ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 27 February 2014 27 Rabial II 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5988 Price: QR2 Ooredoo’s sukuk Bolt in running wins ‘Qatar - Deal for Laureus of the Year’ honours Business | 20 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Senegal hold talks Qatar Exchange to New rules for close on March 2 DOHA: Qatar Exchange will be closed on March 2 because of the official holiday that banks and financial institutions observe on treatment of the first Sunday of March. “This is in compliance with the Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. (33) of 2009, to observe the first Sunday of March every year Qataris abroad as an official holiday,” a QE noti- fication said yesterday. QNA New payment system approved Travel advisory DOHA: With Qatar spending while calling for better and more on Thailand millions of dollars every year advanced healthcare facilities in for treatment of citizens abroad, Qatar. DOHA: In view of the situa- new rules have been laid down There were 2,000 patients who tion in Thailand, the Ministry to ensure that the patients get sought treatment abroad in 2012. of Foreign Affairs has urged paid without delay. According to statistics released by Qataris wishing to go to the The State Cabinet yesterday the Supreme Council of Health country to postpone their travel. approved amendments of some (SCH) earlier a total of QR780m The ministry also advised provisions of the cabinet decision ($213.7m) was spent on nearly Qataris to travel to remote No. 69 of 2012 fixing the allow- 3,000 citizens who received treat- coastal cities and islands far ances being paid to patients who ment overseas in 2010. from the capital Bangkok when are sent abroad for treatment Latest data suggest that a the situation turns normal. and those accompanying them major portion of these patients The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Senegalese President Macky Sall at the Emiri Diwan QNA during the trips. All expenses for are getting treatment in the US yesterday. Talks discussed relations between the two countries and issues of mutual concern. the treatment have been borne and Canada for chronic diseases by the state. like cancer. Qatari patients get- According to the amendments, ting treatment for cancer in the daily allowances are to be paid in US represent one third of the advance for the first two weeks, total citizens sent for treatment and afterwards they have to be to US and Canada last year, Al MPHC shares surge 450pc on first day paid at the end of each week. Sharq reports. The state will also bear the About 1,000 Qataris sought BY SATISH KANADY watch Mesaieed soaring at an expected to cool off in the coming The IPO was coming after a long travel costs of the patients and treatment in the US and Canada ‘unimaginable high’ on its debut days, another analyst noted. “But time and there seems to be a lot of those accompanying them. They last year. Patients treated for DOHA: Shares in Mesaieed on Qatar Exchange (QE). “Even today’s excitement was missing in pent up demand. But the market will get economy class air tickets neurological disorders and those Petrochemical Holding big guys were not expecting such the market during the first day never expected such a huge surge. in normal cases. A higher class who underwent organ transplant Company (MPHC) or Mesaieed a surge. It’s mere speculation tradings of some companies, listed Even in majlis discussions, the ticket will be provided in excep- constituted 10 percent each of the surged by 450 percent on the that drove the stock high. You last time”, he added. investors were expecting some- tional cases that include: total patients. first day of trading yesterday. need to wait for the next couple A top executive of MPHC said thing around 40 percent rise on Trips that take ten hours or A number of children with The shares opened at QR50, up of days to know where the stock he is bullish as he expects active the opening day”, said another more, where the patients and various types of diseases sought from their initial public offer is really heading”, an analyst at participation of institutional inves- market analyst. Mesaieed’s those accompanying them deserve treatment during the year. price of QR10, then trended in a leading investment bank told tors and foreign retailers, who were number of executed transactions travelling on business class; cases Many patients also underwent an upward direction to close at The Peninsula. denied subscriptions to the offer- amounted to 11,801 yesterday, which require a higher class of complicated cosmetic surgeries QR55, after touching an intra- The surge on the opening day ings, in the coming sessions. “We totalling 11,005,599 traded shares travel according to the list deter- and body rehabilitation sessions day high of QR73.90. was mainly because of price fluc- are expecting huge demand from for a total value of over QR674m. mined by competent medical com- necessitated by accidents. Health HE Dr Mohammed bin Saleh tuation being permitted for the foreign investors and local compa- However, the buoyancy could not mittees dealing with the cases. authorities have been working on Al Sada, Minister of Energy and first day of listing. The fluctua- nies who were denied opportuni- help lift the market yesterday, as In 2011, Qatar spent QR1.2bn a new strategy to establish several Industry and Chairman of the tion in prices will be restricted ties to take part in the IPO, Ahmed Mesaieed trading did not impact ($328.76m) for treatment of citi- specialised hospitals in the coun- MPHC Board described the list- from either going up by 10 per- Abdul Hakim, Executive Director, the benchmark index. zens abroad, the Advisory Council try, based on a feasibility study. ing as a ‘milestone for MPHC’. cent or going down from that level MPHC told Al Arabiya. THE PENINSULA said during a session last year, THE PENINSULA The market was surprised to from the second day. The stock is ‘There were lot of expectations. Continued on page 2; see also page 17 Ukraine tense Qatar backs political as Russia to hold military solution for Syria TEHRAN: Qatar’s Foreign loggerheads over the three-year- exercises Minister H E Dr Khalid bin old war in Syria that has torn the Mohammed Al Attiyah said country apart and cost more than KIEV: The Kremlin ordered yesterday his country and Iran 140,000 lives. Tehran is a staunch major military exercises yester- both back a “political solution” supporter of President Bashar day, as concerns about unrest in to the conflict in Syria despite Al Assad’s regime, while Doha is Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula their support for opposite sides. a key backer of the Syrian rebels continued to grow and scuffles “Everyone is agreed on one fighting to oust him. in the region left one person point, that the Syrian crisis Meanwhile, forces loyal to dead. should be resolved through a Syrian President Bashar Al Assad The Russian president, political solution,” Al Attiyah told killed at least 175 Islamist rebel Vladimir Putin, ordered an a joint news conference in Tehran fighters, most of them foreigners, urgent drill of his country’s armed with his Iranian counterpart, in an ambush in insurgent-held forces in western Russia, in what Mohammad Javad Zarif. eastern outskirts of Damascus, appeared to be a display of sabre- “There is a difference of views state media said yesterday. The rattling aimed at the new govern- despite other points of common- attack was led by the Lebanese ment in Kiev. alities. We consider them (Syrian Shia militant group Hezbollah Putin instructed his defence rebels) revolutionary people call- which has joined the government minister, Sergei Shoigu, to place Residents of Syria’s besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, crowding a destroyed ing for their rights in the face of in a increasingly sectarian con- Russia’s military in a state of high street during food distribution by the United Nation Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in a picture released by fire and bullets,” Attiyah added. flict. AGENCIES alert for drills in the western mili- the agency yesterday. Qatar and Iran are at See also page 7 tary district, bordering Ukraine. The defence ministry quickly denied the drills had anything to do with the political situation in Kiev, where the government of President Viktor Yanukovich was Al Jazeera calls protests outside Egypt missions in effect toppled at the weekend. But the move comes amid increas- THURSDAYURSDAYRSDAY 27 FEBRUARYFEBRUAR 22014 HilHamilton unve ils ingly forthright statements from DOHA: Broadcaster Al Jazeera Mohamed, an Egyptian — were apparent reference to the Muslim freedom of expression and that F1 simulator Moscow that the rights of ethnic called for vigils outside Egyptian detained in Cairo on December Brotherhood, which has been pro- the journalists raised suspicions at IWC pavilion ormula One cham- things and being innovative and pion and IWC Friend constantly chasing time, so it’s of the Brand Lewis the perfect synergy that we have Hamilton launched with IWC.” the Mercedes AMG “A lot of people just watch the Russians in Ukraine are being embassies across the world yes- 29. testing against the government by operating without official FPetronas Simulator yesterday race from the outside; they don’t at the 11th Doha Jewellery and get to see all work that goes into Watches Exhibition at the Qatar the car. We have almost 2,000 National Convention Centre people in a team to build the car (QNCC).