Home | 2 Business | 21 Sport | 31 QRCS provides $500m IBQ’s first Elbourdainy seals clean drinking bond evokes the deal with sublime water in Syria positive response ride in Dukhan The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2015 • 11 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6623 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Brussels beefs up security Emir leaves Gold demand low for Cuba DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani left last morning for a two-day offi- cial visit to the Republic of Cuba. despite price fall Emir is accompanied by a high- level official delegation. Prices remain low for almost a month Emir greets Prime DOHA: There are hardly any takers for gold Nasir Aslam, from Al Badiya Jewellers in the or its jewellery in the local market even though Gold Souq, while maintaining that the demand Minister of Lebanon their prices remain low for almost a month was dampened, cited a few reasons for gold now. losing its luster. DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Bullion traders and gold jewellers say they India and China are not buying the yellow Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent don’t know the reason for dampened demand, metal anymore, which is affecting the global a cable of congratulations to the but the fact remains that the market is dull, gold demand, and India imposing customs duty Prime Minister of the Repub- particularly after Eid Al Adha. on gold import, said Aslam. lic of Lebanon Tamman Salam Gold prices have been moving within the Aslam said that Indian expatriates in Qatar on the occasion of his country’s band of QR3,823.57 and QR4,005.65 per ounce are not carrying gold back home in quantities National Day. (28.3495 grammes) for the past few weeks, they used to do earlier, he said. Thousands of people yesterday traders said. This is a major dampener of the local retail took to the Lebanese streets in Yesterday, for example, the rates ranged bullion and jewellery markets, said Aslam. Police and military patrol in central Brussels yesterday after security was tightened separate marches and rallies to between QR127.5 and QR133 for a gramme of With their sizeable population, Indians in in Belgium following the fatal attacks in Paris. Belgium will keep the highest threat mark the 72nd National Day. pure, or 24-carat gold, and the prices for 22, Qatar have been the largest buyer of gold bul- level for the capital today because of a “serious and imminent” threat of coordinated, 21 and 18-carats were lower. lion and jewellery. multiple attacks, Prime Minister Charles Michel said. See also page 16 QNA The standard 116-gramme pure gold bar, “I would say that 70 percent of the local which is also known as 10-tola bar and popular demand came from Indian expatriates,” he mostly among South Asian expatriates, was said. available for QR14,870. But due to the customs duty on gold in India, “But there isn’t much of demand even the demand is severely affected. 17 Qatari films to screen at Ajyal fest though gold prices have come down in the past “This is one of the major reasons of the local three to four weeks,” said an official from Gulf gold bullion and jewellery markets not doing so Exchange, which also deals in bullion, partic- well as they were before,” said Aslam. DOHA: The Third Ajyal Youth films and 8 documentaries by Qatari Arabic, invites people of all ages to ularly 24 and 22-carat gold coins of various Bullion traders said the situation is not Film Festival, will feature this year directors and directors residing come together and discuss cinema denominations. peculiar to Qatar. In Dubai, which is a major a series of Qatari films, including 17 here. through events that inspire creative “There was demand earlier but the market bullion centre, and other Gulf cities the situa- documentaries, feature and short The festival, organised by Doha interaction, opening up a fun, col- is so dull now,” the official added. tion is almost the same, a trader said. films. Film Institute (DFI) in Katara, will laborative environment where young “We have small-time expatriate buyers Asked if the gold market would look up soon, The festival will kick off on last until December 5 and will display people can express themselves. coming to us these days—those who are going Aslam said the prices and the demand would November 29 to highlight innova- a series of ‘Made in Qatar’ films. Driven with the goal to inspire home on long vacations and would carry remain the same for some time to come. “I tions of filmmakers in Qatar, as The Ajyal Youth Film Festival and create, Ajyal has been designed small coins.” don’t think the market would look up soon,” the festival organises a special sec- builds on the Doha Film Institute’s to empower the region’s youth and to The rush for gold jewellery, according to he said. tion for Qatari films under the title history of community-based pro- inspire film enthusiasts of all ages in Gulf Exchange official, had thinned after Eid ‘Made in Qatar’. gramming. Qatar and the region. Al Adha. THE PENINSULA This section includes 9 feature Ajyal, meaning ‘generations’ in QNA Bomb scare on Turkish and Israeli forces shoot dead three Palestinians JERUSALEM: Three Palestin- Israeli woman at a junction near tine, for being suspected in a stab- spokesman for Beit Ummar’s in part over stepped-up Jewish Singapore flights ians were killed in the occupied a West Bank settlement bloc. bing attack in the southern Israeli Popular Committee against Set- visits to a Jerusalem shrine, and West Bank yesterday, Israeli A military spokesman said the settlement of Kiryat Gat. tlement, said the Israeli troops by long-deadlocked talks on a police and the military said, as an assailant was shot and killed. Palestine’s Wa fa news agency arrested five youths, including US-sponsored peace deal between TORONTO/SINGAPORE: A eight-week-old wave of violence Earlier, a Palestinian teenager reported that the young man, two children in Safa where more Israel and the Palestinians. Turkish Airlines flight bound showed no signs of dying down. was killed while she was trying to moderately injured, had no con- than 100 soldiers stormed the The US State Department for Istanbul from New York was A surge in street violence since stab two Israeli women at a junc- nection with the attack. area, chase the young men and said Kerry would begin his Mid- diverted to Halifax, Canada, after October 1 has challenged Israel’s tion popular with Jewish settlers, Israeli sources said that a sus- raid their homes. dle East visit in Abu Dhabi today, a bomb threat, Canadian police security system and alarmed the police said. pected Palestinian stabbed and In a statement, he said that the after which he would come to said yesterday. The plane landed United States, whose Secretary She was run down by a Jewish wounded four Israelis in Kiryat troops, deployed in the town of Israel and the Palestinian terri- safely and no explosives were of State John Kerry is due to visit settler and shot by security forces. Gat before fleeing the scene. All Beit Awwa in Hebron, led raids tories. found after searching it using the region this week. In another incident, a Palestinian wounded were in moderate condi- and searches of homes surround- A senior US official said Kerry dogs trained in explosives, the Eighty-three Palestinians have tried to ram a taxi into Israelis at tion after being evacuated to the ing the ‘Apartheid Wall’. would discuss ways of trying to Nova Scotia branch of the Royal been killed in clashes with Israeli a West Bank junction near Jeri- hospital. The Palestinian government stem the violence but would not Canadian Mounted Police said. forces, while 18 Israelis and an cho, before an armed Israeli at the Israeli forces arrested 15 Pales- said that Israel was carrying out try to renew negotiations on a Singapore Airlines said yester- American student have been scene shot him dead, police said. tinians during a raid and search unlawful killings and “accusing state that Palestinians seek in day there was a bomb threat to killed in stabbings, shootings and A Palestinian young man was campaign involving more than every victim of holding a knife” territories Israel captured in the one of its flights which originated car rammings. injured last night after a group 150 houses in Hebron in occupied or ensuring a knife was dropped 1967 Middle East war. from San Francisco and landed In the latest incident, police of Israelis attacked him in the West Bank. at the side of alleged attackers. safely at Singapore’s Changi Air- said a Palestinian stabbed an Negev, south of occupied Pales- Muhammad Ayyad Awad, the The bloodshed has been driven AGENCIES port. The Halifax airport tweeted that the flight with 256 passen- gers was bound for the Turkish Al Rayyan trounce Qatar SC capital Ankara. It was at least the Egyptians vote in second time in the past week a 100 dead in Myanmar landslide flight leaving the United States was diverted to Canada after a second phase of YANGON: Nearly 100 bodies have been pulled from a landslide near threat. a jade mine in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, local officials said Two Air France flights bound parliament polls yesterday, and hopes are dwindling that any of an estimated 100 people for Paris from the US were missing will be found alive.