ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 5 December 2013 1 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5904 Price: QR2 Record-breaking G) facility will produce 110,000 boe (barrels of oil equivalent) per day Engine problems eck Floating LNG facility floating LNG Flare thwart Team ship launched Qatar re uble- to scale Business | 20 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Turkey sign energy deal Met forecasts Commercial foggy morning, low visibility hubs planned DOHA: It will be foggy early this morning with low visibil- ity at places, the Meteorology Department said in its forecast yesterday. in Doha, Rayan Visibility could be as low as one kilometre at places but the mist would clear as the day breaks. Al Khor will be the coolest Move may push rents up place in the country with the minimum temperature forecast DOHA: The Ministry of Street, has been earmarked for at 15 degrees Celsius. Municipality and Urban conversion. In Al Murra in Al The day temperatures is Planning has announced plans Rayan municipality, Al Faroosia expected to be 24 degrees C. to convert several major areas Street has been chosen for con- Elsewhere in the country, day of Doha and some in the neigh- version into a commercial area. and night temperatures would bouring municipality of Al In Al Aziziya suburb, which vary between 18 and 27 degrees Rayan into commercial hubs. is also in Al Rayan municipal- C, except in Dukhan and Abu Shops, showrooms and offices ity, Othman bin Affan Street has Samra where the minimum tem- will be located on both sides of been identified for development perature forecast is 15 degrees the proposed hubs to be known into a commercial hub. C. The day here would be hotter as commercial streets. An apex committee was (27 degrees C). And it is likely that each of recently set up to earmark locali- In Doha, temperatures would these streets would be exclu- ties and streets in Doha and Al range between 19 and 27 degrees sively reserved for certain Rayan where commercial hubs The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan witness C, the forecast said. The day could businesses. were to be developed with a view the signing of a memorandum of understanding on energy generation between Qatar Holding and Electric be partly cloudy to cloudy. For example, one hub or street to creating enough commercial Ortime Company of Turkey in Doha yesterday. See also page 2 THE PENINSULA might accommodate automobile space to help end shortages of showrooms, while another may shops and showrooms. have electrical appliances outlets. It is likely that one of the The idea behind building com- seven commercial streets in mercial streets is to help end the Doha might be reserved for severe shortage of shop and show- office space for engineering, room space in downtown Doha audit and legal consultancies and No change in foreign policy: Minister and create adequate commercial other businesses that find it hard space in Al Rayan municipal area to afford expensive commercial DOHA: Qatar has said it Royal Institute of International Talking about Iran, Al Attiyah in Palestine, said the foreign where some sprawling suburbs space in the towers area of the has not changed its foreign Affairs. “We have friendly rela- said Qatar backed Tehran’s dia- minister. More than 200 people like Al Murra and Al Aziziya West Bay. policy and reiterated its sup- tions with Egypt. logue with the West to reduce attended the lecture at the end are located. Analysts say that while the port for the Syrian people and Qatar is working closely with tensions between the two sides. of which there was a barrage of The roads in Doha that will be announcement to develop com- their aspirations for freedom the Arab League and the UN “We want the region to remain questions on various issues that developed into commercial streets mercial hubs is good news for and peace. Security Council to help end the free of nuclear weapons.” the foreign minister answered. include Doha Jadeed Street in businesses, they would lead to Calrifying its stance on Egypt, it sufferings of the Syrian people Recounting Qatar’s efforts to The questions mainly related to Doha Jadeed area of downtown large-scale demolition of lower- has said it continues to support its and achieve peace in the country, lend a helping hand in achieving its peace initiatives in the region, Doha, Al Nada Street in the same rent residential buildings. people and that its policy on Cairo he said. A number of British MPs, peace elsewhere in the world, he its relations with its GCC neigh- locality, Al Wefaq Street in Old A rising population is already is not linked to any political group- leading politicians and diplomats said his country has done its bit to bours as also with Iraq. Ghanem and Raudat Al Hail causing shortage of affordable ing or party. “We are supporting attended the lecture. bring peace in Afghanistan as well Answering a question as to why (Nuaija east and west) as well housing in the country so the democracy,” Foreign Minister The foreign minister said Qatar as hosting talks between various Qatar didn’t have an embassy in as Bin Khaldoon Street in Umm latest development plans would H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al was not seeking glorification or Afghan factions on its soil. Iraq, Al Attiyah said in spite of Ghuwailina. worsen the shortages and push Attiyah said about Egypt during a showing off or beautifying its The country has also played that his country had very cordial One road in Madinat Khalifa housing rents further up. key lecture in London yesterday. image. “We rather seek all pos- a key role in helping achieve and close ties with Baghdad. North, known as Madinat Khalifa THE PENINSULA He was speaking at the UK’s sible ways to help achieve peace.” peace between different factions THE PENINSULA Most expensive Syria chemical arms book priced at €950,000 set to be transferred BY RAYNALD C RIVERA COPENHAGEN: A Danish Both options have serious chal- cargo vessel is due to load lenges. A sea transfer from one DOHA: Rare book collec- Syria’s chemical arms stockpile ship to another with such a haz- tors Antiquariat Inlibris and and transfer it to a specially ardous cargo would be fraught Antiquariaat Forum have adapted US ship, in a delicate with danger. But so far, no brought the oldest book and and unprecedented operation Mediterranean port has agreed the most expensive tome at the early in the new year, according to host the transfer on land, say 24th Doha International Book to plans by the world’s chemical weapons experts briefed on the Fair that opened yesterday weapons watchdog’. plan by the OPCW in The Hague. at the Doha The plans being drawn up The US ship, the Maritime International Exhibition by the Organisation for the Administration MV Cape Ray, is Centre. Prohibition of Chemical Weapons being fitted in Norfolk, Virginia, The most expensive book at (OPCW) have not been finalised. with two field-deployable hydrol- the fair is the first edition of It is not yet clear, for example, ysis systems (FDHS) that will John James Audobon’s extraor- whether the transfer between the neutralise the chemical weapons dinarily coloured plates of two ships of about 500 tonnes of agents with the addition of fresh quadrupeds priced at ¤950,000 lethal chemicals, including nerve water and other reagents, such (QR4.7m). agents, will be done at sea or when as sodium hydroxide and sodium “It is a 150-plate book of all both vessels are docked. hypochlorite. THE GUARDIAN four legged animals of North America,” Laurens R Hesselink of Antiquariaat Forum told The Newsweek to be resurrected Peninsula yesterday. In March 2000, Sheikh Saud Al The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari (second right) and The Peninsula NEW YORK: Nearly a year after Newsweek published what it Thani bought “Birds of America” Editor-in-Chief Khalid Al Sayed (right) at the Al Sharq caricature pavilion at the 24th Doha International Book Fair called its final print edition, the magazine has announced it will by the same author that cost at Doha International Exhibition Centre yesterday. (KAMMUTTY VP) begin producing a weekly print edition as early as January. $11.5m at a Christie’s auction. Newsweek editor in chief Jim Impoco told The New York Times on Printed in 1483, the oldest book Tuesday that the new magazine would be “a premium product, a bou- is Gheraert Leeu’s first illustrated tique product” — with a higher price than its predecessor. He said the edition in any language of one of Egyptian wins Sharq cartoon contest publication plans to rely more on subscribers instead of advertisers to the oldest and most popular texts support production costs. “It’s going to be a more subscription-based in early European literature. model, closer to what The Economist is compared to what Time maga- The 500-year-old book in DOHA: More than 400 entries International Book Fair, which Saba’ana bagged the second and zine is,” Impoco said. The new 64-page print edition of Newsweek will English, which costs ¤250,000, by 158 Arab cartoonists were in opened yesterday at the Doha third prizes respectively. The come off the presses in January or February, he said. With a target is “The Seven Sages of Rome.” the fray at the recently-concluded International Exhibition Center.