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Page 01 Dec 31.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 31 December 2013 27 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5930 Price: QR2 European stock Rustiness, a markets slip, challenge for Tokyo rises Sri Lanka Business | 17 Sport | 25 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Karlovic beats Berdych Restrictions on Huge demand sale, transfer of MPHC shares for PSG-Real DOHA: Citizens, who are allot- ted the shares of Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company (MPHC) via a low- priced IPO that is all set for match tickets launch today, will need permis- sion from the local bourse to sell more than 50 percent of the scrip after listing. Tickets cost QR700 on black market Qatar Exchange (QE) yes- terday reached a deal with the DOHA: Prices of tickets for Doha on December 29. Soon after MPHC to restrict successful IPO this week’s football friendly to touchdown, PSG hit the training subscribers from offloading or be played between European pitch at Aspire Academy. transferring more than half the giants France’s Paris Saint- Former World Cup winning allotted shares after the securities Germain (PSG) and Spain’s defender with France Laurent are listed on the bourse. Real Madrid in Doha have Blanc is the manager of PSG The above limit is being soared to an astronomical sum which also has the services imposed in line with the nature of QR700 on the black market, of influential striker Zlatan of the IPO that aims at helping news reports have said. Ibrahimovic. Other key play- successful Qatari subscribers The tickets are being sold at ers include Thiago Silva, Claude build wealth (capital gains and Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic returns the ball to Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych during their match in Qatar’s QR700 on the black market and Makelele. regular dividend income) over ExxonMobil Open in Doha yesterday. Karlovic beat Berdych 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (7-4). See also page 26 it is expected to reach at least The French giants who reached the long-term. QR1,000 on the day of match, the Champions League quarter- The IPO is open for subscrip- reports claim. finals last season enjoyed similar tion to Qatari individuals only and The Qatar Football Association rock-star treatment from Doha Egypt arrests four a select few local institutions. (QFA) issued 50,000 tickets for fans when they undertook their Special police to deal with Anyone who wishes to offer his the public a couple of weeks ago. first winter break last January. Jazeera journalists or her shares for sale or transfer A few days ago, the organisers A little over a year ago, Doha in anyone else’s name exceeding confirmed the match was a sell- hosted World Cup champions CAIRO: Four Al Jazeera crimes against children the above limit will be required to out as football-crazy fans in the Spain and Uruguay at the same journalists have been fill up a special application form. country and the region picked up venue that attracted a packed arrested in Egypt, the sta- DOHA: Qatar hopes to take a a shelter for the victims of child And the forms will be needed to the tickets. house for the friendly. tion said yesterday, after the number of key steps to ensure abuse. And a juvenile home would be filled up in person as represen- The match is scheduled to be The Real Madrid roster Interior Ministry accused that children’s rights are pro- simultaneously exist that would tation will not be allowed. held on January 2 at the Khalifa includes Portugal’s Cristiano the channel of broadcasting tected and child abuse cases are house the perpetrators of the THE PENINSULA Stadium to celebrate the 10th Ronlado, new signing Gareth illegally from a hotel suite tried by dedicated juvenile courts. crimes against children and its Continued on page 4 anniversary of the launch of Al Bale, goalkeeper Iker Casillas, with a member of the Muslim A draft law is ready that also rec- focus would be on reform. Jazeera Sports channel. Karim Benzema and popular Brotherhood. ommends setting up a police force The State Cabinet had decided in Today’s edition Most of the tickets were bought Sergio Ramos. Influential mid- “State security received infor- that would be exclusively meant to November 2006 to set up a perma- includes a 4-page by fans by logging on to the QFA fielders Xabi Alonso and Pepe mation that a member of the deal with crimes against children. nent committee to launch studies supplement on website, Al Sharq newspaper will also feature in the high pro- (Brotherhood) used two suites If the draft law is approved and and prepare a draft law to ensure reported. The ticket prices were file match. in a Cairo hotel to hold meet- enforced, Qatar could be the first protection of children’s rights. said to be between ¤20 and ¤50, Real is the world’s richest foot- ings with other members of the country in the region to have not The draft has 120 articles and ALL MAJOR the report added. ball club in terms of revenue, with organisation and turned the only a primary and an appeals authorises the Supreme Council DOHA EVENTS IN PSG, who are the French an annual turnover of €513m, and suites into a press centre,” the court for children, but also a sepa- for Family Affairs to come out national league champions, are the most valuable sports team, ministry said. rate police force as well as pros- with executive regulations once in Qatar for their winter train- worth €3.3bn. REUTERS ecution for the juveniles. the draft is converted into a law. 2014 ing camp. The team arrived in THE PENINSULA See also page 2 The draft also talks of building THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com WCMC-Q expert in breakthrough Al Jazeera slams arrest cholesterol study DOHA: A researcher at of its scribes in Cairo Weill Cornell Medical College Detention follows sustained intimidation, says network in Qatar (WCMC-Q) DOHA: Al Jazeera Media An AJMN spokesperson said: in July, in which democratically has contrib- Network (AJMN) yesterday “We condemn the arbitrary arrest elected president Mohammed uted to a find- condemned the “arbitrary” of Al Jazeera English journalists Mursi was thrown out of power ing that could arrest of four of its journal- working in Cairo and demand and put behind bar. one day rival a ists by Egyptian authorities on their immediate and uncondi- The arrests are part of what drug commonly used for regu- Sunday. tional release. Reporters without Borders has lating cholesterol. The Doha-based network “Al Jazeera has been subject to called “growing hostility” towards The discovery of how a form demanded their immediate and harassment by Egyptian secu- journalists in Egypt. of microRNA helps control cho- unconditional release, said a press rity forces which have arrested There has also been a cam- lesterol could have huge implica- statement. our colleagues, confiscated our paign against Al Jazeera in par- tions, improving the quality of The journalists were working equipment and raided our offices ticular. Its offices were raided in life and preventing premature for Al Jazeera English television though we are not officially August and security forces seized deaths of tens of thousands of channel. They are Peter Greste, banned from working there.” equipment which have not yet be people every year. It is expected award-winning Nairobi-based According to AJMN, the returned. Al Jazeera called on the to rival statins as a means of correspondent; AJE Bureau Chief, arrests follow a period of sus- Egyptian authorities to imme- regulating cholesterol. Mohamed Fahmy; Cairo-based tained intimidation of Al Jazeera diately its staff unconditionally Dr Hani Najafi, (pictured) producer Baher Mohamed, and staff and targeting property and along with their belongings and Assistant Professor of Cell cameraman Mohamed Fawzy. coverage since the military coup equipment. THE PENINSULA and Development Biology at WCMC-Q, and his fellow researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School conducted the research which has been pub- lished in the Journal of Science Qatar ‘organ donation, transplant system a model’ Translational Medicine. Dr Najafi said, “The work done so far has had very signifi- DOHA: Qatar Centre for Organ Organ Donation and Transplant formulating a strategy to achieve cant results and although we’re Donation and Transplantation Research Centre. the next steps of the programme not yet at the stage of announc- (Hiba) has helped reduce the “It is the only country in the as well as training staff and shar- ing a new drug, I am hopeful number of people waiting for world to offer such support to ing publications. that the treatment will one day donors, say experts. overseas living kidney donors This year, 16,606 people were be clinically important. Hiba provide opportunities for and would certainly assist the added to the organ donor regis- “High cholesterol levels are expat patients on the waiting UK transplant waiting list if we try in Qatar, a seven-fold increase associated with heart disease, list to bring their related living had such a system for our ethnic on 2012. Prof Randhawa said diabetes and atherosclerosis donors to donate organs in Qatar. patients. Deceased organ alloca- Qatar has all successful ingredi- — some of the main causes of It investigates potential donors tion is also equitable regardless of ents for a strong organ donation premature death — and it would before bringing related matching nationality, ethnicity and gender,” programme. be very satisfying for myself, my and medically fit living donors to he added.
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