ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Industrial Wie fights back investment to share lead hits QR248bn at Pinehurst Business | 17 Sport | 25 Monday 23 June 2014 • 25 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6105 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Flying kick Fish prices rise 66 partitioned due to shortage DOHA: Fish prices have pea ked at record highs in the local market with suppliers blaming villas marked the hot and humid weather for the shortages. Hamour fish that is highly pop- ular among Qataris was available in the local market for as much for legal action at QR80 per kg, while Sherry was selling at QR12 per kg yesterday. The Red Mullet, locally called Zubedi, was selling at QR49 a Municipality vacates 19 labour camps kg. Prawns, on the other hand, were being sold for between DOHA: Inspectors from Doha of the crackdown 19 labour camps QR90 and QR120 a kg. A family Municipality have singled out have also been vacated from resi- from South East Asia said sea- for legal action at least 66 ille- dential areas. food was fast disappearing from gally partitioned villas within “We had to vacate three labour their meals due to soaring prices. city limits in the last month. lodgings by force,” said the official. THE PENINSULA The Municipality launched a Action has been initiated against crackdown from May 15 against 13 more labour camps and they Israel troops kill violations like illegal partitioning will soon be vacated. of villas, encroachments on pub- “Our inspectors have come two Palestinians lic property and labour camps in across at least 42 cases of residential areas. encroachment of public property JERUSALEM: Israeli troops A top official from the as well,” said Al Shafi. shot dead two Palestinians in the Municipality has revealed that Three ministries (those of the West Bank yesterday in sepa- since the launch of the campaign, municipality and urban planning, rate clashes that erupted as they some 66 illegally partitioned villas interior and economy and com- made more arrests in the hunt have been identified. merce) are coordinating in the Russia’s Andrey Semenov (centre) attempts an overhead kick next to Belgium’s Jan Vertonghen (left) and for three missing teenagers. The partitioning is done with- crackdown. Toby Alderweireld during their 2014 World Cup Group H soccer match at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de See also page 7 out permission from the munici- Al Shafi heads three units at Janeiro yesterday. Belgium beat Russia 1-0 to enter the round of 16. See also pages 26, 27 & 28. palities of the areas concerned to Doha Municipality — food moni- create small make-shift residen- toring, public health and technical tial units and rented out to lim- matters. ited-income expatriate families. Talking of ‘iftar’ (light meal Such villas are a serious safety with which Muslims break the risk, says the Municipality. fast during Ramadan) tents Flat owners unaware of upkeep expenses The crackdown will continue, which are to be erected during the according to Salem Hamoud Al fasting month, he said that cater- DOHA: Many foreign owners the building and of areas within annual charges, which is against owning apartments and floors in a Shafi, head of monitoring at the ers and eateries providing meals of apartments in designated its premises and equipment that the law. building shall be deemed as part- Municipality. should be located close to tents. areas are not aware of the are in common use like entry, Article 8 of Law Number 17 of ners in the ownership of common “The crackdown is on and we “We will not allow caterers or legal requirement which says exits, car park and elevators. 2004 that regulates foreign own- areas in that building’s premises. will not spare any illegally parti- restaurants located far from a that after possession flat own- The security of such a building ership of properties in the coun- So the building’s regular main- tioned villa in our jurisdiction,” tent to supply the meals as there ers must form a cooperative is also the responsibility of the try makes it mandatory for an tenance for safety and its secu- said Al Shafi. would be risk of food becoming and pay charges annually, says cooperative society. owner to obtain membership of rity (having security guards, etc.) He told local Arabic daily stale in transportation due to a lawyer. Many foreign owners of apart- owners’ association. is the joint responsibility of the Al Raya in comments published extreme heat and humidity.” The amount thus collected is ments, according to Yusuf Al According to Qatar’s civil law owners. THE PENINSULA yesterday that since the launch THE PENINSULA to be used for the maintenance of Zaman, are refusing to pay up the (Number 22 of 2004), persons Continued on page 5 Temperature Iraq militants seize likely to rise in Doha today border crossings DOHA: The weather bureau BAGHDAD: Jihadist fight- The capture of the crossings has reaffirmed its forecast for ers in Iraq seized three border follows the fall on Friday and today saying it would be a windy crossings into Syria and Jordan Saturday of the towns of Rawah, and dusty day and the seas and four nearby towns over the Anah and Rutba. They are all would be rough. weekend, giving the Islamic in the Sunni-dominated Anbar Visibility would be quite low State in Iraq and the Levant province, where the militants falling to three kilometers or less (Isis) control over much of the have since January controlled at places at times. Wind (north- country’s western frontier and the city of Falluja and parts of the westerly) speed is expected to be directly threatening the coun- provincial capital, Ramadi. between eight and 22 knots an try’s main power supply. Rutba is on the main highway hour. In the seas, the wind speed Isis can now add large swaths from Baghdad to the two border would likely be between 11 and of the Iraqi border to a 300km crossings and its capture has in 22 knots an hour to the North. stretch of land it already controls effect cut the Iraqi capital’s main Day and night temperatures along the Euphrates river, from land route to Jordan. It is an would likely vary between 29 and Mosul in the north to Saddam artery for passengers and goods, 44 degrees Celsius. In Doha, the Hussein’s home town, Tikrit, though it has been infrequently maximum temperature would be which now gives the group a used in recent months because of 44 degrees Celsius while the mini- launching pad for potential deteriorating security. mum is expected to be 30 degrees. attacks on strategic sites, includ- Iraq’s armed forces are out- Al Ruwais will be the coolest place ing the lifeblood of Iraq’s electric- gunned and ill-prepared to deal in the country with mercury lev- ity generation, the Haditha dam. with Isis, which has rapidly els between 29 and 36 degrees The gains also bring the crisis in gathered momentum as it has Celsius. THE PENINSULA Iraq to the doorstep of Jordan, a surged across eastern Syria and key ally of the United States. back into Iraq, where the earli- The latest Isis offensive comes est incarnation of the group was as Iraq’s polarised political blocs born a decade ago. In Baghdad, Traffic Dept face a week of intense lobbying the enmity between the politi- to form an inclusive government cal factions before the Isis attack that could unite the fracturing meant no consensus about a new rejects rumour country. government was likely to emerge DOHA: The Traffic The US secretary of state, John for some time. THE GUARDIAN Department has rejected as Kerry, is due in Baghdad today See also page 6 baseless the talk of mani- to meet Iraqi lawmakers who had fold increase in fines for been bitterly divided before the speeding, going on in social jihadist surge, but have recently media. “There is no truth been reaching out to the US and in these claims. The fines Iran with increasing desperation. for breaking speed limits The latest Isis offensive in Today’s remain unchanged,” the western Anbar province has Traffic Department said, seen the group take four towns in matches advising people not to heed recent days. Iraqi officials said the GROUP B: rumours. militants took over the Turaibil NETHERLANDS VS CHILE (7PM) People should confirm facts crossing with Jordan and the AUSTRALIA VS SPAIN (7PM) before taking to the social Walid crossing with Syria after GROUP A: media, the department said. government forces there pulled CAMEROON VS BRAZIL (11PM) THE PENINSULA out. Al Qaim, on the Syrian bor- CROATIA VS MEXICO (11PM) der, fell a day earlier. MONDAY 23 JUNE 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Justice Ministry 13 more sites on World Heritage List launches legal Myanmar makes its first entry with Pyu Ancient Cities; total properties 1,001 awareness campaign DOHA: Thirteen more sites years between 200 BC and 900 AD were inscribed yesterday on the The cities are partly excavated DOHA: The Ministry of World Heritage List, bringing archaeological sites. Justice has started a project the total number of listed prop- Remains include palace cit- to raise legal awareness, one erties to 1,001. adels, burial grounds, early of its major efforts in line with Botswana’s Okavango Delta industrial production sites, mon- Qatar National Vision 2030. became the 1,000th site included umental brick Buddhist stupas, In a statement, the Minister in the list while Myanmar made partly standing walls and water of Justice H E Dr Hassan its entry with its first site — Pyu management features — some still Lahdan Saqr Al Mohannadi Ancient Cities.