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Page 01 Oct 04.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 SEC signs deal Qatar Central Stage set for AIBA to extend GO Bank Governor World Boxing ROBOT school rules out interest Championships programme. rate hike. in Doha. SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2015 • 20 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6573 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 HMC to set up National Arab investment Obesity Centre BY FAZEENA SALEEM in Qatar put DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will set up a ‘National Obesity Centre’ next year, to address the country’s over-weight problem in an inclusive manner, a senior HMC official said yesterday. The centre will be located within the Hamad bin at $22.5bn Khalifa Medical City, said Dr Abdul-Badi Abou- Samra, Chairman of Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation, yesterday on the sidelines of Specialist Certification in Obesity Professional Education Outflow to other Arab countries at $31bn (SCOPE) event being held in Doha. Obesity is one of Qatar’s pressing non-commu- BY SATISH KANADY period ranked fourth with a share of nicable health concerns, with 33 percent of the 8.4 percent of the combined outflow. population diagnosed as obese. DOHA: The combined value of In terms of the investment Emirati citizens cast their votes at a polling station at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre yesterday. The ‘National Obesity Centre’ will bring together inter-Arab investment inflow outflow for the period between all outpatient clinics at the Hamad General Hospital into Qatar touched an esti- 2003 and 2014, the UAE topped dealing with lifestyle management including the mated $22.5bn for 12 years the list with $217bn representing Emiratis vote in advisory body poll bariatric surgery clinic. The centre will be part of ending in 2014. The country’s 58.6 percent of combined outflow, a comprehensive Metabolic Institute, which would total investment outflow to followed by Bahrain ($45.5bn) and DUBAI: Emiratis went to polls yesterday The council has a purely advisory role open in another five years, said Dr Abou-Samra. Arab countries crossed $31bn Kuwait ($36.4bn). to fill the elected seats on a government and its 40 seats are shared 20-20 between “The National Obesity Centre we are creating during the period. Between 2003 and 2014, a total advisory body. The electoral roll is drawn elected and appointed members. But the will be set up at the Hamad bin Khalifa Medical The total value of inter-Arab of 2,137 projects were launched up by the rulers of the seven states that authorities have been deeply cautious about City within a year. It will Involve physicians with investment projects between 2003 as part of the inter-Arab invest- make up the United Arab Emirates who their experiment with elections and last different specialties and have multi disciplinary and 2014 is estimated at more than ments. Of these, Saudi Arabia also appoint the remaining members of year introduced sweeping new counterter- approach to obesity,” he said. “This will be part of a $370bn. Snatching projects worth a attracted the most inward invest- the Federal National Council. rorism legislation. Metabolic Institute which will be initially a virtual set total value of $97.2bn (26.3 percent ment projects with a total of 322 This year, 224,000 people had the right to A total of 330 candidates were contesting up, then we want to have a building in the upcoming of total investments), Egypt topped projects, cornering 15.1 percent vote out of a citizen population of just under one the 20 seats up for grabs. They included 87 Nutritious Hospital may be in five years,” he added. the list among the countries that of the total projects. UAE wooed million. That compared with 129,000 in 2011 and women. Continued on page 3 witnessed inter-Arab investment 232 projects (10.9 percent) and just 6,000 in the UAE’s first election in 2006. AFP THE PENINSULA inflows during the period, followed Oman launched 192 projects. by Iraq with $35bn. Saudi Arabia A breakdown of the total ranked fourth with $23.8bn, with number of projects launched by a share of 6.4 percent of the total individual countries in other Arab Qatar tops Mideast in investments. Qatar ranked sev- nations puts UAE on top chart Saudi arrests two at bomb factory enth with a stake of 6.1 percent with launching 1,014 projects, rep- of the total investments, the Arab resenting 47.4 percent of the total consumer rights Investment and Export Credit projects. Kuwait ranked second DOHA: Qatar has been selected as the RIYADH: Saudi Arabian The other was a Filipina but nothing was found there. Guarantee Corporation (AIECGC) with 249 projects and Saudi Arabia best country in protection of consumer security forces arrested two accused of helping him. The raids were the second revealed in its “Investment Climate stood third with 242 projects. Qatar rights in the Middle East by the Middle foreign citizens in a raid The ministry did not provide major security operation in the in Arab Countries for 2014” report. ranked fourth with 129 projects. East Excellence Award Institute. on an illegal explosives fac- details about the suspects’ affili- capital in the past month. Security The Arab Investment & Export In 2014, Arab countries came in Youssef Saad Abdullah Al Suwaidi, tory at a Riyadh home, the ation, but said they were part of forces captured two militants and Credit Guarantee Corporation is the fourth place on the global level head of the Consumer Protection Interior Ministry said yester- a “deviant group”. seized weapons and a explosive a pan-Arab organisation owned among 7 geographic groups. In Department at the Ministry of Economy day, according to state news Two explosive belts and bomb- vest in raids on September 15. by the governments of Arab states comparison with 2013, Arab coun- and Commerce received the award at a agency SPA. making equipment were found in Saudi Arabia has grappled & four Arab financial institutions. tries’ attractiveness to FDI slightly ceremony held on the sidelines of the One of those arrested was a the raid, in the Al Fayhaa dis- with an uptick in militancy Figures disclosed by AIECGC decreased as the index in the Arab fifth GCC Municipalities and Smart Syrian man, Yaser Mohammed trict of Riyadh. Another loca- linked to Islamic State this in its 29th annual report indicated States dropped off by 0.5 points, a Cities Conference held in Dubai. Al Barrazi, who the Interior tion, thought to be a staging post year, and has arrested hun- Qatar’s $31bn investment outflow percentage of 1.47 percent. Continued on page 2 Ministry said was preparing to for suicide bombers in the Al dreds of alleged sympathisers. to other Arab countries during the THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA carry out attacks. Jazirah district, was also raided, REUTERS SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Emir congratulates PM to attend German president Qatar highlights women’s role DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Teacher’s Day Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of celebrations congratulations to German President Joachim Gauck on in crime prevention, justice DOHA: The Supreme his country’s National Day. Education Council (SEC) will Deputy Emir H H Sheikh tomorrow mark Teacher’s Day Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and honour 100 long-serving also sent a congratulatory cable Permanent Mission hosts high-level event in New York Independent school teachers, to Gauck. some of whom have spent 27-30 Prime Minister and Interior NEW YORK: Qatar’s importance of the meeting which years. Prime Minister, Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Permanent Mission to the followed meetings, including the Minister and SEC Chairman bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani United Nations, in collabora- 13th Crime Congress in Qatar in H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser sent a similar cable to the presi- tion with the permanent mis- April this year that adopted Doha bin Khalifa Al Thani will attend dent. QNA sions of Italy, Thailand and the Declaration on integrating crime the event at Qatar National UN Office on Drugs and Crime prevention and criminal justice Convention Center at 6pm, along (UNODC), hosted a high- into the wider UN agenda. with Minister of Education level event on ‘Women, Crime He said policies and institutions and Higher Education H E Dr 14 local breeders Prevention, Criminal Justice of criminal justice must better Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali and the Post-2015 Development reflect the contribution and role Al Hammadi. opened shops at Al Agenda’ on the sidelines of the of women as part of the Post-2015 70th session of the UN General Development Agenda, stressing 2003-2007 Toyota Mazrouha market Assembly. the need to ensure safe and peace- The event, chaired by UNODC ful societies to fulfil obligations to models recalled during Eid Al Adha Chief Yury Fedotov, drew notable One of the speakers addressing the event organised on the sidelines of the achieve sustainable development. speakers who discussed the role of 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. Sustainable development can- DOHA: The Ministry of DOHA: Fourteen local animal women in crime prevention and not be achieved without end- Economy and Commerce, in breading farms set up their out- criminal justice. Award winning actress and Dr Al Qahtani, Director, ing all forms of discrimination collaboration with Abdullah lets at Al Mazrouha livestock They included Mogens UNODC Goodwill Ambassador; International Organisations and violence against women and Abdulghani & Bros, the dealer of market during Eid Al Adha for Lykketoft, President of the 70th Amina Mohammed, UN secre- Department, delivered a speech ensuring effective participation of Toyota in Qatar, has announced the first time this year.
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