ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 19 January 2014 18 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5949 Price: QR2 QIC nets Rafael Nadal QR753m blasts past profit last year Monfils Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir leaves for Plan for online Astana today DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will leave today for Astana for an official visit to system to help Kazakhstan. He will hold talks with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on bilat- eral relations and other issues. regulate prices QNA Qatar denies Early warning for alerting market arrests in Cairo DOHA: The government is also been set up to look into the planning to put in place an demand of warehouses and the DOHA: The Foreign Ministry online monitoring system to demand and supply of primary has denied reports that some support its efforts to regu- construction materials. Qatari citizens were arrested late the prices of goods and Authorities will conduct a study in an apartment at Jesr Al Suez services. of the problems and challenges area in Cairo. Ambassador Saad An early warning system would faced by Qatari exporters. The bin Ali Al Mohannadi, director be part of the initiative to alert study will also cover issues related of Arab Affairs department at the market about the supply- to warehouses, including the the Ministry told Qatar News demand trends in the interna- shortage of sufficient number of Agency that reports in Egyptian tional market. warehouses in view of the upcom- media about the arrest of some The online system would link ing mega projects. The authorities Qataris holding Palestinian pass- with various warehouses, customs will also look into how to bring in ports were “ totally baseless.” departments at ports, airport and healthy competition in the retail THE PENINSULA border check posts apparently to market. Preparing a database for get an idea of the exact volume the import of poultry and dairy of essential commodities entering products is another initiative to Egypt’s new the local market and stocks avail- be taken up by the authorities to able in the warehouses. regulate the retail market. A car burns amid damage caused by what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria’s President charter gets It will also be linked with The report noted that 301 for- Bashar Al Assad in the Al Fardous neighbourhood of Aleppo yesterday. the International Food and eign companies were set up in Agricultural Organisation (FAO) the country during the period. 98pc yes vote of the UN to give clear indica- The year also saw the establish- tions about the strategic stocks ment of Four Investment Funds, CAIRO: Egypt’s new constitu- of essential commodities across 2,825 new WLL companies and 12 SNC to attend Geneva Two talks tion was approved by 98.1 per- the world. shareholding companies. cent, with turnout higher than The Global Information and The government also set up SILIVRI, TURKEY: The eclipsed by Islamist rebels and representatives arrived in in a 2012 vote under now ousted Early Warning System on Food a joint committee that would main Syrian political opposi- Al Qaeda-linked fighters. Istanbul from Ankara, to weigh Islamist president Mohammed and Agriculture (GIEWS) at look into the requests for foreign tion group in exile, the Syrian “It was a tough vote,” the head in on the decision. Mursi, a senior government offi- FAO keeps the world food sup- investments and to liberalise the National Coalition, said it had of the Coalition’s media office, Out of those that did take part, cial said yesterday. ply and demand situation under procedures to attract the invest- agreed yesterday to attend Khaled Saleh, told Reuters. The 58 Syrian National Coalition The turnout and landslide continuous review, issue reports ment flows into the country. The internationally sponsored peace Geneva 2 process would be a members voted to attend and 14 “yes” vote proved that Mursi’s on the world food situation, authorities have also completed a talks beginning in Switzerland “political and media battle, and on voted against, said the group’s overthrow was a “popular revolu- and provide early warnings of detailed report on the marketing next week. balance we decided that we must media office. Another three tion,” another official told a press impending food crises in indi- of primary construction materials The “Geneva 2” talks with fight it alongside the war on the abstained, it added. conference formally announcing vidual countries. and a set up rules and regulations representatives from President ground,” he added. The international community the results. The State Cabinet’s 2012-13 for the market in the automobile Bashar Al Assad’s government It was not immediately clear had pressed rebels to commit to The new charter replaces an annual report also noted that sector. start in Montreux on Wednesday whether the Coalition’s vote the talks and French Foreign Islamist-inspired one adopted in a the government is planning to The annual report noted that and are seen as the most serious would be backed by a separate Minister Laurent Fabius wel- December 2012 referendum under launch more warehouses in the 7,859 inspections were conducted international effort yet to end the meeting, in Ankara, of Syrian comed the coalition’s acceptance Mursi. Authorities say it protects country, according to Al Sharq. at different commercial estab- near three-year conflict. rebel militias, who would be yesterday. women’s rights and freedom The Ministry of Economy and lishments. The anti-fraudulent The splintered Coalition, based needed to implement any agree- “This brave choice despite the of speech. Electoral committee Commerce is working on a project department received a total of in Turkey, has little influence on ments made at peace talks. provocations and acts of vio- head Nabil Salib said the turn- that would provide warehouse 3,717 complaints on its hotline and the ground in Syria, where many Opposition sources said more lence by the regime, is a choice out in the referendum on Tuesday facilities to Qatar’s Small and 1,199 inspections were undertaken rebels oppose the peace talks. than 40 members had with- to search for a peaceful solution,” and Wednesday, “reached 38.6 Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at a at commercial organisations. Its military arm, the Supreme drawn from the vote because he said. REUTERS percent.” subsidised cost. A committee has THE PENINSULA Military Council (SMC), has been they wanted to wait until fighter See also page 7 AFP Anti-gag protests US spies to ‘keep eye’ on foreign 60pc of Qatari teens governments obese, says study BERLIN: The US intelligence service will continue to spy on DOHA: A recent study by a The results showed that sed- foreign governments, President group of Qatar University stu- entary behaviour was relatively Barack Obama said in an dents has revealed new data high whereas the level of physi- interview broadcast yesterday, on the alarmingly high preva- cal activity was extremely low. although he assured Chancellor lence of obesity among Qatari Moreover, the combination of Angela Merkel that he would adolescents. sedentary behaviour and the con- not let intrusive surveillance The large cross-sectional sumption of foods high in fat and harm their relationship. study involving a total of 1,167 sugar had a great impact on the The frank admission comes female and male students (14- sample group’s body mass index a day after Obama curtailed 20 years) from 23 independent (BMI), waist circumference and the reach of mass US National schools showed that 59.9 percent waist-to-hip ratio. Security Agency phone surveil- of Qatari adolescents were obese Sarah Al Adgham, Aisha Saleh lance sweeps, but said bulk collec- and 57 percent overweight against and Wafa Al Sadi studied the tion of data would go on to protect 40.1 percent and 43 percent of effect of gender and nationality on America from terrorists. non-Qataris. physical activity, sedentary behav- In Friday’s long-awaited speech The study by Lyan Akhal and iour and dietary habits among aimed at quelling international Haya Al Ali also showed that the adolescents in Qatar. furore over the widespread eaves- waist — hip ratio, a well-known Results showed that stair- dropping revealed by Edward Turkish riot police use water cannons to disperse protesters during an anti-government rally in Istanbul yester- risk factor for non-communicable case use, walking and household Snowden, Obama also said he had day. The protesters were denouncing the parliament’s adoption of a new law that will allow further limitations diseases, was significantly higher activities were the most common halted spy taps on friendly world on the Internet. among girls than boys. activities. Watching TV — a com- leaders. Three student groups from the mon sedentary behaviour — was But Obama told German tel- Human Nutrition Program at QU very common among Qatari evision ZDF’s heute-journal that collaborated with the Supreme adolescents compared to non- intelligence gathering on foreign Council of Health (SCH) on a Qataris. Consumption of fruit, governments will continue. UN staff, IMF official among 21 killed in Kabul series of related studies. vegetable and milk was higher “Our intelligence agencies, like Sarab AlAzzawy, Ahlam among non-Qatari males com- German intelligence agencies, KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen spraying diners with bullets after the bomber blew Al Sadi and Saadah Majid stud- pared to the rest of the sam- and every intelligence agency out attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in himself up near the entrance around 7.30pm local ied the physical activity, seden- ple.