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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 14 November 2012 29 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5518 Price: QR2 Qatar Shell Mousa shines signs pact in Al Rayyan with GDI victory Business | 17 Sport | 25 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir opens five Indian wins $500,000 WISE prize new hotels at Souq Waqif Multi-disciplinary education needed: Sheikha Moza DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani BY FAZEENA SALEEM module of education to the world. global agendas move in or towards and H H Sheikha Moza bint We need multi-disciplinary edu- the west, and WISE is moving Nasser patronised yesterday DOHA: An Indian education- cation for the future,” she said. towards the south and that’s where evening the opening ceremony ist has walked away with the Dr Chavan is the founder of it should move,” he said. of five new hotels at Souq Waqif. coveted Second $500,000 ‘WISE ‘Pratham’, an organisation that An international Jury with The ceremony was attended Prize — a ‘Nobel’ for Education’ reaches three million primary prominent educationists such as by the President of the Republic — for his exemplary initia- school-age children in India every Dr James Billington, Librarian of of Croatia, Dr Ivo Josipovic, and tive that provides millions of year. He was awarded with $500,000 the US Congress, Prof Zhou Qifeng, his wife Tatjana Josipovic. It was underprivileged Indian children and a gold medal for his innovative president of Peking University, also attended by the Personal access to basic education. contribution to education. Mary Robinson, former UN high Representative of the Emir H H The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad “Some 25 years ago I saw that commissioner, Naledi Pandor, Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani. bin Khalifa Al Thani presented new thinking was needed to South Africa’s Minister of Home At the beginning of the cer- the award to Dr Madhav Chavan improve the lives of the millions Affairs, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director emony a film was screened, show- at the fourth World Innovation underprivileged in my country. of The Earth Institute, Fatma casing the past and present of Souq Summit for Education (WISE) Many individuals and organisations Rafiq Zakaria, Chairperson of Waqif. Then the Emir unveiled the which began at the Qatar National have contributed to what has been Maulana Azad Educational Trust curtain to mark the opening of Convention Centre (QNCC) here achieved and I share this tribute in Aurangabad, India and Dr the new hotels: A Jasra Hotel, Al yesterday. H H Sheikha Moza bint with them,” Dr Chavan told report- Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Chairman Rmeilah Hotel, Musheireb Hotel, Nasser inaugurated the Summit. ers right after receiving the award. of WISE, decided the WISE Prize Al Najada Hotel and Mirqab Hotel. In her opening address, Sheikha “It is an enormous honor for me winner of this year. Later, the Emir and Sheikha Moza Moza stressed that education was to be recognised by this unique com- “Madhav Chavan serves as an bint Nasser toured some of the the basic right of all humans and munity of innovators, and I hope inspiration to all of us. His story com- new hotels. QNA said that inter-disciplinary edu- to perform my duties as a global bines the passion of a social entrepre- The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani presenting the WISE See also page 3 cation was the education of the ambassador for education to the best neur with the patience and method of Prize for Education to Dr Madhav Chavan in Doha yesterday. The Laureate future.“We live in a world where of my ability. I’m genuinely happy a scientist,” said Dr Al Thani. received an award of $500,000 and a gold medal. Second annual dhow no single person can dictate a and excited about WISE. Commonly Continued on page 3 festival opens DOHA: A bigger second annual Traditional Dhow Festival opened yesterday welcoming over No punishment for journalists in CNG filling station readied 100 dhows from across the GCC at the Katara Beach, reaffirming DOHA: A CNG (compressed the first such facility built in the its position as the only event in natural gas) filling station is country (in the Industrial Arae the region celebrating this vital media law for criticising royals being readied as a pilot project for small and medium enter- heritage aspect all Gulf countries and expected to fuel a number prises) as a pilot project by Qatar share. “This is more than just a DOHA: Qatar’s human rights of journalists’ arrest at all.” relations. It is not like 10 years of Mowasalat buses and taxis Petroleum (QP) in collaboration show. This is a festival covering watchdog has said there are no Delivering a lecture at Qatar ago. “But, unfortunately, human soon. The launch of the CNG- with Mowasalat. our maritime culture which is a provisions in the draft of a new University recently on ‘Human rights are being violated in many fired vehicles is to coincide with The project has been launched significant part of our past,” said media law the country hopes to Rights Issues in Qatar’, Al Marri parts of the world,” said Al Marri. the Climate Change Conference on an experimental basis and H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz soon enforce that specify arrest said: “We in the NHRC would like “The entire concept of human that is scheduled to be held here based on feedback from it more Al Kuwari, Minister of Culture, of and jail terms for journal- to assure that all aspects related rights is changing. One must by month-end. such stations would be built in Arts and Heritage, who opened ists writing against the ruling to freedom of speech have been respect human rights today to According to local Arabic daily furure. the five-day event. family. taken care of. The new law would have a legitimate government,” Al Raya the CNG filling station is THE PENINSULA See also page 2 The talk of the proposed media protect journalists and it would said Al Marri, hinting that the legislation having punitive pro- guarantees freedom.” very legitimacy of a government visions for writing against the Whatever has appeared in the was dependent on how much a royal family is absolutely baseless, international media over the past state respected basic rights. according to the National Human few days is incorrect, Al Marri Al Marri said the new media Rights Committee (NHRC). said, referring to reports that law was on the anvil and would The NHRC said it has stud- suggested late last month that soon be put in force without ied the draft and made extensive instead of supporting press free- specifying a time-frame. It may recommendations for amend- dom, this draft media law is a be recalled for quite sometime ments to the State Cabinet and commitment to censorship. the Ministry of Culture, Arts and some 90 percent of the altera- According to him, Qatar is Heritage which will be responsible tions it has suggested have been signatory to international con- for enforcing and monitoring the accepted. ventions and is so committed to said law has been saying that the “There is no article in the draft having laws in place that do not in new legislation was about to be law that talks of arresting a scribe part or full contradict the provi- implemented. for writing against the royal family sions of those conventions. The Ministry has since been as claimed by international human The present era is such that silent on the issue, perhaps rights groups in media reports world attention is so much on embarrassed that the law did not recently,” stated Dr Ali Semaikh human rights that one cannot see the light of day after Ramadan Al Marri, Chairman of NHRC. ignore it. Human rights are now as promised by it repeatedly. “Actually, the draft law doesn’t talk an integral part of international THE PENINSULA Qatar Airways takes delivery of France recognises Syrian coalition first Boeing 787 Dreamliner DAMASCUS: France rec- SEATTLE, USA: Qatar Airways has taken delivery of its first ognised the newly formed Boeing 787 Dreamliner at a special ceremony held at the US aircraft opposition National Coalition manufacturer’s Seattle headquarters. The airline’s first Dreamliner yesterday as the sole represent- was scheduled to take off from Seattle for Doha arriving in Qatar ative of the Syrian people, the today. The delivery marks a milestone in Middle East aviation with first Western country to do so, Qatar Airways becoming the first airline from the region to take and said the question of arming delivery of the 787. The airline has 60 Dreamliners on order. The them must now be reviewed. aircraft is also the world’s first 787 to be fully connected with wire- Meanwhile, fighting raged on in less facilities enabling all passengers in both business and economy the country, with at least 115 peo- cabins to remain connected with the ground through Wi-Fi and ple killed, the Syrian Observatory GSM telephony options. Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer for Human Rights said. Akbar Al Baker said the newest aircraft type to join the airline’s “I announce that France rec- fleet since 2007 represented a momentous occasion as the company ognises the Syrian National entered a new chapter in its remarkable history. See also page 2 Coalition as the sole repre- sentative of the Syrian people Saudi to fine firms with more expats and thus as the future provi- sional government of a demo- JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to lower unem- cratic Syria, allowing an end to ployment among its citizens by fining private sector firms that the Bashar Al Assad regime,” employ more foreigners than Saudis, the labour ministry said in President Francois Hollande a statement carried by SPA yesterday.