ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 9 June 2013 30 Rajab 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5725 Price: QR2 QIB signs $100m In-form Serena Murabaha facility clinches French with QFB Open title in Paris Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Stormy weather to continue PSG president Souq Haraj not allowing coach to leave, to soon face say reports DOHA: Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) will not allow coach Carlo Ancelotti to leave until a replacement bulldozers is found, the club’s president, Nasser Al Khelaifi, said accord- ing to French news reports. Commercial complex planned Ancelotti, who guided the French giants to their first league DOHA: The historic Souq country in preparation for the title since 1994 in May, last month Haraj — Qatar’s only market for coveted FIFA World Cup 2022. confirmed his intention to join used goods and a major land- Sheikh Faisal said the shops Spain’s Real Madrid, who have mark — might soon face the in Souq Haraj will be shifted to recently parted ways with Jose bulldozers to give way to a huge another location. He didn’t, how- Mourinho. and posh commercial avenue ever, give details. After various news reports which is also expected to boast Souq Haraj is an old market appeared in the French and a twin-hotel complex. that now also houses an array of Spanish media over the Italian Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim shops selling first-hand goods. It Waves generated by strong winds lash the shore at the Corniche in Doha yesterday. Dusty weather is likely to coach’s future, a post on Facebook Al Thani, chairman of Faisal has been a delight of low-income continue until Thursday, the weather office has said. Scores of people turned up at the Emergency Department and Twitter accounts of France- Holding, said yesterday his com- workers and limited-income of Hamad General Hospital over the last two days, complaining of respiratory ailments. Report on page 2 based InfoSport+ on Thursday pany is holding talks with the families. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) confirmed that ‘Nasser Al authorities to complete the paper- Shopkeepers of the Souq, where Khelaifi (PSG President) blocks work for the handover of Najma’s business is hectic particularly on the departure of coach Carlo Souq Haraj. Thursdays and Fridays, reported Ancelotti to Madrid.’ Acording “We would be building a huge at the height of rising cost of liv- to the Eurosport French website, commercial complex on the land ing in the country a few years ago Al Khelaifi has closed the issue where Souq Haraj is located and that their business had become Websites promoting vice trade ‘for the moment’. the complex would also have two brisk as they were attracting a On May 20, after meeting with hotels,” said Sheikh Faisal. large numbers of customers. DOHA: Law enforcement offi- menace. Senior officials from the The Peninsula tried to locate Al Khelaifi, Ancelotti said: “My The ambitious project, accord- The shops in the vast single- cials, in close coordination with Ministry of Interior’s Search and some such sites and it tracked at wish is to leave the club. I have ing to Sheikh Faisal, is part of storey market complex sell both a key anti-human trafficking Follow-Up Department were also least two. On one, single women asked to leave. We are going to his company’s effort to add to the used and new furniture, home body here, have tracked down invited and it was during talks based in Doha, obviously all for- wait for a response from the new and modern infrastructure furnishings including carpets, a number of international web- at the event that officials from eigners, were openly soliciting club who are going to take a few facilities being developed by the air-conditioners, refrigerators, sites that are promoting sex both, the Interior Ministry and enquiries from single or separated days to decide.” On the same day, stoves, utensils, and household trade in Qatar, says a local the anti-human trafficking office, men for “friendship”. however, Al Khelaifi insisted that and electrical appliances, among Arabic newspaper. made the startling disclosure The websites carry photo- Ancelotti was going nowhere. “He other things. There is a group of girls with about a number of global websites graphs of the women with age and said that he wanted to leave for However, the Souq was also foreign passports in Qatar, who trying to promote sex trade in the contact details. A similar website Real Madrid. I said it’s not pos- notorious for selling pirated CDs are involved in the suspected country. which seems to be dedicated to sible because he has a contract and DVDs of popular films and immoral trade, the daily said. These websites are run by men based in Qatar soliciting for another year — that is our songs and a massive raid by anti- The websites make announce- highly skilled information tech- “friendship” with women cites decision,” Al Khelaifi told www. software piracy officials late last ments about the girls citing their nology (IT) professionals who, the men seeking “secret fun” with beinsport.fr. According to Spanish year had led to seizure of huge contact details and say they are daily claimed, were able to breach women, including housewives. newspaper Marca, the Italian is stocks of pirated software. “available”, according to the security systems of websites. A look at both the websites frustrated because of not being The market at times doubled as daily. In other words, the operators of reveals that nearly all advertisers allowed to leave and is even pre- a venue for illegal vendors selling Al Arab said it recently held a the rackets are able to send pop- are single—having never married pared to pay half the reported all kinds of household appliances seminar on the efforts made by the ups of their immoral promos pro- or separated—and such statuses compensation figure himself to and many of them were removed Qatar Foundation for Combating viding active links to the various are talked of by the advertisers PSG in order to move to the nine- Vendors selling their wares at Souq by the authorities a few years ago. Human Trafficking (QFCHT) websites so anyone surfing any with gusto. time European champions. Haraj. THE PENINSULA in its fight against the social website is able to sight them. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Sea of protesters At least 11 die in Benghazi GCC print media going strong DOHA: The print media, accounted for 17 percent share highest penetration — about 40 which is fast losing circulation of the total. percent in the UAE and 35 per- clashes and advertising revenue in the Kuwait Financial Centre cent in Kuwait, distantly followed West, continues to maintain its (Markaz) report said yesterday by LinkedIn and Twitter. BENGHAZI, LIBYA: At sway in the oil-rich GCC region. companies in the region have Kuwait has the highest Twitter least 11 people were killed and But a steep surge in the pop- begun to increase their media penetration of 13 percent in the 35 wounded in clashes yester- ularity of digital media in the spending budgets as regional Arab world, in comparison with day between protesters and a region might soon begin making economies seem to come out of three percent each in Saudi Libyan militia operating with a dent in the advertising-driven their hiatus. Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. Defence Ministry approval in earnings of print media. The landscape of the regional The print media is struggling the eastern city of Benghazi, a The global financial downturn media industry is changing at a due to dwindling circulation fig- doctor in the city said. that raised its head in 2008, hit rapid pace as a result of techno- ures in US and Europe. In 2011, Residents said dozens of pro- the media and advertising indus- logical advancements and chang- North America witnessed 4.3 per- testers had demonstrated outside try hard in most parts of the ing consumer habits. cent decline in newspaper circu- the headquarters of the Libya world, pushing down revenues. Digital media is growing in lation, and in Europe it declined Shield brigade demanding the dis- But the GCC region remained influence and effectiveness, the 3.4 percent. The Middle East and banding of militias who have yet less affected with the industry’s report said. The digital media North Africa (MENA) region, on to lay down their weapons nearly earnings declining only margin- has a share of 18 percent in glo- the other hand, clocked the high- two years after the overthrow ally, only to rebound by the later bal advertising spending and the est worldwide growth rate of 4.8 of long-time dictator Muammar half of 2010. percentage is set to inch up to 20 percent. The growth in Asia was Gaddafi. Last year, advertising revenues in 2014. 3.5 percent. A doctor at central Benghazi’s in the region grew five percent The print media is still going The changing habit of media Al Jalaa Hospital said he had year-on-year to a staggering strong in the GCC with a high use is driving advertising spend- counted 11 dead and 35 wounded. $4.8bn (QR17.47bn), with the 71 percent share in the overall ing from the traditional print Resentment against the mili- UAE and Saudi Arabia having the advertising spending. The digital media towards digital platforms. tias, some of which have been largest shares — 33 and 30 per- media is still in its infancy but In the GCC, print media is still co-opted or licensed by a central cent, respectively — in advertising growing at a brisk pace.