ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 6 Business | 17 Sport | 23 Overweight Networks must Baffled Bolt type 2 diabetics improve for Iraq unconvincing in live longer: to be Internet 200m victory in WCMC-Q study. transit hub. New York. MONDAY 15 JUNE 2015 • 28 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6462 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Minister visits Qatar pavilion at Milan Expo Traffic Dept All buses, mini offices at two vans must be insurance firms DOHA: The General Directorate of Traffic has opened two new offices at Qatar Insurance Company and Bima air-conditioned Insurance Company to investi- gate accidents and complete doc- umentation. The move is aimed at saving time of vehicle owners New rules to be effective from July as they will not have to visit the investigation department of the DOHA: Buses and mini vans renewal of road permits. General Directorate of Traffic that are not air-conditioned As per the new rules, the or any other traffic sections. will not qualify for issuance vehicles should be fully air con- The process of repairing vehi- or renewal of road permits, ditioned. They should have all cles can be completed at these in keeping with new rules their glasses insulated or tinted new offices, the Ministry of being enforced by the Traffic (at least 30 percent), except the Interior (MoI) said. Department beginning next front wind screen and window A traffic police officer will be on month. glasses on the left and right sides duty at the new offices at the two The new requirements that will of the driver’s seat. insurance companies to receive come into force by the beginning This apparently is to provide accident complaints, investigate of July have been made manda- extra comfort and cooling for the and complete documentation. tory for technical inspections for passengers. These offices will deal with the annual renewal of road per- A reflecting sticker in yellow cases of vehicle damage repair mits, said the department. and black should be affixed on the in which the parties have rec- Once the rules are imple- rear bumper of the vehicles. onciled. In case of dispute, the mented, the hundreds of buses in In case the distance between traffic police office will investigate Qatar plying company workers the ground and rear bumper and decide who was at fault. Minister of Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti visited Qatar’s pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 on the and employees will be required to exceeds 55 centimetres, an addi- THE PENINSULA install air conditioners and meet tional safety bumper should be sidelines of his official visit to Italy to participate in the World Congress of the International Union of Public other additional requirements, if fixed with a phosphoric (light yel- Transport in Milan. the owners want to get their road low) sticker on it, which meets permits renewed. the GCC specifications. The new rules apply to all vehi- On the door on the driver’s side, cles with a seating capacity of 11 the weight of the vehicle-when or more. They apparently include it is loaded and unloaded — and QC Ramadan projects to benefit over 2m all buses and mini vans belonging the passenger capacity should be to companies and schools used to written in a black and white col- DOHA: More than two mil- Qatar is QR14.6m more than expected number of beneficiar- aid projects of QC to provide relief transport students, workers and oured sticker. lion people are expected to ben- last year. The number of peo- ies of these projects is 1,448,426 for the Syrian people, patronising other employees. Buses with a capacity of 50 efit from Qatar Charity’s (QC) ple expected to benefit from the which means 100,000 persons orphans and needy families, and The new regulations include passengers or more should have Ramadan projects that will cost projects is more than 2,043,000. more than last year. supporting educational, health, six additional requirements for beacons on rear and on the top QR58.2m. The budget for Ramadan The Ramadan campaign this income-generating, and water such vehicles which the Traffic that are connected to central Launched yesterday, this year’s projects within Qatar has reached year focuses on Syrian refugees projects. He noted that QC aims Department said is intended to lighting system. The Department Ramadan campaign entitled QR20m, almost QR4m more and displaced. There are also a at collecting QR300m this season ensure the safety of passengers, has urged owners of all buses to “Ramadan Al Basma” has wit- than last year’s QR16m. The cost number of Iftar projects for other to support poor communities and Al Sharq reported. comply with the new require- nessed a leap in the cost, variety, of projects outside of Qatar, on countries. Qatar Charity CEO marginalised groups. Last year’s The Department said these ments within the deadline. and number of beneficiaries. the other hand, has increased by Yousef bin Ahmed Al Kuwari has donations totalled QR278m. additional requirements are THE PENINSULA The cost of the projects to be QR11m to reach QR38m com- urged philanthropists in Qatar to Continued on page 3 mandatory for the annual Pictures on page 5 implemented inside and outside pared to last year’s QR27m. The donate for the developmental and THE PENINSULA Hippo on the loose Court bars Sudan president from SCH rules out Tang leaving S Africa contamination JOHANNESBURG: A South DOHA: All batches of popular collected as per directives of SCH African judge yesterday barred drink Tang are expected to be ahead of Ramadan. The tests and Sudanese President Omar back in the shelves by today analysis have shown that all the Hassan Al Bashir from leav- with the Supreme Council of bags are safe and meet GCC spec- ing the country after the Health (SCH) ruling out the ifications,” said a SCH statement. International Criminal Court possibility of contamination of SCH said video clips were called for him to be arrested at the product. posted earlier on social media a summit in Johannesburg. Laboratory tests have con- showing holes on the foil of Tang Bashir, who is wanted for firmed that the product is safe for tubs. The tests, however, showed alleged war crimes, crimes against consumption, SCH said yesterday. that the holes on the internal humanity and genocide in the The authorities had ordered an cover in some batches of the prod- Darfur conflict, mostly travels to unofficial recall of some batches of uct were added by the manufac- countries that have not joined the the product from the local market turer as a pressure relief system. ICC, but South Africa is a signa- and collected samples for labora- Mondelez International, the tory of the court’s statutes. tory tests. North American multinational The ruling was the first time “The Central Food Laboratory conglomerate and manufacturer any court has prevented a head of SCH received samples of the of Tang said yesterday that the of state from leaving a country product collected by the bodies concerns being raised about the following a request by the ICC, concerned last Friday. All the possible health hazards of the but Sudanese officials remained stocks available in the market drink were baseless. defiant, insisting Bashir would A man shoots a tranquiliser dart at a hippopotamus on a flooded street in Tbilisi, Georgia, yesterday. At least were checked at the entry points Continued on page 5 return home on schedule. 12 people died and several are missing in floods in the Georgian capital. Animals from the city’s zoo, including and huge amount of samples were THE PENINSULA The Southern African tigers, lions, bears and wolves, escaped from cages and roamed the streets. See also page 16 Litigation Centre, a legal rights group, had launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force authorities to arrest Bashir on the opening day of the African Union summit. Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack leaked files “President Omar Hassan Al Bashir of Sudan is prohibited LONDON: Britain has pulled of British Prime Minister David files remained secure, Britain what we have or haven’t done in newspaper that Russian President from leaving the Republic of out agents from live operations Cameron, the Home Office and believed both Russia and China order to mitigate the effect of Vladimir Putin did not grant South Africa until the final order in “hostile countries” after security services. had cracked documents which the Snowden revelations, but Snowden asylum for nothing. is made in this application,” Judge Russia and China cracked top- Snowden downloaded more contain details that could allow nobody should be in any doubt “His documents were encrypted Hans Fabricius said in his ruling. secret information contained than 1.7 million secret files from British and American spies to be that Edward Snowden has caused but they weren’t completely “The respondents are directed in files leaked by former US security agencies in the United identified, the newspaper said, immense damage,” he told Sky secure and we have now seen our to take all necessary steps to pre- National Security Agency con- States and Britain in 2013. The citing officials. British Foreign News. agents and assets being targeted,” vent him from doing so.” tractor Edward Snowden, the US wants Snowden to stand trial Secretary Philip Hammond said An official at Cameron’s office the source said. Bashir joined a group photo- Sunday Times reported. after he leaked classified docu- Snowden had done a huge amount was quoted, however, as say- A British intelligence source graph of leaders at the summit.