ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Murray wins, Fognini loses in Shanghai Sport | 19 Wednesday 8 October 2014 • 14 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6212 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Fireworks at Katara Workers’ remittances UAE urged to at QR40.6bn in 2013 DOHA: Workers’ remittances totalled a huge QR40.6bn ($11.15bn) in 2013, up come clean on 8.3 percent over the previous year, offi- cial data suggest. There were 1.4 million foreign work- ers in the country by 2013-end, figures released by banking regulator, the Qatar detained Qataris Central Bank (QCB), show. The QCB said the increase of 8.3 percent in the remit- tances last year was due to the rising ratio of expatriates in the workforce. Families in the dark: Rights body More than 80.8 percent of such trans- fers were made in the currency of the DOHA: An Arab means of communicat- recipient country, said the banking regu- human rights body ing with them had been lator, not citing major destinations. based in the UK has cut since their arrest. Exchange houses continued to dominate urged the UAE to dis- “Their families were the remittance business accounting for close the whereabouts not able to know the more than 77 percent of total transfers of two Qatari nation- reasons behind their last year. als who it says were arrest or their wherea- The 37th Annual Report of the QCB for taken into custody bouts, nor have they 2013 said workers’ remittance amounted when they arrived received any calls from to QR37.43bn ($10.27bn) in 2012, while there late last June. those who have arrested it was a little more (QR37.54bn) in 2011. The Arab them.” AOHR said. In 2010, the remittance volume Organisation for Youssef Al Mulla “The AOHR was QR29.57bn, while in 2009 it was Human Rights (AOHR) demands the UAE QR25.82bn. So as one can see the remit- and Hamad Ali Al based in the UK said authorities to disclose tances have been going up significantly. Hammadi People watching fireworks at Katara as part of Eid Al Adha celebrations yesterday. on Monday that the the fate of Qatari THE PENINSULA See also pages 2 & 3. KAMMUTTY VP two Qatari nationals, nationals, and urges 30-year-old Youssef the UN special rappor- Abdussamad Ali Al teurs in the committees Mulla, and 33-year-old against torture to help Hamad Ali Mohamed find the men and press Ali Al Hamadi, had the UAE authorities Doha-based Filipino family among 5 killed in crash gone missing over three to stop this policy,” it months ago following a added. BY RAYNALD C RIVERA road trip to the UAE. The families of the their passports, Ben Chris hailed the accident. She suffered head and recognition. The relatives of the According to testimo- duo said they had no from Misamis Oriental while his back injuries and is now in stable victims back in the Philippines nies by their families, idea why and here they DOHA: An entire family wife Joyce was from Zamboanga condition in Hamad Hospital. had already been informed of the the Qatari nationals left were detained. of three was among the five Del Sur. On board a Nissan Pathfinder, sad news and the remains of the on June 27 to the UAE, via land, AOHR said that while Al Mulla Filipinos who perished in a The other two who lost their the group went sightseeing victims would be sent back after and were arrested by the UAE had chronic back problems due freaky car accident on the lives in the accident were Marilou around Doha and decided to stop investigation, according to the authorities, the AOHR said in the to degenerative disc disease, Al Corniche-Wakrah highway near Cal and Joyce Gelli, both work- for a while in the area where the Philippine Embassy. statement posted on its website. Hammadi suffers from intermit- Hamad International Airport ing as nurses in a specialised fatal accident took place, based on “We are just waiting for the It accused the UAE authori- tent kidney stones. (HIA) on Monday. medical centre in Riyadh, Saudi the account of Suzeth. go signal from authorities after ties of “arbitrarily hiding” the Both families filed a complaint Doha-based couple Ben Chris Arabia, Ambassador Crescente R The five were already inside their investigation. Then we are men. They were arrested at Al with the consular section of Rivera, 36, and Joyce Rivera, Relacion told this daily yesterday. the car and Suzeth was about to going to coordinate with the com- Ghuraifat check-post on their Qatar’s foreign ministry but the 38, and their one-year-old son, Cal and Gelli were friends and get in the car when a sport utility panies to repatriate the bodies,” way into the UAE. UAE authorities failed to give any Arclian Zirc III were among co-workers of Suzeth Rivera, the vehicle hit the car hurling Suzeth said Ambassador Relacion. “The two families confirmed details to the ministry. the fatalities, according to the sister of Ben Chris. The three to a distance which caused her The SUV driver, a young Qatari that the missing citizens had pre- AOHR said the families of the Philippine Embassy. came to Doha to visit Ben Chris injuries. national, suffered from a leg viously visited the UAE several duo are deeply concerned and fear Ben Chris was working as an and his family for the Eid Al Adha The car caught fire because injury, said sources. times, and were not subjected to that they might be subjected to engineer in Louis Berger while holidays. of the great impact of the colli- THE PENINSULA any interrogations, and that all torture. THE PENINSULA Joyce was a housewife. Based on Suzeth was the lone survivor in sion, charring the bodies beyond See also page 2 LED inventors win Nobel Biden adds Saudi to his apology list Yemen names new PM, WASHINGTON: US Vice- Houthis reject move President Joe Biden yesterday added Saudi Arabia to the list of SANA’A: Yemen’s president one of Hadi’s aides, said a commit- Middle East countries to which appointed a new prime minister tee of the president’s top advisors he “clarified” remarks he made yesterday as part of a deal with had met in Sana’a and short-listed last week suggesting they had Shia Muslim fighters who con- three names from a longer list of supported Islamist militants in trol the capital to start leaving candidates and left it to the presi- Syria. He apologised to Turkey the city, but they rejected the dent to chose one of them. and the UAE for having said US nomination and vowed to resist But the Houthis, officially allies in the region were partly to the move. known as Ansarullah, angrily blame for the rise of IS in Syria. Houthi fighters seized Sana’a rejected the appointment and “Vice President Biden spoke with little resistance last month accused the US embassy in Sanaa today with Saudi Arabia’s Minister after overrunning an army bri- of involvement in the decision to of Foreign Affairs, Prince Saud Al gade affiliated with the rival but appoint Bin Mubarak. Faisal,” Biden’s office said. “The vice moderate Islamist Islah party, “Supporters of the embassies president thanked the foreign min- making them effectively the appeared after the US ambas- ister for Saudi Arabia’s strong sup- power brokers in the country. sador met President Hadi to port in the shared fight against IS The Houthis’ rejection of the declare their coup against the will and he clarified his recent remarks appointment adds fresh uncer- of the Yemeni people and impos- regarding the early stages of the Japanese-born US citizen Shuji Nakamura holds a blue LED light at a news conference at the University of tainty to weeks of political vola- ing Bin Mubarak in line with the conflict in Syria. The two agreed California Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, California, yesterday. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and tility following the movement’s will of the embassies,” Daifallah that the issue was closed.” Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED) — the seizure of the capital of 2 mil- Al Shami, a prominent member REUTERS lion people. Yemen is trying to of the political bureau, said in missing piece that now allows manufacturers to produce white-light lamps. See also page 6 overcome years of political tur- remarks on his Facebook page. moil. The upheaval began in 2011 “This decision has met wide- when pro-democracy protests spread popular rejection and the forced long-serving President Ali people are preparing to resume Abdullah Saleh to step down in the revolutionary escalation and Hairgate: iPhone hit by new social media storm favour of his deputy, Abd Rabbu complete their revolution which Mansour Hadi. will only end with achieving their The Houthis, who have ties to objectives,” he added. FRANKFURT: First there was bendgate... aluminum meets the glass is definitely catching facial hair has become de rigeur. Another user Iran, have resisted demands to Abdelmalek Al Ejri, another now brace yourself for hairgate. Fresh from my hair and pulling it out,” one user tweeted. tweeted: “Congrats, Apple, for finally getting quit the capital, saying that an member of the Ansarullah politi- the online uproar over whether the shiny Bearded iPhone users have jumped on the hipsters to shave.” For some it is a heaven-sent agreement they signed with Hadi cal bureau, said Hadi had nomi- new iPhone 6 bends when carried around in bandwagon complaining that their facial hair marketing opportunity; Gillette Co was quick to make them a part of the gov- nated Bin Mubarak as prime pockets, Apple has been hit by a new com- gets yanked during calls, leading to spats over to tweet: “Your phone may be smarter than ernment gives them the right to minister after a committee of plaint — that the handset traps users’ hair whether to treat #beardgate as a separate ever, but leave the shaving to the experts.” stay until a new prime minister advisers representing all major or beards when they make calls.