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Page 01 Aug 15.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 20 Pakistan expats China port Novak Djokovic mark 69th blast: Global and Andy Murray Independence carmakers enter Rogers Day in Qatar. assess damage. Cup quarters. SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 • 30 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6523 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Feathered friend Up to 85pc Pupil-teacher humidity ratio in Qatar likely today DOHA: The weather is likely to be extremely humid this morn- ing and at night. Humidity levels are expected to one of the best range between 40 and 85 percent today. “You can expect high humid- ity levels, particularly early in the morning and at night,” a weather Ministry releases education report forecaster told this newspaper. According to him, humidity was DOHA: The pupil-teacher ratio Abstract for 2014. The chapter around 64 percent at around 9.30 in Qatar at all levels of school provides key statistics on student last night. In its routine weather education is impressive com- enrolments, schools and teachers bulletin for today, the meteorology pared to world standards. in the country. As for the number department has forecast day tem- There was one teacher for of students in a classroom, the peratures at 39 to 42 degrees C. every 10.59 students on average average for boys’ schools was 23.72 In Doha, the maximum tem- in the school year 2013-14, official and 25.11 for girls’ schools. perature expected is 41 degrees figures show. The 502 mixed schools had and the minimum 33. Nightly An idea of global average can be 131,578 students in 2013-14 and temperatures in places like had from World Bank data which 6,239 classes. On average, the Messaieed and Al Wakra are fore- shows that there was one teacher class strength was 21.08. cast at 31 degrees and in Al Khor for every 45 students in primary In all schools, the number and Dukhan 30. The weather will schools in Afghanistan in 2013. of students in a class averaged be hazy at first, becoming hot dur- Some countries, as per the 22.41 in 2013-14. But the teacher- ing the day, the bulletin said, adding data, have one teacher for every student ratio was high in mixed by night humidity levels will rise. nine students. schools. There was one teacher A grouse sits on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s head as he visits a facility of the Forest and Water Offshore, the weather will be partly Official statistics suggest that for every 15 students, while the Management Ministry in Rize, Turkey, yesterday. The nationalist opposition said it would not back a minority cloudy and the sea calmer. there were 836 schools, 245,232 average for girls’ schools was 7.81 government, making Erdogan’s aim of taking the country to a snap election with the ruling party in control look THE PENINSULA students (male and female), and eight for boys’ schools. increasingly difficult. Report on page 4 10,939 classes and 23,155 teach- The maximum number of ers in Qatar in 2013-14. teachers and students were in Of the schools, 502 were mixed primary schools — 10,478 teach- (co-ed institutions where boys ers and 116,721 students. and girls study), 162 girls’ and 172 The preparatory schools had boys’ schools. more students (46,137) and teach- China strengthens yuan against dollar Pre-primary schools totalled ers (4,411) than the secondary 344 and primary schools 226. schools which had 37,511 students SHANGHAI: China’s central The higher fixing came after market-oriented method of cal- rate. “Currently, there is no basis There were 143 preparatory and and 4,213 teachers. bank yesterday raised the value the People’s Bank of China reas- culating the daily reference rate for the renminbi exchange rate 121 general secondary schools. Pre-primary schools had 44,275 of the yuan against the US dol- sured financial markets by pledg- which sets the value of the yuan, to continue to depreciate,” the Although girls’ schools were students and 3,979 teachers. lar by 0.05 percent, the national ing to seek a stable currency after also known as the renminbi. bank’s Assistant Governor Zhang less than those for boys, they In these schools, out of 3,978 foreign exchange market said, a shock devaluation of nearly two Previously, authorities based Xiaohui said. “The central bank had 58,145 students compared to teachers, only one was male, in ending three days of falls after percent on Tuesday. the rate on a poll of market- has the ability to keep the ren- 55,509 in boys’ schools. a private school. No government a surprise devaluation. The cut, and two reductions, makers, but will now also take minbi basically stable at a reason- But girls’ schools had more pre-primary school had a male The daily reference rate was sent global financial markets into into account the previous day’s able and balanced level.” teachers (7,444) than boys’ teacher. 6.3975 yuan to $1.0, from 6.4010 a tailspin as it raised questions close, foreign exchange supply Beijing is pushing for the yuan schools (6,937) In the primary schools, there the previous day, the China over the health of the world’s sec- and demand and rates of major to become one of the reserve The Ministry of Development were 8,990 woman teachers com- Foreign Exchange Trade System ond-largest economy and sparked currencies. currencies in the International Planning and Statistics released pared to 1,488 male counterparts. said. The yuan closed at 6.3912, fears of a possible currency war. The yuan is still only allowed to Monetary Fund’s SDR (special the data in the Chapter on THE PENINSULA strengthening slightly from Beijing said the move was the fluctuate up or down two percent drawing rights) group. Education in its Annual Statistical Continued on page 3 Thursday’s close of 6.3982. result of switching to a more on either side of the reference AFP Decoy flares drill US flag hoisted in Cuba mission South Sudan pulls after 54 years out of peace talks HAVANA: Secretary of State JUBA: South Sudan’s govern- Rebel generals said they had John Kerry called yesterday for ment yesterday said it was pull- split from Machar, accusing him “genuine democracy” in Cuba as ing out of peace talks to end a of seeking power and that they the American flag was raised 20-month long civil war after would not recognise any deal. over a US embassy in Havana rebel forces split despite inter- Regional mediators, backed by for the first time in 54 years. national threats of sanctions. US President Barack Obama dur- He declared a new era in rela- “We suspend talks until the ing his recent visit to Ethiopia, tions and urged political change in two rebel factions sort out differ- gave Kiir and Machar until Cuba, telling Cubans they should ences,” Louis Lobong, Governor August 17 to halt the war. be free to choose their leaders. of Eastern Equatoria, one the 10 Obama warned Kiir and Kerry, the first secretary of states, said after meetings with Machar that if they failed to state to visit the Caribbean island President Salva Kiir. strike a deal, the US will “recog- in 70 years, presided over a cere- The civil war began in nise that those leaders are inca- mony raising the US flag over the December 2013 when Kiir accused pable of creating the peace that reopened embassy. His comments his former deputy Riek Machar of is required.” Punitive measures drew a riposte from his Cuban planning a coup, setting off retali- could include an arms embargo A Lynx helicopter on a nine-month deployment to the Gulf with the frigate HMS Richmond of the British Royal counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, atory killings that has split the and sanctions, including travel Navy lights up the night sky with decoy flares as part of an exercise in the Indian Ocean yesterday. The flares who defended his Communist gov- country along ethnic lines. bans and asset freezes. AFP ernment at a joint news confer- — or Infra Red Counter Measures — attract heat-seeking missiles, drawing them away from the helicopter’s ence and criticised the US record engines and onto a much hotter target. on rights. AGENCIES See also page 9 TODAY’S EU okays €86bn EDITION Global food shocks likely due to extreme weather INCLUDES A Greek bailout LONDON: Extreme weather such as intense presented a report commissioned by the British Chatham House think tank — Royal Institute 32-PAGE SPECIAL BRUSSELS: Eurozone finance storms, droughts and heat waves will cause government. “And as these events become more of International Affairs. ministers yesterday agreed on a more frequent and severe food shortages frequent, the imperative for doing something The experts looked at production of the SUPPLEMENT ON third debt bailout worth €86bn as the global climate and food supply sys- about it becomes greater.” world’s most important commodity crops — to keep Greece afloat and avoid tems change, British and American experts The report, prepared by UK-US Taskforce maize, soybean, wheat and rice — and how its chaotic exit from the single warned yesterday. on Extreme Weather and Global Food System droughts, floods and storms might impact it currency bloc. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is Resilience, also warned that knee-jerk national in future. Since most global production of these After a meeting of Eurogroup, so great and the increase in extreme weather responses to production drops, such as the crops comes from a small number of countries Belgian Finance Minister Johan events so rapid that food shortages on a scale imposition of export or import bans on certain such as China, the US and India, extreme van Overtveldt said they had likely to occur once a century under past con- foods or crops, risk exacerbating a problem and weather events in these regions will have the agreed to a memorandum of ditions may in future hit as often as every 30 fuelling spikes in food prices.
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