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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER PSG to take on Chelsea, City face Barca in last 16 Sport | 32 Tuesday 16 December 2014 • 24 Safar 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6281 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Father Emir opens Mal Lawal exhibition Go ahead with Oil prices at projects: Emir DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, yesterday asked the gov- ernment to go ahead with its plans to launch new low; no various key projects and initiatives aimed at boosting economic development. The Emir approved a number of projects and measures that aim to, among other things, earmark budgets for allocating new plots of land for a number of crucial requirements. cut in output They include housing, commercial activi- ties, warehousing and industrial needs, health, education and agriculture. The Emir instructed the government to Brent at $61; US crude at $55.91 press ahead with these projects and execute them in accordance with the plan of action NEW YORK: Oil prices Abdullah Al Badri, Secretary- drawn up for them. plumbed to five-and-a-half- General of the Organisation of the Earlier, the Prime Minister and Interior year lows yesterday after Opec Petroleum Exporting Countries, Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin said it would not cut oil output said the group could ride out Khalifa Al Thani, made a presentation on a despite fears of a glut, and a an oil price slump since June of number of government projects and initia- UAE official opposed holding an nearly 50 percent without amend- Under the patronage of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Father Emir H H tives to support economic development, QNA emergency meeting of the pro- ing production. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani inaugurated the second Mal Lawal Exhibition at the Doha reported. THE PENINSULA Continued on page 7 ducer group to fix prices. Influenced by top exporter Saudi International Exhibition Centre yesterday. Report on page 2 US benchmark West Texas Arabia, Opec decided last month Intermediate for January deliv- that cutting output meant losing ery lost $1.90, closing on the its market share. On Sunday, Al New York Mercantile Exchange Badri hinted that speculation was at $55.91, its lowest level since behind the steep price declines. early May 2009. Suhail bin Mohammed Al The European benchmark, Mazroui, oil minister of the UAE, Extend voting time for CMC poll: Shura panel Brent North Sea crude for later said there was no need for January delivery, settled at $61.06 an emergency Opec meeting to DOHA: The Advisory Council timing of the poll by two hours, forward and filed nomination to should be allowed to file their nom- a barrel in London, down 79 cents help support prices. wants the polling time for the from 8am until 7pm. The Council contest the CMC election. ination 45 days before the election from Friday’s closing level. Venezuela and Algeria, which upcoming Central Municipal reasoned that an extra two hours The deadline for filing the nom- is due. In case one’s candidature Oil prices have plunged need higher oil prices for their Council (CMC) election to be be allowed to eligible voters to ination is proposed to be extended is rejected he should be allowed to roughly 50 percent since June, economies, were among Opec extended for two hours due to reach their respective polling by three days also keeping in mind request a review by the CMC elec- weighed down by plentiful sup- members that had hinted at an traffic jams in Doha and its booths in view of traffic jams on that in any of the 29 constituen- tion committee within seven days. plies, the stronger dollar and emergency meeting after last outskirts. most roads as people generally cies some emergency situation Candidates should be permit- weak demand arising from month’s Vienna summit that did According to the law that regu- leave their homes only after 4pm. can arrive which can merit post- ted to withdraw their nomination the struggling global economy, not agree on output cuts. Opec’s lates CMC election, polling is to be The Council proposed an ponement of the deadline. seven days before the election. according to analysts. next meeting is in June 2015. held on the day of the election for amendment to another article of The draft law that seeks to Ministers, defense personnel, “You have all these Opec offi- Oil was up initially early yes- nine hours, from 8am until 5pm. the draft law according to which regulate the election of the CMC, members of judiciary, diplomats cials reiterating they are not terday on news that Libya’s two The law is being amended and the deadline for filing nomination which has 29 members and whose and administrative officials are going to cut production, so you biggest oil ports had shut due to its draft is ready. The Advisory in a (CMC) constituency is urged terms is four years, has 48 articles not eligible to contest the CMC are seeing selling into the rallies,” fighting between armed factions Council yesterday proposed fur- to be extended by three days from divided into seven chapters. election. said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price allied to the country’s two rival ther amendment to an article the original date if no candidate Other provisions of the draft THE PENINSULA Futures Group in Chicago. governments. AGENCIES of this draft (law) to extend the from that constituency has come suggest that eligible candidates Continued on page 2 No chances of rain on Marriage complex to open today National Day: 70 Thursday, says Met buses arranged DOHA: The Department of Meteorology DOHA: Five super luxury marriage daily Al Arab reported yesterday. “For ($82,384) and QR500,000 ($137,306), the has said there are no chances of rain on halls located in a single complex and many a Qatari youth who are short of daily said. The marriage hall complex is DOHA: The National Day cel- Thursday (National Day). The weather built at the government’s expense are funds and want to marry, the long wait is located in Al Rafa area on Celebration ebrations organising committee will be partly cloudy and in outside areas it ready to be allotted for use free of cost coming to an end,” the daily said quoting Street on the outskirts of Doha. has arranged 70 buses to trans- could be a little dusty on Thursday said the to Qataris marrying for the first time. people who expressed the hope the halls “No doubt the halls will come in handy port people to various locations Department issuing forecast for three days The other condition for free use of the would promote marriages in the Qatari as many Qatari youth have been delay- on the Corniche where the events beginning tomorrow. Day temperatures hall or the entire complex, if the need community. ing their marriage plans due to high will take place. will be up to 23 degrees C on all the three be, is that both the bride and the groom Wedding is quite an expensive affair expenses,” said Khamees Al Miraikhi. Visitors can board the buses from days while the night will be cold on Friday must be Qatari. in the largely consumerist Qatari society Rising demand for marriage venues has dedicated car parking areas near at some places as the minimum tempera- The complex that is being awaited and nearly all the financial burden falls prompted star hotels to up their rates to Post office, Qatar Sports Club, Qatar ture forecast is 11 degrees C. However, with a lot of excitement by the Qatari on the groom or his family. Expenses exorbitant levels, he said. Petroleum building and Souq Waqif. tomorrow there are chances of scattered youth and the community at large, is on wedding venues in hotels work out THE PENINSULA All entry points for vehicles to rains and the minimum temperature could to be inaugurated today, local Arabic to between a staggering QR300,000 Continued on page 7 the celebration site will be closed fall to 15 degrees C. On Thursday, the min- from morning and people will be imum temperature likely is 13 degrees C. transported by special buses, a local Continued on page 7 Arabic daily quoted Brigader Ali Salman Al Muhannadi, head of the Largest Qatari flag made security committee for the National 3 dead in Sydney siege Day celebrations as saying. from sand on show today No private vehicles will be SYDNEY: Heavily armed Australian police stormed allowed in the area particularly DOHA: The largest Qatari flag made from a Sydney cafe early yesterday morning and freed a during the military parade. The sand will be unveiled at the Sealine beach number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, parade will start from Ministry of this afternoon in the presence of senior in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three Information intersection and end Qatari officials. There are 150 students people including the attacker were killed. at Emiri Diwan intersection. The working on the flag being carved out from Police have not publicly identified the gunman but closure will continue until all the one of the sand dunes in Sealine. A group of a police source named him as Man Haron Monis, an vehicles and equipment used in the Qatari youth floated the innovative idea as Iranian refugee. During the siege at the Lindt cafe, hos- parade will be removed. a tribute to their country on the occasion of tages had been forced to display an Islamic flag, igniting Seven information centres have National Day.