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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 23 November 2012 9 Muharram 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5527 Price: QR2 QInvest, Qatari Real and PSG investors in deal qualify as City with Citadel crash out Business | 13 Sport | 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 The Repentant wins CMC members Best Narrative Feature Film blast shortage award at DTFF BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Algerian filmmaker of wedding halls Merzak Allouache bagged the coveted Best Narrative Feature Film award for the second time in a row, with his moving High rents cause of delayed marriages film ‘The Repentant’ winning unanimous nod from the jury at DOHA: Some members of the youth prefer to get married to this year’s Doha Tribeca Film Public representative body, foreign women. Festival (DTFF), during the the Central Municipal Council Hamad Lehdan Al Mohannadi, Arab Films Competition awards (CMC), have lambasted the another CMC member, said that ceremony last night at the Al Ministry of Municipality and the worrisomely rising rate of Rayyan Theatre in Souq Waqif. Urban Planning and said it was divorce in the Qatari community Allouache was also declared delaying building affordable could be largely attributed to winner at the DTFF last year for marriage halls for nationals. bank loans a man takes to spend his narrative feature film Normal Soaring costs of weddings, on his marriage. whose $100,000 prize was used to which high-rent marriage halls The loan becomes a vicious trap finance The Repentant. “I want are a major contributor to, are and a newly married man must to dedicate this award to those responsible for delayed mar- forego a major portion of his fighting for freedom and democ- riages of Qatari men, CMC monthly salary to repay it with racy in Algeria,” said Allouche, members said. The CMC had the result that he doesn’t have upon accepting his award for his earlier recommended that the enough to spend at home. “This acclaimed film. The Repentant state must chip in and construct creates problems and hurts the narrates the tale of Rashid, a young low-rent wedding halls to help marriage. It, many a time, leads Director Merzak Allouache receives the award for the Best Narrative Feature Film for ‘The Repentant’ in the Arab jihadist who leaves the mountains citizens cut marriage costs. The to divorce,” Al Mohannadi said. to resume a normal life. Film Competition at Souq Waqif yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL halls were to be built in different Citizens who say they are above Continued on page 2 parts of the country. 30 and have not yet been able to The Social Rehabilitation get married point out they won- Center (SRC) was assigned to der why there are such huge dif- implement the marriage halls ferences between the rents of project in collaboration with the marriage halls in Qatar and those Ministry of Municipality and in other GCC countries. “The dif- Urban Planning. All legal proce- ferences are enormous,” a citizen 13pc rise in traffic accidents in 2011 dures to launch the project had who gave his name as Abdulaziz been completed but a CMC mem- Al Shammari, said. DOHA: Contrary to claims cent- of casualties involved men “There can be variations in the road accidents. According to UN ber said that some municipalities During the wedding season the being made by the Traffic and 58 per cent of the victims figures depending on the defini- statistics, every year about 1.3mil- have not so far allotted plots of rents of marriage halls go up to Department about a decline in were those aged between 18 and tion of a traffic accident and it is lion people die and another 20 to land on which marriage halls are QR500,000 in Qatar whereas the traffic accidents in Qatar fol- 40 years. The QSA data how- important to specify the number 30million people get injured in to come up. rate is quite low at between equiv- lowing implementation of the ever do not speak about the of major and minor accidents as traffic accidents. Mohammad Faisal Al Shahwani alents of QR7,000 and QR12,000 new traffic law, data released by total number of casualties and well as the casualties. Rise in the “The United Nations has told local Arabic daily Al Raya in neighbouring countries. A ban- the Qatar Statistics Authority is it not clear whether they also population should also be taken underlined that casualties result- that the marriage hall project quet for 500 people can cost up to (QSA) yesterday show a 13 per indicated an upward trend. into consideration while analys- ing from road traffic threaten the would come in handy for Qatari QR250,000 in some marriage halls cent rise in accidents in 2011, Statistics also showed that 4.3 ing such data. According to the achievements attained in eco- youth, especially from low-income in Qatar, said another citizen. compared to 2010. per cent of the casualties were statistics released by the Traffic nomic and human development. categories, who, after employ- A Qatari woman said people in The total number of road acci- fatal in 2011. The total number Department, the number of World losses arising from traffic ment, wait for up to five years so the community mostly spend a lot dents in 2011 was 5,000, up by 13 of Qataris injured in traffic acci- casualties have dropped in 2011, casualties have been estimated to they could save enough to spend on marriage for show-off. “Public per cent compared to the previous dents during the year was 1,122. compared to the previous year,” be US518bn costing countries 1 on marriage. “They marry late as awareness campaigns should be year, the QSA said in a statement Although the report indicates said an expert, who wished not percent to 3per cent of the GDP. a result,” Al Shahwani said. waged to discourage people from issued yesterday in connection with an increase in the number of total be named. Such losses in some low-income Escalating costs of marriage competing with one another just the World Day of Remembrance accidents, experts believe that it According to the QSA report, and middle-income countries and huge dower (up to a million for show-off,” the woman who gave for Road Traffic Victims which does not give a clear picture of the the Civil Defence Department account for more that the total riyals in many cases) a groom her name as Nada said during a takes place on the third Sunday in situation in the absence of com- carried out 356 rescue opera- development assistance received must give away to his bride are group discussion hosted by Al Raya. November every year. parative data about the casualties tions in 2011 and 57 per cent of by them,” said the QSA state- the main reasons why Qatari THE PENINSULA A huge majority- 84 per and fatal accidents. such operations were related to ment. THE PENINSULA Vegan team in Doha on a healthy mission Mursi grants himself BY ISABEL OVALLE loss by 60 percent, reduce climate change mitigation costs 80 per- sweeping powers DOHA: A group of over 50 cent by 2050, and prevent and volunteers from the five con- reverse deforestation”. CAIRO: Egyptian President “These decisions will feed dis- tinents have come to Qatar to “With this visit to Doha, we Mohammed Mursi triggered cord in Egyptian politics and will share the benefits of a plant- want to give locals a chance to controversy yesterday by issuing be far from creating a favourable based diet in the context of learn the benefits of the vegan a decree likely to lead to retrials climate for restoration of eco- the Qatar Sustainability Expo diet and how to cook it. The of Hosni Mubarak and his aides nomic growth,” Mustapha Kamal and UN climate change con- vegan diet prevents cancer, but which was compared to the Al Sayyid, a professor of political ference. Supported by Loving and helps in cases of diabetes ousted leader’s autocratic ways. science at Cairo University, said. Hut, a restaurant chain from or obesity. It also lowers blood As well as ordering retrials for Leading liberal politician the US, they promote vegan- pressure, cholesterol levels, and Mubarak-era officials responsi- Mohamed ElBaradei, writing on ism, which is a vegetarian diet strengthens the immune sys- ble for violence during the upris- his Twitter account, said Mursi without eggs or dairy. tem”, Wang added. ing against his rule, the decree had “usurped all state powers and The volunteers will distribute During the Conference of shielded from legal challenge an appointed himself Egypt’s new free food packets at the Doha the Parties that will take place Islamist-dominated assembly pharaoh”. But Mahmoud Ghozlan, Exhibition Center during the in Qatar from November 26 to writing Egypt’s new constitution. spokesman for the Brotherhood, Qatar Sustainability Expo and December 7, various workshops It gave the same protection to described the move as “revolu- hold workshops to let people will be held about this issue, the upper house of parliament, tionary and popular”. know about the impact of meat two of them led by Gerard dominated by Islamists allied to The decree appeared to remove consumption on climate change. Wedderburn-Bisshop, executive Mursi, and assigned the president any uncertainty still hanging over Some of them work in Loving director of World Preservation new powers that allowed him to the fate of the assembly writing the Hut, while others are just con- Foundation. This expert will talk sack the Mubarak-era prosecutor constitution.

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