ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 28 QA to showcase Qatar trade Sharapova best of its fleet surplus falls 50 jeered off court, at Paris Air percent in first Murray breezes Show. quarter. through. TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 • 8 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6442 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir hosts Emir Cup winners Three found guilty Panel to study of defaming school officials DOHA: In arguably a first needs of local in Qatar, a court has found three expatriates guilty of using defamatory language on Facebook against the principal and management of a Filipino job market school. The misdemeanour court has sentenced the trio — parents of students in the school — who said Effort to help private sector: PM they were protesting an unjustifi- able increase in the school fee, to DOHA: The government has that banks had begun to provide five months in prison and a fine of plans to set up a committee that funding for projects built on sound QR1,000 each. will look into the needs of the foundations, and the ministries of The sentence has, however, been local job market over the next 10 economy, trade and finance were kept in suspension, which means years. playing a role in this regard. it will be executed if the convicts The apex committee will be With regard to industrial land, fail to abide by the law for a cer- tasked with preparing details the PM said a ministerial com- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Personal Representative of the Emir, H H Sheikh Jassim bin tain period. of what specialist jobs will be mittee had been set up to study Hamad Al Thani, with the players and technical and administrative staff of Al Sadd Sports Club, winners of the The court has referred the mat- required in the country over the the state’s need for industrial land Emir Cup, and runners-up El Jaish Sports Club, representatives of companies that sponsored the Emir Cup, and ter to the civil court, where the coming decade. over the next five years, whether sports and media persons, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. convicts may be sued by the school This was disclosed by Prime for public schools, private schools, for damages for defamation, local Minister and Interior Minister hospitals or industrial units. Arabic daily Al Raya reported H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser The PM said the Emir drew up yesterday. bin Khalifa Al Thani at an Qatar National Vision 2030 with Asked for comment, a lawyer Economic Empowerment Forum the youth as its pillar, saying that said that under Qatar’s criminal for the Youth. its realisation relies on the youth’s Fierce fighting rages in Yemen law, which has a special chapter on The event is being held at Qatar contributions. cybercrime, no one was allowed to University by the Ministry of “We, our sons and daughters, SANA’A: Rebel forces and loyal- government in Saudi Arabia. Sunday and raged overnight, have insult individuals and other enti- Economy and Commerce. are confident of your abilities to ist fighters were locked in fierce Yesterday’s clashes in Taez came killed at least 30 Houthi rebels and ties personally or on social media. The PM said that the govern- accomplish many achievements fighting in Yemen yesterday as just four days before a new UN allied forces, the official said. However, the law-enforcement ment was making efforts to sup- in various sectors,” the Prime hopes of a political solution faded effort was to have been held, aim- He said a provisional toll showed agencies must probe accusations port the private sector on the Minister said. after the United Nations post- ing to resolve the conflict in the at least five Hadi loyalists were regarding defamation and confirm directives of Emir H H Sheikh He explained that the govern- poned peace talks. impoverished Arabian Peninsula also killed. them by filing charges against the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. ment had worked ceaselessly to Clashes raged in the country’s nation. For a second consecutive day, accused, said Yusuf Al Zaman. Speaking to reporters following remove obstacles and provide all third city Taez, sowing panic after But there had been growing rebels and their allies targeted The trio, according to him, was the opening session of the Forum, the means to qualify the youth to Shia Houthi rebels bombarded uncertainty over which of the war- several Taez neighbourhoods with convicted under Qatar’s anti-def- the PM said that such initiatives have access to new development several districts with rocket and ring parties would attend the talks rockets and tank shells, residents amation law. were aimed at enhancing part- prospects and enter the world of tank fire. slated for Thursday in Geneva. said. Initially, five expatriates, under- nerships with the private sector business to contribute to a better “There’s a real massacre going “I can confirm that the meet- Medics and residents said late standably all of them parents, and ensuring that the government future for Qatar. on in Taez, the city that spear- ing has been postponed,” a UN on Sunday the bombardment had were taken to court for using does not compete with it. In order to achieve this national headed the revolt” against former official said on Sunday, without killed 10 civilians and wounded 80. objectionable language against the The aim of the forum is to sup- objective, the government drew president Ali Abdullah Saleh who elaborating. Officials in neighbouring Daleh school’s principal and its director port young people and encourage up a plan for nationalisation and now supports the Houthis, one The postponement is another province said pro-Hadi fighters and board members, but the court them to start businesses, and to scholarships, Sheikh Abdullah bin resident said. blow to UN efforts to broker had retaken several positions from acquitted two of them. empower their projects by showing Nasser said, noting that it had “Saleh has aligned himself peace in a country where nearly the rebels, including a military The parents, according to the them how to take advantage of the been decided to form of a commit- with the rebels to take revenge,” 2,000 people have been killed since camp, in dawn fighting yesterday. daily, said that they were taken experience and expertise available tee to identify the skills required Bassam Al Qadhi added. March. They said clashes were ongoing, aback when the school unjustifi- in the Ministry of Economy and in the labour market in the coming Saleh quit in early 2012 after Yesterday, residents and an especially at a now rebel-held base ably raised the tuition fee for the Commerce and the private sector. years in the light of the govern- bloody year-long protests against official in Taez said fierce fighting of the 33rd Armoured Brigade second time in less than a year. Responding to a question on ment’s vision with regard to the his rule, and was replaced by had killed and wounded dozens of where pro-government forces have They said they met the principal problems related to funding concerned plan. Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who people. seized six tanks. and were assured that the matter young people’s projects, he noted THE PENINSULA has taken refuge along with his The clashes, which erupted on AFP would be looked into and justice would be done. Nevertheless, the school management went ahead with the fee hike. Deadly tornado The parents said they then took to the social media and gave vent Malaysia finds 139 graves to their pent-up feelings. The school’s lawyer, Noura Srahan, told the daily the court’s verdict in trafficking camps against the trio represented action against the misuse of social media. WANG KELIAN: Malaysia Malaysia’s Inspector General of THE PENINSULA has found 139 graves, and signs Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, told of torture, in more than two reporters in the northern state of dozen squalid human traffick- Perlis. ing camps suspected to have “We were shocked by the cru- been used by gangs smuggling elty,” said Khalid, describing condi- migrants across the border with tions at the 28 abandoned camps, Over 500 dead in Thailand, the country’s police scattered along a 50 km stretch of chief said yesterday. the Thai border, around which the Indian heatwave The dense jungles of southern graves were found in an operation NEW DELHI: Soaring tem- Thailand and northern Malaysia that began on May 11. peratures have gripped parts of have been a major stop-off point Pictures of the camps shown southern and northern India in for smugglers bringing people to journalists by Malaysian police an extreme heatwave which has to Southeast Asia by boat from showed basic wooden huts built in killed more than 500 people and Myanmar, most of them Rohingya forest clearings. looks set to continue this week. Muslims who say they are fleeing Khalid said bullet casings were Most of the 539 recorded deaths persecution, and Bangladesh. found in the vicinity and added have been of construction work- “We are working closely with there were signs that torture had ers, the elderly or the homeless. our counterparts in Thailand. We been used, without elaborating. REUTERS People stand outside their damaged house after a tornado hit the town of Ciudad Acuna in Mexico, leaving 11 will find the people who did this,” REUTERS See also page 15 people dead. See also page 11 Remove sponsorship curbs on 2022 project workers: Expert DOHA: A lawyer yesterday told a projects, they could be treated separately Sunday, the National Human Rights “Let their employment contract out- inspectors held by the NHRC, the main symposium that if Qatar was being from the rest of the foreign workforce.