www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 26 SPORT | 36 Xerox splitting into Grace completess two as it grapples with grand double changing market at DGC SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 2016 • 21 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6692 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir receives New Souq phone call from UN chief Haraj coming DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received last evening a telephone call from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during which he extended the invitation to the Emir to attend up in Wakrah the Syria Donors’ Conference, to be held in London in February, reports QNA. the project to a private company. The Emir thanked the UN chief A company had won the bid for for the invitation and confirmed Complex to be a little over QR206m and it in turn that a high-level delegation from completed next year awarded the construction work. Qatar will take part in the confer- will have 324 outlets A contracting company is work- ence. The Emir affirmed Qatar’s ing on the project and currently keenness to contribute to efforts some 95 percent of excavation for providing assistance to Syrian work is complete. Souq Haraj in refugees and help alleviate their Arabic means a market for used suffering. The Peninsula or second-hand goods but in prac- The Emir also emphasised that tice it is a place where all household Qatar will continue to support the appliances (most of them new are Syrian people. DOHA: A new Souq Haraj that will available). These include furniture replace the existing one located in and furnishing, home décor items, a congested place in Najma area of electrical appliances, air-condition- Colombia reports the city, is expected to be ready for ers, fans, and carpets, among other operation in the second half of 2017. things. A multi-lane access road A Turkish gendarme carries the body of a migrant child on a beach in Canakkale’s Bademli district more than The shopping complex is coming will link the upcoming Souq Haraj yesterday after about 40 migrants drowned when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross up on a huge space that meas- to F-Ring Road in such a way that from Turkey to Greece. ures 35,000 square metres. The vehicles coming from and going to 2,000 Zika cases area is strategically located and is Al Thumama, Abu Hamour and Al bang opposite Barwa Village in Al Wakrah would not lead to conges- Wakrah. tion near Barwa Village. BOGOTA: Colombia announced The area is known as Umm The need for a new Souq Haraj 40 migrants drown off Turkey yesterday that more than 2,000 Bashar and is close to Hamad was felt as the country’s population pregnant women have been International Airport, off Doha-Al has been increasing and there was infected with Zika, amid grow- Wakrah Road. The new complex pressure on the current market in Reuters Schengen open-borders area for up sound of screaming migrants and ing concern about the spread will have 324 outlets available for Najma. It is located in a congested to two years. we have been carrying out rescue of the virus suspected of caus- rent with huge parking lots. The car- area so trucks moving in and out The Turkish coast guard was con- work since dawn. We have an 80-kil- ing irreversible brain damage in pet area of a one-door shop will be cause traffic snarls especially on tinuing search and rescue efforts ometre-long coast just across from newborns. 60 square meters and monthly rent Thursdays and Fridays. ANKARA: Almost 40 people where the 17-metre boat carrying at Lesvos, which is very hard to keep The National Health Insti- will be fixed at the rate of QR54 per Once the excavation work is drowned and 75 were rescued after least 120 people sank off the coast under control.” tute reported that Colombia now square metre. The monthly rent of complete, construction will begin. a boat carrying migrants to Greece of Ayvacik, a town across from the At least five of those who died has 20,297 cases of Zika infec- a one-door shop will thus work out Construction is expected to start off sank off Turkey’s western coast yes- Greek island of Lesvos, the Dogan were children, Dogan reported, while tion, including 2,116 in expectant to QR3,500. sooner rather than later. terday, according to local officials news agency reported. rescued migrants were hospitalised mothers. The complex is being developed Information available suggests and the Turkish Dogan news agency. “I am afraid the numbers will with hypothermia symptoms. It said The latest numbers, reported with partnership of the government that work on the project is progress- More than one million refugees rise as divers continue the search,” the migrants were of Syrian, Afghan in the institute’s epidemiological and private sector. The Logistics ing as planned and the construction and migrants arrived in the Euro- Mehmet Unal Sahin, the mayor of and Myanmar origin. bulletin, make Colombia the sec- Committee of the Ministry of Econ- work would end in time with the pean Union last year and some Ayvacik, told the CNNTurk news German Chancellor Angela Mer- ond most affected country in the omy and Commerce had floated market starting operations some- 3,600 died or went missing, forc- channel by phone. kel is under mounting pressure to halt region, after Brazil, the epicentre tenders early in March 2015 to award time in the later half of next year. ing the EU to mull suspending its “Local people woke up to the the inflow. of the outbreak. 16 more starve Japan win AFC U23 Particles, not cold, behind to death in Syria’s Madaya respiratory diseases AFP By Fazeena Saleem are especially prevalent during win- The Peninsula ter months, which may explain why BEIRUT: At least 16 more peo- there are more respiratory prob- ple have died of starvation in the lems during that time of the year, besieged Syrian town of Madaya DOHA: Respiratory problems are and less during the observed sum- since an aid convoy entered earlier more during winter not because mer months,” she added. this month, according to Doctors of low temperatures but due to the The study which examined the Without Borders (MSF). presence of small dust particles in relationship between weather, air Several dozen more resi- air, shows a study conducted by the quality and respiratory health has dents of the town are in “danger University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ). also found that though temperature of death” because of severe mal- Large air particles— sand, for did not seem to be linked to respi- nutrition, the humanitarian group example — are common during ratory health, humidity and small warned. summer, whereas small air parti- air particles do. “We didn’t find a The latest deaths bring the cles are widespread in winter. The statistically significant relationship number of people reported to have former has no significant contribu- between respiratory health and cli- died of starvation in Madaya to tion to the illness. matic variables. While temperature 46 since December, according to “The most immediate fact res- did not seem to be linked to respira- MSF. idents should be aware of is that tory health, humidity and small air “MSF has clear medical report- Japanese players celebrate after winning the final against South Korea in the AFC U23 played at the small rather than large particles particles did,” said Critchley. ing for 46 starvation deaths since Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha yesterday. Japan defeated Korea 3-2. Pic: Salim/The Peninsula are particularly harmful to their The study also found that air December 1,” the group said in a → See also page 29 health. Of course, our findings do quality in Qatar is worse during early statement to AFP. not imply that being outside during morning hours — between midnight summer sandstorms does not pose and 4am – than during the rest of a any health risk; instead our find- typical day. However, Dr Critchley ings suggest that special care should said, “We could not find literature be taken when being outside dur- that explains why this would be so. Cloud computing gaining momentum in Qatar ing the winter months, even in the Thus, there is a strong case to be absence of sandstorm, as harmful made for further investigation into small particles are especially prev- this phenomenon.” alent then,” Dr Kim Critchley, Dean Titled “examining climatic influ- By Sachin Kumar for its cloud services in the last two Naim Yazbeck, General Manager, and storage solutions provide users and Chief Executive Officer of UCQ ence on the respiratory health of The Peninsula years. “There are currently 70,000 Microsoft Qatar. and enterprises with various capabil- and the chief examiner of the study, Qatar residents: A comparative anal- commercial users in Qatar who are Cloud computing is a kind of ities to store and process their data in told The Peninsula. “Though large ysis between winter and summer using Microsoft cloud services such as internet-based computing, where third-party data centres. It relies on particles may trigger symptoms like months,” the study is part of UCQ’s DOHA: Cloud computing is gain- Microsoft Office 365, Azure or CRM shared resources, data and informa- sharing of resources for coherence coughing, they do not result in cellu- Undergraduate Research Experience ing momentum in Qatar. Microsoft, Online. It is encouraging response tion are provided to computers and and economies of scale. lar damage. Small particles, on the Program (UREP).