ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Western Sydney Wanderers win AFC Champions League Sport | 27 Sunday 2 November 2014 • 9 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6237 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Al Jazeera anniversary Emir to visit China Start work on and South Korea DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will pay an official visit to China and South Korea. three new The Emir will begin a two- day visit to China on Monday (November 3, 2014). During the visit, the Emir will hold talks with President of China Xi Jinping on bilateral relations and means to markets: PM enhance them, and on regional and international issues. On November 5, the Emir will ‘Complete projects on schedule’ begin visit to South Korea, where the Emir will hold talks with South DOHA: The Prime Minister Commerce and the Ministry of Korean President Park Geun-hye and Interior Minister H E Environment as well as the fodder on bilateral cooperation and ways Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser projects for food security. to boost them. The meeting will bin Khalifa Al Thani has issued The meeting was intended to review regional and international a directive to start work on a follow up on the economic activi- issues, as well. A high-level del- long-pending proposal to set up ties in the country and closely egation will accompany the Emir three new central markets in monitor projects related to eco- during the two visits. QNA Qatar to meet the demands of nomic development, the Qatar the fast growing population. News Agency reported yesterday. In a crucial meeting with top The Prime Minister urged Shimon Peres government officials at Emiri the participants to give utmost Diwan, the Prime Minister also importance to completing projects slams Israelis asked the Minister of Municipality within deadline. He asked them to TEL AVIV: Israel’s former and Urban Planning to deal with notify him as early as possible if president and Nobel peace lau- the proposed workers’ housing there are any obstacles or prob- reate Shimon Peres yesterday projects in the country “ in a new lems hampering the implemen- The Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser attending the took a swipe at Prime Minister way”. A special committee at the tation of projects or causing any 18th anniversary celebrations of Al Jazeera Media Network at St. Regis Doha Hotel yesterday. Al Jazeera Benjamin Netanyahu’s gov- Ministry has been assigned to pre- delay in delivery dates. was launched on November 1, 1996. ernment for failing to make pare a comprehensive budget for The Prime Minister issued peace with the Arabs. “Those lands needed for the project in the directives and decisions on the who have renounced making next five years. provision of stores, logistics areas, peace are... not patriots,” Peres The Ministry recently issued economic areas and industrial sec- said at a ceremony in Tel Aviv new guidelines for workers’ tor, through setting specific dates marking the 19th anniversary accommodations in terms of facil- for the awarding and launching Yemen parties agree on govt formation of the assassination of premier ities and safety standards. of tenders. Immediate solutions Yitzhak Rabin, who had signed A proposal to set up three cen- should be found for obstacles that SANA’A: Yemen’s main politi- the new ministers with consulta- management of affairs of the coun- peace agreements with the tral markets outside Doha was may face those procedures, he cal factions, including the Houthi tion from President Abd-Rabbu try.” The statement did not men- Palestinians. earlier approved by the civic min- told the participants. rebels, signed an agreement yes- Mansour Hadi, an statement from tion when the new government “It’s a shame that the only istry, in response to a long stand- He also mandated the Minister terday mandating the president the 13 political parties said. would be formed, but party mem- peace initiative was an Arab ini- ing demand from citizens. The new of Economy and Commerce to set and prime minister to form a “We, the political parties, ask the bers said it could be in a few days tiative. Where is the Israeli peace markets will be located in Umm a promotional plan for economic new government in an effort to President and the Prime Minister or a week. Parties that do not have initiative?” Peres asked, warn- Salal Ali, Al Rayyan and Al Wakra, sectors that should be developed defuse political tensions that to form a competent national gov- representatives in the president’s ing that “time is against us”. He according to earlier reports. in the state through the private have crippled the state. ernment ... which is committed to advisory body will be allowed to was referring to the Arab Peace The Central Municipal Council sector. The Ministry was also Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled the protection of human rights, nominate candidates for the differ- Initiative made in 2002 by Saudi came out with this proposal to asked to do a comprehensive Bahah will head the selection of rule of law and neutrality in the ent ministries. REUTERS Arabia. AFP address the crowding and short- assessment of the tourist activity age of facilities at the sole central during the coming period with a market at Abu Hamour in Doha. view to promoting this key sector. The council had also decried the The Prime Minister also Qatar Charity forum delay in implementing the project. entrusted the Minister of The Prime Minister during Economy and Commerce to draw raises $100m the meeting approved the start up a plan to promote the capital of the “first agricultural and and stock exchange markets in for Palestinians food gathering” project between the coming period. the Ministry of Economy and THE PENINSULA DOHA: The first Qatar Charity humanitarian forum on Palestine which concluded here on Friday recommended to set Solidarity with Kobane up international institutions in Palestine to promote education, culture and arts. The three-day forum raised $100m in donations to support the Palestinian people. The forum recommended that specialised international institu- tions be set up in Gaza, West Bank and Al Shatat. It also rec- ommended to set up a fund for education, academy for humani- tarian work and an association for empowerment of women and children. An appeal was made to the international humanitarian People take part in a rally in The Hague yesterday, as part of the World and civil organisations to shoul- Day of Solidarity with Kobane, an international day organised in sup- der their responsibility and do port of Kurdish fighters trying to repel the Islamic State militants in more to reduce the suffering of Palestinians. THE PENINSULA Kobane. Rallies also took place in Brussels, Hamburg, Istanbul, Munich Continued on page 3 and Paris. See also page 7 Boycott media-bashing regimes: Scribe DOHA: The Doha-based Al organized by Al Jazeera network. absurd and politicized. Last month, Jazeera journalist Ahmed Al Al Mansouri called for black- Interpol rejected Egypt’s interna- Mansouri who faces an arrest ing out any government that tional arrest warrant against Al warrant in his home country attacked journalists and regret- Mansouri saying that the request Egypt, has appealed to all media ted that some media networks did not meet their rules. houses — from televisions to continued their co-operation with During the symposium, two radios and newspapers — to boy- the Egyptian government despite other Al Jazeera journalists, cott dictatorial regimes that con- its continuing campaign against Abdullah Al Shami, a correspond- spire attacks against journalists. journalists. ent, and Mohamad Zaki, a cam- He was speaking yesterday Al Mansouri was sentenced in eraman, gave their testimonials at a regional symposium titled absentia to 15 years in prison on of the suffering of journalists they “safety and security of journalists- charges of torturing and sexu- had witnessed during the Arab the reality of violations and the ally assaulting a lawyer during spring including the killing of efforts for protection” to mark the the 2011 uprising against former some of their colleagues. International Day to End Impunity. president Hosni Mubarak, the THE PENINSULA The event at St. Regis Hotel was charges Al Jazeera has called Continued on page 3 SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME WISE Summit set to begin This year’s event to explore creativity in education DOHA: This year’s World this year’s Summit, by nurtur- Innovation Summit for ing learners’ ability to develop Education will begin on their talents, think critically, TFQ event to boost Tuesday in Doha, to explore and be self-confident problem- ways to tap learners’ and solvers, can empower them teachers’ potential for inno- to design imaginative solu- teachers’ skills vation and creativity. tions for their lives and their The three-day summit will communities. DOHA: Nearly 100 teachers from Qatar will augment their be held at Qatar National Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al professional development at a workshop hosted by Teach For Convention Centre under the Thani, Chairman of WISE, Qatar (TFQ) and Teach For All ahead of the World Innovation theme ‘Imagine – Create – commented: “We must find new Summit for Education 2014 (WISE). Learn: Creativity at the Heart resources to confront the fast- In keeping with the theme of WISE 2014, ‘Imagine-Create- of Education.’ evolving challenges to education Learn: Creativity at the Heart of Education’, the day-long work- The 2014 WISE Summit systems around the world, and shop will consist of five interactive sessions that will engage will bring together more we can only succeed by drawing teachers in new approaches to teaching and learning.