ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 21 Sport | 31 Qatar likely AIIB to play vital Hosts Sri Lanka to get its solar role in Asian enter new map within infrastructure era in Pakistan a year. sector: Qatar decider. THURSDAY 2 JULY 2015 • 15 Ramadan 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6479 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir chairs Economic Affairs Council meeting Two finance Major project officials jailed for bribery to develop DOHA: A Criminal Court has sentenced two top finance offi- cials of a premier educational institution to five years in jail for demanding a bribe of QR3m ($824,000) from an insurer for Al Sailiya renewing its contract. The court has also ordered that the duo be sacked from their jobs Several new facilities in two phases and imposed a collective fine of QR3m on them. One of them was DOHA: The Public Works populated area that lacks proper also ordered to be deported after Authority — Ashghal — has infrastructure, Ashghal said. The serving the jail term. launched a major infrastructure second segment is based north of The convicts were caught red- project costing over half billion this area and consists of an empty handed in a sting operation by the riyals to develop Al Sailiya, an plot of land that has been allo- police. important city suburb north of cated for residential buildings. The investigators vide- Salwa Road. The project aims to develop the ographed the entire incident The area houses the sprawl- roads and infrastructure of this and the recording shows, in two ing Barwa Housing Complex, area, which lacks an adequate episodes, the convicts making Masaken Sailiya and other sewage system and drainage Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, also Chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and their demand for cash and later residential units, schools, and a network. Investment, last evening presided over the council’s third meeting for the year at Al Bahr Palace. Deputy Emir receiving it, the investigators number of warehouses and labour “This results in the overflow H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, who is Vice Chairman of the council, attended the meeting along told the court, Al Sharq reports. accommodations. Despite being of surface water in the region. with Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is also THE PENINSULA highly populated, the area lacks The project also aims to build executive member of the council, and other members. basic amenities such as street and improve internal roads and lights and proper electricity and provide pedestrian pathways and drainage networks. cycle paths,” said Ashghal. The Ministry of Municipality Major infrastructure works are and Urban Planning has announced being implemented as part of the plans to set up a new central mar- project including the development Alwaleed pledges $32bn to charity ket in Al Sailiya and several other of the road network, installation projects are also on the anvil. of intelligent transport systems RIYADH: Saudi tycoon Prince and create a more tolerant and government rank, is unusual for incentive for his business invest- The development project cost- and street lights. Alwaleed bin Talal yesterday accepting world.” his high profile and periodic com- ments to be profitable. ing over QR573.48m will ben- The project will also include promised his entire $32bn for- The money “will be allocated ments about economic issues. As well as media stakes, efit about 720 housing units dedicated pedestrian and cycle tune to charitable projects in according to a well-devised plan “We are clearly in very close Kingdom Holding has interests and improve the safety of roads paths, sidewalks and parking lots, coming years, in one of the big- throughout the coming years”, coordination with the Bill and ranging from the Euro Disney surrounding the residential and installation of signage and estab- gest ever such pledges. he said, but stressed there was Melinda Gates Foundation”, theme park to Four Seasons school area, Ashghal said yester- lishment of drainage network. The pledge is “maybe... the first no time limit for the donation to which is already working with hotels and Citigroup. day. It is expected to be complete The project is part of the Local such big announcement” of its be spent. Alwaleed said he would Alwaleed on a polio eradication Alwaleed is constructing a by the end of next year. Roads and Drainage programme kind in the region, and is mod- head a board of trustees tasked project, he said. “This is very tower in the Red Sea city of The project will be imple- projects implemented by Ashghal, elled on a charity established by with spending the funds, which much separate from my owner- Jeddah that is to rise more than mented in two segments cover- which is a nationwide programme Microsoft founder Bill Gates in would still be used after his death ship in Kingdom Holding,” and one kilometre (almost 3,300 feet) ing an area of 1,460,000 square that includes the development of the United States, the prince told “for humanitarian projects and there should be no impact on the to be the world’s tallest building. meters, it said yesterday. roads, drainage and new infra- reporters. initiatives”. The 60-year-old mag- publicly listed company’s share Earlier this year, he opened The first segment focuses on structure in all areas of Qatar. Alwaleed said his charity “will nate belongs to the Saudi royal price, Alwaleed told reporters on a pan-Arab news channel in north of Salwa Road where the The total cost of the project help build bridges to foster cul- family and is a nephew of King the 66th-floor headquarters of the Bahrain but authorities there road leads to Masaken Al Sailiya is QR573,482,000 and has been tural understanding, develop com- Abdullah, who died on January 23. firm which he chairs. shut the station after less than compound, west of the new indus- awarded to ‘Qatar Building munities, empower women, enable In the conservative Muslim But he said his charitable com- 24 hours on air and a new home trial area intersection. This is in a Company. THE PENINSULA youth, provide vital disaster relief kingdom, Alwaleed, who holds no mitment would provide even more is being sought. AFP Garangao goodies Airport entry permits for Over 100 militants firms, ministries killed in North Sinai DOHA: The Airport Security ISMAILIA, EGYPT: Egypt’s army said yesterday more than 100 Department at the Hamad militants and 17 soldiers were killed in simultaneous attacks on International Airport has opened military checkpoints in North Sinai, in the most sustained fighting an office at the Departures of its kind in years in the restive province. Terminal to issue temporary After a day of fighting, which involved F-16 jets and Apache helicop- entry permits for representa- ters, the army said it would not stop its operations until it had cleared tives of companies, institutions, the area of all “terrorist concentrations”. authorities and ministries. The Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, Sinai Province, had claimed respon- office is located in the departures sibility, saying it attacked more than 15 security sites and carried out lounge of the airport in front of three suicide bombings. counters for weighing baggage. The militants’ assault, a significant escalation in violence in the Continued on page 6 peninsula that lies between Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal, THE PENINSULA was the second high-profile attack in Egypt this week. On Monday, a bomb killed the prosecutor-general in Cairo. It raised questions about the government’s ability to contain an insurgency that has already killed hundreds of police and soldiers. The insurgents want to topple the Cairo government and have stepped up their campaign since 2013, when then-army chief Abdel Children receiving Garangao gifts from a Qatari household in Doha yesterday. Garangao is celebrated at the Fattah Al Sisi removed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim end of the first half of Ramadan. Dressed in traditional attire, children visit neighbourhoods in the evening to Brotherhood after mass protests against his rule. collect sweets and goodies. See also page 2 (SALIM MATRAMKOT) REUTERS See also page 9 RAMADAN TIMING New law on private schools in final stage Ramadan Today’s Iftar: QUIZ DOHA: The State Cabinet or any of the workers in the pri- The existing private schools on applicability of the provisions of 06:31pm Answer a Simple Question yesterday decided to take the vate school regarding any com- the time of this law must adjust the law on educational services Win a Gold Coin everyday Tomorrow’s Imsak: necessary steps for issuance plaints and violations against their conditions in line with its or training services in the fields of See page 15 03:08am of the new law regulating pri- them. provisions within one year from languages, computer, secretarial, vate schools after consider- The SEC may deprive the the date of its entry in force. The accounting, administrative and ing the recommendations of school of all or some material or Minister may extend this period business. the Advisory Council on the in-kind benefits granted by the for another similar period. It does not apply to the educa- draft law. State for schools, or fully discount The Cabinet also decided to tional services provided by gov- The draft law includes provi- the bank guarantee or any part start the necessary procedures to ernmental and non-governmental sions on licensing and controls, thereof, or put the school at the issue a draft law regulating the agencies for workers.