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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Preparations Indian rupee Real Madrid on for five-day sinks to new captain Ramos Eid Al Adha two-year low on signs new festival. yuan devaluation. five-year deal. TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2015 • 3 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6526 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Refugees await turn Egypt adopts Online wage tough law payment plan to deal with terrorism CAIRO: Under pressure from a jihadist insurgency, Egypt’s put off till Nov President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has boosted police and judicial powers with a new anti-terrorism Some companies not yet ready law that also imposes hefty fines for “false” media reports. DOHA: Qatar has postponed for all the workers who are to be Rights groups, which have the launch of the mandatory beneficiaries of the WPS. accused Sisi of imposing a repres- online wage payment system Banks must open the accounts sive regime since the army ousted for low-income private sector for workers regardless of the president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, workers to November 2. amount of their salaries. “No fear the law could be used to further Called the Wage Protection bank has the right to reject the muzzle dissent and target critics. System (WPS), it was scheduled request of a worker to open a The government sped up the to be launched from today as the bank account for salary transfer,” passage of the law after state pros- six-month period allowed to pri- a source said, quoting the QCB ecutor Hisham Barakat was assassi- vate companies on February 18 directive to the banking industry. nated in a bombing in June, followed vide a law ended yesterday. Rejection of a bank account A Syrian refugee holds her baby and passports while waiting to board the passenger ship Eleftherios Venizelos by a large-scale jihadist attack in However, the government opening request by any worker that will house refugees, at the port on the Greek island of Kos, yesterday. See also page 7 the Sinai Peninsula days later. decided yesterday to put off the would make a bank liable to pun- It shields security forces from launch to November 2 as some ishment under Article 216 of the prosecution if they use force “when companies were not ready yet QCB Law. facing a real and imminent threat” to be part of the WPS. So they Banks flouting this rule are also while implementing the law. It have been allowed more time to liable to be fined. The QCB has High humidity Bangkok bomb attack imposes the death penalty for those comply. also asked banks to allow WPS- convicted of leading or financing More than 50,000 private com- beneficiary workers to withdraw “terrorist groups” and prison terms panies are to be part of the WPS their salaries from their accounts expected today for those found guilty of inciting “a whereby all of their workers are at least five times a month free DOHA: The weather is kills 19, injures 120 terrorist act”. to be mandatorily paid their of charge. expected to be humid partic- The judiciary and security forces wages through banking channels. Service charges can be levied ularly from midnight today BANGKOK: A bomb exploded happened,” Panupan Chansing, already had wide-ranging powers Banking industry sources told only after five withdrawals have until 5 in the next morning. yesterday outside a religious 20, a hotel worker at the nearby in tackling “terrorism”, and Sisi’s Al Sharq that the banks had been made by a worker from his A weather forecaster told shrine in a bustling hub of the Grand Hyatt Erawan, said. regime has been accused of using already completed the prepara- bank account in a month. this newspaper that humidity Thai capital, killing at least 19 “I saw bodies lying on the the battle against jihadists as a tions, both administrative and All companies covered by the levels will vary from 75 per- people and injuring more than ground and I saw vehicles on fire. pretext for crushing dissent. At technical, to be part of the WPS. labour law (as all private firms cent to 80 percent today. 120 others in an attack authori- I feel very sad and sorry that this least 1,400 people, many of them “We have all the necessary are) will need to make CSV files They will peak at between ties said targeted foreigners. has happened to Thai people... I’m Morsi supporters, have been killed technical abilities as well the to save data in table structured midnight and 5 am. The blast occurred about 6:30 scared.” Police confirmed 19 peo- in a crackdown on protests since equipment and manpower in place format to be part of WPS. Maximum temperature is pm (1130 GMT) when the street- ple were killed, including 10 Thais, the Islamist’s overthrow. The new to deal with the online workers’ The tables will carry work- expected to be between 39 side Erawan Shrine close to some one Chinese and one Filipino citi- law sets fines from 200,000 to salary payment system under the ers’ names and salaries payable and 43 degrees C (Doha, 43 of Bangkok’s most popular upscale zen. More than 120 others were 500,000 Egyptian pounds ($25,500 WPS,” a banking industry source to them in serial numbers. The degrees C) while the mini- shopping malls was packed with injured, according to police. to $64,000) for journalists who told the daily. CSV files will need to be saved in mum, between 27 and 32 worshippers and tourists. The nationalities of the other stray from government statements Banks have been asked by the CDs as well or whatever format a degrees C (Doha 31 degrees C). “I heard a very loud bang, it people who died were not imme- in publishing or spreading “false” regulator, Qatar Central Bank company’s bank agrees to. THE PENINSULA made the whole building shake diately clear. See also page 3 AFP reports on attacks or security oper- (QCB), to open salary accounts THE PENINSULA so I ran outside to see what had See also page 11 ations against militants. AFP India, UAE plan $75bn S Sudan refuses to sign peace deal ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan’s government refused to sign a peace deal with rebels yesterday despite the threat of interna- tional sanctions, but will return to finalise an agreement within 15 infrastructure fund days, mediators said. Rebel chief Riek Machar however said he had signed a deal, and called on President Salva Kiir to join. “It was an DUBAI: India and the United petroleum reserves in addition opportunity for us to end the war,” Machar said. AFP Arab Emirates will set up a to its upstream and downstream See also page 5 multi-billion dollar fund to petroleum sectors. The govern- invest in Indian infrastruc- ments will “cooperate in manu- ture projects and cooperate in facture of defence equipment Oil down 1pc; nears 6-1/2 year low producing military equipment, in India”, a joint statement said NEW YORK: Oil fell about 1 percent yesterday, with US crude space technology and nuclear without elaborating. settling within range of a new 6-1/2-year low, after No. 3 oil con- energy, officials said yesterday. Modi said India had repeatedly sumer Japan said its economy contracted in the second quarter and Indian Foreign Secretary S fallen victim to acts of terrorism China’s slowdown continued to weigh on sentiment. Jaishankar announced the plans and it was time global powers Brent, the global crude benchmark, settled down 45 cents, or nearly at the end of a two-day visit to the unite to tackle the issue. 1 percent, at $48.74 a barrel. US light crude settled down 63 cents, or UAE by Prime Minister Narendra “Good terrorism, bad terror- 1.5 percent, at $41.87 a barrel. Yesterday’s intraday low of $41.64 came Modi, which focused on both busi- ism, will not work,” Modi said, within striking distance of Friday’s low of $41.35. REUTERS ness ties and national security. addressing a crowd of 40,000 peo- The fund will aim to raise ple, who often chanted his name $75bn to build railways, ports, during the 60-minute speech. “A roads and other projects in India, decision has to be taken — are you Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with the UAE Prime Minister and Nine killed in Mexican accident Jaishankar said. with terrorism or with human- Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during his visit in The UAE would also ity,” he said, urging global powers Dubai yesterday. help India develop strategic to act. REUTERS Crashed plane was carrying $470,000 in cash JAKARTA: An Indonesian pas- the aircraft in the heavily forested the plane was linked to its crash. the weather there, it changes all the senger plane that crashed with 54 Bintang Mountains district, local “There were four people carrying time. In the morning it can be clear people on board in Papua prov- police chief Yunus Wally told the the money, 6.5bn rupiah ($471,500),” and hot and then suddenly it rains,” ince was carrying cash worth Antara news agency, adding that a PT Pos spokesman Abu Sofjan said, Sito said. around $470,000 for remote vil- search team was approaching the adding that it was part of an official The crashed ATR 42-300 made lages, a post office spokesman area.