www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESSBU | 21 SPORT | 30 QQIBIB set to expand Wozniacki iitst operational survives scare at horizon Qatar Total Open TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2016 • 14 Jumada I 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6715 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir with Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Emir holds Yemen needs telephone talks with Putin $2.5bn for QNA DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin urgent relief yesterday. They discussed bilateral rela- tions and means to enhance them and exchanged views on a number estimated over $2.45bn financial aid of regional and international issues required for relief work in six sectors. of joint interest. The talks also dealt Three-day special It was conducted in 14 provinces of with the situation in Syria and conference on the Yemen according to UN and World means to bring an end to the esca- Bank survey standards. lating crisis. They agreed to double humanitarian crisis in The report has estimated efforts and intensify contacts to Yemen, organised by required interventions as over contribute to finding a solution to $46.5m for water and sanitation, Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Pakistan’s Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif the Syrian crisis. Qatar Charity, began over $46.5m for health, over $790.7m at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and ways of developing them in yesterday in Doha for education, over $112.3m for live- addition to a number of issues of mutual concern. lihood, over $179.3m for shelter and Items worth displaced and over $1bn for food security and to address malnutrition. QR5.6bn on By Fazeena Saleem “The conference aims to unite The Peninsula the visions of partners about the display at humanitarian crisis in Yemen, as Registration for practising well as the exchange of information jewellery expo and ways to promote the follow-up DOHA: A special conference on mechanisms for determining the the humanitarian crisis in Yemen needs of those affected and the dis- alternative medicine opens By Raynald C Rivera that began in Doha yesterday esti- tribution of geographic areas in The Peninsula mated that about $2.5 bn is required order to develop action plans and to support urgent relief work in the initiatives among the partners,” conflict-torn country. said Abdullah Alwailly represent- The Peninsula homeopathy, ayurveda and situation in order to become fully The three-day conference organ- ing the King Salman Humanitarian acupuncture. registered and permitted to prac- DOHA: More than QR5.6bn worth ised by Qatar Charity in partnership Aid and Relief Centre, in his open- A workshop will be held at the tice legally in Qatar,” said a QCHP of jewellery and timepieces are on with 13 regional and international ing remarks. ministry headquarters on February statement. display at the 13th Doha Jewellery organisations seeks a joint plan action “We also aim for a Joint plan to DOHA: The Qatar Council for 28 to advise CM practitioners who are However, they all have to apply and Watches Exhibition, which on relief work in six main sectors address humanitarian needs in all Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) at interested in being licensed in Qatar for registration/evaluation in the next opened last night, making it the including health and shelter. area and coordination, a follow up the Ministry of Public Health said and to provide guidance on the CM two months, after which they will be biggest edition yet and ranking The conference titled ‘The mechanism and to launch a range of yesterday that it has started regis- framework, registration requirements given their grace period. second in the world next to Basel, Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: humanitarian initiatives in all sec- tration of healthcare practitioners and how to apply on the registration/ An adhoc advisory committee said Hamad Al Abdan, Director of Challenges and Prospects for tors,” he added. seeking a licence to practice com- licensing electronic system. was setup by the QCHP board to Exhibitions at the Qatar Tourism Humanitarian Response’ has brought “Partners behind the conference plementary medicine (CP) in Qatar. Those who are interested to review the regulatory framework, Authority (QTA). together more than 90 regional and shows how significant it is. We are The ministry recently has given attend the workshop may register compile scientific evidence related to “As per the Customs report, international humanitarian organ- reviewing and discussing six sectors official approval to practice comple- through [email protected] with the regulation, safety and efficacy of the value of goods the participat- isations and 150 relief experts. It about the present situation, chal- mentary medicine in Qatar which their name, place of work (if any) CM practices as well as measure the ing companies have brought for the focus on six main areas as educa- lenges and how collectively we can includes popular alternative medi- and reason for attending. scientific impacts and provide facts show is QR5.6bn. We can add those tion, health, water and sanitation, make a difference and agree on a cines such as ayurveda, homeopathy “Complementary Medicine and figures in relation to the usage that were cleared through the Cus- livelihoods and economic empow- road map forward,” Ramadan Assi, and acupuncture. practitioners have already started and impact of CM in the country. toms years ago bringing the total to erment, shelter and food security. Director of Global Strategy Inter- QCHP said yesterday that it has applying through the QCHP’s Regis- The regulatory framework will around $2.3bn,” Al Abdan told The The findings of a survey con- national Medical Corps told this started the implementation plan to tration/Licensing Electronic System. standardise the CM practice so that Peninsula, adding DJWE is second ducted by QC on the humanitarian newspaper. regulate CM practices in the country. Current existing practitioners in only licensed, qualified practitioners globally, next only to Basel. situation in Yemen were unveiled The initial list of scopes includes Qatar will be given a grace period will be issued a medical license and at the conference. The study has →Continued on page 2 Hijama (wet cupping), chiropractic, of ten months to correct and fix their allowed to practice in Qatar. →Continued on page 3 IMF chief urges Outlets warned against Gulf states to bring in taxes charging for ATM card use AFP The Peninsula No additional commissions under any form should be imposed on clients when purchasing or returning products for using credit ABU DHABI: The International DOHA: The Ministry of Econ- and debit (ATM) cards through the Monetary Fund chief yesterday omy and Commerce has asked POS (Point of sale) system. urged yesterday oil-exporting Gulf all commercial outlets and serv- Officers from the ministry countries to introduce taxes, warn- ice providers not to charge any with judicial powers will inten- ing that low crude prices are likely additional fee on customers on sify their inspection campaigns to to stay for an “extended period”. payments using ATM cards. book perpetrators and legal action Gulf economies “need to This will be considered a seri- will be taken against them, said strengthen their fiscal frameworks ous violation of consumer rights the ministry. and reengineer their tax systems and shops that fail to comply will The ministry has asked store by reducing their heavy reliance have their contract with the bank managers and service providers A Syrian refugee family shows their newly issued German registration documents for migrants in Herford, on oil revenues and by boosting immediately revoked, the minis- to comply with the provisions non-hydrocarbon sources of rev- western Germany, yesterday. try warned in a circular issued to of this circular and explain its enues,” Christine Lagarde told a all commercial outlets. content to all staff members and forum in Abu Dhabi. The ministry is coordinating employees to avoid being subject Lagarde also called for a “greater with Qatar Central Bank in this to legal action and disciplinary emphasis” on corporate income taxes, US and Russia announce Syria truce regard. measures. as well as property and excise taxes. The ministry said that it has The IMF chief pointed out that oil received many complaints from exporters in the Middle East and AFP in the nearly five-year war, with 134 whether they would take part in the consumers who have been charged North Africa lost last year more people — mostly civilians — killed in a agreement by midday Damascus time additional commissions when pay- than $340bn in oil revenue from series of blasts near Damascus. on February 26. It said the opposi- ing for their purchases using credit Today’s edition their budgets, amounting to 20 per- In a joint statement, Russia and the tion and the Syrian government and debit cards. cent of their combined GDP. BEIRUT: Washington and Moscow United States said the cessation of hos- must agree to allow “rapid, unhin- The ministry has sent a includes special “Not only have oil prices fallen announced yesterday that a cessation tilities would not apply to the Islamic dered, and sustained” humanitarian circular to all outlets in this pages on Jewellery by around two-thirds from their of hostilities in war-torn Syria will go State group (IS) or Al Qaeda affiliate Al aid access and to cease all attacks regard. Payments using ATM cards most recent peak, but supply and into effect on February 27, as fierce Nusra Front. — whether aerial bombardment or should be considered as cash pay- and Watches demand-side factors suggest that clashes raged in the country’s north. The statement said other parties otherwise — on other parties to the ments, in line with Qatar’s vision to →P 10-11 they are likely to stay low for an The announcement comes just one engaged in fighting on the ground agreement.