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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 18 March 2014 17 Jumadal I 1435 - Volume 19 Number 5607 Price: QR2 Qatar ranked Top gymnasts GCC’s top for Qatar event financial centre from March 26 Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Tunisia hold talks Ministry calls QCB asks all banks to around 800 citizens for transfer account data military service DOHA: The Ministry of Move meant to ensure payment of salaries on time Defence has called 700 to 800 government employees for DOHA: The Qatar Central of wages and salaries of workers. “The wage transfer will be compulsory military serv- Bank (QCB) has asked all banks This code should not be used for closely monitored every month,” ice and handed them military to provide it with basic infor- any other purpose. The requested the Minister had said. The new uniforms. mation about their customers’ data includes account number, policy will require opening bank A list of all government accounts, including individuals Qatari ID number, commercial accounts for workers employed employees in various ministries and companies. registration (for companies), cus- with all companies and corpora- and other entities has been pre- The move comes as part of tomer’s name, IBAN, date of open- tions in Qatar. The banks will be pared and will be handed over to measures being taken by the gov- ing the account, among others. forced to open accounts regardless the Minister of Defence Affairs ernment to ensure that wages and All banks operating in Qatar of the amount of a worker’s salary, tomorrow. salaries of all workers in the public have started implementing this said the daily. The list will be transferred and private sectors are transferred directive. The procedures include Once the system is fully imple- to ministries and other institu- to the banks, Al Sharq reports. deposit and direct debit system mented, it will not be permitted tions to inform the concerned The daily said that it had — QATCH — which handles effec- to pay workers’ salaries in cash, individuals about the service so obtained a copy of a circular issued tively the exchange of financial regardless of the amount. The sys- that they can prepare them- by the QCB to the banks asking orders among local banks via a tem aims to organise and ensure selves to join training in the them to send basic information secure electronic network. regular payment of salaries and beginning of next month, said about their customers’ accounts. H E Abdullah Saleh Mubarak make sure that employers don’t Brigadier Mohammed Misfer Al The required data does not Al Khulaifi, the Minister of default or delay payments. Ayadi, Commander of Student include account balance but is Labour and Social Affairs, The QCB will play a supervi- Training Center at the Ministry limited to general information recently said that the Ministry sory role in the system. The bank- of Defence. about the accounts. This data was working with the Ministry ing regulator said it is ready to He added that the training cen- should be sent to the QCB before of Finance and Qatar Central cooperate with other banks to tre took into account the impor- the eighth of every month, said Bank to introduce a wage security solve any problems they would tance of daily work in ministries the daily, quoting the circular. system, which will ensure direct face in implementing the wage The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser and other institutions before pre- A special code — SALA — has transfer of the workers’ salaries security system, said the daily. bin Khalifa Al Thani met Tunisian Prime Minister Mahdi Jumaa in Doha paring the list as there was a need been given exclusively for transfer to their bank accounts. THE PENINSULA yesterday. Talks reviewed bilateral relations and ways to boost them. to strike a balance between the needs of the ministries and the national service. He said that if there is a pos- sibility of daily work getting affected if a particular individual US forces seize is called for service, the con- Qatari-Dutch team identifies MERS virus cerned ministry can request a oil tanker from postponement of the service for DOHA: A joint Qatari-Dutch the World Health Organisation The collaboration between by using the polymerase chain that individual. research team has succeeded in (WHO) in this major discovery. Qatar, Erasmus Medical Centre, reaction (PCR) techniques. This The first phase of training will Libya rebel port isolating and culturing corona The SCH said that Qatar and the National Institute could make the laboratories in include a large number of train- virus (MERS-CoV) in the continues its efforts to deter- for Public Health and the Qatar the first in the Middle ees, while employees are being TRIPOLI: US s p e c i a l for c e s h av e laboratory. mine the source and root of the Environment of the Ministry East for diagnosis of MERS prepared for the next stage. seized a tanker that fled with a This major scientific achieve- virus transmission, resulting in of Health in the Netherlands virus in animals. There is a plan to expand the cargo of oil from a Libyan port ment can increase the knowl- a series of studies including the focuses on research cooperation The SCH said there have been military training centre in Al controlled by anti-government edge for prevention and control latest one. Full details of the and exchange of experiences and no new human cases of MERS Shamal in order to absorb more rebels, halting their attempt to of MERS virus and help in study will be published in a sci- expertise as well as training of in Qatar since October last year, trainees. sell crude on the global market. development of diagnostic tools entific journal. laboratory technicians for the although intensive epidemiologi- On how the employees are Gunmen demanding regional and production of vaccines and Based on recommendations of diagnosis of the virus. cal surveillance of this disease called for service, Br Al Ayadi autonomy and a share of oil treatment for the virus, the the WHO, a national sero survey This resulted in match- is undergoing in collaboration told Al Sharq: “We contact them wealth had managed to load Supreme Council of Health will be conducted by the end of ing laboratory results between between health centres and by telephone directly, and those the ship, which escaped Libya’s (SCH) said yesterday. this month, to determine risk fac- Veterinary biotechnology labo- hospitals in the state and the who cannot be reached by tel- navy and triggered a crisis that The SCH and the Ministry tors for MERS virus and iden- ratories under the Ministry Department of Animal Health ephone are sent letters asking prompted parliament to sack the of Environment worked with tify the source of the virus. The of Environment with the Resources. them to contact the Student prime minister. Erasmus Medical Centre in the survey will include screening of Erasmus Medical Centre in the THE PENINSULA Training Center.” A US SEAL commando team Netherlands with support of animals and workers. Netherlands in virus detection Continued on page 6 THE PENINSULA boarded the tanker Morning Glory from a Naval special war- fare rigid inflatable boat as it sat in international waters off Cyprus West Bank unrest on Sunday night. The seizure was approved by US President Barack Obama and requested by Last word from jet the Libyan and Cypriot govern- ments, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said. No one was hurt in the under spoken by co-pilot two hour operation, and no shots fired. Two AK47 rifles were found KUALA LUMPUR: The last subsequently. Malaysia Airlines and the three Libyans holding the spoken communication from CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya ship remained in US control. The the missing Malaysia Airlines said investigators were looking vessel was now heading west in the plane came from the flight’s co- at mobile phone records to see Mediterranean with a US military pilot, investigators believe. whether anyone on board tried escort. An American crew from But in their briefing yesterday, to make calls or send texts, but the USS Stout, a guided missile Malaysian officials appeared to so far there was no evidence of destroyer, got the tanker under backtrack on Sunday’s statement attempted contact. way toward Libya yesterday. that the words “All right, good- Officials said they were not The Morning Glory had been night” came after a communica- aware of Malaysian media reports North Korean-flagged, but the tions system was turned off. that the plane could have flown government in Pyongyang on Hishammuddin Hussein, trans- as low as 5,000 feet after divert- Thursday said it had notified port minister, said the first officer, ing from its course, allowing it to Libya and maritime authorities Fariq Abdul Hamid, was believed avoid detection by radar. that it had severed all ties with Palestinians hurl rocks toward Israeli soldiers during a clash in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. US to have uttered the last words to In all, 26 countries are now the ship because of the vessel’s President Barack Obama told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington that it will require tough Malaysian air traffic controllers involved in the search for the contraband cargo. REUTERS at 1.19am — two minutes before plane. Kazakhstan’s civil aviation decisions and risks to achieve peace with Israel. See also page 7 the plane’s transponder, which authority told the BBC it was communicates with the civil radar not possible for the plane to have system, stopped.