www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESSBU | 21 SPORT | 36 MinisMinistryt launches AFC U23: Hosts wworkshop on Qatar target Rio finfinancing SMEs Games berth TUESDAY 12 JANUARY 2016 • 2 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6673 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir receives Kuwaiti Deputy PM Danish Girl Petrol stations banned in Qatar warned against The Peninsula DOHA: The Ministry of Culture Arts and Heritage has banned the screening of British film Danish Girl in cinemas in Qatar. inflated bills The move comes in response to demands made by a number of citi- zens on social networking sites who felt that the film contravenes with stations in the country. The errant the Qatari culture and traditions. petrol stations have been taken to “We would like to inform you The most common task, said the ministry. that we have contacted the con- and serious violation All petrol stations have, thus, been cerned administration and the asked through a circular to keep an screening of the Danish film is now involves some petrol eye on their staffers and ensure that banned from cinemas,” the min- station staffers they do not manipulate prices. istry wrote on its Twitter account. Sometimes petrol station employ- “We thank you for your vigilance,” inflating bills handed ees issue incomplete bills to motorists, it added. to customers after mentioning only the price of fuel with- The Danish Girl, directed by out specifying the quantity sold based Tom Hooper is a fictitious love refuelling their on the figures on the meter of the story loosely inspired by the lives of vehicles. fuel pump. Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Ministry inspectors have also dis- Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage covered that at many petrol stations and work evolve as they navigate the staffers, taking advantage of the Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a The Peninsula huge rush, cheat customers, especially Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of transgender pioneer. Cinemas in women and the elderly and charge Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. Sheikh Sabah, who is Doha started screening the film on more than the actual sums. leading a delegation to the fourth session of the Qatari-Kuwaiti Supreme Joint Cooperation Committee Thursday which has been called off. The ministry has, in its circular to in Doha, conveyed Kuwaiti Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah’s greetings to Emir. DOHA: The consumer rights watchdog petrol stations, asked them to abide has mounted vigil on petrol stations by the law (No. 8 of 2008 regarding across the country after catching consumer protection) and issue bills Oil at new 12-year irregularities like price manipula- (sales invoices issued to customers) tions by some and has asked petrol to include their name and address QU department to be converted low under $32 station owners to closely monitor their with date. employees’ actions. Also to be mentioned on the The most common and serious bill are the type of commodity and AFP violation involves some petrol station units sold, price (or fee, if it is a into College of Health Sciences staffers inflating bills handed to cus- service), delivery date, and signa- tomers after refuelling their vehicles. ture or seal of the supplier, among Investigations have revealed other things. LONDON: World oil prices gushed collusion between the errant petrol If a bill is found manipulated The Peninsula programmes, collaboration with QU five degree programmes — three BSc below $32 yesterday for the first station staffers and the customers stricter penalties will be imposed colleges of medicine and pharmacy in biomedical sciences; human nutri- time in 12 years, as the market was involved. on the outlets as per the provisions and external healthcare institutions, tion; and public health, and two MSc in consumed once again by the global Inflated bills are issued in order of the above-said law. and new appointments. The appli- biomedical sciences; and public health. supply glut and Chinese demand to help a customer collect from his Depending on the severity of DOHA: The Department of Health cation process for the college begins Dr Al Thani said the new college fears. US benchmark West Texas employer the difference between the an offence or if an offence is being Sciences (DHS) at Qatar University in September and courses will start will offer a BSc programme in rehabil- Intermediate for February slumped actual amount paid to refuel his vehi- repeated, a petrol station’s services College of Arts and Sciences (QU- soon after. The department has 346 itation treatments (physical therapy, to $31.31 per barrel, which was last cle and the inflated bill amount. could be temporarily suspended and CAS) will be converted into College female students on its rolls. occupational therapy and speech ther- witnessed on December 23, 2003. The Ministry of Economy and its name could be published in local of Health Sciences this year. It will be The college will seek to enroll apy), an MSc programme in clinical European benchmark Brent North Commerce, which has a consumer newspapers and notices could be QU’s ninth college. up to 150 students in its first aca- dietetics, and a PhD programme in Sea crude for February delivery protection cell, said yesterday its pasted on its premises. QU’s Board of Regents in its recent demic year, including male students, biomedical sciences. tipped to $31.48 a barrel in late inspectors have caught 11 cases of meeting approved plans for the new said Dr Asma Al Thani, Head of the afternoon deals, a low last seen price manipulation at eight petrol →Continued on page 6 college, student enrolment, new department. The department offers →Continued on page 6 on April 7, 2004. 48 killed in Feathered guest Indian rupee Russian air strike in Iraq attacks depreciated AFP 48% in 5 years Syria kills 12 children BAGHDAD: Gunmen detonated suicide vests inside a shopping com- plex in Baghdad yesterday and a By Sachin Kumar AFP east since shortly after fighting began car bomb exploded nearby in an The Peninsula there in mid-2012. attack claimed by Islamic State Government forces regularly carry that killed at least 21 people and out air raids on the east, while rebels wounded 40 others. Two bombs BEIRUT: At least 12 children and three fire rockets into the west. later went off in the eastern town DOHA: Indian rupee depreciated adults were killed in a Russian air The situation is largely reversed of Muqdadiya, killing at least 20 about 5 percent or 87 paise against strike that hit a school in Syria’s Aleppo in the countryside surrounding the people and wounding another 50, Qatari riyal last year which was the province yesterday, a monitor said. city, with rebels controlling much of security and medical sources said. highest fall since 2013. The Syrian Observatory for the area west of Aleppo, and the gov- Another blast in a southeastern The currency, which has seen Human Rights said the three adults ernment present to the east. Baghdad suburb killed seven more. a consistent depreciation over the included a teacher, and that the strike Russia, a staunch ally of President past few years, has lost a massive in the town of Anjara also injured at Bashar Al Assad’s regime, began air →See also page 7 48 percent or around six rupees least 20 people, all of them children strikes in support of the central gov- in the last five years. It was trad- and teachers. ernment in late September. ing at 12.27 per riyal at the start of The monitor said there had been It says it is targeting the Islamic Music legend January 2011 and was yesterday heavy air strikes and clashes between State group and other “terrorists,” but trading at around 18.23 per riyal government and rebel forces since a third of those killed in its strikes David Bowie dies in local market. Sunday in the northern province, have been civilians, according to the After seeing a relatively stable which is controlled by a mixture of Observatory. LONDON: British music legend David year in 2014, the rupee again wit- moderate and Islamist rebels. The monitor said in late Decem- Bowie has died at the age of 69 after nessed volatility last year. Indian Photos distributed by media ber that Russian air strikes had killed a secret battle with cancer, unleash- rupee began year at 17.31 per riyal at activists in Aleppo province showed more than 2,300 people since they ing a cascade of tributes for one of the start of January 2015 and closed a classroom full of rubble with the began on September 30, among them the most influential and innovative at 18.18 per riyal on December 31. wooden tops of desks blown off their 792 civilians. artists of his time.Bowie’s death in Indian currency was comparatively metal frames. Moscow has slammed as “absurd” New York was a shock to the world stable a year before as it had lost The Britain-based Observatory allegations that its strikes have killed with the announcement coming just just 1 percent in 2014. A depreciating also reported that three children were civilians. More than 260,000 people three days after he released his 25th currency benefits Indian expatri- killed by rebel rocket fire on a gov- have been killed in Syria since the studio album “Blackstar”, on his 69th A feathered visitor to the Doha Corniche, seemingly from the ates because they get additional ernment-held district in Aleppo city. conflict began in March 2011 with birthday on Friday.