ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 27 HMC wins five QFBA to provide England, Japan healthcare educational advance to innovation services to World Cup awards. Dirassat staff. semi-finals. MONDAY 29 JUNE 2015 • 12 Ramadan 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6476 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Garangao shopping Panel to complete QR6.03m raised sponsorship law study today to free 11 jailed DOHA: The Advisory Council’s Internal and External Affairs committee is expected to com- plete its study on the draft law regulating the entry, exist and loan defaulters residence of foreign workers at its meeting today. The committee met yesterday and discussed the draft law in the RAF radiothon a hit in 90 minutes presence of the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin QR370,00 to QR1.55m, Al Sharq Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Abdullah Foundation for reported. Thani. The Advisory Council in its Humanitarian Services (RAF) This was the first fund-rais- last session returned the draft law raised over QR6.03m in a one- ing campaign after RAF set up to the committee for further studies, and-a-half hour radio pro- a committee headed by Sheikh after many members expressed seri- gramme on Saturday which was Saud bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani ous concerns over some key provisions, the first in a series of campaigns to secure release of indebted citi- especially those related to exit permit planned during this Ramadan zens serving jail terms. and change of jobs of expatriate work- to secure release of 20 Qataris The other nine benefici- ers. The Minister of Labour and Social languishing in jail for defaulting aries have amassed loans Affairs H E Dr Abdullah bin Saleh Al loan repayments. of QR390,000, QR309,000, Khulaifi will attend today’s meeting, The beneficiaries will include QR252,000, QR542,000, QR Children buying Garangao dress at the Souq Waqif in Doha yesterday. Garangao is a traditional children’s Qatar News Agency reported. a Qatari youth who lost his 201,000, QR158000, QR446,000, celebration observed after the breaking of the fast on the 14th night of Ramadan. SALIM MATRAMKOT THE PENINSULA business and amassed debts of QR500,000, QR370,000, said the over QR1.55m and a divorced daily. woman with debts of over QR1.3m. TWITTER CAMPAIGN The programme titled ‘Abwab Parallel to radio programme, Kuwait names Saudi man as mosque bomber Al Rahma’ (Doors of Mercy) RAF conducted a fund-raising evoked a tremendous response campaign involving followers of KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday not previously known to security The attack was the most sig- resident from listeners forcing the pre- its twitter account. identified the suicide bomber authorities and had flown out of nificant act of Sunni militant vio- named senters to extend it for half-an- Father a Qatari youth the late behind its worst militant attack the kingdom to the Bahraini capi- lence in Kuwait since 2005, when Abdul- hour from the original schedule Abdulla Nasser Al Kaabi donated as a young Saudi Arabian man, tal Manama on Thursday, state an Al Qaeda linked group calling Rahman of one hour. QR100,000 on his behalf to fully and said it had detained the news agency SPA quoted the inte- itself the Peninsula Lions clashed Sabah Aidan. The event on the Quran Radio, sponsor some cases while other driver of the vehicle that took rior ministry as saying. with security forces in the streets The inte- a member of Qatar Radio started donations were also pledged by him to a Shia mosque where he The timing of his arrival sug- of Kuwait City. Nine Islamists and rior minis- at 10.30pm and continued until his friends. killed 27 people. gests he had a network already four security force members were try, which midnight. It was presented by In another humanitarian Kuwait’s interior ministry in place in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti killed in the gun battles. had earlier Ahmed Fakhroo and Osama venture, the Qatar Charity has named the bomber as Fahd interior ministry said it was The bombing has sharply reported the Tawfeeq and supported by a started delivering Iftar meals to Suliman Abdul Muhsen Al Qabaa searching for more partners and heightened regional security con- vehicle own- Islamic preacher Dr Tariq Al expatriate single workers at their (pictured), and said he flew into aides in this “despicable crime”, cerns because IS appears to be er’s arrest, said Aidan, 26, was Hawas. camps in Industrial Area, in addi- Kuwait’s airport at dawn on adding Qabaa had been born in making good on its threat to step found hiding in one of the houses The money raised from the tion of its dozens of daily mass Friday, only hours before he det- 1992. Islamic State’s (IS) Saudi up attacks in the fasting month in the Al Riqqa residential area. programme will be sufficient Iftar gatherings spread across onated an explosives-laden vest Arabian arm claimed responsibil- of Ramadan. The ministry said Meanwhile, the Emir H H for the release of 11 citizens, who the city. at Kuwait City’s Imam Al Sadeq ity for the attack on the mosque, the driver of the Japanese-made Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al have varying amounts of bank Continued on page 3 mosque. where 2,000 worshippers were car, who left the mosque immedi- Thani will visit Kuwait today, loans to pay back ranging from THE PENINSULA Saudi Arabia said Al Qabaa was praying at the time. ately after bombing, was an illegal QNA reported. REUTERS SEC: Don’t insist Qataris flock to Saudi on original certificates for Ramadan shopping DOHA: The Supreme Education DOHA: Qataris are flocking of customer base, he said. Council (SEC) has urged the to Al Ahsa in Saudi Arabia for Umm Khalid Al Marri was in ministries, government institu- Ramadan and Eid related shop- the market to buy dresses for tions and local and foreign uni- ping lured by lower prices. family members. She said there versities based in Qatar not to The markets in Al Ahsa are is a lot of variety in shops which force students and job seekers most popular for coffee, clothes, attracts women buyers from to submit originals of their sec- dates, cardamom, saffron, harees, Qatar. Qataris will continue to ondary school certificates along spices and other such products. visit Saudi Arabia until the prices with their applications. Apart from lower prices, vicin- of goods fall in Qatar. Students seeking higher ity of Al Ahsa town to Qatar is Khalid Al Marri said that studies and those applying for another trigger for Qatari citi- quality of goods in Al Ahsa are jobs are required to submit zens to drive to Saudi Arabian satisfactory despite lower prices. only the photocopies of their markets. Dammam in Saudi Apart from food items, garments certificates. Arabia is another favourite des- are also available at competitive Employers or universities can tination for a large number of rates. THE PENINSULA ask for the originals after the citizens for Ramadan and Eid application process is completed, shopping. said a circular issued by SEC’s A trader told Al Yaum, a Saudi Evaluation Institute. local daily, that Qataris prefer The SEC has advised students to go to Al Ahsa for shopping and job seekers not to submit the because it is very close from originals unless they got a confir- Qatar. It takes only two hours by mation that they are admitted or An anti-austerity protester burns a euro note during a demonstration outside the European Union (EU) offices in road and there are a variety of employed. THE PENINSULA Athens, Greece, yesterday. products at cheaper prices. Going to Saudi Arabia is not a new thing for Qataris. Every Crisis deepens as Greece shuts banks Ramadan they drive to Saudi RAMADAN towns in search of cheaper ATHENS: Greek Prime (ECB) subsequently left its announcement, Greeks raced to products. TIMING Ramadan Minister Alexis Tsipras Emergency Liquidity Assistance find functioning cash machines Ahmed Al Kuwari said that QUIZ announced yesterday that the (ELA) financial lifeline for Greek in an increasingly anxious run many food items and other Today’s Iftar: country’s crisis-hit banks will banks unchanged. on the banks, as speculation household products are available Answer a Simple Question 06:31pm Win a Gold Coin everyday be shut today and capital con- “This decision (by Eurogroup) mounted over impending drastic in Al Ahsa market at cheaper See page 15 trols imposed to prevent with- led today the ECB not to raise restrictions. rate compared to Qatar. Prices Tomorrow’s Imsak: drawals, after cash machines ELA for the Greek government “It’s more than obvious that of food items are very high in 03:07am ran dry. and made the Bank of Greece ask this (Eurogroup) decision has Qatar because of Ramadan. The emergency measures for the activation of measures of no other goal than to blackmail Citizens save a lot by buying were agreed at a cabinet meet- bank holiday and restriction of Greek people ... and to raise obsta- from here and it is not much far ing after a gathering of Greece’s bank withdrawals,” Tsipras said cles to the democratic process of from Qatar, he said. systemic stability council, called in a statement that also called the referendum,” Tsipras added Mohamed Al Jabbar, a trader after Eurogroup eurozone finance again for an extension to Greece’s in the statement. in Al Ahsa said Qataris have ministers refused to extend its current bailout programme.