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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 4 August 2013 26 Ramadan 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5781 Price: QR2 QE to emerge Qatar crush as key player Hong Kong, in the region top Group B Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 FC Barcelona in West Bank Govt announces Qatar never Eid holidays DOHA: The Emiri Diwan yesterday announced holi- days on the advent of Eid Al Fitr. asked Twitter The ministries and other government department and general authorities and insti- tutions: The holiday will start on Ramadan 1434 AH corre- about users sponding to August 6 and ends on August 15, while employees are to resume work on August 18. Site admits secrecy failure The holidays for Qatar Central Bank (QCB), other banks and financial corpo- DOHA: Qatar is the only Spring revolutions much to the rations under the control of Arab country which has not discomfort of Arab governments. QCB and Qatar Financial requested Twitter adminis- Meanwhile, Twitter’s UK gen- Markets Authority (QFMA) tration for information about eral manager apologised to yes- will be three days and the the users of the popular social terday women attacked by “trolls” QCB’s governor is to fix the networking site, nor has it ever on the microblogging website, as starting date of the holiday. asked it to delete a tweet. it updated its rules on abusive QNA This is shown by Twitter in its behaviour. transparency report for the first Tony Wang posted a series of Barcelona President Sandro Rosell (centre right), Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub half (January to June) of 2013 tweets saying abuse was “simply (centre) and Barcelona soccer players pose for a picture at the Palestinian President’s office in the West posted on its website. not acceptable”, after Britain’s Bank town of Bethlehem yesterday. Barcelona is on a two-day “Peace Tour” in the region, which will include Mugabe wins; According to Twitter, the US, police said they were investigating conducting football clinics for young people. known for free speech and democ- allegations made by eight people. racy, led the way, comprising 78 It comes after three female rival cries foul percent of all requests received. journalists said they had been the Japan remained the second subject of bomb threats, while two HARARE: Africa’s oldest largest requester with a total of received threats of rape. president, Robert Mugabe, was eight percent of overall requests, “I personally apologise to the New standards for ACs declared winner of Zimbabwe’s up from six percent between July women who have experienced election yesterday, but his and December last year. abuse on Twitter and for what DOHA: Qatar has framed new after a technical study of energy for air conditioners is generally rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, said Twitter said it confesses that it they have gone through,” Wang standards and specifications for efficiency systems for air condi- considered the most cost-effective. he would challenge in court could not protect users and keep wrote. air conditioners for local use tioners in Qatar by Kahramaa. Kahramaa, beside the new reg- a result he called a fraud that their identities and accounts a “The abuse they’ve received that comply with the World Air conditioners consume about ulations for air conditioners and would push the nation back into secret. is simply not acceptable. It’s not Trade Organisation (WTO) 65 percent of the total electricity thermal insulators, is working to crisis. It said it has been facing huge acceptable in the real world, and energy-efficiency standards. consumption in Qatar, which rises set a labelling system for home Mugabe, 89, who has ruled the pressure from different countries it’s not acceptable on Twitter. Standards for other electrical in summer. The labelling will help appliances as well. former British colony in south- to reveal user information and “There is more we can and appliances such as refrigerators customers choose air condition- Kahramaa plans to approve ern Africa since its independence delete tweets. will be doing to protect our and washing machines are also ers and other appliances based on energy efficiency regulations in 1980, was formally proclaimed The social networking site users against abuse. That is our being developed. their energy-efficiency and cost for refrigerators and freezers by re-elected for a five-year term received 1,157 requests from vari- commitment.” Air conditioner energy effi- efficiency. next year. Later in 2016, washing barely an hour after Tsvangirai ous governments in the first half An online petition calling for ciency classification will also be The energy efficiency system machines will join the standard announced his planned legal of 2013. Such requests totalled Twitter to add a “report abuse” extended to include central cool- consists of four categories (from specifications. challenge. “We are going to go to 1,009 in the previous six months button to tweets has attracted ing systems used widely at com- three to six). As per the stand- Kahramaa has set ambitious court, we are going to go to the from July to December, 2012. more than 120,000 signatures. mercial and industrial buildings. ards, the minimum energy effi- plans and programmes to define AU, we are going to go to the Twitter said it also received In a message, Wang and Del Once the standards are ciency rating in Qatar is the three the approved standards that SADC,” Tsvangirai angrily told a many requests for deleting tweets. Harvey, Twitter’s senior direc- enforced, appliances will be pre- star air-conditioner, which is should be observed to issue a news conference in Harare. Some of the requests were for tor for trust and safety, said: approved before importing and equal to Energy Efficiency Ratio building permit for the thermal Full report on page 11 those tweets that some coun- “It comes down to this: People those that do not meet the new (EER) 8.5. insulation of ceilings and walls tries said were illegal in their deserve to feel safe on Twitter.” standards will be banned from This shows how well an air of buildings under construction. territories. They said the clarified rules entering the Qatari market. conditioner works based on the Thermal insulation maintains RAMADAN TIMING Copyright notice is a new cat- make clear that Twitter will not “Standards, set in collaboration power it is using. It cuts power indoor temperature and reduces Today’s Iftar egory of tweets added by Twitter. tolerate abusive behaviour, and with authorities concerned, will consumption by 12 percent com- demand for cooling by 40 percent. 6:20pm These are tweets that involve cop- an “in-tweet” report button has be effective soon,” utility distribu- pared with an unclassified appli- The new standards were set yright issues and alleged infringe- been added so people can report tor, Qatar General Electricity and ance. Power saving by a six star by Kahramaa’s Conservation and Tomorrow’s Imsak ment of copyright laws. abusive behaviour directly from a Water Corporation (Kahramaa), air conditioner amounts to 32 Energy Efficiency Department 03:29am To recall, social media has tweet. THE PENINSULA said in a release yesterday. percent and more. and they are approved by the played a very active role in Arab See also page 11 The standards were framed An EER rating higher than 10 WTO. THE PENINSULA Funeral of Benitez Diplomatic US, European embassies push to end closed on security alerts Egypt crisis PARIS: Interpol issued a glo- The Interpol alert comes the bal security alert after jail- day after Washington’s world- CAIRO: A senior US envoy held breaks linked to Al Qaeda freed wide travel warning, citing talks in Egypt yesterday amid hundreds of militants, as the unspecified plans by Al Qaeda to efforts to resolve the stand-off US and other Western powers strike US interests in the Middle between supporters of ousted planned to temporarily close East or North Africa in August. Islamist president Mohammed certain embassies over terror Interpol, based in Lyon in Mursi and the army-installed threats. central eastern France, noted interim government. Washington ordered its embas- that August is the anniversary US Deputy Secretary of State sies across the Islamic world tem- of attacks in India, Russia and William Burns met Foreign porarily closed, while Germany, Indonesia. Minister Nabil Fahmy hours Britain and France were to shut This week also marks the 15th after seeing members of Morsi’s their missions in Yemen for at anniversary of the US embassy Muslim Brotherhood and its least two days. bombings in the Kenyan capital political arm, the Freedom and Interpol said it suspected Al Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Justice Party. The coffin of Ecuadorean footballer Christian Benitez is carried by fellow footballers to the cemetery in Quito, Qaeda was involved in recent Tanzania that killed more than The talks came as the yesterday. Benitez died of a heart attack, his Qatari club El Jaish had announced on Wednesday. jailbreaks across nine coun- 200 mostly African citizens and Washington Post published tries, including Iraq, Libya and injured thousands. an interview with army chief Pakistan. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who The global police agency said General Martin Dempsey told lashed out at Washington, urging Afghan Indian mission attacked Syrian rebels seize arms depot the jailbreaks “led to the escape of ABC News that the threats were it to pressure Morsi supporters to hundreds of terrorists and other directed at Western interests, end their rallies. Tensions have JALALABAD: Suicide bombers targeted the BEIRUT: Syrian rebels captured an ammuni- criminals” in the past month and were “more specific” than mounted over a looming police Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Jalalabad tion depot north of Damascus from President alone and issued a security alert.