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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Google to hide Serena crushes Wikipedia Petkovic to enter report links Stanford final Business | 12 Sport | 20 Monday 4 August 2014 • 8 Shawwal 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6147 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Uniform GCC Qatar, Turkey working on Gaza truce DOHA: Qatar and Turkey of the enclave and Hamas fired have joined hands and are rockets at Israel. making efforts for a ceasefire UN Secretary-General Ban in Gaza and to ensure that the Ki-moon described the attack as d r ug p r ic e s Palestinian people are pro- a “moral outrage and a criminal tected, Al Sharq said yesterday. act”. The US was “appalled by The Foreign Minister H E Dr today’s disgraceful shelling” and Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah urged Israel to do more to pre- held talks with his Turkish coun- vent civilian casualties, accord- terpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, on ing to a statement by State likely by Oct latest developments in Gaza and Department spokeswoman Jen the region. Psaki. She also called for an Al Sharq cited diplomatic investigation into recent attacks Phased plan to cover 2,500 medicines sources as saying that both lead- on UN schools. ers discussed how to de-escalate It was the second strike on a DOHA: Prices of some medi- Umer. In Kuwait, medicines are tension and normalise the situ- school in less than a week. cines will be unified by the GCC quite expensive. ation following Israeli attacks in The Israeli military said it had countries by October this year, Umer pointed out that a GCC- Gaza. The close-door meeting “targeted three Islamic Jihad according to a senior official of wide committee set up to formu- lasted three hours. terrorists on board a motorcy- Kuwait’s health ministry. late and unify pricing policy for Both ministers had a telecon- cle in the vicinity of an UNRWA The idea is to bring prices of medicines had drawn up a list ference with the US Secretary school in Rafah” and added it medicines down in those GCC of 2,500 medicines whose prices of State, John Kerry, at the end was “reviewing the consequences countries where they are quite are to be unified. He said as far of their meeting. Davutoglu of this strike.” “We are redeploy- expensive. The unification of as his country was concerned, it received Dr Al Attiyah at his ing and regrouping, and we have The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah (left) with his prices of some 2,500 medicines imported medicines from Europe, ministry in Ankara on Saturday. extensive forces on the ground in Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. imported by GCC states is being the US, Japan, India and Egypt. The Turkish Foreign Ministry Gaza and on the border at this implemented in phases, says the Talking about fake medicines, said in a statement that Qatar time,” Israeli Lieutenant-Colonel assistant undersecretary of the he said this was a concern the and Turkey were making joint Peter Lerner said. Troops were Palestinian team tables demands Kuwaiti ministry. world over so the GCC region was efforts towards a ceasefire in “awaiting further orders and CAIRO: A Palestinian delegation, including Hamas, agreed on “We are ready to launch the no exception. Most fake medicines Gaza. preparing a course of action for “a ceasefire” and demands to present to Egyptian mediators for first phase in October 2014,” Dr were sold online, he said. “World Meanwhile, an Israeli air the next stage,” he said. a truce with Israel. Demands include an end to Gaza blockade, Umer Al Syed Umer told the local Health Organisation (WHO) is, strike killed 10 people and Israel announced a seven-hour Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, end of the siege of Gaza and Arabic daily, Al Rai (The Opinion). therefore, warning people not to wounded about 30 in a UN-run humanitarian truce in most of opening its border crossings, fishing rights up to 12 nautical miles He, however, clarified that prices buy medicines online.” school in the southern Gaza Gaza starting at 10am (local off Gaza’s coast and release of Palestinian prisoners, said Maher of medicines been selected for Umer said in his country strict Strip, a Palestinian official said, time) today. AGENCIES Al Taher, a member of the delegation and an official of Democratic unification will remain the same monitoring by the health ministry as dozens died in Israeli shelling See also page 4 Front for the Liberation of Palestine. AGENCIES only until their arrival at the of imported stocks at the ports of ports of entry. Then the govern- entry and sales outlets had made ment of each country will decide sure that fake medicines didn’t how much profit margin is to be enter Kuwait. He is Assistant China quake leaves 367 dead, 1,881 injured kept by sellers, so prices will in Undersecretary for Medicines reality vary as far as the end-user and Medical Equipment Affairs is concerned. in the Kuwaiti ministry. BEIJING: A magnitude 6.3 strongly in Yunnan and in the stretchering people away and cars disaster zone, where heavy rain Umer said in some GCC coun- Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia-based earthquake struck southwest- neighbouring provinces of Guizhou damaged by fallen bricks. Many forecast for the coming days will tries the profit margin of sellers Al Arab English daily reported ern China yesterday, killing and Sichuan. people rushed out of buildings add to the misery, the report said. was up to 55 percent while it was earlier that once all the phases at least 367 people and leaving The official Xinhua news onto the street after the quake hit, Ludian is home to some 265,900 40 in other countries. of the price unification project 1,881 injured in a remote area of agency said the epicentre was in electricity supplies were cut and at people, Xinhua added. Saudi Arabia is the biggest are completed, prices of target Yunnan province, and causing Longtoushan town in Yunnan’s least one school collapsed, Xinhua This region of China is fre- market for medicines and is 15 medicines will come down in thousands of buildings, including mountainous Ludian county. said, with more than 12,000 houses quently struck by quakes, with times bigger than some of its GCC the region. Profit margins for a school, to collapse. Communications have been seri- having collapsed and 30,000 sus- one killing more than 1,400 in the peers. So medicines are com- agents and pharmacies will also The US Geological Survey said ously affected and rescuers have taining damage. same part of Yunnan in 1974. A paratively cheaper there. They be reduced as part of the price the quake registered at a shallow begun arriving on the scene, the The government is sending quake in Sichuan in 2008 killed are most expensive in Bahrain unification effort, said the daily. depth of less than 1.6km. Chinese report said. Pictures posted online 2,000 tents, 3,000 folding beds, almost 70,000 people. REUTERS because it is a small market, said THE PENINSULA state media said it was felt most by state media showed troops 3,000 quilts and 3,000 coats to the See also page 7 Ministry studying need to break retail monopoly 80pc CMC members may DOHA: A study is being con- services in the country that have production and requirements of provided for small and medium not seek re-election ducted by the Ministry of a single supplier. Either they have meat, dairy and poultry products. enterprises (SMEs) at low rent Economy and Commerce of the no competitors or have weak busi- This will give an idea of how to encourage them. DOHA: Voters are increas- It said voter registration was local retail market on the need ness rivals with limited market much of meat, poultry and dairy A separate study is being con- ingly disenchanted with Central poor in the elections for the third to break the monopoly of cer- share. Given this background, the products are produced locally and ducted on local warehousing facil- Municipal Council (CMC) due and fourth terms of the CMC. tain businesses. ministerial study assumes huge how much is the consumption. ities to assess their availability to its status as a consultative “People aren’t happy as their This has been disclosed by a importance. The databases could come in and requirement. And hindrances body with no executive powers. expectations from councillors report of the State Cabinet, local The report says that another handy for the local trade and faced by Qatari exporters in mar- Al Sharq said it made a follow have not been met since its sta- Arabic daily Al Sharq reports. study on how to expand after- industry as businessmen might keting their products overseas are up of several civic constituencies tus remains consultative with no The report, however, did not sales services of automobiles in study investment opportunities to be removed by the government and spoke with a cross-section of executive powers,” said the daily. give further details. The daily also Qatar is also being conducted. in these sectors. to help exporters and widen their voters. Many seem to be unhappy So, some 80 percent of coun- did not cite the date of the report. And comprehensive data- The report also hints that role in the national economy. with the representative body as cillors might not be willing to There are many goods and bases are being prepared of local warehousing facilities may be THE PENINSULA their expectations from members re-contest the coming election they chose have not been met as their chances of win would be election after election.