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MINISTRY OF NGOMBO LEVEL-HEADED CULTURE POWERS HEARST LAUNCHES RAYYAN HEIRESS DEAR MONEY TO WIN IN ARABIC PAGE 17 | NATION PAGE 32 | SPORTS PAGE 33 | CHILL OUT www.qatar-tribune.com First with the news and what’s behind it WEDNESDAY APRIL 11, 2012 JUMADA AL-AWWAL 19, 1433 Newsline Nationline Businessline Lifeline I Sportsline VOL. 6 NO. 2046 QR 2 EMIR IN PHILIPPINES Qatar, Philippines agree to set up joint business council QNA HH the Emir arrived in MANILA Manila earlier on Tuesday Emir honoured with afternoon on a state visit to QATAR and the Philippines the Philippines and was wel- on Tuesday signed an agree- comed upon arrival at Ninoy ment to establish a joint busi- Order of Lakandula Aquino International Airport ness council in addition to a MANILA PHILIPPINE relations and his achieve- by Philippine Secretary of number of memorandums of President Benigno S ments in several fields. Foreign Affairs Albert Del understanding (MoUs) dur- Aquino III on Tuesday con- The Order of Lakandula is Rosario, Secretary of Energy ing the Emir His Highness ferred upon the Emir His an order of political and Jose Rene Almendras and a Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Highness Sheikh Hamad civic merit, awarded in number of other senior offi- Thani’s one-day state visit to bin Khalifa al Thani the memory of Lakandula’s cials including Qatar’s the Southeast Asian country. Order of Lakandula, the dedication to the responsi- Ambassador to the The documents were signed highest medal in the bilities of leadership, pru- Philippines HE Jassim bin during a round of official talks Republic of the Philippines dence, fortitude, courage Ali al Obeideli and Philippine held by HH the Emir with the in recognition his role in and resolve in the service Ambassador to Qatar HE Philippine President Benigno further enhancing bilateral of the people. (QNA) Crescente R Relacion. S Aquino III which was Upon arrival, HH the Emir attended by the dignitaries in and the Philippine president The MoUs are related to proceeded to the presidential the official delegation accom- witnessed the signing of the mutual cooperation in the palace where a red-carpet panying HH the Emir. agreement to establish a joint tourism, legal, agricultural reception ceremony was The two sides also dis- businessmen council between and fisheries sectors. accorded to him. Upon cussed bilateral relations and Qatar Chamber of Commerce Qatar Holding also signed arrival at the presidential means of enhancing and and Industry (QCCI), and an investment MoU with the palace HH the Emir and the developing them in all fields, Philippine Chamber of Philippines’ Department of dignitaries of the accompany- in addition to reviewing a Commerce and Industry. Trade and Industry prior to ing official delegation were number of issues of mutual A set of MoUs were signed the talks. HH the Emir and The Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani with Philippine President Benigno S concern during the talks. between the governments of the Philippine president held CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Aquino III, in Manila, on Tuesday. After the talks, HH the Emir the Qatar and the Philippines. a bilateral meeting. SEE ALSO PGS 6 & 24 DOW JONES 12,779 QE 8,771 -149 +14 PTS PTS SENSEX 17,243 CURRENCY +21 Indian Rupee 14.18 PTS Philippine Peso 11.76 Moza visits Medanta hospital in India PARTLY CLOUDY 0 0 WEATHER HIGH: 34 C | LOW: 24 C QNA NEW DELHI Sheikha Moza QATAR Foundation for Education, Science Newsline and Community Development Chairperson inspects primary Her Highness Sheikha Moza visited Medanta multi-super specialty hospital for Syrian troops kill 50 medicine and research in New Delhi on school in Delhi Tuesday. SYRIAN troops killed 50 people on HH Sheikha Moza was briefed on a num- QNA Tuesday, in an assault on Assad’s ber of sections of the hospital including the NEW DELHI opponents. United Nations-Arab cancer treatment division and its attached League envoy Kofi Annan said it research centres, intensive care unit, out- QF CHAIRPERSON HH Sheikha Moza vis- was “a bit too early” to dismiss as patient clinics and laboratories, robotic ited a primary school in New Delhi, in order a failure his attempt to halt the surgery units, brain surgery units and med- to see a sample of the Education for India conflict and, in a letter to the UN, ical laboratories. project. During the visit, HH Sheikha Moza said Assad must make a “funda- She met with a number of the physicians met a number of teachers associated with mental change of course” and and those in charge of the hospital and dis- the project and was briefed on its objec- adhere to a ceasefire due to begin cussed the scope of future cooperation tives, implementation mechanism and on Thursday. (PG 2) between the hospital and the health sector results. She also viewed the teaching tech- in Qatar in the medical, educational and niques in one of the classrooms. research. As an advocate of Millennium Yemen toll up to 127 Medanta – the Medicity is one of Development Goals (MDG), she praised the India’s largest multi-super specialty insti- project and considered it a model for what HEAVY clashes overnight between tutes and is located in Gurgaon, a should be done to accomplish the second Al Qaeda-linked militants and the bustling town in the country’s National Millennium Development Goal, which is to Yemeni military in the country’s Capital Region. achieve universal primary education across south have killed 63 people, The institution aims to bring to India the the world by 2015. bringing the two-day death toll in highest standards of medical care along Founded in 2009, Education for India is the fighting to 127, army officials with clinical research, education and train- a non-profit project established to reduce said on Tuesday. The latest fight- ing. Medanta is governed under the guiding inequality in qualitative education in India, ing points to escalating hostilities principles of providing medical services to by involving a number of academically and between the government and mili- patients with care, compassion, commit- scientifically talented young people in tants linked to the terror network ment. teaching for two years. who have sought to take advan- It is spread across 43 acres and includes It aims to invent new mechanisms of tage of the turmoil roiling the a research centre, medical and nursing teaching in public schools, and make use country since last year against school. It has 1,250 beds and over 350 crit- of their expertise and skills in raising the longtime authoritarian leader Ali ical care beds with 45 operation theatres HH Sheikha Moza talking to a cancer patient at Medanta hospital, in Gurgaon, India, on Tuesday. educational level of children who can’t Abdullah Saleh. (PG 3) catering to over 20 specialties. (MAHER ATTAR/HHOPL) afford private schools. Rupee hits near 3-month low THE rupee slid to a near-three- month low on Tuesday weighed by dollar demand from oil importers, ‘Socio-cultural factors key to Qatari women’s health’ while choppy local shares and wor- ries over global growth kept risk JOSEPH VARGHESE professor of University of Donnelly, and the lead and smoking. However, little is appetite subdued. The rupee ended DOHA Calgary in Qatar (UCQ) and her researcher in the study, said that known about how to motivate at 51.475/485 to the dollar, weaker team, on 50 Qatari women over cardiovascular disease (CVD) is Qatari women to engage in a than Monday’s close of 51.14/15, SOCIO-CULTURAL factors play 30, having a con- the leading cause healthy lifestyle to improve their after touching a low of 51.495, a a dominant role in Qatari firmed diagnosis Exclusive of mortality in cardiovascular health,” she level last seen on January 16. women’s decisions to a healthy of coronary vascu- QT Qatar. explained, Emerging market currencies, includ- lifestyle, and cultural and reli- lar disease or “Studies have The team of researchers from ing the rupee, received a boost after gious factors appear to influence coronary artery diseases. shown that CVD can be prevent- UCQ and Hamad Medical robust Chinese trade data raised women’s smoking habits. In an exclusive interview with ed or controlled by modifying Corporation conducted the hopes for improvement in risk These are some of the findings Qatar Tribune, UCQ Associate lifestyle, such as physical inactiv- appetite. (PG 25) of a recent study conducted by a Professor Dr Tam Truong ity, consumption of fast food, CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Dr Tam Truong Donnelly Wednesday, April 11, 2012 02 www.qatar-tribune.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST Tunis in shock after ‘Black Monday’ 50 killed in fierce assault crackdown AFP lawmaker for the moderate on Assad’s opponents TUNIS Islamist party, told AFP. “They attacked the REUTERS TUNISIA was in shock on offices, climbed on the roof BEIRUT Tuesday after riot police and tore down banners and brutally clamped down on Ennahda flags,” he said, SYRIAN troops killed 50 peo- protesters defying a linking the incident to the ple on Tuesday, pursuing a demonstration ban in the Tunis protests. fierce assault on President capital, with even Security officials said six Bashar al Assad’s opponents President Moncef people were arrested. instead of silencing their big Marzouki denouncing Many people at guns and leaving towns as “unacceptable violence”. Monday’s rally in Tunis promised under a fraying “Black Monday”, “fascist were protesting at the ban international peace plan. behaviour”, “savagery” and against Ennahda, United Nations-Arab were among the harsh which emerged as the League envoy Kofi Annan comments after some of biggest party after an said it was “a bit too early” to the worst violence since October vote, the first dem- dismiss as a failure his last year’s revolution that ocratic poll since the upris- attempt to halt 13 months of led to the downfall of ing that ousted Ben Ali.
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