ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 24 Citizens complain SAK Holding Novak Djokovic against high fees Group ranks top wins US Open at several private in Middle East and 10th kindergartens. Power Hour list. Grand Slam. TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 1 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6554 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Indonesia sign agreements QNB to open Private firms branch in Saudi Arabia can form joint DOHA: Qatar’s largest lender, Qatar National Bank (QNB), has been granted licence to operate in Saudi Arabia. QNB has branches in several labour panels countries, including the UAE, Jordan, China and India and its Saudi operations will be the NHRC highlights labour rules bank’s newest overseas branch. Alkhaleejonline.net reported DOHA: Private compa- settle a dispute amicably, must also yesterday quoting Saudi news nies employing more than 30 work for the cultural development agency that the approval to QNB workers can set up internal of the workers and launch work- to set up operations in Saudi joint-committees, with repre- related training programmes for Arabia was granted by the Cabinet sentation of both the expatriate them. The NHRC has also high- yesterday as its weekly meeting workers and owners, to redress lighted in its report that foreign headed by the Custodian of Two workers’ woes and settle workers seeking employment in Holy Mosques King Salman bin employer-worker disputes, says Qatar must not make any pay- Abdulaziz Al Saud. the National Human Rights ments to manpower agencies as QNB has to coordinate with Committee (NHRC). Qatar’s labour law bars that. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Indonesian President Joko Widodo witness the signing of the Saudi Arabian Monetary In its 2014 report, the NHRC The report talks of restricted an agreement on abolition of entry visa requirement for holders of diplomatic, service and special passports Agency to finalise the licensing said the labour law which covers summer work timings aimed at and the annex of memorandum of understanding between Indonesia and Qatar Investment Authority at Emiri procedures. all private companies permits protecting workers from high THE PENINSULA Diwan yesterday. See also page 2 firms to set up internal dispute heat and humidity and says that resolution panels. These panels, some 15 ministerial decisions have to be called joint-panels because been issued specifying the mini- they would have representation mum standards a labour accom- of both the workers and owners, modation in Qatar must meet. can also be mandated to look after About labour complaints in 2014, Egypt forces mistakenly kill Mexican tourists workers’ welfare. the NHRC said the maximum As for dispute resolution, such number of grievances reported to a committee can listen to individ- the labour department were about CAIRO: Egyptian Army air- though Egyptian security and from above, security sources Maria de Lourdes Fernandez ual’s grievances as well as those of delayed wage payments, non-pay- craft hunting for militants in judicial sources later said eight said. “Unfortunately we have Rubio. Pena Nieto said he had groups of workers. ment of arrears and denial of air the desert mistakenly bombed Mexicans and four Egyptians confirmed that two (Mexicans) been assured Egypt’s prime min- The committee would, though, tickets to workers to travel home a convoy of mostly Mexican were killed. The sources added lost their lives and six more were ister would personally spearhead have recommendatory status as it during vacations. tourists, killing 12 people and that eight Mexicans and two wounded,” Pena Nieto said, con- a probe. Alvarez said the survivors could only make suggestions to a The rights body said that mak- wounding 10, authorities said Egyptians were wounded. demning the incident. “Mexico he visited in hospital had told him company’s management about how ing employees work without work yesterday. The sister of a Mexican Reiki has demanded the Egyptian they had been bombed by helicop- to resolve a dispute or a worker’s permit and neglecting occupa- Survivors said their group was healer who said her brother was government conducts a swift, ters and an aircraft while they grievance, local Arabic daily Al Raya tional health and safety measures bombed from a plane and heli- among the dead said a relative of exhaustive investigation.” stopped for a break in the desert. reported yesterday saying it has a in workplace were the major viola- copters. As members of the tour- the group’s tour guide had sent Mexico’s ambassador to Egypt, The tourists had arrived in Egypt copy of the NHRC’s 2014 report. tions committed by mostly smaller ist convoy tried to flee, additional her a list of eight Mexicans killed Jorge Alvarez, said six Mexicans on September 11. The labour law does not put companies. The Committee said it forces on the ground fired on them, in the attack. who survived the incident were Egypt’s ambassador to Mexico, the condition that the workers is happy that one of its key rec- Egyptian security sources said. The group of 22 had parked in stable condition. Alvarez added Yasser Shaban, said he assured being given representation on a ommendations made to the gov- Egypt’s interior ministry their four 4x4 vehicles off- that the government was still Mexico’s government Egypt was company’s internal dispute res- ernment earlier to ensure that described the attack in the coun- road on Sunday for a barbe- seeking information about six taking the incident very seriously olution panel must be Qataris. workers are paid their wages online try’s western desert as an acci- cue near the Bahariya oasis, other Mexicans of the 14-strong and was committed to establish- They can be expat workers as is being implemented. dent. Mexico’s President Enrique a tourist site in the western group still unaccounted for. ing exactly what happened. well, according to NHRC. Continued on page 4 Pena Nieto said two Mexicans desert, when army aircraft Alvarez identified the two dead REUTERS The committee must try and THE PENINSULA were killed in Sunday’s incident, suddenly began shelling them as Luis Barajas Fernandez and See also page 6 8.3m gallons of Eid Al Adha on September 24 water pumped out RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday announced that Eid Al Adha will start on Thursday (September 24) as the Dhul-Hijja moon was not sighted on Sunday ( September 13), according to a statement after heavy rains from the official moon-sighting committee. The peak of Haj (Day of DOHA: The rain emergency team at Al Arafat) will be on Wednesday, September 23. The announcement Rayyan municipality pumped out more was made after the kingdom’s moon-sighting committee met in than 8.3 million gallons of water from Riyadh and other cities to look for Dhul-Hijja crescent, which is low-lying areas across the municipal- 12th and last month of the Islamic calendar. ity following the heavy rains on Friday, which is enough to fill hundreds of swimming pools. Turnbull topples Australian PM Many areas like Al Sailiya, Abu Nakhla, Sheehania and Ruwais received the high- SYDNEY: Australian conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott est rains on that day. The thunderstorm was dramatically ousted yesterday in a snap party vote mounted caused flooding in several places , includ- by challenger Malcolm Turnbull, the country’s fourth leadership ing the Labseer tunnel on Sheehania road. change for the nation in five years. Abbott, who came to power in a Tankers from Doha, Wakrah, Al Khor, general election victory in 2013, was forced into a leadership ballot Umm Salal and Daian municipalities were among his Liberal Party colleagues after Turnbull said the coalition called in to support the massive operation, government faced defeat without change at the top. After his 54-44 that was carried out over the past three victory, Turnbull, a multi-millionaire former lawyer and banker, days, Al Sharq reported. pledged to bring “economic vision” to the nation, but ruled out an Al Shamal municipality sent team of unscheduled nationwide election to cement his leadership. “This 23 people including drivers, workers and has been a very important, sobering experience today. I’m very hum- supervisors to join the campaign. The team bled by it,” he said. “We need to have in this country, and we will alone pumped out 773,500 gallons of water. An emergency team pumping out water from a low- lying area. have now, an economic vision, a leadership that explains the great THE PENINSULA challenges and opportunities that we face.” See also page 11 Russia sends tanks to Syria WASHINGTON: Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at a Syrian airfield at the centre of a military buildup, two US offi- cials said yesterday, adding the intentions of Moscow’s deployment Global warming to pick up this year and next of heavy military equipment to Syria was unclear. One of the US officials said seven Russian T-90 tanks were observed at the airfield LONDON: Man-made global warming is the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, caused by report from Britain’s Met Office, entitled near Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. The set to produce exceptionally high average greenhouse gas emissions.” The rate at which “Big changes underway in the climate sys- two US officials said Russia had also positioned artillery, which they temperatures this year and next, boosted global temperatures are increasing is also on tem?”, highlights current transitions in major said appeared to be arrayed defensively to protect Russian person- by natural weather phenomena such as El track to pick up in the coming years, ending weather patterns that affect rainfall and tem- nel stationed there.