ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 2 January 2014 29 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5932 Price: QR2 Latvia Spurs stun Man enters the United, Arsenal eurozone cling to top spot Business | 18 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar Chamber, Over 208,000 Customs plan online clearance expats came to mechanism DOHA: The Qatar Chamber, representative body of the Qatar in 2013 private sector, and the Customs Department have plans to jointly set up an electronic system whereby Women cross 500,000 mark the approvals needed from the various agencies for DOHA: More than 208,000 for- of all ages within the boundaries import and export will be eign workers, including family of the State of Qatar” as on that provided online. members of some, arrived in the date. The proposed system will country last year, beating all Qatari nationals as well as use the Enterprise Resource records, official figures show. expatriates with residency per- Planning (ERP) software to The figure should, in fact, be mits who were out of the country help communication between higher considering that last on December 31 (2013) are not the involved parties — the month some 23,000 people left included in the monthly popula- Customs Department, the the country, population data for tion census, said the Ministry. Qatar Chamber, importers 2013, released yesterday, suggest. Men continue to outnumber and exporters and embassies A vast majority of these peo- women by three to one. In other of the countries concerned ple might have travelled overseas words, of the 2.04 million people from where shipments are apparently holidaying during the in the country, 1.53 million were coming or being despatched. winter break, as over 18,500 of men. Currently, the approvals them were women. For the first time, the popula- are sought manually so the The country’s population was tion of women had crossed the Paris Saint-Germain players take part in a training session at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence in Doha. process is quite cumbersome 2.04 million until December 500,000-barrier, and peaked at and time-consuming. 31, 2013 as against 1.83 million 533,674 last November. It was The proposed ERP-based by 2012-end, data released by marginally down to 515,138 until online system would also the Ministry of Development December 31, apparently, as many All set for PSG-Real Madrid clash handle documents like certifi- Planning and Statistics reflect. families are out vacationing. cate of origin for imports and In 2012, new arrivals totalled In 2012, women totalled some exports as well as temporary only 129,000, some 28,000 of 472,613, while their number was DOHA: An exciting match is in which they prepare to defend rest of the Real squad on Tuesday imports and exports (goods them being women. Among those 436,562 the previous year, and on the cards as European giants their Ligue 1 title. after picking up the injury in that are brought here for who arrived here afresh in 2013, 409,000 in 2010. France’s Paris Saint-Germain PSG are top of Ligue 1, three training a fortnight ago. exhibitions and taken back, or women numbered a little over A look at the population figures (PSG) and Spain’s Real Madrid points ahead of Monaco, at the Bale — who moved to the goods that are taken out of the 36,000. of the last four years since Qatar clash here today at the Khalifa winter break with Real Madrid Bernabeu from Tottenham for country for expositions and The population growth last won the coveted 2022 bid reveals Stadium. third in La Liga, five points a world-record fee in the close- brought back. Such goods are year works out to more than 10 a stupendous growth. Resuming their rivalry in behind Barcelona. season — struggled with back and exempt from customs and tax percent. Qatar’s population had The population in 2010 (at the Doha will be two exciting strik- The Qatari-owned PSG are in thigh problems earlier in the sea- levies under a system called breached a record two million- fag-end of which the FIFA bid win ers. Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Doha for a five-day winter train- son, but has notched seven times Passport ATA Carnet). mark last September, when it came) was 1.63 million, up only Ibrahimovic will be turning out ing camp which will culminate in 10 La Liga appearances in a Senior officials of the suddenly swelled to 2.03 million, marginally, by about 6,000, over for their respective clubs in the with the high-profile exhibition promising start to his career in Customs Department yester- from 1.86 million the previous the previous year, 2009. sell-out match at the stadium match. For the Paris club, this Spain. Real returned to training day met with Rumy Rowhani, month. The following year, in 2011, with a capacity of 50,000. third successive year they are in on Sunday following time off for Director-General of the In the month of September, the more than 70,000 new arrivals The exhibition match is part of Doha for the camp, while for the the mid-season break, but Bale Chamber, and discussed the population had grown by more were recorded, taking the popu- the preparations, for both teams, El Blancos’ it is the first time they had to train alone. above proposal and various than 170,000. The population had lation to beyond 1.7 million. ahead of the second half of the will be in Qatar. Centre-back Raphael Varane other issues. The idea was to peaked at 2.06 million (2,068,050) It surged to 1.83 million in season. PSG coach Laurent Blanc Meanwhile, Gareth Bale has is also unavailable for selection improve coordination between last November. Talking of the 2012 and the rest is history, as insisted that his Qatari-backed been left out of Real Madrid’s today, with the Frenchman con- the Customs Department population until December 31, the evidenced from the latest figures. side would be using the game squad for their friendly with tinuing to suffer from a knee and the Qatar Chamber, Ministry, as usual, said: “The data THE PENINSULA merely as a training session ahead PSG due to a calf complaint. The injury. THE PENINSULA Qatar News Agency (QNA) represents the number of persons Continued on page 4 of a busy second half of the season Welshman did not train with the See also page 28 reported. THE PENINSULA Obamacare takes off Palestine envoy Iran nuclear deal to to Prague killed in explosion take effect on Jan 20 TEHRAN: Experts from Iran be implemented in late January. PRAGUE: The Palestinian and the P5+1 group of world Experts from Iran and the so- ambassador to the Czech powers have chosen January called P5+1 — the United States, Republic died yesterday after 20 to begin implementing the Britain, France, Russia and China a blast at his Prague residence Geneva deal on Tehran’s nuclear plus Germany — have been hold- that police said was an accident. programme, IRNA news agency ing technical talks on imple- The blast was likely caused by said yesterday. menting an agreement reached an anti-theft system on the door “One of the main proposals is November 24 on Iran’s controver- of a safe that Jamal Al Jamal was to begin applying the agreement sial nuclear ambitions. opening at the time, Prague police from January 20,” the agency cited The interim deal requires that said. Hamid Baeedinejad as saying. Iran freeze or curb its nuclear The 56-year-old suffered “very “There is agreement in princi- activities for six months in serious injuries” in the blast and ple on this date, which has yet to exchange for some sanctions relief was taken to Prague’s military be approved by the politicians,” while the two sides try to reach a hospital in an artificial coma, said he said. Baeedinejad, who heads comprehensive agreement. Jirina Ernestova, spokeswoman the Iranian delegation of experts, On Tuesday, Tehran’s lead for the emergency services. A man looks over the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) signup page on the HealthCare. had already been reported on negotiator Abbas Araqchi Police later confirmed that he gov website in New York in this photo illustration. Hospitals and medical practices across the United States Tuesday by the ISNA news reported “good progress” in the had died. braced for confusion and administrative hassles as new insurance plans under President Barack Obama’s agency as saying the deal should technical talks. AFP “The evidence the police has healthcare law took effect yesterday. doesn’t suggest anything like a terror attack or that a specific person would set up a system with the intention to hurt or kill any- one,” police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova told AFP. Malayalam papers outnumber other dailies in Qatar Daniel Langer, surgeon at the Prague military hospital to which DOHA: People from the tiny south- other dailies that already have Doha edi- The total circulation of their Doha edi- “The rise in shared accommodations in Jamal was taken, told Czech tel- ern Indian state of Kerala are among tions are Madhyamam, Chandrika, Thejas tions may not cross five digits, but the Qatar has boosted the readership of all evision the ambassador had suf- the largest and pioneering expatriate and Varthamanam, each having its own actual readership is much more, say media Malayalam dailies here, although their cir- fered devastating “head, belly communities in Qatar and can boast of committed readership.