www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 30 OOver 90 business FIFA sacks ddealse to be signed Secretary-Generall at Covertech 2016 Valcke THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2016 • 4 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6675 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar PM attends human rights conference Emir condoles with Turkish WPS covers President over 60% QNA DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held a telephone conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey and expressed his heartfelt condolences and sympathy on the of workers victims of the terrorist bombing in Sultanahmet area district of Istan- bul. Emir prayed Almighty Allah to conducting a number of workshops grant the victims rest in peace and — targeting inspectors in collaboration bless on the injured quick recovery. Some companies with the Arab Labour Organisation, Emir expressed his utter con- are still preparing for companies to introduce WPS and demnation of the criminal act that the another workshop to train the targeted destabilising security and workers’ payrolls employees of the WPS section at the stability and terrorise innocent people, according to the labour ministry to monitor the WPS which is contrary to all human val- old system and and facilitate implementation of the ues and religious principles and laws. labour law and the WPS, said Kha- Emir reiterated Qatar’s support this has become lid Abdullah Al Ghanim, Director of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani at the regional with Turkey and its people in counter- unacceptable after the Labour Inspection Department. conference on UNHCHR’s Role in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in the Arab Region, at Ritz- ing terrorism, and the actions taken the enforcement Following the issuance of an Carlton Hotel yesterday. Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah is also seen. to maintain its security and stability. amended law, No 1/2015, and the → See also page 4 of the WPS on Minister’s decision on WPS, the →See also page 9 November 2 department has conducted workshops for private companies (all private com- panies are covered under the labour law) to introduce the amendments to By Mohamed Osman the provisions of the labour law. The Al Jazeera America to cease operations The Peninsula workshops continued for two months and they were held once a week. After the enforcement of the WPS early last November, and due to some The Peninsula its strategic decision to wind down its and the achievements of the past The expanded digital platform will DOHA: More than 60 percent of work- difficulties faced by some compa- operations and conclude its service”. two-and-a-half years should be a augment the Network’s successful cur- ers in the country have been covered nies to apply the system created by “ Since its launch in 2013, the source of immense pride for every- rent digital offerings, including AJ+ under the Wage Protection System the ministry to track WPS we found work done by the team at Al Jazeera one,” said Al Anstey in a statement. (www.ajplus.net) which has achieved (WPS) and the Labour Inspection that it is important to conduct work- DOHA: Al Jazeera Media Network said America has been recognised with Al Jazeera also announced its inten- more than two billion online video Department has conducted work- shops for companies to introduce the yesterday that Al Jazeera America will nearly every major award an Amer- tion to expand its existing international views since its inception in Septem- shops on the WPS in which more than system and train them on how they cease operation by April 30, this year. ican news organization can receive. digital services to broaden its multi- ber 2014, the network said. 320 officials from private companies can create Salary Information File However, the network plans to expand I greatly respect the unrivaled com- platform presence in the United States. Over the coming months the Net- have taken part, said a senior func- (SIF) and subscribe to the system of its digital services in the US. mitment and excellent work of our This expansion will allow US and work intends to provide more details tionary from the Ministry of Labour salary payments, said Al Ghanim. Al Anstey, CEO of Al Jazeera Amer- team, which has created great jour- non-US consumers alike to access the around the forthcoming expansion of and Social Affairs yesterday. ica, said that “ the economic landscape nalism. We have increasingly set Network’s journalism and content its multi-platform digital services to The department is currently →Continued on page 5 of the media environment has driven ourselves apart from all the rest, wherever and whenever they want. the US, said the statement. Arab youth say Japan down North Korea Ras Bufontas SEZ to accept IS and Al Qaeda distort Islam enquiries from this year AFP By Sachin Kumar Business Club. Located near the Hamad Inter- The Peninsula national Airport, the ambitious Ras Bufontas project is being developed in an area of over 4.1 ABU DHABI: A majority of Arab sq kms. The specialised zone will be dedicated Muslim youth see the actions of DOHA: Manateq, a leading provider of special to companies from communications, infotech, extremists such as the Islamic State economic zones in Qatar, will start accepting energy, logistics, construction, transportation (IS) group and Al Qaeda as a perver- enquiries for its Ras Bufontas Special Economic and other sectors. sion of Islam’s teachings, according Zone (SEZ) from this year, said a senior official “Economic zone-1 will have companies from to a new poll. The Zogby Research of the company. The world class zone will offer sectors such as Technology, Healthcare and Services poll of 5,374 young Muslim host of incentives such as residential area, show- Medical Devices, Advance Manufacturing and men and women from the Middle rooms, hotel and other amenities to companies. Business Services. About 5 percent of the area East and North Africa also found “We will start taking enquiries from com- in this zone is set aside for residential units. The that many millennials blame cor- panies in 2016. We will finish the first phase-1 zone will also have a hotel, and showrooms,” ruption and repressive governments in 2017,” said Adel Waly, Business Development said Waly. “Manateq is playing very important for the rise of militant groups. Manager at Manateq, while giving overview role in setting up economic zones, logistic parks, “At least three-quarters of mil- on special economic zones at the InterConti- and warehousing parks in Qatar,” he added. North Korea’s Ri Il-jin takes a tumble along with an unidentified Japanese player lennial respondents in all countries nental Hotel. Officials in the company also believe that a new surveyed” said movements like IS during their Group B match on the second day of the AFC U-23 Championship at He gave presentation on ‘Manateq over- law, that will allow 100 percent ownership to for- and Al Qaeda “are either a complete Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha yesterday. Japan won 1-0. view of Special Economic Zones, Logistic and eigners, will further attract international companies. perversion of Islam’s teachings or Pic: Syed Omar/The Peninsula → See also page 29 Warehousing Parks in Qatar’ during ‘Monthly mostly wrong,” the polling firm said. Tuesday Evening’ organised by Qatari French → Continued on page 5 The survey was conducted in October and November 2015 with respondents aged 15 to 34 in Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Obama rejects UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Education and rent fuelled price rise the Palestinian territories. More IS as threat than 90 percent of respondents in Morocco and the UAE called both extremist groups a “complete per- The Peninsula Index (CPI) basket is the lowest, at 0.27 percent among beverages increased negligibly (by just 0.7 percent) WASHINGTON: The Islamic State version of Islam,” as did 83 percent of a dozen items. House rents (which are referred to in year-on-year last December, CPI figures released (IS) group does not pose an exis- respondents in Egypt and more than the CPI basket as ‘housing’ and clubbed with cook- by the Ministry of Development Planning and Sta- tential threat to the United States, 60 percent in Bahrain and Jordan. ing gas, power and water) increased 3.4 percent last tistics for December 2915 show. President Barack Obama declared More than 30 percent of those DOHA: Prices rose 2.7 percent in the country in year. The rent and its accompaniments have the high- Eating out (restaurants), medical services, cloth- yesterday, warning that such talk polled in many countries, includ- 2015 fuelled mainly by the rising cost of educa- est weight in the CPI basket at 21.89 percent. ing and footwear became cheaper in 2015, albeit only emboldens America’s enemies. ing 69 percent of respondents in the tion, house rent, communications and transport. This, in simple words, means that a household marginally. Eating out seems to be so popular with In his final State of the Union UAE and 50 percent in Morocco, said Education became 18 percent costlier in the year, spending QR10,000 a month, for example, spends families, particularly, that its share in the CPI bas- address, Obama called on Con- “corrupt, repressive, and unrep- mainly burdening limited-income families with school- roughly QR2,189 on average on house rent, gas, elec- ket (6.08 percent) is more than that of education. gress to help him close the war or resentative governments” were going children. The year also saw tobacco prices surge tricity and water.