, as sleep-deprived envoys engulf islands and populated coasts. Gaddafi. 134 countries across the world. ronment for persons with special needs, battled in Paris over trillion-dollar disputes The planned accord would seek to revo- Successfully signing an agree- The inspection department of the Min- said QNA. blocking a deal. lutionise the world’s energy system by cut- ment would open the way for the istry has identified the future market The Ministry has also achieved 30 per- The 195-nation conference in Paris had ting back or potentially eliminating coal international community to sup- needs for expatriate labour force from cent of second phase of e-employment been scheduled to wrap up yesterday, deliv- and other fossil fuels, replacing them with port Libya in the fight against 2015 to 2020 based on the data available for job-seekers and agreed with 19 par- ering a historic agreement that would brake renewables such as solar and wind. Islamic State, which has gained for the previous years, reports Qatar News ties in the private sector concerned with global warming and ease its impacts. The biggest disputes over funding the cli- ground in the chaos and controls Agency (QNA). job nationalisation (Qatarisation) to send But weary negotiators braced themselves mate fight, worth trillions of dollars over the western city of Sirte. The department has also provided nec- Qatari nationals to complete their studies. for a third straight round of all-night hag- the decades to come, remain as potential But hardliners in both camps essary data to the Ministry of Municipality Some 270 Qatari job-seekers were sec- gling after ministers wrestled with a myriad deal-breakers in a draft accord released on have been resisting signing a deal and Urban Planning and spread awareness onded while 15 others got qualified in of deal-busting rows. Thursday night. and several past deadlines to sign among business owners about the use of cooperation with the College of the North French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius US Secretary of State John Kerry, who have failed after opponents balked technology to reduce the recruitment of Atlantic Qatar. said he would submit a proposed final agree- is spearheading American efforts in Paris, at details or demanded more con- foreign labour. As regards the development of guidance ment on Saturday morning, and declared he warned yesterday “very difficult” issues still cessions. The inspection department conducted and orientation systems for the labor mar- was “sure” of success. “We are almost at the needed to be resolved. UN Libya envoy Martin 26,522 raids on 20,431 establishments ket, the Ministry launched eight guidance end of the road and I am optimistic,” said Seeking to break the deadlock, US Presi- Kobler praised representatives while the occupational health and safety campaigns for boys and girls in schools Fabius, who is presiding over the talks that dent Barack Obama and his Chinese coun- of both factions for announcing inspectors made 15,160 visits to 3,759 benefiting 640 students. began nearly a fortnight ago with a record terpart, Xi Jinping, spoke by phone. the agreement in Tunisia after establishments. summit of more than 150 world leaders. two days of talks. Meeting the needs of the labor market THE PENINSULA Many leaders billed the talks as the last AFP AFP Patience with Russia ‘not Israeli troops shoot three Palestinians to death HEBRON: The Israeli army Gaza Strip, controlled by Islamist Bank city where anti-Israel who said he was working at a con- them with rocks and petrol bombs killed a Palestinian who it said group Hamas, where Palestinians hostility is strong, a Palestin- struction site nearby at the time after non-lethal riot-dispersal unlimited’: tried to ram his car into soldiers massed at the fenced-off border ian motorist tried to ram troops of the incident, said. measures failed. Palestinians near Hebron yesterday, and med- with Israel yesterday, throwing who then shot him dead, the army A relative of the dead man gave said a 22-year-old local man was ics said another Palestinian was rocks at troops beyond. Army spokesman’s office said. his age as 55. fatally shot in the chest. Turkish FM shot dead by Israeli forces dur- gunfire killed a Palestinian, aged A Palestinian witness described The army did not immediately Earlier yesterday, Israeli offi- ing a violent demonstration in the 38, and wounded five, Gaza med- the shooting as potentially unpro- respond to Tarawa’s account. cials said a Palestinian gunman ANKARA: Turkish Foreign flashpoint West Bank city. ics said. voked, as it happened after the In some previous car-ramming fired at a checkpoint on the Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yes- Israeli forces have killed 109 Palestinians are frustrated at car had stopped. attacks, the driver then emerged northern West Bank boundary, terday said Ankara’s patience Palestinians, around two-thirds the failure of long-running peace “We saw the martyr’s car to try to stab Israelis. causing no casualties, and was with Moscow after the downing of whom the army identified as efforts with Israel and its 48-year parked and he stepped out of it In the second incident in then shot by guards and fled. of a Russian warplane on the Syr- assailants. West Bank occupation. and they fired around 15 bullets Hebron, the army said troops ian border was “not unlimited”, The violence spread to the Near Hebron, a large West at him,” Osama Ahmed Tarawa, fired at Palestinians who attacked REUTERS urging Moscow to react calmly.